Loon: 156 books

What is 'legal' about bioethics? What are the ideas and artefacts that bioethics encompasses, and how are they related to law? What is the role of law in bioethics? In this work, Calvin Ho attempts to address these questions in the context of the governance of human pluripotent stem cell research....

Designing and Developing Digital and Blended Learning Solutions is essential reading for anyone studying the Level 5 CIPD L&D module of the same name as well as all learning and development professionals looking to understand the growing role of technology in L&D. Covering both current and...

This book provides basic food engineering knowledge for beginners. The discipline of food processing conforms with actual food manufacturing flows and thus is readily comprehensible, although food engineering has great diversity as the common principles of operations for most food manufacturing processes...

This book presents the history, phenomena, and relevance of the stratosphere. Beginning with the discovery of the stratosphere itself, the book explores various unexpected phenomena observed in the stratosphere, such as the ozone hole in 1984 and the influence of the 11-year solar cycle in 1987. It...

This little book, telling the story of our national usurpation by a foreign enemy during the beginning of the nineteenth century, appears at a moment when our nearest neighbours are suffering the same fate which befell us more than a hundred years ago.

Full of suspense, Harmless, is the tightly woven story of eight year old Amanda, whose father is in prison, and Rattuwat, a Thai man burying his daughter in a strange land. Abandoning their broken-down car on the way to the prison's visiting hour, Amanda and Rattuwat venture into the trackless scrub...

Wolf Wood has been home to generations of werewolves, including Grandpa Werewolf, and holds an important secret. But unscrupulous developers plan to destroy the woods and build blocks of flats and carparks. The werewolves are in danger - and so is their secret. When Alfie's mysterious dreams lead...

This novella is set across the course of a single in the semi - urban farmland in Perth's outer eastern suburbs. It is the tightly woven story of 8 year old Amanda, her father Dave (locked up in nearby Acacia Prison), Ant (Dave's son), Rua (a Thai bride and Dave's lover, who has just died from an AIDS...

Prophecy. Calamity. Faith. Leader of the Thirteenth Regiment, protector of Athering, and spouse of a good man, Bellica Agate has simple goals—peace and privacy. War with neighboring Ixtepan threatens every part of her world; yet she must act, her every step haunted by dusty prophecies that...

Songs of yearning from the Millennial soul...for home, for family, for reconnection to nature. Fierce, independent, determined, intelligent and loyal, wolves dedicate themselves to the Pack. Masters of communication and strategy, they teach their children well. Many millennia ago, wolves established...

Meester Jacques en groep acht zijn op excursie in het Autotron (Automobielmuseum). Mooie auto's, maar saaie verhalen, vinden vier kinderen. Ze sluipen weg van de groep. Dan valt de stroom uit. Kortsluiting? In elk geval wordt het pikdonker. En in dat duister staan ze plotseling tegenover... de Griezelbus....

Nicotine is the major factor in the continuation of the smoking habit among humans. On December 2-4, 1985, under the sponsorship of the Tobacco and Health Research Institute in Lexington, Kentucky, leading scientists from around the world whose research efforts have focused on the role of nicotine...

Eine Schatzkiste schauriger Geschichten, wunderbar gruselig illustriert von Axel Scheffler und zum Fürchten gut übersetzt von Mirjam Pressler "Wenn deine Lehrerin in der letzten Zeit auffallend blass aussieht und du den Eindruck hast, dass ihre Eckzähne immer spitzer werden, dann rate ich...