Merlin: 122 books

Imaginez l'être le plus antipathique, le plus malfaisant, le plus laid, enfin le pire de tous : vous serez encore loin de vous représenter Frédéric Kenneth Bower. Il n'a que douze ans, possède une immense fortune héritée de son père, un magnat des affaires, et n'a qu'une seule idée en tête : éliminer le jeune Robin West, qu'il ne connaît même pas.

Sylvie is in the wrong place at the wrong time . . . hen Sylvie and her older sister Claire survive a horrific encounter with a gunman, they're sent to stay with their aunt in the south of France. There, Sylvie meets a little boy called Gabriel, who says he can see angels. Gabriel's fiercely...

A ticket to luxury . . . or a one-way trip to the underworld? It's a simple twist of fate that catapults Australian teenager Lucie Rees from her ordinary life in an ordinary town to a strange, exciting job in Paris as friend to ultra-famous but troubled young pop star Arizona Kingdom. But it...

Between Rivers: More Confessions of the Slow Learner is the authors second look (the first one being The Long Road to Grace: Confessions of a Slow Learner) at Gods grace as he leads us slow-to-learn folk through the mazes of human experience. Set in the context of the Lords Prayer, the author...

The term "psychogeography" is used to illustrate a bewildering array of ideas, from ley lines and the occult to urban walking and political radicalism—where does it come from and what exactly does it mean? Psychogeography is the point where psychology and geography meet in assessing the...

Gibson the bear has travelled the globe far and wide as the companion of a high-flying senior executive. For a bear who has seen so much of the world, along the way he has developed a very unworldly philosophy of life. These are the delightful stories of his adventures, rich with words of wisdom,...

Since Pres. Harry Truman established the Nevada Test Site (NTS) in December 1950, it has played a vital role in the security of the United States. For four decades, the test site's primary purpose was developmental testing of nuclear explosives. Atmospheric tests conducted over Yucca Flat and Frenchman...

"My Defense is a true-but-forbidden-to-tell-story that covers the lonely fight of a family father of now five mixed children, and his beloved wife, how he had to defend their children from being kidnapped and killed if not complying with what the murky characters known as D. H. had been ordering this...

Cannabis: Evolution and Ethnobotany is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of the natural origins and early evolution of this famous plant, highlighting its historic role in the development of human societies. Cannabis has long been prized for the strong and durable fiber in its stalks,...

For more than 2,000 years utopian visionaries have sought to create a blueprint of the ideal society—from Plato to H. G. Wells, from Cloudcuckooland to Shangri-La. The utopian impulse has generated a vast body of work, encompassing philosophy and political theory, classical literature, and science...

How can piano teachers successfully foster student participation and growth from the outset? How can teachers prepare and sustain their influential work with beginner student musicians? This book presents answers to these questions by making important connections with current music education research,...

Alex knows the truth is out there. He knows he wants to change the way he lives but he hasn’t a clue where to start. The time is 1999 and his friends are partying like it is. Alex knows it won’t last. The tricky thing is finding his way out with the minimum casualties. Shannon is the girl Alex...

As technology evolves we are ever more reliant on the use of handheld and mobile devices, yet what do we know about their impact on learning? While there is a lot of interest in mobile technology, many schools still aren’t sure how to best use it for learning and teaching.　 Learning with...

Here, archaeologically documented,is the story of the religion of the Goddess. Under her, women’s roles were far more prominent than in patriarchal Judeo-Christian cultures. Stone describes this ancient system and, with its disintegration, the decline in women’s status.