We live in small worlds. Conscious change requires deliberate effort, and so, for the most part, we avoid it. But what happens when something occurs, from within or without, that changes all that? The first book in the mesmerizing How To Live trilogy, How We Are examines how we negotiate change in our everyday lives - the way we build personal narratives around the people, places and things that surround us, and what happens when our story is disrupted, whether by small acts or profound change. Drawing on personal stories from everyday lives in transition, and a staggering range of literary and cultural references, from Rebecca to Mad Men to Proust, Deary shows us how we can resist being mere habit machines, and make our acts and our lives more fully our own.

Tumors cells no longer confined to an affected organ can be released through lymph and the blood stream, disseminate and form metastases. Metastases to the spine are frequent, may be painful and may occur in an isolated or multiple level manner, they may lead to structural failure of the spinal column and cause com pression of nerve structures resulting in progressive paralysis or in painful radi culopathies. The dinical evaluation as weIl as to tumor pathophysiology are weIl explai ned in two general chapters and then each specific primary tumor is analyzed in a specific chapter. The choice was made to offer a multidisciplinary approach. One may thus find similar aspects repeated in different chapters, yet this is ne ces sary since each part of this textbook can be used as a specific reference. I was impressed by the carefully detailed humane approach to the patient information with care for the patient's dignity. Truthful information is explained dearly enough to give all the elements the patient needs to understand and accept neces sary treatments with a responsible attitude. Previously, when confronted with a patient suffering from a debilitating spine metastasis of a malignant tumor it has been almost always too late to offer anything more than compassionate ineffica cy. Surgical treatment was balanced with life expectancy and then only rarely indicated in certain specific cases.

Enid Blyton's books are beloved the world over and The Famous Five have been the perennial favourite of her fans. Now, in this new series of Enid Blyton for Grown-Ups, George, Dick, Anne, Julian and Timmy confront a new challenge: give up the booze. Give up alcohol you say? Why, of course they can! Talk about an easy challenge! Five old friends set about this simple task and find all of a sudden that: the days are longer; they get to see each other for who they really are; the empty laughter of ordinary conversation is so much harder to fake. Yes, they're saving money and losing weight, but the world itself seems to take on a slow, dreary inevitability. Soon they begin to snap at each other, and then fight - until they begin to wonder, have the Five at last found the challenge that will defeat them? The perfect gift for anyone who has woken up and promised themselves that they will never drink again. Or at least until next weekend.

Literature is at the heart of popular understandings of the First World War in Britain, and has perpetuated a popular memory of the conflict centred on disillusionment, horror and futility. This book examines how and why literature has had this impact, exploring the role played by authors, publishers and readers in constructing the memory of the war since 1918. It demonstrates that publishers were as influential as authors in shaping perceptions of the conflict, and it provides a detailed analysis of critical and popular responses to war books, tracing the evolution of readers' attitudes to the war between 1918 and 2014. By exploring the cultural legacy of the war from these two previously overlooked perspectives, Vincent Trott offers fresh insights regarding the emergence of a collective memory of the First World War in Britain.Drawing on a broad range of primary source material, including publishers' correspondence, dust jackets, adverts, book reviews and diary entries, and examining canonical authors such as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and Vera Brittain alongside long-forgotten texts and more recent autobiographical works by Harry Patch and Henry Allingham, Publishers, Readers and the Great War provides a rich and nuanced analysis of the climate within which First World War literature was written, published and received since 1918.

Diary, memoir, poem, fiction? Autopsy, crime scene, hagiography, hymn? The chronicle of an obsessive love.In the middle of the night between the 25th and 26th of November, Vincent fell from the third floor playing parachute with a bathrobe. He drank a liter of tequila, smoked Congolese grass, snorted cocaine...-from Crazy for VincentCrazy for Vincent begins with the death of the figure it fixates upon: Vincent, a skateboarding, drug-addled, delicate "monster" of a boy in whom the narrator finds a most sublime beauty. By turns tender and violent, Vincent drops in and out of French writer and photographer Herve Guibert's life over the span of six years (from 1982, when he first met Vincent as a fifteen-year-old teenager, to 1988). After Vincent's senseless death, the narrator embarks on a reconnaissance writing mission to retrieve the Vincent that had entered, elevated, and emotionally eviscerated his life, working chronologically backward from the death that opens the text. Assembling Vincent's fragmentary appearances in his journal, the author seeks to understand what Vincent's presence in his life had been: a passion? a love? an erotic obsession? or an authorial invention? A parallel inquiry could be made into the book that results: Is it diary, memoir, poem, fiction? Autopsy, crime scene, hagiography, hymn? Crazy for Vincent is a text the very nature of which is as untethered as desire itself.

Tracing Millay's life from her youth in Maine to the bohemian fervor of her early adulthood in Greenwich Village and Paris, this fancinating biography will captivate middle grade readers. Including photos, full-length poems, plentiful letter and diary excerpts, a time line, source notes, and bibliography, this is an indispensable resource for any young person interested in poetry, literature, or biographies of remarkable people in American history.

"a darned good read" - The ComicsJournalIn 1939, Vincent Trout Hamlin had been writing and drawingthe successful Alley Oop for more than five years. In Alley Oop,Hamlin created a unique concept, marrying his fascination with dinosaurs andprehistoric times to a rollicking style of storytelling and drawing that wassimultaneously serious, fantastic, and loaded with slapstick. The series was setin the kingdom of Moo and starred Alley Oop, the club-wielding caveman, hisgirlfriend Ooola, friends Dinny the dinosaur and Foozy (who speaks in rhyme),plus Oop's rival, King Guz, and Guz's Queen Umpateedle. Yet Hamlin knew that thestrip's horizons in Moo were limited. So it was, in early 1939, that Alley Oopand Ooola see a mysterious box and, to the utter amazement of Guz and hisminions, promptly fade from view, followed by the caption: "Dear Reader: youmust now say goodbye to Moo...if you are to follow Alley Oop in this strangestof many strange adventures. - V. T. Hamlin". Oop and Ooola had entered atime machine and were now living in the modern day 20th Century! Their host wasthe inventor of the time machine, Dr. Elbert Wonmug! No change of such magnitudehad ever occurred in a continuing newspaper strip, and readers respondedenthusiastically. With every time period in history available as a backdrop,Alley Oop became even more popular.This volume features Oop'sfinal Moo adventure, followed by his trips to the 20th Century and ancientGreece, where he and Ooola share adventures with brave Ulysses, the lovely Helenof Troy, and the mighty Hercules. V.T. Hamlin would send his characterseverywhere and everywhen - but the classic Alley Oop begins withthe stories contained in this volume. The book is introduced by Michael T.Price, who first met V. T. Hamlin in the 1960s and remained friendly with himfor the rest of the cartoonist's life. Price also composed the musical score forHip Pocket Theatre's production, Alley Oop.

(Lead Sheets: Melody line, lyrics and chord symbols). 100 acoustic hits by the biggest names in rock and pop in melody line arrangements, with complete lyrics, chord symbols, and guitar chord boxes Includes the story behind the songs, complete with photos, for tunes such as: Angie * Both Sides Now * Bye Bye Love * Cracklin' Rosie * Dear Prudence * Don't Know Why * Fields of Gold * Give a Little Bit * Hallelujah * I Can't Make You Love Me * More Than Words * The Sound of Silence * Vincent (Starry Starry Night) * Who'll Stop the Rain * and many more.

'Hums with living history, human warmth and indignation' New York Times Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept The mystery has haunted generations since the Second World War: Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why? Now, thanks to radical new technology and the obsession of a retired FBI agent, this book offers an answer. Rosemary Sullivan unfolds the story in a gripping, moving narrative. Over thirty million people have read The Diary of a Young Girl, the journal teenaged Anne Frank kept while living in an attic with her family and four other people in Amsterdam during World War II, until the Nazis arrested them and sent them to a concentration camp. But despite the many works - journalism, books, plays and novels - devoted to Anne's story, none has ever conclusively explained how these eight people managed to live in hiding undetected for over two years - and who or what finally brought the Nazis to their door. With painstaking care, retired FBI agent Vincent Pankoke and a team of indefatigable investigators pored over tens of thousands of pages of documents - some never before seen - and interviewed scores of descendants of people familiar with the Franks. Utilising methods developed by the FBI, the Cold Case Team painstakingly pieced together the months leading to the infamous arrest - and came to a shocking conclusion. The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation is the riveting story of their mission. Rosemary Sullivan introduces us to the investigators, explains the behaviour of both the captives and their captors and profiles a group of suspects. All the while, she vividly brings to life wartime Amsterdam: a place where no matter how wealthy, educated, or careful you were, you never knew whom you could trust.

It all began the day of my funeral, relates the book's protagonist, Melvin Morrison - a spell-binding tale that begins with an ending. Traveling through millennia of recorded history, sparring characters draw the reader into compelling, real-life action with hero's and villains of eras long past.Melvin, a deceased Vermont attorney, and Aunt Martha, Melvin's suddenly reappearing, self-appointed spirit guide, vie humorously over the trivial, heroically over the traumatic; their interaction, with dear ones left behind, the troubling constant holding the past and the possible in perilous proximity."Dear ones" include factious and facetious characters like Simon Farley, the village would-be poet and needs-be bicycle repairman; Thelma Peabody, an old maid, placard waving demonstrator at Vermont's nearby capital; George O'Malley, Melvin's Boston-Irish law partner-cum-Romeo; Melody, Melvin's grieving wife and soon-to-be mother; Charlene, Melvin's vengeful, pregnant mistress; and Arthur Steinburg, an illiterate antiquarian book store proprietor. Melvin's last case is a suit against the Rogue Sperm Bank filed by Mr. and Mrs. Way - inversely referred to as Rogue vs Way - for the untimely death of their in vitro baby. After Melvin's death, Melody makes a withdrawal from the Rogue Bank, giving her deceased husband the opportunity to come back as his own son. (Hence the title, Twice Melvin.) But the problems are only beginning for Melody when Melvin reappears, in the whitest state in the Union, as a cuddlesome and controversial black baby. Rumors are rampant that Vincent TenKlei, a wealthy Rhodesian student at the village's acclaimed God-Hard College, has fumbled his way to fatherhood. Enter interventions from the Beyond, and the disturbance proliferates Tongue-in-cheek humor, heart-wrenching romance, or soul-searching tears, the reader will find it all here - including an ending that begins.

Seven years ago, Phillip Margolin seized the imagination of thriller readers everywhere with his chilling breakout bestseller, Gone, but Not Forgotten. After five subsequent New York Times bestsellers, Margolin now returns to the haunting terrain of Gone, but Not Forgotten with a mesmerizing tour de force of psychological suspense, an electrifying tale of revenge and retribution that shows a master storyteller at the very peak of his craft. Thursday: Subject is still combative after four days of applied pain, sleep deprivation and minimal food. Vice squad detective Bobby Vasquez, for months on the trail of a slippery underworld figure, receives an anonymous tip that directs him to a mountain cabin. He races through the idyllic Oregon woods, expecting to close the book on a long-standing vendetta. What he finds instead opens a Pandora's box of horror that will haunt him to his dying day. 8:10: Subject bound and gaffed and placed in upstairs closet at end of hall. Turned out lights in house, drove off, then parked and doubled back. Watched from woods. Within hours, Vincent Cordoni -- a brilliant surgeon with a history of violence and drug abuse -- is arrested for a heinous crime. Facing a seemingly insurmountable wall of evidence, he turns to Portland's top criminal defense attorney, Frank Jaffe-who, along with his ambitious daughter, Amanda, must put on an inspired defense. Amanda's first taste of criminal defense work is as intoxicating as it is chilling, but it raises moral questions she's loath to address. Is she defending an innocent man? Or is she using her considerable skills to set a monster free? Then Cardoni disappears under bizarre circumstances. Four years later, a second set of murders has begun .... 8:55: Subject exits house, naked and barefoot, armed with kitchen knife. Remarkable strength of character. Breaking her will be a challenge. Has Cardoni resurfaced to ply his deadly trade anew? Is there a copycat killer? Or has the real killer been someone else all along? The police will do everything they can to stop Cardoni -- but they have to find him first. Following a twisting trail of clues, including a harrowing diary that clinically records the killer's horrible deeds, Amanda Jaffe and Bobby Vasquez join the hunt-and themselves become targets of the twenty-first century's first genuinely monstrous psychopath.

This seventh volume of Naval Miscellany contains documents which range in date from the late thirteenth century to the Korean War. They illustrate the many different ways in which the naval forces of the crown have served the realm. Topics covered include the role of ships in campaigns against Scotland under Edward I and Edward VI, the protection of the Iceland fishery in the days of the Commonwealth government, and the operation of prize courts during the wars against France in the eighteenth century. Moving on to the nineteenth century, the supply of timber to the Royal Navy is examined, while two contributions deal with surveying off the west coast of Africa and another prints a diary kept by a member of the Naval Brigade operating onshore in the Zulu War. The most recent contributions deal with the origins and development of the Royal Australian Navy up to the 1950s. Two more controversial subjects are also included; the first gives more information about the storage of cordite on battle cruisers in 1916 and the battle of Jutland; the second documents the relief of Admiral North from Gibraltar in 1940. There is something here for every enthusiast for naval history and for all students of the relevant periods.

This is not simply a book about 'internet studies'. <br><br>It is a book that considers many wider forms of digital culture, including mobile technologies, surveillance, algorithms, ambient intelligence, gaming, big data and technological bodies (to name a few) in order to explore how digital technology - in a broad sense - is used within the wider contexts of our everyday lives.<br><br>"The first edition of Understanding Digital Culture set a new benchmark as the most comprehensive, scholarly and accessible introduction to the area. This latest edition, thoroughly updated and substantially expanded, is even better - a perfectly balanced book that combines theory and empirical analysis to illuminate the cutting-edge of cultural and social change." <br><strong>- Professor Majid Yar, Lancaster University</strong>

Bygningsfysikk i praksis handler om å ivareta hensyn til klimapakjenninger og krav til inneklima, energieffektivitet og bestandighet på en ressursmessig og økonomisk fornuftig måte. Det involverer kunnskap om forskjellige prosesser med transport av varme, luft og fukt i materialer, bygningsdeler og bygninger, samt kunnskap om lydutbredelse og lys. Innholdet i denne boka dekker det viktigste av teorigrunnlaget innen disse områdene. Boka er primært skrevet som en lærebok for studenter på høgskole-/universitetsnivå med interesse for bygningsteknikk og arkitektur. Den vil også være nyttig for praktiserende ingeniører og arkitekter som ønsker oppfrisking og utdyping av det teoretiske grunnlaget for simuleringsmodeller og programvare som benyttes ved bygningsfysisk prosjektering. Et viktig siktemål med boka er gjennom beskrivelse av den grunnleggende teorien å skape innsikt og forståelse for hvilke forhold som påvirker og er avgjørende for de fysiske prosessene som skjer i bygningskonstruksjoner og bygninger. Bygningsfysikk inneholder også en rekke regneeksempler som knytter teorien opp mot praktiske bygningsfysiske problemstillinger. Jan Vincent Thue mottok graden sivilingeniør ved bygglinjen, NTH (na NTNU) i 1968 og graden dr.ing. samme sted i 1973. Etter å ha arbeidet med produktutvikling i bygningsmaterialindustrien i perioden 1973 1977 vendte han tilbake til NTH i 1985, hvor han var professor i bygningsfysikk til 2014. Han har ledet flere større forskningsprogram innen bygningsfysikk/bygningsteknikk. Hans publiserte arbeider har spesielt fokusert pa varme-, fukt- og lufttransport i bygninger og bygningsdeler, beregning og simulering av bygningsfysiske prosesser, samt bruk av tre som bygningsmateriale.

Mirage er tredje og siste del i den pulserende spenningsserien om etterforskeren Mina og mentalisten Vincent. Det er rett før jul i Stockholm og Sveriges justisminister Niklas Stockenberg mottar en truende beskjed om at han kun har fjorten dager igjen å leve. Samtidig blir et komplett menneskeskjelett, tilhørende en vellykket og mye omtalt finansmann, funnet nede i byens t-bane, rengjort og pent dandert som i et eldgammelt kongelig dødsritual. Politietterforsker Mina Dabiris enhet sliter fremdeles etter den traumatiske hendelsen fra sommeren før, som endte med at kollegaen deres døde, og hun ringer mentalisten Vincent Walder for å få bistand med etterforskningen. For Vincent kjennes det ut som om verden er i ferd med å omslutte ham fullstendig. Da en lignende haug med menneskebein blir funnet i tunnelsystemet, settes enheten virkelig på prøve - hva er det egentlig som skjer dypt der nede i mørket under Stockholm? Og hvem jager justisministeren?

Sekten er andre del i serien om etterforskeren Mina og mentalisten Vincent. En liten gutt forsvinner fra en barnehage på Södermalm. Et av de andre barna kan fortelle at han ble med en fremmed dame for å se på valpene hun hadde i bilen. Der slutter alle spor. Politiet kobler bortføringen til en annen sak og mye tyder på at tiden er knapp dersom de skal redde vesle Ossian. Det er først da Vincent tar kontakt med Mina og påpeker en sammenheng politiet har oversett, at etterforskningen skyter fart. Mina forsøker på sin side å gjenopprette forholdet til datteren som er blitt influenser og talerør for en bevegelse som får stadig flere tilhengere. Ganske raskt forstår Mina at datteren er med i en sekt med gruvekkende hensikter. Sammen med Vincent forsøker hun å få datteren ut og avprogrammert. Imens er barnekidnapperen fremdeles på frifot og jakter på de aller mest sårbare. Camilla Läckberg er kjent for krimromanene fra Fjällbacka der hun selv er oppvokst. Hun har solgt over 30 millioner bøker i til sammen 60 land. Henrik Fexeus er en svensk mentalist, forfatter og programleder. Siden 2005 har han vært en hyppig gjest i media, som ekspert på kroppsspråk og ikke-verbal kommunikasjon.

I en kjempesatsing fra Sverige skapes en ny etterforskerduo utenom det vanlige: politietterforskeren Mina Dabiri og mentalisten Vincent Walder fra Stockholm. Mentalisten er den første i en trilogi av selveste Camilla Läckberg, skrevet sammen med den kjente mentalisten Henrik Fexeus. Mordet som setter det hele i gang er brutalt - en ung kvinne blir funnet i et sverdskap, gjennomboret fra alle kanter av sverdene lik en makaber parodi på det magiske trikset. Mina oppsøker mentalisten Vincent i et forsøk på å forstå morderens tenkemåte. Vincent lar seg fascinere av både Mina og saken hun etterforsker. Det er han som oppdager at tallet tre er risset inn på låret til den drepte kvinnen. Alt tyder på at det er en seriemorder de jakter på. Både Mina og Vincent har tvangstanker de må holde i sjakk for å fungere, kanskje det er noe av grunnen til at de samarbeider så godt. Dette er den første boka i en serie på tre med dette etterforskerparet, og i løpet av de tre bøkene vil mørke hemmeligheter i deres bakgrunn bli avslørt. Bøkene kan leses frittstående.

Sekten er andre del i serien om etterforskeren Mina og mentalisten Vincent. En liten gutt forsvinner fra en barnehage på Södermalm. Et av de andre barna kan fortelle at han ble med en fremmed dame for å se på valpene hun hadde i bilen. Der slutter alle spor. Politiet kobler bortføringen til en annen sak og mye tyder på at tiden er knapp dersom de skal redde vesle Ossian. Det er først da Vincent tar kontakt med Mina og påpeker en sammenheng politiet har oversett, at etterforskningen skyter fart. Mina forsøker på sin side å gjenopprette forholdet til datteren som er blitt influenser og talerør for en bevegelse som får stadig flere tilhengere. Ganske raskt forstår Mina at datteren er med i en sekt med gruvekkende hensikter. Sammen med Vincent forsøker hun å få datteren ut og avprogrammert. Imens er barnekidnapperen fremdeles på frifot og jakter på de aller mest sårbare. Camilla Läckberg er kjent for krimromanene fra Fjällbacka der hun selv er oppvokst. Hun har solgt over 30 millioner bøker i til sammen 60 land. Henrik Fexeus er en svensk mentalist, forfatter og programleder. Siden 2005 har han vært en hyppig gjest i media, som ekspert på kroppsspråk og ikke-verbal kommunikasjon.

I en kjempesatsing fra Sverige skapes en ny etterforskerduo utenom det vanlige: politietterforskeren Mina Dabiri og mentalisten Vincent Walder fra Stockholm. Mentalisten er den første i en trilogi av selveste Camilla Läckberg, skrevet sammen med den kjente mentalisten Henrik Fexeus. Mordet som setter det hele i gang er brutalt - en ung kvinne blir funnet i et sverdskap, gjennomboret fra alle kanter av sverdene lik en makaber parodi på det magiske trikset. Mina oppsøker mentalisten Vincent i et forsøk på å forstå morderens tenkemåte. Vincent lar seg fascinere av både Mina og saken hun etterforsker. Det er han som oppdager at tallet tre er risset inn på låret til den drepte kvinnen. Alt tyder på at det er en seriemorder de jakter på. Både Mina og Vincent har tvangstanker de må holde i sjakk for å fungere, kanskje det er noe av grunnen til at de samarbeider så godt. Dette er den første boka i en serie på tre med dette etterforskerparet, og i løpet av de tre bøkene vil mørke hemmeligheter i deres bakgrunn bli avslørt. Bøkene kan leses frittstående.