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Authored by international experts from academia, international organizations, governments and NGOs, this book highlights the main environmental security issues in the South-East European (SEE) countries, with a particular focus on climate change and water management. The common goal of the authors was to provide a reliable evaluation of whether existing legal regimes and correct implementation of applicable international treaties may contribut...

This book focuses on defence against biological warfare with an emphasis on applications of modern technologies and advanced materials in detection, health protection and medical treatment of the population. Specific topics include high-throughput sensitive detection methods, advanced nanostructured materials and techniques for external and internal protection of human health, as well as extracorporeal methods, adsorptive materials and bacteri...

Explores how mosses can be used as monitors and experimental subjects for present and future climate change.

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Together, they are the SLIME SQUAD - crime-busting super-monsters here to save their whiffy world! Ghastly gas is seeping across Trashland - and evil Lord Klukk is to blame. The Squaddies aren't chicken - but can they outwit their arch-enemy before his stinky smog smothers the world?

IF YOU CAN'T TAKE THE SLIME, DON'T DO THE CRIME!Plog, Furp, Zill and Danjo aren't just monsters in a rubbish dump. Together, they are the SLIME SQUAD - crime-busting super-monsters here to save their whiffy world! Can the Slime Squad fight these foul fashion freaks before Trashland is destroyed?It's time to fight crime with slime!

Four friends decide to enter a Talent Show. A small red bird asks to join them, but they laugh and tell him he's too small. But then a mysterious, tall stranger arrives to audition for lead singer, and turn out to be someone quite unexpected...

Norman is a slug who longs to be a snail - if only he could find a shell! Kids will laugh out loud at Norman's crazy antics as he goes to hilarious lengths to find a shell of his own. But will he be satisfied once he finds one, or will his dreams get bigger and bigger and bigger?

Tying in with a new six-part series of hour length TV programmes on BBC2, in this book Klein tells the story of a year in her stunning garden at Glebe Cottage in Devon. From the hidden secrets of winter to the first shoots of spring and the fecundity of summer, right through to the slow retreat of autumn, this reveals the garden through every season. Complemented by Buckley's stunning photos throughout. Jacket image not finalised.

The story of the infamous gangster, which reveals that much of his reputation as a criminal mastermind was based on a conspiracy by law enforcement agents. It also looks at his role in both WWII and the Cold War.

Young palaeontologists can meet all of their favourite dinosaurs as they stomp, glide and charge through this brilliant book from a bestselling creative team. Features all of the classsic dinosaurs including Tyrannosaurus Rex, Pteranodon, Triceratops, Velociraptors, Diplodocus and many more. 'Mayo proves conclusively that there is still something left to say about dinosaurs where young children are concerned' "Carousel

An irresistibly glamorous and intriguing novel from the author of the international bestseller FALLEN. Natalie is utterly determined to cement her position at the top of the high school social ladder by becoming prom queen. When it looks like an interfering ex-boyfriend might get in her way, she devises a little prank to humiliate him. But when the prank goes devastatingly wrong, Natalie starts to lose control of her life. Caught in a web of d...

Yasunari Kawabata was born near Osaka in 1899 and was orphaned at the age of two. His first stories were published while he was still in high school and he decided to become a writer. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University in 1924 and a year later made his first impact on Japanese letters with Izu Dancer. He soon became a leading figure the lyrical school that offered the chief challenge to the proletarian literature of the late 1920s. Hi...

The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to find Otoko, a young woman with whom he had a terrible affair many years before, and discovers that she is now a painter, living with a younger woman as her lover.

Yasunari Kawabata was born near Osaka in 1899 and was orphaned at the age of two. His first stories were published while he was still in high school and he decided to become a writer. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University in 1924 and a year later made his first impact on Japanese letters with Izu Dancer. He soon became a leading figure the lyrical school that offered the chief challenge to the proletarian literature of the late 1920s. Hi...

Nicole and Dick Diver are a wealthy, elegant, magnetic couple. A coterie of admirers are drawn to them, none more so than the blooming young starlet Rosemary Hoyt. When Rosemary falls for Dick, the Diver's calculated perfection begins to crack.

Anthony Patch and Gloria Gibson are the golden children of the Jazz Age. They marry and embark on a life of glittering parties, lavish expenditure and scandalous revelry. When the money dries up their marriage founders. In this wistful novel Fitzgerald portrays the decline of youthful promise with devastating clarity.

A reissue of the classic 1920s novel about the rivalry between two grand dames.

New edition of classic adventure story, with an introduction by Stella Rimington.

Gritty and dark crime fiction, featuring MacBride's hard-nosed Aberdeen copper, Logan McRae. This paperback coincides with a new case for McRae in hardback, "Shatter The Bones", and there will be a major consumer advertising campaign to promote them both. 'A terrific writer...McRae makes John Rebus seem like a compliant wimp...bodies abound, blood flows freely and McRae is a delight' )Times