Hunt: 1407 books

In a world full of the relics of the past and the toys of the future, Lila Howell is a psychic who struggles to remain ethical in the face of her government's demands. Finding her too valuable to force into the role the Security Ministry wants her to take, the government allows her to take the job...

Erin Saunders is twenty-nine and lives with her Mother and Grandparents. They have spent the last fifteen years struggling to pay off debts left by her Father, who disappeared when his gambling addiction became overwhelming. When Erin learns of a possible inheritance, it seems that a financial recovery...

Backstory:In 20018AD, Global Warming led to a sudden environmental holocaust. Those responsible, the world's political and social élite, built themselves two-mile-wide utopian biosphere’s called Shells. Meanwhile, outside the Shells, in a world increasingly gripped by famine and disease,...

July 1964. Chartwell House, Kent: Winston Churchill wakes at dawn. There’s a dark, mute “presence” in the room that focuses on him with rapt concentration. It’s Mr. Chartwell. Soon after, in London, Esther Hammerhans, a librarian at the House of Commons, goes to answer the door...

This handbook for teachers provides both practical, up-to-date guidance and a theoretical overview on a number of key topics in Latin teaching. Using a wealth of interviews, observations and pupil transcripts, Steven Hunt title utilizes case-study evidence of excellent practice in teaching and learning...

Java® Performance Companion shows how to systematically and proactively improve Java performance with today’s advanced multicore hardware and complex operating system environments. The authors, who are all leading Java performance and Java HotSpot VM experts, help you improve performance...

Going Home The story of a woman's journey back to her childhood home, seeking what she believes she left behind. Matilda planning a special announcement for her husband, Winston, prepared an exceptional dinner of his favorite foods. What she wasn't prepared for was, Winston had his own announcement....

Sarah never thought her life would turn out like this: living in the middle of nowhere in West Texas with an alcoholic husband, working herself to the bone daily just to make sure the mortgage is paid and the errands are done. And she never thought her life would be interrupted by a wounded...

Svetlana Paltrova is a young, beautiful Russian lab assistant at the Alef Berg Institute Evolutionary Anthropology Center. Everyone at the lab wants Svetlana, but she only wants Thog, the first Neanderthal to be unfrozen by man. Will Svetlana get her man...er Neanderthal? Or will Thog eat her alive?...

Cathy Hunt examines the lives of Coventry women throughout one extraordinary century of change. The result of her detailed research is a book packed with stories of what it was like to be a woman between 1850 and 1950. During these years, women broke through barriers so that future generations...

Many millions of people are affected by the trauma of war. Psychologists have a good understanding of how experiences of war impact on memory, but the significance of external environmental influences is often disregarded. Memory, War and Trauma focuses on our understanding of the psychosocial impact...

"She stands there before me and my pulse rushes at this first sight of her in all her glory. Not the mousy beige apology of a woman I met eighteen months ago but a proud confident vision in leather basque and boots, the transformation from caterpillar to butterfly a pale comparison to that of...

What would you do for the woman you loved? What would you be prepared to do if circumstances forced a new perspective on your relationship? Could you look at things a different way? Could she?

This is the first book to take nursing ethics beyond stock 'moral concepts' to a critical examination of the fundamental assumptions underlying the very nature of nursing. It takes as its point of departure the difficulties nurses experience practising within the confines of a bioethical model of...