Bøker av Steve Parker

New and updated edition 2019: A guide to fossils of the world and fossil hunting, including how to plan a field trip, with a fully illustrated directory of more than 375 fossils.

Contains everything you need to know about the development and survival of life on Earth. This book includes detailed comparative anatomy, evolutionary legacies, and the breakthrough theories of eminent scientists.

For cheese enthusiasts, cheese collectors and cheesespotters, this guide to all the cheeses made in Britain is the perfect way to record your cheese tasting journey.

A pulse-pounding British crime thriller with an astonishing twist.Detective Bill Roach spent his police career hunting a notorious killer known as Jack the Knife. Now he must re-hone his skills to hunt another equally ruthless killer.1975It's the worst thing Detective Bill Roach has ever seen. The young woman's body is found beside a busy road. She's been disembowelled - while she was still alive. Placed on her chest is a cassette player. Inside is a sixty-minute tape, playing just one song over and over again: Mack the Knife.With his copper's instincts, Bill knows this isn't the last they'll hear of the killer they call Jack the Knife. He's right. The hunt for Jack won't end for almost fifty years.Present dayEighty-year-old former police detective Bill Roach sits at the bedside of elderly Gillian Lake, comforting her as she slips away. A popular resident at the Crown Woods Retirement Home, Bill sees it as an act of kindness to ensure his fellow residents don't die alone.But the post-mortem throws up shocking results. Gillian didn't die of old age. She was murdered.Bill never caught Jack the Knife. But now he has a chance to make good the past - and catch Gillian's killer.But Bill's hunt for the truth will expose dangerous secrets. Past secrets that will burst into the present . . . with horrifying results.Perfect for fans of Lynda la Plante, Rachel McLean, Angela Marsons, Patricia Gibney.

JC has just about done everything in the name of adventure: Getting pulled over by the cops - and asked to leave town -several times! Cornering unhappy bulls in Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia, recruited as a roughneck with no offshore experience, hired as a general dog's body on his first drilling rig off the Indian Ocean catching light-lovin' turtles, drilling RC Way in the Great Sandy Desert where the flies are so thick personnel are asked not to take a dump before meal times, for fear the flies will nextland on your food, drinking bouts with rig pigs while Cyclone evaluations clock up time over Darwin and even encounters with giant Singapore rats. From screw-ups because of piss ups to punch-ups because of pub brawls, JC is proud to confirm that despite massive containers sliding around the deck of a platform at night, and a container hanging off the sides of a rig, never a day was lost drilling..."Massive experience on jack ups and semis, the only thing JC has left to do is man a drillship!"

A mother lies brutally murdered in her ransacked, two-bedroomed flat. Beside her are the bloodstained bodies of the two police officers who were first on the scene. In the bedroom are the victim's two children, a six-year-old boy and a baby, slaughtered as they slept.And the killer is still in the flat.Paterson sets off in hot pursuit. But after a desperate rooftop chase, the killer escapes.The following day, another woman is found dead in her own home, her decapitated body carefully posed in her living room, her wrists pierced by crucifixes.Why were these women targeted?Paterson and Clocks have never had to deal with a killer like this. A killer who shows no mercy. A killer who can't be reasoned with. A killer who covers their tracks with super-human efficiency.If they are to get their man, the two detectives must break every rule in the book.At the same time, married life is not turning out as Clocks had hoped, and his newly-discovered son has just given him some very bad news . . .

Life begins when you join the oil field. But there was life before that. JC challenged the highway stormtroopers of a Distant Queensland Town on a Daring Mission - Where a Thirst for Life Became overridden by the Power of Beer! Farm chores sure could be dull, and JC was bored beyond belief. He yearned for adventures in the outback - and adventures that would take him beyond the farthest shores to distant and icy landscapes. But JC got more than he bargained for when he was intercepted by a QLD police officer and given a cryptic ultimatum to leave a beautiful town operating under a dark and powerful authority. JC didn't know why this was, but he knew he had to save himself - and soon, because time was running out. Armed only with courage and with the skills taught to him by his father, JC was catapulted into the middle of the most dangerous deep-sea drilling platforms ever...and he was headed straight for a desperate encounter on the Russian Nogliki station many know as the Death Star!

The city of London. Morning rush hour. The police pull over a motorcycle courier for a trivial offence. He doesn't stop. The police give high-speed chase.He jumps a red light and is mown down by an oncoming car. Killed on impact.Detectives Paterson and Clocks arrive at a scene of carnage. Large plastic boxes are scattered across the road. Their lids open, their contents warming up in the early morning sun. A traffic officer comforts a distraught woman driver. The courier's body lies nearby, his left leg bent at an awkward angle, his head at another: the loser of this particular meeting of metal and plastic.The detectives take a closer look at the boxes. It's one of the worst things they've ever seen. And they've seen some very bad things.This discovery leads Paterson and Clocks on their most dangerous investigation yet - and into the path of Alicia Warren, a ruthless international businesswoman who will kill to keep her profits flowing.And if that's not enough, Johnny Clocks, England's most foul-mouthed detective, is trying to keep his new wife happy while building a relationship with the 24-year-old son he never knew he had.

100 Facts Human Body

Melted perfection on toast in over 100 recipes.

A supersized book of fun science projects, with large how-to photographs, perfect for sharing and learning.

Ten terrific projects to help youngsters learn about the natural world around them, shown in step by step photographs of real children.

Discover the fastest, the biggest, the tiniest and the deadliest animals in the world! Statistics are presented through colourful graphics, with lots of facts to fascinate.

Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the right level

From early pioneers of space travel to potential missions of the future - the story of humans in space makes for fascinating reading.

From early pioneers of space travel to potential missions of the future - the story of humans in space makes for fascinating reading.

From early pioneers of space travel to potential missions of the future - the story of humans in space makes for fascinating reading.

From early pioneers of space travel to potential missions of the future - the story of humans in space makes for fascinating reading.

From early pioneers of space travel to potential missions of the future - the story of humans in space makes for fascinating reading.

Explore Building Wembley to find out how and why the brand new Wembley Stadium was created. This book is part of Project X Origins, a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school.

16 stimulating projects to help youngsters learn about the world around them. Ideas include leafy gift wrap, a wild flower window box, a bean-in-a-box maze, and a wiggly wormery.

Age of the Dinosaur is a great first book about dinosaurs and the world in which they lived from the Natural History Museum, London. Packed with bite-size facts, exciting prehistoric puzzles and eye-catching photographs of specimens from the Museum's collections, this is a fun and fact-filled introduction to these incredible creatures.

Mars is the closest planet to Earth, but how much do we know about it? Written by science author Steve Parker, this fact-packed book takes a look at the physical features of the planet and at the amazing exploration that has been done on Mars.