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Wild Boy has been covered in hair since birth and condemned to life in a travelling freak show. Excluded from society, he takes refuge in watching people at the fair - and develops a talent for observation and detection. But when there's a murder, suspicion turns to Wild Boy, so he and the feisty acrobat Clarissa Everett find themselves on the run...

Waisted: The Biology of Body Fat outlines the fascinating, often misunderstood and sometimes controversial biology of fat, otherwise known as adipose tissue. It provides a comprehensive, evidence-based perspective on fat biology and its crucial role in human evolution, health, disease, and society.

Claims about consciousness in animals are often made in support of their moral standing. Peter Carruthers argues that there is no fact of the matter about animal consciousness and it is of no scientific or ethical significance. Sympathy for an animal can be grounded in its mental states, but should not rely on assumptions about its consciousness.

Compared to other animals, the way humans live - our manners, morals, habits, experiences, relationships, technology, values - changes at a bewildering speed. Why is this? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto offers some revolutionary answers to this fundamental question about our species - and speculates on what they mean for our future.

This new edition of Nelson Maths provides a rigorous, whole-school programme for teaching mathematics from early years through to the end of primary education. Written for learners across the world, this course enables all children to start and sustain a lifelong journey with maths.

This new edition of Nelson Maths provides a rigorous, whole-school programme for teaching mathematics from early years through to the end of primary education. Written for learners across the world, this course enables all children to start and sustain a lifelong journey with maths.

This new edition of Nelson Maths provides a rigorous, whole-school programme for teaching mathematics from early years through to the end of primary education. Written for learners across the world, this course enables all children to start and sustain a lifelong journey with maths.

This new edition of Nelson Maths provides a rigorous, whole-school programme for teaching mathematics from early years through to the end of primary education. Written for learners across the world, this course enables all children to start and sustain a lifelong journey with maths.

This new edition of Nelson Maths provides a rigorous, whole-school programme for teaching mathematics from early years through to the end of primary education. Written for learners across the world, this course enables all children to start and sustain a lifelong journey with maths.

This new edition of Nelson Maths provides a rigorous, whole-school programme for teaching mathematics from early years through to the end of primary education. Written for learners across the world, this course enables all children to start and sustain a lifelong journey with maths.

This new edition of Nelson Maths provides a rigorous, whole-school programme for teaching mathematics from early years through to the end of primary education. Written for learners across the world, this course enables all children to start and sustain a lifelong journey with maths.

This new edition of Nelson Maths provides a rigorous, whole-school programme for teaching mathematics from early years through to the end of primary education. Written for learners across the world, this course enables all children to start and sustain a lifelong journey with maths.

This new edition of Nelson Maths provides a rigorous, whole-school programme for teaching mathematics from early years through to the end of primary education. Written for learners across the world, this course enables all children to start and sustain a lifelong journey with maths.

This new edition of Nelson Maths provides a rigorous, whole-school programme for teaching mathematics from early years through to the end of primary education. Written for learners across the world, this course enables all children to start and sustain a lifelong journey with maths.

This new edition of Nelson Maths provides a rigorous, whole-school programme for teaching mathematics from early years through to the end of primary education. Written for learners across the world, this course enables all children to start and sustain a lifelong journey with maths.

This new edition of Nelson Maths provides a rigorous, whole-school programme for teaching mathematics from early years through to the end of primary education. Written for learners across the world, this course enables all children to start and sustain a lifelong journey with maths.

As the most concise, accessible guide to the EU, The European Union: How does it work? is an ideal introduction for those coming to the subject for the first time. A team of expert scholars cut through the complexity to explain how the EU works, both in theory and in practice, helping students gain the knowledge they need to succeed.

Bond 11+ CEM Maths & Non-verbal Reasoning Assessment Practice for age 10-11+ years offers exam-style practice questions for children preparing for the CEM 11+ test or other online selective school assessments. This revised edition includes essential guidance and full answer explanations and will develop the skills that are vital for success.

Bond 11+ CEM Maths & Non-verbal Reasoning Assessment Practice for age 9-10 years offers exam-style practice questions for children preparing for the CEM 11+ test or other online selective school assessments. This revised edition includes essential guidance and full answer explanations and will develop the skills that are vital for success.

This study reinterprets the relationship between the medieval papacy and independent states, suggesting that kings and governments were able to increase their effective power through close relationships with the international papacy, making the papacy integral to the creation of centralized national states and kingdoms in Europe.

Bond 11+ CEM English & Verbal Reasoning Assessment Practice for age 9-10 years offers exam-style practice questions for children preparing for the CEM 11+ test or other online selective school assessments. This revised edition includes essential guidance and full answer explanations and will develop the skills that are vital for success.

Bond 11+ CEM English & Verbal Reasoning Assessment Practice for age 10-11+ years offers exam-style practice questions for children preparing for the CEM 11+ test or other online selective school assessments. This revised edition includes essential guidance and full answer explanations and will develop the skills that are vital for success.

Bond 11+ CEM Maths & Non-verbal Reasoning Assessment Practice for age 8-9 years offers exam-style practice questions for children preparing for the CEM 11+ test or other online selective school assessments. This revised edition includes essential guidance and full answer explanations and will develop the skills that are vital for success.

Bond 11+ CEM English & Verbal Reasoning Assessment Practice for age 8-9 years offers exam-style practice questions for children preparing for the CEM 11+ test or other online selective school assessments. This revised edition includes essential guidance and full answer explanations and will develop the skills that are vital for success.

The Making of a King is the first book in more than a century to tell the gripping story of the rule of Antigonus Gonatas: how he gained the Macedonian throne, how he held it, the nature of his court, the measures he took towards the Greeks, and their responses.

This volume presents renewed efforts at how best to think about truths concerning religion. It explores many issues at the intersection of the epistemology of disagreement and religious epistemology, engaging in careful reflection on religious diversity and disagreement and offering ways to balance epistemic humility with personal conviction.

This innovative edited collection uncovers the invisible frames which form our understanding of international law. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it investigates how social cognition and knowledge production processes affect decision-making, and inform unquestioned beliefs about what international law is, and how it works.

How is it possible for world-class athletes who are already at the top of their game to keep improving? This book addresses this puzzle by presenting a theory of "continuous improvement", exploring the psychological and physical processes behind advancing elite performance.

This work presents a collection of texts in translation on ancient athletics in Greek and Roman history, including a wide range of topics from the Olympics to ancient conceptions of health and wellness.

"Legitimation by constitution" is a phrase coined by Michelman and Ferrara to represent an idea in Rawlsian political liberalism of reliance on a dualist democracy: ground-level laws are subject to the constraints of a legal constitution that all citizens, across the political spectrum, can accept as a framework for their collective politics.