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Pray, attend at once! A most perplexing scandal requires your immediate attention in this puzzle-packed mystery adventure for cognitive development and sharpening your mind at any age!From the timeless world of Jane Austen comes a collection of 50 original brainteasers steeped in the wit and intrigue of Regency society. Join England's cleverest heroines to untangle cozy capers set in grand assembly rooms and sprawling country estates. You'll tackle everything from scandalous whispers revealed on calling cards to secrets overheard in carriages, all with a delightful mix of smarts and humor.It is up to YOU to navigate the delicate rules of society, decipher the clues, and protect the reputations of ladies and gentlemen alike. With a pencil and your sharpest insights, you will feel as though you've stepped right into the pages of a beloved novel. These diverting challenges offer hours of immersive, screen-free fun.So... WhodunLit?This puzzle book features the following at various levels o

A compendium of never-before-published contact sheets from the iconic documentarian of the American West, spanning decades and formats, replete with his red-marker frame selections and handwritten notes Robert Adams' photographs of the Western landscape are iconic reminders of nature's resilience in the face of human development. But as this collection of never-before-published contact sheets shows, his precise arrangements of clouds, trees and roads under clear Colorado light were not inevitable. Instead, they are the result of Adams' relentless searching for form and his inimitable, exacting photographic technique, as evidenced by prints marked with cropping lines, exposure times and other notes. The book pairs around 50 photographs with their original contact sheets, each showing the exposures from a single roll of medium format film, or with contact-printed 4x5 negatives and pencil-drawn printing guides. The photographs span 20 years, from the 1960s to the mid-1980s, just before Ad

This book explores the life and authorial development of Jack Kerouac through previously unpublished papers, letters, and other literary artifacts. In Running Through Heaven: Visions of Jack Kerouac, Jacob Loewentheil tells the father of the Beat generation's story through letters, an unpublished manuscript, notable copies of Kerouac's major works, literary artifacts, and personal items. These physical objects convey quirks, habits, and intimate facets of Kerouac's character, showing the writer in the making. His early letters, many previously unpublished and from Loewentheil's own collection, shed light on his emerging and highly influential stream of consciousness style. Running Through Heaven testifies to the richness of Kerouac's writing, his lifelong love of education, his complex relationship with religion, the tensions and contradictions in his sexuality, his influence on other writers, his turn toward conservatism, and his pivotal relationship with his mother. To fixate on the

Updated and revised from cover to cover, Moss and Adams' Heart Disease in Infants, Children, and Adolescents: From Fetal Through Adult Life, 11th Edition, provides the authoritative, state-of-the-art information you need when caring for young patients with heart disease. Senior editors Drs. Daniel J. Penny and Frank Cetta lead a diverse and outstanding editorial and author team who cover all recent advances in this complex and fast-changing field. Expert perspectives from leading cardiologists and other members of the cardiac team ensure that this award-winning title remains the reference of choice for cardiology fellows, pediatric cardiologists, and cardiology practitioners worldwide. Progresses logically through cardiac development, genetics, embryology, anatomy, physiology, individual congenital heart lesions, electrophysiology, diagnostic testing, interventional, surgical and pharmacologic management, and much more Contains more content on diagnostic and therapeutic methods, and in