Palgrave Macmillan

It does not pay to anger the gods...If you're lucky, you might just end up being transformed into a spider, falling hopelessly in love with your reflection or being hunted by your own hounds. And if you're unlucky? Well ...read on......

Meet Tyrannosaurus rex, a towering terror with a bone-crunching bite; plant-munching Stegosaurus, the bus-sized dinosaur with a tiny brain; high-flying Microraptor, a mini glider; and underwater reptile Liopleurodon, the top terror of the Jurassic seas! Dig deep and uncover amazing prehistoric creatures with Basher's unique one-stop guide to...

One night Cassie is gazing at the twinkling sky, when suddenly a shooting star zooms into her bedroom and transforms, into Stella Starkeeper. Stella and Cassie fly to the secret world of the stars, and Cassie discovers she is destined to be a Lucky Star -- someone who can grant real wishes. But first Cassie must collect six magical charms and use...

James Campbell provides an in-depth survey of crime, punishment and justice in African American history. Presenting cutting-edge scholarship on issues of criminal justice in African American history in an accessible way for students, he makes connections between black experiences of criminal justice and violence from the slave era to the present....

With its lively, creative approach, this is a unique one-stop guide to the basics of weather. Meet Hurricane, a violent blusterer; Atmosphere, a many-layered character who keeps the planet cosy; hard-nut Hail and sneezy Sleet; Drought, the dusty fellow who makes life hard for animals, plants and people; and mischievous El Nino, who messes around...

Green Criminology has the potential to provide not only a different way of examining and making sense of various forms of crime and control responses, but can also make explicable much wider connections which are not generally well understood. As all societies face up to the need to confront harms against the environment, other animals and...