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From best-loved YA thriller author, Cynthia Murphy, comesan explosive new mystery!True-Crime obsessed Paige, and her family, move across the Atlanticto her father's eerie hometown, and it's not long before sheuncovers the town's dark history - a string of unsolved murdersand disappearances in the 90s.And then notes start appearing at their dilapidated old home,about the secrets the house is keeping. The clues lead Paige to adiary concealed in the walls that belonged to one of the missinggirls. Could this be the key to solving a quarter-of-a-century mystery,or will this make Paige the next target?!"The CEO of Plot Twists" - BookTok From thriller-horror YA queen, Cynthia Murphy, authorof Last One To Die and TIKTOK MADE ME BUY IT Win LoseKill Die, and The Midnight Game comes her fourthnail-biting novel about True Crime.Perfect for fans of Karen McManus, Kathryn Foxfield andshows like Stranger Things.This pacy thriller will keep you awake and guessing untilthe very last page.

Rules of The Midnight Game:Do not turn on the lights.Donot go to sleep.Do notleave the building.When a group who have met on a creepy Deddit thread decide tomeet in real life, they only have one plan in mind: they are goingto summon the Midnight Man.And once you start the Midnight Game, you must finish it - there'sno other way out!Six strangers. One night. But how many survivors? From thriller-horror YA queen, Cynthia Murphy, author of LastOne To Die and TIKTOK MADE ME BUY IT Win Lose KillDie, comes her third nail-biting novel about CreepyPasta.Perfect for fans of Karen McManus, Kathryn Foxfield andslasher horror movies like Candyman.With six-character points-of-view, Deddit threads, newspaperarticles and DMs, this pacy thriller will keep you awake and guessinguntil the very last page.  Praise for Midnight Game:"If Karen McManus and Stephen King wrote a book together,this would be it!" Instagram review"The CEO of plot twists" BookTok community"Terrifying and mesmerising" Rosie Talbot, authorof Sixteen Souls"So deliciously creepy and atmospheric!" AmyMcCaw, author of Mina and the Undead series

A new commentary for today's world, The Story of God Bible Commentary explains and illuminates each passage of Scripture in light of the Bible's grand story. The first commentary series to do so, SGBC offers a clear and compelling exposition of biblical texts, guiding everyday readers in how to creatively and faithfully live out the Bible in their own contexts. Its story-centric approach is ideal for pastors, students, Sunday school teachers, and laypeople alike.Three easy-to-use sections designed to help readers live out God's story:LISTEN to the Story: Includes complete NIV text with references to other texts at work in each passage, encouraging the reader to hear it within the Bible's grand storyEXPLAIN the Story: Explores and illuminates each text as embedded in its canonical and historical settingLIVE the Story: Reflects on how each text can be lived today and includes contemporary stories and illustrations to aid preachers, teachers, and studentsPraise for SGBC:"Pastors and lay people will welcome this new series, which seeks to make the message of the Scriptures clear and to guide readers in appropriating biblical texts for life today."-Daniel I. Block, Wheaton College and Graduate School"An extremely valuable and long overdue series that includes comment on the cultural context of the text, careful exegesis, and guidance on reading the whole Bible as a unity that testifies to Christ as our Savior and Lord."-Graeme Goldsworthy, author of According to Plan"Engagingly readable, it not only explores the biblical text but offers a range of applications and interesting illustrations."-Craig S. Keener, Asbury Theological Seminary"I love the SGBC series. It makes the text sing and helps us hear the story afresh."-John Ortberg, Senior Pastor, Menlo Park Presbyterian Church"A perfect tool for helping every follower of Jesus to walk in the story that God is writing for them."-Judy Douglass, Cru

A new commentary for today's world, The Story of God Bible Commentary explains and illuminates each passage of Scripture in light of the Bible's grand story. The first commentary series to do so, SGBC offers a clear and compelling exposition of biblical texts, guiding everyday readers in how to creatively and faithfully live out the Bible in their own contexts. Its story-centric approach is ideal for pastors, students, Sunday school teachers, and laypeople alike.Three easy-to-use sections designed to help readers live out God's story:LISTEN to the Story: Includes complete NIV text with references to other texts at work in each passage, encouraging the reader to hear it within the Bible's grand storyEXPLAIN the Story: Explores and illuminates each text as embedded in its canonical and historical settingLIVE the Story: Reflects on how each text can be lived today and includes contemporary stories and illustrations to aid preachers, teachers, and studentsPraise for SGBC:"Pastors and lay people will welcome this new series, which seeks to make the message of the Scriptures clear and to guide readers in appropriating biblical texts for life today."--Daniel I. Block, Wheaton College and Graduate School"An extremely valuable and long overdue series that includes comment on the cultural context of the text, careful exegesis, and guidance on reading the whole Bible as a unity that testifies to Christ as our Savior and Lord."--Graeme Goldsworthy, author of According to Plan"Engagingly readable, it not only explores the biblical text but offers a range of applications and interesting illustrations."--Craig S. Keener, Asbury Theological Seminary"I love the SGBC series. It makes the text sing and helps us hear the story afresh."--John Ortberg, Senior Pastor, Menlo Park Presbyterian Church"A perfect tool for helping every follower of Jesus to walk  in the story that God is writing for them."--Judy Douglass, Cru

Contemporary societies are constructed, constricted, and constrained by various series of examinations. Governments of both Western and non-Western countries tend to conduct detailed, multi-layered and continuous systems of tests or examinations. International tests, such as PISA and TIMSS, have also been introduced to compare the relative performances of learners within diverse educational institutions across different countries. Examinations therefore provide a methodological pivot for comparing a range of societies. They enable us to contrast the West and the East; the North and the South; tribal and mass society; ancient and postmodern civilization; and so on.Comparing parallel societies from across Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and North America, this book proposes fundamental transitions in sociological research from system to process and from communication to composition through intensive studies on examinations. It uses ethnographies, interviews, questionnaires, documents, statistics, and big-data analyses to make comparisons on broad scales of time and space. In so doing, it suggests hypotheses encompassing different kinds of societies in human history, including those in the Axial Age and the Modern Ages.

Jensen is a controversial figure, largely for his conclusions based on his and other research regarding the causes of race based differences in intelligence and in this book he develops more fully the argument he formulated in his controversial Harvard Education Review article ‘How Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic Achievement?’. In a wide-ranging survey of the evidence he argues that measured IQ reveals a strong hereditary component and he argues that the system of education which assumes an almost wholly environmentalist view of the causes of group differences capitalizes on a relatively narrow category of human abilities. Since its original publication the controversy surrounding Jensen’s ideas has continued as successive generations of psychologists, scientists and policy-makers have grappled with the same issues.

Themes in Geographic Thought, first published in 1981, explores in breadth and depth the interrelationships among the history of Geography, geographic thought, and methodology, specifically focusing on the interactions between geographical research and various contemporary philosophical schools: positivism, pragmatism, functionalism, phenomenology, existentialism, idealism, realism and Marxism.An attempt is made to synthesise Geography’s historically rich tradition with the current diversity in approaches to the discipline, based on the belief that ‘geographic thought’, at any point in time, is a manifestation of the mutual influence between the prevailing philosophical viewpoints and the major methodological approaches in vogue. Each chapter presents an overview of the concrete ideas of a particular school of philosophy and stresses its relevance and impact on various aspects of Geography.

Themes in Geographic Thought, first published in 1981, explores in breadth and depth the interrelationships among the history of Geography, geographic thought, and methodology, specifically focusing on the interactions between geographical research and various contemporary philosophical schools: positivism, pragmatism, functionalism, phenomenology, existentialism, idealism, realism and Marxism.An attempt is made to synthesise Geography’s historically rich tradition with the current diversity in approaches to the discipline, based on the belief that ‘geographic thought’, at any point in time, is a manifestation of the mutual influence between the prevailing philosophical viewpoints and the major methodological approaches in vogue. Each chapter presents an overview of the concrete ideas of a particular school of philosophy and stresses its relevance and impact on various aspects of Geography.

Jensen is a controversial figure, largely for his conclusions based on his and other research regarding the causes of race based differences in intelligence and in this book he develops more fully the argument he formulated in his controversial Harvard Education Review article ‘How Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic Achievement?’. In a wide-ranging survey of the evidence he argues that measured IQ reveals a strong hereditary component and he argues that the system of education which assumes an almost wholly environmentalist view of the causes of group differences capitalizes on a relatively narrow category of human abilities. Since its original publication the controversy surrounding Jensen’s ideas has continued as successive generations of psychologists, scientists and policy-makers have grappled with the same issues.

The bestselling author of Good Girls Die Firstis back with an entertaining, high-octane and read-in-a-single-sittingnew thriller. Welcome to the reality game show that'll scare you todeath! Have you got what it takes to last the night?Five contestants must sit tight through the night in dark anddangerous Umber Gorge caves, haunted by a ghost called the PuckeredMaiden. But is it the malevolent spirit they should fear... oreach other?As the production crew ramps up the frights, secrets start tobe revealed... these teenagers have hidden motives for taking partin It's Behind You! and could some of them be... murder? It's Most Haunted meets I'm a CelebrityGet Me Out of Here.Perfect for fans of Holly Jackson and Karen McManus.Knife-edge tension and twists you won't see coming...  PRAISE FOR IT'S BEHIND YOU"addictive, easy to get lost in, and utterly compelling toread" - And On She Reads"keeps you on the edge of your seat and guessing who did ituntil the very last pages" - ReadingZone

The explosive YA thriller, with over 5 million TikTokviews and counting... From the author of Last One To Die.The students at Morton Academy are high-achievers, selected basedon academic excellence. So when a series of murders target theschool's brightest and best, the pressure is on. Someone is determinedto stop at nothing to clear their path to the top. But whois it? And can they be stopped? A high-school slasher with a lethal twist, perfectfor fans of Karen McManus, Holly Jackson and GossipGirl.Have you read Cynthia Murphy's thrilling debut LastOne to Die?Cynthia's new novel, The Midnight Game, is out now.

From Alice Hemming, the bestselling author of TheDark Unicorn series, comes a brand-new story filled with vampiresand a mystery only one girl can solve.The town of Valesti was once rumoured to be the home to a familyof twelve vampires who wreaked havoc on the towns people. Until,that is, hunters came to kill them all. At least, they thoughtthey'd killed them all . . .Years later, the rumours are mostly forgotten but some persist- especially those around Castle Bezna , where a mysterious countesslives. Over the years, the countess has enlisted village girlsto be her companions, but none of the girls have returned. Butwhen a girl named Vivi decides that the promise of an educationand boarding is too great an opportunity to turn down, she packsup her belongings and starts work in the dusty old castle.But soon Vivi starts to wonder if the legend of the thirteenthvampire could be true. Can she prove the vampires existence, orwill she join the long list of girls never to return from CastleBezna . . . ? Alice Hemming is a trusted author - her previous book, TheMidnight Unicorn, was selected for the 2023 SummerReading ChallengeEnchanting dark fairy tales with fearsome villains and inspiringheroinesPerfect for fans of Skandar seriesGreat for 10+ readers who love fairy tales and Disney

The first laugh-out-loud, twisty mysteryfor young readers by amazing actress and dementia campaigner, VickyMcClure.  10 year old Jase is spending the summer holidays at the CastleRock caravan park with his auntie and grandma, who has dementia.Expecting to be totally bored, he meets three other curious, brave,funny kids and together they solve the mystery of a series ofthefts happening across the site. The finger of blame has startedpointing at the children - they must find the true culpritto clear their names and see justice done! A warm-hearted, everyone's-welcome,wonderfully plotted and page-turning mystery withan authentic, kind depiction of a relative with dementia at itsheart.A mystery story that's a modern-day Secret Sevenfor fans of Tom Fletcher's The Danger Gang andMarcus Rashford's The Breakfast Club Adventures. Thebrilliant best mates chemistry of classic movie Stand By MeWarm, witty, cleverly plotted storytelling - kids will love followingthe clues to catch the culprit! Vicky's story written incollaboration with Kim Curran.

Contemporary societies are constructed, constricted, and constrained by various series of examinations. Governments of both Western and non-Western countries tend to conduct detailed, multi-layered and continuous systems of tests or examinations. International tests, such as PISA and TIMSS, have also been introduced to compare the relative performances of learners within diverse educational institutions across different countries. Examinations therefore provide a methodological pivot for comparing a range of societies. They enable us to contrast the West and the East; the North and the South; tribal and mass society; ancient and postmodern civilization; and so on.Comparing parallel societies from across Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and North America, this book proposes fundamental transitions in sociological research from system to process and from communication to composition through intensive studies on examinations. It uses ethnographies, interviews, questionnaires, documents, statistics, and big-data analyses to make comparisons on broad scales of time and space. In so doing, it suggests hypotheses encompassing different kinds of societies in human history, including those in the Axial Age and the Modern Ages.