A star-studded anthology with a devilish hook, whose proceeds benefit 826nyc: the fabulous literacy non-profit founded by Dave Eggers. Can you imagine the most cantankerous book editor alive? Part Voldemort, part Cruella de Vil (if she were a dude), and worse in appearance and odor than a gluttonous farm pig? A man who makes no secret of his love of cheese or his disdain of unworthy authors? That man is Herman Mildew. The anthology opens with an invitation to a party, care of this insufferable monster, where more than 80 of the most talented, bestselling and recognizable names in YA and children’s fiction learn that they are suspects in his murder. All must provide alibis in brief first-person entries. The problem is that all of them are liars, all of them are fabulists, and all have something to hide...

The simple text asks the reader a series of questions about the characters on each page, and the child must seek out the visual clues to answer.

Somebody is stealing diamonds from the jeweler Mohammed Carat! It looks like the culprit is someone on his staff, but who? Is it Luke Smith, the recently hired fitness fanatic with a taste for the finer things in life? It surely can't be Vivian Leander, the loyal shop assistant who is now short of money ... The police in the little town of Valleby are stuck, so they contact young detectives Jerry and Maya, classmates who run their own detective agency. Will Jerry and Maya be able to use their detective skills to find the thief? As they well know, even a tiny clue is worth its weight in gold.

One of the most popular plays of the last few years, this play is the story of Alexander Arlington, world-famous mystery writer. Alexander is murdered, but when he arrives in Heaven, no one can tell him 'Who dunit.' Michael, the Archangel, agrees to let him relive the last day of his life. Back on earth, Alexander finds that no one seems to have a motive for killing him. A second look, though, reveals that each one of the possible suspects has a strong reason for wanting him out of the way. As Alexander tries to outwit an archangel and prevent his own murder for the second time, the play drives to a sizzling climax. A neat bit of celestial deduction clears up the question of 'Who dunit' in one of the funniest surprise endings in the annals of stage crime.

"Now a BBC America TV series event"--Cover.

Collection of addresses by one of the Church of England's most loved and respected pastors.

300 Limericks to spoil party games and to stop 5 more years of Richard Benyon. These limericks, written in daily diary, plot the political campaign of Barrie Singleton to stand as the preferred candidate for Newbury in the upcoming general election of May 2015 or sooner.

In the past decade, the field of comparative cognition has grown and thrived. No less rigorous than purely behavioristic investigations, examinations of animal intelligence are useful for scientists and psychologists alike in their quest to understand the nature and mechanisms of intelligence. Extensive field research of various species has yielded exciting new areas of research, integrating findings from psychology, behavioral ecology, and ethology in a unique and wide-ranging synthesis of theory and research on animal cognition. The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Cognition contains sections on perception and illusion, attention and search, memory processes, spatial cognition, conceptualization and categorization, problem solving and behavioral flexibility, and social cognition processes including findings in primate tool usage, pattern learning, and counting. The authors have incorporated findings and theoretical approaches that reflect the current state of the field. This comprehensive volume will be a must-read for students and scientists who want to know about the state of the art of the modern science of comparative cognition.