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This book focuses on the impacts of the built environment, and how to predict and measure the benefits and consequences of changes taking place to address sustainability in the development and building industries. It draws together the best treatments of these subjects from the Leeds Sustainability... More

You Can Run... When we hijacked the UFO, we had no idea where it would take us. You don't exactly have time to think when you're being hunted by shape-shifting aliens. Besides, if we ended up lost in deep space, or on some distant planet, so what? At least we'd have gotten away, right? Wrong. You Ca... More

Jack Raynes ignored the anonymous note he got on his 13th birthday saying his life was in danger. That was a big mistake. Since he turned 13, he can suddenly speak several languages fluently -- and he overheard someone talking about killing him in a language not even human.... More

Ethan, Ashley, Todd, Elena, Jack, and Toni finally figure out how to time-travel back into the past. Their mission: find the scientist whose genetic experiment led to the creation of the evil Omegas... and convince her to destroy her research and save the Earth.... More

Now that George and his friends have explored the mysterious tunnels beneath his house and discovered the journal of the pirate Captain Kidd, they begin to believe there really is a treasure.... More

George and his friends know this isn't a just game of hide-and-seek anymore. There is a cursed diamond buried in the tunnels, and they are close to finding it. But Leroy and his thugs know who they are, and where they live.... More

My name is Todd Aldridge. At least, I think it is... Where did I go? I don't remember much about the night I disappeared. One minute I saw the strange light in the sky. The next minute I saw a strange light in the sky. The next minute I woke up in the hospital. The thing is, it wasn't the next minut... More

In the last episode of the Pyrates adventure, George and his friends have the final map, but they don't yet know how to find the Eye of Eternity gem. They soon learn that Leroy has kidnapped Kira Trenov and threatens to kill her if the kids don't turn over the diamond. ... More

George is fascinated by his family's legacy, the stories that link his ancestors to the infamous pirate Captain Kidd. But for 12 years, everyone has told him the stories are rumors. Now George has discovered the truth. And the truth is hidden in the web of tunnels mysteriously dug underneath his ... More

This book charts the path toward high performance sustainable buildings and the smart dwellings of the future. The volume clearly explains the principles and practices of high performance design, the uses of building information modelling (BIM), and the materials and methods of smart construction. ... More

While the concept of social value is not new, recent interest in social value in construction has grown because of new social procurement legislation around the world and an increasing acceptance of the need to ensure construction projects provide social value, rather than simply economic value. Des... More

This book gathers the very best academic research to date on prison regimes in Latin America and the Caribbean. Grounded in solid ethnographic work, each chapter explores the informal dynamics of prisons in diverse territories and countries of the region –  Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia, Honduras, Nica... More