Below Tumblewater is a school unlike any other, daily schedule: dagger-throwing, advanced forgery, lockpicking, and ghostly geography

I looked again at at the door and saw a message scrawled roughly in the mud of the wall above it, as though someone had used their whole hand to gouge it out: RIDLEY GARNET'S SCHOLE FUR VILLAINS.

Everyone's favorite orphan-turned-storyteller Daniel Dorey is back and on the run from sinister millionaire Caspian Prye, who kidnapped his sister. He must venture below the rain-drenched streets, where he unwittingly enrolls in a very strange school, encountering a host of weird and wonderful characters. Here kids learn the tricks they need to survive—from safecracking to double dagger-throwing, from disguises to practicing surgery on chunks of corpse. This is one school where naughtiness never goes unrewarded! Will Daniel and his schoolmates be able to put their grisly lessons into practice and rescue his sister?

A stylishly sick new voice in children's Gothic horror features richly descriptive, blackly funny, gasp-out-loud story-within-a-storytelling, perfect for fans of The Graveyard Book

Warning: Not for the faint-hearted! Welcome to the shadowy district of Tumblewater, eternally rain-drenched, and home to a creepy collection of depraved characters, as newcomer Daniel Dorey is quick to discover. He is soon drawn into the town's hungry fascination with sinister storytelling: there's the one about the young boy who is punished most appallingly for picking his nose, another about two devilish bakers and their murderous pies, and then there are the rumors about the villainous Caspian Prye. Before he can help it, Daniel is thrown into the middle of a scary story himself—and he knows it's likely to have a sticky ending.

The zany, laugh-out loud, Sunday Times bestseller and number one Amazon.co.uk bestseller.

Do Ants Have Assholes? is a hilarious, over-the-top parody of bestsellers like Do Men Have Nipples? John Butler and Bruno Vincent have dreamed up a venerable, historic (and imaginary) newspaper. It's a home for sensible and settled minds in a world where newness and excitement seem in danger of overwhelming common sense, decency, and good, solid conservatism.

When this newspaper's serious readers have serious questions, they write to the 'Questions and Answers Page.' Do Ants Have Assholes? is a collection of what these imaginary readers write in:

• 'If a deaf man goes to court, is it still called a hearing?'
• 'What have the Romans ever done for us?'
• 'If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do they all have to drown?'

The only thing crazier than the readers' questions are the questions' answers. You won't be able to stop laughing.

Each volume includes all the necessary materials for the comprehensive study of a work of art:

• An illustration section showing the complete work of art, details, preliminary studies, and iconographic sources;
• An introductory essay by the editor;
• Documents and literary sources;
• Critical essays from the art-historical literature.

Based on the successful first edition, this book gives a general theoretical introduction to electrochemical power cells (excluding fuel cells) followed by a comprehensive treatment of the principle battery types - covering chemistry, fabrication characteristics and applications. There have been many changes in the field over the last decade and many new systems have been commercialised. Since the recent advent of battery powered consumer products (mobile phones, camcorders, lap-tops etc.) advanced power sources have become far more important. This text provides an up-to-date account of batteries which is accessible to anyone with a basic knowledge of chemistry and physics.