The human body is like an exceedingly well-fortified castle, defended by billions of soldiers - some live for less than a day, others remember battles for decades, but all are essential in protecting us from disease. This hidden army is our immune system, and without it we could not survive the eternal war between our microscopic enemies and ourselves. Immune explores the incredible arsenal that lives within us - how it knows what to attack and what to defend, and how it kills everything from the common cold virus to plague bacteria.We see what happens when the immune system turns on us, and how life is impossible without its protection. We learn how diseases try to evade the immune system and exploit its vulnerabilities, and we discover how scientists are designing new drugs to harness the power of the system to fight disease. Do transplants ever reject their new bodies? What is pus? How can your body make more antibodies than there are stars in our galaxy? Why is cancer so hard for o
What if man journeyed into space in 1869, not 1969? In The Knights of Mars, the third volume in this breath-taking fantasy graphic novel series, Alex Alice draws on Jules Verne and nineteenth-century
What if man journeyed into space in 1869, not 1969? In this breath-taking fantasy graphic novel, Alex Alice draws on Jules Verne and nineteenth-century romanticism to create a watercolor world of adve
In search of the mysterious element known as aether, Claire Dulac flew her hot air balloon toward the edge of our stratosphere—and never returned. Her husband, genius engineer Archibald Dulac, is cert
A Frenchman on Mars is the fourth volume in the lavishly illustrated adventure series set in a world where space exploration began during the Victorian era.What if man journeyed into space in 1869, no
For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Women in the Castle comes a riveting literary novel that is at once an epic love story and a heart-pounding journey across WWI-era Russia, about an ambi
A murderer is picking off the young Hollywood starlets gathered at the swanky Hearst Castle, and Lulu Kelly might be next—unless she can find the killer first in this glitzy, glamorous, and cinematic
A murderer is picking off the young Hollywood starlets gathered at the swanky Hearst Castle, and Lulu Kelly might be next—unless she can find the killer first in this glitzy, glamorous, and cine
Working all day for the Lazy Giant is no fun. If only the children in his castle could get their own back Oxford Reading Tree All Stars is an engaging chapter fiction series which combines age-appropr
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To a land of secret horror came a young Englishman as new master of the castle of Vissarion. Even before he reached it he saw the tormented girl whose eyes were like stars set in th epallor of death:
Celebrate the 25th anniversary of Disney's classic animated film Beauty and the Beast! Originally released in 1991, the film stars the Disney Princess Belle, the Beast, and a castle full of enchanted
Frank Castle stars in an explosive epic so big it took three titles to contain it! When the Punisher undertakes his most extravagant hit of all - collapsing an entire skyscraper on a group of crime bo
Under the stars, in a secret world... Rowena, the youngest of twelve sisters, loves to slip out of the castle at night and dance in a magical forest. Soon she convinces her sisters to join her. When
I Am Still the Greatest Says Johnny Angelo is Nik Cohn's hymn to rock as myth, in all its crazed, absurd and glorious excess. Johnny Angelo is the pop star to end all pop stars—narcissistic,
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(E-Z Play Today). This collection in our patented E-Z Play Today notation features 14 of Sheeran's best: The "A" Team * All of the Stars * Castle on the Hill * Don't * Give Me Love * How Would You Fe
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). 2017's best songs come together in this collection of hits, including: Believer * Body like a Back Road * Castle on the Hill * Chained to the Rhythm * City of Stars * De
