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DEMENTIA, LAW AND ETHICS by Hughes, Julian C.; Beatty, Aileen; Emmett, Charlot
Category: Health
Clinical dilemmas in dementia contexts are often not because the clinical facts are in doubt, but because the ethical and legal underpinnings are uncertain - which can cause worry and confusion. This practical book will help nurses, healthcare assistants and other practitioners to think through their re ...Show more
Looking for Theophrastus: Travels in Search of a Lost Philosopher by Laura Beatty
Category: Philosophy and Religion
A strange, wild, brilliant personal journey - across land and through time - in which Laura Beatty travels back two thousand years to rescue from obscurity Aristotle's friend and Chaucer's inspiration, the forgotten philosopher who grandfathered botany and the English novel. Standing on the deck of a f ...Show more
Looking for Theophrastus: Travels in Search of a Lost Philosopher by Laura Beatty
Category: Reference
Who is Theophrastus, and why should we care? Once, he was the equal of Plato and Aristotle. Together he and Aristotle invented science. Alone he invented Botany. The character of the Wife of Bath is his invention, the Canterbury Tales as a whole, perhaps, the product of his inspiration. When Linnaeus w ...Show more
Lost Property by Laura Beatty
Category: Fiction
'Clever, brave and urgent. I thought about Lost Property for days after I finished it.' Sarah Moss, author of Ghost Wall Reviews for Laura Beatty:'Beatty makes you feel the layers of history existing' The Times'Beatty is a writer of extraordinary power' Literary Review'Exceptional talent' Guardian In ...Show more
Lost Property by Laura Beatty
Category: Fiction
'Clever, brave and urgent. I thought about Lost Property for days after I finished it.' Sarah Moss, author of Ghost Wall'Fascinating and eloquent discussion of nationalism, art and conflict, leavened with wry humour.' Mail on Sunday____________________In the middle of her life, a writer finds herself in ...Show more
Off the Beatty Track by Michael Beatty
Category: Performing Arts
He did his first interview with guitar legend, Jimi Hendrix, for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and was promptly 'exiled' to a CBC radio station in the Eastern Arctic. After a period of learning Inuit and braving minus 40C temperatures, Michael returned to London to follow in the footsteps of his ...Show more
Scarecrow's Panic Plot (Batman Comic Chapter Book) by Scott Beatty
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: DC Comic Chapter Books
TheScarecrow is on the loose in this exciting comics and chapter book hybrid! Now the Scarecrow has fitted the Dark Knight with a helmet that slowly gives him fear gas as part of a twisted experiment. Batman has no choice but to play along the mask is tamper-proof and if he tries to remove it, he ll get ...Show more
Serafina And The Seven Stars by Beatty Robert
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Serafina Ser.
Serafina and Braeden make an epic return in the hotly anticipated fourth installment of Robert Beatty's #1 New York Times best-selling Serafina series.Serafina, the Guardian of Biltmore Estate, has won battle after battle against the dark forces encroaching on her home. Now, tranquility has returned to ...Show more
Serafina and the Black Cloak by Robert Beatty
Category: Young Adult Fiction
"Never go into the deep parts of the forest, for there are many dangers there, and they will ensnare your soul." Serafina has never had a reason to disobey her pa and venture beyond the grounds of the Biltmore estate.There's plenty to explore in her grand home, although she must take care to never be se ...Show more
Serafina and the Black Cloak by Robert Beatty
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Serafina Ser.
"Never go into the deep parts of the forest, for there are many dangers there, and they will ensnare your soul." Serafina has never had a reason to disobey her pa and venture beyond the grounds of Biltmore Estate.There's plenty to explore in her grand home, although she must take care to never be se ...Show more
Serafina and the Black Cloak (#1) by Robert Beatty
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Serafina
A magical and mystical middle grade debut and New York Times bestselling thriller "Never go into the forest, for there are many dangers there, and they will ensnare your soul." Serafina and her pa have secretly lived in the basement of the grand old house on the Biltmore Estate, surrounded by dark fore ...Show more