Two vampire attacks in his first three days at boarding school and Alex Van Helsing realizes there's more to the family name than he thought--and more to this area of Switzerland than meets the eye. Lurking underneath Lake Geneva lies a secret vampire university called the Scholomance. And somehow the vampires know a Van Helsing has arrived.
Special agent Sangster of the Polidorium--an undercover, international vampire-hunting organization--wants to train Alex in the tricks of the trade, but when two innocent teens are kidnapped, rehearsal is...
This doesn't happen . . . does it?
Two vampire attacks in his first three days at boarding school and Alex Van Helsing realizes there's more ...
Faced with intolerable congestion and noxious pollution, cities around the world are rethinking their reliance on automobiles. In the United States a loosely organized livability movement seeks to reduce car use by reconfiguring urban space into denser, transit-oriented, walkable forms, a development pattern also associated with smart growth and new urbanism. Through a detailed case study of San Francisco, Jason Henderson examines how this is not just a struggle over what type of transportation is best for the city, but a series of ideologically charged political fights over issues of...
Faced with intolerable congestion and noxious pollution, cities around the world are rethinking their reliance on automobiles. In the United States...