Helps students make the transition to writing at college or university as simple as possible, providing them with the basic skills they need to write in an effective academic style. This book gives advice to overcome the main hurdles: overcoming apprehension; planning reading; and getting organized.

Joe Lorimer is a genius. His finest achievement is the online role-playing game Alternative Dimension, but he sees it as more than a plaything. He's fascinated by the freedoms offered by living in a virtual world and the more sophisticated he makes his creation, the more superior it seems to the alienating, faceless, ugly realities of daily life. His visits reveal many secrets of the psychology of the real people who are creating the avatars he meets. There are lovers, killers, crazies, animals, elves, vampires - even Health and Safety inspectors. Their stories are mostly wry, funny...

This is the first novel in a crime/mystery series set in a fictional town in north-east Scotland called Cairnburgh. The books feature Detective Chief Inspector Jack Carston, happily married to his photographer wife, Kath, whose good humour and common sense act as a perfect stabilising mechanism which makes him more able to accept the depressing evidence of man's inhumanity to man with which he's constantly confronted in his job. Stephanie Burnham's mutilated body is discovered by her husband. A chair's overturned, books are scattered around and there are other, more sinister signs of what...