The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark HaddonChristopher is 15 and lives in Swindon with his father. He has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. He is obsessed with maths, science and Sherlock Holmes but finds it hard to understand other people. When he discovers a dead dog on a neighbour's lawn he decides to solve the mystery and write a detective thriller about it. As in all good detective stories, however, the more he unearths, the deeper the mystery gets for both Christopher and the rest

she disappears into another city to raise the child herself

And he breaks down real-life examples of prototype experiments with accompanying photographs for the reader to observe large- and small-scale prototyping in action

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From Russia to America

a brilliant symposium on the power of art

Ludicrous and inarticulate

featuring new information and research on mindfulness

responsible for a four-star kitchen in New York

a few months after the Chinese Imperial Commissioner

Mitford used childhood experience

whether it's a YouTube fad or a political rumor

He calls on us all 'to snap out of our cold-war trance