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Michael Lawrence

    Do Bugs Have Bottoms? and Other Important Questions (And Answers) from the Science Museum
    A Crack in the Line
    The Poppykettle Papers
    Programming Graphical User Interfaces in R
    Jiggy's Genes 2
    Tracks & Signs of the Birds of Britain & Europe
    • Programming Graphical User Interfaces with R introduces each of the major R packages for GUI programming: RGtk2, qtbase, Tcl/Tk, and gWidgets. With examples woven through the text as well as stand-alone demonstrations of simple yet reasonably complete applications, the book features topics especially relevant to statisticians who aim to provide a practical interface to functionality implemented in R. The book offers: A how-to guide for developing GUIs within R The fundamentals for users with limited knowledge of programming within R and other languages GUI design for specific functions or as learning tools The accompanying package, ProgGUIinR, includes the complete code for all examples as well as functions for browsing the examples from the respective chapters. Accessible to seasoned, novice, and occasional R users, this book shows that for many purposes, adding a graphical interface to one’s work is not terribly sophisticated or time consuming.

      Programming Graphical User Interfaces in R2012
      3.5
    • Jiggy's Genes 2

      Jiggy the Vampire Slayer

      • 160 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      Jiggy gets more than he bargained for when he visits the bats enclosure at his local Zoological Gardens, and gets spat on by one of the bloodsucking creatures! Now he is a target for all other vampires, including the archnemesis of the bat who bit him in the first place. Can Jiggy them off? A fang-tastically funny new story from a bestselling author

      Jiggy's Genes 22011
      4.1
    • Jiggy's Genes

      Jiggy's Magic Balls

      • 160 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      In the Jiggy's Genes series we will meet a whole host of Jiggy's ancestors and discover that, through centuries past, there have always been Jiggys! It's not easy being a peasant. Jiggy's medieval life is one dirty dung heap of trouble after another. Worse, he has to work for the dumbest Knight in the land, Sir Bozo de Beurk. But when Jiggy discovers a pair of magic balls, his fortunes might be about to change...

      Jiggy's Genes2010
      3.8
    • This ninth Jiggy McCue story sees Jiggy entering an alternative reality when he hides in the school caretaker's broom cupboard. In this new world, Jiggy finds he has swapped places with a boy called Juggy who is about to go on a school trip—a trip to compete in the UK Extreme Ironing Championships.

      The Iron, the Switch and the Broom Cupboard2007
      4.0
    • Ryan's Brain

      • 336 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      This eighth Jiggy McCue story sees Jiggy and his pals, Angie and Pete, as usual, in trouble. This time, they are under threat from the brain of Bryan Ryan, one of their classmates. Bryan's Brain is out of control and threatening to take over the world! And only Jiggy, Pete and Angie, the 'Three Musketeers', can stop it. One for All and All for Lunch!

      Ryan's Brain2006
      3.9
    • Neville the Devil

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      Neville the Devil returns, bringing chaos to the Musketeers' seventh adventure When Jiggy, Pete, and Angie end up on a dodgy vacation, Jiggy has a feeling they're in for a bad time. He's not wrong! An old enemy is back, and this time he's more devilish than ever, in this sequel to The Killer Underpants.

      Neville the Devil2005
      3.9
    • Nudie Dudie

      • 135 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

      This illustrated tale is a fun and wacky story about Jiggy McCue, the boy who things seem to happen to...

      Nudie Dudie2004
      3.9
    • A Crack in the Line

      • 278 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      First in a new trilogy, by the author of the Jiggy McCue books. Two years ago, Alaric's mother died in an accident, and his world fell apart. Then one winter's day, Alaric finds himself drawn into a parallel world - a world in which his mother didn't die. The only problem is that in the other world she has a daughter, not a son. 14+.

      A Crack in the Line2003
      3.9
    • With over 1,000 illustrations, including 47 color plates, this guide provides the most comprehensive coverage of any book on the signs of many European birds, resident, visiting or vagrant.

      Tracks & Signs of the Birds of Britain & Europe2003
      4.7
    • Jiggy McCue has a big problem! He's just moved into a new house and is being haunted by a goose! The only people who believe Jiggy are his best friends, Pete and Angie. Together the three of them need to figure out exactly who this tormentor is and why she is haunting Jiggy. Join Jiggy, Angie, and Pete in this laugh-out-loud wild-goose chase!

      The Poltergoose2002
      3.8
    • A boy plays a computer game and accidentally swaps bodies with a girl

      The Toilet of Doom2001
      3.8
    • Jiggy's new underpants won't come off. As if that wasn't enough, they seem to give him a peculiar sort of power over people

      The Killer Underpants2000
      3.9
    • The Poppykettle Papers

      • 120 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

      Aloof and Arnica tell their tale of an epic journey from the shores of Peru to a new land at the world's edge, where the sun goes down. So small are they and their other three companions that instead of sailing in a boat they set out in an earthenware pot called a poppykettle. Along the way they encounter mystery, danger, hazards, nature, and the dreadful knowledge that the poppykettle will carry only three of them to the Unchosen Land.

      The Poppykettle Papers1999
      3.9
    • Der englische Wissenschaftler Dr. Jekyll verwandelt sich in den bösartigen Sadisten Mr. Hyde und geht an der Spaltung seines Charakters zugrunde.

      Der seltsame Fall des Dr. Jekyll und Mr. Hyde1998