La Fabuleuse Histoire des Inventions, de la Maîtrise du Feu à l'Immortalité

Présentation de 130 inventions qui ont marqué l'histoire de l'humanité, du néolithique au XXIe siècle. La lampe, le miroir, la clepsydre, l'abaque, l'alambic, l'imprimerie, le baromètre, le gramophone, l'égreneuse de coton, le barbelé, le nylon, le transistor et Wikipédia sont décrits.Des premiers outils aux robots humanoïdes, cet ouvrage nous fait découvrir l'histoire insolite des grandes inventions et de leurs concepteurs. Du berceau de l'humanité, en Afrique, à l'explosion des technologies numériques, en Californie, faites un tour du monde des lieux qui ont marqué l'humanité.Plongez dans ce livre, lisez-le d'une traite ou dégustez-le au gré de vos envies, et laissez-vous guider par Denis Guthleben à la découverte de ces extraordinaires inventions qui ont changé le monde.Revue de presse L’Alsace – « Plongez dans ce livre et laissez-vous guider a la découverte de ces extraordinaires inventions qui ont changé le monde »Okapi – « Ce livre écrit par un historien des sciences te fait revivre la naissance des plus grandes inventions humaines. »WE demain – «…Denis Guthleben, attaché scientifique au Comité pour l'histoire du CNRS, nous fait voyager de la préhistoire à aujourd'hui, et même demain, à travers 130 inventions qui ont changé le destin de l'humanité »France Inter « La Tête au carré » - « C’est fascinant »Le Monde Science et Médecine – « Cet inventaire des grandes inventions est une manière agréable et digeste de se replonger dans l’histoire des sciences et des techniques. »Biographie de l'auteur Historien des sciences passionné par la genèse des grandes inventions du passé, Denis Guthleben est attaché scientifique au Comité pour l’histoire du CNRS et auteur de nombreux articles et ouvrages – dont Rêves de savants, étonnantes inventions de l’entre-deux-guerres paru chez Armand Colin – qui l'amènent à partager son goût pour l'histoire avec tous les publics. Il est régulièrement sollicité par les médias et a présenté une…


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Lectures critiques et écritures littéraires

Ce manuel d’études littéraires propose un horizon critique propre à fortifier les capacités de lecture et à favoriser leurs travaux de dissertation. Il offre une vraie vision de la littérature, grâce à la mise au jour des trois piliers qui soutiennent une œuvre (le monde, l’humain et l’image) sous la voûte qui en signe le caractère (le style). Il fait dialoguer extraits analytiques et extraits poétiques. Il se veut un outil pratique où chaque référence est précédée d’explications introductives notant l’enjeu du texte critique et la situation du texte littéraire. Tous les extraits sont accompagnés par les entrées traditionnelles de l’étude universitaire, au demeurant mentionnées par le concours de l’École Normale Supérieure (l’œuvre littéraire, ses propriétés, sa valeur ; l’œuvre littéraire et l’auteur ; l’œuvre littéraire et le lecteur ; la représentation littéraire ; littérature et morale ; littérature et politique ; littérature et savoirs). Ce livre se veut donc être un compagnon d’étude, dans le champ universitaire, et un compagnon de route, dans le champ intellectuel. Cet ouvrage s'adresse aux étudiants de classes préparatoires et de licence de lettres.


Els habitants de la lluna


La dona dels ulls de pluja

La dona dels ulls de pluja és una història d’intriga situada a la Barcelona del 1991, protagonitzada per persones corrents, tendres o brutals, envejoses o abnegades, que actuen enmig dels esdeveniments més recents de la vida de la ciutat i del món i s’expressen amb el llenguatge d’avui. Un empresari barceloní amb dona i amant, un ric agent immobiliari, un sinistre «violador del diumenge», una dona jove escapada de Madrid per allunyar-se d’un marit violent, un diputat afeccionat a les jovenetes tendres i una aspirant a actriu són uns quants dels personatges de la vida urbana que participen en l’acció. El lector, si vol, podrà jugar a identificar el ric quadre de figurants amb persones del seu entorn, tot seguint l’entramat de sospites, que no deixarà de sorprendre’l.


La pierre philosophale

Première édition, 1969Édition Les Belles Lettres, 2001Dans sa quête de l'immortalité et de la vérité sur les origines de l'homme et du monde, le jeune savant Howard Newman a acquis une étrange capacité à visualiser le passé. Un passé aussi lointain que le Stonehenge des origines ou le mystérieux continent de Mu... jusqu'à l'apparition d'une force maléfique. Hommage à H. P. Lovecraft et interprétation inattendue de son oeuvre.


Trouvez sa raison d'être quand on n'entre pas dans les cases

La Raison d’Être est une énergie qui trouve sa source au plus profond de ce que vous êtes et de votre sensibilité. La perdre revient à vous perdre. William Réjault en a fait l’expérience à la suite d’un burnout. Pour se reconstruire, il s’est attelé à répondre à un questionnaire imaginé par le chercheur en prospective Martin Serralta, qui permet à chacun de retrouver sa voie quand il se sent perdu.À travers ces questions, levez le voile avec William sur qui vous êtes et ce qui vous fait vibrer.


Uf, va dir ell

Un coit que es perllonga durant lustres i lustres; un incansable devorador de lletres; un trist oficinista a Lloret, tractant de lligar; un contrabandista de papallones; quatre lladregots de mig pèl; Déu creant —força matusserament— l’univers; un nàufrag frustrat; una noia amb sines farcides d’ocells i de vegetació; un tastaolletes que viu després de mort… Tot aquest prodigiós ventall imaginatiu ha estat treballat fins a convertir cada conte en una obra perfecta, rodona, indefugible.


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Nines Russes


Les mythes de la guerre d'Espagne

Enorme succès de librairie lors de sa parution en Espagne en 2003, cet ouvrage conclut à la responsabilité écrasante de la gauche révolutionnaire dans le déclenchement de la guerre civile espagnole. Selon les documents exceptionnels rassemblés par Pio Moa, l'origine du conflit n'est pas, en effet, le coup d’état raté de juillet 1936 contre la Seconde République espagnole mais bien la « menace rouge » que représentaient pour la démocratie les factions d'extrême gauche qui préparaient un soulèvement de type communiste sur le modèle de la révolution asturienne de 1934. La radicalisation de la gauche au pouvoir sous le Frente Popular (assassinats de militants et hommes politiques des différentes composantes de la droite démocratique, destruction d'édifices religieux, assassinats de religieux, etc.) va entraîner un raidissement des conservateurs. Et ce sera l'escalade : le soulèvement militaire du 18 juillet 1936 survient alors que Largo Caballero et ses partisans avaient lancé depuis 1934 un processus révolutionnaire similaire à celui qui en octobre 1917 a eu raison du régime Kerensky en Russie. Pio Moa a été militant du Parti Communiste Espagnol puis fondateur de groupe de résistance maoiste GRAPO. Ardent combattant anti-franquiste, il participa à de nombreuses actions violentes avant de se lancer dans un long travail de recherche en étudiant le fonds documentaire de la Fondation socialiste Pablo Iglesias. C’est là qu’il découvrit « l’autre visage » de la gauche révolutionnaire.


Mil cretins

Mil cretins és una obra que reuneix dinou contes de l’escriptor barceloní Quim Monzó. Està estructurada en dues parts, amb relats més llargs a la primera i més breus a la segona. La primera n’aplega set: El senyor Beneset, L’amor és etern, Dissabte, Dos somnis, Miro per la finestra, La lloança i L’arribada de la primavera. La segona n’inclou dotze: La sang del mes que ve, Trenta línies, Un tall, Una nit, Una altra nit, Enllà de la nafra, Per molts anys, Qualsevol temps passat, La plenitud de l’estiu, El noi i la dona, La forquilla i Xiatsu.Va ser publicada l’any 2007. El 2008 va guanyar el Premi Maria Àngels Anglada. Ha estat traduïda a diferents llengües, com l’anglesa, l’alemanya, la francesa, la italiana i l’espanyola.Monzó passa comptes amb el dolor, la vellesa, la mort i l’amor. Valent i sense concessions, mira a la cara el difícil equilibri entre vida i misèria humana.


Une mère en partage

À la suite d'un drame familial, Héloïse Le Meur devient " maman d'accueil " pour la Protection de l'enfance. Sa belle propriété s'y prête : vaste, au cœur de la campagne normande et peuplée d'animaux.


Ferrocarril


La loi du désordre

"Juillet 1914, Paris célèbre la vie sous les pinceaux de Montparnasse. Étudiante brillante et militante socialiste, Jeanne embrasse le nouveau siècle et sa modernité.Depuis l’attentat de Sarajevo, le conflit menace mais elle refuse d’y croire. Comment l’homme épris d’art et de sciences, plus progressiste que jamais, pourrait-il causer sa perte ?En quelques jours, l’Histoire bascule. Tiraillée entre affections et convictions, Jeanne doit faire des choix.Les événements vont la précipiter dans l’enfer des combats.La confrontation d’une jeune idéaliste à l’absurdité du monde. Le souffle d’un grand roman populaire.


El perquè de tot plegat

Els trenta relats que integren aquest recull de Quim Monzó es complementen els uns als altres per formar un tot que ens mostra amb precisió l’eterna incertesa humana. En El perquè de tot plegat els recursos sintètics de Monzó arriben al seu màxim de puresa: aparentment simples i esquemàtics, son una exhibició enèrgica de mestria. Els relats de Monzó no tenen psicologia ni missatge, sinó una força penetrant, un humor arrasador i una solidesa d’ofici excepcional. Llibre rere llibre, Quim Monzó ha anat bastint una de les trajectòries més sòlides i ambicioses de la narrativa catalana actual, fins a convertir-s’hi en un punt de referència ineludible.


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Where There's Smoke (Sugar Mountain Book 2)


La démosophie. Pour construire une société d'un futur sans politiciens


How to Die Alone

Meet Blair, viral Instagram sensation and antisocial icon, in this handbook to living your worst life, written and illustrated with laugh-out-loud wit by comedian Mo Welch. For every brave soul who wants to just say no—no to meeting the gang for drinks, no to wishing a coworker happy birthday (unless there's free cake involved), and no to dating of any kind—here comes Blair, the master of living life in sweatpants and talking only to her cat. With her dark but totally honest perspective, Blair will teach you how to become an antisocial hermit, fail at your boring job, sabotage your relationship, and always—always—give yourself permission to choose the couch over the gym.


How to Tell if Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You

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Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened


I am that girl

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In Love & Pajamas

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Snug and the bestselling Little Moments of Love comes an all-new collection, In Love & Pajamas by Catana Chetwynd of Catana Comics!  When you've reached that sweatpants-wearing cozy place in your relationship, it's all In Love & Pajamas! This brand-new collection of Catana Comics presents 50 percent never-before-seen comics and some fan favorites that delight and amuse readers of all ages. Wholesome, sweet, feel-good humor, a perfect gift for your other half and a welcome add-on to any wedding, anniversary, or Valentine's Day gift.


Ce que nous avons perdu dans le feu

Recueil de nouvelles Douze nouvelles. Un enfant de junkie disparaît du jour au lendemain dans un ancien quartier cossu de Buenos Aires, livré désormais à la drogue et à la violence. Des jeunes femmes se promettent dans le sang de ne jamais avoir d'amants et sont obsédées par la silhouette fugace d'une adolescente disparue. Adela, amputée d'un bras, aime se faire peur en regardant des films d'horreur jusqu'à en devenir prisonnière. Alors qu'il vient de devenir père, Pablo est hanté par la figure du Petiso Orejudo, un enfant serial killer. Un voyage confiné en voiture dans l'humidité du Nord se termine sur un malentendu. Marcela, elle, se mutile en pleine salle de classe, au grand désarroi de ses camarades. Vera, un crâne repêché dans la rue, se meut en double dénué de chair d'une femme au bord de la crise de nerfs. Paula, ancienne assistante sociale, se bat avec ses démons et ses hallucinations. Marco, lui, se cache derrière sa porte, mutique, espérant échapper à l'existence, dehors. Sous l'eau noire, des secrets bien gardés par la police sont prêts à ressurgir. Et des femmes, désespérées, s'enflamment pour protester contre la violence.


Notre part de nuit


Les Errantes

Suzanne, une streameuse survoltée et volontaire, chassée de chez elle ; Saskia, une artiste en devenir découragée par un galeriste méprisant ; Anne-Lise, une fille de bonne famille vivant une spiritualité en décalage avec son époque. Ces trois jeunes femmes cohabitent, d’abord sans se connaître, au dernier étage d’un immeuble bourgeois. Mais peu à peu, des apparitions fantomatiques perturbent le jeu-vidéo de l’une, un esprit s’invite dans la chambre de l’autre, et des voix envahissent le cerveau de la troisième. L’irrationnel, le surnaturel, l’épouvante vont les réunir. Jo Witek tisse des liens entre le présent et le passé de fortes figures féminines et nous emporte dans un thriller déroutant sous les toits de Paris.


Le Cycle du Crépuscule - T1 - Le Prince du Désert

Une nouvelle histoire, complètement indépendante, dans l'univers du Cycle des démons.  Quinze années se sont écoulées depuis la fin de la guerre contre les chtoniens, ces créatures des ténèbres qui traquaient les humains chaque nuit depuis des temps immémoriaux. Les héros du conflit sont devenus des êtres de légende, et les survivants ont bien du mal à sortir de leur ombre. Olive Papier et Darin Bales ont grandi dans un monde en paix. Pourtant, même si les démons ont été quasi anéantis, les écueils ne manquent pas pour les descendants des héros. Une vie toute tracée attend Olive, princesse du Creux, qui doit succéder à la duchesse Leesha. Plus sa mère cherche à contrôler son existence, plus la jeune fille se rebelle contre le rôle qui lui est assigné.  Darin est confronté à des défis différents. Libre de choisir sa voie, il croule pourtant sous le poids de son héritage. Pas facile d'être le fils de l'homme qui, de l'avis de tous, a sauvé le monde. On attend de Darin de véritables exploits, lui qui n'a toujours été bon qu'à une chose : se cacher. Mais en franchissant les runes un soir, le duo découvre que les démons ont survécu et sont résolus à assouvir leur vengeance. Alors que leur vie est menacée, Olive et Darin tentent l'impossible pour sauver le monde à leur tour. Et pour cela, ils doivent y trouver leur place.  « Complots et actes de bravoure se mêlent dans ce récit savamment orchestré, où le rang et la naissance déterminent tout, le bon comme le mauvais... une lecture passionnante : Peter V. Brett s'est surpassé. » - Terry Brooks  « Peter V. Brett entraîne le lecteur comme ses personnages dans une épopée grisante et sans concession, à travers le monde des runes, peuplé de démons. » - Naomi Novik. « À la fois épique par son envergure et intimiste dans l'émotion qu'il suscite, ce roman nous offre un univers à la construction impeccable, de complexes machinations politiques et des rebondissements haletants. » - Daily Mail.« Poignan…


Tu mérites un pays

Vibrant de colère et d'humanité, Tu mérites un pays raconte le parcours du combattant d'une exilée dans cette France où l'on n'est jamais tout à fait " assez français ". L'histoire, aussi, d'une émancipation, portée par une langue à la fois mordante et poétique, singulièrement puissante. " Tu dois être la jeune femme la plus heureuse du monde. " Ce sont les mots de Marie-Ange, dans son bureau d'aide aux réfugiés, lorsqu'elle tend à Layla sa convocation pour être naturalisée. Mais que signifie " être la jeune femme la plus heureuse du monde ", quand on a laissé là-bas tous les siens, qu'on vit au Dorothy, hôtel insalubre tenu par un marchand de sommeil, et que son job consiste à rendre impeccables les toilettes du café de Mme Meng ? Quand le tendre Momo, son ami, sa boussole, est obligé de fermer son merveilleux manège parce que la Mairie de Paris le juge " trop barbu ", ou que sa colocataire Sadia, sa belle, rebelle Sadia, s'humilie pour une poignée d'euros ?


If You Give a Dog a Donut


Le Voyage du fleuve

« Il faut toujours avoir de la musique dans son cœur pour faire danser sa vie. » La devise de la famille Midern, facteurs de pianos de père en fils, Frédéric l’a entendue toute son enfance dans la bouche de son grand-père. Rien d’étonnant dès lors à ce qu’il tombe sous le charme de la virtuosité d’une jeune pianiste originaire d’Allemagne de l’Est lors d’un concours musical international.Léonore von Linden, pour sa part, est fascinée par l’assurance qui émane de cet homme libre, quand de l’autre côté du rideau de fer tout est sous contrôle, les relations sociales comme la musique.À partir de ce jour, Frédéric s’évertuera à révéler le grand talent de Léonore et à faire danser sa vie...


Elles: Recueil de nouvelles (French Edition)

Certes les nouvelles sont de courtes histoires. Mais il n'est pas nécessaire de lire un pavé pour retrouver des émotions fortes, pour vibrer, pour rire et frissonner. Alors, laissez-vous tenter..."Un rendez-vous manqué n'est pas annulé. Il peut simplement être reporté."C'est le message que Louise, Aurélie, ou encore Marie délivrent à travers ce recueil de nouvelles.Adolescente torturée ou femme hantée par les regrets, chacune a une histoire à raconter.Des pensées les plus sombres aux plus heureuses, bercées d'espoir et de résilience, c'est sous ce jour qu'elles se dévoilent.Un recueil dans lequel toutes les femmes se reconnaîtront.


Rien à l'horizon


Petite sœur


Un monde merveilleux

Un huis-clos à la tension parfaite. Octobre 1973. Dans l'habitacle de la Mercedes 220D intérieur cuir rouge, le premier maréchal des logis Daniel Sabre, géant à la moustache noire impeccablement taillée, masque mal sa nervosité. Parti de Belgique le matin même, il doit rejoindre Lyon avant la nuit. Ses ordres ? Faire tout ce que sa passagère lui demandera, sans poser de questions. Durée de la mission ? Indéterminée. À l'arrière, une femme à la chevelure flamboyante tente, elle aussi, de dissimuler son impatience. Marlène était une parfaite inconnue pour lui avant ce matin et déjà il ne la supporte plus dans cet habitacle devenu un huis clos. Durant les prochaines heures, Daniel ne sait à quel point ses certitudes d'homme, de militaire, vont être ébranlées, ni comment cet itinéraire à travers l'Europe et l'Histoire va se confondre avec un voyage intérieur dont chacun sortira changé à jamais. Paul Colize décrit un face à face tendu et émotionnel, pétri d'humanité dans une unité de temps parfaite. S'appuyant sur les remous de l'Histoire, il rappelle que si nous n'avons pas le pouvoir de changer le passé, il nous appartient d'infléchir le présent.


I Love You Just the Way You Are


George Michael: A Life

An expansive look at the troubled life of legendary singer, songwriter, and producer George Michael - written by an acclaimed music biographer "Though some of the author’s descriptions of the 1980s music scene are only serviceable, his first-rate reporting makes this biography sing. Gavin’s real stories of triumphs and tragedies poignantly explain one of pop’s most enigmatic stars."  -  Kirkus ReviewsChristmas night of 2016 brought the jarring news that, in the morning hours, George Michael had died in bed of heart failure at the age of 53; his boyfriend had discovered the body. Suddenly he was all over the news after nearly three years of mostly silent reclusion. It's said that he spent those years hidden away in his British mansion, bloated, chronically depressed, musically inactive, and high. Michael's story follows an arc that many who have raw talent and find fame come to know: He was a troubled, chemically dependent artist who poured his struggles into music of deep psychological complexity, musical sophistication, and soul. His mystique looms large over the work and is, in turn, not easily forgotten. George Michael: A Life explores the tragically predictable story of an utterly unpredictable artist - how he found and then lost himself in the music.


Favorinos d'Arles: Œuvres. Tome I: Introduction générale - Témoignages - Discours aux Corinthiens - Sur la fortune

Yvette Julien; Eugenio Amato; Favorinus Arelatensis

Collection des universités de France Série grecque - Collection Budé 445


Favorinos d'Arles: Œuvres. Tome III, Fragments

Collection des universités de France Série grecque - Collection Budé 473


Зогар. Книга I

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Зогар. Книга II

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Зогар. Книга III

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Зогар. Книга 4

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Зогар. Книга 5

Ратушный Я., Шаповал П. (пер)

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В книге изложены мистические аспекты древнего знания, передаваемого в устной и частично в письменной форме из поколения в поколение вплоть до публикации Зогара в конце 13 века.Тайное знание - нонсенс, ибо в самом образе человека явлен всеобщий принцип творения, поэтому речь шла не о передаче значений слов, секретных символах или заклинаний, а об ином способе мышления. Хранители древнего знания не скрывали информацию, напротив, на протяжении веков напряженно искали по определенным приметам людей способных воспринять истину, многократно повторяемую в сакральном тексте из-за несомненной разницы между божественным и человеческим мышлением. Эта концепция легла в основу новой гипотезы о происхождении Зогара и каббалы.


A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning's Novel Chasm

In A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning s Chasm, Catriona McAra offers the first critical study of the literary work of the celebrated American painter and sculptor Dorothea Tanning (1910 2012). McAra fills a major gap in the scholarship, repositioning Tanning s writing at the centre of her entire creative oeuvre and focusing on a little-known short story "Abyss," a gothic-flavoured, desert adventure which Tanning worked on intermittently throughout her creative life, finally publishing it in 2004 as Chasm: A Weekend. McAra performs a major reassessment of the visual and literary principles upon which the surrealist movement was initially founded. Combining a groundbreaking methodological approach with reference to cultural theory and feminist aesthetics as well as Tanning s unpublished journals and notes, McAra reveals Tanning as a key player in contemporary art practice as well as in the historical surrealist milieu. "


Мистика Зогара. Происхождение и тайны главной книги каббалистики

Я. Ратушный, П. Шаповал

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В основе новой теории о происхождении каббалы лежит концепция о хранителях древнего знания, которые не скрывали тайны, а на протяжении веков искали людей, способных воспринять истину. Книга содержит уникальную информацию об устройстве души и посмертном странствии, об ангелах и бесах, о магии и колдовстве, о вещих снах и астрологии, о хиромантии и физиогномике. Мистика Зогара дополнена интересными сведениями из впервые переведенных на русский язык фрагментов Основы тайн Элазара из Вормса и Книги ангела Разиила.


Posidippi Pellaei quae supersunt omnia

Guido Bastianini (editor); Colin Austin (editor); Posidippus

Présentation en latin.Texte en grec.Traductions en italien et anglais. Pages manquantes à la fin (index nominum & index verborum)


Genocide Or Ethnocide, 1933-2007


Le temps de Rhodes: Une chronologie des inscriptions de la cité fondée sur l’étude de ses institutions


On Tamim Al-Dari and His Waqf in Hebron

Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī Maqrīzī, Yehoshua Frenkel

This study contributes to the legal discourse on the question of land properties (waqf) in the late Mamluk period. Al-Maqr z 's treatise on the Hebron endowment is critically edited for the first time together with an annotated translation and a facsimile of the manuscript bearing his emendations."


The Battle of Rezang La

On 18 November 1962, the Charlie Company of the 13 Kumaon Battalion, Kumaon Regiment, fought a Chinese attack at Rezang La Pass in Ladakh, India. The company comprised 120 soldiers and was led by Maj. Shaitan Singh. Of these soldiers, 110 were martyred in the attack. The Indian search party, which visited the battlefield on 10 February 1963, made a startling discovery-the frozen bodies of the men who had died were still holding guns in their hands, having taken bullets on their chests. One PVC (Param Vir Chakra), eight VCs (Vir Chakras), four SMs (Sena Medals) and one M-in-D (Mentioned-in-Dispatches) were awarded to the soldiers of the Charlie Company, making it one of the highest decorated companies of the Indian Army to this day. The valour of the Charlie Company not only successfully stopped China's advance, but it also resulted in the Chushul airport being saved, thereby preventing a possible Chinese occupation of the entire Ladakh region in 1962. According to reports, a total of 1300 Chinese soldiers were killed trying to capture Rezang La. The Charlie Company was an all-Ahir company, and most of the soldiers who fought the battle at 18,000 feet came from the plains of Haryana. The Battle of Rezang La is their story.


Hollywood Heyday : 75 Candid Interviews with Golden Age Legends

"This is a fine example of the kind of book I love to have on the bedside table, for bedtime. Also, for morning and for insomnia. These profiles are so well done that it's hard not to go on to just one more and be late for work. Be a good friend. Get two copies."--Dick Cavett "Guys, your book will be with me: in the car, in the bathroom, in the tote to the dentist, to the doctor, to the rehab, to the movies...anywhere that I might want a wonderful 'lift' to my day. It's full of fascinating reminiscences. Thank you!"--Angie Dickinson "Hollywood Heyday took me back to many a year. Dave and Tom are very good writers."--Eva Marie Saint "These are in-depth interviews and not the usual. They're things that people will really want to know about, not gossip."--Jane Powell "In a book that includes Bob Hope, George Burns, Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, among others, Don (Rickles) is where he belongs."--Bob Newhart. "What audacity!" exclaimed actor Robert Wagner when he heard about the authors' adolescent exploits in nabbing interviews with Hollywood celebrities. In 1978, Fantle and Johnson, St. Paul teenagers, boarded a plane to meet with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. They had written the stars requesting interviews--and to their amazement, both agreed. Over the years, more than 250 other stars also agreed--Lucille Ball, Bob Hope, James Cagney, Mickey Rooney, Debbie Reynolds, George Burns, Rod Steiger, Milton Berle, Frank Capra and Hoagy Carmichael, to name a few. Published for the first time and with exclusive photos, this selection of 75 interviews chronicles the authors' 40-year quest for insights and anecdotes from iconic 20th century artists.


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“Uma obra-prima de thriller e mistério! O autor fez um trabalho magnífico no desenvolvimento das personagens com um lado psicológico tão bem trabalhado que temos a sensação de estar dentro das suas mentes, sentindo os seus medos e aplaudindo os seus sucessos. A história é muito inteligente e mantém-nos interessados durante todo o livro. Pleno de reviravoltas, este livro obriga-nos a ficar acordados até à última página.” --Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (re Sem Pistas)   PERDIDAS é o livro #10 da série de mistério de Riley Paige que começou com o bestseller SEM PISTAS (Livro #1) – um livro que pode descarregar gratuitamente com mais de 1000 opiniões de cinco estrelas!   Ainda a recuperar da morte de Lucy, sua ex parceira, e do SPT do parceiro Bill, a Agente Especial do FBI Riley Paige faz o seu melhor para se manter estável e equilibrar a vida familiar. Tem que decidir o que fazer com o namorado de April, a sarar as feridas causadas por um pai abusivo, e com Blaine, pronto para que a sua relação avance. Mas antes de resolver esses assuntos, Riley é chamada a resolver um novo caso. Numa idílica cidade suburbana do Midwest, estão a desaparecer adolescentes – e um corpo já apareceu. A polícia está em dificuldades e Riley é chamada para apanhar o assassino antes que outra rapariga desapareça. Para tornar tudo pior, Riley tem uma nova parceira – a sua némesis, a Agente Especial Roston – que a interrogara no caso de Shane. Um thriller psicológico negro com suspense de cortar a respiração, PERDIDAS é o livro #10 de uma nova série alucinante – com uma inesquecível nova personagem – que o obrigará a não largar o livro até o terminar.   O Livro #11 da série de Riley Paige estará disponível brevemente.


(Um Mistério de Riley Paige 9) Abatidos

“Uma obra-prima de thriller e mistério! O autor fez um trabalho magnífico no desenvolvimento das personagens com um lado psicológico tão bem trabalhado que temos a sensação de estar dentro das suas mentes, sentindo os seus medos e aplaudindo os seus sucessos. A história é muito inteligente e mantém-nos interessados durante todo o livro. Pleno de reviravoltas, este livro obriga-nos a ficar acordados até à última página.” --Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (re Sem Pistas)   ABATIDOS é o livro #9 da série de mistério de Riley Paige que começou com o bestseller SEM PISTAS (Livro #1) – um livro de pode descarregar gratuitamente com mais de 900 opiniões de cinco estrelas!   Quando dois soldados são encontrados mortos numa grande base militar da Califórnia, aparentemente mortos por arma de fogo, os investigadores ficam em dificuldades. Quem está a matar os seus soldados dentro das instalações seguras da sua própria base?   E porquê?   Os FBI é chamado e Riley Paige assume a liderança da equipa. Ao mergulhar na cultura militar, Riley fica surpreendida por perceber que os assassinos em série podem atacar até ali, no meio do lugar mais seguro à face da terra.   Riley vê-se envolvida numa perseguição para descodificar a psicologia do assassino. E acaba descobrindo que está a enfrentar um assassino altamente treinado, um que pode ser um adversário demasiado mortífero até para ela.   Um thriller psicológico negro com suspense de cortar a respiração, ABATIDOS é o livro #9 de uma nova série alucinante – com uma inesquecível nova personagem – que o obrigará a não largar o livro até o terminar.   O Livro #10 da série de Riley Paige estará em breve disponível.


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Hollywood Heyday: 75 Candid Interviews with Golden Age Legends


Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust

"This short but timely work gives the reader a sense of the urgency of African and world history at this moment in time.... Like many of the Aftican-centered scholars who were Dr. Clarke's teachers and his source of inspiration, he not only gives you accurate analysis and the descriptions of history, he provides prescription of what Africans have to do to bring into being a new day"--from Foreward.


Analysis and Exile

Analysis and Exile: Boyhood, Loss, and the Lessons of Anna Freud is the story of the childhood and youth of Peter Heller, one of the first children to be psychoanalyzed by Anna Freud and one of the 20 students invited to attend her experimental school in 1920s Vienna. While Anna Freud tries to teach him how to overcome his fears, Peter's native Vienna slides into fascist barbarism and he is forced to navigate an increasingly dangerous world. When he is eighteen, he flees to England only to be deported to Canada, where he is interned as a German-speaking foreign national; here Jewish refugees and Nazi P.O.W.'s live cheek by jowl. To tell this story, Vivian Heller draws on a wealth of primary sources, including her father's case history and his internment diary, using novelistic techniques to bring the past alive.


Anatomy of a Ponzi


The power of laughter triumphs over illness in Norman Cousins's bestselling classic memoir that revolutionized medicine. Norman Cousins's iconic firsthand account of victory against terminal disease, Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient inspired a revolution, encouraging patients to take charge of their own treatment.A political journalist and activist, Cousins was also a professor of medical humanities at UCLA, where he studied the biochemistry of human emotions and their relationship to healing. When Cousins was hospitalized with a debilitating collagen illness, he decided to take his health into his own hands. Cousins and his doctor combated the disease together by creating a regimen of laughter and vitamin C specifically calibrated to his needs. Against all odds, the treatment worked, proving to Cousins that a positive attitude was key to his improvement.Years later, Cousins set pen to paper to tell the story of...


And Then You're Dead

A gleefully gruesome look at the actual science behind the most outlandish, cartoonish, and impossible deaths you can imagineWhat would happen if you took a swim outside a deep-sea submarine wearing only a swimsuit? How long could you last if you stood on the surface of the sun? How far could you actually get in digging a hole to China? Paul Doherty, senior staff scientist at San Francisco's famed Exploratorium Museum, and writer Cody Cassidy explore the real science behind these and other fantastical scenarios, offering insights into physics, astronomy, anatomy, and more along the way.Is slipping on a banana peel really as hazardous to your health as the cartoons imply? Answer: Yes. Banana peels ooze a gel that turns out to be extremely slippery. Your foot and body weight provide the pressure. The gel provides the humor (and resulting head trauma). Can you die by shaking someone's hand? Answer: Yes. That's because, due to...


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Atlantic Wars

In a sweeping account, Atlantic Wars explores how warfare shaped the experiences of the peoples living in the watershed of the Atlantic Ocean between the late Middle Ages and the Age of Revolution. At the beginning of that period, combat within Europe secured for the early colonial powers the resources and political stability they needed to venture across the sea. By the early nineteenth century, descendants of the Europeans had achieved military supremacy on land but revolutionaries had challenged the norms of Atlantic warfare. Nearly everywhere they went, imperial soldiers, missionaries, colonial settlers, and traveling merchants sought local allies, and consequently they often incorporated themselves into African and indigenous North and South American diplomatic, military, and commercial networks. The newcomers and the peoples they encountered struggled to understand each other, find common interests, and exploit the opportunities that arose with the expansion of...


Atlantic's Last Stop

In the pre-dawn hours of April 1, 1873—as the lookouts looked, the steersman steered, and the captain slept—something was happening to the SS Atlantic. The tide had quietly carried the White Star Line ocean liner twelve miles off course, and land was closer than anybody realized—or was willing to believe.The wreck of the SS Atlantic would become the worst transatlantic passenger ship disaster before Titanic, and although it happened almost 150 years ago, there are still many unanswered questions.That is changing.Ten years after co-authoring the most celebrated book to date on Nova Scotia's worst shipwreck, author Bob Chaulk has uncovered never-reported information that answers the question historians have been grappling with for over a century: why a state-of-the-art steamship, with all equipment in perfect working order, in good weather, and commanded by officers of the world's leading seafaring nation, ended up striking rock outside Halifax and sinking,...


Autopia

Cars are one of the most significant human creations. They changed our cities. They changed our lives. They changed everything. But in the next thirty years, this technology will itself change enormously. If Google get their way, are we all going to be ferried around in tiny electric bubble-cars? Or will we watch robots race a bionic Lewis Hamilton? And what about the future of classic cars?In Autopia, presenter of The Gadget Show and former executive producer of Top Gear Jon Bentley celebrates motoring's rich heritage and meets the engineers (and coders) who are transforming cars forever. From mobile hotel rooms to electric battery technology; from hydrogen-powered cars to jetpacks, Autopia is the essential guide to the future of our greatest invention. Fully designed with illustrations and photographs, this will be the perfect Christmas gift for car and technology enthusiasts everywhere.


Awake

Harald Voetmann's eye-opening English debut, Awake, is the first book of his erudite, grotesque, and absurdist trilogy about mankind's inhuman will to conquer natureIn a shuttered bedroom in ancient Italy, the sleepless Pliny the Elder lies in bed obsessively dictating new chapters of his Natural History to his slave Diocles. Fat, wheezing, imperious, and prone to nosebleeds, Pliny does not believe in spending his evenings in repose: No—to be awake is to be alive. There's no time to waste if he is to classify every element of the natural world in a single work. By day Pliny the Elder carries out his many civic duties and gives the occasional disastrous public reading. But despite his astonishing ambition to catalog everything from precious metals to the moon, as well as a collection of exotic plants sourced from the farthest reaches of the world, Pliny the Elder still takes immense pleasure in the common rose. After he rushes to an erupting Mount...


Bad Moon Rising

The murder of a wealthy young woman sparks a backlash against the hippie commune that has recently arrived in Black River Falls A hippie commune has invaded Black River Falls.   While the majority of the townspeople believe that the bohemians have to right to stay—despite how bizarre some of their ways can seem—as always there is a minority that constantly accuses them of everything from criminal activities to Satanism. As usual, lawyer and private investigator Sam McCain finds himself in the middle of the controversy, especially when the teenage daughter of Paul Mainwaring, one of the town's wealthiest men, is found murdered in the commune's barn. A deeply troubled young man (and Vietnam vet) named Neil Cameron is immediately charged with the crime but Sam has serious doubts.   In this lively and atmospheric new mystery novel, Ed Gorman offers readers his richest portrait yet about Black River Falls and its people.


Ranger Sam Burrack 40 Bad River

Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack is back—and hot on the trail of the worst desperados in two countries   Following a tip from a prisoner in Yuma Penitentiary, Ranger Sam Burrack is riding to the Mexican Valley to hunt down the Cowboy Gang, notorious bandits who have topped the Most Wanted list for the past year. The crooks have fled to Río Malo and settled in under the protection of corrupt town officials. Now, with new recruits including the infamous Russian assassin Kura Stabitz, they’re robbing banks and trains on both sides of the border.   “I will tell you where they are,” Escalante had said, “only because I know that Stabitz will kill you and bleed you like a dying pig!” Burrack knows it won’t be easy. He won’t find the gunmen just waiting to be arrested in Bad River. But with patience—and a little luck—he will find them nearby, maybe in the limestone mountains, maybe in the caves...


Bank Shot

Instead of robbing a bank, Dortmunder tries to steal the whole building Encyclopedias are heavy, and John Dortmunder is sick of carrying them. While in between jobs, the persistent heist-planner is working an encyclopedia-selling scam that's about to blow up in his face. The cops are on their way when his friend Kelp pulls up in a stolen Oldsmobile, offering a quick escape from the law and a job that's too insane to turn down.   Kelp's nephew is an FBI washout who's addicted to old-time pulp novels and adventure stories. He tried being a cop, and now he wants to be a robber. His target: a Main Street bank that has temporarily relocated to a large mobile home. Breaking in is impossible—there are seven guards and a police station down the street—but mobile homes were meant to be driven. Dortmunder just has to drive the bank away.


Baldwin

This is the first biography of Stanley Baldwin for more than ten years, although there had been four in the preceding decade. This is strange, for Baldwin has recently begun to swim back into fashion. In part this is a function of growing nostalgia for his period of power, the 1920s and 1930s. Still more, however, it is because Mrs Thatcher's brand of Conservative leadership has made him an object of contrasting interest in a way that Harold Macmillan's or Edward Heath's never did. When a new exponent of an alternative style temporarily achieves notice, it is now frequently suggested that he might be a new Baldwin. This reappraisal is therefore appropriately timed. It is written by a skilled political biographer, from a non-Conservative, although not personally unsympathetic, standpoint.Baldwin was born in 1867, the son of a rich Worcestershire ironmaster, and educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. He then worked in the family business for twenty years. Although the most self-conscious countryman amongst British Prime Ministers of the past hundred years or more, he was not a country squire and never owned more than a few acres of land. He did not enter the House of Commons until he was forty, and was not even a junior minister until the threshold of fifty. Less than six years later, in 1923, he became Prime Minister and dominated British politics for the next fifteen years - the only man of this century to hold the highest office three times.About the AuthorElected to Parliament as a Labour member in 1948, Jenkins (1920- 2003) served in several major posts in Harold Wilsons First Government and as Home Secretary from 1965-1967. In 1987, Jenkins was elected to succeed Harold Macmillan as Chancellor of the University of Oxford following the latters death, a position he held until his death. Jenkins grew to political maturity during the twilight of a great age of British parliamentary democracy. As much as Churchill, though in quite a different way, Jenkins has been from the cradle a creature of the system that nurtured Palmerston and Disraeli, Gladstone, Asquith and Lloyd George.


Barbouze


Начала теоретической каббалы

рав Йехиэль Бар Лев

Толдот Йешурун


Книга основ

р. Йосеф Альбо


Кодекс Алеппо: подлинная история о полной одержимости и веры погоне за древней рукописью

Матти Фридман

Книжники, Текст

Чейсовская коллекция

Подлинная история о полной одержимости и веры погоне за древней рукописью. Перед нами документальная детективная история, описывающая путь "Кодекса Алеппо" - уникальной еврейской Библии десятого века, которой пользовался сам Маймонид, - из тайника в синагоге древнего сирийского города в только что образованное Государство Израиль. Автор, журналист "Ассошиэйтед пресс" Матти Фридман, собрал множество документов и свидетельств очевидцев, позволивших ему выдвинуть оригинальную версию того, что произошло с этим манускриптом, когда толпа погромщиков выбросила священную книгу из разграбленной и сожженной синагоги Алеппо и она обнаружилась уже в Израиле в далеко не полном виде..


Три измерения души

Рав Исроэль Салантер, Рав Эльхонон Буним Вассерман, Рав Шимшон Довид Пинкус


Transparences en duo

Quand la cuisine de grand chef sublime verrines, petites cuillères, toasts et autres snacking ! Avec Transparences en duo, revisitez la cuisine inspirée et audacieuse des frères Pourcel, 2 étoiles au Guide Michelin, à travers 120 recettes originales et raffinées.Plus qu'un livre de cuisine, Transparences en duo est une véritable rencontre, une invitation à pénétrer l'univers original et raffiné de la cuisine des frères Pourcel. Audacieuse et inspirée, cette cuisine est une affaire de famille et d'intuition gourmande, l'alliance subtile de produits traditionnels et de saveurs du monde entier. Risotto de fleurs de courgette au safran et lard grillé, sashimi de langoustine sur un cube de pêche, fraîcheur de tomate et calamar à la romaine sur un hoummos au sésame, minestrone de fruits exotiques et granité aux citrons verts, pana cotta vanille et minestrone d'ananas au lait de coco, chocolat chaud aux épices à la crème fouettée et fruit de la Passion... autant de recettes qui réinventent le snacking. Délicieusement relevées, tantôt salées ou sucrées, tantôt froides ou chaudes, fondantes ou croquantes, les 120 recettes de cet ouvrage se font élégantes sur votre table et sublimes en bouche ! Verrines ou cuillères, ce livre invite à un voyage gustatif et visuel inédit, frais et lumineux, tout en finesse et en élégance, comme une évidence.


Dualizable Tensor Categories

Christopher L. Douglas; Christopher Schommer-Pries; Noah Snyder

Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society Volume 268, (Number 1308)


Encyclopedia of domestic assassinations: The US/UK Smear, Harass, Blackmail, Bribe, Incarcerate, or Murder all Influential Dissidents


Великий путь пробуждения. Комментарий к поучениям Махаяны о семи пунктах тренировки ума

Первый Джамгён Конгтрул Лодрё Тхае


The Seven Rays of the Qbl

This revised and expanded edition ofThe Seven Rays of theQBLis the culmination of his remarkable study of the Qabalahandthenaturalcyclesofmankind.Unfortunately,PraterAlbertus passed away before the publication of this work wascomplete.


Be Water, My Friend

Bruce Lee's daughter illuminates her father's most powerful life philosophies—demonstrating how martial arts are a perfect metaphor for personal growth, and how we can practice those teachings every day."Empty your mind; be formless, shapeless like water."Bruce Lee is a cultural icon, renowned the world over for his martial arts and film legacy. But Lee was also a deeply philosophical thinker, learning at an early age that martial arts are more than just an exercise in physical discipline—they are an apt metaphor for living a fully realized life.Now, in Be Water, My Friend, Lee's daughter Shannon shares the concepts at the core of his philosophies, showing how they can serve as tools of personal growth and self-actualization. Each chapter brings a lesson from Bruce Lee's teachings, expanding on the foundation of his iconic "be water" philosophy. Over the course of the book, we discover how being like water allows us to embody fluidity and...


Belabored

An impassioned and irreverent argument for dismantling our cultural narratives around pregnancy.The U.S. has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world, a rate that is increasing, even as infant mortality rates decrease. Meanwhile, the right-wing assault on reproductive rights and bodily autonomy has also escalated. We can already glimpse a reality where embryos and fetuses have more rights than the people gestating them, and even women who aren't pregnant are seen first and foremost as potential incubators.In Belabored, journalist Lyz Lenz lays bare the misogynistic logic of U.S. cultural narratives about pregnancy, tracing them back to our murky, potent cultural soup of myths, from the religious to the historical. In the present she details, with her trademark blend of wit, snark, and raw intimacy, how sexist assumptions inform our expectations for pregnant people, whether we're policing them, asking them to make sacrifices with dubious or...


Black Market

From a former college basketball player and shoe rep for Nike, this explosive insider's account into the dark underworld of college basketball exposes the corrupt and racist systems that exploit young athletes and offers a new way forwardFor Merl Code, basketball was life. In college he played point guard for Clemson before turning pro. Later, with a keen eye for talent and vested interest in the basketball community, he pivoted to marketing, where he was eager to build relationships with young athletes who might one day become ambassadors for Nike and Adidas. But as his network expanded and his responsibilities as a shoe rep grew, he found himself thrust into the dark underbelly of profit-driven college basketball programs, and the storied coaches who led them. He realized that the NCAA's amateurism rules, which prohibit athletes from receiving compensation until they go pro, were exploiting young athletes, and athletes of color in particular. Colleges and...


Betty Crocker Best 100

Celebrate Betty Crocker's 100th anniversary with more than 100 of her best recipes Betty Crocker is 100! To celebrate a century of helping American home cooks get food on the table, Betty Crocker is sharing 100 of her best recipes that have fed and nourished every generation since 1921. Each recipe in this heirloom book is a cherished favorite that's easy to make and difficult to fail, and each includes a note for a closer look at the American icon. With a full range of recipes, from breads and hearty casseroles to decadent cakes and sweets, Betty'sBest 100 is sure to be as treasured in your kitchen as Betty Crocker is.


Beyond the Imperium

The Lord of the Timelines explores alternate realities and parallel worlds that include an Earth destroyed in an atomic holocaust, and Earth where the Magna Carta was never signed, and an Earth where homo sapiens stand at the lowest point on the biological scale.


Big Bang

His brain scrambled, Jake tries to clear himself of a murder chargeJake Pace comes to on the floor of a dungeon, where a robot jailer is killing rats. The last twenty-four hours are a blank; he doesn’t remember anything since he stepped into his skycar, chasing a tip on the Big Bang murders. For weeks the killings have stumped every officer in the government—costing six of them their lives—but a soprano named Palsy Hatchbacker told Jake she knew something that could break open the case. Before he met Miss Hatchbacker, a carnation-wearing goon spritzed Jake with a memory-wiping spray. When the police found him, he was sleeping peacefully next to Palsy’s corpse, a laser pistol in his hand.  While he rots in jail, the Big Bang killer continues his rampage. Only Jake can bring him to justice, but first he must break out of an inescapable jail.


Black Boy

Black Boy (1945) is a memoir by American author Richard Wright, detailing his upbringing. Wright describes his youth in the South: Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee, and his eventual move to Chicago, where he establishes his writing career and becomes involved with the Communist Party. Black Boy gained high acclaim in the United States because of Wright's honest and profound depiction of racism in America. While the book gained significant recognition, much of the reception throughout and after the publication process was highly controversial.


Black Cop

"An original Holloway House edition." He was as hard as the streets he patrolled and as cold as a hit man when he went after a rogue cop on his own squad. This is Joe Nazel writing at the very top of form, and his talent ranks with the very best.


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Black Girls Must Die Exhausted

"An author to watch!"—Emily Henry, New York Times bestselling author of Beach ReadThe first novel in a captivating three-book series about modern womanhood, in which a young Black woman must rely on courage, laughter, and love—and the support of her two longtime friends—to overcome an unexpected setback that threatens the most precious thing she's ever wanted.Tabitha Walker is a black woman with a plan to "have it all." At 33 years old, the checklist for the life of her dreams is well underway. Education? Check. Good job? Check. Down payment for a nice house? Check. Dating marriage material? Check, check, and check. With a coveted position as a local news reporter, a "paper-perfect" boyfriend, and even a standing Saturday morning appointment with a reliable hairstylist, everything seems to be falling into place.Then Tabby receives an unexpected diagnosis that brings her picture-perfect life crashing down,...


Black Ice


Harry Bosch 02 The Black Ice

Narcotics officer Cal Moore's orders were to look into the city's latest drug killing. Instead, he ends up in a motel room with a fatal bullet wound to the head and a suicide note stuffed in his back pocket. Working the case, LAPD detective Harry Bosch is reminded of the primal police rule he learned long ago: Don't look for the facts, but the glue that holds them together. Soon Harry's making some very dangerous connections, starting with a dead cop and leading to a bloody string of murders that wind from Hollywood Boulevard to the back alleys south of the border. Now this battle-scarred veteran will find himself in the center of a complex and deadly game-one in which he may be the next and likeliest victim.From Publishers WeeklyLAPD detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch, protagonist of the highly praised mystery The Black Echo , returns in a procedural thriller set in and around the drug-trafficking underworlds of inner-city Los Angeles and the wastelands of Mexico. When Bosch arrives at a sleazy hotel room where a fellow officer has committed suicide, he senses that something is awry. Noncommittal superior officers, a diffident widow and tales linking the dead man to a newly created street drug called "black ice" (heroin, crack and PCP rolled into one) send Bosch down a winding trail of forensic impossibilities, brutally violent drug traffickers and an ultimately shocking case of mistaken identity. Award-winning Connelly's second fictional effort is strong and sure. His pacing could be better--too often he conveys the same information twice--but his plot and characters more than make up for a slow start. This novel establishes him as a writer with a superior talent for storytelling. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Kirkus ReviewsSecond tense, tightly wound tangle of a case for Hieronymous Bosch (The Black Echo, 1991). This time out, the LAPD homicide cop, who's been exiled to Hollywood Division for his bumptious behavior, sniffs out the bloody trail of the designer drug ``black ice.'' Connelly (who covers crime for the Los Angeles Times) again flexes his knowledge of cop ways--and of cop-novel clich‚s. Cast from the hoary mold of the maverick cop, Bosch pushes his way onto the story's core case--the apparent suicide of a narc--despite warnings by top brass to lay off. Meanwhile, Bosch's boss, a prototypical pencil-pushing bureaucrat hoping to close out a majority of Hollywood's murder cases by New Year's Day, a week hence, assigns the detective a pile of open cases belonging to a useless drunk, Lou Porter. One of the cases, the slaying of an unidentified Hispanic, seems to tie in to the death of the narc, which Bosch begins to read as murder stemming from the narc's dirty involvement in black ice. When Porter is murdered shortly after Bosch speaks to him, and then the detective's love affair with an ambitious pathologist crashes, Bosch decides to head for Mexico, where clues to all three murders point. There, the well-oiled, ten- gear narrative really picks up speed as Bosch duels with corrupt cops; attends the bullfights; breaks into a fly-breeding lab that's the distribution center for Mexico's black-ice kingpin; and takes part in a raid on the kingpin's ranch that concludes with Bosch waving his jacket like a matador's cape at a killer bull on the rampage. But the kingpin escapes, leading to a not wholly unexpected twist--and to a touching assignation with the dead narc's widow. Expertly told, and involving enough--but lacking the sheer artistry and heart-clutching thrills of, say, David Lindsay's comparable Stuart Haydon series (Body of Evidence, etc.). -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.


Blood and Oranges: The Story of Los Angeles: A Novel

An action-packed historical novel whose charismatic characters take the reader from the roaring twenties to the fiery nineties in America's favorite left coast city. Los Angeles has never been better portrayed than by novelist James Oliver Goldsborough in Blood and Oranges.


Blood in Eden (Sister Fidelma 30)

An unputdownable mystery of bloodshed and betrayal featuring 7th-century Irish sleuth Sister Fidelma Ireland, AD 671. The hamlet of Cloichín is said to be a veritable Eden, with its prosperous farms and close-knit, friendly community. But after a local farmer, his wife and two sons are murdered, a fanatical new priest orders the villagers to lynch the man accused of the crime. The only evidence they hold against him is the fact that he is a stranger to their land. Searching for accommodation on their journey home to Cashel, Sister Fidelma and Eadulf arrive at Cloichín just in time to save the man's life. Fidelma is determined that the villagers must give the newcomer a fair trial. But there is to be more blood in Eden and more lives will be lost as long-standing friends become new-found enemies, and no one knows who to trust...


Blood on the Boards

Tuesday, he looked down on the body of a Mexican girl who’d been clubbed to death with a spade . . .Thursday, he took the examination for lieutenant and had a lot of trouble with it . . .Friday, his aunt died and left him more money than he bothered to count . . .Then Joe Burke, a sergeant out of Central Homicide, Los Angeles, turned in his badge. He bought a house, a car, good liquor, and even went in for amateur theater - just in time for a bloody off-stage killing. Joe found himself back on the homicide detail, unofficially this time, in a case that was to teach him more about ruthless murder - and about women - than he had learned in a dozen years on the force.


Blood Royal: A Sequel to the Three Musketeers

The latest entry in this acclaimed series of new translations of the Musketeer novels, Blood Royal continues the adventures of the valiant d’Artagnan and his three loyal friends. The latest translation in Lawrence Ellsworth’s acclaimed new series of Alexandre Dumas’s greatest adventures is Blood Royal, the second half of what Dumas originally published as Twenty Years After. In this volume all the plots and schemes set up in the previous novel come to dramatic fruition in the kind of exciting thrill-ride Dumas is famous for—while at the same time introducing the characters and themes that form the foundation of the rest of the series, leading to its great climax in The Man in the Iron Mask. In Blood Royal, the Four Musketeers all venture to England on parallel missions to save King Charles I, pursued by the murderous and vengeful Mordaunt, the son of Milady de Winter, the great villain of The Three Musketeers. Despite all his experience, d’Artagnan is repeatedly foiled by the much-younger Mordaunt, who erupts out of the past to embody the strengths of audacity and cunning that were once d’Artagnan’s hallmarks. Mordaunt has corrupted those youthful strengths, and the older d’Artagnan is no match for him until he is able to pull his former team together again. To do this d’Artagnan will have to become a true leader of men, leading not just by example but also by foresight, persuasion, and compromise. Only then can the team of Athos, Porthos, and Aramis be re-formed in all its might to defeat the specter of their past. Blood Royal is unmatched in Dumas’s oeuvre in its depictions of his most famous and beloved characters, and an unforgettable saga of swordplay, suspense, revenge, and ultimate triumph.


Blues for a Black Cat and Other Stories

A cocky black cat that drinks cognac and can't stay out of holes, a hyperactive plumber who pulls out all the stops, an expiring jazzman who sells his sweat, a green soldier who moves into a terribly serious position - these are a few of the outrageous and poignant creations of Boris Vian in Blues for a Black Cat and Other Stories. Julia Older makes available for the first time in English this collection of his short fiction, which was originally published as Les Fourmis in 1949. It is a delightful introduction to the work of a much-admired French poet, playwright, and song-writer whose celebrity has continued to grow since his untimely death in 1959. These early stories, written in 1944 and 1945, reveal that Vian was already a master of black humor, wordplay, elegant understatement, and leaps of fancy. "Blues for a Black Cat," bubbling with Vian's sense of mischief and evocative of his love for jazz, shows the seamier side of postwar Parisian night life. "The Plumber" is the nightmare of every citizen who has been incommoded by expensive repairmen. "Pins and Needles" conveys Vian's daring opposition to World War II (his song "The Deserter" later would be censored by the government for inciting sentiment against the French-Algerian conflict). The other stories - "Cancer," "Dead Fish," "Journey to Khonostrov," "Blue Fairy Tale," "Fog," "Good Students," and "One-Way Street" - are marked by the same verbal Niagaras, zany sexual encounters, and absurd situations. But, as Julia Older points out, parody only heightens the masked terrors of war, poverty, ill health, and unemployment that hound the bizarre protagonists of Vian's fablelike narratives.


Blacklight Blue

Enzo MacLeod, a Scot who is teaching forensics at Cahors in southwest France, thinks that he can use his expertise to crack seven notorious murders described in a book by Parisian journalist Roger Raffin. After solving the first two, Enzo is diagnosed with a terminal illness. And now it appears hes the target of someone intent on destroying his credit and getting him arrested for murder. Establishing a safe house for his loved ones, he sets to work. Are his woes connected to one of Raffins unsolved cases? What further remnants of evidence can he review? Can he stay alive until he catches the long-hidden killer? Peter Mays Enzo MacLeod series includes Extraordinary People and The Critic. He is married to writer Janice Hally and lives in France. www.enzomacleod.com


Black, White, and the Grey

A story about the trials and triumphs of a Black chef from Queens, New York, and a White media entrepreneur from Staten Island, who built a relationship and a restaurant in the Deep South, hoping to bridge biases and get people talking about race, gender, class, and culture.  “Black, White, and The Grey blew me away.”—David Chang In this dual memoir, Mashama Bailey and John O. Morisano take turns telling how they went from tentative business partners to dear friends while turning a dilapidated formerly segregated Greyhound bus station into The Grey, now one of the most celebrated restaurants in the country. Recounting the trying process of building their restaurant business, they examine their most painful and joyous times, revealing how they came to understand their differences, recognize their biases, and continuously challenge themselves and each other to be better.  ...


Black Trillium

Julian May & Andre Norton & Marion Zimmer Bradley

From Publishers WeeklyThree masters of science fiction and fantasy collaborated on this mildly diverting quest novel, their failure to produce a more compelling tale demonstrating the pitfalls of writing by committee. The kingdom of Ruwenda is attacked by neighboring Labornok, whose king has long been jealous of its wealth and prosperity. Ruwenda's rulers are brutally slain, but their daughters--the three Petals of the Living Trillium, prophesied to save their country in a time of peril--flee to the Archimage Binah, who directs them to their magic talismans. Each accompanied by a childhood companion, Oddlings of the area's aboriginal races, the girls must conquer their weaknesses: the eldest, her intellectual arrogance; the middle sister, her tendency to act before thinking; the youngest, her great timidity. Their enemies pursue them, led by a sorcerer seeking ancient secrets hidden in the abandoned cities. Throughout appear intimations that some of the magic is a relic of an old technology, possibly ours. The three princesses are little more than a collection of attributes, the love story is a bore and the many races of Oddlings are barely distinguishable. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. From School Library JournalYA-- When three such distinguished ladies collaborate, we ignore them at our peril. Nevertheless, this is a slight work, only hinting at the depths of which these authors are capable. It is, however, a fairy tale that will be highly enjoyable to young women, with the princesses providing a surrogate for almost any temperment, and a busy plot.Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.


Big Jim 11 One Thouand Dollar Target

At Showdown-Time, The Big Man Needed A MiracleWas this to be the last ride of Big Jim Rand? The killers awaited him dead ahead. Another of them rode directly behind him, covering him. And, inside the disused shack, a desperate woman risked her life to give Jim a fighting chance of survival.Big Jim had become a target for the professional assassins, because his quarry, the elusive and badly scared Jenner, had posted bounty on him. As well as the professionals, a trio of inept amateurs invited themselves to the ruckus, injecting humor into an otherwise grim situation.


Big Jim 10 League Of The Lawless

Two could play the same game ... and end up face to face!Big Jim used to be Sergeant Rand of the 11th Cavalry. Now, as a civilian, he was on the trail of his brother's killer. When he rides into the town of Frankston in Northwestern Kansas, he soon finds himself on the trail of a gang of merciless desperadoes. For a disguise, those outlaws were using the uniform of the U.S. Army. The big man decided upon an equally unique disguise, and penetrated the lair of the lawless in a suit of sober black; he toted a Bible in one hand, a long-barreled Colt .45 in the other. And, as ever, aided (or hampered) by his Mexican sidekick, Benito Espina, they take on the duplicitous gang.


Slothilda

Slothilda is your spirit animal!  Enjoy this completely relatable comic series about an adorable little sloth who's driven by her desire for self-improvement. Unfortunately, achieving her goals isn't always so easy. After all, she is a sloth, and being innately lazy often poses some interesting challenges to her personal growth. She constantly struggles to overcome procrastination, her love for junk food, and her addiction to modern day technology.Despite her lazy natural instincts, Slothilda remains ambitious and optimistic. She explores an inner conflict we can all relate to—the desire to succeed and grow, while paradoxically dealing with the ever present temptation to sloth.


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Rising in the East

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Oddball


My Dog: The Paradox: A Lovable Discourse about Man's Best Friend

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Lobster Is the Best Medicine: A Collection of Comics About Friendship


Life and Death

For the first time in a stand-alone edition comes Stephenie Meyer's Life and Death, a compelling reimagining of the iconic love story that will surprise and enthrall readers. There are two sides to every story....You know Bella and Edward, now get to know Beau and Edythe.When Beaufort Swan moves to the gloomy town of Forks and meets the mysterious, alluring Edythe Cullen, his life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. With her porcelain skin, golden eyes, mesmerizing voice, and supernatural gifts, Edythe is both irresistible and enigmatic.What Beau doesn't realize is the closer he gets to her, the more he is putting himself and those around him at risk. And, it might be too late to turn back....With a foreword and afterword by Stephenie Meyer, this compelling reimagining of the iconic love story is a must-read for Twilight fans everywhere.Twilight has enraptured millions of readers since...


Lady Stuff


K is for Knifeball: An Alphabet of Terrible Advice

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Lock and Key


Development, Capitalism, and Rent: The Political Economy of Hartmut Elsenhans


Entre estética y compromiso: La obra de Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo

Joseph-Désiré Otabela, Sosthène Onomo-Abena

UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educació a Distancia)


The Commentary on the Sentences of Petrus Lombardus

Giles of Viterbo, Aegidius Viterbiensis, Daniel Nodes (ed.)

Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 151

This project began in 1990 as an outgrowth from my principal field of academic training in classical and early Christian culture into topics involving the continuity and revival of that culture in the Middle Ages and European Renaissance. Focus on the later reception, use, and transmission of Patristic-age texts, what scholars speak of as the Nachleben of ancient influential figures in subsequent ages, led me to study especially the influence of major early Christian writers whom I had studied at some length, like Origen, Lactantius, and Augustine, among scholars of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance whom I discovered only more recently, like Gregory of Rimini, Ambrogio Traversari, Hugh of Orvieto, and Marsilio Ficino. What became evident to me was that like their predecessors, those later figures had a passion for both divine wisdom and eloquence which guided them ad fontes, back to the works of earlier scholars who sought to give voice to timeless truths in masterful writing, practicing the highest standards of expression still cherished in their secular culture. Study of the medieval Christian humanists who worked during the transformational fourteenth and fifteenth centuries tells the epic story of the gradual reintensification of concern for classical texts, original sources instead of compendia, a desire to reconnect logical, abstract discourse with poetry and rhetoric capable of stirring the passions, a growing mysticism, and a desire for reform. My research culminated in the discovery of Giles of Viterbo, who, living at the height of the Italian Renaissance, was the beneficiary of the vast recovery of ancient sources and the creative genius of his surroundings.


Pagan Magic of the Northern Tradition: Customs, Rites, and Ceremonies


La Cocina Dulce

Paco Torreblanca, el mejor pastelero del mundo, pone sus recetas al alcance de todos.Paco Torreblanca está considerado como uno de los mejores pasteleros del mundo y un maestro en el trabajo del azúcar y del chocolate. En este libro nos presenta más de 160 recetas para hacer en casa. Recetas fáciles, explicadas paso a paso, con prácticos consejos y con ingredientes al alcance de todos. Sus famosas tartas y pasteles, entre los que se encuentra el pastel gianduja real, que fue la tarta nupcial de la boda del príncipe Felipe y Letizia , sus riquísimos postres y los exquisitos bombones y trufas son una muestra de estos dulces artesanos, sencillos y asequibles que sorprenden y estimulan los paladares. Todos ellos culminados con originales y cuidadas presentaciones que les dan un toque especial. Un libro imprescindible para los amantes de la pastelería y la gastronomía en donde este gran maestro ha plasmado todos sus conocimientos y la pasión que siente por su trabajo.«Los pasteles y postres son el colofón de la comida, son como joyas que nos permiten tener un recuerdo inolvidable de los buenos momentos.»


The Book of Primal Signs: The High Magic of Symbols


Роза о тринадцати лепестках

Адин Эвен-Исраэль (Штейнзальц)

Чейсовская коллекция

Философское сочинение раввина Адина Штейнзальца, одного из наиболее известных раввинов современности, знакомит читателя с основами еврейского традиционного взгляда на мир. В своей книге автор рассматривает такие фундаментальные понятия, как Бог и Его заповеди, постепенно раскрывая перед нами самые глубинные пласты Торы, один за другим, подобно лепесткам розы.


Ocean of Diversity: An unbiased summary of views and practices, gradually emerging from the teachings of the world's wisdom traditions.

Shar Khentrul Jamphel Lodrö, Joe Flumerfelt (editor)


A kenyér. Tanyasi termények


Biggles in Borneo

Biggles, Algy and Ginger join the war in the Pacific when Captain Rex Larrymore, a pioneering prospector, approaches the Air Ministry with news that he has access to a secret airfield in the jungles of the Bornean mountains, unknown to the Japanese.The gang quickly establish themselves at 'Lucky Strike' aerodrome, and launch surprise raids on targets of opportunity. After an auspicious start, things take a turn for the worse when Algy and Ginger are forced to make an emergency landing after discovering a poisonous krait snake has stowed away on their plane!The Japanese spot the downed aircraft and capture Algy and Ginger. Biggles must find a way to rescue them, and fast...Fly by the seat of your pants with Biggles on another classic WW2 adventure. Perfect for fans of Derek Robinson and Max Hennessy.


Black Lives Matter at School

This inspiring collection of accounts from educators and students is "an essential resource for all those seeking to build an antiracist school system" (Ibram X. Kendi).Since 2016, the Black Lives Matter at School movement has carved a new path for racial justice in education. A growing coalition of educators, students, parents and others have established an annual week of action during the first week of February. This anthology shares vital lessons that have been learned through this important work.In this volume, Bettina Love makes a powerful case for abolitionist teaching, Brian Jones looks at the historical context of the ongoing struggle for racial justice in education, and prominent teacher union leaders discuss the importance of anti-racism in their unions. Black Lives Matter at School includes essays, interviews, poems, resolutions, and more from participants across the country who have been building the movement on the ground.


Beloved

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Before the Mask


Biennials: The Exhibitions We Love to Hate

Biennials: The Exhibitions we Love to Hate examines one of the most significant recent transitions in the contemporary art world: the proliferation of large-scale international recurrent survey shows of contemporary art, commonly referred to as contemporary biennials. Since the mid-1980s biennials have been instrumental in shaping curating as an autonomous practice. These exhibitions are also said to have provided increased visibility for certain types of new art practices, notably those that are socially and politically committed, research-based and site-specific, and to have undermined some of the more traditional art media, such as painting, drawing or sculpture. They have been responsible for substantially reshaping the contemporary art world and disrupting the existing value chain of the art market, which now relies on biennials as much as it does on major museums' acquisitions and exhibitions. Rafal Niemojewski, Director of the Biennial Foundation, deftly unpicks the critical discussion and controversy surrounding contemporary biennials. Branded by some critics as showcases of neo-liberalism run amok, in which culture has become synonymous with the dollar-generating leisure industry, biennials have also been associated with the production of monumental artworks which are both highly consumable and photogenic (Instagrammable). The exhibitions we love to hate? This engaging publication makes an essential contribution to a fascinating cultural debate.


Bitter Gold Hearts

The Stormwarden's children have been kidnapped and Garrett, P.I. is on the case. But caught between the bewitching beauty of a half-elf and the fearsome power of a horde of ogres, Garrett has to think twice before sacrificing all for a fortune in gold-after all, even in this enchanted land, he's only human.**


Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945

'Overy has written many fine books, but Blood and Ruins is his masterpiece. It puts all previous single-volume works of the conflict in the shade' Saul David, The Times A bold new approach to the Second World War from one of Britain's foremost military historians Richard Overy sets out in Blood and Ruins to recast the way in which we view the Second World War and its origins and aftermath. He argues that this was the 'great imperial war', a violent end to almost a century of global imperial expansion which reached its peak in the ambitions of Italy, Germany and Japan in the 1930s and early 1940s, before descending into the largest and costliest war in human history and the end, after 1945, of all territorial empires.How war on a huge scale was fought, supplied, paid for, supported by mass mobilization and morally justified forms the heart of this new account. Above all, Overy explains the bitter cost for those involved in fighting, and the exceptional level of crime and atrocity that marked these imperial projects, the war and its aftermath. This war was as deadly for civilians as it was for the military, a war to the death over the future of the global order. Blood and Ruins is a masterpiece from of one of the most renowned historians of the Second World War, which will compel us to view the war in novel and unfamiliar ways. Thought-provoking, original and challenging, Blood and Ruins sets out to understand the war anew.


Injustice (Les Dieux sont parmi nous) - Année 1 Partie 1

Manipulé par le Joker, Superman tue la mère de son enfant à naître : Lois Lane. Fou de rage, l’Homme d’Acier s’en prend directement au Clown Prince du Crime et l’arrache des mains de Batman pour lui ôter la vie. Cet assassinat de sang-froid marque le début d’une ère sombre pour les héros de la Ligue de Justice. Une ère où chacun devra choisir soigneusement son camp : rejoindre la croisade aveugle de Superman contre le crime ou entrer en rébellion aux côtés de Batman.


(Um Enigma Kate Wise 3) Se Ela Corresse

“Uma obra-prima de suspense e mistério. Blake Pierce fez um trabalho magnífico desenvolvendo personagens com um lado psicológico tão bem descrito que nos sentimos dentro de suas mentes, seguindo seus medos e torcendo para que tenham sucesso. Cheio de reviravoltas, este livro fará você ficar acordado (a) até o final da última página.”- Críticas de Livros e Filmes, Roberto Mattos (re UNA VEZ DESAPARECIDO)SE ELA CORRESSE (Um Enigma da Série Kate Wise) é o livro nº3 de uma nova série de suspense psicológico escrita pelo autor best-seller Blake Pierce, cujo best-seller nº 1 UNA VEZ DESAPARECIDO (livro nº1) (download gratuito) recebeu mais de 1.000 avaliações cinco estrelas. Kate Wise, 55 anos, Agente do FBI, é chamada de volta após a aposentadoria quando o segundo homem casado e morador de um bairro rico é encontrado morto; ele foi morto a tiros a caminho de casa. Será uma coincidência?Houve um caso que assombrou toda a carreira de Kate, um que ela não conseguiu resolver. Agora, 10 anos depois, um segundo homem casado é morto da mesma maneira - e sendo da mesma cidade. Qual é a conexão entre eles?E será que Kate conseguirá se redimir e resolver isso antes que o caso caia no esquecimento de novo?Um thriller cheio de ação, um suspense emocionante, SE ELA CORRESSE é o terceiro livro de uma nova série fascinante que fará você virar páginas até tarde da noite. O livro nº4 da série KATE WISE estará disponível em breve.


(Um Enigma Kate Wise 3) Se Ela Corresse


(Um Enigma Kate Wise 2) Se Ela Visse

“Uma obra prima de suspense e mistério! O Autor fez um trabalho magnífico desenvolvendo personagens com um lado psicológico que é tão bem descrito que nos sentimos dentro de suas mentes, seguimos seus medos e comemoramos seus sucessos. A trama é muito inteligente e vai mantê-lo entretido durante todo o livro. Repleto de reviravoltas, esse livro vai manter você acordado até virar a última página.”--Avaliações de Livros e Filmes, Roberto Mattos (Once Gone)SE ELA VISSE (Enigma Kate Wise) é o livro nº 2 de uma nova série de thriller psicológico escrita pelo autor best-seller Blake Pierce, cujo best-seller nº 1 Once Gone (livro nº1) (download gratuito) recebeu mais de 1.000 avaliações cinco estrelas.Quando um casal é encontrado morto e não há nenhum suspeito aparente, Kate Wise, de 55 anos, depois de 30 anos de carreira no FBI, é chamada para voltar da aposentadoria (e de sua tranquila vida em um bairro nobre) e trabalhar para o departamento.A mente brilhante de Kate e a capacidade inigualável de entrar na mente dos serial killers são fatores indispensáveis, e o FBI precisa dela para desvendar esse caso atordoante. Por que dois casais foram encontrados assassinados, a 80 quilômetros de distância, e da mesma maneira? O que eles podem ter em comum?A resposta, Kate percebe, deve ser encontrada com urgência – já que ela está certa de que o assassino está prestes a atacar novamente.Mas no jogo mortal de gato e rato que se segue, Kate, entrando nos canais obscuros da mente distorcida do assassino, pode chegar tarde demais.Um thriller cheio de ação, um suspense emocionante, SE ELA VISSE é o livro nº 2 de uma série nova e fascinante que fará você virar páginas até tarde da noite.O livro nº 3 da série de enigmas KATE WISE estará disponível em breve!


(Um Enigma Kate Wise 2) Se Ela Visse


(Um Enigma Kate Wise 1) Se Ela Soubesse

“Uma obra prima de suspense e mistério. Blake Pierce fez um trabalho magnífico desenvolvendo personagens com um lado psicológico que é tão bem descrito que nos sentimos dentro de suas mentes, seguimos seus medos e comemoramos seus sucessos. Repleto de reviravoltas, esse livro vai manter você acordado(a) até virar a última página.”  --Avaliações de Livros e Filmes, Roberto Mattos (Once Gone)    SE ELA SOUBESSE (Um Enigma Kate Wise) é o livro nº 1 de uma nova série de suspense psicológico escrita pelo autor best-seller Blake Pierce, cujo best-seller nº 1 Once Gone (livro nº1) (download gratuito) recebeu mais de 1.000 avaliações cinco estrelas.   Kate Wise é uma agente do FBI recém-aposentada e aos 55 anos vive sem os filhos, ela se vê fora de sua tranquila vida de moradora da área nobre quando a filha de uma pessoa amiga é assassinada em uma invasão domiciliar, Kate é implorada para que ajude no caso.   Kate pensou que havia deixado o FBI para trás depois de 30 anos como sua melhor agente, respeitada por sua mente brilhante, habilidades marcantes para lidar com os perigos da rua e uma incrível capacidade de caçar serial killers. No entanto, Kate, entediada com aquela cidade tranquila, em uma encruzilhada da vida, recebe o chamado irrecusável de uma pessoa amiga.   Enquanto Kate caça o assassino, ela logo se vê na linha de frente de uma caçada humana, à medida que mais corpos aparecem - mães moradoras de áreas nobres com seus casamentos perfeitos - fica evidente que há um serial killer atuando nessa cidade pacata. Ela descobre segredos de seus vizinhos que ela desejaria nunca ter tomado conhecimento, descobrindo que nem tudo é o que parece neste mundo perfeito. Casos extraconjugais e mentiras desabrocham sem cessar, e Kate deve vasculhar esse ponto nevrálgico da cidade se ela quiser impedir que o assassino ataque novamente.   Mas esse assassino está um passo à frente dela, e pode acabar colocando Kate em perigo.   Um thriller cheio de ação, um suspense emocionante, SE ELA SOUBESSE é o livro nº1 de uma série nova e fascinante que fará você virar páginas até tarde da noite.   O livro nº 2 da série de enigmas KATE WISE agora também está disponível para pré-encomenda.


(Um Enigma Kate Wise 1) Se Ela Soubesse


Stranger Planet


Strange Planet

Straight from the mind of New York Times bestselling author Nathan W. Pyle, Strange Planet is an adorable and profound universe in pink, blue, green, and purple, based on the phenomenally popular Instagram of the same name!Strange Planet covers a full life cycle of the planet’s inhabitants, including milestones such as:The Emergence DayBeing Gains a SiblingThe Being Family Attains a BeastThe Formal Education of a BeingCelebration of Special DaysBeing Begins a VocationThe Beings at HomeHealth Status of a BeingThe Hobbies of a BeingThe Extended Family of the BeingThe Being Reflects on Life While Watching the Planet RotateWith dozens of never-before-seen illustrations in addition to old favorites, this book offers a sweet and hilarious look at a distant world not all that unlike our own.


Solutions and Other Problems

For the first time in seven years, Allie Brosh—beloved author and artist of the extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller Hyperbole and a Half—returns with a new collection of comedic, autobiographical, and illustrated essays. Solutions and Other Problems includes humorous stories from Allie Brosh's childhood; the adventures of her very bad animals; merciless dissection of her own character flaws; incisive essays on grief, loneliness, and powerlessness; as well as reflections on the absurdity of modern life.This full-color, beautifully illustrated edition features all-new material with more than 1,600 pieces of art. Solutions and Other Problems marks the return of a beloved American humorist who has "the observational skills of a scientist, the creativity of an artist, and the wit of a comedian" (Bill Gates)."Imagine if David Sedaris could draw....Enchanting." —People"One of the best...


MODIFICANDO OS CONCEITOS


Flight of the Doves


위대한 개츠비

프랜시스 스콧 피츠제럴드 / 한애경 옮김


장애학의 도전


금속의 세계사: 인류의 문명을 바꾼 7가지 금속 이야기


상류의 탄생


Frantz Fanon : traces d'une vie exemplaire

C'est à l'occasion du cinquante-cinquième anniversaire du décès de Frantz Fanon que l'Association d'Écrivains Martiniquais en Langue Créole (Krey Matjè Kréyol Matinik), lui rend un hommage solennel. Cet ouvrage ne se veut donc pas un énième livre ou écrit, comme il en existe tant, mais vise en une compilation non exhaustive à retracer le cheminement d'un homme dont les actes furent en accord avec les textes.


Los Jefes

Hoy no está siendo el día de Emma Reed. Después de una noche de fiesta, se despierta al lado de un desconocido. Al momento se da cuenta de que ¡llega tarde a su primer día de trabajo! Por si fuera poco, un tío se salta un semáforo en rojo y tiene un accidente de tráfico. A duras penas, Emma logra llegar a la oficina, donde la esperan sus nuevos jefes, a quienes resulta que ya conoce: a la derecha, don Accidente De Tráfico, que no distingue el verde del rojo; y a la izquierda don Rollo De Una Noche, cuyo nombre Emma no consigue recordar.Una comedia romántica de enredo que hará las delicias de quienes disfrutaron de Sexo en Nueva York y Girls.


Freak Show

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Abra Cadabra

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Jump through Fire

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Wolves of the West

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Wolves of the East (Northwest Wolf Pack #2)

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The Book of Virtues

Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits as essentials of good character. In order for our children to develop such traits, we have to offer them examples of good and bad, right and wrong. And the best places to find them are in great works of literature and exemplary stories from history.William J. Bennett has collected hundreds of stories in The Book of Virtues, an instructive and inspiring anthology that will help children understand and develop character -- and help adults teach them. From the Bible to American history, from Greek mythology to English poetry, from fairy tales to modern fiction, these stories are a rich mine of moral literacy, a reliable moral reference point that will help anchor our children and ourselves in our culture, our history, and our traditions -- the sources of the ideals by which we wish to live our lives. Complete with instructive introductions and notes, The Book of...


Guarded Addiction (Forgotten Legacy Book 3)

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Pulling Doubles (The Wright Brothers Book 2)

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Bending The Rules

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A Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Serendipitous Love Book 1)

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Didn't Mean To Love You

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Save Me If You Can

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Release Me If You Can

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Finding Forever

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Inevitable Addiction

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Unfinished Business

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The Truth: His Side, Her Side, and The Truth About Falling in Love

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The Lies: The Lies We Tell About Love, Life, and Everything in Between

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Catch Me If You Can

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Love You Forever

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The Way Love Goes

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Something Like Love

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Strictly Professional

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Her Turn on Stage : The Role of Women in Musical Theatre

Audiences for musical theater are predominantly women, yet shows are frequently created and produced by men. Onstage, female characters are depicted as victims or sex objects and lack the complexity of their male counterparts. Offstage, women are under-represented among writers, directors, composers and choreographers. While other areas of the arts rally behind gender equality, musical theater demonstrates a disregard for women and an authentic female voice. If musical theater reflects prevailing societal attitudes, what does the modern musical tell us about the place of women in contemporary America, the UK and Australia? Are women deliberately kept out of musical theater by men jealously guarding their territory or is the absence of women a result of the modernization of the genre? Based on interviews with successful female performers, writers, directors, choreographers and executives, this book offers a unique female viewpoint on musical theater today.


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The True History of Tea

World-renowned sinologist Victor H. Mair teams up with journalist Erling Hoh to tell the story of this remarkable beverage and its uses, from ancient times to the present, from East to West.


George Stoneman : a biography of the union general

During an 1865 raid through North Carolina, Major General George Stoneman missed capturing the fleeing Jefferson Davis only by a matter of hours, timing somewhat typical of Stoneman's life and career. This biography provides an in-depth look at the life and military career of Major General George Stoneman, beginning with his participation in the 2,000-mile march of the Mormon Battalion and other western expeditions. The main body of the work focuses on his Civil War service, during which he directed the progress of the Union cavalry and led several pivotal raids on Confederate forces. In spite of Stoneman's postwar career as military governor of Virginia and governor of California, his life was marked by his inability to reach ultimate success in war or politics, necessitating a discussion of his weaknesses as well as his achievements as a commander and a politician. Period photographs are included.


Becoming Psychic: Spiritual Lessons for Focusing Your Hidden Abilities

Becoming Psychic provides a lively dialogue between a clinical psychologist who has had a number of psychic (or "paranormal") experiences and a research psychologist and parapsychologist who attempts to put these reports in a scientific framework. This book gives the reader detailed instructions as to how to become more psychic in five important areas: mind-reading, remote viewing, moving matter with mind, distant healing of physical ills through mental intention, and seeing the future. Book jacket.


Game Design : How to Create Video and Tabletop Games, Start to Finish

Many aspiring game designers have crippling misconceptions about the process involved in creating a game from scratch, believing a "big idea" is all that is needed to get started. But game design requires action as well as thought, and proper training and practice to do so skillfully. In this indispensible guide, a published commercial game designer and longtime teacher offers practical instruction in the art of video and tabletop game design. The topics explored include the varying types of games, vital preliminaries of making a game, the nuts and bolts of devising a game, creating a prototype, testing, designing levels, technical aspects, and assessing nature of the audience. With practice challenges, a list of resources for further exploration, and a glossary of industry terms, this manual is essential for the nascent game designer and offers food for thought for even the most experienced professional.


Ожоги и отморожения. Учебно-методическое пособие

И. В. Михин, Ю. В. Кухтенко

Учебное руководство "Ожоги и отморожения" под ред., Михина И.В., и соавт., рассматривает современные данные характеризующие этиопатогенез термических, химических и лучевых ожогов, отморожений, электротравмы. Представлена стадийность клинических проявлений термической травмы, указаны характерные особенности клинико-лабораторных особенностей течения заболевания. Изложены принципы лечения данной травмы.


The True Saint Nicholas

Former secretary of education, radio talk-show host, and bestselling author William Bennett blends his historical expertise combined with his gift for storytelling into a fascinating tale as he writes his first Christmas book about the actual story behind the man who ultimately became known as Santa Claus.Saint Nicholas's selfless giving is brought to life from its beginnings in the third century, far from where we stand today but ever so relevant to our lives. Reflecting on his life, we discover an inspiring story of devotion to God and a life example of eternal goodness for all time. The True Saint Nicholas: Why He Matters to Christmas focuses on three aspects of Saint Nicholas—the historical data of his actual life, his legacy in the centuries following his death, and the legendary status that transformed his likeness into the present-day Santa Claus. The book is designed to unveil the heart and life of someone who lived so long ago—and yet whose life...


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Franz Joseph and Elisabeth : The Last Great Monarchs of Austria-Hungary

In 1848, an 18-year-old boy assumed the throne of Austria, one of the most powerful countries in Europe. He would be its last significant emperor, the only monarch to serve two countries, and the last cogent head of the prestigious Habsburg dynasty. Emperor Franz Joseph’s reign was marked by revolutions, often fueled by rising liberalism and nationalism, and wars orchestrated by conquering architects such as Napoleon, Metternich, and Bismarck. This book gives attention to these political and cultural events, but it is moreover a biography of Emperor Franz Joseph and his enigmatic wife, Empress Elisabeth.


Fan CULTure : Essays on Participatory Fandom in the 21st Century

Kristin M. Barton, Jonathan Malcolm Lampley

Fan CULTure explores how present-day fans interact with the films, television shows, books, and pop culture artifacts they love. From creating original works of fanfiction to influencing the content of major primetime series through social media, fans are no longer passive consumers. They have evolved into active participants in creating and shaping these works. The all-new essays in this collection provide in-depth analyses of how fans interact with such popular franchises as Harry Potter, Lost, Supernatural, Lord of the Rings and Joss Whedon's Serenity, and examines as well topics not based on media-like fans of the LEGO building blocks, Disneyland, and NFL quarterback Tim Tebow.


Wywiad z Obcym. Listy i zapiski Matildy O'Donnell MacElroy


The Age of Bronze

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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

#1 New York Times bestseller“Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding and treating traumatic stress and the scope of its impact on society.” —Alexander McFarlane, Director of the Centre for Traumatic Stress StudiesA pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing in this New York Times bestseller Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He explores innovative treatments—from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga—that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain’s natural neuroplasticity. Based on Dr. van der Kolk’s own research and that of other leading specialists, The Body Keeps the Score exposes the tremendous power of our relationships both to hurt and to heal—and offers new hope for reclaiming lives.


Técnicas de Muestreo

Nuestros conocimientos, actitudes y acciones están basados engran parte sobre muestras. Esto es verdad real en la vida cotidianacomo en la investigación científica. Así, la opinión que tiene unapersona de una institución que realiza miles de transacciones diarias,a menudo se basa en uno o dos contactos ocurridos en el transcursode muchos años. Es clásico (y cómico) el personaje que después depasar diez días en un país extranjero, escribe un libro para enseñara sus habitantes cómo revitalizar su industria, reformar su sistemapolítico, equilibrar su presupuesto y mejorar la comida de sus hoteles.Pero en realidad, la diferencia que existe entre este personajey el estudioso de ciencias políticas que vive veinte años en ese paísdedicado a estudiarlo, es que el primero basa sus conclusiones enuna muestra mucho más pequeña y es menos consciente de su granignorancia. Tanto en la ciencia como en los asuntos humanos careceremosde los recursos necesarios para estudiar más de un fragmentode los fenómenos que pueden ampliar nuestros conocimientos.


Chemistry

John McMurry, Robert C. Fay, Jill Kirsten Robinson

For two-semester general chemistry courses (science majors). Make critical connections in chemistry clear and visible McMurry/Fay/Robinson's Chemistry , Seventh Edition, aims to help students understand the connections between topics in general chemistry and why they matter. The Seventh Edition provides a concise and streamlined narrative that blends the quantitative and visual aspects of chemistry, demonstrates the connections between topics, and illustrates the application of chemistry to their lives and careers. New MasteringChemistry features include conceptual worked examples and integrated Inquiry sections that help make critical connections clear and visible and increase students' understanding of chemistry.


Dr. A P J ABDUL KALAM (Hindi Edition)


Maratho Ka Itihaas: ( मराठा का इतिहास ) (Hindi Edition)


Kevin Costner is Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves

Retells the story of Robin of Locksley, who became an outlaw in order to protect the poor from the evil Sheriff of Nottingham


Dr B R AMBEDKAR (AMRITVAANI) (Hindi Edition)


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아무튼, 여름


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천재들의 대참사


19호실로 가다


클래식 아는 척하기

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사람은 무엇으로 사는가

례프 니꼴라예비치 똘스또이 / 윤새라 옮김


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레프 똘스또이 / 이명현 옮


안나 까레니나(하)

레프 똘스또이 / 이명현 옮김


이반 일리치의 죽음·광인의 수기

레프 똘스또이 / 석영중·정지원 옮김


오페라 아는 척하기

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Lucifer Luciferax XI

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