At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law, Commissario Brunetti meets Franca Marinello, the wife of a prosperous Venetian businessman. He's charmed - perhaps too charmed, suggests his wife Paola - by her love of Virgil and Cicero, but shocked by her appearance. A few days later, Brunetti is visited by Carabinieri Maggior Filippo Guarino from the nearby city of Marghera. As part of a wider investigation into Mafia takeovers of businesses in the region, Guarino wants information about the owner of a trucking company who was found murdered in his office. He believes the man's death is connected to the illegal transportation of refuse - and more sinister material - in his company's trucks. No stranger to mutual suspicion and competition between rival Italian police departments, Brunetti is nevertheless puzzled by the younger man's behaviour. Eventually Guarino agrees to email a photo of his suspect, but by the time the photograph arrives, he himself is dead. Was he killed because he got too close? And how is it that Franca Marinello is involved?
The essential interaction design guide, fully revised and updated for the mobile age About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design, Fourth Edition is the latest update to the book that shaped and evolved the landscape of interaction design. This comprehensive guide takes the worldwide shift to smartphones and tablets into account. New information includes discussions on mobile apps, touch interfaces, screen size considerations, and more. The new full-color interior and unique layout better illustrate modern design concepts. The interaction design profession is blooming with the success of design-intensive companies, priming customers to expect "design" as a critical ingredient of marketplace success. Consumers have little tolerance for websites, apps, and devices that don't live up to their expectations, and the responding shift in business philosophy has become widespread. About Face is the book that brought interaction design out of the research labs and into the everyday lexicon, and the updated Fourth Edition continues to lead the way with ideas and methods relevant to today's design practitioners and developers.Updated information includes: Contemporary interface, interaction, and product design methods Design for mobile platforms and consumer electronics State-of-the-art interface recommendations and up-to-date examples Updated Goal-Directed Design methodology Designers and developers looking to remain relevant through the current shift in consumer technology habits will find About Face to be a comprehensive, essential resource.
GTIN: 9781982144043Biography: historical, political & military
Called "everything a war memoir could possibly be" by The New York Times, this all-time classic of the military memoir genre now includes a new forward from bestselling author and retired Navy SEAL Jocko Willink. Whether he was fifteen ye
Tasks for teachers of English that help to develop language awareness and invite consideration of the pedagogical implications and classroom applications.
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classic
'the greatest short story writer who has ever lived' Raymond Carver's unequivocal verdict on Chekhov's genius has been echoed many times by writers as diverse as Katherine Mansfield, Somerset Maugham, John Cheever and Tobias Wolf. While his popularity as a playwright has sometimes overshadowed his achievements in prose, the importance of Chekhov's stories is now recognized by readers as well as by fellow authors. Their themes - alienation, the absurdity and tragedy of human existence - have as much relevance today as when they were written, and these superb new translations capture their modernist spirit. Elusive and subtle, spare and unadorned, the stories in this selection are among Chekhov's most poignant and lyrical. They include well-known pieces such as 'The Lady with the Little Dog', as well as less familiar work like 'Gusev', inspired by Chekhov's travels in the Far East, and 'Rothschild's Violin', a haunting and darkly humorous tale about death and loss. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe.Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
As the Washington Post says, "Dore Ashton brings the reader to the very core of Mark Rothko's art." She draws on her countless interviews with the artist--giving little credence to the false mythology surrounding his work--to take us to the heart of Rothko's painting, showing its derivation from his reading, travel, and thought.
About Stars: Their Formation, Evolution, Compositions, Locations And Companions
GTIN: 9781786347251Astrophysics
On a clear and moonless night, especially in remote areas such as deserts, myriads of points of light cover the sky. The great majority of them are stars, many like the Sun, but so far away that they can only be seen as point sources of light. The problem
What if the greatest role of your life is playing your true self?Ida Burton used to be Hollywood's sweetheart until the best roles started drying up in her forties.When Ida lands one of the leads in a big-budget lesbian rom-com, it's not only a chance at reviving her dwindling career. Maybe this movie can be an opportunity to finally burst out of the closet she's forced herself into.Faye Fleming has been at the top of her acting game and collecting awards for the past few years. When she's cast in a huge blockbuster opposite the legendary Ida Burton, she's over the moon.Ida and Faye hit it off. The chemistry on set is through the roof... until their characters' first kiss.Best-selling lesbian romance author Harper Bliss brings you a feel-good story about finding the courage to follow your heart.
GTIN: 9781548945282Social, group or collective psychology
Do you constantly need people to be around you to feel fulfilled and satisfied? Do you feel empty when you have no one who is with you? Do you look for partners and lovers to feel loved, wanted and "enough" although they later turn out to be the wrong choi
GTIN: 9780684818221Time (chronology), time systems & standards
With wit and clarity, the author of more than 20 popular science books, including God and the New Physics and The Last Three Minutes, now explores the riddle of time, examining the consequences of Einstein's theory of relativity and offering startling suggestions about what recent research may reveal. 50 line drawings.
Written by an award-winning novelist, this is a book for creative writers. Taking up specifics and generalities, it also examines the condition of the contemporary creative writer and how it differs from that of the writer in the years of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and the high Modernists. It treats each topic with clarity and insight.
This is a revised and expanded second edition that examines United States Navy patrol and bombing squadrons equipped with the Consolidated B-24 Liberator (PB4Y-1) and its successor, the Consolidated-Vultee PB4Y-2 Privateer. The author's previous book,
Brace yourself for a turbulent read in this hilarious and scandalous memoir, filled with shocking true stories that give a rare insight into life behind the scenes of a private jet's cabin crew. Heavily in debt, and earning peanuts as a 'trolley dolly', Saskia Swann desperately needed to get her life back on track. After a chance meeting, she landed a job as cabin crew - but this time on a private jet. Suddenly, she found herself transported into the glittering world of oligarchs and billionaires where the hostesses wear Prada, seven-course meals are served on fine china, the bodyguards carry guns, and the mile-high shenanigans not only take place in luxury cabins, but in the cockpit itself. Saskia soon realised that the job wasn't quite what it seemed though: her billionaire boss expected far more from his hostesses than just cocktails and nibbles... In this gripping exposé, Saskia Swann pulls back the first-class curtain on the lifestyles of the mega-rich and famous.
When Anatoli Boukreev died on the slopes of Annapurna on Christmas day, 1997, the world lost one of the greatest adventurers of our time. In "Above the Clouds," both the man and his incredible climbs on Mt. McKinley, K2, Makalu, Manaslu, and Everest-including his diary entries on the infamous 1996 disaster, written shortly after his return-are immortalized. There also are minute technical details about the skill of mountain climbing, as well as personal reflections on what life means to someone who risks it every day. Fully illustrated with gorgeous color photos, "Above the Clouds" is a unique and breathtaking look at the world from its most remote peaks.
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 240, Publishers: HARMONY BOOK, Author: DEROZAN DEMAR, ISBN-13: 9780593581261, Date of issue: 2024
Marrs, bestselling conspiracy theory author of "Alien Agenda" and "Rule by Secrecy," investigates everything from chemtrails to the Nazis' Antarctic base, Moon landing hoaxes to UFOs, God as an alien to the end of the world in 2012.
GTIN: 9781408107669Children’s / Teenage general interest: Music
Abracadabra spells 'excellent instrumental tutors' and the Abracadabra approach to learning through songs and tunes has set countless beginners on a clear path of progress and enjoyment with their chosen instrument. Now in a third edition, Abracadabra Woodwind has a fresh and contemporary new look and is fully updated. With additional teaching material - and with nothing left out from the previous edition - Abracadabra Flute will continue to engage and excite the young player.
GTIN: 9781408105276Children’s / Teenage general interest: Music
Abracadabra spells 'excellent instrumental tutors' and the Abracadabra approach to learning through songs and tunes has set countless beginners on a clear path of progress and enjoyment with their chosen instrument. Now in a third edition, Abracadabra Woodwind has a fresh and contemporary new look and extra new CDs to play with. With additional teaching material - and with nothing left out from the previous edition - Abracadabra Flute now has two CDs instead of one, and has been specially revised to make the aural experience even more engaging and accessible.
GTIN: 9780713693652Children’s / Teenage general interest: Music
This pupil's book provides a lively and comprehensive introduction to the very first steps of playing the violin. It is part of the Abracadabra Strings Beginners series, a new series of string tutors designed to precede our existing Abracadabra books. All the titles in the series work in conjuction with each other, making them ideal for ensemble, group and whole class tuition. Used alone they remain perfect for indivdual lessons. The book contains activities, games and pieces that teach the fundamentals of playing the violin : good posture (with and without the instrument), bow hold, finger position and pitch awareness as well as developing rhythm and notation reading. The CD also aids pitch development with performances of the pieces and backing tracks to motivate pupils to practise outside of their lessons. The basics are constantly reinforced and revisited with the pupils building up to 'performance pieces' that combine and showcase all of the skills they have developed.
GTIN: 9780060924720Biography: historical, political & military
Oates discerns the historical truth from the mythical legend that surrounds Abraham Lincoln in this original and fascinating portrait of America's 16th president. "Stephen Oates recreates the life and world of Lincoln with the skill of a master painter".--Christian Science Monitor.
Abrahams' and McMinn's Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy, 8th Edition delivers the straightforward visual guidance you need to perform confidently in all examinations and understand spatial relationships required during your medical training
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 208, Publishers: Princeton University Press, Author: Marina Abramovi, ISBN-13: 9780691263731, Date of issue: 2024
This installment in R. P. Hunnicutt's ambitious 10-volume series on the history of American tanks covers the development of the American main battle tank from its conception in the 1950s through the production and standardization of the M1 Abrams main b
Abrams' Urodynamics A complete guide to urodynamic investigation in modern health care Urodynamic testing is an ever-advancing field with applications in the management of patients from across a wide range of clinical areas. Bringing together fundamental principles and cutting-edge innovations, Abrams' Urodynamics has been designed as an all-in-one guide to Functional Urology and Urogynecology, offering direct, up-to-date instruction on how to best perform and understand urodynamic tests within the overall treatment pathway. Its chapters cover everything from everyday basic practice to advanced complex cases, and are enhanced with more than 450 helpful illustrations. Including numerous revisions and new features, this fourth edition of the book boasts: * Coverage of all investigative approaches, including uroflowmetry, cystometry, video-urodynamics, and non-invasive techniques * Details on the successful running of a urodynamic unit, with information on organizational issues, equipment set-up, and common problems and pitfalls * Sections addressing children, women, men, the elderly, and neuropaths * Extensive description of International Continence Society (ICS) Standards throughout * Appendices that include ICS Standards and Fundamentals documents, ICIQ modules, and Patient Information Leaflets With its wealth of clinical tips, illustrations, new innovations, and hands-on advice, Abrams' Urodynamics is essential reading for all those wishing to better integrate urodynamic testing into their daily practice.
«Este libro es un bálsamo para las heridas del alma», María Esclapez, autora de Me quiero, te quiero y Tú eres tu lugar seguro Descubre el poder sanador de abrazar a la niña que fuiste ¿Qué tiene que ver mi infancia con las cosas que siento ahora? ¿De qué manera mis experiencias en esos años se relacionan con mi malestar actual? Y, sobre todo, ¿cómo puedo sanar las heridas del pasado que todavía cargo en el presente? Si alguna vez te has hecho alguna de estas preguntas, la respuesta está en tu niña interior. Marta Segrelles, psicóloga referente en el trabajo del trauma y en la terapia con la niña interior, te acompaña en un viaje de autodescubrimiento al pasado. En este libro encontrarás las herramientas necesarias para acompañar a la niña que todavía vive dentro de ti y ser hoy la adulta que te habría gustado tener a tu lado ayer.«Antes de comenzar mi terapia y trabajar con mi niña interior, estaba enfadada y triste conmigo misma. No me sentía una buena adulta, lo que para mí implicaba hacerlo todo bien, no tener dudas y no sentir nunca incomodidad.»Durante el proceso de reparar heridas, he aprendido a identificar lo que siento y a regularlo mejor para darme aquello que necesito; a acompañarme y acercarme cada vez más a esa niña que fui, siendo la adulta que necesité... »Pero todoesto te lo quiero contar en detalle, para que tú también puedas conocerte mejor, reconectar con tu niña interior y transformar tu presente. Empecemos juntas». Marta Segrelles Porque nunca hubo nada malo en ti. ¿Qué encontrarás en este libro? -Relatos personales basados en casos reales de consulta y experiencias de la autora -Materiales gráficos, esquemas e ilustraciones para facilitar la comprensión de los conceptos -Ejercicios prácticos y sencillos para reflexionar sobre las experiencias adversas (incluso aquellas que parecen olvidadas) de la infancia y reconectar con tu niña interior
¡Llegan a España el mundo más adorable para colorear y relajarse! Descubre un mundo acogedor en estas relajantes páginas para colorear. En Abrazos blanditos, encontrarás preciosas y divertidas ilustraciones en blanco y negro para colorear, con losanimales más monos de la primavera, escenas acogedoras, amigos peluditos y momentos inolvidables de amistad y confort donde expresar tu creatividad, dejar fuera las preocupaciones y relajarte. ¡Bienvenido al universo Coco Wyo! No querrás salir de él. ¿Qué encontrarás en este libro * Dulces e irresistibles ilustraciones para todas las edades! * Adorables escenas con animales de lo más amigables. * Perfecto para aliviar el estrés, hacer mindfulness y relajarse. * Los animales más monos de la primavera. * Ilustraciones en blanco y negro de alta calidad para colorear.
GTIN: 9789876376877Children’s / Teenage general interest: Hobbies, quizzes, toys & games
Abremente Desafíos es una nueva colección para niñas y niños de 2 a 12 años. 10 títulos, uno para cada edad, que contienen cientos dejuegos: laberintos, diferencias, sombras, enigmas, entre otros. Además cuentan con datos curiosos y contenido extra para seguir jugando.
Language: Spanish, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 108, Publishers: CATAPULTA EDITORES, Author: Abremente, ISBN-13: 9789876371575, Date of issue: 2013
Abremente Baby Fan ¡Para estimular las neuronitas! ¡Despierta la curiosidad de tu bebé con Abremente Baby Fan! Esta colección de libros interactivos, diseñados para bebés de 0 a 2 años, estimula los primeros aprendizajes a través de la exploración de imágenes coloridas y la lectura en voz alta de estos libros en formato abanico con preguntas y respuestas sencillas. 100 preguntas y respuestas para seguir aprendiendo y explorando.
Apitherapy is the Complementary and Alternative Medicine that promotes the use of bee products (honey, honeydew, mead, propolis, geopropolis, hive air, beeswax, honeycomb capping, pollen, bee bread, apitoxin or bee venom, drone larvae, royal jelly, and who
A collection of irreverent summations of more than 100 well-known works of literature, from Anna Karenina to Wuthering Heights, cleverly described in the fewest words possible and accompanied with funny color illustrations.Abridged Classics: Brief Summaries of Books You Were Supposed to Read but Probably Didn't is packed with dozens of humorous super-condensed summations of some of the most famous works of literature from many of the world's most revered authors, including William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Emily Brontë, Leo Tolstoy, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, J.R.R. Tolkien, Margaret Atwood, James Joyce, Plato, Ernest Hemingway, Dan Brown, Ayn Rand, and Herman Melville.From "Old ladies convince a guy to ruin Scotland" (Macbeth) to "Everyone is sad. It snows." (War and Peace), these clever, humorous synopses are sure to make book lovers smile.
Félix Chacaltana Saldívar es un burócrata que lleva una vida sin sobresaltos como fiscal del distrito adjunto en Lima. Pero todo cambia cuando es enviado a su natal Ayacucho, al que regresa después de muchos años y donde debe encargarse de una extraña investigación de asesinato. En medio de las celebraciones de Semana Santa y enfrentado a la indiferencia de sus superiores, las pesquisas lo llevarán por caminos cada vez más oscuros, en los que descubrirá hasta dónde pueden llegar un hombre y la sociedad cuando la muerte se convierte en la única certeza.En este impactante thriller Santiago Roncagliolo explora los últimos años de un periodo sangriento y aterrador en la historia de Perú, cuando la ideología terrorista de Sendero Luminoso y un gobierno marcado por el hambre y la corrupción se enfrentaron en una guerra terrible, en la que sobornos, intrigas, torturas, asesinatos y desapariciones fueron el pan de cada día.Abril rojo es una obra fascinante y profunda que indaga en las heridas abiertas de una sociedad dividida, donde la muerte y el dolor conviven con el sueño de un futuro más justo. Una novela que se ha convertido en todo un clásico contemporáneo.
Der Abriss stellt Freuds letzten eigenen Versuch in einer langen Reihe von Darstellungen und Zusammenfassungen seiner Lehren dar: 1938, knapp ein Jahr vor seinem Tode, wollte er nochmals festhalten, was Psychoanalyse ist und was genau sie will.§Zum ersten Mal wird hier der Text in der Fassung des Erstdrucks mit einem ausführlichen Kommentar versehen, der die Genese der Freudschen Begrifflichkeit nachzeichnet und die Stellung des Textes im Gesamtwerk Freuds verortet.
When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history?Abroad in Japan charts a decade of living in a foreign land and the chaos and culture clash that came with it.Packed with hilarious and fascinating stories, this book seeks out to unravel one the world's most complex cultures. Spanning ten years and all forty-seven prefectures, Chris takes us from the lush rice fields of the countryside to the frenetic neon-lit streets of Tokyo. With blockbuster moments such as a terrifying North Korean missile incident, a mortifying experience at a love hotel and a week spent with Japan's biggest movie star, Abroad in Japan is an extraordinary and informative journey through the Land of the Rising Sun.
The story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, "who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him."
Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard room-mate, are obsessed by the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen. As a poor white boy, Sutpen was turned away from a plantation owner's mansion by a negro butler. From then on, he was determined to force his way into the upper echelons of Southern society. His relentless will ensures his ambitions are soon realised; land, marriage, children. But in after the chaos of Civil War, secrets from his own past threaten to destroy everything he has worked for.
Raimund ist verliebt. Ungeheuer verliebt. Nur für ein paar Tage ist er aus dem dumpfen Deutschland von 1932 nach Paris gereist. Jetzt naht bereits sein Abschied von der herrlichen Teddy, die mit all ihrem Esprit dorthin ausgewandert ist. Umschwärmt wird sie von etlichen in Paris gestrandeten Gentlemen, gegen die Raimund sich behaupten muss. Als wolle er alles für immer festhalten, versucht er, die französische Freiheit mit Teddy zu genießen. Wenn er die Zukunft doch aufhalten könnte!Jede Zeit hat ihre großen Romane. Dieser hier wurde nie veröffentlicht. 1932 auf der Schwelle zur NS-Herrschaft verfasst, besteht Sebastian Haffners »Abschied« einmalig gewitzt und rasant auf Weltläufigkeit, Liebe und Überschwang. Für unsere Gegenwart ist er ein Ereignis.
Western thinking has long been dominated by essence, by a preoccupation with that which dwells in itself and delimits itself from the other. By contrast, Far Eastern thought is centred not on essence but on absence. The fundamental topos of Far Eastern thinking is not being but 'the way' (dao), which lacks the solidity and fixedness of essence. The difference between essence and absence is the difference between being and path, between dwelling and wandering. 'A Zen monk should be without fixed abode, like the clouds, and without fixed support, like water', said the Japanese Zen master D gen.Drawing on this fundamental distinction between essence and absence, Byung-Chul Han explores the differences between Western and Far Eastern philosophy, aesthetics, architecture and art, shedding fresh light on a culture of absence that may at first sight appear strange and unfamiliar to those in the West whose ways of thinking have been shaped for centuries by the preoccupation with essence.
Widely acclaimed throughout Latin America after its 1992 release in Argentina, "The Absent City" takes the form of a futuristic detective novel. In the end, however, it is a meditation on the nature of totalitarian regimes, on the transition to democracy after the end of such regimes, and on the power of language to create and define reality. Ricardo Piglia combines his trademark avant-garde aesthetics with astute cultural and political insights into Argentina's history and contemporary condition in this conceptually daring and entertaining work. The novel follows Junior, a reporter for a daily Buenos Aires newspaper, as he attempts to locate a secret machine that contains the mind and the memory of a woman named Elena. While Elena produces stories that reflect on actual events in Argentina, the police are seeking her destruction because of the revelations of atrocities that she - the machine - is disseminating through texts and taped recordings. The book thus portrays the race to recover the history and memory of a city and a country where history has largely been obliterated by political repression.Its narratives - all part of a detective story, all part of something more - multiply as they intersect with each other, like the streets and avenues of Buenos Aires itself. The second of Piglia's novels to be translated by Duke University Press - the first was "Artifical Respiration" - this book continues the author's quest to portray the abuses and atrocities that characterise dictatorships as well as the difficulties associated with making the transition to democracy. Translated and with an introduction by Sergio Waisman, it includes a new afterword by the author.
This book investigates the impact of absent and inadequate fathers on the lives and psyches of their daughters through the perspective of Jungian analytical psychology. It tells the stories of daughters who describe the insecurity of self, the splintering and disintegration of the personality, and the silencing of voice.
In a lively introduction to masculine psychology for baby-boomers, Corneau makes a fascinating connection between the difficulties middle-aged men encounter in building and maintaining secure relationships and the profound feelings they have concerning their fathers' literal or emotional silences.
