In Rankin, you cannot go wrong. "The Boston Globe" A superior series. "The New York Times Book Review" Reading Ian Rankin] is like watching somebody juggle a dozen bottles of single malt without spilling a drop. "Kirkus Reviews" (starred review) Five years ago, a mysterious fire burned Edinburgh [...]
Detective John Rebus s city is being terrorized by a baffling series of murders and he s tied to a maniac by an invisible knot of blood. As the ghoulish killings mount and the tabloid headlines scream, Rebus cannot stop the feverish shrieks from within his own mind. Because he isn t just one cop try[...]
An edge-of-your-seat, white-knuckle thrill ride from the master of suspense Baron Max von Berger was once a young aide to Hitler himself, and in the declining days of World War II, was entrusted with Hitler s diary. Over the years, von Berger has amassed immense wealth and power due to the diary and[...]
In 1866 tragedy strikes at the exclusive Windfield School when a mysterious accident takes the life of a student. Among the student's circle of friends are Hugh Pilaster; Hugh's older cousin Edward, dissolute heir to the Pilaster banking fortune; and Micky Miranda, the handsome son of a brutal South[...]
Bestselling author Brenda Novak unearths love in the darkest of places.When Maximillian Wilder hides his noble identity and joins the notorious body snatchers known as the London Supply Company, the last thing on his mind is love. He s worried about Madeline, his vanished half sister, who was last s[...]
A famous Russian writer and ex-paratrooper named Alexander Kurbsky has gotten fed up with the Putin government, and decides he wants to "disappear" into the West. He is under no illusions, however, about how the news will be greeted at home, having seen too many of his countrymen die mysteriously at[...]
Dietrich von Hildebrand was a German-Catholic thinker and teacher who, in response to the rise of Nazism, devoted the full force of his intellect to doing public battle with Hitler for the hearts and minds of the German people.
In "My Battle Against Hitler," von Hildebrand tells of the scorn an[...]
Why is glass see-through? What makes elastic stretchy? Why does a paper clip bend? These are the sorts of questions that Mark Miodownik is constantly asking himself. A globally renowned materials scientist, Miodownik has spent his life exploring objects as ordinary as an envelope and as unexpected a[...]
This fourth edition of The Geography of Tourism and Recreation provides students with a comprehensive introduction to the interrelationship between tourism, leisure and recreation from geographical and social science perspectives. It still remains the only book to systematically compare and contrast[...]
This fourth edition of The Geography of Tourism and Recreation provides students with a comprehensive introduction to the interrelationship between tourism, leisure and recreation from geographical and social science perspectives. It still remains the only book to systematically compare and contrast[...]
Offers a comprehensive synthesis of the key issues associated with tourism, leisure and recreation. This edition lays emphasis on North America, and investigates the importance of less developed countries and the critical issues surrounding inequality, exploitation, underdevelopment and globalizatio[...]
Presenting qualitative and quantitative findings on the lived experiences of around seven hundred young adults from Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh and mixed-faith backgrounds, Religious and Sexual Identities provides an illuminating and nuanced analysis of young adults' perceptions[...]
At the close of the eighteenth century, Erasmus Darwin declared that he would 'enlist the imagination under the banner of science', beginning, Michael Page argues, a literary narrative on questions of evolution, ecology, and technological progress that would extend from the Romantic through the Vict[...]
This book explains a new discovery that lack of water in the body-chronic dehydration-is the root cause of many painful degenerative diseases, asthma, allergies, hypertension, excess body weight, and some emotional problems, including depression. the book explains the damaging effects of dehydration[...]