From the celebrated scholar and lecturer Andrew Harvey, a fascinating and inspiring introduction to the essential texts and themes of the great mystics.Not merely a feast of the greatest and wisest mystical revelations, The Essential Mystics is a practical handbook for those who seek the vision of t[...]

"Public Finance 9/e" benefits from the combined efforts of Harvey Rosen's market-leading book and co-author Ted Gayer's research and government agency experience. This combination of experience is able to explain as clearly as possible how the tools of economics can be used to analyze government exp[...]

Up-to-Date Coverage of Microwave Transmission Networks Fully revised for the latest North American and ITU standards, Microwave Transmission Networks, Second Edition covers all stages of terrestrial point-to-point microwave network build-out, from planning and feasibility studies to system deploymen[...]

Provides a practical working guide to understand PI and developing successful PI solutions and applications in chemical process, civil, biological and biochemical systems. This book offers the practical tools to reach out to a base of professional and academic engineers who are engaged in addressing[...]

A savage assault with a scalpel leaves Dr Tim Fletcher's body lying badly slashed in a deserted walkway. He is the first victim in a series of assaults on hospital staff and, as panic grips the city, Charlie Resnick is faced with a mass of clues that seem to lead nowhere.[...]

A story featuring Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick. It takes him back ten years, to a time when a rash of very similar incidents left him face-to-face with a frenzied sociopath, and to a time when his wife ran off with her lover.[...]

Forty-eight hours, that's what they reckon, isn't it? Forty-eight hours. If you don't find them in that, likely they're sodding dead...' A cabbie's just been beaten up, there's a drunk and disorderly in the interview room and a possible child abuser on the way in. Nothing unusual there, then, just a[...]

Lorraine Preston's brother, Michael, was sent down for life for the murder of their father - and now he's being allowed out for their mother's funeral. A hardened criminal, Michael Preston is the last person Resnick wants back on his patch, even is it's only for a matter of hours. Heartsore and worl[...]

When the take-down of a violent criminal goes badly wrong, something doesn't feel right to Detective Sergeant Maddy Birch, and her uneasiness is compounded by her belief that someone is following her home...Retired Detective Inspector Frank Elder's daughter, Katherine, is running wild. Elder's fears[...]

Stephen Bryan is found murdered in his bathroom. Will Grayson and Helen Walker, police detectives investigating the case assume that his death is the result of an ill-judged sexual encounter. But doubts are soon raised. Could the murder be connected to a biography he was writing on the life and myst[...]

It's Jake's birthday. He is sitting in a small plane, being flown over the landscape that has been the backdrop to his life - his childhood, his marriage, his work, his passions. Now he is in his early sixties, and he isn't quite the man he used to be. He has lost his wife, his son is in prison, and[...]

John Harvey has been described as the master of British crime and in "A Darker Shade of Blue" he has collected together some of his very best writing. From the killing fields of the East Midlands to the mean streets of London, from the jazz clubs and clip joints of Soho to the barren fenlands of Eas[...]

Lorraine Preston's brother, Michael, was sent down for life for the murder of their father - and now he's being allowed out for their mother's funeral. A hardened criminal, Michael Preston is the last person Resnick wants back on his patch, even if it's only for a matter of hours.[...]