The "utterly unputdownable" ("Sunday Times") and Scandalous chronicle of Britain's wild and wonderful '60s cultural transformation.
As publisher of the satirical magazine "Oz" --the hippies' handbook and a monument to psychedelia --Richard Neville was at the center of a cyclone of radicals, rock[...]
"The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA)" is the most extensive study of the linkages between the world's ecosystems and human well-being. It is one of the most important conservation initiatives ever undertaken, and the ecosystem services paradigm on which it is based provides the standard for pra[...]
Galya Petrova travels to Ireland on a promise that she will work for a nice Russian family, teaching their children English. Instead, she is dragged into the world of modern slavery, sold to a Belfast brothel, and held there against her will.
She escapes at a terrible cost--the slaying of one o[...]
Ireland 1963. As the Irish people prepare to welcome President John F. Kennedy to the land of his ancestors, a German national is murdered in a seaside guesthouse. Lieutenant Albert Ryan, Directorate of Intelligence, is ordered to investigate. The German is the third foreigner to die within a few da[...]
Fegan has been a "hard man," an IRA killer in northern Ireland. Now that peace has come, he is being haunted day and night by twelve ghosts: a mother and infant, a schoolboy, a butcher, an RUC constable, and seven other of his innocent victims. In order to appease them, he's going to have to kill th[...]
A merciless assassin stalks Belfast and Detective Inspector Jack Lennon has been assigned to the case. As Lennon unravels a far-reaching conspiracy involving collusion among Loyalists, IRA members, and law enforcement, he discovers that his estranged former lover and their daughter are in the killer[...]
In Belfast, Northern Ireland, memories of the city's troubled history haunt every street corner, but for one tortured soul, the incredible violence in his past is also his most cherished legacy.
Rea Carlisle--daughter of influential Stormont politician Graham Carlisle--has inherited a house fro[...]
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Increase your mindfulness with ten easy exercises, devised by a prominent leader of the spiritual movement known as New Thought. Neville Goddard (1905-72) wrote ten inspirational books and was a popular speaker on metaphysical themes. [...]
On March 4, 2002, a team of SEALs was choppered onto a hostile Afghan mountain peak as part of Operation Anaconda. The largest operation by US forces since Vietnam, it was intended to bring to battle foreign al-Qaeda fighters who had fled after the overthrow of the Taliban and the battle of Tora Bor[...]
The Castle of Otranto is regarded as the first Gothic novel. The son of Manfred, Prince of Otranto, is mysteriously killed on his wedding day by a huge helmet.The event leads to a fast-paced story of jealous passion, intrigue, murder and supernatural phenomena unfolding in an atmosphere of thundercl[...]
1979. The dawn of Thatcher's Britain. It's a country crippled by strikes, joblessness and economic gloom, divided by race and class - and skanking to a new beat: 2-Tone. The unruly offspring of white boy punk and rude boy ska, the new music's undeniable leaders were The Specials. Bursting out of Cov[...]
Following the success of "Concept Design", the result of seven entertainment designers' shared desire to create and explore new images and ideas, "Concept Design 2" features seventeen guest artists along with the original seven to show us worlds, vehicles, monsters and creations beyond your wildest [...]
Helio Oiticica (1937--1980) occupies a central position in the Latin American avant-garde of the postwar era. Associated with the Rio de Janeiro-based neo-concretist movement at the beginning of his career, Oiticica moved from object production to the creation of chromatically opulent and sensually [...]
Hélio Oiticica (1937¿1980) occupies a central position in the Latin American avant-garde of the postwar era. Building on the idea for a film by Brazilian underground filmmaker Neville D¿Almeida, Oiticica developed the concept for Block-Experiments in Cosmococa¿Program in Progress (1973¿1974) as[...]