When MI5 intelligence officer Liz Carlyle learns of a Russian government plot to kill super-rich Nikita Brunovsky
- a man who openly
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Liz Carlyle has been transferred to Counter-Espionage, along with her research sidekick Peggy Kingsolving. Once the hub of MI5 operations, the department has been reduced in size since the end of the Cold War, & priority within the service is on counter-terrorism.

Yet there is plenty for Liz to do. In fact, there are more spies operating in London today than during the height of East-West hostilities. This

Includes:: Russian spies, who continue to operate in number. What



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Any newspaper anywhere in the world, any day, carries news about illegal migrants, drug busts, smuggled weapons, laundered money, or counterfeit goods The intense media coverage devoted to the war on terrorism has helped to obscure the other new wars of globalisation. Illicit international trade pits governments against agile, well-financed networks of highly dedicated individuals. Religious zeal or political goals drive terrorists, but profit is no less a motivator for murder, mayhem, & global insecurity than religious fanaticism.

Illicit is the first book to reveal the full scale of this dark underground. It uncovers the connections between illegal industries & shows how they join forces to breed new lines of business, feed off political instability, foster violence & enable terrorism. How do pirated movies or CD's find their way to illegal markets worldwide even before they are released? & how, in our free, modern world, have over 30 million women & children

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Any newspaper anywhere in the world, any day, carries news about illegal migrants, drug busts, smuggled weapons, laundered money, or counterfeit goods The intense media coverage devoted to the war on terrorism has helped to obscure the other new wars of globalisation. Illicit international trade pits governments against agile, well-financed networks of highly dedicated individuals. Religious zeal or political goals drive terrorists, but profit is no less a motivator for murder, mayhem, & global insecurity than religious fanaticism.

Illicit is the first book to reveal the full scale of this dark underground. It uncovers the connections between illegal industries & shows how they join forces to breed new lines of business, feed off political instability, foster violence & enable terrorism. How do pirated movies or CD's find their way to illegal markets worldwide even before they are released? & how, in our free, modern world, have over 30 million women & children

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Vonny lives on the island of Martha's Vineyard with her husband Andre & son Simon. Their neighbour Elizabeth, a woman in her seventies, falls from an upstairs window & her granddaughter Jody is summoned to nurse her through her convalescence. So the players are assembled for a magical story of love & loneliness, of terror & human frailty, of the mystery & grace of ordinary experience. Alice Hoffman's ability to fuse the domestic & the mythic in a narrative of such gentle yet magnetic force confirms her stature as one of the most gifted of American novelists. ...

The literary-philosophical works of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) rank among the most quietly influential of the post-war era, though only since his death had Benjamin achieved the fame & critical currency outside his native Germany accorded him by a select few during his lifetime. Now he is widely held to have possessed one of the most acute & original minds of the Central European culture decimated by the Nazis. Illuminations contains his two most celebrated essays, ' The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' & ' Theses on the Philosophy of History', as well as others on the art of translation, Kafka, storytelling, Baudelaire, Brecht's epic theatre, Proust & an anatomy of his own obsession, book collecting. The essay is Benjamin's domain; those collected in this now legendary volume offer the best possible access to his singular & significant achievement. In a stimulating introduction, Hannah Arendt reveals how Benjamin's life & work are a prism to his times, & identifies him as possessing the rare ability to think poetically. ...

Isabel Merton is a renowned concert pianist, whose playing is marked by rare intensity, & for whom each performance is a plunge into the compelling world of the music. At the height of her career, she feels increasingly torn between the expressive musical realm she inhabits, & the fragmented life she leads as an itinerant artist, with its frequent flights, anonymous hotels & fortuitous, arbitrary encounters.

Away from her New York home on a European tour, Isabel meets Anzor Islikhanov, a political exile from war-torn Chechnya driven by a bitter sense of injustice & a powerful desire to help & avenge his people. As their paths cross in several cities, they are drawn to each other both by their differences, & their seemingly parallel passions

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In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois & blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. For disillusioned writer & itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas & sparks firing in the cylinders.. . until he meets Donald Shimoda ...

Discovered by Dr Edward Bach in the 1930s, the thirty-eight Bach Flower Remedies form a system of healing for the negative emotions & attitudes that may interfere with health & happiness. This book provides an in-depth & detailed description of each remedy, together with case histories relating to each one to help the reader appreciate how they may be put into practice. The descriptions & cases have been compiled from the Bach Remedy Newsletter, originally edited by Nora Weeks, Dr Bach ...

How intelligent are horses? Why do they toss their heads, & what makes them paw the ground? Why do they swish their tails, & what makes them flare their nostrils? In Illustrated Horsewatching Desmond Morris gets out to answer these & numerous other questions of consuming interest to horse-lovers. As a zoologist & a lifelong student of animal behaviour, Desond Morris approaches the horse world in an unusual way, dealing with topics often ignored in the equine literature. In addition to examining the details of horse behaviour he answers a wealth of fascinating cultural & sociological questions, such as why horseshoes bring good luck, why we (at least in this country) don't eat horses, why jockeys are allowed to whip their mounts, & why we call a bad dream a nightmare. Desmond Morris even applies his zoological mind, & his superb writing skills, to the all-important question why some horses run faster than others. ...