Two exclusive JD Robb short stories Possession in Death After a Russian woman whispers her dying words to Eve Dallas strange things begin to happen Unable to concentrate on anything Eve realises that in order to reclaim her mind she must find the woman's great-granddaughter
- one of a string of young missing girls forgotten by all Set between Indulgence in Death & Treachery in Death Chaos in Death When eye-witness testimony paints the killer as a green skinned monster with swollen red eyes & goblin ears even Eve Dallas is shaken But as she gets closer the trail suggests something even more disturbing
- someone is playing at science Set between New York to Dallas & Celebrity in Death

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn adrenaline-fuelled expose of life inside the tech bubble Chaos Monkeys lays bare the secrets power plays & lifestyle excesses of the visionaries grunts sociopaths opportunists & money cowboys who are revolutionising our world Written by startup CEO & industry provocateur Antonio Garcia Martinez this is Liar's Poker meets The Social Network Computer engineers use chaos monkey' software to wreak havoc & test system robustness Similarly tech entrepreneurs like Antonio Garcia Martinez are society's chaos monkeys
- their innovations disrupt every aspect of our lives from transportation (Uber) & holidays (Airbnb) to television (Netflix) & dating (Tinder)
- all in search of the perfect business miracle Describing himself as high-strung fast-talking & wired on a combination of caffeine fear & greed at all times' Garcia Martinez left Wall Street to make his fortune in Silicon Valley becoming CEO of his own startup before bailing & being poached by Facebook's nascent advertising team Here he turned users' data into profit for COO Sheryl Sandberg & chairman & CEO Mark Zuck' Zuckerberg Forced out of Facebook in the wake of a bitter internal product war Garcia Martinez took his unique brand of entrepreneurial hyperactivity to rivals Twitter Along the way he got into a lot of trouble with a lot of people brewed illegal beer on the Facebook campus (accidentally flooding Zuckerberg's desk) lived on a yacht raced sport cars on the highway & enthusiastically pursued the lifestyle of an overpaid Silicon Valley mercenary In Chaos Monkeys he tells you HOW
- & HOW NOT
- to make a fortune through startups & digital marketing Highly entertaining & always offering genuine insight Garcia Martinez unravels the chaotic evolution of social media & online marketing From startups & credit derivatives to Big Brother & data tracking social media monetisation & digital privacy' he shares both his scathing observations & outrageous antics taking us on a subversive & very funny tour of the fascinatingly insular & unbelievably wealthy tech industry



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What a mess! On a landfill-planet called Deponia lives a clever & ambitious Rufus who wants nothing more than to get off of Deponia & reach the beautiful flying city of Elysium in the sky Rufus having turned over a new leaf & completely reformed finds himself having to save love interest Goal from a problem that he has created Her mind has been split into three parts each with a fragment of her identity Using his remarkable charming wit he needs to earn the respect & affection of each fragment in order to put Goal back together againand then he needs to venture to Elysium & save Deponia from certain doom while he's at it! This second adventure on Deponia tells a unique self-contained story playable without prior knowledge of the first instalment Fans of the first game will discover new aspects of familiar characters' backgrounds & see open questions answered Features Unique world honouring the tradition of Douglas Adams Terry Pratchett &38; Matt Groening H&-drawn art design in full HD glory &38; high-quality cartoon animation drawn in comic style Bizarre characters & wacky humour meet challenging puzzles Elaborate soundtrack with many atmospheric tracks From the creators of the award-winning adventures ' Edna &38; Harvey The Breakout' ' Edna &38; Harvey Harvey's New Eyes' &38; ' The Whispered World' ...

No 1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell delivers the twenty-fourth engrossing thriller in her high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr Kay Scarpetta Someone is following you One summer evening in New England two young girls stumble upon a body Forensic pathologist Dr Kay Scarpetta arrives at the scene to find a young woman has been attacked with almost superhuman force Someone is taunting you Meanwhile people close to Scarpetta start receiving suspicious calls Could they be linked to Scarpetta&s anonymous cyber stalker Tailend Charlie? Someone wants to destroy you A second death shocks Scarpetta to her core Because analysis of the body shows a material that doesn&t exist on earth & it&s clear that someone or something is coming for her & is hell-bent on creating chaos ...

Chaos exists in systems all around us Even the simplest system of cause & effect can be subject to chaos denying us accurate predictions of its behaviour & sometimes giving rise to astonishing structures of large-scale order Our growing understanding of Chaos Theory is having fascinating applications in the real world
- from technology to global warming politics human behaviour & even gambling on the stock market Leonard Smith shows that we all have an intuitive understanding of chaotic systems He uses accessible maths & physics (replacing complex equations with simple examples like pendulums railway lines & tossing coins) to explain the theory & points to numerous examples in philosophy & literature (Edgar Allen Poe Chang-Tzu Arthur Conan Doyle) that illuminate the problems The beauty of fractal patterns & their relation to chaos as well as the history of chaos & its uses in the real world & implications for the philosophy of science are all discussed in this Very Short Introduction ABOUT THE SERIES The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly Our expert authors combine facts analysis perspective new ideas & enthusiasm to make interesting & challenging topics highly readable
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Tracklist A1 My Friend A2 We Will Love A3 I A4 So What A5 I'll Lose My Head A6 What's Next? B1 Forgetting Marcel B2 Collecting Photographs B3 Pictures Of Trees B4 Oh My B5 Safe B6 We're Never Going To Be The Same Again ...

Mrs Kapoor & a whole host of animals & friends give chase to a cheeky chapatti in this hilarious modern take on the runaway pancake story Follow the trail of the chapatti as it bounces & bursts through the book -- where will its adventure end? ...

Pro wrestler Paul Levesque known as Triple H stars in this action crime comedy as Ray a former bank robber who's attempting to start a new life when his criminal past returns with a vengeance Life on the outside can be tough for an ex-con so when opportunities prove to be few & far between Ray's old crew tries to entice him to come back into the fold for one last heist Ray considers rejoining but ultimately decides against it -- signing up to chaperone his daughter's class' trip to the natural history museum instead Unfortunately when Ray's crew doesn't quite get the message the bank robbers & the field-tripping students cross paths at the most inopportune times ...

Directed by Sir Richard Attenborough & starring an all star cast including Robert Downey Jr) Anthony Hopkins & Marisa Tomei & Chaplin& is a loving gr&-scale portrait of the Little Tramp&s amazing life & times His poverty-stricken childhood in England comes to life along with his friendships with Mack Sennett (Dan Aykroyd) & Douglas Fairbanks (Kevin Kline) his many wives & scandalous affairs & his relentless pursuit by J Edgar Hoover & Chaplin& is the larger-than-life story of the actor behind the icon & a stunning depiction of a bygone era when Hollywood was at its most glamorous ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Robert Downey Jr takes the lead role in this biopic of the legendary Charlie Chaplin which traces his entire career from poverty stricken childhood all the way through to final Swiss exile & lifetime Oscar recognition Along the way there were four marriages troubles with the US government & a phenomenally successful film career Directed by Richard Attenborough Age Rating 15 ...