NEVER VOLUNTEER FOR ACTIVE DUTY Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency While his colleagues are out saving the world Bob's under a desk restoring lost data His world was dull & safe
- but then he went & got Noticed Now Bob is up to his neck in spycraft parallel universes dimension-hopping terrorists monstrous elder gods & the end of the world Only one thing is certain it will take more than a full system reboot to sort this mess out This is the first novel in the Laundry Files
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A prophetic & experimental masterpiece by J G Ballard the acclaimed author of Crash' & Super-Cannes' This edition

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The Attack opens with Amin Jaafari an Israeli surgeon of Palestinian after the deadly attack an Israeli police officer informs Jaafari that the suicide bomber was his wife Sihem Believing her to be on an overnight trip he completely refuses to accept the accusation They were leading an ideal life in Tel Aviv moving among both Arab & Israeli society with ease or so Jaafari thought But then he receives a posthumous message from Sihem confirming the worst Desperate to understand how he missed even the slightest clue Jaafari leaves the relative security of Israel & enters the Palestinian territories to find the fanatics who recruited her In search of the truth he confronts a reality that he had refused to see This book was first published as the French novel L' Attentat by Yasmina Khadra in 2005 One year later L' Attentat was translated into English as The Attack & it garnered international praise 'A fierce rendering of geopolitical tensions & a plea for peace' (The New York Times); ' Audaciously conceived courageously important & urgently humane' (The Los Angeles Times) It was translated into more than 20 languages & sold over 600000 copies Then in 2012 the original French book went into graphic form with the release in 2012 of L' Attentat by Loic Dauvillier & Glen Chapron This has now been translated into English by Ivanka Hahnenberger
- the book featured here The Attack is a poignant tragedy that mixes the intimacy of grief & betrayal with the futility of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict It makes no judgment & takes no side Chapron's masterful illustrations & astute text are wrought with the despair & hope of Jaafari's search The raw humanity of the story raises more questions than can be answered Timely & affecting The Attack is an essential purchase
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It was 1921 when Lord Peter Wimsey first encountered the Attenbury emeralds The recovery of the magnificent gem in Lord Attenbury's most dazzling heirloom made headlines
- & launched a shell-shocked young aristocrat on his career as a detective Now it is 1951 a happily married Lord Peter has just shared the secrets of that mystery with his wife the detective novelist Harriet Vane Then the new young Lord Attenbury
- grandson of Lord Peter's first client
- seeks his help again this time to prove who owns the gigantic emerald that Wimsey last saw in 1921 It will be the most intricate & challenging mystery he has ever faced Since the publication of A Presumption of Death which was set in 1941 in the wartime English countryside readers have been eagerly asking for this story
- a wholly original & utterly engrossing new detective adventure



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Attention merchant an industrial-scale harvester of human attention A firm whose business model is the mass capture of attention for resale to advertisers In nearly every moment of our waking lives we face a barrage of advertising enticements branding efforts sponsored social media commercials & other efforts to harvest our attention Over the last century few times or spaces have remained uncultivated by the 'attention merchants' contributing to the distracted unfocused tenor of our times Tim Wu argues that this is not simply the byproduct of recent inventions but the end result of more than a century's growth & expansion in the industries that feed on human attention From the pre-Madison Avenue birth of advertising to TV's golden age to our present age of radically individualized choices the business model of 'attention merchants' has always been the same He describes the revolts that have risen against these relentless attempts to influence our consumption from the remote control to FDA regulations to Apple's ad-blocking OS But he makes clear that attention merchants grow ever-new heads & their means of harvesting our attention have given rise to the defining industries of our time changing our nature
- cognitive social & otherwise
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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play In the fall of 1976 a small parapsychology lab in Pennsylvania became the unwitting home to the only government-confirmed case of possession The US military assumed control of the lab under orders of national security & soon after implemented measures aimed at weaponizing the entity The details of the inexplicable events that occurred are being made public after remaining classified for nearly forty years ...

Barack Obama's success in becoming President-Elect of the United States means he will dramatically change the face that his country presents to the world In this bestselling book Obama discusses the importance of empathy in politics his hopes for a different America with different policies & how the ideals of its democracy can be renewed With intimacy & self-deprecating humour Obama describes his experiences as a politician & balancing his family life with his public vocation His search for consensus & his respect for the democratic process inform every sentence A senator & a lawyer a professor & a father a Christian & a sceptic Barack Obama has written a book of transforming power that will inspire people the world over ...

The first novel by bestselling international superstar Maddie Ziegler! Twelve-year-old Harper is a star at her dance school
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Dear reader There is nothing to be found in Lemony Snicket's 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' but misery & despair You still have time to choose another international best-selling series to read But if you insist on discovering the unpleasant adventures of the Baudelaire orphans then proceed with caution violet Klaus & Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children They are charming & resourceful & have pleasant facial features Unfortunately they are exceptionally unlucky In The Austere Academy the siblings face snapping crabs strict punishments dripping fungus comprehensive exams violin recitals SORE & the metric system In the tradition of great storytellers from Dickens to Dahl comes an exquisitely dark comedy that is both literary & irreverent hilarious & deftly crafted Despite their wretched contents 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' has sold 60 million copies worldwide & been made into a Hollywood film starring Jim Carrey & in the future things are poised to get much worse thanks to the forthcoming Netflix series starring Neil Patrick Harris You have been warned Are you unlucky enough to own all 13 adventures? The Bad Beginning The Reptile Room The Wide Window The Miserable Mill The Austere Academy The Ersatz Elevator The Vile Village The Hostile Hospital The Carnivorous Carnival The Slippery Slope The Grim Grotto The Penultimate Peril The End And what about All The Wrong Questions? In this four-book series a 13-year-old Lemony chronicles his dangerous & puzzling apprenticeship in a mysterious organisation that nobody knows anything about Who Could That Be at This Hour?' When Did you Last See Her?' Shouldn't You Be in School?' Why is This Night Different from All Other Nights?' Lemony Snicket was born before you were & is likely to die before you as well He was born in a small town where the inhabitants were suspicious & prone to riot He grew up near the sea & currently lives beneath it Until recently he was living somewhere else Brett Helquist was born in Ganado Arizona grew up in Orem Utah & now lives in New York City He earned a bachelor's degree in fine arts from Brigham Young University & has been illustrating ever since His art has appeared in many publications including Cricket magazine & The New York Times ...

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- Rick Remender (BLACK SCIENCE FEAR AGENT) Fresh off the biggest bomb in Hollywood history producer Nathan T Rex enters a downward spiral of drugs & depravity in a quest to resurrect his career & save his soul Over budget & behind schedule on PRESIDENTS DAY he is backed into a corner by bad publicity a crap project & studio politics But enlisting serial-killer-turned-murder-consultant Darwin his trusty assistant Igor narcotics from Doctor Love & the lovely actress Coconut T Rex will stop at nothing in his quest for cinematic fame & glory God help us all
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