Richard Sennett has spent an intellectual lifetime exploring how humans live in cities In this pair of essays he visits two of the world's greatest cities at crucial moments in their history to meditate on the condition of exile in both geographical & psychic space the Jewish Ghetto of Renaissance Venice where state-imposed outsiderdom was translated into a rich community identity; & nineteenth-century Paris a magnet for political exiles where the experience of displacement seeped into the city's culture at large ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Triple bill of Steven Seagal action pictures & The Foreigner& (2003) stars Seagal as Jonathan Cold a freelance secret agent hired to deliver a mysterious package from France to Germany The contents of the package are unknown to Cold but he soon discovers that several different parties will go to great lengths to procure them including political corruption backstabbing & even murder In & The Patriot& (1998) when a madman unleashes a deadly virus over a remote Western town the only hope for its survival lies with the rugged local doctor Wesley Mc Claren (Steven Seagal) Having previously worked as an immunologist for the US government Mc Claren knows exactly what to do but alongside his struggle with the deadly infections he must also fight a running battle with the army & the local militia groups In & Out Of Reach& (2004) Seagal plays Billy Ray Lancing a former government agent now living in Alaska who has been sending money through an overseas foster programme to an orphan in Eastern Europe When the letters stop coming he wonders why & embarks on a journey to Europe to discover what has happened to his young penfriend What he finds is a human smuggling operation masquerading as an orphanage run by crook Faisal (Matt Schulze) & funded by well-intentioned Samaritans ...

Stephen Leather's BESTSELLING breakthrough thriller previously published as THE CHINAMANNow a major motion picture starring Pierce Brosnan & Jackie Chan He understood death Jungle-skilled silent & lethal he had killed for the Viet Cong & then for the Americans He had watched helpless when his two eldest daughters had been raped & killed by Thai pirates Now all that was behind him Quiet hard-working & unassuming he was building up his South London take-away business Until the day his wife & youngest daughter were destroyed by an IRA bomb in a Knightsbridge department store Then simply but persistently he began to ask the authorities who were the men responsible what was being done & was turned away fobbed off treated as a nuisance Which was when denied justice he decided on revenge & went back to war ...

The Forensic Psychologist's Reporting Writing Guide is the first book to provide both student trainees & practitioners with best practice guidance for one of the core skills of their role Written & edited by an international range of experts from the UK North America & Australasia it provides clear advice on a range of assessments from psychometric tests to personality functioning &

Includes:: real-life examples to illustrate key points Uniquely the book also offers guidance on the range of different client groups that forensic psychologists work with across both civil & legal contexts including juveniles female clients couples & those with cognitive impairments From core principles to writing style to key issues each chapter also

Includes:: a checklist of advice & further reading Comprehensive & practical The Forensic Psychologist's Reporting Writing Guide is a user-friendly companion to this critical & often overlooked skill & will be essential reading for both neophyte & experienced forensic psychologists alike



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On ancient port world planet Kuxortal young Simsa grows up among garbage pickers who live upon the ancient ruins of a fallen galactic civilization
- the Forerunners But Simsa has always been different Her skin is iridescent blue-black & she shares a telepathic bond with an alien pet a bat-like zorsal like no other When Simsa mentor dies she must scrape a poor existence from an unyielding planet But then Thom a star ranger arrives from the heavens leading Simsa on a path to the discovery of her origins that takes both through danger to the ultimate revelation The truth may lie below in the ancient high tech Forerunner ruins where Simsa was first discovered as a infant but these cavernous mazes are far from quiet & dead
- & what Simsa discovers there will change her life & perhaps galactic civilization itself forever! Introducing two Andre Norton Forerunner novels
- Forerunner & Forerunner The Second Venture
- featuring young Forerunnerhuman hybrid Simsa collected for the first time in one volume!



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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Supernatural horror
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The second book in the brilliant Knights of the Borrowed Dark trilogy perfect for fans of Skulduggery Pleasant Life is returning to normal for Denizen Hardwick Well the new normal where he has to battle monsters in quiet Dublin bookshops & constantly struggle to contain the new powers he has been given by Mercy the daughter of the Endless King But Denizen may need those powers sooner than he thinks
- not only are the Tenebrous stirring again but the Order of the Borrowed Dark face a new threat from much closer to home
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Introduing the exciting debut of a steampunk masterpiece from the legendary game author & creator of the staple steampunk role playing game Space 1889! London 1888 His Majesty airships troll the sky powered by antigrav liftwood as a cabal of Iron Lords tightens its hold on a Britain choked by the fumes of industry Mars has been colonized & clockwork assassins stalk the European corridors of power & somewhere far to the east the Old Man of the Mountains plots the end of the world with his Forever Engine Enter Jack Fargo Scholar Former special forces operator in Afghanistan A man from our own near future thrust back in time
- or to wherever it is that this Brave Victorian World actually exists Aided only by an elderly Scottish physicist a young British officer of questionable courage & a beautiful but mysterious spy for the French Commune Fargo is a man on a mission save the future from irrevocable destruction when the Forever Engine is brought to full power & blows this universe & our own to smithereens!
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'A delight from start to finish' Jill Mansell Hunter's Moon is the ultimate 'forever' house Nestled by a river in the Peasebrook valley it has been the Willoughbys' home for over fifty years & now estate agent Belinda Baxter is determined to find the perfect family to live there But the sale of the house unlocks decades of family secrets
- & brings Belinda face to face with her own troubled past ' Truly blissful escapism
- I loved it' Lucy Diamond A gorgeous escapist read for anyone needing a hug in a book
- pick up The Forever House now!


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Set in a vividly realised world of elite Alphas & their weaker' Omega twins it holds a mirror up to our obsession with perfection' Guardian Paloma's arrival with news of Elsewhere & the possibility of a world free of the fatal bond between twins has given Cass & the resistance a hope worth fighting for But they are facing a Council more powerful & ruthless than Cass could ever have imagined willing to unleash weapons from the long-buried past to maintain their power over Alphas & Omegas alike As the stunning Fire Sermon trilogy comes to a close a struggle has begun not only for the future of Elsewhere but for the future of the whole world & what started with fire may end with fire ...