Three book editors jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic & the occult are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel to have some fun They start feeding random bits of information into a powerful computer capable of inventing connections between the entries thinking they are creating nothing more than an amusing game but then their game starts to take over the deaths start mounting & they are forced into a frantic search for the truth ...

Foucault is one of those rare philosophers who has become a cult figure Born in 1926 in France over the course of his life he dabbled in drugs politics & the Paris SM scene all whilst striving to understand the deep concepts of identity knowledge & power From aesthetics to the penal system; from madness & civilisation to avant-garde literature Foucault was happy to reject old models of thinking & replace them with versions that are still widely debated today A major influence on Queer Theory & gender studies (he was openly gay & died of an AIDS-related illness in 1984) he also wrote on architecture history law medicine literature politics & of course philosophy & even managed a best-seller in France on a book dedicated to the history of systems of thought Because of the complexity of his arguments people trying to come to terms with his work have desperately sought introductory material that makes his theories clear & accessible for the beginner Ideally suited for the Very Short Introductions series Gary Gutting presents a comprehensive but non-systematic treatment of some highlights of Foucault's life & thought Beginning with a brief biography to set the social & political stage he then tackles Foucault's thoughts on literature in particular the avant-garde scene; his philosophical & historical work; his treatment of knowledge & power in modern society; & his thoughts on sexuality 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 ...

Foul Play the second book in this crime fighting series by Tom Palmer Danny is obsessed with two things football
- especially City
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Russian billionaire Dmitri Tupolev & a mystery Englishman agree to fix an important match in Russia's favour by intimidating the England goalie Alex Finn But Alex goes against their wishes His punishment an 'accidental' car crash & he's out of the return game in Russia Something is going on with England's replacement goalie & Danny soon finds himself caught up with the criminals of the footballing underworld Will he unravel the match-fixing mystery? ...

In recent months there has been a spate of burglaries at the houses of players from Danny's favourite football club City FC Danny wants to know who's behind it all & is on the case But after scouting out the crime scenes there are newspaper reports of a young boy having been seen hanging around Danny needs to find out who's behind these crimes
- & fast If he doesn't he might have turned from crime detective into the biggest suspect of them all
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Meet Danny Harte Football fan & crime detective Danny loves supporting his local team City FC So when everyone starts supporting the Italian team Forza FC Danny is angry His club is in jeopardy & needs their support Danny decides to investigate the sudden popularity of the new team
- starting with Forza's billionaire owner
- & that's when the danger really kicks off Can Danny uncover the sinister reasons behind Forza's success
- & save City at the same time?


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In this haunting memoir Alison Gold gives a luminous account of key moments in her life that brought her to be the writer she is They tell of her early activism; they tell of her descent into alcoholism; they tell of her recovery; they tell of her discovery of the power of writing to give a shape & meaning to a life Found & Lost is both a tender memorial to the extraordinary people in her life & a compelling tale of redemption Starting with her childhood experience of running her primary school ' Lost & Found' depot Gold develops though a series of letters a meditation on ageing friendship loss & the forces that link us to the dead In the very act of writing she begins to find a route out of depression & grief Alison Leslie Gold is best known for her works that have kept alive stories from the time of the Holocaust stories of courage & survival
- most famously her Anne Frank Remembered co-authored with Miep Gies (who risked her life to protect the Frank family) She has never chosen to write about her own life or what made her into a gatherer of other people's stories until now in Found & Lost For she has chosen to go back to her childhood in order to chart the origin of her need to save objects stories people
- including herself
- who she has sensed to be on a road to perdition


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One of the first Russian writers to make a name for herself on the Internet Linor Goralik writes conversational short works that conjure the absurd in all its forms reflecting post-Soviet life & daily universals Her mastery of the minimal including a wide range of experiments in different forms of micro-prose is on full display in this collection of poems stories comics a play & an interview here translated for the first time In Found Life speech condensed to the extreme captures a vivid picture of fleeting interactions in a quickly moving world Goralik's works evoke an unconventional palette of moods & atmospheres-slight doubt subtle sadness vague unease-through accumulation of unexpected details & command over colloquial language While calling up a range of voices her works are marked by a distinct voice simultaneously slightly naive & deeply ironic She is a keen observer of the female condition recounting gendered tribulations with awareness & amusement From spiritual rabbits & biblical zoos to poems about loss & comics about poetry Goralik's colorful language & pervasive dark comedy capture the heights of absurdity & depths of grief ...

What's the first Roman object you can think of? Hadrian's Wall? Did you know that thousands more stone metal pottery & wooden objects have been found from this time in human history? All of these objects can tell us a lot about the Romans We know about the animals they farmed the the tools & weapons they used & we know about their everyday life & culture from the remains of the homes they lived in All over Britain Roman artefacts have been Found! Uncover the stories of thirteen incredible finds what they can tell us about life back then & how they might relate to your life today Found! is a series of six books that span British archaeological finds from the Stone Bronze & Iron Ages Roman Britain the Viking Age & the Anglo Saxons Ideal for readers aged 9 studying history topics at Key Stage 2 ...

The first volume in Issac Asimov's world-famous saga winner of the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Novel Series Long after Earth was forgotten a peaceful & unified galaxy took shape an Empire governed from the majestic city-planet of Trantor The system worked & grew for countless generations Everyone believed it would work forever Everyone except Hari Seldon As the great scienctific thinker of his age Seldon could not be ignored Reluctantly the Commission of Public Safety agreed to finance the Seldon Plan The coming disaster was predicted by Seldon's advances in psychohistory the mathematics of very large human numbers & it could not be averted The Empire was doomed Soon Trantor would lie in ruins Chaos would overtake humanity But the Seldon Plan was a long term strategy to minimize the worst of what was to come Two Foundations were set up at opposite ends of the galaxy Of the Second nothing can be told It guards the secrets of psychohisotry FOUNDATION is the story of the First Foundation on the remote planet of Terminus from which those secrets were withheld ...