' One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILDAs Berlin prepares for the 1936 Olympic Games Bernie is caught between violently opposing factions in a story that comes full circle in 1950s' Cuba Berlin 1934 The Nazis have been in power for just eighteen months but already Germany has seen some frightening changes As the city prepares to host the 1936 Olympics Jews are being expelled from all German sporting organisations
- a blatant example of discrimination Forced to resign as a homicide detective with Berlin's Criminal Police Bernie is now house detective at the famous Adlon Hotel Two bodies are found
- one a businessman & the other a Jewish boxer As Bernie digs to unearth the truth he discovers a vast labour & construction racket designed to take advantage of the huge sums the Nazis are spending to showcase the new Germany to the world It is a plot that finds its dramatic & violent conclusion twenty years later in pre-revolutionary Cuba

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A study of the human organs their 'character' & how we can optimise our health 170 pages Koob Olaf ...

Beautiful real & devastating' Sarah J Maas A moving story of grief friendship & unforgettable love that fans of Sara Bernard & Nicola Yoon will love from international YA bestselling author Jennifer Armentrout Lena has always felt immortal But one night can change everything Lena & Sebastian have been close for as long as anyone can remember Best friends even But secretly Lena has been wanting something more-Sebastian could be more than a friend if only Lena could figure out how to convince him that they could & should be together But in a single night after a single party everything changes & suddenly Lena isn't thinking about her relationship with Sebastian at all ...

The trial of Angela Davis is remembered as one of America's most historic political trials & no one can tell the story better than Davis herself Opening with a letter from James Baldwin to Angela & including contributions from numerous radicals & commentators such as Black Panthers George Jackson Huey P Newton Bobby Seale & Erica Huggins this book is not only an account of Davis's incarceration & the struggles surrounding it but also perhaps the most comprehensive & thorough analysis of the prison system of the United States & the figure embodied in Davis's arrest & imprisonment-the political prisoner Since the book was written the carceral system in the US has grown from strength to strength with more of its black population behind bars than ever before The scathing analysis of the role of prison & the policing of black populations offered by Davis & her comrades in this astonishing volume remains as relevant today as the day it was published ...

Science fiction tales some humorous & some not-so-funny about the downside of the future—and how to deal with a universe ruled by Murphy&s Law!

Includes:: stories by Robert A Heinlein Sarah A Hoyt Fritz Leiber Gordon R Dickson Lester del Rey Christopher Anvil Fredric Brown & more WHAT COULD GO WRONG ? Progress! It’s wonderful—though it sometimes has unexpected & undesirable side effects Read the long warning list of possible side effects on a medicine bottle’s label sometime the part in really tiny print But surely the benefits of modern technology outweigh the drawbacks Until they don’t Remember how increasingly deadly weapons from the machine gun to the H-bomb were supposed to make war too horrific to even be contemplated? Didn’t happen The cell phone has made it possible to phone from almost anywhere—too bad if you wanted to be out of reach & civilization is so big & complicated that a breakdown of any part can have disastrous consequences Modern transportation makes it possible to get anywhere in a hurry though traffic jams & overextended airports may slow the hurry part to a crawl & it also can ensure that a new disease can go all over the planet in a few days Then there’s the sheer complexity of society itself from interminable waits at the DMV to trying to get tech help on the phone (“ Your call is important to us ”) & that’s just the present day What new technologies new ways of organizing (or disorganizing) society new confused & confusing government bureaucracies new ways for small disgruntled groups to wreak havoc & worse will the future bring? Will privacy keep eroding? Could computers & robots take over? Maybe they wouldn’t want to & if the pace of modern life is driving you batty just wait to see what’s on the horizon Exploring such scary yet fascinating possibilities are such masters of science fiction as Robert A Heinlein Sarah A Hoyt Fritz Leiber Gordon R Dickson Lester del Rey Christopher Anvil Fredric Brown & more writers who have seen the future—and it may not work

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Winner of the Longman-History Today Book Prize 2016 On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 800 women
- housewives doctors
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Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did Samuel Pepys never give his mistresses an orgasm? Why did medieval people sleep sitting up? When were the two 'dirty centuries'? Why did gas lighting cause Victorian ladies to faint? Why for centuries did people fear fruit? All these questions
- & more
- are answered in this juicy truly intimate history of the home Through the bedroom bathroom living room & kitchen Lucy Worsley explores what people actually did in bed in the bath at the table & at the stove From sauce-stirring to breast-feeding teeth-cleaning to masturbation getting dressed to getting married this book will make you see your home with new eyes

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As a young actor studying at an elite conservatory Oliver felt doomed to always be in his friends' shadows But when a surprise casting turns a good-natured rivalry between two of them into something dangerous their stage roles spill over into real life ...

Young Tizra & her twin brother Tracell find their world abruptly changed when their father is unexpectedly called to fight in a war which promises to last much longer than the usual three-day skirmish Their mother
- the village healer
- enlists her children to assist her in caring for the many refugees left wounded & homeless by the conflict Inspired by her mother Tizra learns never to surrender hope even in a time of fear & uncertainty

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Seventeen-year-old Sahar has been in love with her best friend Nasrin since they were six They've shared stolen kisses & romantic promises But Iran is a dangerous place for two girls in love--Sahar & Nasrin could be beaten imprisoned even executed if their relationship came to light So they carry on in secret--until Nasrin's parents announce that they've arranged for her marriage Nasrin tries to persuade Sahar that they can go on as they had before only now with new comforts provided by the decent well-to-do doctor Nasrin will marry But Sahar dreams of loving Nasrin exclusively--and openly Then Sahar discovers what seems like the perfect solution In Iran homosexuality may be a crime but to be a man trapped in a woman's body is seen as nature's mistake & sex reassignment is legal & accessible As a man Sahar could be the one to marry Nasrin Sahar will never be able to love the one she wants in the body she wants to be loved in without risking her life Is saving her love worth sacrificing her true self? ...