Clarke's masterful evocation of the far future of humanity considered his finest novel Men had built cities before but never such a city as Diaspar For millennia its protective dome shut out the creeping decay & danger of the world outside Once it held powers that rule the stars But then as legend has it the invaders came driving humanity into this last refuge It takes one man a Unique to break through Diaspar's stifling inertia to smash the legend & discover the true nature of the Invaders ...

In this twist-filled fantasy adventure set in the world of Take Back the Skies & The Almost King a young man must choose between two faces dangerous master of shadows or beloved of the future queen Noah is the finest mask-maker in all of Erova He is responsible & loyal & has won the heart & hand of the future queen Daniel is dangerous & daring Infamous He prowls the filthy rooftops of the maze-like lower city in search of secrets & crime Its people hungry & forgotten have come to need him Noah & Daniel are the same person & Daniel's life is beginning to tangle with Noah's ensnaring the people he loves in a complex web of deception & heartbreak that will become deadly unless Noah can decide once & for all who he really wants to be ...

Many hundreds of years ago the city of Ember was created by the Builders to contain everything needed for human survival It worked
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One of Irish Times' Best Crime Novels of 2017! Dublin September 1940 An IRA attempt to capture the British diplomatic bag on its way from Ireland to England leaves a Guard dead on the streets of Dublin Two days later a pitched battle between warring gangs erupts at one of Ireland's biggest race meetings In the Irish countryside the cremated bodies of a family of four are found in their burned-out house Connections between these events become clear to Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie when he is dispatched to investigate the four dead bodies
- or is he there to cover something up? He is soon treading on the toes of Ireland's burgeoning Intelligence industry
- Irish British & German all playing against each other all watching each other all plagued by rogue operators they can't control Meanwhile certainty grows that Hitler is about to invade England with Ireland in the firing line & then Stefan is asked to go to Berlin on a sensitive mission the Irish government doesn't want anyone to know about The journey will take him not only to Berlin & the heart of the war but to a murder that touches the city's small Irish community & opens a window on to the heart of Europe's darkness

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In life I was a scientist called Fanning Then in a jungle in Bolivia I died I died & then I was brought back to life Prompted by a voice that lives in her blood the fearsome warrior known as Alicia of Blades is drawn towards to one of the great cities of The Time Before The ruined city of New York Ruined but not empty For this is the final refuge of Zero the first & last of The Twelve The one who must be destroyed if mankind is to have a future What she finds is not what she's expecting A journey into the past To find out how it all began And an opponent at once deadlier & more human than she could ever have imagined ...

The sixth edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic & contemporary writings on the city to provide the comprehensive mapping of the terrain of Urban Studies & Planning old & new The City Reader is the anchor volume in the Routledge Urban Reader Series & is now integrated with all ten other titles in the series This edition has been extensively updated & expanded to reflect the latest thinking in each of the disciplinary areas included & in topical areas such as compact cities urban history place making sustainable urban development globalization cities & climate change the world city network the impact of technology on cities resilient cities cities in Africa & the Middle East & urban theory The new edition places greater emphasis on cities in the developing world globalization & the global city system of the future The plate sections have been revised & updated Sixty generous selections are included forty-four from the fifth edition & sixteen new selections including three newly written exclusively for The City Reader The sixth edition keeps classic writings by authors such as Ebenezer Howard Ernest W Burgess Le Corbusier Lewis Mumford Jane Jacobs & Louis Wirth as well as the best contemporary writings of among others Peter Hall Manuel Castells David Harvey Saskia Sassen & Kenneth Jackson In addition to newly commissioned selections by Yasser Elshestawy Peter Taylor & Lawrence Vale new selections in the sixth edition include writings by Aristotle Peter Calthorpe Alberto Camarillo Filip De Boech Edward Glaeser David Owen Henri Pirenne The Project for Public Spaces Jonas Rabinovich & Joseph Lietman Doug Saunders & Bish Sanyal The anthology features general & section introductions as well as individual introductions to the selected articles introducing the authors providing context relating the selection to other selection & providing a bibliography for further study The sixth edition

Includes:: fifty plates in four plate sections substantially revised from the fifth edition

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Cities are among the most enduring & remarkable of human artefacts This study explains how & why cities took the shape they did Professor Kostof focuses on a number of themes
- organic patterns the grid the city as diagram the grand manner & the skyline
- & interprets the hidden order of urban patterns Photographs historical views & specially commissioned drawings depict a global mosaic of citybuilding the shaping of medieval Siena; the creation of New Delhi as the crown of the Raj; the remodelling of Moscow as the self-styled capital of world socialism & the transformation of the skyline as religious & civic symbols yield to the towers of corporate business

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The civil rights movement was arguably the most important reform in American history This book recounts the extraordinary & often bloody story of how tens of thousands of ordinary African-Americans overcame long odds to dethrone segregation to exercise the right to vote & to improve their economic standing Organized in a clear chronological fashion the book shows how concerted pressure in a variety of forms ultimately carried the day in realizing a more just society for African- Americans It will provide students of American history with an invaluable comprehensive introduction to the Civil Rights Movement ...

Taken from Appian's Roman History the five books collected here form the sole surviving continuous historical narrative of the era between 133-35 BC
- a time of anarchy & instability for the Roman Empire A masterly account of a turbulent epoch they describe the Catiline conspiracy; the rise & fall of the First Triumvirate; the murder of Julius Caesar; the formation of the Second Triumvirate by Antonius Octavian & Lepidus; & brutal civil war A compelling depiction of the decline of the Roman state into brutality & violence The Civil Wars portrays political discontent selfishness & the struggle for power
- a struggle that was to culminate in a titanic battle for mastery over the Roman Empire & the defeat of Antony & Cleopatra by Octavian in 31 BC

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The Civilizing Process stands out as Norbert Elias' greatest work tracing the civilizing of manners & personality in Western Europe since the late Middle Ages by demonstrating how the formation of states & the monopolization of power within them changed Western society forever ...