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 ...

A hilarious fantasy adventure set in modern day London An exciting subterranean London adventure the first in a middle-grade trilogy Hyacinth Hayward has recently arrived from America & is having difficulty adjusting to her new surroundings especially being in the sole company of her eccentric mother Everything feels strange Very strange & it gets stranger the day she accidentally unleashes the power of a secret river running through London To prevent a second Great Fire Hyacinth needs to retrieve a single magically charged drop of water from somewhere in the city sewer system Along the way she encounters an eclectic cast of characters
- the shambling monstrous Saltpetre Men who kidnap her mother the Toshers who battle for control of magical artefacts & a giant pig with whom she has a tea party The clock is ticking
- will she figure out who to trust?

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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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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 ...

Leave 21st century London & go back to Ice Age Europe Follow Ayla a Cro-Magnon child who loses her parents in an earthquake & is adopted by a tribe of Neanderthal the Clan See how the Clan's wary suspicion is gradually transformed into acceptance of this girl so different from them under the guidance of its medicine woman Iza & its wise holy man Creb Immerse yourself in a world dictated by the demands of survival in a hostile environment & be swept away in an epic tale of love identity & struggle ...

Tracklist Don't Hang From My Ceiling Thank You Mr Jackpots (So Long) Harry Dean One For The Fossa Two For The Wolverine Wrong Church ...