A Diabolic is ruthless A Diabolic is powerful A Diabolic has a single task Kill in order to protect the person you've been created for Nemesis is a Diabolic a humanoid teenager created to protect a galactic senator's daughter Sidonia The two have grown up side by side but are in no way sisters Nemesis is expected to give her life for Sidonia & she would do so gladly She would also take as many lives as necessary to keep Sidonia safe When the power-mad Emperor learns Sidonia's father is participating in a rebellion he summons Sidonia to the Galactic court She is to serve as a hostage Now there is only one way for Nemesis to protect Sidonia She must become her Nemesis travels to the court disguised as Sidonia
- a killing machine masquerading in a world of corrupt politicians & two-faced senators' children It's a nest of vipers with threats on every side but Nemesis must keep her true abilities a secret or risk everything As the Empire begins to fracture & rebellion looms closer Nemesis learns there is something more to her than just deadly force She finds a humanity inside her that is true & pure
- more so than that of most humans she encounters Amidst all the danger action & intrigue her humanity just might be the thing that saves her life
- & the empire


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In The Dialectic of Duration Gaston Bachelard addresses the nature of time in response to the writings of his great contemporary Henri Bergson For Bachelard experienced time is irreducibly fractured & interrupted as indeed are material events At stake is an entire conce 162 pages Bachelard Gaston ...

A series of conversations about science in graphic form on subjects that range from the science of cooking to the multiverse Physicist Clifford Johnson thinks that we should have more conversations about science Science should be on our daily conversation menu along with topics like politics books sports or the latest prestige cable drama Conversations about science he tells us shouldn't be left to the experts In The Dialogues Johnson invites us to eavesdrop on a series of nine conversations in graphic-novel form -- written & drawn by Johnson -- about "the nature of the universe" The conversations take place all over the world in museums on trains in restaurants in what may or may not be Freud's favorite coffeehouse The conversationalists are men women children experts & amateur science buffs The topics of their conversations range from the science of cooking to the multiverse & string theory The graphic form is especially suited for physics; one drawing can show what it would take many words to explain In the first conversation a couple meets at a costume party; they speculate about a scientist with superhero powers who doesn't use them to fight crime but to do more science & they discuss what it means to have a "beautiful equation" in science Their conversation spills into another chapter (" Hold on you haven't told me about light yet") & in a third chapter they exchange phone numbers Another couple meets on a train & discusses immortality time black holes & religion A brother & sister experiment with a grain of rice Two women sit in a sunny courtyard & discuss the multiverse quantum gravity & the anthropic principle After reading these conversations we are ready to start our own ...

A new look for cult author Stephenson's unstoppable sci-fi classic The future is small The future is nano & who could be smaller or more insignificant than poor Little Nell
- an orphan girl alone & adrift in a world of Confucian Law Neo-Victorian values & warring nano-technology? Well not quite alone Because Nell has a friend of sorts A guide a teacher an armed & unarmed combat instructor a book & a computer the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is all these & much much more It is illicit magical dangerous And it isn't Nell's It was stolen & now some very powerful people want to get their hands on this highly desirable object Nell is about to discover that the world can feel very small indeed Neal Stephenson is the author of the three-volume historical epic ' The Baroque Cycle' (Quicksilver The Confusion & The System of the World) as well as the novels Cryptonomicon The Diamond Age (winner of a Hugo Award) Snow Crash Zodiac Anathem & Reamde He lives in Seattle Washington
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With an Introduction & Notes by Stuart Hutchinson University of Kent at Canterbury The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is an ominous fable about the pursuit of great wealth Readers will be transported to a fabulous fantasy land of such opulence that its very existence has to remain a jealously guarded secret Fatal consequences lie in store for 'bona fide' guests & uninvited visitors alike while the sybaritic luxury of the place is evoked in an effortless prose style which is quintessentially F Scott Fitzgerald Also featured in this volume are The Cut-Glass Bowl May Day The Rich Boy Crazy Sunday An Alcoholic Case The Lees of Happiness The Lost Decade & Babylon Revisited ...

A hilarious story about the world's worst detectives by the bestelling author of the Alex Rider series Anthony Horowitz Meet the Diamond Brothers the world's most defective detectives by the author of the number one bestselling Alex Rider series Tim is broke So when a mysterious stranger offers him a wad of money for his overcoat it seems like a stroke of good fortune But there are worse things than being broke Being shot for one
- which is what happens to the stranger & could soon be the fate of the Diamond Brothers
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Two Diamond Brothers cases in one sparkling volume by the author of the number one bestselling Alex Rider series Meet the Diamond Brothers the world's worst private-detective agency in this Chandler-esque spoof by Anthony Horowitz creator of the bestselling Alex Rider series Tim Diamond is the world's worst private detective but unfortunately for his younger brother Nick the cases keep coming in First a man runover by a steamroller & then a remote Scottish island where the guests are dying Can Nick & Tim find the murderers before it's too late? ...

A hilarious story about the world's worst detectives by the bestselling author of the Alex Rider series Anthony Horowitz Meet the Diamond Brothers the world's most defective detectives by the author of the number one bestselling Alex Rider series When a dwarf comes into the office & leaves a package Tim Diamond the world's worst private-detective is faced with his toughest case yet The office is ransacked & the package is found to contain simply a box of Maltesers Who was the dwarf & why was he murdered shortly after his visit? ...

Two hilarious Diamond Brothers investigations in one volume by the number one bestselling author of the Alex Rider series Anthony Horowitz Meet the Diamond Brothers the world's worst private-detective agency in this Chandler-esque spoof from the creator of the bestselling Alex Rider series Life as the younger brother of the world's most defective detective can be tough
- & these two adventures will test Nick to the full What connects them? Murder! & if the Diamond Brothers don't play their cards right they could be next
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Dixie is the youngest Diamond girl She & her sisters
- dreamy Martine glamorous Rochelle & tough Jude
- could hardly be more

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