Scarlet & Ivy's school trip takes a turn for the worse as another mystery begins to unfold The fourth book in the SCARLET & IVY series is perfect for fans of MURDER MOST UNLADYLIKE It's summer & as a special treat after the horrors of last term Mrs Knight announces a school trip to Shady Pines Hotel on the shores of Lake Seren Scarlet & Ivy are thrilled to get away from Rookwood for a break! But the old hotel & the waters of the lake reservoir are covering up dark secrets & when mysterious things start happening to hotel guests it seems that a malicious new threat is haunting the girls Locals say that at night you can hear the ringing of the church bells & see lights under the lake that troubled souls buried in the flooded graveyard no longer rest ...

The Like Switch is packed with all the tools you need for turning strangers into friends whether you are on a sales call a first date or a job interview As a Special Agent for the FBI's National Security Division's Behavioural Analysis Program Dr Jack Schafer developed dynamic & breakthrough strategies for profiling terrorists & detecting deception Now Dr Schafer has evolved his proven-on-the-battlefield tactics for the day-to-day but no less critical battle of getting people to like you In The Like Switch he presents these techniques for how you can influence attract & win people over Learn how to think & react like your favourite TV investigators from Criminal Mindsor CSIas Dr Schafer shows you how toimprove your LQ (Likeability"ient) spot the lie both in person & online master nonverbal cues that influence how people perceive you & turn up or turn down the intensity of a relationship Dr Schafer cracks the code on making great first impressions building lasting relationships & understanding others' behaviour to learn what they really think about you With tips & techniques that hold the key to taking control of your communications interactions & relationships The Like Switchshows you how to read others & get people to like you for a moment or a lifetime ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The collected surviving episodes of the classic British sitcom starring Rodney Bewes & James Bolam as working class northern lads Bob & Terry While Bob is trying to better his life Terry is content to live it to the full pursuing the ladies & supporting the local team The set

Includes:: all eight surviving episodes from the 1960s series & The Likely Lads& plus the 26 episodes from the two series of & Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads& from 19734 & the 1974 Christmas special

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Still traumatised by her brush with a psychopath Detective Cassie Maddox transfers out of the Murder squad & starts a relationship with fellow detective Sam O' Neill When he calls her to the scene of his new case she is shocked to find that the murdered girl is her double What's more her ID shows she is Lexie Madison
- the identity Cassie used years ago as an undercover detective With no leads no suspects & no clues to Lexie's real identity Cassie's old boss spots the opportunity of a lifetime send Cassie undercover in her place to tempt the killer out of hiding to finish the job
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An original graphic novel where newly dead people in Limbo await their fate at a bar while surrounded by bored interlopers from hell This trippy surreal full-color adventure brings us from the hot swirling sands of hell to the colorfully bizarre “ Limbo Lounge” filled with the recently deceased as well as bored oddball interlopers from hell Meet flower-headed freaks Bud & Lou Root for their new friend a spry elderly nun Sister Eunice as she works remotely in Limbo continuing to rid earth of despicable dirtbags & by all means avoid the knife-wielding little pageant-princess-gone-bad as she plots for anything she can get at anyone’s expense About the Author Artist Dave Calver&s rich evocative surreal work has been featured in Vanity Fair Rolling Stone Playboy & The New York Times Other clients include the New York Rangers Random House & United Airlines Taschen recently chose him as one of their favorite 100 illustrators in the world! In the Huffington Post’s review of Taschen’s “100 Illustrators” they singled out Dave as their 1 top favorite The Limbo Lounge is Dave&s first graphic novel ...

Why must critics unmask & demystify literary works? Why do they believe that language is always withholding some truth that the critic's task is to reveal the unsaid or repressed? In this book Rita Felski examines critique the dominant form of interpretation in literary studies & situates it as but one method among many a method with strong allure-but also definite limits Felski argues that critique is a sensibility best captured by Paul Ricoeur's phrase the hermeneutics of suspicion She shows how this suspicion toward texts forecloses many potential readings while providing no guarantee of rigorous or radical thought Instead she suggests literary scholars should try what she calls postcritical reading rather than looking behind a text for hidden causes & motives literary scholars should place themselves in front of it & reflect on what it suggests & makes possible By bringing critique down to earth & exploring new modes of interpretation The Limits of Critique offers a fresh approach to the relationship between artistic works & the social world ...

Brilliantexplains how the rhetoric of competition has invaded almost every domain of our existence-Evgeny Morozov author of To Save Everything Click Here In this fascinating book Davies inverts the conventional neoliberal practice of treating politics as if it were mere epiphenomenon of market theory demonstrating that their version of economics is far better understood as the pursuit of politics by other means-Professor Philip Mirowski University of Notre Dame A sparkling original & provocative analysis of neoliberalism It offers a distinctive account of the diverse sometimes contradictory conventions & justifications that lend authority to the extension of the spirit of competitiveness to all spheres of social life This book breaks new ground offers new modes of critique & points to post-neoliberal futures-Professor Bob Jessop University of Lancaster Since its intellectual inception in the 1930s & its political emergence in the 1970s neo-liberalism has sought to disenchant politics by replacing it with economics This agenda-setting text examines the efforts & failures of economic experts to make government & public life amenable to measurement & to re-model society & state in terms of competition In particular it explores the practical use of economic techniques & conventions by policy-makers politicians regulators & judges & how these practices are being adapted to the perceived failings of the neoliberal model By picking apart the defining contradiction that arises from the conflation of economics & politics this book asks to what extent can economics provide government legitimacy? Now with a new preface from the author & a foreword by Aditya Chakrabortty ...

Mma Ramotswe & Mma Makutsi have always relied on the advice of the classic guide to their trade The Principles of Private Detection But who is the eminent author Mr Clovis Andersen & what if he were to come to Botswana? That seems a very unlikely possibility & yet When Mr Andersen visits Botswana on holiday he is delighted & intrigued to stumble across a roadside sign that reveals the existence of the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Professional courtesy suggests that he call & announce himself Meanwhile Mma Makutsi & Phuti Radiphuti are embarking on married life & building a new house
- a tricky business under any circumstances but especially hazardous when the name of the contractor is the Joy & Light Building Company
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A major motion picture starring Matthew Mc Conaughey There is no client as scary as an innocent man From the bestselling author of THE GODS OF GUILT & BRASS VERDICT comes the first in the Mickey Haller legal thrillers Mickey is a Lincoln Lawyer a criminal defence attorney who operates out of the back of his car a Lincoln taking whatever cases the system throws in his path He's been a defence lawyer for a long time & he knows just how to work the legal systems When a Beverly Hills rich boy is arrested for brutally beating a woman Haller has his first high-paying client in years The evidence mounts on the defence's side & Haller might even be in the rare position of defending a client who is actually innocent But then the case starts to fall apart neither the suspect nor the victim are quite who they seem
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Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-Ray player in order to play Mick Haller (Matthew Mc Conaughey) is a Los Angeles criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back of his Lincoln Towncar Having spent most of his career defending petty gutter-variety criminals he unexpectedly lands the case of a lifetime defending a rich Beverly Hills realtor (Ryan Phillippe) who is accused of attempted rape & murder However what appears in the beginning to be a straightforward case with a big money pay-off swiftly develops into a deadly match between two masters of manipulation in Lakeshore Entertainment&s The Lincoln Lawyer Actors Matthew Mc Conaughey Josh Lucas Marisa Tomei Ryan Phillippe John Leguizamo Michaela Conlin William H Macy Bryan Cranston Margarita Levieva Frances Fisher Katherine Moennig Michael Peña Shea Whigham Bob Gunton & Michael Pare Director Brad Furman Certificate 15 years & over Year 2011 Languages English ...