Political corruption, capitalist greed & past injustices are all revealed when Inspector Chen investigates a serial killer in Shanghai. An early morning jogger found her. Clad in nothing but a red mandarin dress, she had been dumped, barely concealed, on a traffic isl&. The death of a dancing girl was unpleasant but this was particularly unusual in that she had been left openly in the centre of town. She had probably angered one of the Mr Big Bucks that were taking over & transforming Shanghai. Inspector Chen is an intuitive investigator, a talented poet & an honourable man on the edge of a nervous breakdown. Desperate to find a way to release himself from the perilous police career that had been chosen for him, he takes time off to begin an MA in Literature. Then another girl is found dead. With a serial killer on the loose. Chen is pulled back to work & into his most dangerous assignment yet. ...

Town centre street plans of popular cities from Red Map presented in a handy concertina format & printed on high quality paper. Clear, easy to read mapping highlights tourist sights, museums & galleries, selected hotels, shopping areas, etc, all colour-coded for easy reference. Metro & railway stations are prominently marked. Each title

Includes:: thematic lists of sights & important buildings, hotels, etc. A special panel provides area-by-area recommendations of shops. A brief index lists a selection of neighbourhoods & streets/squares, & metro/rail stations.

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This is what Eland is always looking out for
- a scholar letting his hair down. Frustrated by the limitations of his professional
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On 4 October 1957, at the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union secretly launched Sputnik, Earth`s first artificial moon. Powered by a car battery, it passed over the stunned American continent once every 101 minutes & propelled the USSR from backward state to superpower & pioneer of the Space Age. This is the pulse-racing story of a time when two nations & ideologies were pitted against each other in a quest that laid the foundations of the modern technological world. ...

So much begins on the banks of the Nile: all religion, all life, all stories, the script we write in, the language we speak, the gods, the legends & the names of stars. This mighty river that flows through a quarter of all Africa has been history's greatest & most sustained creator. In this dazzling, idiosyncratic journey from ancient times to the Arab Spring, Robert Twigger weaves a Nile narrative like no other. Along the way we meet crocodiles & caliphs, nineteenth-century adventurers & twentieth-century novelists, biblical prophets & classical lovers, dam-builders & crusaders. As he navigates a meandering course through the history of the world's greatest river, he plucks the most intriguing, colourful & dramatic stories
- truly a Nile red in tooth & claw. The result is both an epic journey through the whole sweep of human (and pre-human) history, & an intimate biography of the curious life of this great river, overflowing with stories of excess, love, passion, splendour & violence.
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November 2009. An emaciated young lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, is led to a freezing isolation cell in a Moscow prison, handcuffed to a bed rail, & beaten to death by eight police officers. His crime? To testify against the Russian Interior Ministry officials who were involved in a conspiracy to steal $230 million of taxes paid to the state by one of the world`s most successful hedge funds. Magnitsky`s brutal killing has remained uninvestigated & unpunished to this day. His farcical posthumous show-trial brought Putin`s regime to a new low in the eyes of the international community. Red Notice is a searing expose of the wholesale whitewash by Russian authorities of Magnitsky`s imprisonment & murder, slicing deep into the shadowy heart of the Kremlin to uncover its sordid truths. Bill Browder
- the hedge fund manager who employed Magnitsky
- takes us on his explosive journey from the heady world of finance in New York & London in the 1990s, through his battles with ruthless oligarchs in the turbulent landscape of post-Soviet Union Moscow, to his expulsion from Russia on Putin`s orders. Browder`s graphic portrait of the Russian government as a criminal enterprise wielding all the power of a sovereign state illuminates his personal transformation from financier to human rights activist, campaigning for justice for his late lawyer & friend. With fraud, bribery, corruption & torture exposed at every turn, Red Notice is a shocking but true political roller-coaster that plays out in the highest echelons of Western power.

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We’ve used three signal flag designs on oar paddles to make attractive, sturdy coat racks. made from wood, this oar coat rack features a French finish of red & brown. Four wood knobs for hanging coats & packs. Perfect for lil’ captains to hang their cap. Overall, this coat rack is a timeless addition that is sure to give the room a rustic, nautical feel. If we do not have this item in stock we will order it for you from our supplier. Delivery generally takes 3 weeks within the UK. For overseas delivery queries please email sales@stanfords.co.uk ...

The Soviet Union was founded on a fairytale. It was built on 20th-century magic called `the planned economy`, which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the penny-pinching lands of capitalism could never match. & just for a little while, in the heady years of the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working. ” Red Plenty” is about that moment in history, & how it came, & how it went away; about the brief era when, under the rash leadership of Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Union looked forward to a future of rich communists & envious capitalists, when Moscow would out-glitter Manhattan, every Lada would be better engineered than a Porsche & sputniks would lead the way to the stars. & it`s about the scientists who did their genuinely brilliant best to make the dream come true, to give the tyranny its happy ending. ...

Red Riding Hood Pop-Up Book is an intricate, stylised gift version of the Brothers Grimm classic, designed by Louise Rowe. Tango books have produced a fresh & original retelling of the Red Riding Hood fairytale with beautiful sepia illustrations & atmospheric pop-ups. ...

Red Rock & Worthington Lakes in 1908 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers the area east of Standish, including Worthington Lakes. Features include Arley Reservoir, Worthington Reservoir, Wigan Golf Course, Arley Hall, Worthington Hall, Lancashire Union Line with Red Rock station, Kilhey Court, Water Works, Adlington Reservoir, Hollins Head Farm, William Pit, mineral railway, etc. An 1897 timetable for the Wigan-Blackburn line is on the reverse. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...