Offers a theory-driven approach to understanding human development from two perspectives
- the psychoanalytic & the cognitive.
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A master killer calling himself the Sandman is out for revenge in the USA. He's slaughtering not just one person but whole families & complete neighbourhoods, unleashing devastating explosions nationwide, & watching the horror unfold on a sophisticated network of surveillance cameras. No one know why he is committing his crimes. But Jack Casey
- ex-FBI profiler & now cop in a posh Boston suburb
- knows this: the Sandman wants him in the middle of the case, & wants him to suffer...even more than when a psychopath's unspeakable crime shattered his own life. Jack's lover knows nothing of his shocking past, but the Sandman has found him & his cutting-edge electronic devices are silently monitoring Jack's every move. Possible motivations for the Sandman's crimes come gradually to light, & Jack begins to wonder if the evil he is fighting emanated from his own side of the law... This book has 498 pages & is 19.7cm x 13cm x 3.2cm

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The Devil was a commanding figure in Tudor & Stuart Engl&. He played a leading role in the religious & political conflicts of the age, & inspired great works of poetry & drama. This book traces the idea of the Devil from the English Reformation to the scientific revolution of the late seventeenth century. ...

Gangster Stephen French invented the perfect crime: robbing drug barons of their huge fortunes. In SAS-style swoops, French raided their fortified mansions & tortured them with horrifying violence until they paid up. This work also reveals French's complex relationship with Curtis Warren, the wealthiest criminal in British history. ...

An underground chamber is exposed in a seedy, dilapidated house. In the dark cellar, a ritualistic display is revealed: a human skull rests on a cauldron, surrounded by slain chickens & bizarre figurines. Called to the scene is forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan. She determines that the skull is that of a young, black female. ...

Many will have heard of the ghostly white lady haunting Tavistock
- the notorious Mary Howard, accused of murdering her four husbands.
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As the First World War reaches its final year, an illicit love affair is beginning between a sixteen-year-old boy & a young woman married to a soldier at the front. They meet secretly in her flat on the outskirts of Paris, in cornfields & on river banks. When she receives letters from her husb&, they burn them together. ...

This is the story of the men & women whose lives were irrevocably changed by the Chicago World Fair, & of two men in particular: an architect & a serial killer. Spicing the narrative are the stories of a cast of historical characters including Buffalo Bill, Scott Joplin & Theodore Dreiser. ...

Athol Visser, or ' Ivan the Terrible', is a ruthless torture technician who has maimed & murdered his way around the globe. He killed his first victim at 16, his last at 60, &, in between, has been a mercenary, drug smuggler, gun runner & spy. This title offers the story of a degenerate, evil man who killed for pleasure. ...

Details: Devil May Care is a masterful continuation of the James Bond legacy?an electrifying new chapter in the life of
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