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Glen Garber's life has just spiralled out of control. His wife's car is found at the scene of a drunk-driving accident that took three lives. Not only is she dead but it appears she was the cause of the accident. Suddenly Glen has to deal with a potent mixture of emotions: grief at the loss of his wife along with anger at her reckless behaviour that leaves their young daughter motherless. If only he could convince himself that Sheila wasn't responsible for the tragedy. But as more & more secrets begin to surface Glen may have to face something much much worse... ...

This pocket book is written primarily for doctors with little or no experience in the accident & emergency department & who are faced with the problem of radiologic interpretation when no other help is readily at h&. The book is liberally illustrated with high quality well-annotated radiographs which assist the reader in the interpretation of abnormal/normal radiographic appearances. The focus is on common areas of injury with the emphasis being placed on the detection of those abnormalities that are most commonly overlooked or misinterpreted. Each chapter deals with the basic radiographs required important anatomy normal variants a system for inspecting suggested views types of injury & ends with a summary of key points. ...

UK health & safety legislation states that all accidents that happen at work must be recorded. This book is designed for a Health & Safety Officer or a First Aid Officer to record all the critical details of any accident. An outline of employer & employee obligations is provided along with instructions on how to correctly complete the report pages. ...

Meet the Accident Man Samuel Carver. Carver is a good guy who makes bad things happen to bad people. Drug-baron's helicopter develops mechanical failure mid-flight: reason being Samuel Carver. Terrorist blown-up in his own bomb factory: again the reason being Samuel Carver. Ex-SAS now freelance mercenary he is the frontline weapon of the ' Consortium' a black-ops British government outfit or is it? Carver is called to do a hit at very short notice. Do this job for us & be paid very well. Refuse & you better run & hide. He believes the target to be a high-ranking Pakistani terrorist. The job is to organise a car crash in a Paris underpass. But Carver is being set up. When he discovers the real identity of his target & more importantly the identity of the target's female companion he knows one thing
- his life is over. This is a secret too big to let him live unless he can track down the real villains before they get to him. Combining the plotting of Robert Ludlum with the pace & tension of Frederick Forsyth Tom Cain is a major new thriller writer & The Accident Man" is a classic in the making & launches Samuel Carver straight into the top rank of action heroes."
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In life you never get what you deserve: you get what you negotiate… What would you do if out of the blue a billionaire industrialist decided to make you the CEO of his company? No prior business experience necessary. There is only one catch: you need to pass seven tests from the 'textbook of life'. This is the offer made to Sapna Sinha an ordinary salesgirl in an electronics boutique in downtown Delhi by Vinay Mohan Acharya one of India's richest men. Thus begins the most challenging journey of Sapna's life one that will test her character her courage & her capabilities. Along the way she encounters a host of memorable personalities from a vain Bollywood superstar to a kleptomaniac Gandhian. At stake is a business empire worth ten billion dollars & the future she has always dreamt of. But are the seven tests for real or is Acharya playing a deeper game one driven by a perverse fantasy? From the acclaimed author of Slumdog Millionaire one of the biggest films of the decade comes this compelling suspenseful tale of the power of dreams the lure of money & the universal need to know who we are. ...

Eduardo Saverin & Mark Zuckerberg
- an awkward maths prodigy & a painfully shy computer genius
- were never going to fit in

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The quality that makes Fo uniquely powerful.. .[is] the ability to wring wild laughter out of insidious corruption Guardian Simon Nyes witty translation updates & relocates the play.. .suitably close to contemporary Engl&. Fo is that rare thing a far-left playwright with a popular comic touch. & his stinging attack upon the black arts of government cover-up manipulation & mendacity could not be more timely Evening Standard In its first two years of production Dario Fos controversial farce Accidental Death of an Anarchist was seen by over half a million people. It has since been performed all over the world & is widely recognised as a classic of modern drama. A sharp & hilarious satire on political corruption it concerns the case of an anarchist railway worker who in 1969 fell to his death from a police headquarters window. This version of the play was premiered at the Donmar Warehouse London in February 2003. Commentary & notes by Joseph Farrell. ...

In its first two years of production in Italy Dario Fo's notorious Accidental Death of an Anarchist was seen by over half a million people. It has since been performed all over the world & become a classic of twentieth-century drama. A sharp & hilarious satire on police corruption it concerns the case of an anarchist railway worker who in 1969 'fell' to his death from a police headquarters window. 'I ought to warn you that the author of this sick little play Dario Fo has the traditional irrational hatred of the police common to all narrowminded left-wingers & so I shall no doubt be the unwilling butt of endless anti-authoritarian jibes.' (Inspector Bertozzo Central Italian Police HQ) 'A marvellous concept: a zany political farce.' (Michael Billington) This edition has been adapted by Gavin Richards from Gillian Hanna's translation & features an introduction by Stuart Hood & a preface by Dario Fo. ...