After the betrayal at Isstvan Horus begins his campaign against the Emperor a galaxy-wide war that can lead only to Terra. But the road to the final confrontation between father & son is a long one
- seven years filled with secrecy & silence plans & foundations being formed across distant stars. An unknown history is about to be unveiled as light is shed on the darkest years of the Horus Heresy & revelations will surface that will shake the Imperium to its very foundation... Age of Darkness enters a new chapter of the epic Horus Heresy story & features stories from some of the Black Library's best-known authors including Dan Abnett Graham Mc Neill James Swallow & Aaron-Dembski Bowden.
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As seen on TV: now a major BBC4 television series. A chance encounter with a strange young woman leads Inspector Montalbano to Vigata harbour -- & into a puzzling new mystery. The crew of a mysterious yacht
- the Vanna
- due to dock in the area have discovered a corpse floating in the water the dead mans face badly disfigured. It isnt long before Montalbano begins to become suspicious of the Vannas inhabitants. Who is the yachts owner the glamorous & short-tempered Livia Giovannini? How has she accrued her riches? & why does she spend so much time at sea? Meanwhile Montalbano finds himself getting into tangles with the dreaded Commissioner the exasperating Dr Lattes & a very beautiful young woman at the harbour with whom he becomes dangerously besotted.. . Can the Inspector clear his head long enough to unravel this murky mystery?

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As seen on TV: now a major BBC4 television series. A chance encounter with a strange young woman leads Inspector Montalbano to Vigata harbour -- & into a puzzling new mystery. The crew of a mysterious yacht
- the Vanna
- due to dock in the area have discovered a corpse floating in the water the dead man's face badly disfigured. It isn't long before Montalbano begins to become suspicious of the Vanna's inhabitants. Who is the yacht's owner the glamorous & short-tempered Livia Giovannini? How has she accrued her riches? & why does she spend so much time at sea? Meanwhile Montalbano finds himself getting into tangles with the dreaded Commissioner the exasperating Dr Lattes & a very beautiful young woman at the harbour with whom he becomes dangerously besotted.. . Can the Inspector clear his head long enough to unravel this murky mystery?

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THE AGE OF EXTREMES is eminent historian Eric Hobsbawms personal vision of the twentieth century. Remarkable in its scope & breathtaking in its depth of knowledge this immensely rewarding book reviews the uniquely destructive & creative nature of the troubled twentieth century & makes challenging predicitions for the future. ...

Rachel Carson's epoch-creating Silent Spring marked the beginnings of the environmental movement in the 1960s its ' First Wave' peaking at the 1972 Stockholm Conference. The invention of sustainable development by Barbara Ward along with Rachel Carson the founder of the environmental movement created an alliance of convenience between First World environmentalism & a Third World set on rapid industrialisation. The First Wave crashed in 1973 with the Yom Kippur War & decade-long energy crisis. Revived by a warming economy of the 1980s environmentalism found a new political champion in 1988: Margaret Thatcher. Four years later at the Rio Earth Summit politics settled the science. One hundred & ninety-two nations agreed that mankind was causing global warming & carbon dioxide emissions should be cut. Rio launched rounds of climate change meetings & summits with developing nations refusing to countenance any agreement restraining their greenhouse gas emissions
- their blanket exemption from the 1997 Kyoto Protocol leading to its rejection by the United States that year & again twelve years later in Copenhagen. This therefore marked not just the collapse of the climate change negotiations but something larger
- an unprecedented humiliation for the West at the hands of the rising powers of the East.

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Widely regarded as one of Edith Wharton's greatest achievements The Age of Innocence is not only subtly satirical but also a sometimes dark & disturbing comedy of manners in its exploration of the 'eternal triangle' of love. Set against the backdrop of upper-class New York society during the 1870s the author's combination of powerful prose combined with a thoroughly researched & meticulous evocation of the manners & style of the period has delighted readers since the novel's first publication in 1920. In 1921 The Age of Innocence achieved a double distinction
- it won the Pulitzer Prize & it was the first time this prestigious award had been won by a woman author.
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The story of HMS Invincible a ship whose eventful life story it is argued embodies that of the Royal Navy itself during the second half of the 20th century & into the 21st. From her conception & design through her various deployments (including the Falklands) & her evolving role & technical adaptation to meet changing strategic requirements her fluctuating fortunes have been intertwined with those of the Royal Navy as a whole. Now as a new breed of carriers is being commissioned to replace her this thoroughly researched analysis of her career is the perfect platform from which to ask the important questions regarding the future role of the Royal Navy & Britains place in the world. ...

It is never what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different
- unimagined unprepared
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' It is never what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophies are always different
- unimagined unprepared
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Eric Hobsbawm traces with brilliant anlytical clarity the transformation brought about in evry sphere of European life by the Dual revolution
- the 1789 French revolution & the Industrial Revolution that originated in Britain. This enthralling & original account highlights the significant sixty years when industrial capitalism established itself in Western Europe & when Europe established the domination over the rest of the world it was to hold for half a century.
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