Everyone has heard of the Dead Sea Scrolls but amidst the conspiracies the politics & the sensational claims it can be dificult to separate the myths from the reality. Timothy Lim here presents the true facts & leading theories behind the cultural & historical background of the scrolls & examines their significance for our understanding of the Old Testament & the origins of Christianity & Judaism. He also tells the fascinating story of the scrolls since their discovery explains the science behind their deciphering & dating & does not omit the cast of characters scandals & controversies that have hastened the scrolls rise to the status of cultural icon. ...

In Baghdad's Green Zone an Iraqi scientist is murdered just before he is to reveal the monstrous secret weapon that Saddam Hussein took to his grave. The assassination is the work of a mysterious sniper called Juba originally trained by the British but who now works with a twisted mastermind determined to wrest leadership of the Islamic terrorist world from Al Qaeda. Kyle Swanson once the top sniper in the US Marine Corps has become the key member in a secret operations team known as Task Force Trident. When Juba tests the new weapon by killing hundreds of people at a British royal wedding in London Swanson is assigned to hunt down his old special ops rival. Fast-paced & gripping Dead Shot" has all the hallmarks of a new military thriller blockbuster!" ...

The next in the gripping BODY FINDER series for fans of Claudia Gray. A passionate love story. A deadly hunt. A burden to bear. All her life violet has grappled with her ability to sense the echoes of those who have been murdered & the matching imprint that clings to their killers. Now that she has an imprint of her own violet's gift" is intolerable. Torn between her desire to lead a normal life & the pressure from the Center to continue her work tracking down killers violet's world starts to unravel...and some of her most carefully guarded secrets are exposed. When she learns that an underground group has been carrying out murders on the orders of their Charles Manson-like leader violet is pulled into one final deadly hunt...where her ability may not even be able to save her." ...

It was meant to be a harmless stag night prank. A few hours later four of his best friends are dead & Michael Harrison has disappeared. With only three days to the wedding Detective Superintendent Grace
- a man haunted by the shadow of his own missing wife
- is contacted by Michaels beautiful distraught fiancee Ashley Harper. Grace discovers that the one man who ought to know Michael Harrisons whereabouts is saying nothing. But then he has a lot to gain
- more than anyone realizes. For one mans disaster is another mans fortune... Dead simple... James has got the gift for turning mind-stretching subjects into novels that are irresistibly readable as well as utterly believable". (Robert Goddard). "A brilliant idea superbly crafted. A terrific page-turner". (James Herbert)."


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Nikolai Gogols epic poem in prose Dead Souls" is a damning indictment of a corrupt society translated from the Russian with an introduction & notes by Robert A. Maguire in " Penguin Classics". Chichikov a mysterious stranger arrives in the provincial town of N visiting a succession of landowners & making each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census saving their owners from paying tax on them & to use these dead souls as collateral to re-invent himself as a aristocrat. In this ebullient picaresque masterpiece Gogol created a grotesque gallery of human types from the bear-like Sobakevich to the insubstantial fool Manilov & above all the devilish con man Chichikov. " Dead Souls" (1842) Russias first major novel is one of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction & a devastating satire on social hypocrisy. In his introduction Robert A. Maguire discusses Gogols life & literary career his depiction of Russian society & the language & narrative techniques employed in " Dead Souls". This edition also

Includes:: a chronology further reading appendices a glossary map & notes. Nikolai Gogol (1809-52) was born in the Ukraine. His experience of St Petersburg life informed a savagely satirical play " The Government Inspector" & a series of brilliant short stories including " Nevsky Prospekt" & " Diary of a Madman". For over a decade Gogol laboured on his comic epic " Dead Souls"
- before renouncing literature & burning parts of the manuscript shortly before he died. If you enjoyed " Dead Souls" you might like Fyodor Dostoyevsksys " The Brothers Karamazov" also available in " Penguin Classics". " Gogol was a strange creature but then genius is always strange". (Vladimir Nabokov). "I admire the way in which Maguire has kept his own brilliantly variegated vocabulary away from 20th-century phrases without ever looking parodic or antiquarian". (A.S. Byatt author of " Possession")."


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The novel is a prequel to the game. Geophysicist Michael Altman joins a team excavating an underwater crater. Close proximity to the artefact they uncover named ' The Black Marker' causes visions of the dead vivid dreams & violent murders. This is the story of the origin of ' The Black Marker' the foundation of the Church of Unitology & a discovery that will change the world. ...

ONE OF THE HOTTEST GAMING FRANCHISES OF THE DECADE! Anticipating the release of Dead Space 3 " we collect " Dead Space: Salvage 1-6" in a stunning graphic novel including never-seen before materials! When a group of freelance miners find the abandoned USG Ishimura in deep space their once-fortunate luck turns into a catastrophe. With the Earth Government racing to reclaim the ship & an army of Necromorphs wreaking havoc on board do the miners have any hope of surviving?" ...

A distant human colony discover that they arent as alone as they first thought... As the dead begin to rise as horrific monsters can P-SEC Sgt. Abraham Neumann contain the threat? What role does the mysterious Church of Unitology have in all of this? & can any of them make it out alive...? ...

Following the events of the smash video game hit Dead Space 2 Sergeant John Carver's wife & son are attacked by fanatics trying to liberate the Marker site where she works. Racing to help Carver teams up with Ellie Langford survivor of an earlier Necromorph outbreak & Earth Gov Captain Robert Norton to unlock deep secrets about the Markers in an epic battle that will determine the fate of mankind. ...