Meeting an anonymous client on a sizzling summer night is asking for trouble. Especially when the client lies & tells V.I. Warshawski hes the prominent banker John Thayer looking for his sons missing girlfriend. But V.I. soon discovers the real John Thayers son
- & hes dead. As V.I. begins to question her mysterious clients motives she sinks deeper into Chicagos darker side: a world of gangsters insurance fraud & contract killings. & while she must concentrate on saving the life of someone she has never met it becomes clear that she is in danger of losing her own.
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The second edition of Independent & Supplementary Prescribing builds on the success of this classic text by providing a unique resource for prescribing & medicines management for both new & experienced prescribers. This is an essential resource for anyone undertaking the non-medical prescribing programme. The book explores a number of key areas for prescribers including the ethical & legal issues surrounding prescribing prescribing within a public health context evidence-based prescribing basic pharmacology medication safety monitoring skills & drug calculations. Each chapter has been updated for the second edition & an additional chapter Minimising the risk of prescribing error has been added. Written by a group of multi-professional authors working at all stages of the medication management process this book will be essential reading for all nurses midwives pharmacists & allied health professionals qualified to prescribe as independent and/or supplementary prescribers. ...

The Independent Hostel Guide 2012" is the only comprehensive reference to the independent bunkhouses & hostels of the UK. The guide has been revised annually for 21 years growing with the hostel network. It contains up to the minute information on 179 hostels & bunkhouses in England 98 in Scotland & 60 in Wales. " Independent hostels" are ideal accommodation for individuals groups & families involved in outdoor activities & sight seeing. They are perfect for reunions of families & friends. The hostels are in a wide variety of buildings ranging from grand city houses to rural barns. They generally have self catering facilities & all offer friendly clean & inexpensive accommodation with no membership requirements. There is a page feature on each hostel giving contact details directions public transport options & descriptions of the accommodation & the attractions of the area. This title is comprehensive & unique in the UK. It is proven over 20 years. It is up-to-date every page is fully revised only months before going on sale. It is packed with information that is clear & concise. It can be used by climbers walkers cyclist families groups travellers & others involved in outdoor activities & independent travel." ...

The Independent Hostel Guide 2013" is the comprehensive reference to the independent bunkhouses & hostels of the UK. The guide has been revised annually for over 20 years growing with the hostel network. It contains up to the minute information on over 330 places to stay. Independent hostels are ideal accommodation for individuals groups & families involved in outdoor activities & sight-seeing. They are perfect for reunions of families & friends. The hostels are in a wide range of buildings
- from grand city houses to barns & cottages. They generally have self-catering facilities & all offer friendly clean & inexpensive accommodation with no membership requirements. There is a page feature on each hostel giving contact details directions public transport options & descriptions of the accommodation & the attractions of the area. This title is comprehensive & unique in the UK. Proven over 20 years it is up-to-date & every page is fully revised only months before going on sale. It is packed with information that is clear & concise. It can be used by climbers walkers cyclist families groups travellers & others involved in outdoor activities & independent travel."
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First published in 1946 this humane epic novel is set in rural Iceland in the early twentieth century. Bjartus is a sheep farmer determined to eke a living from a blighted patch of l&. Nothing not merciless weather nor his family will come between him & his goal of financial independence. Only Asta Solillja the child he brings up as his daughter can pierce his stubborn heart. As she grows up keen to make her own way in the world Bjartus' obstinacy threatens to estrange them forever. ...

India s diversity is apparent in its architecture landscapes festivals & handicrafts. & spirituality the beating heart of India pulsates from the mountains of Ladakh to the shores of tropical Kerala. Sarina Singh Lonely Planet Writer Our Promise You can trust our travel information because Lonely Planet writers visit the places we write about each & every edition. We never accept freebies for positive coverage & you can rely on us to tell it like we see it. Inside This Book 17 authors 83 weeks of research 132 ancient temples 196 maps Inspirational photos Clear easy-to-use maps Delhi pull-out map 3D plans of iconic sights Comprehensive planning tools In-depth background ...

India: The Cookbook" is the first comprehensive guide to Indian cooking with over 1 000 recipes covering every aspect of Indias rich & colourful culinary heritage. Unlike many other Indian cookbooks it is written by an Indian culinary academic & cookbook author who lives & works in Delhi & the recipes are a true reflection of how traditional dishes are really cooked all over India. They have been carefully edited to ensure that they are simple to follow & achievable in western kitchens with detailed information about authentic cooking utensils & ingredients. Indian food has been hugely popular in the UK for many years & the appetite for Indian food shows no sign of diminishing. Now for the first time a definitive wide-ranging & authoritative book on authentic Indian food is available making it simple to prepare your favourite Indian dishes at home alongside less well-known dishes such as bataer masalydaar (marinated quails cooked with almonds chillies & green cardamom) or sambharachi kodi (Goan prawn curry with coconut & tamarind). The comprehensive chapters on breads pickles spice pastes & chutneys contain a wide variety of recipes rarely seen in Indian cookbooks such as bagarkhani roti (a rich sweet bread with raisins cardamom & poppy seeds) & tamatar ka achar (tomato & mustard-seed pickle). " India: The Cookbook" is the only book on Indian food youll ever need." ...

22 official languages more than 32 000 Hindu gods & goddesses & over one billion people
- no wonder India attracts! In this book
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A new edition of the most authoritative & highly-regarded single-volume history of India. Fully revised to include the most recent research & to cover events from partition to the present day. In ' India: A History' five millennia of the sub-continent's history are interpreted by one of our finest writers on India & the Far East. This definitive work combines narrative pace & skill with social economic & cultural analysis. India's history begins with a highly advanced urban civilisation in the Indus valley regressing to a tribal & pastoral nomadism & then evolving into a uniquely stratified society. The pattern of inward invasion plus outward migration was established early: from Alexander the Great via the march of Islam & the great Moghuls to the coming of the East India Company & the establishment of the British Raj. Older richer & more distinctive than almost any other India's culture furnishes all that the historian could wish for in the way of continuity & diversity. The peoples of the Indian subcontinent while sharing a common history & culture are not now & never have been a single unitary state; the book accommodates Pakistan & Bangladesh as well as other embryonic nation states like the Sikh Punjab Muslim Kashmir & Assam. In this brilliant new edition John Keay continues the narrative of India's history -- covering events from partition to the present day & examining the very different fortunes of the three successor states: Pakistan Bangladesh & the Republic of India. Based on the latest research this is an indispensible history of a country set to be a definitive influence on the future of world economics politics & culture. ...

Anand Giridharadas sensed something was afoot as his plane from America prepared to land in Bombay. An elderly passenger looked at him & said Were all trying to go that way pointing to the rear. You youre going this way? Giridharadas was returning to the land of his ancestors amid an unlikely economic boom. But he was interested less in its gold rush than in its cultural upheaval as a new generation has sought to reconcile old traditions & customs with new ambitions & dreams. In India Calling" Giridharadas brings to life the people & the dilemmas of India today through the prism of his emigre family history & his childhood memories of India. He introduces us to entrepreneurs radicals industrialists & religious seekers but most of all to Indian families. He shows how parents & children husbands & wives cousins & siblings are reinventing relationships bending the meaning of Indianness & enduring the pangs of the old birthing the new. Through their stories & his own he paints an intimate portrait of a country becoming modern while striving to remain itself." ...