When LAPD detective Harry Bosch shot & killed Norman Church the ' Dollmaker' the police were convinced it marked the end of the search for one of the city's most bizarre serial killers. But four years later Norman Church's widow is taking Bosch to court accusing him of killing the wrong man. To make matters worse Bosch has just received a note eerily reminiscent of the ones the Dollmaker used to taunt him with giving him a location where a body can be found. Is the Dollmaker still alive? Or is this the work of a vicious copycat killer determined to repeat the Dollmaker's grisly feats & destroy Bosch's career in the process? ...

Throughout history cities have been at the center of warfare from sieges to street-fighting from peace-keeping to coups de mains. Sun Tzu admonished his readers of The Art of War that the lowest realization of warfare was to attack a fortified city. Indeed although strategists have advised against it across the millennia armies & generals have been forced nonetheless to attack & defend cities & victory has required that they do it well. In Concrete Hell Louis Di Marco has provided a masterful study of the brutal realities of urban warfare of what it means to seize & hold a city literally block by block. Such a study could not be more timely. We live in an increasingly urbanizing world a military unprepared for urban operations is unprepared for tomorrow. Di Marco masterfully studies the successes & failures of past battles in order to provide lessons for todays tacticians. ...

Written when Engels was only twenty-four & inspired in particular by his time living amongst the poor in Manchester this forceful polemic explores the staggering human cost of the Industrial Revolution in Victorian Engl&. Engels paints an unforgettable picture of daily life in the new industrial towns & for miners & agricultural workers
- depicting overcrowded housing abject poverty child labour sexual exploitation dirt & drunkenness
- in a savage indictment of the greed of the bourgeoisie. His fascinating later preface written for the first English edition of 1892 & included here brought the story up to date in the light of forty years further refelection. A masterpiece of committed reporting & an impassioned call to arms this is one of the great pioneering works of social history.

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With university behind her Emily Stanton finds herself on the threshold of life. Introduced to a Scottish engineer the exoticism of his life in Paris beckons & she leaves her family home in 1920s Melbourne to become his wife. But far from providing answers her conventional marriage awakens in her an ardent desire to find a reason for living beyond that of simply wife & mother. This desire leads her to flirt with risk passion & unorthodox friendships & carries her to Tunisia on a journey of self-questioning & intellectual reawakening. Conditions of Faith is both a provocative romance & an elegant meditation on a timeless dilemma. Impetuous yet entirely sympathetic Emily Stanton like Henry James Isabel Archer is in search of a reason for living in a society where motherhood is deemed reason enough. This mesmerising & thought-provoking story of dreams obsessions & destiny will hold you in thrall. ...

The crackle of a tannoy breaks a pregnant silence...and for one moment as the barrage of shell & artillery pauses music washes over the city of Leningrad. The defiant symphony of Leningrads famous son the composer Shostakovich infiltrates ruined homes & businesses echoing in the empty streets & perhaps even beyond the besieged walls to the very heart of the German forces. But this is not the story of Shostakovich. This is the story of a man caught in the white heat of obsession. A man who inspired an entire city much less a ragged orchestra of half-starved musicians to an act of resistance & hope in a time of war. Karl Eliasberg. The Conductor. ...

This volume is part of a new series of novels plays & stories at GCSE/ Key Stage 4 level designed to meet the needs of the National Curriculum syllabus. Each text

Includes:: an introduction pre-reading activities notes & coursework activities. Also provided is a section on the process of writing often compiled by the author. This is the story of two brothers Calum & Neil who work in the forest of a large Scottish estate. But the harmony of their life together is shadowed by the dark obsessive hatred of Duror the gamekeeper.

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This city is famous for its gamblers prostitutes exhibitionists anti-Christs alcoholics sodomites drug addicts fetishists onanists pornographers frauds jades litterbugs & lesbians.. .dont make the mistake of bothering me. Ignatius J. Reilly: fat flatulent eloquent & almost unemployable. By the standards of ordinary folk he is pretty much unhinged too. But is he bothered by this? No. For this misanthropic crusader against an America fallen into vice & ignorance has a mission: to rescue a naked female philosopher in distress. & he has a pirate costume & hot-dog cart to do it with... ...

BPP Learning Media is proud to be the official publisher for CTH. Our CTH Study Guides provide the perfect tailor-made learning resource for the CTH examinations & are also a useful source of reference & information for those planning a career in the hospitality & tourism industries ...

Composed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran Attars great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature. A marvellous allegorical rendering of the Islamic doctrine of Sufism an esoteric system concerned with the search for truth through God it describes the consequences of the conference of the birds of the world when they meet to begin the search for their ideal king the Simorgh bird. On hearing that to find him they must undertake an arduous journey the birds soon express their reservations to their leader the hoopoe. With eloquence & insight however the hoopoe calms their fears using a series of riddling parables to provide guidance in the search for spiritual truth. By turns witty & profound The Conference of the Birds transforms deep belief into magnificent poetry. ...

An innocent man is days from execution. Only a guilty man can save him. Travis Boyette is a murderer. In 1998 in the small East Texas city of Sloan he abducted raped & strangled a popular high-school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be found then watched & waited as police & prosecutors arrested Donte Drumm a local football star with no connection to the crime. Tried convicted & sentenced Drumm was sentto death row: his fate had been decided. Nine years later Donte Drumm is four days from execution. Over 400 miles away in Kansas Travis faces a fate of his own: an inoperable brain tumour will soon deliver the end. Reflecting on his miserable life he decides to do whats right. After years of silence he is ready to confess. But how can a guilty man convince lawyers judges & politicians that theyre about to execute an innocent man? ...