In the South of France Paul West has a license to thrill. He has just received an offer he can't refuse: two weeks in the sun all expenses paid with a beautiful blonde called Gloria Monday. But it soon becomes obvious that M as Gloria likes to be known is not really interested in holidaying with Paul. She has bigger fish to fry. Meanwhile Paul's best friend Elodie is getting married & Paul is asked to do the catering. Cooking for the French is a risky assignment at the best of times but Paul assures Elodie that nothing can go wrong. Or can it? When Paul discovers that M's real target is France's biggest fish of all
- the new President
- & that he's coming to Elodie's wedding he realises that the merde is about to hit the fan...

...

This book uncovers the inner workings of one of the most powerful companies in the world: how it came to exert a poisonous secretive influence on public life in Britain how it used its huge power to bully intimidate & cover up & how its exposure has changed the way we look at our politicians our police service & our press. Rupert Murdochs newspapers had been hacking phones blagging information & casually destroying peoples lives for years but it was only after a trivial report about Prince Williams knee in 2005 that detectives stumbled on a criminal conspiracy. A five-year cover-up then concealed & muddied the truth. Dial M for Murdoch" gives the first connected account of the extraordinary lengths to which the Murdochs News Corporation went to "put the problem in a box" (in James Murdochs words) how its efforts to maintain & extend its power were aided by its political & police friends & how it was finally exposed. The book is full of details which have never been disclosed before in public including the smears & threats against politicians journalists & lawyers. It reveals the existence of brave insiders who pointed those pursuing the investigation towards pieces of secret information that cracked open the case. By contrast many of the main players in the book are unsavoury but by the end of it you have a clear idea of what they did. Seeing the story whole as it is presented here for the first time allows the character of the organisation which it portrays to emerge unmistakeably. You will hardly believe it." ...

For years Rupert Murdoch's newspapers had been hacking spying blagging bribing & destroying the evidence. They thought they were untouchable. They were wrong. This is the book that exposed the shadow state at the heart of Britain. Now fully updated with the very latest in the News Corp scandal it tells the story of how a criminal conspiracy involving politicians the police & the press was revealed; the smears & threats they used to cover it up; the brave whistleblowers who cracked open the case
- & what it now means for all of us.
...

Dialectic of Enlightenment is quite justifiably one of the most celebrated & often cited works of modern social philosophy. It has been identified as the keystone of the Frankfurt School of which Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer were the leading members & does not cease to impress in its wide-ranging ambition & panache. Adorno & Horkheimer addressees themselves to a question which went to the very heart of the modern age namely why mankind instead of entering into a truly human condition is sinking into a new kind of barbarism. Modernity far from redeeming the promises & hopes of the Enlightenment had resulted in a stultification of mankind & an administered society characterised by simulation & candy-floss entertainment. To seek an answer to the question of how such a condition could arise Adorno & Horkheier subjected the whole history of Western catagories of reason & nature from Homer to Nietzsche to a searching philosophical & psychological critique. Drawing on psychoanalytical insights their own work on the culture industry deep knowledge of the key Enlightenment & anti-Enlightenment thinkers as well as fascinating considerations on the relationship between reason & myth
- the rational & the irrational
- the authors exposed the domination & violence towards both nature & humanity that underpin the Enlightenment project.

...

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) is a psychotherapeutic approach designed particularly to treat the problems of chronically suicidal individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD). The therapy articulates a series of principles that effectively guide clinicians in responding to suicidal & other behaviours that challenge them when treating this population. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy highlights 30 distinctive features of the treatment & uses extensive clinical examples to demonstrate how the theory translates into practice. In part I: The Distinctive Theoretical Features of DBT the authors introduce us to the three foundations on which the treatment rests
- behaviourism Zen & dialectics
- & how these integrate. In part II: The Distinctive Practical Features of DBT Swales & Heard describe both how the therapy applies these principles to the treatment of clients with borderline personality disorder & elucidate the distinctive conceptual twists in the application of cognitive & behavioural procedures within the treatment. This book provides a clear & structured overview of a complex treatment. It is written for both practicing clinicians & students wishing to learn more about DBT & how it differs from the other cognitive behaviour therapies.

...

New Dalziel & Pascoe novel from Britain's finest male crime writer: ' Reginald Hill stands head & shoulders above any other writer of homebred crime fiction' Tom Hiney Observer In the Beginning was the Word...A man drowns. Another dies in a motorbike crash. Two accidents...yet in a pair of so-called Dialogues sent to the Mid-Yorkshire Gazette as entries in a short story competition someone seems to be claiming responsibility for the deaths. In Mid-Yorkshire CID the word is heard but not believed. But when the story is leaked to television & a third indisputable murder takes place Dalziel & Pascoe find themselves playing a game no-one knows the rules of against an opponent known only as the Wordman. ...

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is an ominous fable about the pursuit of great wealth. Readers will be transported to a fabulous fantasy land of such opulence that its very existence has to remain a jealously guarded secret. Fatal consequences lie in store for 'bona fide' guests & uninvited visitors alike while the sybaritic luxury of the place is evoked in an effortless prose style which is quintessentially F. Scott Fitzgerald. Also featured in this volume are The Cut-Glass Bowl May Day The Rich Boy Crazy Sunday An Alcoholic Case The Lees of Happiness The Lost Decade & Babylon Revisited. ...

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into interstellar space.. . Alastair Reynolds burst onto the SF scene with the Arthur C. Clarke Award-shortlisted REVELATION SPACE British Science Fiction Award-winning CHASM CITY & REDEMPTION ARK. Now experience the phenomenal imagination & breathtaking vision of The most exciting space opera writer working today (Locus) in these two tales of high adventure set in the same universe as his novels. The title story Diamond Dogs tells of a group of mercenaries trying to unravel the mystery of a particularly inhospitable alien tower on a distant world; Turquoise Days is about Naqi who has devoted her life to studying the alien Pattern Jugglers. ...

Dixie is the youngest Diamond girl. She & her sisters
- dreamy Martine glamorous Rochelle & tough Jude
- could hardly be more

...

This handbook updates jewellery professionals & serious diamond buyers on the new developments in diamond grading treatments synthetic diamonds fancy-colour diamonds & lab certificates. Using close-up photographs it shows how to make visual judgements about clarity transparency cut quality & brilliance. The handbook also discusses how gem labs are incorporating brightness size scintillation & pattern into their cut grades & it provides tips on detecting treatments & man-made diamonds. Topics include: Quality evaluation; Diamond Recutting; Branded diamonds; Antique cuts & jewellery; Diamond treatments; Fancy-colour diamonds; Synthetic diamonds; Light performance; Fluorescence; Lab reports. ...