Shortly after completing THE DROWNED & THE SAVED Primo Levi committed suicide. The matter of his death was sudden violent & unpremiditated & there were some who argue that he killed himself because he was tormented by guilt
- guilt that he had survived the horrors of Auschwitz while others better than he had gone to the wall. THE DROWNED & THE SAVED is Levis impassioned attempt to understand the rationale behind the concentration camps was completed shortly before his tragic death in 1987. THE DROWNED & THE SAVED dispels the myth that Primo Levi forgave the Germans for what they did to his people. He didnt & couldnt forgive. He refused however to indulge in what he called the bestial vice of hatred which is an entirely different matter. The voice that sounds in his writing is that of a reasonable man...it warns & reminds us that the unimaginable can happen again. A would-be tyrant is waiting in the wings with beautiful words on his lips. The book is constantly impressing on us the need to learn from the past to make sense of the senseless PAUL BAILEY
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On the third day there were PIRATES! Arthur Penhaligon finds himself on an adventure that will pit him against pirates storms explosions & a vast beast that eats everything it encounters. Will our unwitting hero be able to find the third part of the Will & claim the Third Key? No rest for poor Arthur Penhaligon. As Grim Tuesday ends he discovers a square of stiff cardboard under his pillow gilt-edged & inscribed with the following words: LADY WEDNESDAY Trustee of the Architect & Duchess of the Border Sea has great pleasure in inviting ARTHUR PENHALIGON to a Particular Luncheon of Seventeen Removes Transport has been arranged RSVP not required! It's an invitation he cannot refuse. From hospital room to the high seas Arthur finds himself on an adventure that will pit him against pirates storms explosions of Nothing-laced gunpowder & a vast beast that eats everything it encounters. Through it all he is drawn deeper into the central mystery of the House. Arthur must find the third part of the Will & claim the Third Key -- not just for himself but for the millions (if not trillions) who will suffer if he doesn't. The first step? Surviving life aboard ship on the Border Sea! ...

When London is lost beneath the rising tides unconscious desires rush to the surface in this apocalyptic tale from the author of Crash & Cocaine Nights. Set in the near future the ice caps have melted & the planet basks in an unendurable heat. London is a primordial swamp; lush tropical vegetation grows up the walls of the Ritz & there are unconfirmed sightings of primeval reptiles swimming through the newly-formed lagoons. Some flee the capital; others embark on harebrained schemes to drain the submerged streets in search of treasure. But Dr Robert Kerans has come to accept this submarine city & finds himself strangely resistant to the idea of saving it... ...

Swedish crime sensation & No. 1 international bestseller Camilla Lackbergs new psychological thriller
- for fans of Stieg Larsson
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The Drowning City: home to exiles & expatriates pirates & smugglers. & violent revolutionaries who will stop at nothing to overthrow the corrupt Imperial government. For Isyllt Iskaldur necromancer & spy the brewing revolution is a chance to prove herself to her crown. All she has to do is find & finance the revolutionaries & help topple the palaces of Symir. But she is torn between her new friends & her duties & the longer she stays in this monsoon-drenched city the more intrigue she uncovers
- even the dead are plotting. As the waters rise & the dams crack Isyllt must choose between her mission & the city she came to save.
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A lost child. A shattered past. A life going under.. . Vincent Ruiz is lucky to be alive. A bullet in the leg another through the hand he is discovered clinging to a buoy in the River Thames losing blood & consciousness fast. It takes six days for him to come out of his coma & when he does his nightmare is only just beginning. Because Vincent has no recollection of what happened & nobody believes him. A mile away from his body a boat was found covered in blood -- Vincent's & that of three others. Forensics say at least one of them must be dead. Vincent a police detective had signed his service pistol out of the station armoury despite being on leave. Many murder suspects fake amnesia & the investigating team are not sure this case is any different.. . The only clue is a picture in his pocket a photograph of a young girl Mickey Carlyle who disappeared three years ago. & though Mickey is presumed dead Vincent has the nagging doubt that she is alive & in terrible danger.. . ...

The secrets of the past never die. But they can kill
- August Penrose created the stained glass Lady Window to adorn the chapel
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This best-selling pocket-sized book will help you to perform drug calculations with complete confidence & competence. The completely updated third edition

Includes:: community practice & primary care settings & a whole new section on pharmacology & medicines to put drug calculations into context. Starting with the basic mathematical skills required for calculations including tips on using calculators & estimating answers Drug Calculations for Nurses progresses to give you an understanding of basic pharmacokinetics & therapeutics. It also covers how drugs work in specific groups such as children & the elderly. The book takes you through step-by-step drug calculations with units & drug strengths clearly explained. Pre-test & a revision questions allow you to test & be confident in the skills you have acquired.

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Prof David Nutt was appointed chairman of the UK Government's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) in 2008. In 2009 he published an editorial in the Journal of Psychopharmacology comparing the harms caused by horse-riding with the effect of taking ecstasy or cannabis. As a result of this & other comments on the harms caused by legal & illegal drugs he was sacked by the then Home Secretary. In Drugs
- without the hot air" Prof Nutt puts the case for an evidence-based scientific approach to drugs. In straightforward languages for the lay person he explains what drugs are how they affect the body & the mind & why people take them & get addicted to them. He shows how we can quantify the overall harms of a drug addressing issues from direct danger of death through to environmental financial & family factors to obtain a true indication of the overall effect of a drug. Then working from the facts he recommends how society ought to address drugs & drug-taking to minimize the harms at every level. * How do drugs act on the mind & body? * Which is the worst drug of all? * What is addiction? How do drugs become addictive? How can addiction be treated? * Why did Native Indians never get addicted to smoking but we do? * Drugs of the future: alcohol substitutes. * cognition enhancers for memory intellect. * Why did Queen Victoria take cannabis & cocaine? * Does making drugs illegal work? If not should drugs be sold in supermarkets instead? * Psychedelics for creativity: should scientists take LSD? (Kary Mullis & Francis Crick did.) * Performance drugs in sport. * Where to find help if you need it. * What should I tell my children about drugs? & when? * How much does the War on Drugs cost? What unintended consequences does it have? Is it effective? * Not all drugs harm equally. We need to quantify the harms of each & every drug. Then we can make informed decisions regarding our choice of lifestyle & policymakers can take a rational approach to legislation on alcohol cocaine heroin tobacco etc. A potential deep rift between governments' need to appear tough on drugs on the one hand & a rational evidence-based approach to drugs legislation & treatment could have very damaging consequences."
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A few years ago deals were done in dimly-lit side streets or on the phone via a friend of a friend. Today you can order every conceivable pill or powder with the click of a mouse. But the online market in narcotics isn't just changing the way drugs are bought & sold; it's changing the nature of drugs themselves. Enterprising dealers are using the web to engage highly skilled foreign chemists to tweak the chemical structures of banned drugs
- just enough to create a similar effect just enough to render them legal in most parts of the world. Drugs such as mephedrone (aka miaow-miaow) are marketed as 'not for human consumption' but everyone knows exactly how they're going to be used
- what they can't know is whether their use might prove fatal. From UK dancefloors to the offices of apathetic government officials via social networking sites & underground labs Mike Power explores this agile international virtual subculture that will always be one step ahead of the law.

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