Ian Kershaws The End" is a gripping revelatory account of the final months of the Nazi war machine from the failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in July 1944 to the German surrender in May 1945. In almost every major war there comes a point where defeat looms for one side & its rulers cut a deal with the victors if only in an attempt to save their own skins. In Hitlers Germany nothing of this kind happened: in the end the regime had to be stamped out town by town with an almost unprecedented level of brutality. Just what made Germany keep on fighting? Why did its rulers not cut a deal to save their own skins? & why did ordinary people continue to obey the Fuhrers suicidal orders with countless Germans executing their own countrymen for desertion or defeatism? Named Book of the Year by the " Sunday Times" "TLS" " Spectator" " Sunday Telegraph" " Daily Mail" & " Scotland on Sunday" Ian Kershaws " The End" is a searing account that takes us into the heart of the Third Reichs final months laying bare the fear & fanaticism that drove a nation to destruction. " Nuanced & sophisticated.. .undoubtedly a masterpiece". (" Mail on Sunday"). " Gripping yet scholarly.. .the best attempt by far to answer the complex question of why Nazi Germany carried on fighting to total self-destruction". (Antony Beevor " Telegraph"). " Masterly... Kershaws gripping & boldly intelligent work of scholarship.. .will surely become the standard account of the Nazi systems terrible final phase". (" Financial Times"). " Brilliant.. .utterly terrifying". (" Sunday Times" Books of the Year). Ian Kershaw (b. 1943) was Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield from 1989-2008 & is one of the worlds leading authorities on Hitler. His books include " The Hitler Myth" his two volume biography " Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris" & " Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis" & " Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World 1940-1941". He was knighted in 2002." ...

There is nothing to be found in the pages of these books but misery & despair. You still have time to choose something else to read. But if you must know what unpleasantries befall the charming & clever Baudelaire children read on... The End". This book is the last in "A Series of Unfortunate Events" & even if you braved the previous twelve volumes you probably can't stand such unpleasantries as a fearsome storm a suspicious beverage a herd of wild sheep an enormous bird cage & a truly haunting secret about the Baudelaire parents." ...

There is nothing to be found in the pages of these books but misery & despair. You still have time to choose something else to read. But if you must know what unpleasantries befall the charming & clever Baudelaire children read on... The End". This book is the last in "A Series of Unfortunate Events" & even if you braved the previous twelve volumes you probably cant stand such unpleasantries as a fearsome storm a suspicious beverage a herd of wild sheep an enormous bird cage & a truly haunting secret about the Baudelaire parents." ...

Aurelio Zen is posted to Calabria where in the heart of a tight-knit traditional community there has been a brutal murder. Zen is determined to find a way to penetrate the code of silence & uncover the truth. But his mission is complicated by another secret which has drawn strangers from the other side of the world
- a hunt for buried treasure launched by a single-minded player with millions to spend pursuing his bizarre & deadly obsession.
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Aurelio Zen is posted to remote Calabria at the toe of the Italian boot. & beneath the surface of a tight-knit traditional community he discovers that violent forces are at work. There has been a brutal murder. Zen is determined to find a way to penetrate the code of silence & uncover the truth. But his mission is complicated by another secret which has drawn strangers from the other side of the world
- a hunt for buried treasure launched by a single-minded player with millions to spend pursuing his bizarre & deadly obsession. Michael Dibdin has crafted another suspenseful action-packed thriller full of unexpected twists & turns through the dark corners of the human heart.
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The End of Alice treads the wafer-thin line between the evil & the everyday & caused a major controversy when it was first released in the US. The story centres on the correspondence of two paedophiles: one the narrator is a middle-aged child-killer serving his twenty-third year in prison; the other his bl&-speaking sweet-seeming admirer is a nineteen-year-old woman intent on seducing a young neighbourhood boy. Slowly through these letters the narrator's monstrous character emerges. ...

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Wenham & Geraldine are a long-established & very well respected publishing firm so when a printers proof is sabotaged & libellous passages are mysteriously reinstated they call in private detective Nigel Strangeways. But the situation takes a turn for the worse when one of the publishers best-selling authors
- glamorous novelist Millicent Miles
- is found dead in the offices.

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Providing a much-needed critique of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practice & scholarship this book seeks to redress CSR advocacy from a political & critical perspective. A strident approach backed up by extensive use of case studies presents the argument that most CSR-related activity aims to gain legitimacy from consumers & employees & therefore furthers the exploitative & colonizing agenda of the corporation. By examining CSR in the context of the political economy of late capitalism the book puts the emphasis back on the fact that most large corporations are fundamentally driven by profit maximization making CSR initiatives merely another means to this end. Rather than undermining or challenging unsustainable corporate practices CSR is exposed as an ideological practice that actually upholds the prominence of such practices. As CSR gathers momentum in management practice & scholarship students in the fields of CSR business ethics & strategy will find this text a useful companion to counter received wisdom in this area. ...

The best time-travel story since H.G. Wells's The Time Machine by the Grand Master of science fiction the story of Andrew Harlan Technician & Eternal. Andrew Harlan's job is to range through past & present centuries monitoring & even altering Time's myriad cause-&-effect relationships. As a Technician with the Allwhen Council he initiates Reality Changes that may affect the lives of as many as fifty billion people
- & a million or more of them may be so drastically affected as to be considered new individulas. Above all therefore a Technician must be dispassionate. An emotional make-up is a distinct handicap. Then Harlan meets Noys & falls victim to a phenomenon older than Time itself
- love. Years of self-discipline are cast aside as Harlan uses the awesome techniques of the Eternals to twist Time so that he & Noys might survive...together.

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