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 twentieth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective Chief Inspector Wexford. A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge over a relatively unfrequented road kills the wrong person. The young woman in the car behind is spared. But only for a while...A few weeks later George Marshalson lives every father's worst nightmare: he discovers the murdered body of his eighteen-year-old daughter on the side of the road. As a man with a strained father-daughter relationship himself Wexford must struggle to keep his professional life as a detective separate from his personal life as husband & father. Particularly when a second teenage girl is murdered
- a victim unquestionably linked to the first
- & another family is shattered...

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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. ...

It's a new era of business & consumerism
- & you play a role in defining it. Today's biggest trends
- the mobile web social

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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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A close-knit street the clink of glass on glass summer heat. Two girls on the brink of adolescence throwing cartwheels on the grass. Two girls who tell each other everything. Until one shimmering afternoon one of them disappears. Lizzie is left with her dread & her loss & with a fear that won't let her be. Had Evie tried to give her a hint of what was coming a clue that she failed to follow? Caught between her imaginary guilt her sense of betrayal her own powerful need & the needs of the adults around her Lizzie's voice is as unforgettable as her story is arresting. This is no ordinary tale of innocence lost.. .'A gripping & disturbing novel a fever dream of adolescent desire & adult complicity' Tom Perrotta ' Deft enthralling & intelligent' Kate Atkinson ...

This important & timely book delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith & reason in todays world. Sam Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankinds willingness to suspend reason in favour of religious beliefs even when those beliefs are used to justify harmful behaviour & sometimes heinous crimes. He asserts that in the shadow of weapons of mass destruction we can no longer tolerate views that pit one true god against another. Most controversially he argues that we cannot afford moderate lip service to religion -- an accommodation that only blinds us to the real perils of fundamentalism. While warning against the encroachment of organised religion into world politics Harris also draws on new evidence from neuroscience & insights from philosophy to explore spirituality as a biological brain-based need. He calls on us to invoke that need in taking a secular humanistic approach to solving the problems of this world. ...

There have been many fine books written on HMS Hood the glory of the Royal Navy while television & cinema have also taken the subject to their heart. No book however has ever offered the combination of in-depth research & thrilling narrative to be found in The End of Glory. For twenty years Hood symbolised the Royal Navy during the twilight years of the British Empire before in 1941 being destroyed in seconds by the battleship Bismarck a catastrophe that shattered the morale the British public. For those who manned her however she was both a home & a fighting platform & this new book through official documents as well as the personal accounts & reminiscences of more than 150 crewmen offers a vivid image of the face of naval life & the face of naval battle.A brilliant behind-the scenes expose of a warship in peace & war it not only paints an intimate picture of everyday life but deals with any number of controversial issues such as the Invergordon mutiny escapades ashore & afloat the Christmas mutiny of 1940 & the terrible conditions onboard in war. This coverage based on so many original sources makes for a truly compelling story which neither historian enthusiast nor general reader will find easy to put down. ...