The long-awaited beginning of the fourth story arc
- Sword of the Canon
- in the epic fantasy series the Wars of Light & Shadow.

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Sex with a mysterious stranger aboard a train leads Rita Holly to an initiation into the exclusive & secretive Mount club. Sophisticated & deviant rituals await Rita as do the endless intrigues & power struggles deep within the heart of the organization. ...

The Rough Diamonds are a close knit team. Kev Mc Govern their captain makes sure they work hard & play hard. Kev is stunned when he discovers that Dave has to cope with epilepsy. When he suffers a major attack the victory the Rough Diamonds are so desperate to win hangs in the balance. ...

This title is shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2013. In 1986 Kris Maharaj a British businessman living in Miami was arrested for the brutal murder of two ex-business associates. His lawyer did not present a strong alibi; Kris was found guilty & sentenced to death in the electric chair. It wasn't until a young lawyer working for nothing Clive Stafford Smith took on his case that strong evidence began to emerge that the state of Florida had got the wrong man on Death Row. So far so good
- except that as Stafford Smith argues here so compellingly the American justice system is actually designed to ignore innocence. Twenty-six years later Maharaj is still in jail. Step by step Stafford Smith untangles the Maharaj case & the system that makes disasters like this inevitable. His conclusions will act as a wake-up call for those who condone legislation which threatens basic human rights & at the same time the personal story he tells demonstrates that determination can challenge the institutions that surreptitiously threaten our freedom.
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Few would dispute that we live in an unequal & unjust world but what causes this inequality to persist? Leading social commentator & academic Danny Dorling claims in this timely book that in rich countries inequality is no longer caused by not having enough resources to share but by unrecognised & unacknowledged beliefs which actually propagate it. Based on significant research across a range of fields in Injustice Dorling argues that as the five social evils identified by Beveridge at the dawn of the British welfare state are gradually being eradicated (ignorance want idleness squalor & disease) they are being replaced by five new tenets of injustice that: elitism is efficient; exclusion is necessary;prejudice is natural;greed is good & despair is inevitable. In an informal yet authoritative style Dorling examines who is most harmed by these injustices & why & what happens to those who most benefit. Hard-hitting & uncompromising in its call to action this is essential reading for everyone concerned with social justice. ...

Life in the Inkworld has been far from easy since the extraordinary events of Inkspell when the story of Inkheart magically drew Meggie Mo & Dustfinger back into its pages. With Dustfinger dead & the evil Adderhead now in control the story in which they are all caught has taken an unhappy turn. Even Elinor left alone in the real world believes her family to be lost
- lost between the covers of a book. But as winter comes on there is reason to hope
- if only Meggie & Mo can rewrite the wrongs of the past & make a dangerous pact with death.

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Meggie loves books. So does her father Mo a bookbinder although he has never read aloud to her since her mother mysteriously disappeared. They live quietly until the night a stranger knocks at their door. He has come with a warning that forces Mo to reveal an extraordinary secret
- a storytelling secret that will change their lives forever.
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Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program Fourth Edition is the guide to the Inkscape program. With coverage of versions 0.47 & 0.48 this authoritative introduction & reference features hundreds of useful illustrations. Using Inkscape you can produce a wide variety of art from photorealistic drawings to organizational charts. Inkscape uses SVG a powerful vector-based drawing language & W3C web standard as its native format. SVG drawings can be viewed directly in browsers such as Firefox Opera Chrome Safari & Internet Explorer 9. A subset of SVG has been adopted by the mobile phone market. Inkscape is available free for Windows Macintosh & Linux operating systems. Systematic coverage of the entire Inkscape program begins with twelve tutorials ranging in difficulty from very basic to highly complex. A new tutorial introduces the use of interactive SVG in HTML5. The remainder of the book covers each facet of Inkscape in detail with an emphasis on practical solutions for common problems. The book is filled with valuable tips & warnings about the use of Inkscape & SVG. Find dozens of Inkscape illustrations from the book in the online color supplement available at http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/. Updated for Inkscape version 0.48 this edition

Includes:: complete coverage of new features including the new Spray Tool updated Node & Text tools enhanced bitmap image import La Te X export for PDF/EPS/PS added extensions including the Jessy Ink extension for web-based presentations the adaptive UI & the new Glyphs dialog. Complete Coverage of New & enhanced Inkscape 0.4 8 Features * Live Path Effects for tasks such as adding patterns along a path while maintaining complete editability* More than two hundred pre-built SVG filters for adding textures manipulating color & so forth* A tiling tool to create complex tilings with thirteen different symmetries* Clipping & Masking objects* An integrated spell checker* Built-in bitmap-to-vector tracing* The ability to export to more than a dozen graphics formats including PDF & Post Script* The ability to import from more than two dozen graphics formats including PDF Adobe Illustrator Corel Draw Auto Cad & XFig Graphics* Complete vector drawing program supporting the W3C SVG standard* Three path-drawing tools (Pencil Pen Calligraphy)* Five shape-drawing tools (Rectangles Ellipses Stars Spirals 3D Boxes)* Linear & Radial Gradients* Pattern fills* Tweak Tool for fine adjustment of paths & colors* Spray Tool* Eraser Tool with both Vector & Bitmap modes* Sophisticated snapping for precision drawing & aligning objects* Extendable through scripting; more than one hundred scripts included

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Although a year has passed not a day goes by without Meggie thinking of the extraordinary events of Inkheart & the story whose characters strode out of the pages & changed her life for ever. But for Dustfinger the fire-eater torn from his world of words the need to return has become desperate. When he finds a crooked storyteller with the magical ability to read him back he sets in motion a dangerous reversal that sees the characters of Inkheart transported to a charmed Inkworld about to be fought over by rival rebels & princes. ...

There are more than 4000 miles of navigable waterways in Great Britain with more in Ireland & Europe. Peaceful canals bustling rivers glorious lakes
- there is something for everyone. This book will tell the reader all they need to know about how to get afloat
- which boat to choose whether to hire or buy how much it will cost & where they can go. Boat handling & manoeuvring are covered in detail along with maintenance & repair. & there is a section on trailer boating for those who want to keep their boat at home advice on living aboard for long periods night-time navigation & training. This is the only book novices will need to take their first steps afloat & it is the one they will keep by them throughout their boating years. ' This is the book to read from cover to cover' Cruising ' The perfect introductory guide to those new to the waterways' Maritime Journal

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