In her magnificent novel Marguerite Yourcenor recreates the life & death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world. The Emperor Hadrian aware his demise is imminent writes a long valedictory letter to Marcus Aurelius his future successor. The Emperor meditates on his past describing his accession military triumphs love of poetry & music & the philosophy that informed his powerful & far-flung rule. A work of superbly detailed research & sustained empathy Memoirs of Hadrian" captures the living spirit of the Emperor & of Ancient Rome." ...

The story of the last world war as told by Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz himself. His memoir covers his early career with submarines in the First World War & follows both his successes & failures through the Second World War with great detail on the way the U-boat campaign was waged as told by the man who invented U-boat tactics. Doenitz

Includes:: details of the U-boat campaigns during the Second World War as well as the opinions ideas & commentary on the period. Of particular interest are the comments regarding British & American conduct during the war. An important social document & an invaluable source for any student of the last war. He became the last Fuhrer of Germany after Hitlers suicide in May 1945 & the books subtitle Ten Years & Twenty Days is a direct reference to the time Karl Doenitz spent in Spandau Prison having been convicted of war crimes following trial at Nuremberg.

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Sherlock Holmes fame has also brought him notoriety & there are those in the criminal underworld who must move against him or find their schemes in ruins.. . While Holmes & Dr Watson solve what will become some of their most famous cases
- Silver Blaze" " The Greek Interpreter" & " The Musgrave Ritual" among them
- the forces of international crime plot their revenge against the detective. & it is in " The Final Problem" that Dr Watson has the sad task of telling the grisly fatal & shocking tale that saw Holmes finally meet his match
- in the guise of the diabolical Professor Moriarty & a terrible struggle at the Reichenbach Falls..."


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This second edition updates references to relevant regulations standards & publications. It replaces references to the Institution of Electrical Engineers' IEE Regulations with BS7671. This book is relevant to all work activities & premises except mines & quarries certain offshore installations & certain ships. The guidance is intended to assist duty holders in meeting the requirements of the Regulations. It will be of interest & practical help primarily to engineers (including those involved in the design construction operation or maintenance of electrical systems & equipment) technicians & their managers. ...

'I can understand myself only in the light of inner happenings. It is these that make up the singularity of my life & with these my autobiography deals
- Carl Gustav Jung. In 1957 four years before his death Carl Gustav Jung began writing his life story. But what began as an exercise in autobiography soon morphed into an altogether more profound undertaking. The result is an absorbing piece of self-analysis: a frank statement of faith philosophy & principles from one of the great explorers of the human mind. Covering everything from Sigmund Freud analytical psychology & Jungian dream interpretation to a forthright discussion of Christianity & the existence of God these final reflections on an extraordinary life are a fitting coda to the work of Carl Gustav Jung.
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The ravaged continent of Genabackis has given birth to a terrifying new empire: the Pannion Domin. Like a fanatical tide of corrupted blood it seethes across the land devouring all who fail to heed the Word of its elusive prophet the Pannion Seer. In its path stands an uneasy alliance: Dujek Onearm's Host & the Bridgeburners & each now outlawed by the Empress & alongside their enemies of old including the grim forces of Warlord Caladan Brood Anomander Rake Son of Darkness & his Tiste Andii & the Rhivi people of the Plains. But more ancient clans too are gathering. As if in answer to some primal summons the massed ranks of the undead T'lan Imass have risen. For it would seem something altogether darker & more malign threatens the very substance of this world. The Warrens are poisoned & rumours abound of the Crippled God now unchained & intent on a terrible revenge... Marking the return of many favourite characters from GARDENS OF THE MOON & introducing a host of remarkable new players MEMORIES OF ICE is a thrilling new chapter in Erikson's magnificent epic fantasy & another triumph of storytelling. ...

This is the intimate portrait of James Hunt put together from responses to the question: what is your strongest memory of him? This new edition will be published ahead of the release of the movie Rush the feature film that tells the story of the 1976 World Championship battle between James Hunt & Niki Lauda. Hunt
- public school hell-raiser loved & feared broadcaster an enigma even to his friends
- was one of the very few people who lived life as he wanted to. In this book of reminiscences from those who knew him & worked with him all sorts of surprising material emerges forming a rounded picture of this colourful character.

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The internationally best-selling The Other Side of Midnight was dominated by the man who is Sheldons most magnificent creation... Constantin Demiris Billionaire art lover womaniser...and killer. To Noelle the woman who betrayed him & Larry the man who stole her Demiris brought a chilling retribution. But Demiris terrible revenge is far from complete... Ioannina Greece In the seclusion of a remote convent a young woman emerges from the trauma of memory loss... Catherine Alexander Larrys widow sees Demiris as a benefactor the man who restores her faith in the future. How can she know the fate he has in store or that her life is bound up with other victims of his mighty ego? From the exotic shores of the Mediterranean to post-war London Memories of Midnight is a passionate unforgettable story of an innocent womans fight against a terrifying destiny ...

This anthology investigates the turn in art not only towards archives & histories the relics of modernities past but toward the phenomena in themselves of haunting" & the activation of memory. It looks at a wide array of artistic relationships to memory association repetition & reappearance as well as forms of "active" forgetting. Its discussions encompass artworks from the late 1940s onward ranging from reperformances such as Marina Abramovic's Seven Easy Pieces (embodied resurrections of decades-removed performance pieces by her contemporaries) to the inanimate trace of "memory" Robert Morris assigns to his free-form felt pieces which "forget" in their present configurations their previous slides & falls. Contextualizing memory's role in visual theory & aesthetic politics
- from Marcel Proust's optics to Bernard Stiegler's analysis of memory's "industrialization"
- this collection also surveys the diversity of situations & registers in which contemporary artists explore memory. Art that engages with memory embodied in material & spatial conditions is examined beside works that reflect upon memory's effects through time & yet others that enlist the agency of remembrance or forgetting to work through aspects of the numerous pasts by which the present is always haunted. Artists surveyed include: Marina Abramovic Eija-Liisa Ahtila Kutlug Ataman Uta Barth Tom Burr Sophie Calle Joseph Cornell Tacita Dean Stan Douglas Cheryl Dunye Kota Ezawa Hans-Peter Feldmann Felix Gonzalez-Torres Rodney Graham Richard Hamilton Sharon Hayes Susan Hiller Roni Horn Pierre Huyghe Amar Kanwar William Kentridge Idris Khan Zoe Leonard Ilan Lieberman Glenn Ligon Elizabeth Manchester Robert Morris Rabih Mroue Uriel Orlow Walid Raad Anri Sala Fazal Sheikh Lorna Simpson Vivan Sundaram Jane & Louise Wilson. Writers include Gaston Bachelard Daniel Birnbaum Andre Breton Nicolas Bourriaud Victor Burgin Johanna Burton Tom Burr Helene Cixous Joseph Cornell T.J. Demos Gilles Deleuze Ollivier Dyens Okwui Enwezor Briony Fer Hal Foster Maurice Halbwachs Richard Hamilton Margaret Iversen Martin Jay Siegfried Kracauer Abigail Levine Tom Mc Donough Roger Malbert Robert Morris Rabih Mroue Michael Newman Pierre Nora Georges Perec Peggy Phelan Pil & Galia Kollectiv Megan Ratner Hans Rudolf Reust Paul Ricoeur Lisa Saltzman Lauren Sedofsky Roger Shattuck Michael Sheringham Bernard Stiegler Peter Suchin Margaret Sundell & Jan Verwoert."

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If youre seriously interested in seriously improving your memory then Supercharge Your Memoryis the perfect place to start. This extraordinary book will start you off on what will be the most exciting intellectual adventure of your life & will provide immediate & compelling proof that your memory can easily & successfully become supercharged! Supercharge Your Memorywill introduce you to advanced memory techniques which when combined with the simultaneous development of all your senses will blast your memory capability into the stratosphere. Imagine your life with a memory that can easily & perfectly learn & recall lists of 10 to 10 000 objects; where you know the name of every bone & muscle in your body; every element on the periodic table & its associated number; the location & capital city of every country in the world. The list of things you could know & learn just like the capability of your memory is endless & inexhaustible. This is your opportunity to become one in a million; to take your place among the elite few with a memory that far exceeds the norm. So give your memory muscle the ultimate workout & discover how easy it is to supercharge your memory. ...