The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health environmental science & issues affecting quality of life. Our scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT tobacco smoke acid rain & global warming. But at the same time a small yet potent subset of this community leads the world in vehement denial of these dangers. Merchants of Doubt tells the story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists & scientific advisers with deep connections in politics & industry ran effective campaigns to mislead the public & deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades. Remarkably the same individuals surface repeatedly
- some of the same figures who have claimed that the science of global warming is not settled" denied the truth of studies linking smoking to lung cancer coal smoke to acid rain & CFCs to the ozone hole. " Doubt is our product " wrote one tobacco executive. These experts supplied it. Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway historians of science roll back the rug on this dark corner of the American scientific community showing how ideology & corporate interests aided by a too-compliant media have skewed public understanding of some of the most pressing issues of our era."
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Merciless" follows " Senseless" as the second in Mary Burtons thrilling two-part series. First you beg. Then you die... No Pity
- Each skeleton is flawless
- gleaming white & perfectly preserved a testament to his skill. Every scrap of flesh has been removed to reveal the glistening bone beneath. & the collection is growing... No Compassion
- When bleached human bones are identified as belonging to a former patient of Dr James Dixon Detective Malcolm Kier suspects the worst. Dixon was recently acquitted of attempted murder thanks to defense attorney Angie Carlson. But as the body count rises Kier is convinced that Angie is now the target of a brutal brilliant psychopath. No Escape
- Angie is no stranger to the dark side of human nature. But nothing has prepared her for the decades-long legacy of madness & murder about to be revealed
- or a killer ready to claim her as his ultimate trophy..." Merciless" follows on from Mary Burtons fantastic " Senseless". Will Malcom Kier be able to piece together the clues that Deacon Garrison previously uncovered? Praise for Mary Burton: "A twisted tale...I couldnt put it down!" (Lisa Jackson). " Stieg Larsson fans will find a lot to like in Burtons taut well-paced novel". (" Publishers Weekly"). Mary Burton is the critically acclaimed author of " Im Watching You" " Dead Ringer" " Dying Scream" " Merciless" & " Senseless"
- all set in Virginia USA where Mary lives with her family."





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The wild before the storm Travis Wilde doesnt do love or commitment
- but hed never turn down a willing woman & a kingsized bed!
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What makes a man the greatest of all time? Eddy Merckx is to cycling what Muhammad Ali is to boxing or Pele to football: quite simply the best there has ever been. Throughout his professional career Merckx amassed an astonishing 445 victories. To put that in perspective Bradley Wiggins has fewer than forty. Merckx was a machine. It wasnt just the number of victories; it was his remorseless domination that created the legend. In 1969 while already comfortably leading the Tour de France Merckx hammered a further eight-&-a-half minutes out of his nearest rivals during an 85-mile solo break in the Pyrenees. He didnt just beat his opponents he crushed them. But his triumphs only tell half a story that

Includes:: horrific injury a doping controversy & tragedy. He was nicknamed The Cannibal for his insatiable appetite for victory but the moniker did scant justice to a man who was handsome sensitive & surprisingly anxious. For Britains leading cycling writer William Fotheringham the burning question remains why? What made Eddy Merckx so invincible? In Half Man Half Bike Fotheringham goes back to speak to those who were there at the time & those who knew Merckx best. The result is this extraordinary & definitive story of a man whose fear of failure would drive him to reach the highest pinnacles before ultimately destroying him.

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Cameron Mac Donald has spent his life guided by duty. As the police chief of a small Massachusetts town that has been home to generations of his Scottish clan he is bound to the town's residents by blood & honor. Yet when his cousin Jamie arrives at the police station with the body of his wife & the bald confession that he's killed her Cam immediately places him under arrest. The situation isn't as clear to Cam's wife Allie. While she is devoted to her husband she finds herself siding against Cam seduced by the picture James paints of a man so in love with a woman that he'd grant all her wishes.. .even the one that meant taking her life. Into this charged atmosphere drifts Mia a new assistant at Allie's floral shop for whom Cam feels an instant & inexplicable attraction. While he aids the prosecution in preparing the case against Jamie who killed his terminally ill wife out of mercy Cam finds himself betraying his own wife. ...

Half dragon half woman can she save her friends soul
- without losing her heart? Mercy Wilson is a reporter in the San Francisco
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A year after arriving in France Englishman Paul West is still struggling with some fundamental questions: What is the best way to scare a gendarme? Why are there no health warnings on French nudist beaches? & is it really polite to sleep with your boss' mistress? Paul opens his English tea room & mutates (temporarily) into a Parisian waiter; samples the pleasures of typically French hotel-room afternoons; & on a return visit to the UK sees the full horror of a British office party through Parisian eyes. Meanwhile he continues his search for the perfect French mademoiselle. But will Paul find l'amour eternel or will it all end in merde? In his second comedy of errors Paul West continues to sabotage the entente cordiale. Author's apology: I'd just like to say sorry to all the suppository fans out there because in this book there are no suppositories. There are however lots of courgettes & I see this as progress. Suppositories to courgettes
- I think it proves that I'm developing as a writer." Stephen Clarke."
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Englishman Paul West is living the Parisian dream & doing his best not to annoy the French. But recently things have been going tres wrong: His apartment is so small that he has to cut his baguettes in two to fit them in the kitchen. His research into authentic French cuisine is about to cause a national strike. His Parisian business partner is determined to close their tea-room. & thinks that sexually harrassing his female employees is a basic human right. & Pauls gorgeous ex-girlfriend seems to be stalking him. Threatened with eviction unemployment & bankrupcy Paul realises that his personal merde factor is about to hit the fan... ...

Paul West is in deep financial merde. His only way out of debt is to accept a decidedly dodgy job that involves him touring America in a Mini while pretending to be typically British. Also in the car is Pauls French girlfriend Alexa & his American poet friend Jake whose main aim in life is to sleep with a woman from every country in the world. Preferably in the back of Pauls Mini. But as the little car battles from New York to Miami & then heads west leg-room turns out to be the least of Pauls troubles. His work is being sabotaged his tour plans are in tatters & his love life becomes a Franco-American war zone. & as Paul knows better than anyone when you mix love & war
- merde happens...
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