Motionless Montalbano waited for the surf to enter his brain & wash it clean with each breaker. At last the first light wave came like a caress swiiissshhh & carried away glugluglug Elena Sclafani & her beauty while Michela Pardo's tits belly arched body & eyes likewise disappeared. Once Montalbano the man was erased all that should remain was Inspector Montalbano -- a kind of abstract function the person who was supposed to solve the case & nothing more with no personal feelings involved. But as he was telling himself this he knew perfectly well that he could never pull it off. As he gets older Inspector Montalbano is plagued by existential questions. But he doesn't have much time to wax philosophical before the gruesome murder of a man -- shot in the face at point-blank range with his pants down -- commands his attention. Add two evasive beautiful women as prime suspects dirty cocaine dead politicians mysterious computer codes & a series of threatening letters & things soon get very complicated at the police headquarters in Vigata. ' Wonderful Italian detective stories' Guardian 'A magnificent series of novels' Sunday Times ...

This title is the winner of the Spears Business Book of the Year Award. It is longlisted for the Financial Times" Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. In today's financial climate we are all naturally obsessed by debt. In almost every aspect of our life we experience it
- on our credit cards mortgages bank loans & student loans. But where has this debt come from? How does it work? What is any money really worth? & what promises do we need to believe to keep the whole system afloat? In this fascinating look at money through the ages
- including our own unstable future
- award-winning financial journalist Philip Coggan examines the flawed structure of the global finance systems as they exist today & asks with deeper imbalances that the world is currently facing what's actually at stake."


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This entry in the successful series focuses on classic paper quilling: a form of filigree thats perfect for scrap booking as well as card & ornament making. Using a friendly question & answer format & dozens of close-up step-by-step photographs it explains how to roll coils make basic shapes & create off-centred circles scrolls roses loops & more. For every technique theres a project! ...

Who is the real Margo? Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window & climbs into his life
- dressed like a ninja & summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge
- he follows. After their all-nighter ends & a new day breaks Q arrives at school to discover that Margo always an enigma has now become a mystery. She has disappeared. Q soon learns that there are clues in her disappearance.. .and they are for him. Trailing Margo's disconnected path across the USA the closer Q gets the less sure he is of who he is looking for.

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What do reading a book smoking a cigarette throwing confetti & voting in an election have in common? The answer of course is paper. Paper serves nearly every function of our lives. It is the technology with which we have made sense of the world. Yet the age of paper is ending. Ebooks now outsell their physical counterparts. Still there are some uses of paper that seem unlikely to change
- Christmas wont be Christmas without wrapped presents or crackers. & the language of paper
- documents files & folders
- has survived digitisation. In Paper: An Elegy Ian Sansom builds a museum of paper & explores its paradox
- its vulnerability & durability. This book is a timely meditation on the very paper its printed on.



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This convenient new paperback-sized music dictionary is divided into three main sections. The Dictionary of Music Terms concisely defines more than 2 200 notation & theory terms & instruments & terms used in pop music electronic music & the music business. The Dictionary of Musicians provides more than 450 capsule biographies of composers & other musicians noting dates of birth & death nationality historical period areas of composition & major works. Finally a collection of Reference Charts gives instant at-a-glance summaries of the essentials of music: notation signs & symbols
- including tab
- & scales modes & key signatures.

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This fully updated edition offers over 120 000 words phrases & definitions. It covers all the words you need for everyday use carefully selected from the evidence of the Oxford English Corpus a databank of 21st century English containing over 2 billion words. The Factfinder centre section gives quick-reference entries on topics including famous people countries & science.

Includes:: 3 months' access to Oxford Dictionaries Pro at oxforddictionaries.com.

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Paperblanks have been producing superb writing journals for nearly 20 years. They believe that the written word matters & that ...

Paperblanks have been producing superb writing journals for nearly 20 years. They believe that the written word matters & that ...

Paperblanks have been producing superb writing journals for nearly 20 years. They believe that the written word matters & that ...