Eli Monpress is vain. Hes cocky. & hes a thief. But hes a thief who has just seen his bounty topped & hes not happy about it. The bounty topper as it turns out is his best friend & master swordsman Josef. Hes been keeping secrets from Eli. Apparently hes the only prince of a rather feisty country & hes been ordered to come home to do his duty. This means throwing over personal ambitions like proving hes the greatest swordsman who ever lived. Family drama aside Eli & Josef have their hands full. The Spirit Court has been usurped by the Council of Thrones & someone calling herself the Immortal Empress is staging a massive invasion. But its not just politics
- the Immortal Empress has a specific target in mind: Eli Monpress the greatest thief in the world. This omnibus edition contains: THE SPIRIT WAR & SPIRITS END
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From the outset Seumas Milnes Guardian essays on the Wests war on terror provoked angry denunciations on both sides of the Atlantic. A decade on the advocates of violent capitalism have been silenced. From class to religion Blair to Obama Palestine to Pakistan bank bailouts to the Arab uprisings the rise of China to the wave of change in Latin America Milne exposes the breakdown of the new world order
- & draws out the prospects for the emerging politics of the future. In a media culture dominated by eager apologists Milne has consistently written against the grain. This book offers a compelling perspective on the convulsions that have brought us to todays crisis
- & a powerful indictment of a global & corporate empire in decline.

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Hunky Parker is the new craze. His drooling dribbling pig face is everywhere: on T-shirts & badges & there are even horrible pig-trotter trainers & pig-swill yogurts in the shops. But it's when the Hunky TV shows air nationally that the trouble really begins. Suddenly people are going crazy for Hunky goods.. .and when the shops have sold out dangerous rioting starts. Dinah & her friends are suspicious. Is it really just a trend or is something more sinister afoot? Watching a Hunky video provides a valuable clue. Dinah & the rest of SPLAT set off in search of the real Hunky Parker. But someone is blocking them at every turn-someone who wants to keep the identity of Hunky Parker a secret.. . Someone who plans to control the entire nation! ' Gillian Cross's novels should be prescribed for all cases of reading reluctance among eight- to ten-year-olds. The Revenge of the Demon Headmaster has the same sort of appeal as ' Famous Five' or ' Secret Seven' novels.' Sunday Telegraph ...

Fright-master R.L. Stine invites you on an all-new all-terrifying adventure! The thrill ride begins when 12-year-old Britney Crosby encounters an old ventriloquist's dummy with a lively secret
- & a wicked plan. Just when she thinks the nightmare is over Britney receives an invitation to an amusement park where everything is not as it seems. Who
- or what
- is summoning ordinary kids to Horror Land? Britney & her friends must find out fast
- or remain trapped forever in the scariest place on Earth.



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When Joe Edmunds makes a wish on an Egyptian amulet little does he know that he has volunteered to guide & defend the undead pet inhabitants of his town! Disaster strikes when Bonsai the pug chases Pickle the cat into the street where she is flattened by a car. But the fact that Pickle has (almost) shuffled off her mortal coil isn't her biggest concern; she is worried that Bonsai will pursue her sister Pebble into an early grave too unless she & Joe teach the dog a lesson... ...

Elizabeth Haynes second novel is a taut & gripping murder mystery introducing a compelling new heroine Genevieve
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The hotly-anticipated sequel to The Devil Wears Prada
- the million copy bestseller that took the world by storm Available in gorgeous
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From Rory Clements winner of the Ellis Peters Historical Fiction Award comes REVENGER the second in his acclaimed bestselling John Shakespeare Elizabethan mystery series. ' Does for Elizabeth's reign what CJ Sansom does for Henry VIII's' Sunday Times 1592. England & Spain are at war yet there is peril at home too. The death of her trusted spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham has left Queen Elizabeth vulnerable. Conspiracies multiply. The quiet life of John Shakespeare is shattered by a summons from Robert Cecil the cold but deadly young statesman who dominated the last years of the Queen's long reign insisting Shakespeare re-enter government service. His mission: to find vital papers now in the possession of the Earl of Essex. Essex is the brightest star in the firmament a man of ambition. He woos the Queen thirty-three years his senior as if she were a girl his age. She is flattered by him
- despite her loathing for his mother the beautiful dangerous Lettice Knollys who presides over her own glittering court
- a dazzling array of the mad bad dangerous & disaffected. When John Shakespeare infiltrates this dissolute world he discovers not only that the Queen herself is in danger
- but that he & his family is also a target. With only his loyal footsoldier Boltfoot Cooper at his side Shakespeare must face implacable forces who believe themselves above the law: men & women who kill without compunction. & in a world of shifting allegiances just how far he can trust Robert Cecil his devious new master?


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This play depicts a morally corrupt world where the desire for justice is contaminated by the obsession for revenge. The characters take pleasure in watching adultery incest & murder. The play's chief moral spokesman Vindice is at the same time enamoured of & disgusted by the luxury of the court. Locating the play in relation to the best recent criticism & exploring its complexities with a contemporary eye furthers the reputation of these comprehensive student editions. ...

This is the 7th Edition of John Tiley's major text on revenue law now massively restructured to focus upon the UK Tax system Income Tax Capital Gains Tax & Inheritance Tax. What were previously sections dealing with Corporation Tax International & European Tax Savings & Charities have been spun-off to an entirely new book entitled Advanced Topics in Revenue Law. While this narrowing of the scope of Revenue Law means that it focuses on the most important UK taxes its reduced size also makes it a more manageable & portable volume for law students & practitioners. As with previous editions the text has been revised to incorporate changes wrought by new enactments in the past four years. This however remains the only book on tax law which continues to explain the new law found in ITEPA ITTOIA & ITA in light of its legislative predecessors with references to the former enactments still remaining where relevant. Those familiar with the old law of income tax but wanting to find their way round the new will find this work particularly valuable. The book is designed for law students taking the subject in the final year of their law degree course or for more advanced courses & is intended to be of interest to all who enjoy tax law. Its purpose is not only to provide an account of the rules but to include citation of the relevant literature from legal periodicals & some discussion of or reference to the background material in terms of policy history or other countries' tax systems. ...