Vermilion Sands is a fully automated desert-resort designed to fulfil the most exotic whims of the idle rich but now languishes in uneasy decay populated only by forgotten movie queens solitary impresarios & the remittance men of the artistic & literary world. It is a lair for beachcombers hangers-on & malignant obsessions
- a place where sensitive pigments paint portraits of their mistresses in a grotesque parody of art; where prima donna plants are programmed to sing operatic arias; where dial-a-poem computers have replaced poets; where psychosensitive houses are driven to murder by their owners' neuroses; & where love & lust in the hands of jewel-eyed Jezebels pall before the stronger pull of evil.
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Fifteen-year-old Vernon Gregory Little is in trouble & it has something to do with the recent massacre of 16 students at his high school. Soon the quirky backwater of Martirio barbecue capital of Texas is flooded with wannabe CNN hacks eager for a scapegoat. ...

First performed at the Young Vic London in 2007 when it was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best New Play. Vernon Little is fifteen years old & lives with his mother in Martirio a flea-bitten Texan town. His best friend just massacred sixteen of their classmates before killing himself. The town wants vengeance & turns its sights on Vernon. ...

Footprintfocus Verona & Lake Garda is the only dedicated guide available covering this popular Italian destination. Features an Essentials section with practical tips to help plan a trip detailed information on attractions & comprehensive listings of where to eat sleep & have fun. * Essentials section with tips on getting there & around * Up-to-date recommendations of great places to stay & eat * Highlights map of the region plus detailed street maps where relevant * Slim enough to fit in a pocket Loaded with advice & information on how to get around this concise Footprintfocus guide will help travellers get the most out of Verona & Lake Garda without weighing them down. The content of the Footprintfocus Verona & Lake Garda guide has been extracted from Footprint's Italian Lakes guide. ...

The new novel from internationally acclaimed author Paulo Coelho
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Git permits practically an infinite variety of methods for development & collaboration but its flexibility also means that some users dont understand how to use it to best advantage. This book offers tutorials on ways to use it as well as friendly yet rigorous advice to help you navigate Gits many functions. In step by step fashion youll learn how to track branch merge & manage code revisions with Git. The second edition has been thoroughly revised with extended coverage of the reflog & stash tips for tree munging & tips for using the Github repository. Learn how to use Git in several real-world development environments Gain insight into Gits common-use cases initial tasks & basic functions Understand how to use Git for both centralized & distributed version control Use Git to manage patches diffs merges & conflicts Acquire advanced techniques such as rebasing hooks & ways to handle submodules (subprojects) Learn how to use Git with Subversion Git has earned the respect of developers around the world. Find out how you can benefit from this amazing tool with Version Control with Git. ...

The disappearance of Richey Edwards troubled guitarist with the Manic Street Preachers is one of rock & rolls great unresolved mysteries. His Vauxhall Cavalier was found abandoned in a service station car park near the Severn Bridge a notorious suicide spot in February 1995 a fortnight after Edwards had last been seen. The location of the car & the tape left in the deck
- Nirvanas album In Utero
- tended to point to one conclusion. However it almost seemed too obvious a statement & in A VERSION OF REASON Rob Jovanovic unravels the complicated life & final days of Richey Edwards. Piecing together testimony from those close to Edwards Jovanovic seeks to produce an authoritative account of the life & times of Richey Edwards.

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For courses in Vertebrate Zoology Vertebrate Biology Function & Paleontology Widely praised for its comprehensive coverage & exceptionally clear writing style this best-selling text explores how the anatomy physiology ecology & behavior of animals interact to produce organisms that function effectively in their environments & how lineages of organisms change through evolutionary time. The Ninth Edition features dozens of new figures & photos updated information from molecular data & evolutionary development & expanded discussions on global climate change extinction & conservation. ...

Vertebrate Palaeontology" is a complete up-to-date history of the evolution of vertebrates. The third edition of this popular text has been extensively revised to incorporate the latest research including new material from North & South America Australia Europe China Africa & Russia. This work: highlights astonishing new discoveries including new dinosaurs & Mesozoic birds from China; features a new chapter on how to study fossil vertebrates; provides an increased emphasis on the cladistic framework with cladograms set apart from the body of the text & full lists of diagnostic characters; &

Includes:: new molecular evidence on early mammal diversification. New features aid study including new functional & developmental feature spreads key questions & extensive references to useful web sites. It offers a strong phylogenetic focus making it an up-to-date source of the latest broad-scale systematic data on vertebrate evolution."

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Vertical Take-Off Fighter Aircraft" is an illustrated history of concepts experimental & operational military VTO & VTOL aircraft. The book starts with wartime German projects such as the Focke Wulf Treibflugel Heinkel Wespe & VTO rocket fighters. Postwar projects include US Navy carrier-based VTOL fighters the French annular wing experiments undertaken by SNECMA & various other proposals for fighters. In addition to "tail sitters " the author discusses conventionally shaped VTOL designs such as the Harrier Russian carrier-based Yaks & the new Lock Mart F-35 Lightning. This title will be of interest to aviation enthusiasts & modelers." ...