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Bop Apocalypse, a narrative history from master storyteller Martin Torgoff, details the rise of early drug culture in America by weaving together the disparate elements that formed this new segment of the American fabric.Channeling his decades of writing experience, Torgoff connects the birth of jazz in New Orleans, the first drug laws, Louis Armstrong, Mezz Mezzrow, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, swing, Lester Young, Billie Holliday, the Savoy Ballroom, Reefer Madness, Charlie Parker, the birth of bebop, the rise of the Beat Generation, and the coming of heroin to Harlem.Having spent a lifetime immersed in the world where music and drugs overlap, Torgoff reveals material that is completely new and has never been disclosed before, not even in his own litany of work. Bop Apocalypse is truly a new and fresh contribution to the understanding of jazz, race, and drug culture.

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What were the iconic sports moments of the last century? In Replays, Rivalries, and Rumbles , a team of sports aficionados climb onto their bar stools to address that never-solved but essential question. Triumphs and turning points, rivalries and record-setters ”each chapter tracks down the real story behind the epic moments and legendary careers sports fans love to debate. Topics include Abner Doubleday and the origins of baseball; the era-defining 1979 duel between Larry Bird and Magic Johnson; how Denver and Cleveland relive The Drive; the myths surrounding the Ali-Foreman Rumble in the Jungle; Billie Jean King's schooling of Bobby Riggs; the Miracle on Ice; and ESPN's conquest of the sports world. Filled with eye-opening lore and analysis, Replays, Rivalries, and Rumbles is an entertaining look at what we think we know about sports.

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Ice-cold revengeor red-hot chemistry?Jane fled her wedding day when she discovered that she couldn't give billionaire Draco what he wanteda family. Running into him four years later, she expects to see anger in his eyesnot raging attraction! And even though Jane's hiding secrets old and new, their burning passion demands a second chance. But does Draco really want to reclaim heror does he want payback?A ring to claim his royal surprise!The helicopter crash that took newly crowned King Isam's family also took his memory. Returning to London a different man, the Sheikh is shocked by desire on meeting his virtual PA Avrilthen blindsided to learn that she's had his child! He might not remember the electrifying night they shared, but Isam will protect his heirby crowning this captivating stranger his queen!

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An engaging and reflective look at how austerity and the billionaire class paved the way for Trump's presidency, the rise of the "alt-right," and the caging of migrants children and adults in detention centers across the country. For all of the energy that the far right has demonstrated-and for all of the support that they receive from institutional conservatives in the GOP and affiliated organizations-the United States is experiencing an upsurge in left-wing social movements unlike any other in the past half-century, with roots not in the Democratic Party but Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter. Drawing on his original reporting as well as archival research, O'Connor investigates how the capitalist class and the radical right mobilize racism to defend their interests, while focusing on one of the most pressing issues of our time: immigration.

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An immersive blend of chicken-keeping memoir and culture reporting by a journalist who accidentally became obsessed with her flock.Since first domesticating the chicken thousands of years ago, humans have become exceptionally adept at raising them for food. Yet most people rarely interact with chickens or know much about them. In Under the Henfluence, culture reporter Tove Danovich explores the lives of these quirky, mysterious birds who stole her heart the moment her first box of chicks arrived at the post office.From a hatchery in Iowa to a chicken show in Ohio to a rooster rescue in Minnesota, Danovich interviews the people breeding, training, healing, and, most importantly, adoring chickens. With more than 26 billion chickens living on industrial farms around the world, they’re easy to dismiss as just another dinner ingredient. Yet Danovich’s reporting reveals the hidden cleverness, quiet sweetness, and irresistible personalities of these

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The Sunday Times Bestseller All Michael Parkinson really wanted to do was play cricket for Yorkshire and England. However, he soon realised that to be paid to watch films, football and cricket would be the best way to spend life, and he became a journalist. Television beckoned and for three decades Parkinson interviewed the movers and shakers of the late twentieth century, making his television programme the must-see event of the week. In singing with Bing Crosby, dancing with Billy Connolly, flirting with Miss Piggy and sparring with Muhammad Ali, Parkinson proved himself one of the most engaging and durable hosts in both Britain and Australia. In Parky he recalls a full life with honesty, insight and humour.Praise for Parky: 'Nothing less than riveting.' Mirror 'Joyous' Telegraph 'Wonderfully readable' Daily Mail 'One of the finest broadcasters of any era' Guardian

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Why is life the way it is? Bacteria evolved into complex life just once in four billion years of life on earth-and all complex life shares many strange properties, from sex to ageing and death. If life evolved on other planets, would it be the same or completely different? In The Vital Question, Nick Lane radically reframes evolutionary history, putting forward a cogent solution to conundrums that have troubled scientists for decades. The answer, he argues, lies in energy: how all life on Earth lives off a voltage with the strength of a bolt of lightning. In unravelling these scientific enigmas, making sense of life's quirks, Lane's explanation provides a solution to life's vital questions: why are we as we are, and why are we here at all? This is ground-breaking science in an accessible form, in the tradition of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species, Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, and Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel.

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The Last Emperox is the explosive conclusion to John Scalzi’s Interdependency series.Can they escape the end of an empire?Entire star systems, and billions of people, are about to be stranded. The pathways that link the stars are collapsing faster than anyone expected, accelerating the fall of civilization. But though the evidence is insurmountable, many are in denial. And some even attempt to profit from the final days of this golden age.Emperox Grayland II has wrested control of the empire from her enemies. But even as she works to save her people, others seek power. And they will make a final, desperate push to topple her from her throne. Grayland and her depleted allies must use every tool at their disposal to save themselves and humanity – yet it still may not be enough.Will Grayland become the saviour of her civilization . . . or the last emperox to wear the crown?

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Over his four-decade career, Sid Meier has produced some of the world’s most popular video games, including Sid Meier’s Civilization, which has sold more than 51 million units worldwide and accumulated more than one billion hours of play. Sid Meier’s Memoir! is the story of an obsessive young computer enthusiast who helped launch a multi-million-pound industry. Writing with warmth and ironic humour, Meier describes the genesis of his influential studio, MicroProse, founded in 1982 after a trip to a Las Vegas arcade, and recounts the development of landmark games, from vintage classics like Pirates! and Railroad Tycoon, to Civilization and beyond. Articulating his philosophy that a videogame should be "a series of interesting decisions", Meier also shares his perspective on the history of the industry, the psychology of gamers and fascinating insights into the creative process, including his ten rules of good game design.

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The atmosphere in the lab is toxic. It is only a matter of time before there is a flu pandemic with the potential to kill billions. Or so wealthy entrepreneur Lyle Lynstrum believes. That is why he is funding research into transgenics - the mechanism by which viruses can jump the species barrier - at a high security lab on a tidal island off the North Devon coast. A suspiciously rapid turnover of staff has him worried. He sends in scientist Katie Flanagan as an undercover lab technician. Something is clearly very wrong, but before Katie can get to the bottom of what is going on, a colleague is struck down by a mysterious illness. Has the safety of the facility been compromised, allowing a deadly virus to escape? Katie begins to suspect that the scientists are as deadly as the diseases - and that her cover has been blown. Then the island is cut off by high seas and a terrifying game of cat-and-mouse begins...

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What is life? Where do we come from and how did we evolve? What is the universe and how was it formed? What is the nature of the material world? How does it work? How and why do we think? What does it mean to be human? How do we know? There are many different versions of our creation story. This book tells the version according to modern science. It is a unique account, starting at the Big Bang and travelling right up to the emergence of humans as conscious intelligent beings, 13.8 billion years later. Chapter by chapter, it sets out the current state of scientific knowledge: the origins of space and time; energy, mass, and light; galaxies, stars, and our sun; the habitable earth, and complex life itself. Drawing together the physical and biological sciences, Baggott recounts what we currently know of our history, highlighting the questions science has yet to answer.

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Read Kurt Vonnegut's powerful masterpiece, which is as timely now as when it was first published.‘An extraordinary success. A book to read and reread. He is a true artist’ New York Times Book ReviewBilly Pilgrim – hapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower and soldier – has become unstuck in time. Hiding in the basement of a slaughterhouse in Dresden, with the city and its inhabitants burning above him, he finds himself a survivor of one of the most deadly and destructive battles of the Second World War. But when, exactly? How did he get here? And how does he get out?Travel through time and space on the shoulders of Vonnegut himself. This is a book about war. Listen to what he has to say: it is of the utmost urgency.‘The great, urgent, passionate American writer of our century, who offers us a model of the kind of compassionate thinking that might yet save us from ourselves.’ George Saunders

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The truth won’t stay buried forever . . . ‘A wonderfully twisty maze’ JAMES OSWALD Malcolm Kendwick is charming, handsome – and a suspected serial killer. When the partially clothed body of a woman is discovered on Dartmoor, all eyes are on one man. There wasn’t enough evidence to convict Kendwick of his suspected crimes in America, but DI Charlotte Savage is determined to bring him to justice. She’s certain the woman’s murder, so soon after Kendwick’s return to Devon, is no coincidence. But Savage hadn’t anticipated one thing: Kendwick has a perfect alibi. When more human remains are discovered at an isolated dumping ground, a full-scale murder investigation is launched. Savage realises it’s up to her to uncover the truth before the killer strikes again. She knows Kendwick is hiding something.Is there a limit to how far she’ll go to find out what? A page-turning, terrifying crime thriller with a gripping twist, perfect for fans of Mark Billingham and Tim Weaver.

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Con esta obra el autor tratará de informarnos y ayudarnos a comprender que nuestro cerebro es el equipo más valioso que tenemos, y que cuanto antes entendamos cómo funciona, más rápido podremos construir nuestros pilares de la vida: salud, relaciones y riqueza. El doctor Germán García-Fresco, director del Adaptive Neuroscience Research Institute, nos muestra cómo tener un cerebro sano y nos ayuda a construir esos tres pilares.El cerebro es un regalo increíble y su salud es la clave para lograr nuestros objetivos. Los aproximadamente ochenta mil millones de neuronas del cerebro están intrincadamente vinculadas a través de billones de conexiones. En el libro podremos conocer cómo estamos influenciados por hormonas, medicamentos, sentimientos y emociones, además de los defectos físicos o imperfecciones de nuestro cerebro. Todo ello afecta a nuestras decisiones. Tenemos sesgos, imaginamos amenazas que no existen e ignoramos las que sí. El cerebro es el objeto más complejo en el univers

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“Reading these absolutely terrific poems, with their southern colloquial drawl and sober Buddhist insight, is a bit like having a sage old sleepy tiger purr in your ear while you lie at the edge of the swamp in back of Billy-Joes's pickup truck.”—Dazed & Confused Magazine “Sustaining, inspiring, even rescuing.”—Will Oldham, musician “A true beast of a man with insight and beauty to spare.”—Harmony Korine, filmmaker “Brett Eugene Ralph can look at a woman dancing alone, ‘eyes closed, lips parted, held aloft / in one hand half a mango, / a gigantic butcher knife / clutched in the other,’ and know immediately that she’s praying.”—Andrew Hudgins Brett Eugene Ralph lives in rural western Kentucky. His country-rock ensemble, Brett Eugene Ralph’s Kentucky Chrome Revue, can be heard in seedy dives throughout the South.

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“Jones’s radical, detailed vision of what extremes it might take to unlearn misogyny is rendered with insight, immediacy, and painful honesty. This gut-punch of a story is sure to start conversations.”  — Publishers Weekly, starred reviewA searing examination of the dark heart of masculinity confronted by a women-led society. The Handmaid’s Tale meets Herland at a party thrown by Anaïs Nin.Jonathon Bridge has a corner office in a top-tier software firm, tailored suits, and an impeccable pedigree. He has a fascinating wife, Adalia; a child on the way; and a string of pretty young interns as lovers on the side. He’s a man who’s going places. His world is our world: the same chaos and sprawl, haves and have-nots, men and women, skyscrapers and billboards. But it also exists alongside a vast, self-sustaining city-state called The Fortress where the indigenous inhabitants—the Vaik, a s

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Nominated for the Phillip K. Dick Award, a science fiction fairy tale set in a collapsing future America about a girl and the android she falls in love with.When Cat Novak was a young girl, her father brought Finn, an experimental android, to their isolated home. A billion-dollar construct, Finn looks and acts human, but he has no desire to be one. He was programmed to assist his owners, and performs his duties to perfection. His primary task now is to tutor Cat. Finn stays with her, becoming her constant companion and friend as she grows into adulthood. But when the government grants rights to the ever-increasing robot population, Finn struggles to find his place in the world. As their relationship goes further than anyone intended, they have to face the threat of being separated forever.

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An “extraordinary…must-read” (Steven Levitsky, New York Times–bestselling coauthor of How Democracies Die) look at how support from foreign superpowers propped up—and pulled down—authoritarian regimes during the Cold War, offering lessons for today’s great power competition Throughout the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union competed to prop up friendly dictatorships abroad. Today, it is commonly assumed that this military aid enabled the survival of allied autocrats, from Taiwan’s Chiang Kai-shek to Ethiopia’s Mengistu Haile Mariam.    In Up in Arms, political scientist Adam E. Casey rebuts the received wisdom: aid to autocracies often backfired during the Cold War. Casey draws on extensive original research to show that, despite billions poured into friendly regimes, US-backed dictators lasted in power no longer than those without outside help. In fact, America

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Para algunos de los que la padecen, la calvicie es un problema que puede llegar a nublar su juicio. Este parece ser el caso del Emperador Bola de Billar IV que, obsesionado con su falta de pelo, tiene una idea genial para no sentirse en inferioridad ante los que poseen una exhuberante cabellera: crear un ejército cuya única misión es rapar la cabeza de todos los habitantes del imperio. Naturalmente, muchos de sus abnegados súbditos no se alegran, precisamente, de que les rapen el pelo al cero pero se sienten indefensos. Sólo una persona le planta cara al tirano: Bobobo Bobobobo, un hombre que desde su más tierna infancia ha podido comunicarse con el pelo de la gente y manipular el suyo a voluntad. Ahora, como paladín de la justicia capilar, Bobobo reunirá a un grupo de lo más variopinto para hacer frente a tan terrible amenaza y crear un mundo en el que el pelo pueda ser libre. . . Editado originalmente en la revista Shonen Jump.

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Para algunos de los que la padecen, la calvicie es un problema que puede llegar a nublar su juicio. Este parece ser el caso del Emperador Bola de Billar IV que, obsesionado con su falta de pelo, tiene una idea genial para no sentirse en inferioridad ante los que poseen una exhuberante cabellera: crear un ejército cuya única misión es rapar la cabeza de todos los habitantes del imperio. Naturalmente, muchos de sus abnegados súbditos no se alegran, precisamente, de que les rapen el pelo al cero pero se sienten indefensos. Sólo una persona le planta cara al tirano: Bobobo Bobobobo, un hombre que desde su más tierna infancia ha podido comunicarse con el pelo de la gente y manipular el suyo a voluntad. Ahora, como paladín de la justicia capilar, Bobobo reunirá a un grupo de lo más variopinto para hacer frente a tan terrible amenaza y crear un mundo en el que el pelo pueda ser libre. . . Editado originalmente en la revista Shonen Jump.

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Para algunos de los que la padecen, la calvicie es un problema que puede llegar a nublar su juicio. Este parece ser el caso del Emperador Bola de Billar IV que, obsesionado con su falta de pelo, tiene una idea genial para no sentirse en inferioridad ante los que poseen una exuberante cabellera: crear un ejército cuya única misión es rapar la cabeza de todos los habitantes del imperio. Naturalmente, muchos de sus abnegados súbditos no se alegran, precisamente, de que les rapen el pelo al cero pero se sienten indefensos. Sólo una persona le planta cara al tirano: Bobobo Bobobobo, un hombre que desde su más tierna infancia ha podido comunicarse con el pelo de la gente y manipular el suyo a voluntad. Ahora, como paladín de la justicia capilar, Bobobo reunirá a un grupo de lo más variopinto para hacer frente a tan terrible amenaza y crear un mundo en el que el pelo pueda ser libre. . . Editado originalmente en la revista Shonen Jump.

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Situada en el Manhattan actual, El loco de Nueva York es la historia de dos personajes considerados como idiotas por la mayoría de las personas con las que se relacionan. Por razones que parecen superarles, ambos se han encontrado en las calles de la Gran Manzana y han unido sus destinos. Uno es un gigante de casi dos metros y medio de alto.El otro, un amnésico que cree ser el pintor Francisco de Goya. Billy, el gigante, también ha sufrido de amnesia en el pasado, y comprende la angustia que provoca perder la identidad. Es una persona sencilla en apariencia, un antiguo jugador de baloncesto con un corazón de oro que ha tomado a su amigo bajo su protección. Juntos emprenderán una laboriosa búsqueda para descubrir el verdadero y sorprendente pasado de Francisco.El camino, que comienza en las calles de Nueva York, les conducirá, a través de numerosas aventuras, al reino de los recuerdos ocultos, las ironías y complejidades del carácter, el destino y el mal. Se trata de un viaje a la

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Reformen durch das neue SchVG, das ESUG sowie jüngst das StaRUG brachten eine schrittweise Öffnung deutscher Unternehmensrestrukturierungen für den Markt. Hinzu treten zunehmend komplexe Finanzierungsstrukturen sowie ein aktiver Sekundärmarkt für notleidende Forderungen. Vor diesem Hintergrund rücken fremdkapitalbasierte Übernahmestrategien unter Umsetzung von Debt-Equity-Swaps stetig weiter in den Blickpunkt. Das deutsche Recht bietet Loan-to-Own-Investoren sowie sanierungsbedürftigen Schuldnern dabei eine wachsende Vielfalt möglicher Verfahrensvarianten: von collective-action-clauses in Anleihebedingungen, über die Verwertung von Pfandrechten an Gesellschaftsanteilen, das britische Scheme of Arrangement-Verfahren, das neue StaRUG, bis hin zum Insolvenzverfahren. Wertvolle Einblicke gewährt dabei eine Untersuchung des Loan-to-Own unter US-amerikanischem Recht (Gläubigertransparenz, Stimmverbote, Subordination aus Billigkeitsgründen). Im Lichte dessen untersucht Donatus Wang konkrete Reformperspektiven für das deutsche Recht.

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These days, I've been killing it when it comes to letting people down. Now I've been kicked out of high school, arrested, and accepted into a remote, off-the-grid school owned and operated by an inscrutable billionaire tech guru. Gray Wolf Academy is looking for a certain kind of student. Ones that no one will miss. Like me. Then there's Braxton. The beautiful, oddly anachronistic guy who showed up right when the trouble started. And he's a total enigma-which means that I definitely can't trust him, even if there's something about him that makes me want to. They all tell me I have a gift. A very rare gift. And Gray Wolf Academy wants me to learn it. To use it. Because if what they say is true, I have all the time in the world. And that makes me the most dangerous high school student you'll never know.

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In Robuste Lieferketten in unsicheren Zeiten zeigt ein Team engagierter, erfahrener Betriebsstrategen praxisnah auf, wie Sie die Lieferketten Ihres Unternehmens durch einen unerbittlichen Fokus auf Resilienz zukunftssicher machen können. In diesem Buch erfahren Sie anhand von 5 Geschäftsprinzipien, wie Sie den Schwerpunkt Ihres Unternehmens von niedrigen Kosten auf geringe Volatilität verlagern können, um Ihr Unternehmen vor Angebots- und Nachfrageschocks zu schützen, die mit Pandemien, Kriegen, Arbeitskämpfen und Handelskonflikten einhergehen. Außerdem erfahren Sie mehr über: - Beispiele aus der Praxis von Unternehmen, die durch die Umsetzung der von den Autoren empfohlenen Veränderungen langfristige Wettbewerbsvorteile erzielen. - Warum es besser ist, langfristige, für beide Seiten vorteilhafte Beziehungen zu zuverlässigen Lieferanten aufzubauen, als immer die billigste Option zu wählen. - Wie ein erneuter Fokus auf Vielfalt und neue Arbeitsweisen belastbare Betriebsteams sc

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Microsoft’s associate general counsel shares a story that is “as nuanced as it is hopeful” (Hakeem Jeffries, House Minority Leader) about his rise from childhood poverty in pre-gentrified New York City to a stellar career at the top of the technology and music industries in this stirring true story of grit and perseverance. For fans of Indra Nooyi’s My Life in Full and Viola Davis’s Finding Me.As an accomplished Microsoft executive, Bruce Jackson handles billions of dollars of commerce as its associate general counsel while he plays a crucial role in the company’s corporate diversity efforts. But few of his colleagues can understand the weight he carries with him to the office each day. He kept his past hidden from sight as he ascended the corporate ladder but shares it in full for the first time here. Born in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Jackson moved to Manhattan’s Amsterdam housing projects as a child, where

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Branding is not only more fun with a goddess to guide you—it’s also more powerful. In The Goddess Guide to Branding, brand strategist Jane McCarthy and venture capitalist Kate McAndrew introduce you to eight goddess archetypes whose timeless energies are alive in successful brands today. From there, they lead you on a journey to build your own brand in a way that is authentic to your company and ultra-appealing to your community.    Throughout the book, female founders and brand leaders share what they’ve learned on their own brand-building journeys. It’s truly a powerhouse collective of women invested in seeing you succeed:  Laura Modi (CEO & Co-Founder Bobbie) Sallie Krawcheck (CEO & Founder Ellevest) Georgina Gooley (Co-Founder Billie) Sophie Bambuck (CMO The North Face) Sali Christeson (CEO & Founder Argent) Susan Griffin

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Two linked one-act plays set in a run-down residential hotel in Bournemouth. In the first of the plays, Table by the Window, a lonely divorcee tracks down her former husband in order to resume a kind of half-life with him. In the other, Table Number Seven, a repressed young spinster offers brave moral support to a fake major accused of importuning women in a local cinema. Terence Rattigan's play Separate Tables was first produced at the St. James's Theatre, London, in September 1954. In an alternative version, only recently discovered among Rattigan's papers, the major's offence was revealed to be homosexual; these 'alternative' scenes are published here for the first time. This edition, edited and introduced by Dan Rebellato, includes a biographical sketch and chronology. 'Few dramatists of this century have written with more understanding of the human heart than Terence Rattigan' Michael Billington

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Wrap yourself in the taste of Christmas with this fantastic festive romance! Christa Playfoot is looking for a fresh start after her divorce. Having lost her Michelin-starred restaurant, she hadn't expected to be job hunting and single just before Christmas. When her best friend says she's recommended Christa for a gig as a private chef over the Christmas period, Christa can't think of a reason to say no. Christa has no idea what to expect but it's certainly not grumpy billionaire divorcee Marc Ferrier and his rambunctious twin sons, or the beautiful but cheerless country estate, Pudding Hall, that they inhabit. With her knack for pouring love into her cooking, Christa is determined to make this Christmas sparkle for the Ferrier family and maybe get her life back on track in the process...

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The Syndicate Worlds continue to splinter as more star systems pledge allegiance to President Gwen Iceni, General Artur Drakon, and the new government they're establishing at Midway. But the toxic legacy of Syndicate rule continues to undermine their efforts as the rebels encounter difficulty trusting one another and believing their new leaders' promises of freedom from tyranny. Before Iceni and Drakon can put their house in order, they must deal with an even greater threat. An enigma warship has appeared and vanished near a Syndic colony. If the aliens are capable of jumping into other human-occupied star systems, then billions of people could be vulnerable to a hostile invasion fleet anywhere they choose to strike. But an even greater vulnerability lies with Iceni and Drakon, as a once-trusted adviser-turned-saboteur plans revenge...

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Ideal for fans of Jack Prelutsky and Shel Silverstein, this collection of hilarious poems is perfect for any young reader who likes to read — and laugh!This funny poetry book is full of unusual characters: lots and lots of dragons, panda and pangolin musicians, mail-order eggs that hatch dinosaurs (surprise!), ten aliens with a garden-gnome pal, a robot uncle, and a professor who uses his Page Machine to travel to multiple pages within the book. Vikram Madan's ingenious poems take many forms, from limerick to rebus to a fill-in-the-blank poem that offers more than 13.8 billion funny combinations. All feature clever wordplay, impeccable rhythm and rhyme, and riotous punchlines. This is a quirky collection of poems that readers will laugh their way through again and again.

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‘Stuart Neville at his considerable best. A shocking and powerful thriller that is as moving as it is gripping. This is a book you will not forget in a hurry and which will leave you hungry for the next instalment’ MARK BILLINGHAM ‘A clever, brooding narrative that left me feeling the boundaries of possibility had blurred’ NATALIE CHANDLERYou would do anything to protect your child. Even if she’s a monster . . . Rebecca Carter and her daughter Monica, nicknamed Moonflower, travel the American West, always on the move, always hiding, always looking behind them, always keeping Moonflower out of sight. They speak to no one, only interacting with people when it’s absolutely necessary.But wherever they go, bodies are left behind. Special Agent Marc Donner of the FBI has been tracking a killer for the best part of two years. A murderer that strikes once

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40 per cent of self-made millionaires are dyslexic.Dyslexia does not equal stupidity. For many, it's a superpower.Think Steve Jobs, Henry Ford, Steven Spielberg and Sir Richard Branson.The Dyslexic Edgechallenges the narrative that views dyslexia as a deficit or impediment to success, presenting compelling research to demonstrate quite the opposite. By delving into the lives and experiences of some of the best-known dyslexic minds worldwide, Jamie Waller and Dr Helen Taylor highlight the distinct advantage that dyslexic thinking brings. From billionaires to budding visionaries, they provide an illuminating deep-dive into the mind and creativity of the dyslexic thinker and offer actionable insightsto help the reader applythese frameworks totheir own success.Dyslexic thinking is limitless. And, crucially, it can be implemented by anyone.Featuring:CLIFF WEITZMAN (Speechify)SIR CHARLES DUNSTONE (Carphone Warehouse andFive Guys Eu

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A planet without power. When a solar storm hits the earth, the lights go out across the planet. But this time the blackout won't be over soon - it could last for years. Aubrey and her stepson now face the biggest challenge of their lives. A society without rules. Soon they hear rumours of riots, the struggle for food becomes real, and even within their small communi-ties, the rule of law is collapsing. Aubrey's estranged brother Thom, a self-made billionaire who abandoned her years ago, retreats to a gilded desert bunker where he can ride out the crisis in perfect luxury. A race to build a better world... But the complicated history between the siblings is far from over, and what feels like the end of the world is just the beginning of a personal reckoning long overdue...

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A lone ship journeys south, heading for the furthest reaches of Antarctica. It belongs to Sky, the billionaire behind a groundbreaking project to salvage the region. On board is disgraced environmental activist Ivy Cunningham, lending her expertise in the hope that it might rescue her reputation - and perhaps even mend her broken relationship with her son. And yet, as the ship moves ever deeper into the breathtaking but eerie landscape, Ivy grows increasingly suspicious of her fellow passengers, and starts to question the project''s motives. If she could leave, she would - but she knows there''s no way home. Exhilarating, terrifying and thought-provoking at once, The Edge of Solitude is a story of climate emergency and human fallibility, of the clash of ambition and principle, and of the choices we make when we know that time is running out.

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It is often assumed that government intervention is required to bring to fruition large scale infrastructure projects because the large initial capital outlays such projects require must be funded from the public purse. In "Wheels of Fortune", Fred Harrison shows that large scale infrastructure projects can be made self-funding. Infrastructure projects almost always bring about a large increase in the value of adjoining land. For example, it is estimated that the London Underground Jubilee Line extension increased adjoining land values by close to GBP3 billion. When such infrastructure projects are funded by government, they therefore involve a substantial transfer of wealth from a large number of taxpayers to a small number of property owners. Harrison argues that a fairer and more efficient means to fund infrastructure projects is to capture and use the increases in land values that they bring.

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What makes us fall in love with a song? What makes us want to write our own songs? Do songs help? Do songs help us live better lives? And do the lives we live help us write better songs? Following publication of Let's Go (So We Can Get Back) and How To Write One Song, both New York Times bestsellers that cemented and expanded his legacy as one of America's best-loved performers and songwriters, Jeff Tweedy is back with another disarming, beautiful, and inspiring book.Featuring over fifty songs that have both changed Jeff's life and influenced his music-including songs by the Velvet Underground, Joni Mitchell, Otis Redding, Dolly Parton, and Billie Eilish-as well as thoughts on Jeff's own songs, World Within a Song asks why do we listen to music, why we love songs, and how music can connect us to each other and to ourselves.

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He’s her son, but he’s no good. How far will she go for him? Not all sons make their mother proud… June Dawson has come a long way from her rough East End background. She now lives in a nice little cul-de-sac in Rainham with her ultra-respectable husband and a lovely social life. But her world collapses when daughter Debbie announces that she is pregnant by her low-life drug addict boyfriend, Billy McDaid. June feels as though she is being sucked back into the world of villains and thugs she thought she had escaped forever. But worse is yet to come. The baby – doted on by his violent and feckless dad – grows into the child from hell. He is mean, sadistic and out of control. Suddenly, the family is not just in crisis. It is in meltdown.

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In 1994, Ray Anderson felt a 'spear in the chest': he realised that his company, billion-dollar carpeting manufacturer Interface, Inc, was plundering the environment with its unsustainable business practices, and that it desperately needed to change direction. Under his leadership, Interface went on to set unprecedented targets for cutting waste, instigated revolutionary recycling initiatives, and encouraged employees at every level of the company to contribute ideas on how to save resources. As a result, the company's greenhouse gas emissions decreased by 82% and are on target to reach zero level by 2020. Not only that, these changes also brought down costs, improved quality, and increased profits. In Confessions of a Radical Industrialist, Ray Anderson shares the remarkable story of how Interface turned itself around, and proves that running your company sustainably isn't radical at all - it's just good business.

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A beautifully illustrated, enlightening edition of astronomer Jillan Scudder's exploration of our universe.Looking up at the night sky, it is almost impossible to imagine that we can trace our common ancestry with the distant stars and galaxies back over 13.8 billion years.Astroquizzical explores this connection by travelling back through the generations of the cosmic family tree, from Earth (parent) to the stars (grandparents), galaxies (great grandparents) and first atoms of the Big Bang (great-great grandparents). On the journey, the reader is invited to become 'astroquizzical' by asking the questions and investigating the many scientific mysteries of how the universe was formed and how it works.This updated and illustrated edition combines beautifully curated space images with ten sketchbook 'thought experiments' to create a uniquely accessible guide to the science of Earth's place among the planets, stars, and galaxies.

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'Like A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD written by Tina Fey' Sam Baker, RED MAGAZINEShortlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize for FictionA NEW YORK TIMES bestsellerCOMING SOON: The film adaptation, directed by Richard Linklater and starring Cate Blanchett, Kristen Wiig and Billy Crudup Bernadette Fox is notorious. To Elgie Branch, a Microsoft wunderkind, she's his hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled wife. To fellow mothers at the school gate, she's a menace. To design experts, she's a revolutionary architect. And to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, quite simply, mum. Then Bernadette disappears. And Bee must take a trip to the end of the earth to find her.WHERE'D YOU GO, BERNADETTE is a compulsively readable, irresistibly written, deeply touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's place in the world.

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Like most of us, Ian Vince used to think of the British countryside as average, unexciting - as dramatic as a nice cup of tea. Then, over the course of a single car journey, the features of our green and pleasant land reawakened a fascination with geology that he had long forgotten, and he began to delve beneath the surface (metaphorically, that is). From the rocks of north-west Scotland which are amongst the oldest on the planet to St Michael's Mount off the coast of Cornwall, which was still being shaped in human memory, The Lie of the Land takes us on a journey through a fantastically exotic Britain of red desert sands, shattering continental collisions and tides of volcanic lava. Ian Vince shows us how Britain came to look the way it does; and with warmth and wit transports us back through billions of years to a land that time forgot.

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Gain a holistic view of agricultural (re)insurance and capital market risk transfer Increasing agricultural production and food security remain key challenges for mankind. In order to meet global food demand, the Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates that production has to increase by 50% by 2050 and requires large investments. Agricultural insurance and financial instruments have been an integral part to advancing productivity and are becoming more important in increasingly globalized and specialized agricultural supply chains in the wake of potentially more frequent and severe natural disasters in today’s key producing markets. Underwriting, pricing and transferring agricultural risks is complex and requires a solid understanding of the production system, exposure, perils and the most suitable products, which vastly differ among developed and developing markets. In the last decade, new insurance schemes in emerging agricultural markets have greatly contributed to the large growth of the industry from a premium volume of US$10.1 billion (2006) to US$30.7 billion (2017). This growth is bound to continue as insurance penetration and exposure increase and new schemes are being developed. Agricultural (re)insurance has become a cornerstone of sovereign disaster risk financing frameworks. Agricultural Risk Transfer introduces the main concepts of agricultural (re)insurance and capital market risk transfer that are discussed through industry case studies. It also discusses best industry practices for all main insurance products for crop, livestock, aquaculture and forestry risks including risk assessment, underwriting, pricing, modelling and loss adjustment. Describes agricultural production risks and risk management approaches Covers risk transfer of production and financial risks through insurance and financial instruments Introduces modelling concepts for the main perils and key data sources that support risk transfer through indemnity- and index-based products Describes risk pricing and underwriting approaches for crop, livestock, aquaculture and forestry exposure in developed and developing agricultural systems Become familiar with risk transfer concepts to reinsurance and capital markets Get to know the current market landscape and main risk transfer products for individual producers, agribusinesses and governments through theory and comprehensive industry case studies Through Agricultural Risk Transfer, you’ll gain a holistic view of agricultural (re)insurance and capital market solutions which will support better underwriting, more structured product development and improved risk transfer.

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Our lives are more controlled by computers and algorithms than we understand, but who controls the computers? Artificial Intelligencia steps behind the veil into the world of hackers, intelligence agents, surveillance systems, quantum computing, and deadly international competition.A junior Chinese police detective stumbles onto a global plot that has control of camera and computer systems tracking billions of humans, including people who seem to exist only in cyberspace. He created the world’s most advanced surveillance system and now an even more powerful program is after him.Ranging from inside the highest offices in China to the halls of Washington’s security establishment and the cutting-edge labs of Canada and California, Chief Inspector Wei Bao races to stop an impending disaster. Only two problems: he does not know what the disaster will be or who is going to perpetrate it.

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More haikus by popular demand from Singapore bestselling poet. In this bumper volume of 392 haikus, Gwee comments on and pokes fun at people, subjects and events in and far beyond Singapore: Bob Dylan, Paul Tambayah, the PM's sister, Tharman Shanumgaratnam, Billy Graham, Kim Jong Un, Stan Lee, Donald Trump, Greta Thunberg, Batman! Racism, doxxing, lim kopi, gun culture, fake news, arts funding, breast feeding, refugees, academic freedom, sin taxes! The fall of Singapore, Hong Kong protests, HIV data leak, Crazy Rich Asians, Charlottesville, US refugee ban, Brexit! In the miscellany find 38 Oxley Road, Baba Yaga, casual snobbery, Minority-race PM, bureaucratic bloat, One Belt One Road. And there are lines about Fanny Hill, toilet python, eunach disease, private clubs, gay cakes and rude gestures too

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“The Dragon Detective Agency. Dirk Dilly speaking.” When a visitor turns up unannounced at Dirk’s office with a new case for him and Holly to solve, all is not as it seems. A Sea Dragon has disappeared and the only clue left at the scene of the crime is the ashy outline of an elusive Sky Dragon. As their investigations take them from a dodgy billionaire’s HQ to the top of the city’s tallest skyscraper, trouble is set to soar sky high for this dragon detective and his partner-in-solving-crime. Will they be able to hunt down the suspect and find the missing dragon before they both disappear into thin air? The third instalment in a fun and action-packed detective series for fans of TOTO THE NINJA CAT, HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON and Tom Fletcher’s children’s books!

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For the first time, this book tells the 'lost' story of the 1930s Western. Written from a concern to understand Western films primarily as products of Hollywood's studio system, it recovers the context in which Westerns were produced, exhibited and viewed in the 1930s. Peter Stanfield highlights the hitherto marginalised 'B' or 'series' Western, the significance of female audiences, the role of independent exhibitors and of censorship in shaping film production. Includes illustrations from the following films: Arizona, The Big Trail, Billy the Kid, Cimarron, Destry Rides Again, Dodge City, In Old Arizona, In Old Santa Fe, Jesse James, The Lash, Let Freedom Ring, Oh, Susanna!, Oklahoma Kid, The Plainsman, Ramona, Santa Fe Trail, Stand Up and Fight, Three Godfathers, Trail of the Lonesome Pine, Tumbling Tumbleweeds, Union Pacific, Virginia City, The Virginian, The Westerner.

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YOU HAD A SECRET. ALICE FOUND OUT. 'A highly entertaining, gripping and compulsive crime read, with many twists and turns' *****___________Alice Teale walked out of school at the end of a bright spring day.She's not been seen since. Alice was popular and well-liked, and her boyfriend, friends and family are desperate to find her.But soon it's clear that everyone in her life has something to hide.Then the police receive a disturbing package.Pages from Alice's precious diary.Who could have sent them? And what have they done with Alice?___________Praise for Howard Linskey:'THIS STORY WILL CAUSE NIGHTMARES, IT IS THAT GOOD' DAILY MAIL'DARK, CLEVER AND ENGROSSING' C. L. Taylor'I WAS HOOKED FROM START TO FINISH' LJ Ross'ONE OF THE BEST WRITERS AROUND' Mark Billingham

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