FW: Belgium and Luxembourg (EYEWITNESS TRAVEL GUIDE) (by DK Publishing)

 

 

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Posted on: Friday, January 27, 2012 4:28 PM
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Subject: Belgium and Luxembourg (EYEWITNESS TRAVEL GUIDE) (by DK Publishing)

 

Product Description: DK Eyewitness: Belgium and Luxembourg travel guide will lead you straight to the best attractions these countries have on offer. Packed with photographs, illustrations, and maps of Belgium and Luxembourg, the guide includes in-depth coverage of the region's best attractions from fine art in Brussels to the canals of Bruges and battlefields of Flanders and the best castles, museums, and architecture in between. Illustrated food features highlight local produce and classic dishes of Belgium and Luxembourg while the best hotels and restaurants in Belgium and Luxembourg have been selected by resident experts. The guide provides the insider knowledge every traveler will need with sections on Flanders and Wallonia, specially devised walks, scenic and thematic tours, and comprehensive background on everything from Tintin to tapestry, not forgetting the best of Belgium beer. The guide includes family entertainment in Belgium, regional driving tours, cutaways, and floor plans for all major attractions as well as sights, markets, and festivals listed town by town. Also included is the new feature of a pull-out Belgium and Luxembourg map which will ensure you won't miss a thing! Don't miss a thing on your vacation with the DK Eyewitness Travel guidebook to Belgium and Luxembourg. HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE: -Packed with photographs, illustrations, and maps -Cutaways and floor plans of all the major sights -3-D aerial views of the city's most intere Read more...

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FW: Blood of Roses (by Marsha Canham)

 

 

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Posted on: Friday, January 27, 2012 4:26 PM
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Subject: Blood of Roses (by Marsha Canham)

 

Product Description: The stunning sequel to The Pride of Lions! In a novel that sizzles with  passionate intrigue and breathtaking romance, Marsha Canham whisks the reader back to war-torn Scotland as a legendary warrior fights for the two things most precious to any man: his country and the woman he loves. She was born an Englishwoman, but he made her a Scot, pledged to fight for her beloved husband even against the country of her birth. Catherine Ashbrooke Cameron had committed the unpardonable sin of falling in love with her husband a Scottish spy she married in her English home.  Now, as she raced to the Highlands, into the strong, tender arms of Alexander Cameron, the innocent English beauty would learn the passions of war and the price of love .  .  .  . He fought to keep her safe as he battled the English enemy and betrayal from within. Alexander Cameron was a man with a price on his head and enemies to burn.  Love had made the legendary warrior vulnerable.  Now he must protect Catherine from the dangers that threatened them both.  But as he rode into battle against the English, she refused to stay behind.  He had claimed her, touched her, loved her, and she vowed nothing would ever separate them again. Read more...

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FW: Digital Photo USA - January-February 2012

 

 

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Posted on: Friday, January 27, 2012 4:25 PM
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Digital Photo USA - January-February 2012 English | 88 pages | PDF | 118.52 MB Digital Photo explores the exciting world of digital photography and technology. Every issue features the latest news, step-by-step instructions, evaluations of the latest equipment, photography tips from the pros and more.

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FW: In Plain Sight: A Novel (by C. J. Box)

 

 

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Posted on: Friday, January 27, 2012 4:23 PM
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Product Description: When wealthy matriarch Opal Scarlett vanishes, Joe Pickett is sure one of her greedy sons did her in. But when Joe becomes the victim of violent pranks, he wonders if what's happening has less to do with Opal's disappearance than with the darkest chapter of his own past. Read more...

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FW: Plato's Charmides: Positive Elenchus in a 'Socratic' Dialogue (by Thomas M. Tuozzo)

 

 

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Posted on: Friday, January 27, 2012 4:20 PM
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Subject: Plato's Charmides: Positive Elenchus in a 'Socratic' Dialogue (by Thomas M. Tuozzo)

 

Product Description: This book argues that Plato's Charmides presents a unitary but incomplete argument intended to lead its readers to substantive philosophical insights. Through careful, contextually sensitive analysis of Plato's arguments concerning the virtue of sophrosyne, Thomas M. Tuozzo brings the dialogue's lines of inquiry together, carrying Plato's argument forward to a substantive conclusion. This innovative reading of Charmides reverses misconceptions about the dialogue that stemmed from an impoverished conception of Socratic elenchus and unquestioned acceptance of ancient historiography's demonization of Critias. It views Socratic argument as a tool intended to move its addressee to substantive philosophical insights. It also argues, on the basis of recent historical research, a review of the fragments of Critias' oeuvre, and Plato's use of Critias in other dialogues, that Plato had a nuanced, generally positive view of Critias. Throughout, readers are alerted to textual difficulties whose proper resolution is crucial to understanding Plato's often abstract arguments. Read more...

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FW: Free Fire (by C. J. Box)

 

 

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Product Description: Joe Pickett investigates the mass murder of a group of campers in a back-country corner of Yellowstone National Park. But not only has the killer gleefully confessed, he’s gotten off free. The reason is an absolute shocker—and absolutely believable. Read more...

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FW: Life Begins at Forty (by Jessie Blackwood)

 

 

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Posted on: Friday, January 27, 2012 4:17 PM
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Product Description: Sequel to Per Ardua After months of physiotherapy, Group Captain Jack Ratigan has regained some of the mobility lost in plane crash at the end of World War II. But six years later, he still requires the care of his cousin’s butler, Ifan—who is also Jack’s secret lover. In an era when homosexuality is an imprisonable offence, they have to maintain the utmost discretion or risk prosecution. Insecurities, outside attacks, and misunderstandings are close to tearing Jack and Ifan apart: Jack’s impending middle age, an act of violence in their house, a letter threatening the close-knit community Jack now calls home—and the detective inspector from another jurisdiction investigating a similar unsolved case. The threat of exposure is growing, and for their love to survive, Jack and Ifan must determine who their true friends are—and if they are strongest together or apart. Read more...

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FW: The Shakespeare Stealer (by Gary Blackwood)

 

 

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Posted on: Friday, January 27, 2012 4:15 PM
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Product Description: Widge is an orphan with a rare talent for shorthand. His fearsome master has just one demand: steal Shakespeare's play "Hamlet" or else. Widge has no choice but to follow orders, so he works his way into the heart of the Globe Theatre, where Shakespeare's players perform. As full of twists and turns as a London alleyway, this entertaining novel is rich in period details, colorful characters, villainy, and drama. "A fast-moving historical novel that introduces an important era with casual familiarity." School Library Journal, starred review Awards: ( An ALA Notable Book ( An ALA Best Book for Young Adults ( An NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies ( A Smithsonian Magazine Notable Book ( A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year ( A Child Study Children's Book Committee Best Children's Book of the Year Read more...

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FW: Perspectives on Information (Routledge Studies in Library and Information Science) (by Magnus Ramage and David Chapman)

 

 

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Subject: Perspectives on Information (Routledge Studies in Library and Information Science) (by Magnus Ramage and David Chapman)

 

Product Description: Information is everywhere, and defines everything in today's society. Moreover, information is a key concept in a wide range of academic disciplines, from quantum physics to public policy. However, these disciplines all interpret the concept in quite different ways. This book looks at information in several different academic disciplines - cybernetics, ICT, communications theory, semiotics, information systems, library science, linguistics, quantum physics and public policy. Perspectives on Information brings clarity and coherence to different perspectives through promoting information as a unifying concept across the disciplinary spectrum. Though conceived as a contribution to the ongoing conversation between academic disciplines into the nature of information, the deliberately accessible style of this text (reflecting the authors’ backgrounds at The Open University) will be make it valuable for anyone who needs to know something more about information. Given the ubiquity of information in the 21st century, that means everyone. Read more...

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FW: Revolt and Crisis in Greece: Between a Present Yet to Pass and a Future Still to Com (by Antonis Vradis (editor))

 

 

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Posted on: Friday, January 27, 2012 4:13 PM
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Subject: Revolt and Crisis in Greece: Between a Present Yet to Pass and a Future Still to Com (by Antonis Vradis (editor))

 

Product Description: How does a revolt come about and what does it leave behind? What impact does it have on those who participate in it and those who simply watch it? Is the Greek revolt of December 2008 confined to the shores of the Mediterranean, or are there lessons we can bring to bear on social action around the globe? Revolt and Crisis in Greece: Between a Present Yet to Pass and a Future Still to Come is a collective attempt to grapple with these questions. A collaboration between anarchist publishing collectives Occupied London and AK Press, this timely new volume traces Greece's long moment of transition from the revolt of 2008 to the economic crisis that followed. In its twenty chapters, authors from around the world including those on the ground in Greece analyse how December became possible, exploring its legacies and the position of the social antagonist movement in face of the economic crisis and the arrival of the International Monetary Fund. In the essays collected here, over two dozen writers offer historical analysis of the factors that gave birth to December and the potentialities it has opened up in face of the capitalist crisis. Yet the book also highlights the dilemmas the antagonist movement has been faced with since: the book is an open question and a call to the global antagonist movement, and its allies around the world, to radically rethink and redefine our tactics in a rapidly changing landscape where crises and potentialities are engaged Read more...

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FW: The Flowers of Evil (by Charles Baudelaire)

 

 

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Subject: The Flowers of Evil (by Charles Baudelaire)

 

Product Description: Charles Baudelaire opens The Flowers of Evil with a poem entitled "Benediction," and it's special stuff but of course it is, we're talking about a poem by Charles Baudelaire, for god's sake. When by the changeless Power of a Supreme Decree The poet issues forth upon this sorry sphere, His mother, horrified, and full of blasphemy, Uplifts her voice to God, who takes compassion on her. "Ah, why did I not bear a serpent's nest entire, Instead of bringing forth this hideous Child of Doom! Oh cursed be that transient night of vain desire When I conceived my expiation in my womb!" Read more...

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FW: Back Roads Great Britain (by VARIOUS)

 

 

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Product Description: "DK Eyewitness Back Roads Great Britain" driving holiday guide will take you via scenic routes to discover charming British villages, local restaurants and intimate places to stay. Unearth the real soul of Great Britain relying on all the practical information you could need, from road conditions and length of drive to parking information and opening hours. Twenty-five themed drives, each lasting one to seven days, reveal breathtaking views, hidden gems and authentic local experiences in Great Britain that can only be discovered by road. Each tour is bursting with insider knowledge and loaded with ideas for varied activities from short walks and longer hikes, days on the beach and children's attractions, to cycling trips and local attractions. Meanwhile, the most friendly, best-value hotels and guest houses and charming restaurants specialising in regional produce have been selected by expert authors. Full-colour throughout, with a pull-out map of the entire country for easy navigation between tours and even postcode information for use with 'Sat Nav', discover the unexpected on your driving holiday with "DK Eyewitness Back Roads Great Britain". Read more...

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FW: Hark! The Herald Angel Screamed (by Mignon F. Ballard)

 

 

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Posted on: Friday, January 27, 2012 4:11 PM
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Product Description: It's Christmastime in the seemingly tranquil town of Stone's Throw, South Carolina, but amid all the caroling, cookies, and cheer, a murderer casts a not-so-jolly pall on the holiday season. Augusta Goodnight, guardian angel, sometime sleuth, and welcome boarder with longtime resident Lucy Nan Pilgrim, comes to the aid of her friends when, as Lucy Nan is searching for the perfect Christmas tree on her grandmother's abandoned estate, a mysterious stranger plummets to his death from the mansion's balcony. Lucy Nan can't shake off childhood stories of the ghost of a girl who fell from the same spot long ago -has the ghost come back to haunt the living, or is there an all-too-human murderer at work? Mysterious events are soon heating up faster than spiced punch left on the burner, and it will take Augusta's help, not to mention some celestial Southern cooking, for peace to be restored and Christmas lights to shine once again in the little town of Stone's Throw. Read more...

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FW: Planning Armageddon: British Economic Warfare and the First World War (by Nicholas A. Lambert)

 

 

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Subject: Planning Armageddon: British Economic Warfare and the First World War (by Nicholas A. Lambert)

 

Product Description: Before the First World War, the British Admiralty conceived a plan to win rapid victory in the event of war with Germany—economic warfare on an unprecedented scale.This secret strategy called for the state to exploit Britain's effective monopolies in banking, communications, and shipping—the essential infrastructure underpinning global trade—to create a controlled implosion of the world economic system. In this revisionist account, Nicholas Lambert shows in lively detail how naval planners persuaded the British political leadership that systematic disruption of the global economy could bring about German military paralysis. After the outbreak of hostilities, the government shied away from full implementation upon realizing the extent of likely collateral damage—political, social, economic, and diplomatic—to both Britain and neutral countries. Woodrow Wilson in particular bristled at British restrictions on trade. A new, less disruptive approach to economic coercion was hastily improvised. The result was the blockade, ostensibly intended to starve Germany. It proved largely ineffective because of the massive political influence of economic interests on national ambitions and the continued interdependencies of all countries upon the smooth functioning of the global trading system. Lambert’s interpretation entirely overturns the conventional understanding of British strategy in the early part of the First World War and underscores the importance in an Read more...

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FW: The Angel and the Jabberwocky Murders (by Mignon F. Ballard)

 

 

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Subject: The Angel and the Jabberwocky Murders (by Mignon F. Ballard)

 

Product Description: Augusta Goodnight, heavenly sleuth and guardian angel, is a welcome boarder with longtime resident Lucy Nan Pilgrim in the seemingly tranquil town of Stone's Throw, South Carolina. And Augusta's divine intervention is needed now more than ever. The local college is the kind of safe place where students don't even lock their doors. At least it used to be, until girls started mysteriously disappearing.             When the body of another student, D. C. Hunter, is found in a shed by the lake, Lucy and Augusta must race to figure out if her murder is connected to the deaths of two other girls. Should Augusta focus on the English professor who was having an affair with D.C.? Or on the seemingly cheerful caretaker who happened to discover two of the bodies? And what is the meaning of the "Jabberwocky" clues that keep turning up around campus?             It will take some heavenly help -and a little home cooking -to restore the peace of the town.  Read more...

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FW: One Good Turn: A Novel (by Kate Atkinson)

 

 

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Posted on: Friday, January 27, 2012 4:06 PM
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Product Description: "Atkinson's bright voice rings on every page, and her sly and wry observations move the plot as swiftly as suspense turns the pages of a thriller."-San Francisco Chronicle Two years after the events of Case Histories left him a retired millionaire, Jackson Brodie has followed Julia, his occasional girlfriend and former client, to Edinburgh for its famous summer arts festival. But when he witnesses a man being brutally attacked in a traffic jam - the apparent victim of an extreme case of road rage - a chain of events is set in motion that will pull the wife of an unscrupulous real estate tycoon, a timid but successful crime novelist, and a hardheaded female police detective into Jackson's orbit. Suddenly out of retirement, Jackson is once again in the midst of several mysteries that intersect in one giant and sinister scheme. "Compelling and always entertaining." -USA Today "One Good Turn crackles with energy and imagination." -Chicago Tribune "Atkinson's tart prose sparkles." -Entertainment Weekly "Entertaining both as a murder mystery and as a sprawling multi-character study in the best post-Nashville tradition." -The Onion "A remarkable feat of storytelling bravado." -Washington Post Read more...

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FW: Perfectly Able: How to Attract and Hire Talented People with Disabilities (by Lighthouse International)

 

 

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Subject: Perfectly Able: How to Attract and Hire Talented People with Disabilities (by Lighthouse International)

 

Product Description: More than 22 million of the almost 173 million working age individuals in the United States have one or more disabilities. "Perfectly Able" offers practical guidance for companies large and small on how to hire and retain talented and motivated people from within this largely untapped pool of potential employees. Illustrated with enlightening personal stories, this one-of-a-kind book provides insight into what it's like to seek employment as an individual with a disability. Readers will discover how to: evaluate how suited their workplace environment is for disabled or different employees and what needs to be changed improve and sustain their workforce by hiring the best people, regardless of any disability or diversity issue effectively recruit, place, and develop individuals with disabilities who can contribute to their company's success and embrace the differences among their workforce to add value to the organization. Read more...

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FW: The Man Who Turned Into Himself (by David Ambrose)

 

 

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Posted on: Friday, January 27, 2012 4:04 PM
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Product Description: In the middle of an important meeting, businessman Rick Hamilton has a terrible premonition: His wife is about to die. Racing to save her, he finds her lifeless body in the road, her car crushed by a truck. The light dwindles from his eyes . . . and then she is alive again, begging for help, and Rick Hamilton no longer is himself, but another man with another life, and a different history. Based on the "many worlds" theory of quantum physics, which posits the existence of parallel universes, The Man Who Turned Into Himself is a suspenseful, mind-bending mystery that addresses our deepest questions about reality, death, identity, and the mind. Read more...

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FW: Bicycling South Africa - February 2012

 

 

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Posted on: Friday, January 27, 2012 3:32 PM
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Bicycling South Africa - February 2012 English | PDF | 100 pages | 43.6MB Bicycling is aimed at cycling and mountain biking enthusiasts and is a popular read for everyone who has experienced the joy of cycling.

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FW: Your Pregnancy - February/March 2012

 

 

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Posted on: Friday, January 27, 2012 3:21 PM
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Your Pregnancy - February/March 2012 English | PDF | 116 pages | 46.7MB Your Pregnancy is the only local magazine that offers relevant, credible and accurate information on all aspects of pregnancy. Its local and international experts answer all questions quickly and respectfully. The magazine acknowledges pregnant women’s need to look and feel good.

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