Testosterone: The Molecule Behind Power, Sex, and the Will to Win
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We inherit mechanisms for survival from our primeval past; none so obviously as those involved in...
Handbook of Contemporary Acoustics and its Applications: Volume 1: Fundamental Properties of Acoustic Waves in Fluid-Media: Volume 2: Acoustics in a Fluid-System with Boundaries and Contemporary Acoustics
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Modern acoustics has blossomed rapidly in the past decades. Beginning as a branch off from the...
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Art Rethought: The Social Practices of Art
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Human beings engage works of the arts in many different ways: they sing songs while working, they...
The Invisible Hand?: How Market Economies Have Emerged and Declined Since AD 500
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The Invisible Hand offers a radical departure from the conventional wisdom of economists and...
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The Call of Cthulhu: And Other Weird Stories
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Collecting uniquely uncanny tales from the master of American horror, H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of...
10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness
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ClareR (5726 KP) rated The Ministry of Time in Books
Jun 4, 2024
The Ministry of Time is a clever book - it uses time travel and science fiction, with a touch of history that actually happened, and mixes it up with a hefty dose of romance, thriller and literary fiction. It doesn’t sound like it will work, but I’m here to say that it really DOES!
Ok, so a quick, yet vague, synopsis: the British Government has come into possession of a device that can go back in time and find particular people in the past. It’s been decided that the people they take are all in life-threatening situations. Those plucked from their time are placed with a “Bridge”; someone who will facilitate their integration into modern society.
The main pair is that of Graham Gore, a Polar explorer from the Erebus expedition, and his Bridge, a woman whose mother escaped the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. Not an easy adjustment for a Victorian man. This Bridge is the narrator.
Graham Gore adjusts quickly to modern life, but is modern life willing to accept him? And what affect does it have on him and his fellow time travellers, to be so out of time?
There was so much to think about whilst reading this - I was completely immersed, and it ended FAR too quickly!
Predictability of Corporate Failure: Models for Prediction of Corporate Failure and for Evalution of Debt Capacity
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1. 0 INTRODUCTION. In this chapter we define first in Section I. I the concept of failure used in...