Precarious Claims: The Promise and Failure of Workplace Protections in the United States
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's...
The Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Property: Saving the World's Heritage
Laurie Rush, Luisa Benedettini Mil and Luisa Benedettini Millington
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Renowned for their rigorous investigative approach, the dedicated officers of the Carabinieri...
W.A.S. Benson: Arts and Crafts Luminary and Pioneer of Modern Design
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On the 150th anniversary of his birth, this is the first work devoted to the life and work of the...
The Basics of Cyber Safety: Computer and Mobile Device Safety Made Easy
John Sammons and Michael Cross
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The Basics of Cyber Safety: Computer and Mobile Device Safety Made Easy presents modern tactics on...
The Creator
Guorun Eva Minervudottir and Sarah Bowen
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When Loa's car gets a puncture out in the countryside, the man who lives nearest proves...
Undermajordomo Minor
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Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the bucolic hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless,...
Trinkets
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Sixteen-year-old Moe's Shoplifters Anonymous meetings are usually punctuated by the snores of an old...
Trinkets Kirsten Smith Young Adult Theft Shoplifters Anonymous Rehabilitation
The sequel to the highly praised Blackwing sees Ryhalt Galharrow trying to move on from losing the love of his life and investigating the theft of a magical artefact from a heavily protected vault.
For the first few chapters this book felt like a Captain Vimes Discworld novel (in a good way) with the humour toned down a little. We were exploring the pre-industrial city and investigating a crime that could have dire consequences for the safety of the city.
The book spends significantly more time in the city than in the Misery (the strange, twisting wasteland) than was the case for the first book, which gives it a very different feel. Plotting and intrigue abound as an evil sorcerer's plot to achieve ultimate power starts to unfold.
The book felt slightly less dark than the first, and has quite a different feel to it than Blackwing, but is still absolutely superb. The flowing prose and cracking dialogue make this a true page-turner and one of the best fantasy books I have read in quite some time.
John George Haigh, the Acid-Bath Murderer: A Portrait of a Serial Killer and His Victims
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What motivated John George Haigh to murder at least six people, then dissolve their corpses in...
Consumer Economics: Issues and Behaviors
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From identity theft to product recalls, from what we once thought of as unshakeable institutions to...