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Sustainability Clauses in International Business Contracts

Katerina Peterkova Mitkidis

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Sustainable development is a globally recognized goal. However, governments are failing to reach...

The Wire

Sherryl Vint

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Frequently described by creator David Simon as a novel for television, The Wire redefined the police...

The Routledge International Handbook of Walking

C. Michael Hall, Yael Ram and Noam Shoval

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Walking is an essentially human activity. From a basic means of transport and opportunity for...

Re-Thinking Economics: Exploring the Work of Pierre Bourdieu

Asimina Christoforou and Michael Laine

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Once again, unfettered capitalism has failed. Promises for global prosperity and peace have given...

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With PhotoShake, you can easily combine one or more photos to make exciting and fun new images....

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Cyn Armistead (14 KP) rated The Nightmare Stacks: A Laundry Files Novel in Books

Feb 23, 2018

Another fun entry in the Laundry Files series, this one is narrated by Dr. Schwartz, from the previous novel. Poor Alex is trying to come to grips with his sudden career change and living life as a PHANG (vampire, to the rest of us). He has also fallen into social interactions with an actual female person, which is vastly unusual in his life. In fact, having a social life is rather foreign.

There are a fair number of cringe-worthy scenes, if you (like me) are embarrassed when anyone else is. Of course, this is a comedy/horror/science fiction/fantasy series, so there are the requisite horrid things in the plot. If you've gotten this far in the series, I shouldn't need to warn you about that. I really wouldn't choose this volume as an entry point if I were you.

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ClareR (5589 KP) rated Social Creature in Books

Jun 17, 2018

Social Creature

Tara Isabella Burton | 2018 | Fiction & Poetry, Thriller

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A story of our times?

I really don't much like it when books are compared to other books. To be honest, I haven't read The Talented Mr Ripley (which is what Social Creature has been compared to), and I'm not much inclined to after reading this. I 'liked' Social Creature, but I didn't love it. None of the characters are remotely likeable. They're all shallow, duplicitous and out for what they can get. It's a story of today. Louise pretends she is someone she is not, so that she can be like Lavinia: rich, frivolous, thin and beautiful. Louise can't quite keep up though. She doesn't have the money, and she needs to work. Louise's life spirals in to more lies and worse is to come. It's a fascinating yet truly horrible story. I did really like the ending though!