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N is for Noose is the fourteenth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton.Sometimes I think about how odd it would be to catch a glimpse of the future, a quick view of events lying in store for us. Some moments we saw would make no sense at all and some, I suspect, would frighten us beyond our endurance . . . Early spring in the Sierra Nevada, bringing the usual driving sleet and snow. Private investigator Kinsey Millhone is on her...

Virtually inexhaustible supply of royalty-free graphics of timeless appeal, reproduced from turn-of-the-century French type foundry catalog. Food, drink, vehicles, machines, sports, music, much more.

40 attractive, royalty-free motifs printed on nonreproducible blue backgrounds. Center type, create accurate layouts.

Dating from 1880 to 1940, perfume labels, trade cards, posters, and bottles evoke the romance of bygone eras. This collection of 196 full-color illustrations features elegant Victorian, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco styles.

In hindsight, I marvel at how clueless I was . . . What I ask myself even now is whether I should have picked up the truth any faster than I did, which is to say not fast enough . . .When a glamorous red head wishes to locate the son she put up for adoption thirty-two years ago, it seems like an easy two hundred bucks for P. I. Kinsey Millhone. But when a cop tells her she was paid with marked bills, and Kinsey's client is nowhere to be found,...

The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe focuses on the ways culture is moved from one generation or group to another, not by exact replication but by accretion or revision. The contributors to the volume each consider how the passing of historical information is an organic process that allows for the transformation of previously accepted truth.The volume covers a broad and fascinating scope of subjects presented by leading scholars....

The Swiss scholar Henricus Glareanus devoted much of his life to studying and teaching Livy's Roman History and devising chronological tables from it. He encouraged his students to copy his handwritten annotations to these tables into their own copies of the History. This volume provides access to a surviving copy from one of Glareanus's students, now kept at Princeton University Library.

El astuto abogado Laurence Fife, conocido también por sus escurridizas aventuras femeninas, aparece un día asesinado. En el juicio, todo conduce al jurado a pensar que su joven esposa, Nikki, es la culpable. Tras ocho años de prisión, Nikki sale en libertad bajo palabra y encarga a la detective Kinsey Millhone descubrir quién mató realmente a su marido. A Kinsey Milhone no le asusta meterse en líos, pero éste es especialmente enmarañado porque...

In recent years scholars have begun to acknowledge that the occult sciences were not marginal enterprises but an integral part of the worldview of many of our ancestors. Astrology was one of the many intellectual tools--along with what we consider to be the superior tools of social and political analysis--that Renaissance thinkers used to attack practical and intellectual problems. It was a coherent body of practices, strongly supported by soc...

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A follow-up to the popular Graduate Study for the 21st Century , this book seeks to expand professional development to include the personal aspects of daily lives in the humanities. How to Build a Life in the Humanities delves into pressing work-life issues such as post-tenure depression, academic life with children, aging, and adjuncting.

Intermediate Level 8. - 9. Klasse / 1.600 Wörter In ihrem zweiten Fall versucht Kinsey, Beverley Danzigers Schwester Elaine zu finden, die aus ihrer Ferienwohnung verschwunden ist. Als Kinsey entdeckt, dass deren Freundin Pat einen falschen Namen angegeben hat, ahnt sie Böses ...

Q de quién se basa en un hecho real, un homicidio sin resolver que se cometió en 1969. En otoño de 2000, Sue Grafton conoció al patólogo que en su día realizó la autopsia y que le contó el caso. Había en aquella historia algo que no la dejaba dormir, así que, haciendo suyas la inquietud y olfato detectivesco de Millhone, en enero de 2001 ya estaba trabajando de lleno en la oficina del sheriff del condado, enterrada bajo pilas de documentos arc...

David Barney, acusado de matar a su riquísima mujer Isabelle, llevaba cinco años absuelto cuando aparece muerto el detective Morley Shine, encargado por Lonnie -el abogado del primer marido de Isabelle- de investigar el caso con el fin de reabrirlo e impedir que Barney se apodere definitivamente de la fortuna de su esposa. Cuando Kinsey Millhone acepta hacerse cargo del asunto, está convencida de que se trata tan sólo de atar unos cuantos cabo...

A distinctive history of the traditions of reading and life in the Renaissance library, as seen in the texts of Renaissance intellectuals

Worshipped by the ancient Egyptians and adored by their owners, cats have also captured the attention of great artists. This collection spotlights bewitching felines in works by Steinlen, Penfield, Goya, Currier and Ives, Renoir, Rousseau, and four other artists.

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