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Highlights of the works of Samuel Palmer held in the collection at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Revised and expanded version of the Palmer title first published in 1999.

Understanding how pasts resource presents is a fundamental first step towards building alternative futures in the Anthropocene. This collection brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to explore concepts of care, vulnerability, time, extinction, loss and inheritance across more-than-human worlds, connecting contemporary developments in the posthumanities with the field of critical heritage studies. Drawing on contributions from ar...

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Jin Li è scesa dalla Toyota per appartarsi sull'erba in riva al mare di Brooklyn. Nella macchina le due ragazze che lavorano per lei bevono vino da quattro soldi, ridono e ascoltano una stazione radio in spagnolo. Stanotte hanno lavorato sodo per la CorpServe, l'impresa di pulizie gestita da Jin Li, stipando una serie di sacchi di plastica blu nell'ascensore di servizio di un palazzo vicino all'incrocio tra la 51" e Broadway, dove la CorpServe...

Colin Harrisons neuer grandioser Thriller aus dem Moloch New York - ein hochspannendes Gesellschaftspanorama Durch Zufall erfährt Paul Reeves, New Yorker Anwalt für Einwanderungsrecht, dass seine schöne junge Nachbarin Jennifer ihren Ehemann betrügt. Als Jennifer ihn kurz darauf bittet, ihren Lover vorübergehend in Pauls leer stehendem Elternhaus in Brooklyn unterzubringen, tut er ihr den Gefallen. Doch dann kommt Jennifers Mann, der schwerre...

No one delivers a sharper thriller than the superb Colin Harrison' Mail on SundayHer story, his trouble, begins in desirePaul Reeves is a successful New York lawyer with a seemingly charmed life. He has an adoring girlfriend, a beautiful apartment on the Upper West Side and a voracious appetite for rare and beautiful maps.But when his seductive, all-American neighbour Jennifer Mehraz - wife of the suave but shadowy young businessman Ahmed Mehr...

The long-awaited new novel by "the class act of the urban thriller" (Entertainment Weekly)YOU BELONG TO ME . . . Paul Reeves is a successful immigration lawyer, but his passion is collecting old maps of New York, tangible records of the city's rich history in an increasingly digital world. One afternoon he attends an auction with his neighbor Jennifer Mehraz, the beautiful young wife of an Iranian financier-lawyer, but halfway through the auct...

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Jin Li, the beautiful young manager of a Manhattan office-cleaning firm, is on the run. She has been 'disposing' of valuable information from top corporations, and now the people she has stolen from are desperate for revenge. Meanwhile, the mysterious Ray Grant, Jin Li's former lover, is tracked down by her ruthless brother Chen and offered an impossible choice: help Chen find Jin Li, or place his own father in danger. As the hunt for Jin Li g...

Jack Whitman is head of long-range planning at a major media empire. Now, emotionally numb and blindly ambitious, and with the corporation on the verge of a merger, Jack is caught in a power-play between the scheming CEO and the ageing chairman. Taking the subway home one night, Jack meets Dolores who is on the run from her jealous husband.

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This book focuses on the dramatic cultural transformations of the last decade of the millennium. Lodged between the fall of Communism and the outbreak of the War on Terror, the 1990s was witness to America's expanding influence across the world but also a period of anxiety and social conflict. National traumas such as the Los Angeles riots, the Oklahoma City bombing and the impeachment of President Clinton lent an apocalyptic air to the decade...

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This book focuses on how to understand reading processes and what it means to develop reading comprehension. With a wide-ranging theoretical basis, the author makes new connections between work in critical theory, cognitive psychology and literacy. Key features include: } how and why we read } evaluating response to reading } a whole-school approach to developing reading. This book is highly recommended to teachers, literacy coordinators an...

This book focuses on how to understand reading processes and what it means to develop reading comprehension. With a wide-ranging theoretical basis, the author makes new connections between work in critical theory, cognitive psychology and literacy. Key features include: } how and why we read } evaluating response to reading } a whole-school approach to developing reading. This book is highly recommended to teachers, literacy coordinators an...

Welche Nester bauen die einzelnen Vogelarten und aus welchem Material? Wie viele Eier werden gelegt, von welcher Größe, Form und Farbe sind sie? Wie sehen die Nestlinge beim Schlupf aus und wie entwickeln sie sich? Diese und zahlreiche andere Fragen zur Brutbiologie der europäischen Vögel werden in diesem Feldführer anschaulich beantwortet. Der Führer ergänzt damit in einmaliger Weise die gängigen Vogelführer, die zum Ansprechen der Vögel auss...

Including previously unpublished material and many works being shown in the UK for the first time, this book provides an investigation into the evolution of Modernism in French art between 1800 and 1940. Exhibition from February to May 2017.

The launch of clinical governance in the late 1990s was accompanied by a measure of excitement although, at that stage, it was impossible to determine whether this was really to be the start of a quality-driven revolution in healthcare. Since its inception, much has been done to turn the concepts behind clinical governance into practical reality. Have these efforts been successful? Many would argue that the jury is still out. The authors have ...