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Mary Golightly was not a happy woman. Yet, in the last few weeks before she went missing, she was looking happier, as if something had happened to make her life sweeter. That was before a bin man found her thigh in a refuse sack. Her husband makes no pretence at sorrow over her death, but does that mean he killed her?

Excerpt from Austria, Vol. 2 of 2 Principle OF the government. - Divisions of the Empire Population, according to Numbers and Classes - Nature and Privileges of Nobility - Feudality - Its extent previous to 1773, and since - Urbarium - its establishment, provisions, and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an import...

A chance sighting of a vase for sale in an antique shop leads Detective Chief Inspector Hennessey and his team to take a fresh look at a twenty-year-old unsolved murder case and a vow of silence that's been kept for two decades. But when a new body is discovered in a local wood, is that pact about to be tested?

From the 10th century onwards the great Japanese monastic foundations of Nara and Mount Hiei maintained large armies of warlike monks. The tempestuous political rivalries that developed between the different orders of monks and religiously inspired laymen ensured that their temples and monasteries had to be securely sited and robustly defended. This books recreates these enormous fortified monasteries and temples, tracing their development fro...

The landscape of 16th- and 17th-century Japan was dominated by the graceful and imposing castles constructed by the powerful ‘daimyo’ of the period. In this the most turbulent era in Japanese history, these militarily sophisticated structures provided strongholds for the consolidation and control of territory, and inevitably they became the focus for many of the great sieges of Japanese history: Nagashino (1575), Kitanosho (1583), Odawara (159...

Excerpt from Austria, Vol. 1 of 2: Narrative of Travels The political and social state of Hungary has been incidentally mentioned in several chapters, as the subjects to which they respectively relate have ren dered it expedient to do so, and in the one on In ternal Policy will be found a general outline of the existing constitution. Having studied it both in its theory and its practice, with an interest proportioned to its singularity, durin...

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The invasions of Korea launched by the dictator Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1592-1593 and 1597-1598) are unique in Japanese history for being the only time that the samurai assaulted a foreign country. Hideyoshi planned to invade and conquer China, ruled at the time by the Ming dynasty, and when the Korean court refused to allow his troops to cross their country, Korea became the first step in this ambitious plan of conquest. In 1592 a huge invasion f...

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Drawing on a wide range of organizational examples, this book brings a new balance to assessing the role and impact of HRM. It looks at the core assumptions of an HRM perspective, and at what happens when organizations seek to implement HRM. The contributors show that there are a number of tensions and contradictions inherent in an HRM concept that raise central issues for practice. They demonstrate that HRM is one approach to employee managem...