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This sweep's run of good luck has just run out . . . In the south of Scotland, residents get their chimneys vacuum-cleaned. But in the isolated villages in the very north of Scotland, the villagers rely on the services of the itinerant sweep, Pete Ray, and his old-fashioned brushes. Pete is always able to find work in the Scottish highlands, until one day when Police Constable Hamish Macbeth notices blood dripping onto the floor of a villager'...

In 2015 I described myself as 'guilty feminist' for the first time. My goals were noble but my concerns were trivial. I wanted desperately for women to be taken seriously in leadership roles all over the world, but I also wanted to look good sitting down naked.A funny, joyful, frank and inspiring book about embracing both feminism and our imperfections, from the creator of the hit comedy podcast, Deborah Frances-White.From inclusion to the sec...

The `Sleeping Beauties' - an array of neglected Bugattis, Lancias, Ferraris, Alfa Romeos, Cords and Aston Martins on a rural French estate - have fascinated car lovers worldwide since 1983. For 25 years, the full story behind the collection and its fate has remained untold ... until now.

This book provides an introduction to the working principles of reverse electrodialysis and its practical application in the generation of electricity. Salinity gradient energy (SGE) has received significant attention recently due to the energy crisis resulting from the depletion of fossil fuels and the growth in energy demand. There are currently three methods to convert SGE into electricity: pressure retarded osmosis (PRO), reverse electrodi...

Maurizio Cattelan has exhibited internationally in leading institutions and has participated numerous times in the Venice Biennale. He curated the 4th Berlin Biennale with Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick. Cattelan also founded the art magazines Permanent Food and Charley. Since retiring from art, after the acclaimed 2011 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, he has committed himself to publishing Toiletpaper magazine. P...

Araminta Hall has worked as a writer, journalist and teacher. Her first novel, Everything & Nothing, was published in 2011 and became a Richard & Judy read that year. Her second, Dot, was published in 2013. She teaches creative writing at New Writing South in Brighton, where she lives with her husband and three children. Her latest book, Our Kind of Cruelty, is a deeply unsettling thriller of a love story, in which a secret game between lovers...

A handy Korean to English and English to Korean dictionary. Offering learners at home, school and in the office extensive and up-to-date coverage of Korean and English in a compact, portable format.

Anna Amalia von Weimar war eine starke und unabhängige Frau, die nicht nur ihren Zeitgenossen außergewöhnlich erschien. Als Regentin übernahm sie - kaum zwanzigjährig - den Thron ihres verstorbenen Mannes, als Künstlerin und Intellektuelle schuf sie den bis heute weltberühmten Weimarer-Musenhof. Die Historikerin Carolin Philipps stieß bei ihren Nachforschungen zu dieser Neubetrachtung auf bisher vernachlässigtes Quellenmaterial, welches das Bi...

Roben Farzad has reported everywhere from Mozambique and Botswana to the West Bank and the slums of Medell¿ Colombia, to the Dominican Republic and the warn-torn Niger Delta. He spent nine years as a senior writer at Bloomberg Businessweek, where he covered Wall Street, international finance, Latin America and Miami. He has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe and Miami Herald, and is a regular on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, ...

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Industriell hergestellte Nahrungsmittel führen millionenfach zu Krankheiten, zu Krebs, Diabetes, Alzheimer, auch zu frühzeitigem Tod. Das lebenslange Essverhalten erlernen Menschen im Kindesalter von ihren Eltern, die Forschung nennt das early programming. Deutschlands Nahrungsindustriekritiker Nr. 1, Hans-Ulrich Grimm, deckt in diesem kritischen Verbraucherbuch auf, wie die Konzerne bereits die Kleinsten krank machen. Wohl kaum jemals im Leb...

Would you recognise a killer?Holly Wakefield works for the NHS as a criminal psychologist specialising in serial killers. She has particular reason to be good at her job - but she keeps that to herself.When DI Bishop from the Met Police approaches Holly to investigate a recent killing, Holly is horrified by the dismembered bodies and the way they've been theatrically positioned. More shocking still is when the pathologist reveals this isn't th...

The most important book I have read in the last decade. A must read for everyone who believes that we can make a measurable and lasting difference in the lives of our fellow human beings, even those who may seem hardest to help'Anne-Marie Slaughter, Former Director of Policy and Planning for the US State Department and CEO of New America'Cottam's ideas could transform the way we all live. She is onto something exciting in her insistence on the...

Jordan B. Peterson is a Professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. The author of 12 Rules for Life, the multi-million copy bestseller that has sold in over 40 languages worldwide, he's taught mythology to lawyers, doctors and business people, consulted for the UN Secretary General, helped his clinical clients manage depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety, and lectured extensively in North America and Europe. With his ...

Sachrang, der Geigelstein und die Sennerin dort oben, die Mare, das ist für mich die Essenz von Bayern", bekannte der Regisseur Werner Herzog öffentlich. Christiane Tramitz hat die Biographie dieser Sennerin aus dem Chiemgau geschrieben. Ihre erzählerische Biographie ist "die beeindruckende Geschichte einer starken, eigenwilligen Frau" (SWR1) und steht in der Nachfolge von Anna Wimschneiders Herbstmilch und Dora Prinz¿ Ein Tagwerk Leben - ein...

A new investigation into Hammarskjoeld's role in the decolonisation of Africa during the Cold War offers startling conclusions.

An excellent reader, offering a wide selection from the work of the most important or influential contemporary political philosophers. The quality of the selections is high and the range of topics broad. Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Anthology will serve well in a variety of university courses in political philosophy." Christopher Morris, University of Maryland Since its initial publication in 1997, Contemporary Political Philosophy: ...

On a broken ship orbiting a doomed sun, dwellers have grown complacent with their aging metal world. But when a serving girl frees a captive noblewoman, the old order is about to change...Ariane, Prince of the House of Rule, was known to be fiercely cold-blooded. But severing an angel's wings on the battlefield - even after she had surrendered - proved her completely without honor. Captive, the angel Perceval waits for Ariane not only to finis...

Drawing upon unpublished and little-studied photographs of slaves, ex-slaves, and abolitionists, Fox-Amato argues that slavery, abolition, and race in antebellum America cannot be understood without looking at the visual culture photography spawned¿or the development of photography without considering how slavery shaped it.

This volume provides a comprehensive reference grammar of Gothic, the earliest attested language of the Germanic family (apart from runic inscriptions). It is the first in English to draw on the recently discovered Bologna fragment and Crimean graffiti, in addition to the traditional Bible translation explored in most works to date.