From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stalking Jack the Ripper series comes the steamy conclusion to Kingdom of the Wicked trilogy. Two curses. One prophecy. A reckoning all have feared. And a love more powerful than fate. All hail the king and queen of Hell. Emilia is reeling from a shocking discovery about her sister, Vittoria. But before she faces the demons of her past, Emilia yearns

We are living in a world in which the existence of risk is constantly debated, misinformation and disinformation are rife and spread quickly and easily through online media, and where governments and institutions continue to avoid taking decisive action even when there is general agreement that a serious threat exists. Understanding how people, social groups and social organizations understand, respond

An unconventional approach to gaining the competitive advantage All the War They Want presents counterintuitive problem-solving techniques, using as its case in point one of the most existential threats to our national security and American way of life: cyber warfare. Informed by Jeffrey Engle\'s experience as a member of the U.S. military\'s elite special ops community, his Brazilian jiujitsu training,

*Longlisted for the ALCS Gold Dagger award for non-fiction, Crime Writers\' Association Awards 2023* *Shortlisted for Best New True Crime Author, CrimeCon UK True Crime Awards 2023*The gripping true story of how Detective Superintendent Julie Mackay brought Melanie Road\'s murderer to justice. BATH, 1984 Jean Road, a 49-year-old mother of three, awakens to news that her daughter Melanie has been murdered

An exhibition catalog tracing the evolution of Van Gogh\'s self-presentation in his art. This volume accompanies an exhibition at London\'s Courtauld Gallery, the first to explore the full chronological range of Vincent van Gogh\'s self-portraits. The myth of Van Gogh today is linked as much to his extraordinary life as it is to his world-famous paintings. His biography has often shaped the way

Think like you\'ve got nine brains, feel like you\'ve got three hearts, and hug as though you have eight arms. Wisdom begins in wonder: and there is no creature so weird and wonderful as the octopus. Wise, compassionate, strong yet adaptable - and with Houdini-like vanishing tricks - octopuses are the most fascinating creatures on the planet. They provide a masterclass in self-care and there is so

A retelling of Anna Sewell s classic adventure story of Black Beauty as he starts life carefree in the field with his mother, and is then sold from owner to owner. Will he survive as his treatment gets worse and worse, and will he ever find an owner worthy of his unending loyalty? Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children\'s sustained engagement with texts and are more complex

The work of Henri Lefebvre - the only major French intellectual of the post-war period to give extensive consideration to the city and urban life - received considerable attention among both academics and practitioners of the built environment following the publication in English of The Production of Space. This new collection brings together, for the first time in English, Lefebvre\'s reflections

A handy Japanese phrasebook and guide to the Japanese language, Survival Japanese contains basic vocabulary necessary for traveling in Japan. This book contains all the necessary words and phrases for speaking Japanese in of setting. Perfect for students, tourists, or business people learning Japanese or traveling to Japan, it also contains a beginner guide to the Japanese language, allowing for a

The definitive pilgrim\'s guide to the sites visited by St Paul on his missionary journeys. This new edition has been fully updated and redesigned with new maps and plans, and many new colour photographs. Expanded, with new sections on St John and his writing of the Book of Revelation on the island of Patmos, together with other Greek

If you peep into the night sky and see the Moon and twinkling stars, you\'re peeping right out into space! Lift the flaps and peep through the holes in the pages to discover the planets in our solar system, see astronauts on the International Space Station and find out what else is in space in this beautifully illustrated book for little

Takeo has finally achieved his dream; he has left behind the darkness of his past and become a Samurai. But now, with the courage that comes from knowing you are worthy, he finally feels ready to confront his demons. Yet Imperial Japan is in turmoil; General Akuma, one of the Empire\'s most powerful men has turned his back on the Emperor, and is planning to betray him. The two men are linked by a dark

The writer, musician and curator Tot Taylor once observed that the word \'ritual\' is already present in the word \'spiritual\'. That combination of material practice and the transcendent can be found within the strange combination of records discussed in this publication. With music, one can transpose imagination, visions and dreams into \'sacred rites\'. \'Heavy conscious creation\', the theme of

A collection of photographs that reflects the surreal vision of the New York collector W M Hunt. It presents a catalogue of anti-portraiture, characterized at first glance by what its subject conceal, not by what the camera

How the mess we are in started. How risk, disasters and pollution were managed and made acceptable during the \'industrial revolution\' Why do we accept pollution in the name of progress? Why has the pursuit of modernity permitted increasing exposure to environmental catastrophe. In Happy Apocalypse, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, co-author of the highly successful The Shock of the Anthropocene, shows how

Na Zemi žije obrovské množství živočichů. Tato encyklopedie ti pomůže seznámit se s podobou alespoň několika stovek těch nejznámějších a nejzajímavějších tvorů z celého světa: hlodavců, kopytníků, primátů, šelem, kytovců, ptáků, ryb, paryb, obojživelníků, plazů, hmyzu a dalších skupin zvířat. Navíc ti každé zvíře pomůže zařadit do patřičné skupiny. Nádherné barevné ilustrace a jednoduchý text dělají

Analyzes the skyrocketing urban land prices driving our global housing market. How can urban housing, and the land underneath, now account for half of all global wealth? According to Patrick Condon in Broken City, the simple answer is that land has become an asset rather than a utility. If the rich only indulged themselves with gold, jewels, and art, we wouldn\'t have a global housing crisis. But