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A Novel
From “the Queen of Scandinavian crime fiction” (Henning Mankell), the latest installment in the internationally bestselling series starring investigative reporter Annika Bengtzon.
The inspiration for the hit film series, Annika Bengtzon: Crime Reporter, now available on Netflix.
HOW FAR WILL A MADMAN GO TO ATTAIN THE ULTIMATE PRIZE?
In the midst of a brutal Scandinavian winter, a member of the Nobel Prize committee is gunned down in the city of Stockholm.
Reporter Annika Bengtzon, who made eye contact with the killer just seconds before the shots were fired, is the key witness. Because of the sensitivity of the crime, police issue a gag order on her immediately—and she is forced to figure out on her own why an American assassin known only as “the Kitten” ordered the hit. With her marriage falling to pieces and her job on the line, Annika quickly finds herself in the middle of a violent story of terror and death, the roots of which date back centuries. The research all leads her to the same man: a rich and famous industrialist responsible for one of the world’s most coveted gifts, who died a tragic and mysterious death. If Annika wants to learn the truth, she risks uncovering secrets that some will do anything to protect.
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Author: Liza Marklund
Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books
ISBN: 9781451607055
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Release: April 2012
352 pages
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Understanding Contemporary Social Change
This book re-establishes the relevance of mainstream anthropological (and sociological) approaches to development processes and simultaneously recognizes that contemporary development ought to be anthropology‘s principal area of study. Professor de Sardan argues for a socio-anthropology of change and development that is a deeply empirical, multidimensional, diachronic study of social groups and their interactions.The Introduction provides a thought-provoking examination of the principal new approaches that have emerged in the discipline during the 1990s. Part I then makes clear the complexity of social change and development, and the ways in which socio-anthropology can measure up to the challenge of this complexity. Part II looks more closely at some of the leading variables involved in the development process, including relations of production; the logics of social action; the nature of knowledge; forms of mediation; and ‘political‘ strategies.
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Author: Jean-Pierre Oliver De-Sardan
Publisher: Zed Books
ISBN: 9781848136137
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Release: February 2008
256 pages
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A Novel
Explosive, street-savvy, and authentic, acclaimed columnist Denis Hamill’s novels are drawn in the gritty ink that can only flow from the pen of a native New Yorker…and a superbly talented writer.
Now, blending sinuous prose with a hair-trigger delivery, Hamill etches a novel set in a mercenary New Yorkwhere friends become enemies, cops are corrupted, and some must die, all for the sake of Bobby Emmet was a desperate man, an honest New York City cop, framed for the murder of his fiancée, and given one last chance to save himselfby an unlikely benefactor. Bobby didn’t murder his fiancee, Dorothea Dubrow, and then cremate the bodybut he has an idea who is responsible. His murder trial interrupted his investigation of a police medical pension scamand revealed how little he really knew about Dorothea. Now suddenly free, he is imprisoned in a web of corruption, lies, and the kind of secrets people kill for.
Beginning his search for the truth at a shady security firm that employs able-bodied ex-cops, all of whom have mysteriously qualified for medical pensionsequal to a cool three-quarters of their salarieshe stumbles upon a startling discovery: the cremated remains that led to his conviction didn’t really belong to Dorothea.
Bobby has a few allies: his policeman brother, his hacker daughter, his flamboyantly unprincipled lawyer, a cop or two who stood by him through the trial. But the same forces that landed him in jail more than a year before are putting a smothering squeeze on him nowand all roads lead to a powerful politician who will let nothing get between himself and the governor’s mansion.
As the struggle to find the truthand Dorotheaintensifies, Bobby begins to suspect that those around him are not as loyal as they appear. His liberty and very life depend on whether or not he can discover how highand how nearthe conspiracy goes before the trap closes on him.
At once lyrical and riveting, Three Quarters crackles in its electric setting, reverberating with a “relentless energy” (Lawrence Block) fueled by Hamill’s intimate knowledge of and intense passion for New York City.
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Author: Denis Hamill
Publisher: Atria Books
ISBN: 9781501124600
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Release: August 2015
320 pages
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Physics in the Arts is a concise, 288 page four-color entry in the Complementary Science Series, designed for science enthusiasts and liberal arts students requiring or desiring a well-developed discussion of physical phenomena, particularly with regard to sound and light.
Typical course: A course on sound and light for non-science majors. The nature of sound and sound perception; fundamentals of harmony, musical photography, color perception, and color mixing. Easily understood by those with high school algebra and geometry.
* Offers an alternative route to science literacy for those interested in the arts, music and photography
* Popular science book with wide readership beyond the classroom at an accessible level
* Material covered at a level appropriate for self-study or as a complementary textbook
* Companion website for Instructors available in Spring 2008
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Author: P.U.P.A. Gilbert; Willy Haeberli
Publisher: Elsevier Science
ISBN: 9780080560236
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Release: June 2008
327 pages
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