The Official Story of the Bestselling Author and his Ruthless Detective
The whole story of Ian Rankin, the best-selling author, and Inspector Rebus, his most famous creation. Detective John Rebus first appeared in Ian Rankin’s 1987 best-seller Knots and Crosses and has since gone on to appear in 17 books and numerous short stories. For over 20 years these critically-acclaimed novels have sold in their millions, thrilled readers the world over and have set a benchmark in contemporary crime fiction. They have been adapted into a TV series and, it seems, the public cannot get enough. In this fascinating biography, author Craig Cabell presents a thought-provoking insight into the minds of the writer and his creation, and how their relationship has developed over the years. Includes material from interviews with Rankin himself. Learn about the unusual connection between Rankin and Rebus; how the author was a punk musician and swineherd before he became a writer; and why he was so inspired by fellow-Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson and his gothic masterpiece, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
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Rediscovering the Earth Wisdom Myths of Northern Europe
In his introduction to The Well of Remembrance, author Ralph Metzner provides a telling explanation of the theme of his work:
“This book explores some of the mythic roots of the Western worldview, the worldview of the culture that, for better and worse, has come to dominate most of the rest of the world’s peoples. This domination has involved not only economic and political systems but also values, basic attitudes, religious beliefs, language, scientific understanding, and technological applications. Many individuals, tribes, and nations are struggling to free themselves from the residues of the ideological oppression practiced by what they see as Eurocentric culture. They seek to define their own ethnic or national identities by referring to ancestral traditions and mythic patterns of knowledge. At this time, it seems appropriate for Europeans and Euro-Americans likewise to probe their own ancestral mythology for insight and self-understanding.”
Focusing on the mythology and worldview of the pre-Christian Germanic tribes of Northern Europe, Metzner offers a meaningful exploration of Western ancestry.
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Author: Ralph Metzner Publisher: Shambhala ISBN: 9780834829312 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: May 2001 352 pages
This practical and accessible guide to lungeing covers equipment and various training methods. It offers advice on the correction of many faults, particularly in the young horse, and gives instruction on the use of such training aids as the Lauffer rein, the Chambon and side-reins.
This e-book deals with information organization futures: that is, new ways to add and/or view content in the OPAC, new ways to deal with challenging digital objects, and potential open source and 3D mechanisms for delivering information.
Author: Dr. Bradford Eden Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited ISBN: 9781846638152 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: March 2008 157 pages
La richesse du réalisme américain est de n’être ni un mouvement, ni une école, mais plutôt de répondre à toute une nuance d’interprétations, sans règle ni loi préétablies. Le lieu, l’objet ou la personne que l’artiste représente peut, en effet, le rattacher à une certaine catégorie bien définie, le peintre devenant, dès lors, régionaliste, portraitiste, peintre de genre ou même « portraitiste régionaliste » s’il représente des natifs du Grand Ouest américain.Dans toute cette diversité, il est une multitude de nuances et de subtilités qui font que le concept du « réalisme américain » reste au carrefour de tous ces styles. Ce qui demeure, ce n’est pas tant un mouvement mais des artistes, uniques, dont la différence consiste à façonner la richesse de la scène artistique américaine. Le résultat de leurs efforts, de leurs quêtes ne serait-il pas, au demeurant, issu du prisme de leur individualité, de leurs influences, de leur culture et de leur éducation ? Si aucun lien précis n’unit, en apparence, les larges aquarelles de Winslow Homer, les détails obsédants d’Andrew Wyeth et la lumière mélancolique et glacée d’Edward Hopper des années 1950- 1960, ils reflètent tous ce qu’est en réalité cette tradition américaine à laquelle chacun d’entre eux appartient.Kaléidoscope de ces cent dernières années, cet ouvrage analyse l’évolution des premiers peintres influencés par la Vieille Europe jusqu’à l’effervescence des grands artistes contemporains, et témoigne de son incroyable influence sur l’art américain de ces dernières années.
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Author: Gerry Souter Publisher: Parkstone International ISBN: 9781783108633 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: May 2012 419 pages
A new novel by the author Julian Barnes called “one of the best British writers to emerge in the last decade”
Set in North Africa and Sicily at the end of World War II, In the Wolf’s Mouth follows the Allies’ botched “liberation” attempts as they chased the Nazis north toward the Italian mainland. Focusing on the experiences of two young soldiers—Will Walker, an English field security officer, ambitious to master and shape events; and Ray Marfione, a wide-eyed Italian American infantryman—the novel contains some of the best battle writing of the past fifty years. Eloquent on the brutish, blundering inaccuracy of war, the immediacy of Adam Foulds’s prose is uncanny and unforgettable.
The book also explores the continuity of organized crime in Sicily through the eyes of two men—Angilù, a young shepherd; and Cirò Albanese, a local Mafioso. These men appear in the prologue and in the book’s terrifying final chapters, making it evident that the Mafia were there before and are there still, the slaughter of war only a temporary distraction.
In the Wolf’s Mouth has achieved an extraordinary resurrection, returning humanity to the lives lost in the writing of history.
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Author: Adam Foulds Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN: 9780374711306 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: June 2014 336 pages
Quantum Engineering of Low-Dimensional Nanoensembles
Brings the Band Structure of Carbon-Based Devices into the Limelight
A shift to carbon is positioning biology as a process of synthesis in mainstream engineering. Silicon is quickly being replaced with carbon-based electronics, devices are being reduced down to nanometer scale, and further potential applications are being considered. While traditionally, engineers are trained by way of physics, chemistry, and mathematics, Nanoelectronics: Quantum Engineering of Low-Dimensional Nanoensembles establishes biology as an essential basic science for engineers to explore.
Unifies Science and Engineering: from Quantum Physics to Nanoengineering
Drawing heavily on published papers by the author, this research-driven text offers a complete review of nanoelectronic transport starting from quantum waves, to ohmic and ballistic conduction, and saturation-limited extreme nonequilibrium conditions. In addition, it highlights a new paradigm using non-equilibrium Arora’s Distribution Function (NEADF) and establishes this function as the starting point (from band theory to equilibrium to extreme nonequilibrium carrier statistics). The author focuses on nano-electronic device design and development, including carbon-based devices, and provides you with a vantage point for the global outlook on the future of nanoelectronics devices and ULSI.
Encompassing ten chapters, this illuminating text:
Converts the electric-field response of drift velocity into current–voltage relationships that are driven by the presence of critical voltage and saturation current arising from the unidirectional drift of carriers
Applies the effect of these scaled-down dimensions to nano-MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor)
Considers specialized applications that can be tried through a number of suggested projects that are all feasible with MATLAB® codes
Nanoelectronics: Quantum Engineering of Low-Dimensional Nanoensembles contains the latest research in nanoelectronics, identifies problems and other factors to consider when it comes to nanolayer design and application, and ponders future trends.
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On March 18, 1963, in one of its most significant legal decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright that all defendants facing significant jail time have the constitutional right to a free attorney if they cannot afford their own. Fifty years later, 80 percent of criminal defendants are served by public defenders. In a book that combines the sweep of history with the intimate details of individual lives and legal cases, veteran reporter Karen Houppert movingly chronicles the stories of people in all parts of the country who have relied on Gideon’s promise.
There is the harrowing saga of a young man who is charged with involuntary vehicular homicide in Washington State, where overextended public defenders juggle impossible caseloads, forcing his defender to go to court to protect her own right to provide an adequate defense. In Florida, Houppert describes a public defender’s office, loaded with upward of seven hundred cases per attorney, and discovers the degree to which Clarence Earl Gideon’s promise is still unrealized. In New Orleans, she follows the case of a man imprisoned for twenty-seven years for a crime he didn’t commit, finding a public defense system already near collapse before Katrina and chronicling the harrowing months after the storm, during which overworked volunteers and students struggled to get the system working again. In Georgia, Houppert finds a mentally disabled man who is to be executed for murder, despite the best efforts of a dedicated but severely overworked and underfunded capital defender.
Half a century after Anthony Lewis’s award-winning Gideon’s Trumpet brought us the story of the court case that changed the American justice system, Chasing Gideon is a crucial book that provides essential reckoning of our attempts to implement this fundamental constitutional right.
Author: Karen Houppert Publisher: The New Press ISBN: 9781595588920 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: March 2013 288 pages
The Past, Present, and Future of Rising Sea Levels
The past fifteen thousand years – the entire span of human civilization – have witnessed dramatic sea level changes, which began with rapid global warming at the end of the Ice Age, when sea levels were more than 700 feet below modern levels. Over the next eleven millennia, the oceans climbed in fits and starts. These rapid changes had little effect on those humans who experienced them, partly because there were so few people on earth, and also because they were able to adjust readily to new coastlines.
Global sea levels stabilised about six thousand years ago except for local adjustments that caused often quite significant changes to places like the Nile Delta. So the curve of inexorably rising seas flattened out as urban civilizations developed in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and South Asia. The earth’s population boomed, quintupling from the time of Christ to the Industrial Revolution. The threat from the oceans increased with our crowding along shores to live, fish, and trade.
Since 1860, the world has warmed significantly and the ocean’s climb has speeded. The sea level changes are cumulative and gradual; no one knows when they will end. The Attacking Ocean tells a tale of the rising complexity of the relationship between humans and the sea at their doorsteps, a complexity created not by the oceans, which have changed but little. What has changed is us, and the number of us on earth.
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Author: Brian Fagan Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 9781408836040 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: June 2013 288 pages
In line with the increasing use of empirical methods in Cognitive Linguistics, the current volume explores the uses of quantitative, in particular corpus-driven, techniques for the study of meaning. It shows how these techniques contribute to the core theoretical issues of Cognitive Semantics as well as how they inform semantic analysis. The research presented in the volume constitutes an important step towards an Empirical Cognitive Semantics.
Author: Dylan Glynn; Kerstin Fischer Publisher: De Gruyter ISBN: 9783110226423 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: November 2010 403 pages
