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Brand: Sophia Moskalenko;clark R. Mccauley
EAN: 9780190862589
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Terrorism and radicalization came to the forefront of news and politics in the US after the unforgettable attacks of September 11th, 2001. When George W. Bush famously asked \"Why do they hate us?,\" the President echoed the confusion, anger and fear felt by millions of Americans, while also creating a politicized discourse that has come to characterize and obscure discussions of both phenomenon in the media.\n\nSince then the American public has lived through a number of domestic attacks and threats, and watched international terrorist attacks from afar on television sets and computer screens. The anxiety and misinformation surrounding terrorism and radicalization are perhaps best detected in questions that have continued to recur in the last decade: \"Are terrorists crazy?\"; \"Is there a profile of individuals likely to become terrorists?\"; \"Is it possible to prevent radicalization to terrorism?\" Fortunately, in the two decades since 9/11, a significant body of research has emerged that can help provide definitive answers. \n\nAs experts in the psychology of radicalization, Sophia Moskalenko and Clark McCauley propose twelve mechanisms that can move individuals, groups, and mass publics from political indifference to sympathy and support for terrorist violence. Radicalization to Terrorism: What Everyone Needs to Know synthesizes original and existing research to answer the questions raised after each new attack, including those committed by radicalized Americans. It offers a rigorously informed overview of the insight that will enable readers to see beyond the relentless new cycle to understand where terrorism comes from and how best to respond to it.

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Brand: Kim B. Clark;jonathan R. Clark;erin E. Clark
EAN: 9781647827618
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Generative AI and the remote-work revolution show us every day that we're in a new era. The rules and norms have changed—and so must leadership.\n\nAnd yet, coercive bureaucracy, hierarchy, and control—old ways of thinking and working—are still with us, a deep-seated and powerful legacy. We are living through a profound transition from an old, industrial era to a new one that is digital, transparent, and complex.\n\nIn this important new book by former dean of Harvard Business School Kim Clark, written with his business school professor son, Jonathan, and management consultant daughter, Erin, the dynamic struggle between two competing paradigms of leadership is compellingly illustrated: an old paradigm that involves control and power over people versus a new one that enables and inspires power through people.\n\nWith rich examples and stories, the authors show how deeply ingrained the legacy model of leadership remains and how destructive it is, causing waste and loss of human potential, stifling innovation, and ultimately resulting in what the authors call \"organizational darkness.\" They go on to articulate a new, positive model, one that consciously seeks to do good and to make things better; that cares for people, helping them to thrive; and that mobilizes people to solve tough problems. These three elements, they argue, are the soul, heart, and mind of leadership, and activating them requires careful attention to both the personal and the organizational dimensions of leadership.\n\nThe narrative is interwoven with probing analysis and reflection, and the authors speak clearly and frankly about the moral aspects and impact of leadership. They also provide a concrete frame and approach for scaling the new model and creating a vibrant leadership system.\n\nLeading Through is a deep and essential account of the evolution of our leadership thinking and practice that is both timely and timeless.

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Brand: Stephen R L Clark
EAN: 9781621388555
Categoria: Libri e riviste

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Brand: L.m.r. Clarke
EAN: 9781912327454
Categoria: Libri e riviste

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Brand: Stephen R. L. Clark
EAN: 9780226565057
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Plotinus, the Roman philosopher (c. 204-270 CE) who is widely regarded as the founder of Neoplatonism, was also the creator of numerous myths, images, and metaphors. They have influenced both secular philosophers and Christian and Muslim theologians, but have frequently been dismissed by modern scholars as merely ornamental. In this book, distinguished philosopher Stephen R. L. Clark shows that they form a vital set of spiritual exercises by which individuals can achieve one of Plotinus's most important goals: self-transformation through contemplation. Clark examines a variety of Plotinus's myths and metaphors within the cultural and philosophical context of his time, asking probing questions about their contemplative effects. What is it, for example, to \"think away the spatiality\" of material things? What state of mind is Plotinus recommending when he speaks of love, or drunkenness, or nakedness? What starlike consciousness is intended when he declares that we were once stars or are stars eternally? What does it mean to say that the soul goes around God? And how are we supposed to \"bring the god in us back to the god in all\"? Through these rich images and structures, Clark casts Plotinus as a philosopher deeply concerned with philosophy as a way of life.

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Brand: J.r. Clark Hall
EAN: 9780802065483
Categoria: Libri e riviste

This classic dictionary deals carefully and exhaustively with all the words which occur in Anglo-Saxon poetry and prose. Variant dialectic forms are given, together with variant forms found in the same dialect. Purely poetic words and words not common in prose are indicated, and references are given to the passages in which they occur. First published in 1894, this is a reprint of the fourth edition (Cambridge University Press, 1960).

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Brand: Stephen R L Clark
EAN: 9781621382942
Categoria: Libri e riviste

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Brand: John R. Clarke
EAN: 9780520084292
Categoria: Libri e riviste

In this richly illustrated book, art historian John R. Clarke helps us see the ancient Roman house 'with Roman eyes'. Clarke presents a range of houses, from tenements to villas, and shows us how enduring patterns of Roman wall decoration tellingly bear the cultural, religious, and social imprints of the people who lived with them. In case studies of seventeen excavated houses, Clarke guides us through four centuries of Roman wall painting, mosaic, and stucco decoration, from the period of the 'Four Styles' (100 B.C. to A.D. 79) to the mid- third century. The First Style Samnite House shows its debt to public architecture in its clear integration of public and private spaces. The Villa of Oplontis asserts the extravagant social and cultural climate of the Second Style. Gem-like Third-Style rooms from the House of Lucretius Fronto reflect the refinement and elegance of Augustan tastes. The Vettii brothers' social climbing helps explain the overburdened Fourth-Style decoration of their famous house. And evidence of remodelling leads Clarke to conclude that the House of Jupiter and Ganymede became a gay hotel in the second century.\nIn his emphasis on social and spiritual dimensions, Clarke offers a contribution to Roman art and architectural history that is both original and accessible to the general reader. The book's superb photographs not only support the author's findings but help to preserve an ancient legacy that is fast succumbing to modern deterioration resulting from pollution and vandalism.

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Brand: C. R. Clarke
EAN: 9781805144908
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Over a year has passed since The Spatchcock Killer’s reign of terror reached its blood-drenched conclusion, but DI Gutteridge is still haunted by memories of the case. With flashbacks of discovering his wife’s mutilated remains twelve years earlier also plaguing his sleep, Gutteridge is beginning to find his corrupted life overwhelming.\n\n\nBut then a new crime scene materialises, one that threatens to contaminate his world even further. A crime scene that in every conceivable way seems to be a verbatim copy of one from a long way in his past. There is also a note pinned to the body, a note addressed to him.\n\n\nCould one of Gutteridge’s oldest and most terrifying nemesis be back in his world to reap revenge, or is there a copy-cat intent on riding the wave of The Shropshire Ripper’s infamy? Increasingly aware that the pressures of his life are beginning to change him, will Gutteridge discover the truth and bring the killer to justice?

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Brand: Timothy R. Clark
EAN: 9781523087686
Categoria: Libri e riviste

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Brand: Barry R. Clarke
EAN: 9781398835795
Categoria: Libri e riviste

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Brand: Howard R. Clarke
EAN: 9781912866472
Categoria: Libri e riviste

This book tells the little known story of the Army's regimental and garrison schools established in 1812 to provide schooling for soldiers' children and subsequently for enlisted men, some almost 30 years before public money was first provided for elementary schools in England and Wales.\n \nThis is the first published work on the Army's schools during the 19th century for almost 50 years and the author takes a fresh approach, placing the narrative within the context of contemporary opinion about the need for educated soldiers and the schooling appropriate for the lowers classes ( from which the Army predominately drew its recruits), whilst also explaining the hitherto neglected, but crucial part played by the responsible ministers at the War Office in establishing and ensuring the survival of the schools.\n \nThere were no published government reports on these regimental schools until 1859 and previous literature has been largely silent on the workings of the schools during the early years, when they were conducted by untrained schoolmaster-sergeants selected by their commanding officers from within the ranks of their regiments. This book breaks new ground by drawing on the archives of more than 40 regiments of infantry and cavalry preserved in their regimental museum and county records offices, including standing orders, digests of service and personal diaries, together with and other contemporary material from a larger number of regiments in the UK National Archives, in order to construct an unprecedented account of the workings of the schools during the years. The book explains the difficulties faced by COs in securing sufficient literate men from within the ranks suitable for appointment and explains the challenges faced by even the most competent schoolmasters in keeping open the schools as their regiments marched between barracks in the United Kingdom and set out on long journeys by land and sea to stations across the Empire.\n \nThe author builds on the previous literature in explaining the significance of the reforms in the Army's schools that were introduced during the 1840s, including establishing the 'Normal school' at the Royal Military Asylum Chelsea to train a new class of army schoolmasters to replace the schoolmaster- sergeants, and theappointment of an Inspector to oversee the work of the schools. The approach taken in this book however differs from the previous works in a number of respects. Whilst acknowledging the important part played by Rev George Gleig, the Army's Principal Chaplain and first Inspector of Military Schools, this book aims to provide a balanced narrative, which also recognises the decisive part played of Sidney Herbert and Lord Panmure (Fox Maule) as the responsible ministers at the War Office. Their work in securing support within their governments for the additional expenditure required and in overcoming the suspicions and potential opposition of the Dukes of Wellington and Cambridge...

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Brand: John R. Clarke
EAN: 9780520248151
Categoria: Libri e riviste

This splendidly illustrated book brings to life the ancient Romans whom modern scholarship has largely ignored: slaves, ex-slaves, foreigners, and the freeborn working poor. Though they had no access to the upper echelons of society, ordinary Romans enlivened their world with all manner of artworks. Discussing a wide range of art in the late republic and early empire--from familiar monuments to the obscure Caupona of Salvius and little-studied tomb reliefs--John R. Clarke provides a tantalizing glimpse into the lives of ordinary Roman people. Writing for a wide audience, he illuminates the dynamics of a discerning and sophisticated population, overturning much accepted wisdom about them, and opening our eyes to their astounding cultural diversity. Clarke begins by asking: How did emperors use monumental displays to communicate their policies to ordinary people? His innovative readings demonstrate how the Ara Pacis, the columns of Trajan and of Marcus Aurelius, and the Arch of Constantine announced each dynasty's program for handling the lower classes.\nClarke then considers art commissioned by the non-elites themselves--the paintings, mosaics, and reliefs that decorated their homes, shops, taverns, and tombstones. In a series of paintings from taverns and houses, for instance, he uncovers wickedly funny combinations of text and image used by ordinary Romans to poke fun at elite pretensions in art, philosophy, and poetry. In addition to providing perceptive readings of many works of Roman art, this original and entertaining book demonstrates why historians must recognize, rather than erase, complexity and contradiction and asks new questions about class, culture, and social regulation that are highly relevant in today's global culture.

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Brand: R.j. Clarke
EAN: 9780750989923
Categoria: Libri e riviste

\"Her story is adapted to move the compassion of those she visits. She has bad nerves, and seems in great disorder of mind, which she pretends to be owing to the ill usage of her father [...] She attempts to borrow money of [sic] waiters, servants, and chaise boys, and offers to leave something in pawn with them to the value. Her name is supposed to be Sarah Wilson.\" - London Evening-Post, 30 October 1766\n\nBeginning in her late teens, Sarah Wilson travelled alone all over England, living on her wits, inventing new identities, and embroidering stories to fool her victims into providing money and fine clothes. When her crimes eventually caught up with her, she was transported to America - where she reinvented herself in the guise of the Queen's sister and began a new set of adventures at the onset of the American War of Independence. Using original research, newspaper reports and court records, this is the story of 'the greatest Impostress of the present Age': a real-life Moll Flanders who created a remarkable series of lives for herself on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Brand: John R. K. Clark
EAN: 9780824824518
Categoria: Libri e riviste

This title gives us the many captivating stories behind the hundreds of Hawai'i place names associated with the ocean - the names of shores, beaches, and other sites where people fish, swim, dive, surf, and paddle. Significant features and landmarks on or near shores, such as fishponds, monuments, shrines, reefs, and small islands, are also included. The names of surfing sites are the most numerous and among the most colourful: from the purely descriptive (Black Rock, Blue Hole) to the humorous (No Can Tell, Pray for Sex).

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Brand: David P. Clark;nanette J. Pazdernik;michelle R. Mcgehee
EAN: 9780128132883
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Molecular Biology, Third Edition, provides a thoroughly revised, invaluable resource for college and university students in the life sciences, medicine and related fields. This esteemed text continues to meet the needs of students and professors by offering new chapters on RNA, genome defense, and epigenetics, along with expanded coverage of RNAi, CRISPR, and more ensuring topical content for a new class of students. This volume effectively introduces basic concepts that are followed by more specific applications as the text evolves.\n\nMoreover, as part of the Academic Cell line of textbooks, this book contains research passages that shine a spotlight on current experimental work reported in Cell Press articles. These articles form the basis of case studies found in the associated online study guide that is designed to tie current topics to the scientific community.

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Brand: Neil R. A. Bell;trevor Bond;kate Clarke
EAN: 9781445689487
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Few things are more evocative of Victorian Britain than its criminals; they are, together with railways, gas lamps and swirling fog, vital ingredients in any Victorian melodrama. The truth, however, was often stranger, more thrilling and more horrifying than fiction.\n\nIn this book, four eminent crime historians reveal the realities of this aspect of Victorian life, illuminating not just the criminals and their victims, but also the policemen, forensic scientists and others who rubbed shoulders with the nineteenth-century underworld. Notorious crimes – the Road Hill Murder, the Balham Mystery and Jack the Ripper – stand alongside long-forgotten, neglected cases; the most shocking and terrifying cases appear next to everyday horrors, some stunning and some merely sad. This unique work of reference deserves a place on every true crime reader’s bookshelf.

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Brand: Susanna Clarke
EAN: 9781526681553
Categoria: Libri e riviste

The 20th anniversary edition of the fantasy classic, with an introduction by V E Schwab\nOver 4 million copies sold\n\n‘The book I wish I'd written’ R F Kuang\n‘Susanna Clarke writes with an intelligence and beauty that seems at times miraculous’ Katherine Rundell\n\n1806. England is beleaguered by the long war, and centuries have passed since magicians faded from view. But one remains: the reclusive Mr Norrell. Proceeding to London, he raises a woman from the dead and summons an army of ghostly ships to terrify the French.\n\nYet the cautious Norrell is challenged by the emergence of another magician. Young, handsome and daring, Jonathan Strange is his very antithesis. So begins a dangerous battle between these two great men – which overwhelms that between England and France. And soon their own secret dabblings with the dark arts are going to cause more trouble than they can imagine…\n\n'Like Hilary Mantel, Clarke has made the very notion of genre seem quaint' Guardian

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Brand: Quentin Blake;emma Chichester Clark
EAN: 9788865322086
Categoria: Libri e riviste

La signora Arabella ha 3 scimmie dispettose che combinano un disastro dopo l'altro...\r\n\r\nArabella De' Nuvolis è la felice proprietaria di tre dolcissime scimmiette: Plinio, Baldo e Lulù. Carine e adorabili, è vero, ma anche assai dispettose. Al punto che, quando rimangono a casa da sole, non perdono occasione per cercare qualcosa con cui giocare e mettere letteralmente a soqquadro l'appartamento. Cappelli e vestiti distrutti, cestini svuotati, vasi rovesciati, dentifricio spremuto a terra: Plinio, Baldo e Lulù combinano malefatte ogni giorno più \"creative\". Arabella è disperata, ma ottiene in cambio soltanto sei occhioni sgranati e un assoluto silenzio. Un giorno, rientrata a casa, trova tutto in ordine, ma invece di tirare un sospiro di sollievo finisce per preoccuparsi. Che cosa è successo alle sue tre scimmiette dispettose? Come mai non hanno creato alcun problema? E soprattutto, dove sono finite? Una storia divertente nata dalla penna di Quentin Blake e illustrata da Emma Chichester Clark. Età di lettura: da 4 anni.

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Brand: Mary Higgins Clark
EAN: 9788820068899
Categoria: Libri e riviste

L'ultimo romanzo di Mary Higgins Clark, recentemente scomparsa, è un thriller incalzante e avvincente, una storia quanto mai attuale nell'era del MeToo. Dalla parte delle donne e della giustizia.\r\n\r\n Un'instancabile giornalista investigativa, un misterioso caso di molestie sessuali: qualcuno non vuole che la verità venga a galla... \r\n\r\nQuando la giornalista d'inchiesta Gina Kane riceve una misteriosa email in cui viene accusata REL News, rete televisiva tra le più quotate d'America, capisce subito di dover indagare su questa storia. A spedirgliela è una giovane ex dipendente, Cathy Ryan, che sostiene di aver subito abusi sessuali da uno dei suoi superiori e pare non essere stata l'unica. Gina non riuscirà mai a incontrare Cathy, che, poche settimane dopo, rimane vittima di un tragico incidente. Il suo istinto infallibile, però, le dice che questa vicenda è solo la punta di un gigantesco iceberg. Per la celebre emittente televisiva è un momento delicatissimo: l'azienda ha avviato le procedure per la quotazione in borsa e non può permettersi alcuno scandalo. Così i vertici di REL affidano al loro avvocato, Michael Carter, il compito di risolvere la questione, offrendo alle vittime un risarcimento in denaro in cambio del silenzio. Man mano che emergono nuove accuse, i tentativi di impedire che la storia venga a galla devono fare i conti con la determinazione di Gina a scoprire la verità: la morte di Cathy è stata davvero un incidente? Quante altre donne sono coinvolte? Chi sono i responsabili? Quando un'altra ex dipendente viene trovata senza vita, la giornalista si rende conto che qualcuno sta facendo di tutto per proteggere la reputazione di un predatore sessuale. Contro la macchina da guerra architettata dall'azienda, c'è solo un'arma con cui difendersi: la verità.

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Brand: Mary Higgins Clark
EAN: 9788820066833
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Ogni tranquilla città di provincia ha i suoi segreti. Ma cosa è disposta a fare pur di proteggerli? Il nuovo, appassionante thriller della regina mondiale della suspense.\r\n«Non dirò a nessuno che sono andato a nuotare con Kenny. Non dirò a nessuno del Grande Uomo che l'ha colpita e l'ha spinta in piscina. Perché quello è un segreto»\r\n«C'è una cosa molto importante di cui ti devo parlare quando arrivi a casa!!!» È l'ultimo messaggio che Aline Dowling ha ricevuto da sua sorella minore Kerry, che non vede da quasi tre anni. Ma Aline non potrà mai chiedere alla sorella diciottenne che cosa intendesse con quelle parole misteriose, perché Kerry è stata uccisa quella notte stessa. Qualcuno l'ha colpita alla testa con una mazza da golf facendola cadere nella piscina di casa. È proprio lì che Aline e i suoi genitori la ritrovano ormai senza vita. Delle indagini viene incaricato il brillante ispettore Michael Wilson che, con l'aiuto e la complicità di Aline, cercherà di risolvere il caso con tutte le sue forze. I sospetti si concentrano fin da subito su Alan, il fidanzato di Kerry, con cui la ragazza aveva litigato la sera stessa dell'omicidio. Ma tutto è più difficile di quel che sembra: non ci sono impronte sull'arma del delitto e nessuno pare aver notato niente di strano. Nessuno tranne Jamie Chapman, il ventenne vicino di casa dei Dowling affetto da ritardo mentale. Jamie, dalla finestra di camera sua, ha visto tutto. Ha visto il «Grande Uomo» colpire Kerry. Ha visto la ragazza cadere in piscina. Ha visto il sangue e la mazza da golf. Ma Jamie non può dirlo a nessuno. Questo è il suo segreto.

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Brand: Lauren Beukes
EAN: 9781405924054
Categoria: Libri e riviste

FROM THE AUTHOR BEHIND BRAND NEW APPLE TV HIT SHINING GIRLS\n\nWINNER OF THE 2011 ARTHUR C CLARKE AWARD\n\n'A major, major talent' GEORGE R.R. MARTIN\n_______\n\nZinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit and a talent for finding lost things. But when a little old lady turns up dead and the cops confiscate her last paycheque, she's forced to take on her least favourite kind of job - missing persons.\n\nBeing hired by reclusive music producer Odi Huron to find a pop star should be her ticket out of Zoo City, the festering slum where the criminal underclass and their animal companions reside.\n\nInstead it catapults Zinzi deeper into the maw of a city twisted by crime and magic, where she'll be forced to confront the dark secrets of former lives - including her own.\n_______\n\n'Beukes is very *very* good. It feels effortless, utterly accomplished' William Gibson\n\n'Beukes brings a secret tenderness and humanity to her off-kilter portrait of the here and now' Guardian\n\n'Exquisitely paced and impeccably controlled. An enormously satisfying novel' New York Times Book Review

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Brand: Polly Clark
EAN: 9788899591236
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Un grande romanzo, toccante e visionario al tempo stesso sul coraggio di essere se stessi. E di affrontare, nonostante tutto, la propria verità.\r\n«Larchfield è un esordio raro.\r\nUn libro opera di un talento davvero impressionante.» - Richard Ford\r\n«Un romanzo bellissimo: appassionante, lirico e sorprendente» - John Boyne\r\n«Misterioso, fantastico, coinvolgente» - Louis De Bernieres\r\nChi poteva saperlo che a volte l'amore viene a prenderti, a trascinarti via dalle ceneri della tua vita, dal terribile cuore vuoto della quotidianità?\r\nDora e Wystan sono due persone che non appartengono. Due outsider che cercano a fatica il proprio posto nel mondo. Dora è una giovane scrittrice che ha abbandonato la carriera universitaria a Londra per occuparsi della bambina che sta per nascerle, Wystan è il poeta W.H. Auden, qui colto subito dopo gli studi a Oxford.\r\n\r\nIl testo viene per la prima volta pubblicato in Italia nella raffinata traduzione di Federica Bigotti.

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Brand: Cassandra Rose Clarke
EAN: 9788863554755
Categoria: Libri e riviste

La serie di romanzi Young Adult basata sui famosissimi videogiochi di Halo.\r\n\r\nnon sono esattamente amici, nella loro piccola scuola superiore sullo sperduto mondo-colonia di Meridian. Ognuno di loro ha i suoi problemi, da genitori poco presenti al dover aiutare le proprie famiglie, dalla volontà di entrare in un buon college alla speranza di recitare nel prossimo holo-film di successo. Ma questi problemi sono nulla, in confronto alla minaccia che sta per investire il loro mondo. L'alleanza aliena nota come COVENANT sta per prendere d'assedio Meridian, per motivi non facilmente spiegabili. Quando i loro villaggi vengono dati alle fiamme, i quattro ragazzi si ritrovano bloccati in un luogo elevato, fuori dal rifugio cittadino in cui il resto dei sopravvissuti si è radunato. Insieme, Saskia, Dorian, Evie e Victor si ritroveranno coinvolti in una battaglia, con niente a difenderli tranne qualche arma di fortuna e uno Spartan ferito, uno dei super-soldati dell'UNSC. Ciò che nascerà dalla distruzione determinerà il fato di Meridian e cambierà le sorti dell'umanità e della sua sopravvivenza.

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Brand: Arthur C. Clarke
EAN: 9788804715245
Categoria: Libri e riviste

La più completa raccolta delle opere brevi del maestro anglosassone della fantascienza. Oltre 100 racconti, tra cui Spedizione di soccorso, Passeggero del silenzio e La sentinella, il nucleo narrativo che avrebbe dato vita a 2001: Odissea nello spazio.\r\n\r\n“The Collected Stories” (il titolo originale di questo volume) di Arthur C. Clarke è un libro che ha fatto storia. Oltre 1500 cartelle dattiloscritte per raccogliere la maggior parte della produzione breve del maestro della Science Fiction anglosassone. \r\n\r\n104 opere che ci mostrano l'evoluzione di Clarke, capace di porre autentiche pietre miliari lungo la strada maestra della narrativa di fantascienza, che abbraccia un arco temporale vastissimo, dal 1937 fino al 1999, con il brevissimo racconto intitolato “Improving the Neighbourhood”, primo racconto di SF a uscire sulla prestigiosa rivista “Nature”. A corredo del volume, le introduzioni ai racconti dello stesso Clarke, un ricco saggio d’appendice sulla vita di questo eclettico autore, diventato famoso per la trasposizione cinematografica di un suo breve racconto nel film “2001: Odissea nello spazio” di Stanley Kubrik, e la sua biobibliografia completa.

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Brand: Roddy Doyle
EAN: 9780749397357
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Winner of the Booker Prize 1993 \r\nRoddy Doyle's Booker Prize-winning novel describes the world of ten-year-old Paddy Clarke, growing up in Barrytown, north Dublin. From fun and adventure on the streets, boredom in the classroom to increasing isolation at home, \"Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha\" is the story of a boy who sees everything but understands less and less.

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Brand: B.r. Myers
EAN: 9780063209879
Categoria: Libri e riviste

“A deliciously chilling gothic mystery with a smart and resourceful heroine . . . What more could fans of Jane Eyre and Rebecca want?” — Carol Goodman, two-time Mary Higgins Clark Award winner\n\nTwo brides band together to unravel the secrets at the heart of a crumbling island manor in this delicious love letter to gothic fiction from the award-winning author of A Dreadful Splendor\n\n'Til death do us part...\n\nNovember 1816: Restless but naive Emeline Fitzpatrick is desperate to escape her stifling life in foggy Halifax. Her guardian is lining up repugnant suitors, but Emeline has her eyes set on a lieutenant in the British Navy. She just needs to persuade him to propose, or her one chance at happiness will be gone forever.\n\nBut when Emeline’s hopes end in scandal, she finds herself with only one suitor left: the wealthy and enigmatic Captain Graves. Having already lost two wives to tragic circumstances, the widower is seeking a new companion in his cloistered seaside manor, Faraday House. Or at least that is what Emeline has been told, because when she arrives, she is horrified to discover that the second Mrs. Graves, Georgina, is still alive—though fading fast.\n\nEmeline is only certain of two things: something ghastly is afoot at Faraday House, and no one is going to save her. She will have to rely on her own courage, her burgeoning bond with Georgina, and the aid of a handsome reverend with a mysterious past to shed light on a ghostly truth.

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Brand: B.r. Myers
EAN: 9780063209831
Categoria: Libri e riviste

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD\n“This gem of a book sparkles with wit and originality. . . . There is no shortage of tricks and feints in this excellent novel and Genevieve is a delightful character.” — The Globe and Mail\n\n“A spooky gothic romance with impeccable vibes. I loved this!\" — Erin Sterling, New York Times bestselling author of The Ex Hex and The Kiss Curse\n\nIn this wickedly whimsical Gothic murder mystery brimming with romance, betrayals, and chills, a fake spiritualist is summoned to hold a séance for a bride who died on the eve before her wedding, but as nefarious secrets are revealed, the line between hoax and haunting blurs.\n\nBe careful what you conjure...\n\nIn Victorian London, Genevieve Timmons poses as a spiritualist to swindle wealthy mourners—until one misstep lands her in a jail cell awaiting the noose. Then a stranger arrives to make her a peculiar offer. The lord he serves, Mr. Pemberton, has been inconsolable since the tragic death of his beautiful bride-to-be. If Genevieve can perform a séance persuasive enough to bring the young lord peace, she will win her freedom.\n\nSoothing a grieving nobleman should be easy for someone of Genevieve’s skill, but when she arrives at the grand Somerset Park estate, Mr. Pemberton is not the heartbroken lover she expected. The surly—yet exceedingly handsome—gentleman is certain that his fiancée was murdered, even though there is no evidence. Only a confession can bring justice now, and Mr. Pemberton decides Genevieve will help him get it. With his knowledge of the household and her talent for illusion, they can stage a haunting so convincing it will coax the killer into the light. However, when frightful incidents befall the manor, Genevieve realizes her tricks aren’t required after all. She may be a fake, but Somerset’s ghost could be all too real…\n\nA Dreadful Splendor is delicious brew of mystery, spooky thrills, and intoxicating romance that makes for a ghoulishly fun and page-turning read.\n\n\"A delightful mix of gothic, mystery, and romance. I had such fun reading this book!\" — Gwenda Bond, New York Times bestselling author of Not Your Average Hot Guy

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