The AZ of Eating Out is a wonderfully light-hearted, humorous and anecdotal guide to all aspects of eating away from home, offering a wealth of guidelines, suggestions, top tips, cautions, advice and insider knowledge to help everyone get the most out of their dining experience. Organized into 146 A[...]
The book captures the critical information students need to feel confident in the application of social work theory to practice.[...]
Vladimir Nabokov held the unique distinction of being one of the most important writers of the twentieth century in two separate languages, Russian and English. Known for his verbal mastery and bold plots, Nabokov fashioned a literary legacy that continues to grow in significance. This 2005 volume o[...]
A guide to the designers, artists and authors who are at the heart of Faber's design story.
"The Brussels Commission has just suspended its senior economist, Bernard Connolly, for writing a book savaging the prospects for a common currency. There are many who now believe he should be lauded as a prophet". (Observer, Editorial, 1 October 1995). "Mr. Connolly's longstanding proposition that [...]
Modernity is marked by acrimonious debate over the form of the good society and the proper shape of politics. But these struggles are set within a frame that supports some arguments and rules other possibilities out of contention. If late--modernity is a time of danger as well as significant achieve[...]
Power. Interest. Freedom. Responsibility. Connolly explores and confronts sets of interrelated concepts such as these -- concepts whose meanings are persistently subject to debate in the context of political discourse. He illuminates the role played in political life and political enquiry by such co[...]
This is the complete, authoritative guide that shows how nutrition can fight the epidemic of yeast- and fungus-related diseases and disorders including asthma, bronchitis, depression, fatigue, and memory loss. Fully updated, this second edition includes dozens of new recipes utilizing 12 foods that [...]
Hailed internationally as a page-turner in a league with the fiction of Thomas Harris, this lyrical and terrifying bestseller is the stunning achievement of an "extravagantly gifted" ("Kirkus Reviews)" new novelist. John Connolly superbly taps into the tortured mind and gritty world of former NYPD d[...]
Rhetorical theory, the core of Roman education, taught rules of public speaking that are still influential today. But Roman rhetoric has long been regarded as having little important to say about political ideas. "The State of Speech" presents a forceful challenge to this view. The first book to rea[...]
Layer Cake, a metaphor for the many murky layers of the criminal world, is set in modern day London and features smooth-talking and sophisticated drug dealer 'X' whose plan is to quietly bank-roll enough cash to retire young (early). Operating under the polished veneer of a legitimate businessman, h[...]
The authentic voice of British gangster fiction, J.J. Connolly, is back with his trademark razor-sharp dialogue and quick-fire violence. From the London underworld he portrayed brilliantly in Layer Cake, the plot of Viva la Madness goes international, with trans-Atlantic drug deals, money laundering[...]
Practical information on the benefits of wellness programming in the
workplace, getting the approval of management, launching and evaluating
a wellness programme and motivating participants are the key goals of this book.
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If you're serious about your sport, you're serious about heart rate training. Now, with one small device, you can apply the latest technology, science and research to take the guesswork out of training, monitor progress and see results. "Heart Rate Training" will show you how! From functions, featur[...]
High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness. Angry and alone, he takes refuge in his imagination and soon finds that reality and fantasy have begun to meld.[...]
Internationally acclaimed author John Connolly thrilled readers with his debut bestseller, "Every Dead Thing." Now he gives a new name to fear with this atmospheric, spine-tingling page-turner. DARK HOLLOW Haunted by the murder of his wife and daughter, former New York police detective Charlie Parke[...]
John Connolly's "Every Dead Thing" and "Dark Hollow" were international bestsellers. Now the "compulsively readable" "(Publishers Weekly)" Connolly returns to heart-pounding form with a crime novel that combines sinister menace with superb style.
THE KILLING KIND
When the discovery of a ma[...]
Hailed as "one of the best" ("Toronto Sun") writers of contemporary suspense fiction, international bestselling author John Connolly returns with an electrifying novel featuring his acclaimed private detective, Charlie Parker. In South Carolina, a young black man faces the death penalty for the rap[...]
Three hundred years after the massacre that wiped out a colony of peaceful settlers on the small Maine island of Sanctuary, rookie officer Sharon Macy and melancholy policeman Joe Dupree team up to protect the island's residents from a band of vengeful killers. Reprint.[...]
When a young woman disappears from the streets of New York City, ties of friendship and blood inevitably draw ingenious, tortured detective Charlie Parker into the search. Soon he discovers links to a church of bones in Eastern Europe, a 1944 slaughter at a French monastery, and to the myth of an ob[...]
Writing from a revolutionary Marxist perspective, Kieran Allen situates Connolly within the framework of the Socialist 2nd International and aims to show how its theoretical inadequacies account for many of Connolly's own ambiguities and failings. While applauding Connolly's unflinching commitment t[...]
Billy Connolly - raconteur, comedian, and irrepressible wanderer - has spent much of his life in the United States. It's a country he knows and loves a great deal, but even someone as well-travelled as Billy can always discover knew things about such a vast nation. So he's off on the move again, thi[...]
Throughout the world, indigenous rights have become increasingly prominent and controversial. The recent adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is the latest in a series of significant developments in the recognition of such rights acro[...]