Another family farm is about to be lost in these tough economic times. Isabelle is an elementary school teacher and the mother of two young children. She is dealt a heavy blow and faces challenges she may not be able to survive.
This is the inaugural volume in an annual series inaugurated by the UQP Law School. The McPherson series will host a celebrated international scholar/legal expert to deliver a series of 3 lectures. The essays look at the legal issues and ramifications of identity theft and financial fraud.
The Round Table Murders, first published in 1931, is a golden-age mystery featuring a band of ruthless brothers in a deadly competition to get their late brother’s fortune. Another player, the mysterious “Poacher,” flits in and out of the picture. Inspector Keating of Scotland Yard is called on to investigate. Peter Baron was the pen-name of Leonard Worswick Clyde (1906-1987) who authored four detective novels. From the publisher:They were brothers, but they were killers first. They had flouted all the finer feelings, all the decencies, and they did not let brotherly love stand in their way ... An attempt to reunite this gruesome brotherhood brings the feud to the death point. The oldest brother, doomed to die, leaves his immense loot to his brothers. But first he hides it, writes the directions down and then tears the paper into four pieces, sending one to each of the brothers. He dies believing that by this means he will bring the brothers peacefully together at last. Instead, each brother strives to collect the missing scraps of paper for himself. The bloody work begins. Inspector Keating of Scotland Yard takes a hand. The terrible Poacher steps in and out as mysterious as a ghost, as deadly as the plague. Who or what is the Poacher? Not even Inspector Keating can tell until—
MURDER IN WAX A fearful face, living, yet it has the look of the dead! Only the jaw moves and its movements summon murder! Though it cost life after life the grim countenance must be faced. A piece of paper upon which the destiny of an empire depends must be kept from its baleful eyes ... John Richmond, King’s messenger, is cut down. His daughter is abducted. A famous banker is done to death. Another man of rank joins the company of corpses. And then a young man, little regarded, with only the love of the abducted woman to lead him on, enters the case. Will the hand of death reach him? ... Here is a gripping mystery story by an author who is a master of thrills. An English sensation, it will thrill American readers with its power and ingenuity. Mystery and horror novel of an evil mastermind known as ‘the Squid’ who wears a ghastly wax mask with a hinged jaw. “Can anyone capture and identify the man hidden inside the mask?” Murder in Wax, first published in 1931, is an ingenious ‘golden-age’ mystery featuring an evil criminal mastermind known as ‘the Squid,’ who hides his identity behind a ghastly wax mask with a hinged jaw. A young man, searching for his abducted girlfriend, attempts to solve the murders. Peter Baron was the pen-name of Leonard Worswick Clyde (1906-1987) who authored four detective novels.
Trace the legend, from its beginning to the final patrol. Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the top-scoring fighter ace of the First World War, remains practically without peer. In his short, but very glittering, career, this handsome, athletic, chivalrous, and gallant man had what is now called 'star power', becoming an inspiration to fellow pilots and countrymen alike. His history unfolds here in generously annotated photographic biography, filled with 220 rare images that illuminate Richthofen's public and private lives.
This new volume, by a team of international scholars, explores aspects of population displacement and statehood at a crucial juncture in modern European history, when the entire continent took on the aspect of a 'laboratory atop a mass graveyard' (Tomas Masaryk).
The Napoleonic Library is an outstanding collection of seminal works on the Napoleonic Wars. It features evocative contemporary memoirs and makes available once again the classic works on the subject by military historians.
Sometimes people are moved or compelled to do things that they themselves don't fully understand. After a life of many low points, Marcus rises to the top despite the odds only to find himself reaching another low. A self-made man, he goes through life with a burden, a desire, and a need that might cost him his
Peter Myers' intricate and ornately patterned drawings are brought together for the first time in this volume, which is the fascinating result of the collaboration of an artist and two scientists. The beautiful, complex images (included in full-page colour as well as black and white reproductions) serve as a rare window into the precision and exacting creativity of the Asperger mind at work. Peter Myers was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome in 1996 and his work reflects his stunning ability to plan and to organise visual information, and to embed illusions within his pictures. Peter's brief explanatory captions which accompany the images offer insight into the ways in which he composes his pictures. In the main text of the book, psychologists Simon Baron-Cohen and Sally Wheelwright discuss the work's great psychological significance, demonstrating in accessible language their ground-breaking systemizing theory of how the autistic mind processes information.
A guide for MySQL administrators covers such topics as benchmarking, server performance, indexing, queries, hardware optimization, replication, scaling, cloud hosting, and backup and recovery.
This book of meditations brings together some of the great themes of philosophy - the nature of reality, perception, metaphysics, choice and morality - and shows how these themes are reflected in poetry, both ancient and modern.The reader is invited to meditate on the poems one day at a time, and connect them to the larger themes which the poet addresses, often indirectly by means of metaphor or picture. Its aim is to show to both the general reader and the specialist student how philosophy infuses every aspect of our culture and how meditation on these greater themes can change our lives, liberate our imaginations and cause us to see all things anew.
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