To Interpret the Earth is a concise & imaginative discussion of the general basis behind the scientific approach to problems within the earth sciences. It is aimed primarily at students & beginning researchers & attempts to inform them about the scientific method behind the study of the complex & dynamic systems that make up the earth's surface. The discussion is illustrated with examples of the sort of problems typically encountered in the study of the earth's surface, & general solutions based on a scientific approach are provided. The book will be of value particularly to undergraduate & postgraduate students in earth & environmental science, & also to researchers at all levels. ...

In the mid-1970s, Saul Bellow visited Israel & To Jerusalem & Back is his account of his time there. Immersing himself in its landscape & culture, he records the opinions, passions & dreams of Israelis of varying viewpoints – from Prime Minister Rabin, novelist Amos Oz & the editor of an Arab-language newspaper to a kibbutznik escaped from the Warsaw ghetto & the barber at Bellow’s hotel. Through meditations steeped in history & literature he adds his own reflections on being Jewish in the twentieth century. Bellow’s exploration of a beautiful & troubled city is a powerful testament to the unique spirit & challenges of Israel, its history & its future. ...

` Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit `em, but remember it`s a sin to kill a Mockingbird.` Lawyer Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee`s classic novel
- a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout & Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race & class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence & hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man`s struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much...A benchmark of classic American literature, To Kill A Mockingbird approaches the highly sensitive topic of racism in 1930s America with humour, warmth & compassion, making it widely recognised as one of the best books of the twentieth century & in American literature.
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` Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit `em, but remember it`s a sin to kill a Mockingbird.` A lawyer`s advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this classic novel
- a black man charged with attacking a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout & Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores the irrationality of adult attitudes to race & class in the Deep South of the 1930s with both compassion & humour. She also creates one of the great heroes of literature in their father, Atticus, whose lone struggle for justice pricks the conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence & hypocrisy.
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` Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit `em, but remember it`s a sin to kill a Mockingbird.` A lawyer`s advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee`s classic novel
- a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout & Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race & class in the Deep South of the thirties. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence & hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man`s struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much. With Harper Lee`s eagerly awaited sequel Go Set A Watchman now available, this novel is experiencing a whole new lease of life.
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This tense, gripping novel set in 19C St Petersburg amid desperate revolutionaries bent on the overthrow of the Tsar `confirms Andrew William`s place in the front ranks of English thriller writers` (Daily Mail). Shortlisted for the CWA Ellis Peters & the Walter Scott Awards, To Kill a Tsar will appeal to readers of John le Carre, Robert Harris & Alan Furst. St Petersburg, 1879. A shot rings out in Palace Square. Cossack guards tackle the would-be assassin to the ground. In the melee no one notices a striking dark haired young woman in a heavy coat slip away from the scene. Russia is alive with revolutionaries. While Tsar Alexander II remains a virtual prisoner in his own palaces, his ruthless secret police will stop at nothing to unmask those who plot his assassination & the overthrow of the Imperial regime. For Dr Frederick Hadfield, whose medical practice is dependent on the Anglo-Russian gentry, these are dangerous times. Drawn into a desperate cat-&-mouse game of undercover assignations, plot & counter-plot, he risks all in a perilous double life. From glittering ballrooms to the cruel cells of the House of Preliminary Detention, from the grandeur of the British Embassy to the underground presses of the young revolutionaries, To Kill a Tsar is a gripping thriller set in a world of brutal contrasts in which treachery is everywhere & nothing is what it seems. ...

Sam Bourne, in which Maggie Costello uncovers an assassination plot to kill the tyrannical new president. The unthinkable has happened... The United States has elected a volatile demagogue as president, backed by his ruthless chief strategist, Crawford ` Mac` Mc Namara. When a war of words with the North Korean regime spirals out of control & the President comes perilously close to launching a nuclear attack, it`s clear someone has to act, or the world will be reduced to ashes. Soon Maggie Costello, a seasoned Washington operator & stubbornly principled, discovers an inside plot to kill the President
- & faces the ultimate moral dilemma. Should she save the President & leave the free world at the mercy of an increasingly crazed would-be tyrant
- or commit treason against her Commander in Chief & risk plunging the country into a civil war?

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Following the bizarre accidental death of his wife, Israeli secret service agent Yoel Ravid retires to the suburbs with his daughter, mother & mother-in-law. After a lifetime of uncovering other people`s secrets he is forced to look back at the lies he has told himself; at the desolate enigma of his wife`s life & death; his years of service to the state & the riddle of his daughter`s behavior. ...

It was rumoured that Hollywood stars would go to any lengths for the privilege of being photographed by the good-looking, brilliantly talented & ultra-fashionable portrait photographer Leslie Searle. But what was this gifted creature doing in such an English village backwater as Salcott St. Mary? & why
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- did he disappear? If a crime had been committed, was it murder...fraud...or simply some macabre practical joke?

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A little Indian girl goes to market with a pocketful of change & no idea what to buy
- just `something funny, nice or even strange`.
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