Winner of the LA Times Book Prize, Best Mystery/ThrillerShortlisted for the John Creasey (New Blood) DaggerShortlisted for the Macavity Awards, Best Mystery Novel Shortlisted for the Anthony Awards, Best NovelTwo

The Bezos Letters lays out the fourteen growth principles that Amazon uses every day by examining Jeff Bezos\' personal letters to shareholders. Jeff Bezos created Amazon, the fastest company to reach $100 billion in sales ever, making him the richest man in the world. Business owners marvel at Amazon\'s success, but don\'t realize they have the answers right at their fingertips as Bezos reveals his

Franz Liszt is well known for his early years as \'super-star\' pianist who excited audiences throughout Europe, but his later life is also of great interest. In his final 25 years he sought to achieve his life\'s aims of promoting new forms of music and giving stronger witness to his Christian faith, while continuing to support his stalwart life partner Princess Carolyne. However, he was to face unexpected

What does it mean to write This is not a pipe across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? Ren Magritte\'s famous canvas provides the starting point for a delightful homage by French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault. Much better known for his incisive and mordant explorations of power and social exclusion, Foucault here assumes a more playful stance. By exploring the nuances and ambiguities

Join Mercer Mayer\'s classic and beloved character, Little Critter, this Christmas He\'s written a letter to Santa, helped his mom bake cookies, decorated the tree, and much more But will he get to meet Santa before Christmas is over? This 8x8 storybook is complete with gatefold flaps that readers can pull back to reveal the jolly spider, mouse, and frog on the pages of this holiday

\'A wonderfully atmospheric Danish noir debut which felt like the literary equivalent of curling up with a box set of The Bridge or The Killing\'The Times on The Jensen SeriesNot all little old ladies are so innocent ... When ninety-year-old Irene Valborg is found brutally murdered in an affluent suburb of Copenhagen, her diamond necklace missing, it looks like a burglary gone wrong. When two more

Asynchronous On-Chip Networks and Fault-Tolerant Techniques is the first comprehensive study of fault-tolerance and fault-caused deadlock effects in asynchronous on-chip networks, aiming to overcome these drawbacks and ensure greater reliability of applications.As a promising alternative to the widely used synchronous on-chip networks for multicore processors, asynchronous on-chip networks can be vulnerable

This is the most comprehensive resource for trainees sitting the RCGP consultation skills\' exam (RCA/CSA), offering a complete curriculum guide as well as 100 roleplays that can be removed and practised in pairs. The guidance is seamlessly aligned to the NEW RCGP 2020 curriculum, fully up to date and referenced with the latest guidelines, with detailed \'example\' answers for each case. Offering

As British prime minister from 1945 to 1951, Clement Attlee built a legacy that includes today\'s famous--and controversial--National Health Service, yet he is often remembered as a rather dull political figure. Rejecting Winston Churchill\'s jibe that Attlee was a \"modest little man with plenty to be modest about,\" this biography makes the case that his reputation as Britain\'s greatest reforming

Fall in love with this second-chance romance, where a fake engagement may be this cowboy\'s best chance at proving there\'s nothing make-believe about his love -- perfect for fans of Carolyn Brown, Jennifer Ryan, and Maisey Yates When the beloved Farm Caf in Topaz Falls burns to the ground, widow Darla Michaels comes up with the perfect plan to help her friends rebuild -- a Cowboy Christmas Festival

Now updated with a new afterword, Captive is an emotional, ripped-from-the-headlines expos that lays bare the secretive cult that shocked the world--for fans of Leah Remini\'s Troublemaker and Lawrence Wright\'s Going Clear. I am a mother whose child is being abused and exploited. And I am not alone. In 2011, former Dynasty star Catherine Oxenberg joined her daughter, India, at a leadership seminar

Change the World, One Life at a TimeHoping to prevent a bloody massacre at Roswaal Manor, Subaru is desperate for help...even from Emilia\'s rival, Crusch Karsten However, the negotiating table is a strange new frontier for the straightforward Subaru. It\'s simply a matter of life and death, but politics are anything but

\'The Welsh habit of revolt against the English is an old-standing madness ... from the sayings of the prophet Merlin they still hope to recover their land. Hence, they frequently rebel ... but because they do not know the appointed time, they are often deceived and their labour is in vain.\' (Vita Edwardi Secundi) The appointed time, it turned out, was 1485. For generations, the ancestors of Welshman

Discover the serenity of self-love through your own words Learning to love yourself can be a lifelong journey of inner exploration. This motivational journal will guide you in finding self-acceptance through the practice of documenting, processing, and banishing negative thoughts and emotions. What sets The Self-Love Journal apart from other self-help books: Results-oriented technique--This instructive

An explosive debut about the search for one of the most famous relics of our

The world economy refers to the global exchange of goods and services, expressed in monetary units. It also means an aggregate of economic measurements of separate countries. The statistical indicators of employment, industries, energy, transport, etc. are significant for understanding global economy. Economic indicators include gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, gross world product, world median