Mr. Holmes is an amateur, Hopkins. Lestrade was smiling around the stem of his pipe as he spoke. Hopkins could hear it. Not a man who works well in teams, he. He still trusts Dr. Watson not to lie to him...and Dr. Watson\'s pulled some whoppers to save his skinny neck in the past. Lestrade was still smiling. Not that that\'s not the most interesting thing about those fellows. I could tell you some

EAN: 9781736138151Brougher KevinBlue Sheep Media

With scholarly care but with an ease for the general reader, Professor Gerhard Kubik presents a compelling narrative that explores the African genealogy of American Blues.

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New collection and Carcanet\'s ninth title by the most celebrated living American poet, Jorie Graham.

pemWriting Travelem investigates the ways in which two major Latin American authors, Roberto Bolao and Juan Jos Saer, engage with travel and space in their literary work. Travel and space are structures of representation within which cultural traditions are interrogated, reassessed and reformulated and therefore fundamental to the understanding of the critical fabric of the texts themselves. The book

EAN: 9780986031694Williams YanceyYpress

The relationship between risk, return and the cost of capital is contextualized by relating it to the needs of investors and borrowers, the historical evidence, and theories of choice and behavior. The text spans financial theory, its empirical tests and applications to real-world financial problems while keeping an entertaining easy-to-read style.

EAN: 9781668473436Das Santosh KumarIgi Global

This fourth edition of The Individual and the Political Order provides a careful, accessible, and reasoned liberal justification for the democratic state and political authority. The central feature of liberalism is the commitment to individual autonomy. The authors show how that commitment provides a defense of democracy, and they give a liberal interpretation to such core values as liberty, equality,

Although he was born into slavery and endured a permanent physical disability, Epictetus ca. 50-ca. 130 CE maintained that all people are free to control their lives and live in harmony with nature. We will always be happy, he argued, if we learn to desire that things should be exactly as they are. After attaining his freedom, Epictetus spent his career teaching philosophy and advising a daily regimen

In these beautifully written essays, Gloria Wade-Gayles is at times painfully candid as she confronts such controversial subjects as rape, homophobia, interracial relationships, and even looking and acting too young for her age. Yet what emerges from each piece is a powerful connection to her community, which serves as her well-spring of strength, sheltering her faith.

Aimed at both physics students and non-science majors, this unique book explains Einstein\'s special theory of relativity pictorially, using diagrams rather than equations. The diagrams guide the reader, step-by-step, from the basics of relativity to advanced topics including the addition of velocities, Lorentz contraction, time dilation, the twin paradox, Doppler shift, and Einstein\'s famous equation

Well-known Royal Welsh Show shearing commentator Evans discusses his farming life, from a tough postwar childhood with no mother, tractor or car, to days on shearing gangs and in hedge-laying competitions, to his own sheep farming, commentating and his impact on policy through work with the National Farmers Union.

From the RNA shortlisted author of That Jewish Thing and Adult Virgins Anonymous comes a new romantic story about finding yourself before you find The One.

EAN: 9780194904896Oxford University PressOxford Univ Pr

One shot to perfection. . . This book unleashes what\'s between your ears and helps you make sense of it.

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An introduction to one of the most powerful psychological techniques available today and how you can use it to make positive changes in your life. pIn this book, leading life coach, therapist, presenter and bestselling author Ali Campbell explains how all our behaviour is a product of our state of mind. He presents techniques for making small changes on the inside that will make huge differences on

This concise course in principled data analysis for the mathematically literate uses survey sampling and designed experiments as a foundation for statistical inference. Covering essentials for advanced undergraduates and selected topics typically taught at the graduate level, its 700 problems - many computational - build understanding and skills.