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pThe year is 1999. A tourist is killed, saving hundreds of innocent people at the Washington Air and Space Museum. A shadowy group calling itself DEFCON One claims responsibility for what is undeniably an act of domestic terrorism. The FBI believes the group is a covert terrorist cell within an overt right-wing militia, based in Wyoming. Recruited by the FBI, Gabriele Barnes, the grieving wife of the

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Piano Solo Songbook. This collection illustrates the vigour and variety of modern piano music. These original compositions span standalone pieces, albums, suites and arrangements from talents as diverse as Igor Stravinsky, Francis Poulenc, Lennox Berkeley, Witold Lutoslawski, Hans Werner Henze, Peter Maxwell Davies, Philip Glass and Ludovico Einaudi. As well as these concert pieces, a number of works

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The world of Wattle daub is inhabited by mysterious and peculiar creatures. A woman who fears the living thing in her apartment walls. An office-based streaker with an axe to grind. Automatons that finally recognise their creator. A disgraced crusader. A terminally ill man resorting to hypnotism to quit smoking. The couple who conceive an alarm clock. A dying brain unspooling receding memories of

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pDr Jack Fallon is good at his job. He just wants to be left alone to do it. But that\'s not going to happen, not with people like Tristan Richards calling the shots. ppNow, Jack is in a race to uncover a global conspiracy, and prevent an unimaginable catastrophe.p

Sally Sedgwick presents a fresh account of Hegel\'s critique of Kant\'s theoretical philosophy. She argues that Hegel offers a compelling critique of and alternative to the conception of cognition that Kant defended in his Critical period. The book examines key features of what Kant identifies as the discursive character of our mode of cognition, and considers Hegel\'s reasons for arguing that these

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It\'s not just humans working to combat global warming. Meet the ecosystem engineers who are improving our planet\'s health! In this unique look at how one animal can make a difference for the planet, Adrienne Mason, a marine biologist, reveals how whales are ecosystem engineers --- animals that create, modify or maintain a habitat or ecosystem. Whales do this by reducing the amount of carbon dioxide

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Plutarch 46-120 CE, also known as Plutarchos, his given name, and Lucuis Mestrius Plutarchus, his name once he became a Roman citizen, was something like a celebrity in Ancient Rome. Born in Boetia, a place thought to produce dim-witted men, Plutarch truly defied the regional superstition. He was a celebrated historian, essayist, and biographer, and mayor. He travelled all over the Mediterranean, but