Author: Richard Beasley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1925368149
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
‘A gutsy legal thriller … the very best of crime fiction.’ The Age ‘A cracking read.’ Sydney Morning Herald Privilege and power will get you everywhere. When Melissa Cheung’s husband is arrested in China for corruption, her first call is to Peter Tanner. As a criminal defence barrister, Tanner often crosses paths with some of the most evil but wealthy members of the nation’s underbelly. Melissa’s phone call takes Tanner away from drug dealers and crooked property developers into the highest end of corporate corruption – mining companies trying to cover up environmental disasters and families at the top of the rich list who think they’re above the law. As he pursues those who had Cheung incarcerated, Tanner unearths cover-up after cover-up, putting his life and those of others in danger as he tries to bring the perpetrators to justice. Praise for Hell Has Harbour Views 'A fearsome satirical blast for the suits and for Sydney.’ The Sunday Age Praise for The Ambulance Chaser ‘A robust and often hilarious farce about the shenanigans at the big end of town.’ Sydney Morning Herald Praise for Me and Rory Macbeath ‘A majestic, high-ceilinged cathedral of a novel.’The Australian
Uncertainty in Games
Author: Greg Costikyan
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262018969
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
How uncertainty in games -- from Super Mario Bros. to Rock/Paper/Scissors -- engages players and shapes play experiences.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262018969
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
How uncertainty in games -- from Super Mario Bros. to Rock/Paper/Scissors -- engages players and shapes play experiences.
Cyanide & Happiness: A Guide to Parenting by Three Guys with No Kids
Author: Kris Wilson
Publisher: Boom! Studios
ISBN: 1613986734
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Finally, a definitive and reliable manual that demystifies the complicated world of parenting while delivering crucial tips and sage advice—all from three guys who make comics instead of children. This informative guide for breeders tackles all the big parenting issues: Finding messages in your alphabet soup, drawing the perfect hand turkey, getting away with kidnapping, telling your kids you don't love them anymore, and making out with your kid's best friend's dad. Cartoonists Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker, and Dave McElfatrick combine all their knowledge and experience—or lack thereof—for a laugh-out-loud, labor-inducing look into the world of parenthood through the sick and twisted lens of Cyanide & Happiness comics.
Publisher: Boom! Studios
ISBN: 1613986734
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Finally, a definitive and reliable manual that demystifies the complicated world of parenting while delivering crucial tips and sage advice—all from three guys who make comics instead of children. This informative guide for breeders tackles all the big parenting issues: Finding messages in your alphabet soup, drawing the perfect hand turkey, getting away with kidnapping, telling your kids you don't love them anymore, and making out with your kid's best friend's dad. Cartoonists Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker, and Dave McElfatrick combine all their knowledge and experience—or lack thereof—for a laugh-out-loud, labor-inducing look into the world of parenthood through the sick and twisted lens of Cyanide & Happiness comics.
Toxicology of Cyanides and Cyanogens
Author: Alan H. Hall
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118628950
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The basic and applied toxicology of cyanides and cyanogens has widespread commercial, occupational, environmental, clinical, forensic, military, and public health implications. This book provides a detailed and updated reference describing the properties, uses, general and human toxicology, clinical recognition, diagnosis and medical management, and countermeasures is therefore required in academic, medical, occupational, environmental, medico-legal, regulatory, emergency response, and military arenas. Edited by a world-renowned team of experts from academia, defense and industry, this book will be an invaluable reference for professionals, researchers and students in cyanide and cyanogens.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118628950
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The basic and applied toxicology of cyanides and cyanogens has widespread commercial, occupational, environmental, clinical, forensic, military, and public health implications. This book provides a detailed and updated reference describing the properties, uses, general and human toxicology, clinical recognition, diagnosis and medical management, and countermeasures is therefore required in academic, medical, occupational, environmental, medico-legal, regulatory, emergency response, and military arenas. Edited by a world-renowned team of experts from academia, defense and industry, this book will be an invaluable reference for professionals, researchers and students in cyanide and cyanogens.
Cyanide & Happiness: Punching Zoo (20th Anniversary Edition)
Author: Kris Wilson
Publisher: Boom! Studios
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
A 20th Anniversary Edition of BOOM! Studios’ first collection of comic strips from Cyanide & Happiness, a #1 Amazon Best Seller, featuring fan-favorite strips from the wildly original webcomics series that paved the sad, sticky, bloody path for countless others, plus strips that only appear in this collection! Stick figures dishing out the worst that life has to offer in the funniest way possible; you’d laugh, if you could sleep at night... Also includes “The Hot Date,” a “chews” your own adventure story and a foreword by Alexis Ohanian, one of the founders of Reddit!
Publisher: Boom! Studios
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
A 20th Anniversary Edition of BOOM! Studios’ first collection of comic strips from Cyanide & Happiness, a #1 Amazon Best Seller, featuring fan-favorite strips from the wildly original webcomics series that paved the sad, sticky, bloody path for countless others, plus strips that only appear in this collection! Stick figures dishing out the worst that life has to offer in the funniest way possible; you’d laugh, if you could sleep at night... Also includes “The Hot Date,” a “chews” your own adventure story and a foreword by Alexis Ohanian, one of the founders of Reddit!
Between Silk and Cyanide
Author: Leo Marks
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743200896
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
In 1942, with a black-market chicken tucked under his arm by his mother, Leo Marks left his father's famous bookshop, 84 Charing Cross Road, and went off to fight the war. He was twenty-two. Soon recognized as a cryptographer of genius, he became head of communications at the Special Operations Executive (SOE), where he revolutionized the codemaking techniques of the Allies and trained some of the most famous agents dropped into occupied Europe. As a top codemaker, Marks had a unique perspective on one of the most fascinating and, until now, little-known aspects of the Second World War. This stunning memoir, often funny, always gripping and acutely sensitive to the human cost of each operation, provides a unique inside picture of the extraordinary SOE organization at work and reveals for the first time many unknown truths about the conduct of the war. SOE was created in July 1940 with a mandate from Winston Churchill to "set Europe ablaze." Its main function was to infiltrate agents into enemy-occupied territory to perform acts of sabotage and form secret armies in preparation for D-Day. Marks's ingenious codemaking innovation was to devise and implement a system of random numeric codes printed on silk. Camouflaged as handkerchiefs, underwear, or coat linings, these codes could be destroyed message by message, and therefore could not possibly be remembered by the agents, even under torture. Between Silk and Cyanide chronicles Marks's obsessive quest to improve the security of agents' codes and how this crusade led to his involvement in some of the war's most dramatic and secret operations. Among the astonishing revelations is his account of the code war between SOE and the Germans in Holland. He also reveals for the first time how SOE fooled the Germans into thinking that a secret army was operating in the Fatherland itself, and how and why he broke the code that General de Gaulle insisted be available only to the Free French. By the end of this incredible tale, truly one of the last great World War II memoirs, it is clear why General Eisenhower credited the SOE, particularly its communications department, with shortening the war by three months. From the difficulties of safeguarding the messages that led to the destruction of the atomic weapons plant at Rjukan in Norway to the surveillance of Hitler's long-range missile base at Peenemünde to the true extent of Nazi infiltration of Allied agents, Between Silk and Cyanide sheds light on one of the least-known but most dramatic aspects of the war. Writing with the narrative flair and vivid characterization of his famous screenplays, Marks gives free rein to his keen sense of the absurd and wry wit without ever losing touch with the very human side of the story. His close relationship with "the White Rabbit" and Violette Szabo -- two of the greatest British agents of the war -- and his accounts of the many others he dealt with result in a thrilling and poignant memoir that celebrates individual courage and endeavor, without losing sight of the human cost and horror of war.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743200896
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
In 1942, with a black-market chicken tucked under his arm by his mother, Leo Marks left his father's famous bookshop, 84 Charing Cross Road, and went off to fight the war. He was twenty-two. Soon recognized as a cryptographer of genius, he became head of communications at the Special Operations Executive (SOE), where he revolutionized the codemaking techniques of the Allies and trained some of the most famous agents dropped into occupied Europe. As a top codemaker, Marks had a unique perspective on one of the most fascinating and, until now, little-known aspects of the Second World War. This stunning memoir, often funny, always gripping and acutely sensitive to the human cost of each operation, provides a unique inside picture of the extraordinary SOE organization at work and reveals for the first time many unknown truths about the conduct of the war. SOE was created in July 1940 with a mandate from Winston Churchill to "set Europe ablaze." Its main function was to infiltrate agents into enemy-occupied territory to perform acts of sabotage and form secret armies in preparation for D-Day. Marks's ingenious codemaking innovation was to devise and implement a system of random numeric codes printed on silk. Camouflaged as handkerchiefs, underwear, or coat linings, these codes could be destroyed message by message, and therefore could not possibly be remembered by the agents, even under torture. Between Silk and Cyanide chronicles Marks's obsessive quest to improve the security of agents' codes and how this crusade led to his involvement in some of the war's most dramatic and secret operations. Among the astonishing revelations is his account of the code war between SOE and the Germans in Holland. He also reveals for the first time how SOE fooled the Germans into thinking that a secret army was operating in the Fatherland itself, and how and why he broke the code that General de Gaulle insisted be available only to the Free French. By the end of this incredible tale, truly one of the last great World War II memoirs, it is clear why General Eisenhower credited the SOE, particularly its communications department, with shortening the war by three months. From the difficulties of safeguarding the messages that led to the destruction of the atomic weapons plant at Rjukan in Norway to the surveillance of Hitler's long-range missile base at Peenemünde to the true extent of Nazi infiltration of Allied agents, Between Silk and Cyanide sheds light on one of the least-known but most dramatic aspects of the war. Writing with the narrative flair and vivid characterization of his famous screenplays, Marks gives free rein to his keen sense of the absurd and wry wit without ever losing touch with the very human side of the story. His close relationship with "the White Rabbit" and Violette Szabo -- two of the greatest British agents of the war -- and his accounts of the many others he dealt with result in a thrilling and poignant memoir that celebrates individual courage and endeavor, without losing sight of the human cost and horror of war.
Disaster Medicine
Author: Gregory R. Ciottone
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN: 0323032532
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 986
Book Description
"This new volume includes Individual Concepts and Events sections that provide information on the general approach to disaster medicine and practical information on specific disasters. You'll also find an exhaustive list of chapters on the conceivable chemical and biologic weapons known today, as well as strategies for the management of future events, or possible scenarios, for which there is no precedent."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN: 0323032532
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 986
Book Description
"This new volume includes Individual Concepts and Events sections that provide information on the general approach to disaster medicine and practical information on specific disasters. You'll also find an exhaustive list of chapters on the conceivable chemical and biologic weapons known today, as well as strategies for the management of future events, or possible scenarios, for which there is no precedent."--BOOK JACKET.
Cyanide & Happiness: Stab Factory
Author: Kris Wilson
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
ISBN: 1613984405
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Once again, creators Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker, and Dave McElfatrick combine some of their best strips and a host of never-before-seen comics into a new, collected book. In the best, sickest tradition, Cyanide & Happiness, simply drawn figures and the wildly inappropriate topics they cover - including cannibalism, murder, and incest - is most reminiscent of South Park, but offers a profane sensibility all its own. Includes a foreword by comedian Bo Burnham and Poetry Corner, a collection of demented rhymes.
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
ISBN: 1613984405
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Once again, creators Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker, and Dave McElfatrick combine some of their best strips and a host of never-before-seen comics into a new, collected book. In the best, sickest tradition, Cyanide & Happiness, simply drawn figures and the wildly inappropriate topics they cover - including cannibalism, murder, and incest - is most reminiscent of South Park, but offers a profane sensibility all its own. Includes a foreword by comedian Bo Burnham and Poetry Corner, a collection of demented rhymes.
Ice Cream & Sadness
Author: Kris Wilson
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062075810
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The second collection from Cyanide & Happiness creators Kris Wilson, Matt Melvin, Rob DenBleyker, and Dave McElfatrick features more never-before-seen comics, more cartoons behaving badly and more of the insulting humor that fans have been waiting for! Ranking among the web’s smartest and crudest cartoons, like Achewood, Penny Arcade, and The Perry Bible Fellowship, Explosm.net’s massively popular webcomic would make the cast of South Park blush. Readers, get ready for a laugh-out-loud voyage to the realm of the absurd.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062075810
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The second collection from Cyanide & Happiness creators Kris Wilson, Matt Melvin, Rob DenBleyker, and Dave McElfatrick features more never-before-seen comics, more cartoons behaving badly and more of the insulting humor that fans have been waiting for! Ranking among the web’s smartest and crudest cartoons, like Achewood, Penny Arcade, and The Perry Bible Fellowship, Explosm.net’s massively popular webcomic would make the cast of South Park blush. Readers, get ready for a laugh-out-loud voyage to the realm of the absurd.
Sparkling Cyanide
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007136854
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
A beautiful heiress is fatally poisoned in a West End restaurant... Six people sit down to dinner at a table laid for seven. In front of the empty place is a sprig of rosemary - in solemn memory of Rosemary Barton who died at the same table exactly one year previously. No one present on that fateful night would ever forget the woman's face, contorted beyond recognition - or what they remembered about her astonishing life.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007136854
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
A beautiful heiress is fatally poisoned in a West End restaurant... Six people sit down to dinner at a table laid for seven. In front of the empty place is a sprig of rosemary - in solemn memory of Rosemary Barton who died at the same table exactly one year previously. No one present on that fateful night would ever forget the woman's face, contorted beyond recognition - or what they remembered about her astonishing life.
Outdoor Sports and Games
Author: Claude H. Miller
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description