Author: Michael Dobbs
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0857200879
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
In the Swiss Alps a teenage girl is thrown from a helicopter and her boyfriend is brutally abducted to Trieste, a city filled with undercurrents of past hatreds. Ruari, son of Irish media owner J J Breslin, is in desperate danger, at the mercy of ruthless kidnappers making impossible demands. His terrified mother contacts the only person she knows can help her son: Harry Jones, her former lover, who she walked out on many years ago. Now memories of their passionate affair, the guilt, hurt, anger and humiliation, come flooding back. Time is running out for Ruari and Harry, torn between his loyalties, is quickly drawn into a political game played for high stakes. Far higher than he realizes...
Old Enemies
Author: Michael Dobbs
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0857200879
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
In the Swiss Alps a teenage girl is thrown from a helicopter and her boyfriend is brutally abducted to Trieste, a city filled with undercurrents of past hatreds. Ruari, son of Irish media owner J J Breslin, is in desperate danger, at the mercy of ruthless kidnappers making impossible demands. His terrified mother contacts the only person she knows can help her son: Harry Jones, her former lover, who she walked out on many years ago. Now memories of their passionate affair, the guilt, hurt, anger and humiliation, come flooding back. Time is running out for Ruari and Harry, torn between his loyalties, is quickly drawn into a political game played for high stakes. Far higher than he realizes...
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0857200879
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
In the Swiss Alps a teenage girl is thrown from a helicopter and her boyfriend is brutally abducted to Trieste, a city filled with undercurrents of past hatreds. Ruari, son of Irish media owner J J Breslin, is in desperate danger, at the mercy of ruthless kidnappers making impossible demands. His terrified mother contacts the only person she knows can help her son: Harry Jones, her former lover, who she walked out on many years ago. Now memories of their passionate affair, the guilt, hurt, anger and humiliation, come flooding back. Time is running out for Ruari and Harry, torn between his loyalties, is quickly drawn into a political game played for high stakes. Far higher than he realizes...
Outlive Your Enemies
Author: Terry Sanford
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781560722892
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This work seeks to provide a guide to the ageing process for senior citizens. It outlines actions that will slow the process and concludes with four fairly simple rules to prolong healthy life. Diet and vitamins, exercise, medical examinations and the avoidance of bad habits are covered.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781560722892
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This work seeks to provide a guide to the ageing process for senior citizens. It outlines actions that will slow the process and concludes with four fairly simple rules to prolong healthy life. Diet and vitamins, exercise, medical examinations and the avoidance of bad habits are covered.
Age-Old Enemies
Author: Danielle Paquette-Harvey
Publisher: Longing Mates
ISBN: 9781778217876
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A powerful, alluring vampire prince. The daughter of the Alpha. Born enemies, tied by an unbreakable bond. What do you do when your captor becomes the object of your desires? War is unforgiving, and fate is cruel, but love always finds a way.
Publisher: Longing Mates
ISBN: 9781778217876
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A powerful, alluring vampire prince. The daughter of the Alpha. Born enemies, tied by an unbreakable bond. What do you do when your captor becomes the object of your desires? War is unforgiving, and fate is cruel, but love always finds a way.
Domestic Enemies
Author: Cissie Fairchilds
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 142143203X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Originally published in 1983. This book cuts across the class boundaries of traditionally separate fields of social history. It investigates the social origins of servants, their incomes, their marriage and family patterns, their career patterns, their possibilities for social mobility, their political activities, and their criminality. But it also investigates the history of the family and domestic life in France in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, for servants were, at least until the rise of the affectionate nuclear family in the middle of the eighteenth century, considered part of the families of those they served. Finally, this book is also an essay on the history of social relationships in the ancien régime, not only those between masters and servants but also the broader relationships between the ruling elite and the lower classes. The introduction gives basic facts about the composition of households during the Old Regime and explores the attitudes and assumptions that underlay the employment of servants. It also shows how both these attitudes and the households themselves changed dramatically in the last decades before the French Revolution. Part 1 is devoted to the servants themselves. One chapter deals with their lives within their employers' households: their work, their living conditions, their socializing and leisure-time activities. A second examines their private lives: their social origins, marriage and family patterns, their moneymaking and their criminality. And a third explores their relationships with and attitudes toward their masters. In part 2, the focus shifts to an examination of master–servant relationships from the masters' point of view. The first chapter deals with master–servant relationships in general by discussing the factors that determined how employers treated their domestics. The second and third chapters explore two special relationships: masters' sexual relationships with their servants and their relationships with the servants who cared for them in childhood. The epilogue traces the impact of the French Revolution on domestic service and sketches some of the changes in the household that were to come in the nineteenth century.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 142143203X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Originally published in 1983. This book cuts across the class boundaries of traditionally separate fields of social history. It investigates the social origins of servants, their incomes, their marriage and family patterns, their career patterns, their possibilities for social mobility, their political activities, and their criminality. But it also investigates the history of the family and domestic life in France in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, for servants were, at least until the rise of the affectionate nuclear family in the middle of the eighteenth century, considered part of the families of those they served. Finally, this book is also an essay on the history of social relationships in the ancien régime, not only those between masters and servants but also the broader relationships between the ruling elite and the lower classes. The introduction gives basic facts about the composition of households during the Old Regime and explores the attitudes and assumptions that underlay the employment of servants. It also shows how both these attitudes and the households themselves changed dramatically in the last decades before the French Revolution. Part 1 is devoted to the servants themselves. One chapter deals with their lives within their employers' households: their work, their living conditions, their socializing and leisure-time activities. A second examines their private lives: their social origins, marriage and family patterns, their moneymaking and their criminality. And a third explores their relationships with and attitudes toward their masters. In part 2, the focus shifts to an examination of master–servant relationships from the masters' point of view. The first chapter deals with master–servant relationships in general by discussing the factors that determined how employers treated their domestics. The second and third chapters explore two special relationships: masters' sexual relationships with their servants and their relationships with the servants who cared for them in childhood. The epilogue traces the impact of the French Revolution on domestic service and sketches some of the changes in the household that were to come in the nineteenth century.
Old Friends, New Enemies
Author: Marv Wolfman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781401240448
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Originally published in single magazine form in Secret Origins 13, Action Comics Weekly 613-618, 627-634."
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781401240448
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Originally published in single magazine form in Secret Origins 13, Action Comics Weekly 613-618, 627-634."
Dragon Assassin
Author: Arthur Slade
Publisher: Scholastic Canada
ISBN: 1443182222
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
A thrilling YA fantasy novel from award-winning author Arthur Slade! Carmen is a student at Red Assassin School. She's an expert at bladed weapons and poisons; and she's desperate to finish at the top of the class, ahead of her twin brother. The students have been trained to hunt using giant black swans, but Carmen has discovered a dragon. All she has to do is get on his back. One problem: he's killed everyone who gets near him. Then the Emperor declares war on assassins. And there might be a traitor among them. Carmen wants to graduate. But the emperor wants her dead. Her classmates might, too. Graduation night is about to become the fight of her life. In this heartstopping adventure by Arthur Slade, readers will root for Carmen - an Assassin with a heart of gold, determined to follow her dream against all odds.
Publisher: Scholastic Canada
ISBN: 1443182222
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
A thrilling YA fantasy novel from award-winning author Arthur Slade! Carmen is a student at Red Assassin School. She's an expert at bladed weapons and poisons; and she's desperate to finish at the top of the class, ahead of her twin brother. The students have been trained to hunt using giant black swans, but Carmen has discovered a dragon. All she has to do is get on his back. One problem: he's killed everyone who gets near him. Then the Emperor declares war on assassins. And there might be a traitor among them. Carmen wants to graduate. But the emperor wants her dead. Her classmates might, too. Graduation night is about to become the fight of her life. In this heartstopping adventure by Arthur Slade, readers will root for Carmen - an Assassin with a heart of gold, determined to follow her dream against all odds.
Old Family New Enemies
Author: Aileen Read
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 154625580X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Just because you share the same parents with these ungrateful and careless people, it doesnt mean you have to share your life with them. I have learned late in life that toxic family members should never live close to you.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 154625580X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Just because you share the same parents with these ungrateful and careless people, it doesnt mean you have to share your life with them. I have learned late in life that toxic family members should never live close to you.
Cacao Diseases
Author: Bryan A. Bailey
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319247891
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
This book reviews the current state of knowledge concerning cacao pathogens and methods for their management. Topics discussed include the history, biology and genetic diversity of Moniliophthora species (which cause witches’ broom and frosty pod rot) and Phytophthora species (which cause black pod rot) that cause diseases resulting in major losses to cacao production. Emerging pathogens such as Cacao swollen shoot virus and Ceratobasidium theobromae (which causes vascular streak dieback) are also discussed in detail, along with many pathogens of significant local concern. Most of these pathogens represent major risks to global cacao production should they expand into new areas, breaking out of their current limited distributions. By considering cacao diseases as a group, similarities in the available tools and techniques used in their management become apparent, as do their limitations. Gaps in our current knowledge of cacao pathogens and the management of the diseases they cause are detailed, and suggestions for future research directions are provided. This insight allows readers to consider cacao disease threats from a more comprehensive, global perspective and paves the way for an improved synergy of efforts between the various research programs, agencies, and industries, both private and public, with vested interests in cacao production, and cacao farmers.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319247891
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
This book reviews the current state of knowledge concerning cacao pathogens and methods for their management. Topics discussed include the history, biology and genetic diversity of Moniliophthora species (which cause witches’ broom and frosty pod rot) and Phytophthora species (which cause black pod rot) that cause diseases resulting in major losses to cacao production. Emerging pathogens such as Cacao swollen shoot virus and Ceratobasidium theobromae (which causes vascular streak dieback) are also discussed in detail, along with many pathogens of significant local concern. Most of these pathogens represent major risks to global cacao production should they expand into new areas, breaking out of their current limited distributions. By considering cacao diseases as a group, similarities in the available tools and techniques used in their management become apparent, as do their limitations. Gaps in our current knowledge of cacao pathogens and the management of the diseases they cause are detailed, and suggestions for future research directions are provided. This insight allows readers to consider cacao disease threats from a more comprehensive, global perspective and paves the way for an improved synergy of efforts between the various research programs, agencies, and industries, both private and public, with vested interests in cacao production, and cacao farmers.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Enemies Old, Enemies New
Author: Kevin Eastman
Publisher: IDW Publishing
ISBN: 9781631406140
Category : Martial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles return to comics in their first IDW adventure! It's a different world for the Turtles. The group is broken as Raphael wanders the streets of NYC in search of food and shelter. His brothers and Master Splinter are on the search, but so far all they can find is trouble -- in the form of mutant alley cat Old Hob and his gang of criminals! The very core of the Turtles family is at stake as the new origin of TMNT is revealed! Join Tom Waltz, Dan Duncan, and TMNT co-creator Kevin Eastman for the start of a wild ride!
Publisher: IDW Publishing
ISBN: 9781631406140
Category : Martial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles return to comics in their first IDW adventure! It's a different world for the Turtles. The group is broken as Raphael wanders the streets of NYC in search of food and shelter. His brothers and Master Splinter are on the search, but so far all they can find is trouble -- in the form of mutant alley cat Old Hob and his gang of criminals! The very core of the Turtles family is at stake as the new origin of TMNT is revealed! Join Tom Waltz, Dan Duncan, and TMNT co-creator Kevin Eastman for the start of a wild ride!
The Enemies of Books
Author: William Blades
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description