Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Kids, Fiction literature, Audio | 6 August 2008
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Lyra's Oxford opens in the thrilling comfort and familiarity of Jordan College, where
Lyra and her daemon Pantalaimon sit on the sun-drenched roof looking
out over all of Oxford. But their peace is shattered when a strange
bird-a witch's daemon, on its own-tumbles out of the sky. It is Ragi,
daemon of Yelena Pazhets, and he seeks a healing elixir from an
infamous Oxford alchemist (and rumored man slaughterer) to cure his
witch of a strange new disease from the South. Lyra and Pan decide to
help and guide him-witches are friends, of course-but the closer their
winding walk leads them to the alchemist's house, the stronger Lyra's
sense that she's walking into a deadly trap.
How do you know whether a hot technology will succeed or fail? Or where the next big idea will come from? The best answers come not from the popular myths we tell about innovation, but instead from time-tested truths that explain how we've made it this far. This book shows the way.
In The Myths of Innovation, bestselling author Scott Berkun takes a careful look at innovation history, including the software and Internet Age, to reveal how ideas truly become successful innovations-truths that people can apply to today's challenges. Using dozens of examples from the history of technology, business, and the arts, you'll learn how to convert the knowledge you have into ideas that can change the world.
January 1944. Two men embark on a murderous mission into the heart of Germany to destroy a devastating new Nazi weapon...
Black Cross is an epic story about a grandchild who is an adult doctor like his grandfather who he was named after listening to the story told by a fellow Rabbi, about the grandfather he thought he knew, but really didn't.
An intriguing Dr Kay Scarpetta novel which will take Kay an ocean's breadth away from home. The case begins when a cargo ship arriving at Richmond, Virginia's Deep Water Terminal from Belgium is discovered to be transporting a locked, sealed container holding the decomposed remains of a stowaway. The post mortem performed by the Chief Medical Examiner, Kay Scarpetta, initially reveals neither a cause of death nor an identification. But the victim's personal effects and an odd tattoo take Scarpetta on a hunt for information that leads to Interpol's headquarters in Lyon, where she receives critical instructions
A farmhouse destroyed by fire. A body amongst the ruins. Dr Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner and consulting pathologist for the federal law enforcement agency ATF, is called out to a farmhouse in Virginia which has been destroyed by fire. In the ruins of the house she finds a body which tells a story of a violent and grisly murder. The fire has come at the same time as another, even more incendiary horror: Carrie Grethen, a killer who nearly destroyed the lives of Scarpetta and those closest to her, has escaped from a forensic psychiatric hospital.
