When a local politician is found dead in his car, half naked, in a seedy neighborhood known for prostitution and drug trafficking, it's assumed that he died of natural causes in the middle of a sexual escapade. Hoping to avoid an embarrassing situation, Montalbano's superiors expect him to close the case quickly. But the inspector senses that not all is as it seems and determinedly launches a full investigation.
Critical Conversation: 30 Days To Master Small Talk With Anyone
You will learn secret conversation Tactics that will teach you everything you need to confidently engage in effective small talk with anyone AND anywhere. In fact, you’ll get the in-depth guide to quickly see how powerful small talk really is… and how you can use it to build rapport in ANY situation.
Speed Reading: 17 Powerful Speed Reading Techniques to Increase Your Reading Speed
Students, business persons or anyone who needs to read a lot of material quickly will enjoy Speed Reading. In just 20 minutes – about the time it would take an average reader to skim through the book – you can gain the tools needed to dramatically increase your reading speed. Not only that, you can learn basic principles for increasing your ability to comprehend and retain the material that you read. Common wisdom has it that speed reading misses the point of reading, and that it takes the fun out of reading. Speed reading explains how reading more quickly and more efficiently can actually make reading for pleasure even more fun than before.
Active Learning for TwosThis outstanding book for parents and caregivers of two year olds is the third in a series. It offers activities that promote total child development, including physical, mental, and the creative aspects of learning. The organization into easily located categories makes it easy to quickly locate an appropriate activity. As a grandparent-caregiver who used the books for Baby and One-year olds, I am pleased to find that the activities are just as well thought-out and age appropriate in this book as in the other two.
This book reads the oeuvre of Toni Morrison — fiction, non-fiction, and other — drawing extensively from her many interviews as well as her primary texts. The author places Morrison in several literary camps, one of them that of public intellectual; another, that of scion within the publishing world. Morrison began with novels that grew naturally from her own childhood in Lorain, Ohio — The Bluest Eye and Sula — but she quickly immersed herself in a myriad of African American lives and often little-known histories.
