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COLD KILLINGS Eric Wright the creator of Superintendent Charlie Salter of the Metropolitan Toronto Police is one of Canadas most honored mystery writers The Crime Writers of Canada have recognized his work with four Arthur Ellis Awards two for Best Novel and two for Best Short Story A Killing Climate contains all of Eric Wrights short stories in the mystery field including a lockedroom mystery An Irish Jig espionage in the Far North Caves of Ice a comic caper story Two in the Bush and other exercises in ingenuity character and atmosphere Many of the stories are set near Canadas Hudson Bay area but a few especially Hephaestus with its Caribbean vactioners are in more temperate regions The book concludes with the first short tale about Charlie Salter a novella The Lady of Shalott written especially for this volume New introduction by the author and a checklist of Eric Wrights mystery novels and stories Cover painting by Native American artist Barbara Mitchell Cover design by Deborah Miller
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In 1978 a young killer whale Keiko was collected off the east coast of Iceland and spent the next 18 years in human care At Reino Aventura Park in Mexico his home was not conducive to good health and over time his condition deteriorated In 1993 Keiko became the star of Free Willy a Warner Bros blockbuster movie that enchanted the public and led children and adults to believe that a whale longheld in the care of man could successfully make its way in the wildAnimal rights organizations lobbied for a reallife release program for Keiko similar to his fictitious counterpart and millions of dollars were raised to return the orca back to his home watersAuthor Mark Simmons was leader of the team of animal behaviorists brought to Iceland as part of the release project But the program was doomed to failure from the start plagued by hidden agendas and an organization unable to recognize that Keiko needed to learn to be wild before any chance at survival could exist
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In 1978 a young killer whale Keiko was collected off the east coast of Iceland and spent the next 18 years in human care At Reino Aventura Park in Mexico his home was not conducive to good health and over time his condition deteriorated In 1993 Keiko became the star of Free Willy a Warner Bros blockbuster movie that enchanted the public and led children and adults to believe that a whale longheld in the care of man could successfully make its way in the wildAnimal rights organizations lobbied for a reallife release program for Keiko similar to his fictitious counterpart and millions of dollars were raised to return the orca back to his home watersAuthor Mark Simmons was leader of the team of animal behaviorists brought to Iceland as part of the release project But the program was doomed to failure from the start plagued by hidden agendas and an organization unable to recognize that Keiko needed to learn to be wild before any chance at survival could exist
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A new book the first in over a decade from acclaimed poet Jay PariniThis volume revolves around his deep connection to nature and underlines his concerns about the impacts of pollution and climate change In these beautiful haunting poems Parini writes about the landscapes of mining country of the railroads of Pennsylvania of farm country of worlds lost and families dispersed He explores faith and how it is tested He limns the deepest crevices of the human heart and soul He surprises and moves usIn addition to a complete volumes worth of new work called West Mountain Epilogue offering more than fifty poems never before published in any form Parini has collected the very best work from his previous four volumes the poems as he tells us written in the past forty years that I wish to stand byLavishly and deservingly praised over the decades for his work as an essayist critic biographer novelist and especially poet Parini shines as never before in this generous volume
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René Guénons first book Introduction to the Study of Hindu Doctrines came in the words of the eminent scholar S H Nasr like a sudden burst of lightning an abrupt intrusion into the modern world of a body of knowledge and a perspective utterly alien to the prevalent climate and world view In this book Guénon establishes the criteria which formed the basis of his later works and set the tone for the Traditionalist School that came after him the meaning of Tradition the relationship between religion theology metaphysics etcall leading up to an exhaustive definition and comprehensive overview of Hinduism which Guénon saw as the most ancient and most complete spiritual tradition on earth embracing the most profound and explicit metaphysics The West is now overrun with many brands of compromised Hinduism whose gurus are considered charlatans by traditional Hindu authorities For anyone drawn to the Hindu tradition searching for a way to separate the wheat from the chaff and dedicated to gaining an understanding of the universe that is Hinduism in its own terms and not those imposed by modernist Western assumptions this book is indispensable
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Politics war sex boxing and the art of writing an eras most controversial writer at his slashing and provocative bestThe electric and fearless essays of Norman Mailer were essential to the intellectual climate of 1960s America Here gathered into one volume for the first time by acclaimed Mailer biographer J Michael Lennon are all the essential essays from the classic collections The Presidential Papers 1963 Cannibals and Christians 1966 and Existential Errands 1972 each a fascinating window on one of the most extraordinary and tumultuous decades in the nations history A selfappointed exorcist of the cultures demons and an unrestrained mythologizer of his own identity Mailer contemplated and often skewered icons of politics and literature charted psychosexual undercurrents and covert power plays and gloried in the exercise of a pugnacious prose style that was all his own Whether writing about Jackie Kennedy or Sonny Liston the realist tradition in America or the internal culture wars of the Republican Party the death of Ernest Hemingway or the battle against censorship Mailer was always ready to intervene in what he called the years of the plagueLIBRARY OF AMERICAnbspis an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nations literary heritage by publishing and keeping permanently in print Americas best and most significant writing The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date authoritative editions that average 1000 pages in length feature cloth covers sewn bindings and ribbon markers and are printed on premium acidfree paper that will last for centuries
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Martin Parry University College London UK The 13 country studies collected in this re Adaptations Assessment published by the port represent the first of what is likely to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change become a worldwide countrybycountry Carter et al 1994 as an agreed technical estimate of the likely impacts of and appro set of scientific methods for climate impact priate adaptations to greenhousegasin assessment and has written its own guidance duced global climate change document Guidance for Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment US CSP 1994 Under the UN Framework Convention on The uS Country Studies Program devel Climate Change UNFCCC signatories oped the Guidance and other reviews of agreed to two nearterm actions and one ma methodology into a nonspecialist set of jor subsequent one The two nearterm ac workbooks for use at the country level tions are to make annual estimates of the which backed up by advice from experi emissions and sinks of greenhouse gases enced scientists from the United States and which are now being reported as part of a other countries enabled local scientists to countrybycountry inventory developed by conduct their own vulnerability and adapta the UN Environment Programme the Or tion assessments
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Written by one of the most respected experts in water and waterassociated climate science and featuring stunning photography collected over the past four decades Our Vanishing Glaciers explains and illustrates why water is such a unique substance and how it makes life on this planet possibleFocusing on the Columbia Icefield the largest and most accessible mass of ice straddling the Continental Divide in western North America and featuring photographs illustrations aerial surveys and thermal imaging collected over more than 40 years of the authors personal observations the book reveals the stunning magnitude of glacial ice in western CanadaCiting evidence to suggest that in the Canadian Rocky Mountain national parks alone as many as 300 glaciers may have disappeared since 1920 this largeformat fully illustrated coffee table book graphically illustrates the projected rate of glacier recession in the mountain West over the rest of this century and serves as a profound testament to the beauty and importance of western Canadas water ice and snow
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An incredible wealth of scientific data on global warming has been collected in the last few decades The history of the Earths climate has been probed by drilling into polar ice sheets and sediment layers of the oceans vast depths and great advances have been made in computer modeling of our climate This book provides a concise and accessible overview of what we know about ongoing climate change and its impacts and what we can do to confront the climate crisis Using clear and simple graphics in full color it lucidly highlights information contained in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports and brings the subject completely uptodate with current science and policy The book makes essential scientific information on this critical topic accessible to a broad audience Obtaining sound information is the first step in preventing a serious longlasting degradation of our planets climate helping to ensure our future survival
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Craig Rice 19081957 the pseudonym of Georgiana Craig Rice was the author of an extraordinary series of screwball mysteries about John J Malone a bibulous blondefancying lawyer who claims never to have lost a case In the twelve stories first collected in this book Malone investigates a killing in an undertakers parade a psychiatrists patient who dreams of murder an unknown man killed in a rented sailors suit and a terrified memory expert As a special bonus two of the stories feature Rices lesser known sleuth Melville Fairr a little grey man but a formidable detective Rices biographer Jeffrey A Marks has chosen and written new prefaces to each story
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Jeph Loeb and Tim Sales legendary Batman story is collected in an allnew black and white noir edition featuring Sales incredible pencils and inksChristmas St Patricks Day Easter As the calendars days stack up so do the bodies littered in the streets of Gotham City A murderer is loose killing only on holidays The only man that can stop this fiend The Dark Knight In a mystery taking place during Batmans early days of crime fighting Batman The Long Halloween is one of the greatest Dark Knight stories ever told Working with District Attorney Harvey Dent and Lieutenant James Gordon Batman races against the calendar as he tries to discover who Holiday is before he claims his next victim each month A mystery that has the reader continually guessing the identity of the killer this story also ties into the events that transform Harvey Dent into Batmans deadly enemy TwoFaceThe magnificent creative team of Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale reach their apex in Batman The Long Halloween Collects issues 114 in black and white
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Jeph Loeb and Tim Sales legendary Batman story is collected in an allnew black and white noir edition featuring Sales incredible pencils and inksChristmas St Patricks Day Easter As the calendars days stack up so do the bodies littered in the streets of Gotham City A murderer is loose killing only on holidays The only man that can stop this fiend The Dark Knight In a mystery taking place during Batmans early days of crime fighting Batman The Long Halloween is one of the greatest Dark Knight stories ever told Working with District Attorney Harvey Dent and Lieutenant James Gordon Batman races against the calendar as he tries to discover who Holiday is before he claims his next victim each month A mystery that has the reader continually guessing the identity of the killer this story also ties into the events that transform Harvey Dent into Batmans deadly enemy TwoFaceThe magnificent creative team of Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale reach their apex in Batman The Long Halloween Collects issues 114 in black and white
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A longawaited modern classic collected at last The hidden past of SHIELD is revealed courtesy of some of historys greatest minds Michelangelo has been pulling the strings for years but can even he keep Leonardo da Vinci and Sir Isaac Newton from killing each other and destroying the Brotherhood of the Shield The battle for the Immortal City comes to a climactic conclusion Michelangelo and Nikola Tesla kick their plan into high gear Galileo takes on Galactus The truth behind Nostradamus is uncovered And Howard Stark lays the foundation for the espionage organization you know and love But the battle that decides our present will be fought in the future Collecting SHIELD 2011 14 SHIELD BY HICKMAN amp WEAVER 56 SHIELD INFINITY
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Rick Remenders Punisher megaarc is collected into one oversized volume Frank Castle has dedicated his life to hunting down and killing evil men So when Norman Osborn becomes the head of US security the Punisher sets about taking Osborn down But when his assassination attempt fails Frank finds himself in Osborns crosshairs The Hood resurrects several longdead super villains and sends them against Frank but it is the twisted son of Wolverine who manages to kill the Punisher With his remains stitched back together the Punisher is reborn as the terrifying FrankenCastle COLLECTING PUNISHER 116 ANNUAL 1 DARK REIGN THE LIST PUNISHER FRANKENCASTLE 1721 DARK WOLVERINE 8889 PUNISHER IN THE BLOOD 15
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A collection of short fiction by the Hugo and Nebula Awardwinning author includes the neverbeforecollected Come Back to the Killing Ground Alice My Love as well as For a Breath I Tarry Go Starless in the Night Unicorn Variations Permafrost Home Is the Hangman and 24 Views of Mt Fuji by Hokusai Reprint
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One survivor tells of the firebombing of Dresden Another recounts the pervasive fear of marauding Russian and Czech bandits raping and killing Children recall fathers who were only photographs and mothers who were saviors and heroesThese are typical in the stories collected in The War of Our Childhood Memories of World War II For this book Wolfgang W E Samuel a childhood refugee himself after the fall of Nazi Germany interviewed twentyseven men and women who as childrenby chance and sheer resiliencesurvived Allied bombs invading armies hunger and chaosOur eyes carried no hate only recognition of what was Samuel writes of his childhood Peace was an abstraction The world we Kinder knew nearly always had the word war appended to itSamuels heartfelt narratives from these innocent survivors are invariably riveting and often terrifying Each engrossing story has perilous and tragic momentsschool children in Leuna who are sent home during an air raid but are strafed as moving targets fathers who exist only as distant figures returning to their families long after the waror not at all mothers who are raped and tortured families who are forced into a seemingly endless relocation that replicates the terrors of war itself In capturing such experiences from nearly every region of Germany and involving people of every socioeconomic class this is a collection of unique memories but each account contributes to a cumulative understanding of the war that is more personal than strategic surveys and historiesFor Samuel and the survivors he interviewed agony and fright were part of everyday life just as were play wondrous experience and above all perseveranceMy focus Samuel writes is on the astounding ability of a generation of German children to emerge from debilitating circumstances as sane and productive human beings
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Craig Rice 19081957 the pseudonym of Georgiana Craig Rice was the author of an extraordinary series of screwball mysteries about John J Malone a bibulous blondefancying lawyer who claims never to have lost a case In the twelve stories first collected in this book Malone investigates a killing in an undertakers parade a psychiatrists patient who dreams of murder an unknown man killed in a rented sailors suit and a terrified memory expert As a special bonus two of the stories feature Rices lesser known sleuth Melville Fairr a little grey man but a formidable detective Rices biographer Jeffrey A Marks has chosen and written new prefaces to each story
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John Harvey has been described as the master of British crime and in A Darker Shade of Blue he has collected together some of his very best writing From the killing fields of the East Midlands to the mean streets of London from the jazz clubs and clip joints of Soho to the barren fenlands of East Anglia this is a world of broken families and rundown estates revenge killings and prostitution drugs guns and corruption a world of overstretched police forces and underpaid detectives men and women who strive nonetheless for a kind of justice a world in which everything even friendship has a price Featuring characters like Frank Elder who tried to turn his back on police work and failed Jack Kiley excopper and onetime professional footballer now a Londonbased PI and the renowned jazz loving and muchloved Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick John Harveys finelycrafted vignettes perfectly encapsulate life in the badlands of modern Britain
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