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I ve chased you across time and space, and you ve never been able to get away.' For Adeline Reilly, moving back to Seattle was supposed to be the perfect fresh start. With her flourishing career as an author, and the inheritance of her late grandmother s gothic mansion, there is nothing to stand in her way. But Adeline isn t alone in Parson's Manor. It isn t the angry souls haunting the hallways of her childhood home that Adeline fears - it s the mysterious break-ins, roses appearing, and…

من خلال رحلتها الشخصية في استكشاف علاقتها بمشاهد الحب في السينما، تحاول الكاتبة رصد التمثيلات السائدة لمفهوم الرغبة السائدة في السينما المصرية التجارية والعوامل المتداخلة التي تساهم في ترسيخها. من خلال استخدام أدوات بحث شبه أكاديمية وأخرى أكثر تجريبية ومغامرة لا يكتفي الكتاب باستكشاف تأثير التغيرات السياسية والاجتماعية والاقتصادية على صياغة مفاهيم “نموذجية” للذكورة والأنوثة يتم ترسيخها – وبالتالي صور الرغبة الناتجة عنها – من خلال السينما التجارية السائدة، وإنما يتناول كذلك سؤال التلقي ويحاول…

Many strategic change efforts fail. And virtually all of them are harder than they need to be. Why is this? And what can we do to make change more likely to stick?Dr. Elsbeth Johnson, a former equity analyst and London Business School Professor now teaching at MIT, has spent a decade researching how to deliver strategic change in practice. Based on asking managers what they needed from leaders, rather than just asking leaders what they did, her resulting Step Up, Step Back approach…

A fresh look at the how new technologies like artificial intelligence are creating an entreprenuerial revolution.Does it feel like everyone you know is thinking about starting a business? That's because they are. In the last few years new businesses have been launched in record numbers, with more of us than ever deciding to go it alone or become entrepreneurs.Fuelled by new technologies like artificial intelligence and automation, this trend is only just beginning, with traditional firms due to…

Preston & Child continue their #1 bestselling series featuring FBI Special Agent Pendergast and Constance Greene, as they take a final stand against New York’s deadliest serial Pendergast’s own ancestor…and Constance’s greatest enemy. A desperate bargain is broken… Constance Greene confronts Manhattan’s most dangerous serial killer, Enoch Leng, bartering for her sister's life — but she is betrayed and turned away empty-handed, incandescent with rage. A clever trap is set… Unknown to…

Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand–acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, offers guests the experience of viewing woolly mammoths, Irish Elk, and giant ground sloths in their native habitat, brought back from extinction through the magic of genetic manipulation. When a billionaire's son and his new wife are kidnapped and murdered in the Erebus back country by what is assumed to be a gang of eco-terrorists, Colorado Bureau of Investigation Agent Frances Cash partners…

The gripping new twisty psychological thriller from international bestselling author, Sebastian Fitzek.Milan Berg is standing at a set of traffic lights when a car stops next to him. In the back seat he sees a frightened young girl. Desperate, she presses a piece of paper against the window.Milan can't read it - because he suffers from alexia, the inability to read or comprehend the written word. It's a secret that he's managed to hide for most of his life, even from friends and loved…

في عالمٍ يتقاطع فيه الماضي مع ألاعيب الحاضر، خرجت قطعة صغيرة سرًّا من دار سك العملة في فيلادلفيا عام 1913، واختفت بين الأيدي تاركة أثرًا لا يلاحظه إلا القليل. تعاود الظهور بخيط يربط بين قصر القبة أيام فاروق وصخب القاهرة المعاصرة. خيط يمسك أطرافَه فريقٌ لا يشبه بعضه بعضا: عباقرة، مشكّكون، وهاربون من ماضيهم. يجمعهم فقط هوس بشيء لا يعرفون إن كان حقيقة أم فخًّا متقنًا. رحلة أقرب إلى مطاردة بين زمنين وحكاية تغيّر شكلها كلما شارفت علي النهاية. ويظل السؤال الحائر بلا إجابة. مَن يطارد مَن:…

SOMEONE'S ABOUT TO TURN THEIR LAST PAGE...'One of the most iconic British fictional detectives of the 21st century.' DAILY MAIL'These are must-read detective novels.' MARK BILLINGHAM'One of my favourite detectives.' ELLY GRIFFITHSBeware a well-read murderer...A bookseller is found dead in his shop on a quiet square in Bristol, surrounded by rare books, first editions and a shocking amount of blood.DS George Cross, usually the first to spot holes in a suspect's story, is…