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This book is not magical . . . although many of you will think it is. It is a mystical book—an oracle—yet it is also a practical book. It is a book of answers—answers you already know, but may not know that you know. It is a book of answers for your questions, whatever those questions are.The...

John Rebus est de retour officiellement à la Criminelle. Seul bémol : il a été rétrogradé sergent et doit travailler sous les ordres de son ancienne disciple Siobhan Clarke. Ils sont tous les deux en train d’enquêter sur une affaire a priori simple d’accident de voiture lorsqu’ils apprennent...

Depuis que l'inspecteur Rebus a pris sa retraite, il végète et travaille comme civil à la résolution d’affaires classées non élucidées, frustré de ne plus être en première ligne. Quand un vieux cold case sort du placard à la suite de la disparition d'une jeune femme, il ne résiste pas...

John Rebus n'est plus flic. Mais il n’est décidément pas fait pour la retraite. S’inscrire à la bibliothèque ou redonner un coup de neuf à son appartement, très peu pour lui. Alors quand Siobhan Clarke lui demande de l’aide, Rebus saute sur l'occasion d'être à nouveau en première ligne. Clarke...

Ben is terrified! The last thing that he remembered was floating down from a pine cone and landing in the soil on the forest floor. Suddenly, he awakes, no longer a seed and is surrounded by giant pine trees.        

It's Saturday morning-Ruthie's very favorite day. No school. No homework. No practices. Just a day to be with Mom and Dad. And Ruthie has BIG plans with her day off. But they keep getting interrupted. Dad has to go off to help Grandma. Mom has errands to run. Poor Ruthie is suddenly having the worst...

Eleven-year-old Elizabeth "Littlebeth" Morgan would rather race the boys, chase skunks, and read about bandits than act like a lady. When she whacks the head off a rattlesnake, her parents decide it's the last straw. They send her to live with her maiden aunt Sally in San Francisco to be...

Ein heikler Fall für Malcolm Fox Sein jüngster Einsatz führt Malcolm Fox und sein Team von der »Abteilung für interne Ermittlungen« in das Küstenstädtchen Kirkcaldy. Dort wurde der Polizist Paul Carter der Korruption schuldig gesprochen. Eine Routineuntersuchung soll nun den Ruf seiner...

Ein neuer Ermittler, eine brillante Serie: der erste Fall für Malcolm Fox Bei der Polizei nennt man sie »die dunkle Seite«: Malcom Fox und sein Team in der Abteilung für interne Ermittlungen. Gerade haben sie einen korrupten Officer überführt, da wartet auch schon der nächste Fall: Ein...

Vlads Disciples is a book about a cult that worships Vlad the Impaler and believes in the vampiric legends surrounding him. This cult believes that by ritualistically sacrificing people and drinking their blood on the first night of the full moon, they will achieve immortality. After sacrificing their...

A painting's technique, color, and perspective may all be excellent, yet the painting will fail unless its composition succeeds. Composition is the harmonious arranging of the component parts of a work of art into a unified whole. Henry Poore examines the works of old masters and moderns in this book...

Ubuntu Linux--the most popular Linux distribution on the planet--preserves the spirit embodied in the ancient African word ubuntu, which means both "humanity to others" and "I am what I am because of who we all are." Ubuntu won the Linux Journal Reader's Choice Award for best Linux...

If you think Knoppix is just a Linux demo disk, think again. Klaus Knopper created an entire Linux distribution on a bootable CD (and now a DVD) so he could use his favorite open source tools on any computer. This book includes a collection of tips and techniques for using the enormous amount of software...

Ubuntu Server is a complete, free server operating system that just works, with the extra Ubuntu polish, innovation, and simplicity that administrators love. Now, there’s a definitive, authoritative guide to getting up-and-running quickly with the newest, most powerful versions of Ubuntu...