Paris, 1774. Beneath the glittering facade of the ancien régime, a clockwork conspiracy ticks, threatening to shatter the gilded cage of the French monarchy. Prince Nicholas, stifled by the opulence of Versailles, escapes into the shadowed alleys of Paris disguised as Monsieur Dubois, a man of modest means but insatiable curiosity. When a renowned clockmaker vanishes, leaving behind a trail of intricate automatons and coded messages, Nicholas finds himself drawn into a world of whispers an...

Paris, 1774. Beneath the glittering facade of the ancien régime, a clockwork conspiracy ticks, threatening to shatter the gilded cage of the French monarchy. Prince Nicholas, stifled by the opulence of Versailles, escapes into the shadowed alleys of Paris disguised as Monsieur Dubois, a man of modest means but insatiable curiosity. When a renowned clockmaker vanishes, leaving behind a trail of intricate automatons and coded messages, Nicholas finds himself drawn into a world of whispers an...

All-new, full-cast hard boiled mysteries in the radio detective tradition! Like your private eyes hard-boiled as they come? Looking for a gumshoe who can chew broken glass and spit out a champagne flute? How about two for the price of one?Tough-as-nails private eye Jack Justice and his long-suffering partner Trixie Dixon, girl detective do their part for law, order and thirty-five dollars a day. Adventure, mystery and comedy from the award-winning Decoder Ring Theatre Podcast....

All-new, full-cast hard boiled mysteries in the radio detective tradition! Like your private eyes hard-boiled as they come? Looking for a gumshoe who can chew broken glass and spit out a champagne flute? How about two for the price of one?Tough-as-nails private eye Jack Justice and his long-suffering partner Trixie Dixon, girl detective do their part for law, order and thirty-five dollars a day. Adventure, mystery and comedy from the award-winning Decoder Ring Theatre Podcast....

Es handelt sich bei dem Buch um ein Sachbuch zu Ukulelen allgemein und historischen Ukulelen aus den 1920er-Jahren der Firma Lyon & Healy. Dabei wird der Hintergrund anhand eines Artikels von Tranquada et. al. in deutscher Fassung berücksichtigt und u.a. auf die Tin-Pan-Alley Ära eingegangen. Anhand von Beispielen werden die Ukulelen der Fa. Lyon & Healy vorgestellt.

All-new, full-cast hard boiled mysteries in the radio detective tradition! Like your private eyes hard-boiled as they come? Looking for a gumshoe who can chew broken glass and spit out a champagne flute? How about two for the price of one?Tough-as-nails private eye Jack Justice and his long-suffering partner Trixie Dixon, girl detective do their part for law, order and thirty-five dollars a day. Adventure, mystery and comedy from the award-winning Decoder Ring Theatre Podcast....

The name “Hollywood” conjures up fantastical images of bright lights, glamorous dreams, and impossible riches. From its humble beginnings as a ranch sprawling northwest of Los Angeles in the late 1800s, Hollywood has spanned lifetimes as a factory of dreams, a dazzling place where all things are possible.This collection of stories takes you on a journey into the golden age, illuminating the space between the airy fantasy and the gritty reality of life in Hollywood. In a transient c...

The United States is divided about the death penalty—17 states have banned it, while the remaining states have not. From wrongful convictions to botched executions, capital punishment is fraught with controversy. In The Death Penalty: What’s Keeping It Alive, award-winning criminal defense attorney Andrea Lyon turns a critical eye towards the reasons why the death penalty remains active in most states, in spite of well-documented flaws in the justice system.The book opens with an o...

All-new, full-cast hardboiled mysteries in the radio detective tradition! Like your private eyes hard-boiled as they come? Looking for a gumshoe who can chew broken glass and spit out a champagne flute? How about two for the price of one? Tough-as-nails private eye Jack Justice and his long-suffering partner Trixie Dixon, girl detective do their part for law, order and thirty-five dollars a day. Adventure, mystery and comedy from the award-winning Decoder Ring Theatre Podcast. Includes 12 ...

In these times of reckoning—at last—with America’s original sin of slavery and racist policies, with police misconduct, and with mass-incarceration, many in our country ask, “What can we do?”In this powerful and insightful book, Andrea D. Lyon explicates what is wrong with the criminal justice system through clients’ stories and historical perspective, and makes the compelling case for the need for reform at the center of the system; not just its edges. Lyon, suggests that we should...

Winner of ForeWord Magazine's 2006 Gold Award for Nature Book of the YearThe most comprehensive and compelling chronicle of human–grizzly-bear interactions ever written, In the Presence of Grizzlies (formerly published as The Essential Grizzly) examines the fragile bond between ourselves and the quintessential alpha predator. Doug and Andrea Peacock contend that the conservation of big, wild, sometimes dangerous animals is essential for t...

All-new, full-cast hard boiled mysteries in the radio detective tradition! Like your private eyes hard-boiled as they come? Looking for a gumshoe who can chew broken glass and spit out a champagne flute? How about two for the price of one?Tough-as-nails private eye Jack Justice and his long-suffering partner Trixie Dixon, girl detective do their part for law, order and thirty-five dollars a day. Adventure, mystery and comedy from the award-winning Decoder Ring Theatre Podcast....