Mysterious symbols written in the blood of murder victims, a respected government official no longer in possession of his own will, a High Priest clever enough to work the political system and ruthless enough to dispatch anyone who gets in its way.The list of challenges facing Namzu, High Priest of Eridu, is as long as it is daunting. Skilled in the dual arts of investigation and judicial enforcement, Namzu must navigate an ancient world of superstition, myth, and intrigue; a world...

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Michael Jackson, a life shrouded in controversy.Idolized by millions, yet several incidents blemished his career.I can't address virtuoso. It relies upon how you characterize it. Michael Jackson was a dynamic entertainer. He brought many innovative ideas into the pop world. He was a brilliant vocalist and was a fussbudget in his art. He was diligent in his pursuits and he acquired the best and most talented people to work alongside him.He was one of the most talente...

Flanked on both sides by nosy gods and intrusive spirit mages, Inori finds himself with his back against a wall and with far too little information. Unless he wants to be caught unawares, he’s got to find a way to flip the tables. Fast.That’s when his enigmatic drinking buddy comes to mind. Who is he really? Why does everyone hate him? Will Inori regret finding the answers to those questions? And there’s still the matter of the mysterious elf seemingly stalking his every move. When...

It's not what you know, it's who you know. Or so the adage goes. Professor Matthew Jackson, world-leading researcher into social and economic networks, shows us why this is far truer than we'd like to believe.Based on his ground-breaking research, The Human Network reveals how our relationships in school, university, work and society have extraordinary implications throughout our lives and demonstrates that by understanding and taking advantage of...

Tennyson Wilde is an ex Royal Navy sailor who is also a handsome, hopeless addict. He's falling deeper and deeper into self-destruction each day. He lives in a monotonous world where a call centre seems to be his only future prospect while he spends the rest of his time drinking and having sex with strangers. Then he meets his true love.Can she help him? Can he help himself?

Here is a fresh, intriguing, and, above all, authoritative book about how our sometimes hidden positions in various social structures—our human networks—shape how we think and behave, and inform our very outlook on life.Inequality, social immobility, and political polarization are only a few crucial phenomena driven by the inevitability of social structures. Social structures determine who has power and influence, account for why people fail to assimilate basic fac...

Brought to you by Altrusian Grace Media and human-narrated by Matthew Schmitz.In “The Green Meadow,” an isolated narrator awakens in a strange, alien landscape between a sinister green forest and a distant, luminous meadow across blue water, with only fragments of memory and an overwhelming sense of cosmic dread. As the piece of land beneath him breaks away and drifts across the sea, he senses that the forest harbors hostile, sentient forces, while the radiant meadow exerts a terri...

Chris Chamsel is out for revenge by any means necessary—even going as far as drowning all of Regin in a sea of monsters. Whatever the church did to drive her to take such measures, Inori doesn’t care. He just needs more intel. And what’s the best way to siphon that from some unlucky prisoner of war? Torture. Physical and mental. And thanks to his new plaything, Sylph, he’s got the perfect means to that end.Ariya witnesses this from afar, and she arrives at a few conclusions. What t...

**'**This is a book that is surely about killers, but they don't take the spotlight. That belongs to the detectives who work the case, whose eyes are not jaundiced and who steadily, methodically close in. In them you find humanity and hope in a city where killers are often kings' Michael Connelly 'A great true-crime story and a great cop memoir-about how they do it and, above all, why they do it' Lee Child****

Networks of relationships help determine the careers that people choose, the jobs they obtain, the products they buy, and how they vote. The many aspects of our lives that are governed by social networks make it critical to understand how they impact behavior, which network structures are likely to emerge in a society, and why we organize ourselves as we do. In Social and Economic Networks, Matthew Jackson offers a comprehensive introduction to social and economic networks, drawin...

**'**This is a book that is surely about killers, but they don't take the spotlight. That belongs to the detectives who work the case, whose eyes are not jaundiced and who steadily, methodically close in. In them you find humanity and hope in a city where killers are often kings' Michael Connelly 'A great true-crime story and a great cop memoir-about how they do it and, above all, why they do it' Lee Child******A TRUE STORY OF MURDER...