Jack Wright is a veteran detective with a tragic past, an uncertain future, and a passion for solving puzzles. As a member of the Toronto Police Service Hold-Up Squad, Jack is tired of always having to clean up after the fact. When the blueprints of a robbery that has yet to take place land on his desk, there's only one problem...he can't read a word of them. The details of the heist are contained on a computer hard drive, protected by an unbreakable security code, seized in an explosive p...

This handy guide to identifying and interpreting gold, silver, platinum and ceramic marks includes all hallmarks from 1544. Details of the new hallmarking system, international marks and guides to the great makers are all included.Do you attend car boot sales or browse in antique shops in search of bargains? Have you ever wished you knew more about grandma’s silver spoons? Do you envy the experts’ ability to identify and date old hand-me-downs? If the answer to any of these questio...

Complement Selenium with useful additions that fit seamlessly into the rich and well-crafted API that Selenium offersKey FeaturesUnderstand the power, simplicity, and limitations of the core Selenium frameworkWrite clear, readable, and reliable tests that perform complex test automation tasksWork with ChromeDriver and GeckoDriver in headless modeBook DescriptionThe second edition of Mastering Selenium 3.0 WebDriver starts by ...

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names - Little Women [Louisa May Alcott] - Sense and Sensibility [Jane Austen] - Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie] - Cabin Fever [ B. M. Bower] - The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett] - A Little Princess [Frances Hodgson Burnett] - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [Lewis Carroll] - The King in Yellow [Robert William Chambers] - The Man Who Knew Too Much [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] - The Woman in Whi...

A murder in a remote town puts a Scottish detective on the trail of a deadly international conspiracy in this tense crime thriller.While Det. Chief Inspector Jim Carruthers and his team are busy investigating a series of art thefts, they receive an anonymous tip about the body of a young woman on a deserted beach. The bizarre clues to the woman's murder include a strange tattoo, a set of binoculars and a slab of meat left on the cliffs.The trail leads to a l...

Revisados y actualizados, contienen un índice de contenidos al inicio del libro que permite acceder a cada tíltulo de forma fácil y directa.El retrato de Dorian Gray por Oscar WildeMujercitas por Louisa May AlcottHombrecitos por Louisa May AlcottOrgullo y Prejuicio por Jane AustenPeter Pan por J.M. BarrieTrilogía de Caspak 1. La Tierra Olvidada por el Tiempo por Edgar Rice BurroughsTrilogía de Caspak...

Esta colección presenta las obras más influyentes de la literatura mundial. Contenido: La Ilíada y La Odisea Edipo Rey El Banquete Metafísica La metamorfosis De la Brevedad de la Vida Las Confesiones de San Agustín El Arte de la Guerra Cantar de Mío Cid Popol Vuh El castillo interior Ejercicios Espirituales El Príncipe La divina Comedia El Decamerón Lazarillo de Tormes Don Quijote de la Mancha Los mejores cuentos de Andersen Cuentos escogidos de Hermanos Grimm Romeo y Julieta El Paraíso Pe...

Reissue of J. A. Baker’s extraordinary classic of British nature writing, with an exclusive new afterword by Robert Macfarlane.J. A. Baker’s extraordinary classic of British nature writing was first published in 1967. Greeted with acclaim, it went on to win the Duff Cooper Prize, the pre-eminent literary prize of the time. Luminaries such as Ted Hughes, Barry Lopez and Andrew Motion have cited it as one of the most important books in twentieth-century nature writing.Despite...

Contemporary Cowboys: Reimagining an American Archetype in Popular Culture expands and develops an understanding of recent cultural shifts in representations of the American cowboy and “the West” as vital components of American identity and values. The chapters in this book examine they ways in which twenty-first century representations have updated the figure of the cowboy, considering not only traditionally analyzed sources, such as television, film, and literature, but also less studied...

This book contains the works below arranged alphabetically by authors last namesSense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)Peter Pan (J. M. Barrie)Cabin Fever (B. M. Bower)Agnes Grey (Anne Brontë)Father Gorio (Honoré de Balzac)The Inferno (Henri Barbusse)Alice In Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)The King in Yellow (Robert William Chambers)The Man Who Knew Too Much (G.K Chesterton)The Murder on the Link...

Diese Sammlung enthält die größten Krimi-Klassiker: Sherlock Holmes-Krimis (Arthur Conan Doyle): Späte Rache - Eine Studie in Scharlachrot Das Zeichen der Vier Der Hund von Baskerville Das Tal des Grauens Sherlock Holmes-Detektivgeschichten Detektiv Auguste Dupin-Krimis (Edgar Allan Poe) Die Maske des roten Todes (Edgar Allan Poe) Der Untergang des Hauses Usher (Edgar Allan Poe) Das schwatzende Herz (Edgar Allan Poe) Das Faß Amontillado (Edgar Allan Poe) Wachtmeister Studer-Krimis (Friedri...

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.'We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.'Huck Finn escapes from his alcoholic father by faking his own death and so begins his journey through the Deep South, seeking independence and freedom. On his travels, Huck meets an escaped slave, Jim, who is a wanted man, and...