Fiction Legal Thriller - In This Murder Mystery The Criminal Lawyer Must Fight to Find the TruthReader Reviews:"You Can Always Tell When A Writer Knows The Courtroom... if you like courtroom thrillers that respect your intelligence... this one's well worth your time." - 4 Stars"Sharp and engaging legal thriller... unfolding mystery keeps shifting expectations." - 5 Stars

Reimagining Political Ecology is a state-of-the-art collection of ethnographies grounded in political ecology. When political ecology first emerged as a distinct field in the early 1970s, it was rooted in the neo-Marxism of world system theory. This collection showcases second-generation political ecology, which retains the Marxist interest in capitalism as a global structure but which is also heavily influenced by poststructuralism, feminism, practice theory, and cultural studies...

In Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attuned to justice and the Earth. Noting that most design—from consumer goods and digital technologies to built environments—currently serves capitalist ends, Escobar argues for the development of an “autonomous design” that eschews commercial and modernizing aims in favor of more collabor...

Could fungal pathogens outsmart us before we find ways to combat them?Humans and fungi share nearly 50 percent of the same DNA. Because we're related, designing drugs to combat the varieties that attack us is a challenge. Meanwhile, in an ever hotter, wetter world, fungi may be finding new ways to thrive, queueing up global outbreak potentials for which no vaccine and woefully few medications exist; some fungi are already beginning to resist treatment. Among other ...

Fiction Legal Thriller - In This Murder Mystery The Criminal Lawyer Must Fight to Find the TruthReader Reviews:"You Can Always Tell When A Writer Knows The Courtroom... if you like courtroom thrillers that respect your intelligence... this one's well worth your time." - 4 Stars"Sharp and engaging legal thriller... unfolding mystery keeps shifting expectations." - 5 Stars

In the beginning of Earth's history, mankind is quickly spreading across the lands. Adam and Eve's children grow in numbers and increase in knowledge, subduing everything before them even the great dinosaurs. With increasing imagination of the arts and the shaping of stone, they build great cities of magnificent splendour. They master the forging of steel and make great weapons of war. Slowly they forget their Creator, as their strength leads to pride and evil desires. They gather and conq...

"A lost masterpiece that helped launch a legion of writers . . . May it win many new readers." —Luis Alberto Urrea, New York Times –bestselling author"Rivers, rivulets, fountains and waters flow, but never return to their joyful beginnings; anxiously they hasten on to the vast realms of the Rain God."A beloved Southwestern classic—as beautiful, subtle and profound as the desert itself—Arturo Islas...

The celebrated mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras left no writings. But what if he had and the manuscript was never found? Where would it be located? And what information would it reveal? These questions are the inspiration for the mathematical mystery novel Pythagoras' Revenge. Suspenseful and instructive, Pythagoras' Revenge weaves fact, fiction, mathematics, computer science, and ancient history into a surprising and sophisticated thriller.The intrigue be...

They stole his song. Now someone is determined to silence the truth.Eight years ago, Elias watched his music—and the future he had imagined—slip into someone else's hands.Now, a high-profile charity tour brings him face-to-face with Damian Cross, the celebrated musician whose success remains painfully entangled with Elias's past.Sharing a stage was never supposed to mean trusting each other again.But old wounds reopen when questions about st...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Companies don't break promises. They drift into them. Good intentions. Smart teams. Solid plans. Yet customers feel friction, inconsistency, disappointment. The gap isn't culture, talent, or communication. It's Promise Drift. Promise Drift reveals the invisible misalignment between what you promise and what customers experience and gives you the Promise Alignment System to fix it. Inside, you'll discover why growth creates promise misal...

Some houses keep secrets. This one was built to bury them.When Owen Blake returns to Greyhaven Road to settle his late father's estate, he expects an aging house, painful memories, and a quick sale. Instead, he discovers something impossible: a room missing from the original floor plans.Behind its sealed walls lie traces of a man who vanished eight years ago.Eli has spent years searching for answers about Nathan Ward's disappearance. Now, the discov...

Some promises are written in blood. Others can only be broken by love.When attorney Nathan Vale's younger brother disappears, his carefully controlled world begins to collapse. The police have few answers, the evidence leads toward dangerous territory, and every passing hour makes the truth harder to reach.Then Luca Moretti walks into his office.Luca belongs to a powerful family whose business empire conceals a network of intimidation, corruption, a...