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COURTHOUSE CONFIDENTIALTo most people, judges are mysterious creatures. As Anthony Bourdain invited readers to follow him behind the scenes of the restaurant business in his bestseller, Kitchen Confidential, and Caitlin Doughty's Smoke Gets in Your Eyes was a revealing peak into the mysteries of what happens after death inside a mortuary, Inside the Robe shines a bright spotlight into the hidden folds of the judging world. Despite the old saw that judges should merely "follow the la...

The book describes events and encounters that might have happened to the holy family and the child Jesus on their way to Bethlehem, at his birth, and on their flight to Egypt. They were inspired by the author's own experiences and impressions of visiting Israel and its neighboring countries. These stories invite you and your child/ren to reimagine the dangers and the happy encounters of the many more untold stories of people and animals being part of Jesus's beginnings beyond the actual bi...

**'[An] arresting and deeply researched new book' The New Yorker'Essential reading . . . Hellbeck masterfully explains what made World War II on the Eastern front so destructive and why this matters today. A tour de force' Paul Hanebrink, author of A Specter Haunting EuropeIn the Nazi imagination, the USSR was the most powerful Jewish organization in the world. They called it ‘World Enemy No. 1’.**The shocking number of Soviet citizens who lost the...

The definitive audiobook on British mountaineer Sandy Irvine and the mystery of his and George Mallory’s disappearance on Mount Everest in June 1924.The fates of Mallory and Irvine, who were last seen disappearing into the clouds as they headed for the summit of Everest on 8 June 1924, still grips the imagination over one hundred years later. Mallory’s body was found in 1999 and Irvine’s boot and foot were discovered in 2024, becoming an international news story.

This eBook describes the most important and complex step during paint manufacturing: The dispersion of pigments and fillers. Wetting, mechanical destruction and stabilization occur simultaneously and each of these steps must be faultless in order to get an optimal dispersion. The eBook deals with physical and chemical basics of dispersing. Your benefit: A detailed access to dispersion technology and basics.

There is no mystery more compelling than the disappearance of British mountaineer George Mallory and Sandy Irvine, last seen ‘going strong for the top’ of Mount Everest on 8 June 1924.Mallory was a renowned climber; Irvine was a daring young sportsman embarking on the greatest adventure of his life . . . The question of exactly what happened to them on that fateful day has fascinated people for more than a century. Now, Irvine’s great-niece Julie Summers and mounta...

The Routledge Handbook of Economic Expectations in Historical Perspective offers a one-stop reference that distills and summarizes the recent scholarship on economic expectations. Investigating the dynamics, effects, and determinants of economic expectations from a global perspective since the seventeenth century, this book enhances the understanding of expectation formation across time and space.Expectations drive economic decision-making and thus offer a fundamental key ...

Services Marketing: People, Technology, Strategy is the ninth edition of the globally leading textbook for Services Marketing by Jochen Wirtz and Christopher Lovelock, extensively updated to feature the latest academic research, industry trends, and technology, social media, and case examples.This book takes on a strong managerial approach presented through a coherent and progressive pedagogical framework rooted in solid academic research. It features cases and examples from all over the w...

On the isolated, ring-shaped island of Elidor, time and tide obey a different law. Here, the very shoreline breathes-shrinking at dawn, expanding at dusk in a precise, cosmic rhythm known as the Tide of Balance. The island's society, stratified and serene, is built upon this perfect, predictable pulse. The Penumbral Guard are the keepers of this rhythm, decoding the island's whispers from their spire at the volcanic heart of the ring. Below them, in the lush interior, the Gardeners cultiva...

A practical, non-technical guide for business leaders, entrepreneurs, and curious minds."Agents are (…) bringing about the biggest revolution in computing since we went from typing commands to tapping on icons." — Bill Gates"AI agents will become the primary way we interact with computers in the future.” — Satya Nadella"The age of agentic AI is here." — Jensen HuangAI Agents—like Jarvis in Iron Man or Samantha in Her—are r...

Whether victorious or not, Central European states faced fundamental challenges after the First World War as they struggled to contain ongoing violence and forge peaceful societies. This collection explores the various forms of violence these nations confronted during this period, which effectively transformed the region into a laboratory for state-building. Employing a bottom-up approach to understanding everyday life, these studies trace the contours of individual and mass violence in th...

This volume explores the changing field of cultural history to map out its new developments and future directions, covering major themes such as environment, (de)colonization, digitization, knowledge, heritage and embodied identity. After the rise of the 'new cultural history' in the 1980s, the field of cultural history is once again undergoing a time of change. This collection discusses and explains these changes, highlighting new themes from disability and race to techno...