Far from being a tourist guide, this book is primarily for lovers of Paris. In fact, « a love story » is the exact term Patrick Clark uses to describe his relationship with Paris.Passionate about drawing since ever and particularly sketching in black pencil and Chinese ink, it's through black and white photography that he has found his way to express his sensitivity to the world around us. Of all his artworks, it’s particularly the shots with reflections t...

A rich and revealing examination of the legendary pop duo Soft Cell.Soft Cell are not your average pop band. Marc Almond and Dave Ball may be best known for the string of hits they released in 1981, but the powerful first phase of their collaboration embraced a staggering array of sounds, influences and innovations that would change the face of music to come.In Bedsit land, Patrick Clarke plunges into the archives ...

(Fast Track Music Instruction). FastTrack is (you guessed it!) a fast way to learn to play violin! Skeptical of method books? (Yeah, we think they're kind of boring, too.) That's why we've tried to make FastTrack different from the rest: user-friendly, plenty of cool songs, and a lot more fun. In addition to teaching you what you need to know about the violin, we've included lots of stuff you want to know the parts of the violin, bowings, fingerings, articulation, and much more. So, open t...

The ice cover in the Arctic is disappearing at an alarming rate and the race is on for strategic dominance in the northern waterway. The Russians leap ahead of the United States by taking advantage of new routes into the area caused by these environmental issues. A Russian Navy Captain, who is disaffected with the Putin regime, notifies the US he has access to the Russian's Arctic plans and wants to defect. CIA Director Ramburt selects and directs retired agent Cole Draper to make it happe...

"It's actually very easy to time travel; you just have to go fast enough."What good is a time machine if human beings can't survive time travel? Evidently, there is one answer; it becomes the most effective way in history to dispose of a dead body. I mean, what could be better for a criminal than dumping their latest victim two dozen years or so into the future?PORTERS follows forty-nine-year-old Detective Steven Wilson in the dystopian future of 2069, forty years after the...

Deep inside the United States Government lurks a covert agency and one very talented and dangerous operative known to only a few members of the administration. Aaron Monroe is the President's precision-guided weapon seeking out terrorists and their sophisticated recruiting networks. But he's been betrayed and has gone off the grid to learn what happened and to extract revenge on who has betrayed him — and no one is above suspicion

In the Breath of Life: The Global Struggle for Clean AirBy Patrick Simon ClarkeAre you ready to take a breath of fresh air? The fight for clean, breathable air has never been more urgent. From city streets clouded in smog to the forgotten corners of the globe, the battle to protect our most essential resource is unfolding now—and you can be part of it.In this powerful and timely book, In the Breath of Life, Patrick Simon Cla...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREAn alluring young woman is the center of attention at a French café in this deeply moving love story about identity, memory, time, and yearning, set in 1950s Paris.In the Café of Lost Youth is vintage Patrick Modiano, an absorbing evocation of a particular Paris of the 1950s, shadowy and shady, a secret world of writers, criminals, drinkers, and drifters. The novel, inspired in part by the cir...

Trade Fetishism argues that “trade” not only meets material goals, but also simultaneously works as a fantasy that seeks to satisfy and soothe our unconscious desires and anxieties. Countering the idea that trade is driven ultimately by rational economic, political, and strategic logics, it argues that non-rational beliefs and unconscious desires are equally motivating in our obsession with trade and its promises of enjoyment.Reassessing trade and trade politics, Fridell a...

College students from Tongcheng Teachers College in Anhui Province of China share in foreign teacher’s daily life. Various topics from classrooms, of college apartments, trying city shopping or walking outdoors and invitations to indoor activities are after becoming resident in small remote city of subtropics in Tongcheng.

A cover up of one of the worst environmental disasters in the history of the United States took place at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina from 1957 to 1987. An estimated one million Marines and families were exposed to multiple sources of unregulated chemicals discovered in base drinking water systems. One specific chemical was benzene, a gasoline additive, which is a carcinogen known to cause cancer. One point one million gallons of gasoline leaked into the drinking water. This has been the s...

‘Boris Kagarlitsky is a man of enormous intellect and bravery ... I’ve always been stimulated by discussions with Boris and his relationship with thoughtful figures all around the world’ – Jeremy Corbyn MP‘Perhaps the most prominent Marxist thinker in the post-Soviet space’ – Open Democracy‘This brilliant and profound book is likely to become a classic’ – Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics, University of Massachu...