David A. King Libri

Un giorno di marzo del 1944, un camino che continua a buttare fumo maleodorante attira l’attenzione dei vicini. Qualcuno avverte la polizia, poi i vigili del fuoco, quindi si prova a contattare il proprietario, che però tarda a manifestarsi. Così, le forze dell’ordine entrano nella casa al 21 di rue Le Sueur... e spalancano la porta di un castello degli orrori. Arti semicarbonizzati in cantina, accanto alla caldaia. Teschi e ossa. Un pozzo in cortile pieno di calce viva e resti di corpi umani. Una misteriosa cella triangolare insonorizzata in cui un “occhio magico” permette di assistere alla morte delle vittime…Negli anni dell’occupazione tedesca a Parigi va in scena il dottor Marcel Petiot, il “medico del popolo”, uomo poliedrico, gran benefattore, vicino alla Resistenza, accusato di aver ucciso decine di persone fingendo di aiutarle a fuggire dai nazisti in cambio di denaro. O forse solamente per sadismo sessuale.È proprio lui “il Lupo di Parigi”, l’elusivo assassino che ha disseminato le sue scie di sangue nella capitale, fino a diventare uno dei più spietati serial killer di tutti i tempi? Mentre tutt’intorno infuria la guerra clandestina, le indagini sono affidate al commissario Georges-Victor Massu, della Brigade Criminelle, che ha iniziato come garzone di macelleria per poi diventare uno dei primi poliziotti di Francia, dalla sua figura il suo amico Georges Simenon trarrà ispirazione per creare il commissario Maigret.Una narrativa non fiction mozzafiato, un true crime palpitante e dai mille misteri, con un grande cast di personaggi noti e ignoti, poliziotti, banditi, giudici, attricette, intellettuali, profughi, prostitute, agenti della Gestapo, patrioti della Resistenza, vittime, carnefici.

Brand new edition of David King's lauded visual history. A unique and brilliant study into the doctoring and propogandising of Soviet photographs by Stalin's regime. From the creator of the award-winning Red Star Over Russia.

For undergraduate and graduate electronic commerce courses. Explore the many aspects of electronic commerce through a managerial perspective. Electronic Commerce provides a thorough explanation of what EC is, how it's being conducted and managed, and how to assess its major opportunities, limitations, issues, and risks all from a managerial perspective that helps make EC relevant to majors and non-majors alike. The new edition reflects the latest topics that have emerged in the EC field, including social computing and Green IT .

Through an array of posters, photographs, paintings, magazines, book jackets, advertisements, pamphlets and other rare ephemera, this book tells the story of the Soviet Union, from the Russian Revolution to the death of Stalin.

Inky Pinky, a beloved elf in Fairyland, uses his vibrant rainbow paints to enliven the natural world around him. However, his playful antics with a feather anger the fairy queen, leading to his banishment. The story unfolds as Inky Pinky navigates the consequences of his actions and seeks to restore harmony in Fairyland.

On the astrolabe presented by the young German astronomer Regiomontanus to his ageing patron Cardinal Bessarion there is a Latin epigram and the image of an angel. The former is a geometrically-arranged acrostic with eight hidden vertical axes. Of these, the two principal ones correspond precisely to the two principal axes of the enigmatic painting “The Flagellation of Christ” by Piero della Francesca. In this are five figures in a flagellation scene on the left and three “modern” figures on the right, including a bearded Greek and an “angelic” young man in cardinal red. Over 40 interpretations of the three “moderns” have been proposed over the past 150 years. In this book, David King shows how clusters of letters across the epigram reveal double or multiple identities for each and every one of the eight persons in the painting. The only new person in the drama is Regiomontanus, whose epigram provided the inspiration for the painting. His image embodies three talented young men close to Bessarion who had recently died, and also symbolizes the cardinal’s hope for the future.

Two remarkable Iranian world-maps were discovered in 1989 and 1995. Both are made of brass and date from 17th-century Iran. Mecca is at the centre and a highly sophisticated longitude and latitude grid enables the user to determine the direction and distance to Mecca for anywhere in the world between Andalusia and China. Prior to the discovery of these maps it was thought that such cartographic grids were conceived in Europe ca. 1910. This richly-illustrated book presents an overview of the ways in which Muslims over the centuries have determined the sacred direction towards Mecca (qibla) and then describes the two world-maps in detail. The author shows that the geographical data derives from a 15th-century Central Asian source and that the mathematics underlying the grid was developed in 9th-century Baghdad.

From the Number One bestselling author of A Hug For You When a trio of moody monsters jeopardise the Wompie Wonder Fair and throw the kingdom into chaos, something has to be done. And fast! Enter Sir Adam the Brave! Join him on his quest to save the day and find out what's making those monsters so very moody . . . Praise for A Hug For You 'A gorgeous, moving book' Irish Times 'A genuine ray of light' Irish Farmer's Journal 'A heart-warming, heart-stirring tale' Business Post

"Red Star Over Russia is a visual history of the Soviet Union, from 1917 to the death of Stalin. Its urgent, cinema-verite style plunges the reader into the centre of the shattering events that brought hope, chaos, heroism and horror to the citizens of the world's first workers' state. Revolutionary upheaval turns into Civil War and famine; Stalin's Great Terror of the 1930s is followed by the brutal onslaught of Nazi invasion. The story ends with the intrigue surrounding the dictator's gruesome death in 1953." "More than 550 posters, photographs and graphics are reproduced to the highest quality, accompanied by insightful and informative texts. Many of these images are being reproduced here for the first time. Zooming in from the epic to the particular, the author rescues many lost heroes and villains from obscurity, through the work of the most brilliant Soviet designers, artists and photographers of the twentieth century."--Jacket