The Baker's Blood: Nicolas Le Floch Investigation #6
Title | The Baker's Blood: Nicolas Le Floch Investigation #6 PDF eBook |
Author | Jean-François Parot |
Publisher | Gallic Books |
Pages | 329 |
Release | 2012-04-23 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1908313277 |
In the sixth of the Nicolas Le Floch mysteries, Le Floch investigates a baker’s death amid outcry at soaring bread prices, told 'in splendid period detail' [Sunday Times]. ‘An engaging murder mystery' FT 1775. Commissioner Nicolas Le Floch is on a diplomatic mission to Vienna, ostensibly to deliver a bust of Marie Antoinette to her mother, the Empress Maria Theresa. His real task, however, is to investigate the breakdown of French secret intelligence in Austria. The city is a hotbed of plotting – and Nicolas only just survives an attempt on his life. On his return to France, Paris is in turmoil. The soaring price of grain and bread is causing widespread social unrest, and Nicolas’ first police case is the unexplained death of a baker. Could it be that events in the French capital are somehow connected to his experiences in Vienna …?
Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States
Title | Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States PDF eBook |
Author | U.S. Global Change Research Program |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2009-08-24 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0521144078 |
Summarizes the science of climate change and impacts on the United States, for the public and policymakers.
The Châtelet Apprentice
Title | The Châtelet Apprentice PDF eBook |
Author | Jean-François Parot |
Publisher | Nicolas Le Floch S |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Paris, February 1761. A police officer disappears and Nicolas Le Floch, a young Breton police recruit is instructed to find him ...
Crime
Title | Crime PDF eBook |
Author | Irvine Welsh |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 358 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780393068191 |
Welsh's sizzling new novel is a thrilling journey into the bright glamour of the Sunshine State and a seething underworld of utter darkness, in this shocking story about the corruption and abuse of the human soul and the possibilities of redemption.
Crude Existence
Title | Crude Existence PDF eBook |
Author | Kristin Reed |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2009-11-15 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0520258223 |
After decades of civil war and instability, the African country of Angola is experiencing a spectacular economic boom thanks to its most valuable natural resource: oil. Focusing on the everyday realities of people living in the extraction zones, Reed explores the exclusion, degradation, and violence that are the fruits of petrocapitalism in Angola.
World Development Report 2010
Title | World Development Report 2010 PDF eBook |
Author | World Bank |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 444 |
Release | 2009-11-06 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0821379887 |
In the crowded field of climate change reports, 'WDR 2010' uniquely: emphasizes development; takes an integrated look at adaptation and mitigation; highlights opportunities in the changing competitive landscape; and proposes policy solutions grounded in analytic work and in the context of the political economy of reform.
The Man with the Lead Stomach
Title | The Man with the Lead Stomach PDF eBook |
Author | Jean-François Parot |
Publisher | |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
2nd Nicolas Le Floch investigation - a sinister death at the opera reveals something rotten at the French court.