Dead Lagoon

Author : Michael Dibdin
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307822499

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Dead Lagoon by Michael Dibdin Pdf

Among the emerging generation of crime writers, none is as stylish and intelligent as Michael Dibdin, who, in Dead Lagoon, gives us a deliciously creepy new novel featuring the urbane and skeptical Aurelio Zen, a detective whose unenviable task it is to combat crime in a country where today's superiors may be tomorrow's defendants.Zen returns to his native Venice. He is searching for the ghostly tormentors of a half-demented contessa and a vanished American millionaire whose family is paying Zen under the table to determine his whereabouts-dead or alive. But he keeps stumbling over corpses that are distressingly concrete: from the crooked cop found drowned in one of the city's noisome "black wells" to a brand-new skeleton that surfaces on the Isle of the Dead. The result is a mystery rich in character and deduction, and intensely informed about the history, politics, and manners of its Venetian setting.

Author : Michael Dibdin
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 0571270859

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Dead Lagoon by Michael Dibdin Pdf

CRIME & MYSTERY. Aurelio Zen returns to his native Venice to investigate the disappearance of a rich American resident but he soon learns that, amid the hazy light and shifting waters of the lagoon, nothing is what it seems. As Zen is drawn deeper into the complex and ambiguous mysteries surrounding the discovery of a skeletal corpse on an ossuary island in the north lagoon, he is also forced to confront a series of disturbing revelations about his own life.

Author : Ignazio Musu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0792364589

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Sustainable Venice: Suggestions for the Future by Ignazio Musu Pdf

It is universally recognised that Venice and its lagoon are of such value that they constitute an international public good that must be preserved for humanity as a whole. But such an ambitious task requires a diversified, sustainable set of economic activities, mostly focused on the production of services and non-material goods. This complex issue is analyzed using different approaches, with a discussion of the case of Venice as an example of some of the most relevant problems concerning the relation between the environment and development in the contemporary world: the trade-off between preserving an ecosystem and considering it as an economic resource; the evolution of different urban growth scenarios and the preservation of a physical habitat; the role of immaterial production in urban economic development; the nature of tourism as a sustainable activity, considered from both from the environmental and cultural angles; the institutional aspect of governing a process of sustainable urban development. Readership: A unique resource for environmental and urban managers, policy analysts, students of sustainable development, and anyone else interested in the social and economic implications of preserving one of the most loved and celebrated cities in the world.

Author : Angela Goddard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134448807

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Writing for Assessment by Angela Goddard Pdf

This text helps students to develop the writing skills they need to succeed in AS and A2 level English; offers a step-by-step guide to approaching writing tasks and structuring a response; looks at a range of writing tasks, from argumentative essays to data-based investigations; provides Personal Audit Sheets (PASS) to help students assess their own writing skills and make practical steps to develop them; can be used as preparation for both coursework and exams. Written by an experienced teacher, author and AS and A2 level examiner, Writing for Assessment is an essential resource for all students of AS and A2 level English Language, English Literature, and English Language and Literature

Author : Margaret Plant
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300083866

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Venice by Margaret Plant Pdf

Margaret Plant presents a wide-ranging cultural history of the city from the fall of the Republic in 1797, until 1997, showing how it has changed and adapted and how perceptions of it have shaped its reality.

Author : Mary Lou Jones,Steven L. Swartz,Stephen Leatherwood
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780080923727

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The Gray Whale: Eschrichtius Robustus by Mary Lou Jones,Steven L. Swartz,Stephen Leatherwood Pdf

The Gray Whale: Eschrichtius robustus provides an introduction to the understanding of Eschrichtius robustus or the gray whale. This book explores the life processes, reproduction, and growth of large cetacean populations. Organized into four parts encompassing 25 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the gray whale evolution, fossils, and subfossil remains, range, and systematics in historical times. This text then presents the historical of gray whale exploitation and the economic importance of these whales to humans. Other chapters consider the gray whale migration, abundance, and seasonal distribution in the wake of the California population's recovery from depletion. This book discusses as well the methods used in shore-based censuses during migration and in aerial surveys of gray whales taken on their winter grounds. The final chapter deals with some innovative approaches to the study of free-ranging cetaceans. This book is a valuable resource for anthropologists, paleontologists, biologists, and naturalists.

Author : Horatio Forbes Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Venice (Italy)
ISBN : YALE:39002009493124

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Life on the Lagoons by Horatio Forbes Brown Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Gastropoda
ISBN : STANFORD:36105027787311

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The Veliger by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michelin Travel & Lifestyle
Publisher : Michelin Travel & Lifestyle
Page : 867 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9782067182356

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Michelin Green Guide Italy by Michelin Travel & Lifestyle Pdf

This eBook version of the Green Guide Italy is completely revised and expanded, featuring the best that the country has to offer. The guide explores the rich culture, heritage and history of the cities, countryside and coastal areas. Michelin's celebrated star-rating system pinpoints Italy’s highlights, whether the beautiful Dolomite mountain range, the UNESCO-designated historic city centers of Rome, Florence and Naples, or the stunning coastlines of Amalfi and Portofino Promontory. Regional introductions give an overview of each area, while Michelin’s walking and driving tours, up-to-date content, maps and color photos help you discover this diverse country.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Short stories, English
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172131257990

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Cassell's Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alistair Sponsel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226523255

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Darwin's Evolving Identity by Alistair Sponsel Pdf

Why—against his mentor’s exhortations to publish—did Charles Darwin take twenty years to reveal his theory of evolution by natural selection? In Darwin’s Evolving Identity, Alistair Sponsel argues that Darwin adopted this cautious approach to atone for his provocative theorizing as a young author spurred by that mentor, the geologist Charles Lyell. While we might expect him to have been tormented by guilt about his private study of evolution, Darwin was most distressed by harsh reactions to his published work on coral reefs, volcanoes, and earthquakes, judging himself guilty of an authorial “sin of speculation.” It was the battle to defend himself against charges of overzealous theorizing as a geologist, rather than the prospect of broader public outcry over evolution, which made Darwin such a cautious author of Origin of Species. Drawing on his own ambitious research in Darwin’s manuscripts and at the Beagle’s remotest ports of call, Sponsel takes us from the ocean to the Origin and beyond. He provides a vivid new picture of Darwin’s career as a voyaging naturalist and metropolitan author, and in doing so makes a bold argument about how we should understand the history of scientific theories.

Author : Anne Mustoe
Publisher : Random House
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-31
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780753547809

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Cleopatra's Needle by Anne Mustoe Pdf

It was a blustery April morning on the Thames Embankment in London when Anne Mustoe set out on a phenomenal lone cycle ride - to the original site of Cleopatra's Needle at Heliopolis in Egypt. Leaving behind home comforts, she set herself the challenge of travelling close to water wherever possible - via the Seine and the Rhone, then alongside the Burgundy canal, the Po and the Venetian Lagoon. Before she would reach her final waterway - the evocative Nile - Ms Mustoe would encounter the dusty yet beguiling Near East: Turkey, Syria, the Lebanon and finally Egypt itself. Anne Mustoe weaves a story of exquisite detail laced with the understated humour that has become her hallmark.

Author : Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Venice (Italy)
ISBN : YALE:39002088371522

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Life on the Lagoons by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown Pdf

Author : Adalbert Müller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Art, Italian
ISBN : HARVARD:HNPQR1

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Venice by Adalbert Müller Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 958 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Fisheries
ISBN : IND:30000089904191

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Special Scientific Report by Anonim Pdf