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Rain Gods (Paperback)
James Lee Burke
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R485
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Bitterroot (Paperback)
James Lee Burke
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R403
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Neon Rain (Paperback)
BURKE JAMES LEE
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R396
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR JAMES LEE BURKE THE NEON RAIN Detective Dave Robicheaux has fought too many battles: in Vietnam, with killers and hustlers, with police brass, and with the bottle. Lost without his wife's love, Robicheaux's haunted soul mirrors the intensity and dusky mystery of New Orleans' French Quarter -- the place he calls home, and the place that nearly destroys him when he becomes involved in the case of a young prostitute whose body is found in a bayou. Thrust into the world of drug lords and arms smugglers, Robicheaux must face down a subterranean criminal world and come to terms with his own bruised heart in order to survive.
In the philosophical language of Aristotle and the Greeks of
Antiquity, 'Physics' roughly translates as 'the order of nature',
covering what we would now differentiate as philosophy, science,
politics, humanities and religion. One of Aristotle's great works,
of which we here present an abridged edition, The Physics is an
investigation into the nature of being, of the world and its place
in the universe. Although philosophically much broader, it provides
the foundation for the later work of Galileo and Isaac Newton, and
prefigures Albert Einstein's breakthrough theories on time, space
and the motion of stars. The FLAME TREE Foundations series features
core publications which together have shaped the cultural landscape
of the modern world, with cutting-edge research distilled into
pocket guides designed to be both accessible and informative.
A concise, uncluttered edition for the modern reader, with a new
introduction. Quantum Theory contains two foundational works of
quantum research from the early years of the 20th Century,
representing breakthroughs in science that radically altered the
landscape of modern knowledge: Quantum Theory of Line-Spectra by
Niels Bohr and The Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory by
Max Planck. The FLAME TREE Foundations series features core
publications which together have shaped the cultural landscape of
the modern world, with cutting-edge research distilled into pocket
guides designed to be both accessible and informative.
From American master James Lee Burke comes a novel set in Civil
War-era Louisiana as the South transforms and a brilliant cast of
characters - enslaved and free women, plantation gentry, and
battle-weary Confederate and Union soldiers - are caught in the
maelstrom In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the
Mississippi river. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and
Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is in disarray,
corrupt structures are falling apart, and enslaved men and women
are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved
woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she
goes on the run with Florence Milton, an abolitionist
schoolteacher, dodging the local constable and the slavecatchers
that prowl the bayous. Wade Lufkin, haunted by what he
observed--and did--as a surgeon on the battlefield, has returned to
his uncle's plantation to convalesce, where he becomes enraptured
by Hannah. Flags on the Bayou is an engaging, action-packed
narrative that includes a duel that ends in disaster, a brutal
encounter with the local Union commander, repeated skirmishes with
Confederate irregulars led by a diseased and probably deranged
colonel, and a powerful story of love blossoming between an
unlikely pair. As the story unfolds, it illuminates a past that
reflects our present in sharp relief. James Lee Burke, whose
"evocative prose remains a thing of reliably fierce wonder"
(Entertainment Weekly), expertly renders the rich Louisiana
landscape, from the sunsets on the Mississippi River to the dingy
saloons of New Orleans to the tree-lined shores of the bayou and
the cottonmouth snakes that dwell in its depths. Powerful and
deeply moving, Flags on the Bayou is a story of tragic acts of war,
class divisions upended, and love enduring through it all.
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Robicheaux (Paperback)
James Lee Burke
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R525
R440
Discovery Miles 4 400
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An accessible, abridged edition with a new introduction.
Renaissance Natural philosopher Nicolaus Copernicus's pioneering
discovery of the heliocentric nature of the solar system is one of
the few identifiable moments in history that define the
understanding of the nature of all things. His great work was
the consequence of long observation and resulted in the first stage
of the Scientific Revolution by correctly positing that the earth
and other planets of the solar system revolved around the sun. Not
only did this promote further study to understand the place of
humanity in the world and the universe, it questioned the authority
of the organised Christian Church in the West to be the keeper of
fundamental truths. Ultimately this would lead to the
Enlightenment, and the separation of religion, government and
science. The FLAME TREE Foundations series features core
publications which together have shaped the cultural landscape of
the modern world, with cutting-edge research distilled into pocket
guides designed to be both accessible and informative.
Authoritative account of Cricklade and neighbouring towns, in an
area immediately west of Swindon. Cricklade, the Anglo-Saxon
borough fortified by Alfred against the Danes, is the market town
at the heart of this volume. As a notorious rotten borough, its
corruption influenced the passing of the 1832 Parliamentary Reform
Act. The town and the surrounding parishes described here are
bordered by Gloucestershire to the north and Swindon to the East.
They extend along the upper Thames valley and over the Wiltshire
claylands to the limestone ridge in the south. The royal forest of
Braydon covered much of the area in the middle ages and provided
extensive grazing for livestock. Although disafforestation took
place under Charles I, agricultural exploitation was limited by
poor soils and parts were later returned to woodland or nature
reserve. The settlements of traditional limestone buildings were
remote until canal and rail transport increased trade in dairy
products and the expansion of employment opportunities in Swindon
resulted in their residential development, and an annexation of a
small part of the area by the growing town.
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