Matokeo ya Utafutaji
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The Second Day of the Renaissance
Timothy Williams was selected by The Observer as one of the “10 Best Modern European Crime Writers” for his series featuring Northern Italian police detective Piero Trotti. Now, 20 years after his last investigation, Trotti returns!After decades as a police detective in his Northern Italian homet... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2017 -
Another Sun (The Anne Marie Laveaud Novels #1)
The long-awaited return of Timothy Williams, CWA award-winning grand master of crime fiction, whom The Observer named one of the "10 Best Modern European Crime Writers" The sun-drenched Caribbean island of Guadeloupe is technically part of France, subject to French law and loyal to the French Repub... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2013 -
The Honest Folk of Guadeloupe (The Anne Marie Laveaud Mysteries #2)
April 1990: French-Algerian judge Anne Marie Laveaud has been living and working in the French Caribbean département of Guadeloupe for more than a decade, but her days are still full of surprises. She is only just starting to investigate the suspicious suicide of a high-profile environmental activis... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2015 -
Converging Parallels: The First Commissario Trotti Investigation Set In Northern Italy (Commissario Trotti #1)
A small-town kidnapping presents a major problem for Commissario Trotti--and draws us into CWA Award winner Timothy Williams' debut, set against the rich backdrop of a provincial Italian city.Northern Italy, 1978: Commissario Piero Trotti, trusted senior police investigator in an anonymous provincia... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2014 -
Persona Non Grata (A Commissario Trotti Investigation #3)
Northern Italy, 1985: Commissario Piero Trotti is on the verge of retirement from the police force. He is 56 years old, and though he is widely respected for his integrity and work ethic, he is not widely liked. The junior detectives he works with transfer because he's too hard on them; his fellow c... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2014 -
Black August (A Commissario Trotti Investigation #4)
Commissario Trotti of Italy's Polizia di Stato is called to the scene of the brutal murder of an old friend, schoolteacher Rosanna Belloni, who has been found bludgeoned in her apartment. Trotti's superiors warn him off the case, but he is determined to hunt down the killer.There are lots of loose e... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2014 -
The Complexity of Evil: Perpetration and Genocide (Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights)
Why do people participate in genocide? The Complexity of Evil responds to this fundamental question by drawing on political science, sociology, criminology, anthropology, social psychology, and history to develop a model which can explain perpetration across various different cases. Focusing in part... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2021 -
The Puppeteer
Northern Italy, 1982: Inspector Piero Trotti is enjoying his breakfast at a café when gunmen drive up and shoot the man sitting at the next table. Was Trotti their intended target? He isn't sure. The case falls under the jurisdiction of the local Carabinieri, but Trotti decides to make his own inqui... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2014 -
Big Italy
Northern Italy, 1993: After what seems like several lifetimes as a policeman in the Questura, Commissario Trotti is ready for retirement. Soon, he'll be able to fulfill his dream of moving to the countryside villa he co-owns with his cousin, where his daily business will be tending to goats and chic... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2015 -
Perpetrators and Perpetration of Mass Violence: Action, Motivations and Dynamics (Routledge Studies in Genocide and Crimes against Humanity)
As the most comprehensive edited volume to be published on perpetrators and perpetration of mass violence, the volume sets a new agenda for perpetrator research by bringing together contributions from such diverse disciplines as political science, sociology, social psychology, history, anthropology ... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2018 -
Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice: Crimes, Courts, Commissions, and Chronicling (Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights)
by Richard Ashby Wilson • Timothy Williams • Stephan Parmentier • Nanci Adler • William A. Schabas • Christian Axboe Nielsen • Vladimir Petrovic • Jeremy Sarkin • Mina Rauschenbach • Maarten Van Craen • Thijs B Bouwknegt • Nicole L Immler • Kjell AndersonSince the 1980s, an array of legal and non-legal practices—labeled Transitional Justice—has been developed to support post-repressive, post-authoritarian, and post-conflict societies in dealing with their traumatic past. In Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice, the contributors analyze the ... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2018 -
Intellectual Manhood
In this in-depth and detailed history, Timothy J. Williams reveals that antebellum southern higher education did more than train future secessionists and proslavery ideologues. It also fostered a growing world of intellectualism flexible enough to marry the era's middle-class value system to the hon... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2015 -
Once Upon a Pixel: Storytelling and Worldbuilding in Video Games
Once Upon a Pixel examines the increasing sophistication of storytelling and worldbuilding in modern video games. Drawing on some of gaming’s most popular titles, including Red Dead Redemption 2, The Last of Us, Horizon Zero Dawn, and the long-running Metal Gear Solid series, it is a pioneering expl... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2019 -
Why Loyalty Matters: The Groundbreaking Approach to Rediscovering Happiness, Meaning and Lasting Fulfillment in Your Life and Work
For decades we've been told that we live in fast-paced, dog-eat-dog world, that loyalty gets you nowhere, and that we must look out for number one! We've been told that to succeed we have to constantly reinvent ourselves, let go of past relationships, and move on to greener pastures. And we've been ... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2009 -
The Volta River Basin: Water for Food, Economic Growth and Environment (Earthscan Series on Major River Basins of the World)
The Volta River Basin (VRB) is an important transboundary basin in West Africa that covers approximately 410,000 square kilometres across six countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mali and Togo. Its natural resources sustain the livelihoods of its population and contribute to economi... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2016 -
Exascale Scientific Applications: Scalability and Performance Portability (Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Science)
From the Foreword: "The authors of the chapters in this book are the pioneers who will explore the exascale frontier. The path forward will not be easy... These authors, along with their colleagues who will produce these powerful computer systems will, with dedication and determination, overcome th... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2018 -
Disruptive Technology in Banking and Finance: An International Perspective on FinTech (Palgrave Studies in Financial Services Technology)
This book exemplifies the potential of FinTech to deliver important economic and societal gains, such as enhancing competition and financial inclusion to deliver tailored financial products and services at more affordable prices and at greater convenience. The emergence of FinTech directly challenge... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2021 -
The Wallet Allocation Rule
Customer Loyalty Isn't Enough--Grow Your Share ofWallet The Wallet Allocation Rule is a revolutionary, definitiveguide for winning the battle for share of customers' hearts, minds,and wallets. Backed by rock-solid science published in theHarvard Business Review and MIT Sloan ManagementReview, this l... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2015 -
Living "Illegal": The Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration
Living "Illegal" is an ambitious new account of the least understood and most relevant aspects of the American immigrant experience today. Based on years of research into the lives of ordinary migrants, oral histories, and individual testimonies, the book offers richly textured stories of real peopl... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2011 -
Living "Illegal": The Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration
In June 2012, President Obama's executive order enforcing parts of the Dream Act and the Supreme Court's decision to block components of Arizona's draconian immigration law propelled the immigration debate back into the headlines once again. Based on oral histories, individual testimonies, and years... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2011 -
Balm in Gilead: A Theological Dialogue with Marilynne Robinson (Wheaton Theology Conference Series)
by Marilynne Robinson • Timothy Larsen • Rowan Williams • Timothy George • Lauren F. Winner • Keith L. Johnson • Han-luen Kantzer Komline • Patricia Andujo • Tiffany Eberle KrinerPulitzer Prize–winning novelist Marilynne Robinson is one of the most eminent public intellectuals in America today. In addition to literary elegance, her trilogy of novels (Gilead, Home, and Lila) and her collections of essays offer probing meditations on the Christian faith. Many of these reflecti... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2018 -
Farming Systems and Food Security in Africa: Priorities for Science and Policy Under Global Change (Earthscan Food and Agriculture)
by John Dixon • Timothy O. Williams • Dennis P. Garrity • Jean-Marc Boffa • Tilahun Amede • Christopher Auricht • Rosemary Lott • George MburathiKnowledge of Africa’s complex farming systems, set in their socio-economic and environmental context, is an essential ingredient to developing effective strategies for improving food and nutrition security. This book systematically and comprehensively describes the characteristics, trends, drivers ... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2019 -
The Civil War in Maryland Reconsidered (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)
by Richard Bell • Jonathan W. White • Robert J. Cook • Frank J. Williams • Thomas G. Clemens • Brian Matthew Jordan • Frank Towers • Timothy J. Orr • Martha Jones • Sharita Jacobs-Thompson • Jessica Millward • Rob SchoeberleinCONTENTS:Introduction, Jean H. Baker and Charles W. Mitchell“Border State, Border War: Fighting for Freedom and Slavery in Antebellum Maryland,” Richard Bell“Charity Folks and the Ghosts of Slavery in Pre–Civil War Maryland,” Jessica Millward“Confronting Dred Scott: Seeing Citizenship from Baltimore... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2021