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        The Arts
        January 2019

        Joss Whedon

        by Matthew Pateman

        This book assesses Joss Whedon's contribution to US television and popular culture. Examining everything from his earliest work to his most recent tweets and activist videos, it explores his complex and contradictory roles as both cult outsider and blockbuster filmmaker. Crucially, the book insists on the wider industrial, technological, political and economic contexts that have both influenced and been influenced by Whedon, rejecting the notion of Whedon as isolated television auteur. Using key source material, with exclusive access to drafts of many of the episodes across Whedon's career, as well as unique correspondence with Whedon collaborator Jane Espenson, this book offers unparalleled access to the creative process that helped produce the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Dollhouse and Firefly. Energetic, engaging and informed by detailed scholarship and theoretical rigour, the book is not just an essential addition to the study of Whedon, but a timely and important re-invigoration of television studies in general.

      • Trusted Partner
        February 2020

        Jamaica Inn

        Roman

        by Daphne du Maurier, Brigitte Heinrich, Christel Dormagen

        Düstere Geheimnisse umgeben das berüchtigte Jamaica Inn, das einsam im Moor von Cornwall liegt. Dorthin verschlägt es die junge Waise Mary nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter. Bei ihrer Tante Patience und ihrem Onkel Joss soll sie ein neues Zuhause finden. Doch das Gasthaus nahe der zerklüfteten, sturmgepeitschten Küste beherbergt dunkle Gestalten, die üblen Geschäften nachgehen – und ihr Anführer scheint Marys Onkel zu sein. Mehr und mehr wird Mary in die Machenschaften der Männer verstrickt und gerät in Lebensgefahr. Welches undurchsichtige Spiel treibt dabei Joss‘ jüngerer Bruder Jem, in den Mary sich verliebt hat?

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        February 2020

        Jamaica Inn

        Roman

        by Daphne Maurier, Brigitte Heinrich, Christel Dormagen

        Düstere Geheimnisse umgeben das berüchtigte Jamaica Inn, das einsam im Moor von Cornwall liegt. Dorthin verschlägt es die junge Waise Mary nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter. Bei ihrer Tante Patience und ihrem Onkel Joss soll sie ein neues Zuhause finden. Doch das Gasthaus nahe der zerklüfteten, sturmgepeitschten Küste beherbergt dunkle Gestalten, die üblen Geschäften nachgehen – und ihr Anführer scheint Marys Onkel zu sein. Mehr und mehr wird Mary in die Machenschaften der Männer verstrickt und gerät in Lebensgefahr. Welches undurchsichtige Spiel treibt dabei Joss‘ jüngerer Bruder Jem, in den Mary sich verliebt hat?

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        Biology, life sciences
        May 2021

        Ten Steps to Building a Successful Veterinary Practice

        by Wendy Sneddon

        This book is a down to earth, practical guide which provides ten simple steps for success for anyone responsible for recruiting a winning veterinary practice team: whether they are recruiting employees and building their team, or changing culture and creating a supportive environment where employees are engaged and motivated. It is ideal for small business owners who can't afford to employ any human resource support.Intensely practical, it delivers key facts for veterinary staff starting out in business. The book:· Details how you can attract, recruit and retain the right people for a winning team· Guides you on creating a well organised, supportive practice in which employees can flourish· Provides you with a basic introduction to building a strategy and improving your marketing campaigns· Covers the basics of sound financial planning and how to win clients and increase your revenues· Looks at how to manage common pitfallsWith a wealth of practical templates and forms to use, this book adopts a straight-talking approach which will be welcomed by anyone starting their own veterinary practice. Table of contents 1: Step 1: WHY? 2: Step 2: Your First Time? 3: Step 3: Vision, Mission, Values and Culture 4: Step 4: How to Define What and Who You Need 5: Step 5: Recruitment and Induction 6: Step 6: Performance Management and Employee Engagement 7: Step 7: Employee Health and Wellbeing 8: Step 8: How to Build a Loyal Client Database and Marketing Your Practice 9: Step 9: Financial Management 10: Step 10: Three Key Strategies to Increase Your Revenue by 25%

      • October 2019

        BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

        Ongoing Series

        by Jordie Bellaire / Joss Whedon

        Go back to the beginning as the critically acclaimed pop culture phenomenon Buffy The Vampire Slayer is reimagined under the guidance of series creator Joss Whedon!This is the Buffy Summers you know, who wants what every average teenager wants: friends at her new school, decent grades, and to escape her imposed destiny as the next in a long line of vampire slayers tasked with defeating the forces of evil...only this time around, her world looks a lot more like the one outside your window.Eisner Award winner Jordie Bellaire (Redlands) and Russ Manning Award winner Dan Mora (Go Go Power Rangers, Hexed), along with series creator Joss Whedon (Marvel’s The Avengers), bring Buffy into a new era with new challenges, new friends, and a few enemies you might already recognize. But the more things change, the more they stay the same as the Gang faces brand-new Big Bads, and the threat lurking beneath the perfectly manicured exterior of Sunnydale High confirms what every teenager has always known: high school truly is hell.

      • October 2019

        FIREFLY

        THE UNIFICATION WAR

        by Greg Pak / Joss Whedon

        A new era of Firefly starts here, as the secret history of the Unification War is revealed at last!From Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Avengers) comes a new era of Firefly, as the definitive story of the Unification War is told at last! Captain Malcolm Reynolds thought he could outrun his past, but when a simple heist goes wrong, he’s forced to confront it. With the fabled Traitor of Serenity Valley in his sights, Mal’s quest for revenge will put him at odds with his own crew, forcing him to make a choice: fix the past or fight for the future.Along with Whedon, writer Greg Pak (Mech Cadet Yu, Totally Awesome Hulk, Weapon X) and artist Dan McDaid (Judge Dredd: Mega City Zero) take you back to the battleground where it all began...and

      • Biography: historical, political & military
        March 2016

        Cribs For Victory

        The Untold Story of Bletchley Park's Secret Room

        by Joss Pearson

        Cribs For Victory is a posthumous account of the secret code-breaking process in Bletchley Park’s Fusion Room during World War II by Major Neil Webster, one of the key members of the team involved.  The Fusion Room was the central unit where decrypted German messages obtained from Hut 6 were compared with the corresponding data extracted by the log readers from the daily radio traffic between enemy stations, thus enabling a complete wartime picture of the enemy order of battle to be constructed. Neil Webster’s liaison role between traffic analysis and cryptography meant he was centrally involved in the search for ‘cribs’ – short pieces of enciphered text where the meaning is either known or can be guessed, allowing the whole cipher to be broken. His book describes this intensive search in detail, the intellectual and technical challenge, the personal stories, the setbacks and the triumphs.

      • Fiction

        The Jacobite's Wife

        by Morag Edwards

        Lady Winifred had a troubled childhood. Her mother, father and brother were all imprisoned for treason due to their support for the Catholic king. When she falls in love with a handsome young Scottish nobleman, the marriage brings happiness. However, she is forced to rebel when her husband takes up the Jacobite cause and vows to restore the Catholic king to the throne. While Winifred wants to be loyal to her husband, she also wants to protect him from imprisonment – and worse, the scaffold! Just how far will she go to save him?

      • Fantasy
        March 2024

        The Voice of Revenge

        by Sacha Morage

        Vaelle has lost everything. His brother first, slaughtered before his eyes. Her future then, since she is now being hunted down by the powerful Bureau for illegal use of her Voice. There is only one thing left: revenge. She promises herself: she will kill Yervain, the Bureau member responsible for her brother's murder. Whatever the price. No matter the consequences. His obsession with Yervain leads him further and further, into ever bloodier sacrifices, and ever darker darkness. Until the point of no return.

      • Fiction
        October 2017

        "POUR TOI JE PORTERAI LE VOILE"

        by MARIE JULIE NGUETSE

        Résumé:  Pour  échapper  aux  griffes  des  les  terroristes  qui  ont  tout simplement  décimé la moitié  de  sa  famille  et  qui  encore  tenir  son  seul  fils  Jonathan,  Joss  fils,  et  son demi - frère, la  princesse  Merilee  Mokdem,  captifs: Que de se marier le capitaine Kaderamim Del Salim. Alors ouvre une page d' amour aux couleurs mythiques et              la  séduction  et  terrible  guerre homme  qui  peut  dire  « Afrique »  va  avec  une  ferme  main  pour  diriger  la  vie  de  la  jeune femme  et  faire  son  cœur  trembler. Mais  se  il  réussira  à  tourner  la  page par  de  son  passé pour  toujours? Va-t- elle réussir à oublier Joss? Tout au long de l' histoire de Merilee  ,          MarieJulie  Nguetse  révèle  l'  Afrique d'aujourd'hui , plongée  sous  le  joug  des  guerres internes  , des  épidémies, du   néocolonialisme, de  l' émigration  clandestine et de  ses  corollaires.

      • Music

        Postcards From a Rock and Roll Tour

        by Gordy Marshall

        Postcards From a Rock & Roll Tour is drummer Gordy Marshall's witty and wry take on life on the road touring with legendary rock band The Moody Blues. Part memoir, part travelogue, it's a candid, unexpected and often hilarious account of just what it's like to travel around the world playing to sell-out audiences, living out of a suitcase and spending days and days on a tour bus. If you thought being in a rock band was all sex, drugs and rock and roll, then think again. Postcards From a Rock & Roll Tour gives a rare insight into the reality of life as a travelling musician. Includes a foreword by the legendary Graeme Edge of The Moody Blues.

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        The Marvels of the World

        Die Reisen des Ritters Jean de Mandeville

        by Jean de Mandeville

        The Livre de Mandeville (Book of Mandeville) is integrated into a composite manuscript - held today at the Bibliothèque national de France under the shelfmark Fr. 2810 - containing a number of texts about the countries of the Middle and Far East which was given the name Livre de merveilles, on account of the wonders described therein, but also because of its wonderful decorations. The author, Jean de Mandeville, refers to himself as a knight who embarked on his journey in the year 1322 and that he travelled not only to see the sites of the Holy Land, but also to countless far countries of the world and many wondrous regions. By combining seemingly familiar elements with mysterious narratives, he achieves an immediacy and freshness that would be enthusiastically welcomed by a wide readership. It is not only the enthusiastic reception of the text, but also the development of a rich iconographic programme that make the Livre de Mandeville such an impressive example of medieval world and travel literature and the most dazzling work representative of the genre.

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