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James and Chantal are enjoying an evening of magic at the Blue Cat Club. Merlin the magician is clever and his tricks are exciting : but are they dangerous too?

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Ben Reed is a young, newly elected, and popular judge. His world is perfect until the murder of two parish detectives and the robbery of 50 million dollars of high-grade heroin the detectives had been transporting. Wally Edwards is arrested with little to no evidence for the murders and robbery. Roy Mitchum, the high-profile defense attorney usually associated with the defense of Mafia types, comes to the defense of Edwards. The case is random...

The 40-Knot Sailboat is for boat designers or sailing enthusiasts looking to maximize their sailing speeds and improve handling. Although he originally published this book in 1963, Bernard Smith had such advanced thinking and technical insights that his work is still studied and important to anyone interested in creating the fastest sailboats.The 40-Knot Sailboat is divided into three parts: Part one explains the history of the sailboat's prob...

This is the story of an illegitimate son and the mother who decided to keep him. It is the story, too, of a foster mother who loved children and of her extended family. This extraordinary autobiography recreates the atmosphere of a Sydney suburb around World War I, and subtly explores the changing times.

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The history of twentieth-century visual arts can no longer be written as a succession of avant-garde movements, contends eminent art historian Bernard Smith in this stimulating book. He argues that a return to the concept of period style is inevitable and that modernism -- the dominant "style" of art that emerged at the end of the nineteenth century and continued through the 1960s -- deserves recognition as a period style. Smith renames this p...

Jason Steele has no time to lose. He has managed to achieve a position of power at a young age. But even this success, is not enough. He has higher ambitions and feels an urgent need to hurry. And with the sudden arrival of a spaceship signaling to the political powers of earth, his chance has arrived. Now all he has to do is: convince the President he can captain the ship, then get a crew he can trust, and battle for the future of earth and h...

In this book Bernard Smith explores in more depth the issues first dealt with in his classic European Vision and the South Pacific. He continues his careful examination of how European artists and scientists travelling to the Pacific during the time of Cook's voyages were stimulated to see the world in new and creative ways. In analysing intensely personal responses to a newly accessible environment, Bernard Smith shows how science, topography...

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Excerpt from The Old School, Vol. 2 of 2 On Sunday, Mrs. Copper is, invariably, our visitor. - Yesterday afternoon was misty, and unfit for walking out. Campbell would not be of that party, and this was his day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art t...

Excerpt from Tests of a Mechanical RectifierIn looking over the field where rectifiers may be employed for converting alternating current into one of uni-direction, we find that direct current is used for power for ignition coils, for charging storage batteries for small direct current motors, series are lighting, for the arcs of motion picture machines, and for a great number of other purposes.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hund...

Excerpt from Cambridge Country Geographies, Staffordshire: With Maps, Diagrams and Illustrations He is indebted to the Rev. F. A. Hibbert, Headmaster of Denstone, for the chapter on Monasticism to Messrs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technolo...

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Having served as a member of the Allied Forces' Occupation of Japan, Bernard Smith has produced a book about the time he spent in Japan in 1946 in the city of Iwakuni, near Hiroshima, both of which cities are located on the east coast of Japan alongside its beautiful Inland Sea. Except for his rather mystifying visit to Tokyo in the summer of 1946, his entire book is based almost entirely on his personal diary, and notes which he wrote while a...

The 40-Knot Sailboat is for boat designers or sailing enthusiasts looking to maximize their sailing speeds and improve handling. Although he originally published this book in 1963, Bernard Smith had such advanced thinking and technical insights that his work is still studied and important to anyone interested in creating the fastest sailboats.The 40-Knot Sailboat is divided into three parts: Part one explains the history of the sailboat's prob...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This w...

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