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Imagine a story where MacBeth meets Arabian Nights. Intrigued? Then please read on. In a world where the old pantheon of gods and goddesses are no longer venerated, the forces of darkness are on the march. The rivers dry. The crops wither. Death and disease sweep over the lands. All hope falls on the narrow shoulders of Prince Yaya who is told of a prophecy: unless the demon of drought is defeated, war for precious water will engulf the re...

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William Dickenson, man of business to the earl of Shrewsbury, knows that raising the rents on farmholds will ease his master's cash-flow problem. But Lord Shrewsbury imposes such huge increases on one manor, Glossopdale in the Derbyshire Peak District, that none of the tenants can pay. "Black Harry" Botham, of Storth Farm in the Glossopdale hamlet of Simmondley, knows the courts won't oppose those rent increases, Lord Shrewsbury is too powerf...

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Efficiently manage and administer enterprise environments using Microsoft Windows Server 2019Key Features Leverage Windows Server 2019 to improve enterprise workflow efficiency and increase productivity Deliver enterprise-grade cloud services that can be applied in your infrastructure Get up and running with PowerShell and the all-new Hyper-V improvementsBook DescriptionDo you want to get up and running with essential administrative tasks in W...

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An epic novel of lives in war and love in the classic American tradition. The first volume of Abandoned By The Gods, traverses the Postcolonial landscape from East to West in a lyrical and intellectual portrayal of dark and lucid, beautiful and wounded lives.

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A collection of folk tales from the surrounding areas of the Peak District.

The intriguing tale of the murder of a young couple at one of the most picturesque locations in the Peak District during the mid 1800s and how such a story evolves into folklore as it is retold.

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Ereditiamo la nostra personalità o la formiamo nel corso della vita? Cosa può svelare il DNA sulla storia dell'uomo? Che cosa ha significato per il mondo intero la clonazione della pecora Dolly? Ben presto potremo progettare e commissionare i nostri figli? I concetti basilari della genetica sono esposti in modo chiaro e accattivante in questi 50 brevi saggi. Partendo dalla teoria dell'evoluzione di Darwin e concludendo con le più recenti e con...

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Mark Henderson is Head of Communications at the Wellcome Trust. Previously he was the Science editor of The Times and a columnist for The Times science magazine, Eureka. In 2011 Mark was awarded the European Best Cancer Reporter Prize and the Royal Statistical Society Prize for statistical excellence in journalism. He has won three awards from the Medical Journalists Association. He remains a regular commentator on science in the press, for te...

Highly recommended for high school, college, or university libraries. And since readers with no scientific background would also find the information fascinating, the book would be a great addition to the circulating collections in public libraries." -- Library Journal

Current reserves of non-renewable resources can be counted in years and decades, rather than centuries. The world's population continues to grow, expected to reach nine billion before the middle of the century. This could spell disaster. This book looks at the latest mineral reserve statistics, population growth forecasts, and model simulations regarding the depletion of natural resources and prospects of an economic collapse past the middle ...

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