Dead Lagoon

Author : Michael Dibdin
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 0307822494
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dead Lagoon written by Michael Dibdin and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2012-06-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the emerging generation of crime writers, none is as stylish and intelligent as Michael Dibdin, who, in Dead Lagoon, gives us a deliciously creepy new novel featuring the urbane and skeptical Aurelio Zen, a detective whose unenviable task it is to combat crime in a country where today's superiors may be tomorrow's defendants.Zen returns to his native Venice. He is searching for the ghostly tormentors of a half-demented contessa and a vanished American millionaire whose family is paying Zen under the table to determine his whereabouts-dead or alive. But he keeps stumbling over corpses that are distressingly concrete: from the crooked cop found drowned in one of the city's noisome "black wells" to a brand-new skeleton that surfaces on the Isle of the Dead. The result is a mystery rich in character and deduction, and intensely informed about the history, politics, and manners of its Venetian setting.

Author : Michael Dibdin
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 9780571270859
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dead Lagoon written by Michael Dibdin and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CRIME & MYSTERY. Aurelio Zen returns to his native Venice to investigate the disappearance of a rich American resident but he soon learns that, amid the hazy light and shifting waters of the lagoon, nothing is what it seems. As Zen is drawn deeper into the complex and ambiguous mysteries surrounding the discovery of a skeletal corpse on an ossuary island in the north lagoon, he is also forced to confront a series of disturbing revelations about his own life.

Author : Ignazio Musu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780792364580
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Venice: Suggestions for the Future written by Ignazio Musu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-01-31 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is universally recognised that Venice and its lagoon are of such value that they constitute an international public good that must be preserved for humanity as a whole. But such an ambitious task requires a diversified, sustainable set of economic activities, mostly focused on the production of services and non-material goods. This complex issue is analyzed using different approaches, with a discussion of the case of Venice as an example of some of the most relevant problems concerning the relation between the environment and development in the contemporary world: the trade-off between preserving an ecosystem and considering it as an economic resource; the evolution of different urban growth scenarios and the preservation of a physical habitat; the role of immaterial production in urban economic development; the nature of tourism as a sustainable activity, considered from both from the environmental and cultural angles; the institutional aspect of governing a process of sustainable urban development. Readership: A unique resource for environmental and urban managers, policy analysts, students of sustainable development, and anyone else interested in the social and economic implications of preserving one of the most loved and celebrated cities in the world.

Author : Angela Goddard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134448805
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing for Assessment written by Angela Goddard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-02 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text helps students to develop the writing skills they need to succeed in AS and A2 level English; offers a step-by-step guide to approaching writing tasks and structuring a response; looks at a range of writing tasks, from argumentative essays to data-based investigations; provides Personal Audit Sheets (PASS) to help students assess their own writing skills and make practical steps to develop them; can be used as preparation for both coursework and exams. Written by an experienced teacher, author and AS and A2 level examiner, Writing for Assessment is an essential resource for all students of AS and A2 level English Language, English Literature, and English Language and Literature

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Total Pages : 1014 pages
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Download or read book Bulletin of the Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 830 pages
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Download or read book Berichte written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 792 pages
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Author : Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses
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Total Pages : 1174 pages
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Author : Margaret Plant
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300083866
Total Pages : 576 pages
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Download or read book Venice written by Margaret Plant and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Plant presents a wide-ranging cultural history of the city from the fall of the Republic in 1797, until 1997, showing how it has changed and adapted and how perceptions of it have shaped its reality.

Author : Mary Lou Jones
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0080923720
Total Pages : 600 pages
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Download or read book The Gray Whale: Eschrichtius Robustus written by Mary Lou Jones and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gray Whale: Eschrichtius robustus provides an introduction to the understanding of Eschrichtius robustus or the gray whale. This book explores the life processes, reproduction, and growth of large cetacean populations. Organized into four parts encompassing 25 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the gray whale evolution, fossils, and subfossil remains, range, and systematics in historical times. This text then presents the historical of gray whale exploitation and the economic importance of these whales to humans. Other chapters consider the gray whale migration, abundance, and seasonal distribution in the wake of the California population's recovery from depletion. This book discusses as well the methods used in shore-based censuses during migration and in aerial surveys of gray whales taken on their winter grounds. The final chapter deals with some innovative approaches to the study of free-ranging cetaceans. This book is a valuable resource for anthropologists, paleontologists, biologists, and naturalists.