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Cherringham - a quiet town in the Cotswolds. Nothing ever happens there, or so it seems - until one morning a woman's body is found in the river. A terrible accident, according to the police. But is this true? Sarah believes there must be more to it. In Jack, a former NYPD homicide detective, she finds a partner who is willing to start investigating with her. They soon find out that things are not as clear as the police want them to be ... This first - of many cases brings Sarah and Jack together in an unlikely partnership.

The Thames has been a highway, a frontier, and an attack route; it has been a playground and a sewer, a source of water, and a source of power. Every stretch has its own character, atmosphere, and stories. Thames: Sacred River explores the river from source to sea. Peter Ackroyd, best-selling author of London: The Biography, tells the story of the river and the people who have lived on and by it over the centuries.

The Thames has been a highway, a frontier, and an attack route; it has been a playground and a sewer, a source of water and a source of power. Every stretch has its own character, atmosphere and stories. Thames: Sacred River explores the river from source to sea. Peter Ackroyd, best-selling author of London: The Biography, tells the story of the river and the people who have lived on and by it over the centuries.

Un filósofo marxista europeo, que suele ser fuente de inspiración para sectores del actual oficialismo argentino, decía que quien domina el pasado, domina el futuro. Su tesis era que, imponiendo una determinada interpretación de la historia, se gesta el curso de la política y a través de ella, se moldea el futuro. Esto explica por qué en los últimos años, hemos asistido en la Argentina a una acción sistemática, para modificar y tergiversar la realidad histórica. Esta forma de utilizar la política, se ha manifestado en acciones, como cuestionar la figura de Sarmiento, cuyo ...

When a detested viscount is found murdered by the banks of the Thames and Charlie Hastings becomes the prime suspect, Barnaby and Penelope Adair join forces with Stokes to discover the real story behind the unexpected killing. Charlie Hastings is astonished to find himself accused of murdering Viscount Sedbury. Admittedly, Charlie had two heated altercations with Sedbury in the hours preceding the man’s death, but as Charlie is quick to point out to Stokes—and to Barnaby and Penelope—there are a multitude of others in the ton who will be delighted to learn of Sedbury’s demise.

Este tercer tomo de la Biografìa de Mariano Moreno cita: documentos, pasajes, memorias, cartas y obras de próceres, líderes realistas y primeros historiadores de ambos bandos. Analiza la frenética obra de la Primera Junta, conducida por Moreno, las relaciones exteriores; las amenazas de la Banda Oriental, Paraguay y Alto Perú. El bloqueo y bombardeo a Buenos Aires. La influencia británica: Lord Strangford y su apoyo al levantamiento del bloqueo. El “Plano de Operaciones” atribuido a Moreno. Su origen y traza. ¿Es auténtico o un fraude? La Libertad de Prensa. La Gazeta de Buenos ...

Tal vez Moreno es el personaje que mejor sintetice el tránsito del virreinato hacia los primeros meses del alumbramiento Patrio. Es referente innegable e indiscutido de nuestros primeros conflictos. En tan sólo siete meses de su tránsito por la gestión pública nos ha legado una marca e influencia imborrables en nuestra idiosincrasia; hasta el día de hoy. El pendón de Mariano Moreno ha sido enarbolado por liberales y progresistas; por nacionalistas y cosmopolitas; porque su propia polémica personalidad ha dado para que mucho se predique y escriba respecto de él.

The Thames has been a highway, a frontier, and an attack route; it has been a playground and a sewer, a source of water, and a source of power. Every stretch has its own character, atmosphere, and stories. Thames: Sacred River explores the river from source to sea. Peter Ackroyd, best-selling author of London: The Biography, tells the story of the river and the people who have lived on and by it over the centuries.

In the dilapidated surroundings of the Savoy hospital, a delegation from the Netherlands has gathered for a final attempt to secure peace between the two nations. Thomas Chaloner, active in Holland during Cromwell's time, knows many of the delegates, including the sister of his late wife. Then the body of his former brother-in-law is found in the Thames. Chaloner discovers that the dead man has left enigmatic clues to a motivation for his murder.

En este segundo tomo de la Biografía de Mariano Moreno, el autor narra, alrededor de la vida del prócer, toda la trama oculta de la Revolución de Mayo, desde la mirada de sus diversos protagonistas: Manuel y Mariano Moreno, Manuel Belgrano, Cornelio Saavedra, Gervasio Antonio Posadas, Tomás Guido, Martín Rodríguez, Vicente López y Planes, Nicolás Rodríguez Peña, Ignacio Núñez y el propio Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros, que asistía, impotente, a la disolución del orden colonial en el Plata. El apasionante debate del Cabildo Abierto del 22 de Mayo de 1810. Las posturas de los ...

Captain Lacey is asked by Peter Thompson of the Thames River Police to help him investigate a cold case - the murder of a woman found near the docks Thompson patrols. The investigation was sidelined, considered unsolvable, but Thompson has long wished to find her killer. Captain Lacey joins him in the hunt, entering a part of society that is closed to outsiders. Meanwhile, he must deal with his daughter's debut and more developments in his new domestic life, including an anonymous blackmailer who's out to ruin Lacey any way he can.

In October 2013, while working as a journalist on a local newspaper, in Hertfordshire, Paul Christian entered a world of intrigue and mystery surrounding the most famous unsolved murder case of them all - that of Jack the Ripper. He made contact with sources who claimed to know the identity of the infamous Victorian serial killer and provided new leads linking him to the murky 1880s art scene. Most shocking of all a previously unseen painting finally reveals who the bloodthirsty killer, who preyed on prostitutes in 1888, was. The Inevitable Jack the Ripper also delves deeper into London's ...

Some secrets hide in plain sight. Others are stolen in the dead of night... Flora Maguire has everything she could wish for—a beautiful Belgravia home, a devoted husband, and baby Arthur to dote on. But her perfect world is shattered when she accepts an invitation to tour St Philomena’s Children’s Hospital in poverty-stricken Southwark. The conditions are appalling, but the real horror lies in a chilling discovery: children are vanishing from the hospital.

Dinah Hance can’t forget the day her best friend was murdered. All she wants is for the nightmares to go away. But when infamous outlaw Sal Valentin returns ten years later and kills her father in cold blood, moving on becomes impossible. Devastated and desperate to be free of her haunted past, Dinah knows she can’t rest until she gets her revenge. She insists on joining the posse pursuing the Valentin Gang and leaves behind the only home she’s ever known.

Cassie and Violet's adventures continue in this eighth book of the Cassie Coburn Mysteries! When a body is found in the Thames, will they be able to identify the victim and bring the killer to justice?

La Declaración de la Independencia de un país constituye su certificado de nacimiento al concierto de las naciones libres. Esta obra desentraña cómo se gestó la Declaración de la Independencia Argentina. Desde el arribo de los congresales a Tucumán, con las instrucciones que traían de sus provincias; prosigue narrando cómo el “Redactor”, el periódico oficial del Congreso de Tucumán, difundió la noticia de la Independencia a lo largo y lo ancho de las Provincias Unidas. En las vísperas del Bicentenario, esta obra intenta responder varias preguntas que, desde siempre, han ...

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson traverse the British Isles and the Italian peninsula in a rousing new series of adventures. After a thrilling jaunt in the Far East, Holmes and Watson return to England to address an inheritance left by one of Watson's relatives in Cornwall, half of which he gave to his dear friend, Sherlock Holmes. Financially secure, the two are now free to spend as much time on Baker Street and the Continent as they please - until clues surface that Holmes' great nemesis, Professor Moriarty, might still be alive….

Jack's a retired ex-cop from New York, seeking the simple life in Cherringham. Sarah's a Web designer who's moved back to the village find herself. But their lives are anything but quiet as the two team up to solve Cherringham's criminal mysteries. This compilation contains episodes 1 - 3: MURDER ON THAMES, MYSTERY AT THE MANOR and MURDER BY MOONLIGHT.

Listen and learn about genomics in bitesize episodes!Genomics Now is a series of conversations hosted by clinicians and scientists of the North Thames Genomic Medicine Service (NTGMS). These bitesize episodes explore how clinical genomics is developing in England’s National Health Service (NHS), helping the healthcare workforce understand how the NHS is embedding genomic testing across the system, answering common questions and discussing how data can be used to successfully improve patient care.

Old Father Thames so the song has it but she's more of a mother, that's what I've come to think. She started off young and beautiful, useful, the life-blood of the city.