Trovati 39 documenti.
Trovati 39 documenti.
[United States : s.n.], 1999
Blood rain : an Aurelio Zen mystery / Michael Dibdin
New York : First Vintage Crime / Black Lizard, 2001
Abstract: Aurelio Zen cynical and tough, yet worn down from years of law enforcement has just been given the worst assignment he could imagine. He has been sent to the heart of hostile territory: Sicily, the ancient, beautiful island where blood has been known to flow like wine, and the distinction between the police and the criminals is a fine one. Even worse, he has been sent to spy on the elite anti-Mafia squad.The only thing that makes the job palatable and takes his mind off routine details like the rotting body found in a remote train car is that Zen's adopted daughter, Carla, is also in town. But life becomes precarious for Carla when she stumbles upon some information she'd be better off not knowing and befriends a local magistrate on the Mafia's most wanted list. What ensues is a breakneck plot of amazing complexity that culminates in a stunning finale. Blood Rain, emotionally gripping and defiantly original, is surely one of Dibdin's finest works."
Galileoʼs daughter : a historical memoir of sciences, faith and love / Dava Sobel
New York : Walker, ©1999
Abstract: From the international best-selling author of Longitude, Galileo's Daughter is the fascinating story of the relationship between the great Italian scientist Galileo and his daughter, Virginia.Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was the foremost scientist of his day, `the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science altogether' in the words of Albert Einstein. Though he never left the Italy of his birth, his inventions and discoveries were heralded around the world. His telescopes allowed him to reveal a new reality in the heavens and to defend the astounding proposition that the Earth actually moves around the Sun. For this belief he faced the Holy Office of the Inquisition and was subsequently tried for heresy and threatened with torture. Galileo is brought to life here as never before - a man boldly compelled to explain the truths he discovered, human in his frailties and faith, devoted to family and, especially, to his daughter. Since there could be no hope of marriage for his illegitimate...
Cities of the plain / Cormac McCarthy
New York : Vintage, 1999
Abstract: In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award-winning author of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing fashions a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier. The setting is New Mexico in 1952, where John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands. To the North lie the proving grounds of Alamogordo; to the South, the twin cities of El Paso and Juarez, Mexico. Their life is made up of trail drives and horse auctions and stories told by campfire light. It is a life that is about to change forever, and John Grady and Billy both know it. The catalyst for that change appears in the form of a beautiful, ill-starred Mexican prostitute. When John Grady falls in love, Billy agrees--against his better judgment--to help him rescue the girl from her suavely brutal pimp. The ensuing events resonate with the violence and inevitability of classic tragedy. Hauntingly beautiful, filled with sorrow, humor and awe, Cities of the Plain is a genuine American epic.
The ape who guards the balance / Elizabeth Peters
New York : Avon Twilight, 1999
Abstract: A globe-trotting archeologist with more grit, wit, and fortitude than Indian Jones himself, the intrepid Amelia Peabody confronts danger and dark mystery in the desert sands of Egypt in The Ape Who Guards the Balance—a breathtaking adventure that encompasses treachery, villainy, bloodthirsty cults, the Book of the Dead…and murder most foul.
BGP4 : inter-domain routing in the internet / John W. Stewart III
Reading : Addison-Wesley, c1999
Mrs. McNosh and the Great Big Squash / by Sarah Weeks ; pictures by Nadine Bernard Westcott
New York ; Scholastic, 2000
Abstract: In this sequel to the best-selling Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash, Nelly McNosh once again gets more than she bargained for when she plants an apparently harmless seed in her garden. The squash grows so quickly that it wreaks havoc. How will Mrs. McNosh stop the uncontrollable squash? Full of humorous wordplay, this rhyming tale will tickle three-year-olds as well as their parents.
Lost on Earth : nomads of the new world / Mark Fritz
Boston ; New York ; London : Little, Brown and Company, 1999
Abstract: Fritz lays out his tales of refugees and refugee workers with a short-story master's feel for character and plot... while [the refugees'] hardships obviously matter to him, what captures his imagination and his skill is their personalities. His portraits of the uprooted encompass natives of lands as diverse as Germany and Iraq and Togo and Bosnia, but no one he writes about seems foreign; he puts us in his subjects' shoes by showing us how very much like us they are. (And he drives home the point that there is no longer anything anomalous about their experience, reporting that in the mid-1990s, roughly one out of every 100 people on the planet was forcibly uprooted from home.) He also has a gift for making tangled clashes...easy to follow without talking down in the process. Although Fritz's subject matter is cruel, his book is strangely delightful-- on one level an outcry against acts of inhumanity, but on another a celebration of our common humanity.
The last judgement / Iain Pears
New York : Berkley Prime Crime Book, 1999
Death in a cold hard light / Francine Mathews
New York [etc.] : Bantam, 1999
Abstract: Merry Folger is more than ready for a romantic vacation with her fiancé Peter when fate--and her police chief father--intervenes. Twenty-one-year-old Jay Santorski never should have drowned in the frigid waters off the Nantucket shore. What was the athlete, Harvard scholar, and part-time scalloper doing out alone in the storm-churned bay? At her father's insistence-and over Peter's objections-Merry returns to the island to investigate, only to be confronted at every turn by false leads and dead ends. And Police Chief John Folger is behind too many of these roadblocks. For the first time, Merry begins to feel she cannot trust her lifelong role model: her own father....
The ballad of Frankie Silver / Sharyn McCrumb
New York : Signet, 1999
Abstract: Set in the Appalachian wilderness and blending legends and folklore with high suspense, this stellar novel, The Ballad of Frankie Silver, is considered one of McCrumb’s crowning achievements. In 1833 Frankie Silver was an eighteen-year-old girl convicted of murder in Burke County, North Carolina. Through a detailed investigation, the local sheriff, and soon all the townsfolk, discover reason to question her guilt - but the wheels of justice were mercilessly unstoppable, and she was hanged. Now, more than a century later, another woman is convicted of murder in the lush hills of Tennessee. Her life is in the hands of Spencer Arrowood, a man who begins to discover that the convictions of these two women have deep and haunting parallels. Although Frankie’s fate cannot be changed, there is still time to alter the fate of another innocent woman.
Detective duos / edited by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1999
Abstract: Sleuthing twosomes have long made their mark on detective fiction. From the unnamed narrator in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Purloined Letter" who adroitly recounts the virtuosity of the Parisian detective, C. Auguste Dupin, to Dorothy L. Sayers's beloved Lord Peter Wimsey and Mr. Bunter, to Lillian Jackson Braun's interspecies partnership between Phut Phat (an investigative genius who happens to be a cat) and one of its owners, detective duos have come in all guises. Indeed, there are almost as many variations of compatriot crimefighters as there are types of mystery and detective fiction. In this anthology, a real-life detective duo - married mystery novelists Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini - have brought together 25 of the best paired puzzle-solvers in short stories of remarkable range and scope. Here are traditional tandems: Sherlock and his admiring Watson, in a devilish puzzler "The Adventure of the Empty House," alongside Nero Wolfe and his employee, Archie Goodwin, in "Fourth of July Picnic." Husband and wife teams are well represented by Frances and Richard Lockridge's "Mr and Mrs".
Murder on the prowl / Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown ; illustrations by Wendy Wray
New York [etc] : Bantam, 1999
Abstract: As the principal of St. Elizabeth's, an exclusive private school that caters to Crozet, Virginia's, best families, Roscoe Fletcher has proven himself to be a highly effective and vastly popular administrator. So when his obituary appears in the local paper, everyone in town is upset. Yet nothing compares to the shock they feel when they discover that Roscoe Fletcher isn't dead at all. Someone has stooped to putting a phony obituary in the newspaper. But is it a sick joke or a sinister warning?
Bella Tuscany : the sweet life in Italy / Frances Mayes
New York : Broadway books, ©1999
A breach of promise / Anne Perry
New York : Ivy Books, 1999
Abstract: When a brilliant young architect suddenly ends his engagement to a socially prominent woman, her outraged parents file a sensational breach of promise suit. But the case comes to a tragic halt when a murderer strikes. Sleuth William Monk investigates.
Ladybug the Magazine for Young Children, January 2000
Peru : Spider and Cricket, 1999
Hands on exhibitions : managing interactive museums and science centres / Tim Caulton
Rist.
London; New York : Routledge, 1999
The heritage : care, preservation, management
The educational role of the museum / edit by Elean Hooper-Greenhill
2nd ed.
London ; New York : Routledge, c1999
Leicester readers in museum studies
Le voci del cielo / Frederik Pohl
Milano : Mondadori, 1999
Urania ; 1353
Broken people : Caste Violence Against India's "Untouchables" / Human Rights Watch. India
New York [etc.] : Human Rights Watch, 1999