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The Immaculate Deception

The Immaculate Deception

Iain Pears

From internationally bestselling author Iain Pears comes the seventh in his Jonathan Argyll series -- an intriguing mystery of love, loss, and artistic license.
Arcadia

Arcadia

Iain Pears

A captivating adventure story with huge heart and dazzling imaginative power, from the bestselling author of An Instance of the Fingerpost.
Giotto's Hand

Giotto's Hand

Iain Pears

Witty and clever art history-mystery featuring Jonathan Argyll, from the author of the bestselling masterpiece ‘An Instance of the Fingerpost’.
The Portrait

The Portrait

Iain Pears

And it is a novel you will want to begin again immediately after turning the last chilling page, to read once more with a watchful eye and appreciate the hand of an ingenious storyteller at work. From the Hardcover edition.
The Bernini Bust

The Bernini Bust

Iain Pears

Clever Italian art-history crime series featuring scholar and dealer Jonathon Argyll, from the author of the best-selling masterpiece 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'.
The Last Judgement

The Last Judgement

Iain Pears

Witty Italian art-history crime series featuring English dealer Jonathan Argyll, from the author of the best-selling literary masterpiece, ‘An Instance of the Fingerpost’.
The Raphael Affair

The Raphael Affair

Iain Pears

First in the Italian art-history crime series featuring English dealer and sleuth Jonathan Argyll, from the author of the best-selling masterpiece 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'.
The Dream Of Scipio

The Dream Of Scipio

Iain Pears

The story of each man is woven through the narrative, linked by the classical text that gives the book its title, and by each man's love for an extraordinary woman.
Too Many Pears!

Too Many Pears!

Jackie French

Pamela the cow loves pears so much that no one else ever has a chance to eat any.
Stone's Fall

Stone's Fall

Iain Pears

As the story moves backwards through time, from London in 1909 to Paris in 1809, before concluding in Venice in 1867, the mystery of John Stone's life and loves begins to unravel.
An Instance Of The Fingerpost

An Instance Of The Fingerpost

Iain Pears

Set in Oxford in the 1660s - a time and place of great intellectual, religious, scientific and political ferment - this remarkable novel centres around a young woman, Sarah Blundy, who stands accused of the murder of Robert Grove, a fellow ...
The Book of Pears: The Definitive History and Guide to over ...

The Book of Pears: The Definitive History and Guide to over ...

Joan Morgan

Beautifully illustrated with 40 botanical watercolour paintings by Elisabeth Dowle, The Book of Pears is the most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to the pear.
Winter Walk at Morning

Winter Walk at Morning

Iain M. Lonie

Iain M. Lonie. OTHER BOOKS BY IAIN LONIE Poetry Recreations (1967) Letters from Ephesus (1970) Courting Death (1984) The Entrance to Purgatory (1986) History of Medicine The Hippocratic Treatises: 'On Generation', 'On the Nature of  ...
Highland Belle

Highland Belle

Patricia Grasso

Patricia Grasso. earning a mockingly arched brow from Iain, but he said nothing. ... Iain, his dark eyes glowing with love, kissed her deeply and thoroughly. ... I am Iain Ross MacArthur, heir to the Earl of Dunridge, he said, smiling. And yer my ...
Works Councils in Australia: Future Prospects and Possibilities

Works Councils in Australia: Future Prospects and Possibilities

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Future Prospects and Possibilities Iain Ross, Ray Markey, Paul Gollan ... Before his appointment to the Commission in March 1994 Iain was an Assistant Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. During the eight years that Iain ...
Men of Midnight Complete Collection: Duncan's Lady\Iain ...

Men of Midnight Complete Collection: Duncan's Lady\Iain ...

Emilie Richards

New to e-book, three classic romances from USA Today bestselling author Emilie Richards… Originally published in 1995 Iain Ross’s Woman Iain Ross has spent his life alone as the laird of a small Highland community.
Atlantic Fury

Atlantic Fury

Hammond Innes

'His name's Iain Ross. It's Iain Ross we're talking about, and you know it. Why else did you go north to the Hebrides? How else could you have managed to get on that landing craft and finish up in Laerg? Both of you, there on your own island  ...
Ghost Milk: Calling Time on the Grand Project

Ghost Milk: Calling Time on the Grand Project

Iain Sinclair

This is a road map to a possible future as well as Iain Sinclair's most powerful statement yet on the throwaway impermanence of the present. 'Wonderful, sharp, amusing, grippingly atmospheric.
Walking On Glass

Walking On Glass

Iain Banks

But their seperate courses are set for collision. 'Establishes beyond doubt that Iain Banks is a novelist of remarkable talents' Daily Telegraph 'Banks is a phenomenon . . . wildly successful, fearlessly creative' Willian Gibson
Living Together with Disagreement: Pluralism, the Secular, ...

Living Together with Disagreement: Pluralism, the Secular, ...

Iain T. Benson

In this incisive and thought-provoking study, legal expert Iain Benson confronts crucial and controversial issues in the relation between religion and to-day's pluralistic, secular state.
Journeys From The Centre Of The Earth

Journeys From The Centre Of The Earth

Iain Stewart

Forward-thinking geologist and television presenter Dr Iain Stewart, uncovers the hidden Mediterranean and brings a fresh and dramatic eye to geology to show just why it is that geology should be restored to its rightful place as the ...
Iain Oughtred: A Life in Wooden Boats

Iain Oughtred: A Life in Wooden Boats

Nic Compton

A celebration of the work of popular wooden boat designer Iain Oughtred with colour photography showcasing the beauty of the boats as well as the Scottish landscape where he is based.
The Transgressive Iain Banks: Essays on a Writer Beyond Borders

The Transgressive Iain Banks: Essays on a Writer Beyond Borders

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"This collection of 12 new essays draws together prominent literary experts to explore the importance of Scottish writer Iain (M.) Banks, both his mainstream and science fiction work.
Biological Processes Associated with Impact Events

Biological Processes Associated with Impact Events

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Charles Cockell, Christian Koeberl, Iain Gilmour. PROFESSOR CHARLES COCKELL DR. IAIN GILMOUR PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE OPEN UNIVERSITY MILTON KEYNES UNITED KINGDOM Email: ...
History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning

History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning

Nancy G. Siraisi

Lonie, Iain M. 1978. “Cos versus Cnidus and the Historians Part 1.” History of Science 16:42-75. Lonie, Iain M. 1985. “The Paris Hippocratics': Teaching and Research in Paris in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century.” In Andrew Wear ...
Skateboarding, Space and the City: Architecture and the Body

Skateboarding, Space and the City: Architecture and the Body

Iain Borden

Skateboarders are an increasingly common feature of the urban environment with an estimated 40 million worldwide. Iain Borden demonstrates that street-style skateboarding offers a critique of architecture, the city and capitalism.
Face Politics

Face Politics

Jenny Edkins

̄ The Telegraph, 5 February 2002, www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3572722/ Portraits-at-thecutting-edge.html Iain Hutchison ®Saving faces: Iain Hutchison on TED.com, ̄ www.ted.com/talks/iain_hutchison_saving_faces.html. Recorded at ...
Art and the Performance of Memory: Sounds and Gestures of ...

Art and the Performance of Memory: Sounds and Gestures of ...

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Photograph byJane Rendell Jane Rendell, Sidewalk, Funchal Portrait of Biddy Mason, Los Angeles Iain Borden, Reflections on World Trade Center bridge, NYC Jane Rendell, Seurat mural, New York City Iain Borden, Wellfleet Church ...
HL 111 - Make Or Break: The UK's Digital Future

HL 111 - Make Or Break: The UK's Digital Future

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. Select Committee on Digital Skills

See: HM Government, 'Government Digital Service': https://www.gov.uk/ government/organisations/government-digital-service [accessed 28 January 2015] Q 134 (Iain Wood) Q 137 (Iain Wood). For example, TalkTalk pointed out that although ...

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