Bøger af Raymond Barnett

Late May, 1944. Churchill and Eisenhower are finishing plans for the upcoming D-Day invasion at Calais, when long-retired Sherlock Holmes is called to London by Mycroft, only to find his brother dead, clutching the shell of a barnacle in his hand. The clue leads him to a queen bee in Charles Darwin's old greenhouse in Kent. Sherlock's brilliant parsing of these clues leads him to occupied France, where a boules game reveals a secret to explosive that the D-Day landing site must be changed to avert disaster and save the last hope of stopping Hitler. But before the sixth of June, Holmes finds himself playing his most demanding role: divert a Nazi spy in the highest reaches of the Allied command, as he pursues John Watson's grandson to the scenes of his most daunting cases. The chase ends the day before the rescheduled D-Day invasion--at Baskerville Hall, where Holmes receives the shock of his life, and his most famous case is at long last resolved.

Earth Wisdom charts John Muir's amazing wilderness adventures and explores the worldview that sprang from them: a way of seeing the world unique in the West, with echoes only in the Taoism of ancient China. So challenging is Muir's philosophy, here termed "earth wisdom," that the environmental movement has let it remain hidden in Muir's little-known journals for a century. But Muir's worldview now provides the "new way of thinking" called for by Pope Francis to rescue humanity from the existential threat of climate change; Earth Wisdom shows how and why, touching on the needed changes in our economy, society, and way of life.

March 1923. George Herbert, Fifth Earl of Carnarvon, lies dying in Cairo. Most of the world believes King Tut's mummy has cursed him, for entering the boy-king's tomb just three months previous. But the earl's daughter, Lady Evelyn, suspects a more tangible suspect is killing her father. So she sends for Sherlock Holmes. Arriving in Egypt, Holmes is thrust into a maelstrom of jealousies and competing claims. He quickly learns the good earl was hated by journalists, Muslim Brotherhood nationalists, Egypt's king, Britain's high commissioner, and competing archeological teams. The murder of the earl's chambermaid outside his very door heightens the urgency of Holmes' task. But it is his examination of King Tut's tomb, and particularly the stunning ivory box the earl covertly removed from there, that permits Holmes to uncover a riveting and deadly drama that determined the fate of King Tut in Egypt's ancient past, as well as the death of Lord Carnarvon three thousand years later.

Offers students a grounding in pre-calculus topics. This title emphasizes computational skills, ideas, and problem solving. It integrates Explore/Discuss boxes that encourage students to think critically about mathematical concepts. It contains many exercises, including calculator-based and reasoning and writing exercises.

Peking, winter 1948. Encircled by Mao's Commuinst armies, Nationalist warlord Fu Tsoyi seeks the solution to saving Peking in his Taoist concubine's lessons in calligraphy and passion. Chief Inspector Bei wrestles with a string of brutal courtesan murders, slowly realizing with horror that the solution to the murders is tied to saving his beloved Peking, and China's emergence into the modern world.