Fox and the Star, Bickford-Smith Coralie

Автор: Younger, Coralie
Название: Wicked women of the raj
ISBN: 8172234546 ISBN-13(EAN): 9788172234546
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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Описание: This is an enthralling depiction of the women that had extraordinary lives during the period of the Raj.

Автор: Coralie Bickford-Smith
Название: The Fox and the Star
ISBN: 1846148502 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781846148507
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Once there was a Fox who lived in a deep, dense forest. For as long as Fox could remember, his only friend had been Star, who lit the forest paths each night. But then one night Star was not there, and Fox had to face the forest all alone.

Автор: Bickford, Susan Alice
Название: Short Time To Die
ISBN: 1496705947 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496705945
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: In this electrifying thriller, two women from opposite sides of the country find their lives inextricably bound--by blood, by fear, and by a merciless, murderous revenge . . .

Walking home on a foggy night, Marly Shaw stops in the glare of approaching headlights. Two men step out of a pickup truck. One of them is her stepfather. A sudden, desperate chase erupts in gunshots. Both men are left dead. And a terrified girl is on the run--for the rest of her life . . .

Thirteen years later, human bones discovered in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California are linked to a mother and son from Central New York. Santa Clara County Sheriff's Detective Vanessa Alba and her partner, Jack Wong, dive into an investigation that lures them deep into the Finger Lakes. They find a community silenced by the brutal grip of a powerful family bound by a twisted sense of blood and honor, whose dark secrets still haunt the one family member who thought she got away . . .

"Held me captive from the first page to the last. Vivid settings and strength of character kept me reading late, late into the night, to an ending I never expected." --Taylor Stevens, New York Times bestselling author of The Informationist

"Bickford's tale of revenge, the dark reach and power of generational crime and violence, and of two brave and bright girls who become capable, fearless women is gripping, chilling, and original. Add in a keen, exacting eye for character and place that transcends 'genre' and A Short Time to Die is sure to stay with you for a long, long time." -- Eric Rickstad, New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Girls and Lie in Wait

Автор: Schneps Leila, Colmez Coralie
Название: Math on Trial: How Numbers Get Used and Abused in the Courtroom
ISBN: 0465032923 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780465032921
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: In the wrong hands, math can be deadly. Even the simplest numbers can become powerful forces when manipulated by politicians or the media, but in the case of the law, your liberty,and your life,can depend on the right calculation.In Math on Trial , mathematicians Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez describe ten trials spanning from the nineteenth century to today, in which mathematical arguments were used,and disastrously misused,as evidence. They tell the stories of Sally Clark, who was accused of murdering her children by a doctor with a faulty sense of calculation of nineteenth-century tycoon Hetty Green, whose dispute over her aunt`s will became a signal case in the forensic use of mathematics and of the case of Amanda Knox, in which a judge`s misunderstanding of probability led him to discount critical evidence,which might have kept her in jail. Offering a fresh angle on cases from the nineteenth-century Dreyfus affair to the murder trial of Dutch nurse Lucia de Berk, Schneps and Colmez show how the improper application of mathematical concepts can mean the difference between walking free and life in prison.A colourful narrative of mathematical abuse, Math on Trial blends courtroom drama, history, and math to show that legal expertise isn`t always enough to prove a person innocent.