Автор: Lamont Ronald Название: Smoke and Mirrors ISBN: 194266169X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781942661696 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2476.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Slaughter County; the name conjures up all sorts of disturbing images. In reality, nothing noteworthy ever happens in this quiet hamlet - not if you're a homicide detective anyway.
Not until that fateful autumn evening ...
The midnight sky was pitch-black, save for a sliver of a crescent moon overhead. Off in the distance emanated the lights of the city, oblivious to the darkness of this deed.
A face suddenly appeared upon the reflection of the glass as the flame was lit - it was the face of vengeance - the face of evil.
A phone call was made just as the match ignited its means to an end. A groggy, barely audible "Hello" reverberated through the phone.
"Click" and the phone met its fate in the fledgling fire.
As the inferno began to spread a single act remained ...
Автор: Philip K. Groom,Byron Lamont Название: Plant Life of Southwestern Australia: Adaptations for Survival ISBN: 3110370166 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110370164 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Рейтинг: Цена: 22305.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The southwestern Australian flora is unique in the world, not only for its biodiversity and endemism, but also for its functional biodiversity. It also contains the world’s most nutrient-impoverished soils, has a prolonged-summer period and the vegetation is extremely fire-prone. These conditions have engendered an array of survival adaptations that have evolved in these harsh conditions across a diverse range of species. It is well recognised that the southwest flora has the toughest and most spiny vegetation of the world, the greatest number of species that store their seeds in woody fruits, and the most specialised means of obtaining limited soil nutrients and water.This book focuses on the survival mechanisms, adaptations and ecology of the unique Southwest Australian flora (restricted here to flowering plants). The book begins with an examination of how the flora has evolved into the present forms. It describes further in detail the adaptive responses of the flora to the main environmental pressures influencing survival - fire, summer drought, nutrient-impoverished soils, pollination and seed dispersal agents. Specialised responses to obtain essential nutrients are presented in three chapters – carnivorous plants, parasitic plants and specialised roots. An entire chapter is devoted to leaves, with an insight into how leaves may assist in protecting flowers and fruits from herbivores and seed-eaters. The book provides an ecological perspective on how the flora has evolved complex strategies to ensure species survival in the relatively harsh seasonal climate of a Mediterranean-type ecosystem.
Автор: Hawkins Lamont "U-God " Название: Raw: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang ISBN: 1250191173 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250191175 Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS Цена: 1655.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Selected as a Best Book of the Year by Esquire "Couldn't put it down." -Charlamagne Tha God "Mesmerizing." -Raekwon da Chef "Insightful, moving, necessary." -Shea Serrano "Cathartic." -The New Yorker "A classic." -The Washington Post
The explosive, never-before-told story behind the historic rise of the Wu-Tang Clan, as told by one of its founding members, Lamont "U-God" Hawkins.
"It's time to write down not only my legacy, but the story of nine dirt-bomb street thugs who took our everyday life--scrappin' and hustlin'and tryin' to survive in the urban jungle of New York City--and turned that into something bigger than we could possibly imagine, something that took us out of the projects for good, which was the only thing we all wanted in the first place." --Lamont "U-God" Hawkins
The Wu-Tang Clan are considered hip-hop royalty. Remarkably, none of the founding members have told their story--until now. Here, for the first time, the quiet one speaks.
Lamont "U-God" Hawkins was born in Brownsville, New York, in 1970. Raised by a single mother and forced to reckon with the hostile conditions of project life, U-God learned from an early age how to survive. And surviving in New York City in the 1970s and 1980s was no easy task--especially as a young black boy living in some of the city's most ignored and destitute districts. But, along the way, he met and befriended those who would eventually form the Clan's core: RZA, GZA, Method Man, Raekwon, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Inspectah Deck, Ghostface Killah, and Masta Killa. Brought up by the streets, and bonding over their love of hip-hop, they sought to pursue the impossible: music as their ticket out of the ghetto.
U-God's unforgettable first-person account of his journey, from the streets of Brooklyn to some of the biggest stages around the world, is not only thoroughly affecting, unfiltered, and explosive but also captures, in vivid detail, the making of one of the greatest acts in American music history.
Автор: Lamont, Dionne Название: Public success, private struggle ISBN: 1524680990 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781524680992 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2669.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Lamont Dawson Название: Shockwave ISBN: 1787233057 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787233058 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2400.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This fast-moving and immersive adventure story is set amidst the scenic lochs, mountains and glens of Scotland. It follows the fortunes of a Highland family and other innocent parties who become embroiled inadvertently in the crimes of a Colombian drugs cartel. We are introduced to a host of characters affected by the nefarious activities of drugs baron Jose Maria Serrano, including his young and naive trophy wife, Luz Marina, whom he plucked from the chorus line of the Teatro in Bogota.
The redoubtable and idiosyncratic Detective Superintendent Ramsay from Strathclyde Police is drawn into the international operation after the first murder on Loch Lomond, but even he finds some of the action a little too close to home as the body count mounts.
The novel seeks to understand something of the worlds that its main characters inhabit, together with their personal motives and prejudices. It also looks at the developing relationship between Serrano and his right hand man, Paulo. Both of them clawed their way ruthlessly up the crime ladder from an impoverished childhood on the mean streets of Bucaramanga.
Serrano trusts no-one but Paulo.
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