the waiting michael connelly

Michael Connelly is a powerhouse, an unstoppable force in crime fiction. The Waiting is proof he is at the top of his game. MICK HERRON, #1 bestselling author of SLOW HORSES ****IN COLD CASES,IT S NOT THE HOPE THAT KILLS YOU. IT S THE WAITING.LAPD Detective Renée Ballard gets a DNA hit in a case that has gone unsolved for twenty years. A recently arrested man is genetically related to a serial rapist who terrorised the city of angels.But when the relative is revealed, it is the last person you want to accuse unless the evidence is watertight...With the help of the newest volunteer to the cold case unit - patrol officer Maddie Bosch, Harry s daughter - Ballard finally has another badge on the team. But Maddie has an ulterior motive for getting access to the city s library of souls.Because some crimes have been waiting to be solved longer than others...An electrifying and authoritative page-turner from one of the greatest crime writers of all-time - the author behind Amazon Prime s Bosch and Netflix s The Lincoln Lawyer.**** CRIME DOESN T COME BETTER THAN CONNELLY: A superb natural storyteller LEE CHILD A master of the genre STEPHEN KING An incredible writer RICHARD OSMAN The pre-eminent detective novelist of his generation IAN RANKIN Nobody writes a better modern thriller EVENING STANDARD One of the world s greatest crime writers DAILY MAIL

Objev podobné jako The Waiting - Michael Connelly

IN COLD CASES, IT S NOT THE HOPE THAT KILLS YOU. IT S THE WAITING. LAPD Detective Renée Ballard gets a DNA hit in a case that has gone unsolved for twenty years. A recently arrested man is genetically related to a serial rapist who terrorised the city of angels. But when the relative is revealed, it is the last person you want to accuse unless the evidence is watertight... With the help of the newest volunteer to the cold case unit - patrol officer Maddie Bosch, Harry s daughter - Ballard finally has another badge on the team. But Maddie has an ulterior motive for getting access to the city s library of souls. Because some crimes have been waiting to be solved longer than others... An electrifying and authoritative page-turner from one of the greatest crime writers of all-time - the author behind Amazon Prime s Bosch and Netflix s The Lincoln Lawyer.

Objev podobné jako The Waiting - Michael Connelly

Mickey Haller and Harry Bosch together take on a seemingly unwinnable case in blistering legal thriller from Number One bestseller Michael Connelly.When defence lawyer Mickey Haller is invited by the Los Angeles County District Attorney to prosecute a case for him, he knows something strange is going on. Mickey s one of the best American legal brains in the business, and to switch sides likes this would be akin to asking a fox to guard the hen-house. But the high-profile case of Jason Jessup, a convicted child killer who spent almost 25 years on death row before DNA evidence freed him, is an intriguing one . . .Eager for the publicity and drawn to the challenge, Mickey takes the case, with LAPD Detective Harry Bosch on board as his lead investigator. But as a new trial date is set, it starts to look like he s been set up. Mickey and Harry are going to have to dig deep into the past and find the truth about what really happened to the victim all those years ago in this nail-biting courtroom drama.

Objev podobné jako The Reversal - Michael Connelly

He s back . . . Private investigator Harry Bosch confronts a villain who s long been in hiding - a fiend known as The Poet. Former FBI agent Rachel Walling is working a dead-end stint in South Dakota when she gets the call she s been dreading for four years. The Poet is back. And he has not forgotten Rachel. He has a special present for her. Harry Bosch is adjusting to life in Las Vegas as a private investigator and a new father. He gets a call, too, from the widow of a friend who died recently. Previously in his FBI career, the friend worked on the famous case tracking the killer known as The Poet. This fact alone makes some of the elements of his death doubly suspicious. And Harry Bosch is heading straight into the path of the most ruthless and inventive murderer he has ever encountered. . .

Objev podobné jako The Narrows - Michael Connelly

An execution on the overlook above the Mulholland Dam entangles Bosch with FBI Agent Rachel Walling and Homeland Security. The brilliant thirteenth Harry Bosch novel from the award-winning No. 1 bestselling author. When a physicist is murdered in LA, it seems the killer has no fear of publicity, leaving the body on the Mulholland overlook, a site with a stunning view over the city. And when it s discovered that the victim turned over a quantity of a lethal chemical to his killer before he died, Harry knows he has more than just a single death to worry about. Alongside the forces of Homeland Security, Harry realises he must solve the murder or face unimaginable consequences.

Objev podobné jako The Overlook - Michael Connelly

Six months ago, Harry Bosch left the LAPD before they could fire him, and then hired maverick Defense Attorney Mickey Haller to sue the department for forcing him out. Although it wasn t the way he wanted to go, Harry has to admit that being out of the game has its benefits. Until Mickey asks him to help on one of his cases, and suddenly Harry is back where he belongs, right in the centre of a particularly puzzling murder mystery. The difference is, this time Harry is working for the defense, aiming to prevent the accused, Da Quan Foster, from being convicted. And not only does the prosecution seem to have a cast-iron case, but having crossed over to the dark side as his former colleagues would put it, Harry is in danger of betraying the very principles he s lived by his whole career.

Objev podobné jako The Crossing - Michael Connelly

After three years as a PI, Harry Bosch returns to the LAPD. The superb page-turning eleventh Bosch novel from the award-winning No. 1 bestselling author. Harry is back, assigned to the LAPD s Open-Unsolved Unit with his former cop ally and partner, Kizmin Rider. These detectives are the Closers. They are thrown into a politically sensitive and dangerous case when a white supremacist is connected to the 1988 murder of a mixed race girl. The police department has changed, but one thing hasn t - Harry s nemesis, Irving. The former Deputy Chief has been pushed from power and given a virtually meaningless new role. Full of vengeance, Irving calls Harry a retread . He watches from the sidelines like an injured bear, hoping Harry will make a mistake . . .

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The apparent suicide of his policeman brother sets Denver crime reporter Jack McEvoy on edge. Surprise at the circumstances of his brother s death prompts Jack to look into a whole series of police suicides, and puts him on the trail of a cop killer whose victims are selected all too carefully. Not only that, but they all leave suicide notes drawn from the poems of writer Edgar Allan Poe in their wake. More frightening still, the killer appears to know that Jack is getting nearer and nearer. An investigation that looks like the story of a lifetime might also be Jack s ticket to a lonely end.

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Mickey Haller - The Lincoln Lawyer - leaves criminal court behind for his first civil lawsuit. But to him, this is still a murder trial.An AI company s chatbot encouraged a sixteen-year-old boy to kill his ex-girlfriend. Can Haller prove the company knew the dangers of its own creation?To do so, he turns to Jack McEvoy - a journalist who knows how powerful the coming wave will be - and together they soon uncover a whistleblower in hiding.As the tech titans try to buy or bully their way out, the scale of their courtroom battle before them becomes clear. Because billions are at stake - along with countless lives - in an all or nothing case, which could change everything...From the author of the books behind the #1 Netflix show The Lincoln Lawyer, and #1 Amazon Prime series Bosch and Ballard.*****PRAISE FOR MICHAEL CONNELLY THE LINCOLN LAYWER THRILLERS: An incredible writer RICHARD OSMAN The Lincoln Lawyer series keeps getting better WASHINGTON POST A superb natural storyteller LEE CHILD The pre-eminent detective novelist of his generation IAN RANKIN Mickey Haller is a worthy colleague of Atticus Finch LOS ANGELES TIMES A master of the genre STEPHEN KING A terrific writer THE TIMES A powerhouse, an unstoppable force in crime fiction MICK HERRON Crime thriller writing of the highest order GUARDIAN Nobody writes a better modern thriller EVENING STANDARD One of the world s greatest crime writers DAILY MAIL The master of modern crime fiction EXPRESS

Objev podobné jako The Proving Ground - Michael Connelly

Only Harry Bosch can uncover LA s darkest secrets in this new gripping thriller from global bestseller Michael Connelly. What do you want me to do? Bosch asked again. I want you to find someone for me, Vance said. Someone who might not have ever existed. Harry Bosch is working as a part-time detective in the town of San Fernando outside of Los Angeles, when he gets the invitation to meet with the ageing aviation billionaire Whitney Vance. When he was eighteen Vance had a relationship with a Mexican girl called Vibiana Duarte, but soon after becoming pregnant she disappeared.Now, as he reaches the end of his life, Vance wants to know what happened to Vibiana and whether there is an heir to his vast fortune. And Bosch is the only person he trusts to undertake the assignment.Harry s aware that with such sums of money involved, this could be a dangerous undertaking - not just for himself, but for the person he s looking for - but as he begins to uncover Vibiana s tragic story, and finds uncanny links to his own past, he knows he cannot rest until he finds the truth.

Objev podobné jako The Wrong Side of Goodbye - Michael Connelly

The Lincoln Lawyer grapples with a haunting case in a gripping thriller from bestselling author Michael Connelly.Mickey Haller gets the text Call me ASAP - 187 , and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention.Suddenly, Mickey s not just trying to get his client off a murder charge, but there is a more personal connection: the victim was Gloria Dayton - his own former client, a prostitute he thought he had rescued and put on the straight and narrow. Far from saving her, Haller may have been her downfall.Haunted by the ghosts of his own past, and with his own guilt or redemption on the line, he desperately needs to find out who Gloria really was and who, ultimately, was responsible for her death.

Objev podobné jako The Gods of Guilt - Michael Connelly

Connelly excels - easily surpassing even John Grisham in the building of courtroom suspense LOS ANGELES TIMESIn tough times, crime still pays. For defense attorney Mickey Haller - a.k.a. The Lincoln Lawyer - most of his time is now spent not keeping people out of jail, but in their homes.Lisa Trammel was Mickey s first foreclosure client. For eight months, he s stopped the bank from taking her house. But when the bank s CEO is found beaten to death, Lisa is the prime suspect.As Haller steps back into the theatre of a murder trial, he will learn some shocking truths about the victim, his client, and himself.Mickey prepares to mount the best defense of his career - but this is a trial where the last surprise comes after the verdict is in . . . Connelly is the best of the best RICHARD OSMAN A master STEPHEN KING

Objev podobné jako The Fifth Witness - Michael Connelly

THE WORLDWIDE #1 BESTSELLER BEHIND NETFLIX S THE LINCOLN LAWYER THE PATH TO JUSTICE CAN BE PAVED WITH LIES Defense attorney Mickey Haller - The Lincoln Lawyer - is inundated with pleas from prisoners protesting their innocence. With the help of ex-LAPD detective Harry Bosch, they find a needle in the haystack: a possible wrongful conviction. A woman imprisoned for murdering her husband, a sheriff s deputy. But the evidence doesn t add up, the department pushed for quick closure in the killing of one of its own. But is this rushed justice - or something more sinister? As they face a David versus Goliath court battle, the secrets which could set an innocent woman free could also be worth killing for...****PRAISE FOR RESURRECTION WALK: Connelly at his glittering best: full of twists and insights, it grips like a hungry python DAILY MAIL The perfect combination of courtroom drama and police procedural - Connelly s latest masterpiece shows why he s the crime writer all his rivals look up to SUNDAY EXPRESS****READERS LOVE RESURRECTION WALK: Just perfect ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A masterpiece ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Probably the best Lincoln Lawyer yet ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A 5 star testament to Connelly s enduring talent ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐****CRIME DOESN T COME BETTER THAN CONNELLY: The pre-eminent detective novelist of his generation IAN RANKIN The best mystery writer in the world GQ A superb natural storyteller LEE CHILD A master STEPHEN KING America s greatest living crime writer DAILY EXPRESS One of the great storytellers of crime fiction SUNDAY TELEGRAPH****Michael Connelly s RESURRECTION WALK was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 27th May 2024

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Audiokniha: Michael Mickey Haller je právnik bez kancelárie. Úraduje na zadnom sedadle svojho Lincolna, a tak je vždy nablízku svojim klientom - motorkárom, podvodníkom, drogovým dílerom. Zákon je pre neho málokedy o vine alebo nevine - je o vyjednávaní a manipulácii. Keď si ho ako obhajcu najme playboy z Beverly Hills, ktorého zatkli za napadnutie mladej ženy, získa po rokoch prvého bohatého klienta. Dokonca to vyzerá tak, že tentokrát bude obhajovať skutočne nevinného človeka. Zdá sa, že prípad rýchlo uzavrie. Potom však zavraždia vyšetrovateľa a Haller zistí, že prípad nebude taký jednoduchý, ako sa na prvý pohľad zdalo. Ak chce uniknúť skrytému zlu, musí využiť všetky svoje schopnosti. V stávke totiž nie je len ostro sledovaný súdny prípad, ale aj jeho život... V roku 2011 stvárnil Mickeyho Hallera na filmovom plátne známy hollywoodsky herec Matthew McCounaghey vo filme Obhajca (The Lincoln Lawyer). „Connelly predvádza energickú drámu poháňanú cynizmom a právnikom menom Michael Haller („Ľudia mi hovoria Mickey“), ktorý pracuje pre spodinu zeme a neospravedlňuje sa.“— Marilyn Stasio, New York Times „Connellyho práca má všetko – ostro vykreslené, pútavé postavy, svižné dialógy... Rovnako ako v prípade Scotta Turowa, aj on chápe, že dobrý právny thriller je predovšetkým o práve, nie o právnikoch, ktorí sa správajú ako bojovníci so zločinom.“ —David Lazarus, San Francisco Chronicle „Advokát zo zadného sedadla je Connellyho prvý právny thriller a je jedným z najlepších románov, ktoré napísal, ak nie najlepší.“ - Carol Memmott, USA TODAY „Michael Connelly je vo svete obhajcu trestných činov rovnako doma, ako bol vždy vo sfére vyšetrovateľov a policajtov. Všetky vlastnosti, ktoré mu zaslúžene priniesli mnohých čitateľov, sú tu opäť predvedené: svižné tempo, dômyselné zvraty, rafinované písanie a atmosféra autority na každej stránke. Ďalšia skvelá kniha od skvelého spisovateľa.“ — Scott Turow, author

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HOW DO YOU FIND A KILLER WHO KNOWS EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU? AS EXCITING AS ANYTHING CONNELLY HAS WRITTEN THE TIMES* * * * *Jack McEvoy is a reporter with a track record in finding killers. But he s never been accused of being one himself.Jack went on one date with Tina Portrero. The next thing he knows, the police are at his house telling Jack he s a suspect in her murder.Maybe it s because he doesn t like being accused of a crime he didn t commit. Or maybe it s because the method of her murder is so chilling that he can t get it out of his head.But as he uses his journalistic skills to open doors closed to the police, Jack walks a thin line between suspect and detective - between investigation and obsession - on the trail of a killer who knows his victims better than they know themselves... Riveting, original and terrifying - this is a masterpiece from #1 bestseller Michael Connelly.* * * * *CRIME DOESN T COME BETTER THAN CONNELLY. One of the very best writers working today in any genre Sunday Telegraph The pre-eminent detective novelist of his generation Ian Rankin Crime thriller writing of the highest order Guardian A superb natural storyteller Lee Child A master Stephen King A genius Independent on Sunday America s greatest living crime writer Daily Express No one writes a better modern thriller than Connelly Evening Standard

Objev podobné jako Fair Warning - Michael Connelly

Has a killer lain dormant for years only to strike again on New Year’s Eve? LAPD Detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch team up to find justice for an innocent victim in the new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael ConnellyThere s chaos in Hollywood on New Year s Eve. Working her graveyard shift, LAPD Detective Renée Ballard seeks shelter at the end of the countdown to wait out the traditional rain of lead as hundreds of revelers shoot their guns into the air. As reports start to roll in of shattered windshields and other damage, Ballard is called to a scene where a hardworking auto shop owner has been fatally hit by a bullet in the middle of a crowded street party.It doesn t take long for Ballard to determine that the deadly bullet could not have fallen from the sky. Ballard’s investigation leads her to look into another unsolved murder—a case at one time worked by Detective Harry Bosch.Ballard and Bosch team up once again to find out where the old and new cases intersect. All the while they must look over their shoulders. The killer who has stayed undetected for so long knows they are coming after him

Objev podobné jako The Dark Hours - Michael Connelly

Audiokniha: Pod svícnem bývá největší tma. A Boschova reputace přímo oslňuje…Bývalý agent FBI Terrence McCaleb dostal v životě druhou šanci a po transplantaci srdce raději pověsil stresující povolání na hřebík. Z rodinné idyly na ostrůvku v zátoce Santa Monica však úspěšného sestavovatele zločineckých profilů vytrhne návštěva vyšetřovatelky z losangeleské mordparty, která si neví rady s případem brutální vraždy malíře pokojů Edwarda Gunna. Mrtvý totiž nebyl žádné neviňátko. Drastický způsob jeho likvidace navíc v policii vzbuzuje oprávněné obavy, že patrně nepůjde o poslední oběť sadistického vraha. Zemřelého kdysi vyšetřoval Terryho přítel Harry Bosch – jenž zrovna svědčí u ostře sledovaného procesu s hollywoodským režisérem obžalovaným z násilného zločinu –, a tak je uznávaný detektiv požádán o pomoc. Což byla možná chyba, jelikož některé z nalezených stop vedou právě k němu…Sedmý díl populární série kriminálních románů, podle níž vznikl úspěšný seriál Bosch s Titusem Welliverem v titulní roli. Tentokrát se však slovutný pátrač zapletl do vyšetřované vraždy víc, než by mu bylo milé. „Connelly v nejlepší formě. Vřele doporučujeme!“ – Library Journal„Autor Boschovi s McCalebem umožňuje, aby se vůči sobě kriticky vymezili, a to způsobem, který prohlubuje čtenářovo pochopení obou postav.“ – The New Yorker„Napínavý thriller se všemi nezbytnými atributy žánru. Michael Connelly rozhodně psát umí.“ – databazeknih.cz„Ať už fandíte Boschovi, nebo McCalebovi, v tomhle mrazivém mistrovském duelu nemůžete prohrát.“ – Kirkus Reviews „Tak tady je další. Zdá se, že práce tohohle člověka jsou pomalované ptáky temnot odshora dolů. Má strašně dlouhé křestní jméno. Nahláskuju ti ho. Há-i-e-er-o-en-y-em-u-es. Pochází z Nizozemí, je řazen do období severoevropské renesance. Předpokládám, že sovy tam dorůstaly chvályhodných rozměrů.“McCaleb upíral oči na papír před sebou. Jméno, které vzniklo z písmen diktovaných Doranovou, mu připadalo povědomé.„Zapomněla jsi příjmení. Taky je tak dlouhé?“„Promiň, Terry. Ne, to je docela kraťoučké. Bosch. Jako ty zapalovací svíčky nebo elektrické spotřebiče.“McCaleb zůstal sedět jako zkamenělý. – ukázka z knihy

Objev podobné jako Temnější než noc - Michael Connelly - audiokniha

Audiokniha: Harry Bosch je nielenže dávno na dôchodku, navyše ho čoraz väčšmi trápi zdravie. Jeho dcéra Maddie však usilovne pokračuje v otcových šľapajach a snaží sa vypracovať na detektívku LAPD. Začne pracovať na dvoch prípadoch s Renée Ballardovou.Získajú horúcu stopu DNA spojenia medzi nedávno zatknutým mužom a sériovým násilníkom a vrahom, ktorý sa odmlčal pred dvadsiatimi rokmi. Zatknutý muž má len dvadsaťštyri rokov, takže genetická súvislosť musí byť rodinná. Keď sa však Ballardová a jej tím presunú za podozrivým, narazia na mätúcu sieť tajomstiev a právnych prekážok.Stopy vedú do nebezpečne vysokých kruhov, a tak im Harryho skúsenosti a odvaha celkom isto ešte prídu vhod.Povedali o titule„Nedá sa odložiť... prináša napätie takmer na prasknutie, zaručene poteší jeho fanúšikov. Patrí medzi Connellyho najlepšie knihy.“ — Publishers Weekly„...Čakanie je Michael Connelly vo svojej najlepšej forme, opäť potvrdzuje, prečo je nepopierateľným majstrom moderného kriminálneho románu.“ — The Real Book Spy„Verdikt: Meno Connelly na obálke je zárukou skvelého čítania; a ani táto novinka nie je výnimkou. Príbeh sleduje prípady metodicky a realisticky, postavy sa ďalej vyvíjajú.“ — Library Journal

Objev podobné jako Čakanie - Michael Connelly - audiokniha

Audiokniha: Michael Connelly je majstrom v udržaní dynamiky príbehu a nečakaného rozuzlenia. Za svoju novinársku tvorbu bol navrhnutý na Pulitzerovu cenu a za knihu Básnik smrti dostal Anthonyho cenu za najlepší román v roku 1997. Novinár Jack McEvoy je špecialista na smrť. Na stránkach Rocky Mountain News píše o zločinoch. Je presvedčený o tom, že pri práci sa už stretol s každým druhom násilia. Jeho profesionálny prístup rozbije šokujúca samovražda brata, detektíva z oddelenia vrážd. Jack vie, že brat pracoval na prípade, ktorý sa mu nepodarilo vyriešiť. Usiluje sa upokojiť tým, že píše článok o samovraždách policajtov. Už prvé riadky ho však ponoria do prípadu, v ktorom sa čochvíľa sám stane terčom šialeného vraha.

Objev podobné jako Básnik smrti - Michael Connelly - audiokniha

Heading home after winning his latest case, defence attorney Mickey Haller - The Lincoln Lawyer - is pulled over by the police.They open the trunk of his car to find the body of a former client. Haller knows the law inside out. He will be charged with murder.He will have to build his case from behind bars. And the trial will be the trial of his life. Because Mickey Haller will defend himself in court.With watertight evidence stacked against him, Haller will need every trick in the book to prove he was framed. But a not-guilty verdict isn t enough. In order to truly walk free, Haller knows he must find the real killer - that is the law of innocence...

Objev podobné jako The Law of Innocence - Michael Connelly

From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Lawyer and The Gods of Guilt. When LAPD detective Harry Bosch shot and killed Norman Church - the Dollmaker - the police were convinced it marked the end of the search for one of the city s most bizarre serial killers.But four years later, Norman Church s widow is taking Bosch to court, accusing him of killing the wrong man. To make matters worse, Bosch has just received a note, eerily reminiscent of the ones the Dollmaker used to taunt him with, giving him a location where a body can be found.Is the Dollmaker still alive? Or is this the work of a vicious copycat killer, determined to repeat the Dollmaker s grisly feats and destroy Bosch s career in the process?

Objev podobné jako The Concrete Blonde - Michael Connelly

LAPD Detective Harry Bosch in a modern thriller from No. 1 bestseller Michael Connelly - author of THE LINCOLN LAWYER and ANGELS FLIGHT.In 1993 Homicide Detective Harry Bosch was assigned the case of a missing person, Marie Gesto. The young woman was never found - dead or alive - and the case has haunted Bosch ever since.Thirteen years later, Bosch is back in the Open Unsolved Crimes Unit when he gets a call from the DA s office. A man accused of two killings is willing to confess to several other murders in a deal to avoid the death penalty. One of his victims, he says, is Marie Gesto.When investigating these previously unsolved crimes, Bosch begins to crack when he realises that he and his partner missed a clue that could have prevented the serial killer striking again.

Objev podobné jako Echo Park - Michael Connelly

OUT NOW - THE NEW THRILLER FROM MILLION COPY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER MICHAEL CONNELLYLAPD Detective Stilwell has been forced out of the Homicide department to a dead-end post on Santa Catalina Island.It might be an idyllic holiday destination but Stilwell knows it s a backwater to keep him out of sight and out of mind. But the usual weekend case-load of petty drunken violence is disturbed by a report of a body found in the harbour, weighed down by an anchor.Driven to prove a point to his superiors back on the mainland, Stilwell will cross every line of protocol and jurisdiction to solve the murder case.It s sink or swim, as failure will cost him everything, and finding the killer will reveal the dark heart of his new home.But on a small island with big secrets - someone is always watching...****CRIME DOESN T COME BETTER THAN CONNELLY: The pre-eminent detective novelist of his generation IAN RANKIN The best mystery writer in the world GQ A superb natural storyteller LEE CHILD A master STEPHEN KING America s greatest living crime writer DAILY EXPRESS One of the great storytellers of crime fiction SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

Objev podobné jako Nightshade - Michael Connelly

Mickey Haller - The Lincoln Lawyer - leaves criminal court behind for his first civil lawsuit. But to him, this is still a murder trial.An AI company s chatbot encouraged a sixteen-year-old boy to kill his ex-girlfriend. Can Haller prove the company knew the dangers of its own creation?To do so, he turns to Jack McEvoy - a journalist who knows how powerful the coming wave will be - and together they soon uncover a whistleblower in hiding.As the tech titans try to buy or bully their way out, the scale of their courtroom battle before them becomes clear.Because billions are at stake - along with countless lives - in an all or nothing case, which could change everything...From the author of the books behind the #1 Netflix show The Lincoln Lawyer, and #1 Amazon Prime series Bosch and Ballard.

Objev podobné jako The Proving Ground - Michael Connelly

May 1992, and after four LAPD officers are acquitted following the savage beating of Rodney King, Los Angeles is ablaze. As looting and burning take over the city, law and order are swept away in a tidal wave of violence. But under threat of their lives, homicide detectives like Harry Bosch are still stubbornly trying to do their job. With no effective police presence on the streets, murder just got a whole lot easier - and investigating them a whole lot harder. When Harry finds the body of a female journalist in an alley, he is forced to hand over the case to the Riot Crimes Task Force, knowing that it will never be solved.Twenty years later, new evidence confirms her death was not a case of random violence but something much more personal. This time Harry is determined that the killer isn t going to escape - even if it means stepping back into the darkest days of the city he loves . . .

Objev podobné jako The Black Box - Michael Connelly

A JUDGE MURDERED IN A CITY PARK Mickey Haller, the Lincoln Lawyer, defends the man accused. A HOMELESS PERSON BURNED ALIVE Detective Renee Ballard catches the case on the LAPD s notorious graveyard shift. AN UNSOLVED HOMICIDE FROM A LIFETIME AGO Harry Bosch is left a missing case file by his mentor who passed away. He was the man who taught Bosch that everybody counts, or nobody counts. Why did he keep the case all these years? To find the truth - or bury it? IN L.A. CRIME NEVER SLEEPS But in Ballard, Bosch and Haller: the fire always burns. Will it light the way - or leave their lives in ashes?

Objev podobné jako The Night Fire - Michael Connelly

Detective Renée Ballard works The Late Show , the notorious graveyard shift at the LAPD. It s thankless work for a once-promising detective, keeping strange hours in a twilight world of crime.Some nights are worse than others. And tonight is the worst yet. Two shocking cases, hours apart: a brutal assault, and a multiple murder with no suspects.Ballard knows it is always darkest before dawn. But what she doesn t know - yet - is how deep her investigation will take her into the dark heart of her city, the police department and her own past... The Late Show will keep you up all night: it s time to meet Detective Renée Ballard.

Objev podobné jako The Late Show - Michael Connelly

Go back to where it all began for LAPD detective Harry Bosch, star of Amazon Prime s Bosch, in his first case The Black Echo - a gripping, action-packed thriller.LAPD detective Harry Bosch is a loner and a nighthawk. One Sunday he gets a call-out on his pager. A body has been found in a drainage tunnel off Mulholland Drive, Hollywood. At first sight, it looks like a routine drugs overdose case, but the one new puncture wound amid the scars of old tracks leaves Bosch unconvinced.To make matters worse, Harry Bosch recognises the victim. Billy Meadows was a fellow tunnel rat in Vietnam, running against the VC and the fear they all used to call the Black Echo. Bosch believes he let down Billy Meadows once before, so now he is determined to bring the killer to justice.

Objev podobné jako The Black Echo - Michael Connelly

When a body is found in a hotel room, reporters are soon all over the case: it appears to be a missing LAPD narcotics detective, apparently gone to the bad. The rumours were that he had been selling a new drug called Black Ice that had been infiltrating Los Angeles from the Mexican cartel. The LAPD are quick to declare the death a suicide, but Harry Bosch is not so sure. There are odd mysteries and unexplained details from the crime scene which just don t add up. Fighting an attraction to the detective s widow, Bosch starts his own maverick investigation, which soon leads him over the borders and into a dangerous world of shifting identities, police politics and deadly corruption . . .

Objev podobné jako The Black Ice - Michael Connelly

A blistering courtroom drama featuring The Lincoln Lawyer s Mickey Haller from the master of the genre.In tough times, crime is one of the few things that still pays, but even criminals are having to make cutbacks. So for defence lawyer Mickey Haller, most of his new business is not about keeping people out of jail; it s about keeping a roof over their heads as the foreclosure business is booming.Lisa Trammel has been a client of Mickey s for eight months, and so far he s stopped the bank from taking her house. But now the bank s CEO has been found beaten to death - and Lisa is about to be indicted for murder . . .

Objev podobné jako The Fifth Witness - Michael Connelly

Audiokniha: Harry Bosch je opäť v akcii a dostal naraz dva prípady. Prvý súvisí s obvinením z roku 1989, no súčasná analýza DNA potvrdila, že usvedčujúci dôkaz, kvapka krvi, patrí niekoľkokrát trestanému násilníkovi, čo sedí za mrežami. Problém je však v tom, že gauner mal v čase zločinu len osem rokov. Bosch sa teda púšťa do vyšetrovania. Zároveň mu opäť do cesty vstúpi Irvin Irving. Jeho syn vypadol z okna a Harry dostal za úlohu zistiť, či išlo o samovraždu, alebo o čosi iné. Intuícia Boscha ani teraz nesklame, za oboma prípadmi sa skrýva kopec špiny a nečakaných zápletiek.Povedali o titule Connelly sa vyzná v policajnom vyšetrovaní a vyzná sa v súdnej sieni. Vďaka týmto znalostiam sú jeho príbehy vierohodné, zatiaľ čo vďaka jeho pisateľským schopnostiam ožívajú....Je to vzrušujúci spisovateľ, ktorého radi čítame ―Jackie K. Cooper, Huffington Post Každá z jeho kníh je oveľa viac ako len súčet jej častí....Connelly píše fikciu podľa skutočného života o skutočnom zločine. Čo robí jeho kriminálne príbehy pravdivými, je to, že nikdy skutočne neskončia. ―Janet Maslin, New York Times

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THE WORLDWIDE #1 BESTSELLER BEHIND AMAZON PRIME S BOSCH AND NETFLIX S THE LINCOLN LAWYERSOME CRIMES YOU CAN T FORGET.OTHERS YOU CAN T FORGIVE.Detective Renée Ballard is given the chance to revive the LAPD s cold case unit and find justice for the families of the forgotten. The only catch is she must first unravel an unsolved murder, or lose this opportunity of a lifetime...Harry Bosch is top of the list of investigators Ballard wants to recruit. The ex-detective is a living legend - but for how long?Because Bosch has his own agenda: a crime that has haunted him for years - the murder of a whole family, buried out in the desert - which he vowed to close.With the killer still out there and evidence elusive, Bosch is on a collision course with a choice he hoped never to make... Cements Connelly s reputation as the master of modern crime fiction EXPRESS* * * * *CRIME DOESN T COME BETTER THAN CONNELLY: The pre-eminent detective novelist of his generation IAN RANKIN An incredible writer RICHARD OSMAN The best mystery writer in the world GQ One of the world s greatest crime writers DAILY MAIL A superb natural storyteller LEE CHILD A master STEPHEN KING A genius INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY Crime thriller writing of the highest order GUARDIAN One of the great storytellers of crime fiction SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

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A MURDER HE CAN T FORGET.A CASE ONLY SHE CAN SOLVE. OUTSTANDING IAN RANKINAmazon Best 100 Books of The YearBarnes Noble Best Books of The YearTop Ten Best Thrillers of the Year - Washington Post* * * * *Daisy Clayton s killer was never caught. In over ten years, there has been no breakthrough in her murder case.Detective Renée Ballard has faced everything the LAPD s notorious dusk-till-dawn graveyard shift has thrown at her. But, until tonight, she d never met Harry Bosch - an ex-homicide detective consumed by this case.Soon, she too will become obsessed by the murder of Daisy Clayton.Because Ballard and Bosch both know: every murder tells a story. And Daisy s case file reads like the first chapter in an untold tragedy that is still being written - one that could end with Ballard herself, if she cannot bring the truth to light...* * * * *CRIME DOESN T GET BETTER THAN CONNELLY. One of the world s greatest crime writers Daily Mail Crime thriller writing of the highest order Guardian A terrific writer with pace, style and humanity to spare The Times America s greatest living crime writer Daily Express The pre-eminent detective novelist of his generation Ian Rankin A master Stephen King A genius Independent on Sunday A superb natural storyteller Lee Child One of the great storytellers of crime fiction Sunday Telegraph Justly regarded as one of the world s finest crime writers Mail On Sunday No one writes a better modern thriller than Connelly Evening Standard

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Swinging from South Africa to England: one woman’s hunt for her birth mother in an all-too-believable near future in which an antibiotic crisis has decimated the population. A prescient, thrilling debut. ‘Combines the excitement of a medical thriller à la Michael Crichton with sensitive characterisation and social insight in a timely debut novel all the more remarkable for being conceived and written before the current pandemic’ Guardian ‘STUNNING and terrifying … The Waiting Rooms wrenches your heart in every way possible, but written with such humanity and emotion’ Miranda Dickinson ‘Chillingly close to reality, this gripping thriller brims with authenticity … a captivating, accomplished and timely debut from an author to watch’ Adam Hamdy ________________ Decades of spiralling drug resistance have unleashed a global antibiotic crisis. Ordinary infections are untreatable, and a scratch from a pet can kill. A sacrifice is required to keep the majority safe: no one over seventy is allowed new antibiotics. The elderly are sent to hospitals nicknamed ‘The Waiting Rooms’ … hospitals where no one ever gets well. Twenty years after the crisis takes hold, Kate begins a search for her birth mother, armed only with her name and her age. As Kate unearths disturbing facts about her mother’s past, she puts her family in danger and risks losing everything. Because Kate is not the only secret that her mother is hiding. Someone else is looking for her, too. Sweeping from an all-too-real modern Britain to a pre-crisis South Africa, The Waiting Rooms is epic in scope, richly populated with unforgettable characters, and a tense, haunting vision of a future that is only a few mutations away. ________________ ‘Engrossing and eye-opening, with heart-stopping plot twists … a stunning medical thriller set in a terrifying possible future’ Foreword Reviews ‘A touching, gut-wrenching story of family mystery and tragedy … a thriller that punches on two fronts – heart AND mind’ The Sun ‘Gripping and disturbing … the medical research is convincing, the scenarios plausible, and the story is emotionally engaging. This is an incredible debut!’ Gill Paul ‘If the themes are dark and topical, the writing is exquisite. Breath held, I got to the finale with my heart in my mouth. Eve Smith weaves a complex and clever tale, merging countries and timelines; the result is a superb and satisfying novel’ Louise Beech ‘Margaret Atwood is one of my all-time writing heroes and The Handmaid #39;s Tale is probably the best book I’ve ever read. Eve Smith and The Waiting Rooms really do challenge that long-held crown…’ Random Things through My Letterbox ‘Thoroughly engaging … an eye-opening read’ Crime Fiction Lover ‘A novel of our times’ Trip Fiction ‘Haunting, honest and horrifying in its reality … An epic and thrilling read’ Book Literati ‘Stunning dystopian debut. A prescient and alarming tale that seems just a whisper from reality’ Suzy Apsley ‘The Waiting Rooms will certainly distract us from the real world for a few hours and this is the immeasurable value of fiction. It gives hope that, as in Eve Smith’s fictitious world, the possibility of a happy ending still exists’ Die Burger ‘The Waiting Rooms is a seriously impressive debut, a novel that is intuitive and chilling, one that will resonate with all in this current climate’ Swirl Thread

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Every Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only the Queen s ladies had the right to enter her most private chambers, spending hours helping her to get dressed and undressed, caring for her clothes and jewels, listening to her secrets. But they also held a unique power. A quiet word behind the scenes, an appropriately timed gift, a well-negotiated marriage alliance were all forms of political agency wielded expertly by women. The Waiting Game explores the daily lives of ladies-in-waiting, revealing the secrets of recruitment, costume, what they ate, where (and with whom) they slept. We meet María de Salinas, who travelled to England with Catherine of Aragon when just a teenager and spied for her during the divorce from Henry VIII. Anne Boleyn s lady-in-waiting Jane Parker was instrumental in the execution of not one, but two queens. And maid-of-honour Anne Basset kept her place through the last four consorts, negotiating the conflicting loyalties of her birth family, her mistress the Queen, and even the desires of the King himself. As Henry changed wives, and changed the very fabric of the country s structure besides, these women had to make choices about loyalty that simply didn t exist before. The Waiting Game is the first time their vital story has been told.

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A bulwark against invasion, a conduit for exchange and a challenge to be conquered, the English Channel has always been many things to many people. Today it s the busiest shipping lane in the world and hosts more than 30 million passenger crossings every year but this sliver of choppy brine, just 21 miles wide at its narrowest point, represents much more than a conductor of goods and people. Criss-crossing the Channel - not to mention regularly throwing himself into it for a bracing swim - Charlie Connelly collects its stories and brings them vividly to life, from tailing Oscar Wilde s shadow through the dark streets of Dieppe to unearthing Britain s first beauty pageant at the end of Folkestone pier (it was won by a bloke called Wally). We learn that Louis Bleriot was actually a terrible pilot, the tragic fate of the first successful Channel swimmer, and that if a man with a buttered head and pigs bladders attached to his trousers hadn t fought off an attack by dogfish we might never have had a Channel Tunnel. Here is a cast of extraordinary characters - geniuses, cheats, dreamers, charlatans, visionaries, eccentrics and at least one pair of naked, cuddling balloonists - whose stories are all united by the English Channel to ensure the sea that makes us an island will never be the same again.

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Michael Haller čelí závažnému obvinění: je podezřelý z vraždy svého bývalého klienta. Případ je přidělen soudci, který Hallera nemá příliš v lásce, protože se v minulosti úspěšně odvolal proti jeho rozsudkům, a pošle ho rovnou do vězení. Haller se musí bránit a zároveň bojovat o život v prostředí, kde mu hrozí nebezpečí nejen od dozorců a spoluvězňů, z nichž některé poslal před soud, ale také od těch, kteří na něj vraždu hodili.

Objev podobné jako Zákon neviny - Michael Connelly

Michael Haller je advokát bez kanceláře . Úřaduje na zadním sedadle svého vozu Lincoln Continental, aby mohl být co nejblíže svým klientům - opilým řidičům, drobným podvodníkům, překupníkům drog a podobným existencím. Právo pro něj není otázkou viny či neviny, nýbrž záležitostí týkající se manipulace a vyjednávání. Když si ho jako obhájce najme playboy z Beverly Hills, kterého zatkli za napadení mladé ženy, získá po letech prvního bohatého klienta. Kromě toho je přesvědčen, že se mu konečně naskytla šance obhajovat nevinného člověka. Postupem času ale odhaluje, že případ nebude tak jednoduchý, jak se na první pohled zdálo... Pokud chce uniknout skrytému zlu, musí využít veškeré své schopnosti. V sázce totiž není jen ostře sledovaný soudní případ, ale i jeho život...

Objev podobné jako Obhájce - Michael Connelly

Michael Haller sice získá po zavražděném kolegovi Jerrym Vincentovi zavedenou advokátní kancelář, ale štěstí mu to nepřinese. Mezi klienty je totiž i Walter Elliot, filmový magnát obžalovaný z dvojnásobné vraždy. Ačkoli je jeho případ zárukou vítané mediální pozornosti a tučných zisků, Haller prozatím netuší, že mezi zavražděním kolegy a obžalobou magnáta může existovat spojitost a že si tak namaloval na čelo terč. Navzdory nebezpečí pomalu proniká do případu a uvědomuje si, že tu něco nehraje a že Vincentem připravená obhajoba je založena na důmyslném, ale podvodném triku. Haller se ocitá mezi dvěma mlýnskými kameny: musí hájit zájmy klienta a současně dodržovat zákon. Nezbývá mu než vymyslet ďábelský plán, přestože si uvědomuje, že jeho realizací riskuje nejen svou kariéru, ale zejména holý život.

Objev podobné jako Rozsudek ráže 9 - Michael Connelly

Michael Haller sice získá po zavražděném kolegovi zavedenou advokátní kancelář, ale štěstí mu to nepřinese. Mezi klienty je totiž i Walter Elliot, filmový magnát obžalovaný z dvojnásobné vraždy. Ačkoli je jeho případ zárukou vítané mediální pozornosti a tučných zisků, Haller prozatím netuší, že mezi zavražděním kolegy a obžalobou magnáta může existovat spojitost a že si tak namaloval na čelo terč. Navzdory nebezpečí pomalu proniká do případu a uvědomuje si, že tu něco nehraje. Ocitá se mezi mlýnskými kameny: musí hájit zájmy klienta a současně dodržovat zákon. Vymyslí proto ďábelský plán, přestože si uvědomuje, že riskuje nejen svou kariéru, ale i holý život. Kniha se stala předlohou pro úspěšný seriál z produkce Netflixu.

Objev podobné jako Advokát - Michael Connelly

Audiokniha: Michael Haller je losangelský právnik bez kancelárie, ktorý úraduje zo zadného sedadla svojho Lincolna. Zákon je pre neho zriedkavo o vine alebo nevine – skôr o vyjednávaní a manipulácii. Niekedy dokonca o spravodlivosti. Tentokrát čelí vážnemu obvineniu on sám - je podozrivý z vraždy bývalého klienta. Prípad pridelia sudcovi, ktorý nemá Hallera veľmi v láske, keďže sa v minulosti proti jeho rozsudkom úspešne odvolal, a ten ho pošle rovno do väzby. Haller sa musí obhajovať a zároveň bojuje o život v prostredí, kde mu hrozí nebezpečenstvo nielen od spoluväzňov a dozorcov - niektorých totiž postavil pred súd -, ale aj od tých, ktorí naňho vraždu narafičili. Dokáže spoločne so svojim tímom a nevlastným bratom Harry Boschom obhájiť svoju nevinu a vypátrať skutočných páchateľov? V roku 2011 stvárnil Mickeyho Hallera na filmovom plátne známy hollywoodsky herec Matthew McCounaghey vo filme Obhajca (The Lincoln Lawyer).

Objev podobné jako Zákon neviny - Michael Connelly - audiokniha

“[A] memoir of . . . madcap travels, triumphs and humiliations. [Tonello] peels back the layers of pretension at the eminent design house. . . . Anyone who’s ever stepped into a luxury boutique and felt the sting of the doorman’s disapproval will find a hero in Tonello.” —Miami Herald The hilarious, whirlwind account of an insider’s years spent globe-trotting in search of the handbag called “a better investment than gold”: the Birkin. With a life that reads like a heist novel, Michael Tonello reveals the secret to bagging this legendary purse, coveted by celebrities and status-seekers around the world.For more than twenty years, the Hermès Birkin bag has been the iconic symbol of fashion, luxury, and wealth. Though the bag is often seen dangling from the arms of celebrities, there is a fabled waiting list of more than two years to buy one from Hermès, and the average fashionista has a better chance of climbing Mount Everest in Prada pumps than of possessing one of these coveted carryalls. Unless, of course, she happens to know Michael Tonello . . .Michael’s newfound career started with an impulsive move to Barcelona, a vanished job assignment, no work visa, and a Hermès scarf sold on eBay to generate some quick cash. But soon the resourceful Michael discovered the truth about the waiting list and figured out the secret to getting Hermès to part with one of these precious bags. Millions of dollars worth of Birkins later, Michael had become one of eBay’s most successful entrepreneurs—and a Robin Hood to thousands of desperate rich women. With down-to-earth wit, Michael chronicles the unusual ventures that took him to nearly every continent, from eBay to Paris auction house and into the lives of celebrities and poseurs. Flirting with danger, Michael recounts the heady rush of hand delivering his first big score to famed songwriter Carole Bayer Sager in Paris; how he had to hire thugs to rescue a bag that one of his “shoppers” held for ransom; and the story of the Oscar-worthy performances that allowed him to snag “reserved” bags from other, less dogged Birkin seekers.Whether he’s relating his wining and dining, buying and selling, dodging and weaving, laughing and crying, or schmoozing and stammering, Michael is a master raconteur who weaves together tales of hunting Birkins in the world’s most posh locales, memories of meals that would make any gastronome salivate, anecdotes of obsessed collectors with insatiable desires, and sweetly intimate stories about his family, friends, and finding true love. The result is a memoir that is distinctive, fun, page-turning, and as addictive as its namesake.

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A lawyer is found murdered on the eve of a landmark trial at the foot of Angels Flight in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. The superb sixth Harry Bosch novel from the award-winning No. 1 bestselling author. BOSCH TV STARTS FEBRUARY 2015.Harry Bosch finds himself yet again in charge of a case that no one else will touch. This time his job is to nail the killer of hot shot black lawyer Howard Elias. Elias has been found murdered on the eve of going to court on behalf of Michael Harris, a man the LAPD believes guilty of the rape and murder of a twelve-year-old girl. Elias had let it be known that the aim of his civil case was not only to reveal the real killer but to target and bring down the racist cops who beat up his client during a violent interrogation. Now it s all down to Bosch - and he s got to take a long, hard look at some of his colleagues in a police department that is rife with suspicion and hatred.

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Advent is a season of waiting and anticipation in which the waiting itself is strangely rich and fulfilling. Poetry can help us fathom the depths of Advent s many paradoxes: dark and light, emptiness and fulfilment, ancient and ever new.For every day from Advent Sunday to Christmas Day and beyond, the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses a favourite poem from across the Christian spiritual and English literary traditions and offers incisive seasonal reflections on it. In the spirit of the season, he blends the familiar and the new, ranging from from spiritual classics such as Edmund Spenser, John Donne, George Herbert and Christina Rossetti, to contemporary voices Luci Shaw and Scott Cairns. His own acclaimed sequence of sonnets for the great Advent antiphons are also included.

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A lifetime spend fighting the powers that be and turning personal pain into collective power. Take care of this book because you are holding our history in your hands. - LOWKEY Michael Mansfield is the greatest civil liberties lawyer this country has ever produced - Baroness HELENA KENNEDY of the Shaws KC Michael Mansfield has given power to the voiceless, the innocents ... For this, he too is a hero - JOHN PILGER Michael Mansfield combines rare humanity with a brilliant understanding of the law - JON SNOW A book of great importance ... Mr Mansfield s thoughtful reflections demand our attention - KEN LOACH An impressive and inspiring read - DUNCAN CAMPBELL I want this book to inspire people, give them a blueprint for fighting their own battles, and challenge the status quo. To see that together, we are always stronger. To understand that those who stand in the way of change cannot do so forever. Michael Mansfield, KCBarrister Michael Mansfield, KC, has spent his career fighting injustice, persecution and corruption. And be it the Birmingham Six, Bloody Sunday, Stephen Lawrence, the Marchioness, Hillsborough or Grenfell, he has come to learn one thing - that people power is unstoppable.Time and again he has witnessed governments, police forces, legal institutions and the establishment, try to block change and maintain the status quo in order to protect their interests. But almost every time he has seen that passion, perseverance, collectivity and courage create a powerful momentum which is increasingly difficult to stop.In this short but powerful book, the veteran barrister draws upon his 50 years of fighting for justice and revisits his most important cases and clients, proving without doubt that when people get together they can make lasting and positive change.The power is in the people - not the people in power.

Objev podobné jako The Power In The People - Michael Mansfield

This book celebrates the role that drawing and watercolor painting play in architecture. The beauty of the result will be inspiring to anyone who loves architecture and the attendant arts.The Art of the Architect celebrates the role that drawing and watercolor painting play in architecture. Architectural drawing as we know it dates from the Renaissance, but with the arrival of computer design programs this ancient art—formed of pen, pencil, and brushstrokes on paper—is sometimes regarded as obsolete. The work of Michael G. Imber, whose watercolors and sketches are published for the first time in paperback, shows what a vital contribution they can still make at every stage of an architectural project. His personal example is followed by his colleagues in a visual culture that permeates his practice, Michael G. Imber Architects. Whatever the place occupied by photographs, simulations, and visual graphics in the design process of today, hand drawing still facilitates a moment of deeper connection between an architect and his environment. Unlike a snap taken on a smart phone, a hand drawing is an active response to its subject: what is understood about a place in sensory terms cannot help but inform the finished design, creating buildings which maintain the balance between the way we live and the natural world around us. Not only do Michael’s sketches allow him to visualize his environment more clearly, but they provide an immediate visual language with which he can communicate with his team, his craftsmen, and his clients. Pen and wash is a suggestive, selective, and emotive technique. Rich in examples of the art and philosophy that have inspired him over the years, this book is both an ode to a precious art form, and a visual delight to anyone who may turn its pages. Michael’s attention to light, color, line, shape, and space in these “working paintings” reveals a love for the medium that extends from his architectural practice into the time he spends both traveling, and at his summer home on an island in Maine. The beauty of the result will be inspiring to anyone who loves architecture and the attendant arts.

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A rare writer with the courage to tell Britain some home truths about itself and where it s headed. A much needed book . - Ian Dunt What Britain needs at the moment is not to be talked up or talked down, but simply a sense of itself that s underpinned by clarity and honesty... This is exactly what Michael Peel provides in this persuasive, good-humoured book. - Jonathan Coe A wake-up call for those still under the illusion that Great Britain plc punches above its weight . - Chris Mullin, author of A Very British Coup Entertaining and smart. - Geoff Norcott Michael Peel is a top class thinker and writer. This is a necessary book as well as an extremely entertaining one. - Simon Kuper Sharp, witty and eye-opening. As Peel convincingly argues, we can do so much better. - Matthew Parker, author of One Fine Day: Britain s Empire On the BrinkUPDATED EDITION FOLLOWING 2024 ELECTIONHow do you see Britain? That might depend on your point of view, and as long time British foreign correspondent, Michael Peel has come to understand, it can look very different from outside.It s tempting to think of the UK as a fundamentally stable and successful nation. But events of the past few years, from Brexit to exposés of imperial history, have begun to spark fierce public debates about whether that is true. Is Britain, just a marginal northern European island nation, marked by injustices, corruption and with a bloody history of slavery, repression and looting? And yet UK politics, media, and public opinion live constantly in the shadow of old myths, Second World War era nostalgia, and a belief in supposedly core British values of tolerance, decency and fair play. British politicians regularly exploit a damaging complacency that holds that everything will turn out okay, because, in Britain, it always does.In WHAT EVERYONE KNOWS ABOUT BRITAIN, Michael Peel digs into the national consciousness with the perspective of distance to pull apart the ways in which we British have become unmoored from crucial truths about ourselves. He shows us that from many perspectives we are no different from other countries whose own national delusions have seen them succumb to abuses of power, increased poverty and divisive conflict.The battle over Britain s narrative is the struggle for its future and its place in the world. So, how do we escape the trick mirror - and see ourselves as we really are?

Objev podobné jako What Everyone Knows About Britain* (*Except The British) - Michael Peel

Michael Mansfield has given power to the voiceless, the innocents ... For this, he too is a hero - JOHN PILGER Michael Mansfield combines rare humanity with a brilliant understanding of the law - JON SNOW A book of great importance ... Mr Mansfield s thoughtful reflections demand our attention - KEN LOACH I want this book to inspire people, give them a blueprint for fighting their own battles, and challenge the status quo. To see that together, we are always stronger. To understand that those who stand in the way of change cannot do so forever. Michael Mansfield, KCBarrister Michael Mansfield, KC, has spent his career fighting injustice, persecution and corruption. And be it the Birmingham Six, Bloody Sunday, Stephen Lawrence, the Marchioness, Hillsborough or Grenfell, he has come to learn one thing - that people power is unstoppable.Time and again he has witnessed governments, police forces, legal institutions and the establishment, try to block change and maintain the status quo in order to protect their interests. But almost every time he has seen that passion, perseverance, collectivity and courage create a powerful momentum which is increasingly difficult to stop.In this short but powerful book, the veteran barrister draws upon his 50 years of fighting for justice and revisits his most important cases and clients, proving without doubt that when people get together they can make lasting and positive change.

Objev podobné jako The Power In The People - Michael Mansfield

This edition of Michael Wood s groundbreaking first book explores the fascinating and mysterious centuries between the Romans and the Norman Conquest of 1066. In Search of the Dark Ages vividly conjures up some of the most famous names in British history, such as Queen Boadicea, leader of a terrible war of resistance against the Romans, and King Arthur, the once and future king , for whose riddle Wood proposes a new and surprising solution. Here too, warts and all, are the Saxon, Viking and Norman kings who laid the political foundations of England - Offa of Mercia, Alfred the Great, Athelstan, and William the Conqueror, whose victory at Hastings in 1066 marked the end of Anglo-Saxon England. Reflecting recent historical, textual and archaeological research, this revised edition of Michael Wood s classic book overturns preconceptions of the Dark Ages as a shadowy and brutal era, showing them to be a richly exciting and formative period in the history of Britain. With In Search of the Dark Ages, Michael Wood wrote the book for history on TV. The Times Michael Wood is the maker of some of the best TV documentaries ever made on history and archaeology. Times Literary Supplement

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In The Sweet Spot, Michael Chiles explores the art of teacher explanation and modelling in teaching students what they need to know. Delving into the research, Michael sets out the reasons why the art of telling and showing students underpin effective teaching and learning. Armed with research-based evidence, Michael looks at a range of efficient and effective strategies teachers can use in their own classrooms to expertly explain and model their subject. In the final part of the book, Michael is joined by teachers across the broad range of subjects in the primary and secondary phases to share how they teach one difficult concept within their own subject.

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