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Ein mitreißender New Adult - Roman um ein taffes Mädchen mit einem großen Geheimnis und einen Nerd, der zu spät bemerkt, worauf er sich eingelassen hat.

»Der Wind strich kühl um mein Gesicht, meine Hände wurden nicht wärmer. Doch nirgendwo fühlte ich mich in diesem Moment wohler als dicht neben Martin auf dieser Bank neben dem überquellenden Abfalleimer.«

Die achtzehnjährige Jacky braucht keinen Freund, sie braucht ihren Schulabschluss, um endlich ihr Leben selbst in die Hand nehmen zu können. Der gut aussehende Martin,...

He's a man with a plan to dump a counterfeit marriage. But does he end up smartin' from his partin'?

Milner is a man with a God complex. He has an unshakeable belief in his consummate ability to manipulate and control family and boardroom alike. Milner isn't overly concerned about consequences. To him they are, at best, collateral damage, at worst, a series of unpredictable outcomes to be moulded into conformity with his overall aims.

But are they?

Meet Milner as the long-term plans for his distasteful marriage come to fruition. But has he gone too far this time? Can...

"The text sparkles with shrewdly plausible inferences mortared into a compelling narrative . . . Short] is excellent at coining pithy summations of political motives that ring humanly true."--The New York Times Book Review (front page)

Observing Pol Pot at close quarters during the one and only official visit he ever made abroad, to China in 1975, Philip Short was struck by the Cambodian leader's charm and charisma. Yet Pol Pot's utopian experiments in social engineering would result in the death of one in every five Cambodians--more than a million people.
How...

In a time of recession, the challenge of building and planning for tall buildings has become even more complex; the economics of development, legislative and planning frameworks, and the local politics of development must be navigated by those wishing to design and construct new tall buildings which fit within the fabric of their host cities.

This book is a timely contribution to the debate about new tall buildings and their role and effect on our cities. It is divided into two main parts. In part one, the relationship between tall buildings and planning is outlined, followed by an...