Low- and No-alcohol Cocktails contains 60 alcohol-free or low-alcohol recipes that are sure to tantalise tastebuds and get tongues wagging.Each cocktail is an experience built on flavour and scent and can be enjoyed throughout the day. Try Bubble Brunch to start your morning, Peach Break for elevenses, Tokyo Flower as an aperitif, Sunset Time for dinner and Citrus Tonic to finish the night off with a bang (and without the hangover!).In addition to ...

The stakes rise for hot-shot criminal defense attorney Leo Sully-Darmon and his client, an Iraqi woman accused of crimes against humanity, when "LSD" decides to go after the real culprit, a French industrial group that illegally manufactured chemical weapons during the Gulf War. Will he find the evidence he needs to take down Big Business while keeping himself and his client out of harm's way? Meanwhile, the press isn't far behind, including one particularly nosy reporter with some dirt on...

Martha Shoebridge has the best job in the world: she helps women give birth. But when this workaholic obstetrician meets the handsome senator from Delaware, William Sheridan, her heart leaps … and her life is changed forever, for the world she enters then is without mercy. Political ambitions trump all; everyone lies, everyone tries to manipulate someone, everyone schemes. So begins the slow descent into hell that will eventually put her in XIII’s path …

Of all operas in the standard repertory, none has had a more complicated genesis and textual history than Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann. Based on a highly successful 1851 play inspired by the short stories by the German Romantic writer E.T.A. Hoffmann, the work occupied the last decade of Offenbach’s life. When he died in October 1880, the work was being rehearsed at the Opéra-Comique. At once cut and rearranged, the work was performed from the start in versions that ignored the composer’s...

This report on Future Trends in Inflammation IV records another of the multidisciplinary meetings organized by the European Biological Research Association. The organizers wish to record their thanks to all the participants and delegates who made this such an enjoyable meeting. Our thanks are due to a number of members of the pharmaceutical industry who so kindly donated funds. These funds were used to provide grants for young research workers to attend this meeting. Many people have kindl...

Celebrity lawyer Leo Sully-Darmon must return to Iraq to prove the innocence of his client, a woman accused of crimes against humanity, despite having increasing doubts himself about her role in these events. While there, he finds shocking evidence of a massive coverup and, under pressure from all sides, is compelled to reveal secrets from his own dark past.

Composer, cultural diplomat, and man about town, Nicolas Nabokov (1903-78) counted among his intimate friends everyone from Igor Stravinsky to George Kennan. While today he is overshadowed by his more famous cousin Vladimir, Nicolas Nabokov was during his lifetime an outstanding and far-sighted player in international cultural exchanges during the Cold War and admired by some of the most distinguished minds of his century for his political acumen and his talents as a composer. This first-e...

Meet Leo Sully-Darmon, a hot-shot photogenic criminal defense attorney who takes on cases nobody else will touch. Leo loves a good cause just as much as he loves a good photo-op, and he happens to excel at both. But when he agrees to represent a woman accused of crimes against humanity during her former life as an officer in an Iraqi detention camp, he may have bitten off more than he can chew, as antagonistic forces conspire to cast doubt on his client's innocence and start digging up dir...

If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find him, Max Ferlane is your man: a good man with skills a bad past has left him. Now he's trying to leave that bad life behind, put those skills to good use. He's in the Congo rescuing a young girl from an arranged marriage when an old employer turns up: the Babylon Agency, specializing in high-profile political exfiltrations. Max is forced into a different, far more dangerous mission that will take him deep into warring jung...

Leading true crime podcaster McSkyz presents the shocking real-life cases that have rocked Japan, peeling back the layers of a society often seen as safe and orderly.In this gripping collection, McSkyz uncovers infamous crimes that reveal Japan's hidden undercurrents. From the notorious Lucie Blackman case to the chilling murder of a model by her own brother, these accounts expose a side of Japan rarely shown to the outside world.This volume of eig...

This volume contains contributions on advances in geosynthetics engineering. Soil reinforcement is a very useful technique to construct several cost-effective soil structures in an environmentally friendly and sustainable manner. The most commonly used reinforcement materials are galvanised steel strips, geosynthetics in the form of woven geotextiles, geogrids and geocomposites, and fibres from natural and waste products. In recent years, there have been advances in the area of soil reinfo...