Presents photographs of the Lukhang temple and its murals and a description of the works within their historical, cultural, and artistic context.

The Dalai Lama's Secret Temple: Tantric Wall Paintings from Tibet

Arts & Photography

Lama, Dalái

Baker, Ian

Laird, Thomas

History & Criticism

Thames&Hudson

"MORE Advice From a Call Center Geek!" takes a look at a new way of running today's high-end contact center. This is the follow-up call book to the very successful "Advice from a Call Center Geek" call center operations book that was published in 2018.

MORE Advice from a Call Center Geek!: Rethinking Call Center Operations 2.0

Business & Money

Marketing & Sales

Expivia Press

Cutter

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Chivers

Season of the Assassin

Carroll&Graf

Thorndike Pr

He’s a cutter. He accosts unsuspecting young women, he overwhelms them with a pad of ether. Then he kills them. And eviscerates the corpses. The crime scenes he leaves behind are not pretty. Nor is the talk, in this tough, tautly plotted, and tersely written crime novel that sets Jimmy Parisi of Chicago Homicide, a strictly no-nonsense kind of Italian cop, on the gruesome trail of an elusive but very efficient—and alarmingly active—killer. The bodies are beginning to pile up. Death in fact is reaping so ghastly a harvest in the city’s parks and streets that the press and police are calling the merciless perpetrator “the Farmer.” When Parisi and his partner, Doc, a homicide cop with an unlikely Ph.D. in English literature, begin to zero in on their quarry, the Farmer abruptly alters his modus operandi. Turning his murderous attention away from attractive, vital young women, he focuses his formidably perverse intelligence instead on investigating detective Jimmy Parisi himself. At a pulse-popping pace, through unexpected twists and surprising turns, from the scenic precincts along Lake Shore Drive to the perilous criminal underbelly of Chicago, Parisi and the Farmer follow the paths that bring them inexorably to a shocking confrontation. The suspense is riveting, and the outcome—as explosive as it is unexpected—will leave the reader gasping.

Tough, taut, and terse, this crafty crime novel challenges Chicago police detective Jimmy Parisi—the sharp, no-nonsense cop who first appeared in Cutter—with two terrible crimes separated by three decades. Thirty years ago, in the 1960s, seven student nurses met death at the butchering hands of an assailant who went unapprehended by the investigating officer Jake Parisi, Jimmy’s father. While Jake did uncover prime suspect Carl Angelin, he soon found himself without any witnesses; they’d all disappeared. Then so did Angelin. Now a frighteningly similar massacre has occurred, and Jimmy Parisi is racing against time and Angelin to locate the sole surviving witness of the original massacre, who’s been hidden by the FBI in a remote mental hospital. Only she can finger Angelin and bring justice to the seven victims and Jimmy’s tragically dead father.

Literature & Fiction

United States

Black Dog lives in the deep pit of the human soul, where desolation and depression also hang out. In this third Jimmy Parisi novel the Chicago detective is fighting against fatigue and homicide burnout. His latest case involves a killer—Black Dog—who is draining the blood from young women before leaving them to die. There are signs that a crude needle is being used in the process, and it looks like the work of someone who knows the art of mortuary science. Jimmy and his partner suspect that the blood is connected to satanic ritual and that vampire cults that celebrate the black arts are alive and well in sophisticated twenty-first-century Chicago. At the same time the homicide investigator is called to work on the murder of an inner-city senior citizen. The killing is listed as “low profile,” but that is soon to change. And then Black Dog gets personal with Jimmy —something very bad happens in his home life and the Chicago cop feels like a candle lit at both ends. Two killers to catch and a family tragedy to get through. It’s one hell of a ride, and in the end will Jimmy still be standing?

Black Dog

For over fifty years the CIA has closely guarded the identity of the first agent killed in the line of duty - the unnamed First Star on the outfit's Wall of Honor. That agent was Douglas Mackiernan. His unprecedented atomic intelligence operations helped shape both Central Asia and the CIA as we know them today. His work remains so sensitive that the Agency, even now, will neither confirm nor deny his existence. A riveting expose of international intrigue, Into Tibet reveals the extraordinary still-classified missions that sent Mackiernan and his partner, Frank Bessac, into the heart of the Cold War.

Into Tibet : The CIA's First Atomic Spy and His Secret Expedition to Lhasa

History

Americas

Grove Pr

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