Divided in Death (In Death)

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Reva Ewing, a former member of the Secret Service, a security specialist for Roarke Enterprises, is a prime suspect in a double homicide. She had every reason to want to kill her husband, the renowned artist Blair Bissel. Not only was he having an affair, he was having it with her best friend. But Lieutenant Eve Dallas, who's on the case, believes Reva is innocent. Eve's instincts tell her that the murder scene looks too perfectly staged, the apparent answers too obvious. And when she digs for more, she discovers that at nearly the exact time a kitchen knife was jammed into the victim's ribs, the passcode to his art studio was changed - and all of the data on his computer deliberately corrupted.

To Roarke, it's the computer attack that poses the real threat. Signs show that this is the nightmare his company has secretly been preparing for. He and Reva have been under a code-red government contract to develop a program that would shield against a new breed of hackers, the Doomsday Group. These techno-terrorists with brilliant minds and plenty of financial backing hack into systems, steal data, and corrupt computer units on a large scale and kill anyone who gets too close.

Eve and Roarke must infiltrate an extraordinarily secretive government agency to expose the corruption at its core, before the virus spreads from one office to a corporation to the entire country.

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"Found alone on the streets as a child, Eve Dallas has built a new identity and a new future as a cop. Now the hard-edged and coolheaded detective fights for truth and justice, but she still has one very human weakness-enigmatic Irish billionaire, Roarke. And when a trusted employee of Roarke Enterprises is a suspect in a double-homicide, Roarke comes to Eve for help. Reva Ewing was a former member of the Secret Service, and now a security specialist for Roarke Enterprises-until she was found standing over the dead bodies of her husband, renowned artist Blair Bissel, and her best friend. But Lieutenant Eve Dallas believes there was more to the killing than jealous rage-all of Bissel's computer files were deliberately corrupted. To Roarke, it's the computer attack that poses the real threat. He and Reva have been under a code-red government contract to develop a program that would shield against techno-terrorists. But this deadly new breed of hackers isn't afraid to kill to protect their secret-and it's up to Lieutenant Eve Dallas to shut them down before the nightmare can spread to the whole country."

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Divided in Death.......2007-09-30

This continues the story of Eve, Roarke, Peabody, McNab, Mavis et al. along with the usual rip-roaring mystery for "Roarke's Cop" to solve. Great stuff!!!

I simply loved it!.......2007-05-08

I just love the "In Death" series by Robb, but what I loved more, in this installment was the underlying tension between Eve and Roarke. Most who love the series, and for those who have yet to become hooked, know that Eve and Roarke have a love so deep and pure, that at times we get swallowed up in their story. However, while I found the plot to be the normal "Eve's going to get the bad guys", and the normal appearance of those characters we love to love (Mavis, Summerset, Galahad, Leondardo, Peabody, Feeney, McNabb, Whitney and Tibble), it was learning about Eve and Roarke's pasts that propel us to want more.

Eve is trying to solve the mystery behind who killed Roarke's trusted assistant, Karo's son-in-law. Karo's daughter, Reva Ewing is married to an artist, Blair Bissell who is discovered stabbed to death in bed with Reva's friend, Felicity Cade. Roarke believes that Reva did not kill them, although she is found at the scene of the crime. Reva afterall has taken a bullet for the president (an ex-secret service agent) and is one of Roarke's most trusted employees. As the plot unravels, Eve finds that not only could Roarke's future (he owns a high tech security company, like he owns most of the world) be in danger, but the world at large. She is thrust into a world of techno terrorist, worm viruses, spies (AKA spooks), covert missions,and computer programs (Code Red)that could make someone a fortune. While solving the highly unusual murder, which of course leads to others, Eve learns how her past is linked to Roarke's, and they soon find themselves ultimately "divided" about what Roarke should do. What I found to be most compelling was the sacrifices each ultimately has to make to make the other happy. I loved it, and although at time there is a lot of smoke and mirrors, you eventually are happy with the outcome.

More Please!.......2007-05-06

Once again, a wonderful book by a terrific author. I just love her books.

Origin In Death and Divided in Death.......2007-04-08

Two more great Eve Dallas mysteries. I love J.D. Robb as well as Nora Roberts. Her books are my downfall...I pick it up and don't put it down until it's read!!! Keep them coming!!

great reading.......2005-07-21

every one of her books as j.d.robb make for great reading! i hope she keeps them going-i'll buy every one of them!!

Currents of Death: Power Lines, Computer Terminals, and the Attempt to Cover Up Their Threat to Your Health

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Currents of Death: Power Lines, Computer Terminals, and the Attempt to Cover Up Their Threat to Your Health
Paul Brodeur
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Environment and Social Theory (Routledge Introductions to Environment S.)

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Environment and Social Theory (Routledge Introductions to Environment S.)
John Barry
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Explorations in Environmental Political Theory: Thinking About What We Value
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ASIN: 0415376165

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While the environment has been a perennial theme in human thought, it is clear that the present human generation is faced with a series of unprecedented environmental dilemmas, which have ensured that the environment and how we value, use and think about it, has become increasingly central and important in recent social theory.

A wide ranging introduction to the ways in which the environment has been used and abused, constructed and contested within social theory, this revised second edition contains new and updated material in every chapter, including:

a greater discussion of the Frankfurt school/critical theory
a new chapter on Left and Right-wing theoretical reactions to environmental crisis and politics
expanded coverage of ecological economics
new sections on risk, trust and technology and critiques of the risk society.

Investigating the environment within the history of social theory, Barry examines gender, the environment and economic thought, risk society and postmodern approaches to the environment, and green social theory. Broad in scope, this text provides the student with an indispensable guide to the way in which the environment and social theory relate to one another.

Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them: Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir

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Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them: Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir
John T. Irwin
Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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ASIN: 0801884357

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Early in the twentieth century a new character type emerged in the crime novels of American writers such as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler: the "hard-boiled" detective, most famously exemplified by Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon. Unlike the analytical detectives of nineteenth-century fiction, such as Edgar Allan Poe's Inspector Dupin, the new detectives encountered cases not as intricate logical puzzles but as stark challenges of manhood. In the stories of these characters and their criminal opposites, John T. Irwin explores the tension within ideas of American masculinity between subordination and independence and, for the man who becomes "his own boss," the conflict between professional codes and personal desires. He shows how, within different works of hard-boiled fiction, the professional either overcomes the personal or is overcome by it, ending in ruinous relationships or in solitary integrity, and how within the genre all notions of manly independence are ultimately revealed to be illusions subordinate to fate itself.

Tracing the stylistic development of the genre, Irwin demonstrates the particular influence of the novel of manners, especially the writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald. He goes on to argue that, from the time of World War II, when hard-boiled fiction began to appear on the screen in film noir just as women entered the workforce in large numbers, many of its themes came to extend to female empowerment. Finally, he discusses how these themes persist in contemporary dramatic series on television, representing the conflicted lives of Americans into the twenty-first century.

A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia

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The River Doesn't Run Through It Anymore
So much good information
Wonderful writing. Interesting points of view.
Wonderful writing. Interesting points of view.
An eye opener.

A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia
Blaine Harden
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A century ago the place where the Columbia River flows into the Pacific Ocean was a violent cauldron of churning water, all but unnavigable. But the mighty river was tamed by the building of a series of dams, including the colossal Grand Coulee, to provide cheap hydroelectric power and irrigation water. Farms bloomed in the desert; nuclear reactors mushroomed on the river bank. Today barges ply the river, and Lewiston, Idaho, is an inland port. But the negative aspects of human impact are also apparent--the depletion of salmon stocks and the destruction of Native American cultures dependent on the salmon. Washington Post journalist Harden, a Northwest native, returns to examine the changes man has wrought. Harden's enthralling account is balanced and thorough.

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After a two-decade absence, Washington Post journalist Blaine Harden returned to his small-town birthplace in the Pacific Northwest to follow the rise and fall of the West's most thoroughly conquered river. Harden's hometown, Moses Lake, Washington, could not have existed without massive irrigation schemes. His father, a Depression migrant trained as a welder, helped build dams and later worked at the secret Hanford plutonium plant. Now he and his neighbors, once considered patriots, stand accused of killing the river. As Blaine Harden traveled the Columbia--by barge, car, and sometimes on foot--his past seemed both foreign and familiar. A personal narrative of rediscovery joined a narrative of exploitation: of Native Americans, of endangered salmon, of nuclear waste, and of a once-wild river now tamed to puddled remains. Part history, part memoir, part lament, "this is a brave and precise book," according to the New York Times Book Review. "It must not have been easy for Blaine Harden to find himself turning his journalistic weapons against his own heritage, but he has done the conscience of his homeland a great service."

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The River Doesn't Run Through It Anymore.......2005-03-17

This journalistic narrative, written when Blain Harden returned to his Columbia River Basin hometown during a mid-1990s sabbatical from the Washington Post, summarizes the history of the massive U.S. Government funded hydroelectric, irrigation and nuclear energy development of the Columbia River system in eastern Washington and adjacent parts of Idaho and Oregon. Harden's approach is a well crafted, articulate chronology of events interspersed among interviews with then-still-living civil engineers and workers who built the dams (including the author's father), self-described redneck barge crews, American Indians, irrigator farmers, nuclear engineers, supposed "downwind" victims of nuclear engineers, wildlife management officials and environmental activists. Oddly, he never interviews any significant politician, and he describes the actions of civil service engineers and bureaucrats as if they built this multi-billion dollar project over forty years on their own fanatic authority, sort of like renegade CIA agents supposedly taking over a jungle-clad third world country without anyone telling them to.

The gist of A River Lost is that beginning in 1933 and ending in the 1970s, Federal and quasi-Federal agencies, acting under the direction of six presidents, converted one of the world's largest and wildest rivers into an all-but-completely tamed series of lakes behind hydroelectric dams. The result is a massive amount of inexpensive electricity, irrigation for more than 500,000 acres of farmland, an economical means to transport commodities from an interior desert toward Asian markets and, totally unplanned by its originators, a means to produce plutonium for atomic bombs that ended World War II and armed the U.S. in the Cold War. The most negative side effect was the virtual destruction of the Columbia's unimaginably immense migrating salmon population along with a traumatically negative impact on remnant groups of American Indians dependent on the salmon for sustenance and culture.

Harden makes a pretty good case that farmers and industries who benefited from the Columbia River industrialization only repaid a small fraction of the cost, Indians were not consulted, respected or compensated, billions of dollars were lost on an ill-conceived nuclear power project and there's been a lot of environmental damage, primarily to salmon and other fish populations, as well as possible damage to human health. As unpleasant as it may be for some of the "bad guys" in this saga to acknowledge I think the basic story is accurate. But as for Harden's exposé of unfairness, corruption, self dealing and unforeseen or unconsidered negative impacts... and from a government program!... how shocking!

Well, not really. A similar narrative could be constructed about virtually every large-scale government economic development and social engineering project since the 1930s: other river development schemes, so-called urban renewal, interstate highways, War on Poverty, public education system, etc., etc., etc. All of those programs have winners, losers and, typically, unintended, unacknowledged or uncompensated environmental, health or social costs. Such is the nature of government programs, but nobody seems able to resist them.

To me the most interesting aspect of this book is how Harden characterizes, or declines to characterize, the political affiliation of key players.

The initial Grande Coulee project and its unthinking destruction of salmon runs and Indian culture in the name of New Deal progress, and later the atomic city at Hanford, all occurred under President Franklin Roosevelt. Harden tells us that after WWII the remainder of the dam building, salmon and Indian destruction, sweetheart deals for farmers, barge operators, electrical utilities, et al, were driven through Congress, no matter who was president, by two powerful Washington senators, Magnuson and Jackson. The two senators were each in office about 40 years, and Harden refers to them ten times, asserting they abetted much sweetheart dealing, environmental damage and so forth. But Harden doesn't identify Roosevelt, Magnuson or Jackson as Democrats.

Then, with all the dams built, all the subsidies enshrined, all the salmon dying and Magnuson and Jackson gone from the scene, an environmentalist-led "Salmon War" heats up in the early 1980s. That's when newly elected Washington Senator Gorton appears in the same paragraph where Harden refers to "evil... political games" and - finally! - Harden fearlessly dares put a name to regressive forces that refuse to right wrongs wrought by half a century of dam, irrigation and atomic energy programs. We learn Senator Gorton is a... a... a... Republican!!!!! And when Gorton reappears in the story Harden tells us once again, in case we missed it, that Gorton is (still!) a Republican.

Things get worse again for salmon because, as Harden tells it, a mean Republican is elected to replace a nice Democrat as governor of neighboring Idaho. Apparently it's no problem, because its unmentioned by Harden, that Democrats almost always governed much larger Washington where most of the salmon's problem is located. Anyway, we learn that although Democrats controlled congress for about 56 of the first 60 years of the Columbia River development things only become hopeless for the fish when, just before Harden completes the book, Republicans take control of Congress in 1994. Did I mention Harden is a Washington Post reporter?

My own postscript is that in the ten years since Harden wrote A River Lost irrigators' fortunes declined as foreign producers undercut even their subsidized costs. The aluminum industry imploded. Communities Harden characterizes as terminally whitebread are increasingly dominated by Mexican immigrants. The Colville Indians who lost prime fishing grounds to Grand Coulee Dam now benefit from its cheap electricity because they own the largest lumber processing mill in Okanogan County as well as three well-lit casinos in the Columbia Basin. And some Eastern Washington counties now spend more on fish habitat restoration than human health care.

A River Lost has excellent sketch maps throughout each section that help place people and events. There are nine pages of footnotes and sources and thirteen pages of index. But as far as I can tell there's no mention to which political party Franklin Roosevelt, the guy who started the whole thing, belonged.

So much good information.......2003-10-10

A full and complete modern history of the Columbia River. At times sad, always intriging. Harden has done an excellent job of combining interviews with research that makes an excellent read.

Highly recommmended.

Wonderful writing. Interesting points of view........2002-04-06

Once in a great while a book comes along that is so beautifully written, with stories so well told, that the subject matter seems secondary to the writer's ability to sustain interest. For me, with little interest in the northwest (I've been there twice), this was such a book. It is from Harden's exceptional skill as a writer and narrator of stories that the Columbia River suddenly became of great interest as I turned his pages.

"A River Lost" tells the story and history of the Columbia River and the environmental, economic and aesthetic impact of daming that river in the first half of the last century. Especially interesting are the stories and points of view of those who work and live on its shores, the fate of the native indians who have lived in the region for hundreds of years and the differences in culture between the Starbucks yuppies west of the Cascades and the blue collar workers so dependant on the water and its billions in federally subsidized benefits to the east.

Highly praised in reviews by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, the Village Voice, The Seattle Times and Publishers Weekly, it is a great read for the information, for the writing, for a piece of American history.

Wonderful writing. Interesting points of view........2002-04-06

"A River Lost" tells the story and history of the Columbia River and the environmental, economic and aesthetic impact of daming that river in the first half of the last century. Especially interesting are the stories and points of view of those who work and live on its shores, the fate of the native indians who have lived in the region for hundreds of years and the differences in culture between the Starbucks yuppies east of the Cascades and the blue collar workers so dependant on the water and its billions in federally subsidized benefits to the west.

An eye opener........2002-03-06

I grew up in the Tri-Cities and spent the first 19 years of my life living just blocks away from the Columbia River and there was a lot of information told in this book that I never knew. Harden does a wonderful job of relating the history of the Columbia River and the effects that the many dams built on the river had on the land, the people, the nation, and the economy. I thoroughly enjoyed his story and felt he handled well the many issues important to preservationists, politicians, and farmers.

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Jacky was 23 when she arrived in Egypt for a vacation and met a handsome, chivalrous Egyptian called Omar. It was love at first sight, and swept away by her infatuation, she married him before returning to England with her parents. Returning to Cairo against her parents' advice, but full of hopes and plans, Jacky's dream turned into a nightmare. During the next six years she suffered non-stop physical and emotional abuse. She had to escape with her two little girls, but it was not easy. Even now, Jacky is living in the shadow of a death threat and has to protect herself and her daughters minute by minute, day by day.

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Harrowing.......2007-04-08

Jacky's harrowing escape from an abusive husband reads like a brilliant novel but what is terrifying is that the story is true, a young woman trapped in Egypt who spends 12 months saving $50 in secret, who acquires a passport from a sympathetic ambassador and finally makes a dash across the desert to Israel with her 2 young daugters - only to have the Imam of Cairo to put a Fatwa on her. This story of human courage is what they all a page turner and I for one could not put it down.

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Jeremy's Secret Is Revealed
It was an alright book.
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DEATH THREAT (Sweet Valley High)
Francine Pascal
Manufacturer: Sweet Valley
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Release Date: 1994-10-01

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Jeremy's Secret Is Revealed.......2006-05-26

***Warning Spoilers***

In the fourth book of the "Jeremy Randall/Sue Gibbons" saga we find out that Jeremy and Sue aren't the people Jessica and Elizabeth think they are.
Jeremy stages Sue's kidnapping and pretends to be the kidnapper in order to collect a $600,000 ranson. He tells Sue that as soon as he gets the money he will take Sue and they will run off to Mexico together.
All goes as planned. Sue is taken prisoner by Jeremy, and being held at a lake house. Ned Wakefield has hired a detective to search for Sue. Jessica still believes that Jeremy is the most perfect guy in the world, while Elizabeth is beginning to have her doubts.
Finally, the time arrives for Jessica and Elizabeth to deliver the money to Sue's kidnapper. After the money has been delivered, Jeremy lets Sue go from the cabin, and runs off with the money. It isn't until later that Sue realizes that Jeremy is not coming back for Sue.

At the end of the book the reader is faced with some more unanswered questions:
1.)Is Jeremy coming back for revenge on the Wakefields and Sue?
2.)Will Sue confess about the staged kidnapping?
3.)Will Jessica finally realize that Jeremy is only faking an interest in her and only wants Sue's money?
4.)What will happen between Lila and her new boyfriend, Robby? And is Robby in on Jeremy's plan?

~~~Kat

It was an alright book........2002-06-01

All of the Sweet Valley High books i love i have read most them because they are the best books ever; however in this miniseries, I find it hard to read because it is so predicable.... It needs to be a little more suspensful than it is.. I suggest if you get it to save for a day when you are quite bored.

It wasn't really worth reading........1998-09-29

I thought it wasn't too good. It was really farfetched and I just didn't want to read it over and over again ilke most of the SVH books. The plot wasn't confusing, but it kind of lame. It's one of my least favorite SVH books. I think the only reason I read it was to understand the whole miniseries.

Great!!.......1998-06-20

I couldn't put it down! You gotta put this one in your shopping cart! (Along with the rest of the books in this miniseries) It's a must have!!

Good.......1998-01-01

I didn't know what to think but it all came together at the end

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The Coverley Pines Affair
Edward Michel-Bird
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Release Date: 2006-07-06

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Fascinating characters, gripping story. Rejected by Diane, the only woman he\'d ever loved, humiliated in the Tabloids, wealthy, vengeful Dr. Scott raises the curtain on a modern Greek Tragedy.

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Death in the Marsh
Tom Harris
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Selenium, essential in microscopic doses, can be deadly in larger amounts. Death in the Marsh explains how federal irrigation projects have altered selenium's circulation in the environment, allowing it to accumulate in marshes, killing ecosystems and wildlife, and causing deformities in some animals.

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