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Lesley-Ann Jones's new history tracks this contradictory, disturbing, granitic and unstoppable band through hope, glory and exile, into the juggernaut years and beyond into rock's ongoing reckoning...where the Stones seem more at odds than ever with the values and heritage against which they have always rebelled. Good, bad and often ugly, here are the Rolling Stones as never before.

In Sons of Cain - a book that fills the gap between dry academic studies and sensationalized true crime - investigative historian Peter Vronsky examines our understanding of serial killing from its prehistoric anthropological evolutionary dimensions in the pre-civilization era (c. 15,000 BC) to today. Delving further back into human history and deeper into the human psyche than Serial Killers - Vronsky's 2004 book, which has been called "the definitive history of the phenomenon of serial murder" - he focuses strictly on sexual serial killers.

Pioneira no comércio de livros pela internet, a Amazon esteve à frente da primeira grande febre das pontocom. Mas Jeff Bezos, seu visionário criador, não se contentaria com uma livraria virtual descolada: ele queria que a Amazon dispusesse de uma seleção ilimitada de produtos a preços radicalmente baixos—e se tornasse “a loja de tudo”. Para pôr em prática essa visão, Bezos desenvolveu uma cultura corporativa de ambição implacável e alto sigilo que poucos conheciam de verdade.

Brodie's come to Cotton Creek simply because he has a lot of leave time, and the new training facility that was built in the same county is about to have a two-hundred foot climbing tower. There's little Brodie likes more than free-climbing, and he's agreed to train a new batch of recruits. It'll give him some downtime to maybe work on an engine, visit with friends, and if lucky, find a pretty lady to enjoy some time with. What he never counted on was being thrust into the middle of a tantalizing and sexy mystery.