Game Over (Bob Skinner series, Book 27)

Author: Quintin Jardine
Publisher: Headline
ISBN: 1472205731
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448

Book Description
GAME OVER is the twenty-seventh gripping Bob Skinner mystery from crime master Quintin Jardine, author of HOUR OF DARKNESS, LAST RESORT, PRIVATE INVESTIGATIONS and many more. 'Another cracker from Jardine...There are plenty of twists and turns along the way to keep you engrossed' Scots Magazine When supermodel Annette Bordeaux is found battered and strangled in her Edinburgh flat, former Chief Constable Bob Skinner's old team instantly have a global case on their hands. The victim's husband, world-renowned footballer and recent Merrytown FC signing, is quickly discounted as a suspect. But there are others in the club with less watertight alibis... Two years out of the game, Skinner can't help getting his hands dirty. And as his old team work to convict the prime suspect, his own daughter, Alex, is the lawyer tasked with leading the defence. The opposing sides must work to find the culprit while the press watch on. But in this game, no one can be trusted, and there are murkier deeds still to uncover before the final whistle blows...

Fatal Last Words

Author: Quintin Jardine
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780755329168
Category : Celebrities
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
One of Scotland's most successful crime writers is found dead in the author tent at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, and Bob Skinner is on the case.

Stay of Execution

Author: Quintin Jardine
Publisher: Charnwood
ISBN: 9781843953906
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 560

Book Description
Detective Chief Constable Bob Skinner is involved in security for the Pope, but he must find out if there's a connection between the unusual deaths that are happening and the important visit.

Albion's Seed

Author: David Hackett Fischer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019974369X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 981

Book Description
This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.

Skinner's Rules

Author: Quintin Jardine
Publisher: Headline
ISBN: 9780755357703
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The book that launched a legend: the first novel in the acclaimed Bob Skinner series. As head of Edinburgh's CID, Detective Chief Superintendent Bob Skinner has seen it all... but even he is shocked by the savagely mutilated corpse discovered in a dark alleyway. The victim is identified as a successful young lawyer, and the motive for the brutal death remains a mystery. Then further seemingly random killings in the city begin to suggest a vicious serial killer is on the rampage. But when the lawyer's fiancee is also murdered, Skinner realises that someone is in deadly earnest...

Machiavelli: The Prince

Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521349932
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202

Book Description
Professor Skinner presents a lucid analysis of Machiavelli's text as a response to the world of Florentine politics.

About Behaviorism

Author: B.F. Skinner
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307797848
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 303

Book Description
The basic book about the controversial philosophy known as behaviorism, written by its leading exponent.

Philosophy Bites Back

Author: David Edmonds
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191655392
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
Philosophy Bites Back is the second book to come out of the hugely successful podcast Philosophy Bites. It presents a selection of lively interviews with leading philosophers of our time, who discuss the ideas and works of some of the most important thinkers in history. From the ancient classics of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, to the groundbreaking modern thought of Wittgenstein, Rawls, and Derrida, this volume spans over two and a half millennia of western philosophy and illuminates its most fascinating ideas. Philosophy Bites was set up in 2007 by David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton. It has had over 12 million downloads, and is listened to all over the world.

The Dartmouth Murders

Author: Eric Francis
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312982317
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266

Book Description
Provides an account of the murders of popular Dartmouth College professors Half and Susanne Zantop by two high school students in 2001 who committed the crime in an effort to get money to travel to Australia.

Head Shot

Author: Quintin Jardine
Publisher: Headline Book Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780747263883
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385

Book Description
When faced with the murdered bodies of his in-laws in New York State, Edinburgh's Constable Bob Skinner ignores the fact that he is out of his jurisdiction and proceeds to investigate. He soon uncovers links to three other murders.