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The Prefect

2008 Fiction
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Release : 2008
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 917/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Prefect by : Alastair Reynolds

Download or read book The Prefect written by Alastair Reynolds. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prefect Tom Dreyfus investigates a murderous attack on one of the space habitats of the Glitter Band--a crime that has left nine hundred people dead--and uncovers a plot by a mysterious entity seeking total control of the region.

Elysium Fire

2018-01-23 Fiction
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Release : 2018-01-23
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 665/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Elysium Fire by : Alastair Reynolds

Download or read book Elysium Fire written by Alastair Reynolds. This book was released on 2018-01-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elysium Fire is a smoldering tale of murderers, secret cultists, tampered memories, and unthinkable power, of bottomless corruption and overpowering idealism from the king of modern space opera. Ten thousand city-state habitats orbit the planet Yellowstone, forming a near-perfect democratic human paradise. But even utopia needs a police force. For the citizens of the Glitter Band that organization is Panoply, and the prefects are its operatives. Prefect Tom Dreyfus has a new emergency on his hands. Across the habitats and their hundred million citizens, people are dying suddenly and randomly, victims of a bizarre and unprecedented malfunction of their neural implants. And these "melters" leave no clues behind as to the cause of their deaths. . . As panic rises in the populace, a charismatic figure is sowing insurrection, convincing a small but growing number of habitats to break away from the Glitter Band and form their own independent colonies.

Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Golden Samovar

2018-12-04 Fiction
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Release : 2018-12-04
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 712/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Golden Samovar by : Olga Wojtas

Download or read book Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Golden Samovar written by Olga Wojtas. This book was released on 2018-12-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A librarian with deceptively dangerous skills is sent back in time to Tzarist Russia in this “laugh-out-loud farce” and homage to Muriel Spark (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Never underestimate a librarian. Comfortable padded and in her middle years, Shona McMonagle may look bookish and harmless, but her education at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls has left her with a deadly expertise in everything from martial arts to quantum physics. It has also left her with a bone-deep loathing for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, that scurrilous novel that spread scandalous untruths about the finest educational institution in Edinburgh. Shona’s skills, her deceptively mild appearance, and her passionate loyalty make her the perfect recruit for an interesting new project: time travel to Tzarist Russia, prevent a gross miscarriage of romance, and—in any spare time—see to it that only the right people get murdered. It’s a big job, but no task is too daunting for a prefect from Miss Blaine’s. “A delightful addition to the ranks of comic crime.” —The Guardian, UK

Eversion

2022-08-02 Fiction
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Release : 2022-08-02
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 810/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Eversion by : Alastair Reynolds

Download or read book Eversion written by Alastair Reynolds. This book was released on 2022-08-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the master of the space opera comes a dark, mind-bending adventure spread across time and space, where Doctor Silas Coade is tasked with keeping his crew safe as they adventure across the galaxy in search of a mysterious artifact. In the 1800s, a sailing ship crashes off the coast of Norway. In the 1900s, a Zepellin explores an icy canyon in Antarctica. In the far future, a spaceship sets out for an alien artifact. Each excursion goes horribly wrong. And on every journey, Dr. Silas Coade is the physician, but only Silas seems to realize that these events keep repeating themselves. And it's up to him to figure out why and how. And how to stop it all from happening again.

Prefects, Governors and Commissioners

2020-12-28 Political Science
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Release : 2020-12-28
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 967/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Prefects, Governors and Commissioners by : Gildas Tanguy

Download or read book Prefects, Governors and Commissioners written by Gildas Tanguy. This book was released on 2020-12-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the Prefect an exception, surviving only in France and some countries influenced by Napoleon? No! This book tells the varied stories of the resilience, in most European States and under different names, of the prefectoral institution. It is the first comparative book in English studying these territorial administrators who have a go-between role in centre-periphery relations and a nodal role in territorial governance. Gathering a multidisciplinary team of scholars under the auspices of the European Group for Public Administration, this volume offers a fine-grained analysis of 17 national cases, examines cross-country data, and proposes a theoretical frame made of a Weberian ideal-type with three variants, to better comprehend and explain the permanence and changes of the prefectoral figure.

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