Describes the business advantages of using Java, and looks at examples of how companies have used it

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Offers tips on the care of the skin, hair, and nails, surveys a variety of hairstyles, and discusses the proper use of makeup

In this beautifully translated account of loss and reconciliation set in the time of the Spanish Civil War, four subtly connected vignettes come together to form a cohesive narrative that underlines the horrors of the war in Spain. The stories are narrated in the same engaging spirit but are clearly set apart by the individual voices of the narrating characters: a captain in Franco's army who renounces winning the war on the very day of victory; a young poet who flees with his pregnant girlfriend and is forced to grow up quickly, only to die within a few months; a prisoner in Porlier's jail who refuses to live a lie so that his executioner can be held accountable; and a lustful deacon who hides his desires behind the apostolic fascism that clamors for the purifying blood of the defeated. Combining power and passion with delicacy and literary art, these heartbreaking tales blur the line between victor and conquest until only one thing remains clear-whatever one's affiliations, nobody survives unscathed.

The sole survivor of a plane crash, down-on-his-luck Arnie Baldwin must fight to keep his sanity--and his life--when a crazed looter of the plane wreckage vows to kill Arnie to cover up his deeds. Original.

The sole survivor of a plane crash, down-on-his-luck Arnie Baldwin must fight to keep his sanity--and his life--when a crazed looter of the plane wreckage vows to kill Arnie to cover up his deeds. Original.

The sole survivor of a plane crash, down-on-his-luck Arnie Baldwin must fight to keep his sanity--and his life--when a crazed looter of the plane wreckage vows to kill Arnie to cover up his deeds. Original.

"One of the finest examples of European 'noir' literature."—John Harvey"Montalbán writes with authority and compassion—a Le Carré-like sorrow."—Publishers WeeklyPepe Carvalho, ex-cop, ex-Marxist, and constant gourmet, is working as a private detective in Barcelona when a body is pulled out of the sea, its face so badly destroyed that the only way of indentifying it is through a tattoo that says "Born to raise hell in hell."Manuel Vázquez Montalbán was born in Barcelona in 1939. He won both the Raymond Chandler Prize and the French Grand Prix of Detective Fiction for his thrillers. He died in 2003.

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An English industrialist roams the Argentine pampas in search of the most rare and elusive of animals: the Legibrian hare. The Indians he meets report sightings of the hare, but on investigation, Clarke finds in these sightings more than meets the eye.

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Buenos Aires, Argentina. A passenger liner runs aground on the muddy banks of the nearby Rio de la Plata. The passengers are reduced to sleeping in the corridors of hotels and fall easy prey to the city's criminal class, who are always willing to take a wealthy tourist hostage. The first to go missing are a Colombian drug baron and his girlfriend, apprehended by Federal Police who may or may not be all they claim to be. But criminal celebrities of this calibre are a valuable commodity, and their abductor soon finds that the couple has been lifted from under his nose. Into the confusion steps Walter Carroza, a weary but honest cop. With his sidekick and confidante, Veronica Berutti, a policeman's widow and crusading lawyer, he embarks on an investigation that will lead him from the shanty markets of Buenos Aires' Bolivian quarter through layer upon layer of corruption towards the 'Holy Land', a theme park based on ancient Palestine, where a killer with a grisly taste for memorabilia lurks.

Gourmet detective Pepe Carvalho returns to investigate Argentina's turbulent political past."The modern committed writer, Montalbán exposes the criminal power relationships beneath the facade of democracy."-GuardianWhen Pepe Carvalho's uncle asks him to find his son, Raúl, in Buenos Aires, Pepe is reluctant. All he knows about Argentina is "tango, Maradona, and the disappeared" and he has no desire to find out more. But family is family and soon Carvalho is in Buenos Aires, getting more caught up in Argentina's troubled past than is good for anybody. Montalbán's unique mix of socialist politics, sexual intrigue and cultural underworlds are given a new twist against this South American backdrop.Manuel Vázquez Montalbán lives in Barcelona, where he was born in 1939. In 1998, Montalbán was awarded the Raymond Chandler Prize for his mysteries.