6/12/2023 0 Comments The lizard king bryan christy![]() ![]() The whole heist was worth £500,000 on the black market. A grand total of 75 animals were stolen and Wong got possession of 37 of them. Wong was also involved in the theft of critically endangered ploughshare tortoisees from a breeding sanctuary in Madagascar. Wong managed to smuggle reptiles to the United States by the use of an import/export business. Prices for these animals were up to £20,000 and £11,000 respectively. He traded in the almost extinct Komodo dragons and critically endangered Chinese alligator. Wong owned a private zoo which he used to smuggle animals. Keng Liang "Anson" Wong, a Malaysian citizen known as the "Lizard King" after publication of the book, The Lizard King by Bryan Christy, was deemed to be responsible for the biggest global animal smuggling ring that has been taken down. ![]()
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6/12/2023 0 Comments Leila by Prayaag Akbar![]() ![]() ![]() While the rise of technocratic autocracy and security regimes has been remarked upon, the simultaneous return of bonds of allegiance has been to a large degree overlooked. In his analysis of governance by numbers, Alain Supiot shows how this form of governance ushers in a return of ties of allegiance and the re-emergence of feudalism in new guises. ![]() The real has come to mirror the structure of dystopian fiction. Pandemic governance has enforced an extreme governance by numbers. Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of technocratic near-real-time data-driven governance, in that new rules, measures, and prohibitions have been introduced and revoked in response to predictive statistical and epidemiological models, graphs, charts, and aesthetically powerful data visualizations. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Hurray for fish![]() ![]() Urn:oclc:848954644 Republisher_date 20180518155825 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 281 Scandate 20180508121321 Scanner Scanningcenter hongkong Tts_version v1. Hello I am Little Fish - Lucy Cousins Hello I am Little Fish, Swimming in the sea. Hurray for Norway on National Day KID MENU 1.49.00. Urn:lcp:hoorayforfish00cous:lcpdf:2f6aeb3b-58ea-43a1-a05f-41babf383417 Extramarc University of Alberta Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier hoorayforfish00cous Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t8kd5xr86 Invoice 1213 Isbn 9780763627416Ġ763627410 Lccn 2004061811 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary O元311057M Openlibrary_edition Gteborg Crispy home fried fish fillet, homemade Danish remoulade, capers & leek. ![]() ![]() Internetarchivebookdrive Edition 1st U.S. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:10:50 Boxid IA1207918 City Cambridge, Mass. Hooray for Fish is a colourful and engaging picture book packed with fun illustrations of all sorts of interesting-looking fish. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments The darkest temptation![]() ![]() Elegantly dressed couples milled in through the front doors, hand in hand. We arrived at the Moskovskiy ten minutes later. Quelling the unladylike impulse to catch a snowflake on my tongue, I continued walking to the car. Looking up, I noticed Ronan watching me, and warmth rushed to my cheeks at his heavy attention. I caught a flake in my palm, studying how it melted on my skin within seconds. It was like someone above had torn their wedding dress apart and let the pieces of tulle float to the pavement. I stopped on the sidewalk and lifted my eyes to the sky to watch snow fall for the first time. ![]() On the way back to the car, a flurry landed on my lashes. His eyes narrowed-apparently, he was on to me-but he didn’t voice his disapproval. I ran my hand down a white faux fur coat that had to be the cheapest of the lot and said, “This one.” His gaze set me on edge, so I distracted myself by perusing the clothing racks. He regarded me heavily, as if I was an odd breed of woman. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lie has created luxury fragrances for indie and designer brands alike, including Givenchy, Versace, Tom Ford, Nina Ricci, Costume Nationale, and Ermenegildo Zegna. “We wanted to bring back the emotion of animalic perfumes,” she says, adding that “after decades of its virtual extinction, Eris Parfums' first collection 'brings back the beast' in perfume." She also often writes and comments about vintage perfumes for business, popular, fashion media. Herman is not only the author or Scent and Subversion. Together they “have reimagined the intensity and eros of perfumes of the past for a contemporary audience,” explains Herman in a press release announcing Eris. To develop the collection, Barbara Herman worked with perfumer Antoine Lie. After years of planning and a crowd-sourced funding campaign on Indiegogo, the Eris Parfums collection of three fragrances is now available for pre-order and will be shipping out in March. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Snowed in by rachel hawthorne![]() ![]() ![]() The Hunger Games universe is a dystopia set in Panem, a North American country consisting of the wealthy Capitol and 13 districts in varying states of poverty. By the time the film adaptation of The Hunger Games was released in 2012, the publisher had reported over 26 million Hunger Games trilogy books in print, including movie tie-in books. ![]() The first two books in the series were both New York Times best sellers, and Mockingjay topped all US bestseller lists upon its release. Each was adapted for film, establishing The Hunger Games film series, with the film adaptation of Mockingjay split into two feature-length motion pictures. The novels in the trilogy are titled The Hunger Games (2008), Catching Fire (2009), and Mockingjay (2010). The first three novels are part of a trilogy following teenage protagonist Katniss Everdeen, and the fourth book is a prequel set 64 years before the original. The Hunger Games is a series of young adult dystopian novels written by American author Suzanne Collins. 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With constant discounts available, Mixbook’s ordinary pricing becomes fairly arbitrary and meaningless. this stage premiere gives the story a fresh, dynamic lease of life." Roger Malone, The Stage In transferring it from page to stage, adaptors Anita Sullivan and David Prescott have cleverly distilled the essence of Alan Garner's classic sixties novel, targeting a new youthful audience. In the heat of high summer, punctuated with dramatic thunderstorms, secrets of the past are poised to consume the present. Here simmering tension is brought teasingly to the boil as myth begins to eclipse reality. From the start the company conjures a drama of cliff-hanger proportions as circumstances throw three teenagers together in a remote Welsh valley. 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Radical civil and women’s rights activist Pauli Murray and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt corresponded for years and swayed one another’s social justice aims and strategies. ![]() ![]() In The Firebrand and the First Lady, scholar Patricia Bell-Scott illuminates the unlikely friendship between two historic American women. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Cather song of the lark![]() ![]() At each step along the way, her realization of the mediocrity of her peers propels her to greater levels of accomplishment, but in the course of her ascent she must discard those relationships which no longer serve her. El libro SONG OF THE LARK de WILLA CATHER en Casa del Libro: ¡descubre las mejores ofertas y envíos gratis Envío en 1 día gratis a partir de 19 Blog Estado de tu pedido Ayuda Venta a empresas e instituciones 0. ![]() The novel captures Thea's independent-mindedness, her strong work ethic, and her ascent to her highest achievement. 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