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Martina Gracanin-Yuksek

    All that remains
    Body of Evidence
    Postmortem
    The Body Farm
    Merge
    Phase Theory
    • Phase Theory

      • 240 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      Phase Theory is the latest empirical and conceptual innovation in syntactic theory within the Chomskyan generative tradition. Adopting a cross-linguistic perspective, this book provides an introduction to Phase Theory, tracing the development of phases in minimalist syntax.

      Phase Theory
      5.0
    • Merge

      • 192 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      An argument that Merge is binary but its binarity refers to syntactic positions rather than objects. In this book, Barbara Citko and Martina Gračanin-Yüksek examine the constraints on Merge--the basic structure-building operation in minimalist syntax--from a multidominant perspective. They maintain that Merge is binary, but argue that the binarity of Merge refers to syntactic positions Merge relates: what has typically been formulated as a constraint that prevents Merge from combining more than two syntactic objects is a constraint on Merge's relating more than two syntactic positions.

      Merge
    • The Body Farm

      • 293 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      Dr. Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner for Virginia, investigates the sex murder of a girl by an escaped convict. The probe requires exhuming the body for a second autopsy. Lots of information on bodies and autopsies. By the author of Cruel and Unusual.

      The Body Farm
      4.1
    • A serial killer is on the loose in Richmond, Virginia. Three women have died, brutalised and strangled in their own bedroom. There is no pattern: the killer appears to strike at random - but always early on Saturday mornings. So when Dr Kay Scarpetta, chief medical officer, is awakened at 2.33 am, she knows the news is bad: there is a fourth victim. And she fears now for those that will follow unless she can dig up new forensic evidence to aid the police. But not everyone is pleased to see a woman in this powerful job. Someone may even want to ruin her career and reputation ...

      Postmortem
      4.1
    • Body of Evidence

      • 387 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      A reclusive writer is dead. And her final manuscript has disappeared ... Someone is stalking Beryl Madison. Someone who spies on her and makes threatening, obscene phone-calls. Terrified, Beryl flees to Key West - but eventually she must return to her Richmond home. The very night she arrives, Beryl inexplicably invites her killer in ... Thus begins for Dr Kay Scarpetta the investigation of a crime that is as convoluted as it is bizarre. Why would Beryl open the door to someone who brutally slashed and then nearly decapitated her? Did she know her killer? Adding to the intrigue is Beryl's enigmatic relationship with a prize-winning author and the disappearance of her own manuscript. As Scarpetta retraces Beryl's footsteps, an investigation that begins in the laboratory with microscopes and lasers leads her deep into a nightmare that soon becomes her own.

      Body of Evidence
      3.9
    • All that remains

      • 438 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a forensic pathologist and her colleagues, investigates a couple killer.

      All that remains
      3.8
    • Farma leševa

      • 283 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      Mirni gradić Black Mountain u srcu savezne države Sjevena Karolina potrest će jeziv zločin. Način na koji je počinjeno ubojstvo jedanaestogodišnje djevojčice natjerat će dr. Kay Scarpetta i policijskog poručnika Petea Marina da posumnjaju kako je riječ o još jednom zlodjelu okrutnog ubojice Gaulta. Tijekom istrage na licu mjesta, u kojoj će im se pridružiti specijalni agent Wesley i Scarpettina nećakinja Lucy, situacija će se dodatno zakomplicirati novim ubojstvima, pa zatim i složenim međusobnim odnosima samih istražitelja. Jedinu nadu za rješenje ovog zapletenog ubojstva dr. Scarpetta očekuje od rezultata eksperimenta kojeg će pokušati privesti kraju na istraživačkom poligonu sudske patologije poznatom pod nazivom Farma leševa. U hrvatskom prijevodu Martine Gračanin i uz ilustraciju Nenada Martića Farma leševa Patricije Cornwell peti je roman u seriji slučajeva dr. Kay Scarpetta, trenutačno najpopularnijeg lika kriminalističkih romana u svijetu.

      Farma leševa
    • American pastoral

      • 500 pages
      • 18 hours of reading

      The tragic impact of the Vietnam War on a relationship between father and daughter. The father is an upstanding individual who believes in the American Dream, but his daughter has a different dream, to get America out of Vietnam and she kills innocent people to achieve it. For the father it is the end of the world, he has lost his daughter. By the author of Sabbath's Theater

      American pastoral
      4.2
    • “A knockout” (People) of a thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell featuring medical examiner Kay Scarpetta. “Killing me won’t kill the beast” are the last words of rapist-murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell, written four days before his execution. But they can’t explain how medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds Waddell’s fingerprints on another crime scene—after she’d performed his autopsy. If this is some sort of game, Scarpetta seems to be the target. And if the next victim is someone she knows, the punishment will be cruel and unusual...

      Cruel and unusual
      4.2
    • Cause of Death

      • 356 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      It is New Year's Eve and Dr. Kay Scarpetta plunges into the murky depths of a ship graveyard to recover he very human remains of Ted Eddings, an investigative reporter.

      Cause of Death
      4.0
    • Pčelareva naučnica

      • 368 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      U raskošnoj galeriji likova koju je ostavio Arthur Conan Doyle, središnje mjesto zauzima portret Sherlocka Holmesa, dok je pored njega ostao prazan okvir savršeno podoban za prkosni profil jedne gospođice. Američka književnica Laurie R. King, dobitnica dviju prestižnih nagrada za najbolji kriminalistički roman, odlučila je ispuniti taj okvir likom mlade Mary Russell. U travnju 1915. godine, Mary, petnaestogodišnjakinja briljantnog uma i sposobnosti dedukcije, umalo nagazi pognutog pedesetogodišnjaka koji promatra pčele. Njezina drskost i načitanost izazivaju iznenađeni komentar od inače ženama nesklonog Holmesa: “Pa to zna razmišljati!” Tako započinje naukovanje Mary Russell, buduće suradnice slavnog detektiva. Njihove avanture zabilježene su u pet romana, predstavljajući najvjerniji nastavak Doylove književnosti. King uspijeva dočarati ton, ugođaj i duh vremena, zadržavajući izvornu cjelovitost Holmesova karaktera, dok stvara potpuno samostalan, oštrouman i duhovit ženski lik. Roman je prevela Martina Gračanin, a ilustraciju na naslovnici izradio je Igor Kordej, uz napomenu da su negativci naslikani na bijelim poljima jer uvijek igraju prljavo.

      Pčelareva naučnica
    • Sa sirotinjskog groblja

      šesti slučaj doktorice Kay Scarpetta

      • 319 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      U dobrotvornoj akciji na Badnju večer Kay Scarpetta i Pete Marino dijele pokrivače siromašnoj djeci Richmonda. No njihovi planovi za božićne praznike rasplinut će se zajedno s dimom baruta i nestati kao odjek hitaca u noći. Leš mladog crnca na vratima kuće u kojoj su se zatekli biti će samo uvertira. Njihov zakleti neprijatelj Temple Brooks Gault, serijski ubojica s najmanje pet žrtava na krvavom popisu, ima svoj vlastiti plan za proslavu blagdana. U njujorškom Central Parku pronađen je leš s jasnim Gaultovim zločinačkim potpisom. Sada će sve drugo morati pričekati dok se ne iščitaju tragovi u snijegu a mrtvo tijelo nepoznate mlade žene ne oda posljednju tajnu i usmjeri doktoricu Scarpetta na pravi put. Patricia Cornwell sa svojim šestim romanom Sa sirotinjskoga groblja nastavlja najuspješniju kriminalističku seriju novog doba. Za svaku novu Scarpettu već su unaprijed rezervirane milijunske naklade, prvo mjesto na listi najprodavanijih knjiga i prijevodi na tridesetak jezika.

      Sa sirotinjskog groblja
    • Sve što ostaje

      • 343 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      U zabitim šumskim predjelima savezne države Virginije lovci i izletnici pronalaze davno ostavljena trupla mladih parova. Doktorica Kay Scarpetta, glavni sudski patolog, usprkos svojem bogatom iskustvu, neće uspjeti utvrditi uzroke smrti iz posmrtnih ostataka, a kamoli naći neki trag koji bi policijskog inspektora Marina mogao dovesti do iznimno opreznog i lukavog ubojice. No kada kći jedne od najmoćnijih žena u američkoj politici postane žrtvom opakog serijskog ubojice, pritisak na doktoricu Scarpettu postat će neizdrživ. Od najtanjih niti indicija, gotovo nepostojećih dokaza, kontradiktornih činjenica i maglovitih sumnji Kay Scarpetta bit će prisiljena isplesti paukovu mrežu nadajući se da će biti dovoljno čvrsta da se ubojica uplete u nju.

      Sve što ostaje