Travel, Gender, and Imperialism
Drawing from the life and travels of Mary Kingsley, a nineteenth century travel writer and critic of the Crown Colony system, Alison Blunt cogently examines the relationships among travel, gender and imperialism.
Dissident Geographies
This text explores radical perspectives in human geography thta revael and resist certain power relations that have constituted geographical knowledge. It reveals the connections between power, politics and geographical knowledge.
Home
Home articulates a 'critical geography of home' in which home is understood as an emotive place and spatial imaginary that encompasses lived experiences of everyday, domestic life alongside a wider, and often contested, sense of being and belongin...
Writing Women and Space
Drawing lessons from the complex and often contradictory position of white women writing in the colonial period, This unique book explores how feminism and poststructuralism can bring new types of understanding to the production of geographical kn...
Loosely Based On A Made-Up Story
This book is inspired by true events but is not a biography. The truth is My Truth is not The Truth, and that's as honest as I can be. It's partially true, rather than painfully true, and I have possibly been economical with the truth, Your Honour...
Loosely Based On A Made-Up Story
This book is inspired by true events but is not a biography. The truth is My Truth is not The Truth, and that's as honest as I can be. It's partially true, rather than painfully true, and I have possibly been economical with the truth, Your Honour...
Delicate Storm
Stylish, atmospheric psychological thriller following on from the Silver Dagger Award winner, Forty Words for Sorrow. A gruesome discovery in the wilderness above Algonquin Bay leads detectives John Cardinal and Lisa Delorme to a remote cabin that...
Borromini
Francesco Borromini is one of the great geniuses of Baroque architecture, perhaps the greatest in inventiveness and in use of spatial effects. Here is the first book in English to survey the whole work of the master. The author, former Director of...
Bad Juliet
At a sanatorium in the Adirondacks, a young tutor falls in love with a mysterious woman suffering from tuberculosis who survived the Lusitania disaster. Recently jilted by his fiancée, Paul Gascoyne takes a job as a tutor to the patients at the Trudeau Sanatorium in upstate New York. There, in the icebound beauty of the Adirondack Mountains, he finds himself drawn to Sarah Ballard, a beautiful but enigmatic young woman, traumatized by her past aboard the ill-fated Lusitania. To rouse her out of her gloom, Paul encourages her to write a memoir. As Paul reads her words, it gradually becomes clear that Sarah’s memories are a tangle of truth and fiction that he can’t begin to unravel. And yet he cannot overcome his attraction to her. When a terrible relapse leaves her worried that she has little time left, Sarah begs Paul to be the one person in the world who will truly know her.
Lionel the Lonely Monster
Lionel the monster finds it hard to make friends. Children are frightened of him, because, well, he is a monster. Grown-ups are too busy even to notice him. Then one day he meets a little dog who isn't frightened, and isn't too busy, and who just ...
En stilla storm
I de djupa skogarna utanför Algonquin Bay hittas en styckad kropp som björnarna festat på. Den mördade mannen visar sig vara en amerikan som nyligen anlänt till trakten med dunkla motiv. Jakten på mördaren leder kriminalinspektörerna John Ca...
Black Fly Season
The third atmospheric psychological thriller featuring detectives Cardinal and Delorme, from the award-winning author of FORTY WORDS FOR SORROW. Sacrifice for the spirits or brutal murder? Someone in Algonquin Bay is out for blood. A young woman h...
När du läser detta
Något ofattbart har hänt. Kriminalinspektör John Cardinal hittar sin fru Catherine död på gatan efter att hon störtat från taket på ett nybyggt höghus i östra Algonquin Bay. Allt tyder på självmord. Catherines bipolära sjukdom och inte mi...
Fruset offer
Flera tonåringar försvinner i den lilla staden Algonquin Bay i Kanada, och trots stora eftersökningar finns inga spår efter dem. När sökandet är på väg att avslutas sätter den envise kriminalaren John Cardinal trots det in ännu fler resurser...
Arktiska nätter
I utredningen av en serie mord och försvinnanden olikt några fall som kriminalinspektörerna John Cardinal och Lise Delorme tidigare stött på sätts de på stora prov både som människor och poliser. En senatorshustru har kedjats fast utanför...
Forty Words for Sorrow
Dark, atmospheric and terrifying psychological serial killer thriller set in a freezing Ontario winter, guaranteed to chill readers to the bone: 'Forty Words for Sorrow is brilliant' Jonathan Kellerman When four teenagers go missing in the small n...
Fields of Grief
A terrifying psychological thriller in which a spate of suicides could just be the work of a serial killer; featuring homicide detectives Cardinal and Delorme from the award-winning 'Forty Words for Sorrow'. Photographer Catherine Cardinal's fatal...
Until The Night
It's not unusual for John Cardinal to be hauled out of a warm bed on a cold night in Algonquin Bay to investigate a murder. And at first this dead body, sprawled in the parking lot of Motel 17, looks pretty run of the mill: the corpse has...
Identitet okänd
De kallar henne Red eftersom hon inte minns sitt namn. Den unga rödhåriga tjejen har förlorat minnet efter att hon blivit skjuten och det finns inga verkliga ledtrådar till vad som har hänt henne eller vem hon är. Det makabra fyndet av et...
Arktiska nätter
I utredningen av en serie mord och försvinnanden olikt några fall som kriminalinspektörerna John Cardinal och Lise Delorme tidigare stött på sätts de på stora prov både som människor och poliser. En senatorshustru har kedjats fast utanför ruinerna...
Artistic Theory in Italy 1450-1600
This book seeks to broaden the comprehension of the student of Italian Renaissance painting by concentrating not on the works of art themselves, but on the various artistic theories which influenced them or were expressed by them. Taking Alberti's...
Fader Död
Ett förbjudet kärleksmöte får ett skrämmande slut när en ung kvinna blir överraskad av främlingar som kommer till fritidshuset som hon och hennes pojkvän tillfälligt lånat. Hon gömmer sig under en säng för att inte bli upptäckt, men snart ek...
Multiphase Flow in Permeable Media
Hydrocarbon production, gas recovery from shale, CO2 storage and water management have a common scientific underpinning: multiphase flow in porous media. This book provides a fundamental description of multiphase flow through porous rock, with emp...
Global Poverty, Injustice, and Resistance
Global Poverty, Injustice, and Resistance
Foot Soldier
Through the prism of ultimate victory, the greatest generation that fought World War II has been seen as triumphant. But the brutal reality of the war as endured by combat infantrymen has remained little documented. In Foot Soldier , Roscoe C. Blu...
Realism, Representation, and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Literature
This book confronts a significant paradox in the development of literary realism: the very novels that present themselves as purveyors and celebrants of direct, ordinary human experience also manifest an obsession with art that threatens to sabota...
Formulaic Language and the Lexicon
A considerable proportion of our everyday language is 'formulaic'. It is predictable in form, idiomatic, and seems to be stored in fixed, or semi-fixed, chunks. This book explores the nature and purposes of formulaic language, and looks for patter...
Conservation
'Conservation: Principles, Dilemmas, and Uncomfortable Truths' presents multi-perspective critical analyses of the ethics and principles that guide the conservation of works of art and design, archaeological artefacts, buildings, monuments, and he...
Village of Happy Ever Afters
From top 50 bestselling author Alison Sherlock and her Riverside Lane Series.Molly Hopkins has happily watched all of her friends' dreams come true on Riverside Lane. Deciding to follow her passion for baking, Molly with the help of her friends ta...
Winter Magic on Railway Lane
Join the residents of Railway Lane for one last magical adventure?Globetrotting Libby Jacobs has lost her job but is looking forward to spending more time in her home village of Cranfield. She dreams of turning her chocolate making hobby into some...
Madness in International Relations
Madness in International Relations provides an important and innovative account of the role of psychology and psychiatry in global politics, showing how mental health governance has become a means of securing various populations, often with questi...
Truth Commissions and Criminal Courts
This detailed evaluation of the relationship between trials and truth commissions challenges their assumed compatibility through an analysis of their operational features at national, inter-state and international levels. Alison Bisset conducts ca...