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Escapade 297
This chilling thriller came to be written because the SS Richard Montgomery, a USA Liberty Ship, sank in the Thames Estuary in August 1944 and remained there, masts visible and much of her deadly cargo still aboard On March 27th 1980 a resident in Suffolk receives an anonymous telephone call telling him that unless the British Government removes its troops policing the colony of Cortesa, Central America, before 14th April, then the Richard Montgomery will get blown up on that date. Was it a hoax? And if it wasn t, how was it to be achieved? And by whom? Philip Hardie, a Secret Intelligence Service Officer heads the teams charged with finding the answers. They must make the ship safe well before the 14th deadline, if the public are not, out of necessity, to be made aware that a wreck, which has over the years become a tourist attraction, is now something much more a stockpile of terror. A story of the security forces efforts and what Hardie learns during the course of events
Cathy's Men
Cathy believed she was truly in love at eighteen and readily married her beau. Had she not it's certain she never would have met the real love of her life almost a decade later, during the 1970s... Told is Cathy's story, skillfully interwoven with the lives of a few men whilst each, in turn, is the one who is very much in Cathy's orbit - Thomas, her husband; Luke, a TV Presenter; Don, her local butcher; Christian, a soldier. At times earthy, this fascinating, atmospheric novel is dramatic in punch and trenchant in its observation of its characters' mentalities, and will live long in the memory.
Manufacturing Guilt (2nd edition)
Manufacturing Guilt, 2nd edition, updates the cases presented in the first edition and includes two new chapters: one concerning the case of James Driskell and another regarding Dr. Charles Smith, whose role in forensic pathology evidence led to several wrongful convictions. In this new edition, the authors demonstrate that the same factors at play in the criminalization of the powerless and marginalized are found in cases of wrongful conviction. Contrary to popular belief, wrongful convictions are not due simply to “unintended errors,” but rather are too often the result of the deliberate actions of those working in the criminal justice system. Using Canadian cases of miscarriages of justice, the authors argue that understanding wrongful convictions and how to prevent them is incomplete outside the broader societal context in which they occur, particularly regarding racial and social inequality.
Duty Target
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Naroh's Task
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Flying Adventurers
Aviation books were a unique and prolific subgenre of American juvenile literature from the early to mid-20th century, drawing upon the nation's intensifying interest. The first books of this type, Harry L. Sayler's series Airship Boys, appeared shortly after the Wright brothers' first successful flight in 1909. Following Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic, popular series like Ted Scott and Andy Lane established the "golden age" of juvenile aviation literature. This work examines the 375 juvenile aviation series titles published between 1909 and 1964. It weaves together several thematic threads, including the placement of aviation narratives within the context of major historical events, the technical accuracy in depictions of flying machines and the ways in which characters reflected the culture of their eras. Three appendices provide publication data for each series, a list of referenced aircraft and an annotated bibliography; there is a full index.
A Culture of Rights
With the passage into law of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, rights took on new legal, political, and social significance in Canada. In the decades following, Canadian jurisprudence has emphasised the importance of rights, determining their shape and asserting their centrality to legal ideas about what Canada represents. At the same time, an increasing number of Canadian novels have also engaged with the language of human rights and civil liberties, reflecting, like their counterparts in law, the possibilities of rights and the failure of their protection. In A Culture of Rights, Benjamin Authers reads novels by authors including Joy Kogawa, Margaret Atwood, Timothy Find...
Witness Testimony Evidence
Recent work in artificial intelligence has increasingly turned to argumentation as a rich, interdisciplinary area of research that can provide new methods related to evidence and reasoning in the area of law. Douglas Walton provides an introduction to basic concepts, tools and methods in argumentation theory and artificial intelligence as applied to the analysis and evaluation of witness testimony. He shows how witness testimony is by its nature inherently fallible and sometimes subject to disastrous failures. At the same time such testimony can provide evidence that is not only necessary but inherently reasonable for logically guiding legal experts to accept or reject a claim. Walton shows how to overcome the traditional disdain for witness testimony as a type of evidence shown by logical positivists, and the views of trial sceptics who doubt that trial rules deal with witness testimony in a way that yields a rational decision-making process.
