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Bad Things in the Night
Within the genre of traumatic childhood memoirs Beth Ellis' memoir will shine. It is a piece of strong, moving writing - both compulsively readable and heart rendingly evocative. It tells how Beth grew up with her loving mother and controlling step-father, in the secretive sect of a Jehovah's Witness community.
Veritas
When the hallowed halls of academia become the stage for murder, newly appointed Dean Beth Ellis's search for the truth leads her to unexpected discoveries about her own heart. For Beth Ellis, Grafton College and its faculty and students are her home and family. But the president of the college rubs everyone the wrong way, the new English professor on campus isn't much more popular, and Beth has her hands full trying to keep the peace as various campus factions quarrel. Still, she didn't expect a tenure battle to end in murder. Sally Sullivan left the Chicago police homicide division and returned to her hometown where, as chief of police, she expected her greatest challenges to be dealing wi...
On Edge
D.I. Millicent Hampshire is a formidable, part Afro-Caribbean and very pyschic detective from Witchmoor Edge CID, haunted by a nightmare of the ETA car bomb that killed her Spanish policeman husband years ago. This time it's triggered by her assignment to discover who planted the bomb in a tunnel a women's peace camp was building beneath Menwith Hill US anti-missile base in northern England. Millicent's own psi skills and those of her even more psychic friend Tobias N'Dibe, help her to close in on the bombers - but they turn on her. In a frantic last minute race against, Millicent is fortunate to have friends like Tobias N'Dibe, FBI Agent Wes Donnelly and her sidekick, D.S. Lucy Turner.
Civil Society in Liberal Democracy
In this contribution to contemporary political philosophy, Jensen aims to develop a model of civil society for deliberative democracy. His ideal treats civil society as both the context in which citizens live out their comprehensive views of the good life as well as the context in which citizens learn to be good deliberative democrats. Jensen is not a naive utopian, however; he argues that this ideal must be realized in stages, that it faces a variety of barriers, and that it cannot be realized without luck.
Plots of Enlightenment
Plots of Enlightenment explores the emergence of the English novel during the early 1700s as a preeminent form of popular education at a time when educators were defining a new kind of "modern" English citizenship for both men and women. This new individual was imagined neither as the free, self-determined figure of early modern liberalism or republicanism, nor, at the other extreme, as the product of a nearly totalized disciplinary regimen. Instead, this new citizen materialized from the tensile process of what the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu calls "regulated improvisation," a strategy of performed individual identity that combines both social orchestration and individual agency. This book ...
The Politics of Breast Cancer
Between 1990 and 1993, breast cancer activism became a significant political movement. The issue began to receive extensive media attention, and federal funding for breast cancer research jumped dramatically. Describing the origins of this surge in interest, Maureen Hogan Casamayou attributes it to the emergence of politically potent activism among breast cancer survivors and their supporters. Exploring the creation and development of the National Breast Cancer Coalition (NBCC), she shows how many of its key leaders were mobilized by their own traumatic experiences with the disease and its treatments. Casamayou details the NBCC’s meteoric rise and impressive lobbying efforts, explaining how—in contrast to grassroots movements founded by dedicated individuals—the coalition grew from the simultaneous efforts of a network of women who invested their time, energy, money, and professional skills in the fight for increased funding for breast cancer research. This multiple leadership—or collective entrepreneurialism, says Casamayou—was crucial to the NBCC’s success framing the issue in the minds of the public and policymakers alike.
An English Girl's First Impressions of Burmah
A spontaneous and irrepressibly humourous view of life in Burma a century ago. Devoid of all statistics and political observations, yet 'to those happy ones who love laughter, it will be welcome as gold'.
The Bookman
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