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Research Handbook on Contemporary Intangible Cultural Heritage
Bringing together key insights from expert legal and heritage academics and practitioners, this book explores the existence and safeguarding of contemporary forms of intangible cultural heritage (ICH). Providing a detailed analysis of the international legal frameworks relevant to ICH, the contributing authors then go on to challenge the pervasive view that heritage is about ‘old’ tangible objects by highlighting the existence, role and importance of contemporary forms of ICH to modern society.
DRIP
DRIP follows Buffalo New York Police Inspector Dave “Soop” Alexander as his team works to solve three particularly gruesome and seemingly related copycat murder cases, including the assassination of the mayor of Buffalo, New York. Alexander is assisted by visiting Woman Police Constable (WPC) Janet Angus from Edinburgh, Scotland. Alexander’s team solves each case by using highly focused police work and the practice of medically injecting suspects with a sodium Amytal drip (truth serum). DRIP has it all—forensics, professional descriptions of gruesome crime scenes, international searches, gang murder, dead bodies in the Niagara River, and a highly charged romance for the two lead investigating officers as they work to solve the murders.
International Cultural Heritage Law
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the development of international cultural heritage law and policy since 1945. It sets out the international (including regional) law currently governing the protection and safeguarding of cultural heritage in peace time, as well as international cultural policy-making. In addition to analyzing the relevant legal frameworks, it focuses on the broader policy and other contexts within which and in response to which this law has developed. Following this approach, attention is paid to: introducing international cultural heritage law and its place in international law generally; illicit excavation and the illegal trade in archaeological finds; protec...
The Master of Mrs. Chilvers
Set in a drawing-room in London’s Russell Square in 1911, ‘The Master of Mrs. Chilvers: An Improbable Comedy’ is a fictional stage play full of wit and warmth, which addresses the issue of women’s rights in Edwardian England. As the play progresses, and Mrs. Chilvers joins the timely cause of women's suffrage, her seemingly sudden commitment to suffragette radicalism shocks her husband and has a large effect on the rest of her upper class family. The four act play by author and playwright Jerome K Jerome, whose other works include 'Three Men in a Boat' and ‘The Observations of Henry’, begins with a detailed introduction to the play with insightfully personal character description...
The Secrets of Spirit Island
Jack lives on the Minnesota and Canada border. His grandpa and father are lumberjacks, working for a big lumber company. His best friend is a big yellow Labrador dog named Duke, who plays an important part in his life. An Oriental family from China moves to their neighborhood. Phan becomes his best friend, and Phan’s father teaches them ninja. During one of their adventures, Jack finds a cave on the side of the mountain where ancient medicine men live, who teach him the secrets of the island. As the years go by, he marries his girlfriend, Jessie, and they have a family. Jack is drafted into the service and is sent to Vietnam, where he uses the secrets the old medicine men taught him.
Bread of Tears
A Christian murder mystery. An explosive novel of power, corruption, betrayal and murder. A once vital church comes apart and it will take hard work and courage for those who remain to put the pieces back together. Scott Henry is called in to investigate financial mismanagement. A new board has been elected and too many questions remain unanswered. But what Scott finds doesn't stop at church finances. Members of the old board were up to much, much more. With support from the new board, and some members of the congregation finally coming forward, the web of deceit, a high flying lifestyle and flagrant disregard for others finally emerges...with shocking results.
Out For Blood
This is the disturbing account of 31-year-old Joanna Dennehy, mother of two, the man under her spell, Gary Stretch, 47, and the murder investigation that led them and others to the Old Bailey for trial. A true crime short, plus 17 additional true crime stories. It was the day before Easter, 2013. A man out walking his dog on a rural road near Peterborough, United Kingdom found a dead body lying in a ditch. The grisly discovery preceded two other dead body discoveries under similar circumstances, thus launching police on a massive country-wide manhunt for a self-mutilating female psychopath with an affinity for knives and her 7-foot 3-inch tall companion and accomplice. Before their bloody ra...
The Dream Endures
The fifth volume in Starr's classic history of California, The Dream Endures shows how Californians rebounded from the Great Depression to emerge in the 1930s into what is now known as "the good life." Starr illustrates the ways the good life prospered in California--in film, fiction, leisure, and architecture. Starr looks at the newly important places where Californians lived out this sunny lifestyle: areas like Los Angeles (where Hollywood lived), Palm Springs (where Hollywood vacationed), San Diego (where the Navy went), the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena (where Einstein changed his view of the universe), and college towns like Berkeley. "In this, more than any other of Starr's monumental California histories, we see the stirrings of uniqueness in the social and cultural evolution of California. Starr's theme is relevant to all of America and the national destiny."--Neil Morgan, San Diego Union-Tribune "Enormously sensitive and moving. Social and cultural history doesn't get any better."--San Francisco Chronicle "In his monumental continuing study of California, Kevin Starr belongs in the company of the best."--Herbert Gold, Los Angeles Times Book Review
Blake, Politics, and History
First published in 1998, this book formed part of an ongoing effort to restore politics and history to the centre of Blake studies. It adopts a three pronged approach when presenting its essays, seeking to promote a return to the political Blake; to deepen the understanding of some of the conversations articulated in Blake’s art by introducing new, historical material or new interpretations of texts; and to highlight differing perspectives on Blake’s politics among historically focused critics. The collection contains essays with varying methodological assumptions and differing positions on questions central to historicist Blake scholarship.
