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Forensic cultures in modern Europe
This edited volume examines the performance and role of scientific experts in modern European courts of law and police investigations. It discusses cases from criminal, civil and international law to parse the impact of forensic evidence and expertise in different European countries. The contributors show how modern forensic science and technology are inextricably entangled with political ideology, gender norms and changes in the law and legal systems. Discussing fascinating case studies, they highlight how the ideology of authoritarian and liberal regimes has affected the practical enactment of forensic expertise. They also emphasise the influence of images of masculinity and femininity on the performance of experts and on their assessment of evidence, victims and perpetrators. This book is an important contribution to our knowledge of modern European forensic practices.
Reassembling the Republic of Letters in the Digital Age
Between 1500 and 1800, the rapid evolution of postal communication allowed ordinary men and women to scatter letters across Europe like never before. This exchange helped knit together what contemporaries called the ‘respublica litteraria’, a knowledge-based civil society, crucial to that era’s intellectual breakthroughs, formative of many modern values and institutions, and a potential cornerstone of a transnational level of European identity. Ironically, the exchange of letters which created this community also dispersed the documentation required to study it, posing enormous difficulties for historians of the subject ever since. To reassemble that scattered material and chart the hi...
Changing Lara
There have been times when Lara has regretted choosing what she came to think of ironically as her 'brilliant career', while at others she's felt very proud of what she's achieved. Has it all been worth it? Maybe it has, but sometimes, in the middle of yet another dark, lonely night in a bland hotel room, she can't help wondering... Deciding it's time to retire, Lara moves to a leisure village in Wiltshire, looking forward to the adventure that her new life will bring. But when long-standing arrangements crumble, her situation quickly becomes worrying. With her dreams in disarray, Lara makes friends with the other residents and finds herself entangled in the ups and downs, triumphs and tragedies of her new community, hoping against hope that her independence will one day be restored.
Supper Club
A sharply intelligent and intimate debut novel about a secret society of hungry young women who meet after dark and feast to reclaim their appetites--and their physical spaces--that posits the question: If you feed a starving woman, what will she grow into? Roberta spends much of her time trying not to take up space. At almost thirty, she is adrift and alienated from life. Stuck in her mindless job and reluctant to pursue her passion for food, she suppresses her appetite and recedes to the corners of rooms. But when she meets Stevie, a spirited and effervescent artist, their intense friendship sparks a change in Roberta, a shift in her desire for more. Together, they invent the Supper Club, ...
Felicity Found
FelicityI am a fortunate person. I have had great disappointments in life that have been overshadowed by even greater blessings - that includes my husband, world-renowned rock guitar god, Conor Quinn, and our two beautiful babies. So, why does everything feel so off? ConorMy wife is slapdash and barely has her head above water but she still makes it all work, despite how she tears herself down over not being perfect. I think she
Saving Madrid
Julia Krenzel dreams of living up to her training and serving the agency as a covert operative while she files and types for the director. Her chance comes when her field contact, elite operative Madrid, goes silent on a mission. Madrid's request that Julia seek him should he go missing sends her to Berlin in an attempt to find him. Does she have what it takes? And if she locates him, what will she discover?
The Shackled Balloon
Since she was a little girl, Laura wanted to be a mother. Not just any mother; one better than her own. Except, her dream seemed to float further and further away when she miscarried five of her unborn babies.Ridden with grief, Laura and her husband Gavin embark on a journey of infertility treatments to bring their dream closer to reality. After multiple fails and sorrowful disappointments, Laura finally gets what she wished for-a baby girl. But motherhood turned out to be like nothing she'd ever expect, from the perfect baby she had envisioned in her reveries to a baby who never stops crying. Can Laura cope with the clash between dream and reality, or will her strive for idealization push her family to the brink of devastation?
Index Medicus
Vols. for 1963- include as pt. 2 of the Jan. issue: Medical subject headings.
Divide Me By Zero
A New York Times Editor’s Choice As a young girl, Katya Geller learned from her mother that math was the answer to everything. Now, approaching forty, she finds this wisdom tested: she has lost the love of her life, she is in the middle of a divorce, and has just found out that her mother is dying. Nothing is adding up. With humor, intelligence, and unfailing honesty, Katya traces back her life’s journey: her childhood in Soviet Russia, her parents’ great love, the death of her father, her mother’s career as a renowned mathematician, and their immigration to the United States. She is, by turns, an adrift newlywed, an ESL teacher in an office occupied by witches and mediums, a restles...
Das Schweigen der Puppen
Wunderbare Pasta, gemütlicher Kerzenschein, romantische Musik – er hat alles für das perfekte Candle-Light-Dinner vorbereitet. Wie schade, dass seine Angebetete dafür so gar nichts übrig hat. Wie soll sie auch. Kristina Kuhn ist tot. Kriminalhauptkommissar Philipp Jansen steht vor seinem bis dato schwersten Fall. Die Studentin ist nicht nur grausam ermordet worden, sie sitzt geschminkt wie eine Puppe am Esstisch. Natürlich hat es Jansen mit einem Psychopathen zu tun. Mit einem Psychopathen und Serienkiller. Denn weitere geschminkte Leichen lassen nicht lange auf sich warten. Der Täter drapiert seine stillen Zeugen. Ein schauriges Bild. Und ein Wettkampf mit der Zeit. Denn die Boulevardpresse ist längst auf die Serie angesprungen: der Puppenspieler treibt sein Unwesen. Auch die Kölner Ermittlerin Iris Lottner hat es mit einer Leiche zu tun. Eine ältere Dame ist erschlagen worden. Gibt es eine Verbindung? Vermutlich schon. Sie ist zwar ungeschminkt, doch die Tat geschah weiteren zahlreichen Zeugen. Stillen Zeugen. Denn Puppen können nicht reden - sie sind schon tot.
