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Killing by the Book
After a postman discovers a woman brutally murdered in West London, it seems like just another isolated incident in an uncaring city. When Detective Inspector Scott Daley and Detective Sergeant Deborah Whetstone are called in to investigate, they find striking similarities with an unsolved homicide four years before and they fear that a serial killer has awoken. Soon they are immersed in a web of silence and half truths, stretching back to an enigmatic fraternity group at Coventry University in the 1990s. As the sins of the past bleed through to the present, Daley and Whetstone are in a race to uncover the dark secret that lies beneath the surface of these ordinary lives before the killer finds their next victim. Who was exterminating the Monday Club and why?
The Farm
For some, the darkness is only the beginning. When Detective Inspector Scott Daley returns after a long battle with injury, he has no idea of the horrors that face him. With a new order in the Team Room and Sergeant Deborah Whetstone in his seat, he needs to fight for survival. But that is only the start of his problems. A string of mysterious disappearances has left North West London reeling. A kidnapper, dubbed by the press The Zone 6 Snatcher, stalks late-night travellers. An urban community in terror. The public want answers. Then, an innocuous traffic accident spills it's gruesome load and reveals a horrific past, hinting a mass murderer is at large. Coincidence or something more sinist...
Rhetoric, Science, and Magic in Seventeenth-century England
Ryan J. Stark presents a spiritually sensitive, interdisciplinary, and original discussion of early modern English rhetoric. He shows specifically how experimental philosophers attempted to disenchant language
The Curious Eye
The Curious Eye is a book about the impact of optical technologies, including the microscope, the telescope, and the camera obscura, on seventeenth century English thought.
Rhetoric and the Early Royal Society
The Royal Society’s establishment in 1660 signaled a new beginning for the rhetoric of science, mainly because the organization’s founders advocated a modern plain style for scientific communication. Rhetoric and the Early Royal Society aims to initiate fresh debates about this watershed event in the history of rhetoric and science. In the last twenty years, scholars in numerous disciplines have produced significant work, ranging from theoretical essays to case studies of founding members such as Wilkins, Hooke and Boyle. This is the first book to collect in one volume the key contributions. The newly written introduction by editors Skouen and Stark places the reprinted essays into perspective by evaluating the Society’s pioneering role in shaping modern scholarly communication.
Crippled
The austerity crisis and threat to disability rights. New updated edition includes the impact of COVID on Britain's 14 million disabled people. In austerity Britain, disabled people have been recast as worthless scroungers. From social care to the benefits system, politicians and the media alike have made the case that Britain’s 12 million disabled people are nothing but a drain on the public purse. In Crippled, journalist and campaigner Frances Ryan exposes the disturbing reality, telling the stories of those most affected by this devastating regime. It is at once both a damning indictment of a safety net so compromised it strangles many of those it catches and a passionate demand for an end to austerity, which hits hardest those most in need.
The Witches of Selwood Forest
The ancient forest of Selwood straddles the borders of Somerset and Wiltshire and terminates in the south where these counties meet Dorset. Until now, a comprehensive study of its exceptionally rich history of demonological beliefs and witchcraft persecution in the early modern period has not been attempted. This book explores the connections between important theological texts written in the region, notably Richard Bernard’s Guide to the Grand-Jury Men (1627) and Joseph Glanvill’s Saducismus Triumphatus (1681), influential local families such as the Hunts and the Hills, and the extraordinary witchcraft episodes associated with Shepton Mallet, Brewham, Stoke Trister, and elsewhere. In particular, it focuses on a little-known case in the village of Beckington in 1689, and shows how this was not a late, isolated episode, but an integral part of the wider Selwood Forest witchcraft story.
Literature and the Encounter with God in Post-Reformation England
Each of the figures examined in this study”John Dee, John Donne, Sir Kenelm Digby, Henry and Thomas Vaughan, and Jane Lead”is concerned with the ways in which God can be approached or experienced. Michael Martin analyzes the ways in which the encounter with God is figured among these early modern writers who inhabit the shared cultural space of poets and preachers, mystics and scientists. The three main themes that inform this study are Cura animarum, the care of souls, and the diminished role of spiritual direction in post-Reformation religious life; the rise of scientific rationality; and the struggle against the disappearance of the Holy. Arising from the methods and commitments of ph...
Totalitarian Space and the Destruction of Aura
Diagnoses our contemporary spatial experience as fundamentally totalitarian through a multilayered critical theory of space. We live today within a system in which state and corporate power aim to render space flat, transparent, and uniform, for only then can it be truly controlled. The gaze of power and the commodity form are capable of infiltrating even the darkest of corners, and often, we invite them into our most private spaces. We do so as a matter of convenience, but also to placate ourselves and cope with the alienation inherent in our everyday lives. The resulting dominant space can best be termed totalitarian. It is space stripped of uniqueness, deprived of the spatial aura nec...
