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-> Brennen muss Salem (USA 1979, 106 Min., FSK 16): Nach Jahren der Abwesenheit kehrt Ben Mears in seinen Heimatort Salems Lot zurück. Sein Interesse gilt einem geheimnisumwitterten Haus, das auf einem Hügel hoch über der Stadt liegt. Dessen neuer Mieter ist der undurchschaubare Antiquitätenhändler Straker. Schon bald spürt Ben Mears eine tödliche Bedrohung, die von dem mysteriösen Haus ausgeht und langsam den ganzen Ort erfasst... -> Ste...

Orignally published in 2013 as "Surviving Centrepoint" under the pseudonym Ella James, this edition features Ella's real name, Rachel Clare King.

Rachel King wrote the poems in City Walks upon returning to her hometown of Portland, Oregon, after over a dozen years of living away. Their "precise details wired to lively music and memorable images" (Mark Wagenaar) investigate a known place, witness gentrification, acknowledge death, and insist on the possibility of beauty and joy despite it all: "I have rarely been happier than walking miles / around my city, learning its history, / while ...

Linked stories trace the vocational and emotional bargains made by workers at a Colorado sausage factory. It's almost a decade after the Great Recession, and in Colorado, St. Anthony Sausage has not recovered. Neither have its employees: a laid-off railway engineer, an exiled computer whiz, a young woman estranged from her infant daughter, an older man with cancer who lacks health care. As these low-wage workers interact under the supervision ...

Spanning centuries and continents, a beautifully illustrated history of humanity's enduring enthrallment with a seemingly banal substance: petrified tree sap, or amber. Amber: From Antiquity to Eternity is a history of human engagement with amber across three millennia. The book vividly describes our conceptions, stories, and political and scholarly disputes about amber, as well as issues of national and personal identity, religion, art, liter...

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This book explores how objects, landscapes, and architecture were at the heart of how people imagined outlaws and disorder in colonial southern Africa. Drawing on evidence from several disciplines, it chronicles how cattle raiders were created, pursued, and controlled, and how modern scholarship strives to reconstruct pasts of disruption and deviance. Through a series of vignettes, Rachel King uses excavated material, rock art, archival texts,...

This book explores how objects, landscapes, and architecture were at the heart of how people imagined outlaws and disorder in colonial southern Africa. Drawing on evidence from several disciplines, it chronicles how cattle raiders were created, pursued, and controlled, and how modern scholarship strives to reconstruct pasts of disruption and deviance. Through a series of vignettes, Rachel King uses excavated material, rock art, archival texts,...

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Die charmante Comedy schildert eine typischen Fisch-auf-dem-Trockenen-Situation: Kleinstädter contra Metropolenmentalität und komplizierte Liebesdreiecke. Im Mittelpunkt steht die schöne, sorglos aufgewachsene und begabte New Yorkerin Dr. Zoe Hart (Bilson), die wie ihr Vaters Herzchirurgin werden will. Doch dann muss sie sich damit abfinden, dass ihr aufgrund ihres mangelhaften Umgangs mit den Patienten ein wichtiges Stipendium vorenthalten wi...

Collaborative teaming is the glue that holds an inclusive school together. But most educators don't get explicit training on teamwork skills - and that's why you need the new third edition of this popular how-to book. Packed with practical tips, tools, and vignettes, Collaborative Teaming shows your staff how to work together effectively to support students with disabilities in inclusive classrooms. Perfect for independent study, inservice tra...

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This research provides evidence to suggest that despite many reforms to legislation, policy and training, in an Australian context, there has been limited improvement in the manner by which police officers respond to complaints of rape and treat victim/survivors. This research provides insight into a police organisation that is rarely open to scrutiny, and shows that when a woman reports a rape to police, she is less likely to be believed if, ...

Weaving third-person narrative with wrenching firsthand accounts, King presents the stories of families of murder victims who oppose the death penalty. 18 illustrations.

Those who support capital punishment often claim that they do so because it provides justice and closure for the victims' families. In Capital Consequences, attorney Rachel King reminds us that there are other families and other victims who must be considered in the debate over the death penalty. Combining a narrative voice with vivid, passionate, and painful accounts of the families of death row inmates, the book demonstrates that crimes that...