An intensely moving novel from the Booker prize-winning author of "Last Orders" and "Mothering Sunday". A gripping crime story and a remarkable love story. New edition.
Alexander Chee won a Whiting Award for his first novel, Edinburgh, and is a recipient of the NEA Fellowship in Fiction and residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Ledig House and Civitella Ranieri. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Tin House, Slate, and NPR, among others, and he is a contributing editor at the New Republic. He has recently been selected as a prestigious LA Times critic-at-large. He lives in New York City.
The second thrilling book in the London-set Dr Harry Kent series, the perfect mix of detective novel and medical drama. Susan Bayliss became notorious when she blew the whistle on her boss, a heart surgeon at a renowned children's hospital. She accused him of negligence, operations were stopped and an inquiry launched. In the end she was the one suspended as a troublemaker. Now Dr Harry Kent, a medical examiner with the Met Police, has been ca...
The Solutions Workbook is the perfect partner to the Student's Book, and helps consolidate the material taught in class. It contains further lesson-by-lesson practice for students to complete in their own time, as well as reference material for those who need extra support.
Linda has an idiosyncratic home life: her parents live in abandoned commune cabins in northern Minnesota and are hanging on to the last vestiges of a faded counter-culture world. The kids at school call her 'Freak', or 'Commie'. She is an outsider in all things. Her understanding of the world comes from her observations at school, where her teacher is accused of possessing child pornography, and from watching the seemingly ordinary life of a f...
With extreme clarity and precision, Anne Sauvagnargues, a renowned Deleuze scholar, provides an important glimpse into Deleuze's philosophy, reconstructing the social and intellectual contexts that contributed to the trajectory of his thought. Sauvagnargues constructs a precise map of the totality of Deleuze's work, pinpointing where key Deleuzian concepts first emerge and eventually disappear. This innovative methodology of "periodization", p...
At the intersection of topography and socio-cultural history, Rome: A Sourcebook on the Ancient City examines the cultural and social significance of the sites of ancient Rome from the end of the Republic in the age of Cicero and Julius Caesar, to the reign of Constantine. Rather than being organized by sites or monuments, it is divided into thematic chapters. Drawing on literary and historical sources, this is not simply a tour of the baths a...
Ausgangspunkt ist der Gedanke, dass Jesus ein Vorläufer der modernen Psychotherapie, ja der Psychoanalyse war. Umgekehrt kann man durch ein psychoanalytisches Sprechen, dass die Kernpunkte der "Jesus-Therapie" aufnimmt, zu einem Verfahren kommen, das beide Verfahren in einer neuen, kompakten Form übermittelt, so dass diese als direktes psychotherapeutisches Verfahren ähnlich dem Autogenen Training geübt werden kann. Dazu werden auch andere Wis...
Late antique Corinth was on the frontline of the radical political, economic and religious transformations that swept across the Mediterranean world from the second to sixth centuries CE.
Over the past decade, a global convergence in migration policies has emerged, and with it a new, mean-spirited politics of immigration. It is now evident that the idea of a settler society, previously an important landmark in understanding migration, is a thing of the past. What are the consequences of this shift for how we imagine immigration? And for how we regulate it? This book analyzes the dramatic shift away from the settler society para...
A remarkably concise and accessible introduction to the 'problem of evil.' Meister summarises a quarter-century of academic debate and philosophical reflection in a book that can be read in an evening."Graham Veale, Apologetics 315Evil is ubiquitous. But why does it exist, why is it so pervasive, and how should we think about and respond to it? In a rigorous but lively way, Evil: A Guide for the Perplexed examines philosophical and theological...