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The 2018 collapse of construction giant Carillion - who outsourced huge government building contracts while running up debts and liabilities to the tune of billions as credited massively by the taxpayer - put in the proper, damning political context here, revealing the callousness of contemporary capitalism. Bob Wylie is a former journalist and Unite media director.

Framed for the murder of her best friend, a young girl joins a super-secret society of teenage assassins to avoid a lifetime behind bars--and discovers her own true self--in this mesmerizing debut novel.Seventeen-year-old Signal Deere has raised eyebrows for years as an unhappy Goth misfit from the trailer park. When she's convicted of her best friend Rose's brutal murder, she's designated a Class A--the most dangerous and manipulative crimina...

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In this touching story of belonging and environmental awareness, a young boy's courage and ingenuity help an orphaned rhinoceros find safety in a new herd.

Uncovering the truth means uncovering even more mysteries.

This book examines the ways in which lived religion in Roman Italy involved personal and communal experiences of the religious agency generated when ritualised activities caused human and more-than-human things to become bundled together into relational assemblages.

The first book to develop a broad vision of a democratic revolution in biopolitics Contemporary studies of biopolitics assume that the rise of biopolitical governance entails the eclipse of democracy. The abstract egalitarianism of democratic government appears to be incompatible with the concrete, particularist and individualising operations of biopower. Democratic Biopolitics challenges this interpretation and argues for the possibility of ...

Contextualises Muriel Spark's writings in the tradition of Christian existentialism and its insistence on 'being towards death' Muriel Spark, Existentialism and The Art of Death proposes that Christian existentialism and, in particular, the work of Søren Kierkegaard, helped shape Spark's religious commitments and her artistic innovations. Because of the prominence, after the Second World War, of the atheistic existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartr...

This essential PCT guidebook helps readers plan a day hike, weekend trip, or thru-hike in Oregon and Washington.

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Explores Katherine Mansfield's engagement in the periodical culture of the early twentieth century This book considers Mansfield's ambivalent position as a colonial woman writer by examining her contributions to the political weekly The New Age, the avant-garde little magazine Rhythm and the literary journal The Athenaeum. Contextualising Mansfield's work against the editorial strategies and professional cultures of each periodical, the book ...

Da war es plötzlich, dieses Bild. Es zog mich zu sich. Martin, Dieter und Angela waren schon von Bild zu Bild bis hin zum Mittelgang vorgegangen. Angela las aus einem Katalog vor. Ich blieb stehen. Dieses eine Bild. Ich konnte nicht mehr weitergehen. Diese junge Frau auf dem Bild. Ihre Augen. Martin und Dieter diskutierten lautstark über die Pinselführung im Frühwerk des Künstlers. Recht lange war es her gewesen, dass ich mich gefühlt hatte wi...

To the students at exclusive Greycliff Academy, Kirby seems to have it all: charm, brains, and a lucky streak that won't quit. He's also the notorious mastermind behind the snarky videos 7 Good Reasons Not to Grow Up, which expose how being an adult isn't all it's cracked up to be. Why would any kid want to become one of them? But there's also a mystery about Kirby. And when his best friend Raja finds out that Kirby isn't the person he's prete...

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Civil War Ironclads and Commandos Here at last is an action-packed portrait of one of America's greatest but little-remembered Civil War heroes, Commander William Barker Cushing, who sank the Confederate ironclad Albemarle in a spectacular mission in 1864. Regarded as erratic and insubordinate, Midshipman Cushing was drummed out of the Naval Academy in March 1861. But with the outbreak of war, the Union needed every trained officer it could fi...

A comprehensive visitor's guide to the First World War battlefields around Arras, south of the Scarpe, with descriptions of the battles, detailed maps and photographs.

Memento è una riflessione sulla criticità della memoria collettiva quando prende forma nello spazio pubblico come segno del controllo egemonico o come atto di resistenza, come abilità mitopoietica delle comunità. Dagli apparati del potere alle esperienze del contro-monumento, dalla pianificazione urbana al controllo tentacolare sul tempo nel postfordismo, si scopre nell'ossessione per il visibile l'orizzonte di confronto tra la capacità eversi...

This essential PCT guidebook helps readers plan a day hike, weekend trip, or thru-hike from Yosemite National Park's Tuolumne Meadows to the Oregon border.

This essential PCT guidebook helps readers plan a day hike, weekend trip, or thru-hike from the Mexican border to Yosemite's backcountry.

Explores the trailblazing work of the British literary avant-garde of the 1960s This collection showcases the liveliness of British avant-garde fiction of the 1960s, which is diverse in its aesthetic practices and (sometimes) divided in its politics. It brings together a selection of original, research-led essays on more than a dozen avant-garde British writers of the decade, revealing this to be a crucial - and crucially overlooked - period ...