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A classic slice of Japanese hard-boiled noir paying homage to the master of the genre: Raymond ChandlerThe Wrong Goodbye pits homicide detective Eiji Futamura against a shady Chinese business empire and U.

This project examines the representation of anxiety about technology that humans feel when encountering artificial intelligences in four science fiction novels: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Eine Liebeserklärung an die kalte JahreszeitFranziska Lipp begleitet uns mit stimmungsvollen Erzählungen durch diese Zeit.

This book explores the experiences of self-identified heterosexual and gay men in contemporary South African gym contexts, particularly as it relates to how the intersection of spornosexual and inclusive masculinities inform their views and enactment of their masculine and sexual identities.

In Virgin Mary and the Neutrino, first published in French in 2006 and here appearing in English for the first time, Isabelle Stengers experiments with the possibility of addressing modern practices not as a block but through their divergence from each other.

Seamen: from mariners on huge yachts to competitive sailors in races like the America's cup to recreational boaters, the combination of men and water is irresistible.

Wicked Words - a collection of saucy and compelling short storiesOutrageously sexy and deliciously daring, Wicked Words short stories are the best in the contemporary sexy fiction.

Flüchtlinge gibt es nicht nur im Hier und Heute, sondern auf fer­nen Planeten, in der Zukunft, unter Wasser, in alternativen Welten, unter Drachen und Einhörnern.

Bloodshot World is a collection of five graphic stories that cohere within the bloodshot aesthetic: the engrossing grotesque, the irresistibly strange, the hauntingly dark.

This book explores the transnational mobility, everyday life and digital media use of childcare workers living and working abroad.

The novels of Iain M.

Jakob is an ordinary boy, but when he meets the cuddly monster Knuddi in the forest on his way to school one day, his life changes abruptly.

The interviews in this collection cover Walter Mosley's career and reveal an overarching theme: a belief in the transformative power of reading and writing.

John Thomas MacKenzie would much prefer to spend his remaining years just tending his garden at his estate in Spanish Florida, surrounded by his two tall sons and his lovely daughter Rebecca (whom all but her father call Becky).

In sechzehn Geschichten nehmen uns sechzehn israelische Autor:innen auf eine phantastische Reise mit.

From the founder of a messianic congregation: A powerful call to fulfill America’s destiny by breaking down the barriers between Jews and Gentiles.

1916, à la frontière entre les Vosges et l’Alsace.

Popular Culture, Social Media, and the Politics of Identity advances a novel methodological approach - pop culture as political object - to capture the centrality of popular culture as an object of a broad range of political contests and debates that constitute pop culture artefacts by generating and informing specific meanings and understandings of them.

Sports fans are a devoted bunch, win or lose.

These early works by Guy de Maupassant were originally published in the 1880's.

The hit BBC series Sherlock has introduced a new generation to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective.

Beloved author Lori Wick presents a new standalone in the tradition of her bestselling Sophie's Heart.

The digital music revolution and the rise of piracy cultures has transformed the music world as we knew it.

Prithvi discovers her father Dr.

In the early 20th century, postcards were one of the most important and popular expressions of holiday sentiment in American culture.

Over the course of a year, we follow the protagonist through the working world of a large corporation from different perspectives.

'A story of great beauty and told with simplicity and tenderness that makes it linger in the memory.

In his novel The Eighth Wonder of the World, Plevnes takes his dark sense of humor and undeniable wit on a search for a common ground in an uncommon world.

Malaya, 1952 - The War of the Running Dogs.

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER Acclaimed reporter Taylor Lorenz, founder of User Magazine and host of the Power User podcast, presents an ';enlightening history' (Associated Press) of the internetrevealing how online influence and the creators who amass it have reshaped our world, online and off.

A burned-out businessman finds respite and romance at a lakeside retreat in this novel for fans of Nicholas Sparks and Karen Kingsbury.

Published to coincide with the anniversary of the First World War, this edition, superbly illustrated with contemporary photographs and colour maps, gives readers an insight into all aspects of the First World War, from the trenches to the Eastern Front, as well as the Mediterranean conflict.

Cate und Lina gewinnen ein Wochenende in New York, mit einem Stargast DJ den Cate anhimmelt.

This early work by H.

Liegt sein Vater in dieser Nacht im Sterben – oder wurde er als ehemals ostdeutscher Spion enttarnt?

In Rachel Covington's view, the world is divided into two kinds of people: those who have children and those who don't.

This volume provides an in-depth examination of the video game Death Stranding, focusing on the game's exploration of ruin, nostalgia, and atonement as its primary symbolic, narrative, and mechanical language.

No quise matar a Tracey Doran y, al comenzar el verano, nunca habría soñado que este se definiría por su muerte Ella era solo una historia más.

Gorgeously creepy and strangely human -National Public RadioIt started on Christmas Day in 1994.

Introducing the New Sexuality Studies: Original Essays is an innovative, reader-friendly collection of essays that introduces the field of sexuality studies to undergraduate students.

Painter and amateur sleuth Georgia O'Keeffe investigates a tragic death when she returns to Taos in the second instalment of this twisty historical mystery set in the 1930s by multi award-winning author Kathryn Lasky.

A familiar story holds that modernization radiates outward from metropolitan origins.

'A writer out to do whatever the hell he wants' Observer'Set to become an Irish cult classic' Sunday Business Post'A tremendously engaging and fun read .

A self-serving political player in sixteenth-century Rome is caught up in the ruthless and powerful Borgia family’s deadly intrigues of murder and betrayal It is known as the City of God—but Rome at the dawn of the sixteenth century is an unholy place where opulence, poverty, and decadence cohabitate sinfully under the ruthless rule of Rodrigo Borgia, the debauched Pope Alexander VI.

This book maps the history of literary celebrity from the early nineteenth century to the present, paying special attention to the authors' crafting of their writerly self as well as the afterlife of their public image.

Marta is raised by her grandmother in her house in Trieste, a safe haven of stories, books and enchantment.

Two sensational trials in Southern Rhodesia in 1923 lay bare the evils of settler colonialism.