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May 2012Manhattan Karma
Ein Leonid-McGill-Roman
by Walter Mosley, Kristian Lutze
Leonid McGill, Privatdetektiv mit dunkler Vergangenheit und Familienvater mit Herz, ermittelt in einem scheinbar harmlosen Fall. Als er dabei auf die Abschußliste eines Killers gerät, muß er auf seine alten Kontakte zur New Yorker Unterwelt zurückgreifen. Von dort aus ist es nicht weit zu den angesehensten Kreisen von Manhattan ... Schon als Waisenjunge hat Leonid McGill gelernt, daß man einstecken können muß, um in New York zu überleben – besonders wenn man schwarz ist und einen seltsamen Namen hat. Leonid wurde Boxer. Aber er war für den Sport nicht gemacht. Also versuchte er sein Glück auf der Straße, arbeitete jahrelang als Schnüffler für den Mob. Heute ist er Anfang Fünfzig, lebt mit einer Frau zusammen, die er nicht liebt, um für seine Kinder dazusein, die er – mit einer Ausnahme – nicht gezeugt hat, und versucht, sein Geld endlich auf legale Weise zu verdienen. Doch auch wenn Amerika im Wandel ist und ein schwarzer Präsident das Land regiert – für einen wie McGill ist es nicht leicht, von der schiefen Bahn abzukommen, denn seine Vergangenheit holt ihn immer wieder ein.
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August 2012Bis dass der Tod uns scheidet
Kriminalroman
by Walter Mosley, Peter Torberg
Leonid McGill kennt sich aus in den Straßenschluchten New Yorks und in den dunklen Winkeln der menschlichen Seele. Und dennoch hat er den Glauben an das Gute nicht verloren. Deshalb ist er auch bereit, einer schönen jungen Frau in Not zu helfen, obwohl ihre Geschichte mehr als zweifelhaft ist. Chrystal ist die dritte Frau von Cyril Tyler, einem der reichsten Männer New Yorks. Cyrils Ex-Frauen sind beide auf mysteriöse Weise ums Leben gekommen. Und nun hat Chrystal Grund anzunehmen, sie sei die nächste. Leonid McGill soll sie vor dem scheinbar besiegelten Schicksal bewahren. Er sagt zu – obwohl er eigentlich genug Ärger am Hals hat: Sein Lieblingssohn Twill sitzt mal wieder in der Klemme, sein bester Freund kämpft mit dem Krebs, seine Frau hat einen neuen Lover und ein alter Freund seines Vaters, ein mächtiger Mann in der Unterwelt New Yorks, zwingt Leonid, tiefer in die eigene Vergangenheit abzutauchen, als ihm lieb ist. Aber wenn eine verzweifelte Frau mit einer Tasche voll Geld seine Hilfe braucht, steht Leonid McGill bereit – auch wenn sie womöglich gar nicht diejenige ist, für die sie sich ausgibt.
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November 2011Falscher Ort, falsche Zeit
Ein Leonid-McGill-Roman
by Walter Mosley, Christian Lutze
Die Machenschaften eines dubiosen Auftraggebers zwingen Leonid McGill in das dunkle Herz Manhattans hinab. Dabei müßte der Privatdetektiv erst einmal darüber hinwegkommen, daß seine Geliebte einen Neuen hat, und verhindern, daß seine Söhne kriminell werden. Als er bei seinen Ermittlungen durch Zufall in einen Mord verwickelt wird, hat er dann aber doch ganz andere Sorgen Leonid McGills Familie ist alles andere als harmonisch: Seine Frau Kathrina liebt er nicht, zwei von drei Kindern sind nicht von ihm, und sein einziger leiblicher Sohn haßt ihn. Doch Harmonie ist ohnehin Leonids Sache nicht. Dafür hat er sich früher zu oft und zu lange mit den falschen Leuten eingelassen. Einer von ihnen ist Alphonse Rinaldo, der Mann, der in New York die Strippen zieht. Und auch wenn man besser vermeiden sollte, einen Auftrag von Rinaldo anzunehmen, ist es genauso wenig ratsam, einen solchen auszuschlagen. Leonid macht sich also auf die Suche nach der Frau, die dem Strippenzieher Sorgen bereitet. Und prompt findet er sich als Hauptverdächtiger in einem Mordfall wieder.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2023The supernatural in early modern Scotland
by Julian Goodare, Martha McGill
This book is about other worlds and the supernatural beings, from angels to fairies, that inhabited them. It is about divination, prophecy, visions and trances. And it is about the cultural, religious, political and social uses to which people in Scotland put these supernatural themes between 1500 and 1800. The supernatural consistently provided Scots with a way of understanding topics such as the natural environment, physical and emotional wellbeing, political events and visions of past and future. In exploring the early modern supernatural, the book has much to reveal about how men and women in this period thought about, debated and experienced the world around them. Comprising twelve chapters by an international range of scholars, The supernatural in early modern Scotland discusses both popular and elite understandings of the supernatural.
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2020The supernatural in early modern Scotland
by Julian Goodare, Martha McGill, Janet Hadley Williams, Lizanne Henderson, Liv Helene Willumsen, Michelle D. Brock, Alasdair Raff, Jane Ridder-Patrick, Michael B. Riordan, Domhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart, Felicity Loughlin, Hamish Mathison
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Business, Economics & LawJanuary 2018Special Interest Tourism
Concepts, Contexts and Cases
by Carol Southall, Lynn Minnaert, Nazia Ali, Ade Oriade, Allan Watson, Glen Croy, Ralf C Buckley, Dallen J Timothy, Steven Rhoden, Alison Caffyn, Richard Benfield, Cheng-Fei Lee, Sheela Agarwal, Graham Busby, Rong Huang
Special interest tourism is growing rapidly due to a discerning and heterogeneous travel market and the demand for more focused activity or interest-based tourism experiences. This book approaches the topic from the perspective of both supply and demand, and addresses the complexities now inherent in this area of tourism. It presents a contextualised overview of contemporary academic research, concepts, principles and industry-based practice insights, and also considers the future of special interest tourism in light of the emergence of ethical consumerism. With a clear, user-friendly structure, the book: -Links theoretical frameworks to clear practical applications. -Reviews key emerging issues for tourism relating to families and faith, the performing arts, active and passive pursuits, therapeutic leisure and travelling. -Includes contributions and case studies from international academics and practitioners to give a truly global overview. Sometimes referred to as niche or contemporary tourism, this book provides a complete introduction to the study of special interest tourism for students.
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EducationMethodologies for Mapping a Southern African Girlhood in the Age of Aids
by Moletsane, L.
Methodologies for Mapping a Southern African Girlhood in the Age of Aids is located within the new and broader area of Girlhood Studies. Girls have long been considered a rich feminist memory-site for examining the genesis of women’s sense of self in the developed world. To date, however, only a few scholars have focused on Southern African girlhoods. Even fewer focus on methodologies for researching girlhood. This is despite the particular vulnerability of girls to gender-based violence and HIV and Aids, and the relative complexity of doing research with girls in diverse cultural contexts in this region. Thus, the book aims to take this agenda forward and to investigate a range of participatory methodological and theoretical approaches that can be adapted to study girls and girlhood in Southern Africa. These methodologies, which look at research with girls, about girls and for girls, include policy research, writing, fictional practice, and visual arts-based methods, to be used as analytical tools that should, can, and have been used to examine the lives of girls, particularly in the age of HIV and Aids in Southern Africa. Biographical noteRelebohile Moletsane was Associate Professor in Curriculum Studies and Gender Education at the University of KwaZulu-Natal until 2007. She is Research Director in the Gender and Development unit at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and Honorary Professor in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Kwazulu-Natal. Claudia Mitchell Claudia Mitchell is a James McGill Professor in the Faculty of Education, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada and Honorary Professor in School of Language, Literacies, Media and Drama Education at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Ann Smith taught English Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand for 23 years before becoming an independent educational consultant and contract lecturer in Communication Skills and Marketing at the Wits Business School. Linda Chisholm is a Director at the Education, Science and Skills Development research programme at the Human Sciences Research Council. She has over time been variously associated with the Universities of KwaZulu-Natal and Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
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2019Capitalism and the Alternatives
by Julius H. Grey
Thirty years after its global triumph, neo-liberalism is an abject failure. While its advocates have succeeded in convincing citizens that no other way is possible, they have not fulfilled their promises of a better world and the result has been more inequality. In Capitalism and the Alternatives, Julius Grey seeks to rehabilitate economic equality as a fundamental social goal built on universal values such as individualism, liberty, and even romanticism.To learn more about this publisher, click here: http://bit.ly/2K2LUuO
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2019Strange Trips
Science, Culture, and the Regulation of Drugs
by Lucas Richert
This book examines the boundaries between recreational and medicinal drugs in the eyes of the public and law. Drugs take strange journeys from the black market to the doctor's black bag. Changing marijuana laws in the US and Canada, the opioid crisis, and the rising costs of pharmaceuticals have sharpened the public's awareness of drug regulation. Weaving together stories of consumer resistance and government control, Strange Trips offers timely recommendations for future drug regulation.To learn more about this publisher, click here: http://bit.ly/2K2LUuO
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2019The Clean Body
A Modern History
by Peter Ward
Recounting the history of personal hygiene in Europe and North America and the making of the modern clean body. How often did our ancestors bathe? How often did they wash their clothes? What did they understand cleanliness to be? Why have our hygienic habits changed so dramatically? Based on sources in English, French, German, and Italian, The Clean Body surveys the great hygienic transformation that took place across Europe and North America over the course of four centuries.To learn more about this publisher, click here: http://bit.ly/2K2LUuO
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2019What It Means to Write
Creativity and Metaphor
by Adrian McKerracher
What exactly is creativity? Adrian McKerracher travels from Vancouver to Havana to Buenos Aires, leading readers on a journey to discover poignant new insights into a life of letters. Through encounters with artists of all kinds, famous or obscure, McKerracher traces a history of the meaning of writing, each vignette a meditation on the way metaphor limits and liberates understanding. What It Means to Write is a celebration of the possibilities of both language and silence.To learn more about this publisher, click here: http://bit.ly/2K2LUuO
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2019Wish I Were Here
Boredom and the Interface
by Mark Kingwell
An urgent, timely, and political analysis of the boredom that dominates our everyday immersion in distracting technologies. Are you bored of the endless scroll of your social media feed? If so, this book is the philosophical lifeline you have been waiting for. Written in accessible language that references both classical philosophers and contemporary critics, Wish I Were Here turns to philosophy for a cure to the widespread unease that something is amiss in modern waking life.To learn more about this publisher, click here: http://bit.ly/2K2LUuO
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Humanities & Social SciencesFear of a Black Nation
Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal
by David Austin
Winner of the 2014 Casa de las Americas Prize In the 1960s, for at least a brief moment, Montreal became what seemed an unlikely centre of Black Power and the Caribbean left. In October 1968 the Congress of Black Writers at McGill University brought together well-known Black thinkers and activists from Canada, the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean—people like C.L.R. James, Stokely Carmichael, Miriam Makeba, Rocky Jones, and Walter Rodney. Within months of the Congress, a Black-led protest at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia) exploded on the front pages of newspapers across the country—raising state security fears about Montreal as the new hotbed of international Black radical politics.
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Lifestyle, Sport & LeisureJuly 2021Courtyard Houses of India
by Yatin Pandya
Indian architecture is not an object in space; it integrates space within the object, where the built and the unbuilt become counterpoints to vitalize each other. The alchemy of the two sustains the space and the life within. The void within the built—the courtyard—lies at the genesis of the urban dwelling form in India across geography and time. In ancient Indian sciences, the courtyard assumes the central position as Brahmasthana, the nucleus of the living environment. It provided for an open-to-sky outdoor space while being away from the public eye and thus suited an introverted lifestyle. In this book, the author traces the metaphysical, mythical, socio-cultural, environmental and spatial roles of the courtyard in the domestic architecture of India—from early civilization and Vedic times to Islamic and colonial influences. This volume documents traditional and vernacular courtyard dwelling types across India within diverse climatic, cultural as well as geographic zones such as western (Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra), southern (Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Goa), eastern (Bihar, West Bengal), central (Madhya Pradesh) and northern (Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, and the Union Territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh.). It then discerns the spatial elements constituting the court, and the arts, the crafts as well as the elements integral to the court. Illustrated with splendid photographs and representative drawings, the book attempts to understand the presence and resolution, continued use and adaptation as well as the diverse interpretations and abstractions of the courtyard. Yatin Pandya is an author, activist, academician, researcher as well as a practising architect with his firm FOOTPRINTS E.A.R.T.H. (Environment Architecture Research Technology Housing). He is a graduate of CEPT University, Ahmedabad, and holds a Master of Architecture degree from McGill University, Montreal. Pandya has been involved with city planning, urban design, mass housing, architecture, interior design and product design as well as conservation projects. He has authored numerous papers, which have appeared in national and international journals, and has produced several documentary films on architecture. During his tenure at the Vastu-Shilpa Foundation, Pandya worked on the publications Concepts of Space in Traditional Indian Architecture and Elements of Spacemaking, published by Mapin and now in their fourth reprint, which have won the Indian Institute of Architects’ (IIA) Award for Architectural Excellence in Research in the years 2012 and 2014, respectively. The research leading to this book was also carried out during his time at Vastu-Shilpa Foundation. He is a visiting faculty at the National Institute of Design and CEPT University, and a guest lecturer at various universities in India and abroad. The recipient of numerous national and international awards for research, design and dissemination, Pandya counts environmental sustainability, socio-cultural appropriateness, timeless aesthetics and economic affordability to be key principles of his work.
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Children's & young adult fiction & true storiesMay 2013The Adventures of the Flying Boat
by Winslow Nicholas
“It’s a monster! It’s a monster!” It cried, in a very high pitched voice. After discovering a strange, silvery object in the lake in their back garden, Broders and Chi-Chi meet and befriend a little green leprechaun who takes them on an adventurous journey through strange lands, where they meet with a host of exciting characters. A must for children of all ages, this book is designed to be read to children. Reading to your children will help stimulate their imagination, and at the same time help them to develop their reading and listening skills, and also enhance their ability to concentrate. Reading to a child makes it easier for him/her to develop speech. With years of front-line medical experience as founder and former director of one of the busiest university-hospital clinics in North America, assistant professor of Pediatrics and former Director of Multiformat Health Communications, McGill University, Dr. Paul Roumeliotis has earned a reputation as a down-to-earth communicator who encourages parents to become active and informed participants in the care of their children's health and well-being. Dr. Paul states that, “Reading to a child is also an ideal opportunity for a parent to spend some time with their child. Reading time can be perceived as "their time!" I suggest that parents get down and spend time with their children at their level. Reading an interesting children's story to them accomplishes this.”
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October 2020Leonard Cohen, The Untold Stories
The Early Years, Volume One
by Michael Posner
Artist, poet, novelist, singer-songwriter, icon – there has never been a figure like Leonard Cohen. He was a truly international sensation, entertaining and inspiring the world with his art. From his groundbreaking and bestselling novels, Beautiful Losers and The Favourite Game, to timeless songs such as “Suzanne” and “Hallelujah,” Cohen is one of the world’s most cherished artists. His death in 2016 was felt around the world by the legion of fans and fellow artists who would miss his warmth, humor, intellect, and piercing insights. Leonard Cohen, The Untold Stories follows the great man as he travels the globe developing his style and enigmatic character. This is the story of his early years, from boyhood in Montreal, university, and his growing career in to the 60s that took him to the world’s stage. It probes his public and private life, through the words of those who knew him best: his family and friends, colleagues and contemporaries, rivals, business partners, and his many lovers. From Montreal to Greece, London to Paris and New York, Cohen touched lives everywhere. It's also a snapshot of a golden era – the times that helped foster his talents and successes. In this revealing and entertaining first of three planned volumes, bestselling author and biographer Michael Posner draws on dozens of interviews to present a uniquely true and compelling portrait of Cohen – as if we’re right there beside him, overhearing a private conversation in a New York café.
