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The Darkest Goodbye

Book 13 in the Sunday Times bestselling detective series

By: Alex Gray

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The Darkest Goodbye

Book 13 in the Sunday Times bestselling detective series

By: Alex Gray

***Discover your next reading obsession with Alex Gray's bestselling Scottish detective series*** Whether you've read them all or whether this is your first Lorimer novel, THE DARKEST GOODBYE is perfect if you love Ian Rankin, Val McDermid and Ann Cleeves Don't miss the latest thrilling series instalment - BEFORE THE STORM IS OUT NOW WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT THE LORIMER SERIES: 'Warm-hearted, atmospheric' ANN CLEEVES 'Relentless and intriguing' PETER MAY 'Move over Rebus' DAILY MAIL 'Exciting, pacey, authentic' ANGELA MARSONS 'Superior writing'THE TIMES 'Immensely exciting and atmospheric' ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH _______________ Was it mercy? Or murder? When newly fledged DC Kirsty Wilson is called to the house of an elderly woman, what appears to be a death by natural causes soon takes a sinister turn when it is revealed that the woman had a mysterious visitor in the early hours of that morning - someone dressed as a community nurse, but with much darker intentions. As Kirsty is called to another murder - this one the brutal execution of a well-known Glasgow drug dealer - she finds herself pulled into a complex case involving vulnerable people and a sinister service that offers them and their loved ones a 'release'. Detective Superintendent William Lorimer is called in to help DC Wilson investigate and as the body count rises, the pair soon realise that this case is about to get more personal than either of them could have imagined . . . Alex Gray's new novel BEFORE THE STORM is available to pre-order now _______________ ***PRAISE FOR ALEX GRAY*** 'Convincing Glaswegian atmosphere and superior writing' The Times 'Brings Glasgow to life in the same way Rankin evokes Edinburgh' Daily Mail 'Exciting, pacy, authentic' Angela Marsons 'Sums up everything that is golden and enthralling about a good book' Fully Booked

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Sphere

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0751554901

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The Antonine Constitution

An Edict for the Caracallan Empire

By: Alex Imrie

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The Antonine Constitution

An Edict for the Caracallan Empire

By: Alex Imrie

In The Antonine Constitution, Alex Imrie approaches the famous edict of AD 212 from numerous angles, offering an assessment of its rationale that is rooted in the dynamic period of the early third century. Controversial since its discovery, it is depicted here as a keystone in Caracalla’s attempt to revolutionise the public image of the Severan dynasty after murdering his brother. There is an inherent paradox between the apparently progressive nature of the edict, and the volatile emperor responsible for it. The enigma is only heightened by a dearth of ancient evidence relating to the legislation. By combining literary and material evidence with the surviving papyrological record, Alex Imrie shows that Caracalla’s rationale is best understood in an embedded context.

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191

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BRILL

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900436823X

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9789004368231

Food and Multiculture

A Sensory Ethnography of East London

By: Alex Rhys-Taylor

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Food and Multiculture

A Sensory Ethnography of East London

By: Alex Rhys-Taylor

In this book, Alex Rhys-Taylor offers a ground-breaking sensory ethnography of East London. Drawing on the multicultural context of London, one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world, he explores concepts such as gentrification, class antagonism, new ethnicities and globalization. Rhys-Taylor shows how London is characterized by its rich history of socioeconomic change and multiculture, exploring how its smells and food are integral to understanding both its history and the reality of London’s urban present. From the fiery chillies sold by street grocers which are linked to years of cultural exchange, through ‘cuisines of origin’ like jellied eels to hybridized dishes such as the chicken katsu wrap, sensory experiences are key to understanding the complex cultural genealogies of the city and its social life.Each of the eight chapters combines micro histories of ingredients such as fried chicken, bush-meat and curry sauce, featuring narratives from individuals that provide a unique, engaging account of the evolution of taste and culture through time and space.With its innovative methodology, this is a highly original contribution to the fields of sensory studies, food studies, urban studies and cultural studies.

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163

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Routledge

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1000181731

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9781000181739

Funny How?

Sketch Comedy and the Art of Humor

By: Alex Clayton

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Funny How?

Sketch Comedy and the Art of Humor

By: Alex Clayton

What makes something funny? This book shows how humor can be analyzed without killing the joke. Alex Clayton argues that the brevity of a sketch or skit and its typical rejection of narrative development make it comedy-concentrate, providing a rich field for exploring how humor works. Focusing on a dozen or so skits and scenes, Clayton shows precisely how sketch comedy appeals to the funny bone and engages our philosophical imagination. He suggests that since humor is about persuading an audience to laugh, it can be understood as a form of rhetoric. Through vivid, highly readable analyses of individual sketches, Clayton illustrates that Aristotle's three forms of appeal—logos, the appeal to reason; ethos, the appeal to communality; and pathos, the appeal to emotion—can form the basis for illuminating the inner workings of humor. Drawing on both popular and lesser-known examples from the United States, United Kingdom, and elsewhere—Monty Python's Flying Circus, Key and Peele, Saturday Night Live, Airplane!, and Smack the Pony—Clayton reveals the techniques and resonances of humor.

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162

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State University of New York Press

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1438478305

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9781438478302

Learning Disability and Everyday Life

By: Alex Cockain

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Learning Disability and Everyday Life

By: Alex Cockain

Learning Disability and Everyday Life brings into conversation ideas from social theory with “thick” descriptions of the everyday life of a middle-aged man with learning disabilities and autism. This book is markedly ethnographic in its orientation to the gritty graininess of everyday life—eating, drinking, walking, cooking, talking, and so on—in, with, and alongside learning disability. However, preoccupation with, the “small” coexists with a gaze intent upon capturing a bigger picture, to the extent that the things constituting everyday life are deployed as prisms through and with which to critically reflect upon the wider worlds of dis/ability and everyday life. Such attention to the small and the big—the micro and the macro—allows this book to explore the ordinary and everyday ways meanings about normalcy and abnormalcy, ability and disability, are put together, enacted, practised, made (up)—in the sense of constituting and fabricating—and, crucially, accomplished through and between people in specific, and invariably contingent, sociocultural, discursive, and material conditions of possibility. This book will be of specific interest not only to students and scholars of disability but also to persons with lived experiences of disability. This book will also be of interest to students and scholars of anthropology and sociology.

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294

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Taylor & Francis

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1003860303

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9781003860303

Tracker Manual

A practical guide to animal tracking in southern Africa

By: Alex van den Heever,Renias Mhlongo,Karel Benadie,Ian Thomas

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Tracker Manual

A practical guide to animal tracking in southern Africa

By: Alex van den Heever,Renias Mhlongo,Karel Benadie,Ian Thomas

Featuring all-new spoor drawings, some 200 new photographs and an extra 35 species, this fully revised and updated edition of the ever-popular Tracker Manualis packed with the latest on the art of tracking. Based on information developed by some of southern Africa’s best traditional trackers, Tracker Manual gives even more guidance on how to identify the spoor of some 190 animal species. Individual chapters cover carnivores, large mammals, antelopes, small mammals, primates, hares and rodents, amphibians and reptiles, birds and insects. Each account contains: Simple, bulleted text on key points of each animal’s tracks. Clear, accurate track drawings. Numerous informative photographs, sometimes annotated. A list of similar tracks (where applicable), to avoid misidentification. An instructive introduction describes the science of tracking and outlines what to look for in the field, while a quick-reference table compares tracks that are easily confused. This detailed and richly illustrated manual to the region’s most common animal tracks and signs will prove invaluable in the field. Sales points: Presents the tracks and signs of over 190 different animals. Written and illustrated by experts in the field. Compact, portable and easy to use. Rich in visual detail. Useful instructive introduction to tracking.

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830

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Penguin Random House South Africa

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1775847756

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9781775847755

The Planning Game

An Information Economics Approach to Understanding Urban and Environmental Management

By: Alex Lord

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The Planning Game

An Information Economics Approach to Understanding Urban and Environmental Management

By: Alex Lord

Trading information is an essential aspect of the negotiations that underpin planning practice across the globe. In this book, Alex Lord uses information economics to outline a way of thinking about these negotiations that places the strategies that actors in the planning game use at the heart of the debate. Dialogue between economics and planning theorists has been, until now, rare. Lord argues that information economics’ tool kit, game theory – including well-known examples such as the Prisoners’ Dilemma, the Stag Hunt game and Follow the Leader – offers an analytical framework ideally suited to unpacking planning processes. This use of game theory to understand how counterparties interact draws together two distinct bodies of literature: firstly the mainstream economics treatment of games in abstract form and, secondly, accounts of actual bargaining in planning practice from a host of international empirical studies. Providing a novel alternative to existing theories of planning, The Planning Game provides an explanation of how agencies interact in shaping the trajectory of development through the application of game theory to planning practice.

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210

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Routledge

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1136462570

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9781136462573

Before Blackwood's

Scottish Journalism in the Age of Enlightenment

By: Alex Benchimol

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Scottish Journalism in the Age of Enlightenment

By: Alex Benchimol

This collection of essays is the result of a major conference focusing specifically on the role of Scotland’s print culture in shaping the literature and politics of the long eighteenth century. In contrast to previous studies, this work treats Blackwood’s Magazine as the culmination of a long tradition rather than a starting point.

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1317316967

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9781317316961

Inventing the Future

Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

By: Nick Srnicek,Alex Williams

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Inventing the Future

Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

By: Nick Srnicek,Alex Williams

This major new manifesto offers a “clear and compelling vision of a postcapitalist society” and shows how left-wing politics can be rebuilt for the 21st century (Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist Realism) Neoliberalism isn’t working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respite. Inventing the Future is a bold new manifesto for life after capitalism. Against the confused understanding of our high-tech world by both the right and the left, this book claims that the emancipatory and future-oriented possibilities of our society can be reclaimed. Instead of running from a complex future, Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams demand a postcapitalist economy capable of advancing standards, liberating humanity from work and developing technologies that expand our freedoms. This new edition includes a new chapter where they respond to their various critics.

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358

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Verso Books

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1784780987

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9781784780982

No Way to Treat a Friend: Lifting the Lid on Complementary and Alternative Veterinary Medicine

By: Niall Taylor,Alex Gough

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No Way to Treat a Friend: Lifting the Lid on Complementary and Alternative Veterinary Medicine

By: Niall Taylor,Alex Gough

No Way to Treat a Friend is an informative and readable exposé of Complementary and Alternative Veterinary Medicine (CAVM). Written in an accessible style and illustrated with stories and cases from veterinary practice about real animals, this book is a counterweight to the mass of ‘pro’ literature in existence which uncritically promotes CAVM without consideration of whether or not it works or could even be harmful to our animal companions. The book takes a close look at how thinking can go wrong and how animals can appear to respond to treatment even when it is ineffective. Individual alternative practices are examined including homeopathy, acupuncture, raw diets and the anti-vaccination lobby and we find out if their claims stand up to scrutiny. With a thoroughly scientific line, it is not an attack on different belief systems, but a rigorous analysis of the facts, and a consideration of typical CAVM arguments, as well as a helpful explanation for people who may be unfamiliar with what the various therapies entail. Following on from the several successful books questioning the use of complementary therapies in human medicine such as Bad Science, No Way to Treat a Friend looks at their use in veterinary medicine. This is a valuable resource for veterinary practitioners as well as lay people who are interested in popular science, animal topics, animal welfare and medical matters. 5m Books

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5m Books Ltd

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1912178575

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9781912178575

Greatest Biathlon Olympic Athletes to Ever Compete: Top 100

By: Alex Trost/Vadim Kravetsky

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Greatest Biathlon Olympic Athletes to Ever Compete: Top 100

By: Alex Trost/Vadim Kravetsky

Are you looking for a journey that will take you through Greatest Biathlon Olympic Athletes to Ever Compete: Top 100, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choices, options, or just for fun; this book fits any criteria. Creating Greatest Biathlon Olympic Athletes to Ever Compete: Top 100 did not happen quickly. It is thorough look at accuracy and foundation before the book was even started. This book was created to inform, entertain and maybe even test your knowledge. By the time you finish reading this book you will want to share it with others.

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Booktango

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1468937529

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9781468937527

Changing a Leopard's Spots

The Adventures of Two Wildlife Trackers

By: Alex van den Heever

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Changing a Leopard's Spots

The Adventures of Two Wildlife Trackers

By: Alex van den Heever

‘Alex and Renias are what we need in these times of racial mistrust and lack of cohesion. I found this book compelling and “unputdownable” as it goes beyond wildlife to life, love, trust and community. It is about generosity of spirit. It serves as a reminder that humanity needs to respect, love and appreciate nature.’ – SELLO HATANG, Chief Executive of the Nelson Mandela Foundation World-renowned wildlife trackers Alex van den Heever and Renias Mhlongo have spent three decades working together, tracking leopards and lions at Londolozi, jaguars in South America and grizzly bears in the United States. In Changing a Leopard’s Spots, Alex shares stories from his life with Renias, including the successes, failures, dramas, laughter, disappointments and highlights. As they experience numerous adventures, Alex and Renias learn to trust and rely on one another – both in order to stay alive, in a literal sense because of the sometimes dangerous environments in which they work, but also to develop a deep and meaningful relationship. By challenging each other and learning from one another, they break down social, cultural, racial and personal boundaries and obstacles that often divide South Africans; and in the process, the two men forge an unbreakable bond.

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Pan Macmillan South africa

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1770108440

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9781770108448

There's Been A Life!

My Autobiography

By: Alex Norton

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There's Been A Life!

My Autobiography

By: Alex Norton

Since his first tentative steps on stage, Alex Norton’s career has been both highly colourful and eventful beyond his wildest dreams. His journey from the streets of Glasgow’s notorious Gorbals to blockbuster Hollywood movies has rarely been smooth, but in a career spanning six decades he has pretty much seen it all - and done most of it. When the teenage Alex discovered acting was a great way to meet girls, he was hooked for life and embarked on an adventure that has taken him from kids’ TV to radical theatre and from panto to Hollywood, working with a host of famous faces along the way. As a jobbing actor in the late sixties Alex met and played guitar with young Davy Jones on a movie set - the next time he saw him, David Bowie had hit the big time. Alex has appeared in iconic movies like Local Hero, Gregory’s Girl and Braveheart; nearly killed Clint Eastwood on a movie shoot in South Africa; had whale for dinner in Moscow with John Voight; been named by Dudley Moore as the funniest actor he’d ever worked; starred alongside Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest; and made an everlasting mark on British television as DCI Matt Burke in Taggart. Uproariously funny and highly entertaining, in There’s Been A . . . Life! Alex Norton takes us on an irreverent journey behind the scenes of a showbiz life very well lived.

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Black & White Publishing

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1845029682

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9781845029685

The Antonine Constitution

An Edict for the Caracallan Empire

By: Alex Imrie

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The Antonine Constitution

An Edict for the Caracallan Empire

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Fokker Fighters of World War One

By: Alex Imrie

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Fokker Fighters of World War One

By: Alex Imrie

Beretter med mange fotografier om forskellige Fokker-jagerfly fra 1. verdenskrig.

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The Darkest Goodbye

The Darkest Goodbye

The Antonine Constitution

The Antonine Constitution

Food and Multiculture

Food and Multiculture

Funny How?

Funny How?

Learning Disability and Everyday Life

Learning Disability and Everyday Life

Tracker Manual

Tracker Manual

The Planning Game

The Planning Game

Before Blackwood's

Before Blackwood's

Inventing the Future

Inventing the Future

No Way to Treat a Friend: Lifting the Lid on Complementary and Alternative Veterinary Medicine

No Way to Treat a Friend: Lifting the Lid on Complementary and Alternative Veterinary Medicine

Greatest Biathlon Olympic Athletes to Ever Compete: Top 100

Greatest Biathlon Olympic Athletes to Ever Compete: Top 100

Changing a Leopard's Spots

Changing a Leopard's Spots

There's Been A Life!

There's Been A Life!

The Antonine Constitution

The Antonine Constitution

Fokker Fighters of World War One

Fokker Fighters of World War One

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