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Strangers

An Exclusive Short Story

By: Camilla Grebe,Asa Traff

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Strangers

An Exclusive Short Story

By: Camilla Grebe,Asa Traff

From the internationally bestselling authors of Some Kind of Peace, this eBook features an original short story, “Strangers,” plus bonus materials, including: · Extended excerpt from Some Kind of Peace, the first Siri Bergman thriller · EXCLUSIVE sneak preview of More Bitter Than Death, the second Siri Bergman thriller (on sale June 18, 2013) · Q&A with Camilla Grebe and Åsa Träff A chilling blend of psychology and murder, this heart-pounding Swedish series follows Siri Bergman, a thirty-something psychologist in central Stockholm, as she tries to heal the minds of her patients—despite the fact that she’s running from plenty of demons of her own. But the mind is a maze with many winding paths, and somehow Siri keeps finding herself venturing away from the safety of the therapist’s couch . . . and onto the trail of a killer.

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Simon and Schuster

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1476740852

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9781476740850

Anthropology and Risk

By: Asa Boholm

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Anthropology and Risk

By: Asa Boholm

Drawing on theory from anthropology, sociology, organisation studies and philosophy, this book addresses how the perception, communication and management of risk is shaped by culturally informed and socially embedded knowledge and experience. It provides an account of how interpretations of risk in society are conditioned by knowledge claims and cultural assumptions and by the orientationof actors based on roles, norms, expectations, identities, trust and practical rationality within a lived social world. By focusing on agency, social complexity and the production and interpretation of meaning, the book offers a comprehensive and holistic theoretical perspective on risk, based on empirical case studies and ethnographic enquiry. As a selection of Åsa Boholm’s publications throughout her career, along with a newly written introduction overviewing the field, this book provides a unified perspective on risk as a construct shaped by social and cultural contexts.This collection should be of interest to students and scholars of risk communication, risk management, environmental planning, environmental management and environmental and applied anthropology.

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190

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Routledge

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1317754611

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9781317754619

Interpreting the City

An Urban Geography

By: Truman Asa Hartshorn

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Interpreting the City

An Urban Geography

By: Truman Asa Hartshorn

The Second Edition has been rewritten to provide additional coverage of topics such as urban development and third world cities as well as social issues including homelessness, jobs/housing mismatch and transportation disadvantages. It has also been updated with 1990 Census data.

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517

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471887501

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9780471887508

Antioch

A History

By: Andrea U. De Giorgi,A. Asa Eger

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Antioch

A History

By: Andrea U. De Giorgi,A. Asa Eger

Winner of ASOR's 2022 G. Ernest Wright Award for the most substantial volume dealing with archaeological material, excavation reports and material culture from the ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean. This is a complete history of Antioch, one of the most significant major cities of the eastern Mediterranean and a crossroads for the Silk Road, from its foundation by the Seleucids, through Roman rule, the rise of Christianity, Islamic and Byzantine conquests, to the Crusades and beyond. Antioch has typically been treated as a city whose classical glory faded permanently amid a series of natural disasters and foreign invasions in the sixth and seventh centuries CE. Such studies have obstructed the view of Antioch’s fascinating urban transformations from classical to medieval to modern city and the processes behind these transformations. Through its comprehensive blend of textual sources and new archaeological data reanalyzed from Princeton’s 1930s excavations and recent discoveries, this book offers unprecedented insights into the complete history of Antioch, recreating the lives of the people who lived in it and focusing on the factors that affected them during the evolution of its remarkable cityscape. While Antioch’s built environment is central, the book also utilizes landscape archaeological work to consider the city in relation to its hinterland, and numismatic evidence to explore its economics. The outmoded portrait of Antioch as a sadly perished classical city par excellence gives way to one in which it shines as brightly in its medieval Islamic, Byzantine, and Crusader incarnations. Antioch: A History offers a new portal to researching this long-lasting city and is also suitable for a wide variety of teaching needs, both undergraduate and graduate, in the fields of classics, history, urban studies, archaeology, Silk Road studies, and Near Eastern/Middle Eastern studies. Just as importantly, its clarity makes it attractive for, and accessible to, a general readership outside the framework of formal instruction.

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586

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Routledge

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1317540417

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9781317540410

The Silent Wife

A Novel

By: A. S. A. Harrison

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The Silent Wife

A Novel

By: A. S. A. Harrison

The New York Times bestselling novel soon to be a major motion picture starring Nicole Kidman, for fans of The Woman in the Window and The Silent Patient. "I gobbled it down in one sitting." – Anne Lamott, People Jodi and Todd are at a bad place in their marriage. Much is at stake, including the affluent life they lead in their beautiful waterfront condo in Chicago, as she, the killer, and he, the victim, rush haplessly toward the main event. He is a committed cheater. She lives and breathes denial. He exists in dual worlds. She likes to settle scores. He decides to play for keeps. She has nothing left to lose. Told in alternating voices, The Silent Wife is about a marriage in the throes of dissolution, a couple headed for catastrophe, concessions that can’t be made, and promises that won’t be kept. Expertly plotted and reminiscent of Gone Girl and These Things Hidden, The Silent Wife ensnares the reader from page one and does not let go.

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Penguin

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1101608064

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9781101608067

Welcome To My City: Maseru

By: Tsebo Mats'asa

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Welcome To My City: Maseru

By: Tsebo Mats'asa

Established in March, 1869, Maseru grew from trade and Cape Colony administration centre to the current Lesotho central government base. The city of Maseru wealth of tourism attractions are yet to be explored. This self tour guide is a user friendly tour guide of the city. All you need is a digital map device with internet to enjoy the tour of the city.

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180

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Ukiyoto Publishing

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9815003747

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9789815003741

Facility Siting

Risk, Power and Identity in Land Use Planning

By: Asa Boholm

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Facility Siting

Risk, Power and Identity in Land Use Planning

By: Asa Boholm

From dams to landfill sites, and power plants to radioactive waste repositories, the siting of facilities is a veritable minefield of conflicts involving industry, planners, authorities, NGOs and citizens. This penetrating volume examines risk, power and identity in contests over the siting of infrastructure and industrial facilities. Going beyond nimby-ism, experts in a variety of fields bring a multiperspective analysis from science, law and media to case studies from the UK, USA and Europe, and expose the political and cultural dimensions of siting conflicts. In the process they show how place attachment and notions of landscape and local identity play a prominent role in resistance to 'development'. Topics covered include the importance of context in siting controversies, siting methods and social representation, siting conflicts, the importance of institutional thinking in facility siting, risk, industrial encroachment and the sense of place, siting and sacred places, and law and fairness. This book is essential reading for academics in social sciences, policy, planning, law and risk; policy makers, planners and decision makers at all levels of government; business and industry, particularly energy generation, including nuclear and renewables, transportation and large dams; risk assessment professionals; and NGOs and activists.

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Earthscan

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1849771308

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9781849771306

Manufacturing Desire

Media, Popular Culture, and Everyday Life

By: Arthur Asa Berger

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Manufacturing Desire

Media, Popular Culture, and Everyday Life

By: Arthur Asa Berger

The average person in America watches four hours of television per day and spends the equivalent of nine years of his or her life in front of the television set. If the attention most people devote to popular culture - listening to the news, watching soap operas, reading the comics-were added up, it would reveal that most people spend an enormous amount of time with popular culture which becomes in large measure, their culture. "Manufacturing Desire" is a study of how the mass media broadcast or spread various popular arts; further how the media and popular arts play a major role in shaping our everyday lives.The television shows we watch, the movies we see, the radio programs we listen to, and all the comic strips we read influence social behavior. They give us ideas about what is good and evil, about how to solve problems, and about how we should relate to others. If we understand this, says Berger, then the way we think about our media-influenced culture will be far different than if we see popular culture as mindless entertainment. Berger provides an analysis of the way popular culture and the mass media simultaneously reflect and affect various aspects of American culture and society. He examines commercials, television shows, comics, film, humor, and everyday life in terms of what beliefs and values are found in them, what attitudes toward ourselves, and our societies are contained in them, how they achieve their effects, and what they reflect about present-day American culture and society.This book is analysis of the impact mass media have across America, cross-culturally, and internationally. "Manufacturing Desire" will provide the general reader as well as specialists in communication and information, sociology, and psychology with a better understanding of the effects of mass media and popular culture on contemporary society.

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Routledge

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1351507095

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9781351507097

Truth or Consequences

Improbable Adventures, a Near-Death Experience, and Unexpected Redemption in the New Mexico Desert

By: Daniel Asa Rose

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Truth or Consequences

Improbable Adventures, a Near-Death Experience, and Unexpected Redemption in the New Mexico Desert

By: Daniel Asa Rose

Daniel Asa Rose was a successful novelist, memoirist, book critic, and columnist for the New York Times Magazine, Esquire, and others, when the top blew off his domestic life. His wife of sixteen years wanted out. Before he could slip into depression, doubt, and self-loathing, Dan’s lifelong friend Tony made an irresistible proposition: go back to the place where, forty years earlier, their college road trip had come to a crashing halt, T-boned by a woman in the decidedly oddball little town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Dan and Tony return to the scene of the crash in an effort to make sense of that fateful moment. He’s certain that if he can locate the woman in whose arms he almost died, he will find the self he lost and make peace with his life choices since. Dan moves into a single-wide trailer four blocks from the crash. Over the next eight months, inexplicable encounters make him fall in love with the New Mexico desert and the wiggy place that embraces him.

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University of New Mexico Press

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0826364799

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9780826364791

The Golden Triangle

An Ethno-semiotic Tour of Present-day India

By: Arthur Asa Berger

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The Golden Triangle

An Ethno-semiotic Tour of Present-day India

By: Arthur Asa Berger

This book offers a semiotically informed ethnographic study of contemporary culture in Rajasthan and India. It adapts the methodology of analyzing cultures found in Roland Barthes' semiotic portrait of Japanese culture, "Empire of Signs", but adds an analysis of lifestyles as explicated in the work of social anthropologist Mary Douglas, political scientist Aaron Wildavsky, and a number of other social scientists. This manuscript is, at first, a guide to Rajasthan and India, and it is that but it is also more in that it considers tourism from both an anthropological and sociological level.Berger begins with statistics on tourism and other aspects of life in Rajasthan and India, and then considers how tourism in India compares with tourism in other important tourism destinations. He refers to the "Imaginary India" as the picture created in tourists' minds with the help of guidebooks, media, and the Internet before they actually travel to India. He then discusses these representations and how they are actually different from the country itself. The trip itself then becomes the search for the authentic India - the goal is to find places before they are discovered. He calls this "Semiotic Rajasthan," where the representations are compared to actuality.After offering a discussion of semiotic theory, it interprets and analyzes a number of important aspects of Rajasthani and Indian culture such as: the Taj Mahal, the Palace of Winds in Jaipur, the notorious rat temple in Deshnok, and sacred cows. Lastly, he discusses his own trip and how the impact of Rajasthan did not fully register until he returned home.This manuscript's strength lies in the author's ability to write in an accessible manner, assemble the project in an interesting way, and include only that information which will guide the reader along the narrative trail. While this manuscript really is a guidebook to Rajasthan, it could also serve as a good introduction to ethnography for beginning students and an interested general audience. It moves from basic explanations, such as that of semiotics, to complex applications all with the grace of good story telling.

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Routledge

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1351482149

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9781351482141

Heal the Eternal

Spiritual Adventures from Despair to Triumph

By: Hiromi Asa

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Heal the Eternal

Spiritual Adventures from Despair to Triumph

By: Hiromi Asa

Kazu, an average office worker in Tokyo, is befriended by a psychic, begins a spiritual quest and becomes a gifted healer.

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iUniverse

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1475970250

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9781475970258

Selectively Lawless

The True Story of Emmett Long, an American Original

By: Asa Dunnington

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Selectively Lawless

The True Story of Emmett Long, an American Original

By: Asa Dunnington

The true life story of a gunslinging, gambling moonshiner is recounted in this “cheerful, wild…rollicking biography” by the outlaw’s own nephew (Forward Reviews). Born to a Texas sharecropping family in 1904, Emmett Long soon fell in love with fast engines and fast living. An associate of legendary outlaws like Pretty Boy Floyd and Frank Nash, Emmett rose from poverty to infamy as a prodigious gambler, moonshiner, bank robber, and—on occasion—a killer of men. But he was not your average outlaw. From an early age, Emmett made his own rules—and he stuck to them, too. Instead of dying young in a blaze of guns and fury, he found Christianity, married a good woman, raised a family, and lived to a ripe age as a successful rancher. In a new twist to the classic Great Depression outlaw narrative, Asa Dunnington shares the life story of his uncle in Selectively Lawless.

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BrownBooks.ORM

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1612543162

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9781612543161

Some Kind of Peace

By: Camilla Grebe,Asa Traff

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Some Kind of Peace

By: Camilla Grebe,Asa Traff

The beautifully written and utterly compelling psychological crime thriller from number 1 Swedish bestselling sisters. Meet Siri Bergman. She lives alone, an hour outside of Stockholm where she practises as a psychotherapist, her nearest neighbour far away. She is terrified of the dark. Siri tells herself that she has moved on since her husband died in a diving accident. But when she goes to bed at night, she leaves all the lights on, unable to shake the feeling that someone is watching her. What if she has good reason to be afraid? One night she wakes to find that the house is pitch black, and the torch by her bedside has vanished. Later the body of one of her young patients is found floating in the water nearby. Thrown headlong into a tense murder investigation, everything Siri believed is called into question. Can she trust anyone? 'Grebe and Träff break new ground in the Scandinavian crime literature genre, and they do it brilliantly. Using unique insights and experiences from their own professional backgrounds, they tell a smooth-paced yet utterly intriguing story about man's inability to let go of the past' Kristina Ohlsson, author of Unwanted

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Simon and Schuster

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0857209485

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Book's by Asa Traff

Strangers

Strangers

Anthropology and Risk

Anthropology and Risk

Interpreting the City

Interpreting the City

Antioch

Antioch

The Silent Wife

The Silent Wife

Welcome To My City: Maseru

Welcome To My City: Maseru

Facility Siting

Facility Siting

Manufacturing Desire

Manufacturing Desire

Truth or Consequences

Truth or Consequences

The Golden Triangle

The Golden Triangle

Heal the Eternal

Heal the Eternal

Selectively Lawless

Selectively Lawless

Some Kind of Peace

Some Kind of Peace

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