Set in Savannah, Georgia, "Cockspur Island: A Novel of the Coast Guard" is an original work of fiction from Bradley K. Adams, the first book in the Hank Morgan Series and the first in a series of books that focuses exclusively on the Coast Guard. In the wake of a hurricane, Hank Morgan and his crew discover the remnants of a failed, fatal, drug deal. As the story unfolds, Hank, his crew and their families are pursued by ruthless drug runners who are convinced that the "Coasties" have taken their money. The action, adventure and intrigue ramp up as you, the reader, share in the peril and are left guessing as to Hank's fate and the true holder of the stolen riches. "Cockspur Island: A Novel of the Coast Guard" is a page turning, edge of the seat thriller sure to leave the reader eager for the next chapter in Hank Morgan's career.
For everyone interested in the origins of agriculture, early village formation, stone tool technology, human biological adaptation, paleoecology, and the history of the Borderlands, this book will be essential reading."--BOOK JACKET.
Drawing on both historical analysis and theories from the modern affective sciences, Shakespeare and Disgust argues that the experience of revulsion is one of Shakespeare's central dramatic concerns. Known as the 'gatekeeper emotion', disgust is the affective process through which humans protect the boundaries of their physical bodies from material contaminants and their social bodies from moral contaminants. Accordingly, the emotion provided Shakespeare with a master category of compositional tools – poetic images, thematic considerations and narrative possibilities – to interrogate the violation and preservation of such boundaries, whether in the form of compromised bodies, compromised moral actors or compromised social orders. Designed to offer both focused readings and birds-eye coverage, this volume alternates between chapters devoted to the sustained analysis of revulsion in specific plays (Titus Andronicus, Timon of Athens, Coriolanus, Othello and Hamlet) and chapters presenting a general overview of Shakespeare's engagement with certain kinds of prototypical disgust elicitors, including food, disease, bodily violation, race and sex disgust. Disgust, the book argues, is one of the central engines of human behaviour – and, somewhat surprisingly, it must be seen as a centrepiece of Shakespeare's affective universe.
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