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The inspiration for A Haunting in Venice – now a major motion
picture. When a Hallowe’en party turns deadly, it falls to
Hercule Poirot to unmask a murderer… During a night of party
games, Joyce Reynolds boasts that she once witnessed a murder. No
one believes her, but then she is found drowned, face down in an
apple-bobbing tub. Set against a night of trickery and the occult,
Hercule Poirot and Ariadne Oliver must race to uncover the real
evil responsible for this ghastly murder. Hallowe’en Party is the
sensational Agatha Christie novel that inspired the brand new
feature film directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh. This special
edition is introduced by its screenwriter, Michael Green.
The inspiration for A Haunting in Venice – now a major motion
picture. When a Hallowe’en party turns deadly, it falls to
Hercule Poirot to unmask a murderer… During a night of party
games, Joyce Reynolds boasts that she once witnessed a murder. No
one believes her, but then she is found drowned, face down in an
apple-bobbing tub. Set against a night of trickery and the occult,
Hercule Poirot and Ariadne Oliver must race to uncover the real
evil responsible for this ghastly murder. Hallowe’en Party is the
sensational Agatha Christie novel that inspired the brand new
feature film directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh. This special
edition is introduced by its screenwriter, Michael Green.
Voices in the Legal Archives in the French Colonial World: "The
King is Listening" offers, through the contribution of thirteen
original chapters, a sustained analysis of judicial practices and
litigation during the first era of French overseas expansion. The
overall goal of this volume is to elaborate a more sophisticated
"social history of colonialism" by focusing largely on the
eighteenth century, extending roughly from 1700 until the
conclusion of the Age of Revolutions in the 1830s. By critically
examining legal practices and litigation in the French colonial
world, in both its Atlantic and Oceanic extensions, this volume of
essays has sought to interrogate the naturalized equation between
law and empire, an idea premised on the idea of law as a set of
doctrines and codified procedures originating in the metropolis and
then transmitted to the colonies. This book advances new approaches
and methods in writing a history of the French empire, one which
views state authority as more unstable and contested. Voices in the
Legal Archives proposes to remedy the under-theorized state of
France's first colonial empire, as opposed to its post-1830
imperial expressions empire, which have garnered far more scholarly
attention. This book will appeal to scholars of French history and
the comparative history of European empires and colonialism.
Voices in the Legal Archives in the French Colonial World: "The
King is Listening" offers, through the contribution of thirteen
original chapters, a sustained analysis of judicial practices and
litigation during the first era of French overseas expansion. The
overall goal of this volume is to elaborate a more sophisticated
"social history of colonialism" by focusing largely on the
eighteenth century, extending roughly from 1700 until the
conclusion of the Age of Revolutions in the 1830s. By critically
examining legal practices and litigation in the French colonial
world, in both its Atlantic and Oceanic extensions, this volume of
essays has sought to interrogate the naturalized equation between
law and empire, an idea premised on the idea of law as a set of
doctrines and codified procedures originating in the metropolis and
then transmitted to the colonies. This book advances new approaches
and methods in writing a history of the French empire, one which
views state authority as more unstable and contested. Voices in the
Legal Archives proposes to remedy the under-theorized state of
France's first colonial empire, as opposed to its post-1830
imperial expressions empire, which have garnered far more scholarly
attention. This book will appeal to scholars of French history and
the comparative history of European empires and colonialism.
Trick or treat? No one believes Joyce Reynolds when she boasts she
once witnessed a murder. Until, that is, she is found drowned, face
down in an apple-bobbing tub. What exactly was it she saw? Then the
victim’s brother is found drowned too, and the mysteries
multiply. Hercule Poirot and Ariadne Oliver must race to get at the
truth, and prevent further tragedy.
This book explores the courtship and marriage of Gwyneth Murray, an
English woman, and a Canadian, Harry Logan, who wrote in the
personae of their vagina (Dardanella) and penis (Peter) during
World War I. Through an analysis of their extensive daily
correspondence over nearly a decade, it uncovers the couple's
changing attitudes to the intersection of sexuality and religion,
to marriage and childrearing, as they navigated the transition from
Victorian to modern values. By focusing on first-person narratives,
this book enriches our understanding of gender identities revealing
how porous the boundaries remained between notions of
'heterosexual' and 'same-sex' friendships. This study offers an
unprecedented perspective on one couple's sexual practices, which
included mutual masturbation and oral sex, and constitutes one of
the most intensive examinations of female attitudes to sexual
pleasure in an era of female emancipation.
This book explores the courtship and marriage of Gwyneth Murray, an
English woman, and a Canadian, Harry Logan, who wrote in the
personae of their vagina (Dardanella) and penis (Peter) during
World War I. Through an analysis of their extensive daily
correspondence over nearly a decade, it uncovers the couple's
changing attitudes to the intersection of sexuality and religion,
to marriage and childrearing, as they navigated the transition from
Victorian to modern values. By focusing on first-person narratives,
this book enriches our understanding of gender identities revealing
how porous the boundaries remained between notions of
'heterosexual' and 'same-sex' friendships. This study offers an
unprecedented perspective on one couple's sexual practices, which
included mutual masturbation and oral sex, and constitutes one of
the most intensive examinations of female attitudes to sexual
pleasure in an era of female emancipation.
Inside these pages you will find all manner of creepy, crawly
things. Hideously deformed creatures on the outside share space
with those handsome villains that are only hideously deformed on
the inside. Get ready, readers, for you hold in your hands the Erie
Tales Omnibus Collected here, for the first time, are the most
frightening stories from the Great Lakes Association of Horror
Writers' yearly anthology, Erie Tales The mid-west has never been
scarier. The Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers is an
organization of like-minded writers, artists and enthusiasts based
in the Great Lakes region. Please, feel free to visit online at
www.greatlakeshorror.com. Don't be afraid... be terrified.
Cultures of Citizenship in Post-war Canada, 1940-1955 argues that
we need a new view of this period, one that recognizes its
considerable cultural and ideological diversity. The authors
explore the quest for cultural reconstruction; the emergence of new
definitions of elitism, mass culture, and the relationship between
the state and the individual; the changing imperatives underlying
organized labour's response to the demands of economic
reconstruction; federal-provincial tensions over the shape of
welfare policy; the recasting of youth identities by adult
authorities and among middle-class university youth; and changing
structures of authority within the family under the impact of new
psychological expertise. viewed as an era of political and social
consensus made possible by widely diffused prosperity, creeping
Americanization and fears of radical subversion, and a dominant
culture challenged periodically by the claims of marginal groups.
By exploring what were actually the mainstream ideologies and
cultural practices of the period, the authors argue that the
postwar consensus was itself a precarious cultural ideal that was
characterized by internal tensions and, while containing elements
of conservatism, reflected considerable diversity in the way in
which citizenship identities were defined.
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