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The English country house is an iconic setting for some of the
greatest British crime fiction. Short stories are an important part
of this tradition, and writers from Agatha Christie to Margery
Allingham became famous for the intricate cases which their
detectives unravelled in rambling country houses. These stories
continue to enjoy wide appeal, driven partly by nostalgia for a
vanished way of life, and partly by the pleasure of trying to solve
a fiendishly clued puzzle. This new collection gathers together
stories written over a span of about 65 years, during which British
society, and life in country houses, was transformed out of all
recognition. It includes fascinating and unfamiliar twists on the
classic 'closed circle' plot, in which the assorted guests at a
country house party become suspects when a crime is committed. In
the more sinister tales featured here, a gloomy mansion set in
lonely grounds offers an eerie backdrop for dark deeds, as in
Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Copper Beeches' and W. W. Jacobs' 'The
Well'. Many distinguished writers are represented in this
collection, including such great names of the genre as Anthony
Berkeley, Nicholas Blake and G.K. Chesterton. As with his previous
anthologies in the Crime Classics series, Martin Edwards has also
unearthed hidden gems and forgotten masterpieces: among them are a
fine send-up of the country house murder, 'The Murder at the
Towers'; a suspenseful tale by the unaccountably neglected Ethel
Lina White; and a story by the little-known Scottish writer J.J.
Bell.
Edgar Allan Poe notoriously identified "the death . . . of a
beautiful woman" as "the most poetical topic in the world." Despite
that cringeworthy claim, Poe drew creative inspiration from female
authors, and women figure prominently among the artists and critics
fascinated by the writer's creative legacy. A book-length work
about the various ways in which women-Poe's female contemporaries,
scholars, writers and artists, as well as women characters in Poe
adaptations-have influenced perceptions of Poe is long overdue.
Covering a time frame that extends from the mid-nineteenth century
to the twenty-first, this collection features essays about all of
these subjects. One goal of this book is recognizing how women have
helped establish Poe's reputation in the U.S. and abroad. The other
is drawing attention to ways that constructions of womanhood
accepted by Poe are revised in popular culture, a sphere where
artists-in film, fiction, and comics-build on the subversive
potential of Poe's work while exposing its ideological limitations.
Poe and Women will appeal not only to Poe specialists but also to
anyone interested in his ongoing relevance to gender discussions
inside and outside the academy.
While there are signs of recovery from recent economic collapses,
relatively few protective measures are in place in the United
States to prevent future crises and widespread destruction of
livelihoods around the globe. This book, a follow-up and further
development of Martin's and Torres' ideas in their acclaimed Savage
State: Welfare Capitalism and Inequality, contains a synthesis and
critique of economic theory with historical case studies and new
discourse on American globalism and its failures to provide for the
economic security of millions of people. Since the original
publication over ten years ago, there has been a resurgence in
radical political economy and critical theory. Instead of
"demonizing" the market, Capitalism and Critique draws lessons from
the new directions in social theory and seeks clear solutions for
future modes of capitalism.
New essays reappraising the history of the book, manuscripts, and
texts. The dynamic fields of the history of the book and the
sociology of the text are the areas this volume investigates,
bringing together ten specially commissioned essays that between
them demonstrate a range of critical and materialapproaches to
medieval, early modern, and digital books and texts. They
scrutinize individual medieval manuscripts to illustrate how
careful re-reading of evidence permits a more nuanced apprehension
of production, and receptionacross time; analyse metaphor for our
understanding of the Byzantine book; examine the materiality of
textuality from Beowulf to Pepys and the digital work in the
twenty-first century; place manuscripts back into specific
historical context; and re-appraise scholarly interpretation of
significant periods of manuscript and print production in the later
medieval and early modern periods. All of these essays call for a
new assessment of the ways in which we read books and texts, making
a major contribution to book history, and illustrating how detailed
focus on individual cases can yield important new findings.
Contributors: Elaine Treharne, Erika Corradini, Julia Crick,
Orietta Da Rold, A.S.G. Edwards, Martin K. Foys, Whitney Anne
Trettien, David L. Gants, Ralph Hanna, Robert Romanchuk, Margaret
M. Smith, Liberty Stanavage.
This book is devoted to an analysis of how immigration has emerged
as a political issue, how the politics of immigration have been
constructed, and what have been the consequences in western Europe.
Specific coverage is given to France, the UK, Italy, Austria and
Germany, along with the emerging EU policy process and some
cross-national comparisons.
This book presents the reader with a set of diverse, carefully
developed and clearly specified systems of transcription and
coding, arising from contrasting theoretical perspectives, and
presented as alternative choices, situated within the theoretical
domain most natural to each. The perspectives represented include
first and second language acquisition, interethnic and
crosscultural interaction, information structure, and the study of
discourse influences on linguistic expression. In the contributed
chapters, the designers of these systems provide a distillation of
collective experiences from the past quarter century, telling in
their own words their perspectives on language processes, how these
perspectives have shaped their choice of methodology in
transcription and coding of natural language, and describing their
systems in detail. Overview chapters by the editors then provide
design principles and guidelines concerning issues pertinent to all
systems, including such things as reliability, validity, ease of
learning, computational tractability, and robustness against error.
The final chapter is a compendium of existing computerized archives
of language data and information sources together with details
concerning data access and use.
The 650th anniversary of the foundation of Wingfield College was
the occasion for a special two-day symposium marking the
culmination of a three-year UEA-funded research project into the
college and castle. The building projects of the late medieval
aristocracy focused on their homes and the monasteries, churches or
chantry foundations under their patronage where their family were
buried and commemorated. This commemoration allowed a visual
celebration of their achievements, status and lineage, the scale
and prestige of which reflected on the fortunes of the family as a
whole. Wingfield is explored in the context of both the actual
building of the castle, chantry chapel and the college, and that of
the symbolic function of these as a demonstration ion of
aristocratic status. The contributions to this book examine many
topics which have hitherto been neglected, such as the archaeology
of the castle, which had never been excavated, the complex history
of the college's architecture, and the detailed study of the
monuments in the church. The latest techniques are used to
reconstruct the college and castle, with a DVD to demonstrate
these. And the context of the family and its fortunes are explored
in chapters on the place of the de la Poles in fifteenth century
history, as soldiers, administrators and potential claimants to the
throne.
This edited collection shows how demographic analysis plays a
pivotal role in planning, policy and funding decisions in
Australia. Drawing on the latest demographic data and methods,
these case studies in applied demography demonstrate that
population dynamics underpin the full spectrum of contemporary
social, economic and political issues. The contributors harness a
range of demographic statistics and develop innovative techniques
demonstrating how population dynamics influence issues such as
electoral representation, the distribution of government funding,
metropolitan and local planning, the provision of aged housing,
rural depopulation, coastal growth, ethnic diversity and the
well-being of Australia's Indigenous community. Moving beyond
simple statistics, the case studies show that demographic methods
and models offer crucial insights into contemporary problems and
provide essential perspectives to aid efficiency, equity in public
policy and private sector planning. Together the volume represents
essential reading for students across the social sciences as for
policy makers in government and private industry.
This edited collection shows how demographic analysis plays a
pivotal role in planning, policy and funding decisions in
Australia. Drawing on the latest demographic data and methods,
these case studies in applied demography demonstrate that
population dynamics underpin the full spectrum of contemporary
social, economic and political issues. The contributors harness a
range of demographic statistics and develop innovative techniques
demonstrating how population dynamics influence issues such as
electoral representation, the distribution of government funding,
metropolitan and local planning, the provision of aged housing,
rural depopulation, coastal growth, ethnic diversity and the
well-being of Australia's Indigenous community. Moving beyond
simple statistics, the case studies show that demographic methods
and models offer crucial insights into contemporary problems and
provide essential perspectives to aid efficiency, equity in public
policy and private sector planning. Together the volume represents
essential reading for students across the social sciences as for
policy makers in government and private industry.
Murder Squad, a group of award-winning crime and mystery writers,
celebrate their twenty-first birthday with a bang in this
criminally good collection of short stories. A dawn swim turns
deadly in a brand-new short story starring DCI Vera Stanhope . . .
Two bored cell-mates play a game with chilling results . . . A hen
night in an isolated cottage brings new meaning to 'I will survive'
. . . A train traveller teaches a valuable lesson in reading labels
. . . A day at the seaside turns stormy for a woman who doesn't
care for foreigners . . . A wealthy retiree makes a new friend who
connects her to the Other Side . . . and much much more. Short,
sharp and packed with twists, these 21 unputdownable tales showcase
Murder Squad's range and talent throughout the years. So why not
treat yourself to a slice of murderously moreish fiction, and join
us in wishing the squad 'Many Deadly Returns'. With stories by Ann
Cleeves, Martin Edwards, Kate Ellis, Margaret Murphy, Chris Simms
and Cath Staincliffe, as well as John Baker, Chaz Brenchley and
Stuart Pawson.
While there are signs of recovery from recent economic collapses,
relatively few protective measures are in place in the United
States to prevent future crises and widespread destruction of
livelihoods around the globe. This book, a follow-up and further
development of Martin's and Torres' ideas in their acclaimed Savage
State: Welfare Capitalism and Inequality, contains a synthesis and
critique of economic theory with historical case studies and new
discourse on American globalism and its failures to provide for the
economic security of millions of people. Since the original
publication over ten years ago, there has been a resurgence in
radical political economy and critical theory. Instead of
"demonizing" the market, Capitalism and Critique draws lessons from
the new directions in social theory and seeks clear solutions for
future modes of capitalism.
This book presents the reader with a set of diverse, carefully
developed and clearly specified systems of transcription and
coding, arising from contrasting theoretical perspectives, and
presented as alternative choices, situated within the theoretical
domain most natural to each. The perspectives represented include
first and second language acquisition, interethnic and
crosscultural interaction, information structure, and the study of
discourse influences on linguistic expression. In the contributed
chapters, the designers of these systems provide a distillation of
collective experiences from the past quarter century, telling in
their own words their perspectives on language processes, how these
perspectives have shaped their choice of methodology in
transcription and coding of natural language, and describing their
systems in detail. Overview chapters by the editors then provide
design principles and guidelines concerning issues pertinent to all
systems, including such things as reliability, validity, ease of
learning, computational tractability, and robustness against error.
The final chapter is a compendium of existing computerized archives
of language data and information sources together with details
concerning data access and use.
Murder Squad, a group of award-winning crime and mystery writers,
celebrate their twenty-first birthday with a bang in this
criminally good collection of short stories. A dawn swim turns
deadly in a brand-new short story starring DCI Vera Stanhope . . .
Two bored cell-mates play a game with chilling results . . . A hen
night in an isolated cottage brings new meaning to 'I will survive'
. . . A train traveller teaches a valuable lesson in reading labels
. . . A day at the seaside turns stormy for a woman who doesn't
care for foreigners . . . A wealthy retiree makes a new friend who
connects her to the Other Side . . . and much much more. Short,
sharp and packed with twists, these 21 unputdownable tales showcase
Murder Squad's range and talent throughout the years. So why not
treat yourself to a slice of murderously moreish fiction, and join
us in wishing the squad 'Many Deadly Returns'. With stories by Ann
Cleeves, Martin Edwards, Kate Ellis, Margaret Murphy, Chris Simms
and Cath Staincliffe, as well as John Baker, Chaz Brenchley and
Stuart Pawson.
Travel writing is a genre monopolised by Westerners. For centuries
the preserve of Europeans who reported on the "exotic", it sought
to make sense of other landscapes and cultures, but almost
exclusively through a European prism of references. This anthology,
stretching from the fifth to the nineteenth centuries, introduces
an entirely different tradition of travel writing - the work of
travellers from the world beyond Europe. Other Routes collects
important primary work by travel writers from Asia and Africa in
English translation. Encompassing spiritual journeys, the personal,
ethnography, natural history, geography, cartography, navigation,
politics, history, religion and diplomacy, it shows that Africans
and Asians also travelled the world and left travel writing worth
reading. An introduction by Tabish Khair discusses travel
literature as a genre, the perception of travel and writing about
travel as a European privilege, and the emergence of new writings
that show that travel has been a human occupation that crosses time
and culture. Selections include The Travels of a Japanese Monk (c.
838), Al-Abdari, The Disgruntled Traveller (c. 1290), A Korean
Official's Account of China (1488), The Poetry of Basho's Road
(1689), Malabari: A Love-Hate Affair with the British (1890).
..". brings new insights into the colonial relationship while
challenging the unspoken temptation that this was a distinctly
European period." Simon Gikandi
Other Routes collects important primary work by travel writers
from Asia and Africa in English translation. An introduction by
Tabish Khair discusses travel literature as a genre, the perception
of travel and writing about travel as a European privilege, and the
emergence of new writings that show that travel has been a human
occupation that crosses time and culture. This original and
significant book will interest armchair travelers and others in
views of people and places away from the European traveler s
gaze.
Selections include "The Travels of a Japanese Monk" (c. 838),
"Al-Abdari, the Disgruntled Traveller" (c. 1290), "A Korean
Official s Account of China" (1488), "The Poetry of Basho s Road"
(1689), "Malabari: A Love-Hate Affair with the British"
(1890)."
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