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Arcadia (Paperback)
James Treadwell
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It's a year and a half after the events of "Anarchy," and the world
is alive with magic.
On a tiny archipelago out of sight of the rest of the world lives
Rory, a ten-year-old boy. He and his mother and a handful of
survivors live an exhausting and precarious existence, entirely
isolated. The sea is alive, and angry. Every man Rory can remember
has been drowned. Everyone knows he'll be next.
One night, for the first time since the world changed and the curse
descended, strangers appear on the island. They're on their way to
England, seeking a powerful magic ring. And one of them seems to
know Rory by sight...
Caught up in their quest, Rory enters an England of terrors and
marvels, at the heart of which lies a place where journeys
unimaginably longer and older than his will reach their end:
Pendurra.
From the Alcatraz East Crime Museum and Jack the Ripper guided
tours to the Phnom Penh killing fields, 'dark tourism' is now a
multi-million-pound global industry. Even in the most pleasant
tourist destinations, underlying harms are constantly perpetuated,
affecting both consumers and those who work or live around such
tourist hotspots. Highlighting 50 travel destinations across six
continents, expert criminologists, psychologists and historians
explore the past and contemporary issues which we often disregard
during our everyday leisure. This captivating book is the 'go-to'
guide for anyone interested in crime and deviance-related tourism.
Accessible and digestible, it exposes a worrying trend in
contemporary consumer culture, in which many of us partake.
The years 2008 to 2013 saw a new generation of political protestors
take to the streets. Riots disrupted many Western cities and new
protest movements emerged, keen to address a bleak context of
economic collapse and austerity politics. In this groundbreaking
new study, Winlow, Hall, Briggs and Treadwell push past the
unworldly optimism of the liberal left to offer an illuminating
account of the enclosure and vacuity of contemporary politics.
Focusing on the English riots of 2011, the ongoing crisis in
Greece, the Indignados, 15M and Podemos in Spain, the Occupy
movement in New York and London and the English Defence League in
northern England, this book uses original empirical data to inform
a strident theoretical critique of our post-political present. It
asks: what are these protest groups fighting for, and what are the
chances of success? Written by leading criminological theorists and
researchers, this book makes a major contribution to contemporary
debates on social order, politics and cultural capitalism. It
illuminates the epochal problems we face today. Riots and Political
Protest is essential reading for academics and students engaged in
the study of political sociology, criminological theory, political
theory, sociological theory and the sociology of deviance.
How much do you know about key issues in crime, crime control,
policing and punishment in the UK? This exciting, dynamic and
accessible book presents 50 key facts related to crime and criminal
justice policy in Britain. Did you know that, contrary to public
belief, in the UK a life sentence does actually last for life? And
that capital punishment in the UK was abolished for murder in 1965
but the Death Penalty was a legally defined punishment as late as
1998? Offering thought-provoking insights into the study of crime,
this fascinating "go to" book is packed with facts and figures
revealing the myths and realities of crime in contemporary Britain.
The shock Brexit result highlighted a worrying trend: underemployed
white men and women who have seen their standard of living fall,
their communities disintegrate and their sense of value, function
and inclusion diminish, desperately want a mainstream political
party to defend their interests. However, no such party exists.
These men and women cannot connect their declining fortunes and
growing frustrations to their true cause. Instead, immigrants are
scapegoated and groups like the English Defence League (EDL)
emerge. This book is the first to offer an accessible and
uncompromising look at the EDL. It aims to alter thinking about
working-class politics and the rise of right-wing nationalism in
the de-industrialised and decaying towns and cities of England. The
rise of the right among the working class, the authors claim, is
inextricably connected to the withdrawal of the political left from
traditional working-class communities, and the left's refusal to
advance the economic interests of those who have suffered most from
neoliberal economic restructuring. Incisive, contentious and
boundary-breaking, it uses the voices of men and women who now
support far-right political groups to address the total failure of
mainstream parliamentary politics and the rising tide of
frustration, resentment and anger.
The years 2008 to 2013 saw a new generation of political protestors
take to the streets. Riots disrupted many Western cities and new
protest movements emerged, keen to address a bleak context of
economic collapse and austerity politics. In this groundbreaking
new study, Winlow, Hall, Briggs and Treadwell push past the
unworldly optimism of the liberal left to offer an illuminating
account of the enclosure and vacuity of contemporary politics.
Focusing on the English riots of 2011, the ongoing crisis in
Greece, the Indignados, 15M and Podemos in Spain, the Occupy
movement in New York and London and the English Defence League in
northern England, this book uses original empirical data to inform
a strident theoretical critique of our post-political present. It
asks: what are these protest groups fighting for, and what are the
chances of success? Written by leading criminological theorists and
researchers, this book makes a major contribution to contemporary
debates on social order, politics and cultural capitalism. It
illuminates the epochal problems we face today. Riots and Political
Protest is essential reading for academics and students engaged in
the study of political sociology, criminological theory, political
theory, sociological theory and the sociology of deviance.
All the men are dead - now it's the boys' turn. On a tiny
archipelago, cut off from the rest of the world by a cursed sea, a
handful of survivors live a precarious existence, clinging to their
memories of the time before magic and their hope that those times
will return. As far as he knows, Rory is the only boy left. Then
the man comes, weaving his tales of a quest to find a powerful
ring, and Rory finds himself embarking on a journey through terrors
and marvels, once more in the world of men. And the moment of
reckoning, when it comes, will bring an end to stories unimaginably
older than his own.
For centuries it has been locked away Lost beneath the sea Warded
from earth, air, water, fire, spirits, thought and sight. But now
magic is rising to the world once more. And a boy called Gavin, who
thinks only that he is a city kid with parents who hate him, and
knows only that he sees things no one else will believe, is
boarding a train, alone, to Cornwall. No one will be there to meet
him.
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Anarchy (Paperback)
James Treadwell
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R705
R627
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The second novel in an astonishingly imaginative fantasy trilogy
that began with the critically acclaimed and "supernaturally
entertaining" ("Kirkus Reviews") "Advent."
If there's one thing Gavin Stokes knows, it's that something
unimaginably dangerous has returned to the world. A mad dog runs
amok, a mermaid floats in the bay, and a wild beast stalks the
countryside. He and others make the same strange claim: magic has
returned. All signs point to it.
Now, Gavin's aunt has disappeared. A young girl who's been accused
of murder vanishes from a locked cell. She is at large somewhere in
a vast wilderness. Meanwhile, a desolate child leaves the home that
has kept her safe all her life and strikes out into the unknown.
And a mother, half mad with grief for her lost son, sets off to
find him.
There is a place where all their journeys meet. But someone is
watching the roads...
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Advent (Paperback)
James Treadwell
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R475
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"A drowning, a magician's curse, and a centuries-old secret."
When Gavin Stokes visits an estranged family member at Pendurra, a
distant estate in Cornwall, the last thing he expects is to enter a
world where the consequences of an ancient betrayal are being
played out. If he accepts the challenge that this new world
presents, he must confront an ancient evil and the crimes of the
past that have taken the form of ghosts, like Miss Grey, who has
haunted him from earliest childhood, and Marina, a little girl who
also lives at Pendurra, and Swanny, Marina's mother, a mermaid.
What Gavin soon discovers is that magic is real . . . and
menacingly dangerous.
This is an essential introduction to undergraduate studies in
criminology. Short, clear and concise, it offers students a
comprehensive overview of the key themes covered on criminology
courses. The Second Edition provides: Summaries of key course
content, including new sections on race and ethnicity', ordinary
crime', global and comparative criminology', green criminology' and
zemiology' A helpful study skills section with extensive hints and
tips on how to write essays and pass exams Useful learning features
including a new chapter on thinking like a criminologist', covering
the differences between theoretical and common sense' views Recent
UK case studies as well as international examples drawn from
Australia, Africa and America An all new companion website
providing guides to further reading and links to relevant blogs,
journal articles and websites Criminology: The Essentials is an
indispensible learning tool. As well as mapping out course content
in a coherent and engaging way, it offers students invaluable
advice on how to get the most out of their studies.
"Written by one of the best Criminological Ethnographers in the
business, this text will serve as an invaluable and insightful
resource for both novice and seasoned ethnographers of
criminological issues." - Anthony Ellis, University of Salford In
the first textbook to cover ethnography specific to criminology,
James Treadwell guides readers through the ethnographic research
process in full, starting with a background to criminological
ethnography, through planning and doing an ethnographic project,
and finally, the writing up and reporting stage. The book provides
guidance for navigating key issues in ethnography, including access
and researcher safety, and supports readers when carrying out their
project with helpful exercises, questions and checklists. It also
includes insightful case studies comprised of classic works and the
author's own ethnographic projects, along with a range of extra
learning features including key terms, a glossary, and further
reading suggestions. A valuable resource for anyone embarking on
ethnographic research in criminology for the first time.
"Written by one of the best Criminological Ethnographers in the
business, this text will serve as an invaluable and insightful
resource for both novice and seasoned ethnographers of
criminological issues." - Anthony Ellis, University of Salford In
the first textbook to cover ethnography specific to criminology,
James Treadwell guides readers through the ethnographic research
process in full, starting with a background to criminological
ethnography, through planning and doing an ethnographic project,
and finally, the writing up and reporting stage. The book provides
guidance for navigating key issues in ethnography, including access
and researcher safety, and supports readers when carrying out their
project with helpful exercises, questions and checklists. It also
includes insightful case studies comprised of classic works and the
author's own ethnographic projects, along with a range of extra
learning features including key terms, a glossary, and further
reading suggestions. A valuable resource for anyone embarking on
ethnographic research in criminology for the first time.
What do Wagner's operas really mean? How much room do they leave
for different perspectives? In this fresh and inventive book, James
Treadwell lays open the rich possibilities for interpretation
offered across the full range of Wagner's art. Focussing steadily
on Wagner's music, dramas and prose writings, rather than on
questions of biography or influence, the book carefully traces the
tensions and uncertainties embedded within the composer's central
themes. The result is a new and vivid depiction of the essential
character of Wagner's work. Addressing both general Wagner
enthusiasts and more scholarly students of music, Treadwell
identifies and pursues the habitual concerns of Wagner's operas and
writings: enchantment, seduction, heroism, victory, transcendence
and sacredness. While Wagner's work repeatedly and urgently sets
itself to deny various or ambiguous interpretations, the operas
themselves are nevertheless far more intricate and conflicted than
this denial allows for. In this altered light, the dimensions of
Wagner's art are unexpectedly extended, and its enduring vitality
is refreshingly reasserted. James Treadwell was lecturer and junior
research fellow at the University of Oxford, and assistant
professor of English at McGill University.
The word 'autobiography' is a late eighteenth-century coinage; yet
by 1826 it was used as the title for a multi-volume anthology of
self-writing, and in 1834 Thomas Carlyle wrote of 'these
Autobiographical times of ours'. Over the course of those few
decades, readers and writers came to recognize and name a new
genre. This book is the first full study of the phenomenon,
examining both the conditions and the practice of autobiographical
writing in Romantic literature. Historians of autobiography have
often pointed to the turn of the nineteenth century as a pivotal
moment. In Rousseau and De Quincey's 'Confessions', Wordsworth's
'Prelude', and other canonical documents, it has been argued,
self-writing begins to serve the purpose of expressing the
individuality, autonomy, and interiority of the self. A more
wide-ranging view of the actual state of autobiography at the time
exposes this narrative as a misrepresentation. Self-writing does
gain a new kind of prominence around 1800; not, however, because it
articulates 'Romantic' ideologies of selfhood, but because it
becomes a focus of scrutiny, and of contention. The decades of the
Romantic period identified themselves as 'Autobiographical times' -
but did so anxiously. This book asks: what forms did that
recognition and that anxiety take within the literary culture of
the period? What did autobiography mean to Romantic readers and
writers? How do autobiographical texts of the period reflect,
express, and negotiate these conditions? As well as reading a wide
variety of those documents, with single chapters devoted to works
by Coleridge, Byron, and Lamb, Treadwell examines writing on and
around autobiography: essays, reviews, and other forms of
commentary. By preserving a continuous relation between the texts
and their contexts, this book offers the first proper study of what
is actually meant by 'Romantic autobiography'.
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