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Where Furnaces Burn
Joel Lane; Introduction by R.M. Francis
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R236
Discovery Miles 2 360
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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WINNER OF THE 2013 WORLD FANTASY AWARD Episodes from the casebook
of a police officer in the West Midlands: A young woman needs help
in finding the buried pieces of her lover... so he can return to
waking life. Pale-faced thieves gather by a disused railway to
watch a puppet theatre of love and violence. Why do local youths
keep starting fires in the ash woods around a disused mine in the
Black Country? A series of inexplicable deaths uncover a secret
cult of machine worship. When a migrant worker disappears, the key
suspect is a boy driven mad by memories that are not his own. Among
the derelict factories and warehouses at the heart of the city, an
archaic god seeks out his willing victims. Blurring the occult
detective story with urban noir fiction, Where Furnaces Burn offers
a glimpse of the myths and terrors buried within the industrial
landscape. First published in 2012, Joel Lane’s World Fantasy
Award-winning collection is a true modern classic of weird fiction
that cemented his place as one of the most important and
distinctive British writers of the weird.
From Banks's brewery's yeasty stink to groaty pudding to spicy
curry, Sebastian Groes and R. M. Francis have assembled a new
literary history of the smells and (childhood) memories that belong
to the Black Country. This often overlooked region of the United
Kingdom at the frontlines of post-industrial upheaval is a
veritable treasure trove for studying the relationship between
olfaction and place-specific memory. Smell, Memory, and Literature
in the Black Country is an interdisciplinary exploration of the
relationship between smell and memory in which the contributions
consider both personal and communal memory. Drawing on psychology,
neuroscience, memory studies, literary studies and philosophy, the
critical essays reconsider psychogeography through cutting-edge
sensory and philosophical engagements with physical space, smell,
language and human behaviour. The creative contributions from
writers including Liz Berry, Narinder Dhami, Anthony Cartwright,
and Kerry Hadley-Pryce meditate on the senses, place, and identity.
Not only does this book illustrate the rich cultural heritage of
the Black Country, it will also appeal to those interested in place
writing. The book is prefaced by Will Self.
Osteoporosis is one of the most important diseases facing the
ageing population because of the high prevalence of fractures, the
enormous costs in health care funds required to deal with the
consequence of these fractures, and the substantial effect in terms
of suffering and disability. One-third of women over age 65 will
have vertebral fractures, and the li fe-time risk ofhip fracture in
white women (15%) is as great as that ofbreast, endometrial, and
ovarian cancer combined. The life-time risk of hip fracture in men
(5%) is as great as the risk of prostate cancer. Hip fracture is
fatal in up to 20% of cases. One-half of survivors are unable to
walk unassisted and 25% are confined to long-term ca re in nursing
hornes. The recent awareness that osteo porosis is a treatable and
partly preventable disease of the elderly, and not just the
inevitable consequence of ageing, comes at a time of rapid progress
in measurement of bone mass and in a better understanding of the
physiology and pathophysiology of bone cell function."
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Bella (Paperback)
R.M. Francis
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R375
Discovery Miles 3 750
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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