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Bruce Murphy's Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery is a comprehensive guide to the genre of the murder mystery that catalogues thousands of items in a broad range of categories: authors, titles, plots, characters, weapons, methods of killing, movie and theatrical adaptations.

Focusing on the formative 1974-1981 years, the central theme of this book is the building of democracy in contemporary Greece and the role played in it by the newly-emergent political parties.

Tempests After Shakespeare shows how the 'rewriting' of Shakespeare's play serves as an interpretative grid through which to read three movements - postcoloniality, postpatriarchy, and postmodernism - via the Tempest characters of Caliban, Miranda/Sycorax and Prospero, as they vie for the ownership of meaning at the end of the twentieth century.

VictorianStudies on theWebCritics Choice!Rudyard Kipling: Hell and Heroism is an exploration of two fundamental yet greatly neglected aspects of the author's life and writings: his deep-seated pessimism and his complex creed of heroism.

In this book, contributors argue that the Black Church must begin to address the significance of sexuality if it is to actually present liberation as a mode of existence that fully appreciates the body. The contributors argue that we not only have to look at the Black Church in this discussion, but also explore black Christianity in general.

Through focusing on the sexual politics that have emerged out of post-apartheid South Africa, Spurlin investigates textual and cultural representations of same-sex desire outside of the Euroamerican axes of queer culture and politics, and considers the ways in which queer cultural productions in southern Africa both intersect with and resist these.

The book is an analysis of corporate treasury and cash management with the principal financial instruments used by the corporate treasurer.

Thomas Csordas's eloquent analysis of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, part of the contemporary cultural and media phenomenon known as conservative Christianity, embraces one of the primary charges of anthropology as a discipline: to stimulate critical reflection by making the exotic seem familiar and the familiar appear strange.

Why has Russian democracy apparently survived and even strengthened under a presidential system, when so many other presidential regimes have decayed into authoritarian rule?

Women's Police Stations examines the changing and complex relationship between women and the state, and the construction of gendered citizenship, using women's police stations in Sao Paulo.

AIDS and the Sexuality of Law investigates the role that HIV/AIDS has played in the legal construction of sexuality. AIDS and its metaphors have been judicially enlisted to patrol the boundaries of heterosexuality, producing flawed understandings of HIV/AIDS and sexuality.

This book is the product of dialogue between a group of leading British Muslim and Christian scholars concerned about the alleged danger to the 'West' of Islamic 'fundamentalism'.

These thirteen lectures on the 'punitive society,' delivered at the College de France in the first three months of 1973, examine the way in which the relations between justice and truth that govern modern penal law were forged, and question what links them to the emergence of a new punitive regime that still dominates contemporary society.

An illustrated diary fiction starring an irrepressible kid doodler turned sketch artist, by a celebrated New Yorker cartoonist.

The team who brought us Chocolate Me! returns with an upbeat story about a mixed-race boy in this heartfelt picture book.

The deluxe edition of the National Book Award winning novel - now with a foreword by New York Times bestselling and Newbery Honor author Sheila Turnage.

This book fully explicates current trends and best practices in LSP, surveying the field with critical insightful commentary and analyses. Covering course areas such as planning, implementation, assessment, pedagogy, classroom management, professional development and research, it is indispensable for teachers, researchers, students.

This is the beginning of an exciting illustrated chapter book series about the friendship between Monster and Boy.

An #ownvoices debut novel set in the Philippines about twelve-year-old Pablo's challenges with anxiety while his mother fosters an orphaned child with a facial anomaly.

A novel about a young girl with Turner Syndrome who is determined to win a science contest and give the prize money to her big sister, all while surviving school with a unique set of challenges.

A powerful novel-in-verse about a boy's experience surviving the Holocaust.

In this novel a girl loses her mum, and her dad remarries quickly, so she must rebuild her life and friendships.

A fresh, funny, romantic YA novel about a teenage girl who finds an unexpected silver lining in her life when plans get turned upside down.

A funny, heart felt contemporary young adult novel about four teens who start a radio show - and decide to do a mystery guest segment that spirals out of control.

The stunning conclusion to the fantasy adventure series that began with the New York Times-bestseller The Girl Who Could Fly.

A princess fleeing an arranged marriage teams up with a snarky commoner to foil a rebel plot in this gender-swapped sci-fi YA retelling of Cinderella.

In this heartfelt novel, a girl faces the aftermath of a tragic family accident - and struggles to move on.

A heartfelt and personal novel from Phil Bildner, about a boy's experience of coming to terms with his sexuality and being true to himself.

The captivating conclusion to a middle-grade fantasy-adventure trilogy full of mystery, magic, wonder, and danger.

This funny YA thriller depicts a music fest gone wrong as selfie-mad concert-goers wake up from a tropical island fantasy into a deadly nightmare.