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Murder In Manfield Road
The body of a young woman is found in Manfield Road Northampton. Her throat has been cut. Enter Chief Inspector Brian Thomas and Detective Inspector Sheila Grey. Together they set out on a relentless pursuit of the killer and unravel a complex web of deceit. Murder In Manfield Road is a fast paced study in major crime investigation.
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Cold Winds In Autumn
Detective Chief Inspector Brian Thomas is no stranger to murder and mayhem, having seen the worst of the worst at crime scenes. Even so, his newest case is different. The son of a millionaire investment banker goes missing-and then, two days after his disappearance, a video arrives on the desks of local media that shows the young man's murder in a highly violent, ritualistic fashion. Thomas thinks the killing may be personal and soon discovers there is no shortage of family members with sound motives for wanting the man dead. Soon, however, another video arrives depicting an apparently unconnected murder by the same chilling method. This is no personal vendetta. Instead, Thomas must go head-to-head with a deranged, merciless killer. In this the fourth novel in the Thomas and Grey detective series, Thomas and Detective Inspector Sheila Grey race against time as they seek to stop a murderer before more lives are lost.
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Grey Matter
It is the week before Christmas and Dale Haynes is preparing to celebrate with his wife Hannah, but from the moment he runs into a young woman at the Marriott Hotel his life begins to spiral out of control. DI Sheila Grey is investigating the rape of a young Polish immigrant, Ania Gens, but when Gens is found hanging from a meat hook in an ancient convent, she finds herself hunting a viscious murderer. DCI Brian Thomas is struggling to hold onto his job and his marriage. His wife is threatening to return to London and he has a new boss, Superintendent Malan. A lifelong careerist with an acid tongue, Malan cares nothing for Thomas' problems. As the body count rises Thomas & Grey find themselves pitted against their most determined and ruthless adversary.
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Politics and Letters
Raymond Williams has made a central contribution to the culture of the Left in the English-speaking world. Politics and Letters is a volume of interviews with Williams, conducted by members of the New Left Review editorial committee, that is designed to bring into clear focus the major theoretical and political issues posed by his work. Ranging across his biographical development, the evolution of his cultural theory and literary criticism, his work on dramatic forms and his fiction, the volume concludes with an exploration of Williams's positions on British and international politics.
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Raymond Poincaré
This study is a scholarly biography of one of France's foremost political leaders. In a career which ran from the 1880s to the 1930s, one of the most formative periods of modern French history, Poincaré held the principal offices of state. He played crucial roles in France's entry into the Great War, the organisation of the war effort, the peace settlement, the reparations question, the occupation of the Ruhr and the reorganisation of French finances in the 1920s. His life and work is surrounded by controversy and myth, from 'Poincaré-la-guerre' to 'Poincaré-le-franc', which this book dissects. Using a host of new archival material, Professor Keiger explores the historiography of the man and his times and reveals, somewhat surprisingly, how animal rights and feminism could be as important to him as party politics and public finance.
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New Paths to Raymond Carver
Brevity and intensity characterized the life and literary creations of Raymond Carver, but too often his prose and poetry have been viewed in isolation rather than as interconnected parts of an artistic whole. New Paths to Raymond Carver brings together a distinguished chorus of voices to assess fully Carver's life, stories, and verse, proffering new inroads for critical investigations into the impressive corpus of work wrought during the celebrated writer's tragically brief career.
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Politics and Letters
Raymond Williams made a central contribution to the intellectual culture of the Left in the English-speaking world. He was also one of the key figures in the foundation of cultural studies in Britain, which turned critical skills honed on textual analysis to the examination of structures and forms of resistance apparent in everyday life. Politics and Letters is a volume of interviews with Williams, conducted by New Left Review, designed to bring into clear focus the major theoretical and political issues posed by his work. Introduced by writer Geoff Dyer, Politics and Letters ranges across Williams's biographical development, the evolution of his cultural theory and literary criticism, his work on dramatic forms and his fiction, and an exploration of British and international politics.
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L’esprit de l’escalier ou les degrés du savoir
De tous les espaces de la demeure que la fiction dite réaliste représente, l’escalier est sans doute le moins investi par l’écriture : sa présence dans le texte, qui donne parfois lieu à une description élaborée, se limite le plus souvent à une mention très discrète. Or, il se trouve que les degrés, conduisant d’un étage à un autre, peuvent mener conjointement d’un état à un autre, et, davantage, à la perception d’une mutation. Encouragée en cela par la solitude qui règne fréquemment dans ce lieu, ou, différemment, par les particularités, physiques ou psychologiques, des rencontres qui à l’occasion s’y produisent, la conscience est susceptible d’accéder ici à un mode original de cognition, qu’elle n’aurait pu élaborer ailleurs : acquisition peut-être imprévue d’un savoir nouveau, dans laquelle l’orientation du mouvement – vers le haut, vers le bas – intervient de façon prépondérante.Relu dans cette perspective, le roman français du XIXe siècle, dont un important échantillonnage constitue le corpus de cet essai, en acquiert comme un surcroît d’intelligibilité. Les aventures de l’esprit dans l’escalier ne bouleversent pas notre appréhension de cette littérature du sujet triomphant, mais elles l’affinent sans doute. Elles permettent, aussi, de retrouver, dans les évolutions de cette thématique, le mouvement d’une histoire de la fiction romanesque, voire de l’Histoire elle-même.
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Resources of Hope
Raymond Williams possessed unique authority as Britain's foremost cultural theorist and public intellectual. Informed by an unparalleled range of reference and the resources of deep personal experience, his life's work represents a patient, exemplary commitment to the building of a socialist future.This book brings together important early writings including "Culture is Ordinary," "The British Left," "Welsh Culture" and "Why Do I Demonstrate?" with major essays and talks of the last decade. It includes work on such central themes as the nature of a democratic culture, the value of community, Green socialism, the nuclear threat, and the relation between the state and the arts. Here too, collected for the first time, are the important later political essays which undertake a thorough revaluation of the principles fundamental to the idea of socialist democracy, and confirm Williams as a shrewd and imaginative political theorist. In a sober yet constructive assessment of the possibilities for socialist advance, Williams-in the face of much recent intellectual fashion-powerfully reasserts his lifelong commitment to "making hope practical, rather than despair convincing."This valuable collection confirms Raymond Williams as a thinker of rare versatility and one of the outstanding intellectuals of our century.
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Raymond Williams
Raymond Williamsa Welsh media critic and one of the founding thinkers behind the popular field of cultural studiesbelieved that the traditional focus of biographies on individuals isolated these people from their communities. For this reason, Alan O'Connor looks at Williams and his time period, one of social change and crisis in Wales and England. Williams, the son of a railway worker, would have pursued university studies, an atypical act for a working-class boy, had the Second World War not disrupted his plans. So the unorthodox intellectual executed his work outside the university until 1960, decades after he originally intended to begin his studies. O'Connor then turns to Williams's studies of media, revealing his subject's life-long emphasis on the interchange between culture and democracy. He shows the ways in which these ideas were revolutionary, upsetting conservative thinkers of the time, and concludes with the same message of hope that Williams carried with him daily: In a period dominated by conservative forces, Raymond Williams still thought it worthwhile to struggle for small changes.
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Raymond Williams
Raymond Williams believed that making connections between politics, economics, education and culture was a continuing critical task. This is a critical exploration of every aspect Williams's work, which spans his fiction and non-fiction, and his contributions to drama, film, literary criticism, sociology, cultural studies, media studies and politics. Williams was a socialist intellectual with a complex relationship to Marxism. This work re-examines his wary utopianism and commitment to an educated, participatory democracy. It also studies his sharp critiques of modernity and postmodernity and evaluates the worth of his work on culture and communications.
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