Author: Ruth McManus
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527544362
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Death is one of the most challenging aspects of living, demanding inventive and meaningful responses. This insightful collection demonstrates cultural commitment to improving the conditions of the dying and dead and also documents the varied, creative ways that we, the living, already respond to death. Collectively, the 16 essays are an interrogation of the commonly held assumption that death is somehow hidden, denied, or done badly as standard practice. The underpinning themes and narratives in this anthology make a significant contribution to death studies debates and conversations by offering examples of post-colonial, multi-cultural practices that span professional and every-day points of intersection. Death studies can be a challenging and complex field; nevertheless each contributor here highlights specific ways in which assumptions and beliefs about contemporary death practices can be unpicked, nuanced and challenged.
Death Down Under
Author: Ruth McManus
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527544362
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Death is one of the most challenging aspects of living, demanding inventive and meaningful responses. This insightful collection demonstrates cultural commitment to improving the conditions of the dying and dead and also documents the varied, creative ways that we, the living, already respond to death. Collectively, the 16 essays are an interrogation of the commonly held assumption that death is somehow hidden, denied, or done badly as standard practice. The underpinning themes and narratives in this anthology make a significant contribution to death studies debates and conversations by offering examples of post-colonial, multi-cultural practices that span professional and every-day points of intersection. Death studies can be a challenging and complex field; nevertheless each contributor here highlights specific ways in which assumptions and beliefs about contemporary death practices can be unpicked, nuanced and challenged.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527544362
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Death is one of the most challenging aspects of living, demanding inventive and meaningful responses. This insightful collection demonstrates cultural commitment to improving the conditions of the dying and dead and also documents the varied, creative ways that we, the living, already respond to death. Collectively, the 16 essays are an interrogation of the commonly held assumption that death is somehow hidden, denied, or done badly as standard practice. The underpinning themes and narratives in this anthology make a significant contribution to death studies debates and conversations by offering examples of post-colonial, multi-cultural practices that span professional and every-day points of intersection. Death studies can be a challenging and complex field; nevertheless each contributor here highlights specific ways in which assumptions and beliefs about contemporary death practices can be unpicked, nuanced and challenged.
Death Down Under
Author: Claire McNab
Publisher: Bella Books
ISBN: 1642472093
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Detective Inspector Carol Ashton returns in the most formidable, baffling and important homicide case of her career… Four women are dead, each strangled with an orange cord, their bodies ritually arranged. Carol and Detective Sergeant Mark Bourke know that this killer, like all serial killers, will be exceedingly difficult to track down. The Australian press has sensationalized the murders, especially the fact that one of the victims was a lesbian. Madeline Shipley, star of The Shipley Report, claims that she has been contacted by the “Orange Strangler.” Adding to the pressures on Carol is her relationship with Sybil Quade, who has grown increasingly restive with its secrecy. And Carol is learning uncomfortable truths about herself from the successful, confident Madeline Shipley. Carol accumulates evidence, putting together clues in her relentless search for the Orange Strangler. And all the while, the killer is drawing closer to her than she dreams…
Publisher: Bella Books
ISBN: 1642472093
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Detective Inspector Carol Ashton returns in the most formidable, baffling and important homicide case of her career… Four women are dead, each strangled with an orange cord, their bodies ritually arranged. Carol and Detective Sergeant Mark Bourke know that this killer, like all serial killers, will be exceedingly difficult to track down. The Australian press has sensationalized the murders, especially the fact that one of the victims was a lesbian. Madeline Shipley, star of The Shipley Report, claims that she has been contacted by the “Orange Strangler.” Adding to the pressures on Carol is her relationship with Sybil Quade, who has grown increasingly restive with its secrecy. And Carol is learning uncomfortable truths about herself from the successful, confident Madeline Shipley. Carol accumulates evidence, putting together clues in her relentless search for the Orange Strangler. And all the while, the killer is drawing closer to her than she dreams…
See Australia and Die: Tales of Misadventure Down Under
Author: Wendy Lewis
Publisher: New Holland Publishers (AU)
ISBN: 1921836318
Category : Accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
"Real life stories of misadventure, accidental death and murder in Australia - mostly in the outback - mostly with the natural forces such as sharks, spiders, dingoes, etc."--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: New Holland Publishers (AU)
ISBN: 1921836318
Category : Accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
"Real life stories of misadventure, accidental death and murder in Australia - mostly in the outback - mostly with the natural forces such as sharks, spiders, dingoes, etc."--Provided by publisher.
Under the Southern Cross
Author: Claire McNab
Publisher: Bella Books
ISBN: 164247018X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
The vast, forbidding Australian Outback… the grandeur of Ayers Rock… legendary Alice Springs… the Great Barrier Reef… the primal beauty of Cape Tribulation… Two women, from different continents, with different values, collide with spectacular results… UNDER THE SOUTHERN CROSS. American Lee Paynter has built her Small travel agency into an international tour company. Brash, confident, openly lesbian, her great love is her business. Women? They’re to enjoy and let go. Alexandra Findlay is pursuing a career in Australian tourism with quiet focus and determination, convinced that her career is the best she can hope for in her arid, closeted emotional existence. Now Alex has been assigned to accompany Lee on the American woman’s visit Down Under, to win Lee’s company over to Australian tourism. Suddenly Alex’s quiet life explodes… And Lee is challenged by a woman unlike any she has ever known.
Publisher: Bella Books
ISBN: 164247018X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
The vast, forbidding Australian Outback… the grandeur of Ayers Rock… legendary Alice Springs… the Great Barrier Reef… the primal beauty of Cape Tribulation… Two women, from different continents, with different values, collide with spectacular results… UNDER THE SOUTHERN CROSS. American Lee Paynter has built her Small travel agency into an international tour company. Brash, confident, openly lesbian, her great love is her business. Women? They’re to enjoy and let go. Alexandra Findlay is pursuing a career in Australian tourism with quiet focus and determination, convinced that her career is the best she can hope for in her arid, closeted emotional existence. Now Alex has been assigned to accompany Lee on the American woman’s visit Down Under, to win Lee’s company over to Australian tourism. Suddenly Alex’s quiet life explodes… And Lee is challenged by a woman unlike any she has ever known.
Mystery Women, Volume Two (Revised)
Author: Colleen Barnett
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1615950095
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Many bibliographers focus on women who write. Lawyer Barnett looks at women who detect, at women as sleuths and at the evolving roles of women in professions and in society. Excellent for all women's studies programs as well as for the mystery hound. Look at the popularity of such reading guides as Willetta Heising's Detecting Women (3rd ed. 0-9644593-7-X) or Amanda Cross' fiction (Honest Doubt 0-345-44011-0 11/00).
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1615950095
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Many bibliographers focus on women who write. Lawyer Barnett looks at women who detect, at women as sleuths and at the evolving roles of women in professions and in society. Excellent for all women's studies programs as well as for the mystery hound. Look at the popularity of such reading guides as Willetta Heising's Detecting Women (3rd ed. 0-9644593-7-X) or Amanda Cross' fiction (Honest Doubt 0-345-44011-0 11/00).
The Essential Mystery Lists
Author: Roger M Sobin
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Inc
ISBN: 1615952039
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 591
Book Description
For the first time in one place, Roger M. Sobin has compiled a list of nominees and award winners of virtually every mystery award ever presented. He has also included many of the “best of” lists by more than fifty of the most important contributors to the genre.; Mr. Sobin spent more than two decades gathering the data and lists in this volume, much of that time he used to recheck the accuracy of the material he had collected. Several of the “best of” lists appear here for the first time in book form. Several others have been unavailable for a number of years.; Of special note, are Anthony Boucher’s “Best Picks for the Year.” Boucher, one of the major mystery reviewers of all time, reviewed for The San Francisco Chronicle, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and The New York Times. From these resources Mr. Sobin created “Boucher’s Best” and “Important Lists to Consider,” lists that provide insight into important writing in the field from 1942 through Boucher’s death in 1968.? This is a great resource for all mystery readers and collectors.; ; Winner of the 2008 Macavity Awards for Best Mystery Nonfiction.
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Inc
ISBN: 1615952039
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 591
Book Description
For the first time in one place, Roger M. Sobin has compiled a list of nominees and award winners of virtually every mystery award ever presented. He has also included many of the “best of” lists by more than fifty of the most important contributors to the genre.; Mr. Sobin spent more than two decades gathering the data and lists in this volume, much of that time he used to recheck the accuracy of the material he had collected. Several of the “best of” lists appear here for the first time in book form. Several others have been unavailable for a number of years.; Of special note, are Anthony Boucher’s “Best Picks for the Year.” Boucher, one of the major mystery reviewers of all time, reviewed for The San Francisco Chronicle, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and The New York Times. From these resources Mr. Sobin created “Boucher’s Best” and “Important Lists to Consider,” lists that provide insight into important writing in the field from 1942 through Boucher’s death in 1968.? This is a great resource for all mystery readers and collectors.; ; Winner of the 2008 Macavity Awards for Best Mystery Nonfiction.
The Sustainable Dead
Author: Ruth McManus
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527590119
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
While eco-lightbulbs, tiny homes and bans on single-use plastic bags nibble at the edges of our profligate ways, ecological and social sustainability is beginning to profoundly challenge long-standing death styles. This collection brings together new scholarship on multiple and innovative changes to managing the dead from around the world, including the USA, Poland, the Netherlands, Britain, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, to argue for a new perspective in theorising this shift to more sustainable death ways. This is a perspective that moves on from a top-down approach to social change, viewing the perceived gulf between cultural and space management as more a fabrication than a reality.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527590119
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
While eco-lightbulbs, tiny homes and bans on single-use plastic bags nibble at the edges of our profligate ways, ecological and social sustainability is beginning to profoundly challenge long-standing death styles. This collection brings together new scholarship on multiple and innovative changes to managing the dead from around the world, including the USA, Poland, the Netherlands, Britain, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, to argue for a new perspective in theorising this shift to more sustainable death ways. This is a perspective that moves on from a top-down approach to social change, viewing the perceived gulf between cultural and space management as more a fabrication than a reality.
Mutant Message Down Under
Author: Marlo Morgan
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007336578
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
In this "New York Times" bestseller, Morgan leads readers on the fictional spiritual odyssey of an American woman in the Australian outback.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007336578
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
In this "New York Times" bestseller, Morgan leads readers on the fictional spiritual odyssey of an American woman in the Australian outback.
In Search of the Never-Never
Author: Ann McGrath
Publisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760462691
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Mickey Dewar made a profound contribution to the history of the Northern Territory, which she performed across many genres. She produced high‑quality, memorable and multi-sensory histories, including the Cyclone Tracy exhibition at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory and the reinterpretation of Fannie Bay Gaol. Informed by a great love of books, her passion for history was infectious. As well as offering three original chapters that appraise her work, this edited volume republishes her first book, In Search of the Never-Never. In Dewar’s comprehensive and incisive appraisal of the literature of the Northern Territory, she provides brilliant, often amusing insights into the ever-changing representations of a region that has featured so large in the Australian popular imagination
Publisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760462691
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Mickey Dewar made a profound contribution to the history of the Northern Territory, which she performed across many genres. She produced high‑quality, memorable and multi-sensory histories, including the Cyclone Tracy exhibition at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory and the reinterpretation of Fannie Bay Gaol. Informed by a great love of books, her passion for history was infectious. As well as offering three original chapters that appraise her work, this edited volume republishes her first book, In Search of the Never-Never. In Dewar’s comprehensive and incisive appraisal of the literature of the Northern Territory, she provides brilliant, often amusing insights into the ever-changing representations of a region that has featured so large in the Australian popular imagination
Writing My Love
Author: Claire McNab
Publisher: Bella Books
ISBN: 1642473073
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Vonny Smith, otherwise known as Veronica Vanderveer, is the author of best-selling romance novels. Her last book, Torrid Hearts, not only won a Lammy but also garnered some of the best reviews of her career. Diana K Broswell, Vonny’s editor, is unaware she is the motivation behind the best-selling romances. Vonny is extremely behind schedule on her next already under contract novel because she has been planning her strategy to win Diana’s love. She believes she will be able to woo Diana through her writing. Vonny can’t help but hope Diana will slide into love with her before she is aware what is happening. An audacious, tongue-in-cheek novel-in-progress tucked within a deliciously fraught lesbian romance—only Claire McNab could pull off such an entertaining feat. – Katherine V. Forrest
Publisher: Bella Books
ISBN: 1642473073
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Vonny Smith, otherwise known as Veronica Vanderveer, is the author of best-selling romance novels. Her last book, Torrid Hearts, not only won a Lammy but also garnered some of the best reviews of her career. Diana K Broswell, Vonny’s editor, is unaware she is the motivation behind the best-selling romances. Vonny is extremely behind schedule on her next already under contract novel because she has been planning her strategy to win Diana’s love. She believes she will be able to woo Diana through her writing. Vonny can’t help but hope Diana will slide into love with her before she is aware what is happening. An audacious, tongue-in-cheek novel-in-progress tucked within a deliciously fraught lesbian romance—only Claire McNab could pull off such an entertaining feat. – Katherine V. Forrest