Family Violence: Legal, Medical, and Social Perspectives examines the entire spectrum of family violence, focusing on social processes and social relationships.The Ninth Edition of Family Violence is a comprehensive updated version of the classic text on family violence. In addition to the updates to each chapter, the new edition features new research, comments, and discussions on the #MeToo Movement, same gender couples, elder abuse, stalking, partner abuse, and ...

Thirteen Victorian and Edwardian ghost stories that send chills up the spine and create an atmosphere sure to make the reader turn on an extra light and push up the back of their armchair against the wall.Set amidst crumbling, ill-maintained churches and imposing cathedrals, on desolate coastland, moors and marshes, even along unlit roads extending into the new suburbs of London, the stories have been chosen for their quality of writing, imaginative range and diversity of character...

NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory has ushered in a revolution in X-ray astronomy. Over the last two decades Chandra has captured stunning celestial X-ray images, measured spectra and monitored light curves to reveal and map the hottest, most energetic regions of the universe. Written by leading experts in each sub-field to celebrate its 20th anniversary, this book includes current reviews of the major discoveries and scientific results made by Chandra. Documenting...

Mrs. Dalloway takes place over the course of a single day in a woman's life in 1920's London. There are flowers to buy, outfits to choose, but also a visit from a past lover, and the tragic fate of a young war veteran who cannot adjust to life in post-war London. Virginia Woolf's supple and mesmerizing account of an ordinary day draws the reader into the minds, perceptions, and emotions of an astonishingly varied and vivid cast of characters. Woolf reminds us that each day, hour, ...

The Wisdom of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton is a carefully prepared Bookjack digital edition of classic mystery and detective fiction. The book is presented for clear ebook reading, with metadata and structure designed for discoverability in a modern digital catalogue. Readers will find a work shaped by secrets, investigation, suspicion, and the pleasure of narrative revelation, making it a useful addition for anyone exploring G. K. Chesterton's writing or building a library of enduring...

Table of ContentsHonore de Balzac: An Historical MysteryJohn Buchan: The Thirty-Nine StepsEgerton Castle: The Baron's QuarryEdmund Clerihew Bentley: Trent's Last CaseGilbert Keith Chesterton:The Man Who Knew Too MuchThe Man Who Was ThursdayFather Brown:The Innocence of Father BrownThe Wisdom of Father BrownRobert Erskine Childers: Riddle of the SandsAgatha Christie:The Mysterious Af...

The Complete Works of Virginia Woolf gathers the fiction, essays, criticism, and autobiographical writings of one of modernism's most searching minds. From the luminous interiority of Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse to the experimental historical playfulness of Orlando and the polemical clarity of A Room of One's Own, Woolf's prose reshapes narrative around consciousness, time, gender, and perception. Her style—lyrical, fragmentary, ironic, and philosophically alert—stands at the center...

Virginia Woolf's Flush: A Biography is a playful yet incisive experiment in biographical form, recounting the life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel while quietly reimagining Victorian literary culture from an oblique, nonhuman perspective. Blending mock-heroic wit, lyrical impressionism, and social satire, Woolf transforms the conventions of biography into a meditation on class, gender, sensory experience, and domestic confinement. The book belongs to her most inventive 1930s...

Before Sherlock Holmes there were three female sleuths who solved crimes on either side of the Atlantic: Lady Molly of Scotland Yard, Loveday Brooke and Amelia Butterworth. Every single work featuring these three pioneering crime-busters is collected here - Lady Molly: The Complete Collection by Baroness Orczy, The Loveday Brooke series of detective novels by C. L. Pirkis and The Amelia Butterworth trilogy by Anna Katharine Greene - 21 novellas total.Lady Molly of Scotland Yard - 1...

Maria Edgeworth was a prolific Irish writer and is considered to be a significant figure in the evolution of modern novels. Edgeworth’s works are known for moral and social themes. This edition of The Absentee includes a table of contents.

A lavishly illustrated collector's edition containing all the supernatural tales ever written by M.R. James, the undisputed father of the modern ghost story.'James is clearly the best that's ever been' MARK GATISSM.R. James is one of the finest authors of supernatural fiction in the English language and revered as the father of the modern English ghost story. Many of his stories were originally written as Christmas entertainments and were r...