When a faceless body is found in a car at a remote boat launch, investigators are faced with parallel mysteries: Who is he? Who killed him? And why can’t they find out who owns the car? Major Nicole Brooks juggles surprising conflicts of interest to conduct an already-difficult investigation in what could be the most confounding of her career. As detectives chase clues, Dr. Leslie Wilson’s autopsy finds even more mysteries on the dead man’s skin. But are the strange markings mere curiositi...

Dr. Leslie Wilson, Major Nicole Brooks and Rev. Roxanne Clement have been through crises before. They’ve tracked a serial killer. They’ve lost friends and colleagues to violence. They’ve maintained their faith. Now a new killer is stalking their community, and the clues are confounding. A Jewish Temple is bombed. Two houses are destroyed. The bodies are piling up, and it’s harder than ever to determine what defines and drives the killer. With a case that defies logic, the women face multip...

When three bodies turn up in only three weeks – all on Sunday mornings – it becomes clear a serial killer is at work. With half the police force out sick and the sheriff mysteriously absent, it falls to a handful of investigators to solve the case as the killer claims more victims and the violence hits close to home. As the murderer’s motive becomes clearer, so does the secret the victims all had in common. A group of detectives, patrol cops, death inspectors, reporters and even a pastor f...

Pipe organs were once a central (and sometimes hotly debated) part of Manitoba's cultural life. The Organ in Manitoba portrays that history—the instruments, builders, players and critics—from the date of the earliest known installations to the 1990s, and includes information on musical organizations such as the Royal Canadian College of Organists. It documents over a century of evolution and changes, from concepts of tonal design to styles of musical commentary and tastes, and inc...

Kinky killers. Exploding speedboats. $2 billion paternity suits.It's love Voltarian-style... and planet Earth is feeling the heat.Voltarian Royal Officer Jettero Heller will go to any length to protect his beloved Countess Krak. He'll race up the eastern seaboard pursued by the entire Coast Guard. He'll smash boats, he'll set off bombs, he'll fight off every paternity suit that comes his way.But Apparatus Officer Soltan Gris is just as determined to put the Countess...

The end is near! The Voltarian terrorists have won! Earth is history! But don't believe everything you read. Or hear. Or see. Because the road to victory is paved with bad intentions — and lies, betrayal and deception are all in play. So who are the players in this treacherous game?Royal Officer Jettero Heller: convinced the Countess is dead and overcome by grief, he is holed up in a Connecticut roadhouse — and standing square in an assassin's crosshairs....Soltan Gris: tog...

Earth is rising in the House of Voltar... And there'll be hell to pay!That's right. The invasion is on... and it's coming soon to a galaxy near you. The action couldn't be hotter, and the plot couldn't be more diabolical. Earth is coming to Voltar — and the Voltarians won't know what hit them.Murder, blackmail, drugs, psychoanalysis, PR firms, sex-crazed teenyboppers, riots in the streets, women in chains. These are the powerful secret weapons of war — perfected on Earth an...

Boswell’s biography of his friend and hero Samuel Johnson is an acknowledged classic, full of humorous anecdote and rich characterisation. Johnson’s complex humanity (his depression, fear of death, intellectual brilliance and rough humour) is set within a vivid picture of eighteenth-century London, peopled by personalities of the time such as Sir Joshua Reynolds, John Wilkes, Oliver Goldsmith and David Garrick.

Highlighting the conceptual work at the heart of Pierre Bourdieu’s reflexive sociology, this cutting edge collection operationalizes Bourdieusian concepts in field analysis. Offering a unique range of explorations and reflections utilizing field analysis, the eighteen chapters by prominent Bourdieusian scholars and early career scholars synthesize key insights and challenges scholars face when going ‘beyond the fields we know’. The chapters offer examples from discipline contexts as divers...

In this thrilling novel from the world’s #1 bestselling author, top cop and devoted sister Harriet Blue is now Inmate 3329—but even prison bars won't stop the detective from seeking justice for the murder of her brother.Prison is a dangerous place for a former cop—as Harriet Blue is learning on a daily basis.So, following a fight for her life and a prison-wide lockdown, the last person she wants to see is Deputy Police Commissioner Joe Woods. The man who pu...

Building on recent engagements with Barth in the area of theologies of religion, Karl Barth and Comparative Theology inaugurates a new conversation between Barth’s theology and comparative theology. Each essay brings Barth into conversation with theological claims from other religious traditions for the purpose of modeling deep learning across religious borders from a Barthian perspective. For each tradition, two Barth-influenced theologians offer focused engagements of Barth with...

Bringing together papers written by Norman Fairclough over a 25 year period, Critical Discourse Analysis represents a comprehensive and important contribution to the development of this popular field.The book is divided into seven sections covering the following themes:language in relation to ideology and powerdiscourse in processes of social and cultural changedialectics of discourse, dialectical relations between discourse and other mome...