What happens when your weird cousin sends you a telegram stating that your aunt's dead and the butler did it... Lindsay Graham discovers that there's more in store than a traditional English funeral and the requisite neighborhood gathering. Way more. Maria Lima's Agatha-Award nominated short story is a great read! Just don't go into it expecting a novel-length work; it's a short story, and priced accordingly.

The book highlights the link between consumers and travellers, identifying the meaning of vulnerability in Brazil and the EU. It also covers different types of contracts for tourism and travel services, including online booking processes. Only after 2015, as a result of the directive on package travel and linked travel arrangements, did the EU begin viewing travellers as consumers in the sense of Union Consumer Law; conversely, in Brazil, the traveller has no legal status whatsoever and is...

Jazz and Literature: An Introduction presents an original collection of essays from leading international scholars, examining an array of musical and literary interconnections including improvisation, multicultural influences, poetry, modernism, the Beat movement, jazz forms, noir, solo and collective expression, global perspectives on jazz and literature, etc. This volume sheds light on the critical and creative discussions of music and literature, showing the evolving relevance ...

This book explores how higher education institutions are integrating sustainability into both their academic programs and operational practices. Authored by an international group of scholars and practitioners, this book highlights how universities around the world are advancing sustainability through teaching, research, student engagement, and campus innovation. The chapters cover a wide range of topics, including sustainability-focused curricula, interdisciplinary teaching approaches, cl...

This book focuses on the management strategies of complex conditions of frail pediatric patients.The clinical condition of frailty is usually seen as the physiological and multidimensional decline of organ systems related to age: paradoxically, a frailty condition can also occur in children as a disability resulting from various congenital or acquired diseases. The fragile patients are more vulnerable to developing severe clinical events and often need surgical interventions. Moreo...

This book examines the use of norms by British and Brazilian actors in aid/cooperation in the 21st century, unveiling the politics behind norm circulation. Inspired by a constructivist approach, this research analyses actors’ agency in asymmetric international and domestic environments, in which different norms, dissimilar identities, and opposing interests coexist. Regardless of the discourses and theories surrounding the differentiation between North-South and South-South aid/cooperation...

On Neoliberal Globalization consists of Jose Maria Sison's writings (articles, speeches, statements, messages and interviews) on the subject from 1972 (before the formal adoption of the neoliberal policy regime) to 2021. They reveal how the policy of neoliberal globalization rationalize the unmitigated greed of the monopoly capitalists.The adoption of neoliberal economy policy has brought imperialist countries to the worst economic and social crisis since the Great Depress...

Tributes to Revolutionary Martyrs and Heroes consists of Jose Maria Sison's writings from 1961 to 2022 honoring comrades, friends and heroes who have either died or who celebrated keystone events in their lives. Their deeds and achievements are cited and honored for living and future generations to emulate.

This book delves into the complex relationship between religious imaginaries and the perception of space among followers of Candomblé and Pentecostal churches in Belo Horizonte, Brazil's third-largest urban agglomeration.It adopts a dual perspective, examining the broader political, economic, and social dimensions of these religious communities' urbanisation and spatial distribution and their members' individual beliefs and behaviours. Through this approach, the book aims to provid...

The growing imperialist turmoil in the world capitalist system makes socialism a clear prospect to the broad masses of the people. This necessitates the study of the historical background and the analysis of the current concrete conditions of the workers' movement in the Philippines and all over the world.Joma's firm wish was always for the proletariat and peoples of the world to dismantle the monopoly capitalist system and replace it with a just, democratic, and peaceful new world...

Sison Reader Series Book 19, Imperialism in Various Global Regions consists of Jose Maria Sison's writings (articles, speeches, statements, interviews and messages) from 1976 to 2022 on the workings of imperialism led by the United States and the resistance of peoples, nations and countries against various forms of impositions by imperialists. It details how imperialist impositions are carried out through the instrumentality of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank (WB), the Wo...

Jose Maria Sison's writings on the youth movement are a must for a comprehensive understanding and acting on the issue in the context of the Filipino people's struggle for national freedom and democracy. Sison started the resurgence of, and led the development the youth movement in the national democratic revolution to provide the cadres for the people's war.