For fans of Jo NesbØ and Lars Kepler comes the newest crime novel from Denmark's bestselling suspense giants Sara Blædel and Mads Peder Nordbo.Everything is peaceful in Tommerup, Denmark, until a young mother disappears in the middle of an idyllic summer day. There’s no trace of the missing woman when Chief Superintendent Liam Stark and Superintendent Dea Torp are called to investigate. The small town is on edge, rumors begin to fly, and blame is cast on Charlotte’...

What if you asked 125 top writers to pick their favorite books? Which titles would come out on top?You'll find the answer in The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books: the ultimate guide to the world's greatest books. As writers such as Norman Mailer, Annie Proulx, Stephen King, Jonathan Franzen, Claire Messud, Margaret Drabble, Michael Chabon and Peter Carey name the ten books that have meant the most to them, you'll be reminded of books you have always loved and int...

From Denmark's bestselling suspense giants Sara Blædel and Mads Peder Nordbo comes the sizzling conclusion to this crime duology, perfect for fans of Jo Nesbø and Lars Kepler.When a body is discovered in an abandoned building, Denmark police investigators Liam Stark and Dea Torp are called to the scene to investigate. They learn that the victim has several shallow wounds all over his body that were inflicted over the span of several weeks.With a pile of ope...

Mariager's writing style is characterized by a vivid and immersive narrative that brings to life the grandeur and mystique of ancient Greece. The tales are imbued with a deep respect for the cultural and mythological heritage of the Greeks, and they often explore the relationship between mortals and the divine, the nature of fate, and the human pursuit of honor and glory.The book is likely to appeal to readers interested in classical antiquity, mythology, and the enduring stories that have...

A reckless witch in a religious city—what can go wrong?Alice Ash, a witch fleeing the crown for her crimes, enters the ancient city of Sacrumvale—a place where the Sanctum forbids witchcraft, alchemy, and anything not of God. In a moment of fate, Alice finds a new friend who needs help to uncover a prophet’s death at the hands of The Chosen One.As Darion, The Chosen One, completes the prophecy of his victory against The Dark Lord, he soon learns that the remnant of evil won...

Catholic Books Review"An excellent scholarly overview of convergences between Lutheran and Catholic theologians and some promising developments between the churches."William G. Rusch— Yale Divinity School"This work is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in overcoming the disunity of the churches. It demonstrates how high-quality scholarship can enlighten questions about the papacy that at first glance appear...

The importance of the global rural-urban matrix is often overlooked due to urban-normativity. But sometimes agrarian populism and a pastoral rural imaginary result in the equally fallacy of a rural-normativity, as in Jeffersonian nostalgia for a lost way of life that never existed. The nature of rurality in North America is important to study, but as Alessandro Bonanno makes clear, we cannot limit ourselves to the study of one or two nation-states. We must take a global perspective when it...

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Alice Ash, a witch fighting for survival, finds herself in the clutches of ruthless criminals. When kidnapped and forced to fight an unfair fight at the grandest casino in Goldshare city, she instead burns it down, fleeing into the crime-ridden city along with her two new friends. While in hiding, she finds out the competing crime factions are conspiring to take out the biggest crime lord in the city, Vance Garside. A man who pulls the strings of both poor and rich in the kingdom.A...

Peder Sather was a scribe before he emigrated from Norway to New York in 1832. There, he worked as a servant and a clerk at a lottery office before opening an exchange brokerage. During the gold rush, he moved to San Francisco to help establish the banking house of Drexel, Sather & Church on Montgomery Street. Sather was a founder and a liberal benefactor of the University of California at Berkeley where he is memorialized by the Sather Gate and Sather Tower (the Campanile), three endowed ...

The contributors to this volume reflect on the phenomenon and concept of populism in relation to democracy and the humanities from the vantage points of various disciplinary backgrounds: philosophy, history of ideas, media and communication, journalism, political science, gender studies, organization science, education theory, popular culture, and literary studies. While the study of populism seems to have become a subfield within political science, this topic has been rarely explored by s...

The volume documents, and makes an original contribution to, an astonishing period in twentieth-century philosophy-the progress of Arne Naess's ecophilosophy from its inception to the present. It includes Naess's most crucial polemics with leading thinkers, drawn from sources as diverse as scholarly articles, correspondence, TV interviews and unpublished exchanges. The book testifies to the skeptical and self-correcting aspects of Naess's vision, which has deepened and broadened to include...