Khantida, a spirited young Thai courtesan, once married to a handsome but ruthless police major, finds herself desperately seeking sanctuary in her rural childhood village, Phayu. Wrathful ghosts and angels are drawn to the battle between the former lovers as the village suffers. The fates of Khantida, her 6-year-old daughter, Noi, her sister, Som, and numerous other citizens of northeast Thailand are all played out in one shocking, often horrifying, week. Much of the world undergoes terri...

Mubu's grandfather used his healing herbs to save the life of a young boy in the village. The grateful father gave an elephant to him in pay for his miracle. Mubu had never seen an elephant before. When she inspected every part of the elephant, the elephant inspected her! They liked each other. Mubu named him Goldie, and they became best friends. They went everywhere together, joined by her pet hen and the neighbourhood kids. Goldie learned their games quickly and joined in. But Mubu's lit...

This is a factually based story about a German woman, Helle Koch, who suddenly arrives at Ardeley, a village deep in the midst of Norfolk on a mission to find the remains of her GrandFather, Luftwaffe Oberleutnant Erich Koch who allegedly crashed his ME160 nearby in April 1943. However no record nor evidence exists whatsoever of his demise.Here she meets Richard Manners a recently retired British Airways long haul pilot who has recently bought a cottage close to Royal Airforce Stati...

Sensationalism and Scientific Explanation is a critical examination of the view that scientific statements can be understood only in terms of basic ‘atoms’ of experience, also called ‘sensations’.Presenting different extremes of this view, the book considers whether it can provide an adequate account of science as we find it. It explores in detail the sensationalist account of science set out by Ernst Mach in relation to various aspects of scientific investigation and theo...

The Marikana Massacre of August 16, 2012, was the single most lethal use of force by South African security forces against civilians since the end of apartheid. Those killed were mineworkers in support of a pay raise. Through a series of interviews conducted with workers who survived the attack, this account documents and examines the controversial shootings in great detail, beginning with a valuable history of the events leading up to the killing of workers, and including eyewitness accou...

Station Square, a new and massive development set on The Thames is on the one hand a glittering tribute to financial worth but is on the other a subtle front for international money laundering on a vast international scale. But also infused into this development is a killer who makes his gruesome presence known on opening day by killing not one but two office workers in different parts of the complex. As murders rise almost on a weekly basis the level of absenteeism increases dramatically....

Originally published in 1969. This book is for undergraduates whether specializing in philosophy or not. It assumes no previous knowledge of logic but aims to show how logical notions arise from, or are abstracted from, everyday discourse, whether technical or non-technical. It sets out a knowledge of principles and, while not historical, gives an account of the reasons for which modern systems have emerged from the traditional syllogistic logic, demonstrating how certain central ideas hav...

The Quest for Freedom, a biography of Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky published in June 2020, commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the death of the great socialist reformer who personified the Russian Revolution of February 1917 and yet who is remembered today, if at all, as 'the man who lost Russia'. In the first biography of Kerensky for more than thirty years, award-winning author Peter Alexander Thompson uses interviews with two of Kerensky's grandchildren, the Kerensky Family's pri...

This book introduces polytempic polymicrotonality as a new musical aesthetic. It proposes music with more than one microtonal tuning system and discusses examples from the literature to give an historic framework showing that this tendency has been present throughout human musical history. Polytempo is a tool for which polymicrotonal structures can function in relief from its background, and it acts as a frame, or ground structure, that is multidimensional, akin to the advancement of persp...

A Stake in the Land, written by Peter A. Speek and published in 1921, is a comprehensive exploration of the movement for land settlement and agricultural colonization in the United States during the early twentieth century. The book delves into the social, economic, and political factors that influenced the push for land reform, particularly in the context of post-World War I America, when returning soldiers and waves of immigrants sought new opportunities and stability through farming. Sp...

Stranded upon a remote island, a physicist finds himself drawn into a series of observations that gradually unsettle his understanding of the natural world.Meanwhile, an ordinary night for a group of friends is interrupted by a radio signal whose origin seems increasingly difficult to place in time, leading them into untapped territory.

At a time when the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge are again under sustained attack from activists and politicians, Two Shades of Blue takes the reader in two volumes from their founding in the early Thirteenth Century up to the reforms and advances of the modern era. The title, Two Shades of Blue, refers to the sporting colours of dark blue for Oxford and light blue for Cambridge. The first volume encompasses the 500 years between 1200 and 1700, starting with the pioneering Oxonians ...