Since the end of its crippling 27-year civil war over a decade ago, Angola has changed almost beyond recognition. An oil-fuelled bonanza has brought about massive foreign investment and a fabulously wealthy new elite, making its capital, Luanda, the second most expensive city in the world.[...]
Returning to the Arkansas hometown he thought he had left behind forever, Black Studies Ph.D. Tommy Lee Tyson endeavors to gain a greater understanding of himself and his community, an effort that is challenged by his emotionally cold parents and the mystery surrounding the death of his baby sister.[...]
"Daniel Black's "Perfect Peace "is the heartbreaking portrait of a large, rural southern family's attempt to grapple with their mother's desperate decision to make her newborn son into the daughter she will never have "When the seventh child of the Peace family, named Perfect, turns eight, her mothe[...]
On September 11, 2001, FBI Special Agent Ali H. Soufan was handed a secret file. Had he received it months earlier when it was requested the attacks on New York and Washington could have been prevented. During his time on the front lines, Soufan helped thwart plots around the world and elicited some[...]
Drawing on philosophical, neurological and cultural answers to the question of what constitutes a body, this book explores the interaction between mechanistic beliefs about human bodies and the successive technologies that have established and illustrated these beliefs. At the same time, it draws up[...]
Caught up in a moment of boyhood competition, William Bellman recklessly aims his slingshot at a rook resting on a branch, killing the bird instantly. It is a small but cruel act, and is soon forgotten. By the time he is grown, with a wife and children of his own, William seems to have put the whole[...]
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Daniel Kellerman reser till Thailand för att reda ut sitt liv och försöka sig på en karriär som musiker och för att skriva den stora romanen. Han lämnar kaos och förvirring samt en kortare fängelsevistelse bakom sig i Sverige. Vistelsen där blir till en räcka av både märkliga och hejdl�[...]