Space Place Life is the first in a series of books drawing on the expertise of the Academy of Urbanism. This book examines the concepts that are core to the academy; the way that urban space is designed, the quality place created by the buildings that enclose this space and the life that animates it[...]
""Outstanding . . . Deserves mention in the same breath as . . . the work of Peter Robinson and John Harvey"""Booklist "Starred Review - When ex-con Daryl Woodley is found dead on the marshes bordering Langstone Harbour, the Intelligence Directorate believe his murder is linked to big-time crook Mar[...]
Whereas the past decades have seen a profound reconsideration of eighteenth-century visual culture, the architecture of that century has undergone little evaluation. Its study, unlike that of the early modern period or the twentieth century, has continued to use essentially the same methods and idea[...]
The Handbook of Social Capital offers an important contribution to the study of bonding and bridging social capital networks, balancing the 'troika' of sociology, political science and economics. Eminent contributors explore the different scientific approaches required if international research is t[...]
Krav Maga ist ein praxiserprobtes für jeden leicht erlernbares Selbstverteidigungs- und Nahkampfsystem aus Israel zur wirksamen Abwehr von Stich-, Schlag-, und Schusswaffen im Ernstfall. Dieses offizielle und umfassende Lehrbuch soll weltweit Menschen helfen sich gegen Gewalttäter zu verteidi[...]
Searching for an inn, the enigmatic traveler Hans stops in a small city on the border between Saxony and Prussia. The next morning, Hans meets an old organ-grinder in the market square and immediately finds himself enmeshed in an intense debate--on identity and what it is that defines us--from which[...]
"Detective Inspector Horton returns and is feeling the heat . . . - "When a body is found floating in the sea off Portsmouth harbour, Detective Inspector Horton judges it to be an accidental death, but soon discovers he's got it very wrong. Under pressure from his superiors, Horton wonders if his on[...]
Suicide, or murder? When Detective Inspector Horton's bosses block his investigation, he starts to suspect there's been a cover-up at the highest level ...When naval historian Dr Douglas Spalding is found dead in Portsmouth's Historic Dockyard, the Major Crime Team is adamant it is suicide. When an[...]
A telephone call from a frantic Sergeant Cantelli to say that his nephew, Johnnie Oslow, is missing cuts short Detective Inspector Horton's sailing trip to France. Summoned back to the Isle of Wight, Horton learns that Johnnie has not shown up for racing during Cowes Week, as previously arranged. Th[...]
Just war, pacifism, weapons of mass destruction, war on terror, preemptive war. These phrases highlight recent world events that have brought questions about the morality of war into sharp relief. Instead of advocating a particular approach to war, War and Christian Ethics offers a variety of Christ[...]
In Martin Rowson's "The Waste Land", private detective Chris Marlowe is tasked with getting to the bottom of the most impenetrable of all modernist mysteries: namely T. S. Eliot's "The Wasteland". Cunningly contrived, this irreverent graphic parody is inspired in equal parts by the classic modernist[...]
The first in the series featuring the flawed and rugged DI Andy Horton.
Marine artist Adam Greene is left to find out when his best friend, fire fighter Jack Bartholomew, is killed in a fire. Adam attends the funeral ready to mourn when another funeral intrudes upon his thoughts. But before he has time to digest this, or discover the identity of the stranger stalking hi[...]
The fifth in this engaging and entertaining marine mystery series of police procedural crime novels featuring the flawed and rugged Inspector Andy Horton, set in the Solent area on the South Coast of England.[...]
The sixth in the series of marine mystery crime novels set in the Solent area, Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight featuring the flawed and rugged DI Andy Horton[...]
When historian Dr Douglas Spalding is found dead in Portsmouth's Historic Dockyard,the Major Crime Team is adamant it is suicide. Not so DI Horton. Angry and frustrated at the lack of investigation, Horton goes out on a limb to prove he's right. As he gets closer to the truth someone is determined t[...]
Working Ethics sets out an ethical foundation for professionals and for the professions in a modern, culturally complex society. This book will be of interest to anyone who takes seriously their obligations to society as a whole and to the individuals with whom they work. Richard Rowson puts forward[...]
Tristram Shandy is one of English literature's most curious, complex and comic novels and is therefore perfectly suited to the distinctive, anarchic style of the celebrated cartoonist and illustrator Martin Rowson. Here Rowson travels with his faithful companion Pete through the tortuous paths of La[...]
Since 2010, Martin Rowson has been documenting the highs and lows - mainly the lows - of the Tory-Lib Dem coalition week after week in The Guardian, as well as in The Morning Star, Tribune and many other publications. This book collects Rowson's best, most brutally funny, cartoons from a period that[...]