Boswell: 151 books
by Richard Boswell
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
The book is a story about a young investigator who was recruited to go undercover in the Organized Crime Strikeforce in Chicago, Illinois. The assignment was initially only to be for a few months, but months turned into years and Robert became what he hated. He became one of the family and liked it....
Manufacturing Political Trust
Targets and Performance Measurement in Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Measurement and targets have been widely criticised as distorting policy and engendering gaming - yet they continue to be widely used in government. This book offers an original new account explaining the persistent appeal of performance measurement. It argues that targets have been adopted to address...
Skeleton
A Bare Bones Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2010
A Blockbuster employee on a smoke break discovers a human skull in an overflow pond, setting off speculation that the skull may belong to a graduate student at the local college who mysteriously disappeared the year before. Inspector Jeremy Wolf, a widower, wine lover, would-be author, and long-time...
by John P Boswell
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2010
According to Orhan Pamuk there is a saying in Turkey that the child who cannot stop crying needs some toasted snow to soothe their distress. This is one of a number of proverbs across cultures that recognise our need, our desire and our ongoing search for that which is well nigh impossible to achieve....
Cut to the Bone
A Hollis Grant Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2012
Hollis Grant has fashioned a new life for herself with a foster child and a job as resident super of an eight-storey apartment building with a split personality. Hollis finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation when a tenant, a woman working for an escort agency, is murdered. The detective...
Cut to the Chase
A Hollis Grant Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Danson Lafleur's been on a crusade to investigate deported criminals who return undetected to Canada, and now he's missing. Can he be the unidentified man in the morgue? Danson's desperate sister pleads with artist and amateur sleuth Hollis Grant to search for her brother, since the police don't appear...
Cut Off His Tale
A Hollis Grant Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
The starter's gun explodes, and Hollis Grant excitedly begins her very first marathon race, only to stumble almost immediately over a body lying in the road, the body of the Reverend Paul Robertson, her soon-to-be ex-husband. When the crush of runners passes and the medics arrive, it becomes clear...
Cut to the Quick
A Hollis Grant Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
In the sequel to Cut Off his Tale, Hollis Grant is back, but this time shes in Toronto, hoping for a quiet summer of study. Hollis is a painter, and she hopes to spend some time taking a course in painting at the College of Art from her best friends husband, Curt Hartman. But the murder of her friends...
Community and the Economy
The Theory of Public Co-operation
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Presenting a new political and historical theory of the mixed economy, this book is a convincing argument for a challenging social ideal - democratic communitarianism. Individualistic notions of liberty, equality and prosperity are too central to modern life and they need to be balanced by values...
by Christina Boswell
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
What duties do liberal democratic states owe to refugees? Does international refugee law impose unfeasible demands on states? This highly original contribution explores what theories of international ethics have to say about refugee policy. It advances an innovative critique of prevalent liberal approaches,...
The Real War on Obesity
Contesting Knowledge and Meaning in a Public Health Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
This book sheds new light on the political battle to define and construct obesity as a policy issue. Through a rich analysis of the debates in Australia and the UK, it develops a nuanced analysis of the competing narratives that actors rely on to make sense of and argue about this issue, and documents...
Alternative Atlanta
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2005
In a funny, poignant, wonderfully original debut novel, the author of the acclaimed short-story collection Trouble with Girls weaves a beguiling tale of fathers and sons, sons and lovers…and one unforgettable summer in a young man’s life–somewhere between a past he doesn’t understand and a...
Social and Business Enterprises (RLE: Organizations)
An Introduction to Organisational Economics
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
This book shows how economics can be used to clarify and stimulate thinking about organisations and their decision problems. It is mainly designed for university students of economics, management and business studies and of public and social administration. But its clear and lively exposition will...
How to Become a Pack-room Operator
How to Become a Pack-room Operator
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
This publication will teach you the basics of how to become a Pack-room Operator. With step by step guides and instructions, you will not only have a better understanding, but gain valuable knowledge of how to become a Pack-room Operator