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A pesar de las innumerables investigaciones realizadas durante muchos años, los moriscos siguen siendo un misterio. ¿Cuántos había? ¿Estaban asimilados: algunos, ninguno? ¿La mayoría siguió siendo criptomusulmana después de su conversión forzosa a principios del siglo XVI? ¿Representaban...

From the very beginning of the epidemic, AIDS was linked to punishment. Calls to punish people living with HIV—mostly stigmatized minorities—began before doctors had even settled on a name for the disease. Punishing Disease looks at how HIV was transformed from sickness to badness under the criminal...

The Handbook on Crime is a comprehensive edited volume that contains analysis and explanation of the nature, extent, patterns and causes of over 40 different forms of crime, in each case drawing attention to key contemporary debates and social and criminal justice responses to them. It also challenges...

Every year the major walking tracks of New Zealand act as a magnet to thousands of visitors from all corners of the world. A large proportion of those visitors will be backpackers in their early twenties who are testing their adult wings for the very first time. Others may be older and some may be trying...

The book considers the implications of the nuclear energy revival for global governance in the areas of safety, security and non-proliferation. Increased global warming, the energy demands of China, India and other emerging economic powerhouses and the problems facing traditional and alternative...

This book is devoted to the investigations of non-stationary electromagnetic processes. The investigations are undertaken analytically mainly using the Volterra integral equations approach. The book contains a systematic statement of this approach for the investigations of electrodynamics phenomena...

All Madeleine wanted at the start of the day was a cold glass of lemonade. She didn't expect to end the day investigating a crime that wasn't and questioning the existence of ancient Egyptian gods. A chance meeting in a café in Venice turns from normal to weird in the blink of an eye. A young...

A thrilling and moving lyrical descriptive poem in the style of legendary Australian bush poets Andrew 'Banjo' Paterson and Henry Lawson. Australian bush ballads are renowned for their easy flowing style and comfortable rhythmic pace and this poem is a beautifully crafted example of that art. A...

Nottinghamshire, 1986. The body of a young boy is discovered at a secluded beauty spot in Nottinghamshire. The post mortem reveals that the child had been sexually assaulted and suffocated. Chief Inspector Danny Flint and the MCIU begin an enquiry into the boy’s death. As their investigation...

Nottinghamshire, 1986. Two brutal murders are discovered on the same day at different ends of the county. Both the victims are men and both have been mutilated and tortured before having their throats cut and being left to bleed to death. An identical series of letters and numbers has been daubed...

Texas 1860s. Dan Lyons had been in frontier towns before but when he accepted Taylor Countys job as District Rural Sheriff to assist in the protection of the outlying ranches from Indian raids, he hadnt anticipated being in the area very long. Now after several years of being based in the fledgling town of Sabilene he had grown to like the place.

A Dynmouth tutto è pulito, elegante: case linde, chiese e scuole, un piccolo porto. E una vita ordinata e sonnacchiosa, che si anima solo in occasione di qualche festività. Eppure, qualcuno sta per sconvolgerla. Non un efferato criminale, ma un ragazzino, Timothy Gedge, che ha un progetto innocente...

Irlanda, 1921. Alla vigilia dell’indipendenza, nel paese le manifestazioni antibritanniche si fanno sempre più pericolose. Per questo il capitano Gault e la moglie Heloise si rassegnano a lasciare l’Irlanda e riparare in Inghilterra, patria della donna. La decisione è presa, ma nessuno chiede il...

Pur di sfuggire alla modesta fattoria in cui è nata e cresciuta e coronare il sogno di vivere in città, spinta dall’illusione del benessere e dell’affrancamento sociale, l’ingenua Mary Louise accetta di sposare il poco attraente Elmer, più vecchio di lei e desideroso di trovare moglie solo per...