The First Escape

The First Escape

Author: G. P. Taylor

Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1414319479

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At Isambard Dunstan's School for Wayward Children, life is trouble for fourteen-year-old identical twins Sadie and Saskia Dopple and their friend Erik Morrissey Ganger, but when a mysterious woman adopts Saskia and takes her to a mansion filled with secrets and threats, Sadie and Erik escape the orphanage to save her.


The Secret of Indigo Moon

The Secret of Indigo Moon

Author: G. P. Taylor

Publisher: SaltRiver

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781414319483

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Erik Morrissey Ganger and his friend, fourteen-year-old Sadie Dopple, meet a wealthy recluse while trying to escape tunnels under Isambard Dunstan's School for Wayward children in order to pursue a former foe who has inadvertently kidnapped Sadie's twin sister, Saskia.


The Great Mogul Diamond

The Great Mogul Diamond

Author: G. P. Taylor

Publisher: SaltRiver

Published: 2011-04-25

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781414319490

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When an anonymous note threatens someone they love, twins Sadie and Saskia Dopple are thrust into a series of crimes that look suspiciously like something from the pages of a mystery novel.


Haunting Experiences

Haunting Experiences

Author: Diane Goldstein

Publisher: University Press of Colorado

Published: 2007-09-15

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 0874216818

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Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal belief and cultural tradition on the one hand, and popular and commercial representation on the other, nevertheless continually feed each other. They frequently share space in how people think about the supernatural. In Haunting Experiences, three well-known folklorists seek to broaden the discussion of ghost lore by examining it from a variety of angles in various modern contexts. Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas take ghosts seriously, as they draw on contemporary scholarship that emphasizes both the basis of belief in experience (rather than mere fantasy) and the usefulness of ghost stories. They look closely at the narrative role of such lore in matters such as socialization and gender. And they unravel the complex mix of mass media, commodification, and popular culture that today puts old spirits into new contexts.


Golden Gulag

Golden Gulag

Author: Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2007-01-08

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13: 0520938038

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Since 1980, the number of people in U.S. prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called "the biggest prison building project in the history of the world." Golden Gulag provides the first detailed explanation for that buildup by looking at how political and economic forces, ranging from global to local, conjoined to produce the prison boom. In an informed and impassioned account, Ruth Wilson Gilmore examines this issue through statewide, rural, and urban perspectives to explain how the expansion developed from surpluses of finance capital, labor, land, and state capacity. Detailing crises that hit California’s economy with particular ferocity, she argues that defeats of radical struggles, weakening of labor, and shifting patterns of capital investment have been key conditions for prison growth. The results—a vast and expensive prison system, a huge number of incarcerated young people of color, and the increase in punitive justice such as the "three strikes" law—pose profound and troubling questions for the future of California, the United States, and the world. Golden Gulag provides a rich context for this complex dilemma, and at the same time challenges many cherished assumptions about who benefits and who suffers from the state’s commitment to prison expansion.


Narrative Strategies in Television Series

Narrative Strategies in Television Series

Author: G. Allrath

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2005-08-10

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 0230501001

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In the context of a systematic overview of the possibilities of applying narratological concepts to a study of TV series, ten case studies are explored in depth, demonstrating how series such as 24, Buffy, Twin Peaks, Star Trek, Blackadder, and Sex and the City make use of innovative audiovisual means of storytelling. Transgressing the traditional confines of narrative theory, the chapter authors address the question of how form, content, and function intersect in these series.


Shadowmancer

Shadowmancer

Author: G.P. Taylor

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2010-08-19

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 0571271154

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Shadowmancer takes you into a world of superstition, magic and witchcraft, where the ultimate sacrifice might even be life itself. Obadiah Demurral is a sorcerer who is seeking to control the highest power in the Universe. He will stop at nothing. The only people in his way are Raphah, Kate, Thomas and the mysterious Jacob Crane. Packed full of history, folklore and smuggling, Shadowmancer is a tale of an epic battle that will grip both young and old. The thrills, suspense and danger are guaranteed to grab the attention and stretch imaginations to the limit.


Emotion, Place and Culture

Emotion, Place and Culture

Author: Dr Joyce Davidson

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2012-11-28

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1409488047

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Recent years have witnessed a rapid rise in engagement with emotion and affect across a broad range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, with geographers among others making a significant contribution by examining the emotional intersections between people and places. Building on the achievements of Emotional Geographies (2005), the editors have brought together leading scholars such as Nigel Thrift, Alphonso Lingis and Frances Dyson as well as young, up and coming academics from a diverse range of disciplines to investigate feelings and affect in various spatial and social contexts, environments and landscapes. The book is divided into five sections covering the themes of remembering, understanding, mourning, belonging, and enchanting.


Tersias

Tersias

Author: G.P. Taylor

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2010-08-19

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 0571269818

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Magnus Malachi, a magician, is guarding his latest moneyspinner - Tersias, a blind boy who can see into the future. But as Tersias's powers become known, others who seek to use them are drawn from the shadows: Jonah, a teenage highwayman, and his companion in crime Tara; Solomon, a crazed zealot who has bred a new species of giant flesh-eating locusts; and Lord Malpas, a keeper of mysterious powers. They all want Tersias - but is he a force for good or evil? And can he ever rid himself of the dark spirit that torments his soul?