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Inhuman Remains: A gripping, pacy crime thriller (Primavera Blackstone Series)
by Quintin JardineA trail of deceit with a deadly conclusion... Inhuman Remains introduces Primavera Blackstone in her new guise as sleuth in a thrilling new series from the bestselling Scottish crime author Quintin Jardine. Perfect for fans of Ian Rankin and Peter James.'If Ian Rankin is the Robert Carlyle of Scottish crime writing, then Jardine is surely its Sean Connery' - Glasgow HeraldHer mind still filled with thoughts of her dead ex-husband, Oz, Primavera Blackstone is in Spain with their son Tom when their peace is breached again with the arrival of her elderly but formidable aunt, Adrienne McGowan. All is not well in Auntie Ades world; her roguish son Frank has become involved with a shady international casino project and has disappeared. Prim flies to Seville to track him down, only to find herself a fugitive, with her life under threat, as her aunt joins the missing persons list, and Tom is forced to flee to safety. As she and her companion in danger cross Spain in a struggle to keep themselves alive, and to free Adrienne, Prim finds herself at the centre of a maelstrom of mystery... What readers are saying about Inhuman Remains: 'This is a really good, unputdownable sort of thriller, densely plotted, good characterisation, lots of exciting chases where you never can predict where you will end up''I really enjoyed this engrossing roller-coaster of a story with lots of twists and turns''Brilliant debut novel for Primavera'
Inhuman Materiality in Gothic Media (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)
by Aspasia StephanouThis book examines the manifestations of materiality across different gothic media to show the inhuman at the heart of literature, film and contemporary media, outlining a philosophy of horror that deals with the horror of the nonhuman, the machine and the nonorganic. The author explores how materiality lends itself ideally to discussions of gothic and horror and acts as a threat to attempts to control meaning which falls outside the realm of consciousness. It brings the two together by examining the manifestations of this materiality to focus on a form of horror that is concerned with the (in) human by reading blood as the conduit of an unnameable materiality that circulates through gothic media, seducing with its familiar mask of gothic aesthetics only to uncover the horror of a totally alienating and inhuman otherness. Film, media, popular culture, philosophy and nineteenth-century literature are brought together and juxtaposed to create a continuity of ideas, and highlighting differences. The book offers innovative readings of notions of blood inscription in different media, of the Dark Web, accelerationism and technoscience to account for the widespread haemophilia in contemporary culture. This title is an essential read for researchers, undergraduate and postgraduate students in film studies, media studies, literature, philosophy, cultural theory and popular culture. Its interdisciplinary nature, clear exposition of thought and theoretical ideas will make it a key resource for both students and for general readers with an interest in contemporary horror, media and pop culture.
Inhuman Materiality in Gothic Media (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)
by Aspasia StephanouThis book examines the manifestations of materiality across different gothic media to show the inhuman at the heart of literature, film and contemporary media, outlining a philosophy of horror that deals with the horror of the nonhuman, the machine and the nonorganic. The author explores how materiality lends itself ideally to discussions of gothic and horror and acts as a threat to attempts to control meaning which falls outside the realm of consciousness. It brings the two together by examining the manifestations of this materiality to focus on a form of horror that is concerned with the (in) human by reading blood as the conduit of an unnameable materiality that circulates through gothic media, seducing with its familiar mask of gothic aesthetics only to uncover the horror of a totally alienating and inhuman otherness. Film, media, popular culture, philosophy and nineteenth-century literature are brought together and juxtaposed to create a continuity of ideas, and highlighting differences. The book offers innovative readings of notions of blood inscription in different media, of the Dark Web, accelerationism and technoscience to account for the widespread haemophilia in contemporary culture. This title is an essential read for researchers, undergraduate and postgraduate students in film studies, media studies, literature, philosophy, cultural theory and popular culture. Its interdisciplinary nature, clear exposition of thought and theoretical ideas will make it a key resource for both students and for general readers with an interest in contemporary horror, media and pop culture.
Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights
by Pheng CheahGlobalization promises to bring people around the world together, to unite them as members of the human community. To such sanguine expectations, Pheng Cheah responds deftly with a sobering account of how the "inhuman" imperatives of capitalism and technology are transforming our understanding of humanity and its prerogatives. Through an examination of debates about cosmopolitanism and human rights, Inhuman Conditions questions key ideas about what it means to be human that underwrite our understanding of globalization. Cheah asks whether the contemporary international division of labor so irreparably compromises and mars global solidarities and our sense of human belonging that we must radically rethink cherished ideas about humankind as the bearer of dignity and freedom or culture as a power of transcendence. Cheah links influential arguments about the new cosmopolitanism drawn from the humanities, the social sciences, and cultural studies to a perceptive examination of the older cosmopolitanism of Kant and Marx, and juxtaposes them with proliferating formations of collective culture to reveal the flaws in claims about the imminent decline of the nation-state and the obsolescence of popular nationalism. Cheah also proposes a radical rethinking of the normative force of human rights in light of how Asian values challenge human rights universalism.
Inhibitor Phase
by Alastair ReynoldsMiguel de Ruyter is a man with a past.Fleeing the 'wolves' - the xenocidal alien machines known as Inhibitors - he has protected his family and community from attack for forty years, sheltering in the caves of an airless, battered world called Michaelmas. The slightest hint of human activity could draw the wolves to their home, to destroy everything ... utterly. Which is how Miguel finds himself on a one-way mission with his own destructive mandate: to eliminate a passing ship, before it can bring unwanted attention down on them.Only something goes wrong.There's a lone survivor.And she knows far more about Miguel than she's letting on . . .Ranging from the depths of space to the deeps of Pattern Juggler waters, from nervous, isolated communities to the ruins of empire, this is a stealthy space opera from an author at the top of his game.Praise for Al Reynolds' Revenger'A swashbuckling thriller' The Guardian'A blindingly clever imagining of our solar system in the far flung future' The Sun'A rollicking adventure yarn with action, abduction, fights and properly scary hazards' The Daily Telegraph'By far the most enjoyable book Reynolds has ever written' SFX
The Inheritors (John Grimes)
by A. Bertram ChandlerJohn Grimes tackles the slave trade on a lost world with some very feline like inhabitants.
The Inheritors: Introduced by Ben Okri
by William GoldingWhen the spring came the people - what was left of them - moved back by the old paths from the sea. But this year strange things were happening, terrifying things that had never happened before. Inexplicable sounds and smells; new, unimaginable creatures half glimpsed through the leaves. What the people didn't, and perhaps never would, know, was that the day of their people was already over...
Inheriting Stanley Cavell: Memories, Dreams, Reflections
by David LaRoccaSome of the people who knew Stanley Cavell best--or know his work most intimately--are gathered in Inheriting Stanley Cavell to lend critical insight into the once and future legacy of this American titan of thought. Former students, colleagues, long-time friends, as well as distant admirers, explore moments when their personal experiences of Cavell's singular philosophical and literary illuminations have, as he put it, “risen to the level of philosophical significance.”Many of the memories, dreams, and reflections on offer in this volume carry with them a welcome register of the autobiographical, expressing--much as Cavell did through his own writing--how the personal can become philosophical and thus provide a robust mode for the making of meaning and the clarifying of the human condition. Here, in varied styles and through a range of dynamic content, authors engage the lingering question of inheriting philosophy in whatever form it might take, and what it means to think about inheritance and enact it.
Inheriting Stanley Cavell: Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Some of the people who knew Stanley Cavell best--or know his work most intimately--are gathered in Inheriting Stanley Cavell to lend critical insight into the once and future legacy of this American titan of thought. Former students, colleagues, long-time friends, as well as distant admirers, explore moments when their personal experiences of Cavell's singular philosophical and literary illuminations have, as he put it, “risen to the level of philosophical significance.”Many of the memories, dreams, and reflections on offer in this volume carry with them a welcome register of the autobiographical, expressing--much as Cavell did through his own writing--how the personal can become philosophical and thus provide a robust mode for the making of meaning and the clarifying of the human condition. Here, in varied styles and through a range of dynamic content, authors engage the lingering question of inheriting philosophy in whatever form it might take, and what it means to think about inheritance and enact it.
Inheriting a Bride (Mills And Boon Historical Ser.)
by Lauri RobinsonTROUBLE WITH A CAPITAL T When Kit Becker travels to Nevadaville to find her new guardian she doesn’t count on train robbers stealing her grandfather’s will. Determined to track down the thief, Kit’s prepared to use any pretence necessary.
The Inherited Twins (Mills And Boon Cherish Ser. #2)
by Cathy Gillen ThackerClaire Olander has to hold on to her family’s Texas ranch for the sake of her orphaned nephew and niece. And gorgeous Heath McPherson wants to help her. The more he hangs around this instant family, the less he can resist the little twins – or their new single mother…
Inherited Threat (Mills And Boon Love Inspired Suspense Ser.)
by Jane M. ChoateHazardous Legacy… Her mother’s mistakes have made her a target.
Inherited For The Royal Bed: Crowned For The Sheikh's Baby Inherited For The Royal Bed Tycoon's Forbidden Cinderella A Mistress, A Scandal, A Ring (Mills And Boon Modern Ser.)
by Annie West‘I now belong to you.’ He will finally claim his inheritance!
Inherited By Ferranti: Leonetti's Housekeeper Bride / Inherited By Ferranti / Best Man For The Bridesmaid (Mills And Boon Modern Ser. #3)
by Kate HewittReturn of the runaway bride! It’s been seven years since Sierra Rocci left Marco Ferranti on the eve of their convenient wedding. Now she’s back in Sicily to collect her inheritance – only to find out that everything that bears her name belongs to Marco!
The Inherited Bride (Mills And Boon Modern Ser. #2)
by Maisey YatesPrincess Isabella was certain of three things… She desperately didn’t want to marry the Sheikh to whom she was betrothed… There was more to the darkly handsome, dark-hearted desert stranger escorting her back to the altar than met the eye… And, having kissed the stranger once, she was never going to be the same again…
Inherited: Baby (Mills And Boon Cherish Ser.)
by Nicola MarshNeeded: full-time father! Riley is a single, successful businessman–and knows absolutely nothing about children! But he sees it as his duty to take care of Maya and her baby.
Inherited As The Gentleman's Bride (The Rivenhall Weddings #1)
by Carol ArensTo keep her home… She must marry!
Inherited: The Costarella Conquest / The Hot-blooded Groom / Inherited: One Nanny (Mills And Boon Vintage 90s Modern Ser. #12)
by Emma DarcyNANNY WANTED To my heir, Beau Prescott, I leave my Sydney estate and place into his good care my dedicated staff: housekeeper, gardener and nanny. Nanny? Beau Prescott was highly suspicious of this interloper in the family home. A fit man until his sudden death, what did his grandfather need with a nanny?
Inherited: Twins (Mills And Boon Cherish Ser.)
by Jessica HartStrong, silent Outback rancher Nat Masterman doesn't know the first thing about babies. Yet he's just become the guardian of eight-month-old twins–and he has to go to London to collect them!
Inherited: Wedded For The Baby Frontier Want Ad Bride An Amish Courtship Inherited: Unexpected Family (Little Falls Legacy #2)
by Gabrielle MeyerAn Unexpected Partnership
Inheritance Tracks: A Sloan And Crosby Mystery (Sloan And Crosby Ser. #25)
by Catherine AirdFour strangers arrive at the solicitors’ office of Puckle, Puckle, and Nunnery. They have never met, and have no idea why they have been invited. But they – along with a missing man – are descendants of the late Algernon George Culver Mayton, the inventor of “Mayton’s Marvellous Mixture” and each entitled to a portion of the Mayton Fortune. But before they can split the money, the missing man must be found.They begin their search, but then Detective Sloan receives a call that one of the legatees had died following an attack of food poisoning. Now detectives Sloan and Crosby must determine whether the deceased merely ingested a noxious substance by accident, or if the legatees are being picked off one-by-one. And when matters of money and family rivalry are involved, there is almost certainly foul play afoot.
The Inheritance Test
by Anne MarshCould the partnership that should save his reputation cause the scandal of thier lifetime?
The Inheritance: Racy, pacy and very funny! (Swell Valley Series #1)
by Tilly BagshaweWelcome to Tilly Bagshawe’s Swell Valley, where the scandal is in a class of its own.
The Inheritance: Part Two, Chapters 8–15 of 34
by Tilly BagshaweWelcome to Tilly Bagshawe’s Swell Valley, where the scandal is in a class of its own. Tilly Bagshawe’s first Swell Valley novel, The Inheritance, has been serialized into 4 parts – this is PART 2 OF 4 (Chapters 8 to 15 of 34).