The Ceremonial Animal by Wendy James
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Free Worldwide Delivery : The Ceremonial Animal : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780199263349 : 0199263345 : 01 Apr 2005 : Adapting Wittgenstein's concept of the human species as 'a ceremonial animal', this book discusses the conceptual ordering of space, time, and rhythm; the mutualities of language, consciousness, ritual and religious practice; the dialectics of gender and generation; power, war, and peace; and large-scale modern social formations, such as the city.
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A Death in Vienna by -
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Gabriel Allon hasn't been back to Vienna since his wife and child died there in a terrorist bombing. But when his mentor in the Israeli intelligence agency dispatches him to the Austrian capital to investigate a murderous explosion at the Wartime Claims and Inquiry Office, his presence draws the attention of police officials who have reasons to stand in the way of his investigation. When a concentration camp survivor is killed who could link the father of Austria's next chancellor to Nazi atrocities and an ongoing coverup by the Catholic church, Allon discovers another connection to the conspiracy, this one closer to his own past than he could ever have imagined. This is the third of Silva's thrillers featuring Allon, the art restorer who's also a spy. (The Confessor and The English Assassin are the first two.) In an endnote, the author calls them a "completed cycle dealing with the unfinished business of the Holocaust". Allon is such a compelling hero that one hopes Silva, a skilled craftsman and a terrific storyteller, will bring him back in another series. --Jane Adams, Amazon.com - Book -
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Of Relations and the Dead: Four Societies
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Of Relations and the Dead: Four Societies Viewed from the Angle of Their Exchanges (Explorations in Anthropology)
Anthropology, Communication studies, Semantics, Social & cultural anthropology, Sociology, Anthropology - Cultural, Customs & Traditions, Death & Dying, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural, Archaeology / Anthropology, Cultural And Social Anthropology, Ceremonial exchange, Initiation rites, Rites and ceremonies, Sociology - Marriage & Family, Social Science, Social Sciences, Linguistics
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A Death in Summer (Quirke 4) by -
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The literary novelist John Banville (who writes his crime fiction under the alliterative moniker ‘Benjamin Black’) has built up a faithful following for his idiosyncratic historical outings (set in the 1950s) featuring his pathologist anti-hero Quirke. It’s not difficult to see why. Just a couple of chapters of the new novel, A Death in Summer, is an object lesson in Banville/Black’s highly individual skills; he is a writer whose grasp of period and locale is second to none.The brutal death of newspaper tycoon Richard Jewell at his country property (the shotgun that killed him clutched in his dead hands) is not the suicide it initially appeared to be, and has propelled Quirke into the search for a ruthless murderer. The dead man’s enemies are legion, and the immediate suspect is one of his most powerful rivals, but as Quirke, his assistant Sinclair and his colleague Inspector Hackett realise, there is a complex mystery behind the death. And just what is the involvement of the dead man’s mysterious wife, the seductive Françoise d’Aubigny?As we are reminded here, Quirke himself is the author’s ace-in-the-hole: badly coordinated, prone to drink and constantly dealing with his own demons, he’s a highly individual protagonist in the over-crowded crime fiction field. Similarly, the Dublin which is the setting here is conjured with the customary skill, while the details of life in fifties Ireland are presented with acute precision, both these elements making up for the over-familiar plot revelations. A Death in Summer is as engrossing a piece of writing as anything in the current historical crime field; readers will be happy to visit vintage Dublin in the company of the badly-dressed but brilliant Quirke. --Barry Forshaw - Book -
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Unknown Westminister Abbey
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Book Description: Hardmondsworth, Middlesex, England, Penguin Books, 1948, First Edition, Decrative Hard Cover, Good. Book has the top of spine missing appx 2.5cm and has a previous owners...
Authors: Tanner, Lawrence E. M.V.O., F.S.A.
Related topics: UNKNOWN WESTMINISTER ABBEY BY LARWRENCE E. TANNER
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Unearthly History : Volume One - The Balance
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ISBN 10: 0954717309
ISBN 13: 9780954717308
H/B. 312 pages, condition is very good, a small tear, taped, to the rear DJ. The DJ has been price clipped. The discovery of a dead woman in a derelict Norfolk country house is the first of many...
Authors: Moredun, P.R.
Related topics: FICTION - FANTASY/SCIENCE
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