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***Cover B Willowpoint Falls, eine beschauliche amerikanische Kleinstadt in den 1960ern: Schon seit längerem sorgt hier ein grausamer Kindermörder für Angst und Schrecken. So auch beim jungen Frankie, der nach einem Streich in der Schule eingesperrt wird und hier Zeuge (und beinahe Opfer) eines geisterhaften Mordes wird. Während die Behörden den Hausmeister für die Tat verantwortlich machen, kommt Frankie, gepeinigt vom Geist des toten Mädchen...

***Cover A Willowpoint Falls, eine beschauliche amerikanische Kleinstadt in den 1960ern: Schon seit längerem sorgt hier ein grausamer Kindermörder für Angst und Schrecken. So auch beim jungen Frankie, der nach einem Streich in der Schule eingesperrt wird und hier Zeuge (und beinahe Opfer) eines geisterhaften Mordes wird. Während die Behörden den Hausmeister für die Tat verantwortlich machen, kommt Frankie, gepeinigt vom Geist des toten Mädchen...

From depictions in Paleolithic cave art to the Playboy mansion, Plays Well in Groups delves into the fields of sociology, biology, anthropology, and psychology to provide explanations for both, participation in group sex and the complex reactions to it-from fascination to fear.

G-Strings and Sympathy" effortlessly merges the personal with the polemical, the scholarly with the serendipitous, and the earthy with the esoteric. Informed, intelligent, yet always accessible, Katherine Frank's writing sheds a piercing beam of light on the shadowy realm of exotic dance."--Lily Burana, author of "Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America

<, div>, With a recent burst of feature films, documentaries, and books on strippers, the business of exotic dancing is hotter than ever. Over the last decade there has been a steadily expanding interest in exotic dance, from its role as an "art form" to its benefits as a means of exercise. While the breadth of discussion generated on this topic has expanded, the fundamental debate remains the same: are female strippers empowering themselv...

January, 1719. A man sits at a table, writing. Nearly sixty, Daniel Defoe is troubled with gout and mired in political controversy and legal threats. But for the moment he is preoccupied by a younger man on a barren shore - Robinson Crusoe.Several miles south another old man, Robert Knox, sits bent over a heavy volume - published nearly forty years before. Knox''''s Historical Relation was a bestseller when it was published in 1681, just a yea...

From depictions in Paleolithic cave art to the Playboy mansion, Plays Well in Groups delves into the fields of sociology, biology, anthropology, and psychology to provide explanations for both, participation in group sex and the complex reactions to it-from fascination to fear.

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In 1862, when Lucie Duff Gordon was diagnosed with tuberculosis, she left her husband and three children to live in Egypt, where she would spend the rest of her life. Drawing on her correspondence with her family, this title relates the dramatic transformation that she underwent as she discarded the restrictions of Victorian England.

An ethnography of the customers of strip clubs where the author performed.

Crusoe explores the intertwined lives of two real men - Daniel Defoe and Robert Knox - and the character and book that emerged from their peculiar conjunction. It is the biography of a book and its hero, the story of Defoe, the man who wrote Robinson Crusoe, and of Robert Knox, the man who was Crusoe.

The most gifted of her famous, troubled family, Emily Bronte has too often been portrayed in "storm-tossed, sentimental" biographies, according to Katherine Frank. Now Frank presents a startling new interpretation: pledged to self-denial and social isolation, Emily starved herself, contributing to her wild imagination. 16-page insert.