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The dark heart of a brilliant and ruthless psychopath A celebrated but haunted detective A determined young reporter hunting for justice - and the big story Karl Jackson is a particularly vengeful sociopath with his unique way of 'problem-solving'. DCI Tex Deacon suffers from the trauma of his beloved wife's death and finds it immensely difficult to come to terms with it. As a Detective Chief Inspector specialising in murder and killer profil...

The latest edition of this text provides an introduction to current risk assessment practices and procedures and explores the intrinsic complexities, challenges, and controversies associated with analysis of environmental health risks.

The latest edition of this text provides an introduction to current risk assessment practices and procedures and explores the intrinsic complexities, challenges, and controversies associated with analysis of environmental health risks.

Questioning not just literary but social, political and cultural assumptions about knowledge and power, Greenblatt's work has had a huge impact on contemporary theory. Mark Robson discusses ideas specific to particular works and explores the relation of Greenblatt's thought to new historicism as well as other modes of criticism.

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This new title in the Theatre And series confronts the complex relationship between theatre and death. Taking the position that all humans need to 'live' with the reality of death, Mark Robson draws on a range of examples, from Greek theatre to contemporary practitioners, in order to testify to the potency of both theatre and death in contemporary culture. Striking and thought-provoking, this book is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate st...

Exam board: AQA, Pearson Edexcel, OCRLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS), Summer 2017 (A-level)Put your trust in the textbook series that has given thousands of A-level History students deeper knowledge and better grades for over 30 years.Updated to meet the demands of today's A-level specifications, this new generation of Access to History titles includes accurate exam guidance based on...

Sexuality and gender in the ancient world is an area of research that has grown quickly with often sudden shifts in focus and theoretical standpoints. This volume contextualises these shifts but puts in place new ideas and avenues of exploration to further innovate in this lively discipline. This broad study also includes studies of gender and sexuality in the Ancient Near East to provide a comparative perspective not often found. Sex in Antiq...

In The sense of Early Modern writing, Mark Robson pursues the relation between the concept of the 'early modern' and modernity, tracing the complex interactions of post-Romantic, philosophical aesthetics and early modern rhetoric and poetics. The book therefore questions the status of what we now think of as literary texts in a period prior to the emergence of literature as a category. In this way, Robson argues for an attention to the classic...

Providing information on various areas of language and linguistic study, this book offers activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries and key readings. It contains an introduction, development, exploration and extension section and includes real texts from various sources. It is for students of English language and literature.

An essential guide to understanding literary theory and criticism in the European tradition What is Literature? A Critical Anthology explores the most fundamental question in literary studies. 'What is literature?' is the name of a problem that emerges with the idea of literature in European modernity. This volume offers a cross-section of modern literary theory and reflects on the history of thinking about literature as a specific form. What...

This special issue of Paragraph brings together new essays on the work of Jacques Rancière by thinkers from a range of disciplines and critical perspectives.

A dragon series from the bestselling author of the "Imperial" trilogy. Elian and his dragon search for the 4th and final orb, pursued by dragons and helped by a WWI airman. Ages: 10+

A second engaging and fast-moving spy thriller set in a medieval-style fantasy world.

The second title in an exciting new dragon series from the best-selling author of the Imperial trilogy.

An exciting new dragon series from the best-selling author of the Imperial trilogy.

An engaging and fast-moving spy adventure story set in a medieval-style fantasy world.

The second installment in Mark Robson's new adventure series about parallel worlds and the legends surrounding the Bermuda Triangle.

Examines and rejects a particular philosophical understanding of the processes of creation - ex nihilo, taking into account Leibniz's originating thesis and its development in the modern world.