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The ArtsJune 2021Claire Denis
by Martine Beugnet
Claire Denis is one of France's most acclaimed and original filmmakers. Since her remarkable debut success with 'Chocolat' (1986), she has produced an impressive series of features which have been intriguing, visually striking, and often highly controversial (including 'Beau Travail' (2000) and 'Trouble Every Day' (2001)). Beugnet provides a thematic and stylistic framework within which to consider Denis' work, as well as a comprehensive analysis of individual films. She highlights the resonance of Denis' films in relation to ongoing debates about French national identity and culture, and issues of postcolonial identity, alienation and transgression, as well as examining their exploration of the interface between sexuality, desire and sensuality. This is an essential introduction to Denis, and a sophisticated and illuminating study of her work to date.
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Trusted Partner
KETUM DARI PERSPEKTIF PSIKOSOSIAL: MANFAAT ATAU MUDARAT
by Noor Azniza Ishak, Jamaludin Mustafa, Kamal Ab Hamid, Siti Rozaina Kamsani, Grafik UUM (Illustrator)
Kratom from a Psychosocial Perspective: An Advantage or A Detriment Kratom leaves have long been used as a traditional vitality drink ingredient for women who have recently given birth. The leaves are boiled, and the resulting water is consumed to restore vitality, as well as to treat gas congestion in the body and relieve back pain. However, the decoction of kratom leaves has been misappropriated and is being sold to the public. This book is intended as a guide for policymakers, particularly the Ministry of Home Affairs and the National Anti-Drug Agency (AADK), in the formulation of appropriate policies or action plans, as well as the necessary enhancements to the extant prevention programmes. This book also suggests an effective information delivery strategy for addressing the issue of kratom water abuse. In addition, this book was written as a resource for the community to learn about the actual phenomenon of kratom water misappropriation in the community today.
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Thriller / suspenseApril 2024BANKHAUS
by Neil Giarratana
A heartstopping tale involving a deadly dance of sex, betrayal, deceipt, murder, and retribution. Anulka Lorenzini is Head of Wealth Management at Bankhaus Finsler, a private bank in Zurich. Her clients represent, in part, a world of hidden, ill-gotten money. Her secret contempt for this dark side of the banking business is stronger than her attempts to remain outwardly who she is: a respected banker. She falls in love with Giovanni Poggio who convinces her to facilitate the embezzlement of 14.5 million euros from her bank. His plan: a fake customer regularly withdraws cash from a real customer's account. Sixty percent of it goes to her. When she realizes later how fragile her decision was, she stops. Although 13.3 million euros have already been withdrawn, her Italian partners want her remaining share.To end her nightmare, Anulka decides to initiate a second round of embezzlement. However, the success of this depends on involving Felix Hofmaier, a Frankfurt management consultant, who may face criminal charges — and financial ruin — for defrauding the bank of one of his clients. Anulka proposes a schedule for the outstanding payments to her Italian partners. In return, they increase their demands once again and threaten to kill her if she does not agree. Outraged by their callousness and greed, she gives free rein to her dark side.
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Computer securityDecember 1999A Question of Balance
Private Rights and the Public Interest in Scientific and Technical Databases
by Committee for a Study on Promoting Access to Scientific and Technical Data for the Public Interest, National Research Council
New legal approaches, such as the European Union's 1996 Directive on the Legal Protection of Databases, and other legal initiatives now being considered in the United States at the federal and state level, are threatening to compromise public access to scientific and technical data available through computerized databases. Lawmakers are struggling to strike an appropriate balance between the rights of database rights holders, who are concerned about possible commercial misappropriation of their products, and public-interest users of the data such as researchers, educators, and libraries. A Question of Balance examines this balancing act. The committee concludes that because database rights holders already enjoy significant legal, technical, and market-based protections, the need for statutory protection has not been sufficiently substantiated. Nevertheless, although the committee opposes the creation of any strong new protective measures, it recognizes that some additional limits against wholesale misappropriation of databases may be necessary. In particular, a new, properly scoped and focused U.S. statute might provide a reasonable alternative to the European Union's highly protectionistic database directive. Such legislation could then serve as a legal model for an international treaty in this area. The book recommends a number of guiding principles for such possible legislation, as well as related policy actions for the administration.
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September 2018The Buddhist Swastika and Hitler's Cross
Rescuing a Symbol of Peace from the Forces of Hate
by T.K. Nakagaki
The swastika has been used for over three thousand years by billions of people in many cultures and religions—including Buddhism, Jainism and Hinduism—as an auspicious symbol of the sun and good fortune. However, beginning with its hijacking and misappropriation by Nazi Germany, it has also been used, and continues to be used, as a symbol of hate in the Western World. Hitler's device is in fact a "hooked cross." Rev. Nakagaki's book explains how and why these symbols got confused, and offers a path to peace, understanding, and reconciliation.
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Business, Economics & LawMarch 2024La fuite des capitaux hors d’Afrique (Capital flight from Africa)
by Léonce Ndikumana / K. James Boyce
The Capital Flight from Africa examines the dynamics of capital flight from South Africa, Angola, and Côte d'Ivoire, countries that have witnessed significant and large-scale illicit outflows of capital in recent decades. For each of these countries, quantitative, qualitative, and institutional analysis is employed to investigate the modus operandi of capital flight. This includes identifying the key domestic and foreign actors, understanding the mechanisms of capital acquisition, transfer, and concealment, and determining the locations and destinations involved in capital transactions. The evidence reveals a complex network of actors and facilitators engaged in orchestrating and facilitating capital flight, as well as accumulating private wealth in secret offshore jurisdictions. It underscores the global nature of capital flight and the fact that efforts to mitigate it are a shared responsibility of Africa and the global community. Global efforts, with a high level of coordination, will be necessary to address the issue of capital flight and related concerns such as false invoicing, money laundering, tax evasion, and the misappropriation of public assets by political and economic elites.
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Mystery2013The Black Dog
A Marcie and Amanda Mystery
by Glen Ebisch
Marcie Ducasse writes the “Weird Happenings” column for Roaming New England Magazine, which focuses on stories of the supernatural that occur in New England. She researches reported strange happenings and conveys them to her readers. It usually turns out that the events were performed by all too human perpetrators, although occasionally a supernatural element remains unexplained. In the case of the “Black Dog,” a small black dog suddenly appears out of nowhere and then disappears. According to the legend, whoever sees the dog three times, dies. When a Wall Street financier, who is about to come under indictment for embezzlement, sees the dog three times and then falls off a cliff, Marcie is quickly on the case. She soon finds that many of the man’s acquaintances are happy to see the victim dead, and it soon becomes obvious to Marcie that determining if he died due to human agency or the curse of the “Black Dog” will not be easy.
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April 2013Tidewater Murder
by C. Hope Clark
“Terrific. Smart, knowing, clever...and completely original. A taut, high-tension page-turner--in a unique and fascinating setting. An absolute winner!” Hank Phillippi Ryan Agatha, Anthony and Macavity winning author In the deep waters off the coast of Beaufort, South Carolina, corpses are turning up faster than dolphins chasing a shrimp boat . . . When federal agricultural investigator Carolina Slade’s best friend is suspected of embezzlement and fraud in a sordid case involving drugs and migrant slavery, Slade must question her own long-held loyalties. She’s desperate to believe in Savannah Conroy's innocence despite every scrap of evidence pointing to her friend’s guilt. After a tomato farmer dies in a shrimp boat explosion, Slade’s colleague, Senior Special Agent Wayne Largo, manages to force Slade off the case, citing conflict of interest. Refusing to quit even if it means violating agency orders, Slade fights to save her friend’s career. Soon, Slade’s the target of escalating threats meant to frighten her off the case. But threats might be the least of Slade’s worries. She’s also juggling a co-worker’s sudden romantic interest, voodoo, and her teenage daughter’s determination to solve mysteries like her mother. Slade struggles to keep her life, and the lives of those around her, safe and sane when, once again, digging up dirt on the ag business threatens to put her six feet under.
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FictionSUNSET PARLOR
by CHRISTOPHER NEW
Into the decaying American town of Morteville drives an elegant saturnine stranger, Dr Ivor Coughin, bringing an audacious proposal for the town’s main employer, a failing textile factory with an unhealthy work-force. The proposal: to divert the factory’s pension fund to finance a suicide parlor. Following the state’s recent enactment of a ‘Death With Dignity’ Act, Sunset Parlor will provide ‘the Passing of their choice’ for terminally ill patients who have the legal right to physician-assisted suicide. Sunset Parlor opens its doors a few months later, with an all-girls marching band and a tour of the facilities. An aggressive marketing campaign, offering all kinds of inducements and discounts, persuades terminal patients to enrol, some of them reluctantly. The fees are high, but the patients can choose to have every kind of last wish gratified –spiritual Passings with bells and gongs, convivial Group Passings, erotic Passings with strippers and lap-dancers. Every taste will be catered for. Before the first Passing can take place, Sunset Parlor has attracted media attention from all round the world, especially as there are sometimes violent demonstrations for and against it, by evangelical Christians led by a fervent pastor on the one hand, and by ‘Pro-choicers’ on the other. The fervent pastor plans a grand protest demonstration on the eve of the first Passing, but Dr Coughin arranges for his exposure as a hypocrite on national television, and the protest collapses. The first patients depart together immediately afterwards in a Group Passing with discounts for donating their organs, giving last-minute interviews or permitting their final moments to be viewed by fee-paying members of the public. Soon desperate terminal patients are flocking into Morteville from all over to get the departure they want – or their relatives want for them. From being a rust-belt town with a sunset industry, Morteville swiftly becomes a prosperous sunrise community with a novel kind of service industry. New hotels go up, tourism flourishes, testamentary lawyers, morticians and bereavement counselors blossom along its once derelict Main Street. Casinos and nightclubs open, for not all the bereaved are inconsolable, especially if they stand to inherit from their departing Loved Ones. Soon new branches of Sunset Parlor are opening in one town after another throughout the state. But Dr Coughin has higher ambitions. Why shouldn’t the strict regulations governing physician-assisted suicide be relaxed to allow more deaths with dignity? Why shouldn’t the federal government be involved? Think of the savings to the nation in these hard times if sick unhappy people, even though not terminally ill, whose lives are only a burden to themselves, their relatives and - worst of all - the nation’s taxpayers, are helped to end their suffering in the way they wish! Now begins a lobbying campaign in the capital. Selected senators are invited to tour Sunset Parlor, where each is pampered according to his or her predilection, and before long the President himself visits and is persuaded - he will nominate Dr Coughin for the post of Secretary for Health. There are however two obstacles to Dr Coughin’s triumphal progress: the disgraced and now born-again pastor is plotting to ‘wreak The Lord’s Vengeance’ on Sunset Parlor, and a junior vice-president of the textile company is a whistle-blower, pointing her finger at the misappropriation of the factory’s pension fund and the use of a banned toxic dye that has led to several workers’ deaths. Dr Coughin has to arrange a fatal fire and a car accident to deal with these nuisances. Then, finally secure, he is appointed Secretary for Health and soon starts eyeing the Presidency itself. A biting satire on the commercial exploitation of death, Sunset Parlor also obliquely raises questions about the ethics of euthanasia. Not abstractly, but through scenes ranging from comic to tragic played out by a cast of vivid
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Sociology & anthropologyAlong Navajo Trails
Recollections of a Trader, 1898-1948
by Will Evans, ed. Susan E. Woods and Robert McPherson
Will Evans's writings should find a special niche in the small but significant body of literature from and about traders to the Navajos. Evans was the proprietor of the Shiprock Trading Company. Probably more than most of his fellow traders, he had a strong interest in Navajo culture. The effort he made to record and share what he learned certainly was unusual. He published in the Farmington and New Mexico newspapers and other periodicals, compiling many of his pieces into a book manuscript. His subjects were Navajos he knew and traded with, their stories of historic events such as the Long Walk, and descriptions of their culture as he, an outsider without academic training, understood it. Evans's writings were colored by his fondness for, uncommon access to, and friendships with Navajos, and by who he was: a trader, folk artist, and Mormon. He accurately portrayed the operations of a trading post and knew both the material and artistic value of Navajo crafts. His art was mainly inspired by Navajo sandpainting. He appropriated and, no doubt, sometimes misappropriated that sacred art to paint surfaces and objects of all kinds. As a Mormon, he had particular views of who the Navajos were and what they believed and was representative of a large class of often-overlooked traders. Much of the Navajo trade in the Four Corners region and farther west was operated by Mormons. They had a significant historical role as intermediaries, or brokers, between Native and European American peoples in this part of the West. Well connected at the center of that world, Evans was a good spokesperson. Will Evans did not publish his book in his lifetime, but his granddaughter Susan Evans Woods reached that goal with the assistance of historian Robert McPherson, who has authored numerous books on Navajo and Four Corners history. Their edition is illustrated with an equally significant, rare selection of photos from the collections of Evans and his colleagues.
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Mystery2013Deathbed and Breakfast
A Pookotz Sisters Mystery
by Bart J. Gilbertson
Richard Forester, a retired CEO for a major software company, and his granddaughter Penny show up at the Pookotz Bed & Breakfast one evening and find themselves in some rather unpleasant company. All the guests somehow seem to be connected to Richard’s past and when he is found dead the next morning, everyone is suspect. However, there are a few wrinkles that the inn’s owners Edna and Mildred Pookotz need to iron out as the investigation unfolds. Not only was Richard deathly ill, but he was also accused of embezzling $750,000 which is still unaccounted for. The local Sheriff suspects that this victim’s death is not a natural one, so he--and the sisters--set forth to discover who the murderer is.
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Intellectual property lawSeptember 2018Intellectual Property Rights and Public Policy
by Zafar Mahfooz Nomani
The book Intellectual Property Rights & Public Policy is rooted in the fact that creativity and innovation have been hall mark of knowledge economy. However despite there is an abundance of innovative energies flowing in India a conducive ecosystem to access to education, knowledge and health is far from reality. Being TRIPS compliant country, the equitable and dynamic IP regime with full potential of harnessing intellectual property for Indias economic growth, socio-cultural development and promotion of public interest are distant goalposts. The pronouncement of National IPR Policy spelt out the public policy orientation but the need to create robust IP environment as stunning controversy thats spinning out of control needs to hardly emphasized. The book is an erudite compilation of renowned scholars in the field of intellectual property having implication of moulding public policy discourse in intellectual property law. The contributors of the volumes luminates grey areas of research by drawing diverse perspectives from academicians, judges and IP practitioners. The range of papers diverse from jurisprudence of intellectual property to cyber law, human right, access to food and medicine, biotechnology and law. The book investigates prospects as well as the challenges by encompassing theoretical and juridical dimensions in Indian socio-legal context. The consequences of IP institutional failures are unimaginable and pragmatic ending is unthinkable for any vibrant nation like India. The book is never before seen revelations and leading to a single impossible and inconceivable truth of being panacea for plagued public policy diametric but definitely an incredible collection in auguring healthy polemics of knowledge management. To lend appropriate credence to the subject the working of IP Laws and institutions is undertaken to hone out the strategy of IP Law reform in public policy paradigm in India. The outputs of the compilation can capture the attention of not merely legal academics, policy makers, and legal profession but also to IP practitioners, development planner and innovation activists.
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Historical adventureJanuary 2013Waggoners Gap
by Tony Peluso
Waggoners Gap is a spiritual place with unique natural beauty and breathtaking vistas overlooking the Cumberland Valley near Carlisle, Pennsylvania. It is also a pivotal locale in the sweeping story of two disparate families fighting for survival and success in the dark decades surrounding World War II. The Genero clan is at the heart of the story, which tracks the trials and travails of mother, father, son, and daughter whose lives are inevitably affected by a richer and more influential family, the Monarch clan, who control industry and primary employment for most of the people living in the shadow of Waggoners Gap. The generational confluence of these players takes place across a range of time in American history that includes World War I, the Great Depression and culminates in World War II when the Genero children—brother and sister—both enlist to support the war effort. During this time, the lecherous younger Monarch takes over the booming textile business and secretly begins to siphon off profits while mistreating his employees, including the Generos. The saga winds from Waggoners Gap through area colleges to Army training bases, ships at sea, battlefields in Europe and the Pacific, and back again as truly colorful characters develop and influence each other through the decades. Through it all, in spite of deadly hardships overseas and dark dealings on the home front, Waggoners Gap draws the players together and repels them like a spinning magnet.
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Crime & mysteryAugust 2012Opportunity For Murder
by Terry Minahan
Another sequel to the Thadeus Burke adventure stories; continuing the antics of the aristocratic Lloyd’s Insurance Broker and his sister Dr Freddie, together with Inspector Johnny Jackson of Scotland Yard. It is now 1928. An apparently motiveless murder at the opening ceremony of the new Lloyd’s Underwriting Room develops into a trek around the country seeking money lenders and drug dealers. We follow the unravelling of this mystery, interwoven with passionate affaires involving most of the prime suspects. Entwined within this tale there are bodies at Country House Parties, Fancy Dress Balls and a Treasure Hunt, trips to the Derby and Royal Ascot, in addition to the now customary sexual shenanigans.. All part of the great fun in Britain’s last elegant decade, the nineteen-twenties.
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Classic crimeDecember 2012The Analyst
by Brandon Rolfe
Set in Victorian London, The Analyst follows a trail of intrigue in a realistic period setting reflecting a 'modern' scientific society that still drags a dark underside of squalid desolation. It tells of a grim struggle -- a tragedy -- of a man's sanity slipping away, gradually deteriorating to the point of him eventually going over the edge with horrendous consequences. His brain screamed. The room rapidly becoming claustrophobic, with the walls crushing in on his mind. If he remained here it would suffocate him, annihilate him. Destruction now reared up in his mind, a heaving black monster held back on naught but feeble leash. The novel is directed at the psychological conscience-probing mystery section of the fiction market, the main character's mental conflict, with its hauntingly mind-searching flashbacks, putting it into the Freudian/Hyde bracket.
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Humour
All Mouth and Codpiece
by Roger Butters
Through the perilous world of late mediaeval espionage strides the intrepid figure of Ancient Pistol, secret agent. Never at a loss for an insult or an anachronistic quotation from the Bard, Shakespeare’s vainglorious soldier has been entrusted by Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, to investigate a matter of the utmost delicacy, involving as it does the fate of the mightiest in the land. Pistol would not be everyone’s choice for such a task, being a loud-mouthed, cowardly, drunken fathead. But before the monumental ineptitude of his blundering, the Machiavellian schemes of the mighty crumble and fall. Ridiculed, beaten, humiliated but undefeated, Pistol triumphs in the end. Historical spoof based on the antics of Shakespeare’s character Ancient Pistol. Sequel to All Wind and Pistol, published by Book Guild Publishing, Brighton, 2008. Approximately 65,000 words.
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AdventureJanuary 2014King's Crusade
Seventeen Book 2
by AD Starrling
The exciting, action-packed follow-up to Soul Meaning and the second installment in the award-winning supernatural thriller series Seventeen. The perfect immortal warrior. A set of stolen, priceless artifacts. An ancient sect determined to bring about the downfall of human civilization.When a team of scientists unearth scriptures older than the Dead Sea Scrolls in a cave in the Eastern Desert mountains in Egypt, a mystery lost to the tides of time is uncovered. Heading the expedition is Crovir noble Dimitri Reznak. But the discovery is spoiled by evidence of looting and half the priceless artifacts Reznak has been seeking for centuries have disappeared.Alexa King is a covert agent for the Crovir First Council. When she is approached by her godfather for a mission that could help elucidate the enigma of her lost past, she finds herself delving into the dangerous and shadowy world of secret religious societies. Assigned by Reznak to assist her is Zachary Jackson, a gifted human and Harvard archaeology professor.In their search for the missing artifacts, King and Jackson travel from North Africa to the doors of Vatican City itself, where they unveil a centuries-old plan that aims to shatter the very structure of civilized society.With the help of Reznak and a group of unexpected allies, they must stop the enemy and uncover the astonishing truth behind the missing artifacts and King's own unearthly origins before all is lost.
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AdventureJanuary 2014Soul Meaning
Seventeen Book 1
by AD Starrling
From the award-winning series Seventeen comes a high-octane, action-packed twist on immortality.'My name is Lucas Soul. Today, I died again. This is my fifteenth death in the last four hundred and fifty years.'Soul is an outcast of the immortal societies. Born of a Bastian mother and a Crovir father, a half breed whose very existence is abhorred by the two races, he spends the first three hundred and fifty years of his life being chased and killed by the Hunters.One fall night in Boston, the Hunt starts again, resulting in Soul's fifteenth death and triggering a chain of events that sends him on the run with Reid Hasley, a former US Marine and his human business partner of ten years. From Paris to Prague, their search for answers will lead them deep into the immortal societies and bring them face to face with someone from Soul's past. Shocking secrets are uncovered and fresh allies come to the fore as they attempt to put a stop to a new and terrifying threat to both immortals and humans.Time is running out for Soul. Can he get to the truth before his seventeenth death, protect the ones he loves and prevent another immortal war?
