Devices And Desires

Author : P. D. James
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030776060X
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Devices and Desires written by P. D. James and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Bestseller. Featuring the famous Commander Adam Dalgliesh, Devices and Desires is a thrilling and insightfully crafted novel of fallible people caught in a net of secrets, ambitions, and schemes on a lonely stretch of Norfolk coastline. Commander Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard has just published a new book of poems and has taken a brief respite from publicity on the remote Larksoken headland on the Norfolk coast in a converted windmill left to him by his aunt. But he cannot so easily escape murder. A psychotic strangler of young women is at large in Norfolk, and getting nearer to Larksoken with every killing. And when Dalgliesh discovers the murdered body of the Acting Administrative Officer on the beach, he finds himself caught up in the passions and dangerous secrets of the headland community and in one of the most baffling murder cases of his career.

Author : K. J. Parker
Publisher : Orbit
ISBN 13 : 031607747X
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Devices and Desires written by K. J. Parker and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an engineer is sentenced to death for a petty transgression of guild law, he flees the city, leaving behind his wife and daughter. Forced into exile, he seeks a terrible vengeance -- one that will leave a trail of death and destruction in its wake. But he will not be able to achieve this by himself. He must draw up his plans using the blood of others. . . In a compelling tale of intrigue and injustice, K. J. Parker's embittered hero takes up arms against his enemies, using the only weapons he has left to him: his ingenuity and his passion -- his devices and desires.

Author : Andrea Tone
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0809038161
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Devices and Desires written by Andrea Tone and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-05 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From thriving black market to big business, the commercialization of birth control in the United States In Devices and Desires, Andrea Tone breaks new ground by showing what it was really like to buy, produce, and use contraceptives during a century of profound social and technological change. A down-and-out sausage-casing worker by day who turned surplus animal intestines into a million-dollar condom enterprise at night; inventors who fashioned cervical caps out of watch springs; and a mother of six who kissed photographs of the inventor of the Pill -- these are just a few of the individuals who make up this riveting story.

Author : Margarete Sandelowski
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807848937
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Devices & Desires written by Margarete Sandelowski and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author traces the relationship between nursing and technology from the 1870s to the present. She argues that while technology has helped shape and intensify persistent dilemmas in nursing, it has also both advanced and impeded the development of the nursing profession.

Author : Kate Hubbard
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062303015
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Devices and Desires written by Kate Hubbard and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aided by a quartet of judicious marriages and a shrewd head for business, Bess of Hardwick rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most respected and feared countesses in Elizabethan England—an entrepreneur who built a family fortune; created glorious houses (the last and greatest built when she was a widow in her 70s); and was deeply involved in matters of the court, including the custody of Mary, Queen of Scots. While Bess cultivated many influential cour-tiers, she also collected numerous enemies. Her embittered fourth husband once called her a woman of “devices and desires,” while male historians of the nineteenth century portrayed her as a monster—“a woman of masculine understanding and conduct, proud, furious, selfish, and unfeeling.” In the twenty-first century, she has been neutered by female historians, who recast her as a softhearted sort, much maligned and misunderstood. As Kate Hubbard reveals, the truth of this highly accomplished woman lies somewhere in between: ruthless and scheming, Bess was sentimental and affectionate as well. Hubbard draws on more than 230 of Bess’s letters, including correspondence with the queen and her councilors, fond (and furious) missives to her husbands and children, and notes sharing titillating court gossip. The result is a rich, compelling portrait of a true feminist icon centuries ahead of her time—a complex, formidable, and decidedly modern woman captured in full as never before.

Author : Geoffrey Brennan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521639774
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democratic Devices and Desires written by Geoffrey Brennan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-04-13 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a novel account of key features of modern representative democracy. Working from the rational actor tradition, it builds a middle ground between orthodox political theory and the economic analysis of politics. Standard economic models of politics emphasise the design of the institutional devices of democracy as operated by essentially self-interested individuals. This book departs from that model by focusing on democratic desires alongside democratic devices, stressing that important aspects of democracy depend on the motivation of democrats and the interplay between devices and desires. Individuals are taken to be not only rational, but also somewhat moral. The authors argue that this approach provides access to aspects of the debate on democratic institutions that are beyond the narrowly economic model. They apply their analysis to voting, elections, representation, political departments and the separation and division of powers, providing a wide-ranging discussion of the design of democratic institutions.

Author : Harriet Bulkeley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107166276
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Towards a Cultural Politics of Climate Change written by Harriet Bulkeley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops new perspectives on the cultural politics of climate change and its implications for responding to this challenge.

Author : P. D. James
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307758982
Total Pages : 665 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Taste for Death written by P. D. James and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-12-08 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double murder, Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces an intriguing conundrum: How did an upper-crust Minister come to lie, slit throat to slit throat, next to a neighborhood derelict of the lowest order? Challenged with the investigation of a crime that appears to have endless motives, Dalgliesh explores the sinister web spun around a half-burnt diary and a violet-eyed widow who is pregnant and full of malice--all the while hoping to fill the gap of logic that joined these two disparate men in bright red death. . . .

Author : P.D. James
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 143914429X
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Skull Beneath the Skin written by P.D. James and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invited to protect an actress within the rose red walls of a fairy-tale castle, Detective Cordelia Gray finds the stage is set for death. Actress Clarissa Lisle has always been famous for her ravishing beauty—and her unscrupulous manipulations. Now on the death-shrouded island of Courcy, her schemes win her a starring role in a nightmare in which she can trust no one—not her deceived husband; her dangerously insecure stepson; her ominously genial host; her dependent, desperate cousin; or her cruelly amusing ex-lover. Soon Detective Cordelia gray finds that nothing is as it seems on Courcy—especially after the curtain goes down. Here she must delve into ancient secrets and guilt-stained pasts—and risk her life to stop a brilliantly cunning murderer who has set the stage for her death.

Author : P. D. James
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307417573
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time to Be in Earnest written by P. D. James and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1997, P. D. James, the much loved and internationally acclaimed author of mysteries, turned seventy-seven. Taking to heart Dr. Johnson's advice that at seventy-seven it is "time to be in earnest," she decided to undertake a book unlike any she had written before: a personal memoir in the form of a diary. This enchanting and highly original volume is the result. Structured as the diary of a single year, it roams back and forth through time, illuminating James's extraordinary, sometimes painful and sometimes joyful life. Here, interwoven with reflections on her writing career and the craft of crime novels, are vivid accounts of episodes in her own past — of school days in 1920s and 1930s Cambridge . . . of the war and the tragedy of her husband's madness . . . of her determined struggle to support a family alone. She tells about the birth of her second daughter in the midst of a German buzz-bomb attack; about becoming a civil servant (and laying the groundwork for her writing career by working in the criminal justice system); about her years of public service on such bodies as the Arts Council and the BBC's Board of Governors, culminating in entry to the House of Lords. Along the way, with warmth and authority, she offers views on everything from author tours to the problems of television adaptations, from book reviewing to her obsession with Jane Austen. Written with exceptional grace, this "fragment of autobiography" has already been received with enthusiasm by British reviewers and readers. The thousands of Americans who have enjoyed P. D. James's novels will be equally charmed. Diary or memoir or both, Time to Be in Earnest is a delight.