To live is to lose, to grieve is to be human. Part elegy, part lament, part love song; Julia Webb's fourth collection Grey Time is a powerful examination of what it is to love and lose, of our relationship with both grief and the dead. Exploring the many facets and nuances of loss, Webb explores what happens before and after the sudden death of a loved one and how our relationship with them changes over time as new secrets are revealed and old hurts heal.This book is not d...

The Telling by Julia Webb is a distinctive and acutely-observed collection of poems that unravel the intricacies at the heart of human relationships – an insistent, quietly fierce tour de force from this Forward Prize commended poet. Moving and dark, we uncover the things that go unspoken between people despite their closeness.In turning her forensic focus on what makes us human, and in particular what it is that glues us together or causes us to come apart, Julia Webb's p...

The poems in Threat, Julia Webb's second collection, train their eagle-eyes on life at the margins, and on family, love, loss, belonging and not belonging. They are not afraid to visit the uncomfortable places where true humanity resides. Threat is an examination of self from multiple perspectives. Its narratives of both past and present tread a fine line between fantasy and reality – these are the lives we have led, the lives we could have led, or the lives we are leadi...

' Bird Sisters exerts a powerful hold, as if to read it is to be haunted by things one half-remembers.' – Moniza Alvi'All is strange or estranged in fact, but it is articulated in poems of supple inventive concentration. In that sense Bird Sisters is a book that casts deep shadows.' – George SzirtesJulia Webb's Bird Sisters is a surreal journey through sisterhood and the world of the family via the natural world. Fascinated by the 'otherness' of t...

This book is a lucid and practical guide to understanding the core skills and issues involved in the criminal investigation process.Drawing on multiple disciplines and perspectives, the book promotes a critical awareness and practical comprehension of the intersections between criminology, criminal investigation and forensic science, and uses active learning strategies to help students build their knowledge.The book is organised around the three key strategic phases in a cr...

The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences provides a remarkable comparative assessment of the variations of positivism and alternative epistemologies in the contemporary human sciences. Often declared obsolete, positivism is alive and well in a number of the fields; in others, its influence is significantly diminished. The essays in this collection investigate its mutations in form and degree across the social science disciplines. Looking at methodological assumptions field by ...

The Cunning of Recognition is an exploration of liberal multiculturalism from the perspective of Australian indigenous social life. Elizabeth A. Povinelli argues that the multicultural legacy of colonialism perpetuates unequal systems of power, not by demanding that colonized subjects identify with their colonizers but by demanding that they identify with an impossible standard of authentic traditional culture.Povinelli draws on seventeen years of ethnographic research amon...

A Christy Award nominee, Beth Webb Hart has penned numerous ECPA best-sellers cherished by fans around the world. It's taken some time, but Mary Lynn and Jackson Scoville are finally living a comfortable life in South Carolina thanks to a lucrative real-estate venture. As their social stature rises, Mary Ann feels something missing in her life-the God of her childhood. Opening her heart to prayer, she encourages Jackson to do the same. But as Jackson expresses his faith in dramatic ways, e...

The best guide for weight loss to say goodbye to cravings and start eating right.Obesity comprises a significant nutritional medical issue in developed and developing nations, which has reached pandemic extents. obesity is characterized as the state of inordinate fat amassing to such a degree, that influences the individual's wellbeing. The rapidly increased rate of obesity is because of natural factors that impact a hereditarily pathological inclination. The body mass index (BMI) i...

Are you tired being obsessed with food?Do you often lose control over food?Do you vow to be “good” and stick to your diet but then sabotage your weight-loss efforts by eating one of your forbidden foods (pizza, chips, ice cream, or anything with an actual carb)?So keep reading..Overeating, binge eating, obesity, anorexia, and bulimia — “Food Addiction and Overeating” tackles the complex, poorly understood issue of food addiction from the perspective of a medical...

Based on the real orchestra composed of prisoners at Auschwitz, The Butterfly and the Violin shows how beauty and hope can penetrate even the darkest corners.Present day: Manhattan art dealer Sera James watched her world crumble at the altar two years ago, and her heart is still fragile. Her desire for distraction reignites a passion for a mysterious portrait she first saw as a young girl—a painting of a young violinist with pierc...

**A horror short story from #1 bestseller, Paul Finch. Part of the Dark Winter Tales series: unputdownable reads for cold winter nights…**In 1975, 11-year-old Andrew Conroy was brutally murdered, his body hidden under a bush in a dense woodland area known as The Dell.The detective who headed the investigation, now in his late sixties, has felt guilty ever since that he was unable to solve the murder case.Each year he asks his son to drive him to The Dell so he can w...