Popular perceptions of life in Japanese prisoner of war camps are dominated by images of emaciated figures, engaged in slave labour, and badly treated by their captors. This book, based on extensive original research, shows that this view is quite wrong in relation to the large camp at Changi, which was the main POW camp in Singapore.

This book analyzes Eric Voegelin’s scholarly works from the 1950s and early 1960s and examines the ways in which these works are relevant to the twenty-first century political environment. The collection of essays evaluated in this book cover a wide array of topics that were of great curiosity sixty years ago and still relevant in today’s society. The authors in this volume demonstrate that Voegelin’s erudition on topics such as revolutionary change, ideological fervor, industrialization, ...

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into sentences and paragraphs that ease themselves from the shadows and are sudden...

After the positive response which followed the first edition of this book 6 years ago, the editors were encouraged to prepare a completely reworked second edition that includes the modern advances in this field. There has been a complete change of diagnostic procedure in the detection of renal tumors, which is now based on sonography, computed tomography, and nuclear magnetic resonance imaging, pushing intravenous urography and angiography completely into the background. Also, new methods ...

The present volume constitutes an attempt to compile contem porary features of diagnosis and treatment of renal and adrenal tumors. A thorough survey of the field is ensured by the authors' considerable scientific experience. Tumors of the kidneys and the adrenal glands are being diagnosed and treated by physicians of different medical disciplines. For both types of tumor, the pathologic cellular substrate is of crucial importance in diagnosis and therapy. In recent years significant diagn...

At this Thanksgiving, the deadliest secret is on the menu.Historian and private detective Eliot Crane has always kept his personal and professional lives separate. But when his old university friend, Nate Kingston, begs him to attend a tense family Thanksgiving for moral support, Eliot agrees. He arrives at the isolated Kingston House anticipating simmering resentment and awkward conversation.He doesn't anticipate murder.After the tyrannical patriarch drops dead, su...

San Francisco's Golden Gate Opera House was built for applause, not murder.When celebrated composer Daniel Laurent is killed during rehearsal by a falling counterweight, Detective Carlos "CJ" Marquez sees the truth in the damaged rigging at once. This was no accident. Someone inside the opera house knew the building, the timing, and the machinery well enough to turn the stage into a weapon.Adrian Yu saw something else.A violinist, Daniel's protégé, and the man most ...

In Hollow's End, Halloween isn't a holiday. It's a tradition of death.In the picture-perfect New England town of Hollow's End, the annual Harvest Festival is a tradition sacred as law. But when a body is discovered, Sheriff Ethan Hayes, a haunted outsider seeking peace, recognizes the crime: it's a perfect copy of a 70-year-old murder. He finds his only ally in Julian Bishop, a local historian who knows the town's secrets are buried deeper than its...

Granger Hall has always belonged to the mine, and the mine has always kept its dead.When investigative journalist Mark Gallagher arrives in the Appalachian town, he expects a story about corporate negligence, a recent accident, and a decaying coal site that should have been sealed decades ago. What he finds is a community trained to look away, a company still guarding old lies, and a ghost story that keeps surfacing whenever the past gets too close to the light.Tyler Boone ...

Christmas Eve, 1932. Winterset Hall is preparing for its traditional pudding ceremony when Sir Oswald Lethbridge collapses at the table, poisoned by cyanide hidden in his slice of Christmas pudding. The murder is ingenious, the method sophisticated, and everyone present had motive.Village Constable Harry Webb is called to investigate, bringing with him Edmund Vale, a cataloguer who's been working in the Hall's library. What the family doesn't know is that Harry and Edmund share mor...

Crime scene investigator Ethan Hale expects grief, paperwork, and a crumbling inheritance when he returns to Whitcomb Manor. What he finds is a dead contractor, an official story that does not match the evidence, and a house that seems determined to be heard.Julian Cross has spent his life being dismissed for sensing what others cannot. When he arrives at the manor, he feels the presence of a woman who has waited decades for someone to listen. Ethan does not believe in ghosts. Not ...

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