From one of Denmark’s most revered authors, a startlingly original novel about a migrant’s fate, told across several generationsThis is the story of a young woman who is spirited away to St. Petersburg from Copenhagen by a lovestruck admirer. When she dies after the Revolution, her ashes are carried back to Denmark, igniting a chain reaction of further stories, told and retold by the women in her family against a shifting ground of meaning. We meet murderers and fa...

Do Jane Austen novels truly celebrate—or undermine—romance and happy endings?How did Jane Austen become a cultural icon for fairy-tale endings when her own books end in ways that are rushed, ironic, and reluctant to satisfy readers' thirst for romance? In Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness, Austen scholar Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey journeys through the iconic novelist's books in the first full-length study of Austen's endings. Through a careful explo...

Each contributor to this book was given the remit: "If you could go back in time to talk with yourself when you began your studies, what advice would you give?" Hindsight is such a bonus, especially, when vying for your doctorate or postgraduate degree. Postgraduate Study in Australia: Surviving and Succeeding addresses this with advice from postgraduate students and recent graduates that will assure that you are not alone in your endeavors.This project follows similar edi...

Popayán, 1923. A fourth child is born into the Rendón family as Holy Week processions move through streets scented with incense and rain. His mother cradles him with the certainty that God has chosen this one for something. His father counts, again, the futures he can afford to give.What follows spans generations.From the cane fields of the Valle del Cauca to the city of Cali and the wide distances of the American West, the Rendón brothers build their lives from what the ce...

Level Up Your Essays is the essential guide to essay writing for university students. Written by the people who mark your essays, it will show you step-by-step how to write high-quality essays that will get you top marks.This book will guide you through all the stages, including your essay plan, developing research strategies, writing with distinction, finishing strongly with editing, and getting your referencing right every time. Bursting with insider tips and tricks on w...

Today’s organizations are embedded in global and local network relationships that demand more. They have to consider the importance to customers, investors and employees of being respected in wider society and behaving ethically, so it is increasingly important for companies to reflect systematically on how to balance profits with other criteria when making decisions and acting. In short, they need to learn how to become The Balanced Company. Requiring sustainability in production processe...

Johan Boje, officer with the police force of Central and West Jutland, is killed by a hit-and-run driver in front of his house, during a late night in March. His boss, Axel Borg, is one of the first people at the crime scene and here, he realizes the brutality of the murder. Johan Boje's nine-year-old son says he saw the car and the driver, whom he claims is a police officer. Is it just the boy's vivid imagination? When a surveillance camera confirms the son's claims, Rolando Benito, inves...

A Love against the odds novel.If you could see your life from inception to your death, would you change things or would you let your death play out as fate intended?Abel is in search of only two things. A stable job and a safe place to lay his head at night, after a mistake that cost him 18 months of his life. As if fate had plans made only for him, Abel is offered a complicated job, and a chance to redeem himself to his old boss.And then he meets her.And Ab...

Sámi UnveiledAncient Arctic Wisdom, Shamanic Secrets, and Survival Against EmpiresThe Indigenous History of Sápmi from Reindeer Herders to Modern ActivistsIn the frozen heart of Europe's far north lies Sápmi — the ancient homeland of the Sámi people. For over ten thousand years, the Sámi have thrived where few others could, following reindeer herds across tundra and taiga, reading the aurora as ancestral messages, and maintaining a ...

Bertram lives with his mum - a waitress. His father is serving life for murder. One day, on a whim, Bertram steals a leather jacket from a restaurant not knowing that this one act will have fatal consequences.Investigator Roland Benito and a colleague are sent to deal with a noise complaint. As they pull up to the building, they witness a man jumping to his death from a fourth-floor window. Turns out that the man is a guard at the local prison, where an inmate has suspiciously died...

Johan Boje, a police assistant for Mid- and Western Jutland dies after being hit by a speeding car outside his home one late night in March. His boss, Alex Borg, is one of the firsts to arrive at the scene of the crime. It quickly dawns on him that this is not a simple case of hit-and-run, but rather a very brutal murder. Boje's nine-year-old son claims he saw the car, and that it was a police officer behind the wheel. Is it the just the traumatized boy's imagination playing tricks? A gas ...

Some secrets demand to be heard...When a young man disappears after a night out in Aarhus with his old classmates, Detective Inspector Roland Benito is drawn into the investigation.As DI Benito investigates the situation further, gruesome secrets about the young man's family are revealed. With no other leads to follow, the young man's disappearance seems to be a dead end - until a girl is found dead in a monastery.Meanwhile, Roland's wife is threatened by a client a...