Tart, richly flavoured damsons have been growing in England since the island's earliest recorded history.Whether wild or foraged, or cultivated, they have been a familiar part of the landscape for centuries, and have been used in a range of traditional jams, jellies, drinks, sauces and puddings. Sarah Conrad Gothie brings us a history of damson cultivation and use in the regions famous for the fruit, as well as practical advice for growing, buying and storing damsons. Her collection of his...

Sarah Conrad è una giovane donna che ha seguito l’illusione di un grande amore, finanche a trasferirsi in un Paese straniero.Nonostante i suoi sentimenti e i suoi sacrifici, Sarah vede naufragare tutte le proprie speranze ed aspettative, ritrovandosi ad affrontare lo smarrimento e l’assenza di significato che la sua vita ha assunto.Quando il suo vuoto esistenziale raggiunge il culmine, Sarah decide deliberatamente di scomparire, per riflettere sul suo futuro e su ciò che realmente vuole.Ri...

Sarah Conrad is a young woman who followed the illusion of a great love to the point of moving to a foreign country. Despite her feelings and her sacrifices, Sarah sees all her hopes and expectations getting shattered and finds herself fighting the confusion and the lack of meaning her life has taken on. When her existential emptiness peaks, Sarah deliberately decides to disappear to think about her future and to realize what she really wants. Hiding in a small hotel in the city center, sh...

The Intersectionality of Critical Animal, Disability, and Environmental Studies:Toward Eco-ability, Justice, and Liberation is an interdisciplinary collection of theoretical writings on the intersectional liberation of nonhuman animals, the environment, and those with disabilities. As animal consumption raises health concerns and global warming causes massive environmental destruction, this book interweaves these issues and more. This important cutting-edge book lends to the rapidly growin...

**Auftakt der neuen Krimireihe zum Genießen von Österreichs Nr.1-Bestsellerautorin Beate Maxian.Die Wachau ist ein Paradies für Weinliebhaber. Doch mancher Jahrgang ist tödlich ...**Die Wachau – sonnenverwöhnte Weinberge entlang der Donau, malerische kleine Ortschaften und kulinarische Köstlichkeiten. Lou Conrad, ehemalige Inspektorin und Winzertochter, ist zurück in ihrer Heimat, wo sie ein Feinkostgeschäft führt und das beschauliche Leben genießt. Doch beim großen Weinfes...

**Ein Krimi zum Genießen – der Nr. 1-Bestseller aus Österreich!Zur Marillenernte versetzt der Mord an einer Bäuerin die malerische Wachau in Aufruhr ...**Marillenernte in der Wachau, ein Fest für die Sinne. Auch Lou Conrad, Ex-Polizistin und Inhaberin des beliebtesten Feinkostladens der Region, möchte aus den Früchten Köstlichkeiten kreieren und fährt zum Hof ihrer Bekannten Marta. Doch dort macht Lou eine schockierende Entdeckung: Die Bäuerin liegt tot im Marillengarten. I...

The Anthropocene and the Undead describes how our experience of an increasingly erratic environment and the idea of the undead are more closely linked than the obvious zombie horde signaling the end of the world. In fact, as described here, much of how we understand the anthropocene both conceptually and in practice involves undead entities from the past that will not die, undead traumas that rise up and consume the world, and undead temporalities that can never end. Fifteen origi...

John Hurt stars in this BBC radio dramatisation of Gustave Flaubert’s infamous tale of adultery and tragedyBeautiful Emma meets and marries Doctor Charles Bovary. He's happy for the first time in his life – but Emma is distraught that her marriage lacks the passion and romance of her fantasies.Dazzled by the splendour of a Marquis’ ball, she longs for excitement and soon becomes infatuated with a young solicitor, Léon Dupuis. But when Dupuis moves away, her...

The essays that comprise Elusive Archives raise a common question: how do we study material culture when the objects of study are transient, evanescent, dispersed or subjective? Such things resist the taxonomic protocols that institutions, such as museums and archives, rely on to channel their acquisitions into meaningful collections. What holds these disparate things together here are the questions authors ask of them. Each essay creates by means of its method a provisional colle...

Northern Appalachia is one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth and home to a broad range of ecological and human cultures. With A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia, editors Todd Davis and Noah Davis recognize and celebrate this diversity and the fact that humans are storytelling creatures who develop relationships with their landscapes at the intersection of art and science.A companion volume to A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia, this gui...

This book deals with legends and images of the apocalypse and post-apocalypse in film and graphic arts, literature and lore from early to modern times and from peoples and cultures around the world. It reflects an increasingly popular leitmotif in literature and visual arts of the 21st century: humanity’s fear of extinction and its quest for survival -- in revenant, supernatural, or living human form. It is the logical continuation of a series of collected essays examining the origins and ...

A merchant sailor works for a decade, captaining a yacht up and down the coasts of Malaysia, in the hope that his crooked employer will stay true to a promise...Years after a pandemic sweeps across Europe, wiping out its all-white population, a pilgrim returns to his Polish birthplace in search of the only other non-white kid he knew at school...An inscrutable hotelier loses his composure when a secret passage is discovered in his hotel, leading to a mysterious room and a p...