Institutions play a crucial role in shaping experiences of end-of-life care, dying, death, body disposal and bereavement. However, there has been little holistic or multidisciplinary research in this area, with studies typically focusing on individual settings such as hospitals and cemeteries, or being confined to specific disciplines.This interdisciplinary collection combines chapters on process, place and the past to examine the relationships both within and between institutions,...

Shattered solitude and shocking small-town secrets...When Gothenburg detective Dennis Wilhelmson decides to seek solace on his childhood island, Smögen, peace is short-lived when a young man is found dead in the harbour basin.With the help of trainee officer Sandra Haraldsson, Dennis now has to dive into the biggest murder investigation the area has ever seen - all the while, a missing person case shakes up the town...Can the duo solve the case in time? And can Sand...

Paths and symbols, mazes and riddles bring you to a bridge at the center, reconciling the heavens and the earth, the spirit and the elements.Gemini World is a contemplative collection of poetry and a novella, laid out for the lovers, the dreamers, the philosophers, and the mystics.A. C. Wilde writes a profound yet whimsical exploration ofparadox, duality, and truth;nature and humanity;love and loss;life and death;beauty and b...

While migration has been a human constant, the past decade has brought an unprecedented number of migrants fleeing uninhabitable conditions in the countries or regions where they have been living. These people--displaced by famine, drought, disease, armed conflict, or persecution--often endure these conditions only to find themselves in another set of hostile circumstances as they try to find their way toward safety, at least, and a life of thriving at best. Forced Migration and Health...

Euphemia Templeton can't wait to put the London season behind her forever, but before she can retire to the country in blessed obscurity, she has one final promise to keep. She must find a proper match for Lady Harriett Fairmont, who is embarking on her second season.Matchmaking is easy for a lady with Phee's skills, but when Harriett's elder brother James, the arrogant, infuriating, and far too handsome Earl of Fairmont accompanies his sister to London, she soon has cause to regre...

Frigid waters, frozen clues and one fatal crime.When the research vessel "Idun" arrives in Smögen's harbour one early winter morning, the head of research, Kaj Malmberg, is found dead in his cabin.Drawn into this murder investigation that puts their cooperation and important relationships across national borders at risk, Dennis Wilhelmson and Sandra Haraldsson race to solve a crime that threatens to shake the research elite.But is the killer in Smögen, or is he stil...

A lady hidden in the shadows . . .It's never been easy to be one of the five Templeton sisters, but for quiet Emmeline, the silver lining surrounding the dark cloud of her family's disgrace is a quiet life of comfortable obscurity. But when her sister accepts an outrageous wager that takes her to London for a season, an unexpected kiss with a handsome earl thrusts shy Emmeline into the middle of a shocking public scandal.A dazzling earl with the

This book on the differentiated politicisation of European governance provides an overview of research on the growing salience of EU governance, polarisation of opinion and expansion of actors and audiences engaged in monitoring and influencing EU affairs in the national context. The contributors empirically map the diversity of these three core components of politicisation across countries, time and arenas. The chapters develop novel insights into the causes and consequence of this differ...

"Seductive" is a prequel to my “Secrets of a High Class Call Girl” series, starting before “Surrender”.It is a 7000 word stand-alone story and follows Kayla Valentine’s transformation from a normal, ambitious young woman to a £1000 a night, super-hot escort.Kayla starts on the streets but after trusting the wrong person and finding herself in a terrifying situation she realises things desperately need to change. A sudden twist of f...

Wouldn’t you like to achieve high levels of understanding with your partner? to know your partner’s desires and let your partner know your desires? Wouldn’t you like to know how to give real pleasure to your partner? If the answer to the above question is “yes” then you made the right choice to read this audiobook.This audiobook of sexy stories will make your toes curl! They are written by Rachel Wild who isn't ashamed of her kinks, fetishes, predilections, or pasts and they want t...

Scandals. Secrets. Silence.When the grandson of the great Herring King is found dead in a newly renovated pilot house on the beautiful island of Smögen, Nathalie Colette and Sandra Haraldsson are first on the scene.Ruled as a suicide, the case baffles them as the victim was set to inherit the large fortune from his father who has just passed away.But is it suicide? And if so, what is really going on in the old merchant's house on Smögenbryggan?´The Herring K...

She is the daughter of his enemy . . . and the keeper of his heart.Richard de Claiborne, the dark earl of Dunsmore, serves King Edward Plantagenet well. Sworn to obey his king's every order, he nevertheless chafes at the command he wed the daughter of his enemy—a man who slew his father in cold blood.But King Edward wants peace in his lands, and he will stop at nothing to get it. If he has to order his most powerful Marcher lord to marry a Welsh princess, h...