Während man sich in der kanadischen Stadt Vancouver auf die Olympischen Winterspiele 2010 vorbereitet, wollen Fotograf John Watson und sein Terrier Harry nur eins: Eine wohlverdiente schöpferische Pause einlegen und einfach das Leben genießen. Doch statt der Ruhe,die sie gesucht haben, findet Harry bei einem Spaziergang eine Leiche. Watson wird wider Willen zum Helfer der Polizei und eines semiseriösen Filmproduzenten, und beide stecken mittendrin in einem turbulenten Fall. Unterstützung e...

Ein verzweifelter Anruf eines Freundes, dessen Filmprojekt grandios zu scheitern droht, führt den Starfotografen Watson nach Neapel – natürlich zusammen mit Harry, dem kleinen weißen Terrier. Watson hält den Ablauf eines kaltblütigen Mordes mit der Kamera fest. Damit gerät er ins Fadenkreuz der Mafia, die weder einen lebendigen Zeugen noch Fotos der Tat tolerieren kann. "Neapel sehen und sterben" ist mehr als nur eine Redensart für Watson und Harry. Drei Feinde stehen dem Duo Watson-Harry ...

Pioneering metal writer Keith Kahn-Harris presents a moving, visionary exploration of Ozzy Osbourne, and of metal music and culture: the potent legacy Ozzy left us.What is a ‘good death’?How about this: After years of terrible health, you gather friends and admirers for one last, glorious party. A couple of weeks later, you slip away, surrounded by your loving family. Then, the world comes to mourn. That is how Birmingham’s favourite son, Ozzy Osbourne, die...

Pioneering metal writer Keith Kahn-Harris presents a moving, visionary exploration of Ozzy Osbourne, and of metal music and culture: the potent legacy Ozzy left us.What is a ‘good death’?How about this: After years of terrible health, you gather friends and admirers for one last, glorious party. A couple of weeks later, you slip away, surrounded by your loving family. Then, the world comes to mourn. That is how Birmingham’s favourite son, Ozzy Osbourne, die...

Can Jews be allowed to become boring?With Israel and antisemitism constantly in the news, it seems as though the Jewish people - a fraction of a percentage of the world's population - have become synonymous with controversy, drama and anxiety. But what if there was another side to this persistently interesting people; one that non-Jews often don't know about and Jews rarely talk about? This is the stuff of 'everyday' Jewishness; the capacity to be ordinary, mundane and sometimes ju...

It is common to hear heavy metal music fans and musicians talk about the “metal community”. This concept, which is widely used when referencing this musical genre, encompasses multiple complex aspects that are seldom addressed in traditional academic endeavors including shared aesthetics, musical practices, geographies, and narratives. The idea of a “metal community” recognizes that fans and musicians frequently identify as part of a collective group, larger than any particular individual....

Polyamory and Reading the Book of Ruth is based on a simple premise- what if the Book of Ruth isn’t a love story in the vein of modern rom coms, but a different sort of love story? Many people are conditioned to read romance stories as resolving into happily married, dyadic couplings, most often heterosexual. But what if that’s not how to read the Book of Ruth?This book identifies a polyamorous hermeneutic and explores how it might be helpful in interpreting the Book of Ruth. Drawin...

The first book-length study of contemporary British Jewry , Turbulent Times: The British Jewish Community Today examines the changing nature of the British Jewish community and its leadership since 1990.Keith Kahn-Harris and Ben Gidley contend that there has been a shift within Jewish communal discourse from a strategy of security, which emphasized Anglo-Jewry's secure British belonging and citizenship, to a strategy of insecurity, which emphasizes the dangers and...

Latchetts, ein Anwesen in Südengland, das seit mehr als dreihundert Jahren von der wohlhabenden Familie Ashby bewirtschaftet wird. Als der letzte Herr von Latchetts und seine Frau bei einem tragischen Flugzeugunglück ums Leben kommen, hinterlassen sie fünf Kinder. Die zwei ältesten, die Zwillinge Patrick und Simon, sind elf Jahre alt; der wenige Minuten früher geborene Patrick soll einmal alles erben. Doch kurz nach dem Tod der Eltern verschwindet er, auf einer Klippe findet man seine Klei...

The holocaust never happened. The planet isn't warming. Vaccines harm children. The Earth is flat. Denialism comes in many forms, often dressed in the garb of scholarship. It's certainly insidious, but what if, as Kahn-Harris asks, it actually cloaks much darker, unspeakable, desires? If denialists could speak from the heart, what would we hear? Kahn-Harris sets out to expose what lies at the heart of denialism. The conclusions he reaches are shocking. In a world of 'fake news', are the de...

Keith Kahn-Harris argues that the controversy over antisemitism today is a symptom of a growing "selectivity" in anti-racism caused by a failure to engage with the challenges that diverse societies pose.How did antisemitism get so strange? How did hate become so clouded in controversy? And what does the strange hate of antisemitism tell us about racism and the politics of diversity today?Life-long anti-racists accused of antisemitism, life-long Jew haters d...

It says 'Judaism' on the front of this book, so perhaps you are expecting a book that explains the Jewish religion. But that would be selling you short.This is a book about the Jewish people - and the Jewish people with their long history and diversity, are bigger than the sum total of Jews' beliefs and rituals. Not all Jews share a common belief system and not all are religiously practicing. So this book will discuss the Jewish religion but it will also d...