Orphelins, les frères Hunter ont survécu en se faisant une place dans leur ville pourrie. Wesley gère les chefs de mafia ainsi que les trafiquants de toutes sortes, et son cadet, Sebastian, leur ouvre son restaurant comme lieu d’échanges. Tandis que l’un s’enfonce dans une quête de vengeance pour retrouver un meurtrier qui refait surface, l’autre tente d’étouffer le gouffre qui l’aspire. La seule chose qui les empêchera de sombrer est cette jeune femme sortie de nulle part… Sa présence ser...

Mudlarking - scavenging for items of value in the shores of a river - has been documented along the Thames and elsewhere for more than two centuries, and continues to this day as a pastime. This volume brings together for the first time a wide variety of 19th century sources about the mudlarks of history and the hardships they faced.

As the Kingdom of Maldobar emerges victorious from the brutal invasion of the Tibran Empire, much of the land is left in utter ruin. With his home destroyed and family gone, sixteen-year-old Thatcher Renley has no one left to turn to. And when he’s mistaken for a Tibran soldier and banished to a wartime prison camp, Thatcher knows his only hope for freedom lies in appealing to Queen Jenna directly. But getting out of the prison camp might be the least of his worries—especially after he stu...

First published in 1974, this best-selling book was lauded by Choice as 'an important, ground-breaking study of the Assiniboine and western Cree Indians who inhabited southern Manitoba and Saskatchewan' and 'essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the Canadian west before 1870.'Indians in the Fur Trade makes extensive use of previously unpublished Hudson's Bay Company archival materials and other available data to reconstruct the cultural geograp...

Step into a world where artistry and adventure collide in William Kemp's Nine Days' Wonder, a new edition of the picaresque tale that chronicles the extraordinary journey of William Kemp, a celebrated actor, comedian and colleague of Shakespeare in the Elizabethan era. Known for his physical comedy and vibrant jigs, Kemp embarks on an unprecedented 110-mile morris dance from London to Norwich, an endeavour that not only challenges his endurance but also showcases his flair for wha...

Written within the tradition of Wittgenstein's work, these eight original essays in philosophical psychology are either by-products of efforts to understand Wittgenstein's later writings or applications of techniques and approaches derived from Wittgenstein to problems about which he did not say a great deal.In much of his later writings, Wittgenstein was not so much trying to explain his own views as to tease, annoy, and confuse the reader into working our for himself solutions to...

What if everything you know about Jack the Ripper is wrong?Since 1888, hundreds of suspects have been proposed for the Jack the Ripper murders - from Polish barbers to Freemason conspiracies.But what if investigators have been asking the wrong question?Instead of asking 'Who was Jack the Ripper?', Richard Walker asked 'How were these murders actually committed?'What he discovered is truly shocking.

Le duc de Hollinburgh a trouvé la mort en chutant du toit de son manoir. L’aurait-on poussé ? Son neveu Chase est dubitatif, d’autant que le duc a légué une fortune à une illustre inconnue. Cette Minerva Hepplewhite est décidément louche. Elle utilise un nom d’emprunt et se fait passer pour célibataire alors qu’elle est veuve. En prime, elle est soupçonnée d’avoir assassiné son défunt mari ! Aurait-elle récidivé avec Hollinburgh ? Bien décidé à la démasquer, Chase va vite découvrir que le ...

Le duc de Hollinburgh était un drôle d’énergumène : il a légué sa fortune à trois inconnues. Et voici que l’une d’elles se présente chez Nicholas Radnor, le nouveau duc. Non pour réclamer son pactole, mais pour exiger qu’il l’aide à retrouver un vieux manuscrit dont la disparition aurait causé la ruine de sa famille. Nicholas a toutes les raisons de se méfier de cette Iris Barrington. D’abord parce qu’elle ne lui dit manifestement pas toute la vérité. Et surtout parce que c’est une femme l...

Kevin Radnor est l’inventeur d’un procédé industriel qui pourrait faire sa fortune. Encore faut-il qu’il puisse diriger sa société comme il l’entend. Or, une certaine Rosamund Jameson vient d’hériter de la moitié des parts. Mais les femmes n’entendent rien à la mécanique, et celle-ci, modiste de profession, n’a sans doute que des frivolités en tête. Aussi Kevin se fait-il fort d’obtenir sa signature, qui lui garantira les pleins pouvoirs. Mlle Jameson refuse catégoriquement et, contre tout...

A landmark work documenting in detail the pre-history of the Australian Alps.‘Dr Flood essays a total picture of Aboriginal communities and their use of and impact on terrain through time. ‘Pure’ archaeology is not enough. Archaeology plus the environmental sciences is not enough. Ethnohistory is not enough — for it is a view from the wrong side of the frontier. Only from an amalgam of archaeology, landscape sciences and documentary studies can a living portrait be moulde...

This book explores the archaeology of the Acacus massif and surrounding areas in southwestern Libya over approximately 2500 years of the Early Holocene, utilising fresh theoretical approaches and new explanations of the social and cultural processes of the area.Archaeological and rock art evidence, much of which is unpublished until now, is used to explore the crucial period that encompasses the onset of the “Green Sahara” to the introduction of domestic livestock. It provides a ba...