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Het internationaal strafprocesrecht
Amsterdam University Press 2007; US$ 10.50De wijze waarop processen bij internationale straftribunalen, zoals het Milosevicproces, worden gevoerd wordt geregeld door het internationaal strafprocesrecht. more...
The Surf Guru
Penguin Group US 2010; US$ 25.95From the author of Alive in Necropolis "a brazen, roiling, confident collection." ( Los Angeles Times ). This is a book of brilliant, adventurous stories from award-winning author Doug Dorst, widely celebrated as one of the most creative, original literary voices of his generation-an heir to T.C. Boyle and Denis Johnson, or a Northern Californian... more...
Fancy Beasts
Milkweed Editions 2010; US$ 16.00In Fancy Beasts, the author of Hallelujah Blackout and Mosquito takes on California, the 2008 election, plastic surgery, Larry Craig, wildfires, Wal-Mart, and rampant commercialism ? in short, the modern American media culture, which provides obscene foil for his personal legacies of violence and violation. This pivotal book captures the turning... more...
The Curse-Maker
St. Martin's Press 2011; US$ 7.99The Curse-Maker is the sequel to he award-winning Nox Dormienda, the first book of the Roman noir series created by Kelli Stanley ( City of Dragons ). Wedding impeccably researched history to prose and themes reminiscent of classic hard-boiled writers, The Curse-Maker is a thrilling and suspenseful journey into a dark corner of Roman Britain... more...
The Generation Starship in Science Fiction
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 38.00This critical history explores the concept of the multi-generational interstellar space voyage in science fiction between 1934, the year of its appearance, into the 21st century. It defines and analyzes what became known as the "generation starship" idea and examines the science and technology behind it, also charting the ways in which generation... more...
Chasing the Avatar
Destiny Image, Inc. 2011; US$ 15.99Maya is a young woman with extraordinary prospects drowning in intense discontent. In the midst of this discontent, she meets Cha Ma, a guru. Immediately, she comes to believe that Cha Ma is an avatara human incarnationof the goddess Kali, the most malevolent, destructive of all Hindu deities. Spellbound, Maya runs off to India to live in Cha... more...
Saving Grace
Destiny Image, Inc. 2011; US$ 15.99As the only daughter of a successful businesswoman, Grace grew up with nothing but the best. Sheltered by her single mother and educated in an exclusive private school in Detroit, Grace was not ready for the harsh realities of an unforgiving world. Grace's naivete coupled with her desire to experience life on her own terms leads her down... more...
Raymond Chandlers Philip Marlowe
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 40.00Since their inception, detective novels have been a wildly successful genre of American fiction, featuring a uniquely American belief in rugged individualism. This book focuses on Raymond Chandler's creation of Philip Marlowe, a detective whose feeling for community and willingness to compromise radically changed the genre's vigilantism and... more...
The Millennial Detective
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 40.00International in scope and varied in its theoretical approaches, this collection of ten critical essays examines the prevailing trends in recent crime fiction. Of particular interest are shifting, and increasingly globalized, conceptions of crime, as well as the genre's response to technological, legal, and social changes at the end of the twentieth... more...
Troublemakers
Rutgers University Press 2011; US$ 24.95William Scott’s Troublemakers explores how a major change in the nature and forms of working-class power affected novels about U.S. industrial workers in the first half of the twentieth century. Analyzing portrayals of workers in such novels as Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle , Ruth McKenney’s Industrial Valley , and Jack London’s... more...









