Alex Hughes

Working with Homicide Detective Isabella Cherabino to put killers behind bars, an interrogator with the ability to get inside the twisted minds of suspects must stop a serial killer stalking the city while trying to kick his drug habit. Original.

A Mindspace Investigations Novel

Clean

Freelancing for the Atlanta PD isn't exactly a secure career; my job's been on the line almost as much as my life. But it's a paycheck, and it keeps me from falling back into the drug habit. Plus, things are looking up with my sometimes-partner, Cherabino, even if she is still simmering over the telepathic Link I created by accident. When my ex, Kara, shows up begging for my help, I find myself heading to the last place I ever expected to set foot in again--Guild headquarter--to investigate the death of her uncle. Joining that group was a bad idea the first time. Going back when I'm unwanted is downright dangerous. Luckily, the Guild needs me more than they're willing to admit. Kara's uncle was acting strange before he died--crazy strange. In fact, his madness seems to be slowly spreading through the Guild. And when an army of powerful telepaths loses their marbles, suddenly it's a game of life or death ... --Amazon.com.

Marked

FORESEE NO EVIL. Freelancing for the Atlanta PD isn’t exactly a secure career; my job’s been on the line almost as much as my life. But it’s a paycheck, and it keeps me from falling back into the drug habit. Plus, things are looking up with my sometimes-partner, Cherabino, even if she is still simmering over the telepathic Link I created by accident. When my ex, Kara, shows up begging for my help, I find myself heading to the last place I ever expected to set foot in again—Guild headquarters—to investigate the death of her uncle. Joining that group was a bad idea the first time. Going back when I’m unwanted is downright dangerous. Luckily, the Guild needs me more than they’re willing to admit. Kara’s uncle was acting strange before he died—crazy strange. In fact, his madness seems to be slowly spreading through the Guild. And when an army of powerful telepaths loses their marbles, suddenly it’s a game of life or death.…

Containing illustrations, this guide provides the techniques needed to master the art of caricature. It covers the fundamentals, to give the reader a foundation in caricature drawing techniques, with illustrations demonstrating how to put them into practice. It also includes information on: tools, equipment and props; and, shapes and proportions.

Caricatures

Keith Reader

An international team of scholars contribute over 700 entries on contemporary French culture that range from Art, Gender, Politics and Literature to Media and the Economy. It is a vital companion for anyone interested in the culture of modern France.

Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture

Jennifer Birkett

Kate Ince

This fascinating study explores the pleasures and torments of love and sexuality as depicted in the works of six important French women writers: Rachilde, Colette, Leduc, Wittig, Cixous and Duras. Historically, erotic literature has been dominated by male writers. Feminist critics have argued that its central motifs of voyeurism, sadomasochism, incest and violence to women's bodies are governed by the unconscious fantasies and prejudices of a patriarchal sociocultural order. The contributors question how this sociocultural order has affected the erotic writing of the women writers studied. They explore the opportunities for, and constraints on, women's erotic writing in the early to mid-twentieth century through the works of Rachilde, Colette and Leduc. This is contrasted with the writing of prominent contemporary authors -- Wittig, Cixous and Duras -- to reveal new developments and diversification within the genre. The focus throughout is on how these writers deal with erotic language and rhetoric, their treatment of traditional themes of eroticism, and -- most vital to recent feminist criticism and theory -- their vision of the female body and women's sexual pleasure. The book provides key insights into the development of women's erotic discourse throughout this century and the diversity that characterizes it.

Women's Desiring Writing, 1880-1990

French Erotic Fiction

Andrea Noble

Hughes and Noble bring together a collection of studies exploring how photography has intersected with history and the human story from its invention in the 19th century to the computer age.

Intersections of Photography and Narrative

Phototextualities

Orphenn is an orphan, and he was beginning to think that that was all he would ever be. So when a strange woman who calls herself his sister spirits him away and hurls him into another universe, he felt absolutely overwhelmed. Family, friends, and allies await him there—three things that were beyond an orphan's wildest dreams. Only afterward does he find the truth about his family: that his twin sisters began as triplets, and that the third sister, who had murdered their parents, was leading a comeback to conquer the world of Aleida. With their squadron, the White Herons, and Aleida's mutant army, Orphenn and his companions must overcome his sister's conquest and destroy her nation. But how can they destroy their own sibling? Separate dimensions, mutants, families, bonds, turncoats, rebellion, and betrayal—Enma is a riveting story of dreams and gifts. In this world of cliché vampires and overused werewolves, Hughes's world of conquest and romance is a breath of fresh air. In her unique, dramatic style, she writes of the hardships Orphenn and his newfound family must endure in a time of civil war, in a universe beside our own.

Enma

Keith A Reader

Alexandra Hughes

More than 700 alphabetically organized entries by an international team of contributors provide a fascinating survey of French culture post 1945. Entries include: * advertising * Beur cinema * Coco Chanel * decolonization * écriture feminine * football * francophone press * gay activism * Seuil * youth culture Entries range from short factual/biographical pieces to longer overview articles. All are extensively cross-referenced and longer entries are 'facts-fronted' so important information is clear at a glance. It includes a thematic contents list, extensive index and suggestions for further reading. The Encyclopedia will provide hours of enjoyable browsing for all francophiles, and essential cultural context for students of French, Modern History, Comparative European Studies and Cultural Studies.

James S. Williams

Owen Heathcote

This interdisciplinary book responds to the explosion of gay and lesbian creativity in modern day France. The work of many French writers and authors is investigated.

Gay and Lesbian Theory, Fiction and Film in France, 1945-1995

Gay Signatures

This study, which reads Leduc's narratives from a feminist and psychoanalytic perspective, has a double focus: - Part One scrutinizes the intricacies of her treatment of feminine bonding, seeking to bring new insights - inspired inter alia by theorists such as Melanie Klein, Freud, and Luce Irigaray - to bear on her representations of mother/daughter and lesbian relations. Part Two examines Leduc's use of language in Therese et Isabelle, probing the extent to which this novella contains examples of feminist and/or feminine discourse. By exploring Leduc' s lyrical evocation of feminine homosexuality from both a gender-related and a more traditional, formalist standpoint, the writer exposes the limitations of a purely feminist approach to her work

Mothers, Lovers, and Language

Violette Leduc

Bringing together original essays by French, British and American scholars, this collection explores the key role of gender and sexual politics in 20th-century French cinema.

Gender and French Cinema

China has long been an object of fascination for the French, who celebrated theirannee de la Chine in 2004. Symptomatic of that fascination are the movements into China made by groups as diverse as the Jesuits, who arrived inL'Empire du Milieu in the late seventeenth century, and theTel Quel intellectuals, whose will to political pilgrimage took th

Intercultural Imaginings

France/China

Suzanne Reimer

Individuals, consumer groups, nation states and supra-national bodies increasingly have interrogated the ethics of particular production and consumption relations such as GM foods. Flowing from and bound up with these political concerns is the growing interest in the mutual dependence of sites of (for example) production, distribution, retailing, design, advertising, marketing and final consumption. This timely volume draws together contributions concerned with the production, circulation and consumption of commodities. Not only do these case study examples seek to transcend older understandings of production and consumption, but they also explicitly tap into wider public debate about the meanings, origins and biographies of commodities. Taking a geographical approach to the analysis of links between producers and consumers, the book focuses upon the ways in which these ties increasingly are stretched across spaces and places. Critical engagements with the ways in which these spaces and places affect the economies, cultures and politics of the connections between producers and consumers are skilfully threaded through each section.

Geographies of Commodity Chains

China has long been an object of fascination for the French, who celebrated their annee de la Chine in 2004. Symptomatic of that fascination are the movements into China made by groups as diverse as the French Jesuit missionaries, who arrived in L'Empire du Milieu in the late seventeenth century, and the Tel Quel intellectuals, whose will to political pilgrimage took them to the Peoples's Republic in 1974. Symptomatic, too, are the narrative and visual representations of China offered by such as Pierre Loti, Victor Segalen, Paul Claudel, Michel Leiris, Simone de Beauvoir, Andre Malraux, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Marc Riboud. In this penetrating study, Alex Hughes explores models of intercultural encounter between France and China elaborated in the modern French cultural arena. Locating forms of bodily experience as critical to that encounter, she reflects on its forms and foundations.

Lavoravo per l’Ordine dei telepati, prima che mi buttassero fuori a calci per una questione di droga di cui io ero solo in parte responsabile. Adesso lavoro per la polizia, sono consulente della detective Isabella Cherabino, la aiuto a mandare criminali e assassini dietro le sbarre. Nessuno sa entrare come me nelle loro menti contorte, e questo fa di me il migliore negli interrogatori, ma non il più amato nel dipartimento. I poliziotti non si fidano dei telepati, e l’Ordine dei telepati non si fida di me. Ma io sono l’unico di cui tutti dovranno fidarsi, se vogliono trovare il colpevole della scia di morte che sta insanguinando Atlanta. Anche perché bisogna trovarlo in fretta: ho appena avuto una visione del futuro in cui il prossimo a morire sarò io. Un thriller serrato e ironico, ambientato in un’America da distopia, in cui il fascino del potere della mente si unisce all’azione ad alto tasso di adrenalina.

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