Geschäftsführer Rauno Rämekorpi feiert seinen sechzigsten Geburtstag. Gratulanten gibt es viele, und so häufen sich Blumensträuße und Geschenke. Schade nur, dass seine Frau auf Blumen allergisch ist. Die Blütenpracht muss also weg, jedoch keinesfalls auf den Müll! So beginnt Rauno eine Fahrt durch Helsinki, und mit einem Strauß in der Hand stattet er seinen verflossenen Liebschaften einen Besuch ab ...

Mitten im afrikanischen Urwald, auf dem Grunde eines Sees, verbirgt er sich: Mokélé M'Bembé, der sagenumwobene letzte Saurier. Emily Palmbridge war auf der Jagd nach ihm - und ist seither verschwunden. Aber wo verliert sich ihre Spur? Als der junge Genetiker David Astbury von Emilys verzweifelter Mutter um Hilfe gebeten wird, fliegt er mit ....

Beim Verlassen eines Nachtclubs wird die Fotografin Gabrielle Maxwell Zeugin eines schrecklichen Verbrechens. Sechs Jugendliche töten einen Mann und saugen ihm das Blut aus. Doch obwohl Gabrielle die grauenhafte Szenerie mit ihrem Fotohandy festgehalten hat, schenkt die Polizei ihr keinen Glauben. Erst der gutaussehende Kommissar Lucan Thorne scheint Gabrielle ernst zu nehmen und verdreht der jungen Frau gehörig den Kopf. Gabrielle ahnt nicht, dass Thorne in Wahrheit ein Vampir ist ...

Continuing the project begun in The Poetics of Postmodernism , Linda Hutcheon focuses on the politics of representation. Looking at both mass media and high art forms, she challenges the seeming transparency and apparent apolitical innocence of our visual images and verbal stories, asserting that these construct rather than reflect or express our experience of the world.

This book is for those who have difficulty in getting thoughts into words or their ideas across, as well as those who are satisfied with their writing but are ready to consider the possibility of improving it.

Looking at the philosophical issues raised by food this short and accessible book questions the place food should have in our individual lives. It shows how traditional philosophy and its classic texts can illuminate an everyday subject.

Medical ethics is a vitally important subject, and currently a highly controversial one. Recent cases have highlighted both the intellectual and moral challenges posed by the dilemmas of modern medicine, and their significance for us all. ...

Provides a simple method of assessing the degree and nature of loneliness and includes practical strategies for helping clients to manage their social problems. The book will be of particular benefit to counsellors and psychologists.

In Eritrea, state, traditional, and religious laws equally prevail, but any of these legal systems may be put into play depending upon the individual or individuals involved in a legal dispute. Because of conflicting laws, it has been difficult for Eritreans to come to a consensus on what constitutes their legal system. In "Blood, Land, and Sex",.....

One of the classics of radical criminology - a compelling account of how power and powerlessness operate within the criminal justice system.

Describes the ways psychoanalytic ideas can be adapted and used in a wide variety of community settings to help children who are emotionally disturbed or who have been physically or sexually abused.

The late author describes his "lost years" in postwar Santa Monica, New York, and London, a time spent in frantic socializing, increasing dissipation, and debilitating anxiety and despair.

Professor Douglas writes gracefully, lucidly and polemically. She continually makes points which illuminate matters in the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of science and help to show the rest of us just why and how anthropology has become a fundamentally intellectual discipline' - New Society Professor Douglas' book sparkles with intellectual life and is characterised by a concern to understand. Right or wrong, sound or idiosyncratic, it presents a rare and exciting spectacle of a mind at work.' - Times Literary Supplement

A collection of papers which examine and assess the effects on children of socialisation and which attempt to explain a range of adult perspectives on children and their social worlds

this is a fascinating book, which makes you wonder why no-one has tackled the subject of language and desire before ... I defy anyone to read it without discovering something new and interesting about language, about cultural practices, and about theoretical debates relating to sexuality and desire.'