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Asta's Book

2009-05-07 Fiction
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Release : 2009-05-07
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 459/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Asta's Book by : Barbara Vine

Download or read book Asta's Book written by Barbara Vine. This book was released on 2009-05-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1905. Asta and her husband Rasmus have come to East London from Denmark with their two little boys. With Rasmus constantly away on business, Asta keep loneliness and isolation at bay by writing a diary. These diaries, published over seventy years later, reveal themselves to be more than a mere journal. For they seem to hold they key to an unsolved murder and to the mystery of a missing child. It falls to Asta's granddaughter Ann to unearth the buried secrets of nearly a century before.

Asta's Book

2011-02-22 Fiction
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Release : 2011-02-22
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 95X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Asta's Book by : Ruth Rendell

Download or read book Asta's Book written by Ruth Rendell. This book was released on 2011-02-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “obsessively readable” mystery from the New York Times–bestselling author of Dark Corners about a century-old diary that holds clues to a murder (The Sunday Telegraph). Asta Westerby is lonely. In 1905, shortly after coming to East London from Denmark with her husband and their two little boys, she feels like a stranger in a strange land. And it doesn’t help that her husband is constantly away on business. Fortunately, she finds solace in her diary—and she continues to do so until 1967. Decades later, her granddaughter, Ann, finds the journal, and it becomes a literary sensation, offering an intimate view of Edwardian life. But it also appears to hold the key to an unsolved murder and the disappearance of a child. A modern masterpiece by the Edgar Award–winning author of the Inspector Wexford Mysteries, and an excellent choice for readers of P. D. James, Ian Rankin, or Scott Turow, Asta’s Book is at once a crime story, a historical novel, and a psychological portrait told through the diary itself and through Ann, who is bent on unlocking the journal’s excised mystery.

Crispin

2004 Children's stories
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Release : 2004
Genre : Children's stories
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 777/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Crispin by : Avi

Download or read book Crispin written by Avi. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. Accused of a crime he did not commit, Crispin has been declared a "wolf's head." That means he may be killed on sight, by anyone. If he wishes to remain alive, he must flee his tiny village.

Categories We Live by

2018 Philosophy
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Release : 2018
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 796/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Categories We Live by by : Ásta

Download or read book Categories We Live by written by Ásta. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are women, we are men. We are refugees, single mothers, people with disabilities, and queers. We belong to social categories and they frame our actions, self-understanding, and opportunities. But what are social categories? How are they created and sustained? How does one come to belong to them? Ásta approaches these questions through analytic feminist metaphysics. Her theory of social categories centers on an answer to the question: what is it for a feature of an individual to be socially meaningful? In a careful, probing investigation, she reveals how social categories are created and sustained and demonstrates their tendency to oppress through examples from current events. To this end, she offers an account of just what social construction is and how it works in a range of examples that problematize the categories of sex, gender, and race in particular. The main idea is that social categories are conferred upon people. Ásta introduces a 'conferralist' framework in order to articulate a theory of social meaning, social construction, and most importantly, of the construction of sex, gender, race, disability, and other social categories.

The Map Book

2005-01-01 Travel
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Release : 2005-01-01
Genre : Travel
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Book Rating : 749/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Map Book by : Peter Barber

Download or read book The Map Book written by Peter Barber. This book was released on 2005-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the historical development of maps and mapping from the Bronze Age to the present, collecting some 175 maps spanning ten millennia that represent the progress of civilization and technology, from military plans that depict enemy positions, to the famed London Underground layout, to the digitally enhanced renderings of today.

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