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Kill [redacted]

by Anthony Good ...

Is murder ever morally right? And is a murderer necessarily bad? These two questions waltz through the maddening mind of Michael, the brilliant, terrifying, fiendishly smart creation at the centre of this winking dark gem of a literary thriller. Michael lost his wife in a terrorist attack on a London train. Since then, he has been seeing a therapist to help him come to terms with his grief - and ... Read more

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Is murder ever morally right? And is a murderer necessarily bad? These two questions waltz through the maddening mind of Michael, the brilliant, terrifying, fiendishly smart creation at the centre of this winking dark gem of a literary thriller. Michael lost his wife in a terrorist attack on a London train. Since then, he has been seeing a therapist to help him come to terms with his grief - and
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The Good Book

A memoir for the truth seeker

by Anthony Good ...

There often comes a time when we are called to question the purpose of our lives. This goes beyond the mundane everyday to seek the foundation on which the good life is lived. After fruitless searches in the religions, self-help psychology, and philosophy, the author was confronted by a spiritual opening.Through 76 short chapters, the reader is offered an example of a spiritual way in the spirit ... Read more

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There often comes a time when we are called to question the purpose of our lives. This goes beyond the mundane everyday to seek the foundation on which the good life is lived. After fruitless searches in the religions, self-help psychology, and philosophy, the author was confronted by a spiritual opening.Through 76 short chapters, the reader is offered an example of a spiritual way in the spirit
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Animal Sacrifice, Religion and Law in South Asia

Edited by Daniela Berti, Anthony Good ...

Series series Routledge Religion in Contemporary Asia Series
This book presents original research on the controversies surrounding animal sacrifice in South Asia through the lens of court cases. It focuses on the parties involved in these cases: on their discourses, motivations, and contrasting points of view. Through an examination of judicial files, court decisions and newspaper articles, and interviews with protagonists, the book explores how the ... Read more

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This book presents original research on the controversies surrounding animal sacrifice in South Asia through the lens of court cases. It focuses on the parties involved in these cases: on their discourses, motivations, and contrasting points of view. Through an examination of judicial files, court decisions and newspaper articles, and interviews with protagonists, the book explores how the
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Of Doubt and Proof

Ritual and Legal Practices of Judgment

by Daniela Berti, Anthony Good ...

Series series Juris Diversitas
All institutions concerned with the process of judging - whether it be deciding between alternative courses of action, determining a judge’s professional integrity, assigning culpability for an alleged crime, or ruling on the credibility of an asylum claimant - are necessarily directly concerned with the question of doubt. By putting ritual and judicial settings into comparative perspective, in ... Read more

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All institutions concerned with the process of judging - whether it be deciding between alternative courses of action, determining a judge’s professional integrity, assigning culpability for an alleged crime, or ruling on the credibility of an asylum claimant - are necessarily directly concerned with the question of doubt. By putting ritual and judicial settings into comparative perspective, in
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Anthropology and Expertise in the Asylum Courts

by Anthony Good ...

Although asylum has generated unparalleled levels of public and political concern over the past decade, there has been astonishingly little field research on the topic. This is a study of the legal process of claiming asylum from an anthropological perspective, focusing on the role of expert evidence from 'country experts' such as anthropologists. It describes how such evidence is used in ... Read more

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Although asylum has generated unparalleled levels of public and political concern over the past decade, there has been astonishingly little field research on the topic. This is a study of the legal process of claiming asylum from an anthropological perspective, focusing on the role of expert evidence from 'country experts' such as anthropologists. It describes how such evidence is used in
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Kill [redacted]

by Anthony Good ...

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9 hours 11 min

When a grieving man searches for culpability in the death of his wife, a passenger on trains blown up by terrorists, he settles on a politician. The bombers, to his mind, were only the end point in a long chain of proximate causes – to blame them would be like blaming the trigger mechanisms on the bombs. The ultimate cause, he believes, the person responsible for first setting events into motion, ... Read more

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When a grieving man searches for culpability in the death of his wife, a passenger on trains blown up by terrorists, he settles on a politician. The bombers, to his mind, were only the end point in a long chain of proximate causes – to blame them would be like blaming the trigger mechanisms on the bombs. The ultimate cause, he believes, the person responsible for first setting events into motion,
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Asylum Determination in Europe

Ethnographic Perspectives

Edited by Nick Gill, Anthony Good ...

Series series Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies
Drawing on new research material from ten European countries, Asylum Determination in Europe: Ethnographic Perspectives brings together a range of detailed accounts of the legal and bureaucratic processes by which asylum claims are decided. The book includes a legal overview of European asylum determination procedures, followed by sections on the diverse actors involved, the means by which they ... Read more

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Drawing on new research material from ten European countries, Asylum Determination in Europe: Ethnographic Perspectives brings together a range of detailed accounts of the legal and bureaucratic processes by which asylum claims are decided. The book includes a legal overview of European asylum determination procedures, followed by sections on the diverse actors involved, the means by which they
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Turbulent Wake

by Paul E. Hardisty ...

Narrated by Garrick Hagon, Peter Noble ...

Unabridged

9 hours 55 min

Ethan Scofield returns to the place of his birth to bury his father. Hidden in one of the upstairs rooms of the old man's house, he finds a strange manuscript, a collection of stories that seems to cover the whole of his father's turbulent life. As his own starts to unravel, Ethan works his way through the manuscript, trying to find answers to the mysteries that have plagued him since he was a ... Read more

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Ethan Scofield returns to the place of his birth to bury his father. Hidden in one of the upstairs rooms of the old man's house, he finds a strange manuscript, a collection of stories that seems to cover the whole of his father's turbulent life. As his own starts to unravel, Ethan works his way through the manuscript, trying to find answers to the mysteries that have plagued him since he was a
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The Friends of Harry Perkins

by Chris Mullin ...

Narrated by Michael Fenner ...

Unabridged

3 hours 53 min

'Harry Perkins was buried on the day that America declared war on China.'The definitive post-Brexit thriller, and long-awaited sequel to the bestselling A Very British Coup.'Brilliant, chilling and all too plausible.' Alastair Campbell?'Terrific...measured, heart-stopping, moving, clear-eyed'. Stephen Frears'Brexit Britain was a gloomy place. True, the Armageddon that some had prophesied had... ... Read more

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'Harry Perkins was buried on the day that America declared war on China.'The definitive post-Brexit thriller, and long-awaited sequel to the bestselling A Very British Coup.'Brilliant, chilling and all too plausible.' Alastair Campbell?'Terrific...measured, heart-stopping, moving, clear-eyed'. Stephen Frears'Brexit Britain was a gloomy place. True, the Armageddon that some had prophesied had...
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The Closer I Get

by Paul Burston ...

Narrated by Mark Topping, Esther Wane, Shiromi Arserio ...

Unabridged

10 hours 22 min

Tom is a successful author, but he’s struggling to finish his novel. His main distraction is an online admirer, Evie, who simply won’t leave him alone. Evie is smart, well read, and unstable. She lives with her father, and her social-media friendships are not only her escape–they’re everything she has. When she’s hit with a restraining order, her world is turned upside down, and Tom is free to ... Read more

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Tom is a successful author, but he’s struggling to finish his novel. His main distraction is an online admirer, Evie, who simply won’t leave him alone. Evie is smart, well read, and unstable. She lives with her father, and her social-media friendships are not only her escape–they’re everything she has. When she’s hit with a restraining order, her world is turned upside down, and Tom is free to
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The Godmother

by Hannelore Cayre ...

Narrated by Julia Franklin ...

Unabridged

5 hours 43 min

Meet Patience Portefeux, 53, an underpaid Franco-Arab judicial interpreter for the Ministry of Justice who specialises in telephone tapping. Widowed after the sudden death of her husband, Patience is now wedged between university fees for her two grown-up daughters and nursing home costs for her ageing mother. She’s laboured for 25 years to keep everyone’s heads above water. Happening upon an ... Read more

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Meet Patience Portefeux, 53, an underpaid Franco-Arab judicial interpreter for the Ministry of Justice who specialises in telephone tapping. Widowed after the sudden death of her husband, Patience is now wedged between university fees for her two grown-up daughters and nursing home costs for her ageing mother. She’s laboured for 25 years to keep everyone’s heads above water. Happening upon an
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The Lost History of Dreams

A Novel

by Kris Waldherr ...

Narrated by Matthew Lloyd Davies, Fiona Hardingham ...

Unabridged

12 hours 12 min

A post-mortem photographer unearths dark secrets from the past that may hold the key to his future in this “sensual, twisting gothic tale…in the tradition of A.S. Byatt’s Possession, Diane Setterfield’s The Thirteenth Tale, and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights” (BookPage).All love stories are ghost stories in disguise. “This one happily succeeds at both” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).When famed ... Read more

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A post-mortem photographer unearths dark secrets from the past that may hold the key to his future in this “sensual, twisting gothic tale…in the tradition of A.S. Byatt’s Possession, Diane Setterfield’s The Thirteenth Tale, and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights” (BookPage).All love stories are ghost stories in disguise. “This one happily succeeds at both” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).When famed
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