Bøger af Alan McKee

The greatest tragedy of Queen Victoria's reign......was the fate of over 100 women and children who werehacked to pieces with meat cleavers by the rebelforces of the Great Mutiny. Henry Booth remembershis early childhood in India and knows his motherwas one of the victims of the infamous Cawnporemassacre. He has spent a quiet life in England tryingto recover from the the nightmare of her death. Butwhen Henry suddenly receives his mother's diaryfrom Calcutta and learns the truths that it lays bare, everything the young Englishman believes is calledinto question. Pursued by the past, Henry goesfrom being a respectable Oxford student to being ahunted murderer, chased by police and a deadly cultof killers who want the secrets that lie hidden in hismother's diary. Along the way Henry falls in lovewith an Indian courtesan and is caught up in theGreat Game, the power struggle between the Britishand Russian empires, the superpowers of the Victorianage. Henry must take sides and his life will neverbe the same. No matter what choice he makes, hewill have to betray those closest to him

When Julia Winstanely, daughter of a prominent west end family starts to work with W.T. Stead, muck raking editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, she finds herself and her family involved with some of the worst and most powerful people in Victorian London, people who kidnap and sell young girls to brothels on the continent. As Julia and her suffragette sister, Serafina, battle for legal means to find missing girls, the crimes of Jack the Ripper begin. Julia's handsome cousin, Miles, tries, with Julia's help to stalk the monster through the back streets of Whitechapel. With the aid of a clairvoyant photographer they discover, to their horror, that the answer to the Ripper murders and the trade in young girls lies in their own family's past. The true facts of the trade in children and the involvement of public officials will amaze readers who thought Victorian London was a tame place.

When the talented and spoiled Pamela Blackwood meets the King of railway builders during the railway mania of the 1840s, she almost succumbs to his powerful charm, immediately. But she is also drawn in an entirely different way to her new music master, a gifted pupil of the great Franz Lizst. One man offers her an empire of wealth and power, the other offers the spiritual fulfillment of her deepest talents. But the tutor of her once hated step sister, a poor, modest young man shows her that really, only one solution is possible. He is a young man with a mission: to solve the murder of his former mentor. Their stories unfold against the back drop of the explosive growth of the British Empire, when rich and poor were on the verge of war and the "Iron Beast" was changing everything and giving birth to our own era. The Iron Beast is a portrait of an age and a comment on our own times.

It demonstrates that fun is at the heart of entertainment's effects - entertainment both offers its consumers fun and provides them with the intellectual materials to think about the nature of fun. More than this, the book argues that entertainment shows us that fun - pleasure without purpose - is at the heart of living a good life.

Draws on wide-ranging empirical research to show the production, distribution and consumption of pornography, its content, its consumers and the public debates within which people make sense of it. This title provides insight into the everyday uses of pornography by ordinary consumers, and the place of pornography in society.

Providing a straightforward introduction to textual analysis, starting from the most basic philosophical foundations that underlie the practice Alan McKee works through the core issues step by step, drawing on examples from advertising, films, novels, comic books, television and videos.