Bøger af Colin Webster

Thorn Carlson was a bounty hunter, but not just any bounty hunter. He was, without a doubt, the most effective of his kind in the Old West. When the wanted poster said "Dead or Alive" Thorn always took them at their word, and delivered the body using the most efficient means possible. (Which usually meant dead and thrown over a saddle.) He was fast. He was cunning. He was ruthless - when the situation called for it. Thorn had bested some of the West's toughest cowboys gone bad, but when he rode into Elk's Run on that fateful afternoon, he was about to experience the challenge of his life. But even if Thorn Carlson can survive the rush of gun slingers and assassins sent to put him under, will he resist the seductress snare of the local school teacher, who is making her strongest play for the cowboy of her dreams. And, if that isn't enough, enter mysterious wild beasts hell-bent on killing everyone in their path. Read this colorful and fast-paced western thriller and find out.

When Maria and Clay leave Rio De Sangre one jump ahead of a deadly order of holy warriors, they must strike east to buy each day anew by their wits and the strength of their bond. A sinister band of vampire hunters stalk them up and down the Mississippi, led by an ancient being of immeasurable power. A honeymoon spent on the dodge is no easy thing for the newlyweds, but Maria's growing thirst for blood presents problems all their own. Our hero and heroine find themselves with a mysterious invitation to the most exclusive card game in the world. Clay will need to use every trick he's ever learned in a smoky saloon or on the hoot-owl trail to take the pot, and going bust is not an option. This time, the stakes are higher than ever, and they aren't playing for money. They are playing for their very souls, and playing for keeps.

When dusty outlaw Clay Wilder pulls off the biggest and last heist of his storied career, he and his gang head south of the border to avoid the long arm of the law and the U.S. Army. They think themselves out of reach in the small town of Rio De Sangre, but Clay and his gang have only jumped out of the frying pan and into the fiery bowels of hell and all its evils. Shadowy creatures lead by an ancient Conquistador turned vampire, launch their quest to remake the Americas in their own dark image. With the help of Maria and a Priest, Clay must avoid the soldiers, defeat an army of grotesque undead, and rescue the gal to survive and recover his fortune. His only hope: A suicidal foray into Aztec tunnels wearing a suit of armor and riding a wagon filled with explosives. As the fuse burns down, so do his chances of making it out alive.

"Medicine is itself a type of technology, involving therapeutic tools and substances, and so one way to write the history of medicine is as the application of different technologies to the human body. In Tools and the Organism, Colin Webster argues that, over the course of antiquity, notions shifted about what type of object a body is, what substances constitute its essential nature, and how its parts interact. By following these changes and taking the question of technology into the heart of Greek and Roman medicine, Webster reveals how the body was first conceptualized as an "organism"-a functional object whose inner parts were tools [organa] that each completed certain vital tasks. Webster's approach provides both an overarching survey of the ways that technologies impacted notions of corporeality and corporeal behaviors and, at the same time, stays attentive to the specific material details of ancient tools and how they informed assumptions about somatic structures, substances, and inner processes. For example, by turning to developments in water-delivery technologies and pneumatic tools, we see how these changing material realities altered theories of the vascular system and respiration across Classical antiquity. Tools and the Organism makes the compelling case for why telling the history of ancient Greco-Roman medical theories, from the Hippocratics to Galen, should pay close attention to the question of technology. Selling points: Tour de force survey of ancient medicine First book to demonstrate how the body got its "organs" and what this has to do with ancient technologies For anyone interested in ancient culture, science, medicine, and technology"--

An important and challenging book comprehensively spanning across the establishment of power systems, Rich Crime, Poor Crime is a vital read for academics, professionals and those interested in the fields of history, sociology, criminology, and politics.

This book is the first of its kind to examine the relationship between social exclusion, poverty and the labour market. It challenges long-standing and dominant myths about 'the workless' and 'the poor', by exploring close-up the lived realities of life in low-pay, no-pay Britain.