Bøker av Michael Leese

MEET DETECTIVE MARTHA MUNRO IN ONE OF THE MOST GRIPPING CRIME MYSTERIES YOU'LL READ THIS YEAR. Last year her daughter was kidnapped and her mother was murdered. Martha Munro is getting back on her feet, but old enemies are still out there - and they want revenge. After the worst year of her life, Detective Martha Munro is looking forward to getting back to the job she loves. But her first case is an investigation into a spate of cat abductions in leafy south London. The Brown family's beloved cat mysteriously disappeared one day, but then turned up unharmed. Then they receive a terrifying message: Next time it's the kids. And an ambulance is sent to the children's school. It's a sinister threat by someone playing a deadly game of cat and mouse. Someone is setting a dangerous trap for Detective Martha Munro. Can she catch a rat and keep her family from getting hurt again? Fans of Happy Valley, Helen H. Durrant, Andy Maslen, Rachel McLean, Matt Brolly, Angela Marsons and D.S. Butler will love this gripping crime mystery.

Armed with some of the most thoroughly documented case studies and the richest variety of source material from the ancient Greek world, Michael Leese argues that the evidence demonstrates that ancient Athenians achieved the type of long-term profit and wealth maximization that have been argued as unique to (and therefore responsible for) the modern industrial-capitalist system.

First commissioned by Bishop Gerard I of Cambrai (1012-1051) in 1023 or 1024, the Gesta episcoporum Cameracensium was the work of two authors, the second of whom completed the text shortly after the death of Bishop Gerard. The three books of the Gesta shed considerable light on the policies and actions of many of the key political and religious figures in an economically and intellectually vibrant region on the frontier between the German and French kingdoms. The Deeds of the Bishops of Cambrai, translated in this volume into English for the first time, provides unique insights into the relationship between the German king and the bishops within the context of the so-called imperial church system, the rise of both secular and ecclesiastical territorial lordships, the conduct of war, the cult of the saints, monastic reform, and evolving conceptions of the proper social order of society. Including extensive commentary, apparatus of explanatory notes, maps, genealogies, this text will be of considerable value both in undergraduate and graduate courses as well as to scholars.