Rachel Hall: 20 books
The Transparent Traveler
The Performance and Culture of Airport Security
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
At the airport we line up, remove our shoes, empty our pockets, and hold still for three seconds in the body scanner. Deemed safe, we put ourselves back together and are free to buy the beverage we were prohibited from taking through security. In The Transparent Traveler Rachel Hall explains how the...
Tragedy Offstage
Suffering and Sympathy in Ancient Athens
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Humane ideals were central to the image Athenians had of themselves and their city during the classical period. Tragic plays, which formed a part of civic education, often promoted pity and compassion. But it is less clear to what extent Athenians embraced such ideals in daily life. How were they...
Privatization and the New Medical Pluralism
Shifting Healthcare Landscapes in Maya Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Privatization and the New Medical Pluralism is the first collection of its kind to explore the contemporary terrain of healthcare in Guatemala through reflective ethnography. This volume offers a nuanced portrait of the effects of healthcare privatization for indigenous Maya people, who have historically...
City of Saviors
A Detective Elouise Norton Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
"A fresh voice in crime fiction. Fast, funny, heartbreaking and wise...Elouise Norton is the best new character you'll meet this year."--Lee Child
“Hall deserves to be compared to Kathy Reichs or Patricia Cornwell, and it will not be long before she is recognized as every bit as...
They All Fall Down
A Thriller
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
For fans of thrilling contemporary suspense, Rachel Howzell Hall’s brilliant stand-alone novel brings seven sinners to a private island for a reckoning that will leave you breathless.**
It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime.
Delighted by a surprise invitation, Miriam Macy sails...
Trail of Echoes
A Detective Elouise Norton Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Trail of Echoes: the latest Elouise Norton novel from critically acclaimed writer Rachel Howzell Hall.
On a rainy spring day in Los Angeles, homicide detective Elouise "Lou" Norton is called away from a rare lunch date to Bonner Park, where the body of thirteen-year-old Chanita Lords...
by Rachel Howzell Hall
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
"A fresh voice in crime fiction. Fast, funny, heartbreaking and wise...Elouise Norton is the best new character you'll meet this year." —Lee Child, New York Times bestselling author, on Rachel Howzell Hall's Land of Shadows
Along the ever-changing border of gentrifying Los Angeles,...
Skies of Ash
A Detective Elouise Norton Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Los Angeles homicide detective Elouise "Lou" Norton and her partner, Colin Taggert, arrive at the scene of a tragic house fire. Juliet Chatman perished in the blaze, along with her two children. Left behind is grieving husband and father Christopher Chatman, hospitalized after trying to rescue his...
Mapping Applied Linguistics
A Guide for Students and Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Mapping Applied Linguistics: A guide for students and practitioners, second edition, provides a newly updated, wide-ranging introduction to the full scope of applied linguistics. This innovative book maps the diverse and constantly expanding range of theories, methods and issues faced by students...
by Rachel Hastings, Jeff Drake, Brian Hall
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Feast your eyes on new mouth-watering stories of the Belcher family, the stars of Fox Television's fan-favorite animated sitcom! Written and illustrated by the fine folks at the Emmy Award-winning studio Bento Box Entertainment, the continuing comic book hijinks of parents Bob and Linda and ragamuffins...
Life Inside My Mind
31 Authors Share Their Personal Struggles
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
“Who better to raise teens’ awareness of mental illness and health than the YA authors they admire?” —Booklist (starred review)
“[A] much-needed, enlightening book.” —School Library Journal (starred review)
Your favorite YA authors including Ellen Hopkins, Maureen Johnson,...
Legacies of British Slave-Ownership
Colonial Slavery and the Formation of Victorian Britain
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
This book re-examines the relationship between Britain and colonial slavery in a crucial period in the birth of modern Britain. Drawing on a comprehensive analysis of British slave-owners and mortgagees who received compensation from the state for the end of slavery, and tracing their trajectories...
by Rachel Taylor Hall
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2014
This compilation of the letters of Cordelia Lewis Scales originally was transcribed and annotated in the 1950’s by Dr. Benjamin Gray Lumpkin and Martha Neville Lumpkin. The genealogical interest the pair took in their ancestors centered on family research into the life of Dabney Minor Scales, who...
by Paul Boreham, Rachel Parker, Paul Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2007
New computer and communications technologies have acted as the catalyst for a revolution in the way goods are produced and services delivered, leading to profound changes in the way work is organized and the way jobs are designed. This important book examines the nature, setting and impact of new...
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