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  • The Story in Religion

    Tellers, Readers, Listeners

    de Martin D. Stringer ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
    Drawing on theories of myth and narratives from pop culture, this book develops a sociology of the story that shows how stories create meaning in contemporary religious practices in the West.Martin Stringer shows how stories work in religion within the context of the story-saturated world of the 21st century through discussions of a wide range of theories of myth. He traces religious elements in ... Leer más

    $93.99 USD

  • Discourses on Religious Diversity

    Explorations in an Urban Ecology

    de Martin D. Stringer ...
    Series series AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Series
    Religious diversity is an ever present, and increasingly visible, reality in cities across the world. It is an issue of immediate concern to city leaders and members of religious communities but do we really know what ordinary members of the public, the people who live in the city, really think about it? Major news items, inter-religious violence and notorious public events often lead to negative ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • The Blackpool Highflyer

    de Andrew Martin ...
    Series Libro 2 - The Jim Stringer Mysteries
    "A compelling thriller" set against the historical backdrop of Edwardian England's railway system ( Daily Mail).Assigned to drive holidaymakers to the seaside resort of Blackpool in the hot summer of 1905, Jim Stringer is happy to have left behind the grime and danger of life in London. But his dreams of beer and pretty women are soon shattered when his high-speed train meets a huge millstone on ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Lost Luggage Porter

    de Andrew Martin ...
    Series Libro 3 - Jim Stringer
    'A cracking good thriller.' Independent on Sunday'Unerringly sharp and pioneeringly original, it locks the reader in from start to finish.' Andrew Barrow, SpectatorWinter, 1906. It's Jim Stringer's first day as an official railway detective, but he's not a happy man.As the rain falls incessantly on the city's ancient streets, the local paper carries a story highly unusual by York standards: two ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • The Necropolis Railway

    A Historical Novel

    de Andrew Martin ...
    Series Libro 1 - Jim Stringer
    'A brilliant murder mystery set in Edwardian London about a railway line that runs only to a massive cemetery.' Daily Mirror'An ingenious and atmospheric thriller.' ExpressWhen railwayman Jim Stringer moves to the garish and tawdry London of 1903, he finds his duties are confined to a mysterious graveyard line. The men he works alongside have formed an instant loathing for him - and his ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • The Last Train to Scarborough

    de Andrew Martin ...
    Series Libro 6 - Jim Stringer
    'A thoroughly engaging and entertaining read. All aboard.' Sunday Express'Terrific.' Daily TelegraphIt's March 1914, and Jim Stringer is uneasy about his next assignment.It's not so much the prospect of a Scarborough lodging house in the gloomy off-season that bothers him, or even the fact that the last railwayman to stay in the house has disappeared without trace. It's more that his governor, ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Murder at Deviation Junction

    de Andrew Martin ...
    Series Libro 4 - Jim Stringer
    The latest in Andrew Martin"s much-loved "Jim Stringer, Steam Detective" series. "Andrew Martin has recreated an extraordinarily convincing world . . . Terrific." Daily TelegraphDecember, 1909. A train hits a snowdrift in the frozen Cleveland Hills. In the process of clearing the line a body is discovered, and so begins a dangerous case for struggling railway detective Jim Stringer, a case which ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • The Blackpool Highflyer

    de Andrew Martin ...
    Series Libro 2 - Jim Stringer
    'Jim Stringer, Steam Detective, rides the footplate again in this hot-as-coals whodunnit. Sabotage, sleuthing, suspicion and steam combine with Edwardian England and railways to create a detective novel in the grand tradition of detective novels.' Express'This may well be the best fiction about the railways since Dickens.' Independent on SundayA superbly atmospheric thriller of sabotage, suspicion ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Night Train to Jamalpur

    de Andrew Martin ...
    Series Libro 9 - Jim Stringer
    North East India, 1923. On the broiling Night Mail from Calcutta to Jamalpur, a man is shot dead in a first class compartment. Detective Inspector Jim Stringer was sleeping in the next compartment along. Was he the intended target? Jim should have known that his secondment to the East Indian Railway, with a roving brief to inspect security arrangements, would not be the working holiday he had ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • The Baghdad Railway Club

    de Andrew Martin ...
    Series Libro 8 - Jim Stringer
    'Martin handles this theme with the skill of such illustrious predecessors as Graham Greene - and there is no higher praise than that.' Daily ExpressBaghdad, 1917. Captain Jim Stringer, invalided from the Western Front, has been dispatched to investigate what looks like a nasty case of treason. He arrives to find a city on the point of insurrection, his cover apparently blown - and his only ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Death on a Branch Line

    de Andrew Martin ...
    Series Libro 5 - Jim Stringer
    'The period detail is wonderful . . . The story builds up a good head of steam early on and rattles along nicely to a satisfying conclusion.' GuardianIt's the summer of 1911, and as Britain is gripped by paranoia about German spies and secret preparations for war, railway detective Jim Stringer decides to set out for a much-needed holiday.But before he can leave he finds himself escorting a young ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • The Somme Stations

    de Andrew Martin ...
    Series Libro 7 - Jim Stringer
    WINNER OF THE ELLIS PETERS AWARD'Superb.' Lancashire Evening Post'Richly satisfying.' Sunday TelegraphOn the first day of the Somme enlisted railwayman Jim Stringer lies trapped in a shell hole, smoking cigarette after cigarette under the bullets and the blazing sun. He calculates his chances of survival - even before they departed for France, a member of Jim's unit had been found dead.Durin... ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD