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This provocative new study contends that Jules Verne was indeed more than just a writer of science fiction or harmless fantasies for children. Placing him squarely within the center of a strong literary tradition, Martin convincingly shows that a recurrent narrative, describing the strange destiny of a masked prophet who revolts against an empire, runs throughout Verne's Voyages extraordinaires. This theme, Martin argues, illuminates the paradoxes of realism and invention, repression and transgression, and imperialism and anarchy. Verne emerges not only as a key to the political and literary...

It is the summer of 1905 and Jim Stringer is copiloting a special train filled with overheated excursionists headed to Blackpool, the seaside resort on the English coast. At the moment when the train picks up speed, a huge rock comes into view farther down the tracks; it lies directly in their path. Full stop of the engine; full steam ahead with the mystery.
As he did in The Necropolis Railway, Stringer doffs his railway hat and dons his detective s derby, assisted once more by "the wife" and her brilliant detecting skills. Capturing the world of railway stations and locomotives during...

The editors have bridged the gap between scientific rigour and accessi bility to produce a book which helps members of the primary health car e team to fulfil their obligation to identify people with cardiovascul ar risk factors among their patients and set up clinics to help reduce that risk. After chapters on how to recognize the risk factors they a re given practical methods of risk reduction and guidelines for implem entation in practice.