Taking as its focus memorials of the First World War in Britain, this book brings a fresh approach to the study of public symbols by exploring how different motives for commemorating the dead were reconciled through the processes of local politics to create a widely valued form of collective expression. It examines how the memorials were produced, what was said about them, how support for them was mobilized and behaviour around them regulated. These memorials were the sites of contested, multiple and ambiguous meanings, yet out of them a united public observance was created. The author...
Taking as its focus memorials of the First World War in Britain, this book brings a fresh approach to the study of public symbols by exploring how ...
Taking as its focus memorials of the First World War in Britain, this book brings a fresh approach to the study of public symbols by exploring how different motives for commemorating the dead were reconciled through the processes of local politics to create a widely valued form of collective expression. It examines how the memorials were produced, what was said about them, how support for them was mobilized and behaviour around them regulated. These memorials were the sites of contested, multiple and ambiguous meanings, yet out of them a united public observance was created. The author...
Taking as its focus memorials of the First World War in Britain, this book brings a fresh approach to the study of public symbols by exploring how ...
An ancient evil. An all too contemporary crime. In the tiny, bucolic town of Greenleaf, Claire Vaughn, beloved high school counselor, is ready to end her immortal life. As the last school day before summer vacation comes to a close, Claire walks into Room 217 with a loaded gun. Ten meticulously chosen teenagers are what she wants. The rest can leave. Now a horrifying waiting game is about to begin ... Claire has been walking the world a long time, hunting for others like her. One of her terrible tribe is right here in Greenleaf, in this very building, wearing a friendly, helpful face over the...
An ancient evil. An all too contemporary crime. In the tiny, bucolic town of Greenleaf, Claire Vaughn, beloved high school counselor, is ready to end ...
It's Christmas Eve and Marion Thomas Nelson's year is improving. The United States won an impromptu skirmish with an unexpected foe, and now he and his wife are on their way to pick up their kids from Grandma's house, where they've been safely stashed away. The future looks bright. But their celebration is cut short when the country is struck by a peculiar plague with extraterrestrial origins-a plague that is causing Americans to grow. Marion and his daughter are among the few unaffected. His wife and son are not. When people start outgrowing the world they built, an increasingly paranoid...
It's Christmas Eve and Marion Thomas Nelson's year is improving. The United States won an impromptu skirmish with an unexpected foe, and now he and hi...
You may think you've heard Marion Thomas Nelson's story before, but you've only heard one version. This is how it happens the second time. In this America, Marion's life is turning a dark corner. His wife is shrinking. His son, too. Only he and his second child, a girl with the same faulty gene as Marion, are exempt. This is not how it's supposed to be. This is not how he remembers it. Some things are the same. Manzanar's dusty gates open the way they did before for its new influx of internees. But there's a mysterious forest near the old war camp that doesn't belong. And soon there's a...
You may think you've heard Marion Thomas Nelson's story before, but you've only heard one version. This is how it happens the second time. In this Ame...
