Caribbean And The Making Of The Modern World

Richard Drayton

Lane, Allen

Strawberry Siren

"Strawberry Siren is about relationships, betrayal and an offer that can't be refused. Drayton delivers."~ Angus Morrison, author of Bandwidth  Dr. Katsumi poses an offer that Jackson cannot refuse. Nonetheless, this very offer places Jackson in danger and puts his life as he knows it in jeopardy.Jackson will soon recognize that Dr. Katsumi knows more about his life than he has originally presented and nothing is what it appears to be. With his past lurking in the shadows, marriage threatened, and Dr. Katsumi's plots against him, Jackson is taken on a ride that he has little control over. To discover the truth and the plan of Dr. Katsumi, Jackson will have to unveil the story he has buried, things he has hidden from his wife, and face the past that is ultimately placing his future into a slow demise.  Strawberry Siren is a must read psychological thriller that will capture your mind from the ﬁrst chapter. This book will have readers examine their world,look into our own past and examine our own truth. Strawberry Siren will take you on a 21st Century ride into a well written psychological thriller.  Richard Drayton is entering the literary world by way of his first Novel, Strawberry Siren. The author has written short stories and poetry privately all his life. He is a graduate from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a BA in American Studies.The author is currently working on a sequel to Strawberry Siren.

Literature & Fiction

Dog Ear Publishing, LLC

<p>Natures government is a daring attempt to juxtapose the histories of britain, western science and imperialism it shows how colonial expansion led to complex kinds of knowledge and in particular the way in which science and botany was fed by information culled from exploration of the world science was useful to imperialism as it guided the exploitation of exotic environments and provided legitimacy to conquest it is in this respect that botanic gardens as providers of knowledge, aesthetic perfection and agricultural plenty, became instruments of government, by the late eighteenth century in britain and the british empire at the royal botanic gardens at kew, improving the world became a potent argument for both the patronage of science at home and britains prerogatives abroad this south asian edition has a special introduction by mahesh rangarajan</p>

Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain and the 'Improvement' of the World [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2005] Richard Drayton

History

Europe

Orient Blackswan

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