The gripping true story of how Detective Superintendent Julie Mackay brought Melanie Road’s murderer to justice. 
BATH, 1984 
Jean Road, a 49-year-old mother of three, awakens to news that her daughter Melanie has been murdered in a nearby street as she walked home from a club in the early hours. 
Britain’s biggest manhunt begins. A trail of blood is found leading away from the scene. It’s a rare blood type. But despite a year-long inquiry and 94 arrests, the case is wound down. No one is charged with Melanie’s murder. 
AVON & SOMERSET POLICE HQ, 2009 
Detective Sergeant Julie Mackay, a 41-year-old single mother of three who has been overlooked for promotion for years, transfers to the Cold Case Unit. She unearths a file from the original inquiry and becomes hooked by the details: the rare blood type, Bath on a summer’s night, the investigative wrong turns … She takes on the case, and with the help of Melanie’s inspirational mother works tirelessly to rebuild it. 
This is the true story of how she did it.

To Hunt a Killer: The gripping true crime story solving the Melanie Road cold case. Longlisted for the CWA 2023 ALCS Gold Dagger award for non-fiction

MURPHY, ROBERT

Mackay, Julie

Parenting & Relationships

HarperElement

Decoy: The gripping true crime story of one of Britain’s most shocking and secretive historical undercover police operations

History

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The dialectics of social life: Alarms and excursions in anthropological theory

Columbia University Press

Women of the Forest (Columbia Classics in Anthropology)

When it originally appeared, this groundbreaking ethnography was one of the first works to focus on gender in anthropology. The thirtieth anniversary edition of Women of the Forest reconfirms the book's importance for contemporary studies on gender and life in the Amazon. The book covers Yolanda and Robert Murphy's year of fieldwork among the Mundurucú people of Brazil in 1952. The Murphy's ethnographic analysis takes into account the historical, ecological, and cultural setting of the Mundurucú, including the mythology surrounding women, women's work and household life, marriage and child rearing, the effects of social change on the female role, sexual antagonism, and the means by which women compensate for their low social position. The new foreword―written collectively by renowned anthropologists who were all students of the Murphys―is both a tribute to the Murphys and a critical reflection on the continued relevance of their work today.

Murphy, Yolanda

Americas

When it originally appeared, this groundbreaking ethnography was one of the first works to focus on gender in anthropology. The thirtieth anniversary edition of Women of the Forest reconfirms the book's importance for contemporary studies on gender and life in the Amazon. The book covers Yolanda and Robert Murphy's year of fieldwork among the Mundurucú people of Brazil in 1952. The Murphy's ethnographic analysis takes into account the historical, ecological, and cultural setting of the Mundurucú, including the mythology surrounding women, women's work and household life, marriage and child rearing, the effects of social change on the female role, sexual antagonism, and the means by which women compensate for their low social position. The new foreword―written collectively by renowned anthropologists who were all students of the Murphys―is both a tribute to the Murphys and a critical reflection on the continued relevance of their work today.

The Stream

Literature & Fiction

United States

Farrar

The Peregrine Falcon

Houghton/Mifflin

First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Realism and Tinsel (Cinema and Society)

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Routledge

Learning Online: What Research Tells Us About Whether, When and How

At a time when more and more of what people learn both in formal courses and in everyday life is mediated by technology, Learning Online provides a much-needed guide to different forms and applications of online learning. This book describes how online learning is being used in both K-12 and higher education settings as well as in learning outside of school. Particular online learning technologies, such as MOOCs (massive open online courses), multi-player games, learning analytics, and adaptive online practice environments, are described in terms of design principles, implementation, and contexts of use.  Learning Online synthesizes research findings on the effectiveness of different types of online learning, but a major message of the book is that student outcomes arise from the joint influence of implementation, context, and learner characteristics interacting with technology--not from technology alone. The book describes available research about how best to implement different forms of online learning for specific kinds of students, subject areas, and contexts.   Building on available evidence regarding practices that make online and blended learning more effective in different contexts, Learning Online draws implications for institutional and state policies that would promote judicious uses of online learning and effective implementation models. This in-depth research work concludes with a call for an online learning implementation research agenda, combining education institutions and research partners in a collaborative effort to generate and share evidence on effective practices.

Learning Online

Computers & Technology

Means, Barbara

Bakia, Marianne

Software

There was a time when Jack Spot, Billy Hill and Darby Mancini were the household names that the Krays became during the 1960s - from the 1920s until the end of the 1950s the exploits of these characters and their gangs dominated the tabloid headlines. This book tells their story. Personalities such as Ruby Sparkes, the female driver who was known to the media as the "bobbed haired bandit" developed smash and grab into a fine art during the 1920s. Billy Hill, Sparke's protege, graduated from simple breaking and entering to the black market and elaborate "project" crimes to become boss of London's underworld in the 1950s, alongside the East End tough boy Jack Spot.

Smash and Grab: Gangsters in the London Underworld 1920-60

World

Faber&Faber

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