Alexander Wilson was een productieve Engelse auteur, bekend om zijn bijdragen aan het spionagegenre. Onder diverse pseudoniemen creëerde hij talrijke romans die de complexiteit van clandestiene levens en de morele ambiguïteiten van degenen die zich in intriges bevinden, onderzochten. Zijn verhalende stijl bouwde vakkundig spanning op en verkende de psychologische diepten van zijn personages, wat lezers een boeiend inzicht bood in de menselijke natuur onder druk. Wilsons werken vormen overtuigende voorbeelden van spionagefictie uit het begin van de 20e eeuw, gekenmerkt door hun ingewikkelde plots en inzichtelijke portretten.
Since it was first published in 1991, few books have come close to capturing the depth and breadth of Alexander Wilson's innovative ecocultural compendium The Culture of Nature. His work was one of the first of its kind to investigate the ideology of the environment, to critique the future according to Disney, and illustrate that the ways we think, teach, talk about, and construct the natural world are as important a terrain as the land itself. Extensively illustrated and meticulously researched, this edition is exquisitely revised and reissued for the Anthropocene.
Set against the backdrop of the autumn of 1804, this poem captures the beauty and majesty of a journey to the Falls of Niagara. Through vivid imagery and lyrical language, the author reflects on the natural landscape and the experience of walking through the wilderness. The work intertwines personal observation with broader themes of nature's grandeur, evoking a sense of wonder and adventure as the poet navigates both the physical terrain and the emotional landscape of the journey.
The government of Hong Kong has been systematically defrauded of 100 million dollars, state secrets have been sold and funds embezzled. The British Prime Minister asks Sir Leonard Wallace to take up the post of Governor of Hong Kong and uncover the deadly organisation taking hold of the city.
In the third and final Quarantine book, David and Will are alive ... but on the outside of McKinley High. Lucy is the last of the trinity left inside, where Hilary will exact a deadly revenge before taking over McKinley and bringing one final reign of terror to the school before the doors open for good. But the outside world is just as dangerous for carriers of the virus. David and Will are alive, but on the outside of McKinley High, while Lucy is the last of the trinity left inside to deal with Hilary, who will exact revenge before taking over McKinley High. The plot contains vulgarity and graphic violence. Book #3
An intrigue against Britain by Bolshevik agents is strongly suspected at MI6.
Sir Leonard Wallace sends Captain Hugh Shannon, disguised as a professor of
English Literature, to India to get to the bottom of it.
A new speculative ontology of aestheticsIn Aesthesis and Perceptronium , Alexander Wilson presents a theory of materialist and posthumanist aesthetics founded on an original speculative ontology that addresses the interconnections of experience, cognition, organism, and matter. Entering the active fields of contemporary thought known as the new materialisms and realisms, Wilson argues for a rigorous redefining of the criteria that allow us to discriminate between those materials and objects where aesthesis (perception, cognition) takes place and those where it doesn’t. Aesthesis and Perceptronium negotiates between indiscriminately pluralist views that attribute mentation to all things and eliminative views that deny the existence of mentation even in humans. By recasting aesthetic questions within the framework of “epistemaesthetics,” which considers cognition and aesthetics as belonging to a single category that can neither be fully disentangled nor fully reduced to either of its terms, Wilson forges a theory of nonhuman experience that avoids this untenable dilemma. Through a novel consideration of the evolutionary origins of cognition and its extension in technological developments, the investigation culminates in a rigorous reevaluation of the status of matter, information, computation, causality, and time in terms of their logical and causal engagement with the activities of human and nonhuman agents.
In Chicks Unravel Time, editors Deborah Stanish (Whedonistas) and L.M. Myles bring together a host of award-winning female writers, media professionals and scientists to examine each season of new and classic Doctor Who from their unique perspectives.
Extreme Nationalists are fighting to relinquish the British government's power
in Egypt. Secret agent Henderson, deployed to Egypt to assess the trouble,
sends a coded message to say he's on the trail of something big. But there's
been no word since.
Chief of the Intelligence Department Sir Leonard Wallace - bearing always the
hall mark of coolness and wit - is up to his earlobes in trouble. Summoned by
the Viceroy of India, he makes a rapid flight to India to investigate the
mysterious death of British officer Major Elliot and the theft of some very
important dispatches.
