Chicanery

Academic appointments can bring forth unexpected and unforeseen contests and tensions, cause humiliation and embarrassment for unsuccessful applicants and reveal unexpected allies and enemies. It is also a time when harsh assessments can be made about colleagues’ intellectual abilities and their capacity as a scholar and fieldworker. The assessors’ reports were often disturbingly personal, laying bare their likes and dislikes that could determine the futures of peers and colleagues. Chicanery deals with how the founding Chairs at Sydney, the Australian National University, Auckland and Western Australia dealt with this process, and includes accounts of the appointments of influential anthropologists such as Raymond Firth and Alexander Ratcliffe-Brown.

One, two, Davie's coming for you... As sheriff, I live by a code of honor. A code that doesn't include defiling my little sister's best friend, no matter how badly I may want to. But then the bodies start piling up, turning my small town into a graveyard for a madman. And Trixie, the girl I'm not supposed to want, disappears. Screw the code. Trixie is mine, and there is nothing I won't do — no rule or law I won't break — to get her back. Even as I fight to save my girl, I’m forced to face a horrible truth: Evil has come to Theophilus. And we may not be strong enough to defeat it. This is a girl next door, best friend's brother romance with a killer reeking havoc in their small town.

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