Böcker av Mark Dawson

It is the start of the Easter holidays and Joe is horrified when he learns that his parents are planning to take him to the wedding of some distant relatives he has never met before. Joe's pleas to be left behind fall on deaf ears until his larger-than-life Uncle Jack turns up unexpectedly.The rest of the gang are in the beach hut, contemplating how they will spend the holidays when Joe arrives, full of excitement about his Uncle Jack. He announces that Jack has invited them all on his boat to come on the trip up the coast for a few days.Along the way they see dolphins and seabirds, broads and marshes - and a mysterious figure, covered in mud and looking like a wild man.Who is this wild man? And what is Jack really up to? It's up to the After-School Detective Club to find out...

On holiday in Ireland, it's up to the After School Detective Club to save the day when a valuable race horse goes missing. But what about the legend of the ghostly spirit known as headless horseman?

The third book in Mark Dawson's Atticus Priest crime series. Three men die and three incriminating videos are sent to a local newspaper. Atticus Priest and DCI Mackenzie Jones face a baffling case.

The fourth in a series of gripping adventure stories, perfect for fans of Enid Blyton.Max is distraught when he receives a letter from the school telling him he has to go on a weekend of cycling and camping for the Duke of Wellington awards scheme. But things vastly improve when his friends agree to come with him.It isn't long before they find adventure - or adventure finds them... They make a friend called Byron and set up camp in a forest near to his home. But that night they wake to see strange lights and a fierce wind blowing through the trees. Moments later Byron arrives, running and screaming that 'they' are after him. When the gang follow him, they find his rucksack but no sign of the boy. It looks like Byron has been abducted by a UFO! But surely that's not possible . . . is it?

A fresh, accessible and interdisciplinary take on the subject wishing to engage the reader with the wider context of the EU project. Suitable for one-semester and introductory courses in law, political/social science or European studies at both undergraduate and graduate level.

Skin-tones mattered in early modern England. Indexing health, social status, religious affiliation and national allegiance, they helped explain (away) poverty, colonialism, war and slavery. Drawing physical distinctions as a means to power has a complex history - one belying racism's assumption that such distinctions are natural or timeless. -- .

John Milton finds himself in deep trouble, playing the Russians against the British in a desperate attempt to save the life of his oldest friend. Some ghosts are better left alone. But these two have been disturbed and now there''s going to be hell to pay.

The race is on. The After School Detective Club is on the trail of Ragnar's gold - a hoard of treasure said to have been buried by a Viking warrior and guarded by his demon hound . . . that is, unless someone else gets there first.

Ex-MIC assassin John Milton has started to hope that he might have a future. He has a job driving a taxi around the streets of San Francisco. He has his anonymity and his solitude. But that's all about to change...

When Lucy, Max, Joe, and Charlie and his faithful dog, Sherlock, spot a phantom figure on Southwold beach one winter's night, they are thrown together to unravel a mystery that none of them expected.

John Milton has been off the grid for six months. He surfaces in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and immediately finds himself drawn into a vicious battle with the narco-gangs that control the borderlands.

John Milton is the man the government call when they want a problem to vanish. But what happens when he's the one that needs to disappear?

In spite of a continued increase in the substantive scope and reach of EU fundamental rights, little attention has been paid to their practical enforcement. In this book, Mark Dawson looks at the mechanisms through which EU fundamental rights are protected and enforced, closely examining the interrelation between the EU's pertinent legal and political bodies. He argues that in order to understand EU fundamental rights we must also understand the institutional, political and normative constraints that shape the EU's policies. The book examines the performance of different EU institutions in relation to rights and studies two important policy fields - social rights and rule of law protection - in depth.

The development of non-binding new governance methods has challenged the traditional ideals of EU law by suggesting that soft norms and executive networks may provide a viable alternative. Rather than see law and new governance as oppositional projects, Mark Dawson argues that new governance can be seen as an example of legal 'transformation', in which soft norms and hard law institutions begin to cohabit and interact. He charts this transformation by analysing the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) for Social Inclusion and Protection. While this process illustrates some of the concrete advantages for EU social policy which new governance has brought, it also illustrates their extensive legitimacy challenges. Methods like the OMC have both excluded traditional institutions, such as Courts and Parliaments, and altered the boundaries of domestic constitutional frameworks. The book concludes with some practical suggestions for how a political 'constitutionalisation' of new governance could look.