1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910164087803321

Autore

Caine Leslie

Titolo

Death by Inferior Design / / Leslie Caine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : NYLA, , 2004

ISBN

1-62517-416-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (423 pages)

Disciplina

813.6

Soggetti

Interior decorators

Murder - Investigation

Birthparents

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Sparkles with charm, design lore, and a sleuth with a great mantra. Cozy fans will embrace the Domestic Bliss series." ⁰́₃Carolyn Hart, Edgar Award-winning author of Letters from Home"TREND: For killer decorating tips, pick up Death by Inferior Design ... advice is woven into this whodunit featuring rival designers as sleuths." ⁰́₃House and Garden Magazine"This story is delightful in every way ... entertaining, humorous, serious, and totally engrossing from the first page to the last. And sprinkled throughout are tasty decorating tips." ⁰́₃Midwest Book Review"Her latest decorating job will make you feel like you've stumbled across the deadly side of HGTV." ⁰́₃Jerrilyn Farmer, #1 Los Angeles Times bestselling author of the Madeline Bean mysteriesInterior decorator Erin Gilbert heads to picturesque Crestview, Colorado for a friendly (if sharks are friendly) competition: She'll design a room in one home; and the impossibly handsome Steve Sullivan⁰́₄her main rival⁰́₄will do a room in another. The prize? A big feature in Denver Magazine, showcasing their interior design business.Who could have dreamed the uproar to ensue in a neighborhood full of eccentric homeowners, jealously hidden secrets and a few marriages in need of total makeovers. Trapped together in the midst of chaos, could the charming Steve turn out to be a...friend?But between her custom, cushy pillows and dramatic drapery, Erin uncovers a very undecorative dead



body, too many suspects, and a killer who seems to have designs ... on her!

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792128003321

Autore

Srinivas Smriti

Titolo

In the presence of Sai Baba [[electronic resource] ] : body, city, and memory in a global religious movement / / by Smriti Srinivas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2008

ISBN

1-283-06068-X

9786613060686

90-474-3300-9

Descrizione fisica

xix, 403 p. : ill., maps

Collana

Numen book series : studies in the history of religions, , 0169-8834 ; ; v. 118

Disciplina

294.5/5

Soggetti

Hinduism - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-371) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The mendicant of Shirdi -- The arrival of the Avatar -- The sense of the presence -- Healing, service, and character -- The ideal polis -- Producing space in Bangalore -- Somatic regimes of citizenship in Nairobi -- Sites of sociality in Atlanta.

Sommario/riassunto

The Sai Baba movement, centered on the Indian guru Sathya Sai Baba (b. 1926), today attracts a global following from Japan to South Africa. Regarded as a divine incarnation, Sathya Sai Baba traces his genealogy to Shirdi Sai Baba (d. 1918), a mendicant in colonial India identified with various Sufi and devotional genealogies. The movement, thus, has “roots” in Shirdi Sai Baba but as it globalizes, it has developed conjunctions with other religious traditions, New Religious movements, and New Age ideas. This book offers an account of the Sai Baba movement as a pathway for charting the varied cartographies, sensory formations, and cultural memories implicated in urbanization and globalization. It traverses the terrain between social theories for the study of religion and cities ---themselves a product of modernity---and the radical, creative, and unexpected modernity of contemporary



religious movements. It is based on ethnographic research carried out in India, Kenya, and the US.