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Fourteen Publishing with your chest: 2022
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Fantagraphics Books The Woman with Fifty Faces
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Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Unforced Errors 15 Bad Decisions That Changed
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Atlantic Books The Coiled Serpent
Book SynopsisCamilla Grudova lives in Edinburgh. Her fiction has appeared in The White Review and Granta. She is the critically-acclaimed author of The Doll's Alphabet (2017) and Children of Paradise (2022).
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MIT Press Ltd On Liberalism
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Lifeway Church Resources Daring Joy Bible Study Book with Video Access
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Taste of Honey
Book SynopsisA Taste of Honey (1961) is a landmark in British cinema history. In this book, Melanie Williams explores the many, extraordinary ways in which it was trailblazing. It is the only film of the British New Wave canon to have been written by a woman – Shelagh Delaney, adapting her own groundbreaking stage play. At the behest of director Tony Richardson and his company, Woodfall, it was one of the first films to be made entirely on location, and was shot in an innovative, rough, poetic style by cinematographer Walter Lassally. It was also the launchpad for a new type of young female star in Rita Tushingham. Tushingham plays the young heroine, Jo, who finds she is pregnant after her love affair with Jimmy (Paul Danquah), a Black sailor. When Jimmy’s ship sails away, Jo is comforted and supported by her gay friend Geoff (Murray Melvin), while her unreliable mother, Helen (Dora Bryan), has her own life to lead. Candid in its treatment of matters of gender, class, ethnicity, sexuality and motherhood, and highly distinctive in its evocation of place and landscape, A Taste of Honey marked the advent of new possibilities for the telling of working-class stories in British cinema. As such, its rich but complex legacy endures to this day.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Tasting Much Sweeter Than Wine 1. Hivemind: Origins and Production of the Film 2. Into the Film: A Young Woman’s Prospects 3. ‘This is the place’: An Interlude on Location, Landscape and Local Knowledge 4. Unique, Young, Unrivalled, Smashing: Jo’s Progress 5. Is There Honey Still for Tea?: Assessing the Film’s Legacy Notes Credits
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Little, Brown Book Group The Double Tax
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Sentient Publications HeartAches
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers The Gender Deck: 100 Cards for Conversations
Book SynopsisThis unique pack of 100 cards provides a useful tool to help guide conversations about gender identity in individual, group, family, professional and school settings.With vibrant and inclusive designs, the four color-coded categories - consisting of reflective questions, interactive activities, interview-style questions and supportive questions - are designed to prompt and encourage deep, reflective and supportive discussions about topics related to gender identity, gender expression and relationships. Developed by a renowned trans-identified psychotherapist, and with an accompanying guidebook instructing users on different formats and activities in which the cards can be used, this card deck is an ideal resource for professionals working with trans, non-binary and/or queer clients to have in their therapeutic toolkit.Trade ReviewTalking about gender can be challenging, whether it's in therapy, at home, or at school. This deck offers useful prompts for conversation alongside ideas for how to play with it and guidelines to ensure thoughtful moderation. It's also beautifully illustrated! A great tool for a broad range of ages, which can be used in almost any setting. -- Alex Iantaffi, PhD, MS, SEP, CST, LMFT Award-winning Author of "Gender Trauma: healing, cultural, social, and historical gendered trauma" & "How To Understand Your GenderTable of Contents1. Reflective Cards 2. Activity Cards3. Interview Cards4. Supportive CardsUser guide
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Crooked Lane Books Parents Have Feelings Too
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AK Press Black Blocks, White Squares: Crosswords With An
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Edith Summerskill
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Augsburg Fortress Publishers In Guns We Trust
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Orphans Publishing Geezers: Up Close and Personal: On Camp with the
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Running Press Book Publishers Wacky Waving Inflatable Tube Guy Deluxe Edition
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Running Press Book Publishers New Years Eve Mini Ball Drop
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Saqi Books Walking on Thin Air: A Life’s Journey in 99 Steps
Book SynopsisGeoff Nicholson has been walking his whole life. Wherever he is and wherever he goes in the world, he walks and writes about what he sees and feels. Here he reflects on the nature of walking, why we do it, how it benefits us and, in some cases, how it can damage and even destroy us. His recent diagnosis with a rare, incurable form of cancer has made him all too aware of his own mortality. Sooner or later there will be a last step, a last excursion, a final drift, for him just as there will be for all of us. Geoff vows to continue to walk for as long as he can. This moving, vital book describes his own walks and relates them to the walks of street photographers, artists and writers, such as Garry Winogrand, Diane Arbus, Sophie Calle, Jorge Luis Borges and Virginia Woolf, among many others. Walking on Thin Air is a book about mortality and, above all, a celebration of being alive.Trade Review'This pithy, erudite yet resolutely unpretentious book is a celebration of the invigorating, inspiring pleasures of strolling just for the sake of it.' * Buzzmag *
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Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Western Democracy The First Mover Disadvantage
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Skyhorse Publishing Total Load Theory
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CoramBAAF Attachment, Trauma and Resilience
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MIT Press Ltd Privacys Defender
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Taylor & Francis Observation Assessment Planning and Documentation in the Early Years The What So What Now What Approach
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HarperCollins Publishers 100 Children's Books: that inspire our world
Book Synopsis An amazing guide to some of the most beloved, original, inspiring, hysterical, heart-warming, compelling, rude and downright scary books that have enchanted children the world over. In 100 Children's Books That Inspired Our World, author Colin Salter surveys an exceptional collection of truly groundbreaking children's books – from Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer to the graphic novels of Dr. Seuss. All the classic children's authors are represented with one stand-out book, plus mentions for their best-known works. Ordered chronologically, the book showcases favourite children's books ranging from Victorian classics to modern day bestsellers. Books featured include: Alice in Wonderland, Treasure Island, Charlotte's Web, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Matilda, Watership Down, Tales of Hans Christian Anderson, Grimms Fairy Tales, Peter Pan, A Bear Called Paddington, The Snowman, The Secret Garden, How to Train Your Dragon, Anne of Green Gables, Harry Potter, James and the Giant Peach, The Gruffalo, Mr Men, Coraline, Herge's Adventures of TinTin, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Finn Family Moomintroll, Swiss Family Robinson, Heidi, The Hobbit, The Red Balloon, The Jungle Book, Mary Poppins, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, His Dark Materials, The Railway Children, Noddy, The House at Pooh Corner, The Sheep Pig, Stig of the Dump, Fungus the Bogeyman, Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, Secret Seven, Famous Five, Black Beauty, The Diary of a Young Girl, The Boy in Striped Pyjamas, Artemis Fowl and many more who lived happily ever after.Trade Review'Reveals how children’s literature has changed over time, from earnest instruction to playful adventure... includes bright covers and lively descriptions of beloved children’s books from 1697 to 2011.' -- Alexandra Wolfe, * The Wall Street Journal *'The is the most fantastic book - inspiring, interesting, reflective, nostalgic, informative and attractive.' * Juno magazine *'This is a lovely keepsake for book lovers who can look back on the stories that shaped their childhoods (and adulthood!). It is also a nice gift for children who can discover some “new” books, or learn about the authors who wrote some of their favourites.' * Picture Book Perfect blog *'Great for suggestions of books and extracts which would be worth using in the classroom; I want children in my class to see how brilliant some older texts can also be… This is an ideal book for any lover of children’s books and literature.' * Teacher Bookworm blog *'A beautiful selection of old and new books ... A real keepsake book' -- The Green Parent magazine'This is a lovely keepsake for book lovers who can look back on the stories that shaped their childhoods (and adulthood!). It is also a nice gift for children who can discover some “new” books, or learn about the authors who wrote some of their favourites.' * Picture Book Perfect blog *
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Double 9 Books LLP The Salvaging of Civilization
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Double 9 Books As a Matter of Course
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HopeRoad Publishing Ltd IN THE COMPANY OF MEN: The Ebola Tales
Book SynopsisTwo boys venture from their village to hunt in a nearby forest, where they shoot down bats with glee, and cook their prey over an open fire. Within a month, they are dead, bodies ravaged by an insidious disease that neither the local healer's potions nor the medical team's treatments could cure. Compounding the family's grief, experts warn against touching the sick. But this caution comes too late: the virus spreads rapidly, and the boys' father is barely able to send his eldest daughter away for a chance at survival.Trade ReviewA powerful poetic ode to life in a country of ancient customs, ravaged by death..A magnificent and essential text' Le Figaro;'A powerful poetic ode to life in a country of ancient customs, ravaged by death. A magnificent and essential text' Le Figaro; '[Tadjo] intertwines facts, well-known songs, legends, poems, fictionalized testimonials, and documentary prose in the stirring orality of this novel to give voice to the humanitarian disaster.Realistic, painterly and poetic, the impeccably structured polyvocal novel registers the urgency, despair, commitment, dedication and solidarity that Ebola provokes and leaves one shivering' World Literature Today
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Pan India Powershift
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Bloomsbury Academic Problems from Philosophy
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Goldsmiths, Unversity of London Making the World Clean
Book SynopsisAn antiracist theory of cleaning.In Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment, and Racial Capitalism, Françoise Vergès examines the racial and gendered politics of wasting lands, bodies, and resources and the organized deprivation of clean water, shelter, and access to health services?in other words, the structural denial, along racial lines, of vital needs. Through 38 short sections, she looks at the social relations that have made cleaning into drudgery and into a racialized, gendered, poorly paid job that is nevertheless necessary for any society to function. She concludes with the proposition of a feminist, decolonial, antiracist, anti-patriarchal, and anti-capitalist politics of cleaning. Or, simply put, of ?decolonial cleaning.?To Vergès, the structural denial of the elemental needs of women of color (sanitary pads, access to water, and privacy for basic washing), and why these needs are considered insignificant and trivial, shows how racism and class war are gendered. By examining the banal, the trivial, and the elemental, the author addresses cleaning as a necessity rather than the maintenance of a consumerist lifestyle, a condition of basic care of the body and the mind that is considered with indifference by racial capitalism, white environmentalism, and even, too often, by humanitarian organizations. She argues that by building ?life-affirming institutions,? as Ruth Wilson Gilmore advocates, struggles against the whitening of cleaning create sites of freedom. ?Decolonial cleaning? imagines cleaning as taking care of land, humans, plants, animals, and rivers, not seeking to discipline them or transform them into commodities or objects of conservation but cleaning as a practice dedicated to sustaining the living world.
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Bloomsbury Academic Andres Manuel Lopez Obradors Administration in Mexico
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Bloomsbury Academic The Road to the White House 2024
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Lawrence & Wishart Ltd On Burnley Road: Class, Race and Politics in a
Book SynopsisWhat was happening in Burnley Town Hall when the British National Party was winning and holding seats there? What lay behind the far right’s advance, and what effect did it have on local government and wider policy trends? How did mainstream parties respond? This is the inside story of these developments, written by the council worker responsible for promoting good race relations in Burnley during the turbulent years following the ‘northern town disturbances’ of 2001. The book connects the story of one Lancashire town to contemporary social divisions and political trends across the UK: - The rise of right-wing populism, widespread antipathy to immigration, and a deep distrust of established politicians - The success of Boris Johnson's Conservatives in offering nationalism as an answer to some people's sense of abandonment in deindustrialised areas - Labour’s attempts to ‘reconnect’ and win back support in northern constituencies like Burnley, which voted 67 per cent for Brexit and was one of the ‘red wall’ seats that Labour lost at the 2019 general election. On Burnley Road is both a remarkable example of granular social history and an urgent contribution to current debates on issues which affect us all. MakinWaite’s perspectives on political identities, multiculturalism, and the potential of ‘civic mediation’ will interest anyone who is looking for effective ways forward to overcome racism and inequality, and to rebuild our democratic culture.Table of ContentsForeword by Professor Claire Alexander 1. Introduction: riots in retrospect 2. What we learned in the Weavers’ Triangle 3. How political space gets created 4. When tomorrow belonged to them 5. 'How do we get back to normal?' 6. Cohesion in context 7. 'How do we handle the BNP?' 8. From Belfast to Burnley 9. Mapping future options 10. From Burnley to Brexit … and beyond Roundtable discussion: Rushanara Ali MP, Jo Broadwood, Deborah Grayson, Professor Anoop Nayak
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State University of New York Press Desire beyond Identity
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State University of New York Press Unscripting the Present
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GINGKO The Idea of Persia
Book SynopsisThe book explores the notion of what it is to be Persian and the idea of Persia as a means of investigating the soul of this fascinating nation.
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Bloomsbury Academic No Method to the Madness
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Bloomsbury Academic Welcome
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Urbanomic Media Ltd Philosophy of the Tourist
Book SynopsisAn inventive philosophical study that reconsiders the figure of the tourist.Tourism is a characteristically modern phenomenon, yet modern thinkers have tended to deride the tourist as a figure of homogenizing globalism. This philosophical study considers the tourist anew, as a subject position that enables us to redraw the map of globalized culture in an era increasingly in revolt against the liberal intellectual worldview and its call for the welcome of the "Other." Why has the tourist proved so resistant to philosophical treatment, asks Hiroki Azuma. Tracing the reasons for this exclusion through the work of Rousseau and Voltaire, and subsequently in Kant, Carl Schmitt, Alexandre Kojève, Hannah Arendt, and Hardt and Negri, Azuma contends that the figure of the tourist has been rendered illegible by becoming ensnared in a series of misleading conceptual dichotomies and a linear model of world history. In the widening gap between the infrastructure of globalization and inherited ties of local and national belonging, Azuma’s retheorization of the tourist presents an alternative to the choice between doubling down on local identity and roots, or hoping for the spontaneous uprising of a multitude from within the great networked Empire. For the tourist is the subject capable of moving most freely between the strata of the global and the local. With explorations of the connection between tourism and fan fiction, contingency and "misdelivery," cyberspace and the uncanny, and dark tourism, Azuma’s inventive and optimistic philosophical essay sheds unexpected new light on a mode of engagement with the world that is familiar to us all.
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Turner Publishing Company Be a Good Man Not a Nice Guy
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Haymarket Books Understanding Socialism
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Actes Sud Memoria: Tales of a different History
Book SynopsisMemoria: stories from another History is the idea of a collective memory made up of a myriad of stories, stories, questions and experiences scattered in our individual and personal memories. Revealed here, through the works of artists whose work refers to the (re) construction of a common whole, a universal whole, which renews our look at contemporary creation from Africa and its diasporas. Featuring fourteen artists who's work stand out for their desire to move the boundaries of art, to “bring together elsewhere” and to show the diversity of our common individual and ultimately collective histories. The selected works explore painting, textiles, sculpture, video and even performance. They make up a journey that echoes on the one hand a demystified reading of parts of history and commonly disclosed beliefs about the African continent, and on the other hand the way in which the devices of imaginary stories are still in the making. work, particularly in the economic and resource redistribution fields. Through this multiplicity of mediums, the works deliver their essence and show us artists with engaged practice, strong in their narrative power, anchored in their fluctuating geographies and in their time. By questioning our thought mechanisms, Memoria: stories from another History intends to open a discussion on our ability to renew our knowledge, to listen to different stories and to (re) question stereotypes and received ideas.
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Augsburg Fortress Publishers Never Wear Red Lipstick
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Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Evolving with the Infinite
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Transcript Verlag Digital Warfare
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Bombardier Books America in the 21st Century
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Pegasus Books Injustice Town
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