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Cuerpos en los márgenes discursos culturales sobre género e identidad
Desde las interpretaciones platónicas dualistas en las que cuerpo y alma son dos entidades distintas hasta las reflexiones existencialistas de la fenomenología que entienden el cuerpo como la materialización del ser, la concepción de la corporalidad ha sido objeto de estudio de las diferentes ramas del conocimiento a lo largo de la historia. Sin embargo, no es hasta las últimas décadas del siglo XX cuando se empieza a hablar del cuerpo como elemento de reivindicación o herramienta para la disidencia de la mano de autoras como Judith Butler y, más adelante, con nombres como Jack Halberstam, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore o Finn Mackay. El sistema binario de género vigente en nuestra sociedad, así como la idea de que el cuerpo debe corresponderse con una serie de claves definitorias impuestas, nos lleva a reflexionar sobre las realidades de dos tipos de cuerpos. Por un lado, las experiencias de los individuos que se ajustan a dicha norma y, por otro, las de aquellos que se sitúan en los már
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Memento Urbanismo 2022
El Memento Urbanismo 2022 es la obra de consulta más directa y eficaz, pues ofrece al instante soluciones concretas sobre todas las materias relacionadas con el urbanismo y la ordenación del territorio. Encontrarás en un solo volumen, estructurada, clarificada y totalmente actualizada, toda la dispersa normativa aplicable en esta materia.En el Memento se aborda tanto la normativa estatal como la dictada por cada una de las comunidades autónomas, haciéndose especial hincapié en el encaje de la legislación autonómica con la legislación estatal del suelo, así como en los procesos de reforma de aquella para adaptarse a esta.Cuando la ocasión lo requiere, lo que sucede frecuentemente, atendida la fecha de la reforma de que se trate, el estudio del régimen aplicable se analiza por comparativa entre la norma anterior y la vigente, con expresión de diferencias de tratamiento y fechas relevantes de aplicación.Se incorpora, además, la última jurisprudencia relativa a las instituciones y
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Guías Azules de España, S.A. Tallinn y Riga
Los turistas encontrarán por tanto tres países muy similares pero diferentes a la vez en cuanto a personalidad y concepción de la vida. Como norma general, se podría decir que sus tres capitales, Vilnius, Riga y Tallinn, son sus principales focos de interés cultural y turístico y que los tres países cuentan igualmente con un patrimonio natural muy interesante. Las opciones para el turista son, por tanto, muchas y variadas: en primer lugar, por número de visitantes, aquellos que llegan en los numerosos cruceros que navegan por el Báltico y países escandinavos, haciendo escala en Riga y Tallinn o Klaipeda en Lituania. Por otro lado los que se interesan por conocer unos países modernos en plena transformación y que no dudan a la hora de introducirse en ?zonas más profundas? y en tercer lugar, aquellos que quieren disfrutar de unos días de completo descanso y relajación, turistas procedentes principalmente de los países nórdicos y Rusia, clientes de los grandes complejos hoteleros donde se
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El desistimiento en la tentativa y el delito imposible Spanish Edition
En la presente monografía, se destacan los cimientos al Estado Social democrático. El Estado Español lejos de aplicar venganza, busca redimir a sus ciudadanos, a tal punto que se caracteriza por la justicia y libertad mediante la no punición del desistimiento, no obstante en lo referente al principio de legalidad, se hace notar que el desistimiento punitivo seria violentar la norma que lo presenta como no punitivo y por ende violentaría este principio, que vendría siendo contrario a la justicia, ya que constituiría plagar las cárceles de delincuentes que pueden redimir su pena con trabajos sociales, lo cual denota una visión garantista de reconocimiento pleno de derechos expresada por el autor.De igual forma en el capítulo siete, denominado: Delito Imposible; se da una reseña histórica del delito imposible, para consecuentemente abordar su naturaleza, marcando las diferencias con otras figuras delictivas, así como una explicación de la regulación jurídica; y lo trascendental del entend
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Penguin Books Ltd The Berry Pickers
''For fans of Celeste Ng and Ann Patchett, this quietly beautiful book will break, then mend, your heart'' Amazon, The Best Books of 2023WINNER OF THE 2023 BARNES & NOBLE DISCOVER PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2024 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION***One family's deepest pain. Another's darkest secret. Who will they be when the truth comes out?On a hot day in 1960s Maine, six-year-old Joe watches his little sister Ruthie, sitting on her favourite rock at the edge of the blueberry fields, while their family, Mi'kmaq people from Nova Scotia, pick fruit. That afternoon, Ruthie vanishes without a trace. As the last person to see her, Joe will be forever haunted by grief, guilt, and the agony of imagining how his life could have been.In an affluent suburb nearby, Norma is growing up as the only child of unhappy parents. She is smart, precocious, and bursting with questions she isn't allowed to ask questions ab
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd American Costume Jewelry: Art & Industry, 1935-1950, A-M
This encyclopedic study is the fruit of twenty years of collecting, research, and study of the most significant American costume jewelry from 1930-1950. It offers readers a meticulous, reliable instrument to knowing these gems, which are often true and proper little works of art. In the two volumes, over 966 photographs show hundreds of jewelry items in full color, with an additional 729 illustrations of patents, advertisements, and historic photos. Thirty-seven companies are included, with addtional chapters on "jelly belly" jewelry and patriotic jewelry in the second volume. In-depth research of the companies makes this the best source on the American costume jewelry industry. The first volume, A-M, covers the companies from Accessocraft to Mosell, and includes Boucher, Coro, Eisenberg, Miriam Haskell, Hobe and others. The second volume N-Z, continues with Norma Jewelry Corp., through Rebajes, Réja, Trifari, to Uncas Manufacturing, with chapters on jelly belly jewelry and American patriotic jewelry.
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Cornerstone The Palace Girls: A captivating historical fiction novel perfect for fans of The Crown and Downton Abbey.
‘Downtown fans will enjoy this well-crafted novel’ Choice Magazine ________________________________Buckingham Palace, 1951The nation is on the road to recovery after World War Two. And so is Milly Hendry.When her parents were killed in the Blitz, she was taken in by her aunt who works in the prestigious Royal Army of Cleaners. Buckingham Palace has since become like home to Milly, and the people she works with like family.Though tensions in the palace are rising as the King's health is declining, the staff gather below-stairs to celebrate Milly's 21st birthday. But her day quickly takes a turn when some unexpected post arrives.Could a letter containing secrets from the past change Milly's whole future?________________________________Praise for The Palace Girls: 'Breathtaking, richly atmospheric, and totally immersive' Andie Newton'An engrossing, emotional read' Betty Walker‘A treasure trove of fascinating historical detail' Lesley Eames‘A clever, pertinent and enjoyable read’ Jenny Holmes'Five stars!' Norma Curtis ‘Intriguingly romantic’ Peterborough Review
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Union Square & Co. DeadEndia: The Watcher's Test
From the creator of Netflix original series Dead End: Paranormal Park comes the graphic novel series that started it all! “DeadEndia is immediately appealing with its colorful art, unique setting, and funny jokes, but I especially loved the complicated emotional arcs of the characters and the weird, spooky magic underlying everything!” —Molly Knox Ostertag, creator of The Witch Boy “Heart-warming, heartbreaking, heart-pounding, and heartfelt!" —Marika McCoola, The New York Times bestselling author of Baba Yaga’s Assistant Barney Guttman’s life has been turned upside down. His family is struggling to fully embrace his trans identity, but thanks to his best friend Norma, he’s just landed a job at Phoenix Parks, a Dollywood-esque amusement park inspired by the long life and career of mysteriously youthful actress and singer Pauline Phoenix. Soon, Barney and his dog, Pugsley, secretly move into the haunted house attraction. Little does Barney know, the house contains a portal to the demonic planes of Hell. When Courtney, Barney’s devilish new roommate, invites a demon king to Earth through the portal, they offer Barney and Norma as flesh vessels for the king, but in a strange twist, Pugsley is possessed instead! It’s a race through the park to save Pugsley—and the world—from the demon king’s reign of terror that leaves Pugsley with strange and magical side effects. With all of this chaos going on, Barney is also discovering he has crush on park employee, Logan, so he must face his biggest fear of all… talking to someone he likes. Follow the lives of this diverse group of friends in this hilarious and moving graphic novel series, complete with talking pugs, vengeful ghosts, and first love. Part workplace comedy, part supernatural horror adventure, with a splash of LGBTQ+ romance, The Watcher’s Test is perfect for fans of author Hamish Steele’s TV series Dead End: Paranormal Park who are in search of more adventures, for graphic novel lovers who want more diversity in their reads, or simply as an introduction to the zany, creative, and laugh-out-loud funny world of DeadEndia.
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El niño con el pijama de rayas
El libro que conmovió a millones de lectores.Estimado lector, estimada lectora:Aunque el uso habitual de un texto como éste es describir las características de la obra, por una vez nos tomaremos la libertad de hacer una excepción a la norma establecida. No sólo porque el libro que tienes en tus manos es muy difícil de definir, sino porque estamos convencidos de que explicar su contenido estropearía la experiencia de la lectura. Creemos que es importante empezar esta novela sin saber de qué trata.No obstante, si decides embarcarte en la aventura, debes saber que acompañarás a Bruno, un niño de nueve años, cuando se muda con su familia a una casa junto a una cerca. Cercas como ésa existen en muchos sitios del mundo, sólo deseamos que no te encuentres nunca con una. Por último, cabe aclarar que este libro no es sólo para adultos; también lo pueden leer, y sería recomendable que lo hicieran, niños a partir de los trece años de edad.El editorLa crítica ha di
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La nueva era de la anomala
En una época de constante transformación y de transición entre paradigmas, la incertidumbre y la complejidad anuncian una nueva Era de la Anomalía, en la que lo singular y lo anormal será la norma dominante, de manera que la anomalía se convertirá en (n)omalía. No es el fin del mundo, sino el comienzo de un nuevo mundo.Esta nueva era exige revisitar conceptos como innovación y competitividad. Necesitamos revisitar la innovación, que es en sí misma transformación, desde la perspectiva de un mundo protagonizado por personas.Así, llegamos al propósito de las fuerzas a poner en marcha para progresar, que no es otro que el bienestar de las personas y, por añadidura, de las sociedades. El gran debate pendiente del bienestar se relaciona con el concepto de bienestar que consensuemos y plantea la cuestión de medir el progreso. Y necesitamos ir más allá del PIB, lo que supone un desafío a la competitividad.De todo esto trata este libro. De transformación del mundo, de las personas y
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Editorial Hispano Europea S.A. Adiestra a tu perro en positivo Train your Dog Positively El camino para conseguir buenos perros The Road to Raise Good Dogs
El camino para conseguir "buenos perros" Este es el mensaje que nos manda el autor antes de empezar a trabajar con este manual. La mayoría de las veces el problema radica en la comunicación, como no, al igual que con los seres humanos la comunicación es primordial. Como no hay dos perros iguales, no puede existir una norma fija de educación; hay que tener en cuenta las necesidades, las circunstancias y la etapa de vida de nuestro perro. En este libro y DVD vas a encontrar información sobre la educación canina. No es un trabajo más sobre el tema, sino una visión muy diferente y a la vez muy eficaz. Durante años se ha hablado sobre los problemas que para las personas genera la convivencia con los perros, aludiendo a etiquetas como que son agresivos, destructivos, maleducados, hiperactivos. Este libro y DVD nos enseña, desde el punto de vista canino, el problema que les genera a los perros la convivencia con nosotros, de forma que podamos tratarlos con otro prisma: desde la comprensión, l
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Cocina para niños. Consia que coman de todo
* Una hoja de ruta alcanzable para aquellos padres y madres cuyos hijos se muestran quisquillosos con la comida.* Una guía a través de un programa de cinco fases en el que se abordan los problemas a la hora de comer de una manera holística, se vincula la imaginación con los alimentos y se sitúa a los padres al lado de sus hijos, y no contra ellos.* 70 recetas para toda la familia: inusuales, a veces desafiantes, y siempre deliciosas."Emily ha logrado combinar su conocimiento de madre y su pasión por la comida para brindarnos un libro de cocina excelente y realmente útil". [Priya Tew, galardonada nutricionista, dietista colegiada, máster en Ciencias]Conozca una nueva forma de abordar las comidas familiares, una guía que ayudará a los padres y madres en su lucha continua para seducir a los comensales más quisquillosos y hacer de lo nuevo la norma. Una aventura que le llevará a cambiar su forma de ver la comida y que, mucho más allá de las recetas que descubra en este libro,
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McFarland & Co Inc The Assoluta Voice in Opera, 1797-1847
It is unusual for styles in opera to carry over from one era into another. It would be even more unusual for one era's characteristics to linger two generations into the next. Yet this is precisely what happened during the first half of the nineteenth century, when the intricacies of the fleet bel canto style were combined with the Romantic era's heroic declamation and formidable orchestral emphasis resulting in the creation of the assoluta voice.This work traces the emergence of the impressive vocal writing that resulted from the marriage of the bel canto and Romantic eras. It also covers the uniquely versatile divas who were given the opportunities to make their mark on opera from the time of Cherubini to that of a young Verdi. Here, both the wide-ranging vocalism in the scores themselves and the artists capable of performing this style are referred to as assoluta. The chapters consider Luigi Cherubini's ""Medee"", Gioacchino Rossini's ""Armida"", Carl Maria von Weber's ""Oberon"", Gaetano Donizetti's ""Anna Bolena"", Vincenzo Bellini's ""Norma"", Donizetti's ""Gemma di Vergy"" and ""Roberto Devereux"", the time of transition in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and Giuseppe Verdi's ""Nabucco"" and ""Macbeth"".
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Cornerstone Marilyn Monroe: The Biography
MARILYN MONROE is the most celebrated and controversial female icon of the 20th century. At last, Donald Spoto has produced an acclaimed biography worthy of this extraordinary and unforgettable star.With access to more than 35,000 pages of formerly sealed documents and interviews with 150 people who have never spoken on record before, Spoto's definitive biography reveals the truth behind the myths and speculations surrounding Marilyn's life and death. He exposes the falsehoods and casts new light on every aspect of Marilyn Monroe's 36 years: her dramatic childhood; her marriages; her relationships with movie moguls; politicians, poets, artists and statesmen. But most astonishing of all, he presents the reality of her death - more horrifying than anything a Hollywood screenwriter could have devised.Moving, often shocking, always absorbing, Marilyn Monroe will stand as the ultimate and compulsively readable biography of the woman who continues to enthrall millions.'Not just sensational, but sensationally good' - Sunday Telegraph'At long last Marilyn Monroe has found her knight in shining armour...[her] true story has been revealed' - Daily Mirror'An impressive reminder of the tough, triumphalist Norma Jean...for once she has a biographer worthy of her' - JULIE BURCHILL, Sunday Times
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Hardie Grant Books (UK) Make it Vegan: Simple Plant-based Recipes for Everyone
Make It Vegan aims to make vegan food accessible to everyone. Whether you’re looking to up your fruit and veg intake, a flexitarian, vegan curious or taking that leap from vegetarian to full-on vegan, this book will bring flavoursome, fool proof and fuss-free meals to your table – whatever your budget. Social-media sensation Madeleine Olivia has spent years developing delicious dishes and sharing them with her followers on YouTube and Instagram. She is here to teach you how to cook a variety of tasty, simple and affordable meals taking you from breakfast right through to lunch and dinner (with some sweet treats thrown in for good measure!). With 59 recipes, including Plant-based Pain au Chocolat, Baked One-pan Scramble, Pasta all Norma, Firecracker Tofu Nuggets, Fluffy Lemon Sponge Cake and Caramel Truffles, Madeleine will show you that the vegan way of life can be exciting, easy and mouth-wateringly good. With each recipe accompanied by a full-colour photo, Make It Vegan will provide plentiful options for mealtimes, making it easy for you to achieve and maintain a more plant-based lifestyle. Make It Vegan will be a constant companion on your vegan journey.
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Horda
En un mundo donde, a fuerza de pervertirlas, las palabras han perdido su significado, los niños se han hecho con el poder y han instaurado el silencio como norma. Junto a esa imposición han creado una religión de la imagen, cifrada en un monumental dispositivo que emite estímulos visuales sin descanso, y persiguen cualquier manifestación verbal o escrita. En esa realidad sorda y muda, alguien llamado Él (no hay nombres propios en esta fábula) intenta hallar un sentido a la existencia amparado por tres compañeros singulares: un libro, un mono y la risa.Ricardo Menéndez Salmón concentra en esta novela los grandes temas que han marcado su obra a lo largo de los años, como la pérdida de sentido del discurso colectivo, la muerte de la palabra, el legado que dejamos a los que nos sobreviven y cómo la tecnología nos transforma y nos convierte en otra especie de humanos. Intensa, estimulante e impecablemente escrita, Horda es una parábola y, como tal, aspira a contener una lección mo
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Ediciones Paraninfo, S.A Instalaciones elctricas comerciales e industriales Resolucin de casos prcticos 7 edicin Spanish Edition
Esta nueva edición incluye grandes novedades, con contenidos mucho más amplios desde el punto de vista eléctrico y práctico para el lector. Entre ellas destacamos la inclusión de la ITC BT 52, aprobada por el R. D. 1053/2014; la nueva norma UNE-HD 60364-5-52 (de diciembre de 2014), de Intensidades admisibles de los conductores, lo que ha supuesto un cambio sustancial en los cálculos eléctricos; se han completado y ampliado los capítulos de cálculos eléctricos, acorde con las guías técnicas del REBT; y, en el caso de las hojas Excel, se han diseñado de manera sencilla para facilitar su manejo e introducción de datos, a lo que se añade la posibilidad de imprimir de forma muy rápida todos los cálculos necesarios, además de la documentación de los certificados y las memorias eléctricas. Instalaciones eléctricas comerciales e industriales se divide en cuatro partes. En la primera parte se ofrece una síntesis de la teoría del REBT; en la segunda parte, se describen y exponen los cálculos elé
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Les Editorial Insólitas relatos de autoras de ciencia ficción y fantasía LGBT
Vexel (Fani Álvarez): Mara y Gwen han contratado un Vexel, un cuerpo sintético que funciona de soporte físico para un sistema de transferencia de consciencia en tiempo real con el que quieren darle a Gwen una oportunidad para recuperar su vida anterior. Amor de espinas (Celia Añó): Nat ha tenido un encuentro que parece de cuento. Y, sin embargo, a ella no le ha hecho ni pizca de gracia. Ahora tiene un mago en su casa que insiste en recordarle una parte de su adolescencia que ella ha enterrado para siempre. Anomalía (Isabel Collazo): Las anomalías deben ser erradicadas. En la Era de la Perfección no tienen cabida; los sentimientos se han eliminado y el ser humano por fin ha sido mejorado. Leira no ha dejado de huir desde hace demasiado tiempo. Ahora regresa a casa. Por Naren. Todo ha sido siempre por ella. La reliquia del Titán (Mar Hernández): Kaeldris ha nacido con la bendición de los Guardianes y por tradición debe formarse en la Escuela de los Elegidos. Detesta esta norma, así que n
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Lonely Heart. Escucha a tu corazón Scarlet Luck 1
Por la autora de las series AGAIN y SAVE. Más de 3 millones de lectores.No estaban destinados a conocerse, pero la música lo cambió todo.El programa de radio que Rosie Hart presenta en Los Ángeles está dando sus frutos, y, tras mucho trabajo, Scarlet Luck, la boyband del momento, ha aceptado que Rosie la entreviste, con una única norma: prohibido el contacto físico. Ella, fiel seguidora del grupo, conoce muy bien el motivo: el batería, apodado Beast, lleva años sin permitir que nadie le toque. Pero las desgracias existen y Rosie acaba sufriendo terribles ataques de odio en las redes sociales.Cuando todo se desmorona a su alrededor coincide de nuevo con Beast, y, al mirarle a los ojos, en ellos descubre a Adam, el chico solitario y atormentado que se esconde tras el apodo. A partir de ese momento, ambos sienten una conexión que los empuja a mantener el contacto. Un contacto que para Beast puede ser peligroso, tanto como para el corazón de Rosie.
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Indiana University Press Decolonial Voices: Chicana and Chicano Cultural Studies in the 21st Century
The interdisciplinary essays in Decolonial Voices discuss racialized, subaltern, feminist, and diasporic identities and the aesthetic politics of hybrid and mestiza/o cultural productions. This collection represents several key directions in the field: First, it charts how subaltern cultural productions of the US/ Mexico borderlands speak to the intersections of "local," "hemispheric," and "globalized" power relations of the border imaginary. Second, it recovers the Mexican women's and Chicana literary and cultural heritages that have been ignored by Euro-American canons and patriarchal exclusionary practices. It also expands the field in postnationalist directions by creating an interethnic, comparative, and transnational dialogue between Chicana and Chicano, African American, Mexican feminist, and U.S. Native American cultural vocabularies. Contributors include Norma Alarcón, Arturo J. Aldama, Frederick Luis Aldama, Cordelia Chávez Candelaria, Alejandra Elenes, Ramón Garcia, María Herrera-Sobek, Patricia Penn Hilden, Gaye T. M. Johnson, Alberto Ledesma, Pancho McFarland, Amelia María de la Luz Montes, Laura Elisa Pérez, Naomi Quiñonez, Sarah Ramirez, Rolando J. Romero, Delberto Dario Ruiz, Vicki Ruiz, José David Saldívar, Anna Sandoval, and Jonathan Xavier Inda.
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Skyhorse Publishing The Science of Women in Horror: The Special Effects, Stunts, and True Stories Behind Your Favorite Fright Films
From scream queens to femmes fatale, horror isn’t just for the boys. Gothic media moguls Meg Hafdahl and Kelly Florence, authors of The Science of Monsters, and co-hosts of the Horror Rewind podcast called “the best horror film podcast out there” by Film Daddy, present a guide to the feminist horror movies, TV shows, and characters we all know and love. Through interviews, film analysis, and bone-chilling discoveries, The Science of Women in Horror uncovers the theories behind women’s most iconic roles of the genre. Explore age-old tropes such as “The Innocent” like Lydia in Beetlejuice, “The Gorgon” like Pamela Voorhees in Friday the 13th, and “The Mother” like Norma Bates in Pyscho and Bates Motel, and delve deeper into female-forward film and TV including: The Haunting of Hill House Teeth Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Buffy the Vampire Slayer And so much more! Join Kelly and Meg in The Science of Women in Horror as they flip the script and prove that every girl is a “final girl.”
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Scotland Yard's Gangbuster: Bert Wickstead's Most Celebrated Cases
In the late 1960s the Richardson Torture Gang and the Kray Twins were removed from the London scene by ACC Gerry McArthur and Det. Supt. Nipper Read respectively. Predictably it was not long before the vacuum this left was being filled. With McArthur retired and Read moved on, who was to sort out the new gangland threat? Step forward Detective Chief Superintendent Bert Wickstead. Having cut his teeth on young desperadoes and neo-Nazis in North London and solved London's biggest post war bank robbery, Wickstead was well qualified to head up the Yard's Serious Crime Squad. First to fall were the Dixon brothers, followed by the Tibbs family. As his fame spread he took on the West End Maltese Syndicate specialising in prostitution and extortion. When he broke up the Norma Levy call-girl ring, two cabinet peers had to resign. Inevitably Wickstead's career was dogged by unproved allegations of malpractice but, as this riveting insider' account conclusively proves, he more than earned his sobriquet The Gangbuster'.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Narrative Thread: Conversations on Fashion Collections
“I adored this book and can’t recommend it highly enough” – Cathy Horyn "Beautifully executed” – Norma Kamali “A visual feast” – Giles Deacon “Entertaining, thought-provoking, and serious. Read it and learn.” – Colin McDowell "Clothes from our past shape who we are, and who we will be. Why do we hold on to certain garments and what do they tell us and others about our lives?" Mark C. O’Flaherty asks 14 individuals who work with or use clothes in a unique way: how has fashion created something significant in your life? Through fascinating conversations, and photoshoots of their private collections, in New York, London and Milan, he constructs a portrait of each person through their intimate relationships with fashion, featuring The Idiosyncratic Fashionistas, Charlie Casely-Hayford, John Matheson (McQueen Vault), Sandy Powell, Stephen Jones, Carla Sozzani, Winn Austin, Carmen Haid, Susanne Bartsch, Karlo Steel, Karim Rashid, Steven Philip, and Desmond is Amazing. How have these people used fashion as a vessel for memory or identity to develop their own narratives, and what does our relationship with clothing say about its changing nature as a commodity? With a foreword by influential fashion tastemaker Amanda Harlech, and opening conversations with three of fashion’s most respected scholars, Valerie Steele, Andre Walker and Claire Wilcox, Narrative Thread is an eye-opening resource for our understanding of fashion’s past and present – and its continuing importance in our lives.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Bekennen und Bekenntnis im Kontext der Wittenberger Reformation
Von den drei großen Konfessionen entwickelte nur das Luthertum verbindliche Bekenntnisse, die die Lehre normativ formulierten. Oft wurde der große Rang, der dem Bekennen im Luthertum zukam, in der wissenschaftlichen Literatur mit einem besonderen Drang zur Lehrnormierung verbunden. Dieser Befund gab Anlass zu einem Arbeitsgespräch, das Oktober 2015 in der Forschungsbibliothek Gotha stattfand. Der vorliegende Aufsatzband vereint die meisten dort gehaltenen Beiträge. In der »Blütezeit der Bekenntnisproduktion« (Wolf Dieter Hauschild) zwischen 1549 und 1580 entstanden zahlreiche Bekenntnistexte mit äußerst vielfältigen Funktionen. Es ging nicht einfach nur darum, seinen Glauben zu bekennen, sondern es mussten oft auch religions- oder bündnispolitische Aspekte beim Abfassen und Durchsetzen eines Bekenntnisses beachtet werden. Für das frühneuzeitliche Luthertum hatten die Bekenntnisse, die im Konkordienbuch von 1580 versammelt waren, zumindest der Theorie nach den Rang einer norma normata. Ihre Bedeutung leitete sich von der Heiligen Schrift ab und bestimmte zugleich als Rahmen die theologische Lehrbildung. Im Zuge der Aufklärung veränderte sich dieses Bild jedoch drastisch. Die Geltung der lutherischen Bekenntnisse war im 19. Jahrhundert nicht mehr selbstverständlich. In der theologischen Reaktion auf die aufklärerische Dogmenkritik traten die Bekenntnisschriften oft als neue Lehrgesetze wieder in Geltung.
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Duke University Press Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity
Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity challenges conventional understandings of identity based on notions of nation and culture as bounded or discrete. Through careful examinations of various transnational, hybrid, border, and diasporic forces and practices, these essays push at the edge of cultural studies, postmodernism, and postcolonial theory and raise crucial questions about ethnographic methodology. This volume exemplifies a cross-disciplinary cultural studies and a concept of culture rooted in lived experience as well as textual readings. Anthropologists and scholars from related fields deploy a range of methodologies and styles of writing to blur and complicate conventional dualisms between authors and subjects of research, home and away, center and periphery, and first and third world. Essays discuss topics such as Rai, a North African pop music viewed as westernized in Algeria and as Arab music in France; the place of Sephardic and Palestinian writers within Israel’s Ashkenazic-dominated arts community; and the use and misuse of the concept “postcolonial” as it is applied in various regional contexts. In exploring histories of displacement and geographies of identity, these essays call for the reconceptualization of theoretical binarisms such as modern and postmodern, colonial and postcolonial. It will be of interest to a broad spectrum of scholars and students concerned with postmodern and postcolonial theory, ethnography, anthropology, and cultural studies. Contributors. Norma Alarcón, Edward M. Bruner, Nahum D. Chandler, Ruth Frankenberg, Joan Gross, Dorinne Kondo, Kristin Koptiuch, Smadar Lavie, Lata Mani, David McMurray, Kirin Narayan, Greg Sarris, Ted Swedenburg
£78.98
University of California Press Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary
Borderwall as Architecture is an artistic and intellectual hand grenade of a book, and a timely re-examination of what the physical barrier that divides the United States of America from the United Mexican States is and could be. It is both a protest against the wall and a projection about its future. Through a series of propositions suggesting that the nearly seven hundred miles of wall is an opportunity for economic and social development along the border that encourages its conceptual and physical dismantling, the book takes readers on a journey along a wall that cuts through a "third nation"-the Divided States of America. On the way the transformative effects of the wall on people, animals, and the natural and built landscape are exposed and interrogated through the story of people who, on both sides of the border, transform the wall, challenging its existence in remarkably creative ways. Coupled with these real-life accounts are counterproposals for the wall, created by Rael's studio, that reimagine, hyperbolize, or question the wall and its construction, cost, performance, and meaning. Rael proposes that despite the intended use of the wall, which is to keep people out and away, the wall is instead an attractor, engaging both sides in a common dialogue. Included is a collection of reflections on the wall and its consequences by leading experts Michael Dear, Norma Iglesias-Prieto, Marcello Di Cintio, and Teddy Cruz.
£21.81
Taschen GmbH The Big Book of Breasts
Some call it the American obsession, but men everywhere recognize the hypnotic allure of a large and shapely breast. In The Big Book of Breasts, Dian Hanson explores the origins of mammary madness through three decades of natural big-breasted nudes. Starting with the World War II Bosom-Mania that spawned Russ Meyer, Howard Hughes’s The Outlaw and Frederick’s of Hollywood, Dian guides you over, around, and in between the dangerous curves of infamous models including Michelle Angelo, Candy Barr, Virginia Bell, Joan Brinkman, Lorraine Burnett, Lisa De Leeuw, Uschi Digard, Candye Kane, Jennie Lee, Sylvia McFarland, Margaret Middleton, Paula Page, June Palmer, Roberta Pedon, Rosina Revelle, Candy Samples, Tempest Storm, Linda West, June Wilkinson, Julie Wills, and dozens more, including Guinness World Record holder Norma Stitz, possessor of the World`s Largest Natural Breasts. The 396 pages of this book contain the most beautiful and provocative photos ever created of these iconic women, plus nine original interviews, including the first with Tempest Storm and Uschi Digard in over a decade, and the last with Candy Barr before her untimely death in 2005. In a world where silicone is now the norm, these spectacular real women stand as testament that nature knows best.
£54.65
Safari Press,U.S. Ammo & Ballistics 6: For Hunters, Shooters, and Collectors
The entirely updated and revised Ammo & Ballistics 6 is now available and is better than ever! Ammo & Ballistics 6 contains data and illustrations on virtually every sporting cartridge sold in the USA. Besides clear and concise writing that clarifies the complexities of ballistic coefficients and energy versus momentum, this revised edition covers 200-plus calibers . . . from the .17 Mach 2 to the .700 Nitro Express. It contains information on rifle and handgun calibers, and it covers manufacturers, bullet weights, types, and construction. In addition, each caliber has an exact technical drawing with all dimensions and angles. There are over 3,000 tables with ballistic data for every caliber and every load for all commercially loaded hunting ammunition sold in the United States. Tables include velocity, energy, wind drift, bullet drop, and ballistic coefficients up to 1,000 yards. Manufacturers include A-Square, Aguila, ATK, Black Hills, CCI/Speer, Cor-Bon Bullet, Dakota Arms, Eley Ltd., Federal Cartridge, Fiocchi, Hirtenberger, Hornady, Patria Lapua Oy, Lazzeroni, Kynoch (Kynamco Ltd.), MagTech, Norma, Nosler, Inc., PMC (Eldorado Cartridge Corp.), Remington, Dynamit (Nobel-RWS Inc.), Sellier and Bellot, Ultramax, Weatherby, and Winchester. If you want to know where you will be hitting at long distances, this is the book for you. This book is, quite literally, indispensable for the hunter or shooter.
£31.29
Duke University Press Translocalities/Translocalidades: Feminist Politics of Translation in the Latin/a Américas
Translocalities/Translocalidades is a path-breaking collection of essays on Latin American, Caribbean, and United States–based Latina feminisms and their multiple translations and cross-pollinations. The contributors come from countries throughout the Américas and are based in diverse disciplines, including media studies, literature, Chicana/o studies, and political science. Together, they advocate a hemispheric politics based on the knowledge that today, many sorts of Latin/o-americanidades—Afro, queer, indigenous, feminist, and so on—are constructed through processes of translocation. Latinidad in the South, North and Caribbean "middle" of the Américas, is constituted out of the intersections of the intensified cross-border, transcultural, and translocal flows that characterize contemporary transmigration throughout the hemisphere, from La Paz to Buenos Aires to Chicago and back again. Rather than immigrating and assimilating, many people in the Latin/a Américas increasingly move back and forth between localities, between historically situated and culturally specific, though increasingly porous, places, across multiple borders, and not just between nations. The contributors deem these multidirectional crossings and movements, and the positionalities engendered, translocalities/translocalidades.Contributors. Sonia E. Alvarez, Kiran Asher, Victoria (Vicky) M. Bañales, Marisa Belausteguigoitia Rius, Maylei Blackwell, Cruz C. Bueno, Pascha Bueno-Hansen, Mirangela Buggs, Teresa Carrillo, Claudia de Lima Costa, Isabel Espinal, Verónica Feliu, Macarena Gómez-Barris, Rebecca J. Hester, Norma Klahn, Agustín Lao-Montes, Suzana Maia, Márgara Millán, Adriana Piscitelli, Ana Rebeca Prada, Ester R. Shapiro, Simone Pereira Schmidt, Millie Thayer
£28.73
Duke University Press Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity
Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity challenges conventional understandings of identity based on notions of nation and culture as bounded or discrete. Through careful examinations of various transnational, hybrid, border, and diasporic forces and practices, these essays push at the edge of cultural studies, postmodernism, and postcolonial theory and raise crucial questions about ethnographic methodology. This volume exemplifies a cross-disciplinary cultural studies and a concept of culture rooted in lived experience as well as textual readings. Anthropologists and scholars from related fields deploy a range of methodologies and styles of writing to blur and complicate conventional dualisms between authors and subjects of research, home and away, center and periphery, and first and third world. Essays discuss topics such as Rai, a North African pop music viewed as westernized in Algeria and as Arab music in France; the place of Sephardic and Palestinian writers within Israel’s Ashkenazic-dominated arts community; and the use and misuse of the concept “postcolonial” as it is applied in various regional contexts. In exploring histories of displacement and geographies of identity, these essays call for the reconceptualization of theoretical binarisms such as modern and postmodern, colonial and postcolonial. It will be of interest to a broad spectrum of scholars and students concerned with postmodern and postcolonial theory, ethnography, anthropology, and cultural studies. Contributors. Norma Alarcón, Edward M. Bruner, Nahum D. Chandler, Ruth Frankenberg, Joan Gross, Dorinne Kondo, Kristin Koptiuch, Smadar Lavie, Lata Mani, David McMurray, Kirin Narayan, Greg Sarris, Ted Swedenburg
£26.29
University of Texas Press Bridging: How Gloria Anzaldúa's Life and Work Transformed Our Own
The inspirational writings of cultural theorist and social justice activist Gloria Anzaldúa have empowered generations of women and men throughout the world. Charting the multiplicity of Anzaldúa's impact within and beyond academic disciplines, community trenches, and international borders, Bridging presents more than thirty reflections on her work and her life, examining vibrant facets in surprising new ways and inviting readers to engage with these intimate, heartfelt contributions.Bridging is divided into five sections: The New Mestizas: "transitions and transformations"; Exposing the Wounds: "You gave me permission to fly in the dark"; Border Crossings: Inner Struggles, Outer Change; Bridging Theories: Intellectual Activism with/in Borders; and "Todas somos nos/otras": Toward a "politics of openness." Contributors, who include Norma Elia Cantú, Elisa Facio, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Aída Hurtado, Andrea Lunsford, Denise Segura, Gloria Steinem, and Mohammad Tamdgidi, represent a broad range of generations, professions, academic disciplines, and national backgrounds. Critically engaging with Anzaldúa's theories and building on her work, they use virtual diaries, transformational theory, poetry, empirical research, autobiographical narrative, and other genres to creatively explore and boldly enact future directions for Anzaldúan studies.A book whose form and content reflect Anzaldúa's diverse audience, Bridging perpetuates Anzaldúa's spirit through groundbreaking praxis and visionary insights into culture, gender, sexuality, religion, aesthetics, and politics. This is a collection whose span is as broad and dazzling as Anzaldúa herself.
£23.83
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Sunset Boulevard
Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard was a critical and commercial success on its release in 1950 and remains a classic of film noir and one of the best-known Hollywood films about Hollywood. Both its opening, with William Holden as the screenwriter Joe Gillis floating facedown in ageing star Norma Desmond's (Gloria Swanson) pool, and lines such as 'I am big, it's the pictures that got small' are some of the most memorable in Classical Hollywood cinema. Steven Cohan's study of the film draws on original archival research to shed new light on the film's production history, and the contribution to the film's success and meanings of director Wilder, stars Holden and Swanson but also supporting actors Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson (who plays Betty Schaefer), Cecil B. DeMille, and Hedda Hopper, as well as costumier Edith Head, and composer Franz Waxman. Cohan considers the film both as a 'backstudio' picture (a movie about Hollywood) and as a film noir, and in the context of McCarthyism, blacklisting and the Hollywood Ten. Cohan explores how the film was marketed, its reception and afterlife, tracing how the film is at once a product of its own particular historical moment as the movie industry was transitioning out of the studio era, yet one that still speaks powerfully to contemporary audiences, and speculates on the reasons for its enduring appeal.
£12.70
Duke University Press Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture, and Ideology
This pathbreaking anthology of Chicano literary criticism, with essays on a remarkable range of texts—both old and new—draws on diverse perspectives in contemporary literary and cultural studies: from ethnographic to postmodernist, from Marxist to feminist, from cultural materialist to new historicist.The editors have organized essays around four board themes: the situation of Chicano literary studies within American literary history and debates about the “canon”; representations of the Chicana/o subject; genre, ideology, and history; and the aesthetics of Chicano literature. The volume as a whole aims at generating new ways of understanding what counts as culture and “theory” and who counts as a theorist. A selected and annotated bibliography of contemporary Chicano literary criticism is also included.By recovering neglected authors and texts and introducing readers to an emergent Chicano canon, by introducing new perspectives on American literary history, ethnicity, gender, culture, and the literary process itself, Criticism in the Borderlands is an agenda-setting collection that moves beyond previous scholarship to open up the field of Chicano literary studies and to define anew what is American literature.Contributors. Norma Alarcón, Héctor Calderón, Angie Chabram, Barbara Harlow, Rolando Hinojosa, Luis Leal, José E. Limón, Terese McKenna, Elizabeth J. Ordóñez, Genero Padilla, Alvina E. Quintana, Renato Rosaldo, José David Saldívar, Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Rosaura Sánchez, Roberto Trujillo
£26.29
HarperCollins Publishers An Island of Secrets
For fans of Dinah Jefferies, Victoria Hislop, Lucinda Riley and Rosanna Ley, this is a stunning and sweeping WW2 novel that shows a side to the war not often seen before. That was then… Seventy-five years ago, British SOE spy Guy Barclay was forced to leave behind the woman he loved in war-ravaged Yugoslavia. …This is now As ninety-three-year-old Guy’s days draw to a close, he asks his granddaughter, Leo Holmes, to go looking for answers. Given that her marriage has imploded and her City job is on the verge of killing her, Leo agrees and rents a house on the island of Vis, where her grandfather was stationed in the Second World War. But as Leo’s search takes her down unexpected roads – and into the path of a gorgeous local, Andrej Pintaric – she begins to wonder if this journey down memory lane might yield unexpected results for more than just her beloved grandfather… Readers can’t get enough of this stunning novel: ‘A beautifully written book where the two timelines blend seamlessly together…one that will stay with me’ Muriel ‘Readers will be delighted to explore a corner of WW2 that hasn’t been written about in British romantic fiction…Glynn capably places her readers within the history-making days of 1944 and allows them to experience what it was like for people who lived there’ Norma ‘I loved this book and was captivated from the beginning…thought-provoking story of family, love and heartbreak’ Carol ‘A beautifully written, atmospheric book…everything about this book is just so perfect and beautiful, the writing, a compelling storyline, the characters and setting!’ Ruby
£9.18
Johns Hopkins University Press Blue-Collar Hollywood: Liberalism, Democracy, and Working People in American Film
From Tom Joad to Norma Rae to Spike Lee's Mookie in Do the Right Thing, Hollywood has regularly dramatized the lives and struggles of working people in America. Ranging from idealistic to hopeless, from sympathetic to condescending, these portrayals confronted audiences with the vital economic, social, and political issues of their times while providing a diversion-sometimes entertaining, sometimes provocative-from the realities of their own lives. In Blue-Collar Hollywood, John Bodnar examines the ways in which popular American films made between the 1930s and the 1980s depicted working-class characters, comparing these cinematic representations with the aspirations of ordinary Americans and the promises made to them by the country's political elites. Based on close and imaginative viewings of dozens of films from every genre-among them Public Enemy, Black Fury, Baby Face, The Grapes of Wrath, It's a Wonderful Life, I Married a Communist, A Streetcar Named Desire, Peyton Place, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Coal Miner's Daughter, and Boyz N the Hood-this book explores such topics as the role of censorship, attitudes toward labor unions and worker militancy, racism, the place of women in the workforce and society, communism and the Hollywood blacklist, and faith in liberal democracy. Whether made during the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, or the Vietnam era, the majority of films about ordinary working Americans, Bodnar finds, avoided endorsing specific political programs, radical economic reform, or overtly reactionary positions. Instead, these movies were infused with the same current of liberalism and popular notion of democracy that flow through the American imagination.
£24.21
Permuted Press My Maril: Marilyn Monroe, Ronald Reagan, Hollywood, and Me
Terry Karger is the one living person who intimately knew Marilyn Monroe and Ronald Reagan.“Looks will get you far, but not as far as a good education.” —Marilyn Monroe to Terry Karger Terry Karger is a child of Hollywood: the granddaughter of Metro Pictures cofounder Maxwell Karger, and the daughter of Fred Karger, a vocal coach at Columbia Pictures. Terry’s story revolves around Fred and a trio of silver-screen legends: her stepmother Jane Wyman, Ronald Reagan, and, primarily, Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn, recently evolved from Norma Jeane Mortenson, was an unknown starlet when, as a twenty-one-year-old, she first met six-year-old Terry—and began dating her dad—in the spring of 1948. The orphaned, emotionally fragile actress initially babysat Fred’s daughter while turning to his family for support. Although the Marilyn-Fred romance lasted just over a year, her close friendship with the Kargers, including Fred, continued for fourteen years until the end of Marilyn's life. While Fred was Marilyn’s first true love, his mom, Nana, was the mother she never really had. “Maril,” as they fondly called her, was allowed to relax and be herself. It also enabled Marilyn to appease her own unfulfilled maternal instincts, acting as a cross between a sweet, playful big sister and generous, caring surrogate mom to Terry. This memoir also reveals privately taken, previously unpublished photos of the iconic superstar with her adopted family and friends.
£14.60
Yale University Press Off the Wall: American Art to Wear
Exploring the origins and lasting significance of a dynamic, subversive, and interactive art form This is the first publication to consider art to wear, also known as wearable art, as a discrete American movement that mirrored the cultural, political, social, and spiritual concerns of a generation that came of age in the late 1960s and 1970s. Trained primarily in the fine arts, they adopted nontraditional forms, materials, and techniques to create works using the body as an armature. Collectively, these practitioners have had a significant but underrecognized impact on art making and education. Their legacy continues today among younger artists who have embraced multimedia forms of expression. Rich archival and newly commissioned photography bring to life one-of-a-kind work by more than 75 artists, including Gaza Bowen, Jean Cacicedo, Marian Clayden, Ben Compton, Marika Contompasis, Nicki Hitz Edson, Tim Harding, Sharron Hedges, Ana Lisa Hedstrom, Nina Vivian Huryn, Whitney Kent, Ina Kozel, Susanna Lewis, Janet Lipkin, K. Lee Manuel, Linda Mendelson, Norma Minkowitz, Anna VA Polesny, Debra Rapoport, Mario Rivoli, Dina Knapp, Joan Steiner, Arlene Stimmel, Jamie Summers, JoEllen Trilling, and Katherine Westphal. Off the Wall provides a detailed introduction to art to wear between 1967 and 1997 and elucidates the movement’s origins by linking it to developments in the arts of the period, from fiber art to painting.Published in association with the Philadelphia Museum of ArtExhibition Schedule:Philadelphia Museum of Art (November 8, 2019–May 17, 2020)
£37.10
Duke University Press Translocalities/Translocalidades: Feminist Politics of Translation in the Latin/a Américas
Translocalities/Translocalidades is a path-breaking collection of essays on Latin American, Caribbean, and United States–based Latina feminisms and their multiple translations and cross-pollinations. The contributors come from countries throughout the Américas and are based in diverse disciplines, including media studies, literature, Chicana/o studies, and political science. Together, they advocate a hemispheric politics based on the knowledge that today, many sorts of Latin/o-americanidades—Afro, queer, indigenous, feminist, and so on—are constructed through processes of translocation. Latinidad in the South, North and Caribbean "middle" of the Américas, is constituted out of the intersections of the intensified cross-border, transcultural, and translocal flows that characterize contemporary transmigration throughout the hemisphere, from La Paz to Buenos Aires to Chicago and back again. Rather than immigrating and assimilating, many people in the Latin/a Américas increasingly move back and forth between localities, between historically situated and culturally specific, though increasingly porous, places, across multiple borders, and not just between nations. The contributors deem these multidirectional crossings and movements, and the positionalities engendered, translocalities/translocalidades.Contributors. Sonia E. Alvarez, Kiran Asher, Victoria (Vicky) M. Bañales, Marisa Belausteguigoitia Rius, Maylei Blackwell, Cruz C. Bueno, Pascha Bueno-Hansen, Mirangela Buggs, Teresa Carrillo, Claudia de Lima Costa, Isabel Espinal, Verónica Feliu, Macarena Gómez-Barris, Rebecca J. Hester, Norma Klahn, Agustín Lao-Montes, Suzana Maia, Márgara Millán, Adriana Piscitelli, Ana Rebeca Prada, Ester R. Shapiro, Simone Pereira Schmidt, Millie Thayer
£87.09
HarperCollins Publishers Whisper Island
Don’t miss the gripping new page-turning thriller from the USA Today bestseller! It was the perfect escape Until one by one they vanished… For friends Riley, Sam, Mia and Scarlett, their trip to Whisper Island, Alaska, was meant to be a once in a lifetime adventure – just four young women, with everything to live for… But as soon as they arrive things start to go wrong. First there is the unexpected arrival of Sammy’s drug addict brother and his girlfriend Opal – why are they here? And then the deaths begin. As the dream trip quickly turns into a nightmare, suspicion is high. Are they really alone on the island? Or is there a killer hiding in the shadows? And as each of the girls reveals a dark secret of their own, perhaps the truth is the killer is closer than they think…just a whisper away… Readers can’t stop raving about Whisper Island: ‘This five-star read had my heart pounding…I was completely shocked at the ending’ Norma ‘The girls all had secrets and they twisted around the story perfectly. I loved the creepy, thrilling and murderous plot. The ending was brilliant. Highly recommended’ Zoe ‘Omg!!!! Love this book…kept me guessing the twist until the end’ Meghan ‘Love love love this book!’ Andrea ‘A thrilling and tense tale that keeps you guessing until the end’ Emma ‘Locked room mysteries are my favorite genre to read and this one did not disappoint’ Ashley
£9.18
Groundwood Books Ltd ,Canada As Long as the Rivers Flow
Winner of the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction From the mid-1800s to the late 1990s, the education of Indigenous children was taken on by various churches in government-sponsored residential schools. More than 150,000 children were forcibly taken from their families in order to erase their traditional languages and cultures. As Long as the Rivers Flow is the story of Larry Loyie’s last traditional summer before entering residential school. It is a time of adventure and learning from his Elders. He cares for an abandoned baby owl, watches his kokom (grandmother) make winter moccasins, and helps his family prepare for summer camp, where he will pick berries, fish and swim. While searching for medicine plants in the bush with Kokom, he encounters a giant grizzly bear. Gently but truthfully written, the book captivates its readers and reveals a hidden history. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.7 Explain how specific aspects of a text's illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.3 Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character's thoughts, words, or actions). CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.5 Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.
£9.41
Taschen GmbH The Big Penis Book
After the bust out success of The Big Book of Breasts TASCHEN presents the perfect companion, The Big Penis Book. When it comes to pleasure, size doesn’t matter; as we all know it’s quality, not quantity, that counts. But let’s admit it: a big penis is undeniably compelling. Big shoulders, big lapels, and big hair may come and go, but the big penis never goes out of fashion. With those possessing more than 8 inches (20 cm) making up less than 2% of the world’s population, this rare accessory will always fascinate. In The Big Penis Book we explore the centuries-old fascination with the large phallus, a fascination common to men and women alike. This hefty book is profusely illustrated with over 400 historic photos of spectacular male endowments, including rare photos of the legendary John Holmes. The majority of the photographs are from the 1970s, when the sexual revolution first freed photographers to depict the male entirely nude. Photographers include Bob Mizer of Athletic Model Guild, David Hurles of Old Reliable, Colt, Falcon, Sierra Domino, Third World, and Champion Studios, with each of these iconic photographers interviewed or profiled, along with information about each of their models. And if this isn’t enough, the book closes with a special surprise comparable to the Guinness Book of Records’ Norma Stitz featured in The Big Book of Breasts! Can you guess what body part Dian is dissecting next?
£47.10
Antoni Bosch Editor, S.A. Los pocos elegidos: La influencia decisiva de la educación en la historia del pueblo judío, 70-1492
En el año 70 d. C., los judíos eran en su mayor parte campesinos analfabetos que habitaban en la tierra de Israel y Mesopotamia. En 1492 se habían convertido en una pequeña comunidad instruida y desperdigada por una miríada de centros urbanos, desde Sevilla a Mangalore, que se dedicaba a oficios artesanales, al comercio, al préstamo de dinero y a la medicina. ¿Cuál fue la causa de esta transformación radical? Este libro ofrece una nueva respuesta a esta pregunta, analizando bajo un prisma económico los hechos fundamentales que jalonan quince siglos formativos de historia del pueblo judío.Maristella Botticini y Zvi Eckstein demuestran que, contrariamente a lo que afirman las explicaciones formuladas hasta la fecha, esta transformación no fue consecuencia de las persecuciones ni de las restricciones legales, sino de los cambios que experimentó el propio judaísmo a partir de 70 d.C. Sobre todo, el surgimiento de una nueva norma que obligaba a todo varón judío a leer y estudiar la Torá y a mandar a sus hijos varones a la escuela. A lo largo de los seis siglos siguientes, aquellos judíos que encontraban demasiado rigurosas las normas de su religión se convirtieron a otras confesiones, lo que provocó una reducción de la comunidad judía mundial. Más adelante, cuando la urbanización y la expansión comercial de los recién fundados califatos musulmanes impulsaron la demanda de aquellas profesiones que dependían de una cierta formación intelectual, los judíos se encontraron con la inmensa ventaja de ser un pueblo instruido en un mundo donde el analfabetismo era prácticamente universal. De ahí en adelante, casi todos los judíos se especializarían en oficios artesanales y actividades comerciales, y muchos de ellos empezarían a emigrar en pos de oportunidades empresariales, creando con ello una diáspora verdaderamente mundial.
£24.60
Archaeopress Water as a morphogen in landscapes/L’eau comme morphogène dans les paysages: Proceedings of the XVII UISPP World Congress (1–7 September 2014, Burgos, Spain) Volume 4/Session A14
These proceedings include eight presentations. Two of them focus on the role played by the river axes and the geography of river basins as factors of circulation and settlement of Palaeolithic hunter gatherers on the European scale (Francois Djindjian) and in the surroundings of the Jura Mountains (Gérald Bereiziat and Harald Floss). José Javier Piña Abellán describes how the central valley of the River Jabalón (Ciudad Real, Spain) was peopled in the course of the second millennium B.C., and how the inhabitants still maintain a close link to the hydrography. Frederic Cruz and Christophe Petit provide new insights into the organization of the princely residences’ territories of the late Hallstatt era in the North-Western region of the Alps, taking into account their relationship to the environment, and especially the distance from the valleys. Ana Lucia Herberts documents how river crossings and related drainage structures played a crucial role in setting cattle trails in Brazil to drive the cattle from their pasture lands to the major market places in remote cities. A 3-D modelling using LiDAR altimetry has been used by Sabine Schellberg, Benoît Sittler, and Werner Konold to reconstruct water meadows that were used in historical times in the upper Rhine Valley. In their paper, Sandrine Robert and Hélène Noizet develop, as an example illustrating resilience, how an ancient meander of the River Seine, which was filled in Antiquity, still dictates the layout of the network of the streets of Paris. Lastly, Martin Orgaz and Norma Ratto addressed the social construction of landscapes by relating Inca sites to the Tinogasta region (Catamarca, Argentina) rivers whose visual features (the colour red) may be regarded as a factor that governed the selection of sites.
£60.29
Groundwood Books Ltd ,Canada Viola Desmond Won't Be Budged /fxl
Finalist for the 2011 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction "On behalf of the Nova Scotia government, I sincerely apologize to Mrs. Viola Desmond’s family and to all African Nova Scotians for the racial discrimination she was subjected to by the justice system … We recognize today that the act for which Viola Desmond was arrested, was an act of courage, not an offence." -- Darrell Dexter, Premier of Nova Scotia, April 15, 2010 In Nova Scotia, in 1946, an usher in a movie theatre told Viola Desmond to move from her main floor seat up to the balcony. She refused to budge. Viola knew she was being asked to move because she was black. After all, she was the only black person downstairs. All the other black people were up in the balcony. In no time at all, the police arrived and took Viola to jail. The next day she was charged and fined, but she vowed to continue her struggle against such unfair rules. She refused to accept that being black meant she couldn't sit where she wanted. Viola's determination gave strength and inspiration to her community at the time. She is an unsung hero of the North American struggle against injustice and racial discrimination whose story deserves to be widely known. The African Canadian community in Nova Scotia is one of Canada's oldest and most established black communities. Despite their history and contributions to the province the people in this community have a long experience of racially based injustice. Like Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks, who many years later, in 1955, refused to give up their bus seats in Alabama, Desmond's act of refusal awakened people to the unacceptable nature of racism and began and process of bringing an end to racial segregation in Canada. An afterword provides a glimpse of African Canadian history.
£17.49
Inner Traditions Bear and Company Freeing Sexuality: Psychologists, Consent Teachers, Polyamory Experts, and Sex Workers Speak Out
Explores the full spectrum of sexual beliefs, practices, and identities. Exploring sexual customs, beliefs, practices, and identities from a wide variety of perspectives, Dr. Miller shares his fascinating interviews with 20 experts ranging from clinical psychologists and researchers to sex workers and polyamory educators. We learn from sex therapists, relationship experts, and tantric sex teachers, such as Dr. Lonnie Barbach, Dr. Stella Resnick, Katherine Rowland, and Diana Richardson, about the importance of communication, how to keep sensuality alive, and how to generate fulfilling and sustainable intimacy in relationships. Looking at sexual identity and non-monogamy, we hear from Dr. Ritch Savin-Williams on sexual identification and gender fluidity, Sumati Sparks on open relationships and polyamory, Janet Hardy, author of The Ethical Slut, on sexual freedom, and Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens on the possibilities of ecosexuality. Revealing the inner workings of the sex industry, we hear from current and former escorts and sex workers on the stigmas and dangers of sex work and the need to decriminalize it, including Norma Jean Almadovar, former LA policewoman and current president of the prostitute’s union Coyote. Dr. Ogi Ogas, author of A Billion Wicked Thoughts, speaks about using data science and computational neuroscience to uncover true statistics about our sexual desires. We hear from Paulita Pappel on porn as a mirror for society, Faith Jones on escaping a sex cult, Maeve Moon on recovering from sexual trauma, and Dr. Laura McGuire about the broad impact of teaching consent. Validating the extraordinary range and diversity of our sexual thoughts, feelings, and behaviours, the author gathers voices that help us free our sexuality from the past, accept our natural urge for physical pleasure, and open us up to sexuality as a power for health, healing, and happiness.
£14.05
Groundwood Books Ltd ,Canada Viola Desmond Won't Be Budged!
Finalist for the 2011 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction "On behalf of the Nova Scotia government, I sincerely apologize to Mrs. Viola Desmond’s family and to all African Nova Scotians for the racial discrimination she was subjected to by the justice system … We recognize today that the act for which Viola Desmond was arrested, was an act of courage, not an offence." -- Darrell Dexter, Premier of Nova Scotia, April 15, 2010 In Nova Scotia, in 1946, an usher in a movie theatre told Viola Desmond to move from her main floor seat up to the balcony. She refused to budge. Viola knew she was being asked to move because she was black. After all, she was the only black person downstairs. All the other black people were up in the balcony. In no time at all, the police arrived and took Viola to jail. The next day she was charged and fined, but she vowed to continue her struggle against such unfair rules. She refused to accept that being black meant she couldn't sit where she wanted. Viola's determination gave strength and inspiration to her community at the time. She is an unsung hero of the North American struggle against injustice and racial discrimination whose story deserves to be widely known. The African Canadian community in Nova Scotia is one of Canada's oldest and most established black communities. Despite their history and contributions to the province the people in this community have a long experience of racially based injustice. Like Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks, who many years later, in 1955, refused to give up their bus seats in Alabama, Desmond's act of refusal awakened people to the unacceptable nature of racism and began and process of bringing an end to racial segregation in Canada. An afterword provides a glimpse of African Canadian history.
£10.88
Duke University Press Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America
Ranging from fatherhood to machismo and from public health to housework, Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America is a collection of pioneering studies of what it means to be a man in Latin America. Matthew C. Gutmann brings together essays by well-known U.S. Latin Americanists and newly translated essays by noted Latin American scholars. Historically grounded and attuned to global political and economic changes, this collection investigates what, if anything, is distinctive about and common to masculinity across Latin America at the same time that it considers the relative benefits and drawbacks of studies focusing on men there. Demonstrating that attention to masculinities does not thwart feminism, the contributors illuminate the changing relationships between men and women and among men of different ethnic groups, sexual orientations, and classes.The contributors look at Mexico, Argentina, Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Chile, and the United States. They bring to bear a number of disciplines—anthropology, history, literature, public health, and sociology—and a variety of methodologies including ethnography, literary criticism, and statistical analysis. Whether analyzing rape legislation in Argentina, the unique space for candid discussions of masculinity created in an Alcoholics Anonymous group in Mexico, the role of shame in shaping Chicana and Chicano identities and gender relations, or homosexuality in Brazil, Changing Men and Masculinities highlights the complex distinctions between normative conceptions of masculinity in Latin America and the actual experiences and thoughts of particular men and women.Contributors. Xavier Andrade, Daniel Balderston, Peter Beattie, Stanley Brandes, Héctor Carrillo, Miguel Díaz Barriga, Agustín Escobar, Francisco Ferrándiz, Claudia Fonseca, Norma Fuller, Matthew C. Gutmann, Donna Guy, Florencia Mallon, José Olavarría, Richard Parker, Mara Viveros
£28.73
Johns Hopkins University Press Blue-Collar Hollywood: Liberalism, Democracy, and Working People in American Film
From Tom Joad to Norma Rae to Spike Lee's Mookie in Do the Right Thing, Hollywood has regularly dramatized the lives and struggles of working people in America. Ranging from idealistic to hopeless, from sympathetic to condescending, these portrayals confronted audiences with the vital economic, social, and political issues of their times while providing a diversion-sometimes entertaining, sometimes provocative-from the realities of their own lives. In Blue-Collar Hollywood, John Bodnar examines the ways in which popular American films made between the 1930s and the 1980s depicted working-class characters, comparing these cinematic representations with the aspirations of ordinary Americans and the promises made to them by the country's political elites. Based on close and imaginative viewings of dozens of films from every genre-among them Public Enemy, Black Fury, Baby Face, The Grapes of Wrath, It's a Wonderful Life, I Married a Communist, A Streetcar Named Desire, Peyton Place, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Coal Miner's Daughter, and Boyz N the Hood-this book explores such topics as the role of censorship, attitudes toward labor unions and worker militancy, racism, the place of women in the workforce and society, communism and the Hollywood blacklist, and faith in liberal democracy. Whether made during the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, or the Vietnam era, the majority of films about ordinary working Americans, Bodnar finds, avoided endorsing specific political programs, radical economic reform, or overtly reactionary positions. Instead, these movies were infused with the same current of liberalism and popular notion of democracy that flow through the American imagination.
£38.64
