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How is it that one can be connected to a vast worldwide network of other people and places via digital technologies and yet also be completely alone? Kris Cohen tackles this philosophical question in Never Alone, Except for Now by exploring how contemporary technologies are changing group formations and affiliations within social life. He identifies a new form of collectivity that exists between publics, which are built through conscious acts, and populations, which are automatically constructed through the collection of Big Data. Finding traditional liberal concepts of the public sphere and neoliberal ideas of populations inadequate on their own to examine these new forms of sociality, Cohen places familiar features of the web—such as emoticons, trolling, and search engines—in conversation with artworks by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, William Gibson, Sharon Hayes, and Thomson & Craighead to more precisely articulate the affective and aesthetic experiences of living between publics and populations. This liminal experience—caught between existing as a set of data points and as individuals newly empowered to create their own online communities—explains, Cohen contends, how one is simultaneously alone and connected in ways never before possible.

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'Nothing gets me to a bookstore faster than Eloisa James' - Julia QuinnOnce upon a time a duke fell in love...Gowan Stoughton of Craigievar, Duke of Kinross, values order and self-control above all else. So when he meets a lady as serene as she is beautiful, he promptly asks for her hand in marriage.With a lady...Edie - whose passionate temperament is the opposite of serene - had such a high fever at her own debut ball that she didn't notice anyone, not even the notoriously elusive Duke of Kinross. When her father accepts his offer... she panics. And when their marriage night isn't all it could be, she pretends.In a tower.But Edie's inability to hide her feelings makes pretending impossible, and when their marriage implodes, she retreats to a tower - locking Gowan out. Now Gowan faces his greatest challenge. Neither commands nor reason work with his spirited young bride. How can he convince her to give him the keys to the tower . . . when she already has the keys to his heart?'Eloisa James is extraordinary' - Lisa Kleypas'Romance writing does not get much better than this' - People

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It’s 1689 and the body of a young lawyer has been discovered near Craigleith Quarry, Edinburgh. Meanwhile, in the Highlands, an army is trying to crush the government in the hope of restoring James Stewart to the throne. Bonnie Dundee is at the head of an army in the Highlands looking to crush the government forces and help restore James Stewart. Was the discovered body anything to do with the rise of the Jacobites? Or was it simple the result of an office rivalry? Did the young man perhaps have connections to criminals in the city? Investigative lawyer John MacKenzie and his assistant Scougall search for the truth in this gripping new instalment of Douglas Watt’s John MacKenzie series.

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The second half of Andrew Motion's new collection returns to the sequence begun in Laurels and Donkeys, completing a body of work recognised by the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award in 2014. These meditations on combat and the people caught up in it look back to conflicts of the past: to the 'war to end all wars'; to Rupert Brooke on his final journey; to Wilfred Owen at Craiglockhart War Hospital; to Archduke Franz Ferdinand on the day of his fatal shooting. But Motion also depicts the ravages of modern warfare through reported speech, redacted documents, and vivid evocations of place, his plain understatement bringing the magnitude of war home to our own shores. These poems are moving and measured, delicate and clear-eyed, and bear witness to the futility of war and the suffering of those left behind. Elsewhere we find biographies in miniature, dreams and visions, family histories, which in their range of forms and voices consider questions of identity, and character. These are poems of remembrance in which Motion's war poems, all in their own way elegies, find a natural partner. Peace Talks is a wise and compassionate work.

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Originating in Craigslist personals to indicate a trans person seeking another trans person, the term “t4t” has come to describe not only circuits of desire and attraction but also practices of trans solidarity and mutual aid. Contributors to this issue investigate the multiple meanings associated with t4t, considering both its potential and its shortcomings. They explore forms of Black trans kinship, consider the possibilities and limits of trans crowdfunding, theorize transmasculine pornography as a site of identity formation, and critique t4t spaces that allow for abuse or exploitation. Because t4t names a type of separatism, it carries risks such as identity policing, the prioritization of one aspect of identity over others, and difficulty engaging in strategic coalition. And yet, in a world that remains hostile to trans forms of life, t4t also circulates as a promising practice of love, repair, and healing. Contributors. Cassius Adair, Aren Aizura, Cameron Awkward-Rich, Chris Barcelos, Cynthia Citlallín Delgado Huitrón, Lauren Fournier, Vox Jo Hsu, Christopher Joseph Lee, Amira Lundy-Harris, Hil Malatino, Amy Marvin, Isaac Preiss, Amir Rabiyah, Nicholas Reich

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One of the most famous queens in history, Mary Stuart lived in her homeland for just twelve years: as a dauntless child who laughed at her friendsʼ seasickness as they sailed to safety in France and later, on her return as a 18-year-old widow to take control of a nation riven with factions, dissent and religious strife. Brief though her time in Scotland was, her experience profoundly influenced who she was and what happened to her. In this book, Rosemary Goring tells the story of Mary’s Scottish years through the often dramatic and atmospheric locations and settings where the events that shaped her life took place and also examines the part Scotland, and its tumultuous court and culture, played in her downfall. Whether or not Mary Stuart emerges blameless or guilty, in this evocative retelling she can be seen for who she really was. Locations included: Linlithgow Palace * Stirling Castle * Dumbarton Castle * Leith * Holyrood Palace * Crichton Castle * Darnaway Castle * Huntly Castle * Spynie Palace * Falkland Palace * Seton Palace * St Andrews and Fife * Dunbar Castle * Edinburgh Castle * Traquair House * Hermitage Castle * Jedburgh, Mary Queen of Scots House * Craigmillar Castle * Edinburgh and Kirk o’ Field * Borthwick Castle * Carberry Hill * Lochleven Castle * Langside * Dundrennan Abbey

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Keepsake, guidebook, and wunderkammer of enthusiasms, Andy Sturdevant's essays offer a new way of thinking about urban spaces and the contemporary Midwest. Craigslist ads, homemade signs at Target Field, and alleyways all open up with possibilities for measuring cultural time and the resonance, not provincialism, of spaces closely observed. Published to coincide with Sturdevant's solo show at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Potluck Supper with Meeting to Follow reveals the essayist as pied piper and artist, whose canvas is the city. Andy Sturdevant is an artist, writer, and arts administrator living in south Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has written about art, history, and culture for a variety of Twin Cities--based publications and websites, including mnartists.org, Rain Taxi, Art Review, Preview!, Mpls.St.Paul, and heavytable.com. His essays have also appeared in publications of the Walker Art Center, and he writes a weekly column on arts and visual culture in Minneapolis--St. Paul for MinnPost. His work has been exhibited at the Minneapolis Institute of Art and The Soap Factory. Andy was born in Ohio, raised in Kentucky, and has lived in Minneapolis since 2005.

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After joining the soldiers marching in the Tattoo, the Tattoo Fox and her friend Castle Cat accidentally end up aboard a truck and have to find their way back to Edinburgh. Upon her return, Tattoo Fox is reunited with her kits and continues to explore the capital of Scotland, witnessing even more fantastic sights like at the zoo, the Funfair, Murrayfield, Craigmillar Castle and the Thistle Parade. On their journey back through Edinburgh, the Tattoo Fox makes several new friends, including a dog fox, a border terrier, a squirrel and a hare. The Fox’s adventures once again end at the Tattoo, where she must save the day in order to take her place in the procession, this time with her kits by her side.

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Nina MacLaughlin spent her twenties working at a Boston newspaper, sitting behind a desk and staring at a screen. Yearning for more tangible work, she applied for a job she saw on Craigslist—Carpenter’s Assistant: Women strongly encouraged to apply—despite being a Classics major who couldn't tell a Phillips from a flathead screwdriver. She got the job, and in Hammer Head she tells the rich and entertaining story of becoming a carpenter. Writing with infectious curiosity, MacLaughlin describes the joys and frustrations of making things by hand, reveals the challenges of working as a woman in an occupation that is 99 percent male, and explains how manual labor changed the way she sees the world. We meet her unflappable mentor, Mary, a petite but tough carpenter-sage (“Be smarter than the tools!”), as well as wild demo dudes, foul-mouthed plumbers, grizzled hardware store clerks, and the colorful clients whose homes she and Mary work in. Whisking her readers from job to job—building a wall, remodeling a kitchen, gut-renovating a house—MacLaughlin examines the history of the tools she uses and the virtues and varieties of wood. Throughout, she draws on the wisdom of Ovid, Annie Dillard, Studs Terkel, and Mary Oliver to illuminate her experience of work. And, in a deeply moving climax, MacLaughlin strikes out on her own for the first time to build bookshelves for her own father. Hammer Head is a passionate book full of sweat, swearing, bashed thumbs, and a deep sense of finding real meaning in work and life.

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120 Inspirational Stories and Beautiful, Uplifting Photos of Survivors.“You have cancer” are three of the most terrifying words a person can hear, and our culture does little to ease the fear. New Beginnings: 120 Cancer Survivors follows one hundred survivors who discovered that those words were the start of a new beginning, not an end to their lives.New Beginnings is a collection of narratives and energetic photographic portraits of men, women, children, and families that inspire and provide hope for anyone diagnosed with cancer as well as for their families and friends. The survivors vary in age, ethnicity, and diagnosis, but they all share the ability to turn a diagnosis of cancer into a positive force in their lives. Coming from all walks of life, survivors include Sally Craigen, who beat two different cancers three decades apart but who never let it stop her from enjoying life; Rabbi William Cutter, who had already survived three heart attacks by the time he faced down prostate cancer on two occasions; Sophia Colby, diagnosed with hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis at fifteen months of age, who has survived more in her ten years than many people do in their entire lives; and professional basketball player Coby Karl, who hasn’t let two bouts from thyroid cancer stop him from chasing his dreams; and ninety-six others. This is a project by and for cancer survivors: their words, Bill Aron's photographs, in collaboration with their ideas and sensibilities.This is their book.

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Home is the place to heal, right? At least, that's what Dillon Michaels is hoping as she leaves her disappointing career and nonstarter love life behind to help her grieving and aging grandfather on his small Oregon farm. The only problem? Her eccentric mother beat her there and has taken over Dillon's old room. After a few nights sleeping on a sagging sofa, Dillon is ready to give up, until she receives an unlikely gift--her grandfather's run-down vintage camp trailer, which she quickly resolves to restore with the help of Jordan Atwood, the handsome owner of the local hardware store. But just when things are finally beginning to run smoothly, Dillon's noncommittal ex-boyfriend shows up with roses . . . and a ring. Full of quirky characters, family drama, and sweet romance, The Happy Camper will have you scouring Craigslist for your own diamond-in-the-rough camper to restore and haunting your local hardware store for a handy guy to help your dreams come true.

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Penelope Umbrico (Photographs)offers a radical reinterpretation of every-day consumer and vernacular images. As the artist describes, she works “within the virtual world of consumer marketing and social media, traveling through the relentless flow of seductive images, objects, and information that surrounds us, searching for decisive moments— but in these worlds, decisive moments are cultural absurdities.” Umbrico finds these moments in the printed pages of consumer product mail-order catalogs, travel and leisure brochures, and online sites such as Craigslist, EBay, and Flickr. By identifying and isolating image typologies—candy-colored horizons and sunsets, books used as props—the farcical and surreal nature of the lingua franca of consumerism and recrea-tion is brought to new light. Penelope Umbrico (Photographs) presents a unique and challenging approach to quintessential issues of representation in contemporary culture, including how images are used to construct and communicate consumer desire, and whether or not the growing volume of images we view online fosters a critical visual literacy. This volume, Umbrico’s first monograph, is accompanied by a series of essays, appendices of source material, excerpts from theoretical works, and other material serving as resources for engaging further with the work and issues involved.

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La composition du quatrième livre ne cède en rien à celle des quatre autres livres déjà analysés. Ses trois sections majeures comptent chacune cinq psaumes organisés de manière concentrique ; elles sont articulées par deux courtes sections qui constituent les foyers de l’ellipse que dessine l’ensemble du livre. Les sections extrêmes se répondent. La première (Ps 90–94) décrit « le destin des fils d’Adam », la dernière (Ps 102–106) « le destin des fils d’Israël ». Tous sont soumis à la loi de la misère humaine. Ils sont comme l’herbe qui le matin fleurit et le soir fane et sèche ; à la caducité s’ajoute le péché. Refuge des hommes de génération en génération, le Seigneur sauve les hommes en rassasiant de longs jours ceux qui le craignent et en assurant sa fidélité aux fils de leurs fils, d’âge en âge ; malgré leurs infidélités toujours répétées, Dieu ne se lasse pas de leur pardonner. La section centrale (Ps 96–100) se distingue du reste du livre qu’elle surplombe. Tous les peuples sont appelés à se rendre à Jérusalem pour se prosterner devant le Roi de l’univers et bénir celui qui a sauvé le peuple choisi parmi toutes les familles de la terre. Portée par la promesse du Dieu unique et par l’espérance du peuple unique lui aussi, cette invitation se situe à l’horizon jamais atteint, mais toujours désiré, de l’eschatologie. Les foyers de l’ellipse (Ps 95 et 101) constituent la clé de lecture du livre. Le premier est focalisé sur un souhait adressé à l’homme: « Aujourd’hui si vous écoutiez sa voix... » (Ps 95,7). Le second pose une question à Dieu : « Quand viendras-tu vers moi ? » (Ps 101,2). Ainsi, tout le quatrième livre se trouve pris dans cette tension entre le désir de Dieu et celui de l’homme, chacun allant à la rencontre de l’autre, dans un « aujourd’hui » dont la fragilité place tout homme entre le matin où l’herbe fleurit et le soir où elle sèche, entre le temps des pères qu’évoque longuement la dernière section, temps du péché et du pardon, et le temps du salut et de la fin que contemple la section centrale.

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Tired of the 9-to-5 grind and want a way to earn or to supplement your income? Easy. The media has named the growing trend toward micro-entrepreneurship "the Rise of the Creative Class," "the Gig Life," or "the freelance economy." All of those refer to the nearly 4 million workers who were self-employed this past year, and millions of others who currently supplement their income with freelance work. While the trend has been spotted before, there's one stark difference between micro-entrepreneurs today and the "Free Agent Nation" citizens of the late '90s: technology. Micro-Entrepreneurship For Dummies shows you how to navigate this confusing technological landscape in order to make a contributable profit. Micro-Entrepreneurship For Dummies aids you in making the best use of micro-entrepreneurial platforms, with helpful advice that includes information on signing up for and selling products on websites such as Airbnb, Craigslist, Taskrabbit, Uber, and Etsy. Micro-enterprise, using online platforms to sell products or services,??is a proven way to earn extra money and supplement household income In today's struggling economy, the importance of self-run businesses and small enterprise is growing as more people take lower-paying jobs and need a little extra spending money Shows you how to sign up for and sell products online Micro-Entrepreneurship For Dummies appeals to anyone looking to earn or supplement their income from home.

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Daisy Craigmore, nee Ellis - she's always hated her married name - is finally free. Her elderly husband has died and while she would never wish anyone harm, his death is a light at the end of a very dark tunnel. Forced into this loveless marriage, she nevertheless tried her best to behave and be a faithful, good wife. Now? Now she wants to have fun. Daisy sets about living a life of debauchery, visiting gaming halls, risque shows - places that until now have been forbidden. She has the time of her life until she stumbles onto a brutalized corpse in a dark alley. Ian McKinnon found the one woman to stir his blood, only to lose her to his oldest friend and greatest enemy, Lord Archer. Now the devil has the temerity to accuse him of slaughtering innocents. As part of an ancient lineage, his kind has always been derided but the werewolves live under a code, never kill the humans and never let the beast take total control, for once lost, the human side of them may never return. Now one of his kind is running amok in London. Exiled from his clan and living as a lone wolf, he ought not to care, but his sense of honour forces him to investigate. Daisy knows she should stay away from Ian but the temptation is too much and the more she is with him, the more she can see how much chasing the rogue werewolf is affecting him. Mckinnon's control on the beast within is slipping. When the rogue werewolf sets its sights on Daisy in an effort to hurt Mckinnon, they both have to decide if what started as a dalliance is worth sacrificing, or worth giving up for love.

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En 1995, le Pere Juan Nadal Canellas editait dans la "Series Graeca" du "Corpus Christianorum" deux refutations, ecrites par Akindynos, d'une oeuvre celebre de Gregoire Palamas, le "Dialogue d'un Orthodoxe avec un Barlaamite". Le texte grec de la plus importante de ces Refutations, ecrite en quatre traites, occupait non moins de 408 pages. De cet enorme ensemble, le P. Nadal publie aujourd'hui une traduction francaise. Elle fait l'objet du t. I, et on notera qu'en preparant cette traduction l'auteur a pu, en plusieurs endroits, ameliorer le texte edite il y a une dizaine d'annees.Quant au t. II, il presente, pourrait-on dire, le cadre historique dans lequel les Refutations ont vu le jour. Akindynos avait succede, apprenons-nous, a Theolepte de Philadelphie comme Pere spirituel de la princesse Irene-Eulogie Choumnaina Paleologina. Devenue, encore tres jeune, veuve de l'heritier de l'empire, celle-ci portait le titre de "basilissa" et etait tres riche; toute devouee a son Pere spirituel, elle l'encourageait et l'appuyait de toutes ses forces; elle fit notamment copier ses oeuvres sur parchemin, ce qui les a sauvees. La correspondance echangee entre Akindynos et Irene-Eulogie a egalement ete conservee en partie et permet de mieux connaitre l'auteur des Refutations et les conditions dans lesquelles il a travaille. La chronologie des annees 1340 a 1345 est egalement eclairee. Apres la mort inattendue d'Andronic III en 1341, on assiste a la montee en puissance du ministre et futur empereur Jean (VI) Cantacuzene et du groupe monastique inspire par Palamas, qui avait ses faveurs. Ces moines ne craignaient pas de tenir des positions pour le moins etonnantes. De la meme facon, disaient-ils, que durant tout l'Ancien Testament, seuls les prophetes ont entrevu le mystere de l'Incarnation et que le commun du peuple aurait trouve inacceptables les verites qu'a revelees le Nouveau Testament, ainsi auusi aujourd'hui certaines verites sont revelees a certaines personnes par la grace de l'Esprit, verites inconnues du Nouveau Testament. Les Palamites pretendaient aussi, notamment, voir la gloire essentielle de Dieu avec les yeux de leur corps "transformes par l'Esprit-Saint". Palamas ne redoutait pas d'employer le meme mot de "divinite" pour designer des realites fort differentes; on en arrivait ainsi a parler de divinites multiples. De telles positions eveillerent la resistance de plusieurs intellectuels, qui voyaient bien a quel point le mouvement rompait, au moins dans l'expression, avec la tradition. Akindynos fut de ceux qui denoncerent rapidement le danger. Mais parmi ceux qui attaquerent les moines, il y eut aussi Barlaam, un Calabrais qui, ne fut-ce que par ses origines, apparaissait comme lie a la Latinite; ceci ne fit surement pas de bien au parti des antipalamites. La lutte fut rude; il y eut des bagarres, des emprisonnements. Elle se termina, en 1351, par le triomphe complet des palamites, mais, chose etonnante, on constate qu'apres sa nomination au siege archiepiscopal de Thessalonique (1349), Palamas, en tant que pasteur, ne semble plus jamais avoir fait allusion aux idees qu'il avait promues auparavant et qui avaient cause tant de debats et tant de malheurs.

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