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Book SynopsisFaultlines (2015-20) locates fragments of contested landscapes within the UK Oil and Gas Authority onshore licence blocks under threat from shale gas extraction.

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Book Synopsisof sirens, body & faultlines is a book of prophecy against this Brexit era, rising from a post-2008 London, where crisis and austerity meet the vanity projects of the super-rich. Committed to the immediacy of a present that is precarious and under surveillance, of sirens... attends to queer, transfeminist and people of colour counter-memories and histories. It seeks new expressions of desire and modes of breath, pushing against the gravities that would rather these lives and worlds disappear.While arguing with the radio may seem futile, syntax, punctuation, grammar and the page must still all be mobilised to help create new conditions of possibility – for collectivity, for poetry to speak. Nat Raha’s exceptional, experimental, queer lyric mobilises all aspects of language to reveal contradictions of capitalism and defuse populist rhetoric. This is a writing of city life against the flows to capital; labouring bodies speaking back to the demands of work and the fictions of xenophobic politicians. It concerns herstory, transfeminism, collectivity; the everyday of South East London, transformation and decolonisation, through counter-memories, anti-memoir, and a trans poetics.

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Book SynopsisThis stunning journal is filled with faery line art by artist Iris Compiet. It is perfect for writers and doodlers looking to add whimsy and adventure into their everyday.

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Book SynopsisChris Ryan was born in 1961 in a village near Newcastle. In 1984 he joined the SAS. During his ten years in the Regiment, he was involved in overt and covert operations and was also Sniper team commander of the anti-terrorist team. During the Gulf War, Chris was the only member of an eight-man team to escape from Iraq, of which three colleagues were killed and four captured. It was the longest escape and evasion in the history of the SAS. For this he was awarded the Military Medal. During Ryan's last two years in the Regiment he selected and trained potential SAS recruits, he left the SAS in 1994 and is now the author of many bestselling thrillers for adults, as well as the ALPHA FORCE series for younger readers. His work in security takes him around the world. He has also appeared in a number of TV programmes, including HUNTING CHRIS RYAN, PUSHED TO THE LIMIT (Toughest Families) and TERROR ALERT (Sky TV, 2004).Trade ReviewFrom start to finish you will be hooked . . . The ex-SAS hero Chris Ryan has done it again in writing this thrilling book, look out for his next mission * South Wales Argus *Great gung-ho stuff * Independent on Sunday *

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Book Synopsis'Fault line: 1) a line on a rock surface or the ground that traces a geological fault. 2) a divisive issue or difference of opinion that is likely to have serious consequences.' Poet Gerry Loose's fifth collection maps the 'fault line' dividing man from his environment, centring in this instance on the Faslane submarine base on the eastern shore of Gare Loch in Argyll and Bute, home of the UK's nuclear arsenal. The incongruity of the area's natural beauty coupled with weapons that could reduce it to dust at the push of a button has inspired a book-length poem that probes the delusions of the political and military classes. Loose explores the landscape surrounding Faslane, his hymns to its beauty only throwing into sharper focus its fragility. He describes a land poisoned by the 'deterrent' meant to protect it. In so doing, Loose has reinvented nature poetry for the 21st century, reconnecting with a radical tradition Burns, Byron and Shelley would have recognised and celebrated.

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Book SynopsisA controversial new investigation in the 1984 Miners strike and how it changed Modern Britain.The Miners' strike was a dividing line in Modern British history. Before 1984, Britain was an industrial nation, reborn from the ashes of the Second World War by Clement Atlee's vision of a welfare state. Most of the great industries were nationalised and the trade unions was one of the major forces in the land. After the strike, which ended with humiliating defeat in March 1985, Thatcher's Britain was born.In March 1984, the leader of the Miners' Union, Arthur Scargill, led his members out of the pits without a ballot to protest at planned pit closures; they would spend the next 13 months facing the utmost deprivations as they fought to keep their jobs. On picket lines the miners faced harassment and the police, which culminated in the violent Battle of Orgreave. Meanwhile Thatcher's government feared that Britain was on the verge of a civil war. It was a struggle of attrition that neither side could dare lose.Twenty five years after the strike, the debate is still controversial. Marching to the Faultline tells the full story of the strike from confidential cabinet meetings at Downing Street to backroom negotiations, and life on the picket line. The book draws on previously unseen sources from interviews with the major figures, private archives and documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act to set the record straight.Trade ReviewWell researched, full of vital insights and written with a sense of pace that does justice to the tragic drama. -- Neil KinnockFascinating. * Evening Standard *The merit of Beckett and Hencke's book lies in the attempt to prise the history of the strike away from myth ... excellent. * New Statesman *A lively, popular and informed account of the strike. * BBC History *There is nothing wrong with civilised trade unionism: but as this book shows, there was nothing civilised at all about the methods, or the consequences, of Arthur Scargill. -- Simon Heffer * Literary Review *Meticulously researched . . the roles of Thatcher and Scargill and the striking miners themselves are questioned in a deeper way than ever before, and a secret history of espionage and dirty tricks is revealed. * Books Quarterly *The full tragic story of the 1984 miners' strike in a page-turning read that will raise the brows of even the most informed reader. * Good Book Guide *

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Book SynopsisThe author was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. In this book, he argues that serious flaws in the economy are also to blame, and warns that a potentially more devastating crisis awaits us if they aren't fixed. It outlines the hard choices we need to make to ensure a more stable world economy.Trade Review* Raghuram G. Rajan, Winner of the 2013 Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics, The Center for Financial Studies * Winner of the 2010 Business Book of the Year Award, Financial Times and Goldman Sachs * Winner of the 2011 Gold Medal in Finance/Investment/Economics, Independent Publisher Book Awards * Winner of the 2010 PROSE Award in Economics, American Publishers Awards* Winner of the 2010 Gold Medal Book of the Year Award in Business & Economics, ForeWord Reviews * Finalist for the 2010 Paul A. Samuelson Award, TIAA-CREF * Finalist for the 2010 Book of the Year Award in Business and Economics, ForeWord Reviews * One of strategy+business magazine's Best Business Books of the Year for 2010 * Best Crisis Book by an Economist and Named one of Bloomberg News's Thirty Business Books of the Year for 2010 * Finalist for the 2011 Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize* One of Financial Times's Books of the Year in Business & Economics, Nonfiction Round-Up for 2010 "Fault Lines is a must-read."--Nouriel Roubini, Forbes.com "[E]xcellent... [Fault Lines] deserve[s] to be widely read in a time when the tendency to blame everything on catch-all terms like 'globalisation' is gaining ground."--Economist "Like geological fault lines, the fissures in the world economic system are more hidden and widespread than many realize, he says. And they are potentially more destructive than other, more obvious culprits, like greedy bankers, sleepy regulators and irresponsible borrowers. Mr. Rajan ... argues that the actions of these players (and others) unfolded on a larger world stage, that was (and is) subject to the imperatives of political economies... [A] serious and thoughtful book."--New York Times "A thought-provoking new book... [Rajan's] voice is worth listening to."--Martin Wolf, Financial Times "The book, published by Princeton University Press, saw off stiff competition from five others on the shortlist, to be chosen as 'the most compelling and enjoyable' business title of 2010. The final intense debate among the seven judges came down to a choice between Fault Lines and Too Big to Fail, Andrew Ross Sorkin's acclaimed minute-by-minute analysis of the collapse of Lehman Brothers. The book identifies the flaws that helped cripple the world financial system, prescribes potential remedies, but also warns that unless policymakers push through painful reforms, the world could be plunged into renewed turmoil."--Financial Times "Rajan is worth reading not just because he was correct when few were but also because his writing is clear as a bell, even to nonspecialists."--Christopher Caldwell, Weekly Standard "The left has figured out who to blame for the financial crisis: Greedy Wall Street bankers, especially at Goldman Sachs. The right has figured it out, too: It was government's fault, especially Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Raghuram Rajan of the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business says it's more complicated: Fault lines along the tectonic plates of the global economy pushed big government and big finance to a financial earthquake. To him, this was a Greek tragedy in which traders and bankers, congressmen and subprime borrowers all played their parts until the drama reached the inevitably painful end. (Mr. Rajan plays Cassandra, of course.) But just when you're about to cast him as a University of Chicago free-market stereotype, he surprises by identifying the widening gap between rich and poor as a big cause of the calamity."--David Wessel, Wall Street Journal "In a new book ... entitled Fault Lines, Rajan argues that the initial causes of the breakdown were stagnant wages and rising inequality. With the purchasing power of many middle-class households lagging behind the cost of living, there was an urgent demand for credit. The financial industry, with encouragement from the government, responded by supplying home-equity loans, subprime mortgages, and auto loans... The side effects of unrestrained credit growth turned out to be devastating--a possibility most economists had failed to consider."--John Cassidy, New Yorker "[C]onvincing."--Christopher Caldwell, New York Times Magazine "What if the financial crash of 2008 was really caused by income inequality? Not greedy bankers, not reckless homeowners, but the ever widening-gulf between the rich and the poor? And what if the lack of social services--like health care--made things much, much worse? This is the startling new theory from Raghuram Rajan... [Fault Lines is] especially fascinating because it mixes free-market Chicago School economics with good-government ideas straight out of Obamaland."--John Richardson, Esquire.com "A high-powered yet accessible analysis of the financial crisis and its aftermath, Fault Lines was awarded the FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year. Rajan ... was one of the few who warned that the crisis was coming and his book fizzes with striking and thought-provoking ideas."--Financial Times (FT Critics Pick 2010) "What caused the crisis? ... There is an embarrassment of causes--especially embarrassing when you recall how few people saw where they might lead. Raghuram Rajan ... was one of the few to sound an alarm before 2007. That gives his novel and sometimes surprising thesis added authority. He argues in his excellent new book that the roots of the calamity go wider and deeper still."--Clive Crook, Financial Times "Few people were able to foresee the recent economic downturn. Raghuram Rajan ... was one of them. This makes his new book, Fault Lines, worthy of consideration amidst the rampant speculation about the causes of the financial crisis... Fault Lines is valuable primarily for its clear explanation of unintended economic consequences from well-meaning government intervention."--Washington Times "Rajan's writing is clear and direct."--James Pressley, Bloomberg News "Former IMF chief economist Raghuram G. Rajan ... in his new book, Fault Lines, brings together and explains the diverse failings that contributed to the crisis--the fault lines, as he puts it, that were exposed by the events of the past several years. Rajan then puts forward broad policy recommendations to ward off a future problem... Rajan's book takes a comprehensive look at what got us into the crisis and offers an intriguing approach to avoiding another one."--Phillip Swagel, Finance & Development "I devoured Raghuram Rajan's Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy in a very short span of time last night. It's brief, well-written, and extremely interesting. I would definitely recommend adding it to your financial crisis reading list."--Matthew Yglesias, Yglesias blog "The proposed global reforms that [Rajan] lists in Fault Lines run the gamut from the prosaic to grandiose. Along with revamping Wall Street's pay system, he offers innovative ideas on building capital buffers into the global credit system, obviating much of the need for bailouts of companies deemed too big or too enmeshed in the financial system to fail."--Barron's "Economists who can challenge their peers while remaining accessible to the general reader are rare, but Rajan belongs to this elite group. No short summary can do justice to this well-written, insightful, and nuanced study."--Choice "In 2007, then-chief IMF economist Raghuram G. Rajan delivered a stark warning to the world's top bankers: financial markets were headed for doom. They laughed it off. In the wake of the collapse that followed, Rajan has written a new book, Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy, that warns the system is doomed to repeat its mistakes. Like many defenders of the market, Rajan urges us not to demonize the bankers. But it's this fiscal conservative's focus on inequality that makes him stand out from the pack. The growing wage gap, he argues, is a hidden driver of financial instability, putting constant pressure on politicians to enact short-term fixes."--Toronto Star "The critics are wrong: Raghuram Rajan's analysis of the global financial crisis remains highly relevant and deserves to be widely read... The breadth of Rajan's explanatory framework--which is presented cogently and concisely within 230 pages of text--marks this book apart from many others that tackle the same themes."--Mark Hannam, Prospect "Dozens of experts have explored the reasons behind the ongoing global economic turmoil, and Raghuram Rajan provides his own elegant and thoughtful analysis in Fault Lines."--BizEd "With Fault Lines, Rajan has made an original diagnosis of the credit crisis, one that goes much further than those of greedy bankers or wasteful mortgage giants such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac."--Christophe De Rijcke, De Tijd (translated from the Dutch by K.C.L.) "A book that should be the default choice of discerning finance professionals when they enter the store the next time."--D. Murali, Business Line "Rajan's Fault Lines is ... expansive and policy-focused and clearly destined to become a must-read on any list of books on the recent global crisis."--Jahangir Aziz, Business Standard "Insightful, educative and incredibly gripping, if you want just one book to understand the ongoing global financial crisis and the way forward, Fault Lines it is."--Gautam Chikermane, Hindustan Times "Best Crisis Book by an Economist (2010)."--James Pressley, Bloomberg News "Fault Lines has a strong claim to be the economics book that best caught the spirit of 2010. Raghuram Rajan's receipt of the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs annual business book award only confirmed his book's widespread popularity. It is not hard to see why so many people liked it. Fault Lines eschews hyperbole for a lucid and balanced account of the crisis."--Fund Strategy "Rajan ... comes up with original and important long-term remedies... Rajan's book is a bold enterprise in three ways: firstly it aims to explain the US financial crisis by looking at deep, decade-long fractures in economies and societies; secondly it suggests well-known but radical solutions that few dare put forward; and finally it supplies innovative answers to practical questions... [T]he book will please any reader looking for an inquiry into the deepest causes of the recession and a consistent account of government's errors of omission and commission."--Natacha Postel-Vinay, British Politics and Policy "In a well-written, well-organized study, he focuses on ten of the most important issues bedeviling a still shaky world economy. Neither too technical for laymen nor too glib for specialists, the book ought to be a significant contribution to policy-makers' discussions of where we go now."--Joel Campbell, International Affairs "Just when you thought you had heard it all and that there is not much more that we can learn from the recent financial crises, here comes a brand-new assessment from another angle... Written with clarity and persuasion."--Good Book Guide "[T]his book is a must read for analysts, academics, politicians, economists, and the like."--Emilia Garcia-Appendini, Financial Markets and Portfolio ManagementTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Chapter One: Let Them Eat Credit 21 Chapter Two: Exporting to Grow 46 Chapter Three: Flighty Foreign Financing 68 Chapter Four: A Weak Safety Net 83 Chapter Five: From Bubble to Bubble 101 Chapter Six: When Money Is the Measure of All Worth 120 Chapter Seven: Betting the Bank 134 Chapter Eight: Reforming Finance 154 Chapter Nine: Improving Access to Opportunity in America 183 Chapter Ten: The Fable of the Bees Replayed 202 Epilogue 225 Afterword to the Paperback Edition 231 Notes 241 Index 257

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Book SynopsisIt could be your average suicide. A man found dead in his car, engine running, parked at the end of a lonely track, a tube feeding deadly fumes from the exhaust through the window. Except for the seven-year-old boy still breathing in the boot...For Jonathan Kellaway, the past is somewhere he chooses not to go. Dead friends, lost lovers and a family dynasty hell-bent on self- destruction lie buried there.But if he is to uncover the truth, he must confront all the secrets which have consumed his life, and which may yet consume him...Trade ReviewThe classic Goddard epic of romance, double dealing and tragedy wrapped up in an old family quilt stained with blood and hidden under the stairs…Irresistible. * The Times *Get your hands on this gripping thriller set in stunning Cornwall. If you like plenty of twists in the tale and sensational plot lines, then you're probably already a fan of Robert Goddard. Fault Line doesn't disappoint. Settings and characters are a joy. * Daily Express *An intriguing tale of love, loyalty and betrayal...Robert Goddard remains the master of this particular territory. * Northampton Chronicle *A dangerous trawl through memories, mysteries and dirty dealing. A compelling read. * Choice Magazine *

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Book SynopsisUSA TODAY BESTSELLER! The Ground Is Moving The death of George Floyd at the hands of police in the summer of 2020 shocked the nation. As riots rocked American cities, Christians affirmed from the pulpit and in social media that “black lives matter” and that racial justice “is a gospel issue.” But what if there is more to the social justice movement than those Christians understand? Even worse: What if they’ve been duped into preaching ideas that actually oppose the Kingdom of God? In this powerful book, Voddie Baucham, a preacher, professor, and cultural apologist, explains the sinister worldview behind the social justice movement and Critical Race Theory—revealing how it already has infiltrated some seminaries, leading to internal denominational conflict, canceled careers, and lost livelihoods. Like a fault line, it threatens American culture in general—and the evangelical church in particular. Whether you’re a layperson who has woken up in a strange new world and wonders how to engage sensitively and effectively in the conversation on race or a pastor who is grappling with a polarized congregation, this book offers the clarity and understanding to either hold your ground or reclaim it.

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Book SynopsisThis pioneering collection examines tort law as a cultural phenomenon, drawing on the theories and methods of law, sociology, political science, and anthropology and comparative cases across the United States, Europe, and Asia.Trade Review"Both editors Engel and McCann are eminently qualified to prepare this reader on current themes in tort law practice from a comparative perspective .... The highly professional text is throughly indexed and contains an excellent bibliography."—R. A. Carp, Choice"The editors, who have contributed mightily to our scholarly understanding of torts and disputing over the past 25 years, have succeeded admirably in assembling highly accessible essays.... the essays are highly accessible, and the text will be a welcome addition to legal studies courses...."—Law and Politics Book Review"Fault Lines presents an original look at how popular culture informs legal practice, and how this influence determines the way a society thinks about and deals with wrongdoing and personal injury."—Timothy Lytton, Albany Law School"Unified in its attention to tort law in action, this breakthrough volume incorporates years of independent, original research from leading scholars. With clear, comparative examples, it reveals how changes in tort law practices relate to larger social changes." —Richard Abel, UCLA School of Law

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Book SynopsisA famed preacher, professor, and cultural anthropologist reveals the cancer of woke theology that has permeated seminaries and that threatens the evangelical church itself. Plus a call to all Christian congregations to eschew the lure of critical theory and hold to the path of an individual relationship with God.USA TODAY BESTSELLER! The Ground Is Moving The death of George Floyd at the hands of police in the summer of 2020 shocked the nation. As riots rocked American cities, Christians affirmed from the pulpit and in social media that “black lives matter” and that racial justice “is a gospel issue.” But what if there is more to the social justice movement than those Christians understand? Even worse: What if they’ve been duped into preaching ideas that actually oppose the Kingdom of God? In this powerful book, Voddie Baucham, a preacher, professor, and cultural apologist, explains the sinister worldview behind the social justice movement and Critical Race Theory—revealing how it already has infiltrated some seminaries, leading to internal denominational conflict, canceled careers, and lost livelihoods. Like a fault line, it threatens American culture in general—and the evangelical church in particular. Whether you’re a layperson who has woken up in a strange new world and wonders how to engage sensitively and effectively in the conversation on race or a pastor who is grappling with a polarized congregation, this book offers the clarity and understanding to either hold your ground or reclaim it.

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Book SynopsisHow can a movement like Surrealism be transferred, transplanted, or transported from one culture to another, one language to another? This book traces the creative dialogue between France and Japan in the early 20th century, focusing on Surrealist and avant-garde writings that challenge and break apart clear and bounded conceptions of language, poetry, and meaning.Trade Review"Miryam Sas's Fault Lines is an important contribution to an area of Japanese studies that has been largely neglected, the Japanese avant-garde. . . . Sas's close readings of Japanese surrealist translations, poetry, and criticisms are compelling. . . . Fault Lines contains no shortage of insights into a diverse international movement." -- The Journal of Asian Studies"But for those who have been baptized by the force of a peculiar language that emerged a century ago, Surrealism, with its inherent violence, fault lines, and dreams, Sas's masterful analytical performance would appear like a luminous guiding post, simultaneously pointing toward the past and the future. We will remember this work." -- Harvard Journal of Asiatic StudiesTable of ContentsIllustrations A note on Japanese names Prologue: what is called surrealism 1. Introduction 2. Distant realities 3. On memory and doubt 4. Poetry and visuality, poetry and actuality 5. Eternities and surrealist legacies Epilogue: physical nostalgias Appendix Selected chronology Notes Bibliography Index.

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Book SynopsisREVISED EDITION WITH A NEW CHAPTER AND EPILOGUE Two award-winning and best-selling historians explore the origins of a divided America in a new edition of Fault Lines.

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Book Synopsis Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award ''The perfect marriage of Sally Rooney and early Murakami'' Kathy Wang, author of Impostor Syndrome''A brilliant modern love story . . . atmospheric and transporting but also wise, clever and universal in its exploration of love, family and identity. I loved it'' Cathy RentzenbrinkMizuki is a Japanese housewife. She has a hardworking husband, two adorable children and a beautiful Tokyo apartment. It''s everything a woman like her could want . . . isn''t it?One rainy night, she meets Kiyoshi. In him, she rediscovers freedom, friendship, a voice, and the neon, electric pulse of the city she has always loved. But the further she falls into their relationship, the clearer it becomes that she is living two lives - and in the end, we can choose only one.Trade ReviewA brilliant modern love story. I found it atmospheric and transporting but also wise, clever and universal in its exploration of love, family and identity. I loved it. * Cathy Rentzenbrink, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Last Act of Love *This delicate and beautiful love story will fill your heart... Short, emotional and very funny, Emily Itami's debut is an unmissable treat for romantics everywhere. -- Francesca Brown * STYLIST *An addictive and beautiful novel with a fantastic voice, full of wry humour and sharp observations. It's funny and tragic, passionate and bold, and I know I'll be thinking about it for a long time to come. * Kate Murray-Browne, author of The Upstairs Room *Itami captures the magic of Tokyo and makes it part of the couple's relationship, complete with cherry blossoms, tiny bars and excellent food... it punches above its weight in its themes and the maturity with which it examines them, such as how love intertwines with or comes up against duty, and the feeling of having lost a part of oneself. Although she situates these ideas in a very specific social context, Itami manages to make them universal. -- Alys Key * I NEWSPAPER *An utterly accomplished novel that navigates the inner yearnings of the heart in stylish, sparky and engrossing prose. I absolutely loved it * Megan Bradbury, author of Everyone Is Watching *Exploring motherhood and Japanese culture, I found this a fascinating and insightful read. -- Nina Pottell * PRIMA *A lyrical story about love and a fascinating look at the collision of old and new traditions in modern Tokyo. -- Sarra Manning * RED *Atmospheric * NEW! MAGAZINE *For me it's the strong sense of place and Japanese culture that makes this short novel a worthy addition to the never-ending body of fiction on marital and domestic dissatisfaction. The perfect long-haul escape, albeit liable to induce its own frustrations in the form of wanderlust * The Literary Sofa, Summer Reads 2021 *It's rare to find a character that truly embodies the contradictions of contemporary motherhood, so thank goodness for Mizuki. An incredible portrait of love, strength, rage and fragility * Marianne Levy *Another striking debut, this bittersweet love story follows a Japanese housewife caught between tradition and modernity * Stylist *A very shrewd and funny story of a marriage and a wife whose identity has been annihilated by the very culture she railed against as a young woman * @itshelenwhitaker *Mizuki is a Japanese housewife. She has a hardworking husband, two children and a beautiful Tokyo apartment. But one night, she meets restaurateur Kiyoshi and rediscovers freedom. The further she falls into their relationship, the clearer it becomes that she is living two lives - and in the end, she can only choose one * Bella *What is the cost of a mother's love? In her debut novel Fault Lines, Emily Itami explores this question with wit and poignancy . . . dreamy . . . Itami's descriptions of spring in Japan are to be savoured * New York Times *Shrewd commentary on Japan's societal expectations of women * Washington Post *

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Book SynopsisFollowing decades of relative unity, Europe is once again seeing an intensification of nationalism and illiberalism. The past is never dead, wrote William Faulkner, it's not even past. Like tectonic plates, perceptions shift without us realising it. Only when the resulting tensions erupt do we notice the new reality. The soul of a country, however, reveals itself along much longer time scales. In Fault Lines, Jörg Colberg examines the origins and effects of such processes in Hungary, where the authoritarian transformation of state and society has been underway for more than a decade without regard for losses.Text in English and German.

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Book SynopsisThis pioneering collection examines tort law as a cultural phenomenon, drawing on the theories and methods of law, sociology, political science, and anthropology and comparative cases across the United States, Europe, and Asia.Trade Review"Both editors Engel and McCann are eminently qualified to prepare this reader on current themes in tort law practice from a comparative perspective .... The highly professional text is throughly indexed and contains an excellent bibliography."—R. A. Carp, Choice"The editors, who have contributed mightily to our scholarly understanding of torts and disputing over the past 25 years, have succeeded admirably in assembling highly accessible essays.... the essays are highly accessible, and the text will be a welcome addition to legal studies courses...."—Law and Politics Book Review"Fault Lines presents an original look at how popular culture informs legal practice, and how this influence determines the way a society thinks about and deals with wrongdoing and personal injury."—Timothy Lytton, Albany Law School"Unified in its attention to tort law in action, this breakthrough volume incorporates years of independent, original research from leading scholars. With clear, comparative examples, it reveals how changes in tort law practices relate to larger social changes." —Richard Abel, UCLA School of Law

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Book SynopsisRiveting, powerful, and a little bit magical, Fault Lines offers readers a slow-burn romance alongside an unflinching examination of socio-economics, gender expectations, and environmental ethics.Gold Winner of the 2024 Nautilus Book Award for Young Adult (YA) Fiction Ever since her aunt died four months ago, seventeen-year-old Vivian (Viv) Spry is aching to figure out where she belongs. Her father has become emotionally distant and even her best friend has found a new sense of identity in her theater group. Unfortunately, nobody in her rural West Virginia town has time for an assertive, angry girl, especially a girl dubbed “Ice Queen” for refusing to sleep with her popular boyfriend. On top of everything, she discovers a strange ability to sense energy that really freaks her out. The only place Viv feels like it’s safe to be her true self is the tree stand where her aunt taught her to hunt. It's the one place she

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Book SynopsisFor the last seventy years, experts have tried to define the nature of Turkey's partnership with the US. While Turkish-US relations have always been susceptible to different crises, they enjoyed a brief golden era in the 1950s. This book argues that a false nostalgia about that period - when the strategic interests of two countries fully converged - has distorted analyses by scholars and policymakers ever since. To provide a more accurate assessment, this book look at the patterns of crises between the two countries throughout history and how these relate to the current points of tension in Turkish-American relations today. It coins a new conceptual framework to understand the Turkey-US partnership: the vulnerable partnership. The book outlines the key causes of this vulnerability, showing that for the last 70 years, there have been recurring frictions and faultlines that have been repeated across different political periods. These especially involve the US congress, public opinion, Ru

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Book SynopsisHow can a movement like Surrealism be transferred, transplanted, or transported from one culture to another, one language to another? This book traces the creative dialogue between France and Japan in the early 20th century, focusing on Surrealist and avant-garde writings that challenge and break apart clear and bounded conceptions of language, poetry, and meaning.Trade Review"Miryam Sas's Fault Lines is an important contribution to an area of Japanese studies that has been largely neglected, the Japanese avant-garde. . . . Sas's close readings of Japanese surrealist translations, poetry, and criticisms are compelling. . . . Fault Lines contains no shortage of insights into a diverse international movement." -- The Journal of Asian Studies"But for those who have been baptized by the force of a peculiar language that emerged a century ago, Surrealism, with its inherent violence, fault lines, and dreams, Sas's masterful analytical performance would appear like a luminous guiding post, simultaneously pointing toward the past and the future. We will remember this work." -- Harvard Journal of Asiatic StudiesTable of ContentsIllustrations A note on Japanese names Prologue: what is called surrealism 1. Introduction 2. Distant realities 3. On memory and doubt 4. Poetry and visuality, poetry and actuality 5. Eternities and surrealist legacies Epilogue: physical nostalgias Appendix Selected chronology Notes Bibliography Index.

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Book Synopsis'A life-changing new book' DAILY MAILWhat problem touches millions of people and causes distress so profound that it can last a lifetime? What if no reliable professional guidance exists for this problem, so most people who suffer from it are on their own in finding solutions?This critically important issue - and hidden epidemic - is family estrangement. Few problems are so widespread and so damaging, sometimes for decades and across generations, and yet there has not been a definitive, popular and data-informed book about how families are broken and stay broken - until now. Fault Lines is a fascinating, moving and above all practical treatment of this complex issue, aimed at adults of all ages. Based on 300 in-depth interviews with 1,800 individuals, this book captures the eloquence of ordinary people facing family challenges that threaten their identity, health and well-being, relying on sources never before available, including a unique combination of rich, in-depth interviews, data from large-scale surveys and conversations with leading family therapists. This is the first book to reveal successful strategies from people who have found ways to repair rifts or live peacefully with the consequences when nothing can be done - and the first to offer hope to broken families which need it the most.

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Book SynopsisBorn in Vienna in 1936, David Pryce-Jones is the son of the well-known writer and editor of the Times Literary Supplement Alan Pryce-Jones and Therese “Poppy” Fould-Springer. He grew up in a cosmopolitan mix of industrialists, bankers, soldiers, and playboys on both sides of a family, embodying the fault lines of the title: “not quite Jewish and not quite Christian, not quite Austrian and not quite French or English, not quite heterosexual and not quite homosexual, socially conventional but not quite secure.”Graduating from Magdalen College, Oxford, David Pryce-Jones served as Literary Editor of the Financial Times and the Spectator, a war correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, and Senior Editor of National Review. Fault Lines is a memoir that spans Europe, America, and the Middle East and encompasses figures ranging from Somerset Maugham to Svetlana Stalin to Elie de Rothschild. As seen on Channel 4's My Grandparents' War, with Helena Bonham Carter, the memoir has the storytelling power of Pryce-Jones’s numerous novels and non-fiction books, and is perceptive and poignant testimony to the fortunes and misfortunes of the present age.

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Book SynopsisHow did public higher education become an industry? This unprecedented account reveals how campus leaders and faculty preserved the vitality and core values of public higher education despite changing resources and expectations. American public higher education is in crisis. After decades of public scrutiny over affordability, access, and quality, indictments of the institution as a whole abound. Campus leaders and faculty report a loss of public respect resulting from their alleged unresponsiveness to demands for change. But is this loss of confidence warranted? And how did we get to this point? In Academic Fault Lines, Patricia J. Gumport offers a compelling account of the profound shift in societal expectations for what public colleges and universities should be and do. She attributes these new attitudes to the ascendance of industry logicthe notion that higher education must prioritize serving the economy. Arguing that industry logic has had far-reaching effects, Gumport shows hoTable of ContentsOnline Materials Preface Acknowledgments Introduction. Points of Departure 1. Conceptual and Empirical Anchors: Studying Institutional Change Part I. The Ascendance of Industry Logic 2. Built to Serve 3. State-Level Expectations 4. Forces Converging to Advance Industry Logic Part II. Community Colleges 5. Beyond the Demand-Response Scenario 6. Harmonizing Educational Identities Part III. Comprehensive State Universities 7. Reconciling Competing Mandates 8. Persevering through Strategic Necessities Part IV. Research Universities 9. In Pursuit of Excellence 10. Pursuing Priorities and Striving for State of the Art Conclusion. Managing for Legitimacy: Moving beyond Academic Fault Lines Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisThis book tells the history of Christian missionary encounters with non-Christians, as British and American missionaries spread out from Delhi into the heartland of Punjab—a part of the world where there were no Christians at all until the advent of British imperial rule in the early 19th century.Trade Review" . . . [H]e is one of the few active scholars in this field to bring all these perspectives into a single focus. Analytically as well as methodologically, this book has moved the cutting edge of the field." -- Victorian Studies"This is an excellent, well-researched book, rich in detail and anecdote, and filled with valuable and original information and analysis about European Christian/Indian Christian (and non-Christian) interaction. " -- Roger B. Beck * Eastern Illinois University *"....[A] complex, variegated, and compelling history of the tensions between the Christian universalism of teh missionaries and the indigenous politics of status and religious reform, as well as focused consideration of the pivotal position of cultural and racial difference under colonial rule." -- Victorian Studies"This richly detailed book references large amounts of archival material and will be of interest to scholars and advanced students of Christian missions outside the West." -- Religious Studies Review"His work moves beyond presenting missionary activity as a simple narrative of progress; instead, Cox helps to demonstrate the complex development of missions and missionary activities in an imperial context, especially the competing realities of imperial necessity and missionary desires." -- Journal of the American Oriental Society

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Book SynopsisAn award-winning writer travels the eastern front of Europe, where the push/pull between old empires and new possibilities has never been more evident. Paolo Rumiz traces the path that has twice cut Europe in two—first by the Iron Curtain and then by the artificial scaffolding of the EU—moving through vibrant cities and abandoned villages, some places still gloomy under the ghost of these imposing borders, some that have sought to erase all memory of it and jump with both feet into the West (if only the West would have them). In The Fault Line, he is a sublime and lively guide through these unfamiliar landscapes, piecing together an atlas that has been erased by modern states, delighting in the discovery of communities that were once engulfed by geopolitics then all but forgotten, until now.The farther south he goes, the more he feels he is traveling not along some abandoned Eastern frontier, but right in the middle of things: Mitteleuropa wasn’t to be found in VienneTrade Review“In his first book translated into English, La Repubblica correspondent Rumiz vents his anger at the European Union's "rhetoric of globalization," which homogenizes ethnic distinctions and threatens to obliterate traditional communities. His nostalgic, engaging search for the heart of European identity takes him from the Arctic to the Mediterranean, through present-day Finland, Latvia, Ukraine and Poland. In these regions, the author finds depopulated villages, survivors of mass deportations and exterminations that continued long after World War II. Exploring the border between Russia and the European Union, Rumiz realized that he was traveling "a seismic fault that's only apparently dormant" because Russia, under Putin, is becoming a renewed threat. A richly detailed journey into Europe's dark past and vulnerable present.” –Kirkus Reviews“In this hypnotic travelogue, Italian journalist Rumiz weaves a poetic narrative about his 2008 journey along the length of the former Iron Curtain…There’s an unlikely poetic beauty to his flowery, indulgent prose…He lovingly describes his escapades and experiences, conjuring up places few tourists ever visit, exposing the dichotomy between the modernity of the EU and the time-lost ways of the old world, and illuminating a much-overlooked region of the world in a thoroughly fascinating manner. Though he’s given to purple prose and overly colorful descriptions, there’s no denying the allure and appeal of his European odyssey.” –Publishers Weekly"A glimpse of a hard journey through hard times, highly recommended for those interested in European history and little-known corners of travel." -Library Journal"It's 'goodbye Iron Curtain; hello, EU scaffolding,' as Rumiz learns in a journey through new post-Soviet Europe." -National Geographic Traveler"Idiosyncratic, lushly observed and aglow with philosophical asides, this questing travelogue sheds light on regions you’ve never heard of, where traditions endure from other ages. . . Rumiz’s paean to 'peripheral places' shows his readers that dystopian modernity isn’t the only story of the present-day eastern borderlands: A fairy tale lurks between the lines, and those who have enough intuition and courage (and perhaps a Russian translator) can discover it for themselves, if they borrow his map." -New York Times Book Review

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Book SynopsisLiving on the Fault Line is the long awaited new book from Geoffrey Moore, author of Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado, two bestselling works that have helped guide the high-tech revolution. Moore focuses on the most important business question for the early twenty-first century: the age of the Internet. How can companies living on the fault line of rapid, disruptive, technological change be managed successfully? -Old management truths are dead - Twentieth century business models must be replaced - The dot.com revolution is changing every aspect of business - Blue chip companies are under direct assault from new companies that nobody had even heard of last year Living on the Fault Line will reset the management agenda in the age of the Internet and is essential reading for all companies both old and new. * Simultaneous publication with HarperCollins US release * Guaranteed Business Book of the Month slots with key retailers * Major PR coverage across the media including FT, The Times, Telegraph, Guardian, Observer * Massive direct mail promotion to leading FT 500 multinationals * Crossing the Chasm has sold over 50,000 copies worldwide * Huge internet marketing campaignTrade Review"A readable book about an important subject." (Ambassador, December 2000) "a step-by-step approach" (Gulf Business, December 2001)Table of ContentsCONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION THE AGE OF THE INTERNET SHAREHOLDER VALUE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE LIVING ON THE FAULT LINE TRIAGE BUILDING TO LAST EPILOGUE INDEX

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Book SynopsisHeckert provides a detailed examination of the effects of global health and governmental policy decisions on the everyday lives of people living with HIV in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. She focuses on the gendered dynamics that play a role in the development and implementation of HIV care programs and shows how decisions made from above impact what happens on the ground. Trade Review“Fault Lines of Care is a remarkable book of the type many of us strive for: a finely grained, moving ethnography that articulates the nature of the broad interactions among individual, community, state-level, and global dynamics in the domain of international HIV/AIDS care. Heckert is a lucid, evocative writer and frankly, I found the book hard to put down.” -- Carole H. Browner * coauthor of Neurogenetic Diagnoses, the Power of Hope, and the Limits of Today’s Medicine *“Carina Heckert’s evocative and wrenching ethnography, Fault Lines of Care, conveys the frustrating and at times deadly entanglements of global health agendas with the intimate lived experiences of people living with HIV/ AIDS in resource poor communities in Bolivia. Heckert invites readers on an emotionally-charged journey through her interlocutors’ intimate and social experiences of seeking care for HIV/AIDS and ultimately their struggles for survival. This ethnographically rich rendering is an important contribution to our understanding of how people’s experiences of chronic disease interact with the biopolitical contours of inequality and poverty, in Bolivia and globally.” -- Nia Parson * author of Traumatic States: Gendered Violence, Suffering, and Care in Chile *"Chronicle of Higher Education Weekly Book List," by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *"As a case study in global health strategy, [Bolivia] is a useful example because of the often unexpected ways in which local politics, societal structures, and culture interact to undermine efforts to combat the HIV epidemic." * The Lancet *"Heckert writes in an engaging and accessible style and clearly explains her theoretical approach to understanding her ethnographic data. She nicely balances her discussion of the historical, social, and political context of HIV care with case studies of HIV-positive people doing their best to navigate the healthcare system and make decisions about when and how to access care." * American Journal of Human Biology *"Comprehensive and impressively written." * The Latin Americanist *"Fault Lines of Care offers a thoughtful examination of an HIV epidemic....This book offers an excellent resource for undergraduate and graduate courses in medical anthropology and health sciences. It poses important questions for future researchers to consider, including why our stubborn reliance on metrics and disease-specific approaches to global health care persist." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *Table of Contents1. Fault Lines 2. Decolonizing Bolivia 3. When Care is a “Systematic Route of Torture” 4. Aiding Women 5. Synergistic Silences 6. Blaming Machismo 7. The Biopolitical Drama of HIV Funding 8. Decolonizing Global Health Bibliography Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisFleeing Las Vegas and her abusive boyfriend, Allison Johnson moves to Reno, but finds herself haunted by the mistakes of her past, and lacking any self-belief. Her only comfort seems to come from the imaginary conversations she has with her hero, Paul Newman. But, as life crawls on, small acts of kindness do start to reveal themselves and slowly the chance of a new life begins to emerge. Full of memorable characters and imbued with a beautiful sense of yearning, Northline is an extraordinary portrait of small-town America and an emotional tour de force.

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Book SynopsisWhat if an ideology, which is meant to impart wisdom and guidance to humanity, itselfoses all its control and causes serious woes to the entire world?'' In theast few decades, an extremely anti-pluralistic, visibly misogynistic and terribly intolerant strain of Islam has taken control of the Arabian heartland and systematically spread out to other countries, eventually wreaking havoc across the world. Covering the expansion of political Islam in the modern Arab and non-Arab world until the dawn of Crown Prince Bin Salman era in Saudi Arabia, Hasnain''s thorough research explores the radicalization of Muslim youth in North America and Europe, as well as the sectarian faultines and rise of the Shia crescent in the Middle-East. These developments ultimatelyed to the rise of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), along with the weaponization of Islamic thought through the use of various social media platforms for the recruitment of jihadi volunteers, which has plagued the world in the past decade. An important work, it exposes how extremist outfits, with the support of the religious apparatus, methodically managed to scar the face of a faith that claims to have the secondargest number of followers in the world.

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