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Book SynopsisFinn Gramaraye is settling back into the family necrotorium business after his long exile in the Fey otherworld. But Finn has a business idea of his own: he's figured out how to use his half-mad father's Kinfinder invention to find True Love and wants to set up a magical dating service. When he agrees to help his Bigfoot friend Sal, they walk right into a Feyblood rebellion fomented by unknown forces and fueled by the drug created by Finn's own grandfather.Trade Review"Bright, brisk storytelling and lightly snarky wit... rollicking and charming," NPR. "Take a Harry Potter-like magic world, sprinkle in a bunch of harry Dresden, a pinch of Sandman Slim... and then add a dash of Ready Player One." Mysterious Galaxy

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Book SynopsisAn adventure-filled and thought-provoking travelogue along Hunter S. Thompson's forgotten route through South AmericaIn 1963, twenty-five-year-old Hunter S. Thompson completed a yearlong journey across South America, filing a series of dispatches for an upstart paper called the National Observer. It was here, on the front lines of the Cold War, that this then-unknown reporter began making a name for himself. The Hunter S. Thompson who would become America's iconic gonzo journalist was born in the streets of Rio, the mountains of Peru, and the black market outposts of Colombia.      In The Footloose American, Brian Kevin traverses the continent with Thompson's ghost as his guide, offering a ground-level exploration of twenty-first-century South American culture, politics, and ecology. By contrasting the author's own thrilling, transformative experiences along the Hunter S. Thompson Trail with those that Thompso

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Book SynopsisThe book begins by the North Sea. It is a late summer's afternoon, and a bright sun has dispersed the greyness of the day. Two Englishmen are enjoying a swim off the Essex coast when all at once both have the feeling that they are back at the French seaside. They find themselves starting to tell each other of their youthful experiences of living in France. The adventures they narrate follow one after another like waves rolling onto the shore. Clive, coming from London, had found himself spending a year deep in the French countryside within sight of the western Pyrenees; John, hailing from Devon, had ended up living for a while in the City of Light within sight of the Folies Bergere. Outsiders though they were, they momentarily became part of French society, their adventures fuelled by the culinary delights of their adopted land. They tell their tales with humour and relish as they recall their initiation into the French way of life of decades ago - and how it shaped their own.Trade Review"I predict this slim volume will become a quiet best seller. It has all the quirky fun of an authentic adventure, a trove of fascinating real-life tales - whilst it reveals the real France in all its remarkable differentness." -- Anne Garvey, Cambridge Critique; "The incidents and experiences [the authors] relate are very sympathetic to me, and induce a measure of nostalgia." -- Sir Quentin BlakeTable of ContentsFrontispiece; Prologue; 1. An Englishman in the ninth district; 2. Clive's voyage into the unknown; 3. Rene; 4. Clive the grape-picker; 5. John's stroll through Paris; 6. Clive arrives at Salies-de-Bearn; 7. John finds a job in the big city; 8. Clive settles in Salies-de-Bearn; 9. John's apprenticeship at a Paris bank; 10. Sad news for Clive from London; 11. Cinema verite: on location in Paris; 12. Clive back in the vineyard; 13. New waves for John; 14. Clive on a Mobylette to the Basque Country; 15. John and the elusive film world; 16. Bearnaise sauce; 17. John, the gourmet banker; 18. Clive rolls up his sleeves in the provinces; 19. John and the newly-weds; 20. Clive tries his hand at rough shooting; 21. John moves house; 22. Clive and Marianne; 23. John settles in on the rue Sainte-Anastase; 24. Provincial doctor to Clive's rescue; 25. John meets Luisa; 26. Clive learns his lesson skiing at Cauterets; 27. John's friends find connubial bliss; 28. Crossing the border into Spain; 29. John meets Chuchi; 30. Clive heads for the metropolis; 31. John joins the Paris rag trade; 32 Live pop music a la francaise; 33. John and the Marais copper-engraver; 34. Clive answers the call of the south; 35. The need to feed the inner man; 36. Clive enjoys good company in the cafe at Carresse; 37. John uses his Metro ticket; 38. Summer festivals - and Clive takes the mike; 39. John and the Irishman; 40. Small-town wedding; 41. John afloat in Paris; 42. Clive goes under at Saint-Jean-de-Luz; 43. John working with the Galerie Genot; 44. Clive on horseback in the Camargue; 45. John the balloon man; 46. Clive wields his knife and fork at Les Baux-de-Provence; 47. John's private view; Epilogue; Acknowledgements; Tailpiece

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Book SynopsisA History of the American Musical narrates the evolution of the film musical genre, discussing its influences and how it has come to be defined; the first text on this subject for over two decades, it employs the very latest concepts and research. The most up-to-date text on the subject, with uniquely comprehensive coverage and employing the very latest concepts and research Surveys centuries of music history from the music and dance of Native Americans to contemporary music performance in streaming media Examines the different ways the film musical genre has been defined, what gets counted as a musical, why, and who gets to make that decision The text is written in an accessible manner for general cinema and musical theatre buffs, whilst retaining theoretical rigour in research Describes the contributions made to the genre by marginalized or subordinated identity groups who have helped invent and shape the musical <Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1 Overture: Musical Traditions before Cinema 11 2 You Ain’t Heard Nothin’ Yet: The Sound Revolution 35 3 Face the Music and Dance: The Depression 67 4 Singing a Song of Freedom: World War II 97 5 There’s Beauty Everywhere: MGM and the Freed Unit 125 6 Something’s Gotta Give: The Postwar Musical 147 7 Bustin’ Out All Over: The Rise of the Musical Blockbuster 175 8 In a Minor Key: The B Musical and Beyond 197 9 The Sound of Money: Musicals in the 1960s 225 10 Whistling in the Dark: A Genre in Crisis 251 11 Can’t Stop the Music: Musicals and the New Hollywood 279 12 Just Like Scheherezade: Reviving the Musical Film Genre 307 Index 335

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Book SynopsisGrafting the Marxian idea that private property is coercive onto the liberal imperative of individual liberty, this new thesis from one of America's foremost intellectuals conceives a revised definition of justice that recognizes the harm inflicted by capitalism's hidden coercive structures.Trade Review“In the preface, Reiman says he hopes the book will be of interest to both the educated layperson and the professional philosopher; in this respect it succeeds admirably. Written in clear and lucid prose, the book will be a valuable resource for students looking for an introduction to Marx and Rawls’s thought on freedom, justice and capitalism.” (Res Publica, 1 March 2013) “In this way, Reiman’s exciting book is a new and timely contribution for us today.” (Marx And Philosophy Review of Books, 2 June 2014) “It is likely that Reiman has good replies to these critical comments. In any case, independently of whether his core argument succeeds or falters, the distinctions, concepts, and arguments Reiman develops in As Free and as Just as Possibleare of great significance. They need to be studied and discussed by all those interested in Marx and justice, the real conditions of freedom, Rawls, and post-capitalism.” (Social Theory and Practice, 1 October 2013) “As Free and as Just as Possible offers a very accessible introduction to two major political thinkers, John Rawls and Karl Marx, to the relation between their respective theories and the work of John Locke and Immanuel Kant, as well as more recent theories of Jan Narveson and G.A. Cohen.” (Krisis, 1 December 2013) “Written in clear and lucid prose, the book will be a valuable resource for students looking for an introduction to Marx and Rawls’s thought on freedom, justice and capitalism. But specialists will also find much of interest here, too, since as we have seen the book is not just an overview of Marx and Rawls’s thought on these issues, but an imaginative attempt to fuse their insights to create a new theory of social justice. Whether or not one is fully convinced by that final synthesis, Reiman deserves credit for attempting to show that, while the idea of combining liberal and socialist has a history, it may still have a future.” (Res Publica, 8 October 2013) “This is an important effort to reinvigorate modern liberalism by applying essential insights from a fading Marxism. Summing Up: Highly recommended. General readers, graduate students, and research faculty.” (Choice, 1 September 2013)Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations ix Preface xi 1 Overview of the Argument for Marxian Liberalism 1 2 Marx and Rawls and Justice 29 2.1 Marx’s Theory of Capitalism and Its Ideology 30 2.2 Rawls’s Theory of Justice as Fairness 39 2.3 Rawls on Marx 52 2.4 Marx and Justice 57 2.5 Marxian Liberalism’s Historical Conception of Justice 61 3 The Natural Right to Liberty and the Need for a Social Contract 67 3.1 A Lockean Argument for the Right to Liberty 70 3.2 Our Rational Moral Competence 78 3.3 From Liberty to Lockean Contractarianism 88 4 The Ambivalence of Property: Expression of Liberty and Threat to Liberty 94 4.1 Locke, Nozick, and the Ambivalence of Property 96 4.2 Kant, Narveson, and the Ambivalence of Property 102 4.3 Marx and the Structural Coerciveness of Property 111 5 The Labor Theory of the Difference Principle 122 5.1 The Moral Version of the Labor Theory of Value 123 5.2 The Labor Theory of the Difference Principle 128 5.3 Finding a Just Distribution 133 5.4 Is the Difference Principle Biased? 141 5.5 Answering Narveson and Cohen on Incentives 147 6 The Marxian-Liberal Original Position 158 6.1 Property and Subjugation 160 6.2 The Limits of Property 163 6.3 The Marxian Theory of the Conditions of Liberty 168 6.4 Inside the Marxian-Liberal Original Position 172 6.5 The Difference Principle as a Historical Principle of Justice 183 7 As Free and as Just as Possible: Capitalism for Marxists, Communism for Liberals 190 7.1 The Just State 191 7.2 Capitalism for Marxists 195 7.3 The Marxian-Liberal Ideal: Property-Owning Democracy 197 7.4 Communism for Liberals 204 Conclusion: Marx’s “Liberalism,” Rawls’s “Labor Theory of Justice” 210 Index 221

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Book SynopsisIn 1980, Sylvie Rancourt and her boyfriend moved to Montreal from rural Northern Quebec. With limited formal education or training, they had a hard time finding employment, so Sylvie began dancing in strip clubs. These experiences formed the backbone of the first Canadian autobiographical comic book, Melody, which Rancourt wrote, drew, and distributed, starting in 1985. Later, Rancourt collaborated with artist Jacques Boivin, who translated and drew a new series of Melody comics for the American market - the comics were an instant cult classic. The Rancourt drawn-and-written comics have never before seen English publication. These stories are compelling without ever being voyeuristic or self-pitying, and her drawings are formally innovative while maintaining a refreshingly frank and engaging clarity. Whether she's divulging her first experiences dancing for an audience or sharing moments from her life at home, her storytelling is straightforward and never sensationalized. With a knowing wink at the reader, Rancourt shares a world that, in someone else's writing, might be scandalous or seedy, but in hers is fully realized, real, and often funny. The Drawn and Quarterly edition of Melody, featuring an introduction from Chris Ware (Building Stories), will place this masterpiece of early autobiographical comics in its rightful place at the heart of the comics canon.Trade Review[Sylvie Rancourt] is one of the pioneers of autobiographical comics...The republishing of this long out-of-print and difficult to find saga... plunges the reader straight into a profoundly sensitive work that no moral judgment could taint. -Le Monde

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Book SynopsisFive Nights at Freddy's fans won't want to miss this pulse-poundingcollection of three novella-length tales that will keep even thebravest FNAF player up at night...

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Book SynopsisA new edition of Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan''s memoirthe story of the real Lady Grantham of Downton AbbeyConsuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful, and heir to a vast fortune. She was also in love with an American suitor when her mother chose instead for her to marry an English Duke. She sailed to England as the Duchess of Marlborough in 1895 and took up residence in her new homeBlenheim Palace. She was the real American heiress who lived long before Downton Abbey''s Lady Grantham arrived.Mme. Balsan is an unsnobbish and amused observer of the intricate hierarchy both upstairs and downstairs and a revealing witness to the glittering balls, huge weekend parties, and major state occasions she attended or hosted chronicling her encounters with every important figure of the dayfrom Queen Victoria, Edward VII and Queen Alexandra to Tsar Nicholas and the young Winston Churchill. The Glitter and the Gold is a richly enjoyable memoir is a revealin

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Book SynopsisFrom a New Yorker staff writer and PEN Award winner, a blend of memoir, history, and reportage on one of the most complex and least understood states in America.In Alabama, we exist at the border of blessing and disaster.Alexis Okeowo grew up in Montgomery, Alabamathe former seat of the Confederacyas the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. Here, she weaves her family's story with her state's, from Alabama's forced removal of the Creek nation, making room for enslaved West Africans, to present-day legislative battles for evolution disclaimers in biology textbooks. She immerses us in the landscape, no longer one of cotton fields but rather one dominated by auto plants and Amazon warehouses. Defying stereotypes at every turn, Okeowo shows how people can love their home while still acknowledging its sins.In this emotional, perspective-shifting work that is both a memoir and a journalistic triumph, Okeowo investigates her life, other Alabamians' lives,

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Book SynopsisAn Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!A Publishers Weekly Bestseller!Leading actor, producer and director Channing Tatum''s picture book debut, The One and Only Sparkella is a charming ode to self-esteem and the love between a father and daughterillustrated by Kim Barnes.Ella is excited for her first day at a new school.Glimmering pencil case? Check!Shimmering backpack? Check!Glittery ribbons in her hair? Check!She can''t wait to meet the other kids and share her sparkly personality. But her first day doesn''t go quite as planned: Her new classmates don''t like her disco-ball shoes, her PB&J-with-sprinkles sandwich, or her rainbow-y unicorn painting.Ella decides to try to be less sparkly at school the next day so the other kids won''t make fun of her. But with a little help from her dad, she soon learns the importance of just being herself, no matter what other people say.<

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Book SynopsisAn extraordinary story told by an ordinary woman. Eileen Caddy (1917-2006) is known worldwide as one of the three founders of the Findhorn Foundation in the north of Scotland. The books that have flowed from her inspiration have drawn multitudes to the Findhorn Community. In the recent, expanded edition of her autobiography, Eileen updated her story to record the events--and emotions--of some fifteen years. She emerges as a powerful elderwoman who frees herself from the aura of her charismatic ex-husband Peter whom she still loves. In doing so, she learns the true nature of forgiveness, overcoming the issues of jealousy, hatred and doubt involved in the break-up of a marriage for which she had, under God's guidance, sacrificed everything. Readers will be struck by the analogy with the biblical Job, how someone who has lost everything, wealth, position, family, can yet have them restored by God. In her own person, Eileen Caddy, divinely ordinary as she describes herself, has pushed the limits of the ordinary person's experience to the very borders of the Kingdom of God.

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Book SynopsisReflections on the legacy and impact of radical black feminists of the 1960s on today's feminist and anti-racist movements. The Combahee River Collective, a path-breaking group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop out of the antiracist and women's liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s. In this collection of essays and interviews edited by activist-scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, founding members of the organisation and contemporary activists reflect on the legacy of its contributions to Black feminism and its impact on today's struggles.Trade Review“This new collection of a four-decades-old text reminds us that black women have long known that America’s destiny is inseparable from how it treats them and the nation ignores this truth at its peril.” —The New York Review of Books “A striking collection that should be immediately added to the Black feminist canon.” —Bitch Media “An essential book for any feminist library.” —Library Journal “The publication of How We Get Free marks the 40th anniversary of the Combahee River Collective statement, which is often said to be the foundational document of intersectional feminism. As white feminism has gained an increasing amount of coverage, there are still questions as to how black and brown women’s needs are being addressed. This book, through a collection of interviews with prominent black feminists, provides some answers.” –Rachael Revesz, the Independent “For feminists of all kinds, astute scholars, or anyone with a passion for social justice, How We Get Free is an invaluable work.” –Ethnic and Racial Studies Journal

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Book SynopsisTurn the corner to free-motion success with a meandering makeover! Best-selling author Angela Walters shows you that free-motion quilting doesn't have to be scary - with a couple of designs in your pocket, you can finish almost any quilt on your home machine and enjoy the process. Practice eight meandering stitches for beginners, plus creative variations on each, with step-by-step visuals and quilted samples. Start your free-motion journey on the right foot with proven techniques to help you disguise mistakes and transition between designs with ease.Table of ContentsContents Introduction Why Meanders? Getting StartedThe Basics Tools Needed Optional Supplies Get Your Quilt Ready First Stitches Let's Quilt! Q and A Building Blocks Practice, Practice, Practice The Meanders The Ultimate Challenge The Basic Meander Quilting the Meander Design Other Ways to Use the Meander Design Troubleshooting FAQs The Loopy Meander How to quilt the Loopy Meander Other ways to use the loopy meander on your quilts. Troubleshooting FAQs The Swirl Meander How to Quilt the Swirl Meander Other ways to use swirls on your quilts. Troubleshooting FAQs The Swirl Hook Meander How to quilt the swirl hook meander. Other ways to use the swirl hook on your quilts. Troubleshooting FAQs The Paisley Meander Quilting the Paisley Meander Other ways to use the paisley design Troubleshooting FAQs: The Leafy Meander How to quilt the leafy meander. Other way to use the leafy meander (missing) Troubleshooting FAQs The Feather Meander How to quilt the feather meander: Other ways to use the feather meander. Troubleshooting FAQs Improv Quilting Improv Quilting Other ways to use improv quilting. Troubleshooting FAQs You ARE Ready About the Author

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Book SynopsisThis is an engaging and accessible introduction to divergent conceptions of freedom in contemporary liberal political philosophy. It is the ideal introduction to the thought of Isaiah Berlin, Gerald MacCallum, Robert Nozick, Hillel Steiner, Ronald Dworkin, and Joseph Raz and to the concept of freedom more generally.Trade Review‘A refreshing and illuminating critical introduction to the real diversity of liberal thought about freedom beyond the Rawlsian paradigm, and a striking demonstration of the ways in which political theorists inevitably find themselves engaging in metaphysical reflection.’ Stephen Mulhall, New College, Oxford ‘This book gives an excellent and very welcome survey of recent debates about freedom in the liberal tradition. It combines a lucid, judicious and even-handed presentation of the ideas of key thinkers with a series of critical insights of its own. It will be of interest and value to students across the full range of subject areas – in political, ethical, legal and social theory – where freedom is a matter of core concern. Readers will discover that approaching the topic of freedom, even within liberal political philosophy, points them in the direction of a rich, diverse and fine-grained heritage of conceptual debates – to which Flikschuh’s book provides an exemplary guide.’ Gideon Calder, University of Wales, NewportTable of ContentsIntroduction:. Approaching Liberal Freedom. Chapter 1:. Isaiah Berlin: Two Concepts of Liberty?. Chapter 2:. Gerald MacCallum: Freedom as a Triadic Concept. Chapter 3:. Robert Nozick: Negative Freedom and Property Rights. Chapter 4:. Hillel Steiner: The Natural Right to Pure Negative Liberty. Chapter 5:. Ronald Dworkin: Freedom as an Aspect of Equality. Chapter 6:. Joseph Raz: The Social Value of Personal Autonomy. Conclusion:. Liberal Freedom – Positive, Negative, Either or Neither?. Bibliography

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Book SynopsisCome be our guest in the Beast’s castle where teapots talk, spoons dance, and beautiful Belle discovers that things are never quite as they seem. Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is retold in the classic Little Golden Book format.

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Book SynopsisIn this short book Peter Sloterdijk offers a genealogy of the concept of freedom from Ancient Greece to the present day. This genealogy is part of a broader theory of the large political body, according to which Sloterdijk argues that political communities arise in response to a form of anxiety or stress.Trade Review"In this essay on the meaning of freedom today Peter Sloterdijk offers a stunning account of our post-modern predicaments. He writes as ever with polemical verve and great wit, tracing an aberrant freedom from the dissidence of Rousseau�s figure of the solitary walker to the existential principles of Beckett�s neglected first play Eleutheria. The result is an impassioned tour de force in defence of freedom and a call for a renewed ethic of liberality and generosity. This is a must read." Keith Ansell-Pearson, University of WarwickTable of Contents Large-Scale Political Bodies as Stress Communes Lucretia�s Revolt, Rousseau�s Retreat Stress and Freedom The Reaction of the Real On the Source of Committed Freedom

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Book SynopsisThe One and Only Sparkella and the Big Lie continues actor, producer and director Channing Tatum''s Sparkella picture book series, a charming ode to self-reliance and the love between father and daughter, illustrated by Kim Barnes.Sparkella is excited for her first playdate with the super cool new kid at school, Wyatt. But she''s worried that all of her toys and games at home are too old, too homemade, or too un-cool, so she decides to borrow a shiny racecar from her best friend, Tam, without asking.When Tam is upset that her car is missing, Sparkella feels bad, but she can''t seem to make herself tell the truth about taking the toy. To make things right with her friend, it''ll take a little help from her dad to learn the importance of honesty and taking responsibility when you make a mistake.

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Book SynopsisPeanuts is the most popular comic strip in the history of the world. Its characters - Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, Schroeder, and so many more - have become dearly loved icons for generation after generation. Now Charles Schulz's classic, Peanuts, will be reprinted in its entirety for the first time. In these beautifully produced editions, the strip will be presented in full in chronological order. They will be the ultimate books for Peanuts' fans the world over. These first volumes will be of particular fascination to Peanuts aficionados. Many of the strips from the series' first two or three years have never been collected before, in large part because they showed a young Schulz working out the kinks in his new strip. They include some characterizations and designs that are quite different from the cast we all know, including Snoopy's debut as a puppy!Trade ReviewThese timely re-issues illustrate not only the skill and subtle brilliance of his work but also the origins of the form beyond simple merriment. * * The List * *

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Book SynopsisRoald Dahl''s wickedly funny novels have turned him into the world''s number 1 storyteller. In this collection five splendiferous stories are brought to life by the author himself.Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Abridged)Willy Wonka''s famous chocolate factory is opening at last!James and the Giant Peach (Abridged) A little magic can take you a long wayFantastic Mr. Fox (Unabridged) Nobody outfoxes Fantastic Mr. Fox!The Enormous Crocodile (Unabridged) This greedy crocodile loves to guzzle up little boys and girlsThe Magic Finger (Unabridged) Horrible neighbors learn their lesson from a little girl with powerful magic!

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Book SynopsisCharles Schulz''s Peanuts is one of the most timeless and beloved comic strips ever. Now AMP! helps carry on that legacy with new collections of Peanuts classics focused around topics sure to resonate with middle-grade readers. Kicking off the series is Charlie Brown and Friends. Whether it''s the curious relationship between a bird, Woodstock, and a dog, Snoopy, or the never-ending crush that Peppermint Patty has on Charlie Brown, the gang''s interactions are what make Peanuts resonate with kids. First published in 1950, the classic Peanuts strip now appears in more than 2,200 newspapers in 75 countries in 25 languages. Phrases such as security blanket and good grief, which originated in the Peanuts world, are now part of the global vernacular, and images of Charles Schulz''s classic characters- Charlie Brown kicking the football, Lucy leaning over Schroeder''s piano-are now universally recognized. Together these books will introduce a new generation of kids to the lovTrade Review"Every member of your family is going to love this book!" (Debbie Glade, Smart Books for Smart Kids)"...a beautiful collection...will bring a smile to the face of those who have never read a Peanuts comic before in their life or those who are re-discovering it after being separated for far too long." (L.B. Bryant, ICv2)

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Book SynopsisThe Paradox of Freedom is an exploration of the life and work of Orlando Patterson, probing the relationship between the circumstances of his life from their beginnings in rural Jamaica to the present and the complex development of his intellectual work. A novelist and historical sociologist with an orientation toward public engagement, Patterson exemplifies one way of being a Jamaican and Black Atlantic intellectual. At the generative center of Patterson’s work has been a fundamental inquiry into the internal dynamics of slavery as a mode of social and existential domination. What is most provocatively significant in his work on slavery is the way it yields a paradoxical insight into the problem of freedom – namely, that freedom was born existentially and historically from the degradation and parasitic inhumanity of slavery and was as much the creation of the enslaved as of their enslavers. The Paradox of Freedom elucidates the pathways by which Patterson has both uncovered the relationship between domination and freedom and engaged intellectually and publicly with the struggles for equality and decolonization among descendants of the enslaved. It will be of great interest to students and scholars throughout the humanities and social sciences and to anyone interested in the work of one of the most important public intellectuals of our time.Trade Review"The Paradox of Freedom retraces the unique odyssey of the world's most eminent scholar of slavery and race in history, at the unlikely crossroads of Jamaica, literature, New Left politics, and sociology at Harvard. Read it: you will be swept along, thrilled, and educated all at once."—Loïc Wacquant, University of California, Berkeley "Forged in a crucible of life experience as a Jamaican, Orlando Patterson's lifelong exploration of the dialectical tension between freedom and slavery is brilliantly elucidated through dialogic conversation with David Scott, who traces the trajectory of a remarkable and still unfolding intellectual and artistic journey."—John Bodel, Brown University

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Book SynopsisThe delightful third book in the 'truly marvellous' (Independent) How to Be series: athrilling adventure of found family, undying loyalty and some truly spectacular cake

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