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Book SynopsisInUnfurled:Designing a Living Home, acclaimed plant stylist Hilton Carter invites readers into the heart of his homea personal sanctuary that has evolved, layer by layer, to reflect his style, creativity, and love for plants.

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Book SynopsisFrom the author of the bestselling, wonderfully unique and iconic book Manhattan Unfurled, comes an equally brilliant and utterly unprecedented portrait of London.

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Book SynopsisAmbulance lights flash as a baby is born on a busy city street, pine beetles paint forests a palette of new colours, a young boy faces a watery death under the ice of a frozen lake, and a mother stands in a bath at midnight wearing only her gumboots. In this anthology of new writing, women poets from Northern BC share their refreshing, intriguing, mystical and sometimes mythical insights into rural and urban life. This is a unique blend of emerging and familiar voices and includes work from Gillian Wigmore, Jacqueline Baldwin, Sarah de Leeuw, Donna Kane, Laisha Rosnau, Leanne Boschman and Jamella Hagen -- truly a celebration of the women of the North.

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Book SynopsisThe first in four beautiful gift books that take you through the rhythms of the seasons from beloved printmaker and illustrator, Angela Harding.

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Book SynopsisThe seeker's quest, the scientist's questions and the poet's longing are surrendered as we enter the wild adventure of the unfurling path. The path of 'not needing to know everything' is infused with deep trust and faith in the inseparable power of love. When one surrenders to and embodies a belief that love is victoriously greater than any other force, fear dissolves from within, naturally creating beauty and unity. This path is about remaining present and aware to fully receive all that is your life. Who is the unfurling goddess, is it you? Embody the divine self within to become the sacred human. The alchemy of one individual embracing their uniqueness releases unstoppable, healing waves of light into the collective-trust the great value of gentle, human kindness. May you trust and lean into your own journey, knowing you are more powerful in your letting go than in your holding on. May love yourself in every direction.

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Book SynopsisUnfelt offers a new account of feeling during the British Enlightenment, finding that the passions and sentiments long considered as preoccupations of the era depend on a potent insensibility, the secret emergence of pronounced emotions that only become apparent with time. Surveying a range of affects including primary sensation, love and self-love, greed, happiness, and patriotic ardor, James Noggle explores literary evocations of imperceptibility and unfeeling that pervade and support the period''s understanding of sensibility.Each of the four sections of Unfelton philosophy, the novel, historiography, and political economycharts the development of these idioms from early in the long eighteenth century to their culmination in the age of sensibility. From Locke to Eliza Haywood, Henry Fielding, and Frances Burney, and from Dudley North to Hume and Adam Smith, Noggle''s exploration of the insensible dramatically expands the scope of affect in the pTrade ReviewNoggle's superlative study traces unfelt tributaries of affect that, though not immediately perceptible, nevertheless flow together into the kinds of sea-changes that we might call identity formation, character development, or, on a much larger scale, social evolution writ large.... Precise, forthright, and circumspect... Unfelt is a book for scholars of the long eighteenth century, and it unquestionably succeeds as such. * Eighteenth-Century Fiction *James Noggle's Unfelt offers both genealogy and endorsement. Unfelt is a densely theorized book. * Modern Language Quarterly *Noggle's account certainly represents one of the most careful dialogues I've seen yet between eighteenth-century literary studies and the broader Spinozist paradigm of affect theory. * Eighteenth-Century Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Unfelt Affect 1. Philosophy: Affective Nonconsciousness 1.1. The Insensible Parts of Locke's Essay 1.2. David Hartley's Ghost Matter 1.3. Vivacity and Insensible Association: Condillac and Hume 1.4. Sentiment and Secret Consciousness: Haywood and Smith 2. Fiction: Unfelt Engagement 2.1. Unfeeling before Sensibility 2.2. External and Invisible 2.3. Insensible against Involuntary in Burney 2.4. Austen as Coda 3. Historiography: Insensible Revolutions 3.1. The Force of the Thing: Unfelt Moeurs in French Historiography 3.2. The Insensible Revolution and Scottish Historiography 3.3. Gibbon in History 3.4. The Embrace of Unfeeling 4. Political Economy: Moving with Money 4.1. Mandeville and the Other Happiness 4.2. Feeling Untaxed 4.3. The Money Flow 4.4. Invisible versus Insensible Epilogue: Insensible Emergence of Ideology

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Book SynopsisUnfelt offers a new account of feeling during the British Enlightenment, finding that the passions and sentiments long considered as preoccupations of the era depend on a potent insensibility, the secret emergence of pronounced emotions that only become apparent with time. Surveying a range of affects including primary sensation, love and self-love, greed, happiness, and patriotic ardor, James Noggle explores literary evocations of imperceptibility and unfeeling that pervade and support the period''s understanding of sensibility.Each of the four sections of Unfelton philosophy, the novel, historiography, and political economycharts the development of these idioms from early in the long eighteenth century to their culmination in the age of sensibility. From Locke to Eliza Haywood, Henry Fielding, and Frances Burney, and from Dudley North to Hume and Adam Smith, Noggle''s exploration of the insensible dramatically expands the scope of affect in the pTrade ReviewNoggle's superlative study traces unfelt tributaries of affect that, though not immediately perceptible, nevertheless flow together into the kinds of sea-changes that we might call identity formation, character development, or, on a much larger scale, social evolution writ large.... Precise, forthright, and circumspect... Unfelt is a book for scholars of the long eighteenth century, and it unquestionably succeeds as such. * Eighteenth-Century Fiction *James Noggle's Unfelt offers both genealogy and endorsement. Unfelt is a densely theorized book. * Modern Language Quarterly *Noggle's account certainly represents one of the most careful dialogues I've seen yet between eighteenth-century literary studies and the broader Spinozist paradigm of affect theory. * Eighteenth-Century Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Unfelt Affect 1. Philosophy: Affective Nonconsciousness 1.1. The Insensible Parts of Locke's Essay 1.2. David Hartley's Ghost Matter 1.3. Vivacity and Insensible Association: Condillac and Hume 1.4. Sentiment and Secret Consciousness: Haywood and Smith 2. Fiction: Unfelt Engagement 2.1. Unfeeling before Sensibility 2.2. External and Invisible 2.3. Insensible against Involuntary in Burney 2.4. Austen as Coda 3. Historiography: Insensible Revolutions 3.1. The Force of the Thing: Unfelt Moeurs in French Historiography 3.2. The Insensible Revolution and Scottish Historiography 3.3. Gibbon in History 3.4. The Embrace of Unfeeling 4. Political Economy: Moving with Money 4.1. Mandeville and the Other Happiness 4.2. Feeling Untaxed 4.3. The Money Flow 4.4. Invisible versus Insensible Epilogue: Insensible Emergence of Ideology

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Book SynopsisIn the next part of Neal Shusterman''s gripping and thought-provoking futuristic thriller, Connor, Lev and Risa continue to uncover shocking secrets about the process of ''Unwinding'' and the company, Proactive Citizenry, which created Cam, a teen made completely from parts taken from ''unwound'' teens. There are plans to mass produce rewound teens like Cam for military purposes, and below the surface of that potential horror lies a sinister layer of intrigue… Proactive Citizenry has been suppressing technology that could make unwinding completely unnecessary. Will Connor, Lev and Risa ever be able to break free from the fear of Unwinding?

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Book SynopsisAsserts that the labor issues in the music industry can stimulate insights about the political-economic and imaginative challenges currently facing working people of all kindsTrade Review“Here is a book that does several things at once. It explains the current status of recording artists, both as subordinated employees and as free entrepreneurs who license rights to intellectual property, namely their music compositions and recordings. It also shows how, from the standpoint of labour politics, these cultural workers are not so different from other workers in a neoliberal political economy: competing individually while dreaming of autonomy, and contractually tied to a record company that snaps up their creative output for exploitation and keeps them indebted while offering little security.” -- Hillegonda Rietveld * Times Higher Education *“An important addition to the field of popular music studies and labor studies, Unfree Masters lucidly and bracingly documents the imbricated, contested working relationship between artists and labels…[the book] offers the most detailed and exhaustively researched writing to date on the contractual relationships between artists and record labels and on the political stratagems designed to codify these relationships and change the nature of labor relationships between ‘workers’ and ‘bosses’.” -- John Dougan * Labor *“What Stahl’s fascinating study shows then, in sum, is that the creative labour of recording artists is like regular work in being conditioned by the inequality of the employment relation and by the spurious freedom of contract.” * Reviews in Cultural Theory *“Matt Stahl provides an absorbing account of a pivotal period in the history of the recording industry in the United States…. [T]his text is sure to spark further debate and discourse and as such Unfree Masters is a valuable and timely contribution to the field of popular music studies.” -- Kenny Barr * Popular Music *“Unfree Masters takes in an impressive range of materials and methods in shedding light on sites of ideological tension within recording industry work. It will be of interest not only to students of the music industry but also to those who seek a more general understanding of how neoliberal ideology plays out in everyday culture and politics." -- Rob Drew * International Journal of Communication *"After reading this book one will understand well why major record companies are in trouble today—and will probably not be very sympathetic with their plight. Summing Up: Highly recommended." -- R. J. Phillips * Choice *"Unfree Masters is an important book which ought to be widely read. It contributes not only to an enlightening turn towards cultural and musical labour in contemporary scholarship; it is also part of a renewal of radical critique in popular music studies." -- Jason Toynbee * Popular Music History *"Unfree Masters makes an important contribution to the field of recording industry studies by providing a detailed overview of the landscape of labour in the North American popular music industries. The research and its implications can be applied beyond music and into other creative industries including film, television and media." -- Natalie Lewandowski * Perfect Beat *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Popular Music and (Creative) Labor 1 Part I: Representation 31 1. American Idol and Narratives of Meritocracy 36 2. Rockumentary and the New Model Worker 64 Part II: Regulation 101 3. Carving Out Recording Artists from California's Seven-Year Rule 105 4. Freedom, Unfreedom, and the Rhetoric of the Recording Contract 143 5. Recordings Artists, Work for Hire, Employment, and Appropriation 182 Conclusion: "I'm Free!" 226 Notes 235 Bibliography 269 Index 283

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Book SynopsisA collection of four short stories on the brutal realities of family life in modern China. When a household crumbles, it's always the women who are left picking up the pieces, but no one comes out looking good when caught in a vicious cycle of abuse. Come inside at your peril: after all, what's a closet without its skeletons?

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Book SynopsisA stirring account of the experiences of migrant domestic workers, and what freedom, abuse, and power mean within a vast contract labor system. In the United Arab Emirates, there is an employment sponsorship system known as the kafala. Migrant domestic workers within it must solely work for their employer, secure their approval to leave the country, and obtain their consent to terminate a job. In Unfree, Rhacel Salazar Parreñas examines the labor of women from the Philippines, who represent the largest domestic workforce in the country. She challenges presiding ideas about the kafala, arguing that its reduction to human trafficking is, at best, unproductive, and at worst damaging to genuine efforts to regulate this system that impacts tens of millions of domestic workers across the globe. The kafala system technically renders migrant workers unfree as they are made subject to the arbitrary authority of their employer. Not surprisingly, it has been the focus of intense scrutiny and criticism from human rights advocates and scholars. Yet, contrary to their claims, Parreñas argues that most employers do not abuse domestic workers or maximize the extraction of their labor. Still, the outrage elicited by this possibility dominates much of public discourse and overshadows the more mundane reality of domestic work in the region. Drawing on unparalleled data collected over 4 years,this book diverges from previous studies as it establishes that the kafala system does not necessarily result in abuse, but instead leads to the absence of labor standards. This absence is reflected in the diversity of work conditions across households, ranging from dehumanizing treatment, infantilization, to respect and recognition of domestic workers. Unfree shows how various stakeholders, including sending and receiving states, NGOs, inter-governmental organizations, employers and domestic workers, project moral standards to guide the unregulated labor of domestic work. They can mitigate or aggravate the arbitrary authority of employers. Parreñas offers a deft and rich portrait of how morals mediate work on the ground, warning against the dangers of reducing unfreedom to structural violence.Trade Review"Challenging standard interpretations of migrant women's powerlessness and oppression, Rhacel Salazar Parreñas offers a pathbreaking account of Filipino domestic workers in the United Arab Emirates. A compelling contribution not only to studies of migration and labor but also to economic sociology."—Viviana A. Zelizer, Princeton University"I have long been impressed by the distinctive ways in which Parreñas generates her analysis of diverse social conditions. These analytic modes emerge once again in her latest book Unfree, one phrase that contains a vastness of meanings. This is a must-read."—Saskia Sassen, Columbia University"In this impressive ethnography, Parreñas illuminates moral harms associated with 'unfree labor' and offers new insights into the quandary that arises when redress for those harms lays well beyond the laws of sending states, receiving states, and international organizations."—Mary Hawkesworth, Rutgers UniversityBased on the republican conceptualization of unfreedom, [Unfree] paves the way for understanding a wide range of experiences and conditions of migrant domestic workers in the UAE. This study... both acknowledges the positive experiences of domestic workers in thekafalasystem and includes them in the analysis by complicating the story of exploitation unlike the previous studies on domestic work in the region."—Canan Uçar, International Migration"Locating unfreedom in the sponsorship system that gives free reign to sponsors over their employees,Unfree lays a critical foundation for future scholarly, legal, and policy interventions in migrant domestic work, both in the Arab world and beyond. Excellent for anyone working on labor and migration. Highly Recommended."—J. Alkorani, CHOICE"Unfree guides us through the transnational mobility of these domestic workers and their subsequent economic immobility. Using relatively plain language, the book is accessible to academic and non-academic audiences from disparate disciplinary backgrounds who are interested in understanding Filipino domestic work in the UAE beyond victimhood."—Estella Carpi, Mashriq & Mahar"A powerful, pathbreaking book that upends many (Orientalist) assumptions about migrant domestic work in Arab states, Unfree is set to become a classic."—Victoria Reyes, American Journal of Sociology"Without doubt, [Unfree] sets a new direction for us to understand the work environment of migrant domestic workers and should be read by all who are interested in the topic."—Eric Fong, Social Forces

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of echoes and resonances across two millennia of visual culture, celebrating ten years of The Public Domain Review. Gathering a remarkable collection of over 500 public domain images, Affinities is a carefully curated visual journey illuminating connections across more than two thousand years of image-making. Drawing on a decade of archival immersion at The Public Domain Review, the book has been assembled from a vast array of sources: from manuscripts to museum catalogues, ship logs to primers on Victorian magic. The images are arranged in a single captivating sequence which unfurls according to a dreamlike logic, through a play of visual echoes and evolving thematic threads â hatching eggs twin with early Burmese world maps, marbled endpapers meet tattooed stowaways, and fireworks explode beside deep-sea coral. At once an art book, a sourcebook, and a kaleidoscopic visual poem, Affinities is a unique and enthralling publication that will offer something differTrade Review'Builds bridges between visuals plucked from the last 2,000 years, in doing so prompting readers to rethink the meaning of originality by leaning into visual or thematic parallels' - Creative Review'Delightfully imaginative ... This is a book designed for random perusal' - BookPage

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Book SynopsisFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Unfu*k Yourself comes tough-love that explains what makes relationships work: you taking responsibility to fix yourself.“Love is patient, love is blind. . .” Until it''s not. Then what?No matter how much advice we get or how much work we do on our “stuff,” nothing ever seems to make the difference. The truth of it is, you’re woefully ill-equipped for one of the most life-defining things you will ever take on—being in a committed relationship.Whether you’re currently in one, want to be in one, half in-half out, getting over one, married, single, separated, divorced, or just overwhelmed with the whole thing, let’s cut through the morass of relationship schtick and put you back in charge. No flowery BS, no woo-woo strategies, systems, or techniques, just real talk, for real people who want a real relationship in their life that actually works.

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Book SynopsisA stirring account of the experiences of migrant domestic workers, and what freedom, abuse, and power mean within a vast contract labor system. In the United Arab Emirates, there is an employment sponsorship system known as the kafala. Migrant domestic workers within it must solely work for their employer, secure their approval to leave the country, and obtain their consent to terminate a job. In Unfree, Rhacel Salazar Parreñas examines the labor of women from the Philippines, who represent the largest domestic workforce in the country. She challenges presiding ideas about the kafala, arguing that its reduction to human trafficking is, at best, unproductive, and at worst damaging to genuine efforts to regulate this system that impacts tens of millions of domestic workers across the globe. The kafala system technically renders migrant workers unfree as they are made subject to the arbitrary authority of their employer. Not surprisingly, it has been the focus of intense scrutiny and criticism from human rights advocates and scholars. Yet, contrary to their claims, Parreñas argues that most employers do not abuse domestic workers or maximize the extraction of their labor. Still, the outrage elicited by this possibility dominates much of public discourse and overshadows the more mundane reality of domestic work in the region. Drawing on unparalleled data collected over 4 years,this book diverges from previous studies as it establishes that the kafala system does not necessarily result in abuse, but instead leads to the absence of labor standards. This absence is reflected in the diversity of work conditions across households, ranging from dehumanizing treatment, infantilization, to respect and recognition of domestic workers. Unfree shows how various stakeholders, including sending and receiving states, NGOs, inter-governmental organizations, employers and domestic workers, project moral standards to guide the unregulated labor of domestic work. They can mitigate or aggravate the arbitrary authority of employers. Parreñas offers a deft and rich portrait of how morals mediate work on the ground, warning against the dangers of reducing unfreedom to structural violence.Trade Review"Challenging standard interpretations of migrant women's powerlessness and oppression, Rhacel Salazar Parreñas offers a pathbreaking account of Filipino domestic workers in the United Arab Emirates. A compelling contribution not only to studies of migration and labor but also to economic sociology."—Viviana A. Zelizer, Princeton University"I have long been impressed by the distinctive ways in which Parreñas generates her analysis of diverse social conditions. These analytic modes emerge once again in her latest book Unfree, one phrase that contains a vastness of meanings. This is a must-read."—Saskia Sassen, Columbia University"In this impressive ethnography, Parreñas illuminates moral harms associated with 'unfree labor' and offers new insights into the quandary that arises when redress for those harms lays well beyond the laws of sending states, receiving states, and international organizations."—Mary Hawkesworth, Rutgers UniversityBased on the republican conceptualization of unfreedom, [Unfree] paves the way for understanding a wide range of experiences and conditions of migrant domestic workers in the UAE. This study... both acknowledges the positive experiences of domestic workers in thekafalasystem and includes them in the analysis by complicating the story of exploitation unlike the previous studies on domestic work in the region."—Canan Uçar, International Migration"Locating unfreedom in the sponsorship system that gives free reign to sponsors over their employees,Unfree lays a critical foundation for future scholarly, legal, and policy interventions in migrant domestic work, both in the Arab world and beyond. Excellent for anyone working on labor and migration. Highly Recommended."—J. Alkorani, CHOICE"Unfree guides us through the transnational mobility of these domestic workers and their subsequent economic immobility. Using relatively plain language, the book is accessible to academic and non-academic audiences from disparate disciplinary backgrounds who are interested in understanding Filipino domestic work in the UAE beyond victimhood."—Estella Carpi, Mashriq & Mahar"A powerful, pathbreaking book that upends many (Orientalist) assumptions about migrant domestic work in Arab states, Unfree is set to become a classic."—Victoria Reyes, American Journal of Sociology"Without doubt, [Unfree] sets a new direction for us to understand the work environment of migrant domestic workers and should be read by all who are interested in the topic."—Eric Fong, Social Forces

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Book Synopsis Watch the Star Wars saga unfold with the turn of a page in this one-of-a-kind gift book. This groundbreaking storybook brings the saga to life like never before. As you turn the pages, one epic and seamlessly captivating illustration, printed on an accordion fold, moves forward with you—each section transitioning into the next to tell the story of a galaxy far, far away.Star Wars Unfolds: The Original Trilogy spans the series and is perfect for young padawans, their Jedi Masters, and everyone in between.

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Book Synopsis Announcing a smart, daring, original new take on the Torah. Imagine: 54 leading young Jewish writers, artists, photographers, screenwriters, architects, actors, musicians, and graphic artists grappling with the first five books of the Bible and giving new meaning to the 54 Torah portions that are traditionally read over the course of a year. From the foundational stories of Genesis and Exodus to the legalistic minutiae of Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, Unscrolled is a reinterpreting, a reimagining, a creative and eclectic celebration of the Jewish Bible.Here's a graphic-novel version of Moses receiving the Ten Commandments, by Rebecca Odes and Sam Lipsyte. Lost creator Damon Lindelof writing about Abraham's decision to sacrifice his son. Here's Sloane Crosley bringing Pharaoh into the 21st century, where he's checking out boils, lice, and plague of frogs on WebMD. Plus there's Joshua Foer, Aimee Bender, A. J. Jacobs, David Auburn, Jill Soloway, BTrade Review “[The contributors] bring a modern sensibility and playful edge to the biblical text . . . Their new readings will inspire new insight, new meanings, new light.” —Jewish Woman

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Book SynopsisA complete retrospective of the paper engineer and artist Matthew Shlian, documenting a decade of unrivalled and unexpected creativity. Paper engineer and artist Matthew Shlian has always recognized the materialâs potential for experimentation. Folded, tessellated, compressed, extrapolated, two-dimensional paper becomes three-dimensional sculpture in beautiful and unexpected ways. âMy process is extremely varied from piece to piece. Often I start without a clear goal in mind, working within a series of limitations. For example on one piece Iâll only use curved folds, or make my lines this length or that angle, etc. Other times I begin with an idea for movement and try to achieve that shape or form somehow.â Unfolding is Shlianâs first comprehensive monograph. A journey into the new possibilities of folding technology, the intricate complexities of Islamic patterns, and the sheer potential offered by a sheet of white paper, it celebrates a humble material, on the edge of its exiTrade Review'Intriguing' - Aesthetica

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Book Synopsis'I do not know how to love you and be a good king to my people.'Romeria has fled Cirilea as a traitor. Zander has sacrificed his crown to save her life but dreads what her existence means for the future of his realm. They both know that no immortal will ever welcome her as Islor's queen. Side-by-side as outcasts - yet with a growing distance between them - they watch as a new threat to the kingdom unfurls, one larger than they could have imagined.Guided by an uncertain prophecy and with their allies rapidly losing faith, their company journeys to the Venhorn Mountains in search of answers. Yet with Romeria struggling to wield her newfound abilities and the mortal rebellion growing in strength, it may already be too late.The second book in the captivating 'Fate & Flame' series.

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