Search results for ""Author Kimiko""
Trans Pacific Press Gender and Japanese Management
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£29.95
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Spellbound
Book SynopsisA unique anthology of poems from around the world and through the ages that celebrate magic and magiciansNo matter how modern or scientifically advanced our societies become, human beings remain perpetually enthralled by the idea of magic, from our daily superstitions to our choices of entertainment. Magic has long been a central subject of poetry, and the poems in this collection are evocative evidence that the poet’s art depends on a form of wizardry—the ability to conjure enchantment from a particular combination of words.Venerable literary wizards such as Shakespeare's Prospero, Tennyson's Merlin, and T. S. Eliot's Mr. Mistoffelees make appearances here alongside illusionists and prestidigitators in Kay Ryan's Houdini, Ted Kooser's Card Trick, Charles Simic's My Magician, and Richard Wilbur's The Mind-Reader. Here is a treasury of poetic spells, charms, and incantations, from Elise Paschen's Love Spell, Robert Graves's Love and Black Magic, and Lu Yu's The Pedlar of Spells, to a Cherokee Spell to Destroy Life. And here, too, are all sorts of sorcerers, conjurers, enchantresses, and witches, as captured in Emily Dickinson's Best Witchcraft is Geometry, Michael Schmidt's Nine Witches, and H. D.'s Circe, keeping company with magical poems from cultures around the world. Everyman's Library's Pocket Poets are pocket-sized hardcovers that feature acid-free cream-colored paper bound in a full-cloth case with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, a silk ribbon marker, a European-style half-round spine, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
£16.00
W. W. Norton & Company The Ghost Forest New and Selected Poems
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£20.89
Octopus Publishing Group Japanese in 7
Book SynopsisJapanese recipes with 7 ingredients or less Japanese food is healthy, delicious and universally enjoyed but despite the popularity of sushi and noodle bars worldwide too few of us cook this delightful cuisine at home. In Japanese in 7 (the latest addition to the in 7 series), Kimiko Barber uses just 7 ingredients or fewer to make deliciously fragrant dishes that you can effortlessly pull together any night of the week.Chapters are divided into: *Fresh - vibrant and healthy meals such as Yellowtail sashimi, Hand-rolled sushi and Japanese-style duck orange. *Comfort - bowls of warming Moon udon, Chicken and miso porridge or Sea bream rice to enjoy on a cold winter''s evening. *Fast - Dashi-rolled omelette and other meals that can be pulled together in under 30 minutes. *Light - delicious recipes such as Tiger prawn clear soup and Spinach and tofu jelly. *Vegan - nourishing plant-based recipes. *Sweet - creative Japanese desserts such as Matcha jelly, Kyoto tiramisu and Black sesame ice cream. *Basic - Dashi and flavorsome dressings you can use to quickly create authentic Japanese dishes.
£16.19
Vertical Inc. Walking Your Way To A Better Life: Steps for a More Confident You
Book SynopsisReaders will discover the mental, spiritual and physical benefits to be gained through walking correctly - alongside powerful self affirmations.
£10.44
Tuttle Publishing Sketch Your World: A Guide to Sketch Journaling
Book SynopsisAn inspiring, interactive guide for drawing people, places, food, and things you come across in your travels. This book offers aspiring urban sketchers a series of 40 step-by-step lessons showing you how to draw everything from the meal you ordered at a cafe to a map of highlights from your latest road trip. You'll get all the tips and advice you need for drawing what you see during your day and while out and about. Learn to sketch interesting subjects from everyday life and travel, such as: Fruits, vegetables, meals, and desserts Bottles, boxes, baskets, and bags Cups, glasses, appliances, and utensils Clothing and furniture Signs and storefronts Maps and floor plans People, locations, landmarks, and more! This beginner's guide is the perfect companion to toss into your backpack, artist's tote, or portfolio along with your sketch journal and pens!
£11.69
Dorling Kindersley Verlag Sushi
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£17.95
WW Norton & Co Foreign Bodies
Book SynopsisA striking, shapeshifting volume from “one of the most fascinating female poets of our time” (BOMB)Trade Review"Kimiko Hahn’s structurally and formally complex new book, Foreign Bodies, is a long, rich meditation on detail. It is a masterpiece of scale... The book is a series of elegies of the most original and surprising sort. A quite miraculous performance." -- Lynn Emanuel, author of The Nerve of It"Kimiko Hahn writes with a particular brightness of mind like no one else... Where another poet, doing such inexhaustible research, would eventually clean up her act, Kimiko Hahn in Foreign Bodies makes as much art out of documentary evidence and ‘sparkly’" -- David Baker, author of Swift
£12.34
WW Norton & Co Brain Fever
Book SynopsisRooted in traditional Japanese aesthetics and meditations on contemporary neuroscience, a stunning new volume from an essential American poet.Trade Review"In Brain Fever, Kimiko Hahn moves through the rooms of the mind with an oneiric weightlessness. She also touches concrete ground in the realm of neuroscience, and in the world outside the mind, where love, betrayal, regret, and debilitating loss reside. This is a beautiful and troubling book, a marriage of what matters most: the mysteries buried at our very core and the world that cradles and cuts into us at every turn." -- Tracy K. Smith "Hahn's poems glow with concentrated energy." -- Boston Review "The poems' brevity, precise imagery, and echoing of that imagery will make readers return to the collections, finding new connections each time." -- Moon City Review "A juxtaposition of current scientific research on brain function and cognition with ... a lyrical daydream of loss and resilience... Outstanding." -- Pleiades
£15.05
Trans Pacific Press Gender and Japanese Management
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£64.00
WW Norton & Co Foreign Bodies Poems
Book SynopsisA striking, shapeshifting volume from "one of the most fascinating female poets of our time (BOMB)."Trade Review"Kimiko Hahn’s structurally and formally complex new book, Foreign Bodies, is a long, rich meditation on detail. It is a masterpiece of scale. Just as the cellular biologist works backward from a single cell under an electron microscope to the full organism, so Hahn works from the minute, ephemeral stuff left from a life (a loose thread, a single hair, an open safety pin) back to the overarching themes of memory, death, love, and sorrow. The book is a series of elegies of the most original and surprising sort. A quite miraculous performance." -- Lynn Emanuel, author of The Nerve of It"Kimiko Hahn writes with a particular brightness of mind like no one else—or maybe with just enough kinship to Marianne Moore and their shared weirdness to mention it here, their glorious fascination with the particular-peculiars of nature and human behavior…Where another poet, doing such inexhaustible research, would eventually clean up her act, Kimiko Hahn in Foreign Bodies makes as much art out of documentary evidence and ‘sparkly’ research as she does elegance, memory, or lyrical compression." -- David Baker, author of Swift"‘Notice that the simplest often yields the most,’ writes Kimiko Hahn in her electric tenth collection. In Hahn’s hands, the smallest of relics become powerful portals through time, space, and memory. With expert lyric sensibility and all the anguish of daughterhood, Foreign Bodies reminds us of the necessity of poetry as a spell for intimacy. It’s a spell that offers hope of the most urgent kind: the hope of closing the gap between ‘my other’s body’ and ‘my mother’s body,’ between ourselves and all that we can’t reach.”" -- Franny Choi, author of Soft Science
£18.90
Hädecke Verlag GmbH Washoku Japanisch kochen zuhause Traditionelle
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£27.20
Pearson Education Limited Bug Club Comprehension Y6 Tsunami 12pack
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£96.90
Fordham University Press Cyclorama
Book SynopsisCyclorama is a book of poems named after the theatre-sized, in-the-round oil paintings popular after the American Civil War. It features the voices of people often overlooked in representations of the war, such as nurse, child, draftee, prostitute, enslaved person, Native American soldier, and woman soldier.Trade Review"This long poem, pitched in so many American voices, is a powerful summoning-back ... Cyclorama keeps our dead with us, alongside the living souls we carry in our unfinished civil war. Daneen Wardrop is a rare poet of conscience." -- -Jean Valentine "Daneen Wardrop has done deep research in the life and times and art of the U.S. Civil War and transformed it into exuberant and moving poetry. She speaks as women spies, soldiers and officers, kids exploring the ruins of Jefferson's Monticello, a prostitute who keeps a flask tucked in her crinoline, Union musicians who find themselves playing 'Lorena' with Reb musicians, and so much more. Wardrop's music makes you proud of the American language. Cyclorama is one of the most stunning books of poems I've seen in years. I can't wait to see what Wardrop will do next." -- -Alicia Ostriker "Daneen Wardrop gives us her own Cyclorama not as answer but as stunningly sympathetic example. Whereas a person following a perspective to the horizon might, in the painted cyclorama, run into the canvas on which it's painted, a reader enters into the pages of these poems and finds that the words give way to some intimacy that history should preclude. But the poet knows different. Tracing in their own voices-mimicry that is here a form of valor and virtue-Wardrop gives image back to all those wounded and wounding. Such traces tend to be lost, just a thread in an archive. Wardrop takes such threads and in her hand finds a selvage that-pulled on gently-reveals the whole garment: those interwoven lives whose voices exist without our knowing inside our own speaking. Cyclorama gives us this primary poetic gift: that we enter it, and what it shows in its pages, not only makes history real to us, but in doing so, makes us more real to ourselves." -- -Dan Beachy-Quick "Prepare yourself, as you read Cyclorama, to hear voices that will stay in your head long after you've put the book down, voices that seem to rise up from the depths of history. It's the women speakers here who haunt me the most as they record the horrifying loss of life and limb that circles these women like a cyclorama and at times engulfs them. Line by memorable line, Daneen Wardrop revives and adapts the form of the dramatic lyric to move from striking descriptions-of Civil War battles and wounds, places, and events-to unforgettable moments of quiet revelation." -- -Ed Folsom The University of Iowa "When Wardrop touches her own psychological nerve she touches the reader's nerve. Now see the finely-developed craft: the cadence of storm-clenched days, the diction of tumult and solitude, and a lyricism that holds all ... Daneen Wardrop places the reader square in the center of her panoramic panels and bids us experience the scenes 360 . What a glorious way to enter these histories." -- -Kimiko Hahn from the foreword
£14.24
Everyman Buzz Words: Poems About Insects
Book SynopsisGiven that insects vastly outnumber us (there are approximately 200 million insects for every human) it is no surprise that there is a rich body of verse on the creeping, scuttling, flitting, stinging things with which we share our planet. Many cultures have centuries-old traditions of insect poetry. In China,where noblewomen of the Tang dynasty kept crickets in gold cages-countless songs were written in praise of these 'insect musicians'. The haiku masters of Japan were similarly inspired, though spread their net wider to include less prepossessing bugs such as houseflies, fleas and mosquitoes. In the West, poems about insects date back to the ancient Greeks, and insects feature frequently in European literature from the 16th century onwards. The poets collected here range from Donne, Marvell, Keats and Wordsworth; Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Christina Rossetti, to Elizabeth Bishop, Mary Oliver, Ted Hughes, Paul Muldoon and Alice Oswald. In translation there is verse by - amongst others - Meleager and Tu Fu, Ivan Turgenev, Victor Hugo, Paul Valéry, Pablo Neruda, Antonio Machado and Xi Chuan. Bees, butterflies and beetles, cockroaches and caterpillars, fireflies and dragonflies, ladybirds and glowworms--the miniature creatures that adorn these pages are as varied as the poetic talents that celebrate them.
£10.80
Pearson Education Limited Bug Club Pro Guided Year 6 A Tsunami Unfolds
Book SynopsisThe 2011 Japanese tsunami was one of the most powerful natural disasters ever recorded. What was it like to be there, and what happened next?. Track the tsunami through the experiences of people who lived through this extraordinary event.
£12.08
MIT Press Ltd Semantics as Science
Book SynopsisAn introductory linguistics textbook that takes a novel approach: studying linguistic semantics as an exercise in scientific theory construction.This introductory linguistics text takes a novel approach, one that offers educational value to both linguistics majors and nonmajors. Aiming to help students not only grasp the fundamentals of the subject but also engage with broad intellectual issues and develop general intellectual skills, Semantics as Science studies linguistic semantics as an exercise in scientific theory construction. Semantics offers an excellent medium through which to acquaint students with the notion of a formal, axiomatic system—that is, a system that derives results from a precisely articulated set of assumptions according to a precisely articulated set of rules. The book develops semantic theory through the device of axiomatic T-theories, first proposed by Alfred Tarski more than eighty years ago, introducing technic
£68.40
Fordham University Press Cyclorama
Book SynopsisCyclorama is a book of poems named after the theatre-sized, in-the-round oil paintings popular after the American Civil War. It features the voices of people often overlooked in representations of the war, such as nurse, child, draftee, prostitute, enslaved person, Native American soldier, and woman soldier.Trade Review"This long poem, pitched in so many American voices, is a powerful summoning-back ... Cyclorama keeps our dead with us, alongside the living souls we carry in our unfinished civil war. Daneen Wardrop is a rare poet of conscience." -- -Jean Valentine "Daneen Wardrop has done deep research in the life and times and art of the U.S. Civil War and transformed it into exuberant and moving poetry. She speaks as women spies, soldiers and officers, kids exploring the ruins of Jefferson's Monticello, a prostitute who keeps a flask tucked in her crinoline, Union musicians who find themselves playing 'Lorena' with Reb musicians, and so much more. Wardrop's music makes you proud of the American language. Cyclorama is one of the most stunning books of poems I've seen in years. I can't wait to see what Wardrop will do next." -- -Alicia Ostriker "Daneen Wardrop gives us her own Cyclorama not as answer but as stunningly sympathetic example. Whereas a person following a perspective to the horizon might, in the painted cyclorama, run into the canvas on which it's painted, a reader enters into the pages of these poems and finds that the words give way to some intimacy that history should preclude. But the poet knows different. Tracing in their own voices-mimicry that is here a form of valor and virtue-Wardrop gives image back to all those wounded and wounding. Such traces tend to be lost, just a thread in an archive. Wardrop takes such threads and in her hand finds a selvage that-pulled on gently-reveals the whole garment: those interwoven lives whose voices exist without our knowing inside our own speaking. Cyclorama gives us this primary poetic gift: that we enter it, and what it shows in its pages, not only makes history real to us, but in doing so, makes us more real to ourselves." -- -Dan Beachy-Quick "Prepare yourself, as you read Cyclorama, to hear voices that will stay in your head long after you've put the book down, voices that seem to rise up from the depths of history. It's the women speakers here who haunt me the most as they record the horrifying loss of life and limb that circles these women like a cyclorama and at times engulfs them. Line by memorable line, Daneen Wardrop revives and adapts the form of the dramatic lyric to move from striking descriptions-of Civil War battles and wounds, places, and events-to unforgettable moments of quiet revelation." -- -Ed Folsom The University of Iowa "When Wardrop touches her own psychological nerve she touches the reader's nerve. Now see the finely-developed craft: the cadence of storm-clenched days, the diction of tumult and solitude, and a lyricism that holds all ... Daneen Wardrop places the reader square in the center of her panoramic panels and bids us experience the scenes 360 . What a glorious way to enter these histories." -- -Kimiko Hahn from the foreword
£31.50
Random House USA Inc Buzz Words
Book SynopsisA unique hardcover anthology of poems—from around the world and through the ages—that celebrates the gloriously diverse insect world. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET.Given that insects vastly outnumber us, it is no surprise that many cultures have long and rich traditions of verse about our tiny fellow creatures. Tang Dynasty poets in China and the haiku masters of Japan composed thousands of works in praise of crickets, grasshoppers, cicadas, moths, and butterflies, as well as such humbler bugs as houseflies, fleas, and mosquitoes. In the West, poems about insects date back to the ancient Greeks and appear frequently in Europe from the Elizabethan period onward. The brilliant poets collected here range far and wide in time and place, including Tu Fu, John Donne, Kobayashi Issa, William Wordsworth, Victor Hugo, Ivan Turgenev, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, Robert Frost, E. E. Cummings, Elizabeth Bishop, Ted Hughes, Pablo Neruda, Mary Oliver, Xi Chuan, and Kevin Young. Bees, butterflies, and beetles, cockroaches and caterpillars, fireflies and dragonflies, ladybugs and glowworms—the miniature beings that adorn these pages are as varied as the poetic talents that celebrate them.Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
£13.77
Arsenal Pulp Press Kimiko Does Cancer
Book SynopsisA moving and honest graphic memoir about the unexpected cancer journey of a young, queer, mixed-race woman.
£14.39
MIT Press Ltd Grammar as Science The MIT Press
Book SynopsisAn introduction to the study of syntax that also introduces students to the principles of scientific theorizing.This introductory text takes a novel approach to the study of syntax. Grammar as Science offers an introduction to syntax as an exercise in scientific theory construction. Syntax provides an excellent instrument for introducing students from a wide variety of backgrounds to the principles of scientific theorizing and scientific thought; it engages general intellectual themes present in all scientific theorizing as well as those arising specifically within the modern cognitive sciences. The book is intended for students majoring in linguistics as well as non-linguistics majors who are taking the course to fulfill undergraduate requirements. Grammar as Science covers such core topics in syntax as phrase structure, constituency, the lexicon, inaudible elements, movement rules, and transformational constraints, while emphasizing scientific reasoning skills
£51.30
Editorial Corimbo S.L. Un perro listo
Book SynopsisUn perro listo! Has visto? En este nuevo libro Pop-up de Kimiko podemos encontrar 10 perros de lo más variados. En una escalera, en una bañera. Hay hasta perros en una orquesta y otros de fiesta. Libro Pop-up con una sorpresa en cada página. A partir de 1 año
£18.10
Blackstone Publishing Block Seventeen
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£26.21
Blackstone Publishing Block Seventeen
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£15.29
Sarabande Books, Incorporated Brood
Book SynopsisIn Brood, Kimiko Hahn trains her eye on the commonplace—clothespins, bees, papaya, perfume, poached eggs, a sponge, fire, sand dollars—and reveals their very essence in concise evocative language. Underlying these little gems is a sense of loss, a mother's death or a longing for childhood. "Brood" connotes the bundling of family or beasts, but also dark thinking, and both are at play here where the less said, the better. Kimiko Hahn is the author of ten books of poetry, including most recently, Brain Fever (Norton, 2014). She has received numerous honors, including the PSA's Shelley Memorial Prize, the PEN/Voelcker Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Guggenheim Foundation, and New York Foundation for the Arts. She is a distinguished professor in creative writing at Queens College (CUNY) and lives in Forest Hills, New York.Trade Review"Kimiko Hahn's poems glow with concentrated energy." —Boston Review "One of the most important poets of our time." —Bomb "Kimiko Hahn stands as a welcome voice of experimentation and passion." —Bloomsbury Review"Kimiko Hahn's poems glow with concentrated energy." —Boston Review "One of the most important poets of our time." —Bomb "Kimiko Hahn stands as a welcome voice of experimentation and passion." —Bloomsbury Review
£7.99
Lexington Books Queer Media Images
Book SynopsisQueer Media Images: LGBT Perspectives presents fifteen chapters that address how the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered communities are depicted in the media. This collection focuses on how the LGBT community has been silenced or given voice through the media. Through a study of queer media images, this book scrutinizes LGBT media representations and how these representations contribute to a dialogue about civil rights for this marginalized community. While the communication discipline has been open to the LGBT community, there has been an absence of published research and a marginalizing or tokenizing of the queer voice. Through a study of media representations, this unique collection provides a snapshot into the issues surrounding LGBT identity during a time when the Defense of Marriage Act is called into question and explores what it means to study images through a queer lens.Trade ReviewCampbell and Carilli (both, Purdue University Calumet) have assembled a collection of accessible essays that interrogate contemporary LGBTQ texts, politics, and experiences. Contributions include reflections on and controversial responses to programs such as SpongeBob SquarePants, The L Word, Will and Grace, Queer as Folk, Glee, and TransGeneration; a modern application of Vito Russo's arguments from The Celluloid Closet (CH, Mar'82); critiques of songs such as 'I Kissed a Girl' (Katy Perry) and 'Born This Way' (Lady Gaga); the subversive potential of effeminate/queer Japanese male television commentators; the dissident maternity photos of Thomas Beatie; the often-forgotten legacy of Kathy Kozachenko, the first voter-elected openly lesbian city councilor in the US; the sex/gender policing of intersex athletes; (in)conspicuous advertising to/within the LGBTQ community; and sexualized/hetero-normative assumptions of children's television programs. Many of the essays also offer recommendations about the ways in which a queer representation could be fashioned into a more nuanced and socially just representation. The breadth and depth of this collection is impressive; it is a must read for anyone interested in media criticism, popular culture, and LGBTQ studies. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers/faculty, professional/practitioners. * CHOICE *From Sponge Bob to Glee to I Kissed a Girl, this much needed, comprehensive collection addresses how gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people are depicted across a wide variety of media. Through intriguing analyses of images, sexuality as performance, and the implications and effects of living marginalized, this book is a must-read for anyone interested not only in the specifics of the right to realistic representations but also in issues of identity and ethics of representation. -- Debra Merskin, University of OregonTable of ContentsIntroduction Jane Campbell and Theresa Carilli QUEER IMAGES Chapter 1: Focus on the SpongeBob: The Representational Politics of James Dobson Jason Zingsheim Chapter 2: The Complex Relationship Between (and within) the Suppressed and the Empowered: Contradiction and LGBT Portrayals on The L Word Jennifer Guthrie, Adrianne Kunkel and K. Nicole Hladky Chapter 3: Comic Corrections towards a Family Perfection: (Re)Reading Queer as Folk and Will and Grace Rachel E. Silverman Chapter 4: Revisiting The Celluloid Closet Jane Campbell and Theresa Carilli Chapter 5: To Glee or not to Glee: Exploring the Empowering Voice of the Glee Movement. Lori Montalbano PERFORMANCES OF SEXUALITY AND GENDER Chapter 6: A Pregnant Pause, a Transgender Look: Thomas Beatie in the Maternity Pose Kristin Norwood Chapter 7: The Rhetoric of Sexual Experimentation: A Critical Examination of Katy Perry’s I Kissed a Girl Brittani Hidahl and Richard D. Besel Chapter 8: Queer Male TV Commentators: Kinjo-no-Obasan in Advanced Capitalism Kimiko Akita LIVING IN THE MARGINS Chapter 9: The Construction of Queer and the Conferring of Voice: Empowering and Disempowering Portrayals of Transgenderism on TransGeneration K. Nicole Hladky Chapter 10: “Born This Way”: Biology and Sexuality in Lady Gaga’s Pro-LGBT Media Shannon Weber Chapter 11: First But (Nearly) Forgotten: Why You Know Milk but not Kozachenko Bruce Drushel QUEER ISSUES Chapter 12: “Is she a man? Is she a transvestite?”: Critiquing the Coverage of Intersex Athletes Rick Kenney and Kimiko Akita Chapter 13: The Commercial Closet: How Gay-Specific Media and the Images of “the Closet” Erases the LGBT Community from the Mainstream Gaze Kristin Comeforo Chapter 14: “Should We Stop Believin’?”: Glee and The Culture of Essentialist Identity Discourse John Wolf and Valarie Schweisberger Chapter 15: “The play’s the thing”: Representations of heteronormative sexuality in a popular children’s TV sitcom Zoe Kenney
£40.50
Nightboat Books Inmost
Book SynopsisJessica Fisher's second book of poems brings lyric's intensity of perception to an era of global war while chronicling the everyday motions of new motherhood. In this elegant and elusive work, the inmost moves outward, like sight or voice, into the external world.Trade Review“Her poems are analytic meditations, their variety and beauty manifestations of extraordinary sensitivity to English syntax.”—Louise Glück
£11.39
Lexington Books Queer Media Images
Book SynopsisThrough a study of media representations, this unique collection provides a snapshot into the issues surrounding LGBT identity during a time when the Defense of Marriage Act is called into question and explores what it means to study images through a queer lens.Trade ReviewCampbell and Carilli (both, Purdue University Calumet) have assembled a collection of accessible essays that interrogate contemporary LGBTQ texts, politics, and experiences. Contributions include reflections on and controversial responses to programs such as SpongeBob SquarePants, The L Word, Will and Grace, Queer as Folk, Glee, and TransGeneration; a modern application of Vito Russo's arguments from The Celluloid Closet (CH, Mar'82); critiques of songs such as 'I Kissed a Girl' (Katy Perry) and 'Born This Way' (Lady Gaga); the subversive potential of effeminate/queer Japanese male television commentators; the dissident maternity photos of Thomas Beatie; the often-forgotten legacy of Kathy Kozachenko, the first voter-elected openly lesbian city councilor in the US; the sex/gender policing of intersex athletes; (in)conspicuous advertising to/within the LGBTQ community; and sexualized/hetero-normative assumptions of children's television programs. Many of the essays also offer recommendations about the ways in which a queer representation could be fashioned into a more nuanced and socially just representation. The breadth and depth of this collection is impressive; it is a must read for anyone interested in media criticism, popular culture, and LGBTQ studies. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers/faculty, professional/practitioners. * CHOICE *From Sponge Bob to Glee to I Kissed a Girl, this much needed, comprehensive collection addresses how gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people are depicted across a wide variety of media. Through intriguing analyses of images, sexuality as performance, and the implications and effects of living marginalized, this book is a must-read for anyone interested not only in the specifics of the right to realistic representations but also in issues of identity and ethics of representation. -- Debra Merskin, University of OregonTable of ContentsIntroduction Jane Campbell and Theresa Carilli QUEER IMAGES Chapter 1: Focus on the SpongeBob: The Representational Politics of James Dobson Jason Zingsheim Chapter 2: The Complex Relationship Between (and within) the Suppressed and the Empowered: Contradiction and LGBT Portrayals on The L Word Jennifer Guthrie, Adrianne Kunkel and K. Nicole Hladky Chapter 3: Comic Corrections towards a Family Perfection: (Re)Reading Queer as Folk and Will and Grace Rachel E. Silverman Chapter 4: Revisiting The Celluloid Closet Jane Campbell and Theresa Carilli Chapter 5: To Glee or not to Glee: Exploring the Empowering Voice of the Glee Movement. Lori Montalbano PERFORMANCES OF SEXUALITY AND GENDER Chapter 6: A Pregnant Pause, a Transgender Look: Thomas Beatie in the Maternity Pose Kristin Norwood Chapter 7: The Rhetoric of Sexual Experimentation: A Critical Examination of Katy Perry’s I Kissed a Girl Brittani Hidahl and Richard D. Besel Chapter 8: Queer Male TV Commentators: Kinjo-no-Obasan in Advanced Capitalism Kimiko Akita LIVING IN THE MARGINS Chapter 9: The Construction of Queer and the Conferring of Voice: Empowering and Disempowering Portrayals of Transgenderism on TransGeneration K. Nicole Hladky Chapter 10: “Born This Way”: Biology and Sexuality in Lady Gaga’s Pro-LGBT Media Shannon Weber Chapter 11: First But (Nearly) Forgotten: Why You Know Milk but not Kozachenko Bruce Drushel QUEER ISSUES Chapter 12: “Is she a man? Is she a transvestite?”: Critiquing the Coverage of Intersex Athletes Rick Kenney and Kimiko Akita Chapter 13: The Commercial Closet: How Gay-Specific Media and the Images of “the Closet” Erases the LGBT Community from the Mainstream Gaze Kristin Comeforo Chapter 14: “Should We Stop Believin’?”: Glee and The Culture of Essentialist Identity Discourse John Wolf and Valarie Schweisberger Chapter 15: “The play’s the thing”: Representations of heteronormative sexuality in a popular children’s TV sitcom Zoe Kenney
£70.20
Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd Lilian Bland: An Amazing Aviatrix
Book SynopsisA beautifully illustrated children's book chronicling the amazing life story of Lilian Bland, the first woman ever to design, build, and fly her own airplane.Ever since she was a little girl, Lilian Bland (18781971) wanted to fly. She loved to watch black gulls soaring through the sky near her England home, and she was fascinated by the mechanics of flight. However, airplanes were still very new when she was growing up, and those who did fly were usually men. Lilian would not give up. When she could not find anyone to teach her to fly, she took matters into her own hands. She designed and built her own plane, and after many tries, she finally got it to fly. This delightful picture book celebrates the life of Lilian Bland, remembered both in England and in her adopted home of Quatsino Sound, on Vancouver Island, for her many achievementsespecially her ground-breaking achievements in aviation. Told with beautiful illustrations and a clear, inspiring narrative, Lilian's story of adventure and creativity is sure to enchant young readers.
£9.49
Chronicle Books She Holds a Cosmos: Poems on Motherhood
Book SynopsisA petite, beautifully packaged collection of poems about motherhood, this is the perfect gift for mothers of all ages. This beautifully illustrated, empowering collection features more than 25 poignant poems about the incredible experience of being a mother. Filled with inspiring and moving poetry exploring motherhood in all its dimensions-from pregnancy and birth to the countless joys, struggles, and hilarious moments that come with raising children—this book is a perfect gift for mothers at every stage, whether they're expecting or empty nesting. Presented in a petite, eye-catching package with contemporary illustrations throughout, this is a lovely, arresting tribute to the life-altering journey of motherhood. • PERFECT GIFT: Whether you're attending a friend's baby shower or you're looking for something for your own mother on Mother's Day, this petite, affordable, and charmingly packaged celebration of motherhood is just the thing. • POETRY TREND: Featuring young, contemporary voices beside beloved, time-tested poets, this pretty, slim volume will appeal to poetry lovers and mothers of all ages. • CELEBRATES DIVERSE VOICES: The range of poets included in this collection is wide and diverse. With poems by up-and-comers, classic poets, women, and men, of all ages and ethnicities, this book captures a broad, representative spectrum of the experience of motherhood. Consumer: • Mothers of all ages • Shoppers looking for a gift for a mother—whether for a baby shower, Mother's Day, or another occasion • Poetry lovers
£12.34
Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd Kimiko Murakami: A Japanese-Canadian Pioneer
Book SynopsisThe inspiring and true life story of Kimiko Murakami, a Japanese-Canadian pioneer and internment camp survivor, beautifully illustrated for a young audience.Ganbaru is a Japanese word that means to keep going during hard times and never give up. This picture book introduces young readers to Kimiko Murakami (19041997), a brave and determined woman whose life embodied the ganbaru spirit. Born in the village of Steveston, BC, and raised on Salt Spring Island, Kimiko was part of a long tradition of Japanese-Canadian families who made their livings fishing and farming. During the Second World War, she was among the 22,000 Japanese Canadians who were sent to live in internment camps because they were seen as enemy aliens. The camps were dirty and crowded, but worst of all, they robbed Japanese Canadians of their basic rights and freedoms. Following the War, Kimiko and her family were allowed to return to Salt Spring Island and had to rebuild their farm and their life from scratch. Through it all, Kimikoa pioneer and survivornever lost hope. This book celebrates her achievements, courage, and ganbaru spirit through vivid illustrations and a clear, informative, and inspiring narrative.
£9.49
Lexington Books Intersectional Media: Representations of
Book SynopsisIntersectional Media: Representations of Marginalized Identities analyzes media depictions of a variety of intersecting identities. Through a study examining how components of identity such as race, class, ethnicity, age, ability, class, and sexuality mesh and form a unique worldview, contributors to this collection frame their understanding of media intersectionality as complex and multi-layered studies of identity. Rather than focusing on any one component of marginalized identity, this book broadens the scope of inquiry and encourages audiences to recognize the complexity of media analysis when a combination of marginalized identities is depicted. Contributors demonstrate their understanding of how different components of identity combine and create new, original components of identity, paving the way for new studies of both media and identity. Scholars of media studies, identity studies, cultural studies, minority studies, gender studies, race studies, and sociology will find this book particularly useful. Trade ReviewThese highly thought-provoking, engaging, and informative essays, authored by a diverse group of scholars, provide a major contribution to the existing literature in media, culture, arts, race, ethnicity, and representations of marginalized communities. The editors deserve to be commended for bringing us these unique intercultural perspectives that should be of interest to the general reader, researchers, students, and scholars of media and cultural studies. -- Yahya R. Kamalipour, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State UniversityTheresa Carilli and Jane Campbell have assembled a collection of essays that not only provides a sense of the vast scope of intersectional identities in media but also is the source of insights both expected and unexpected. Readers will find particularly delightful the chapter on Nonna Maria's Cantina Canadese, videos in which viewers learn about the conflation of gender, class, age, and national (and diasporic) identity from an Italian-Canadian puppet character. They will be captivated by the chapter on the shojo manga character Babysitter Gin, whose identities as a Japanese transgender woman ironically have made her a role model for cisgender Japanese women. The familiar texts of Hamilton: An American Musical and RuPaul’s Drag Race receive fresh treatment, the former as a dramatization of intersectionality that creates a new identity for the marginalized, and the latter credited for its subversive cultural space, even despite its reproduction of racial tropes. The most unexpected takeaway from the anthology is the conclusion that intersectional identities may be the standard to which unidimensional ones are the exception. -- Bruce E. Drushel, Miami UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionJane Campbell and Theresa CarilliChapter 1: Intersecting Dimensions of Identity in Nonna Maria's Cantina CanadeseGiovanna P. Del NegroChapter 2: The Intersection of Race and Sexuality in Howard Cruse’s Stuck Rubber BabyRobert KellermanChapter 3: A Work in Progress: Advancing Intersectionality In and Through Queer TelevisionKatrina Webber and Layla CameronChapter 4: Race, Poverty, and Narco-capitalism on The Wire: A Political Economic AnalysisMichael Johnson, Jr.Chapter 5: The Transgender Super Nanny, Babysitter Gin: A Postcolonial Analysis Kimiko AkitaChapter 6: The Intersection Between Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in the HBO series, My BrilliantFriend: The Cost of Defiance and ResistanceTheresa CarilliChapter 7: UpWord Mobility: The Intersection of Rhetorics, Hip Hop, and History in Hamilton: An American MusicalSara Raffel and Amanda HillChapter 8: Kim Chi at RuPaul’s Drag Race: Rearticulating Fatphobia, Sissyphobia, and Asianphobia in the Gay Male Community in American ContextQuang Ngo Chapter 9: Framing the Democratic Socialists of America? National and Local Information Flows in Media Coverage of Alexandria Ocasio-CortezMaha BashriSelected References About the Editors About the Authors
£27.00
Lexington Books Intersectional Media: Representations of
Book SynopsisIntersectional Media: Representations of Marginalized Identities analyzes media depictions of a variety of intersecting identities. Through a study examining how components of identity such as race, class, ethnicity, age, ability, class, and sexuality mesh and form a unique worldview, contributors to this collection frame their understanding of media intersectionality as complex and multi-layered studies of identity. Rather than focusing on any one component of marginalized identity, this book broadens the scope of inquiry and encourages audiences to recognize the complexity of media analysis when a combination of marginalized identities is depicted. Contributors demonstrate their understanding of how different components of identity combine and create new, original components of identity, paving the way for new studies of both media and identity. Scholars of media studies, identity studies, cultural studies, minority studies, gender studies, race studies, and sociology will find this book particularly useful. Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionJane Campbell and Theresa CarilliChapter 1: Intersecting Dimensions of Identity in Nonna Maria Cantina CanadeseGiovanna P. Del NegroChapter 2: The Intersection of Race and Sexuality in Howard Cruse’s Stuck Rubber BabyRobert KellermanChapter 3: A Work in Progress: Advancing Intersectionality In and Through Queer TelevisionKatrina Webber and Layla CameronChapter 4: Race, Poverty, and Narco-capitalism on The Wire: A Political Economic AnalysisMichael Johnson, Jr.Chapter 5: The Transgender Super Nanny, Babysitter Gin: A Postcolonial Analysis Kimiko AkitaChapter 6: The Intersection Between Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in the HBO series, My BrilliantFriend: The Cost of Defiance and ResistanceTheresa CarilliChapter 7: UpWord Mobility: The Intersection of Rhetorics, Hip Hop, and History in Hamilton: An American MusicalSara Raffel and Amanda HillChapter 8: Kim Chi at RuPaul’s Drag Race: Rearticulating Fatphobia, Sissyphobia, and Asianphobia in the Gay Male Community in American ContextQuang Ngo Chapter 9: Framing the Democratic Socialists of America? National and Local Information Flows in Media Coverage of Alexandria Ocasio-CortezMaha BashriSelected References About the Editors About the Authors
£65.70
Simon & Schuster Audio The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
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£999.99
Simon & Schuster Audio The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
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£999.99
