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By Rowan McCandless. 2021
After years of secrecy and silence, Rowan McCandless leaves an abusive relationship and rediscovers her voice and identity through writing.She…
was never to lie to him. She was never to leave him; and she was never supposed to tell.Persephone’s Children chronicles Rowan McCandless’s odyssey as a Black, biracial woman escaping the stranglehold of a long-term abusive relationship. Through a series of thematically linked and structurally inventive essays, McCandless explores the fraught and fragmented relationship between memory and trauma. Multiple mythologies emerge to bind legacy and loss, motherhood and daughterhood, racism and intergenerational trauma, mental illness and resiliency.It is only in the aftermath that she can begin to see the patterns in her history, hear the echoes of oppression passed down from unknown, unnamed ancestors, and discover her worth and right to exist in the world.A RARE MACHINES BOOKBy Grafton Tanner. 2021
The Hours Have Lost Their Clock charts the rise of nostalgia in an era knocked out of time.In The Hours Have…
Lost Their Clock, Grafton Tanner charts the rise of nostalgia in an era knocked out of time. Nostalgia is the defining emotion of our age. Political leaders promise a return to yesteryear. Old movies are remade and cancelled series are rebooted. Veterans reenact past wars, while the displaced across the world long for home. But who is behind this collective ache for a home in the past? Do we need to eliminate nostalgia, or just cultivate it better? And what is at stake if we make the wrong choice? Moving from the fight over Confederate monuments to the birth of homeland security to the mourning of species extinction, Grafton Tanner traces nostalgia&’s ascent in the twenty-first century, revealing its power as both a consequence of our unstable time and a defense against it. With little faith in a future of climate change and economic anxiety, many have turned to nostalgia to weather the present, while powerful elites exploit it for their own gain. An exploration into the politics of loss and yearning, The Hours Have Lost Their Clock is an urgent call to take nostalgia seriously. The very future depends on it.By Tony Atkinson, Lynn Smailes. 2016
Tony Atkinson spent his early days suspended in a cage outside the sixth-storey window of his family home in 1920s…
London. So perhaps he was always destined to see the world differently, and to land in ridiculous, hilarious situations. There was the time he came between Winston Churchill and his bowel movements (an accident that required a parliamentary explanation) or the high-society shenanigans he witnessed after accidentally becoming footman to Queen Elizabeth. Tony and the love of his life came across the pond as 'ten-pound Poms'. While he forged a successful career as an anaesthetist, his greatest gift may be for telling rousing tales. A Prescribed Life is a warm and engaging chronicle about love, medicine and royalty spanning almost a century of great change.By Ron Howard, Clint Howard. 1953
Happy Days, The Andy Griffith Show, Gentle Ben—these shows captivated millions of TV viewers in the ’60s and ’70s. Join…
award-winning filmmaker Ron Howard and audience-favorite actor Clint Howard as they frankly and fondly share their unusual family story of navigating and surviving life as sibling child actors. “What was it like to grow up on TV?” Ron Howard has been asked this question throughout his adult life. in The Boys, he and his younger brother, Clint, examine their childhoods in detail for the first time. For Ron, playing Opie on The Andy Griffith Show and Richie Cunningham on Happy Days offered fame, joy, and opportunity—but also invited stress and bullying. For Clint, a fast start on such programs as Gentle Ben and Star Trek petered out in adolescence, with some tough consequences and lessons. With the perspective of time and success—Ron as a filmmaker, producer, and Hollywood A-lister, Clint as a busy character actor—the Howard brothers delve deep into an upbringing that seemed normal to them yet was anything but. Their Midwestern parents, Rance and Jean, moved to California to pursue their own showbiz dreams. But it was their young sons who found steady employment as actors. Rance put aside his ego and ambition to become Ron and Clint’s teacher, sage, and moral compass. Jean became their loving protector—sometimes over-protector—from the snares and traps of Hollywood. By turns confessional, nostalgic, heartwarming, and harrowing, THE BOYS is a dual narrative that lifts the lid on the Howard brothers’ closely held lives. It’s the journey of a tight four-person family unit that held fast in an unforgiving business and of two brothers who survived “child-actor syndrome” to become fulfilled adults.By Peter Allison. 2007
Peter Allison was only nineteen when he left Australia for Africa, thinking he might travel around and see a bit…
of the country before going home to a 'proper job'. But Africa worked its magic, and Peter ended up falling, quickly and completely, in love with the country and its wildlife. Landing in a game reserve in the wildlife-rich Okavango Delta, he became a safari guide and, some twelve years later, his short holiday in Africa isn't over yet. Whatever You Do, Don't Run is his guide's-eye view of living in the bush, confronting the world's fiercest animals and, most challenging of all, managing herds of gaping tourists. Like the young woman who rejected the recommended safari-friendly khaki to wear a more 'fashionable' hot pink ensemble, or the Japanese tourist who requested a repeat performance of Allison's being charged by a lion so he could videotape it, there's not much in the African bush that Peter hasn't seen, photographed or been chased by.By Michael Harding, Jacob Stack. 2021
Please note this has been optimised for display on tablets and colour devices.In this stunning collaboration, bestselling writer Michael Harding's…
most memorable musings on the human condition are brought to life by illustrator Jacob Stack.In these pages, the reader is held in moments of belonging, solitude, love and healing as we witness the beauty of falling snow, the pain and love of goodbyes, and the shared lives and deaths of neighbours amid the sweeping landscape of Ireland.A Cloud Where the Birds Rise is a beautifully illustrated collection of observations and stories from one of Ireland's best-loved writers - a celebration of finding beauty and hope in the ordinary.By Helena Morrissey. 2021
'This is a kind book. Everything every career woman needs to know and yet is rarely shared so honestly' Anya…
HindmarchWomen have made great advances in the workplace, but despite that - and the overwhelming amount of career advice out there - the same questions continue to arise: how to succeed in a man's world, how to combine a career with a family, how to be authentic and fit in, and whether it is even possible to achieve a work-life balance while chasing career goals.Unfortunately, much of the advice women are offered is badly out of date and lacking in 'cut-to-the-chase' strategies that really tally with their experience of the workplace now. What's more, the advice often tends to be defensive, focused on overcoming obstacles rather than drawing upon strengths.Style and Substance starts from a very different perspective. Written by Helena Morrissey, who has learned through her own experiences as a woman in the workplace and as a business leader,it will help you understand what really matters when it comes to career progression today, whatever your age, situation and aspirations.Style and Substance will show you how to build your own style - your personal brand - and how to have confidence in it, and in yourself. Once you realise how much agency you have and the steps that you can take to look the part, sound the part, feel the part and therefore be the part, you'll be empowered to achieve your goals in your own way, secure in who you are and what you have to offer.By Helena Morrissey. 2021
'An inspiring guide to developing your personal brand, achieving your career goals and shaping the future of work' Red'Everything every…
career woman needs to know and yet is rarely shared so honestly' Anya Hindmarch'Refreshingly relevant and practical' Roksanda IlincicWomen have made great advances in the workplace, but despite that - and the overwhelming amount of career advice out there - the same questions continue to arise: how to succeed in a man's world, how to combine a career with a family, how to be authentic and fit in, and whether it is even possible to achieve a work-life balance while chasing career goals.Unfortunately, much of the advice women are offered is badly out of date and lacking in 'cut-to-the-chase' strategies that really tally with their experience of the workplace now. What's more, the advice often tends to be defensive, focused on overcoming obstacles rather than drawing upon strengths.Style and Substance starts from a very different perspective. Written by Helena Morrissey, who has learned through her own experiences as a woman in the workplace and as a business leader,it will help you understand what really matters when it comes to career progression today, whatever your age, situation and aspirations.Style and Substance will show you how to build your own style - your personal brand - and how to have confidence in it, and in yourself. Once you realise how much agency you have and the steps that you can take to look the part, sound the part, feel the part and therefore be the part, you'll be empowered to achieve your goals in your own way, secure in who you are and what you have to offer.By Geoffrey Stevens, Flora MacDonald. 2021
Flora Isabel MacDonald – politician, humanitarian, adventurer, and role model for a generation of women – was known across Canada…
and beyond simply as Flora. In her memoir, co-authored by award-winning journalist and author Geoffrey Stevens, she tells her personal story for the very first time.Flora! describes her amazing journey from her childhood and her time at secretarial school in Cape Breton, through her years in backroom Progressive Conservative politics, to elected office and her appointment as Canada’s first female minister of foreign affairs. Finally, she details her exceptional humanitarian work in India and in war-torn Africa and Afghanistan. Flora was driven by a lifelong conviction that there is nothing a woman cannot achieve in a world controlled by men, and she pursued this conviction in everything she did, carving a path for women in Parliament. She won international acclaim for bringing 60,000 Vietnamese refugees to Canada, and for engineering the rescue of six American hostages in Tehran in a top-secret collaboration with the CIA known as the Canadian Caper. She exposed the inhumane treatment of inmates at Kingston’s Prison for Women. She defied male chauvinists in the Progressive Conservative party by running for its leadership, and she introduced the Employment Equity Act to guarantee women equal access to federal jobs.Flora was brave. She was relentless. She was controversial. She was a force of nature. In her own words and drawing from interviews with those who knew her, Flora! grants us insight into this exceptional woman who changed the course of history.By Arthur Asa Berger. 2021
The sixth edition of this approachable text draws on both academic and applied perspectives to offer a lively critique of…
contemporary advertising’s effects on American character and culture. Berger explains how advertising works by employing a psycho-cultural approach, encouraging readers to think about advertisements and commercials in more analytical and profound ways. The sixth edition features updated statistics, two new chapters, and new discussions of the role of brands, social media, non-binary perspectives on gender, advertising and the 2020 election, the problem of self-alienation, and how all these elements relate to consumption. Berger also considers the Values and Lifestyle (VALS) and Claritas typologies in marketing. Distinctive chapters examine the “1984” Macintosh commercial, a Fidji perfume advertisement, and a moisturizer advertisement from semiotic, psychoanalytic, sociological, Marxist, mythic, and feminist perspectives. Ads, Fads, and Consumer Culture provides an accessible overview of advertising in the United States, spanning issues as diverse as sexuality, politics, market research, consumer culture, and more, and helps readers understand the role that advertising has played, and continues to play, in all our lives.By Daniel Ichbiah. 2021
La biografia di un genio visionario, inventore e imprenditore dotato, è diventato uno degli uomini più influenti del pianeta. E…
anche il più misterioso. È l'incarnazione del sogno americano. Creatore della sua prima rete di messaggistica a 12 anni, rifiuta sei anni più tardi un'offerta di Microsoft che avrebbe potuto renderlo milionario, preferendo costruire da solo il suo impero. Progetta Facebook, diventa miliardario a 24 anni, acquista Whatsapp, Instagram... servizi utilizzati da oltre 2 miliardi di persone! Un’escalation incredibile senza precedenti. Tuttavia, dietro le sue professioni di fede umanistica - «un mondo aperto e connesso» - e l'altruismo rivendicato dal suo AD, cosa nasconde veramente il progetto Facebook? Quale influenza diretta o indiretta ha giocato nella Brexit, l'elezione di Donald Trump nel 2016, l'esplosione delle fake news? Cosa succede realmente ai dati pubblicati dagli utenti? Zuckerberg si serve deliberatamente di Facebook come di un cavallo di Troia in piena democrazia, ammettendo senza troppi scrupoli di voler «dominare il mondo»? Come un Frankenstein del XXI secolo, è stato sopraffatto dalla sua creatura? Si parla di ciò che è noto. E di tutto quello che l'uomo ha protetto per anni. Daniel Ichbiah, grande esperto della Silicon Valley e delle nuove tecnologie, ha incrociato le testimonianze di parenti, trascritto i messaggi privati e le riunioni a porte chiuse, raccolto montagne di informazioni, per rilasciare l'unica biografia completa e aggiornata su un uomo diventato un mito vivente.By Amartya Sen. 1997
Una apasionante semblanza del Premio Nobel de Literatura más desconocido. Premio Princesa de Asturias de las Ciencias Sociales 2021 Premio…
Nobel de Economía 1998 Existe un auténtico contraste entre la presencia intelectual de Rabindranath Tagore en la literatura, la política y la sociedad bengalíes y su imagen de gurú espiritual que llegó hasta Occidente. Entre ambas facetas se abre un amplio espacio surcado por numerosos debates en torno a la religiosidad, el sistema de castas y la independencia que llevaron a considerarlo en India una de las personalidades más polifacéticas y preeminentes del siglo XXI. Amartya Sen recorre en esta breve semblanza las piedras angulares del argumentario del pensador bengalí, un escritor de elegante prosa y mágica poesía, y redescubre a los lectores occidentales al Tagore más oculto: el concienciado activista, el pintor de enorme talento y el gran estratega político. «Rabindranath sabía que no habría podido brindarle a la India el liderazgo político que Gandhi le confirió, y nunca hubo ironía en su reconocimiento de lo que Gandhi hizo por la nación (de hecho, fue Tagore quien popularizó el tratamiento de Mahatma —alma grande— para Gandhi)».By Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola. 2022
This book traverses the cultural landscape of Colombia through in-depth analyses of displacement, local and global cultures, human rights abuses,…
and literary and media production. Through an exploration of the cultural processes that perpetuate the "darker side" of Latin America for global consumption, it investigates the "condition" that has led writers, filmmakers, and artists to embrace (purposefully or not) the incessant violence in Colombian society as the object of their own creative endeavors. In this examination of mass-marketed cultural products such as narco-stories, captivity memoirs, gritty travel narratives, and films, Herrero-Olaizola seeks to offer a hemispheric approach to the role played by Colombia in cultural production across the continent where the illicit drug trade has made significant inroads. To this end, he identifies the "Colombian condition" within the parameters of the global economy while concentrating on the commodification of Latin America’s violence for cultural consumption.By Ronnyjane Goldsmith. 2021
Since 1884, Temple University alumni have overcome poverty, hardship and disappointment to achieve greatness. Daniel Aaron, a refugee from Nazi…
Germany, grew up in foster care and went on to co-found Comcast Cable, the largest cable television provider in the United States. Theo-Ben Guriab was born in apartheid Namibia and became president of the United Nations General Assembly. Edith Windsor, a daughter of immigrants, brought a case before the Supreme Court at the age of seventy-seven ensuring that all gay people in the United States receive equal protection under the law. Author Ronnyjane Goldsmith, who received her BA, MA and PhD from Temple, presents thirty inspiring profiles of what it means to be Temple Made. The author's proceeds from the book are dedicated to the Temple University Alumni Scholarship Fund established by the author to assist future alumni.By Robert Drewe. 2013
Welcome to the Northern Rivers, where the ‘local wildlife’ can refer to more than just the exotic native fauna.After a…
decade spent in this picturesque corner of Australia, home of chocolate-coated women, pythons in the ceiling, online Russian brides, deadly paralysis ticks, and the mysterious Mullumbimby Monster, Robert Drewe wiped the green zinc cream from his face and set down some of the unusual wildlife experiences that the far north coast of New South Wales - home of the world’s greatest variety of ants - has to offer. Drewe’s trademark gentle wit, acute observational powers and mastery of the English language are all on display in this collection of sketches and anecdotes based on the quirkiness of daily life. His sharp eye for human foibles - including his own - is tempered with a generosity of spirit.Tall tales from Australia’s master of the short story - but this time these short, short stories are true.By Kaz Cooke. 1994
"Real gorgeous" has the facts about fashion fibs and diet myths, and no-nonsense information about cosmetics, health and self-esteem. "Real…
gorgeous" is for women aged 11 to 111. It will make you laugh and help you make friends with your body.By Ross Campbell. 1981
By Jon Katz. 2011
Welcome to Bedlam Farm! Meet Rose, Izzy, Frieda, and Lenore--four dogs who work hard on the farm doing various jobs.…
They're good friends now, but it wasn't always this way. Just as each dog has a different role on the farm, each has a unique story. Filled with his captivating photographs, bestselling author Jon Katz's heartwarming account of his dogs' lives on Bedlam Farm is unforgettable.By Ernesto Che Guevara. 2021
The first-ever edition of Che Guevara's letters, the vast majority never-before published in English in any form.Ernesto Che Guevara was…
a voyager—and thus a letter writer—for his entire adult life. The letters collected in I Embrace You with All My Revolutionary Fervor: Letters 1947-1967 range from letters home during his Motorcycle Diaries trip, to the long letter to Fidel after the success of the Cuban revolution in early 1959 (from which the book's title comes), from the most personal to the intensely political, revealing someone who not only thought deeply about everything he encountered, but for whom the process of social transformation was a constant companion from his youth until shortly before his death. His letters give us Che the son, the friend, the lover, the guerrilla fighter, the political leader, the philosopher, the poet. Che in these letters is often playful, funny, sometimes sarcastic, and deeply affectionate. His life was short, and these twenty years, from when he was 19 until days before his death, show it was also incredibly rich and full.As his daughter Aleida Guevara, also a doctor like her father, writes, "When you write a speech, you pay attention to the language, the punctuation and so on. But in a letter to a friend or a member of your family, you don't worry about those things. It is you speaking, in your authentic voice. That's what I like about these letters; they show who Che really was and how he thought. This is the true political testimony of my father."By Bernie Saunders, Barry Meisel. 1951
Shut Out is a hockey love story. But it’s a love that was unrequited. Bernie Saunders had a passion for hockey.…
His prodigious talent was on display at all levels. But because he was Black, he was stymied at every turn and experienced nothing but taunting from opponents, spectators, coaches and even his own teammates. Despite this malevolence, Saunders continued to play, adopting a style akin to that of the historic house slave: serve but remain invisible. Signed by the Quebec Nordiques, he played with them for two years, but spent most of his career playing collegiately at Western Michigan University and in the minor leagues in Canada and the US. In the end, it was all too much for Saunders. Dogged and overwhelmed by racism, he finally left hockey to work in the corporate sector.This is a memoir about professional hockey by a player who had the potential to become a star but was blocked at almost every opportunity because of his race. In spite of this, Shut Out is a hopeful and uplifting book about facing adversity, overcoming it and moving ahead. Woven throughout the book is Saunders’s love of his family, especially his brother, John, who died at age sixty-one. Now retired, Bernie Saunders is still sought out by the hockey community for his observations and advice.