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By Guy Lozier. 2019
A Fera por Guy Lozier William, um amigo muito próximo do general George Custer, afirma que ele foi ameaçado de…
morte ou vida na prisão se falou sobre o que testemunhou em Little Bighorn ... A fera A família Nugent procura o autor Guy Lozier, pedindo que ele publique o manuscrito de William D. Nugent. William, um amigo muito próximo do general George Custer, afirma que ele foi ameaçado de morte ou vida na prisão se falou sobre o que testemunhou em Little Bighorn. Depois de quarenta anos, William decidiu que era hora de alguém se levantar e corrigir as mentiras sobre seu bom amigo Custer. Indo para Guy Lozier, Tim Biswell pediu a Guy para ajudar a publicar o manuscrito. Guy investiga a história e concorda. Quando Guy inicia sua investigação sobre os eventos nos dias de Custer, que antecederam Little Bighorn, ele encontra uma história ainda maior que o governo deseja encobrir. Outro grupo escondido nas entranhas dos campos de inteligência ABC do governo e organizações secretas, fica sabendo das atividades de Guy. Enquanto eles ficam de olho em Guy, outro homem misterioso sai das sombras para tentar ajudá-lo, trazendo-lhe documentos antigos do século XIX. Este homem misterioso é assassinado no aeroporto tentando se encontrar com Guy. Os capangas do governo interceptam Guy enquanto outros assassinam seu alvo. Apenas um compartimento secreto com documentos é revelado no homem misterioso assassinado, dando a Guy pistas dos mistérios antigos que organizações secretas têm procurado durante todo esse tempo.By John Franz. 2019
¿Quieres curar definitivamente tu acné de una vez por todas? ¡Analiza los pequeños remedios caseros conocidos por los adultos que…
lo sufren! ¿Estás buscando una solución natural para mejorar tu acné? ¿Estás cansado de usar productos duros para el acné que irritan tu piel? ¿Quieres definitivamente deshacerte de tu acné de una vez por todas? ¡Si has respondido sí a una o más preguntas de las que están arriba, "Pequeños remedios caseros naturales para adultos que sufren acné" es el libro para ti! Este libro ha sido designado específicamente para gente que quiere saber más acerca de las muchas formas para mejorar tu acné naturalmente. ¿Puedes realmente mejorar tu acné de manera natural? El acné es uno de los mayores problemas con el que la gente tiene que lidiar en un punto de su vida. Para algunos se va luego de su adolescencia, para otros persiste aún en la adultez. ¿La buena noticia es que tienes opciones precisas que puedes intentar desde tu hogar! Este libro te mostrará la manera. ¿Qué aprenderé? Aquí hay algunas claves que aprenderás de este libro. Qué es lo que realmente causa el acné, aceites esenciales para el acné, etc. Hay muchos temas más que abordaré en este libro. ¡Si quieres lidiar con el problema del acné en tu piel de manera natural desde tu hogar, este libro es para ti! ¡Asique, toma una copia de este libro hoy!By Keena Roberts. 2019
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight meets Mean Girls in this funny, insightful fish-out-of-water memoir about a young girl…
coming of age half in a "baboon camp" in Botswana, half in a ritzy Philadelphia suburb.Keena Roberts split her adolescence between the wilds of an island camp in Botswana and the even more treacherous halls of an elite Philadelphia private school. In Africa, she slept in a tent, cooked over a campfire, and lived each day alongside the baboon colony her parents were studying. She could wield a spear as easily as a pencil, and it wasn't unusual to be chased by lions or elephants on any given day. But for the months of the year when her family lived in the United States, this brave kid from the bush was cowed by the far more treacherous landscape of the preppy, private school social hierarchy.Most girls Keena's age didn't spend their days changing truck tires, baking their own bread, or running from elephants as they tried to do their schoolwork. They also didn't carve bird whistles from palm nuts or nearly knock themselves unconscious trying to make homemade palm wine. But Keena's parents were famous primatologists who shuttled her and her sister between Philadelphia and Botswana every six months. Dreamer, reader, and adventurer, she was always far more comfortable avoiding lions and hippopotamuses than she was dealing with spoiled middle-school field hockey players. In Keena's funny, tender memoir, Wild Life, Africa bleeds into America and vice versa, each culture amplifying the other. By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, Wild Life is ultimately the story of a daring but sensitive young girl desperately trying to figure out if there's any place where she truly fits in.By Walter Parks. 2019
O livro conta a história de um Massacre que provavelmente aconteceu onde agora encontra-se Orlando. John Mohr, um vaqueiro colono…
que está parte do rebanho por conta dos índios do local. Ao ter o pedido de ajuda negado pelo governo, ele reúne seus vizinhos para resolver esse problema sozinho.By Tricia Morrison. 2019
Prefacio En diciembre de 2017, me quedé oficialmente desempleado, así que decidí que haría enseñanza de inglés independiente a tiempo…
parcial. Esto significaba automáticamente que dependería del Sistema de Asistencia Social del Gobierno alemán para sobrevivir, ya que no ganaría suficiente dinero para vivir. Esta situación causó que muchas emociones me envolvieran, pero la más dominante de estas emociones fue un sentimiento de atrapamiento, ya que me había declarado independiente del sistema de ayuda social dos años antes. Por lo tanto, sentí que mi vida retrocedía en lugar de progresar. Esta situación me obligó a cuestionar el núcleo de mi existencia. ¿Por qué me fui de Jamaica? ¿Por qué he estudiado durante tantos años? ¿Por qué creo en Dios? ¿Cuál es el propósito de mi vida? La verdad es que me sentí frustrado, enojado y enojado. Siempre he sido un "buen deporte", un ciudadano modelo en Jamaica, un buen inmigrante en Berlín, un gran trabajador, libre de drogas, libre de enfermedades, útil, esperanzado, además de un miembro activo y colaborador de mi comunidad y sociedad. Para colmo, he hecho todo lo que el sistema alemán requiere para que una persona se convierta en un miembro integrado de la sociedad. Entonces, ¿qué estaba pasando y por qué me sentí atrapado? Una cosa era segura; No podía permanecer en un estado de frustración e ira. Esto eventualmente habría llevado a un montón de otras emociones negativas y quejas, que definitivamente no traerían ayuda ni me impulsarían. Así que tuve que sacarme de ese estado.By Haben Girma. 2019
The incredible life story of Haben Girma, the first Deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School, and her amazing journey from…
isolation to the world stage. Haben grew up spending summers with her family in the enchanting Eritrean city of Asmara. There, she discovered courage as she faced off against a bull she couldn't see, and found in herself an abiding strength as she absorbed her parents' harrowing experiences during Eritrea's thirty-year war with Ethiopia. Their refugee story inspired her to embark on a quest for knowledge, traveling the world in search of the secret to belonging. She explored numerous fascinating places, including Mali, where she helped build a school under the scorching Saharan sun. Her many adventures over the years range from the hair-raising to the hilarious. Haben defines disability as an opportunity for innovation. She learned non-visual techniques for everything from dancing salsa to handling an electric saw. She developed a text-to-braille communication system that created an exciting new way to connect with people. Haben pioneered her way through obstacles, graduated from Harvard Law, and now uses her talents to advocate for people with disabilities. HABEN takes readers through a thrilling game of blind hide-and-seek in Louisiana, a treacherous climb up an iceberg in Alaska, and a magical moment with President Obama at The White House. Warm, funny, thoughtful, and uplifting, this captivating memoir is a testament to one woman's determination to find the keys to connection.By Angela Kelly. 2019
THE OFFICIAL BOOK, FULLY ENDORSED BY QUEEN ELIZABETH IIFrom Her Majesty’s trusted confidant and Dresser Angela Kelly LVO comes a…
lavishly designed book of never-before-seen photos of The Queen, Her wardrobe and Her jewels and features intimate anecdotes from Angela’s 25-year career working closely with Her Majesty. A truly unique keepsake and collectors’ item to be treasured. ‘For the nearly seven decades of her reign, Her Majesty The Queen has used clothing to create a powerful visual identity that transcends fashion and has made her perhaps the most readily identifiable person on the planet. Angela Kelly, building on the work of the great designers and milliners who have worked with Her Majesty through the years – including couturiers Sir Norman Hartnell, Sir Hardy Amies, and Ian Thomas, and milliners such as Simone Mirman and Freddy Fox – brings her own imagination to bear on an iconic ‘uniform’ that suggests continuity and tradition, and ensures that the wearer is always the most visible person in a room or a crowd.’–Anna Wintour, VogueWhen Angela Kelly and The Queen are together, laughter echoes through the corridors of Buckingham Palace. Angela has worked with The Queen and walked the corridors of the Royal Household for twenty-five years, initially as Her Majesty’s Senior Dresser and then latterly as Her Majesty’s Personal Advisor, Curator, Wardrobe and In-house Designer. As the first person in history to hold this title, she shares a uniquely close working relationship with The Queen.In The Other Side of the Coin, The Queen has personally given Angela her blessing to share their extraordinary bond with the world. Whether it’s preparing for a formal occasion or brightening Her Majesty’s day with a playful joke, Angela’s priority is to serve and support. Sharing never-before-seen photographs – many from Angela’s own private collection – and charming anecdotes of their time spent together, this revealing book provides memorable insights into what it’s like to work closely with The Queen, to curate her wardrobe and to discover a true and lasting connection along the way. ‘The book documents the unique working relationship between Her Majesty The Queen and the woman who has been her Personal Assistant and Senior Dresser for more than two decades: Angela Kelly. It gives a rare insight into the demands of the job of supporting the Monarch, and we gain privileged insight into a successful working relationship, characterized by humor, creativity, hard work, and a mutual commitment to service and duty. Angela is a talented and inspiring woman, who has captured the highlights of her long career with The Queen for us all to share.’ –Samantha Cohen, Assistant Private Secretary to The Queen (2011–2018)By Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan, Clare M. Wilkinson. 2020
In this book, film scholars, anthropologists, and critics discuss star-making in the contemporary Hindi-language film industry in India, also known…
as “Bollywood.” Drawing on theories of stardom, globalization, transnationalism, gender, and new media studies, the chapters explore contemporary Hindi film celebrity. With the rise of social media and India’s increased engagement in the global economy, Hindi film stars are forging their identities not just through their on-screen images and magazine and advertising appearances, but also through an array of media platforms, product endorsements, setting fashion trends, and involvement in social causes. Focusing on some of the best-known Indian stars since the late 1990s, the book discusses the multiplying avenues for forging a star identity, the strategies industry outsiders adopt to become stars, and the contradictions and conflicts that such star-making produces. It addresses questions such as: What traits of contemporary stars have contributed most to longevity and success in the industry? How has filmmaking technology and practice altered the nature of stardom? How has the manufacture of celebrity altered with the recent appearance of commodity culture in India and the rise of a hyper-connected global economy? By doing so, it describes a distinct moment in India and in the world in which stars and stardom are drawn more closely than ever into the vital events of global culture. Hindi films and their stars are part of the national and global entertainment circuits that are bigger and more competitive than ever. As such, this is a timely book creates opportunities for examining stardom in other industries and provides fruitful cross-cultural perspectives on star identities today."Grounded in rigorous scholarship as well as a palpable love of Hindi cinema, this collection of 19 essays on a dizzying array of contemporary Hindi film stars makes for an informative, thought-provoking, illuminating, and most of all, a joyful read. Pushing boundaries of not only global Star Studies but also film theory as a whole, this de-colonised and de-colonising volume is a must read for film scholars, students and cinephiles!" Dr. Sunny Singh, Senior Lecturer - Creative Writing and English Literature, Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture & Design, London Metropolitan University “A wide-ranging overview of Hindi cinema’s filmi firmament today, focussing on its most intriguing and brightest-burning stars. The variety of approaches to stardom and celebrity by both established and upcoming scholars reveals a web of interconnecting stories and concerns that provide fascinating new insights into the workings of today's Hindi film industry, while shining fresh light on contemporary India and the world we live in.” Professor Rosie Thomas, Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM), College of Design, Creative and Digital Industries, University of WestminsterBy Nicholas J. Mizer. 2019
In 1974, the release of Dungeons & Dragons forever changed the way that we experience imagined worlds. No longer limited…
to simply reading books or watching movies, gamers came together to collaboratively and interactively build and explore new realms. Based on four years of interviews and game recordings from locations spanning the United States, this book offers a journey that explores how role-playing games use a combination of free-form imagination and tightly constrained rules to experience those realms. By developing our understanding of the fantastic worlds of role-playing games, this book also offers insight into how humans come together and collaboratively imagine the world around us.Stop scrolling and start living! Build healthier relationships between you, your smartphone and all your devices, including tips to reduce…
social media obsession, notification anxiety and other unhealthy habits.Your smartphone is a powerful device that has fundamentally changed your life—no doubt improving it in many ways. And while you don&’t need to give up your smartphone completely, if your day to day is filled with endless, anxiety-inducing checking, swiping and liking, then you need this helpful, step-by-step workbook to take back control of your life.Phone addiction is similar to gambling addiction and substance abuse. Its consequences include stress, depression, insomnia, intimacy issues and more. Written by an experienced psychotherapist, couples therapist and former telecommunications industry insider, The Phone Addiction Workbook&’s program offers the blueprint for understanding addictive behavior and how it controls you. Weekly charts, practical tips and interactive activities help you stop unhealthy behavior and make lasting change.BEAUTIFUL BRAIDS FOR ANY OCCASIONYour hair is your best accessory. Learn how to dress it up with these creative, exciting…
styles!• Looped Accent Braid• Pull-Through Ponytail• Corset Braid• Four-Strand Braid• Mixed Crown Braid• Uneven Center Braid• And more!By Maria Sachiko Cecire. 2019
From The Hobbit to Harry Potter, how fantasy harnesses the cultural power of magic, medievalism, and childhood to re-enchant the…
modern world Why are so many people drawn to fantasy set in medieval, British-looking lands? This question has immediate significance for millions around the world: from fans of Lord of the Rings, Narnia, Harry Potter, and Game of Thrones to those who avoid fantasy because of the racist, sexist, and escapist tendencies they have found there. Drawing on the history and power of children&’s fantasy literature, Re-Enchanted argues that magic, medievalism, and childhood hold the paradoxical ability to re-enchant modern life.Focusing on works by authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Susan Cooper, Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, and Nnedi Okorafor, Re-Enchanted uncovers a new genealogy for medievalist fantasy—one that reveals the genre to be as important to the history of English studies and literary modernism as it is to shaping beliefs across geographies and generations. Maria Sachiko Cecire follows children&’s fantasy as it transforms over the twentieth and twenty-first centuries—including the rise of diverse counternarratives and fantasy&’s move into &“high-brow&” literary fiction. Grounded in a combination of archival scholarship and literary and cultural analysis, Re-Enchanted argues that medievalist fantasy has become a psychologized landscape for contemporary explorations of what it means to grow up, live well, and belong. The influential &“Oxford School&” of children&’s fantasy connects to key issues throughout this book, from the legacies of empire and racial exclusion in children&’s literature to what Christmas magic tells us about the roles of childhood and enchantment in Anglo-American culture.Re-Enchanted engages with critical debates around what constitutes high and low culture during moments of crisis in the humanities, political and affective uses of childhood and the mythological past, the anxieties of modernity, and the social impact of racially charged origin stories.A SIMPLE DIETARY APPROACH TO ACHIEVING GLOWING SKIN THAT'S FREE OF AGE SPOTS, SAGGING AND WRINKLESEating too much of the…
wrong foods is bad for your digestion; and what&’s worse, it shows up in your face as wrinkles, blemishes, bags and more. Luckily, by identifying and eliminating your skin-aging triggers, you can simultaneously heal your gut, stop this process of &“digest-aging&” and reverse its negative effects on your skin. Younger Skin Starts in the Gut provides a complete healthy skin regimen that produces beautiful glowing skin by balancing hormones, preventing inflammation and maintaining well-adjusted digestion. The book&’s comprehensive four-week program and healthy recipes provide solutions to eight different signs of aging—including uneven skin tone, puffiness, dark circles and adult acne—and guarantees one blissful result: younger-looking, healthier skin.By Loren Lankford. 2013
HAIR THAT&’S TO DYE FORWant an accent streak of fire-engine red? How about forest-green tips? Or maybe you&’re daring enough…
to transform your locks into a rainbow of bright colors? It&’s all up to you!With DIY Dye and some imagination, you can easily personalize your hair with any color and style imaginable. This comprehensive guide offers step-by-step instructions on every aspect of at-home hair coloring including:• Picking the right dye• Concocting original hues• Adding highlights• Getting an ombre in any colorWhether you&’re looking to add color for a day, week, month or longer, DIY Dye shows you how to fashion the look you want using affordable options like coloring kits, chalks, henna, food coloring and even Kool-Aid packets.By Kim-Mui E. Chan. 2019
This book is a scholarly investigation of the historical development and contemporary transformation of film noir in today’s Hong Kong.…
Focusing on the evolvement of cinematic narratives, aesthetics, and techniques, the author balances a deep reading of the multiple filmic plots with a discussion of the cinematic portrayals of gender, romance, identities and power relations. Nuancing the prototypical cinematic form and tragic sense of classical film noir, the recent Hong Kong cinema turns around the classical generic role of film noir at the turn of the century to convey very different messages—joy, hope or love. This book examines how the mainstream cinema, or pre-and-post-Hong Kong cinema in particular, applies a peculiar strategy that makes rooms for the audience to enjoy a pleasure-giving process of reflexivity and also critique the mainstream ideology. With new analytical approaches and angles, this book breaks new ground in offering transcultural and cross-genre analyses on the cinema and its impact in local and international markets. This book is the first major scholarly investigation of the historical development and contemporary transformation of film noir in today’s Hong Kong. Focusing on the evolvement of cinematic narratives, aesthetics, and techniques, the author balances a deep reading of the multiple filmic plots with a refreshing discussion of the cinematic portrayals of gender, romance, identities and power relations. This book also revisits conceptual categories developed by Foucault, Lacan, Derrida and Butler.By Sarah Weinman. 2019
A gripping true-crime investigation of the 1948 abduction of Sally Horner and how it inspired Vladimir Nabokov's classic novel Lolita.Vladimir…
Nabokov's Lolita is one of the most beloved and notorious novels of all time, selling over sixty million copies worldwide to date. Yet very few of its readers know that the subject of the novel was derived from a real-life case: the 1948 abduction of eleven-year-old Sally Horner. Weaving together suspenseful crime narrative, cultural and social history, and literary investigation, The Real Lolita tells Sally Horner's full story for the very first time. Drawing upon extensive investigations, legal documents, old news stories, public records, and interviews with remaining relatives, Sarah Weinman establishes with authority how much Nabokov knew of the Sally Horner case and the efforts he took to disguise that knowledge during the process of writing and publishing Lolita. As she walks us through Sally's story, Weinman takes us on an intimate and panoramic tour of mid-century America, from Sally's home in Camden, New Jersey, to her place of rescue in California, and back to the East Coast again. The story of Sally Horner echoes the stories of countless girls and women who never had the chance to speak for themselves. By diving deeper in the publication history of Lolita and restoring Sally to her rightful place in the lore of the novel's creation, The Real Lolita casts a new light on the dark inspiration for a modern classic.By Diane Wordsworth. 2019
When John Cadbury came to Birmingham in 1824, he sold tea, coffee and drinking chocolate in a small shop on…
Bull Street. Drinking chocolate was considered a healthy alternative to alcohol, something Cadbury, a Quaker, was keen to encourage.In 1879, the Cadburys moved to Bournville and created their factory in a garden an unprecedented move. It is now ironic that todays Bournville is surrounded by that urban sprawl the Cadburys were so keen to get away from.This book looks at some of the social impact this company has had since its inception, both on the chocolate and cocoa business in general and on the community at large, both within and without the firm of Cadbury.In 2024, Cadbury's will be celebrating 200 years of the first store opening. This is the story of how the company began, how it grew, and how they diversified in order to survive.By Tracy Martin. 2018
Full with innovative, sculptural and outrageous footwear this book celebrates all shoes from the pump to the platform and the…
court shoe to the stiletto.Shoes are no longer regarded just for their practical purpose of protecting the feet as they have now become iconic works of art that would not look out of place displayed in a gallery. Collectable Names and designs in Womens shoes celebrates and showcases an eclectic array of artistic footwear which has been created by renowned designers and also has the added element of being highly desirable with collectorsBeginning with a look at the history of shoes the book predominantly looks at designer offerings from the 20th and 21st Centuries. Packed full of information on the innovative shoe designers, where they gained their inspiration and how their fabulous footwear impacted on the fashion scene along with interesting facts and tips on the area of collecting shoes. Tracy Martin will prove there is literally a collectable heel to fit every foot from the more conservative to the downright outrageous which only the fashion forward would dare to wear.By Toby Miller, Richard Maxwell. 2019
Every day we are inundated by propaganda that claims life will be better once we are connected to digital technology.…
Poverty, famine, and injustice will end, and the economy will be “green.” All anyone needs is the latest smartphone. In this succinct and lively book, Maxwell and Miller take a critical look at contemporary gadgets and the systems that connect them, shedding light on environmental risks. Contrary to widespread claims, consumer electronics and other digital technologies are made in ways that cause some of the worst environmental disasters of our time – conflict-minerals extraction, fatal and life-threatening occupational hazards, toxic pollution of ecosystems, rising energy consumption linked to increased carbon emissions, and e-waste. Nonetheless, a greener future is possible, in which technology meets its emancipatory and progressive potential. How Green is Your Smartphone? encourages us to look at our phones in a wholly new way, and is important reading for anyone concerned by the impact of everyday technologies on our environment.By Flora Miller Biddle. 2011
A Look into the Privileged World of the American Aristocracy of the Early Twentieth Century Flora Miller Biddle was born…
a blue-blood. The granddaughter of the Whitney museum founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, her childhood played out in a sort of Wharton landscape as she was shielded from the woes of the world. But money itself is not the source of happiness. Glimpses into the elegance of a Vanderbilt ball thrown by her great-grandparents and the yearly production of traveling from her childhood home on Long Island to their summer home in Aiken, South Carolina, are measured against memoires of strict governesses with stricter rules in a childhood separate from her parents, despite being in the same house, and the ever-present pressure to measure up in her studies and lessons. As Flora steps back in time to trace the origins of her family’s fortune and where it stands today, she takes a discerning look at how wealth and excess shaped her life, for better and for worse.In this wonderfully evocative memoir, Flora Miller Biddle examines, critiques, and pays homage to the people and places of her childhood that shaped her life.