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Who Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? (Who HQ Now)
By Kirsten Anderson, Who Hq. 2021
The inspiring story of the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, told in the new Who HQ Now format for trending…
topics.On June 26, 2018, twenty-eight-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a bartender from New York City, became the youngest woman ever elected to serve on Congress. Her win shocked the political world and she became a celebrity overnight. Soon, everyone knew her by her initials: AOC. As soon as she was sworn into office, AOC became a vocal champion for healthcare for all and the fight against climate change. This exciting story details the defining moments of what led to her victory and all the monumental ones since that have shaped her into a smart politician willing to fight for others, the environment, and the future of America.A little-known moment in colonial history that changed the course of America&’s future.A riveting account of a brutal killing, an…
all-out manhunt, and the first murder trial in America,set against the backdrop of the Pequot War(between the Pequot tribe and the colonists of Massachusetts Bay) that ended this two-year war and brought about a peace that allowed the colonies to become a nation.The year: 1638. The setting: Providence, near Plymouth Colony. A young Nipmuc tribesman returning home from trading beaver pelts is fatally stabbed in a robbery in the woods near Plymouth Colony by a vicious white runaway indentured servant. The tribesman, fighting for his life, is able with his final breaths to reveal the details of the attack to Providence&’s governor, Roger Williams. A frantic manhunt by the fledgling government ensues to capture the killer and his gang, now the most hunted men in the New World.With their capture, the two-year-old Plymouth Colony faces overnight its first trial—a murder trial—with Plymouth&’s governor presiding as judge and prosecutor,interviewing witnesses and defendants alike, and Myles Standish, Plymouth Colony authority, as overseer of the courtroom, his sidearm at the ready. The jury—Plymouth colonists, New England farmers (&“a rude and ignorant sorte,&” as described by former governor William Bradford)—white, male, picked from a total population of five hundred and fifty, knows from past persecutions the horrors of a society without a jury system. Would they be tempted to protect their own—including a cold-blooded murderer who was also a Pequot War veteran—over the life of a tribesman who had fought in a war allied against them? Tobey Pearl brings to vivid life those caught up in the drama: Roger Williams, founder of Plymouth Colony, a self-taught expert in indigenous cultures and the first investigator of the murder; Myles Standish; Edward Winslow, a former governor of Plymouth Colony and the master of the indentured servant and accused murderer; John Winthrop, governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony; the men on trial for the murder; and the lone tribesman, from the last of the Woodland American Indians, whose life was brutally taken from him. Pearl writes of the witnesses who testified before the court and of the twelve colonists on the jury who went about their duties with grave purpose, influenced by a complex mixture of Puritan religious dictates, lingering medieval mores, new ideals of humanism, and an England still influenced by the last gasp of the English Renaissance. And she shows how, in the end, the twelve came to render a groundbreaking judicial decision that forever set the standard for American justice. An extraordinary work of historical piecing-together;a moment that set the precedence of our basic, fundamental right to trial by jury, ensuring civil liberties and establishing it as a safeguard against injustice.Lolita in the Afterlife: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century
By Edited by Jenny Minton Quigley. 2021
A vibrant collection of sharp and essential modern pieces on Vladimir Nabokov&’s perennially provocative book—with original contributions from a stellar…
cast of prominent twenty-first century writers.In 1958, Vladimir Nabokov&’s Lolita was published in the United States to immediate controversy and bestsellerdom. More than sixty years later, this phenomenal novel generates as much buzz as it did when originally published. Central to countless issues at the forefront of our national discourse—art and politics, race and whiteness, gender and power, sexual trauma—Lolita lives on, in an afterlife as blinding as a supernova. Lolita in the Afterlife is edited by the daughter of Lolita&’s original publisher in America.WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BYRobin Givhan • Aleksandar Hemon • Jim Shepard • Emily Mortimer • Laura Lippman • Erika L. Sánchez • Sarah Weinman • Andre Dubus III • Mary Gaitskill • Zainab Salbi • Christina Baker Kline • Ian Frazier • Cheryl Strayed • Sloane Crosley • Victor LaValle • Jill Kargman • Lila Azam Zanganeh • Roxane Gay • Claire Dederer • Jessica Shattuck • Stacy Schiff • Susan Choi • Kate Elizabeth Russell • Tom Bissell • Kira Von Eichel • Bindu Bansinath • Dani Shapiro • Alexander Chee • Lauren Groff • Morgan JerkinsPermission To Rise: A memoir
By Angela McCluskey-Moses. 2020
Permission to Rise takes you on a brave trip down memory lane and explains how surrendering to Divine Love changed…
the author’s life. Permission to Rise provides endless opportunities to cultivate greater intimacy with Angela’s mind. Her story describes self-healing, heart-listening, determination and courage to transcend inner obstacles. Each page overspills with compassion, encouragement, wisdom and persistence. I strongly recommend this remarkable journey must be read by each and every growing up woman or anyone looking to rewrite their own story.” Solmaz Bulut, MS, LPC, Family and Children Mental Health Born Angela Cordeiro da Silva, the author grew up fighting poverty and childhood traumas at a very young age in the streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil. She pushes herself through traumatic events up to and including a suicide attempt until she finally decides to rewrite her own story.State: A Team, A Triumph, A Transformation
By Melissa Isaacson. 2019
Set against a backdrop of social change during the 1970s, State is a compelling first-person account of what it was like to…
live through both traditional gender discrimination in sports and the joy of the very first days of equality―or at least the closest that one high school girls’ basketball team ever came to it. In 1975, freshman Melissa Isaacson―along with a group of other girls who’d spent summers with their noses pressed against the fences of Little League ball fields, unable to play―entered Niles West High School in suburban Chicago with one goal: make a team, any team. For Missy, that turned out to be the basketball team. Title IX had passed just three years earlier, prohibiting gender discrimination in education programs or activities, including athletics. As a result, states like Illinois began implementing varsity competition―and state tournaments―for girls’ high school sports. At the time, Missy and her teammates didn’t really understand the legislation. All they knew was they finally had opportunities―to play, to learn, to sweat, to lose, to win―and an identity: they were athletes. They were a team. And in 1979, they became state champions. With the intimate insights of the girl who lived it, the painstaking reporting of a veteran sports journalist, Isaacson chronicles one high school team’s journey to the state championship. In doing so, Isaacson shows us how a group of "tomboys" found themselves and each other, and how basketball rescued them from their collective frustrations and troubled homes, and forever altered the course of their lives.CCCS Selected Working Papers: Volume 2
By Ann Gray, Helen Wood, Stuart Hanson, Mark Erickson, Jan Campbell. 2007
This collection of classic essays focuses on the theoretical frameworks that informed the work of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural…
Studies at the University of Birmingham, the methodologies and working practices that the Centre developed for conducting academic research and examples of the studies carried out under the auspices of the Centre. This volume is split into seven thematic sections that are introduced by key academics working in the field of cultural studies, and includes a preface by eminent scholar, Stuart Hall. The thematic sections are: Literature and Society Popular Culture and Youth Subculture Media Women's Studies and Feminism Race History Education and Work.Sweet Feet: Samantha Gordon's Winning Season
By Samantha Gordon, Ari Bruening. 2013
Ten-year-old Samantha "Sweet Feet" Gordon isn't just a girl who plays football. She's also the best player in a league…
full of boys and has become an online sensation. Known for flying past the defense to reach the end zone 35 times while racking up almost 2,000 yards in one season, Sam's YouTube highlight reel made her an overnight sensation. Appearing in her own Super Bowl commercial and on ESPN, Good Morning America, and Cartoon Network, Sam's attitude that girls can do anything, has inspired people across the world, from the U.S. women's soccer team to NFL greats to other kids just like her. She even got her own Wheaties box--the first one to ever feature a female football player. Sam's courage on and off the football field has lead her to greatness, but there were times when it wasn't easy. Readers will hear Sam Gordon's take on her love of football, her rise to fame, and her hopes for the future in this exciting autobiography full of stories and photos that will inspire all kids to go for their dreams.Ten Green Bottles: The True Story of One Family's Journey From War-Torn Austria to the Ghettos of Shanghai
By Vivian Jeanette Kaplan. 2002
To Nini Karpel, growing up in Vienna during the 1920s was a romantic confection. Whether schussing down ski slopes or…
speaking of politics in coffee houses, she cherished the city of her birth. But in the 1930s an undercurrent of conflict and hate began to seize the former imperial capital. This struggle came to a head when Hitler took possession of neighboring Germany. Anti-Semitism, which Nini and her idealistic friends believed was impossible in the socially advanced world of Vienna, became widespread and virulent. The Karpel's Jewish identity suddenly made them foreigners in their own homeland. Tormented, disenfranchised, and with a broken heart, Nini and her family sought refuge in a land seven thousand miles across the world. Shanghai, China, one of the few countries accepting Jewish immigrants, became their new home and refuge. Stepping off the boat, the Karpel family found themselves in a land they could never have imagined. Shanghai presented an incongruent world of immense wealth and privilege for some and poverty for the masses, with opium dens and decadent clubs as well as rampant disease and a raging war between nations. Ten Green Bottles is the story of Nini Karpel's struggles as she told it to her daughter Vivian so many years ago. This true story depicts the fierce perseverance of one family, victims of the forces of evil, who overcame suffering of biblical proportion to survive. It was a time when ordinary people became heroes.Translation and Conflict demonstrates that translators and interpreters participate in circulating as well as resisting the narratives that create the…
intellectual and moral environment for violent conflict. Drawing on narrative theory and using numerous examples from historical and contemporary conflicts, the author provides an original and coherent model of analysis that pays equal attention to micro and macro aspects of the circulation of narratives in translation, to translation and interpreting, and to questions of dominance and resistance. The study is particularly significant at this juncture of history, with the increased interest in the positioning of translators in politically sensitive contexts, the growing concern with translators’ and interpreters’ divided loyalties in settings such as Guantanamo, Iraq, Kosovo, and other arenas of conflict, and the emergence of several activist communities of translators and interpreters with highly politicized agendas of their own, including Babels, Translators for Peace, Tlaxcala and ECOS. Including further reading suggestions at the end of each chapter, Translation and Conflict will be of interest to students of translation, intercultural studies and sociology as well as the reader interested in the study of social and political movements.Time, Innovation and Mobilities: Travels in Technological Cultures (International Library of Sociology)
By Peter Frank Peters. 2006
In social theory and sociology, time and travel in technological cultures is one of the new and challenging research topics…
in the 'mobilities turn'. Yet surprisingly, contemporary practices of mobility have till now, seen only limited theorization within these disciplines. By analyzing historic and contextualized transit practices, this revealing book argues that travel cannot now simply be reduced to getting from A to B; it is an integrated part of everyday life. In this area, researching how problems can be identified as dilemmas and reformulated as design problems helps create a new vocabulary; one which will not only change the agenda in the debate on mobility problems in the public domain, but will also suggest new ways of theorizing mobility innovations. In this fascinating book, author Peters: develops a conceptual framework to study contemporary transit practices and evaluate innovation strategies gives new insights regarding historic and contemporary design strategies and regarding innovations related to travel in technological cultures gives special attention to electronic timespaces and ICT based mobility innovations investigates cases of travel in technological cultures, car travel, air travel, and cycling in Dutch towns. An original and provocative contribution to the emerging field of mobilities, this book will become an essential resource for advanced undergraduate, post-graduate, researchers and practitioners in the fields of sociology, geography, spatial planning, policy and transportation studies.Cultural Industries and the Production of Culture (Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy #Vol. 33)
By Dominic Power, Allen J. Scott. 2004
Since the Second World War there has been considerable growth in the importance of non-manufacturing based forms of production to…
the performance of many Western economies. Many countries have seen increased contributions being made by industries such as the media, entertainment and artistic sectors. Gathering together a leading international, multi disciplinary team of researchers, this informative book presents cutting-edge perspectives on how these industries function, their place in the new economy and how they can be harnessed for urban and regional economic and social development.Will You Love Me?: The Rescue Dog That Rescued Me (Foster Tails #2)
By Barby Keel. 2018
The heartwarming true story of a greyhound named Bailey, the woman who rescued him, and the miraculous healing power of…
love . . . . One night, in the middle of a rainstorm, Barby Keel found an unexpected gift at the gates of her animal sanctuary: a poor little greyhound, shivering and wet, abandoned under the cover of darkness. Barby had never seen a dog in such pitiful condition. He was scarred with burn marks, and so malnourished that every rib showed through his patchy fur. Barby was determined to help this unfortunate abused animal—if he managed to survive the night . . . The dog—who she named Bailey—not only survived, he displayed a fighting spirit and loving nature that took Barby by surprise. She herself was facing health issues of her own, a personal battle which threatened the future of the entire sanctuary. But thanks to Bailey—and the powerful bond that humans and animals share—they found the strength to heal their bodies, hearts, and souls . . . together. Told with deep affection, honesty, and compassion, Will You Love Me? is an emotional and joyful story that reminds us that, in rescuing others, we rescue ourselves. Visit us at www.kensingtonbooks.comGabby: The Little Dog That Had to Learn to Bark (Foster Tails #1)
By Barby Keel. 2018
A moving, heartfelt true story that celebrates the way animals and humans rescue one another . . . Baby seagulls, mischievous…
ferrets, strutting peacocks…in the decades that Barby Keel has run her animal sanctuary in the English countryside, she has seen all manner of creatures. Thousands of cats and dogs have come through her doors and, with the aid of Barby and her dedicated staff, found loving forever homes. But Gabby, a small terrier with solemn, terrified eyes, is like no case Barby has ever encountered before.Gabby has spent all eight years of her life indoors. She has no idea how to play with a toy or chew a treat. She has never dug in the dirt or rolled happily in the grass. Strangest of all, Gabby does not know how to bark. Barby can tell that the little golden-haired dog is bright and curious beneath her paralyzing fear, but coaxing out Gabby’s true spirit will be a daunting task.Yet sometimes, a dog and a human fit together like two puzzle pieces, and so it is with Gabby and Barby. And Barby, who believes passionately in animals’ ability to help and heal those they love, will find her faith in Gabby repaid just when she, and her sanctuary, need it most . . .La trampa del optimismo: Cómo los años noventa explican el mundo actual
By Ramón González Férriz. 2020
Una crónica sobre los noventa, una década trascendental para entender el mundo de hoy. En España, Europa y Estados Unidos,…
la década de 1990 estuvo dominada por un optimismo sin precedentes. Caído el Muro de Berlín, parecía que el capitalismo se había quedado sin rivales, que internet crearía formas de comunicación totalmente libres, que se había dado con la fórmula económica que permitiría una prosperidad constante, que la globalización no solo iba a ser beneficiosa para la economía mundial sino para la difusión de la democracia, y que la llamada tercera vía superaría la división entre izquierda y derecha. Pero si echamos la vista atrás, el legado de esa década es mucho más sombrío. En España los noventa también supusieron el inicio de la burbuja inmobiliaria que estallaría en 2008 y en Estados Unidos se desarrollaron los productos financieros que provocarían la catástrofe de Lehman Brothers y precipitarían a Europa y al mundo a la peor recesión económica desde el crack de 1929. En paralelo, los cimientos del euro, desarrollados también en esa década, demostraron ser más inestables de lo imaginado, y los trabajadores industriales de los países ricos se convirtieron en víctimas de esa globalización tan celebrada. Combinando la crónica de algunos de los acontecimientos de la época y el ensayo reflexivo, Ramón González Férriz repasa las consecuencias de una década fulgurante protagonizada por Felipe González y José María Aznar, Bill Clinton y Tony Blair, Helmut Kohl y François Mitterrand, pero también por la música indie, el Britpop, la serie Friends y la aparición de Hotmail, Google y Amazon.The Renaissance Computer: Knowledge Technology in the First Age of Print
By Neil Rhodes, Jonathan Sawday. 2000
In the fifteenth century the printing press was the 'new technology'. The first ever information revolution began with the advent…
of the printed book, enabling Renaissance scholars to formulate new ways of organising and disseminating knowledge. As early as 1500 there were already 20 million books in circulation in Europe. How did this rapid explosion of ideas impact upon the evolution of new disciplines? The Renaissance Computer looks at the fascinating development of new methods of information storage and retrieval which took place at the very beginning of print culture. And it asks some crucial questions about the intellectual conditions of our own digital age. A dazzling array of leading experts in Renaissance culture explore topics of urgent significance today, including: * the contribution of knowledge technologies to state formulation and national identity*the effect of multimedia, orality and memory on education*the importance of the visual display of information and how search engines reflect and direct ways of thinking.Technology and In/equality: Questioning the Information Society
By Sally Wyatt, Nod Miller, Flis Henwood, Peter Senker. 2000
Technology and In/equality explores the diverse implications of the new information and communication technologies through case studies of their applications…
in three main areas - media, education and training, and work. Questions of access to and control over crucial resources such as information, knowledge, skills and income ae addressed drawing upon insights from science and technology studies, innovation theory, sociology and cultural studies. All of the chapters question the meanings of the terms 'technology' and 'inequality' and of the widespread association of technology with progress. Written with a non-specialist readership in mind, all complex theories and key concepts are carefully explained making the book easily accessible and relevant to a wide range of courses.Indian Legends of the White Mountains
By J. S. English. 2021
Indian Legends of the White Mountains is a collection of Folklore from in and around the &“Crystal Hills&” of New…
Hampshire gathered from tales of old settlers and records in historical societies and town libraries. Included are: Chocorua Mount Washington The Giant&’s Grave Nancy&’s Brook The Red Carbuncle Ellis River Ellis River and Jackson, N. H. Moosilauke and the Pemigewassets Cold Streams Rogers&’ Rangers and the Sack of St. Francis Legend of Eagle Mountain Captain Lovewell&’s Fight with PaugusLet's Face It: Secrets of a Skincare Obsessive
By Rio Viera-Newton. 2021
From New York Magazine's resident skincare obsessive, this friendly, start-where-you-are guide to the essentials of skincare helps readers cut through the noise…
to discover the routine that works for them. Skincare is one of the fastest-growing retail segments in the United States. But despite how much money Americans spend on products designed to tighten wrinkles, close pores, and increase hydration, there's little advice about how to figure out which one of a million eye creams will suit your skin and solve your particular skin health concerns.Enter Rio Viera-Newton, the beauty-obsessed best friend whose advice drives thousands of readers to New York magazine every week. Despite her popularity and trust, she's not an MD or an esthetician, but a devoted amateur who organically rose to fame when her detailed Google Doc outlining the products that worked—or didn't—on her journey to heal her acne went viral.Let's Face It is a compendium of super-simple principles for healthy skin, helping readers move beyond branding or the recommendations of influencers to discover the remedies that will solve their skin concerns—and to find them in products at any price point. This book also includes:Rio's five pillars of skin careFixes for issues on a skin-type by skin-type basisGuidelines on how to layer your products for the most effective routine, day and nightA close look at the ingredients found in many skin care productsTips and lessons from first-hand experienceAn overview of a traditional Korean skin care routineAnd much moreWith concrete steps to walk readers through the process of adding products to their routine, evaluating the results, and developing the routine that best works for them, Let's Face It is the only book the skincare-obsessed reader really needs—and it's the perfect gift for the beauty fanatic in your life.Rock Me on the Water: 1974-The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television, and Politics
By Ronald Brownstein. 2021
In this exceptional cultural history, Atlantic Senior Editor Ronald Brownstein—“one of America's best political journalists (The Economist)—tells the kaleidoscopic story…
of one monumental year that marked the city of Los Angeles’ creative peak, a glittering moment when popular culture was ahead of politics in predicting what America would become. Los Angeles in 1974 exerted more influence over popular culture than any other city in America. Los Angeles that year, in fact, dominated popular culture more than it ever had before, or would again. Working in film, recording, and television studios around Sunset Boulevard, living in Brentwood and Beverly Hills or amid the flickering lights of the Hollywood Hills, a cluster of transformative talents produced an explosion in popular culture which reflected the demographic, social, and cultural realities of a changing America. At a time when Richard Nixon won two presidential elections with a message of backlash against the social changes unleashed by the sixties, popular culture was ahead of politics in predicting what America would become. The early 1970s in Los Angeles was the time and the place where conservatives definitively lost the battle to control popular culture. Rock Me on the Water traces the confluence of movies, music, television, and politics in Los Angeles month by month through that transformative, magical year. Ronald Brownstein reveals how 1974 represented a confrontation between a massive younger generation intent on change, and a political order rooted in the status quo. Today, we are again witnessing a generational cultural divide. Brownstein shows how the voices resistant to change may win the political battle for a time, but they cannot hold back the future. A New York Times Bestseller