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Hugo!

Author : Bart Jones
Publisher : Steerforth
ISBN 13 : 1586421697
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Hugo! written by Bart Jones and published by Steerforth. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruling elites in Venezuela, the United States and Europe, and even Hugo Chávez himself though for different reasons, have been eager to have the world view him as the heir to Fidel Castro. But the truth about this increasingly influential world leader is more complex, and more interesting.. The Chávez that emerges from Bart Jones’ carefully researched and documented biography is neither a plaster saint nor a revolutionary tyrant. He has an undeniably autocratic streak, and yet has been freely and fairly re-elected to his nations presidency three times with astonishing margins of victory. He is a master politician and an inspired improviser, a Bolivarian nationalist and an unashamed socialist. His policies have brought him into conflict with the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and major oil companies. They have also provided a model for new governments and social movements in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Argentina. When in September 2006 he declared at the United Nations that ‘the devil came here yesterday … the President of the United States’, it was clear that he was taking on challenging the most powerful nation on earth, in conscious imitation of the Liberator, Simon Bolivar. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Kelroy

Author : Rebecca Rush
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1554812003
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (548 download)

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Download or read book Kelroy written by Rebecca Rush and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kelroy, a nearly-forgotten 1812 novel by Rebecca Rush, combines the refinement of the novel of manners with the Gothic novel’s hidden evil to tell the story of the star-crossed lovers Emily Hammond and the romantic Kelroy, whose romance is doomed by the machinations of Emily’s mother. Set in the elite world of Philadelphia’s Atlantic Rim society, Kelroy transcends the genre of sentimental romance to expose the financial pressures that motivate Mrs. Hammond’s gambles. As she sacrifices her daughter to maintain the appearance of urbane wealth, Mrs. Hammond emerges as one of the most compellingly detestable figures in early American literature. Appendices include materials on gender, economics, and marriage; games and dancing; and gambling and the lottery in early urban America. A group of illustrations of early-nineteenth-century Philadelphia is also included.

Exiled in America

Author : Christopher P. Dum
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231542399
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Exiled in America written by Christopher P. Dum and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Residential motels have long been places of last resort for many vulnerable Americans—released prisoners, people with disabilities or mental illness, struggling addicts, the recently homeless, and the working poor. Cast aside by their families and mainstream society, they survive in squalid, unsafe, and demeaning circumstances that few of us can imagine. For a year, the sociologist Christopher P. Dum lived in the Boardwalk Motel to better understand its residents and the varied paths that brought them there. He witnessed moments of violence and conflict, as well as those of care and compassion. As told through the voices and experiences of motel residents, Exiled in America paints a portrait of a vibrant community whose members forged identities in response to overwhelming stigma and created meaningful lives despite crushing economic instability. In addition to chronicling daily life at the Boardwalk, Dum follows local neighborhood efforts to shut the establishment down, leading to a wider analysis of legislative attempts to sanitize shared social space. He also suggests meaningful policy changes to address the societal failures that lead to the need for motels such as the Boardwalk. The story of the Boardwalk, and the many motels like it, will concern anyone who cares about the lives of America's most vulnerable citizens.

Clandestine Encounters

Author : Kevin Hart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780268030926
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Clandestine Encounters written by Kevin Hart and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major literary critics in Britain, France, and the United States engage with Maurice Blanchot's immense, fascinating, and difficult body of creative work.

Double Love

Author : Joni Rovio
Publisher : Joni Rovio
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Double Love written by Joni Rovio and published by Joni Rovio. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Double Love" is a captivating romance novel set in the picturesque town of Serendipity, where love's unexpected twists take center stage. Follow the intertwined lives of four individuals - Stephanie, Malloy, Melanie, and Tom - as they navigate the complexities of forbidden desires and hidden secrets. Amidst the backdrop of charming landscapes and intimate moments, these characters embark on a journey of self-discovery, confronting their deepest truths and the undeniable pull of destiny. With each turn of the page, readers will be swept away by the passion, intrigue, and enchantment of Serendipity, where every twist of fate leads to a newfound understanding of the power of love.

Entangled Coercion

Author : Paola A. Revilla Orías
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110681080
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Entangled Coercion written by Paola A. Revilla Orías and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the phenomenon of slavery and other forms of servitude experienced by people of African or indigenous origin who were taken captive and then subjected to forced labor in Charcas (Bolivia) in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Pink Triangle Legacies

Author : William Jake Newsome
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501765493
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Pink Triangle Legacies written by William Jake Newsome and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pink Triangle Legacies traces the transformation of the pink triangle from a Nazi concentration camp badge and emblem of discrimination into a widespread, recognizable symbol of queer activism, pride, and community. W. Jake Newsome provides an overview of the Nazis' targeted violence against LGBTQ+ people and details queer survivors' fraught and ongoing fight for the acknowledgement, compensation, and memorialization of LGBTQ+ victims. Within this context, a new generation of queer activists has used the pink triangle—a reminder of Germany's fascist past—as the visual marker of gay liberation, seeking to end queer people's status as second-class citizens by asserting their right to express their identity openly. The reclamation of the pink triangle occurred first in West Germany, but soon activists in the United States adopted this chapter from German history as their own. As gay activists on opposite sides of the Atlantic grafted pink triangle memories onto new contexts, they connected two national communities and helped form the basis of a shared gay history, indeed a new gay identity, that transcended national borders. Pink Triangle Legacies illustrates the dangerous consequences of historical silencing and how the incorporation of hidden histories into the mainstream understanding of the past can contribute to a more inclusive experience of belonging in the present. There can be no justice without acknowledging and remembering injustice. As Newsome demonstrates, if a marginalized community seeks a history that liberates them from the confines of silence, they must often write it themselves.

Serendipity

Author : S. Seshadri
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (895 download)

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Download or read book Serendipity written by S. Seshadri and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2023-10-19 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of short stories, readers embark on an emotional journey, from chance encounters to gripping mysteries, heartwarming love stories to fiery revenge tales. Supernatural and philosophical elements add depth, sparking contemplation about existence and the human experience. Each story is distinct, with its voice and perspective. Some keep you guessing, while others offer profound insights into human nature. Complex, flawed characters grapple with life's challenges, love, and everything. Whether you seek philosophical musings, steamy romance, or spine-tingling mysteries, this collection offers something for everyone. Sit back, relax, and let these stories transport you to diverse worlds where serendipity, revenge, and the supernatural hold sway.

One-Way Tickets

Author : Alicia Borinsky
Publisher : Trinity University Press
ISBN 13 : 1595341137
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book One-Way Tickets written by Alicia Borinsky and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In One-Way Tickets, Borinsky offers up a splendid tour across 20th-century literatures, providing a literary travelogue to writers and artists in exile. She describes their challenges in adjusting to new homelands, issues of identity and language, and the brilliant works produced under the discomforts and stresses of belonging nowhere. Speaking with the authority of first-hand experience, Borinsky relates the story of her own family—Eastern European Jews, with one-way tickets to Buenos Aires, refugees from the countries that “spat them out and massacred those who stayed on.” Borinksy herself becomes an exile, fleeing Argentina after the take-over of a bloody military dictatorship. She understood, then, her grandfather’s lessons: “There’s nothing like languages to save your life, open your mind, speed you away from persecution.” As a writer of poetry, fiction, and essays, the author also knows intimately the struggles of writing from between worlds, between languages. In these pages, we encounter Russian Vladimir Nabokov, writing in English in the United States; Argentine writer Julio Cortázar in Paris; Polish writer, Witold Gombrowicz in Buenos Aires; Alejandra Pizarnik, Argentine writer for whom exile is a state of mind; Jorge Luis Borges, labyrinthine traveler in time and space; Isaac Bashevis Singer, a Jewish writer in New York driven from Poland by the Nazis; Latino writers Oscar Hijuelos, Cristina Garcia, and Junot Diaz; and Clarice Lispector, transplanted from Ukraine, to Brazil, to Europe, and the United States. Not surprisingly, these charismatic and artistic people, as well as many others in Borinsky’s nearly encyclopedic associations, inhabit equally intriguing circles. She introduces us to a wide range of friends and lovers, mentors and detractors, compatriots and hosts. We come away with a terrific breadth of knowledge of 20th-century literature and culture in exile—its uneasy obsessions, its difficult peace, its hard-won success.

A Woman's Weapon

Author : Doris G. Bargen
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824818586
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book A Woman's Weapon written by Doris G. Bargen and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents an examination of Murasaki Shikibu's 11th-century classic The Tale of Genji. The author explores the role of possessing spirits from a female viewpoint, and considers how the male protagonist is central to determining the role of these spirits.

Advancing Folkloristics

Author : Jesse A. Fivecoate
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253057116
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Advancing Folkloristics written by Jesse A. Fivecoate and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unprecedented number of folklorists are addressing issues of class, race, gender, and sexuality in academic and public spaces in the US, raising the question: How can folklorists contribute to these contemporary political affairs? Since the nature of folkloristics transcends binaries, can it help others develop critical personal narratives? Advancing Folkloristics covers topics such as queer, feminist, and postcolonial scholarship in folkloristics. Contributors investigate how to apply folkloristic approaches in nonfolklore classrooms, how to maintain a folklorist identity without a "folklorist" job title, and how to use folkloristic knowledge to interact with others outside of the discipline. The chapters, which range from theoretical reorientations to personal experiences of folklore work, all demonstrate the kinds of work folklorists are well-suited to and promote the areas in which folkloristics is poised to expand and excel. Advancing Folkloristics presents a clear picture of folklore studies today and articulates how it must adapt in the future.

Deviance Management

Author : Christopher D. Bader
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520304497
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Deviance Management written by Christopher D. Bader and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deviance Management examines how individuals and subcultures manage the stigma of being labeled socially deviant. Exploring high-tension religious groups, white power movements, paranormal subcultures, LGBTQ groups, drifters, recreational drug and alcohol users, and more, the authors identify how and when people combat, defy, hide from, or run from being stigmatized as “deviant.” While most texts emphasize the criminological features of deviance, the authors’ coverage here showcases the diversity of social and noncriminal deviance. Deviance Management allows for a more thorough understanding of strategies typically used by normalization movements to destigmatize behaviors and identities while contributing to the study of social movements and intra-movement conflict.

Winnie & Nelson

Author : Jonny Steinberg
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1776190173
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (761 download)

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Download or read book Winnie & Nelson written by Jonny Steinberg and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2023-05-10 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Only Steinberg could have written a book in which Winnie and Nelson can appear both larger-than-life and all too human. What a book! What an achievement!' – Jacob Dlamini, historian and author One of the most celebrated political leaders of the twentieth century, Nelson Mandela has been written about by many biographers and historians. But in one crucial area, his life remains largely untold: his marriage to Winnie. During his years in prison, Nelson grew ever more in love with an idealised version of his wife, courting her in his letters as if they were young lovers frozen in time. But Winnie, every bit his political equal, found herself increasingly estranged from her jailed husband's politics. Behind his back, she was trying to orchestrate an armed seizure of power, a path he feared would lead to an endless civil war. Jonny Steinberg tells the tale of this unique marriage – its longings, its obsessions, its deceits – turning the course of South African history into a page-turning political biography. Winnie & Nelson is a modern epic in which trauma doesn't just affect the couple at its centre, but an entire nation. It is also a Shakespearean drama in which bonds of love and commitment mingle with timeless questions of revolution, such as whether to seek retribution or a negotiated peace. Told with power and tender emotional insight, Steinberg reveals how far these forever entwined leaders would go for one another, and also, where they drew the line. For in the end both knew theirs was not simply a marriage, but a contest to decide how apartheid should be fought.

Seduced by a Tycoons Lips

Author : Shu Chen Hou
Publisher : Shu chen Hou
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seduced by a Tycoons Lips written by Shu Chen Hou and published by Shu chen Hou. This book was released on with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you ready for a steamy page-turner that will leave you breathless? Look no further than "Seduced by a Tycoon's Lips." The chance encounter between Anna, a successful lawyer, and William Taylor, a billionaire tycoon, sets the stage for a forbidden romance that will sweep you off your feet. From the luxurious boardrooms of the corporate world to opulent mansions and ballrooms, this novel takes you on an unforgettable journey of passion, power, and love. But the road to happily ever after is not an easy one for Anna and William. As their relationship is put to the ultimate test, they must confront the demons of their past and navigate the treacherous landscape of the wealthy elite. Can their love withstand the challenges that lie ahead? "Seduced by a Tycoon's Lips" will keep you captivated until the very last page. Get your copy today and enter the world of love and temptation which will leave you wanting more.

Our Share of Night

Author : Mariana Enriquez
Publisher : Hogarth
ISBN 13 : 0451495144
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Our Share of Night written by Mariana Enriquez and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A masterpiece of literary horror.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) A woman’s mysterious death puts her husband and son on a collision course with her demonic family in the first novel to be translated into English by the International Booker Prize–shortlisted author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed—“the most exciting discovery I’ve made in fiction for some time” (Kazuo Ishiguro). ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2023: BuzzFeed, Electric Lit, Book Riot, BookPage, The Rumpus, World Literature Today, Publishers Weekly “Monumental.”—The New York Times “A magnificent accomplishment.”—Alan Moore “One of Latin America’s most exciting authors.”—Silvia Moreno-Garcia A young father and son set out on a road trip, devastated by the death of the wife and mother they both loved. United in grief, the pair travel to her ancestral home, where they must confront the terrifying legacy she has bequeathed: a family called the Order that commits unspeakable acts in search of immortality. For Gaspar, the son, this maniacal cult is his destiny. As the Order tries to pull him into their evil, he and his father take flight, attempting to outrun a powerful clan that will do anything to ensure its own survival. But how far will Gaspar’s father go to protect his child? And can anyone escape their fate? Moving back and forth in time, from London in the swinging 1960s to the brutal years of Argentina’s military dictatorship and its turbulent aftermath, Our Share of Night is a novel like no other: a family story, a ghost story, a story of the occult and the supernatural, a book about the complexities of love and longing with queer subplots and themes. This is the masterwork of one of Latin America’s most original novelists, “a mesmerizing writer,” says Dave Eggers, “who demands to be read.”

Competitiveness and American Society

Author : Steven L. Goldman
Publisher : Lehigh University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780934223287
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Competitiveness and American Society written by Steven L. Goldman and published by Lehigh University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The claim that U.S. industry is in a crisis - that it stands at a turning point in its competitiveness with foreign rivals - seems on the face of it an objective description of the prevailing state of affairs. But what does "competitiveness" mean when it is used to describe an entire industry, an economy, a nation? What is the relationship between industrial competitiveness and the personal and social value placed on competition? What are the social roots of competition that have made it an enduring American value? How does the current competitiveness debate serve special interests seeking to preserve or extend their social power? The essays presented in Competitiveness and American Society, all written especially for this volume, address these and related questions. The answers they offer reveal the political character of the competitiveness debate, as well as the complexity and ambiguity of the value judgments with which competitiveness issues are entangled." "The perspectives taken by the authors range from the austerely economic, through the political and managerial, to the richly sociological. The opening essay rejects the possibility, let alone the factuality, of a national competitiveness crisis; the closing essay explicitly identifies the root causes of the crisis as national. Other essays look to relationships among culture, society, and industry in the U.S. and Japan as factors shaping America's competitiveness crisis, and the Western European response to that crisis. One essay explores mechanisms that would allow the public to play a constructive role in managerial decision-making; another explores the complications that have followed from mandating the management of resources in accordance with social values." "The common denominator of all of the essays is an engagement with the role that social value judgments play in determining the competitiveness of individual firms. For some, this role is broad and definitive; for others, it is narrowly circumscribed. Taken together, the essays in Competitiveness and American Society establish the need for wider participation in the debate over the competitiveness of U.S. industry than has been held so far. What is needed is a debate that addresses the quality of American life and the health of the industrial sector of the economy, a debate that opens for public deliberation the changes in personal and social values and institutions that will be required to shape that interdependence."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

In Nixon's Web

Author : Louis Patrick Gray
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805082562
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (825 download)

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Download or read book In Nixon's Web written by Louis Patrick Gray and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A firsthand account of the Watergate scandal and its aftermath by the acting FBI director under Richard Nixon offers an account of the break-in, the cover-up that followed, and the intrigues and betrayal that permeated Washington during the period.