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Glitterworlds

Author : Rebecca Coleman
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 191268540X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Glitterworlds written by Rebecca Coleman and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original examination of the ubiquity of glitter—from bodily adornment to activist glitter bombing—and its vibrant and transformational properties. Glitter is everywhere, from crafting to makeup, from vagazelling to glitter-bombing, from fashion to fish. Glitter also gets everywhere. It sticks to what it is and isn't supposed to, and travels beyond its original uses, eliciting reactions ranging from delight to irritation. In Glitterworlds, Rebecca Coleman examines this ubiquity of glitter, following it as it moves across different popular cultural worlds and exploring its effect on understandings and experiences of gender, sexuality, class and race. Coleman investigates how girls engage with glitter in collaging workshops to imagine their futures; how glitter can adorn the outside and the inside of the body; how glitter features in the films Glitter and Precious; and how LGBTQ* activists glitter bomb homophobic and transphobic people. Throughout, Coleman attends to the plurality of politics that glitter generates, approaching this through the concepts of hope, wonder, fabulation, and prefigurative politics—all of which indicate the making of different, better worlds, although often not in ways that are straightforward or conventional. She develops an original account of future politics, where time is nonlinear and sometimes non-progressive. Coleman's argument brings together feminist cultural theory, feminist new materialisms, and theories on futures and temporality, in order to propose that we should understand glitter as a thing—vibrant, processual, transformational, and traversing boundaries between media and material, culture and nature, bodies and environments.

Glitterworld

Author : Terrance Garret Travis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Glitterworld written by Terrance Garret Travis and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Fall of the Four

Author : Matthew Kim
Publisher : Matthew Kim
ISBN 13 : 1738742709
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book The Fall of the Four written by Matthew Kim and published by Matthew Kim. This book was released on 2022-12-11 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marooned on an alien world isn’t something Proxi ever imagined for himself. Yet, that is his reality as the Urbworld drifter is thrust upon the pristine landscape of a world long since terraformed, and forgotten. Saddled with an eclectic group of fellow survivors, the strangers all managed to escape their rapidly deteriorating transport vessel as it had been passing nearby. A transport vessel that abruptly met its end when it came under siege by a mysterious force wielding impressive weaponry, the likes of which Proxi had never thought possible. No longer strangers, they quickly discover that to survive they need to work together – despite their opinions of each other. Thrust into this new life, now a colonist on the frontier of civilized space, they quickly learn that they must adapt. Each of them must develop existing skills and learn new ones if they’re all going to make it off the strange world that is their new home. However, it’s not so simple. Threats and dangers are everywhere, the crashlanded survivors are constantly tested, and no one is safe. Will they survive? Will they escape? Or will they fall?

A Tiger Tail

Author : Mike Boldt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481448862
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book A Tiger Tail written by Mike Boldt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creative mind of rising star Mike Boldt comes a hilarious and original tale about overcoming back-to-school jitters, making new friends, and taking things in stride. Anya wakes up to discover that she has grown a tiger tail. Yes, a striped tiger tail. It also happens to be the first day of school. What will the other kids think? Are girls with tiger tails even allowed to go to school?! Anya is about to find out.

I Was a Teenage Fairy

Author : Francesca Lia Block
Publisher : HarperTeen
ISBN 13 : 9780064408622
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book I Was a Teenage Fairy written by Francesca Lia Block and published by HarperTeen. This book was released on 2000-05-03 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maybe Mab was real. Maybe not. Maybe Mab was the fury. Maybe she was the courage. Maybe later on she was the sex . . . A tiny fairy winging her way through the jasmine-scented L.A. night. A little girl caught in a grown-up glitz-and-glitter world of superstars and supermodels. A too beautiful boy with a secret he can never share . . . From the author of Weetzie Bat comes a magical, mesmerizing tale of transformation. This is the story of Barbie Marks, who dreams of being the one behind the Cyclops eye of the camera, not the voiceless one in front of it; who longs to run away to New York City where she can be herself, not some barley flesh-and-blood version of the plastic doll she was named after. It is the story of Griffin Tyler, whose androgynous beauty hides the dark pain he holds inside. And finally it is the story of Mab, a pinkie-sized, magenta-haired, straight-talking fairy, who may or may not be real but who helps Barbie and Griffin uncover the strength beneath the pain, and who teaches that love—like a sparkling web of light spinning around our bodies and our souls—is what can heal even the deepest scars.

Ritual

Author : Robbie Davis-Floyd
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800735294
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Ritual written by Robbie Davis-Floyd and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for both academic and lay audiences, this book identifies the characteristics of ritual and, via multiple examples, details how ritual works on the human body and brain to produce its often profound effects. These include enhancing courage, effecting healing, and generating group cohesion by enacting cultural—or individual—beliefs and values. It also shows what happens when ritual fails.

Talking out Loud

Author : d.e.gray
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1664197370
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book Talking out Loud written by d.e.gray and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-10-29 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Casey Hoghupper, a six-year veteran police officer working LAPD’s Seventy-Seventh Division has a secret. She has a guardian angel that no one else can see or hear but her. The problem is the other officers in her division only see her “talking out loud” when no one else is present. Question: Is the stress of the job causing her to lose her mind? The captain of her division, along with city psychologist Althea Bianchi are tasked with finding out if she is still fit to “protect and to serve” the citizens of Los Angeles. Evaluating Casey Hoghupper wouldn’t be easy for Dr. Bianchi since Casey herself has earned a BA degree in psychology from renowned Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. The two would go head-to-head during their office visit, and later after spending only one night as an observer during Hoghupper’s Watch-3 shift. Dr. Bianchi becomes even more convinced that she should be relieved of her police powers and retired to civilian life. Aside from several appearances by her guardian angel, Casey’s demeanor as a police officer has always been completely above board, professional, and by the book. And thanks to Seventy-Seventh Division captain Howard Carver, Dr. Bianchi would end up more or less falling on her own sword. In an effort to escape some of the stigma given to her by her fellow police officers, Casey puts in for a transfer to another division, and soon finds herself working Hollywood Division. Hollywood is the place elitists like to refer to as the “entertainment capital of the world,” but to the Hollywood coppers who work there, it’s the land of “fruits and nuts.” Casey realizes that whoever coined the phrase “being a cop in LA is like having a ringside seat to the greatest show on earth” was on point. But now, working Hollywood Division, it was time to “send in the clowns.” After another visit from her guardian angel, Casey Hoghupper thwarts the mass murder of over twenty people who were staying at the Hollywood Gay Dream Motel on a chilly Christmas Eve. Her quick actions made it possible for all the guests to flee the motel just minutes before it is leveled and burned to the ground by a murderer’s homemade bomb. Casey Hoghupper teams up with Det. Marrisa Ortega, and together they go on the hunt to track down the suspect who planted the bomb, if for no other reason than to hide the murder of the man named John Smith in room 12. This story will have you crying, laughing, and rooting for cops who have to deal not only with the Hollywood eccentrics, but the streetwise criminals and those within the LAPD’s ivory tower.

A Squatter's Tale

Author : Ike Oguine
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803288426
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book A Squatter's Tale written by Ike Oguine and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ike Oguine's debut novel, A Squatter's Tale is a dark and bold story about the life of a Nigerian business man living in exile in America. Obi does not shy away from his flaws. Dishonest, offensive, arrogant - he moves through life caring little about the people around him. Yet when his uncle comes to visit from America, showering him with gifts and selling him tales of a new life, Obi is determined to follow him. After buying a one-way ticket, he quickly realises that neither his uncle nor America are quite what they promised to be. Fast-paced and defiant, A Squatter's Tale is an honest insight into the experiences of a Nigerian man living in 1990s America. 'Few people have read this hilarious novel but one read is all you need to become a fan.' Guardian

The Lion that Didn't Roar

Author : Nigel Davidson
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1760460265
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Lion that Didn't Roar written by Nigel Davidson and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2017 it will be Australia’s turn to chair the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KP), an international organisation set up to regulate the trade in diamonds. Diamonds are a symbol of love, purchased to celebrate marriage, and it is therefore deeply ironic that the diamond trade has become linked with warfare and human rights violations committed in African producer countries such as Sierra Leone, the Democratic Republic of Congo and, more recently, Zimbabwe and Angola. In their quest for diamonds, or by using diamonds to purchase weapons, armed groups in these countries have engaged in recruiting child soldiers, amputating limbs, and committing rape and murder. In response to the problem, the international community, non-governmental organisations and key industry players such as De Beers combined forces to create the Kimberley Process in 2002. The KP uses an export certificate system to distinguish the legitimate rough diamond trade from so-called ‘blood diamonds’, which are also known as ‘conflict diamonds’. This book considers the extent to which the KP, supported by other agencies at the international and national levels, has been effective in achieving its mandate. In so doing, it presents an original model derived from the domain of regulatory theory, the Dual Networked Pyramid, as a means of describing the operation of the system and suggesting possible improvements that might be made to it.

Back to the Garden

Author : Patrice Dickey
Publisher : PD Communications
ISBN 13 : 9780977086511
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (865 download)

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Download or read book Back to the Garden written by Patrice Dickey and published by PD Communications. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dickey shares riveting stories of real people who have used the simple secrets she teaches to free themselves from shadow issues and self-defeating behaviors. Readers will learn how dreams, intuition, hypnotherapy, and other tools access the subconscious and lead people back to their true selves.

Revelation Space

Author : Alastair Reynolds
Publisher : Orbit
ISBN 13 : 0316462438
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Revelation Space written by Alastair Reynolds and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly acclaimed first novel in the Revelation Space universe has redefined the space opera with a staggering journey across vast gulfs of time and space to confront the very nature of reality itself . . . Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity. But as he closes in on the secret, a killer closes in on him. Because the Amarantin were destroyed for a reason, and if that reason is uncovered, the universe and reality itself could be irrevocably altered . . . "[A] tour de force... Ravishingly inventive." -- Publishers Weekly

Black Bottom Saints

Author : Alice Randall
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062968653
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Black Bottom Saints written by Alice Randall and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enthralling literary tour-de-force that pays tribute to Detroit's legendary neighborhood, a mecca for jazz, sports, and politics, Black Bottom Saints is a powerful blend of fact and imagination reminiscent of E.L. Doctorow's classic novel Ragtime and Marlon James' Man Booker Award-winning masterpiece, A Brief History of Seven Killings. From the Great Depression through the post-World War II years, Joseph “Ziggy” Johnson, has been the pulse of Detroit’s famous Black Bottom. A celebrated gossip columnist for the city’s African-American newspaper, the Michigan Chronicle, he is also the emcee of one of the hottest night clubs, where he’s rubbed elbows with the legendary black artists of the era, including Ethel Waters, Billy Eckstein, and Count Basie. Ziggy is also the founder and dean of the Ziggy Johnson School of Theater. But now the doyen of Black Bottom is ready to hang up his many dapper hats. As he lays dying in the black-owned-and-operated Kirkwood Hospital, Ziggy reflects on his life, the community that was the center of his world, and the remarkable people who helped shape it. Inspired by the Catholic Saints Day Books, Ziggy curates his own list of Black Bottom’s venerable "52 Saints." Among them are a vulnerable Dinah Washington, a defiant Joe Louis, and a raucous Bricktop. Randall balances the stories of these larger-than-life "Saints" with local heroes who became household names, enthralling men and women whose unstoppable ambition, love of style, and faith in community made this black Midwestern neighborhood the rival of New York City’s Harlem. Accompanying these “tributes” are thoughtfully paired cocktails—special drinks that capture the essence of each of Ziggy’s saints—libations as strong and satisfying as Alice Randall’s wholly original view of a place and time unlike any other.

Johnny Zed

Author : John Gregory Betancourt
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1479403288
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book Johnny Zed written by John Gregory Betancourt and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2014-07-23 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A corrupt Congress rules a drugged-out America, land of slums and malls. But in the underground, a few violent young malcontents will stop at nothing to smash the system...and bring back the Constitution and the President. JOHNNY ZED is their leader...a brilliant strategist and political theorist, always heard but never seen. SHELLY TRACER is his pawn -- and his ultimate weapon...a warrior in a world of glitterfolk, oxygen addicts, and genetically modified animen whose ties to the old world hold the key to success. Together, they just may just be able to pull off the greatest coup in history -- if their friends don't kill them first!

Sailing without Ahab

Author : Steve Mentz
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 1531506348
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Sailing without Ahab written by Steve Mentz and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey through uncharted literary waters and explore Melville’s epic in bold new light Come sail with I. We’re not taking the same trip, though you might recognize the familiar course. This time, the Pequod’s American voyage steers its course across the curvature of the Word Ocean without anyone at the helm. We are leaving one man and his madness on shore. Our ship overflows with glorious plurality—multiracial, visionary, queer, conflicted, polyphonic, playful, violent. But on this voyage something is different. Today we sail headless without any Captain. Instead of binding ourselves to the dismasted tyrant’s rage, the ship’s crew seeks only what we will find: currents teeming with life, a blue-watered alien globe, toothy cetacean smiles from vasty deeps. Treasures await those who sail without. This cycle of one hundred thirty-eight poems—one for each chapter in Moby-Dick, plus the Etymology, Extracts, and Epilogue—launches into oceanic chaos without the stabilizing mad focus of the Nantucket captain. Guided by waywardness and curiosity, these poems seek an alien ecopoetics of marine depths, the refraction of light, the taste of salt on skin. Directionless, these poems reach out to touch oceanic expanse and depth. It’s not an easy voyage, and not a certain one. It lures you forward. It has fixed its barbed hook in I. Sailing without means relinquishing goals, sleeping at the masthead, forgetting obsessions. I welcome you to trace wayward ways through these poems. Read them any way you can—back to front, at random, sideways, following the obscure promptings of your heart. It’s the turning that matters. It’s a blue wonder world that beckons.

Beauty & Dynamite

Author : Alethea Kontis
Publisher : Alethea Kontis
ISBN 13 : 1942541376
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Beauty & Dynamite written by Alethea Kontis and published by Alethea Kontis. This book was released on 2024-01-17 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated and revised edition celebrating the sixteenth anniversary of this cult classic memoir! Once upon a time, a young girl walked into a world of wonder and delight. But that's not where this story starts. The young woman published a nationally recognized children's book and edited a star-filled collection of stories to benefit the tsunami relief effort. But that's not where this story ends. Meet Alethea Kontis, whose life is an adventure that tears through these pages like a hurricane of inspiration. Carrot-a-day cancer cures and Murphy as a guardian angel (yes, that Murphy, the guy with all those irritating laws) are just a part of the daily routine for the Incredible Whirlwind of Beauty and Dynamite, the force of nature masquerading in human form. Through essays, poetry, and commentary from family, friends, and famous authors alike, a world of Blood Oaths and road trips, broken hearts and mended cars, comes alive with the strength of one woman's conviction that the world is there to be befriended. You have now been introduced. Let your adventure begin.

Chasm City

Author : Alastair Reynolds
Publisher : Orbit
ISBN 13 : 0316462454
Total Pages : 693 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Chasm City written by Alastair Reynolds and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return to the dazzling world of Revelation Space with this British Science Fiction Award-winning space opera about a young man hell-bent on revenge on the surface of a twisted, disease-corrupted planet. The once-utopian Chasm City -- a domed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet -- has been overrun by a virus known as the Melding Plague, capable of infecting any body, organic or computerized. Now, with the entire city corrupted -- from the people to the very buildings they inhabit -- only the most wretched sort of existence remains. For security operative Tanner Mirabel, it is the landscape of nightmares through which he searches for a lowlife postmortal killer. But the stakes are raised when his search brings him face to face with a centuries-old atrocity that history would rather forget. One of Locus and Science Fiction Chronicle's "Best SF Novels of the Year"

Cakes by Design

Author : Scott Clark Wooley
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9780879516741
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book Cakes by Design written by Scott Clark Wooley and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 1997-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In New York City the authors teach a unique and easy technique for making stunning sugar-paste flowers and ornaments. Their craft has drawn raves from Tiffany, Cartier, Caroline Kennedy, and Martha Stewart among others. Now they have assembled their 15 years' expertise into a complete step-by-step how-to and idea book. 200 full-color photos. 100 b&w illus.