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Let the wit and wisdom of Bobby Kennedy inspire your own creativity
as you write, brainstorm, list, or sketch your thoughts alongside
Kennedy's most timeless quotes within the pages of this elegant
notebook. Whether you're planning out a political campaign, or just
want to jot down a to-do list, the Robert F. Kennedy Signature
Notebook is exactly what you need. Filled with dozens of quotes and
little-seen photographs from his personal and political life, this
notebook lets you draw inspiration from this charismatic and
idealistic leader as you put your thoughts on paper.
Winner of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize Disequilibria:
Meditations on Missingness is a hybrid memoir that recounts the
1982 disappearance of the author's stepfather, James Edward Lewis,
a pilot and Vietnam veteran. Recounting his family's experiences in
searching for answers, Lunday interrogates the broader cultural and
conceptual responses to the phenomenon of missingness by connecting
his stepfather's case to other true-life disappearances as well as
those portrayed in fiction, poetry, and film. In doing so
Disequilibria explores the transience in modern life, considering
the military-dependent experience, the corrosive effects of war,
and the struggle to find closure and comfort as time goes by
without answers.
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021
Essential lessons on the world we live in, from one of our greatest
young thinkers - a guide to what everybody is talking about today
'Unparalleled and extraordinary . . . A bracing revivification of a
crucial lineage in feminist writing' JIA TOLENTINO 'I believe Amia
Srinivasan's work will change the world' KATHERINE RUNDELL
'Rigorously researched, but written with such spark and verve. The
best non-fiction book I have read this year' PANDORA SYKES
------------------------- How should we talk about sex? It is a
thing we have and also a thing we do; a supposedly private act
laden with public meaning; a personal preference shaped by outside
forces; a place where pleasure and ethics can pull wildly apart. To
grasp sex in all its complexity - its deep ambivalences, its
relationship to gender, class, race and power - we need to move
beyond 'yes and no', wanted and unwanted. We need to rethink sex as
a political phenomenon. Searching, trenchant and extraordinarily
original, The Right to Sex is a landmark examination of the
politics and ethics of sex in this world, animated by the hope of a
different one. SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2022 LONGLISTED FOR
THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2022 LONGLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY
BOOK PRIZE 2022
The most beautiful and inspiring memoir you'll read in 2023 TWELVE
MOONS follows a year spent caught between the wild sea and the
changing moon of the wide Northumberland skies. Caro Giles lives on
the far edge of the country, with her tribe of daughters: The
Mermaid, The Whirlwind, The Caulbearer and The Littlest One. She is
at once alone and yet surrounded. Bound by circumstance, financial
constraints, illness and the challenges of single motherhood, she
has nowhere to go but the fierce landscape that surrounds her. Over
the course of the year, the moon becomes her fellow traveller
through dark times, and companion through joyful ones - and even
when the sky is wreathed in cloud, the moon is still felt in the
pull of the tides. TWELVE MOONS follows the lunar calendar, each
chapter sharing a month and a moon, and shows the simmering power
that lies in our often hidden daily lives. A dazzlingly honest
memoir that while never turning away from the awkward truths of
life, also shows how love will flourish if we can only find a space
for ourselves. Set against windswept beaches and ancient hills,
this is a story steeped in nature and landscape. Since our earliest
days, mankind has looked up at the moon and seen a story reflected
back. Twelve Moons is one of those stories - a book about finding
yourself, your voice and a sense that even in the dark of the
night, we are never truly alone.
In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, Susannah Charleson
clipped a photo from the newspaper: an exhausted canine handler,
face buried in the fur of his search-and-rescue dog. A dog lover
and pilot with search experience herself, Susannah was so moved by
the image that she decided to volunteer with a local canine team
and soon discovered firsthand the long hours, nonexistent pay, and
often heart-wrenching results they face.
Still she felt the call, and once she qualified to train a dog
of her own, she adopted Puzzle, a strong, bright Golden Retriever
puppy who exhibited unique aptitudes as a working dog but who was
less interested in the role of compliant house pet. Puzzle's
willfulness and high drive, both assets in the field, challenged
even Susannah, who had raised dogs for years.
"Scent of the Missing" is the story of Susannah and Puzzle's
adventures together and of the close relationship they forge as
they search for the lost--a teen gone missing, an Alzheimer's
patient wandering in the cold, signs of the crew amid the debris of
the space shuttle "Columbia" disaster. From the earliest air-scent
lessons to her final mastery of whole-body dialog, Puzzle emerges
as a fully collaborative partner in a noble enterprise that unfolds
across the forests, plains, and cityscapes of the Southwest. Along
the way Susannah and Puzzle learn to read the clues in the field,
and in each other, to accomplish together the critical work neither
could do alone and to unravel the mystery of the human/canine
bond.
The politics of language in South Africa is a selected collection
of essays that contains the proceedings of a colloquium organised
by Vic Webb, the guest editor, as part of the combined annual
meeting of the Southern African Applied Linguistics Association and
the Linguistics Society of Southern Africa, hosted by the
University of Pretoria and held at Dikhololo from 6 to 8 July 2005.
Additionally, a number of relevant conference papers presented
outside the colloquium are also included.
A compassionate memoir about a father's relationship with his
children, the healing power of a small act of kindness, and the
proof that love is everlasting.Love you, Dad. Miss you so much.
Steph. A brokenhearted daughter scribbled those words on a sky
lantern before sending it off to her father in heaven who had
passed away. Halfway across the country, Steph's lantern landed in
Matt Mikalatos's yard. As a father of three daughters, Matt could
not let that heart-wrenching note unanswered, so he posted an open
letter to her on his blog, which went viral overnight. Little did
he know how that small act of kindness would lead him to the real
Steph and change his family's life in remarkable ways. A poignant
and lyrical account of the beauty and wonder found in domestic
life, Sky Lantern shows how the miraculous events that followed
Matt finding the sky lantern in his yard--and the widespread and
lasting impact his letter had--prove that the bond between a parent
and their child can last forever.
First delivered as a speech to schoolgirls in Kent in 1926, this
enchanting short essay by the towering Modernist writer Virginia
Woolf celebrates the importance of the written word. With a
measured but ardent tone, Woolf weaves together thought and quote,
verse and prose into a moving tract on the power literature can
have over its reader, in a way which still resounds with truth
today. 'I have sometimes dreamt, at least, that when the Day of
Judgement dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen
come to receive their rewards - their crowns, their laurels, their
names carved indelibly upon imperishable marble - the Almighty will
turn to Peter and will say, not without a certain envy when he sees
us coming with our books under our arms, "Look, these need no
reward. We have nothing to give them here. They have loved
reading."'
Working men of all countries, unite! First published in 1848, The
Communist Manifesto is one of the most influential pieces of
writing of all time. Written by two leading German philosophers
whose names are now universally known, The Communist Manifesto is a
documentation of class struggle and the plight of workers under
capitalism, and a call for redress. In it, Marx and Engels lay out
a searing account of the damage wrought by capitalism, and set out
a route towards an alternative: a society without class, private
property or a state. Beating a path for revolution and the
overthrow of capitalism, The Communist Manifesto is a stirring call
to arms that resounds with truth and power today.
Denise Inge introduces a selection from Thomas Traherne's writing
in this, the third volume in this series on seventeenth century
spiritual writers. This volume will contain some biographical
detail and historical context, the story of the discovery of his
work as well as a discussion of its literary and spiritual power.
The main body of the anthology will cover both well known works
such as a selection from the Centuries and also excerpts from newer
discoveries, including a recent find from Lambeth Palace Library.
Thomas Traherne 1636?-1674 was schooled at Brasenose College,
Oxford, was ordainded and served in the village of Credenhill,
Herefordshire.
Tune in to you This tracker is a useful tool to help you map out
your overall well-being over time. Whether you want to check in
with yourself and track daily habits or learn about what shapes
your emotions, this book is the perfect place to start. With
monthly trackers to record sleep, exercise and more, plus a
selection of activities to let your creativity flow, this journal
helps you practise daily self-care for lasting health and
happiness.
From the stage of the Grand Ole Opry to concert halls around the
world, and on television's "Hee Haw" and "Prime Time Country,"
Cousin Minnie Pearl entertained fans and friends with her stories
about Grinder's Switch and her jokes. Now you can recall the best
of them, such as . . .
- This week we decided we'd better take Brother up to Nashville
and try to get him a job. So I took him to one of the places and
the man said he'd give Brother a job. He said, "I can start you at
thity dollars a week and in five years you'll get two hundred "
Brother said, "That's fine. I'll be back in five years "
- Mr. Smith, a seventy-five-year-old multimillionaire, just
married a young, beautiful eighteen-year-old girl. A friend asked,
"How did you get an eighteen-year-old to marry you when you're
seventy-five?" The man said, "I told her I was ninety-five "
Also included are memories of Minnie by . . .
- Porter Wagoner
- Ralph Emery
- Bill Anderson
- Johnny Russell
- Little Jimmy Dickens
- Jimmy C. Newman
Is a book the same book--or a reader the same reader--the second
time around? The seventeen authors in this witty and poignant
collection of essays all agree on the answer: Never.
The editor of "Rereadings "is Anne Fadiman, and readers of her
bestselling book "Ex Libris "will find this volume especially
satisfying. Her chosen authors include Sven Birkerts, Allegra
Goodman, Vivian Gornick, Patricia Hampl, Phillip Lopate, and Luc
Sante; the objects of their literary affections range from "Pride
and Prejudice "to "Sue Barton, Student Nurse."
These essays are not conventional literary criticism; they are
about relationships. "Rereadings "reveals at least as much about
the reader as about the book: each is a miniature memoir that
focuses on that most interesting of topics, the protean nature of
love. And as every bibliophile knows, no love is more life-changing
than the love of a book.
Construction of identity has constituted a vigorous source of
debate in the Caribbean from the early days of colonization to the
present, and under the varying guises of independence,
departmentalization, dictatorship, overseas collectivity and
occupation. Given the strictures and structures of colonialism long
imposed upon the colonized subject, the (re)makings of identity
have proven anything but evident when it comes to determining
authentic expressions and perceptions of the postcolonial self. By
way of close readings of both constructions in literature and the
construction of literature, Architextual Authenticity: Constructing
Literature and Literary Identity in the French Caribbean proposes
an original, informative frame of reference for understanding the
long and ever-evolving struggle for social, cultural, historical
and political autonomy in the region. Taking as its point of focus
diverse canonical and lesser-known texts from Guadeloupe,
Martinique and Haiti published between 1958 and 2013, this book
examines the trope of the house (architecture) and the meta-textual
construction of texts (architexture) as a means of conceptualizing
and articulating how authentic means of expression are and have
been created in French-Caribbean literature over the greater part
of the past half-century-whether it be in the context of the years
leading up to or following the departmentalization of France's
overseas colonies in the 1940's, the wrath of Hurricane Hugo in
1989, or the devastating Haiti earthquake of 2010.
Featuring Jiji, the lovable black cat from Hayao Miyazaki's
animated classic Kiki's Delivery Service, this soft plush and
embroidered journal includes lined interiors and full-color artwork
on the front and back pages, purr-fect for cat lovers and Studio
Ghibli fans of all ages. Kiki's Delivery Service (c) 1989 Eiko
Kadono - Studio Ghibli - N
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