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The renowned actress behind the character Nikki Newman of The Young
and the Restless tells all in this scintillating memoir, divulging
the insider details of her dramatic life and sixty-year career.
Melody Thomas Scott admits she is nothing like her Young and the
Restless role, who has seen it all in her forty-year tenure on
America's highest-rated daytime serial. But the high drama, angst,
and catastrophes aren't confined to her character's plotlines. In
this captivating memoir, Melody reveals behind-the-scenes tales of
her own riveting journey to stardom. As Nikki went from
impoverished stripper to resourceful, vivacious heroine-with
missteps as gripping as her triumphs-Melody became a household
name, enthralling global audiences. Her road to stardom was also
her road to personal freedom, marked by an escape fit for cinema.
In Always Young and Restless, Melody tells of her troubled,
untraditional upbringing for the first time. Learn how she suffered
at home with her grandmother, a compulsive hoarder, whose cruelty
as her guardian is shockingly extreme, and endured abuse at the
hands of industry men; what it was like to act in feature films
with Alfred Hitchcock, John Wayne, and Clint Eastwood; and how she
took control of her life and career in a daring getaway move. And
of course, Melody divulges juicy on-and-off-set details of what
it's like to be one half of the show's most successful supercouple,
"Niktor." In witty, warm prose, meet the shining, persevering heart
of an American icon-and prepare to be moved by a life story fit for
a soap opera star.
Expanding the insights of Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault's
Disorderly Families into policing, public order, (in)justice, and
daily life What might it mean for ordinary people to intervene in
the circulation of power between police and the streets, sovereigns
and their subjects? How did the police come to understand
themselves as responsible for the circulation of people as much as
things-and to separate law and justice from the maintenance of a
newly emergent civil order? These are among the many questions
addressed in the interpretive essays in Archives of Infamy.
Crisscrossing the Atlantic to bring together unpublished radio
broadcasts, book reviews, and essays by historians, geographers,
and political theorists, Archives of Infamy provides historical and
archival contexts to the recent translation of Disorderly Families
by Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault. This volume includes new
translations of key texts, including a radio address Foucault gave
in 1983 that explains the writing process for Disorderly Families;
two essays by Foucault not readily available in English; and a
previously untranslated essay by Farge that describes how
historians have appropriated Foucault. Archives of Infamy pushes
past old debates between philosophers and historians to offer a new
perspective on the crystallization of ideas-of the family, gender
relations, and political power-into social relationships and the
regimes of power they engender. Contributors: Roger Chartier,
College de France; Stuart Elden, U of Warwick; Arlette Farge,
Centre national de recherche scientifique; Michel Foucault
(1926-1984); Jean-Philippe Guinle, Catholic Institute of Paris;
Michel Heurteaux; Pierre Nora, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales; Michael Rey (1953-1993); Thomas Scott-Railton; Elizabeth
Wingrove, U of Michigan.
In The Globalization of Inequality, distinguished economist and
policymaker Francois Bourguignon examines the complex and
paradoxical links between a vibrant world economy that has raised
the living standard of over half a billion people in emerging
nations such as China, India, and Brazil, and the exponentially
increasing inequality within countries. Exploring globalization's
role in the evolution of inequality, Bourguignon takes an original
and truly international approach to the decrease in inequality
between nations, the increase in inequality within nations, and the
policies that might moderate inequality's negative effects.
Demonstrating that in a globalized world it becomes harder to
separate out the factors leading to domestic or international
inequality, Bourguignon examines each trend through a variety of
sources, and looks at how these inequalities sometimes balance each
other out or reinforce one another. Factoring in the most recent
economic crisis, Bourguignon investigates why inequality in some
countries has dropped back to levels that have not existed for
several decades, and he asks if these should be considered in the
context of globalization or if they are in fact specific to
individual nations. Ultimately, Bourguignon argues that it will be
up to countries in the developed and developing world to implement
better policies, even though globalization limits the scope for
some potential redistributive instruments. An informed and original
contribution to the current debates about inequality, this book
will be essential reading for anyone who is interested in the
future of the world economy.
An exquisite appreciation of the distinctive rewards of historical
research and a classic guide to the personal yet disciplined craft
of discovery, now in its first English translation. Arlette Farge's
Le Gout de l'archive is widely regarded as a historiographical
classic. While combing through two-hundred-year-old judicial
records from the Archives of the Bastille, historian Farge was
struck by the extraordinarily intimate portrayal they provided of
the lives of the poor in pre-Revolutionary France, especially
women. She was seduced by the sensuality of old manuscripts and by
the revelatory power of voices otherwise lost. In The Allure of the
Archives, she conveys the exhilaration of uncovering hidden secrets
and the thrill of venturing into new dimensions of the past.
Originally published in 1989, Farge's classic work communicates the
tactile, interpretive, and emotional experience of archival
research while sharing astonishing details about life under the Old
Regime in France. At once a practical guide to research methodology
and an elegant literary reflection on the challenges of writing
history, this uniquely rich volume demonstrates how surrendering to
the archive's allure can forever change how we understand the past.
The first English translation of letters of arrest from eighteenth
century France held in the archives of the Bastille Drunken and
debauched husbands; libertine wives; vagabonding children. These
and many more are the subjects of requests for confinement written
to the king of France in the eighteenth century. These letters of
arrest (lettres de cachet) from France's Ancien Regime were often
associated with excessive royal power and seen as a way for the
king to imprison political opponents. In Disorderly Families, first
published in French in 1982, Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault
collect ninety-four letters from ordinary families who, with the
help of hired scribes, submitted complaints to the king to
intervene and resolve their family disputes. Gathered together,
these letters show something other than the exercise of arbitrary
royal power, and offer unusual insight into the infamies of daily
life. From these letters come stories of divorce and marital
conflict, sexual waywardness, reckless extravagance, and
abandonment. The letters evoke a fluid social space in which life
in the home and on the street was regulated by the rhythms of
relations between husbands and wives, or parents and children. Most
impressively, these letters outline how ordinary people seized the
mechanisms of power to address the king and make demands in the
name of an emerging civil order. Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault
were fascinated by the letters' explosive qualities and by how they
both illustrated and intervened in the workings of power and
governmentality. Disorderly Families sheds light on Foucault's
conception of political agency and his commitment to theorizing how
ordinary lives come to be touched by power. This first English
translation is complete with an introduction from the book's
editor, Nancy Luxon, as well as notes that contextualize the
original 1982 publication and eighteenth-century policing
practices.
In The Globalization of Inequality, distinguished economist and
policymaker Francois Bourguignon examines the complex and
paradoxical links between a vibrant world economy that has raised
the living standard of over half a billion people in emerging
nations such as China, India, and Brazil, and the exponentially
increasing inequality within countries. Exploring globalization's
role in the evolution of inequality, Bourguignon takes an original
and truly international approach to the decrease in inequality
between nations, the increase in inequality within nations, and the
policies that might moderate inequality's negative effects.
Demonstrating that in a globalized world it becomes harder to
separate out the factors leading to domestic or international
inequality, Bourguignon examines each trend through a variety of
sources, and looks at how these inequalities sometimes balance each
other out or reinforce one another. Factoring in the most recent
economic crisis, Bourguignon investigates why inequality in some
countries has dropped back to levels that have not existed for
several decades, and he asks if these should be considered in the
context of globalization or if they are in fact specific to
individual nations. Ultimately, Bourguignon argues that it will be
up to countries in the developed and developing world to implement
better policies, even though globalization limits the scope for
some potential redistributive instruments. An informed and original
contribution to the current debates about inequality, this book
will be essential reading for anyone who is interested in the
future of the world economy.
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