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In Brexit, Facebook, and Transnational Right-Wing Populism,
Natalie-Anne Hall takes Brexit as a case study for examining the
critical consequences of the diffusion of transnational right-wing
populist politics on social media. Through multi-method,
qualitative research with avidly engaged pro-Brexit Facebook users
in the tumultuous post-referendum period, Hall explores the effects
of this participation on the on- and offline experiences of these
individuals and on their interpretation of events surrounding
Brexit. The book examines the socio-political and technological
opportunities for this engagement with right-wing populist politics
and the consequences of this engagement for transnational White
victimhood and what Hall coins "Right victimhood." Hall
demonstrates how the "mainstream" political issue of Brexit acted
as a catalyst for engagement with more extreme forms of right-wing
politics via Facebook.
Four popular novelists of the same generation each wrote a novel
inspired by a holiday that the author spent in France. In the
nineteen-fifties, Rumer Godden based The Greengage Summer on her
recollections of her family's 1923 battlefield-tour manque in the
Champagne region. Margery Sharp's 1936 holiday in Southern France
led to 'Still Waters' and The Nutmeg Tree: both the short story and
the novel are set in and around the region of Aix-les-Bains. In
1955, Daphne du Maurier first visited the department of Sarthe to
research French family history; the novel The Scapegoat was the
immediate result of the holiday. And in 1966, Stella Gibbons' last
trip to the continent took the form of a visit to an old friend in
her summer home near Grenoble. The stay is obliquely reflected in
The Snow-Woman, in which a similar holiday leads a never-married
septuagenarian to experience a renaissance of sorts.
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A vast array of natural organic compounds, the products of primary
and secondary metabolism, occur in plants. The purpose of this
dictionary is to provide basic information, including structural
formulae, on plant constituents, with emphasis on those that are
biologically active. This text profiles over 3000 substances from
phenolics and alkaloids through carbohydrates and plant glycosides
to oils and triterpenoids. For each substance, the author presents
the trivial name, synonyms, structural type, chemical structure
showing stereochemistry, molecular weight and formula, natural
occurrence, biological activity and commercial or other use. Key
references are provided for each class and subclass. It also
reviews antifungal agents, with CAS numbers wherever possible, for
all compounds to provide ready access to the original literature.
Born in London in 1890, Angela Thirkell was Sir Edward
Burne-Jones's granddaughter, J.M. Barrie's goddaughter and a cousin
of Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin. John Collier painted her
portrait and she was drawn by John Singer Sargent and Thea Proctor.
Between 1931 and her death in 1961, Angela published more than
thirty books in a variety of genres. She began with the acclaimed
family memoir Three Houses and later settled on her amusing
Barsetshire series, inspired by Anthony Trollope but set in the
present day. Angela Thirkell: A Writer's Life tells the author's
story from her Kensington childhood to her two marriages and the
birth of three sons, Graham McInnes, Colin MacInnes and Lance
Thirkell, all of whom also entered the literary world. The book
traces her decade in Australia where she wrote for magazines and
newspapers and made radio broadcasts, followed by her return to
London and her fortuitous meeting with a young publisher called
Jamie Hamilton, which lead to her bestselling Barsetshire novels.
Karel Janec̆ek's Foundations of Modern Harmony, translated into
English for the first time, presents a theory of chord quality in
atonal context. First published in 1965, it stands out among music
theoretical publications with its balanced approach that combines
systematics and empirical studies. Janec̆ek's systematics could be
described as set theory, where simultaneities and their features
are explored instead of abstract pitch-class sets. The plenitude of
possible chords in chromatic tonal space is classified in this
work, long before that of Forte, using the concept of "orientation
scheme," an equivalent to prime form. Systematic thoughts are
checked from the point of view of compositional practice and
cognitive processes. Chapters discussing different perceptions of
dissonance depending on the voicing, or retention of heard sound in
mind, explain many generally recognized rules for orchestration.
The system characterizing chord qualities is complemented by a
system of triadic combinations, illustrated by works of both Czech
(MartinuÌŠ, Krejc̆iÌ, NovaÌk) and Western composers (Roussel,
Hindemith, Honneger). After building solid building blocks,
Janec̆ek develops his five-member dualist functional system that
can be traced via Otakar S̆iÌn to Hugo Riemann. The top of the
theory arch provides notions of harmonic coherence in atonal
contexts, an exciting complement to those by Schoenberg and
Hindemith.
FULL MEASURE OF LOVE, a novel of the l970s, introduces Julian
Elsmore, a successful, middle-aged businessman, who is nearly
destroyed when his beloved wife dies in a freak accident. This is
the story of the following year when he struggles to somehow
survive, to remake himself, and to find love again. You will also
meet 19-year-old Lori Seever. In a single day, her high school
sweetheart breaks their engagement and she inherits a vast fortune
from her grandmother. Overwhelmed that her life is suddenly upside
down, she proposes marriage to Julian who is her rock. Their
stories entwine.
Are you a sensitive? Do you feel everyone's emotions as if they
were your own? Walk away from talking to a sad friend and are tired
and drained? Have you ever been told you need to "toughen up?" As
sensitive, little empaths we came in wired to feel everything
strongly and be super tuned-in psychically to our environments. We
needed tools to navigate this foreign world, and many of us didn't
receive those growing up. 50 new tips and tools to put in your
psychic self-care pocket to be able to live as a sensitive and
really thrive. Organized by problem, with entertaining, down to
earth, practical stories throughout illustrating each tool or
lesson, you will walk away understanding how to handle the specific
issues most empaths deal with and what tools to grab for. A
must-have for all sensitives
Between 1915 and 1940 the amazing Edmonton Grads dominated women's
basketball in Canada. Coached by J. Percy Page, they played over
400 official games, losing only 20; they travelled more than
125,000 miles in Canada, the United States, and Europe; and they
crossed the Atlantic three times to defend their world title at
exhibition games held in conjunction with the Summer Olympics in
Paris, Amsterdam, and Berlin. Meticulously researched and
documented-including capsule biographies of all 38 women who played
for the Grads over the years and over 100 photos-the story of the
Edmonton Grads will enthrall fans of sport history and women in
sport. [CTV interview: http://tinyurl.com/6pxg5aq]
Is the Bishop making a deal with the Devil? During the Great
Depression, a tycoon with dark secrets in his past approaches
Bishop Leo McNaulty of the Pittsburgh diocese. Ever the savvy
businessman, George Keane, elderly but unrepentant, offers to
anonymously fund a new cathedral with ten million dollars. In
exchange, he wants an on-site priest to provide deathbed absolution
-- his only chance for eternal salvation. Weighing the needs of his
poverty-wracked diocese against the ethical quagmire he s entering,
Bishop McNaulty assigns recently-ordained Father Ted Ames to this
unusual post; he concocts a cover assignment that Ames is to revise
the Baltimore catechism to be more relevant to adolescents.
Frustrated with this task, for which his sheltered upbringing and
celibate nature have left him ill-prepared, Father Ames gets advice
from Dori Capellini, a high-spirited Catholic college student.
Despite mutual good intentions and pure motives, their shared work
sparks unsuspected passions and they veer toward a forbidden love
affair. Meanwhile, timid Father Mark McMillan, a priest of fifteen
years, loving God sincerely but desperate for human love, seeks to
withdraw from his vocation, to be legally defrocked. Will he fall
from grace, or will a compassionate, middle-aged nurse who sings
like a lark, turn out to be his salvation? These people face their
challenges, sometimes bravely, sometimes close to despair, as they
struggle through to bittersweet conclusions.
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