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A Most Violent Year (DVD)
Oscar Isaac, Alessandro Nivola, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Jessica Chastain, Albert Brooks, …
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In New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, an immigrant and his family try to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.
(Winner of 3 National Board Of Review awards: Best Film, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress. Also won the New York Film Critics award for best film.)
Industrial and agricultural greenhouse gas emissions are rapidly
warming Earth’s climate, unleashing rising seas, ocean
acidification, melting permafrost, powerful storms, wildfires,
floods, deadly heat waves, droughts, tsunamis, food shortages,
reduced nutritional levels in crops, and armed conflict over
shrinking water supplies. Billions of people will become climate
refugees. Hotter temperatures will allow tropical diseases to
spread into temperate regions. Higher levels of CO2, allergens,
dust, and other particulate matter will impair our physical and
mental health and even reduce our cognitive abilities. Climate
change disproportionately affects the world’s poor. It also harms
Nature, and could ultimately trigger a sixth mass extinction. In
Escaping Nature, Orrin H. Pilkey and his coauthors offer concrete
suggestions for how to respond to the threats posed by global
climate change. They argue that, while we wait for the world’s
governments to get serious about mitigating climate change, we can
adapt to a hotter world through technological innovations,
behavioral changes, nature-based solutions, political changes, and
education.
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MacunaÃma (Paperback)
Mário de Andrade; Translated by Dodson; Introduction by John Keene
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Here at last is an exciting new translation of the modernist
Brazilian epic MacunaÃma, by Mário de Andrade. This landmark
novel from 1928 has been hugely influential. It follows the
adventures of the shapeshifting MacunaÃma and his brothers as they
leave their home in the northern Amazon for a whirlwind tour of
Brazil, cramming four centuries and a continental expanse into a
single mythic plane. Having lost a magic amulet, the hero and his
brothers journey to São Paulo to retrieve the talisman that has
fallen into the hands of an Italo-Peruvian captain of industry (who
is also a cannibal giant). Written over six delirious days – the
fruit of years of study – MacunaÃma magically synthesizes
dialect, folklore, anthropology, mythology, flora, fauna, and pop
culture to examine Brazilian identity. This brilliant translation
by Katrina Dodson has been many years in the making and includes an
extensive section of notes providing essential background
information for this magnificent work.
Just keep breathing brings a stunningly diverse collection of South
African birth stories to print. The collection is part of a new
wave of South African non-fiction writing and marks a new phase in
the maturing of our democracy. These personal narratives of one of
the most commonplace, yet profound, human experiences, reveal how
far we have come from the divisive history of the apartheid era.
They represent, in the most redemptive sense, a narrative of the
ordinary in a nation marked and shaped by the extraordinary. They
symbolise all that we share. By turns harrowing, hilarious,
shocking, brave and deeply poignant, these 28 stories include not
only the remarkable stories of women, including a rural midwife, a
Rwandan refugee and a surrogate mother, but also contributions by
men, who write movingly from the margins. A predominantly literary
collection, with contributions by established writers of various
cultural backgrounds, it provides a platform for vibrant new South
African voices. The collection includes biographies of
contributors, with accompanying photographs.
What does it mean to be a good dog? Are tennis balls always real?
Is a bark ever truly worse than a bite? All these questions and
more are answered in Philosophers' Dogs, the groundbreaking
treat-ise that has been dog years in the making. The book reveals a
long-kept secret: that every human philosopher has stolen their
best ideas from their canine companions, shamelessly disguising the
dogs' original thoughts as their own. Featuring beautiful
illustrations alongside meticulously researched historical fact,*
Philosophers' Dogs follows the trials, tribulations and
tail-wagging of the pooches owned by famous philosophers and
essayists. It is a vital addition to the bookshelves of philosophy
students and dog lovers alike, packed with insights hitherto
(wrongly) attributed to everyone from Confucius to Simone de
Beauvoir via Socrates, Karl Marx and Mary Wollstonecraft. *Not
necessarily historical or factual.
The generation of national cultures in colonized areas of Asia
during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has most often been
traced to the cultural-textual production of emerging middle-class'
elites. This book presents cutting-edge interpretations of the
emergence of Asian nationalism, calling special attention to the
realms of national' science, religion, and philosophy. Promoting
the comparison of traditional' scholars and elites in a
trans-colonial, trans-national context, this unique book focuses on
the formation of national identities that appropriated elements of
colonial administration, ideology, and structure, as these were
grafted onto ideas of nationhood that themselves cut across various
religious, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural boundaries. The
articulation of such discourses as Pan-Islamic, Pan-Arab, or South
and Southeast-Asian nationalism is emphasised, and the book covers
a variety of geographical regions, including East Asia, Southeast
Asia, South Asia, and West Asia. To the fore will be the
examination of religious and scientific scholarship within the
traditions of Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, as well as in
lesser-studies languages such as Sanskrit, Hindi/Urdu, Persian,
Arabic, Malay, and Chinese. Providing new insights into the
negotiation and re-interpretation of Western knowledge and
modernity and the genealogy of the concept of the nation', this
book will be of interested to a wide academic audience across
different subject areas, including Asian and Middle East Studies,
intellectual and colonial history and religious studies.
Two groundbreaking sociologists explore the way the American dream
is built on the backs of working poor women Many Americans take
comfort and convenience for granted. We eat at nice restaurants,
order groceries online, and hire nannies to care for kids. Getting
Me Cheap is a riveting portrait of the lives of the low-wage
workers-primarily women-who make this lifestyle possible.
Sociologists Lisa Dodson and Amanda Freeman follow women in the
food, health care, home care, and other low-wage industries as they
struggle to balance mothering with bad jobs and without public aid.
While these women tend to the needs of well-off families, their own
children frequently step into premature adult roles, providing care
for siblings and aging family members. Based on years of in-depth
field work and hundreds of eye-opening interviews, Getting Me Cheap
explores how America traps millions of women and their children
into lives of stunted opportunity and poverty in service of giving
others of us the lives we seek. Destined to rank with works like
Evicted and Nickle and Dimed for its revelatory glimpse into how
our society functions behind the scenes, Getting Me Cheap also
offers a way forward-with both policy solutions and a keen moral
vision for organizing women across class lines.
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE END OF THE WORLD? For Claire Connell, it
meant becoming the inheritor of the legacy of legendary pulp hero
the Adventureman. Now Claire's learning that to fight
Adventureman's fights means she's the one who must fight
Adventureman's foes, past AND present... Collects ADVENTUREMAN #5-9
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The Imitation of the Rose (Hardcover)
Clarice Lispector; Translated by Katrina Dodson; Edited by Benjamin Moser
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R211
Discovery Miles 2 110
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Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short
stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers,
designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Thirteen short
tales from one of the most blistering and innovative writers of the
twentieth century. The small incidents of life become moments of
inner revelation in the luminous writing of Clarice Lispector. A
woman contemplating a vase of roses after a nervous breakdown; a
tangled mother-daughter relationship; a man's abandonment of a dog;
an animal in a zoo: each one leads to mystery and self-discovery,
delight and devastation.
Explores all equipment made or used to contain the embalmed
internal organs of the kings of ancient Egypt. The book traces the
mythological development of the various forms of container, and
catalogues all known canopic items belonging to the kings of Egypt
from the 4th to 26th Dynasties.
This book is a re-evaluation of modern urbanism and architecture
and a history of urbanism, architecture, and local identity in
colonial north India at the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing
on Banaras and Jaunpur, two of northern India's most traditional
cities, the book examines the workings of colonial bureaucracy in
the cities and argues that interactions with the colonial state
were an integral aspect of the ways that Indians created a sense of
their own personal investment in the city in which they lived. The
book explores the every-day and the mundane to better understand
the limits of British colonial power, and the role of Indians
themselves, in the making of the modern city. Based on highly
localized archival source material, the author analyses two key
aspects of city-making in this era: the building of new
infrastructure, such as water supply and sewerage, and new policies
governing historical architectural conservation. The book also
incorporates an ethnography of contemporary urban space in these
cities to advocate for a more nuanced and responsible approach to
writing the history of such cities and to address the myriad
problems of present-day north Indian urbanism. Containing examples
of bureaucratic procedure and its contradictions and enlivened by a
set of personal reflections and narratives of the author's own
experiences, this book is a valuable addition to the field of South
Asian Studies, Asian History and Asian Culture and Society,
Colonial History and Urban History.
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Complete Stories (Paperback)
Clarice Lispector; Translated by Katrina Dodson; Edited by Benjamin Moser
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R562
Discovery Miles 5 620
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Here, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a
Brazilian legend. Originally a cloth edition of eighty-six stories,
now we have eighty- nine in all, covering her whole amazing career,
from her teenage years to her deathbed. In these pages, we meet
teenagers becoming aware of their sexual and artistic powers,
humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected
epiphanies, old people who don't know what to do with themselves-
and in their stories, Clarice takes us through their lives-and
hers-and ours.
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Under the Bed (DVD)
Jonny Weston, Gattlin Griffith, Peter Holden, Musetta Vander, Kelcie Stranahan, …
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Steven C. Miller directs this suburban horror film starring Jonny
Weston and Gattlin Griffith. When brothers Neal (Weston) and Paulie
(Griffith) join forces to get rid of a creature living under the
bed, nightmare ordeals ensue.
Nefertiti's current world dominion as a cultural and artistic icon
presents an interesting contrast with the way in which she was
actively written out of history soon after her own death. This book
explores what we can reconstruct of the life of the queen, tracing
the way in which she and her image emerged in the wake of the first
tentative decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs during the
1820s-1840s, and then took on the world over the next century and
beyond. During the last half of the fourteenth century BC, Egypt
was perhaps at the height of its prosperity. It was against this
background that the 'Amarna Revolution' occurred. Throughout, its
instigator, King Akhenaten, had at his side his Great Wife,
Nefertiti. When a painted bust of the queen found at Amarna in 1912
was first revealed to the public in the 1920s, it soon became one
of the great artistic icons of the world. Nefertiti's name and face
are perhaps the best known of any royal woman of ancient Egypt and
one of the best recognized figures of antiquity, but her image has
come in many ways to overshadow the woman herself.
Take your seats, and by all means, fasten your seat belts! Come on
a journey back in time to aviations most daring and innovative era.
Travel back nine decades, when for the first time, airplanes
determined the victors of global warsa time that altered the course
of the world. Hear never-before-told true stories penned by
still-living flight crew members and passengers. Learn about the
remarkable men, women, and aircraft builders who launched an
aviation phenomenon. Thrill to the romance, adventure, and danger
air travelers encountered flying to far-flung, exotic lands. Marvel
at art deco air terminals, the worlds only flying-boat museum, and
onboard luxuries rivaling five-star hotels. Like mythical Camelot,
it was a brief, shining moment. But this was no myth. It was an
extraordinary point in global history when Pan Americans
quintessentially magnificent flying boats ruled the skies.
This isn't just another book about anatomy or physiology - it's a
straightforward, practical guide that answers all the common
concerns and questions of every student nurse. How to Make It as a
Student Nurse has evolved from the online advice provided to
student nurses in the UK by well-known advocate and nurse Claire
Carmichael. She has teamed up with experienced nursing lecturer Ann
Marie Dodson to provide a complete guide to being a student nurse,
from the application stage through to writing assignments, passing
exams, undertaking clinical placements and working in a team. This
wonderful new guide is packed full of invaluable advice, including
how to handle your finances and juggle your caring
responsibilities. The content is supported by real life case
studies and vlogs to summarise key points. Engaging and easy to
read - ideal for busy students Easy to navigate - takes you through
each stage of the student nurse journey Covers the whole nursing
degree experience Video vlogs to summarise key points Real life
perspectives of nursing students Top tips on everything you will
come across throughout your nursing education
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