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Comedy drama starring Eva Mendes and Cierra Ramirez as a mother and
daughter with a troubled relationship. Single mother Grace (Mendes)
spends her time working, worrying about bills and having an affair
with a married doctor (Matthew Modine), meaning she has little time
to focus on her 14-year-old daughter Ansiedad (Ramirez), who has to
look after herself. After her English teacher (Patricia Arquette)
explains the meaning behind coming-of-age stories, Ansiedad comes
up with a list of experiences she wants to have that will help her
mature and get ready to run away to New York. Will Grace discover
her daughter's plans and intervene before she loses her for good?
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Planes - Fire and Rescue (DVD)
Ed Harris, Steve Schirripa, Stacy Keach, John Michael Higgins, Julie Bowen, …
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Dane Cook and Stacy Keach return as the voices of lovable aeroplanes Dusty and Skipper in this sequel to the 2013 Disney animation 'Planes'. When world-famous air racer Dusty gets told his engine is damaged and that he may never race again he refuses to let go and launches head first into the world of aerial firefighting. Joining the ranks of veteran fire and rescue helicopter Blade Ranger (Ed Harris), Dusty begins his training to become a real hero.
The voice cast also includes Jerry Stiller, Steve Schirripa and Erik Estrada.
Whether you are an executive or a student, beginner or expert, this
book is designed to explain and illustrate the working essentials
of finance with clarity and speed. This desktop companion
deliberately combines essential theory with real-world application,
using short, focused chapters to help you find what you need and
implement it right away. www.pearsoned.co.uk/estrada
This book examines the roots of systemic aggression against women
in contemporary Mexico, and the connection between social practices
and the institutional permissiveness of the Mexican State with
regard to gendered violence. Since the democratic transition at the
end of the 1990s, Mexico has registered an increase in the
intensity and types of violence that have made life in some regions
almost unsustainable. The chapters in this volume consider that
capitalism, colonialism and patriarchy are interrelated processes
that employ the technologies of gender and race as a continuation
of the symbolic hegemony that treats feminized and racialized
bodies as disposable. Against this background, it becomes necessary
to understand from different dimensions the systemic violence
against women as well as the processes of articulation between
social practices and the permissiveness of the State in the face of
aggression. Gender-Based Violence in Mexico mobilizes a dialogue
between writings, fields of knowledge, causes and situations as
essential tools for the struggle against gender violence. As a
situated work that underlines the systematic roots of the violence
that keeps women in subaltern positions, the text seeks an
insurrection, an uprising of the bodies that invite naming the
abject, peripheral and unseen populations of the project of
globalized life, woven by the obsession of success and prestige. It
presents a counter-conclusion in the manner of a beginning in the
desire to elaborate counter-political and counter-pedagogical
strategies of non-coercive experiences, where questions and debates
are not a sign of belligerence but of vitality and care for the
body-territories. Gender-Based Violence in Mexico will appeal to
scholars of sociology, criminology, gender and Latin American
studies with interests in gendered violence and injustice.
The Spirit and the Screen engages contemporary films from the
perspective of pneumatology to give theologies of culture fruitful
new perspectives that begin with the Spirit rather than other
common theological contact points (Christology, anthropology,
theological ethics, creation, eschatology, etc.). This book
explores pertinent pneumatological issues that arise in film, as
well as literary devices that draw allusions to the Spirit. It
offers three main contributions: first, it explores how Christian
understandings of the person and work of the Spirit illuminate the
nature of film and film-making; second, it shows that there are in
fact “Spirit figures†in film (as distinct from but inseparable
from Christ-figures), even if sometimes they’re not intended as
such, “Spirit-led†characters, are moved to act
“prophetically,†against their inclinations and in excess of
their skill or knowledge and with eccentric, life-giving
creativity; third, it identifies subtle and explicit symbolizations
of the Spirit in pop culture, symbolizations that requires deep,
careful thinking about the Christian doctrine of the Spirit and
generate new horizons for cultural analysis. The contributors of
this book explore these issues, asking how Christian convictions
and experiences of the Spirit might shape the way one thinks about
films and film-making.
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Occulted (Paperback)
Amy Rose, Ryan Estrada; Illustrated by Jeongmin Lee
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When the Hale-Bopp soared across the sky in 1997, Amy Rose thought
it was the start of an amazing new future. Instead, it
brought news of a horrible tragedy at the Heaven’s Gate
compound just down the road. Amy had always known there was
something off about the community she grew up in. She had
been forbidden from going to school, or visiting the library
because the leader told her that there was no use learning about
a world that was about to end. But it was not until the news
of the deaths at Heaven’s Gate invaded the temple walls
that she heard a new word that explained everything...cult.Â
She must risk everything to indulge in secret trips to an
abandoned, off-limits library that teaches her everything she
was not meant to know. That Gandhi was not a space
alien. That Star Trek wasn’t real. That her community was
built on a lie. And most importantly, the banned books give
her all the information that she needs to escape. Occulted is
another shocking true-life graphic memoir about the power of
literary freedom from the people who brought you the
Eisner and Ringo-nominated,
Freeman Award-winning Banned Book Club. Ryan Estrada
(co-author of Banned Book Club) has teamed up with real
life cult survivor Amy Rose (co-author of Star
Trek:Â Connected to the Truth) to bring you the story. With
gorgeous art by Jeongmin Lee, Occulted is a haunting,
inspiring tale of bravery and rebellion that illustrates how
to recognize and fight against those who try to control you.
Beyond the Victorian/ Modernist Divide contributes to a new phase
in the Victorian-modern debate of traditional periodization through
the perspective lens of literature and the visual arts. Breaking
away from conventionally fixed discourses and dichotomies, this
book utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to examine the
existence of overlaps and unexplored continuities between the
Victorians, the post-Victorians and the modernists, including the
fields of music, architecture, design, science, and social life.
Furthermore, the book remaps the cultural history of two critical
meta-narratives and their interdependence - the myth of "high
modernism" and the myth of "Victorianism" - by building on recent
scholarly work and addressing the question of the "turn of the
century break theory" with a new set of arguments and
contributions. The essays presented within acknowledge the
existence of a break-theory in modernism, but question this theory
by re-contextualising it while uncovering long-masked continuities
between artists, genres and forms across the divide. The collection
offers a new approach to modernism, Edwardianism, and Victorianism;
utilizing the cross-fertilisation of interdisciplinary approaches,
and by combining contributions that look forward from the
Victorians with other contributions that look backward from the
modernists. While literary modernism and its vexed relationships
with the nineteenth century is a central subject of the book,
further analysis includes artistic discourses and theories stemming
from history, the visual arts, science, music and design. Each
chapter offers a fresh interpretation of individual artists,
navigating away from characteristic classifications of works,
authors and cultural phenomena. Ultimately, the volume argues that
though periodization and genre categories play substantial roles in
this divide, it is also essential to be critically aware of the way
cultural history has been, and continues to be, constructed.
This volume will document the state-of the-science (and practice)
on what contributes to effective team cohesion in complex teams.
The volume will contain recent developments on theory-building,
methodology and the practice of team cohesion.
While India's prospects as a rising power and its material position
in the international system have received significant attention,
little scholarly work exists on India's status in contemporary
world politics. This Routledge Focus book charts the ways in which
India's international strategies of status seeking have evolved
from Independence up to the present day. The authors focus on the
social dimensions of status, seeking to build on recent conceptual
scholarship on status in world politics. The book shows how India
has made a partial, though incomplete, shift from seeking status by
rejecting material power and proximity to major powers, to seeking
status by embracing both material power and major power
relationships. However, it also challenges traditional
understandings of the linear relationship between material power
and status. Seven decades of Indian status seeking reveal that the
enhancement of material power is one of only several routes Indian
leaders have envisaged to lead to higher status. By arguing that a
state requires more than material power to achieve status, this
book reshapes understandings of both status seeking and Indian
foreign policy. It will be of interest to academics and policy
makers in the fields of international relations, foreign policy,
and Indian studies.
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Banned Book Club (Paperback)
Hyun Sook Kim, Ryan Estrada; Illustrated by Hyung-Ju Ko
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R281
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A Junior Library Guild Selection "Highly recommended for readers
passionate about activism." - SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, Starred
Review "Sure to inspire today's youthful generation of tenacious
changemakers." - BOOKLIST, Starred Review "The messages of hope are
universal." - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, Starred Review "A timely read
about friendship amid chaos." - NPR "It's hard to imagine a world
where Banned Book Club could be more relevant than it is right
now." - A.V. CLUB When Kim Hyun Sook started college in 1983 she
was ready for her world to open up. After acing her exams and
sort-of convincing her traditional mother that it was a good idea
for a woman to go to college, she looked forward to soaking up the
ideas of Western Literature far from the drudgery she was promised
at her family's restaurant. But literature class would prove to be
just the start of a massive turning point, still focused on reading
but with life-or-death stakes she never could have imagined. This
was during South Korea's Fifth Republic, a military regime that
entrenched its power through censorship, torture, and the murder of
protestors. In this charged political climate, with Molotov
cocktails flying and fellow students disappearing for hours and
returning with bruises, Hyun Sook sought refuge in the comfort of
books. When the handsome young editor of the school newspaper
invited her to his reading group, she expected to pop into the
cafeteria to talk about Moby Dick, Hamlet, and The Scarlet Letter.
Instead she found herself hiding in a basement as the youngest
member of an underground banned book club. And as Hyun Sook soon
discovered, in a totalitarian regime, the delights of discovering
great works of illicit literature are quickly overshadowed by fear
and violence as the walls close in. In BANNED BOOK CLUB, Hyun Sook
shares a dramatic true story of political division, fear-mongering,
anti-intellectualism, the death of democratic institutions, and the
relentless rebellion of reading.
Reflecting Walter Pater's diverse engagements with literature, the
visual arts, history, and philosophy, this collection of essays
explores new interdisciplinary perspectives engaging readers and
scholars alike to revisit methodologies, intertextualities,
metaphysical positions, and stylistic features in the works of the
Victorian essayist. A revised contextual portrait of Pater in
Victorian culture questions representations of the detached
aesthete. Current editorial and biographical projects show Pater as
fully responsive to the emergence of modern consumer culture and
the changes in readership in Britain and the United States. New
critical views of rarely studied texts enhance the image of Pater
as a cosmopolitan aesthete dialoguing with contemporary culture.
Conceptual analysis of his texts brings new light to the aesthetic
paradox embodied by Pater, between artistic detachment and
immersion in the Heraclitean flux of life. Finally, aestheticism is
redefined as proposing new artistic and linguistic synthesis by
merging art forms and embracing interart poetics.
While India's prospects as a rising power and its material position
in the international system have received significant attention,
little scholarly work exists on India's status in contemporary
world politics. This Routledge Focus book charts the ways in which
India's international strategies of status seeking have evolved
from Independence up to the present day. The authors focus on the
social dimensions of status, seeking to build on recent conceptual
scholarship on status in world politics. The book shows how India
has made a partial, though incomplete, shift from seeking status by
rejecting material power and proximity to major powers, to seeking
status by embracing both material power and major power
relationships. However, it also challenges traditional
understandings of the linear relationship between material power
and status. Seven decades of Indian status seeking reveal that the
enhancement of material power is one of only several routes Indian
leaders have envisaged to lead to higher status. By arguing that a
state requires more than material power to achieve status, this
book reshapes understandings of both status seeking and Indian
foreign policy. It will be of interest to academics and policy
makers in the fields of international relations, foreign policy,
and Indian studies.
This book includes biographical information on Carlos Prieto, his
contributions to music, as well as a detailed catalog of 72 pieces
commissioned and/or dedicated to him. A graduate of MIT and a
former director of Fundidora, the biggest steel company in Mexico,
Carlos Prieto decided at the age of 38 to abandon his career as a
business man and become a full time professional cellist. Since
then he has premiered over 90 pieces, most of them commissioned
and/or dedicated to him by Latin-American composers. These
commissions and dedications represent about 50 percent of the music
written for the cello by Latin-American composers. This is the
first time a study has been conducted on this body of music.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
This volume sheds new light on the much-neglected topic of current
and potential relations between East Asia and Latin America. The
contributors contend that close cooperation between peoples and
governments of these two areas is feasible and desirable and indeed
that it could have beneficial effects on the shaping of a new world
order in the face of globalization and in the wake of 9/11. In a
genuinely comparative set of essays, the book focuses on two broad
themes: economic and political connections between East Asia and
Latin America, and similarities and differences in developmental
paths and public policies. Part I explores economic linkages,
emphasizing trade, investment, and patterns of regional
integration. Part II compares economic development strategies,
reopening arguments about the substance and utility of the
so-called Asian model. Part III offers a systematic comparison of
currency crises and policy responses in Mexico, Thailand, Korea,
and Brazil. Part IV explores the changing roles of the major
powers, China, Japan, and the United States. A concluding chapter
presents practical suggestions and policy guidelines on ways to
strengthen ties between the two regions. By bringing together
original work by senior scholars and professional experts from both
regions, the book offers an authoritative, comprehensive, and
provocative set of perspectives. It will be essential reading for
specialists and advanced students in international relations,
international economics, foreign policy, economic development,
public policy, and East Asian and Latin American studies.
When the Maya kings of Tikal dedicated their first carved
monuments in the third century A.D., inaugurating the Classic
period of Maya history that lasted for six centuries and saw the
rise of such famous cities as Palenque, Copan and Yaxchilan, Maya
civilization was already nearly a millennium old. Its first cities,
such as Nakbe and El Mirador, had some of the largest temples ever
raised in Prehispanic America, while others such as Cival showed
even earlier evidence of complex rituals. The reality of this
Preclassic Maya civilization has been documented by scholars over
the past three decades: what had been seen as an age of simple
village farming, belatedly responding to the stimulus of more
advanced peoples in highland Mesoamerica, is now know to have been
the period when the Maya made themselves into one of the New
World's most innovative societies. This book discusses the most
recent advances in our knowledge of the Preclassic Maya and the
emergence of their rainforest civilization, with new data on
settlement, political organization, architecture, iconography and
epigraphy supporting a contemporary theoretical perspective that
challenges prior assumptions.
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