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Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
by Elizabeth Winder“An illuminating biography . . . which floods clarifying light on a chapter of the poet’s early life that Plath painted in jaundiced tones in The Bell Jar.” —The New York Times, Sunday Styles FeatureOn May 31, 1953, twenty-year-old Sylvia Plath arrived in New York City for a one-month stint at “the intellectual fashion magazine” Mademoiselle to be a guest editor for its prestigious annual college issue. Over the next twenty-six days, the bright, blond New England collegian lived at the Barbizon Hotel, attended Balanchine ballets, watched a game at Yankee Stadium, and danced at the West Side Tennis Club. She typed rejection letters to writers from The New Yorker and ate an entire bowl of caviar at an advertising luncheon. She stalked Dylan Thomas and fought off an aggressive diamond-wielding delegate from the United Nations. She took hot baths, had her hair done, and discovered her signature drink (vodka, no ice). Young, beautiful, and on the cusp of an advantageous career, she was supposed to be having the time of her life.Drawing on in-depth interviews with fellow guest editors whose memories infuse these pages, Elizabeth Winder reveals how these twenty-six days indelibly altered how Plath saw herself, her mother, her friendships, and her romantic relationships, and how this period shaped her emerging identity as a woman and as a writer. Pain, Parties, Work—the three words Plath used to describe that time—shows how Manhattan’s alien atmosphere unleashed an anxiety that would stay with her for the rest of her all-too-short life.Thoughtful and illuminating, this captivating portrait invites us to see Sylvia Plath before The Bell Jar, before she became an icon—a young woman with everything to live for.
Painkiller Addict
by Cathryn KempCathryn Kemp was a successful travel journalist who was struck down by a life-threatening illness. After four years of operations and mis-diagnoses she left hospital with a repeat prescription for fentanyl, a painkiller 100 times stronger than heroin. Within two years she was taking more than ten times the NHS maximum, all on prescription. Her family struggled to understand; her boyfriend left her, she hit rock bottom. Discovering she had only six months to live if she didn't give up the drugs she sold everything she owned and checked into rehab. In the treatment centre she was told that she was unlikely to recover from 'the highest level of opiate-abuse in the clinic's history'. To everyone's amazement, she proved them wrong. This is an extraordinarily poignant, vivid and honest memoir. Based on the twenty-four diaries that the author kept during this period, we travel with Cathryn through her hospital agony, descend with her into the hell of addiction and cheer her as she pulls herself out and upwards. It is a love story, a horror story, a survival story, and one that shows only too clearly the very real dangers of the over-prescription of painkillers and tranquillisers. There will also be a resource section for sufferers and their loved ones.
Painkiller Addict: From wreckage to redemption - my true story
by Cathryn KempWhat if the drugs that were meant to cure you slowly started to kill you?After falling dangerously ill with acute-on-chronic pancreatitis, Cathryn Kemp left hospital with a repeat prescription for fentanyl, a painkiller 100 times stronger than heroin.Within two years she was taking almost ten times the NHS maximum daily dose - all on prescription - and her life began to spiral out of control. Cathryn discovered she had just three months to live, unless she gave up the drug she clung to so desperately.After selling everything she owned and checking into rehab, Cathryn was told by the doctors that recovery was highly unlikely. Yet to everyone's amazement, she proved them wrong.Coming Clean is a poignant, vivid and honest memoir of a woman's struggle with, and subsequent victory over, her demons. It is a love story, a horror story, a survival story, and one that shows the very real dangers of the over-prescription of painkillers.
Painless American History (Painless Series) (2nd Edition)
by Curt LaderThe grand drama of American history is covered for middle school and high school students, starting with Columbus's landing, and continuing through European colonization, United States independence, and the nation's development and growth to become the leading world power. This edition has been updated to include important events of the twenty-first century. Titles in Barron's Painless Series are written especially for middle school and high school students who are having a difficult time with a specific subject. In many cases, a student is confused by the subject's complexity and details. Still other students simply finds a subject uninteresting, an attitude that usually results in lower grades. Painless titles offer informal, student-friendly approaches to each subject, emphasizing interesting details, supplementing the text with amusing insights, and outlining potential pitfalls clearly and step by step. Students begin to understand how disparate details all fit together to form a clear picture. Timelines, ideas for interesting projects, and "Brain Tickler" quizzes in many of these titles help to take the pain out of study and improve each student's grades.
Paint Your Hair Blue: A Celebration of Life with Hope for Tomorrow in the Face of Pediatric Cancer
by Sue Matthews Andrea Cohane&“A triumph of the human spirit! This book will make you laugh and cry as you cheer Taylor on in her fight against childhood cancer&” (Jeff Gordon, retired NASCAR champion and founder of Jeff Gordon&’s Children Foundation). In Paint Your Hair Blue, Sue Matthews tells the heartwarming tale of heroic courage and devastating blows that characterized her daughter Taylor&’s odyssey through the underfunded world of pediatric cancer. Most of us will be touched by cancer in some way during our lifetimes. Discover how Taylor and her family learned to balance the necessity of her continuous medical treatments with the need for her to be a kid and live as normally as possible. Matthews gives dozens of tips and pointers, gleaned by trial and error, about navigating the maze of pediatric oncology through the lens of a layperson and better understand how to face fears with strength, fortitude, and confidence while living life to the fullest. Matthews and her sister, Andrea, will make you a better warrior in the war on cancer with this story of survival, where love transcends all and where every moment is a celebration of life. &“Paint Your Hair Blue is a love story where heartbreak, joy, and tears will capture your heart and make you believe that love can conquer all.&” —Cher &“Beautifully written . . . Paint Your Hair Blue will make you hug your children tighter and fight harder to find a cure for pediatric cancer.&” —Angie Harmon, mother, actress, director, UNICEF ambassador &“A heartwarming memoir . . . [An] incredible story of love and perseverance—a poignant reminder to both live life and love others to our greatest capacity.&” —Hannah Storm, ESPN award–winning journalist
Paint it White: Following Leeds Everywhere
by Gary EdwardsIn his dedication to Leeds United, Gary Edwards has no rivals. He has seen every Leeds game since 17 January 1968, home and away. League, Cup and Europe. And pre-season friendlies.* Hell, he even watches the reserves in his spare time. Following Leeds, he's been there, done that and designed the T-shirt. Although a painter and decorator-cum-signwriter-cum-cartoonist, he's never taken a break from his life as a full-time football fan. He's made a name for himself covering over red paint with white for free. He's visited every country in Europe and flown all over the rest of the world to watch Leeds play. If Leeds organised a five-a-side on the moon, he'd be on the first shuttle flight there. Travelling the world to watch hundreds of players run around acres of grass, he's also found time to drink gallons of ale, see oceans of flesh and protect hundreds of animals. He's saved lobsters in Barcelona, clay pigeons in Worksop, frogs in Kuala Lumpur and worms - yes, worms - in Yorkshire. He's been shot at in Greece, run over in Denmark, frightened the king in Sweden and had a beer with an elephant in Bangkok. All this and still found the time to never miss a match or another chance to rid the world of the evil that is red in all its forms. Behind him are almost four decades of Leeds, lunacy, laughter and white paint.
Paint the White House Black: Barack Obama and the Meaning of Race in America
by Michael P. JeffriesBarack Obama's election as the first black president in American history forced a reconsideration of racial reality and possibility. It also incited an outpouring of discussion and analysis of Obama's personal and political exploits. Paint the White House Blackfills a significant void in Obama-themed debate, shifting the emphasis from the details of Obama's political career to an understanding of how race works in America. In this groundbreaking book, race, rather than Obama, is the central focus. Michael P. Jeffries approaches Obama's election and administration as common cultural ground for thinking about race. He uncovers contemporary stereotypes and anxieties by examining historically rooted conceptions of race and nationhood, discourses of "biracialism" and Obama's mixed heritage, the purported emergence of a "post-racial society," and popular symbols of Michelle Obama as a modern black woman. In so doing, Jeffries casts new light on how we think about race and enables us to see how race, in turn, operates within our daily lives. Race is a difficult concept to grasp, with outbursts and silences that disguise its relationships with a host of other phenomena. Using Barack Obama as its point of departure,Paint the White House Blackboldly aims to understand race by tracing the web of interactions that bind it to other social and historical forces.
Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T. S. Eliot
by Carole Seymour-JonesBy the time Vivienne Eliot was committed to an asylum for what would be the final nine years of her life, she had been abandoned by her husband T. S. Eliot and shunned by literary London. Yet Vivienne was neither insane nor insignificant. She generously collaborated in her husband's literary efforts, taking dictation, editing his drafts, and writing articles for his magazine,Criterion. Her distinctive voice can be heard in his poetry. And paradoxically, it was the unhappiness of the Eliots' marriage that inspired some of the poet's most distinguished work, from The Family Reunion to The Waste Land. This first biography ever written about Vivienne draws on hundreds of previously unpublished papers, journals and letters to portray a spontaneous, loving, but fragile woman who had an important influence on her husband's work, as well as a great poet whose behavior was hampered by psychological and sexual impulses he could not fully acknowledge. Intriguing and provocative, Painted Shadow gracefully rescues Vivienne Eliot from undeserved obscurity, and is indispensable for anyone wishing to understand T. S. Eliot, Vivienne, or the world in which they traveled.
Painted in Words: A Memoir
by Samuel S. BakAt my first sight of a painting by Samuel Bak, I had the keen sense that he was telling me stories with his brush. Now that at long last he has written this book, I find it no wonder that he has painted with his pen.... Among the tens and hundreds of books I have read about the pre-Shoah and post-Shoah period... Bak's book is unique. Despite being suffused with a sense of loss, horror, degradation, and death, it is ultimately a sanguine, funny book, full of the love of life, rocking with an almost cathartic joy. At times I found myself bursting out laughing... a marvelous ode, a colorful hymn to the forces of life, love, creation, and the joys of the senses. --From the Foreword by Amos OzIn Painted in Words internationally renowned artist Samuel Bak sets aside his brushes to narrate the stories of his life--as a child in Nazi-occupied Vilna, as a youth in European refugee camps, and as a maturing artist in Israel, France, Italy, Switzerland, and the United States. With gentle humor, the child prodigy of the faraway past and the accomplished artist of today engage in a spirited dialogue from which emerges a self-portrait of "The Artist as a Young--and middle-aged and aging--Survivor." The brilliance, vision, and virtuosity that Bak brings to his painting are equally in evidence in his writing. This deeply touching work is an important contribution to Holocaust literature and art history.
Painting Life: My Creative Journey Through Trauma
by Carol K. WalshWhen Carol Walsh pulled her fiancé from the bottom of a diving well—dead from a massive heart attack—her life was turned upside down. Even though she was a psychotherapist working with clients suffering from trauma, this personal shock felt unbearable. Nonetheless, she had to heal herself while supporting clients—and, as a single mother, her two children. Using the creative interests she’d developed during childhood in order to emotionally save herself from a difficult mother, she fully recovered from her grief and PTSD symptoms—and as she recreated her personal, artistic, and professional life, she began to thrive.
Painting as a Pastime (Winston S. Churchill Essays and Other Works #1)
by Winston S. ChurchillThe first volume in a collection essays and journalism from the legendary politician and Nobel Prize–winning author explores his artistic pursuits. Legendary politician and military strategist Winston S. Churchill was a master not only of the battlefield, but of the page and the podium. Over the course of forty books and countless speeches, broadcasts, news items and more, he addressed a country at war and at peace, thrilling with victory but uneasy with its shifting role on the global stage. In 1953, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for &“his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values.&” During his lifetime, he enthralled readers and brought crowds roaring to their feet; in the years since his death, his skilled writing has inspired generations of eager history buffs. Best known for his political genius and keen eye for military tactics, Churchill was a man of many talents—not the least of which was painting. Throughout his life, Churchill painted to relieve his mind from the demands of leadership and to keep the &“black dog&” of depression at bay. Included in this volume are Churchill&’s meditations on painting as a salve for the spirit and an essential creative pursuit. His love for the craft comes to life in this concise yet impassioned work. This volume includes eighteen reprints of Churchill&’s original work in oil, giving the reader a window into the little-known creative and artistic skill of this prominent figure in twentieth century history.
Painting the Sand
by Kim HughesKim Hughes is the most highly decorated bomb disposal operator serving in the British Army. He was awarded the George Cross in 2009 following a grueling six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan during which he defused 119 improvised explosive devices, survived numerous Taliban ambushes and endured a close encounter with the Secretary of State for Defence. The back drop to Painting the Sand will be the Afghan War, the conflict where the cold courage of the bomb disposal operator rose to national prominence. No other field of warfare offers the chance of a single individual to come so close to his enemy and fight out a battle of wits where losing can means death. This is one of the best memoirs that will come out of a ten-year struggle to defeat a hidden, and enduring, enemy.
Paisajes de la metrópoli de la muerte: Reflexiones sobre la memoria y la imaginación
by Otto Dov KulkaUn libro de memorias de extraordinaria fuerza literaria y emocional que explora las indelebles huellas de una infancia en Auschwitz. De niño, el prestigioso historiador Otto Dov Kulka fue enviado junto con su familia al gueto de Theresienstadt, y más tarde a Auschwitz. Tras sobrevivir al horror, ha pasado gran parte de su vida estudiando el nazismo y el Holocausto, pero siempre como una disciplina que exigía la mayor objetividad, dejando a un lado su propia historia personal. Sin embargo, durante ese tiempo los recuerdos de su infancia han permanecido alojados en su memoria, imágenes y pensamientos de los que ha sido incapaz de desprenderse. Hasta hoy. El extraordinario resultado son estas memorias profundamente conmovedoras, el testimonio poderoso y valiente de un hombre que ha querido entender su pasado y, con ello, nuestra historia. Reseñas:«Este es uno de los más extraordinarios testimoniossobre la barbarie que conozco. Los enormemente conmovedores recuerdos de los años de infancia de Dov Kulka en Auschwitz, entretejidos con sus reflexiones de esencia elegíaca y poética, transmiten vívidamente el horror de un campo de concentración, el trauma de la familia y los amigos, y la huella indeleble marcada en la memoria de un joven que se convirtió en un distinguido historiador del Holocausto. Una obra extraordinariamente importante que debe ser leída.»Ian Kershaw «Lo que hace que este libro no se parezca a ningún otro relato escrito de primera mano sobre los campos de concentración es la autenticidad de su visión de niño de once años... Kulka ha tenido con el resto de nosotros -y del mundo- la mayor de las generosidades al escribir este libro.»Simon Schama, The Financial Times «Sencillamente extraordinario... No se me ocurre cómo podría ser superado este libro.»Robert Eaglestone, Times Higher Education «A la vez deslumbrante y tenebroso... No se trata de otro relato más sino de algo más complicado: una especie de diálogo entre el niño que ya no es y el historiador en que se ha convertido.»Livres Hebdo «A menudo se dice que el testimonio de Levi es el propio de un químico: claro, frío, preciso, distante. De igual modo, la obra de Kulka es el producto de un historiador experto: irónico, penetrante, presente en el pasado, capaz de conectar lo particular con lo cósmico. Su memoria queda al servicio de la comprensión histórica profunda, transformada en evocativa prosa... Este libro es un esfuerzo para tender un puente entre dos modos de conocimiento: erudición histórica y análisis de un lado, memoria reflexiva e imaginación del otro.»Thomas Laqueur, The Guardian «Una seria, poética y desoladora narración del Holocausto que no es tanto un repaso del Auschwitz del pasado, como del Auschwitz del mundo interior de Kulka. Es su propia ciudad interiorizada, con su propio y perdurable horror.»Arifa Akbar, The Independent «Bello y deslumbrante... Este es un gran libro. Léalo. Y siéntase agradecido: esta obra es, en todos los sentidos posibles, un milagro.»Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times Culture «Un libro sorprendente e inclasificable... Excepcional.»Nicolas Weill, Le Monde «Magistral... Un texto estremecedor y sarcástico cuya lectura no deja indemne.»Sylvie Arsever, Le Temps «Nada de lo que he leído se acerca a este profundo examen de lo que significa el Holocausto.»Linda Grant, New Statesman «Un libro asombroso entre los recuerdos y la imaginación.»Emmanuel Hecht, L'Express
Palabras para sobrevivir: Un testimonio real sobre el Holocausto
by Joshua M. Greene Renee HartmanUn libro perfecto para que los niños conozcan la historia del Holocausto: una memoria que habla sobre la importancia de la sororidad, el amor y el recuerdo del pasado. En aquel momento tenía diez años, y mi hermana, ocho. Era mi responsabilidad avisar a todos cuando venían los soldados, porque tanto mi hermana como mis padres eran sordos. Yo era los oídos de mi familia.Renee y Herta vivieron lo inimaginable juntas, como hermanas. Esta es su historia real. Como muchos judíos checoslovacos en los años 40, Renee y su familia estaban en peligro cuando el Holocausto llegó a su puerta. La única persona oyente de su familia, Renee, era la encargada de comunicarse con el mundo exterior. Hablando con lenguaje de signos y apoyándose entre ellas, Renee y Herta lucharon para sobrevivir la época más oscura de su vida.Este testimonio de una de las pocas supervivientes del Holocausto es una prueba del poder de la sororidad y el amor, y un recordatorio de lo importante que es no olvidar el pasado. Una historia real, impactante y conmovedora a partes iguales. Adaptado para niños y niñas a partir de 9 años.
Palace Circle
by Rebecca Deanâ Palace Circle is a gem, filled with dashing lords, gutsy ladies, family secrets and royal intrigue. â Barbara DelinskyAmerican Heiress Delia Chandler leaves Virginia to marry Viscount Ivor Conisborough, completely unprepared for her new place within the royal circle. Soon she is holding dinner parties for Winston Churchill and Wallis Simpson and attending glittering balls with Prince Edward. But beneath the dazzling façade, Delia quickly discovers a world steeped in scandal. It seems everyone has a secret, including her husband. When Ivor is sent to Cairo and appointed advisor to King Fuad, Delia must follow with her two daughters. Like their mother, Petra and Davina are fiery beauties who long to escape the elegant and palatial villas of Garden City for the exotic, wild beating heart of Cairo. But their desires will lead them into dangerous territory, shattering their world as they know it, forever. Drenched in glamour, secrets and scandal, Palace Circle is an irresistible combination of real historical events and masterful storytelling.
Palace Cobra: A Fighter Pilot in the Vietnam Air War
by Ed RasimusPalace Cobra picks up where Ed Rasimus's critically acclaimed When Thunder Rolled left off. Now he's flying the F-4 Phantom and the attitude is still there.In the waning days of the Vietnam War, Rasimus and his fellow pilots were determined that they were not going be the last to die in a conflict their country had abandoned. They were young fighter pilots fresh from training and experienced aviators who came back to the war again and again, not for patriotism, but for the adrenaline rush of combat. From the bathhouses and barrooms to the prison camps of North Vietnam, this is a gripping combat memoir by a veteran fighter pilot who experienced it all.The wry cynicism of a combat aviator will give readers insights into the Vietnam experience that haven't been available before, and the heart-stopping action will keep readers turning the pages all night.
Palacios, un caballero socialista
by Daniel SorínUn rumor se esparce en la Buenos Aires de 1965: dice que Alfredo Palacios, el ilustre socialista, ateo natural, antes de morir habría solicitado el auxilio de un sacerdote para que le diera la extremaunción. La sorpresa mayúscula cae en manos de un detective, Washington Cruz. Lo contrata un sujeto elusivo, una pantalla sobria para intereses funestos que desean corroborar ese dato y hacer de él un tesoro. Y quizás también una provechosa venganza. Pero, como suele suceder, la investigación se abre a caminos inesperados, y en vez de recomponer su último momento, sus últimos días, lo que Cruz expurga es la vida íntegra de Palacios: la infancia pobre, el encuentro con Quinquela Martín, su amistad con Jorge Newbery, su amor por las mujeres, su apego extremo a la caballerosidad y los duelos a pistola para limpiar el honor o una afrenta singular. Y, por supuesto, la militancia en el socialismo, la política, esa línea de agua que lo acompaña desde su adolescencia hasta el final. Son seis décadas que tienen su comienzo triunfal en 1904, cuando es elegido como el primer diputado socialista en América, y que atraviesan la Argentina del Centenario, la de Yrigoyen, la década infame, el peronismo, el antiperonismo, y la caída de Perón. Al término de la novela Washington Cruz sabe si su investigado ha pedido o no la protección de la fe; sin embargo, para entonces el mayor asombro no pasa por la muerte sino por la vida novelesca de ese hombre que ha desfilado ante sus ojos. A partir de un misterio en clave de policial, Daniel Sorín escribió, soberbia, una ficción política, y a la vez una indagación, de un personaje descollante de la Argentina del siglo XX. Con una prosa encendida, que contiene los ecos agudos de lo popular y la sobriedad nunca árida de los porteños de antaño, se opone al atropello de la historia que todo lo distorsiona y dibuja un casillero limpio, independiente, intacto de miserias y mediocridades: allí está su Alfredo Palacios.
Pale Girl Speaks: A Year Uncovered
by Hillary FogelsonHillary Fogelson led a charmed life: as the young wife of a successful Hollywood executive, her only major concerns were her acting auditions, interior decorating, and unexpected visits from her high-maintenance parents. Then, one day, her doctor told her she had malignant melanoma-a cancer that leads to more deaths for women between the age of 25 and 30 than any other-and her life was forever changed. Pale Girl Speaksis the darkly funny story of Fogelson’s neuroses and struggles after her diagnosis with melanoma. In her witty, wisecracking narrative, Fogelson recounts how her battle with cancer brings up other issues in her life that she’s been ignoring, especially her anxieties about her relationship with her husband, her friends, and her parents. The apprehension she feels soon manifests itself in more concrete ways-panic attacks, heavy reliance on alcohol, and a compulsive need to constantly check in with her doctor-but when her father discovers that he has melanoma as well, Fogelson has to learn to lead by example and let go of her fear. A story that will appeal to anyone who has faced adversity and lived to tell jokes about it,Pale Girl Speaksis about one woman who experienced the worst possible fallout of being fair-skinned-and survived with her sense of humor intact.
Pale Horse: Hunting Terrorists and Commanding Heroes with the 101st Airborne Division
by Jimmy BlackmonPale Horse is the remarkable never-before-told true story of an army aviation task force during combat in the Afghan War, told by the commanding officer who was there. Set in the very valleys where the attacks of 9/11 were conceived, and where ten Medals of Honor have been earned since that fateful day the war began, the narrative races from ferocious firefights and bravery in battle to the quiet moments where the courageous men and women of Task Force Pale Horse catch their breath before they take to the skies again. Jimmy F. Blackmon writes with a power and hard-hitting honesty that leaps off the page. He has the respect of the men and women of his brigade, and a command of the narrative to tell their story. From pilots of lethal Apache attack helicopters who strike fear in their enemies to the medevac soldiers who risk their lives daily, these are warriors from a variety of backgrounds who learned selflessness and found the closest brotherhood they ever knew through the crucible of war. Pale Horse both honors and commemorates the service of this elite task force from the unique vantage point of the commander who led them in battle.
Pale Shadows
by Dominique FortierDickinson after her death: a novel of the trio of women who brought Emily Dickinson’s poems out of the shadows When she died, Emily Dickinson left behind hundreds of texts scribbled on scraps of paper. She also left behind three formidable women: her steadfast sister, Lavinia; her brother’s ambitious mistress, Mabel Loomis Todd; and his grief-stricken wife, Susan Gilbert Dickinson. With no clear instructions from Emily, these three women would, through mourning and strife, make from those scraps of paper a book that would change American literature. From the author of Paper Houses, this is the improbable, almost miraculous, story of the birth of a book years after the death of its author. In these sensitive and luminous pages, Dominique Fortier explores, through Dickinson’s poetry, the mysterious power that books have over our lives, and the fragile and necessary character of literature.
Palestinian Commemoration in Israel: Calendars, Monuments, and Martyrs
by Tamir SorekCollective memory transforms historical events into political myths. In this book, Tamir Sorek considers the development of collective memory and national commemoration among the Palestinian citizens of Israel. He charts the popular politicization of four key events--the Nakba, the 1956 Kafr Qasim Massacre, the 1976 Land Day, and the October 2000 killing of twelve Palestinian citizens in Israel--and investigates a range of commemorative sites, including memorial rallies, monuments, poetry, the education system, political summer camps, and individual historical remembrance. These sites have become battlefields between diverse social forces and actors--including Arab political parties, the Israeli government and security services, local authorities, grassroots organizations, journalists, and artists--over representations of the past. Palestinian commemorations are uniquely tied to Palestinian encounters with the Israeli state apparatus, with Jewish Israeli citizens of Israel, and by their position as Israeli citizens themselves. Reflecting longstanding tensions between Palestinian citizens and the Israeli state, as well as growing pressures across Palestinian societies within and beyond Israel, these moments of commemoration distinguish Palestinian citizens not only from Jewish citizens, but from Palestinians elsewhere. Ultimately, Sorek shows that Palestinian citizens have developed commemorations and a collective memory that offers both moments of protest and points of dialogue, that is both cautious and circuitous.
Palestinian Lawyers and Israeli Rule: Law and Disorder in the West Bank
by George Emile BisharatAs frequent intermediaries between Israeli military authorities and Palestinian citizens, Palestinian lawyers stand close to the fault line dividing Israeli and Palestinian societies. The conflicts and tensions they experience in their profession mirror the larger conflicts between the two societies. Thus, as George Bisharat reveals in Palestinian Lawyers and Israeli Rule, a careful study of the work and lives of Palestinian lawyers ultimately helps to illuminate the causes of the intifada, or uprising, that began in December 1987. The study revolves around the central question of why the Palestinian legal profession declined during twenty years of Israeli occupation when, in other Third World countries, the legal profession has often reached its peak during a period of Western colonization. Bisharat answers this question with a wide-ranging inquiry into the historical origins of the legal profession and court system in Palestine, the tenuous grounding of these institutions in Palestinian society and culture, and the structure, style, and policies of the late-twentieth-century Israeli military government in the West Bank. For general readers interested in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, as well as specialists in such fields as legal anthropology, sociology of the professions, Third World law and development, and Middle Eastern studies, Palestinian Lawyers and Israeli Rule will be required reading. As frequent intermediaries between Israeli military authorities and Palestinian citizens, Palestinian lawyers stand close to the fault line dividing Israeli and Palestinian societies. The conflicts and tensions they experience in their profession mirror the larger conflicts between the two societies. Thus, as George Bisharat reveals in Palestinian Lawyers and Israeli Rule, a careful study of the work and lives of Palestinian lawyers ultimately helps to illuminate the causes of the intifada, or uprising, that began in December 1987. The study revolves around the central question of why the Palestinian legal profession declined during twenty years of Israeli occupation when, in other Third World countries, the legal profession has often reached its peak during a period of Western colonization. Bisharat answers this question with a wide-ranging inquiry into the historical origins of the legal profession and court system in Palestine, the tenuous grounding of these institutions in Palestinian society and culture, and the structure, style, and policies of the late-twentieth-century Israeli military government in the West Bank. For general readers interested in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, as well as specialists in such fields as legal anthropology, sociology of the professions, Third World law and development, and Middle Eastern studies, Palestinian Lawyers and Israeli Rule will be required reading.
Paletó and Me: Memories of My Indigenous Father
by Aparecida VilaçaWinner of the prestigious Casa de las Américas Prize, this work spins a heartfelt story of an improbable relationship between an anthropologist and her charismatic Indigenous father. When Aparecida Vilaça first traveled down the remote Negro River in Amazonia, she expected to come back with notebooks and tapes full of observations about the Indigenous Wari' people—but not with a new father. In Paletó and Me, Vilaça shares her life with her adoptive Wari' family, and the profound personal transformations involved in becoming kin. Paletó—unfailingly charming, always prepared with a joke—shines with life in Vilaça's account of their unusual father-daughter relationship. Paletó was many things: he was a survivor, who lived through the arrival of violent invaders and diseases. He was a leader, who taught through laughter and care, spoke softly, yet was always ready to jump into the unknown. He could shift seamlessly between the roles of the observer and the observed, and in his visits to Rio de Janeiro, deconstructs urban social conventions with ease and wit. Begun the day after Paletó's death at the age of 85, Paletó and Me is a celebration of life, weaving together the author's own memories of learning the lifeways of Indigenous Amazonia with her father's testimony to Wari' persistence in the face of colonization. Speaking from the heart as both anthropologist and daughter, Vilaça offers an intimate look at Indigenous lives in Brazil over nearly a century.
Palimpsest: A Memoir
by Gore VidalPublished to celebrate his 70th birthday, the memoirs of the American writer, from his childhood as the grandson of a blind southern senator, through to the establishment of his literary career in 1964.