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Lynnee Breedlove's One Freak Show
by Lynn Breedlove"Breedlove has talent coming out of her ears."--Dodie Bellamy, San Francisco Chronicle"Uninhibited humor lends tender insight and perspective to a gender politics debate that often takes place in a fiercely contentious atmosphere."--Billy Tania, The San Francisco Bay Times"...Offers hilarious, gender-bending comedy that will spread much mirth among your LGBT friends."--Tucson WeeklyThrough the unusual vehicle of gender-bending comedy, Lynn Breedlove asks his audience, "Who truly owns and defines the body: self, family, or community?" Based on his critically acclaimed comedy performances, this laugh-out-loud collection of outrageous writing celebrates a lifelong defiance of categorization.With universal appeal, aimed at "Everyone who wants to be able to laugh at their preconceptions about themselves and others," the distinctive humor in Lynnee Breedlove's One Freak Show delightfully enlightens while challenging societal norms about love, identity, and community."Am I a man or a woman? What are you askin' me for . . . Do I look like I know?"Lambda Literary Award finalist Lynn Breedlove is known as lyricist and front thang for the queer punk band Tribe 8, and he is the author of the speed-driven bike messenger novel Godspeed. He has toured throughout the United States and Europe as a musician and comic performer. Winner of a Heritage Award for Creativity, Breedlove currently resides in San Francisco.
Lynzsea Sky: An American True Story
by Michael RozekLynzsea Sky, a twenty-something college student, tells the author her heartbreaking, disturbing, and culture-challenging life story. She speaks at first hesitantly, then with increasing clarity about sex, drugs, family life, education, tattoos, homelessness, her dreams of becoming a filmmaker, her brother's time in prison, and her mother's struggle with mental illness.<P><P>The book is just the conversation; the absence of anything else makes this a groundbreaking new form of nonfiction. The lean prose is void of stylistic hijinks, drawing the reader in without drawing attention to the writer.The author's first book is part of a planned series called American True Stories, all of which will be similarly dialogue based. Michael Rozek's work illuminates real American lives and gives a voice to people who often are overlooked by the mainstream media.Michael Rozek has written more than two thousand articles for various national magazines including Rolling Stone, Esquire, Sports Illustrated, and The Village Voice in a career spanning nearly forty years. He walked away from a lucrative free-lance career to publish the popular Rozek's Newsletter in the 1990s in response to the "fast food" journalism he saw increasingly creeping into American magazines. For more than a decade, Rozek and his wife Charlotte have struggled with homelessness and poverty, yet Rozek continues to talk to and write about everyday Americans with empathy and insight. This is his first book.
Lyotard: Philosophy, Politics and the Sublime (Continental Philosophy #Vol. 8)
by Hugh J. SilvermanFirst published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Lyric Eye: The Poetics of Twentieth-Century Surveillance
by Tyne Daile SumnerLyric Eye: The Poetics of Twentieth-Century Surveillance presents the first detailed study of the relationship between poetry and surveillance. It critically examines the close connection between American lyric poetry and a burgeoning U.S. state surveillance apparatus from 1920 to the 1960s. The book explores the myriad ways that poets—Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, W.H. Auden, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Sylvia Plath, Gertrude Stein, Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg and others—explored a developing and fraught environment in which the growing power of American investigative agencies, such as the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover, imposed new pressures on cultural discourse and personal identity. In analysing twentieth-century American poetry and its various ideas about "the self," Lyric Eye demonstrates the extent to which poetry and surveillance employ similar styles of information gathering such as observation, overhearing, imitation, abstraction, repurposing of language, subversion, fragmentation and symbolism. Ground-breaking and prescient, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature, politics, surveillance and intelligence studies, and digital humanities.
Lyrical Strains: Liberalism and Women's Poetry in Nineteenth-Century America
by Elissa ZellingerIn this book, Elissa Zellinger analyzes both political philosophy and poetic theory in order to chronicle the consolidation of the modern lyric and the liberal subject across the long nineteenth century. In the nineteenth-century United States, both liberalism and lyric sought self-definition by practicing techniques of exclusion. Liberalism was a political philosophy whose supposed universals were limited to white men and created by omitting women, the enslaved, and Native peoples. The conventions of poetic reception only redoubled the sense that liberal selfhood defined its boundaries by refusing raced and gendered others. Yet Zellinger argues that it is precisely the poetics of the excluded that offer insights into the dynamic processes that came to form the modern liberal and lyric subjects. She examines poets—Frances Sargent Osgood, Elizabeth Oakes Smith, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and E. Pauline Johnson—whose work uses lyric practices to contest the very assumptions about selfhood responsible for denying them the political and social freedoms enjoyed by full liberal subjects. In its consideration of politics and poetics, this project offers a new approach to genre and gender that will help shape the field of nineteenth-century American literary studies.
Lyricism as Educational Transformation: The Writing Identity of a Hip Hop Lyricist and Educator (Routledge Research in Literacy Education)
by Lamont Pretrell MuhammadThis volume explores the pedagogical and transformative potential of writing lyrics. Based on an autoethnographic study and inspired by Ivanič’s notion of writer identity, it explores how writing can nurture different aspects of students’ identity, allowing them to connect with and engage in their social and community background. Through an analysis of the author’s lived experiences as a Black male educator and author, Hip Hop lyricist, and curriculum writer, it details how the lyrics of Hip Hop artists served as educational experiences in his journey toward becoming a Hip Hop artist and educator, as well as how he developed his experiences into a template for his students to follow through programs such as Hip Hop Literacy.A unique and engaging exploration of lyricism, this book examines themes such as building positive classroom relationships, self-actualization, self-expression, skill acquisition, and culturally responsible pedagogy. It will be of interest to researchers and educators involved in alternative literacy practices, Hip Hop education, autoethnography, and curriculum studies.
Lytton Strachey and the Search for Modern Sexual Identity: The Last Eminent Victorian
by Julie Anne TaddeoExamine Lytton Strachey’s struggle to create a new homosexual identity and voice through his life and work!This study of Lytton Strachey, one of the neglected voices of early twentieth-century England, uses his life and work to re-evaluate early British modernism and the relationship between Strachey’s sexual rebellion and literature.A perfect ancillary textbook for courses in history, literature, and women’s studies, Lytton Strachey and the Search for Modern Sexual Identity: The Last Eminent Victorian contributes to the expanding field of queer studies from an historian’s perspective. It looks at homosexuality through the eyes of Lytton Strachey as opposed to the too-often analyzed Oscar Wilde and E.M. Forster. Questioning the idea that homosexuality is a “transgressive rebellion,” as Strachey as well as scholars on Bloomsbury have insisted, this volume focuses on the ongoing conflict between Strachey’s Victorian notions of class, gender, and race, and his desire to be modern.Linking Strachey’s life and work to the larger movement of English modernism, Lytton Strachey and the Search for Modern Sexual Identity examines: Strachey’s role at Cambridge before World War I how he created his version of homosexuality out of the Victorian tradition of male romantic friendship his relations with the British Empire as he constructed a rich fantasy life that rested on racial and class differences his friendships and rivalries with the women of Bloomsbury how Strachey’s use of sexuality, androgyny, and history defined (and undermined) his brand of modernismThis thoughtfully indexed, well-referenced volume looks at Strachey’s life, in the words of author Julie Anne Taddeo, “to illustrate some of the issues concerning his generation of Cambridge and Bloomsbury colleagues and how they battled the Victorian ideology, often without success.” It is an essential read for everyone interested in this fascinating chapter in literary (and queer) history.
Lyudmila and Natasha: Russian Lives
by Misha FriedmanThe photojournalist Misha Friedman is renowned for his efforts to capture life in contemporary Russia, documenting subjects as varied as political corruption, the dangers of coal mining, the tuberculosis epidemic, and the Bolshoi Ballet. In publications ranging from the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, and the New Yorker, Friedman’s grimly evocative black-and-white images—“intimate, behind-the-scenes photos” (Time)—have been credited with capturing moments of intense pathos, bleak existence, and human dignity. He has received multiple international awards for his “unflinching” lens and his intrepid reporting.<P><P> For his new collection of photographs, Lyudmila and Natasha, Friedman trains his lens on a gay couple living on Saint Petersburg, offering a series of intimate snapshots of their relationship as it unfolds over the course of a year. Faced with a hostile political climate, financial difficulties, and often unstable living arrangements, the subjects of this stunning book reveal the possibilities for love in the most uncertain of times. With the fabled city of Saint Petersburg as its backdrop, Lyudmila and Natasha powerfully evokes both a vital place and the people who call it home.
Lágrimas de sal
by Lidia Tilotta Pietro BartoloLágrimas de sal es el conmovedor relato de la actual tragedia migratoria que se vive en las aguas del mediterráneo, pero es ante todo una historia de coraje, compromiso, dignidad y amor que no dejará a nadie indiferente. A los dieciséis años Pietro Bartolo salió de pesca con su padre en el pequeño barco cuyo trabajo diario llenaba los platos de unas pocas familias de Lampedusa. En un descuido, Pietro cayó al mar y estuvo a punto de morir ahogado; esa experiencia le marcó de por vida. Tras terminar los estudios de Medicina, decidió volver a la isla para ayudar a los inmigrantes que llegan a sus costas desafiando ese mismo mar. Hoy lleva más de veinticinco años ejerciendo su trabajo: Bartolo es el médico que los acoge, los atiende, cuida de ellos, pero sobre todo, los escucha. Estas páginas son la narración de su historia a través de una serie de instantáneas que retratan casos reales de las mujeres, los hombres y los niñosque llegan a Lampedusa en las peores condiciones imaginables, huyendo de la guerra y del hambre; cruzando desiertos en viajes inhumanos, viendo morir a sus familiares o compañeros. Y a pesar de todo, no se dan por vencidos, deseosos de empezar una nueva vida en Europa, porque lo que dejan atrás es peor que cualquier escenario alternativo. Reseñas:«Con toda su humanidad, Bartolo te hace comprender la necesidad de saber dar acogida.»La Reppublica «Un nudo en el estómago.»The Guardian
L’Auberge espagnole: European Youth on Film (Cinema and Youth Cultures)
by Ben McCannPart romantic comedy, part sitcom, part social drama, L’Auberge espagnole (The Spanish Apartment) recounts a familiar ‘youth’ ritual – the move from university to ‘the real world’, the often complicated personal, romantic and cultural encounters that ensue, and the moral uncertainties that characterize that key biological and physiological developmental stage between adolescence and adulthood. French director Cédric Klapisch showcases the extraordinary colour and beauty of Barcelona’s architecture, and places his hero Xavier at the heart of this smartly written film, which makes a series of wry observations on educational exchange programmes, multi-culturalism, and the direction European youth might take in the twenty-first century. This book addresses the topic of Europe’s youth generation, paying particular attention to the ways in which the film depicts the transition from adolescence to adulthood as allegory for the experiences of European society as it moves through periods of readjustment towards uncertain futures. It also looks into the ecosystem of contemporary French cinema, the Erasmus programme and its influence on youth experience, and identity politics in relation to ‘nationhood’ and ‘European-ness’. The book also examines the two sequels to the film – Russian Dolls (2005) and Chinese Puzzle (2013) – and how the complications faced by the main characters across the trilogy suggest that the move to adulthood is a never-ending process of growing up and reaching a level of self-actualization.
L’autre désinstitutionnalisation: Déficience intellectuelle à l’Hôpital Saint-Michel-Archange de Québec, 1951-2000 (21e – Société, histoire et cultures)
by M Hubert Larose-DutilL’autre désinstitutionnalisation explore l’histoire de la désinstitutionnalisation de la déficience intellectuelle au Québec. Depuis les années 1960, ce vaste mouvement de réforme a chamboulé l’organisation des services psychiatriques. Les longues périodes d’hospitalisation, vivement critiquées, devaient prendre fin. Désormais, l’institution ne serait plus un milieu de vie, mais bien seulement un lieu de traitement. Alors que la réforme bat son plein, les patientes et patients ayant un diagnostic de déficience intellectuelle tardent à quitter l’hôpital. D’année en année, ils représentent une part de plus en plus grande de la population institutionnalisée. À l’Hôpital Saint-Michel-Archange de Beauport, en banlieue de Québec, 19 % des patients et patientes avaient un diagnostic de déficience intellectuelle en 1970 contre 15 % en 1960.Comment furent vécues ces années de réforme par cette population dont la réintégration se fit attendre ? L’autre désinstitutionnalisation répond à cette question en plongeant dans les dossiers médicaux de quatorze patientes et patients de l’Hôpital Saint-Michel-Archange. C’est par les traces que laissèrent dans les archives de cet établissement Claude, Gaston, André, Bernard, Juliette, Monique, Denise, Raymond, Marie, Serge, Fernand, Réal, Marguerite et Pierre que cet ouvrage entend contribuer à une histoire par le bas de la déficience intellectuelle.
L’aventure de la recherche qualitative: Du questionnement à la rédaction scientifique (Praxis)
by Dominique Robert Professeure Stéphanie GaudetDans ce manuel, la recherche qualitative est présentée comme un processus itératif plutôt que linéaire. Il s’agit du compagnon de voyage idéal pour tout chercheur en sciences sociales afin de le guider du début du processus de recherche qualitative jusqu’à sa toute fin, soit à l’étape de rédaction du mémoire, de la thèse ou du rapport de recherche. Les auteures proposent une réflexion sur les étapes conceptuelles, méthodologiques et éthiques du processus de création du savoir pour ensuite se pencher sur l’analyse du matériel empirique. L’ouvrage a d’ailleurs recours à des applications concrètes pour démontrer la manière dont les décisions méthodologiques se traduisent dans la pratique. Malgré l’ouverture et la flexibilité de leur approche, les auteures ne favorisent pas une posture relativiste, mais traitent de l’importance de répondre à des critères de validité explicites et à des écueils à éviter en analyse qualitative. Style engageant, conseils pratiques, illustrations claires, exemples variés et synthèses composent ce manuel qui vise à concrétiser le processus de recherche qualitative, souvent abstrait pour le chercheur novice. Publié en français
L’incontournable caste des femmes: Histoire des services de santé au Québec et au Canada (Santé et société)
by Marie-Claude ThifaultSages-femmes, religieuses, sœurs hospitalières, bénévoles, infirmières de la Croix-Rouge, de colonie, militaires, en psychiatrie, assistantes sociales et professionnelles de la santé sont ici sujets de l’histoire dans le large champ des services de santé au Québec et au Canada. Plus qu’un sujet, il est ici question d’une extraordinaire caste. Soucieux de fermer le fossé linguistique qui divisa non seulement la pratique, mais aussi l’historiographie de la médecine au Canada et au Québec, l’ouvrage collige des recherches récentes dans le champ historique de la santé réalisées par des historiennes et des historiens francophones et anglophones. Une invitation à découvrir sur plus d’un siècle la place prédominante de plusieurs générations de femmes qui ont participé activement au développement du système de santé au Québec et au Canada. Pubilshed in French.
L’économie politique d’un État postcolonial
by Shahid Hussain RajaL’économie politique d’un État postcolonial: L’histoire du développement économique du Pakistan par Shahid Hussain Raja Comment l’histoire coloniale en interaction avec les politiques économiques néocoloniales influence le contenu et le cours du développement des états postcoloniaux. Le Pakistan était un état sous-développé typique quand il a amorcé son voyage en tant qu'État-nation indépendant le 14 août 1947, confronté à une myriade de défis allant de la menace à son existence même à la révolution des attentes croissantes des masses d’une part et l’accès au statut d’état indépendant, confiant et prospère dans le concert des nations de l'autre. En faisant face à ces défis avec audace, le nouvel État commençait son voyage littéralement à partir de rien. Du statut de l’un des pays les moins développés du monde à son accession à l’indépendance, l'économie pakistanaise a connu une croissance assez impressionnante de 6% par an au cours des quatre premières décennies son existence en tant que nation. Malgré les hauts et les bas, le Pakistan est désormais la 26ème plus grande économie du monde en termes de parité de pouvoir d'achat (44ème en termes de PIB nominal). Avec un revenu par habitant de 4550 $ US, le Pakistan occupe la 140e place à ce chapitre dans le monde, grâce à sa population croissante de 200 millions de personnes. Le Pakistan fait partie des ‘Next Eleven’, les onze pays qui, avec les BRICs, ont le potentiel de devenir l'une des grandes économies du monde au cours du 21ème siècle. Selon Goldman Sachs, en 2050 avec un PIB estimé à 3,33 milliards de dollars, le Pakistan devrait devenir la 18ème plus grande économie mondiale.
M Is for Mystical: A Book for Mini Mystics
by Emma MildonMindfulness is as easy as ABC: make learning the alphabet a portal to learning about the world with bestselling author Emma Mildon&’s illuminating picture book. In a time when mindfulness is becoming mainstream and parents are more aware of the options available to them, they are seeking content to educate and empower their children. This is largely reflected in the huge increase in traffic, demand, and engagement of online content serving holistic parenting insights and new age tips for the new age parent. So, why not make mindfulness as easy as learning your ABCs? An A-Z of spirituality in simple explanations and fun, engaging exercises for kids—yoga, breathwork, oils to help calm or energize, mudras, to crystals—M Is for Mystical offers tools to transform little lives.
M. N. Roy: Marxism and Colonial Cosmopolitanism (Pathfinders Ser.)
by Kris ManjapraThis is a work of South Asian intellectual history written from a transnational perspective and based on the life and work of M.N. Roy, one of India’s most formidable Marxist intellectuals. Swadeshi revolutionary, co-founder of the Mexican Communist Party, member of the Communist International Presidium, and a major force in the rise of Indian communism, M.N. Roy was a colonial cosmopolitan icon of the interwar years. Exploring the intellectual production of this important thinker, this book traces the historical context of his ideas from 19th-century Bengal to Weimar Germany, through the tumultuous period of world politics in the 1930s and 1940s, and on to post-Independence India. In this book the author makes a number of valuable theoretical contributions. He argues for the importance of conceiving the ‘deterritorial’ zones of thought and action through which Indian anti-colonial political thought operated, and advances a new periodisation for Swadeshi on this basis. He also argues against viewing ‘international communism’ of the 1920s as a single monolith by highlighting the fractures and contestations that influenced colonial politics worldwide.A fresh and insightful perspective on the history of India in the interwar years, this book will be of great interest to scholars and students of the modern history of South and East Asia, America and Europe, and to those interested in anti-colonial struggles, Communist politics and trajectories of Marxist thought in the 20th century.
M. Night Shyamalan: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series)
by Adrian GmelchAs a visionary and distinctive filmmaker, M. Night Shyamalan (b. 1970) has consistently garnered mixed reception of his work by critics and audiences alike. After the release of The Sixth Sense, one of the most successful films from the turn of the millennium, Shyamalan promptly received two Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. Since then, lauded films such as Unbreakable (2000), Signs (2002), and Split (2016) have alternated with less successful and highly criticized works, such as Lady in the Water (2006), The Last Airbender (2010), and After Earth (2013). Yet despite his polarizing aesthetics and uneven career, for two decades Shyamalan has upheld his cinematic style and remained an influential force in international film. With interviews spanning from 1993 through 2022, M. Night Shyamalan: Interviews is the first survey of conversations with the filmmaker to cover the broad spectrum of his life and career. This collection includes interviews with renowned American film journalists such as Jeff Giles, Carrie Rickey, and Stephen Pizzello, and reflects the intense international interest in Shyamalan’s work by including newly translated conversations from French and German sources. Through its thorough and careful curation, this volume is bound to shake up readers’ perceptions of M. Night Shyamalan.
M.K. Gandhi, Media, Politics and Society: New Perspectives (Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media)
by Chandrika KaulThis Palgrave Pivot showcases new research on M.K. Gandhi or Mahatma Gandhi, and the press, telegraphs, broadcasting and popular culture. Despite Gandhi being the subject of numerous books over the past century, there are few that put media centre stage. This edited collection explores both Gandhi’s own approach to the press, but also how different advocacy groups and the media, within India and overseas, engaged with Gandhi, his ideology and methodology, to further their own causes. The timeframe of the book extends from the late nineteenth century up to the present, and the case studies draw inspiration from a number of disciplinary approaches.
M4M: For an Hour or Forever--the Gay Man's Guide to Finding Love Online
by Jack MauroAND -- FOR BETTER OR WORSE -- THERE'S NO LAST CALL. Millions of gay men are searching for love. And the vast majority of them are now searching online. But while the Internet helps bring people together, its anonymity, lack of rules, and easy stage for false advertising often result in disappointing matches. But the right guy is out there. Chances are good that every gay man could find exactly what he's looking for online . . . if he only knew where and how to look. In M4M, Jack Mauro offers candid, witty advice on every aspect of the gay online-dating arena -- how to (and how not to) compose a successful profile, what kind of photo to use ("normal," naked, and everything in between), the art of instant messaging (from the basics to advanced seduction), "straight" men in gay chats, navigating the usual suspects found in seemingly every chat room, taking it offline, and much, much more. Whether the goal is a quick fling or a lifelong partnership, M4M gives both the frustrated online veteran and the curious newbie everything they need to know to get them away from the keyboard and into a satisfying real-life connection.
MAHAD: The Making of the First Dalit Revolt
by Anand TeltumbdeMAHAD has an iconic place in Dalit universe. Associated with legendary personality of Dr Ambedkar, the struggle of Dalits at Mahad for asserting their rights to access the public tank, the Chavadar tank, arguably ranks among the first civil rights struggles in history. Unfortunately, it remained largely confined to folklore; its detailed account still remaining fragmented and in mostly Marathi. This book provides a comprehensive account, using many sources including the archival materials, of the two conferences in Mahad in 1927 that marks the beginning of the Dalit movement under Babasaheb Ambedkar to a wider readership in English. It tries to frame it within its historical context which will help people comprehend its historical significance. It also seeks to draw certain lessons for the future course of the Dalit movement. The book additionally contains the original account of Comrade R. B. MORE, the organizer of the first conference at Mahad.
MGM (The Routledge Hollywood Centenary Series)
by Tino BalioThe winner of the 2019 Peter C. Rollins Book Award This is the first comprehensive history of MGM from its origins in 1905 to the present. Following a straightforward chronology corresponding to specific periods of film industry history, each chapter describes how successive managements adjusted their production strategies and business practices in response to evolving industrial and market conditions. As the production subsidiary of the Loew’s Inc. theatre chain, MGM spent lavishly on its pictures and injected them with plenty of star power. The practice helped sustain MGM’s preeminent position during the heyday of Hollywood. But MGM was a conservative company and watched as other studios innovated with sound and widescreen, adjusted to television, and welcomed independent producers. By the 1960s, the company, sans its theatre chain, was in decline and was ripe for a takeover. A defining moment occurred in 1969, when Kirk Kerkorian, a Las Vegas entrepreneur, made a successful bid for the company. There followed a tumultuous thirty-six-year period when Kerkorian bought and sold MGM three times. Meanwhile, MGM never regained its former status and has functioned as a second-tier company to this day. Focusing on MGM’s top talent – such as Louis B. Mayer, Irving Thalberg, David O. Selznick, and Arthur Freed; directors King Vidor and Vincente Minnelli; and stars of the screen Greta Garbo, Judy Garland, Clark Gable, and Mickey Rooney – and award-winning films, this book highlights the studio’s artistic achievements and status within the industry.
MGNREGA: Employment, Wages And Migration In Rural India
by Parmod Kumar Dipanwita ChakrabortyThe Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) was enacted in India with the multiple objectives of providing employment in a rights-based framework, addressing rural poverty, checking migration, and building rural infrastructure. As such, every year around 15–20 per cent of households in India overall and 30 per cent in rural India receive some form of employment share under the MGNREGA programme. This volume looks at various aspect of the scheme, its linkage with employment, agricultural wages, livelihood and food security, gender issues, and migration in rural India. It also discusses challenges in implementation, hurdles and the relative successes of the scheme. Based on primary survey data from 16 major states in the country, the findings of the study provide key insights into MGNREGA and assess the implications for other welfare-oriented programmes. Rich in empirical data, this volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of political economy, economics, agriculture, rural development and sociology, as well as policymakers and nongovernmental organisations.
MICRONATIONS
by Chad Thompson Kathy CeceriFor anyone who's ever dreamed of ruling over their own empire, here's your chance! Micronations are imaginary countries that have a lot of the same things as real ones: laws, customs, history, and their own flags, coins, and postage stamps. Micronations: Invent Your Own Country and Culture takes readers step-by-step to create their own unique realm, using examples from real nations, micronations, and fictional lands. What makes a country a country? What symbols and systems define a country and help it function? Learn about geography and government, technology and the environment, art and culture, and the literary device of "world-building" used in works like The Hobbit and Harry Potter.Activities show readers how to create authentic-looking artifacts and documents such as maps, currency, passports, a declaration of independence, and a constitution. Kids get to invent their own language, music, games, clothing, food, and holidays to fit their micronation's tradition. Whether they create a land of time travel where every city exists in a different epoch or an underwater monarchy (motto: "Bubbles, bubbles and more bubbles") whose chief export is fish, Micronations: Invent Your Own Country and Culture will engage kids' imagination and teach make-believe rulers how the real world works.
MILF: Motherhood, Identity, Love and F*ckery
by Paloma Faith***THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'The most raw, funny and liberating look at what it is to be a woman.' – FEARNE COTTON‘Paloma is a storyteller like no other. Empowering and healing – a whole generation of women are about to feel SEEN!’ – GIOVANNA FLETCHER 'Gritty, funny, poetic and freeing.' – ANNA MATHUR, Psychotherapist and bestselling author'A tremendous book, both entertaining and important' – The i newspaperCan women 'have it all'?What does it mean to be a woman and a mother in the modern age?In this passionate, funny and fierce polemic, Paloma Faith delves deep into theissues that face women today, from puberty and sexual awakenings, to battlingthrough the expectations of patriarchy and the Supermum myth.Infused with Paloma's characteristic humour, and raw honesty about thechallenges of IVF and the early years of motherhood, this book is a beautifulcelebration of women's work and the invisible load women carry. Moving fromquestions around identity and how motherhood impacts on that, to what it evenmeans to be a 'good mother', how we need to embrace messiness,imperfection and the bittersweet pleasures of being 'selfish', and puttingourselves first.Paloma invites us into her own coming of age and relationship with her mum, toexplore how our bonds with our children evolve into adulthood. We see aglimpse of the complexities and joys of Paloma's experience of jugglingromantic love, heartbreak and dating with the demands of motherhood.Published by Happy Place Books
MINT-Fächer erfolgreich studieren
by Rainer StornSie haben vor, ein MINT-Fach zu studieren und dabei das bestmögliche Ergebnis für Ihren Einsatz zu bekommen? Dann erfahren Sie hier, wie die richtigen Verhaltensweisen, Lernstrategien und organisatorischen Feinheiten Ihr Studienergebnis verbessern können, indem Sie die richtigen Dinge tun und keine Energie auf Unnötiges verschwenden. Lernen Sie:Was Sie tun müssen, wenn Sie in der Vorlesung abgehängt werdenWie Sie optimal lernen und das nötige Wissen effizient in Ihrem Gedächtnis verankernWie Sie sich strategisch auf eine Prüfung vorbereiten, so wie ein Spitzensportler auf die MeisterschaftWie Sie in der Prüfung die Nervosität dämpfen und die Prüfungszeit am effizientesten nutzenWie Sie Ihre Abschlussarbeit systematisch zu guter Qualität führenWie Sie Ihre Arbeit interessant und überzeugend präsentierenUnd welche Dinge im Vorstellungsgespräch besonders wichtig sind Dieses Buch wird Ihnen nicht nur helfen, Ihr Studium so effizient wie möglich zu gestalten. Es zeigt Ihnen auch zahlreiche Vorgehensweisen, die während Ihrer gesamten beruflichen Laufbahn wichtig sein werden und in vielen Fällen für Ihren Erfolg sogar unabdingbar sind.