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A Farewell to Arms, Legs & Jockstraps: A Sportswriter's Memoir
by Diane K. Shah“Diane Shah was a boots-on-the-ground female sports reporter in the Cro-Magnon 1970s and brings it all back in this hilarious, well-crafted book.” —Dan Shaughnessy, Boston Globe sports columnist and New York Times bestselling authorStrike fast, strike hard—whether it’s scoring a homerun or front-page news, Diane K. Shah, former sports columnist, knows how to grab the best story.In her memoir A Farewell to Arms, Legs, and Jockstraps, follow Diane’s escapades, from interviews with a tipsy Mickey Mantle, to sneaking into off-limits Republican galas, dining with Frank Sinatra, flying a plane with Dennis Quaid, and countless other adventures where she wields her tape recorder and a tireless drive for more.From skirting KGB agents while covering the Cold War Olympics to hunting down the three mechanical sharks starring in Jaws, Diane’s experiences are filled with real heart and a tongue-in-cheek attitude. An insightful look into the difficulties of navigating a male-dominated profession, A Farewell to Arms, Legs, and Jockstraps offers rich retellings and behind-the-scenes details of stories of a trailblazing career and the prejudices facing female sportswriters during the sixties and seventies.“Impossibly elegant, and the most fun ever. The only thing better than reading Diane K. Shah’s memoir was, I suppose, living it.” —Sally Jenkins, columnist and feature writer, Washington Post“Diane’s memoir is just like her columns—smart, funny, enlightening—just like her. Until reading it, I never really knew all the challenges she dealt with. She broke ground but never acted like it. I was lucky to work with the first female sports columnist in the country.” —Ken Gurnick, LA Dodgers correspondent for MLB.com
20 Best Burger Recipes (Betty Crocker eBook Minis)
by Betty CrockerPlease everyone with this collection of beef, pork, chicken, turkey, fish, and meatless burgers from Betty!Fire up the grill for this delectable collection of burger recipes from Betty Crocker! Try a full-flavored, meaty classic like Killer Steak Burgers with Black Pepper Mayo and Crispy Onions or Meatball Provolone Burgers with Garlic Parmesan Aioli. Or mix things up with super-tasty Asian Chicken Burgers or Mushroom-Swiss Veggie Burgers for your next party. From beef and pork-filled patties to meatless varieties, find the perfect burger for every occasion—and a photo with each recipe!
The Trembling Earth Contract (The Joe Gall Mysteries #10)
by Philip AtleeAn agent goes undercover in a militant group in this wild action-adventure tale from an Edgar Award finalist. Freelance operative Joe Gall has been asked to infiltrate the Republic of New Africa, a black militant group—not an easy assignment for a white guy. Using pills to change his skin tone, he goes undercover and joins the organization—with some unexpected results . . . &“I admire Philip Atlee&’s writing tremendously.&” —Raymond Chandler &“[Philip Atlee is] the John D. MacDonald of espionage fiction.&” — Larry McMurtry, The New York Times
The ABC of Relativity (Routledge Classics Ser.)
by Bertrand RussellThe Nobel Prize winner offers &“an ideal introduction to the theories of special and general relativity&” in clear, comprehensible language(Nature). A renowned mathematician and philosopher, and as well as recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Bertrand Russell was acclaimed for his ability to address complex subjects in accessible ways. In this classic reference book, Russell delves into physics and relativity, helping everyday readers grasp the genius and implications of Albert Einstein&’s theory. When originally published in 1925, The ABC of Relativity brought science to a more general audience—and it continues to do so in the twenty-first century. &“A mind of dazzling brilliance.&” —The New York Times
The Iron Spiders (The Miles Standish Rice Mysteries #2)
by Baynard KendrickA bizarre death on an isolated Florida island requires a unique detective in this Golden Age mystery by the author of the Duncan Maclain series.Young electrical engineer Donald Buchanan is excited to be working again—and to spend his winter in Florida instead of New York. Instead of waiting tables, he&’ll be running a small power plant on Broken Heart Key, a private island owned by eccentric billionaire Aaron Tuckerton. Never mind his boss&’s strange warning about people wanting him dead . . .But trouble quickly follows Don to paradise when a servant mysteriously jumps to her death in what she should&’ve known were barracuda-infested waters. Then a mysterious necklace known as &“the Iron Spider&” is discovered in her room. Don believes there needs to be an inquest, but Aaron phones for a special investigator instead.The next morning, Don is greeted by Miles Standish Rice. With his schoolboy attitude and voracious appetite, &“Stan&” may not seem like the type to bring a killer to justice. But as things take a turn for the deadlier on Broken Heart Key, it becomes clear to Don the PI is his only chance of getting off the island alive . . .Baynard Kendrick was a founding member of the Mystery Writers of America, the holder of the organization&’s first membership card, and a winner of its Grand Master Award.
The Institutionalization of Educational Cinema: North America and Europe in the 1910s and 1920s
by Marina Dahlquist and Joel FrykholmEssays by scholars on how film has been used by schools, libraries, governments, and organizations for educational purposes.The potential of films to educate has been crucial for the development of cinema intended to influence culture, and is as important as conceptions of film as a form of art, science, industry, or entertainment. Using the concept of institutionalization as a heuristic for generating new approaches to the history of educational cinema, contributors to this volume study the co-evolving discourses, cultural practices, technical standards, and institutional frameworks that transformed educational cinema from a convincing idea into an enduring genre. The Institutionalization of Educational Cinema examines the methods of production, distribution, and exhibition established for the use of educational films within institutions—such as schools, libraries, and industrial settings—in various national and international contexts and takes a close look at the networks of organizations, individuals, and government agencies that were created as a result of these films’ circulation. Through case studies of educational cinemas in different North American and European countries that explore various modes of institutionalization of educational film, this book highlights the wide range of vested interests that framed the birth of educational and nontheatrical cinema.
The Pan-Industrial Revolution: How New Manufacturing Titans Will Transform the World
by Richard D'AveniThe acclaimed author of Strategic Capitalism presents a provocative new vision of global industry in the age of 3-D printing: &“essential business reading&” (Kirkus, starred review). With books like Hypercompetition and Strategic Capitalism, Richard D&’Aveni has established himself as a business strategist of uncanny prescience. In The Pan-Industrial Revolution, he demonstrates how the advent of industrial‑scale 3‑D printing is already happening under the radar, and that it will have a far‑reaching impact that most corporate and governmental leaders have yet to anticipate or understand. 3-D printing, now called additive manufacturing, has moved far beyond a desktop technology used by hobbyists to churn out trinkets and toys. In this eye-opening account, D&’Aveni reveals how recent breakthroughs have been secretly adapted by Fortune 500 companies to revolutionize the manufacture jet engines, airplanes, automobiles, and so much more. D&’Aveni explains how this technology will transform the landscape of manufacturing, and the dramatic effect this change will have on the world economy. A handful of massively powerful corporations—what D&’Aveni calls pan‑industrials—will become as important as any tech giant in re-structuring the global order.
Great Food for Kids: Delicious Recipes & Fabulous Facts to Turn You into a Kitchen Whizz
by Jenny ChandlerChildren can learn valuable and rewarding cooking skills with this collection of fifty recipes for family-friendly foods.Ideal for children aged seven up, this book allows kids to put a tasty dinner on the table (with a bit of help from a grown up for the first few years) and gives them a few exotic dishes for showing off.With easy-to-follow recipes, step-by-step photographs, colorful illustrations, and fun facts about food, this cookbook will appeal to any kid interested in learning to cook delicious and nutritious dishes.The recipes span breakfast favorites (like homemade granola and scrambled eggs), tasty snacks (including guacamole, hummus, and pita chips), and plenty of dishes for lunch and dinner—soups, stews, stir-fries, pastas, grilled salmon and steak, and more.Helpful tips, such as how to shop and what to do with spices, along with practical instruction on cooking techniques round out this comprehensive and inspiring book.
The Baseball Whisperer: A Small-Town Coach Who Shaped Big League Dreams
by Michael Tackett&“Field of Dreams was only superficially about baseball. It was really about life. So is The Baseball Whisperer . . . with the added advantage of being all true.&” —MLB.com From an award-winning journalist, this is the story of a legendary coach and the professional-caliber baseball program he built in America's heartland, where boys would come summer after summer to be molded into ballplayers—and men. Clarinda, Iowa, population 5,000, sits two hours from anything. There, between the cornfields and hog yards, is a ball field with a bronze bust of a man named Merl Eberly, who specialized in second chances and lost causes. The statue was a gift from one of Merl&’s original long-shot projects, a skinny kid from the Los Angeles ghetto who would one day become a beloved Hall-of-Fame shortstop: Ozzie Smith. The Baseball Whisperer traces the &“deeply engrossing&” story (Booklist, starred review) of Merl Eberly and his Clarinda A&’s baseball team, which he tended over the course of five decades, transforming them from a town team to a collegiate summer league powerhouse. Along with Ozzie Smith, future manager Bud Black, and star player Von Hayes, Merl developed scores of major league players. In the process, he taught them to be men, insisting on hard work, integrity, and responsibility. More than a book about ballplayers in the nation&’s agricultural heartland, The Baseball Whisperer is the story of a coach who put character and dedication first, reminding us of the best, purest form of baseball excellence. &“Mike Tackett, talented journalist and baseball lover, has hit the sweet spot of the bat with his first book. The Baseball Whisperer takes one coach and one small Iowa town and illuminates both a sport and the human spirit.&” —David Maraniss, New York Times-bestselling author of Clemente and When Pride Still Mattered
Memory, Politics, and Yugoslav Migrations to Postwar Germany
by Christopher A. MolnarThis historical study &“persuasively links the reception of Yugoslav migrants to West Germany&’s shifting relationship to the Nazi past . . . essential reading&” (Tara Zahra, author of The Great Departure). During Europe&’s 2015 refugee crisis, more than a hundred thousand asylum seekers from the western Balkans sought refuge in Germany. This was nothing new, however. Immigrants from the Balkans have streamed into West Germany in massive numbers since the end of the Second World War. In fact, Yugoslavs became the country&’s second largest immigrant group. Yet their impact has received little critical attention until now. Memory, Politics, and Yugoslav Migrations to Postwar Germany tells the story of how Germans received the many thousands of Yugoslavs who migrated to Germany as political emigres, labor migrants, asylum seekers, and war refugees from 1945 to the mid-1990s. With a particular focus on German policies and attitudes toward immigrants, Christopher Molnar argues that considerations of race played only a marginal role in German attitudes and policies towards Yugoslavs. Rather, the history of Yugoslavs in postwar Germany was most profoundly shaped by the memory of World War II and the shifting Cold War context. Molnar shows how immigration was a central aspect of how Germany negotiated the meaning and legacy of the war.
Pilgrims of Woodstock: Never-Before-Seen Photos
by John KaneIntimate portraits by photojournalist Richard F. Bellak of the musical festival&’s counterculture attendees celebrating peace, love, and rock and roll. In the summer of 1969, 400,000 people from across the country came together and redefined the music scene forever. Though the legacy and lore of Woodstock lives on in the memory of its attendees, a new generation can experience the real and unedited festival through Richard Bellak&’s never-before-seen photographs and John Kane&’s incredible new interviews.Pilgrims of Woodstock offers a vivid and intimate portrait of the overlooked stars of the festival: the everyday people who made Woodstock unforgettable. The photographs and interviews capture attendees&’ profound personal moments across hundreds of acres of farmland, as they meditated, played music, cooked food at night, and congregated around campfires. For three days, they helped and relied on each other in peace and harmony. For most, it was a life-changing event. Now, after the 50th anniversary of the famed festival, relive their experiences firsthand in Pilgrims of Woodstock.
The Kowloon Contract (The Joe Gall Mysteries #19)
by Philip AtleeOperative Joe Gall heads to Hong Kong to identify a bizarre new weapon and the mysterious forces behind it in this thriller from the Edgar Award nominee. What could&’ve caused the sudden, multiple miscarriages among the ordinary, healthy women working at an innocuous Asian company? To solve the mystery, Joe Gall must head to Hong Kong—where he will tangle with a Taiwanese businessman and Soviet agents to uncover a complicated conspiracy . . . &“[Philip Atlee is] the John D. MacDonald of espionage fiction.&” —Larry McMurtry, The New York Times &“I admire Philip Atlee&’s writing tremendously.&” —Raymond Chandler
Clear and Present Danger (The Duncan Maclain Mysteries #10)
by Baynard KendrickA blind PI&’s latest case involves two impostors, one uranium mine, and murder in this mystery by the author of Reservations for Death.Following the loss of his sight in World War I, ex–intelligence officer Capt. Duncan Maclain honed his other senses and became one of the most successful and well-known private investigators in New York City . . . The man following Captain Maclain home from the Marshall Chess Club is only the beginning of the detective&’s troubles. Later that day, Maclain has an appointment with Pat Ashley and Henry Wilkins, the two operators of New York state&’s only uranium mine, but the wintery weather causes a car crash that sends Ashley to an early grave and Wilkins to the emergency room. Hoping to speak with Wilkins the moment he comes to, Maclain rushes to his bedside, but a clever assassin prevents Wilkins from ever uttering another word.The next morning, the FBI takes Maclain across town for a rude awakening: the two dead men were not Ashley and Wilkins—and Maclain needs to stay away from this case. Unfortunately, that&’s easier said than done, considering who&’s waiting for him back home . . . Baynard Kendrick was the first American to enlist in the Canadian Army during World War I. While in London, he met a blind English soldier whose observational skills inspired the character of Capt. Duncan Maclain. Kendrick was also a founding member of the Mystery Writers of America and winner of the organization&’s Grand Master Award
Out of Control (The Duncan Maclain Mysteries #6)
by Baynard KendrickMurder disrupts a blind PI&’s honeymoon in this mix of detective novel and psychological thriller from the author of Death Knell.The wife of a wealthy Tennessee mining tycoon, Marcia Fillmore has worked hard to get to where she is in life. She&’s also a woman with a dark past, one she&’s put behind her . . . until a man walks into the Black Pigeon in Gatlinburg and takes a seat beside her at the bar. Marcia doesn&’t take kindly to him threatening her with blackmail, following her home—or seeing her kiss a man who isn&’t her husband. Everything could fall apart. No, something must be done . . .A former intelligence officer in the army, Capt. Duncan Maclain lost his sight in World War I. Since then, he&’s honed his other senses and become a successful private detective whose unique skills are sought after frequently. So it&’s no surprise when he arrives in the Smoky Mountains with his new bride and the sheriff asks him for help investigating a suspicious car wreck. With evidence that points to foul play, the sheriff and Maclain know they&’ve got a killer to catch—but she&’s not going to go down without a fight . . .&“Ingenious.&” —Kirkus Reviews&“The most completely evil and yet interesting woman you&’ve read about in a long time . . . Superlative!&” —Chicago Daily News Baynard Kendrick was the first American to enlist in the Canadian Army during World War I. While in London, he met a blind English soldier whose observational skills inspired the character of Capt. Duncan Maclain. Kendrick was also a founding member of the Mystery Writers of America and winner of the organization&’s Grand Master Award.
Being and Logos: Reading the Platonic Dialogues (The\collected Writings Of John Sallis Ser. #I, 2)
by John SallisAn exercise in the careful reading of the dialogues in their originary character.“Being and Logos is . . . a philosophical adventure of rare inspiration . . . Its power to illuminate the text . . . its ecumenicity of inspiration, its methodological rigor, its originality, and its philosophical profundity—all together make it one of the few philosophical interpretations that the philosopher will want to re-read along with the dialogues themselves. A superadded gift is the author’s prose, which is a model of lucidity and grace.” —International Philosophical Quarterly“Being and Logos is highly recommended for those who wish to learn how a thoughtful scholar approaches Platonic dialogues as well as for those who wish to consider a serious discussion of some basic themes in the dialogues.” —The Academic Reviewer
Prepare for Anything Survival Manual: 338 Essential Skills (Outdoor Life)
by Tim MacWelch The Editors of Outdoor LifeThe New York Times bestselling author and survival expert covers hundreds of skills and strategies to help you be ready when disaster strikes.If you’re concerned that the world is becoming increasingly unstable, you are far from alone. From natural disasters to terrorism, pandemics, and economic collapse, there are a whole host of catastrophic events to be concerned about. And preparing for the worst is going mainstream.Outdoor Life: Prepare for Anything will take you through a wide range of potential threats and how you can prepare for them, from having the right gear on hand to knowing what to do in the wake of a disaster. This is the book for the growing prepper movement, with hands-on hints, easy-to-use checklists, and engaging first-person stories to break down the crucial do’s and don’ts, educate yourself on various threats, and help to ensure that you ride out whatever Mother Nature, the government, foreign powers, or modern society can throw at you.Includes vital information on:• How to prep for a natural disaster, economic collapse, or societal restructuring.• What should be stocked in your house, pantry, basement, bunker, and go-bag.• How to handle yourself and your family in the wake of disaster, from creating a plan to leading your neighborhood watch.
The Charles Dickens Collection Volume Three: Little Dorrit, David Copperfield, and Hard Times
by Charles DickensThree of the brilliant novelist&’s best-known classics in one volume, offering a wide-ranging portrait of nineteenth-century British society. A perfect introduction to the world of Charles Dickens, this volume contains three of his greatest novels. Little Dorrit: An epic tale of two families in Victorian England, one wealthy and the other living in a debtors&’ prison, and their shifting fortunes. David Copperfield: A sprawling masterpiece—and the inspiration for the new film starring Dev Patel—about a boy making his way to manhood in nineteenth-century England.Hard Times: A young girl from the circus world is taken in by a repressed school superintendent and his family in a dreary mill town—and brings unexpected change to their lives.
The Blessing: A Memoir
by Gregory OrrAn acclaimed poet’s “gripping” memoir of an accidental tragedy, a childhood haunted by guilt, and a quest to find healing through art (Publishers Weekly).When Gregory Orr was twelve years old, he shot and killed his brother in a hunting accident. From the immediate aftermath—a period of shock, sadness, and isolation—it quickly became clear that support and guidance would not be coming from his distant mother. Nor would it come from his father, a philandering country doctor addicted to amphetamines. Left to his own devices, the boy suffered.Guilt weighed on him throughout a childhood split between the rural Hudson Valley and jungles of Haiti. As a young man, his feelings and a growing sense of idealism prompted him to activism in the civil rights movement, where he marched and was imprisoned, and then scarred again by a terrifying abduction. Eventually, Orr’s experiences led him to understand that art, particularly poetry, could work as a powerful source of healing and meaning to combat the trauma he carried.Throughout The Blessing, Orr articulates his journey in language as lyrical as it is authentic, gifting us all with a singular tale of survival, and of the transformation of suffering into art.“Even a chaotic and hapless family, it seems, can confer a blessing—the strength to live in the world as it is, and the wisdom to love people as they are. The book is not so much about surviving pain so much as developing a writer’s instinct for transforming it.” —Kathleen Norris, New York Times–bestselling author of The Cloister Walk
Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism
by Terri Simone FrancisA history and in-depth analysis of the film career of the iconic Black star, activist, and French military intelligence agent. Josephine Baker, the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, was both liberated and delightfully undignified, playfully vacillating between allure and colonialist stereotyping. Nicknamed the &“Black Venus,&” &“Black Pearl,&” and &“Creole Goddess,&” Baker blended the sensual and the comedic when taking 1920s Europe by storm. Back home in the United States, Baker&’s film career brought hope to the Black press that a new cinema centered on Black glamour would come to fruition. In Josephine Baker&’s Cinematic Prism, Terri Simone Francis examines how Baker fashioned her celebrity through cinematic reflexivity, an authorial strategy in which she placed herself, her persona, and her character into visual dialogue. Francis contends that though Baker was an African American actress who lived and worked in France exclusively with a white film company, white costars, white writers, and white directors, she holds monumental significance for African American cinema as the first truly global Black woman film star. Francis also examines the double-talk between Baker and her characters in Le Pompier de Folies Bergère, La Sirène des Tropiques, Zou Zou, Princesse Tam Tam, and The French Way, whose narratives seem to undermine the very stardom they offered. In doing so, Francis illuminates the most resonant links between emergent African American cinephilia, the diverse opinions of Baker in the popular press, and African Americans&’ broader aspirations for progress toward racial equality. Examining an unexplored aspect of Baker&’s career, Josephine Baker&’s Cinematic Prism deepens the ongoing conversation about race, gender, and performance in the African diaspora.
Dish of the Day: 365 Favorite Recipes for Every Day of the Year (Of The Day Ser.)
by Kate McMillanCook seasonally with this year’s-worth of recipes for soups, salads, desserts, and one pot, vegetable, and healthy dishes.From the bestselling Williams Sonoma Of The Day series, comes a compilation of 365 favorite recipes, ranging from soups, salads, desserts, and one pot, vegetable, and healthy dishes. Find inspiration for cooking any day of the year in this indispensable collection. This colorful, calendar-style cookbook offers ideas to match any season, occasion, or mood. Organized by date, this book can be used as a guide to eating seasonally throughout the year. Stunning photographs and a colorful graphic design add visual appeal to the enticing cookbook.
Household Horror: Cinematic Fear and the Secret Life of Everyday Objects (The\year's Work: Studies In Fan Culture And Cultural Theory Ser.)
by Marc OlivierA scholar examines 14 everyday objects featured in horror films and how they manifest their power and speak to society’s fears.Take a tour of the house where a microwave killed a gremlin, a typewriter made Jack a dull boy, a sewing machine fashioned Carrie’s prom dress, and houseplants might kill you while you sleep. In Household Horror, Marc Olivier highlights the wonder, fear, and terrifying dimension of objects in horror cinema. Inspired by object-oriented ontology and the nonhuman turn in philosophy, Olivier places objects in film on par with humans, arguing, for example, that a sleeper sofa is as much the star of Sisters as Margot Kidder, that The Exorcist is about a possessed bed, and that Rosemary’s Baby is a conflict between herbal shakes and prenatal vitamins. Household Horror reinvigorates horror film criticism by investigating the unfathomable being of objects as seemingly benign as remotes, radiators, refrigerators, and dining tables. Olivier questions what Hitchcock’s Psycho tells us about shower curtains. What can we learn from Freddie Krueger’s greatest accomplice, the mattress? Room by room, Olivier considers the dark side of fourteen household objects to demonstrate how the objects in these films manifest their own power and connect with specific cultural fears and concerns.“Provides a lively and highly original contribution to horror studies. As a work on cinema, it introduces the reader to films that may be less well-known to casual fans and scholars; more conspicuously, it returns to horror staples, gleefully reanimating works that one might otherwise assume had been critically “done to death” (Psycho, The Exorcist, The Shining).” —Allan Cameron, University of Auckland
The Ringer: Large Print (The Ringer #1)
by Edgar WallaceA notorious assassin returns to London to avenge the death of his sister in this classic crime thriller.Word had come from Australia that the Ringer was dead. The body of the legendary killer had been pulled from Sydney Harbor—or so it was thought.In reality, it is the Ringer&’s sister whose fate is a watery grave. Left in the care of Maurice Meister, a London lawyer for whom she worked as a secretary, she has turned up dead in the Thames—and now the Ringer is on a mission of vengeance.The vigilante walks the streets of the city again, and if the past is any indication, Inspector Wembury of Scotland Yard won&’t have an easy time tracking him down. To complicate matters further, Meister is currently employed by the socially prominent family of the woman Wembury loves . . . The basis for no less than five European films, this suspenseful British novel comes from one the early twentieth century&’s most popular writers of crime fiction.
Famous Modern Ghost Stories
by Edgar Allan Poe Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Ambrose Bierce Richard Le Gallienne Arthur Machen Guy De Maupassant Anatole France Algernon Blackwood Robert W. Chambers Fitz-James O'Brien Leonid Andreyev W. F. Harvey Olivia Howard Dunbar Wilbur Daniel Steele Myla Jo ClosserClassic ghost stories of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen, and others.In 1920, acclaimed author and editor Dorothy Scarborough collected what she believed to be the finest ghost stories of her time. Her quintessential anthology Famous Modern Ghost Stories includes entries from such pioneering horror writers as Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Guy de Maupassant, and Myla Jo Closser. As Scarborough says in her introduction to this volume: &“Ghosts are the true immortals, and the dead grow more alive all the time.&” The deceased and their mysterious spirits prove to be a source of endless fascination in the stories collected here, including Leonid Andreyev&’s biblical speculation Lazarus; Fitz-James O&’Brien&’s gothic evocation of a New York City boarding house, What Was It?; Mary. E. Wilkins Freeman&’s haunting narrative of three sisters, The Shadows on the Wall; and others.
Women of the Midan: The Untold Stories of Egypt's Revolutionaries (Public Cultures Of The Middle East And North Africa Ser.)
by Sherine HafezAn exploration of gender, the Arab Spring, and women&’s experiences of revolution, including firsthand accounts. In Women of the Midan, Sherine Hafez demonstrates how women were a central part of revolutionary process of the Arab Spring. Women not only protested in the streets of Cairo, they demanded democracy, social justice, and renegotiation of a variety of sociocultural structures. Women&’s resistance to state control, Islamism, neoliberal market changes, the military establishment, and patriarchal systems forged new paths of dissent and transformation. Through firsthand accounts of women who participated in the revolution, Hafez illustrates how the gendered body signifies collective action and the revolutionary narrative. Using the concept of rememory, Hafez shows how the body is inseparably linked to the trauma of the revolutionary struggle. While delving into the complex weave of public space, government control, masculinity, and religious and cultural norms, Hafez sheds light on women&’s relationship to the state in the Arab world today and how the state, in turn, shapes individuals and marks gendered bodies.
The Kiwi Contract (The Joe Gall Mysteries #15)
by Philip AtleeAn agent poses as a rich playboy—and winds up with a target on his back—in this thriller by the Edgar Award–nominated author. Oil baron Mike Donoghue is on a top-secret assignment for the US government. To protect the mission, someone needs to pose as a decoy—and that&’s where freelance agent Joe Gall comes in. Now, Gall must trade places with a man known for his wealthy, high-flying lifestyle and his love of drink and beautiful women. It&’s a role the operative doesn&’t mind stepping into—the only problem is someone wants the real Donoghue dead . . . &“[Philip Atlee is] the John D. MacDonald of espionage fiction.&” —Larry McMurtry, The New York Times &“I admire Philip Atlee&’s writing tremendously.&” —Raymond Chandler