Author: Alex Sanchez File Type: mobi When a guy in his class looks at him funny, Diego punches him in the face, and ends up on probation. At first he wants nothing to do with his probation officer. But as Diego starts to open up, he begins to realize that Mr. Vidas is the first person in his life who ever really wanted to listen to him. With Vidass help, Diego begins to make real progress in controlling his anger. He even opens up enough to tell Vidas about the shark tooth that his stepfather gave him that he uses to cut himself. But only if Diego can find the courage to trust Vidas with the darkest secrets from his past will he be able to heal completely. In this bold story of a boy trying to grow beyond a painful past, award-winning author Alex Sanchez calls upon his personal experience as a probation officer to reveal the complexities of one of his most genuinely realized characters to date.
Author: Martha Kempner
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50 Great Myths of Human Sexuality seeks to dispel commonly accepted myths and misunderstandings surrounding human sexuality, providing an enlightening, fascinating and challenging book that covers the fifty areas the authors believe individuals must understand to have a safe, pleasurable and healthy sex life. * DispelsExplores commonly accepted myths and misunderstandings surrounding human sexuality * Includes comparisons to other countries and cultures exploring different beliefs and how societies can influence perceptions * Areas discussed include pre-marital sex, masturbation, sexual diseases, fantasy, pornography, relationships, contraception, and emotions such as jealousy, body image insecurity, passionate love and sexual aggression * Covers both heterosexual and same-sex relationships**
Author: George Sand
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An astonishingly modern novel, George Sands Valvedre questions traditional Romantic representations of women and exposes the disastrous consequences such notions of femininity have for both male and female characters at a time when divorce was illegal. This first English translation by Francoise Massardier-Kenney shows Sands control of style and her understanding of the major tensions of early modern France the role of women in society, the nature of motherhood, the relations between science and art, and the nature of prejudice.
Author: Eric Partridge
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First published in 1933 (this edition in 1939), this book sees Partridge introducing the reader to the eccentric lexicographers Wesley and Captain Grose. In an entertaining way, the book jovially explores and discusses various words and phrases such as bloody, euphemisms, the Devils nicknames, various versions of slang, and familiar terms of address. He does so with light-worn learning making the book of interest to a whole variety of readers.
Author: Albert L. Weeks
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Myths of the Cold War Amending Historiographic Distortions provides a corrective for the distortions and omissions of many previous domestic and foreign (including Russian) studies of the Cold War, especially those published since 2000. The present interest motivation in Weekss analysis is gaining a clear understanding of the bi-polar, $4 trillion, nuclear-war-threatening standoff that lasted over 40 years after World War II until the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991. Without such knowledge and understanding of this dangerous conflict, any future encounter of the cold-war type with another nation-state is liable to be construed in confusing ways just as the U.S.-Soviet Cold War was. The consequence of such misunderstanding in the historiographic sense as well as in policy-making at the highest level is that the populations of the contending powers will have distorted conceptions of the reasons for the confrontation. The result of this, in turn, is skewed tendentiousness that masks concrete, underlying causes of intense inter-state contention. Practical benefits thus flow from an unprejudiced analysis of the past Cold War with Communist Russia. This understanding can help prevent a future conflict, such as one with Communist China, which some reputed sinologists are currently predicting, as well as one with post-Soviet Russia. Conversely, if a new cold war is imposed on the West, a clearer understanding of the post-World War II archetypical Cold War will be edifying. **
Author: Charles Handy
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We will not survive unless we adapt to the way the world is changing. The Age of Unreason is an inspiring vision of an era of new discoveries, new enlightenment and new freedoms. It helps us to understand what Tom Peters, the American business guru, has called the new upside down competitive realities in the world of work and of leisure. It is a book to turn your understanding of the world on its head.**From Library JournalHandy, a British specialist in organizational management, predicts that the 21st century will be the Age of Unreason. In an era when changes in business and society will be discontinuous or patternless, he suggests that our thinking must become discontinuous or unreasonable in order to use such changes to our advantage. While his thesis is generally in line with strategists like Tom Peters ( In Search of Excellence, LJ 21583), Handy focuses more on the philosophy, rather than the mechanics, of adaptive change in society. His examples from the business world are interestingly extended to social institutions like marriage and family. Nicely written, this should be popular with open-minded management types. A good addition to management collections. -Mark L. Shelton, Columbus, Ohio 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review Named one of The 25 Most Influential Business Management Books by TIME Magazine (TIME.com)
Author: Thomas Nail
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Despite -- and perhaps because of -- increasing global mobility, there are more types of borders today than ever before in history. Borders of all kinds define every aspect of social life in the twenty-first century. From the biometric data that divides the smallest aspects of our bodies to the aerial drones that patrol the immense expanse of our domestic and international airspace, we are defined by borders. They can no longer simply be understood as the geographical divisions between nation-states. Today, their form and function has become too complex, too hybrid. What we need now is a theory of the border that can make sense of this hybridity across multiple domains of social life. Rather than viewing borders as the result or outcome of pre-established social entities like states, Thomas Nail reinterprets social history from the perspective of the continual and constitutive movement of the borders that organize and divide society in the first place. Societies and states are the products of bordering, Nail argues, not the other way around. Applying his original movement-oriented theoretical framework kinopolitics to several major historical border regimes (fences, walls, cells, and checkpoints), Theory of the Border pioneers a new methodology of critical limology, that provides fresh tools for the analysis of contemporary border politics. **Review Is there really a contradiction between globalization and the multiplication of borders around us? In this powerful and original book Thomas Nail effectively demonstrates that this is not the case. Focusing on heterogeneous devices of social division he provides a fascinating genealogy of the border and a compelling theoretical framework for understanding both its contemporary manifestations and the intensity of the tensions, conflicts, and struggles that surround them. --Sandro Mezzadra, co-author of Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor Following on from his ground-breaking work on the figure of the migrant, Thomas Nails Theory of the Border is at once a meticulous account of the intense and intensely difficult problems of borders that have marked the twenty-first century, at the same time as it transforms how one might think about theory. Rather than simply theorizing borders, the condition of the border generates a new mode of theory in which bounded identities (of persons, nations and territories) are both necessary and impossible. This is not merely an inter-disciplinary work that combines philosophy, politics, social theory and cultural theory it is a lucid study that transforms the borders of the disciplines with which it engages. --Claire Colebrook, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, The Pennsylvania State University About the Author Thomas Nail is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver.
Author: Joseph Bristow
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InOscar Wildes Chatterton, Joseph Bristow and Rebecca N. Mitchell explore Wildes fascination with the eighteenth-century forger Thomas Chatterton, who tragically took his life at the age of seventeen. This innovative study combines a scholarly monograph with a textual edition of the extensive notes that Wilde took on the brilliant forger who inspired not only Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Keats but also Victorian artists and authors. Bristow and Mitchell argue that Wildes substantial Chatterton notebook, which previous scholars have deemed a work of plagiarism, is central to his development as a gifted writer of criticism, drama, fiction, and poetry. This volume, which covers the whole span of Wildes career, reveals that his research on Chatterton informs his deepest engagements with Romanticism, plagiarism, and forgery, especially in later works such as The Portrait of Mr. W. H.,The Picture of Dorian Gray, andThe Importance of Being Earnest. Grounded in painstaking archival research that draws on previously undiscovered sources,Oscar Wildes Chattertonexplains why, in Wildes personal canon of great writers (which included such figures as Charles Baudelaire, Gustave Flaubert, Theophile Gautier, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti), Chatterton stood as an equal in this most distinguished company. **html