Download or read book The Feline Mystique written by Clea Simon and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-08-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sophisticated exploration of the bond between women and their cats examines everything from the history of cats (Cleopatra) to the stereotypes of women who choose to live with cats (the "cat lady") to the power of female images relating to cats (Catwoman).

Download or read book Monsters of Our Own Making written by Marina Warner and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2007-02-23 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Monsters of Our Own Making, Marina Warner explores the dark realm where ogres devour children and bogeymen haunt the night. She considers the enduring presence and popularity of male figures of terror, establishing their origins in mythology and their current relation to ideas about sexuality and power, youth and age.

Download or read book Midnight Pirates written by Ally Kennen and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pirates, shipwrecks and a hotel run by children?! As three kids find out, running a hotel is hard work - especially when one guest is a sinister stranger…

Download or read book The Body Social written by Anthony Synnott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this captivating book Anthony Synnott explores a subject which has been woefully ignored: our bodies. He surveys the history for thinking about the body and the senses, then focuses on specific themes: gender, beauty, the face, hair, touch, smell and sight. He concludes with a review of classical and contemporary theories of the body and the senses. Thinking about the body will never be the same after reading this book.

Download or read book The Miranda Obsession written by Bryan Burrough and published by Byliner Digital Services. This book was released on 2011-11-21 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She said she was a gorgeous, wealthy, well-connected model and student named Miranda, and she seduced a slew of famous and powerful menBilly Joel, Warren Beatty, Ted Kennedy, Quincy Jones, Robert DeNiro, Bob Dylan, Buck Henry, Richard Gere, Eric Clapton, and many moreall of them over the phone. In the course of those long, flirtatious conversations some fell madly in love with her. Some became obsessed with her. Some had their hearts broken by her. And then she vanished.In the 12 years since bestselling author Bryan Burrough (Barbarians at the Gate, The Big Rich) first published his story "The Miranda Obsession" in Vanity Fair, the legend of Miranda has continued to grow and his article has become a true classic of the genre. On the heels of a just-aired prime-time Vanity Fair-CBS "48 Hours" special on enduring Hollywood mysteries, Burrough is republishing his story as an e-book, complete with a new Afterword that brings Miranda's extraordinary tale up to date with the names of still more leading men who fell under her spell, from Bono to Rush Limbaugh. Writes Burrough: "In 30 years in the field...I don't think I've ever come across another [story] like it.... She has much to say about what men want, what men need, and how to keep a man coming back for more."

Download or read book The Fox Girls written by James Robert Parish and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographical sketches and the films of famous actresses who worked for Twentieth Century Fox.

Download or read book Miranda written by Elaine Blick and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miranda is a black ex-slave, now the owner of a sugar plantation in Jamaica in the late eighteenth century. Her battle to overcome prejudice and to raise the status of African slaves by teaching them to read and write makes compelling reading. Her personal struggle with an overseer who preys on black women to satisfy his sexual appetite has far-reaching consequences.

Download or read book Self Incrimination written by Noël Merino and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you see a criminal character on a show getting busted, we hear the words that always follow, "You have the right to remain silent..." The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution guarantees due process of law and protects against self-incrimination. The volume discusses to what extent these guarantees extend to teens. Perceived or real teen rights related to cases such as In re Gault, and the impact of the Miranda ruling are explored. Material is drawn from a diverse selection of primary and secondary sources including journals, magazines, and government documents, with particular emphasis on Supreme Court and other court decisions.

Download or read book Digging Into Popular Culture written by Ray Broadus Browne and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents archeological studies in conjunction with cultural anthropological studies as a means to enhance popular culture studies. Scholar Malcolm K. Shuman points out that the study of archeology must be careful to chart the total human content of an artifact, because archeology "is a profoundly human (and humanizing) endeavor that cannot be divorced from the matrix of human life." The other ten essays cover aspects of archeology and cultural anthropology, and the authors are meticulous in studying their subject in context.

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Download or read book Signs of Humanity L homme et ses signes written by Gérard Deledalle and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 1794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Signs of Humanity / L'homme et ses signes".

Download or read book Mystery in the Title written by Will Ferguson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2024-10-22 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling authors of I Only Read Murder comes a sidesplitting mystery of epic movie-of-the-week proportions, featuring the unstoppable Miranda Abbott. Miranda Abbott, actor, will once again be a star. After a very long dry spell that followed her network hit series, Pastor Fran Investigates, Hollywood has come calling and wants Miranda back. This time, she will be the female lead in an oddly expensive movie of the week being filmed in Happy Rock. Miranda signs on the dotted line, but her trusty assistant, Andrew, a whiz with apps and clouds, thinks it all seems a bit fishy. Things go from bad to worse when Miranda’s costar makes a grand entrance at a media-packed press conference by crashing through the atrium window at the Duchess Hotel and being very much dead. The out-of-town cast and crew are horrified, but the great citizens of Happy Rock—including police chief Ned Buckley, grumpy bookstore owner and soon-to-be ex-husband Edgar Abbott, Bea of Bea’s B&B, and the malodorous Melvin Jacobson of S.J. Fertilizer Supply—return to help solve the case in this second Miranda Abbott mystery. Miranda Abbott Mystery Book 1: I Only Read Murder by Ian Ferguson and Will Ferguson Book 2: Mystery in the Title by Ian Ferguson and Will Ferguson

Download or read book Magical Feminism in the Americas Resisting Female Marginalisation and Oppression through Magic written by Abu Shahid Abdullah and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2025-01-07 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book aims to show the way magical feminism resists female marginalisation and oppression in the Americas. Dealing with multiple victimisation of women in the Americas who have suffered not only because of their gender but also their race, ethnicity, political ideology, social status, financial insecurity and such, magical feminism provides a voice to them so that they can speak about their marginalisation and victimisation. In other words, by using magical feminism, these female authors attempt to give a voice to the oppressed women, enabling them to resist and challenge the traditional female role and to raise their voices against various social and political issues. The subversive and transgressive power of magical feminism enables the oppressed women to break patriarchal constraints and to reverse the traditional power structure. By creating an imaginary realm through traditions, local beliefs and rituals, myth, magic and the spirits of the dead ancestors as guides, magical feminist technique functions as a survival strategy for women in traumatic and oppressive situations and provides them consolation. The project includes a total of eight novels from African American (Gloria Naylor’s 'Mama Day'), Latin American (Isabel Allende’s 'The House of the Spirits'), Native American (Louise Erdrich’s 'Tracks'), Chicana (Ana Castillo’s 'So Far from God'), North American (Gail Anderson-Dargatz’s 'The Cure for Death by Lightning'), Central American (Gioconda Belli’s 'The Inhabited Woman'), Hawaiian American (Kiana Davenport’s 'Shark Dialogues') and Cuban American (Cristina García’s 'Dreaming in Cuban') background.

Download or read book Seasons of Love written by Miranda Zekanovic and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seasons of Love is a heartwarming book of contemporary poetry that expresses love, sorrow, hope, and inspiration throughout the seasons. From the blooming spring throughout the winter holidays of poetry, these tenderly moving poems will captivate the reader with inspiration of love and hope.

Download or read book Kaye Gibbons written by Mary Ellen Snodgrass and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-24 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With novels like Ellen Foster and A Virtuous Woman, award-winning writer Kaye Gibbons has gained both critical acclaim and a large, devoted following among readers. This literary companion equips the reader with information about characters, plots, dates, allusions, literary motifs, and themes from the bestselling author's works. After an annotated chronology of Gibbons' life, the work presents 103 A-Z entries that include Snodgrass's analysis, cover the writings of reviewers and critics, and provide selected bibliographies. Appendices offer an historical timeline with references to corresponding historical events from Gibbons' novels, along with a list of 42 topics for group or individual research projects.

Download or read book Precipice written by Katherine Baccaro and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Precipice we meet the charming, conniving Crystal Autry, a young woman from a tiny town in Alabama, adrift in post-World War II Europe. Crystal is on a quest, searching for easy amours and accommodations as well as a missing link in her own story. Insinuating herself into the villa of the rich and mysterious Miranda, Crystal sets out to charm her and sashay into her elevated society. Miranda's erratic behavior is mystifying, but Crystal sees that only as encouragement to her own plans. Shrouded in regrets and harboring deep pain, Miranda and Crystal are both damaged by their pasts, uncertain of their futures. Set in the gorgeous landscape of the Mediterranean coast in the late 1940s, with an outrageous cast of characters, Precipice is the riveting story of two women haunted by their pasts and flirting with catastrophe. In the end both must decide whether to embrace a life of deceit and despair, or dare to follow the path that leads to the precipice.

Download or read book Ensemblance written by de Miranda Luis de Miranda and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esprit de corps has played a significant role in the cultural and political history of the last 300 years. Through several historical case studies, Luis de Miranda shows how this phrase acts as a combat concept with a clear societal impact. He also reveals how interconnected, yet distinct, French, English and American modern intellectual and political thought is. In the end, this is a cautionary analysis of past and current ideologies of ultra-unified human ensembles, a recurrent historical and theoretical fabulation the author calls 'ensemblance'.