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Book Trouble   Strife

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steve Brewer
  • Publisher : Down & Out Books
  • Release : 2019-12-16
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 220 pages

Download or read book Trouble Strife written by Steve Brewer and published by Down & Out Books. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the world of Cockney rhyming slang, where what is said means something completely different than how it sounds. Originally, it was a coded language created by criminals for deceiving undercover police officers during Victorian times. Common phrases like septic tank, holy water, brown bread, tomfoolery and mince pies don’t mean what you think they mean. Others, like Barnaby Rudge, gypsy’s kiss, smash and grab, butcher’s hook, kick and prance and bubble and squeak paint a picture. There are stories to be written about these phrases and in Trouble & Strife, the coded and colorful phrases of Cockney rhyming slang became the inspiration for eleven killer crimes stories from writers on both sides of the pond. A few choice words include: Babbling Brook is a talkative inmate at the state penitentiary. A hairdresser has to pay his dues for a crime that took place at Barnet Fair. And you never want to meet a Lady from Bristol. You don’t have to understand rhyming slang to enjoy this book. You just have to enjoy a damn good story. To see what the authors have come up with you'll have to turn the page and have a butcher’s. Edited by Simon Wood with stories by Steve Brewer, Susanna Calkins, Colin Campbell, Angel Luis Colón, Robert Dugoni, Paul Finch, Catriona McPherson, Travis Richardson, Johnny Shaw, Jay Stringer, and Sam Wiebe.

Book Life Without Strife

Download or read book Life Without Strife written by Joyce Meyer and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2000 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With bestselling author Joyce Meyer, readers can discover: why strife destroys churches, how to disagree agreeably, the answer to strife between parents and children, how strife affects the anointing, how to forgive in difficult situations, and how spiritual power is released through unity and harmony.

Book The Trouble and Strife Reader

Download or read book The Trouble and Strife Reader written by Deborah Cameron and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the best and most enduring articles published in Trouble and Strife: The Radical Feminist Magazine between 1983 and 2002.

Book Trouble and Strife

Download or read book Trouble and Strife written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Politics of the Body

Download or read book The Politics of the Body written by Alison Phipps and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2015 FWSA Book Prize The body is a site of impassioned, fraught and complex debate in the West today. In one political moment, left-wingers, academics and feminists have defended powerful men accused of sex crimes, positioned topless pictures in the tabloids as empowering, and opposed them for sexualizing breasts and undermining their 'natural' function. At the same time they have been criticized by extreme-right groups for ignoring honour killings and other 'culture-based' forms of violence against women. How can we make sense of this varied terrain? In this important and challenging new book, Alison Phipps constructs a political sociology of women's bodies around key debates: sexual violence, gender and Islam, sex work and motherhood. Her analysis uncovers dubious rhetorics and paradoxical allegiances, and contextualizes these within the powerful coalition of neoliberal and neoconservative frameworks. She explores how 'feminism' can be caricatured and vilified at both ends of the political spectrum, arguing that Western feminisms are now faced with complex problems of positioning in a world where gender often comes second to other political priorities. This book provides a welcome investigation into Western politics around women's bodies, and will be particularly useful to scholars and upper-level students of sociology, political science, gender studies and cultural studies, as well as to anyone interested in how bodies become politicized.

Book Against Our Will

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susan Brownmiller
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2013-09-24
  • ISBN : 1480441953
  • Pages : 767 pages

Download or read book Against Our Will written by Susan Brownmiller and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 767 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVSusan Brownmiller’s groundbreaking bestseller uncovers the culture of violence against women with a devastating exploration of the history of rape—now with a new preface by the author exposing the undercurrents of rape still present today/divDIV Rape, as author Susan Brownmiller proves in her startling and important book, is not about sex but about power, fear, and subjugation. For thousands of years, it has been viewed as an acceptable “spoil of war,” used as a weapon by invading armies to crush the will of the conquered. The act of rape against women has long been cloaked in lies and false justifications./divDIV It is ignored, tolerated, even encouraged by governments and military leaders, misunderstood by police and security organizations, freely employed by domineering husbands and lovers, downplayed by medical and legal professionals more inclined to “blame the victim,” and, perhaps most shockingly, accepted in supposedly civilized societies worldwide, including the United States./divDIV Against Our Will is a classic work that has been widely credited with changing prevailing attitudes about violence against women by awakening the public to the true and continuing tragedy of rape around the globe and throughout the ages./divDIV Selected by the New York Times Book Review as an Outstanding Book of the Year and included among the New York Public Library’s Books of the Century, Against Our Will remains an essential work of sociological and historical importance./divDIV/div/div

Book Troubles Connected with the Prayer Book 1549

Download or read book Troubles Connected with the Prayer Book 1549 written by Nicholas Pocock and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Troubles Connected with the Prayer Book of Edward VI

Download or read book Troubles Connected with the Prayer Book of Edward VI written by Pocock and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Do It Like a Woman

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  • Author : Caroline Criado-Perez
  • Publisher : Portobello Books
  • Release : 2015-05-07
  • ISBN : 1846275806
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Do It Like a Woman written by Caroline Criado-Perez and published by Portobello Books. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doing anything 'like a woman' used to be an insult. Now, as the women in this book show, it means being brave, speaking out, and taking risks, changing the world one step at a time. Here, campaigner and journalist Caroline Criado-Perez introduces us to a host of pioneers, including a female fighter pilot in Afghanistan; a Chilean revolutionary; the Russian punks who rocked against Putin; and the Iranian journalist who uncovered her hair.

Book Dark Matters

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  • Author : Mara van der Lugt
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2023-09-26
  • ISBN : 0691226148
  • Pages : 472 pages

Download or read book Dark Matters written by Mara van der Lugt and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intellectual history of the philosophers who grappled with the problem of evil, and the case for why pessimism still holds moral value for us today In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, philosophers engaged in heated debates on the question of how God could have allowed evil and suffering in a creation that is supposedly good. Dark Matters traces how the competing philosophical traditions of optimism and pessimism arose from early modern debates about the problem of evil, and makes a compelling case for the rediscovery of pessimism as a source for compassion, consolation, and perhaps even hope. Bringing to life one of the most vibrant eras in the history of philosophy, Mara van der Lugt discusses legendary figures such as Leibniz, Hume, Voltaire, Rousseau, Kant, and Schopenhauer. She also introduces readers to less familiar names, such as Bayle, King, La Mettrie, and Maupertuis. Van der Lugt describes not only how the earliest optimists and pessimists were deeply concerned with finding an answer to the question of the value of existence that does justice to the reality of human suffering, but also how they were fundamentally divided over what such an answer should look like. A breathtaking work of intellectual history by one of today's leading scholars, Dark Matters reveals how the crucial moral aim of pessimism is to find a way of speaking about suffering that offers consolation and does justice to the fragility of life.

Book Works of the Camden Society

Download or read book Works of the Camden Society written by Nicholas Pocock and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Relation  Or Rather A True Account  of the Island of England

Download or read book A Relation Or Rather A True Account of the Island of England written by Charlotte Augusta Sneyd and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Surviving Sexual Violence

Download or read book Surviving Sexual Violence written by Liz Kelly and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-26 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's awareness of the threat and reality of sexual violence is now perhaps more than ever publicly acknowledged. Yet this fact continues to be almost wholly ignored. This new study, based on in-depth interviews with 60 women, is the first to cover the experience of a range of forms of sexual violence over women's lifetimes. Drawing on feminist theory, developing a critique of male research and quoting extensively from the women interviewed, it developes feminist thought in several key areas: the similarities and differences between forms of sexual violence; the ways women define their experiences; and the strategies women use in resisting, coping with and surviving sexual violence. The author stresses the importance for all women of recognizing the incidents of sexual violence in their lives and seeing themselves and other women as survivors rather than victims. In highlighting the ways in which the media, the criminal justice system and even the "helping" profess ions contribute to the trivialization of sexual violence, she demonstrates the necessity of women organizing collectively to end this suffering.

Book Strife In the Sanctuary

    Book Details:
  • Author : Phil Zuckerman
  • Publisher : Rowman Altamira
  • Release : 2000-01-01
  • ISBN : 0585208042
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Strife In the Sanctuary written by Phil Zuckerman and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than forty years there was a single synagogue in the quiet town of Williamette, Oregon. But then disagreements over gender roles, homosexuality, Israeli politics, and other issues tore the synagogue in two. Where there was once one Jewish community under one roof, there are now two hostile congregations_one Reconstructionist, one Orthodox_across the street from one another. Through a year as a participant in both congregations and in-depth interviews, Zuckerman tells a mesmerizing story of this religious schism. Strife in the Sanctuary then contemplates why religious groups split apart and how religious symbols come to mean different things to different groups. The first book-length study of a single congregation breaking in two, Strife in the Sanctuary provides a welcome ethnographic study for sociologists of religion. Plus, its moving story makes it an excellent read for undergraduate classes or anyone interested in religious divisions.

Book The Healing Mind

Download or read book The Healing Mind written by Paul Martin and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-12-23 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the latest scientific research in psychology and immunology, this groundbreaking book offers compelling new evidence of vital links between the brain and the immune system.

Book Meditations Concerning Himselfe

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  • Author : Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Emperor of Rome, 121-180)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1905
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Meditations Concerning Himselfe written by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Emperor of Rome, 121-180) and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Golden Book of Marcus Aurelius

Download or read book The Golden Book of Marcus Aurelius written by Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) and published by . This book was released on 1635 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: