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Rush, Rock Music, and the Middle Class
Canadian progressive rock band Rush was the voice of the suburban middle class. In this book, Chris McDonald assesses the band's impact on popular music and its legacy for legions of fans. McDonald explores the ways in which Rush's critique of suburban life—and its strategies for escape—reflected middle-class aspirations and anxieties, while its performances manifested the dialectic in prog rock between discipline and austerity, and the desire for spectacle and excess. The band's reception reflected the internal struggles of the middle class over cultural status. Critics cavalierly dismissed, or apologetically praised, Rush's music for its middlebrow leanings. McDonald's wide-ranging musical and cultural analysis sheds light on one of the most successful and enduring rock bands of the 1970s and 1980s.
The Family Friend
YOU LET HER INTO YOUR HOME. AND NOW SHE WANTS TO DESTROY YOU. Praise for Chris MacDonald 'GRABS YOU FROM THE OPENING LINE AND WON’T LET YOU GO’ ALEX MICHAELIDES, AUTHOR OF THE SILENT PATIENT 'MASTERFULLY PLOTTED' ERIN KELLY 'A FIRST-CLASS THRILLER' DAILY MAIL 'A BARNSTORMING PERFORMANCE' THE TIMES *For fans of NONE OF THIS IS TRUE by Lisa Jewell* Erin lives an idyllic life by the seaside with her baby boy and Australian fiancé. She's upbeat and happy - a natural mum. At least that's what her thousands of followers on Instagram think. In reality, Erin is struggling with anxiety and finding it difficult to connect with her screaming son. So, when an agent offers to make her the biggest In...
Ethics for Adversaries
The adversary professions--law, business, and government, among others--typically claim a moral permission to violate persons in ways that, if not for the professional role, would be morally wrong. Lawyers advance bad ends and deceive, business managers exploit and despoil, public officials enforce unjust laws, and doctors keep confidences that, if disclosed, would prevent harm. Ethics for Adversaries is a philosophical inquiry into arguments that are offered to defend seemingly wrongful actions performed by those who occupy what Montaigne called "necessary offices." Applbaum begins by examining the career of Charles-Henri Sanson, who is appointed executioner of Paris by Louis XVI and serves...
The Actor
TO ACHIEVE GREATNESS, HE MUST SACRIFICE EVERYTHING . . . Read most original new thriller, a story of glamour, secrets and obsession ‘This compelling psychological thriller set in the acting world is both uncompromising and unsettling, with deeply layered characters and a narrative voice that grabs you from the opening line and won’t let you go’ Alex Michaelides, author of The Silent Patient ---- Actor Adam Sealey owes his Oscar nomination to mentor Jonathan Dors. It was Jonathan who trained him in the Method: digging deep into personal trauma in pursuit of the greatest performance. It gets results. But there’s a price. For Adam, it cost him the love of his life. And then there’s wh...
A Wash of Black
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A Contemporary Look at Business Ethics
A Contemporary Look at Business Ethics provides a ‘present day’ look at business ethics to include the challenges, opportunities and increased need for ethical leadership in today’s and tomorrow’s organizations. The book discusses current and future business ethics challenges, issues and opportunities which provides the context leaders and their organizations must navigate. The book includes an in?depth look at lessons learned about the causes of unethical behavior by examining a number of real?world examples of ethical scandals from around the world that have taken place over the past few decades. The analysis of the various ethical scandals focuses on concepts like ethical versus u...
Rowing News
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At All Costs
When undercover fugitives are found in the suburbs, they must race against time—and the FBI—to clear their names in this “superior page turner” (David Baldacci). The Brightons are just an ordinary, small-town, law-abiding family—until somebody else's mistake uncovers the truth. Jake and Carolyn Brighton are the FBI's two most wanted fugitives. Jake and Carolyn have lived a lie for fourteen years to protect themselves. But now they have to protect their thirteen-year-old son. Their only chance is to return to the hellish scene of an unprecedented crime and collect the evidence that may finally set them free. But can they elude a massive manhunt long enough to get there? “Gilstrap has ingeniously twisted his simple premise six ways from Sunday. Does for families what Nathan’s Run did for preteens—puts them through endless rounds of entertainingly action-packed pursuit.” —Kirkus
Twelve Dots
"My burning desire is to be incarcerated in a secure mental hospital. I yearn night and day for that moment. But. Not any old mental hospital. It has to be Rampton Hospital. I need to be held captive in Rampton. Then. And only then. Finally. I can grieve." "HAVE CONFIDENCE IN YOUR CONVICTIONS MY BOY. FOR THEN THE WHISPERING IN YOUR EARS WILL PASS. THOSE TONGUES ARE FORKED, LIKE POINTED PRONGS. SILENCE ECHOES IN THE MIND AFTER THE TONGUE HAS BEEN BITTEN. BUT THE RINGING FROM THE TUNING FORK LIVES ON A LITTLE WHILE. CAN YOU HEAR THE PITCH BOY?" A STORY OF GRIEF, REVENGE AND TEMPTATION – AND THE SURPRISE CONSEQUENCES OF MURDER. ONE PACT. TWO MEN. TWELVE RULES. Over thirty years have passed si...
Shifting Gears
In the decades following the Second World War, autoworkers were at the forefront of the labour movement. Their union urged members to rally in the streets and use the ballot box to effect change for all working-class people. But by the turn of this century, the Canadian Auto Workers union had begun to pursue a more defensive political direction. Shifting Gears traces the evolution of CAW strategy from transformational activism to transactional politics. Class-based collective action and social democratic electoral mobilization gave way to transactional partnerships as relationships between the union, employers, and governments were refashioned. This new approach was maintained when the CAW merged with the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union in 2013 to create Unifor, Canada’s largest private-sector union. Stephanie Ross and Larry Savage explain how and why the union shifted its political tactics, offering a critical perspective on the current state of working-class politics.
