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THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE GLAAD AWARD-WINNING HULU SERIES, THE BRAVEST KNIGHT Follow Cedric on his journey from his days on a humble pumpkin farm to his adventures as a full-fledged knight in this tale about following your heart, wherever it may lead. Bravery isn’t just slaying dragons and rescuing people in distress; bravery is also being true to yourself. In this LGBTQIA+ fairytale that inspired The Bravest Knight series on Hulu, The Bravest Knight Who Ever Lived shines a light on the importance of choosing one's own path. Read how, from his humble beginnings on a pumpkin farm, Cedric transforms from a farm boy to full-fledged knight! Follow Sir Cedric as he faces thrilling adventures, vanquishes fire-breathing dragons, and saves a princess AND a prince. But the true test? Sir Cedric must follow his heart and choose his own fairy-tale ending.
Vertiginous Life provides a theory of the intense temporal disorientation brought about by life in crisis. In the whirlpool of unforeseen social change, people experience confusion as to where and when they belong on timelines of previously unquestioned pasts and futures. Through individual stories from crisis Greece, this book explores the everyday affects of vertigo: nausea, dizziness, breathlessness, the sense of falling, and unknowingness of Self. Being lost in time, caught in the spin-cycle of crisis, people reflect on belonging to modern Europe, neoliberal promises of accumulation, defeated futures, and the existential dilemmas of life held captive in the uncanny elsewhen.
Anticipation -- Expectation -- Speculation -- Potentiality -- Hope -- Destiny.
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Some of the worst effects of the global economic downturn that commenced in 2008 have been felt in Europe, and specifically in the Eurozone’s so-called PIIGS (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, and Spain) and Cyprus. This edited volume is the first collection to bring together ethnographies of living with austerity inside the Eurozone, and explore how people across Southern Europe have come to understand their experiences of increased social suffering, insecurity, and material poverty. The contributors focus on how crises stimulate temporal thought (temporality), whether tilted in the direction of historicizing, presentifying, futural thought, or some combination of these possibilities. One...
Rebels at the Gate is the dramatic story of the first Union victories of the Civil War and the events that caused Virginians to divide their state. In a defiant act to sustain President Lincoln's war effort, Virginia Unionists created their own state government in 1861—destined to become the new state of West Virginia.
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