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What Fills Your House Like Smoke
In these poems, E. McGregor combines the lore of family history with personal memory, vividly parsing patterns of inheritance, particularly through the maternal line. What Fills Your House Like Smoke begins and ends at the deathbed of the writer's Metis grandmother. In between, McGregor composes an incomplete and wildly imaginative biography of the grandmother, interrogated by family photographs, stories, and the scant paper trail she left behind. McGregor sifts through the complexities of motherhood, daughterhood, anxiety, intimate relationships and addiction, weaving family history with memory to make sense of what is carried on. Especially affecting are poems about childhood, and the people who disappear from a child's life, and the struggle to live as a societal outsider, finding strength in self-definition and the power of narrative. As these poems unfold, they move us toward an understanding of maternal inheritance, shifting identities, forgiveness, and finally love.
Systemic Silencing
The system of prostitution imposed and enforced by the Japanese military during its wartime occupation of several countries in East and Southeast Asia is today well-known and uniformly condemned. Transnational activist movements have sought to recognize and redress survivors of this World War II-era system, euphemistically known as “comfort women,” for decades, with a major wave beginning in the 1990s. However, Indonesian survivors, and even the system’s history in Indonesia to begin with, have largely been sidelined, even within the country itself. Here, Katharine E. McGregor not only untangles the history of the system during the war, but also unpacks the context surrounding the slow...
Information Security Essentials
As technological and legal changes have hollowed out the protections that reporters and news organizations have depended upon for decades, information security concerns facing journalists as they report, produce, and disseminate the news have only intensified. From source prosecutions to physical attacks and online harassment, the last two decades have seen a dramatic increase in the risks faced by journalists at all levels even as the media industry confronts drastic cutbacks in budgets and staff. As a result, few professional or aspiring journalists have a comprehensive understanding of what is required to keep their sources, stories, colleagues, and reputations safe. This book is an essen...
Billionaire Phin
"An unexpected inheritance arrives in our hero's unwilling lap. Sensibly, he doesn't want a bar of the $4+billion fortune, preferring a simple life, but young paraplegic teenager Millie convinces him to accept the legacy. Weirdly, he succeeds in changing the whole US economic and business landscape with his usual devastating common sense, although it doesn't quite fit the times. His fifty or so corporations tend to prosper greatly, not that he particularly cares. Quite magically it seems, everyone who comes into contact with the "Reluctant Billionaire" seems to profit.... News and Media folk know that any story about the Reluctant Billionaire is a worldwide winner. They keep digging.... With his new wife Claire, love grows but they must face the storms of life together. The 'Family' also grow closer..."--Back cover.
Merran
"Beginning in the violent restless times of the middle Viking period this novel is a love story that transcends time. Massive Viking chief Nils "The Cunning" is confident, calculating and controlling. In the course of the most audacious raid of his entire career he meets Merran, a seemingly fragile slave who shatters and transforms his world.One thousand years later, quiet family man Neil Osborne, London assistant bank manager, career going nowhere, suddenly experiences strange events and discovers undreamed of skills and raw emotion. An unexpected meeting changes his perception of life forever...."--Back cover.
History in Uniform
Under the New Order regime (1967-98), the Indonesian military sought to monopolise the production of official history and control its contents. The goal was to validate the political role of the armed forces, condemn communism and promote military values. A detailed examination of the Indonesian military's image-making under Suharto.
Long Way Down
Eighteen countries. Five shock absorbers. Two bikers. One amazing adventure... After their fantastic trip round the world in 2004, fellow actors and bike fanatics Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman couldn't shake the travel bug. Inspired by their UNICEF visits to Africa, they knew they had to go back and experience this extraordinary continent in more depth. And so they set off on their 15,000-mile journey with two new BMWs loaded up for the trip. Their route took them from John O'Groats at the northernmost tip of Scotland to Cape Agulhas on the southernmost tip of South Africa. Along the way they rode some of the toughest terrain in the world -- and met some of the friendliest people. They r...
Phin
"Set in the hard driving US corporate world, ugly technophobe Phin Cooper hilariously meets the current Miss Universe Claire Coates of England who is ethereally gorgeous, multilingual, effortlessly polished and sophisticated. Surely love couldn't blossom between such opposites?Then of course there are the kids with their wayward hippy Mom... and warm bighearted Millie in her wheelchair, giving to all around her... Finally, there is a big surprising twist at the end of the yarn... "--http://donemcgregor.co.nz.
The Indonesian Genocide of 1965
This collection of essays by Indonesian and foreign contributors offers new and highly original analyses of the mass violence in Indonesia which began in 1965 and its aftermath. Fifty years on from one the largest genocides of the twentieth century, they probe the causes, dynamics and legacies of this violence through the use of a wide range of sources and different scholarly lenses. Chapter 12 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.
Gregor Willox the Warlock
Gregor Willox Macgregor (175?-1833) was a descendant of Gregor MacGregor who came from the Scottish Highland Clan Gregor. He eventually settled in Kirkmichael in Ross and Cromarty, Scotland where he gained a reputation as a healer and worker of magic. He was known as the warlock by many. Gregor married Mary Rose and they were the parents of five children. Descendants live in Scotland and Canada.
