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Politics, Feminism and the Reformation of Gender
Comparative study of recruitment to political elites in several countries, revealing the gender basis of imbalances and addressing feminist strategies for change.
Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination
"Best moving pictures I ever saw." Thus did one Vaudeville theater manager describe Georges Méliès's A Trip to the Moon [Le Voyage dans la lune], after it was screened for enthusiastic audiences in October 1902. Cinema's first true blockbuster, A Trip to the Moon still inspires such superlatives and continues to be widely viewed on DVD, on the Internet, and in countless film courses. In Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination, leading film scholars examine Méliès's landmark film in detail, demonstrating its many crucial connecions to literature, popular culture, and visual culture of the time, as well as its long "afterlife" in more recent films, television, and music videos. Toge...
Truly, Madly, Deeply
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTELLER In love for the first time, a son’s decisions about the future divides his family in this fearless and thought-provoking novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of life-changing fiction. When eighteen-year-old Tommy Baxter declares to his family that he wants to be a police officer after graduation, his mother, Reagan, won’t hear of it. After all, she’s still mourning the death of her own father on September 11 and she’s determined to keep her son safe from danger. But Tommy’s father, Luke, is proud of Tommy’s decision. He would make a kind and compassionate cop. Meanwhile, Tommy is in love for the first time. His sweet relationship wi...
The Other Job
A cold case mission busts a can of worms wide open for private investigators Sean Halpern and Jeffrey Cahill as they plunge headfirst into a cesspool of New York’s criminal underworld. Their quest to find out what happened to a billionaire’s missing daughter becomes a game of chess with the devil as they fight to save young lives from ruthless traffickers who will stop at nothing for money and, for Sean Halpern, the journey will take him down a path of no return.
Not Playing the Game
'Witty observations on married life . . . cleverly points out some of the confusions in the roles of men and women today' - NORTHERN ECHO When love and pain go hand-in-hand... While Mickey chased an elusive happiness, her new husband chased a leather ball. But as David's obsession with rugby and cricket continued unabated, their marriage was played out on an increasingly sticky wicket. Despairing at the endless vistas of long, lonely weekends, Mickey tried to rekindle his passion with a really special birthday present. By a quirk of fate, this led her into a double life of her own-a love affair that threatened to explode into violence when her obsessive lover decided he was no longer prepared to play the game . . . 'Past form dictates that anything Jennifer Chapman writes must be taken seriously' - THE TIMES Jennifer Chapman runs her own Public Relations agency. She is married with two daughters, and lives near Cambridge. Her first two novels were The Long Weekend and Mysterious Ways.
Getting to Scale
Ben & Jerry's. Stonyfield Farm. The Body Shop. Tom's of Maine. All leaders in the socially responsible business movement—and all eventually sold to mega-corporations. Do values-driven businesses have to choose between staying small, selling off, or selling out? Jill Bamburg says no. Based on intensive interviews with more than thirty growth-oriented, mission-driven entrepreneurs—including American Apparel, Give Something Back, Wild Planet Toys, Organic Valley Family of Farms, and Village Real Estate—her book explodes the myths of scale from both ends of the spectrum. She debunks both the limiting “small is beautiful” approach as well as the “you have to sell out to grow” mandat...
Weekly World News
Rooted in the creative success of over 30 years of supermarket tabloid publishing, the Weekly World News has been the world's only reliable news source since 1979. The online hub www.weeklyworldnews.com is a leading entertainment news site.
