![]() And just as the car starts we might be seeking in vain the relieved thumbs-up from those leaving the ride, telling us all is well and all survived. ![]() There's the crunch of the roll-cage protection bars locking us in as we find that something very malevolent is hiding in the tiny settlement. It has the anxiety of the queue as we watch three people – a couple and another young woman – get ferried across the fjord to one of western Iceland's most remote outposts, with the aim being to renovate an old building as a guesthouse. But this is the true embodiment of a white-knuckle ride. ![]() Too often, people – such as myself – refer to a book as being a rollercoaster read, mostly down to a simply topsy-turvy plot. ![]() Summary: It might be Nordic, but this is not just another thriller – this is one of the most spooky reads you could wish for. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Parker is one of this generation's best minds, able to hold herself and her world, which includes all of us, up to impossible lights, revealing every last bit of our hopes, failings, possibilities and raptures - Danez Smith * T Magazine * Her poems shred me with their intelligence, dark humor and black-hearted vision. Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group ISBN: 9781472156273 Number of pages: 128 Weight: 120 g Dimensions: 196 x 124 x 14 mm MEDIA REVIEWS Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night not only introduced an essential new voice to the world, it contains everything readers have come to love about Morgan Parker's work. She collapses any foolish distinctions between the personal and the political, the 'high' and the 'low'. Parker bobs and weaves between humor and pathos, grief and anxiety, Gwendolyn Brooks and Jay-Z, the New York School and reality television. Her command of language is on full display. The debut collection from award-winning poet Morgan Parker demonstrates why she's become one of the most beloved writers working today. ![]() ![]() Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night - the book that launched the career of one of our most important young American poets - is now in print for the first time in the UK, featuring a new introduction from Danez Smith. it ripples with energy, insight, and searing music' Tracy K. From the author of Magical Negro, Winner of the National Book Critic's Circle Award ![]() 5/8/2023 0 Comments Girl, Nearly 16 by Sue Limb![]() ![]() (Previously published as Zoe and Chloe: Out to Lunch) (Previously published as Zoe and Chloe: On the Prowl) Newsletters to be the first to hear about our latest releases and special offers. You will find extracts, authors’ interviews, author events and you can sign up for Visit to find out more about our authors and their books. May be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.Ī CIP catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication Printing, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the (including without limitation electronic, digital, optical, mechanical, photocopying, Make available this publication (or any part of it) in any form, or by any means ![]() You may not copy, distribute, transmit, reproduce or otherwise This electronic edition published in July 2010 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc The moral right of the author has been asserted Bloomsbury Publishing, London, Berlin and New Yorkįirst published in Great Britain in 2009 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ![]() 5/8/2023 0 Comments Sheryl sandberg book![]() However, definitely, this applies just to the ignorant and misogynistic, while we educated people would be fair?Īmazingly, the exact studies reveal that the more unbiased the assessor alleged to be the more they truly discriminated against women. When told to evaluate the performance and development potential of otherwise equal workers, both men and women discriminate against women. In addition, to being financially undervalued, various studies have demonstrated that women’s performance is also unfairly belittled. A pack of eggs has increased ten times that figure.” Neither is this issue sole to the U.S.: in Europe, the present figure is slightly better at 84 cents. ![]() As one activist stated ironically, “Forty years and eighteen cents. Although that amount has increased, development has been slow: in 2010, it was just 77 cents. ![]() Let’s look at compensation: In 1970, American women got 59 cents for every dollar men got in the same jobs. However, at first glimpse it may look as if the fight against inequality has been accomplished however, there is still a lot needed to be done. ![]() In this current developed world, women are better off than before, all thanks mainly to the women’s movement in the previous century. Chapter 1 – In spite of great strides, we are still behind in terms of gender equality. ![]() 5/8/2023 0 Comments Synopsis of monkey beach![]() ![]() "The nature-versus-nurture debate clearly was part of the intellectual climate of that time and remains an interesting question – how much we are born a certain way, as a species and as individuals. He's in the wrong context and that becomes his tragedy," Marsh says, drinking his third espresso of the morning on a drizzly Sunday in Edinburgh. "Nim behaves in a way that is normal for a chimpanzee, but he's in a human world. He has used archive footage, photographs and interviews with those who cared for Nim to create a tribute to the chimp and his turbulent life. ![]() Nim's life story is told in Project Nim, a new documentary by Man on Wire director James Marsh, described by the New York Times as a "probing, unsettling study of primate behaviour". His name is a pun on Noam Chomsky, the linguist who theorised that language is unique to humans, which the experiment hoped to disprove. Highly intelligent, he was chosen to be the subject of a language experiment at Columbia University, called Project Nim, that aimed to discover whether or not chimpanzees could use grammar to create sentences if they were taught sign language and nurtured in a similar environment to human children. Nim Chimpsky, to give him his full title, was born at the Institute for Primate Studies in Norman, Oklahoma, in the early 70s. ![]() W hether he's zooming past in a pushchair, perched on a lavatory seat or getting a little too intimate with a passing cat, it's impossible not to be charmed by Nim the chimpanzee. ![]() ![]() ![]() On Violet’s first day she has an experience with a particular minotaur which she finds arousing. Although, to be fair, there is a fair bit of weird minotaur sex as well.) (A note to DA Readers: there’s more to this book than weird minotaur sex. She clicks on an ad for the Morning Glory Milking Farm in Cambric Creek and before she knows it, she’s “milking” minotaurs for a living. Violet, is a human who needs a better-paying job. It’s a longish novella – around category length really and the cover really does give much of the game away. For now at least, it seems to be only available from Amazon. Geddit? There are sheep people populating this world but they are not major players in the story.) It’s not the kind of book I would usually pick up – it’s definitely one which was purely as a result of multiple *multiple* Twitter recs. I saw the buzz about this book on Twitter and I bought it because apparently I’m a sheep. Kaetrin B Reviews / Book Reviews Erotic-Romance / Fantasy / minotaur / novella / SFF 10 Comments AugREVIEW: Morning Glory Milking Farm by C.M. ![]() 5/7/2023 0 Comments Herland charlotte perkins![]() The fact that Gilman chose to make her utopia vegetarian is interesting, to say the least. In Herland, there is no war, conflict, or domination. Well, Gilman covered that: the women reproduce reproduce via parthenogenesis, or asexual reproduction.Īccording to the author, this leads to an ideal society – a utopia. “But what about reproduction?” you might ask. That’s right: it’s been centuries since there have been men in Herland. In Herland, three men stumble upon a society made up exclusively of women – and this society has been this way for many, many years. This novel, published in Gilman’s magazine The Forerunner in 1915, does not shy away from subverting the male-dominated system. ![]() Herland is the second book in a series, but it can easily be read on its own. ![]() 5/7/2023 0 Comments Batman by Kevin Smith![]() Smith also developed a cult following through his provocative thoughts and sayings which largely emphasized on culture, religion, philosophy, motivation and righteousness. Along with various episodes of hit comic franchisees such as Daredevil, Green Arrow, Green Hornet and Batman, his notable writing works include Silent Bob Speaks, My Boring Ass Life and Jay and Silent Bob's Blueprints For Destroying Everything. He has also hosedt movie review shows and podcasts on his own SModcast Podcast Network namely Spoilers, SModcast, Fatman on Batman, and the live show Hollywood Babble-On. Smith’s famous works in film making includes comedy such as Cop Out, Red State and one-third of the True North trilogy. ![]() He’s a proud owner of the Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash comic book store, which transformed into a subject of hit reality TV show ‘Comic Book Men’. Religiously followed by the comic loving and geek community, Smith is an ardent fan of superhero epics such as Batman, Superman and various DC and Marvel comics. ![]() An epitome of versatility, Kevin Patrick Smith is a well-known film-maker, comedian, podcaster, comic book writer and public speaker. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And Brooke Thomas, consummate band member, has been asked to join the super secret club because the president of the club has the hots for her guy.īrooke doesn't want to share her boyfriend. In an effort to spread around male cuteness and minimize fights and backstabbing, they just share boyfriends. Research shows that seven out of ten girl fights are over a guy. But it’s kind of hard to feel sorry for her since (a) Milan’s drop-dead gorgeous (b) she’s the daughter of two of Hollywood’s hottest film stars (c) she’s captured the attention of everyone in town, including Danny, Jamie’s crush since forever and (d) she’s about to steal the title of Pumpkin Princess right out from underneath Jamie! Jamie can’t imagine it was easy for Milan to leave her life back in Los Angeles and move to Average, Illinois, population one thousand. Jamie Edwards has loved everything about growing up on a pumpkin patch, but ever since her cousin Milan Woods arrived, things have really stunk. JUST YOUR AVERAGE is a line of fun standalone young adult contemporary romance novels about average girls in extraordinary situations. ![]() |