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The Woman of a Thousand Names

A Novel

By: Alexandra Lapierre

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From the internationally bestselling author of the “fascinating epic” (Associated Press) Between Love and Honor comes a rich, sweeping tale based on the captivating true story of the Mata Hari of Russia, featuring a beautiful aristocrat fighting for survival during the deadly upheaval of the Russian Revolution. Born into Russian aristocracy, wealth, and security, Moura never had any reason to worry. But in the upheaval of the Bolshevik Revolution, her entire world crumbles. As her family and friends are being persecuted by Vladimir Lenin’s ruthless police, she falls into a passionate affair with British secret agent Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart. But when he’s abruptly and mysteriously deported from Russia, Moura is left alone and vulnerable. Now, she must find new paths for her survival, even if it means shedding her past and taking on new identities. Some will praise her tenderness and undying loyalty. Others will denounce her lies. But all will agree on one point: Moura embodies Life. Life at all cost. Set against the volatile landscape of 20th-century Russia, The Woman of a Thousand Names brings history to vivid life in a captivating tale about an extraordinary woman caught in the waves of change—with only her wits to save her.

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Atria Books

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1501197916

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Artemisia

The Story of a Battle for Greatness. Alexandra Lapierre

By: Alexandra Lapierre

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Artemisia

The Story of a Battle for Greatness. Alexandra Lapierre

By: Alexandra Lapierre

Artemisia Gentileschi, a significant female artist of the late 1600s, is brought to life as Lapierre captures the flavor of Baroque Italy as well as the emotional life of this fascinating woman. A major exhibition of the artist's paintings opens in February 2002 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. of color photos.

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Vintage Books

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0099581698

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Artemisia

By: Alexandra Lapierre

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Artemisia

By: Alexandra Lapierre

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Grove Press

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0802138578

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The Woman of a Thousand Names

A Novel

By: Alexandra Lapierre

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A Novel

By: Alexandra Lapierre

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Race, Rights, and Rifles

The Origins of the NRA and Contemporary Gun Culture

By: Alexandra Filindra

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Race, Rights, and Rifles

The Origins of the NRA and Contemporary Gun Culture

By: Alexandra Filindra

An eye-opening examination of the ties between American gun culture and white male supremacy from the American Revolution to today. One-third of American adults—approximately 86 million people—own firearms. This is not just for protection or hunting. Although many associate gun-centric ideology with individualist and libertarian traditions in American political culture, Race, Rights, and Rifles shows that it rests on an equally old but different foundation. Instead, Alexandra Frilindra shows that American gun culture can be traced back to the American Revolution when republican notions of civic duty were fused with a belief in white male supremacy and a commitment to maintaining racial and gender hierarchies. Drawing on wide-ranging historical and contemporary evidence, Race, Rights, and Rifles traces how this ideology emerged during the Revolution and became embedded in America’s institutions, from state militias to the National Rifle Association (NRA). Utilizing original survey data, Filindra reveals how many White Americans —including those outside of the NRA’s direct orbit—embrace these beliefs, and as a result, they are more likely than other Americans to value gun rights over voting rights, embrace antidemocratic norms, and justify political violence.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226828751

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9780226828756

The Body in Society

An Introduction

By: Alexandra Howson

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The Body in Society

An Introduction

By: Alexandra Howson

In everyday life we are not, for the most part, actively conscious of our bodies or the bodies of others – we simply take them for granted. This new edition of a lively introduction to the sociology of the body examines what certain aspects of our bodies, such as the size, shape, smell and demeanour, reveal about the social organization of everyday life and how the body is crucial to the way we engage with the world and the people around us. The human body is endowed with varied forms of social significance which sociology has addressed by asking questions such as: To what degree do individuals have control over their own bodies? What interest does the state have in regulating the human body? How significant is the body to the development and performance of the self in everyday life? What images of the body influence people’s expectations of themselves and others? Written in a clear and comprehensible way, The Body in Society introduces students to the key conceptual frameworks that help us to understand the social significance of the human body. This second edition has been thoroughly updated to take into account recent theories and debates and also includes enhanced pedagogical features. Using familiar examples from everyday life, such as diet and exercise regimes, personal hygiene, dress, displays of emotion, and control over bodily functions, coupled with examples from popular culture, the text has strong contemporary relevance and will strike a chord with all who read it. This book will be essential reading for students taking courses on the body in sociology, anthropology, gender studies and cultural studies.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0745676367

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Vulnerability and Security in Human Rights Literature and Visual Culture

By: Alexandra Schultheis Moore

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Vulnerability and Security in Human Rights Literature and Visual Culture

By: Alexandra Schultheis Moore

This book responds to the failures of human rights—the way its institutions and norms reproduce geopolitical imbalances and social exclusions—through an analysis of how literary and visual culture can make visible human rights claims that are foreclosed in official discourses. Moore draws on theories of vulnerability, precarity, and dispossession to argue for the necessity of recognizing the embodied and material contexts of human rights subjects. At the same time, she demonstrates how these theories run the risk of reproducing the structural imbalances that lie at the core of critiques of human rights. Pairing conventional human rights genres—legal instruments, human rights reports, reportage, and humanitarian campaigns—with literary and visual culture, Moore develops a transnational feminist reading praxis of five sites of rights and their violation over the past fifty years: UN human rights instruments and child soldiers in Nigerian literature; human rights reporting and novels that address state-sponsored ethnocide in Zimbabwe; the international humanitarian campaigns and disaster capitalism in fiction of Bhopal, India; the work of Médecins Sans Frontières in the Sahel, Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Burma as represented in various media campaigns and in photo/graphic narratives; and, finally, the human rights campaigns, fiction, and film that have brought Indonesia’s history of anti-leftist violence into contemporary public debate. These case studies underscore how human rights norms are always subject to conditions of imaginative representation, and how literature and visual culture participate in that cultural imaginary. Expanding feminist theories of embodied and imposed vulnerability, Moore demonstrates the importance of situating human rights violations not only in the context of neo-liberal development policies but also in relation to the growth of security networks that serve the nation-state often at the expense of the security of specific subjects and populations. In place of conventional victims and agents, the intersection of vulnerability and human rights opens up readings of human rights claims and suffering that are, at once, embodied and shareable, yet which run the risk of cooptation by security rhetoric.

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Routledge

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1317507304

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World of the Right

Radical Conservatism and Global Order

By: Rita Abrahamsen,Jean-François Drolet,Michael C. Williams,Srdjan Vucetic,Karin Narita,Alexandra Gheciu

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World of the Right

Radical Conservatism and Global Order

By: Rita Abrahamsen,Jean-François Drolet,Michael C. Williams,Srdjan Vucetic,Karin Narita,Alexandra Gheciu

The contemporary radical Right is not merely a series of nationalist projects but a global phenomenon. This book shows how radical conservative thinkers have developed long-term counter-hegemonic strategies that challenge prevailing social and political orders both nationally and internationally. At the heart of this ideological project is a critique of liberal globalisation that seeks to mobilise transversal alliances against a common enemy: the 'New Class' of global managerial elites who are accused of undermining national sovereignty, traditional values, and cultures. 'World of the Right' argues that while the radical Right is far from a unified political movement, its calls for sovereignty, civilisational orders, and multipolarity enable complex, strategic convergences with illiberal states such as China and Russia, as well as states and people in the Global South. The potential consequences for the future of the liberal world order are profound and wide-ranging.

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323

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Cambridge University Press

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1009516094

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9781009516099

Rethinking Comparative Law

By: Glanert, Simone,Mercescu, Alexandra,Samuel, Geoffrey

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Rethinking Comparative Law

By: Glanert, Simone,Mercescu, Alexandra,Samuel, Geoffrey

Over the past decades, the field commonly known as comparative law has significantly expanded. The multiplication of journals, the proliferation of scholarship and the creation of courses or summer schools specifically devoted to comparative law attest to its increasing popularity. Within the Western legal tradition, a traditional, black-letter approach to law has proved particularly authoritative. This co-authored book rethinks comparative law’s mainstream model by providing both students and lawyers with the intellectual equipment allowing them to approach any foreign law in a more meaningful way.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1786439476

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Artemisia

Roman

By: Alexandra Lapierre

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Artemisia

Roman

By: Alexandra Lapierre

Das unverkennbare Haupt mit vier Augen durchstreift die Straßen Roms am Vorabend des 17. Jahrhunderts: Der Maler Orazio Gentileschi nimmt auf seinen Schultern seine Tochter Artemisia überallhin mit. Sie klettert mit ihm über Baustellengerüste, wohnt an seiner Seite Hinrichtungen bei und zerstößt Farbpigmente in seinem Atelier. Artemisia ist sehr begabt und nicht nur Orazios liebstes Modell, sondern auch seine beste Schülerin. Doch als Artemisia siebzehn ist, vergewaltigt sie ein Freund ihres Vaters. Ein Einschnitt, der sie und ihre Kunst ein Leben lang begleitet. Artemisia erhebt Anklage und vertritt ihren Fall, der ganz Rom fesselt, vor Gericht. Alexandra Lapierre entwirft ein Zeitbild und zeichnet den Weg der großen Barockkünstlerin von Rom nach Florenz, Venedig, London und Neapel.

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Unionsverlag

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329331189X

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Race, Rights, and Rifles

The Origins of the NRA and Contemporary Gun Culture

By: Alexandra Filindra

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The Origins of the NRA and Contemporary Gun Culture

By: Alexandra Filindra

One-third of American adults-some 86 million people-own firearms. This is not just for protection or hunting. Today it is common to associate US gun-centric ideology with individualist and libertarian traditions in American political culture, but Race, Rights, and Rifles shows that gun-centric ideology rests on a very old, but different foundation-a belief system dating back to the American Revolution that fuses republican notions of civic duty with a belief in white male supremacy and a commitment to maintaining racial and gender hierarchies. Alexandra Filindra calls this belief system ascriptive martial republicanism because it combines republican ideals of civic virtue with an exclusionary vision of citizenship and an emphasis on martial preparedness over other forms of civic participation and service. Drawing on wide-ranging historical and contemporary evidence, Race, Rights, and Rifles traces how this ideology emerged during the Revolution and became embedded in America's institutions, from state militias to the National Rifle Association (NRA). Although no longer a dominant ideology, ascriptive republicanism remains a potent force in American politics, and the NRA is a critical vector of its influence. New survey data shows that many White Americans -including those outside of the NRA's direct orbit-understand citizenship in ascriptive martial republican terms. This ideology is a robust predictor of gun ownership, support for the NRA, and beliefs that guns are a sign of good citizenship. Moreover, those who embrace this ideology are more likely than others to value gun rights over voting rights, to embrace antidemocratic norms, and to justify political violence"--

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The Woman of a Thousand Names

The Woman of a Thousand Names

Artemisia

Artemisia

Artemisia

Artemisia

The Woman of a Thousand Names

The Woman of a Thousand Names

Race, Rights, and Rifles

Race, Rights, and Rifles

The Body in Society

The Body in Society

Vulnerability and Security in Human Rights Literature and Visual Culture

Vulnerability and Security in Human Rights Literature and Visual Culture

World of the Right

World of the Right

Rethinking Comparative Law

Rethinking Comparative Law

Artemisia

Artemisia

Race, Rights, and Rifles

Race, Rights, and Rifles

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