Everyone knows that all’s fair in love and war. But these two will learn that sabotage is a dish best served naked. A sexy, compulsively readable romantic comedy that dives headlong into the thrill and doubt of modern love, Dating You/Hating You by New York Times bestselling author Christina Lauren is the story of what two high-powered agents will—and won’t—do to get everything they ever wanted. Despite the odds against them from an embarrassing meet-awkward at a mutual friend’s Halloween party, Carter and Evie immediately hit it off. Even the realization that they’re both high-powered agents at competing firms in Hollywood isn’t enough to squash the fire. But when their two agencies merge—causing the pair to vie for the same position—all bets are off. What could have been a beautiful, blossoming romance turns into an all-out war of sabotage. Carter and Evie are both thirtysomething professionals—so why can’t they act like it? Can Carter stop trying to please everyone and see how their mutual boss is really playing the game? Can Evie put aside her competitive nature long enough to figure out what she really wants in life? Can their actor clients just be something close to human? Whether these two Hollywood love/hatebirds get the storybook Hollywood ending, or just a dramedy of epic proportions, you get to enjoy Christina Lauren’s heartfelt, hilarious story of romance in the modern world.
When Natalie Lewis sends an obnoxious stranger to the back of the line at a café, she never expects to see him again. Little did she know that Bradley Bradshaw would appear in her life again just moments after. Natalie is shocked to realize that Bradley is her new high-profile client. A client she has to work closely with while her boss is away. Though Bradley has an undeniably sexual presence, Natalie tries to resist his charms, determined not to fall for his playboy appeal. But as time goes by, she falters and eventually gives in to her desires. When her boss returns, Natalie's work relationship with Bradley dissolves, but she continues a personal one until someone unexpectedly shows up at his doorstep. Devastated, Natalie storms out but soon changes her impression of Bradley after a conversation with his mother. Can Natalie look beyond Bradley's past to find love, or would she cast out love forever? This book is steamy, twisted, gritty and standalone. It is intended for mature audiences.
Norma Nudle, a quirky and loveable sales manager at a men's clothing store is 'Perfectly Torn' between two very different men, her so-hot-he-melts cop and her rich and sweet older customer who showers her with lavish gifts (that Mustang is her first love!). Still speeding through life, precariously balancing the insanity at work with heart-wrenching decisions on her future, Norma gets herself into hilarious hijinks. A dating service for the elderly, embarrassing emergency room visits, and a ticking biological clock with the biggest decision of her romantic life staring her in the face, Norma's need for speed, her best friend, Rena, and her love for peanut butter are her constant to help her choose her perfect match. Will her crazy assumptions prove to be true, or is it her endearing insecurities that are getting the best of her?
Have you ever questioned where you fit, what's your purpose, or why you are the way you are? That's exactly what Jamal Williams wonders about every day since his entire world was flipped upside down. A few weeks ago, the local pastor began poisoning the small Michigan community against Jamal and his sister Tonya with his increasingly outlandish sermons. The siblings must face the residual effects of racism and bullying, all while struggling to find their identity. From the almost unnoticeable incidents to life-threatening situations, the teens struggle to remain positive with such negativity directed at them. In the face of such adversity, Jamal must also reconcile his feelings for his best friend Chelsea. Would their families, friends and most of all, God, approve of a relationship? Chelsea, Jamal, and Tonya share their story as they make friends in unexpected places, learn to respond like their heroes, and realize that titles do not equal character. 'A Divided Love' is a powerful story of emotional highs and lows with thought-provoking and heartwarming situations.
Au boulot comme en amour, tous les coups sont permis ..." Entre Carter et Evie, deux trentenaires agents extrêmement influents à Hollywood, le courant passe instantanément. Mais lorsque leurs deux agences rivales fusionnent –; en les mettant en compétition pour le même poste –;, leur belle romance se transforme en guerre ouverte pour se saboter. Lors d'une rencontre embarrassante à Halloween, Carter et Evie, deux agents extrêmement influents d'Hollywood flashent l'un pour l'autre. Mais lorsque qu'ils sont mis en compétition pour le même poste –;, leur belle romance se transforme en guerre ouverte pour se saboter. Pourtant la rivalité entre ces deux trentenaires, compétents et haut placés, ne suffit pas à éteindre la flamme ces deux tourtereaux adeptes de l'amour vache. Qu'ils vivent une happy ending hollywoodienne ou une tragédie aux proportions épiques, le lecteur retrouve le style tapageur et hilarant de Christina Lauren au meilleur de sa forme.
Chelsea Reynolds and Jamal 'The Ball' Williams, are the school's MVP basketball players. Stuck in a tangle of hate and confusion because of Chelsea's racist uncle, the two find themselves falling for each other. With prom coming up and decisions regarding college, is a relationship worth fighting for, while the whole town is against it? Chelsea, a naïve, 17-year-old girl who really likes strawberry lip-gloss, tends to look at the world through rose-colored glasses. She's had a crush on Jamal Williams for several years now, and finally she sees that he may like her too. She would give up anything, including family members, to fight the unfair battle for their relationship.Jamal, adopted as a child and raised in a white rural town, always has everyone's best interest at heart. Jamal strives to pay it forward and to live life to the fullest, though lately he's finding it difficult to live life at all. Faced with adversity, he wonders if God could actually have a plan for him just the way he is. The more insane the town's beloved pastor acts, the more difficult it is to survive, let alone manage a relationship. Jamal faces the ultimate test when the pastor takes his frustrations way too far. Barely breathing, Jamal has to decide if life is worth fighting for. When it comes to the battle of love and hate, which side truly wins? With the help of the homeless man, who may be on a mission from God, and a few other people throughout the story, Chelsea and Jamal learn that love always overpowers hate. Jamal is forced to make the hardest decision of his life and chooses to save the life of the one person who wants him gone. The Racist Pastor is a controversial tale about hope, love, and forgiveness. Like a wolf in sheep's clothing, evil can disguise itself as good.
Screening the Nonhuman draws connections between how animals represented on screen translate into reality. In doing so, the book demonstrates that consuming media is not a neutral act but rather a political one. The images humans consume have real world consequences for how animals are treated as actors, as pets, and in nature. The contributors propose that altering the representations of animals can change the way humans relate to non/humans. Our hope is for humans to generate more ethical relationships with non/humans, ultimately mediating reality both in terms of fiction and non-fiction. To achieve this end, film, television, advertisements, and social media are analyzed through an intersectional lens. But the book doesn’t stop here. Each author creates counter-representational strategies that promise to unweave the assumptions that have led to the mistreatment of humans and non/humans alike.
Everyone knows that all’s fair in love and war. But these two will learn that sabotage is a dish best served naked. A sexy, compulsively readable romantic comedy that dives headlong into the thrill and doubt of modern love, Dating You/Hating You by New York Times bestselling author Christina Lauren is the story of what two high-powered agents will—and won’t—do to get everything they ever wanted. Despite the odds against them from an embarrassing meet-awkward at a mutual friend’s Halloween party, Carter and Evie immediately hit it off. Even the realization that they’re both high-powered agents at competing firms in Hollywood isn’t enough to squash the fire. But when their two agencies merge—causing the pair to vie for the same position—all bets are off. What could have been a beautiful, blossoming romance turns into an all-out war of sabotage. Carter and Evie are both thirtysomething professionals—so why can’t they act like it? Can Carter stop trying to please everyone and see how their mutual boss is really playing the game? Can Evie put aside her competitive nature long enough to figure out what she really wants in life? Can their actor clients just be something close to human? Whether these two Hollywood love/hatebirds get the storybook Hollywood ending, or just a dramedy of epic proportions, you get to enjoy Christina Lauren’s heartfelt, hilarious story of romance in the modern world.
From Roman villas to Hollywood films, ancient Egypt has been a source of fascination and inspiration in many other cultures. But why, exactly, has this been the case? In this book, Christina Riggs examines the history, art, and religion of ancient Egypt to illuminate why it has been so influential throughout the centuries. In doing so, she shows how the ancient past has always been used to serve contemporary purposes. Often characterized as a lost civilization that was discovered by adventurers and archeologists, Egypt has meant many things to many different people. Ancient Greek and Roman writers admired ancient Egyptian philosophy, and this admiration would influence ideas about Egypt in Renaissance Europe as well as the Arabic-speaking world. By the eighteenth century, secret societies like the Freemasons looked to ancient Egypt as a source of wisdom, but as modern Egypt became the focus of Western military strategy and economic exploitation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, its ancient remains came to be seen as exotic, primitive, or even dangerous, tangled in the politics of racial science and archaeology. The curse of the pharaohs or the seductiveness of Cleopatra were myths that took on new meanings in the colonial era, while ancient Egypt also inspired modernist, anti-colonial movements in the arts, such as in the Harlem Renaissance and Egyptian Pharaonism. Today, ancient Egypt—whether through actual relics or through cultural homage—can be found from museum galleries to tattoo parlors. Riggs helps us understand why this “lost civilization” continues to be a touchpoint for defining—and debating—who we are today.
A bold new history of the discovery of King Tut and the seismic impact it left on modern society. When it was discovered in 1922, in an Egypt newly independent of the British Empire, the 3,300-year-old tomb of Tutankhamun sent shockwaves around the world. The boy-king became a household name overnight and kickstarted an international obsession that continues to this day. From pop culture and politics to tourism and the heritage industry, it’s impossible to imagine the past century without the discovery of Tutankhamun – yet so much of the story remains untold. In Treasured, Christina Riggs weaves compelling historical analysis with tales of lives touched, or changed forever, by an encounter with the boy-king. Who remembers that Jacqueline Kennedy first welcomed the young pharaoh to America? That a Tutankhamun revival in the 1960s helped save the ancient temples of Egyptian Nubia? Or that the British Museum’s landmark Tutankhamun exhibition in 1972 remains its most successful ever? But not everything about ‘King Tut’ glitters: tours of his treasures in the 1970s were linked to Big Oil, his mummified remains have been exploited in the name of science, and accounts of his tomb’s discovery exclude Egyptian archaeologists. Treasured offers a bold new history of the young pharaoh who has as much to tell us about our world as his own.
They are among the most famous and compelling photographs ever made in archaeology: Howard Carter kneeling before the burial shrines of Tutankhamun; life-size statues of the boy king on guard beside a doorway, tantalizingly sealed, in his tomb; or a solid gold coffin still draped with flowers cut more than 3,300 years ago. Yet until now, no study has explored the ways in which photography helped mythologize the tomb of Tutankhamun, nor the role photography played in shaping archaeological methods and interpretations, both in and beyond the field. This book undertakes the first critical analysis of the photographic archive formed during the ten-year clearance of the tomb, and in doing so explores the interface between photography and archaeology at a pivotal time for both. Photographing Tutankhamun foregrounds photography as a material, technical, and social process in early 20th-century archaeology, in order to question how the photograph made and remade ‘ancient Egypt’ in the waning age of colonial order.
Barely 10 years old and growing rapidly, the doctrine of unjust enrichment offers splendid rewards to those who understand it and grave dangers to those who do not. This short book explains clearly and concisely the uses and dangers of the doctrine. Davenport, author of the very successful Construction Claims, and Harris draw primarily upon examples in construction law, where unjust enrichment has had its greatest impact, while pointing out that the principles in their book are of general application. They also note that the recency of the doctrine means that there are as yet only a handful of Australian cases so that academic opinion and international caselaw play a vital role; hence, extensive footnotes and a five-page bibliography.
Teach reading right with just-in-time expert advice! Whether you’re new to teaching reading or if you are a veteran whose goal is to focus on authentic reading instruction, this book is designed to be an on-the-desk companion, providing answers to your burning teaching questions at the moment you most need them. A lot has changed in reading instruction over the past decades, with old assumptions and tired curricula making way for both trusted and new best practices. Answers to Your Biggest Questions About Teaching Elementary Reading, written by a veteran teacher who’s an expert in literacy instruction, offers research-backed, classroom-tested guidance to set you on the right path. Through practical teaching strategies, classroom examples, actionable steps, further reading suggestions, and more, you’ll learn to Build and maintain an inclusive, equitable classroom reading community Structure, organize, and plan student-centered, responsive reading instruction Design and implement compassionate, effective assessment methods Engage and empower students to develop agency as readers You became a teacher to teach students—not curriculum. With this indispensable book by your side, you’ll develop practices that prioritize student well-being and success.
How did eighteenth-century readers find and make time to read? Books have always posed a problem of time for readers. Becoming widely available in the eighteenth century—when working hours increased and lighter and quicker forms of reading (newspapers, magazines, broadsheets) surged in popularity—the material form of the codex book invited readers to situate themselves creatively in time. Drawing on letters, diaries, reading logs, and a range of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century novels, Christina Lupton’s Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century concretely describes how book-readers of the past carved up, expanded, and anticipated time. Placing canonical works by Elizabeth Inchbald, Henry Fielding, Amelia Opie, and Samuel Richardson alongside those of lesser-known authors and readers, Lupton approaches books as objects that are good at attracting particular forms of attention and paths of return. In contrast to the digital interfaces of our own moment and the ephemeral newspapers and pamphlets read in the 1700s, books are rarely seen as shaping or keeping modern time. However, as Lupton demonstrates, books are often put down and picked up, they are leafed through as well as read sequentially, and they are handed on as objects designed to bridge temporal distances. In showing how discourse itself engages with these material practices, Lupton argues that reading is something to be studied textually as well as historically. Applying modern theorists such as Niklas Luhmann, Bruno Latour, and Bernard Stiegler, Lupton offers a rare phenomenological approach to the study of a concrete historical field. This compelling book stands out for the combination of archival research, smart theoretical inquiry, and autobiographical reflection it brings into play.
Television was one of the forces shaping the cultural revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, when a blockbuster TV series could reach up to a third of a country’s population. This book explores television’s impact on social change by comparing three sitcoms and their audiences. The shows in focus – Till Death Us Do Part in Britain, All in the Family in the United States, and One Heart and One Soul in West Germany – centered on a bigoted anti-hero and his family. Between 1966 and 1979 they saturated popular culture, and managed to accelerate as well as deradicalize value changes and collective attitudes regarding gender roles, sexuality, religion, and race.
The Pirate Prince Twenty-five-year-old James Cooke has been chasing Henry “Skinner” Morgann ever since he acquired a crew and a ship. Orphaned at age ten when pirate captain murdered his parents, he can’t remember a time when he hasn’t wanted to seek revenge on the Skinner. That all changes a ship from Aguamenta, the land of his birth, catches him, arrests him, and takes him back to the country for questioning, imprisonment, and likely execution. But when King Alcatraz offers James the chance to reform, Jim discovers his goals might be in reach after all. The Pirate Prince: The Mystery of King Alcatraz and the Vizier Even though the worst seemed to be over, it turns out the fun is just beginning! It’s time for King Alcatraz to seek a wife, and Captain James Cooke must bring his chosen bride, Princess Artemis of Balthazar, safely to Aguamenta. But once they arrive in the distant land, a suspicious Balthazarian vizier hinders their mission in any way he can. Can James and his men defeat the vizier in time to get the princess to her wedding?
New York, on the cusp of World War II. Robert Grant, a middle-aged businessman, lives life by his own rules. His chief hobbies are moneymaking and seduction; he is always on the hunt for the next woman to beguile and betray. That is, until he meets his match: Barbara, the ‘blondine’, a woman he cannot best. A sardonic commentary on sexual relations and war as potent as when it was first published in 1948, A Little Tea, a Little Chat holds up a mirror to the corruption and cravenness of our late-capitalist moment. Christina Stead was born in 1902 in Sydney. Stead’s first books, The Salzburg Tales and Seven Poor Men of Sydney, were published in 1934 to positive reviews in England and the United States. Her fourth work, The Man Who Loved Children, has been hailed as a ‘masterpiece’ by Jonathan Franzen, among others. In total, Stead wrote almost twenty novels and short-story collections. Stead returned to Australia in 1969 after forty years abroad for a fellowship at the Australian National University. She resettled permanently in Australia in 1974 and was the first recipient of the Patrick White Award that year. Christina Stead died in Sydney in 1983, aged eighty. She is widely considered to be one of the most influential Australian authors of the twentieth century. ‘[Christina Stead] is really marvellous.’ Saul Bellow ‘A sprawling character study...Callous, comical, loathsome, and tiresome, Grant also, as the David Malouf introduction notes, can sometimes stir sympathy thanks to Stead’s artistry.’ Kirkus reviews, starred review
Here Christina Wolbrecht boldly demonstrates how the Republican and Democratic parties have helped transform, and have been transformed by, American public debate and policy on women's rights. She begins by showing the evolution of the positions of both parties on women's rights over the past five decades. In the 1950s and early 1960s, Republicans were slightly more favorable than Democrats, but by the early 1980s, the parties had polarized sharply, with Democrats supporting, and Republicans opposing, such policies as the Equal Rights Amendment and abortion rights. Wolbrecht not only traces the development of this shift in the parties' relative positions--focusing on party platforms, the words and actions of presidents and presidential candidates, and the behavior of the parties' delegations in Congress--but also seeks to explain the realignment. The author considers the politically charged developments that have contributed to a redefinition and expansion of the women's rights agenda since the 1960s--including legal changes, the emergence of the modern women's movement, and changes in patterns of employment, fertility, and marriage. Wolbrecht explores how party leaders reacted to these developments and adopted positions in ways that would help expand their party's coalition. Combined with changes in those coalitions--particularly the rise of social conservatism within the GOP and the affiliation of social movement groups with the Democratic party--the result was the polarization characterizing the parties' stances on women's rights today.
First runner-up for the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies 2015. In ancient Egypt, wrapping sacred objects, including mummified bodies, in layers of cloth was a ritual that lay at the core of Egyptian society. Yet in the modern world, attention has focused instead on unwrapping all the careful arrangements of linen textiles the Egyptians had put in place. This book breaks new ground by looking at the significance of textile wrappings in ancient Egypt, and at how their unwrapping has shaped the way we think about the Egyptian past. Wrapping mummified bodies and divine statues in linen reflected the cultural values attached to this textile, with implications for understanding gender, materiality and hierarchy in Egyptian society. Unwrapping mummies and statues similarly reflects the values attached to Egyptian antiquities in the West, where the colonial legacies of archaeology, Egyptology and racial science still influence how Egypt appears in museums and the press. From the tomb of Tutankhamun to the Arab Spring, Unwrapping Ancient Egypt raises critical questions about the deep-seated fascination with this culture – and what that fascination says about our own.
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