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Wounded Heroes

Vulnerability as a Virtue in Ancient Greek Literature and Philosophy

By: Marina McCoy

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Wounded Heroes

Vulnerability as a Virtue in Ancient Greek Literature and Philosophy

By: Marina McCoy

McCoy examines how Greek epic, tragedy, and philosophy offer important insights into the nature of human vulnerability, especially how Greek thought extols the recognition and proper acceptance of vulnerability. Beginning with the literary works of Homer and Sophocles, she also expands her analysis to the philosophical works of Plato and Aristotle.

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0199672784

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Thirst

A Novel

By: Marina Yuszczuk

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Thirst

A Novel

By: Marina Yuszczuk

“Vampires are making a comeback, and Yuszczuk is spearheading their revival with this bloody novel.” —The New York Times Book Review It is the nineteenth century, the twilight of Europe’s bloody bacchanals, and a vampire must escape. She arrives to the coast of Buenos Aires and, for the second time in her life, watches as villages transform into a cosmopolitan city. She adapts, intermingles with humans, and attempts to be discreet. In present-day Buenos Aires, a woman finds herself at an impasse as she grapples with her mother's terminal illness and her own relationship to motherhood. When she first encounters the vampire in a cemetery, something ignites inside the two women—and they cross a threshold from which there’s no turning back. With echoes of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Thirst plays with the boundaries of the Gothic genre while exploring the limits of female agency, all-consuming desire, and the fragile vitality of even the most immortal of creatures. “Channeling Carmen Maria Machado and Anne Rice, Yuszczuk reimagines the vampire novel, with a distinctly Latin American feminist Gothic twist.” —The Millions

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Penguin

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0593472063

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9780593472064

The Voyage of the Morning Light: A Novel

By: Marina Endicott

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The Voyage of the Morning Light: A Novel

By: Marina Endicott

From a critically acclaimed and beloved storyteller comes a sweeping novel set aboard the Morning Light, a Nova Scotian merchant ship sailing through the South Pacific in 1912. Kay and Thea are half-sisters, separated in age by almost twenty years, but deeply attached. When their stern father dies, Thea travels to Nova Scotia for her long-promised marriage to the captain of the Morning Light. But she cannot abandon her orphaned young sister, so Kay too embarks on a life-changing journey to the other side of the world. At the heart of The Voyage of the Morning Light is a crystallizing moment in Micronesia: Thea, still mourning a miscarriage, forms a bond with a young boy from a remote island and takes him on board as her own son. Over time, the repercussions of this act force Kay, who considers the boy her brother, to examine her own assumptions—which are increasingly at odds with those of society around her—about what is forgivable and what is right. Inspired by a true story, Marina Endicott shows us a now-vanished world in all its wonder, and in its darkness, prejudice, and difficulty, too. She also brilliantly illuminates our present time through Kay’s examination of the idea of “difference”—between people, classes, continents, cultures, customs and species. The Voyage of the Morning Light is a breathtaking novel by a writer who has an astonishing ability to bring past worlds vividly to life while revealing the moral complexity of our own.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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1324007079

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Jewish Odesa

Negotiating Identities and Traditions in Contemporary Ukraine

By: Marina Sapritsky-Nahum

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Jewish Odesa

Negotiating Identities and Traditions in Contemporary Ukraine

By: Marina Sapritsky-Nahum

Jewish Odesa: Negotiating Identities and Traditions in Contemporary Ukraine explores the rich Jewish history in Ukraine's port city of Odesa. Long considered both a uniquely cosmopolitan and Jewish place, Odesa's Jewish character has shifted since the Soviet Union collapsed and Ukraine gained its independence. Drawing on extensive field research, Marina Sapritsky-Nahum, examines how the role of Russian language and culture, memories of the Soviet political project, and Odesan's place in a Ukrainian national project have all been questioned in recent years. Jewish Odesa reveals how a city once famous for its progressive Jewish traditions has become dominated by Orthodox Judaism and framed by the agendas of international Jewish organizations embedded in a religiosity that is foreign to the city. Russia's war in Ukraine has forced Jewish identities with ties to Odesa to change still further.

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Indiana University Press

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0253070120

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Situated Contemporary Art Practices

Art, theory and activism from (the east of) Europe

By: Marina Gržinić

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Situated Contemporary Art Practices

Art, theory and activism from (the east of) Europe

By: Marina Gržinić

Knjigo sestavljajo nekatera novejša pregledana ali znova napisana besedila slovenske filozofinje, umetnice in teoretičarke Marine Gržinić. V knjigi so zbrane teoretsko-politične razlage umetnosti, kulture in politike z območja bivše Jugoslavije in bivše Vzhodne Evrope ter kapitalističnega prostora novih medijev in tehnologij z njemu lastno novo ekonomijo, politiko globalizacije, multikulturno ideologijo in novimi oblikami hegemonij. Avtorica v knjigi med drugim razpravlja o umetniških projektih IRWIN-a, Tanje Ostojić, Emila Hrvatina, skupine Laibach, Dragana Živadinova, Ilye Kabakova, Oliverja Resslerja, Walida Ra’ada in drugih.

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Založba ZRC

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9616500538

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Pioneer African American Educators in Washington, D.C.: Anna J. Cooper, Mary Church Terrell, and Eva B. Dykes

By: Marina Bacher

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Pioneer African American Educators in Washington, D.C.: Anna J. Cooper, Mary Church Terrell, and Eva B. Dykes

By: Marina Bacher

Anna J. Cooper, Mary Church Terrell, and Eva B. Dykes shaped the educational landscape in Washington, D.C., in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These three pioneer educators serve as examples to describe the societal circles they were involved in. The many facets of their educational achievements are analyzed in the context of the educational elite of Washington. Cooper, Terrell, and Dykes not only had to live with race discrimination but also with gender discrimination. Unpublished archive material is used to illustrate how they interacted and how they treated each other. Marina Bacher is a scholar, author, and educator. (Series: American Studies in Austria, Vol. 18) [Subject: Education, Sociology, History]

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LIT Verlag Münster

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3643909454

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A Race for the Future

Scientific Visions of Modern Russian Jewishness

By: Marina Mogilʹner,Marina Mogilner

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A Race for the Future

Scientific Visions of Modern Russian Jewishness

By: Marina Mogilʹner,Marina Mogilner

Amid the nationalization of Russian imperial politics, Jews developed a powerful version of race science and biopolitics as a response to their colonial condition, nonterritoriality, and exclusion from looming postimperial modernity. Marina Mogilner explores this story in the context of Russia’s turbulent early twentieth century.

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Harvard University Press

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067427072X

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Phrasal Constructions and Resultativeness in English

A Sign-oriented Analysis

By: Marina Gorlach

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Phrasal Constructions and Resultativeness in English

A Sign-oriented Analysis

By: Marina Gorlach

Eat up the apple or Eat the apple up? Is there any difference in the messages each of these alternative forms sends? If there isn't, why bother to keep both? On the other hand, is there any semantic similarity between eat the apple up and break the glass to pieces? This study takes a fresh look at a still controversial issue of phrasal verbs and their alternate word order applying sign-oriented theory and methodology. Unlike other analyses, it asserts that there is a semantic distinction between the two word order variants phrasal verbs may appear in. In order to test this distinction, the author analyzes a large corpus of data and also uses translation into a language having a clear morphological distinction between resultative/non-resultative forms (Russian). As follows from the analysis, English has morphological and syntactic tools to express resultative meaning, which allows suggesting a new lexico-grammatical category resultativeness.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027215618

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The Knot Garden

By: Marina Oliver

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The Knot Garden

By: Marina Oliver

When Mr Greenslade, owner of Green Valley Garden Centre, falls from his wheelchair one night and is rushed into hospital, his daughter Tansy, talented interior designer, gives up the chance of a prestigious commission to go home to the Cotswolds and take charge. Things have been going wrong at the Garden Centre, small irritating mistakes, petty vandalism, and what increasingly seems like major sabotage. Is the incompetent manager responsible, or the charismatic Karl, whose company is trying to buy the centre?

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Lulu.com

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1326791508

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Phantasmagoria

Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media Into the Twenty-first Century

By: Marina Warner

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Phantasmagoria

Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media Into the Twenty-first Century

By: Marina Warner

With over thirty illustrations in color and black and white, Phantasmagoria takes readers on an intellectually exhilarating tour of ideas of spirit and soul in the modern world, illuminating key questions of imagination and cognition. Warner tells the unexpected and often disturbing story about shifts in thought about consciousness and the individual person, from the first public waxworks portraits at the end of the eighteenth century to stories of hauntings, possession, and loss of self in modern times. She probes the perceived distinctions between fantasy and deception, and uncovers a host of spirit forms--angels, ghosts, fairies, revenants, and zombies--that are still actively present in contemporary culture.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199299943

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9780199299942

Monsters of Our Own Making

The Peculiar Pleasures of Fear

By: Marina Warner

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Monsters of Our Own Making

The Peculiar Pleasures of Fear

By: Marina Warner

In Monsters of Our Own Making, Marina Warner explores the dark realm where ogres devour children and bogeymen haunt the night. She considers the enduring presence and popularity of male figures of terror, establishing their origins in mythology and their current relation to ideas about sexuality and power, youth and age.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813191742

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Empty Action

Labour and Free Time in the Art of Collective Actions

By: Marina Gerber

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Empty Action

Labour and Free Time in the Art of Collective Actions

By: Marina Gerber

Collective Actions is one of the most significant artistic practices to emerge from Moscow Conceptualism. The group's enigmatic idea of 'Empty action' is the focal point for Marina Gerber's exploration of this practice in relation to labour in the late Soviet Union. Based on interviews with members of the group (Monastyrski, Panitkov, Alexeev, Makarevich, Elagina, Romashko, Hänsgen and Kiesewalter) she exposes the relation between their jobs, their individual art practices and their contribution to the collective in the context of post-Stalinist debates on labour and free time. Departing from the mundane fact that Collective Actions' practice took place in free time from work for the Soviet State, Gerber identifies Empty action as a form of 'art after work'.

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transcript Verlag

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3839440904

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9783839440902

From Face to Face

Recarving of Roman Portraits and the Late-Antique Portrait Arts. Second, revised edition

By: Marina Prusac

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From Face to Face

Recarving of Roman Portraits and the Late-Antique Portrait Arts. Second, revised edition

By: Marina Prusac

This book is based on an investigation of more than 2000 portraits of which around 500 have proven to be recarved. It provides thorough analyses of the different recarving methods, some of which can be attributed to geographically localized workshops, establishing classifiable categories, and an analytical text with special regard to the cultural historical changes in Late Antiquity. The investigation underpins a hypothesis on the late antique portraits style as a consequence of the many recarved portraits at the time, which relied on a syncretism of politics, religion and ideology. The conclusion gives a new understanding of how broad-scoped, culturally and politically encoded and comprehensive the practice of recarving was.

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BRILL

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9004324550

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9789004324558

Make Every Day a Friday!

The Joy of Connecting Who You Are with What You Do

By: Marina Spence

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Make Every Day a Friday!

The Joy of Connecting Who You Are with What You Do

By: Marina Spence

With a stress-free system, including the three "inner keys" of career change, women are gently guided toward changing their work and their attitude about work, in this career guide that aims to help readers connect who they really are with what they do for a living.

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Wordclay

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1600374506

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9781600374500

Eighteenth-Century Russian Music

By: Marina Ritzarev

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Eighteenth-Century Russian Music

By: Marina Ritzarev

Little is known outside of Russia about the nation's musical heritage prior to the nineteenth century. Western scholarship has tended to view the history of Russian music as not beginning until the end of the eighteenth century. Marina Ritzarev's work shows this interpretation to be misguided. Starting from an examination of the rich legacy of Russian music up to 1700, she explores the development of music over the course of the eighteenth century, a period of especially intense Westernization and secularization. The book focuses on what is characteristic and crucial to Russian music during this period, rather than seeking to provide a comprehensive survey. The musical culture of the time is discussed against the rich background of social, political and cultural life, tying together many of the phenomena that used to be viewed separately. The book highlights the importance of previously marginalized sectors - serf culture, choral sacred culture, the contribution of foreign musicians, the significant influence of Freemasonry, the role of Ukrainian and West-European cultures and so on - as well as casting new light on the well-researched topic of Russian opera. Much new archival material is introduced, and revised biographies of the two leading eighteenth-century Russian composers, Maxim Berezovsky and Dmitry Bortniansky, are provided, as well as those of the serf composer Stepan Degtyarev and the Italian Giuseppe Sarti. The book places eighteenth-century Russian music on the European map, and will be of particular importance for the study of European musical cultures remote from such centres as Italy, Germany-Austria and France. Eighteenth-century Russian music is organically linked with its past and future and its contributory role in forming the Russian national identity and developing the Russian idiom is clarified.

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Routledge

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1351568604

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9781351568609

Adoption and Fosterage Practices in the Late Medieval and Modern Age

By: Marina Garbellotti,Maria Clara Rossi

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Adoption and Fosterage Practices in the Late Medieval and Modern Age

By: Marina Garbellotti,Maria Clara Rossi

In recent years historical studies on adoption and fosterage have greatly advanced, very likely due to the importance that such practices have acquired in our own societies. Also in the past – not only during Roman or Late Antique periods, but throughout the Middle Ages and the Modern Era as well – a rather significant number of family units went through adoption and fosterage, experiencing these kinds of ties and relationships on the daily basis. Articles collected in this volume are aimed at analysing the various forms and methods by means of which the concept of “adoption” was interpreted and practiced during the Medieval and Early Modern periods, identifying especially relevant chronological points, examples from different regional and local contexts, reciprocal influences, and family relationships shaped by adoption.

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Viella Libreria Editrice

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8867286218

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9788867286218

The Marriage Gamble

By: Marina Oliver

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The Marriage Gamble

By: Marina Oliver

Luke, Earl of Frayne, is determined to recover Frayne Castle, even if it means marrying the present owner, Damaris Hallem, a girl he has never met. Luke's father, an inveterate gambler, lost the Castle 50 years earlier to Damaris's grandfather, an innkeeper. As it is the first estate his family obtained Luke wants to regain it. Damaris, unwillingly obeying her grandfather's wishes, comes to London for the Season with her friend Mary, Lady Gordon, and her two young children. She will be 21 in July, and is looking forward to controlling her inheritance, which has been in the charge of a distant cousin, Humphrey Lee. Damaris is convinced he wants to marry her. She doesn't want any husband, who would deprive her of such control. Her first encounter with Luke is disastrous, but she soon finds a way out of the dilemma.

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Belgrave House

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1947812343

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The Observer

A Novel

By: Marina Endicott

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The Observer

A Novel

By: Marina Endicott

A spare and powerful new novel from the award-winning author of Good to a Fault and The Little Shadows. When Julia arrives in Medway, accompanying her beloved Hardy on his first posting as an RCMP constable, she tries to explain her new life to old friends from the city, but can find no shared vocabulary to convey this rural reality, let alone police life. As Hardy disappears into long days at work, Julia takes a job as editor of the local newspaper, the Observer. Interviewing people to compose a view of the town each week, she gathers knowledge of the community’s surface joys and sorrows; meanwhile, Hardy is immersed in violence and loss, and Julia can only witness his increasing exhaustion. At first this new life together is an adventure, but as in all the best stories, time darkens and deepens it. Grounded in Marina Endicott’s own experience in Mayerthorpe, Alberta, The Observer is an essential story from one of our most beloved storytellers. Endicott writes with the sure pacing and insight of a master novelist, piecing haunting details into a quietly devastating revelation of the fragility of life and law in a tightknit community.

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Knopf Canada

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1039003575

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9781039003576

Modernism and World War II

By: Marina MacKay

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Modernism and World War II

By: Marina MacKay

World War II marked the beginning of the end of literary modernism in Britain. However, this late period of modernism and its response to the war have not yet received the scholarly attention they deserve. In this full-length study of modernism and World War II, Marina MacKay offers historical readings of Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, T. S. Eliot, Henry Green and Evelyn Waugh set against the dramatic background of national struggle and transformation. In recovering how these major authors engaged with other texts of their time - political discourses, mass and middlebrow culture - this study reveals how World War II brought to the surface the underlying politics of modernism's aesthetic practices. Through close analyses of the revisions made to modernist thinking after 1939, MacKay establishes the significance of this persistently neglected phase of modern literature as a watershed moment in twentieth-century literary history.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139463179

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9781139463171

The Medici Giraffe

And Other Tales of Exotic Animals and Power

By: Marina Belozerskaya

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The Medici Giraffe

And Other Tales of Exotic Animals and Power

By: Marina Belozerskaya

A fascinating exploration, spanning two thousand years, of the central role exotic animals have played in war, diplomacy, and the pomp of rulers and luminaries.

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Little, Brown

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0316076422

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9780316076425

Kiss and Part

Short Stories

By: Salley Vickers ,Joan Bakewell ,Marina Warner ,Jo Baker,Elizabeth Speller ,Maggie Gee ,Maria McCann ,Jill Dawson,Catherine Fox,Lucy Durneen

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Kiss and Part

Short Stories

By: Salley Vickers ,Joan Bakewell ,Marina Warner ,Jo Baker,Elizabeth Speller ,Maggie Gee ,Maria McCann ,Jill Dawson,Catherine Fox,Lucy Durneen

What does it mean to 'kiss and part'? This collection of previously unpublished short stories from a stellar list of contemporary women novelists is a literary celebration of the spirit of place. Each contributor shares one thing in common - they have all stayed at a small cottage in the village of Clifford Chambers near Stratford-upon-Avon, courtesy of a trust set up to provide women writers with ‘a room of one’s own’, as Virginia Woolf put it. Clifford Chambers was the home of the Jacobean poet Michael Drayton, who incorporated the phrase ‘Kiss and part’ into a sonnet. Each of the ten short stories in this collection takes this as its theme and the result is wonderfully eclectic mix of storytelling of the highest quality. All royalties go the Hosking Houses Trust to further encourage women’s writing. Contents List Preface ‘Kiss and Part’ by Michael Drayton Introduction by Margaret Drabble Buck Moon Marina Warner ‘A Merrie Meeting’ Salley Vickers The Incumbent Elizabeth Speller ‘Colossal Wreck’ Maria McCann The Visitation Maggie Gee And the River Flows On Joan Bakewell The Creature Jill Dawson The Turn Catherine Fox The Fabric of Things Jo Baker ‘Place of Dreams’ Lucy Durneen The Writers Afterword by Sarah Hosking Acknowledgements of Photographs

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Canterbury Press

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1786221926

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Sappho's Legacy

Convivial Economics on a Greek Isle

By: Marina Karides

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Sappho's Legacy

Convivial Economics on a Greek Isle

By: Marina Karides

Winner of the 2023 Gourmand Cookbook Award for Greece in the Women Category Imaginatively interweaving literatures across a variety of subjects, Sappho's Legacy identifies the crucial role that islands and Greek economic culture play in teaching about capitalism's failures and alternatives. Marina Karides delivers a historical and ethnographic account of food cooperatives and microenterprises on the Greek island of Lesvos following the 2008 financial crisis to reveal the success stories of grassroots, traditional, and community-centered economics organized by people marginalized on the basis of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity. Karides offers hope to others who are working against the tide of neoliberalism and heteropatriarchy to develop alternative or convivial economic practices that serve communities by providing a trail of rhythms from ancient times to the present that showcase Greece's historical resistance.

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State University of New York Press

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1438483066

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Vita Nostra

A Novel

By: Marina & Sergey Dyachenko

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Vita Nostra

A Novel

By: Marina & Sergey Dyachenko

“Vita Nostra” — a cross between Lev Grossman’s “The Magicians” and Elizabeth Kostova’s “The Historian” [...] is the anti-Harry Potter you didn’t know you wanted.” -- The Washington Post “Vita Nostra has become a powerful influence on my own writing. It’s a book that has the potential to become a modern classic of its genre, and I couldn’t be more excited to see it get the global audience in English it so richly deserves.” -- Lev Grossman Best Books of November 2018 -- Paste Magazine The definitive English language translation of the internationally acclaimed Russian novel—a brilliant dark fantasy combining psychological suspense, enchantment, and terror that makes us consider human existence in a fresh and provocative way. Our life is brief . . . Sasha Samokhina has been accepted to the Institute of Special Technologies. Or, more precisely, she’s been chosen. Situated in a tiny village, she finds the students are bizarre, and the curriculum even more so. The books are impossible to read, the lessons obscure to the point of maddening, and the work refuses memorization. Using terror and coercion to keep the students in line, the school does not punish them for their transgressions and failures; instead, it is their families that pay a terrible price. Yet despite her fear, Sasha undergoes changes that defy the dictates of matter and time; experiences which are nothing she has ever dreamed of . . . and suddenly all she could ever want. A complex blend of adventure, magic, science, and philosophy that probes the mysteries of existence, filtered through a distinct Russian sensibility, this astonishing work of speculative fiction—brilliantly translated by Julia Meitov Hersey—is reminiscent of modern classics such as Lev Grossman’s The Magicians, Max Barry’s Lexicon, and Katherine Arden’s The Bear and the Nightingale, but will transport them to a place far beyond those fantastical worlds.

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HarperCollins

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0062694618

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Eyes of the World

Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the Invention of Modern Photojournalism

By: Marc Aronson,Marina Budhos

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Eyes of the World

Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the Invention of Modern Photojournalism

By: Marc Aronson,Marina Budhos

Packed with dramatic photos, posters, and maps, this compelling book captures the fascinating story of photojournalism in modern times.

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Henry Holt Books For Young Readers

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0805098356

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The Vagina Business

The Innovative Breakthroughs that Could Change Everything in Women's Health

By: Marina Gerner

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The Vagina Business

The Innovative Breakthroughs that Could Change Everything in Women's Health

By: Marina Gerner

This tech could change everything for women—here's how. Women make over 80% of healthcare decisions in everyday life, yet only 4% of all medical research and development is focused on women's health issues. From periods and childbirth to menopause, female pain has been normalized, as society shrugs and says "Welcome to being a woman" instead of coming up with better solutions. But it doesn't have to be this way. In The Vagina Business, award-winning journalist Marina Gerner PhD takes an eye-opening look at the innovators challenging the status quo to deliver the healthcare solutions women need. With interviews from 100 entrepreneurs across 15 countries, The Vagina Business explores the future of women's health, where female-focused companies are developing products to help women at every stage of life. Some of these products include: A smart bra with EKG technology that can predict heart attacks early An in-home fertility gadget that uses saliva to track ovulation Apps to help women get access to medical abortions and perform them at home safely A vaginal and pelvic floor dilator that could drastically reduce the rate of vaginal tearing in birth Healthcare apps tailored to LGBTQIA people and their needs, without stigma Devices that prevent birth injuries and restore the pelvic floor and vagina during menopause Gerner also takes the reader inside the boardroom, where only 2.1% of venture capital dollars goes toward companies founded by women, and issues a rallying cry: Women should not be denied solutions to health issues because of embarrassment and ignorance. Every woman deserves better.

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1728263328

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9781728263328

Ian Watt

The Novel and the Wartime Critic

By: Marina MacKay

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Ian Watt

The Novel and the Wartime Critic

By: Marina MacKay

Before his masterpiece The Rise of the Novel made him one of the most influential post-war British literary critics, Ian Watt was a soldier, a prisoner of war of the Japanese, and a forced labourer on the notorious Burma-Thailand Railway. Both an intellectual biography and an intellectual history of the mid-century, this book reconstructs Watt's wartime world: these were harrowing years of mass death, deprivation, and terror, but also ones in which communities and institutions were improvised under the starkest of emergency conditions. Ian Watt: The Novel and the Wartime Critic argues that many of our foundational stories about the novel—about the novel's origins and development, and about the social, moral, and psychological work that the novel accomplishes—can be traced to the crises of the Second World War and its aftermath.

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0192558501

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Time for Change

Tracking Transformations in Psychoanalysis - The Three-Level Model

By: Marina Altmann de Litvan

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Time for Change

Tracking Transformations in Psychoanalysis - The Three-Level Model

By: Marina Altmann de Litvan

This book presents a research work on transformations in psychoanalysis and clinical observation of changes in psychoanalysis. It compares, based on the "three-level model", the different points of view of psychoanalysts from all over the world and from different psychoanalytical cultures.

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Routledge

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0429923031

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Becoming a Romanov. Grand Duchess Elena of Russia and her World (1807–1873)

By: Marina Soroka,Charles A. Ruud

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Becoming a Romanov. Grand Duchess Elena of Russia and her World (1807–1873)

By: Marina Soroka,Charles A. Ruud

The Russian Great Reforms of the 1860s were the last major modernizing effort by the Romanov dynasty. From 1855 to 1861, Grand Duchess Elena, born Princess Charlotte of Württemberg (1807-1873), acted as the spokeswoman for the reform-minded circles of Russian society, bringing before her nephew Emperor Alexander II a group of civic-minded experts who formed the core of the committee that prepared the greatest and most complex of the reforms, the abolition of serfdom in Russia. The Grand Duchess’s involvement in these crucial events in Russian history highlights the considerable influence aristocratic women had in Russian society, quite unlike women of the same class and status in Western Europe. A study of the Grand Duchess Elena of Russia offers a new understanding of Russian and international events of the time, the Romanovs’ role in them, the degree of autonomy enjoyed by high-born women in Russia and the ways in which new ideas gained ground in the nineteenth-century Russian empire. Based on abundant and largely unused archival sources, published documents and literature of the period in French, Russian, German, Italian and English, this is the first book about Grand Duchess Elena and it expertly interweaves the story of a woman’s life with that of Imperial Russian high politics.

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1317175867

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Volunteering for a Cause

Gender, Faith, and Charity in Mexico from the Reform to the Revolution

By: Silvia Marina Arrom

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Volunteering for a Cause

Gender, Faith, and Charity in Mexico from the Reform to the Revolution

By: Silvia Marina Arrom

This thoughtful study challenges a number of widespread assumptions about the role of Catholicism in Mexican history by examining two related Catholic charities: the male Society of St. Vincent de Paul and the Ladies of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul. With thousands of volunteers, these lay groups not only survived the liberal reforms of the mid-nineteenth century but thrived, offering educational, medical, and other services to hundreds of thousands of poor people. Arrom stresses the prominence of women among the volunteers, showing the many ways that Catholicism promoted Mexican modernization rather than being an obstacle to it. Moreover, by reinserting religion into public life, these organizations defied the secularizing policies of the Mexican government. By comparing the male and female organizations collectively, the work shows that the relationship between gender, faith, and charity was much more complicated than is usually believed, with devout men and women supporting the Catholic project in complementary ways.

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University of New Mexico Press

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0826341888

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Alone of All Her Sex

The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary

By: Marina Warner

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Alone of All Her Sex

The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary

By: Marina Warner

This unique study of the cult of the Virgin Mary offers a way of thinking about the interrelations of Catholicism and ideas of ideal femininity over the longue duree.

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Oxford University Press

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0198718780

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Monomania

The Flight from Everyday Life in Literature and Art

By: Marina Van Zuylen

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Monomania

The Flight from Everyday Life in Literature and Art

By: Marina Van Zuylen

Monomania' explores the cultural prominence of the idée fixe in Western Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries. The author revives the term monomania to explore the therapeutic attributes of obsession.

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Cornell University Press

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0801442982

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9780801442988

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