After a 15-year sentence in a maximum security facility, Chantal Rathbone is released on condition that she accept accommodation arranged by the prison's governing body. Elated to be free, she accepts custody of a glorious historical thatch house in the Irish countryside. But she is aware that nothing is free, being a seasoned criminal. The house comes with a gruesome history that challenges Chantal's psyche, her resilience and her fears, when she discovers human bones in the thatching of the house. Her abilities are tested when she is plummeted into a tangible world of intangible forces. Suddenly Chantal 'Bone' Rathbone is confronted by things beyond history, mythology and perception and she must decide whether she would elect to fight evil...or rule it.
A quaint ghost story set in South Africa, Beware the Chair entails the inadvertent unearthing of an old feud. Teenage tomboy, Storm Draven, is invited by her friend, Ghita, to spend the holiday at Ghita's grandparents' home. But when the two girls encounter a terrifying black figure seated in the spare room chair, their investigation unwittingly opens a long forgotten misdeed and grandfather, Kees de Haven, has to confront his will to forgive or need to avenge.
The human brainstem has long been a neglected area in clinical medicine. This is shown by the fact that there is no introductory book on the neuroanatomy and pathology of this region. This book is intended to introduce the reader to the neuroanatomy of the human brainstem and combines an atlas with detailed information on the individual structures. The atlas features a state-of-the-art magnetic resonance imaging series, histological specimens (Darrow Red and Campbell staining) and a plastinate-based topographical part, which allows direct comparison of histological and topographical findings with neuroimaging. In addition, the reader is guided along the brainstem neuromer model through the human brainstem and learns about the functional properties of the individual structures of the brainstem. Where appropriate, peripheral targets of brainstem structures are illustrated and explained. Furthermore, each chapter covers the most important neurological disorders affecting the brainstem. This book aims to demonstrate that sound anatomical knowledge is required to understand brainstem pathology. It will particularly help those new to the field to better understand the complex anatomy of the human brainstem and will be useful to basic and clinical neuroscientists alike.
Essays and stories on fashion, art, and culture in the New York of the 2010s. We were supposed to meet Rose McGowan at Café d'Alsace after the party, but she cancelled at the last minute. I saw on Twitter that she had been hit with a drug possession charge, which she insisted was a scheme to keep her Weinstein dirt quiet. I hadn't even read her Weinstein story… I still wanted to know that the articles were being published, and in large quantities, but reading stories of abuse and humiliation was as stupefying as a hangover. I didn't feel empowered; I only felt more hopeless. I wanted to watch the patriarchy go up in flames, but I wasn't excited about what was being pitched to replace it. If we got all of it out in the open, what would we have left? My fear was that guilt would destroy the classics and there'd be no one left to fuck. All movies would be as low-budget and as puritanical as the stuff they play on Lifetime, all of New York would look like a Target ad, every book or article would be a cathartic tell-all, and I'd be sexually frustrated but too ashamed to hook up with assholes, or even to watch porn. —from Sleeveless Eve Babitz meets Roland Barthes in Sleeveless, Natasha Stagg's follow up to Surveys, her 2016 novel about internet fame. Composed of essays and stories commissioned by fashion, art, and culture magazines, Sleeveless is a scathing and sensitive report from New York in the 2010s. During those years, Stagg worked as an editor for V magazine and as a consultant, creating copy for fashion brands. Through these jobs, she met and interviewed countless industry luminaries, celebrities, and artists, and learned about the quickly evolving strategies of branding. In Sleeveless, she exposes the mechanics of personal identity and its monetization that propelled the narrator of Surveys from a mall job in Tucson to international travel and internet fame.
The word “terroir” refers to the climate and soil in which something is grown. Natasha Sajé applies this idea to the environments that nurture and challenge us, exploring in particular how the immigrant experience has shaped her identity. She revisits people and literature across her life, including her experiences as the child of European refugees in suburban New Jersey, taken under the wing of a widowed neighbor; a winter spent waitressing in Switzerland; her marriage to a Jamaican man in Baltimore; and finally her marriage to a woman in Salt Lake City. This memoir-in-essays combines poetic lyricism with incisive commentary on nationality, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and class. Reminding us that change is constant in our lives, Sajé asks how terroir creates identity. Throughout, the English language is her most fertile ground.
A quaint ghost story set in South Africa, Beware the Chair entails the inadvertent unearthing of an old feud. Teenage tomboy, Storm Draven, is invited by her friend, Ghita, to spend the holiday at Ghita's grandparents' home. But when the two girls encounter a terrifying black figure seated in the spare room chair, their investigation unwittingly opens a long forgotten misdeed and grandfather, Kees de Haven, has to confront his will to forgive or need to avenge.
After a 15-year sentence in a maximum security facility, Chantal Rathbone is released on condition that she accept accommodation arranged by the prison's governing body. Elated to be free, she accepts custody of a glorious historical thatch house in the Irish countryside. But she is aware that nothing is free, being a seasoned criminal. The house comes with a gruesome history that challenges Chantal's psyche, her resilience and her fears, when she discovers human bones in the thatching of the house. Her abilities are tested when she is plummeted into a tangible world of intangible forces. Suddenly Chantal 'Bone' Rathbone is confronted by things beyond history, mythology and perception and she must decide whether she would elect to fight evil...or rule it.
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