Life in Bangkok for young people is marked by profound, interlocking changes and transitions. This book offers an ethnographic account of growing up in the city’s slums, struggling to get by in a rapidly developing and globalizing economy and trying to fulfil one’s dreams. At the same time, it reflects on the issue of agency, exploring its negative potential when exercised by young people living under severe structural constraint. It offers an antidote to neoliberal ideas around personal responsibility, and the assumed potential for individuals to break through structures of constraint in any sustained way.
Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture is the first major study to focus on American cultural history from the vampire’s point of view. Beginning in 1968, Ní Fhlainn argues that vampires move from the margins to the centre of popular culture as representatives of the anxieties and aspirations of their age. Mapping their literary and screen evolution on to the American Presidency, from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump, this essential critical study chronicles the vampire’s blood-ties to distinct socio-political movements and cultural decades in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Through case studies of key texts, including Interview with the Vampire, The Lost Boys, Blade, Twilight, Let Me In, True Blood and numerous adaptations of Dracula, this book reveals how vampires continue to be exemplary barometers of political and historical change in the American imagination. It is essential reading for scholars and students in Gothic and Horror Studies, Film Studies, and American Studies, and for anyone interested in the articulate undead.
No stranger, to loss, the one thing in her existence that beautiful Sara Wickham loses no sleep over is her lack of a love life. Who needs one? It's never better to have loved and lost, so it's best just to avoid loving in the first place. Long ago, she lost her heart to palaeontology, the perfect field for someone determined to avoid deep attachments to the living and breathing. Falling in love is just too risky for someone with Sara's past or, for that matter, her present. For Sara, a committed relationship means utter devotion to the one abiding love of her life-her job. She habitually risks losing her health and well-being for the job. Sometimes, she risks losing her life on the job. But she knows how to set limits and she never, ever risks losing the job itself. So why does Sara suddenly find herself out of a job and secretly employed by an irresistible man she doesn't know in a place that she reviles? As for the eminent, brilliant, gorgeous Thomas McBride, his team of palaeontologists is struggling through the worst field season ever-plagued by injuries, illnesses, and horrible dinosaur-hunting weather. He is sublimely unaware that help is on the way and that the season is about to get a whole lot worse before it gets better! Preoccupied by concerns about the future existence of his research programme, Thomas has no idea that the most intriguing discovery of his career is not to be a pile of deteriorating dinosaur bones, but the shapely and vexing Sara Wickham. As they excavate the past together, will Thomas uncover Sara's secret sorrow and melt her icy heart?
Emer Nugent leaves her lover Dalton Randall to search for her family in the hell of the Grosse Ile quarantine station. The land of opportunity is nearly the death of them all. Dalton is deceived into thinking Emer is dead by his father, and is about to marry the daughter of a business rival when he meets Emer again. Outraged that his father, and is about to marry the daughter of a business rival when he meets Emer again. Outraged that his plans for keeping the two apart have failed, Dalton's father has Emer arrested on false charges and transported back to Ireland. But the Ireland she returns to is on the brink of civil war. Emer finds herself unwittingly embroiled in the 1848 rebellion, and is put on trial for her life. Dalton must travel half way across the world to try to save her before it is too late.
What is life like for families who are stuck in problem debt? Why do they fall into a spiral of debt in the first place, and why is it so hard to escape? The first hand stories in this book offer a unique understanding of life for families and children fighting a daily battle against poverty and debt. They give voice to some of the most underrepresented people in society, who are too often portrayed cruelly in the media and elsewhere. Drawing on research data collected through The Children’s Society’s Debt Trap campaign, this book explores the causes, implications and impacts of problem debt, challenges pejorative public attitudes and encourages more compassionate policy making to help families escape poverty and debt.
The Market Series (Books 1-4) In this sizzling series The Market becomes the setting for Londoners of all walks of life to discover pleasure, lust, and even love. But can they do what is required to claim the ones they've fallen for? Love Revealed (The Market, Book 1) When Lord Raymond Tarkenton, the Earl of Heathington realizes that his masked lover and Lady Katherine Drummond are one and the same, he must find a way to convince her that they are bound together by more than the straps at her wrists and the contract they signed. He must reveal himself and his love to her. But will she accept him for more than a sexual escape. Love Redeemed (The Market, Book 2) Serena Freemont has only ever known the life of a prostitute. When an invitation to dinner by a handsome gentleman, Brennan Whitling, provides her an opportunity to experience life as a young lady, it’s too tempting to pass up. Much like the man issuing it. After a night of passion she must disappear or face his reaction when the truth is revealed. To find happiness Serena must shed her past long enough to realize she is worthy of a future. To win her heart, Brennan must show her the redemptive power of love. Love Reclaimed (The Market, Book 3) Resolved to prove to Jonathan Pierce, Baron Heartfield that she is not in need of saving, nor is she an appropriate wife, Madame Marie Marchander agrees to take him as a lover for six months. Steadfast in his love, he launches an assault on her heart with all the strategy his years in the military afford him. His only goal, to reclaim her love. Love Requited (The Market, A Short Story) Whitney Merriman's academically driven parents always encouraged her to study whatever she found of interest. Of course, she doubted they intended for her to study human sexuality in such an intimate manner. Magnus Penderson is in London for business, not pleasure. Despite this, he finds himself at The Market, a notorious brothel, and not his usual preference. But then a golden-haired beauty catches his eye, and once he has her alone he knows he can never let her go. All four titles have been previously published, but have now been combined into a single
One of the earliest surviving examples of 'art history', Pliny the Elder's 'chapters on art' form part of his encyclopaedic Natural History, completed shortly before its author died during the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. This important new work argues that the Natural History offers a sophisticated account of the world as empire, in which art as much as geography can be used to expound a Roman imperial agenda. Reuniting the 'chapters on art' with the rest of the Natural History, Sorcha Carey considers how the medium of the 'encyclopaedia' affects Pliny's presentation of art, and reveals how art is used to explore themes important to the work as a whole. Throughout, the author demonstrates that Pliny's 'chapters on art' are a profoundly Roman creation, offering an important insight into responses to art and culture under the early Roman empire.
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