Author: Chris Cleave File Type: epub Sarah Summers is enjoying a holiday on a Nigerian beach when a young girl named Little Bee crashes irrevocably into her life. All it takes is a brief and horrifying moment of crisis a terrifying scene that no reader will forget. Afterwards, Sarah and Little Bee might expect never to see each other again. But Little Bee finds Sarahs husbands wallet in the sand, and smuggles herself on board a cargo vessel with his address in mind. She spends two years in detention in England before making her way to Sarahs house, with what will prove to be devastating timing. Chapter by chapter, alternating between Little Bees voice and Sarahs, Chris Cleave wholly and caringly portrays two very different women trying to cope with events theyd never imagined. Little Bee is experiencing all the fullness and emptiness of the rich world for the first time, and her observations are hopeful, charming and piercing Most days I wish I was a British pound coin instead of an African girl, she says Everyone would be pleased to see me coming. Sarah is more cynical and disheartened, a successful magazine editor trying to find meaning in the face of turmoil at home and work. As the story develops, however, we learn about what matters most to her, including her fierce, protective love for her funny little son (From the Spring of 2007 until the end of that long summer when Little Bee came to live with us, Sarah says, my son removed his Batman costume only at bathtimes.). Sarah is trying to find herself as much as Little Bee is and, unexpectedly, each character discovers a ray of hope in the other. What follows when Little Bee comes back into Sarahs life is a powerful story of reconciliation and healing, but it is mixed in with a generous helping of satire about the daily difficulties of modern life. This is a novel about important issues, from refugee policy to the devastating effects of violence, but more than that, it does something only great fiction can Little Bee teaches us what it is like to live through experiences most of us think of only as far off disasters in the news. As ever, the author says it best Its an uplifting, thrilling, universal human story, and I just worked to keep it simple. One brave African girl one brave Western woman. What if one just turned up on the others doorstep one misty morning and asked, Can you help? And what if that help wasnt just a one-way street?From the Hardcover edition.
Author: Dominique Boels
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This book examines the nature and regulation of the informal economy by means of a collective case study in a highly regulated Western country. The book, situated at the intersection of criminology and sociology, investigates the relation between formal, informal and criminal work in three urban and rural labour markets (seasonal work, street trade and sex work) alongside the impact of state policies on informality. Boels uncovers the differential position authorities take regarding these labour markets, notwithstanding the presence of informality and often vulnerable position of workers in each one of them. With a distinctive focus on informal workers, and through in-depth interviews, this study explores the life and work of informal workers, including their experiences with regulators, their motivations for working informally and their perceptions of state policy. In short, this book gives a voice to often ignored but crucial participants of the informal economy. The detailed discussion of the results and the links to theoretical frameworks will ensure this book is of particular interest to scholars of urban economics and governance, criminology, and sociology.
Author: James Knowlson
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A collection of the notoriously private Becketts reminiscences about his life and remembrances of Beckett from those who knew him.
Author: Mary K. Ruby
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Author: Eliane Dalmolin
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This book is about how poets, filmmakers, and psychoanalysts look upon the female body, how they examine it as if dissecting it--at times relishing it, at others anguishing over its fragmentation. Eliane DalMolin examines how Charles Baudelaire, Francois Truffaut, and Sigmund Freud, based on their inheritance of lyricism, shaped and perpetuated a cultural understanding of women that they continued to represent in late romantic images, despite their respective innovative talents and influences in bringing about three decisive cultural moments modernism, New Wave cinema, and psychoanalysis. The works originality comes primarily from its unique summoning of three distinct disciplines around the notion of the cut. It places the complex desire to cut the womans body at the center of an investigation of male identity in Western culture through incisive discussions of poetry, cinema, and psychoanalysis. The terms of this inquiry disclose an uncanny male disposition to femininity and motherhood, and its direct implication in productive acts of cutting. Cutting the Body will appeal to literary scholars, film specialists, feminist theorists, and experts in psychoanalytical theory. Eliane DalMolin is Associate Professor of French, University of Connecticut. She is coeditor of Sites The Journal of 20th-CenturyContemporary French Studies.
Author: Michael Adas
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Over the past five centuries, advances in Western understanding of and control over the material world have strongly influenced European responses to non-Western peoples and cultures. In Machines as the Measure of Men, Michael Adas explores the ways in which European perceptions of their scientific and technological superiority shaped their interactions with people overseas. Adopting a broad, comparative perspective, he analyzes European responses to the cultures of sub-Saharan Africa, India, and China, cultures that they judged to represent lower levels of material mastery and social organization. Beginning with the early decades of overseas expansion in the sixteenth century, Adas traces the impact of scientific and technological advances on European attitudes toward Asians and Africans and on their policies for dealing with colonized societies. He concentrates on British and French thinking in the nineteenth century, when, he maintains, scientific and technological measures of human worth played a critical role in shaping arguments for the notion of racial supremacy and the civilizing mission ideology which were used to justify Europes domination of the globe. Finally, he examines the reasons why many Europeans grew dissatisfied with and even rejected this gauge of human worth after World War I, and explains why it has remained important to Americans. Showing how the scientific and industrial revolutions contributed to the development of European imperialist ideologies, Machines as the Measure of Men highlights the cultural factors that have nurtured disdain for non-Western accomplishments and value systems. It also indicates how these attitudes, in shaping policies that restricted the diffusion of scientific knowledge, have perpetuated themselves, and contributed significantly to chronic underdevelopment throughout the developing world. Adass far-reaching and provocative book will be compelling reading for all who are concerned about the history of Western imperialism and its legacies. First published to wide acclaim in 1989, Machines as the Measure of Men is now available in a new edition that features a preface by the author that discusses how subsequent developments in gender and race studies, as well as global technology and politics, enter into conversation with his original arguments.
Author: S. Paul Kashap
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span orphans 2 widows 2Spinozasspanspan orphans 2 widows 2Ethicsspanspan orphans 2 widows 2is so eminent a work that literally dozens of attempts to present a coherent interpretation of its main ideas may be found in the literature. But at the same time the work is so difficult that nearly all of these attempts end, at one point or another, attributing views to Spinoza that clash markedly with Spinozas own words. There are vanishingly few sober, conservative treatments of all the main themes of thespanspan orphans 2 widows 2Ethicsspanspan orphans 2 widows 2which ultimately attribute a coherent view to Spinoza. And it is the great achievement of Kashaps book to present just such a view. My own prediction is that a surprisingly large number of students ofspanspan orphans 2 widows 2Ethicsspanspan orphans 2 widows 2will discover, with its aid, that at long last an intelligible world-view is discernible in that work, a world-view that is tough-minded, coherent, and perhaps (even as Professor Kashap himself occasionally suggests) true. -- Stephen H. Vossspanbr orphans 2 widows 2br orphans 2 widows 2span orphans 2 widows 2Spinoza and Moral Freedomspanspan orphans 2 widows 2guides the reader through Spinozas principal ideas and powerful lines of reasoning, clearing up obscurities along the way, while acknowledging the genuine difficulties and gaps. At the same time, it neither intrudes the authors own beliefs and personality upon the reader nor gives instructions on what the readers own final judgment should be. What Kashap offers is pure Spinoza, rather than a Spinoza reformed in light of another persons wishes or preoccupations. In this respect, Kashaps approach is refreshingly new and unique. The style is graceful and lucid, and in no way obscured by philosophical jargon.span
Author: Charles Borromeo
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Charles Borromeo (1538-1584) became the driving force of reform within the Catholic Church in the wake of the Council of Trent following the Protestant Reformation and the primary reason Trents dramatic reforms were successful. His remarkable accomplishments in Milan as Archbishop became the model of reform for the rest of Western Europe. Change is never easy, but St. Charles approach deeply biblical, personal, practical and centered on Christ offers a road map of reform, even for today. Now for the first time in over 400 years a significant selection of his works appears in the English language.Chapter 1 offers three orations that St Charles gave as Archbishop of Milan to the other Bishops. These texts were among those that Pope Paul VI sent out to the Bishops of the world in 1963 during Vatican II. Chapter 2 contains a selection of homilies on the Eucharist and is followed by a collection of texts that treat the reform of the clergy. The final chapter presents Borromeos efforts at mobilizing the laity in their own reform.This translation is intended to be faithful to Borromeos Latin or Italian texts rendered into contemporary English.