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The Spectacular
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Author : Zoe Whittall
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2021-08-26
The Spectacular written by Zoe Whittall and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-26 with Fiction categories.
A rebellious young musician reconnects with the matriarchs in her family as three generations of women strive for real freedom in this brilliant novel of family, sexuality, and feminism from the acclaimed author of The Best Kind of People. It's 1997 and Missy's band has finally hit the big time as they tour across America. At twenty-two years old, Missy gets on stage every night and plays the song about her absent mother that made the band famous. Missy is the only girl in the band and she's determined to party just as hard as everyone else, loving and leaving someone in every town. But then a forgotten party favor strands her at the border. Fortysomething Carola is just surfacing from a sex scandal at the yoga center where she has been living when she sees her daughter, Missy, for the first time in ten years--on the cover of a music magazine. Ruth is eighty-three and planning her return to the Turkish seaside village where she spent her childhood. But when her granddaughter Missy winds up crashing at her house, she decides it's time that the strong and stubborn women in her family find a way to understand each other again. In this sharply observed novel, Zoe Whittall captures three very different women who struggle to build an authentic life. Definitions of family, romance, gender, and love will radically change as they seek out lives that are nothing less than spectacular.
The Spectacular Now
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Author : Tim Tharp
language : en
Publisher: Scholastic UK
Release Date : 2014-02-06
The Spectacular Now written by Tim Tharp and has been published by Scholastic UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-06 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Sutter's the guy you want at your party. Aimee's not. She needs help and it's up to Sutter to show Aimee a splendiferous time and then let her go forth and prosper. But Aimee's not like other girls and before long he's over his head. For the first time in his life he has the power to make a difference in someone else's life - or ruin it forever.
The Spectacular
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Author : Fiona Davis
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Group
Release Date : 2024-07-23
The Spectacular written by Fiona Davis and has been published by Penguin Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-23 with Fiction categories.
From the New York Times Bestselling Author of The Magnolia Palace: A thrilling story about love, sacrifice, and the pursuit of dreams, set amidst the glamour and glitz of Radio City Music Hall in its mid-century heyday. New York City, 1956: Nineteen-year-old Marion Brooks knows she should be happy. Her high school sweetheart is about to propose and sweep her off to the life everyone has always expected they’d have together: a quiet house in the suburbs, Marion staying home to raise their future children. But instead, Marion finds herself feeling trapped. So when she comes across an opportunity to audition for the famous Radio City Rockettes—the glamorous precision-dancing troupe—she jumps at the chance to exchange her predictable future for the dazzling life of a performer. Meanwhile, the city is reeling from a string of bombings orchestrated by a person the press has nicknamed the “Big Apple Bomber,” who has been terrorizing the citizens of New York for sixteen years by planting bombs in popular, crowded spaces. With the public in an uproar over the lack of any real leads after a yearslong manhunt, the police turn in desperation to Peter Griggs, a young doctor at a local mental hospital who espouses a radical new technique: psychological profiling. As both Marion and Peter find themselves unexpectedly pulled in to the police search for the bomber, Marion realizes that as much as she’s been training herself to blend in—performing in perfect unison with all the other identical Rockettes—if she hopes to catch the bomber, she’ll need to stand out and take a terrifying risk. In doing so, she may be forced to sacrifice everything she’s worked for, as well as the people she loves the most.
The Spectacular Few
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Author : Mark S. Hamm
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2013-03-11
The Spectacular Few written by Mark S. Hamm and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-11 with Social Science categories.
“Mark Hamm is, without doubt, the world’s leading expert on prison radicalization. Based on decades of research, this book presents a nuanced and sophisticated picture,. Beautifully written, it is the most complete, and the most empirically rigorous, account of this phenomenon to date. A must read for anyone interested in homegrown radicalization.”—Peter Neumann, Director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR), King’s College London The Madrid train bombers, shoe-bomber Richard Reid, al-Qaeda in Iraq, and the 9/11 attacks—all were led by men radicalized behind bars. Today’s prisons are hotbeds for personal transformation toward terrorist beliefs and actions due to the increasingly chaotic nature of prison life caused by mass incarceration. In The Spectacular Few, Mark Hamm, a former prison warden, demonstrates how prisoners use criminal cunning, collective resistance and nihilism to incite terrorism. Drawing from a wide range of sources, The Spectacular Few imagines the texture of prisoners’ lives. Hamm covers their criminal thinking styles, the social networks that influenced them, and personal “turning points” that set them on the pathway to violent extremism. Hamm argues that in order to understand terrorism today, we must come to terms with how prisoners are treated behind bars. Mark S. Hamm is a former prison warden from Arizona and currently Professor of Criminology at Indiana State University and a Senior Research Fellow at the Terrorism Center, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York. His books include Terrorism as Crime: From Oklahoma City to Al-Qaeda and Beyond (NYU Press, 2007). Alternative Criminology series
The Spectacular Favela
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Author : Erika Robb Larkins
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2015-05
The Spectacular Favela written by Erika Robb Larkins and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05 with Business & Economics categories.
"This book examines the political economy of violence in the Rio de Janeiro favela of Rocinha. Based on over two years of research and residence in the community, it offers an ethnographic account of how entangled forms of violence become essential forces shaping everyday social relations in the favela. The first part of the book shows how armed actors--drug traffickers and police--use spectacle to perform power. Yet despite the prevalence of physical violence, the favela has itself become a valuable global brand, consumed in disembodied fashion through media and in embodied fashion through tourism. Exploring media and favela tourism, the second part of the book demonstrates how the social relationships that arise from ongoing favela violence have a direct relationship to the market economy"--Provided by publisher.
The Spectacular Spectrum
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Author : Nila Mitra
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2014-09-04
The Spectacular Spectrum written by Nila Mitra and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-04 with Fiction categories.
The geography and natural beauty I have seen on my way and the people I met printed a deep and everlasting impression in my mind. This travel fiction is the outcome of the magnificent experience of nature and the loving memory of its people I left behind. I tried reveal that nature is my main character. In the cities and towns , we are not very much in touch with nature, but sometimes we forget that there is an eternal bond between the soul of a man and the spirit of nature, to see and to feel its existence all around us. It stands as an animate entity for us through we can acquire wisdom of its creator who created all of it, as if as a scientist or as an artist, but above all we need to revitalize of our knowledge of the creator of all creation.
Everyday Life In The Spectacular City
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Author : Rana AlMutawa
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2024-01-09
Everyday Life In The Spectacular City written by Rana AlMutawa and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-09 with Social Science categories.
Everyday Life in the Spectacular City is a groundbreaking urban ethnography that reveals how middle-class citizens and longtime residents of Dubai interact with the city's so-called superficial spaces to create meaningful social lives. Rana AlMutawa shows that inhabitants adapt themselves to top-down development projects, from big malls to megaprojects. These structures serve residents' evolving social needs, transforming Dubai's spectacular spaces into personally important cultural sites. These practices are significant because they expand our understanding of agency as not only subversive but also adaptive. Through extensive fieldwork, AlMutawa, herself an Emirati native to Dubai, finds a more nuanced story of belonging. This story does not seek to uncover the "real" city that lies beneath the veneer of the spectacle, but rather to demonstrate that social meanings and forms of belonging take place within the spectacle itself. By offering an alternative to the discourse of authenticity and elucidating the dynamics of ambivalent belonging, AlMutawa belies stereotypes that portray Dubai's developments as alienating and inherently disempowering. Everyday Life in the Spectacular City speaks beyond the Middle East to a globalized phenomenon, for Dubai's spectacles are unexceptional in today's changing world.
Securing The Spectacular City
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Author : Timothy A. Gibson
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2004
Securing The Spectacular City written by Timothy A. Gibson and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Architecture categories.
Seattle's project of 'downtown revitalization' is often touted as a civic endeavour that serves the community as a whole. Gibson questions that assumption. He examines the trade-off between the gain produced by redevelopment and the loss of public space.
The Revolt Of The Spectacular Society
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Author : Adam Weishaupt
language : en
Publisher: Magus Books
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The Revolt Of The Spectacular Society written by Adam Weishaupt and has been published by Magus Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Social Science categories.
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 signalled the end of not just communism but also of capitalism. The removal of its dialectical Cold War enemy allowed capitalism to release the brakes and bring about an enormous transfer of wealth from the ordinary people to the privileged elite. It is estimated that the richest 400 Americans are worth as much as the 150 million poorest Americans! These figures spell doom for capitalism. The arrogance of the super rich now rivals that of the French aristocracy in 1789. The elite create a "Society of the Spectacle", full of images of perfection and of captivating, beguiling events staged on a monumental scale. The people, entranced, worship at the cathedrals of capitalism. The Situationist International, the Dada movement, the Futurists and the Punk rockers were all revolutionary groups of the twentieth century who opposed the ruling order. Has their time come again? The New World Order envisioned by the Pythagorean Illuminati is based on Meritocracy.
The Spectacular Sisterhood Of Superwomen
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Author : Hope Nicholson
language : en
Publisher: Quirk Books
Release Date : 2017-05-02
The Spectacular Sisterhood Of Superwomen written by Hope Nicholson and has been published by Quirk Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-02 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
Meet more than one hundred of the most heroic female characters in comics history, complete with backstories, vintage art, and colorful commentary. This spectacular sisterhood includes costumed crimebusters like Miss Fury, super-spies like Tiffany Sinn, sci-fi pioneers like Gale Allen, and even kid troublemakers like Little Lulu. With vintage art, publication details, a decade-by-decade survey of industry trends and women’s roles in comics, and spotlights on iconic favorites like Wonder Woman and Ms. Marvel, The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen proves that not only do strong female protagonists belong in comics, they’ve always been there.