![]() ![]() We have new and used copies available, in 2 editions - starting at 1.36. ![]() I outline some of the key contributions this body of work has made to sociolinguistic theory, methodology, and knowledge and suggest some future research directions through which the field may engage with contemporary social issues. Buy Language and Woman's Place by Robin Tolmach Lakoff online at Alibris. This review surveys the historical trajectory of scholarship broadly concerned with men, masculinities, and language and charts its development from more critical work on men and masculinities within sociology to its emergence as an independent field of inquiry. In doing so, the field has added to the conceptual and theoretical tool kit of sociolinguistics, furthering both our understanding of the linguistic strategies used by men in a variety of contexts and the myriad links connecting language and the social performance of gender. The publication of Robin Tolmach Lakoffs groundbreaking book Language and. ![]() In the past two decades, the field of language and masculinities studies has become an established part of language, gender, and sexuality research and grown in response to concerns about the limited criticality directed toward men and masculinities in sociolinguistics. ![]()
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The gunslinger stephen king5/12/2023 ![]() He leaves the town in shame.īut the real story begins from that point on. From that point on, Callahan is no longer able to step into a church, feeling the same effect vampires do when before a cross. ![]() Then, in a sick punishment and heinous show of strength, Barlow forces Callahan to drink of his blood. But when Callahan confronts Barlow, he stumbles in his faith in God, and Barlow shatters the cross in the Father’s hand. A particularly terrifying moment involves a school bus full of vampire children that scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.Īlong with the novel’s protagonist, Ben Mears, Father Callahan decides to fight back against Barlow and his vampire army. Pretty soon, Jerusalem’s Lot is plagued with the undead, who are thirsty for blood. The vampire, whose name is Barlow, begins causing all sorts of havoc in the town, biting the townspeople and infecting them with vampirism. You’ll find that King loves doing terrible things to Maine, where most of his tales take place…Because it’s his home state, I guess. The story begins with his fall from grace in King’s seminal novel about a vampire that decides to move to the town of Jerusalem’s Lot, Maine. ![]() ![]() Father Callahan’s story spans 29 years and 4 books, making him one of the most important characters in the entire Kingverse. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night not only introduced an essential new voice to the world, it contains everything readers have come to love about Morgan Parker’s work. She collapses any foolish distinctions between the personal and the political, the ‘high’ and the ‘low’. Parker bobs and weaves between humor and pathos, grief and anxiety, Gwendolyn Brooks and Jay-Z, the New York School and reality television. Her command of language is on full display. The debut collection from award-winning poet Morgan Parker demonstrates why she’s become one of the most beloved writers working today. MORGAN PARKERs first book, Other Peoples Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night, was selected by Eileen Myles for The 2013 Gatewood Prize and is forthcoming from Switchback Books. Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night – the book that launched the career of one of our most important young American poets – is now in print for the first time in the UK, featuring a new introduction from Danez Smith. ![]() it ripples with energy, insight, and searing music’ Tracy K. 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Kelton busts through the myths that prevent us from taking action: that the federal government should budget like a household, that deficits will harm the next generation, crowd out private investment, and undermine long-term growth, and that entitlements are propelling us toward a grave fiscal crisis. ![]() Any ambitious proposal, however, inevitably runs into the buzz saw of how to find the money to pay for it, rooted in myths about deficits that are hobbling us as a country. Stephanie Kelton's brilliant exploration of modern monetary theory (MMT) dramatically changes our understanding of how we can best deal with crucial issues ranging from poverty and inequality to creating jobs, expanding health care coverage, climate change, and building resilient infrastructure. A New York Times Bestseller The leading thinker and most visible public advocate of modern monetary theory - the freshest and most important idea about economics in decades - delivers a radically different, bold, new understanding for how to build a just and prosperous society. ![]() The legacy book elle kennedy5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The Legacy is an 85,000-word novel that is made up of four novellas.Ī wedding. Growing up is a whole lot harder.Ĭatch up with your favorite Off-Campus characters as they navigate the changes that come with growing up and discover that big decisions can have big consequences.and if they’re lucky, big rewards. ![]() And it turns out, for these four couples, love is the easy part. Sure, they have each other, but they also have real-life problems that four years at Briar U didn’t exactly prepare them for. Life after college for Garrett and Hannah, Logan and Grace, Dean and Allie, and Tucker and Sabrina isn’t quite what they imagined it would be. Three years of real life after graduation. The international best-selling Off-Campus series returns with a collection of four novellas by New York Times best-selling author Elle Kennedy! This brand-new installment provides the much anticipated answer to the question: Where are they now?įour stories. ![]() The witcher time of contempt5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Recommended' TIMEĬiri is the child of prophesy, foretold to have the power to change the world, for good or for evil. "Like a complicated magic spell, a Sapkowski novel is a hodge podge of fantasy, intellectual discourse and dry humour. For the prophecy rests on her, and whether she lives or dies she has the power to save the world - or perhaps end it. The Magicians are fighting amongst themselves, some in the pay of the kings, some sympathetic to the elves.Īnd against this backdrop of fear and contempt Geralt and his lover Yennefer must protect Ciri, orphaned heir and sought by all sides. The Elves and other non-humans are still suffering under decades of repression, and growing numbers join the commando units hidden deep in the forest, striking at will and then dissolving into the trees. Intrigue, dissent and rebellion are on all sides. The kings and armies are manoeuvring for position, each fearing invasion from across the river, each fearing their neighbours more. Geralt the Witcher has fought monsters and demons across the land, but even he may not be prepared for what is happening to his world. ![]() ![]() Charged with returning them to the family's vacant ancestral seat in the English countryside-the one place he wishes to avoid at all costs-Bly quits the role of spy to play family man. Yet this stubborn brute compels Clara to abandon her etiquette at every turn, and she can't stay away.ĭisowned by his family, Bly Ravensdale travels the globe as an explorer and agent of the British Crown until his brother’s passing leaves him saddled with three young wards. Caring for three orphaned children gives her a purpose, but her vulgar employer, Bly Ravensdale, holds dangerous secrets that may shatter Clara's newfound safe haven. ![]() ![]() Desperate to outrun her troubles, she accepts a governess position at the crumbling gothic manor of the mysterious Ravensdale family. Clara Dawson always followed the rules, until one terrifying night when her inheritance is stolen and the man responsible is left for dead. ![]() Michael ausiello memoir5/10/2023 ![]() It's incredibly rewarding and healing, in a way. What is it like for you to experience your life in this manner, to see Jim and Ben and Sally and Bill play you and your family, and to have to go on Kit's journey once again? ![]() ![]() This conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity. Ben Aldridge, Michael Ausiello, and Jim Parsons With time comes hindsight and the ability to take everything in, and here, Ausiello discusses his surreal journey of watching this tribute to his late husband come to life on the big screen. ![]() It is no spoiler to say that this was an extremely emotional process for Ausiello, but slightly less emotional than the writing of the book, which took place almost immediately after Cowan's death in 2015. On screen, Jim Parsons plays Ausiello, with Ben Aldridge as Kit, and Sally Field and Bill Irwin as Kit's parents. Based on the memoir by television journalist Michael Ausiello, the film, like the book, chronicles the author's 13-year relationship with his husband, photographer Kit Cowan, as well as Cowan's diagnosis, illness, and passing from neuroendocrine cancer. ![]() The cinematic tearjerker of the holiday season is Spoiler Alert. ![]() Shameful flight by stanley wolpert5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Other non-fiction books included: Tilak and Gokhale : Revolution and Reform in the Making of Modern India (1962), Morley and India, 1906-1910 (1967), A New History of India (1977, 1982, 1989, 1993, 1997, 2000, 2004, 2008), Roots of Confrontation in South Asia : Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and the Superpowers (1982), Congress and Indian Nationalism : The Pre-Independence Phase (co-edited with Richard Sisson) (1988), India (1991), Zulfi Bhutto of Pakistan: His Life and Times (1993), Nehru : A Tryst With Destiny (1996), Gandhi’s Passion : The Life and the Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi (2001), Encyclopaedia of India (editor) (2005), Shameful Flight: The Last Years of British Empire in India (2006) and India and Pakistan: Continued Conflict or Cooperation (2010). Some of the most prominent books of Wolpert (fiction) included: Aboard the Flying Swan (1954), Nine Hours to Rama (1962), The Expedition: A Novel (1967) and An Error of Judgment (1970). In 1975, Wolpert was awarded UCLA’s Distinguished Teaching Award in recognition of his efforts. He was promoted to assistant professor in 1960 and later associate professor in 1963. Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India Paperback 29 October 2009 by Stanley Wolpert (Author) 40 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 254.72 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 3,199.00 14 New from 3,199.00 Paperback 1,737.00 1 Used from 2,354.98 11 New from 1,737. ![]() Wolpert started his academic career as an instructor in the Department of History at UCLA in 1959. ![]() |