Simon Doonan's memoir pays homage to Lou Reed's groundbreaking glam rock album Transformer, recalling its influence on his coming of age and coming out.
In this fourth installment of his acclaimed Rants series, bestselling author, Emmy Award-winning talk-show host, and wisecracking analyst for ABC's Monday Night Football Dennis Miller makes hamburger meat out of society's most sacred cows as only he can, with the kinds of allusions that require high SAT scores -- or at least a smart crib sheet.
The Bible--being political, social, industrial, commercial, and legal--is a greatly misunderstood book because it is seldomly taught that all of these is what makes up religion--religion being a complete way of life!
Indian Writing in English and the Global Literary Market delves into the influences and pressures of the marketplace on this genre, which this volume contends has been both gatekeeper as well as a significant force in shaping the production and consumption of this literature.
If you believe idioms are a "e;tough nut to crack,"e; this Dictionary of Idioms will help you dispel that belief; you would surely abandon your opinion of idioms being a bunch of insignificant words to that of a lively one to use to attract attention of readers and listeners.
The Best of the Year in Editorial Cartoons The best cartoonists in the world contributed to this collection of the best cartoons of 2009, from Daryl Cagle's Political Cartoonists Index, the most popular cartoon site on the Web (www.
This is the story of Reverend Roosevelt Matthews and his beloved wife, Mary, whose work saved many in one of the poorest and most dangerous neighborhoods on Chicago's West Side.
Frantz Fanon was a French psychiatrist turned Algerian revolutionary of Martinican origin, and one of the most important and controversial thinkers of the postwar period.
The truth is revealed about a young woman's struggle to survive after finding out that the hospital tried to hide her medical records regarding having a cardiac arrest and amnesia for seven and a half years because of the fact that she was given iodine through an IV for a CT scan, prior to her allergies already showing on her medical records, and prior to her telling the hospital that she was allergic to shellfish and iodine.
In this important book, one of Latin America s foremost critical theorists examines the use and abuse of memory in the wake of the social and political trauma of Pinochet s Chile.
Over three hundred years ago the first European colonialists set foot in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean to found permanent outposts of the great empires.
« Les nouvelles de ce recueil traitent pour la plupart des banalités infinies qui se succèdent dans nos vies, de ces broutilles inaperçues qui sont notre quotidien et que nous reléguons au fond d'un tiroir à jamais fermé.