Many Italian cities look back with pride to the days when they were independent republics: Naples, on the contrary, remembers its days as a royal capital, the brilliant administrative and political centre of The Kingdom of The Two Sicilies, ruled over successively by the house of Anjou, Aragon and Bourbon.
Popular music's gay DNA is inarguable, from Elvis in eye shadow and Little Richard's 'Tutti Frutti' to The Velvet Underground's subversive rock'n'roll and Bowie's ambisexual alien Ziggy Stardust; from kd lang's female Elvis to Kurt Cobain in a dress; from Noughties lesbian icon Beth Ditto to Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way' manifesto.
'Brilliant' Mail on SundayTake a trip back to the era of troubled teens and awesome soundtracks; of Reagan, rap and Ridgemont High; of MTV, VHS and 'Axel F'; of outsiders, lost boys and dead poets; of Bill and Ted, Brooke Shields and the Brat Pack; of three Porky's, two Coreys and one summer when everyone called her Baby .
'A weighty discussion of metal, for both passionate fans and neophytes' Guardian'Heavy opens an ornate portal into a murky subculture, illuminating the marginalia as well as the big beasts' Sunday TimesWhat exactly is heavy metal music?
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From New York Times bestselling author, star of House of Stassi, OG star of Vanderpump Rules, and host of the successful podcast Stassi, a raw, relatablebrutally funny (Bustle) guide to rethinking the girlboss life, taking the pressure off, and the lessons Stassi Schroeders learned since becoming a mom of two.
'A spirited skewering of the idea that things can only get better' The Guardian'A new understanding of our past' Danny Dorling, author of Inequality and the 1%________________________________Progress is power.
En una era de derrumbes y calamidades, frente a la deriva descivilizadora de los acontecimientos actuales, este libro propone una exploración exhaustiva del concepto de civilización, desde su protohistoria nebulosa en la que se expresaba la idea de algo muy semejante a lo que se llamaría con esa palabra a partir de mediados del siglo xviii hasta la modernidad globalizada de nuestros días.
Written by Dr Paul Seager, a social psychology specialist who teaches at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, Social Psychology: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place.
An emotionally and politically charged collection of first person accounts from prominent citizens in a variety of fields about their experiences being first generation Americans, with a powerful foreword written by actress and activist America Ferrera.
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Writing about yourself is a funny businessBut in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind.
THE CYBERGYPSIES describes one man's exploration of cyberspace over many years and the folk he meets on the Net, the cybergypsies: virus writers, hackers, witches, sex-peddlars, conmen, net vamps, randy paratroopers posing as girls; the A-bomb blueprints he was offered for sale.
'Generation Zombie takes the research on phones and screens and, through the lens of psychological theory, translates it into practical advice parents can use today, whatever age of their child.
An enlightening account of the entwined histories of knowledge and nationhood in Latin America-and beyondThe rise of nation-states is a hallmark of the modern age, yet we are still untangling how the phenomenon unfolded across the globe.
Originally published in 1985, Underdevelopment Is a State of Mind_ was one of the first studies to examine Latin America's rocky development as cultural, rather than colonial, byproduct.
At the end of the millenium, writer Ruth Pennebaker was in Texas, trying to keep her husband from blowing up their neighborhood every Fourth of July; rearing a daughter and son from early years into braces and backtalk; and finding out more than she wanted to know about breast cancer.
Paradiso als Pardes untersucht in einer vergleichenden und interdisziplinären Studie die Zusammenhänge zwischen historischer Entwicklung, Kulturgenerierung und Sprachschöpfung in zwei Textkorpora: im Werk José Lezama Limas und der jüdischen Mystik.
A raw, intimate look at the impact of combat and the healing power of friendship (People): the lives of three women deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, and the effect of their military service on their personal lives and familiesnamed a best book of the year by Publishers Weekly.
In this thoughtful, introspective, and moving account (The Washington Post), former NBC news anchor David Gregory probes various religious traditions to better understand his own faith and answer important questions about who we want to be and what we believe.
Updated with an introduction by Joe Manganiello and extensive new content for the 50th Anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons, the fascinating and authoritative history of Dungeons & Dragons that ';tracks D&D's turbulent rise, fall, and survival, from its heyday in the 1980s…to the 21st century' (The Wall Street Journal), by award-winning journalist David M.
Originally published in Fargo Rock City and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Rock, this essay is about Chuck's favorite heavy metal albums.
Our Turn, Our Time is an amazing collection of essays written by women who are committed to celebrating and valuing the passage into the second half of life.
For the first time, anthropologist Robert Edgerton tells the story of the Hundred-Year Warfrom 1807 to 1900, between the British Empire and the Asante Kingdomfrom the Asante point of view.
British politician and writer, Ferdinand Mount, challenges contemporary beliefs about society and familyincluding the history of divorce, childcare, and the concept of the nuclear family.
This third edition, written with two new coauthors, combines 1990 census data with information from the Current Population Survey, the National Health Interview Survey, and numerous other sources, even including demographic data not available in any other published source.
