A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE 2017 From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist & best-selling author of Backlash an astonishing confrontation with the enigma of her father & the larger riddle of identity In 2004 feminist writer Susan Faludi set out to investigate someone she scarcely knew her estranged father Steven Faludi had lived many roles suburban dad Alpine mountaineer swashbuckling adventurer in the Amazon Jewish fugitive in Holocaust Budapest Living in Hungary after sex reassignment surgery & identifying as a complete woman now' how was this new parent connected to the silent & ultimately violent father who had built his career on the alteration of images? Faludi's struggle to come to grips with her father's metamorphosis takes her across borders
- historical political religious sexual
- & brings her face to face with the question of the age is identity something you "choose" or is it the very thing you cannot escape?

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WINNER OF THE 2017 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD In the vein of Bad Blood & Why be Happy when you can be Normal? an enthralling at times shocking & deeply personal family memoir of growing up in & breaking away from a fundamentalist Christian cult At university when I made new friends & confidantes I couldn't explain how I'd become a teenage mother or shoplifted books for years or why I was afraid of the dark & had a compulsion to rescue people without explaining about the Brethren or the God they made for us & the Rapture they told us was coming But then I couldn't really begin to talk about the Brethren without explaining about my father' As Rebecca Stott's father lay dying he begged her to help him write the memoir he had been struggling with for years He wanted to tell the story of their family who for generations had all been members of a fundamentalist Christian sect Yet each time he reached a certain point he became tangled in a thicket of painful memories & could not go on The sect were a closed community who believed the world is ruled by Satan non-sect books were banned women were made to wear headscarves & those who disobeyed the rules were punished Rebecca was born into the sect yet as an intelligent inquiring child she was always asking dangerous questions She would discover that her father an influential preacher had been asking them too & that the fault-line between faith & doubt had almost engulfed him In In the Days of Rain Rebecca gathers the broken threads of her father's story & her own & follows him into the thicket to tell of her family's experiences within the sect & the decades-long aftermath of their breaking away ...

WINNER OF THE 2017 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD In the vein of Bad Blood & Why be Happy when you can be Normal? an enthralling at times shocking & deeply personal family memoir of growing up in & breaking away from a fundamentalist Christian cult At university when I made new friends & confidantes I couldn't explain how I'd become a teenage mother or shoplifted books for years or why I was afraid of the dark & had a compulsion to rescue people without explaining about the Brethren or the God they made for us & the Rapture they told us was coming But then I couldn't really begin to talk about the Brethren without explaining about my father' As Rebecca Stott's father lay dying he begged her to help him write the memoir he had been struggling with for years He wanted to tell the story of their family who for generations had all been members of a fundamentalist Christian sect Yet each time he reached a certain point he became tangled in a thicket of painful memories & could not go on The sect were a closed community who believed the world is ruled by Satan non-sect books were banned women were made to wear headscarves & those who disobeyed the rules were punished Rebecca was born into the sect yet as an intelligent inquiring child she was always asking dangerous questions She would discover that her father an influential preacher had been asking them too & that the fault-line between faith & doubt had almost engulfed him In In the Days of Rain Rebecca gathers the broken threads of her father's story & her own & follows him into the thicket to tell of her family's experiences within the sect & the decades-long aftermath of their breaking away ...

After leaving Marvel Comics at the end of the 1960s Jack Kirby came to DC where he soon created the series of super-hero comics known collectively as " The Fourth World" One of his first projects for DC was the black-&-white magazine In the Days of the Mob which focused on stories of organized crime in the 1930s in the style of the TV series " The Untouchables" & " The Godfather" movies ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A newly qualified vet with a heart of gold takes over an old practice & becomes rivals with another vet ...

It was the best of times it was the worst of times' Maligned misunderstood & fetishized the 1980's stands as the decade when post-modern life began in the west & London was at the epicenter of this shift An explosion of creativity took place against a backdrop of radical social change London became a city of tribes The vast youth culture categories of the preceding decades shattered into shards It was the decade that sub-culture as a way of life reached it's zenith before giving way to it's inevitable scene surfing conclusion Ridgers documented this cultural moment obsessively Punks post-punks cyber-punks gothic punks mods hard mods Trojan skins racist skins ska reggae dub early electronica synth pop acid house happy hardcore Blitz Kids New Romantics Hip-Hop Rap Electro Break Beat Techno Rave
- these were all sub-cultural spaces with scenes attached in London in the 1980's Unlike now subcultures in the 1980's were not casual playthings
- they were a way of life for their participants They inspired profound loyalty They were a beautiful a doomed flowering of the hope for a better world Derek Ridger's exquisite street portrait photography has captured this creative decade beautifully

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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play New Iberia Louisiana Detective Dave Robicheaux (Tommy Lee Jones) is on the hunt for a serial killer who preys on young women Driving home from another gruesome crime scene Dave meets glamorous Hollywood star Elrod Sykes (Peter Sarsgaard) Sykes is in town shooting his new movie with backing from local crime kingpin Baby Feet Balboni (John Goodman) He tells Dave he saw a body lying in a swamp
- the decomposed corpse of a black man in chains The discovery brings memories hurtling out of Dave&s past He senses the two cases are linked But as Dave gets closer to the murderer the murderer gets closer to Dave & his family Actors Tommy Lee Jones John Goodman Peter Sarsgaard Kelly Macdonald Mary Steenburgen Justina Machado Ned Beatty & James Gammon Director Bertrand Tavernier Certificate 15 years & over Year 2009 Screen 169 Anamorphic Languages English Duration 1 hour & 57 minutes (approx)
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A detective tracking a serial killer who preys on young women finds his investigation complicated by a glamorous Hollywood starlet & a ruthless crime kingpin in director Bertrand Tavernier&s adaptation of the James Lee Burke novel In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead Jerzy Kromolowski Mary Olson-Kromolowski & Tommy Lee Jones collaborate on the screenplay for the film which stars Jones John Goodman Peter Sarsgaard Ned Beatty & Tom Sizemore Actors Tommy Lee Jones John Goodman Peter Sarsgaard Kelly Macdonald Mary Steenburgen Justina Machado Ned Beatty & James Gammon Director Bertrand Tavernier Certificate 15 years & over Year 2009 Screen 169 Anamorphic Languages English Duration 1 hour & 57 minutes (approx) ...

For five years Sapphire has been the King of Sari's most treasured concubine Independent at last she refuses to put herself in anyone's control again But now another's scheming has led her into the path of proud arrogant Wulfric Crown Prince of the rival kingdom of D' Ashier a man who is dangerous to her in every way 368 pages Day Sylvia ...

The leading art theorist takes on art in the age of the Internet In the early twentieth century art & its institutions came under critique from a new democratic & egalitarian spirit The notion of works of art as sacred objects was decried & subsequently they would be understood merely as things This meant an attack on realism as well as on the traditional preservative mission of the museum Acclaimed art theorist Boris Groys argues this led to the development of "direct realism" an art that would not produce objects but practices (from performance art to relational aesthetics) that would not survive But for more than a century now every advance in this direction has been quickly followed by new means of preserving art's distinction In this major new work Groys charts the paradoxes produced by this tension & explores art in the age of the thingless medium the Internet Groys claims that if the techniques of mechanical reproduction gave us objects without aura digital production generates aura without objects transforming all its materials into vanishing markers of the transitory present ...