Author: Barbara Sutton
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000883582
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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In the context of gun proliferation and persistent gun violence in the United States, a controversial security strategy has gained public attention: bulletproof fashion. This book examines concerns about security focusing on armored clothing and accessories for civilians. Available for children and adults, such ballistic products include colorful backpacks, elegant suits, sports jackets, feminine dresses, trendy vests, and medical lab coats. These products are paradigmatic of a "fashion of fear"—the practice of outfitting the body with apparel aimed at maximizing personal security. This fashion encourages the emergence of both a fortress body and an armored society. Sutton also explores the wider social factors influencing the bulletproof fashion phenomenon, including the inequalities associated with neoliberalism and the militarization of civilian life. The book sheds light on the role of emotions in relation to discourses and perceptions of security, and encourages feminist and sociological studies to pay attention to the linkages between security, bodies, and dress. It is ideal for students and scholars interested in security and gun violence, culture and politics, neoliberalism and consumption, and bodies and emotions.
Author: Tori Carrington
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1552544044
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 223
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Skin Deep by Tori Carrington released on Feb 1, 2006 is available now for purchase.
Author: Jill Shalvis
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1426820267
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Firefighter Aidan Donnelly has always battled the flames with trademark icy calm. That is, until a blazing old flame returns—in the shape of sizzling soap star Mackenzie Stafford! Aidan wants to pour water over the unquenchable heat between them. But that just creates more steam…. Kenzie is not the delicate, fragile female she looks like. She has one clear objective, and nothing will stand in the way of her goal—well, nothing but the red-hot touch of a certain dangerously sexy fireman, that is!
Author: Natalie Dunbar
Publisher: Silhouette
ISBN: 1552543986
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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The It Girls They're rich, fabulous…and dangerously underestimated. It Girl: Vanessa Dawson Mission: Resume a high-gloss fashion career to investigate the murder of two top models in a Miami drug-smuggling ring. Supermodel Vanessa Dawson had soured on the glam-but-wild fashion world and retired at twenty-five. But as a Gotham Rose spy, she was a natural fit for this assignment. Against the protests of her wealthy family and her own misgivings, she made her comeback, going undercover in the most revealing of designer swimsuits. Soon she was falling head over high heels for her multiplatinum prime suspect...and as shoot-outs replaced fashion shoots, Vanessa learned the hard way that looks can kill.
Author: Melissa Senate
Publisher: Red Dress Ink
ISBN: 1552544001
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Meet the Members of the Breakup Club... Lucy Miller-Masterson: Superstar editor of bestselling books, supermom to a precocious preteen and superwife of a hot doctor...until she learns her husband's New Year's resolution is "Leave Lucy." Miranda Miller: Stuck under her big sister's shadow, this twentysomething editorial assistant hopes her perfect ex-boyfriend will come crawling back...with a diamond ring. Christopher Levy: The women at the office think he stole Lucy's promotion. The moms at the playground think he broke up his family. But this weekend dad can think only about figuring out fatherhood. Roxy Marone: This Brooklynite shocks her traditional family when she skips her own wedding to hop a train to Manhattan for a life-changing job interview.
Author: Stevi Mittman
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1552544095
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301
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Let me tell you a story about a girl on Long Island, who always tried to play life by "the rules" — as outlined in the Secret Handbook of Long Island Rules... That girl, uh, woman, is me, Teddi Gallo. I'm the mother of three kids under the age of eleven, best friend to Bobbie (who denies there's any such thing as a secret handbook, but who knows all the moves by heart) and the daughter of June (who has inside info on the rules, but has a reserved room at South Winds Psychiatric Hospital, as well). And if I don't have enough to send me over the edge, my too-handsome-for-his-own-good husband seems determined to drive me crazy. But why? This is the tale of how I had to rewrite that old, dusty handbook — and while doing so, I suddenly discovered the secret to happiness was living by your own rules. And that has made everything different.
Author: Susan Krinard
Publisher: LUNA
ISBN: 1552544117
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 479
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The Stone God is building in power.... Defeating an empire takes many weapons, and Rhenna and her band--including shape-shifting panther Cian--must brave unpredictable dangers, crossing vast deserts, trackless jungles and impenetrable swamps to seek the Hammer of the Earth. Yet the Exalted Ge, who holds the Hammer in her stronghold, has set deadly traps that rise out of the Earth itself. Even if Rhenna and her companions can defeat a goddess, do they dare trust each other when the Hammer has done its work? Meanwhile, in Karchedon, their ally Quintus must decide if working from within the Emperor's palace will aid in the downfall of the Stone God or simply betray all he holds dear. Despite every battle won, the power of the Stone God still stands against them. And the ultimate victory may demand the ultimate price....
Author: Debra Webb
Publisher: Silhouette
ISBN: 1552544850
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 303
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Dr. Olivia Mills has a past...one she faked her own death to escape. But one phone call destroys her carefully planned new life. See, Olivia isn't Olivia at all — she is Vanessa Clark, former black ops assassin. And she's been ordered to kill someone she loves. When her old flame and ex-partner Holt Landry shows up, things get even more complicated. Once, he'd betrayed her. Now he asks for her trust. The more Olivia uncovers, the more she realizes the past is not what it seems. And if she doesn't go back, this time she'll die for real.
Author: Jack Lait
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1787209520
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Scandalous, shocking, cheeky, impudent are words that will be used to describe this account of the hidden side of our glamorous, riotous capital city. For Lait and Mortimer, famous newspapermen, mince no words, pull no punches, tell their story in their own bold way. They have found out the truth and they tell the facts and name the names—which no one dared write or publish before. They deglamorize Washington and reveal it with its spats off and its morning coat unbuttoned. They tear the Velvet Curtain and show the behind-the-scenes intrigue, the sub-rosa night life, the shady side of sex, the sin side, the crime side. The amazing things they report will shock millions, arouse citizens all over the country as their previous book Chicago Confidential did... “P-S-S-S-T! “Here we go again—Confidential. “We turned New York inside out; but we both live there. We turned Chicago upside down; but we were both raised there. We descended on Washington not quite like Stanley invaded Africa, because in our combined 75 years of newspaper work we had been in the capital hundreds of times. It intrigued us because we never could understand it. So we decided brashly to do a Lait-Mortimer operation on it from scratch. Our principal discovery was that nobody understands Washington—the city, not the nation’s nerve-center. [...] “That’s why we were born—to tell you what you couldn’t find out without us—Confidential!”—Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer
Author: Maria Venegas
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 1847087760
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Maria Venegas had been estranged from her father for fourteen years when she finally made the journey back from the US to Mexico to visit him in the old hacienda where both he and she were born. As they begin spending summers and holidays together, herding cattle and fixing barbed-wire fence posts, he starts to share stories with her, tales of a dramatic life filled with both intense love and brutal violence - from the final conversations he had with his own father and his extradition from the US for murder, to his mother's pride after he shot a man for the first time at age twelve. In spare, gripping prose, Venegas traces her own life and her father's through the stories she inherited from him and gradually comes to understand the violent undercurrent that has shaped them both.
