Author: Joan Arakkal
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1925384608
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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When Dr Joan Arakkal chooses to specialise in orthopaedics while training in India, a field traditionally occupied by men, she slots into the world of bones with relative ease. But when her career takes her to the UK, and then Australia, she encounters the ‘bonemen’ – a boy’s club whose members are easily identified in the hospital corridors by their loud voices and self-assured swagger, who wield a stranglehold on orthopaedics. Joan is totally unprepared for the obstacles and prejudices she encounters – but the tables are turned when she suffers a health scare of her own, which ultimately gives her the perspective she needs to speak and fight without fear. A provocative reflection on the discrimination and sexism entrenched in the surgical community, and particularly the world of orthopaedics, Slice Girls shines light on a surgical path that is made needlessly challenging for women, and finds that while women are ready for surgery, it forces the question: is surgery ready for women?
Author: Christine Hurley Deriso
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0375890912
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Imagine having the power to turn back time. Not 100 years—just 10 seconds. Enough to take back those embarrassing missteps and wrong answers. Elsa’s mom died suddenly one year ago, but she appears one night to grant Elsa do-over power. Elsa thinks she dreamt it until she utters the words the next morning and watches her whole world rewind 10 seconds. Elsa needs the do-over power to become cool at her new school. It’s fun taking people’s answers and being a star student one day, and gossip queen the next. Even the ultra-popular Slice Girls want to be her friend now. Elsa can re-do anything until she gets it right. So why doesn’t her new life feel so perfect?
Author: Amanda Potter
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Potsdam
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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thersites is an international open access journal for innovative transdisciplinary classical studies edited by Annemarie Ambühl, Filippo Carlà-Uhink, Christian Rollinger and Christine Walde. thersites expands classical reception studies by publishing original scholarship free of charge and by reflecting on Greco-Roman antiquity as present phenomenon and diachronic culture that is part of today’s transcultural and highly diverse world. Antiquity, in our understanding, does not merely belong to the past, but is always experienced and engaged in the present. thersites contributes to the critical review on methods, theories, approaches and subjects in classical scholarship, which currently seems to be awkwardly divided between traditional perspectives and cultural turns. thersites brings together scholars, writers, essayists, artists and all kinds of agents in the culture industry to get a better understanding of how antiquity constitutes a part of today’s culture and (trans-)forms our present. thersites appears twice yearly and publishes regular issues as well as specially-themed and guest-edited issues focused on individual subjects and questions. Call for papers are released regularly and long in advance on our homepage (https://thersites-journal.de/) and on other pages that feature announcements for classical studies (APA, Mommsen-Gesellschaft etc.).
Author: Lauren Bravo
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473564115
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 183
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The perfect gift for the Spice Girls fan in your life! ‘Lauren Bravo is one of my very favourite writers.’ Dolly Alderton 'A joyous and energetic celebration of girlhood, friendship and pop culture. If you have ever sung into the lid of a can of Impulse body spray, you need to read this.' Daisy Buchanan The words 'girl power' conjure vivid memories of short skirts and platform boots. But it wasn't just about the look, it was about feminism. The Spice Girls gave a generation their first glimpse of the power of friendship, of staying true to yourself, of sheer bloody-mindedness. And the girl power generation went on to kick-start a new conversation around gender equality. We may have grown up asking What Would the Spice Girls Do?, but their particular brand of feminism is as relevant today as it was twenty years ago – we still need that fun and fearlessness, we still need accessible and all-embracing equality... we still need a zig-a-zig-ah. ‘The Spice Girls’ arrival on the pop scene marked the gateway to a modern form of feminism, all dressed up as a riotously good time.’ Stylist As featured in Elle magazine's Best Feminist Gift Books
Author: Ravi Hanj
Publisher: Ravi Hanj
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 201
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The term "autobiography" has been fancifully interpreted as "Atma Charitre" in Kannada, which loosely means "History of Soul" or "History of Self." Consequently, many Indian autobiographies, or "Histories of Souls," tend to focus more on the self than the soul, and portray history as glory transforming autobiographies into a grandiose celebration of the self. In my personal opinion, it often feels like an exaggerated form of self-indulgence, resembling a glorified expression of self-gratification. This self-centered narrative of glory does not limit itself to mere me and mine but extends to the whole nine damn chakras and then shoots through the enlightened infinity and beyond. Hence, it is rare to come across autobiographies that genuinely explore the harmonious interaction between the individual and society, offering readers the joy of witnessing the writer's selfless engagement and integration with their community rather than with the self. It perplexes me how someone with a profound understanding of the soul can write such egocentric tales in the name of selfless soul philosophy. Indeed, it is challenging for anyone within a society or community to comprehend such self-centered life stories. Therefore, my tale does not revolve around extraordinary souls or unnatural superhumans. It is a familiar story of a curious child who grew up observing the fundamental aspects of society and striving to find their place within the community, much like you, me, or any average individual.
Author: Kat Crimson
Publisher: Spunky Publications LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 77
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DON'T PISS OFF THE GINGER! Ginger: That's me. It's more than just a name or hair color. It's in every cell and fiber of my being, and right now it’s manifesting as some serious road rage! The most attractive, arrogant, alpha male a$$hole I've ever set eyes on has just tried to run me off the road. Then he has the nerve to flip me off! As if that weren't bad enough, he actually rolled down his window - not to apologize - but to ask me out on a date!!! Of all the…! I swear, if I weren't busy trying to resurrect the family bakery, and save myself, and my four sisters, in the process, I would show him the meaning of Pissed Off Ginger! If I never see that a$$hole again, it’ll be much too soon! I hate him. Ben: Gingers! Every. Damn. Time. They are my weakness, and I've (almost literally) just run into the ginger of my dreams. For me, it's love at first sight. But she hates my guts. I let her slip away, this time, but I swear I am going to find her and make her mine, if it’s the last thing I do. **Warning: this book is brimming with sugary sweet insta love, over-the-top sexual shenanigans, and almost too much explosive chemistry to be contained within such a quick read. HEA Guaran-damn-teed!
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Category : Trademarks
Languages : en
Pages : 912
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Author: Irene Morra
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135048959
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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This book offers a major exploration of the social and cultural importance of popular music to contemporary celebrations of Britishness. Rather than providing a history of popular music or an itemization of indigenous musical qualities, it exposes the influential cultural and nationalist rhetoric around popular music and the dissemination of that rhetoric in various forms. Since the 1960s, popular music has surpassed literature to become the dominant signifier of modern British culture and identity. This position has been enforced in popular culture, literature, news and music media, political rhetoric -- and in much popular music itself, which has become increasingly self-conscious about the expectation that music both articulate and manifest the inherent values and identity of the modern nation. This study examines the implications of such practices and the various social and cultural values they construct and enforce. It identifies two dominant, conflicting constructions around popular music: music as the voice of an indigenous English ‘folk’, and music as the voice of a re-emergent British Empire. These constructions are not only contradictory but also exclusive, prescribing a social and musical identity for the nation that ignores its greater creative, national, and cultural diversity. This book is the first to offer a comprehensive critique of an extremely powerful discourse in England that today informs dominant formulations of English and British national identity, history, and culture.
Author: David Sinclair
Publisher: Omnibus Press
ISBN: 0857121111
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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The Spice Girls phenomenon was a genuine pop music landmark. No group since The Beatles had commanded as much media attention. Ginger, Baby, Posh, Sporty and Scary became international stars and, whether they were adored or ridiculed, they became the ultimate expression of global media fame in the Nineties.
Author: Edward Gendar Ward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Phonetics
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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