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Love (hardback) Compelling, sensual, elegiac, unforgettable - a major new work by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, about desire, sex, lust, obsession, yearning, and ultimately about love. May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida - even L; all women obsessed by Bill Cosey. More than the wealthy owner of the famous Cosey Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for father, husband, lover, guardian, friend, yearnings that dominate the lives of these women long after his death. Yet while he is both the void in, and the centre of, their stories, he himself is driven by secret forces - a troubled past and a spellbinding woman named Celestial. This audacious vision of the nature of love - its appetite, its sublime possession, its dread - is rich in characters and striking scenes, and in its profound understanding of how alive the past can be. Love is a major addition to the canon of one of the world's literary masters.
Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America A searing, no-holds-barred look at George W. Bush's presidency. Molly Ivins has followed his career since she was a rookie investigative journalist in Texas, and she shows how Bush has applied the same flawed stragies he used in governing Texas to running the largest superpower in the world. The media has been focussed on Bin Laden and Saddam, while most of the havoc Bush is wreaking flies under the radar. Ivins brings to light Bush's horrendous environmental policies, his administration's involvement in the Enron scandal, his links with right-wing religious fundamentalists, his barbaric foreign policies - and much more. Written with passion, black humour and righteous anger, Bushwhacked lifts the lid on Dubya's time in office and gives a voice to many who have fallen foul of his right-wing agenda.
From Homebreakers to Jailbreakers: Southall Black Sisters Against all the odds, Southall Black Sisters, a poorly funded, radical Asian women's group, has become synonymous with black British feminism and activism. Active in Southall near London since early 1979, the Black Sisters have developed both a national and an international reputation. They have not merely offered welfare advice, but spearheaded many high profile campaigns on domestic violence, abused women who kill - such as the celebrated case of Kiranjit Ahluwalia - immigration rights, and the dangers posed to women by the rise of religious fundamentalism. This anthology makes the connections between race, gender and class and aims to ensure that a neglected area of current feminist debate is not lost to history through a failure to record insights gained in the heat of activism. A provocatively argued book, it should be of interest to anyone who wants to understand the dynamics of the relationship between the disempowered margins of society and the state and the power balance between men and women.
Book of Lies: The Disinformation Guide to Magick and the Occult Disinformation’s “wicked warlock” Richard Metzger gathers an unprecedented cabal of modern occultists, magicians and forward thinkers in Book of Lies. Whereas past Disinformation volumes like You Are Being Lied To, Everything You Know is Wrong and Abuse Your Illusions focused on secrets and lies from the mainstream media, government and other establishment institutions to rethink what a political science book could look like, Book of Lies redefines occult anthologies, packaging and presenting a huge array of magical essays for a pop culture audience. "Disinformation's BOOK OF LIES is a 21st century grimoire, a How To book designed to inspire the young magician-warriors of this new and turbulent century. In the apparent derangement of our times, this book is both a call to arms and an armory also. Get tooled up, get out there . . . and start bending reality."
Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-based Life Forms to Watch Out for
For 20 years, Alison Bechdel has illuminated the way we live through the comic strip that has become a classic, a national treasure of American lesbian history. In this, the 10th book in the series, Mo, everyone's favourite curmudgeon, blithely rants about Dr Laura, Donald Rumsfeld and gay Enron execs, while her cozy counterculture community is quickly shifting beneath her feet. Her ex, Clarice, is displaying symptoms of soccer mom-itis. Her best friend Lois has announce that her new name is Louis. And her old pal Sparrow considers whether having a baby with her boyfriend will compromise her identity as a radical lesbian feminist. In the wake of 9/11 her friends square off on questions of idealism, violence, compassion, patriotism and dissent. As the members of Alison Bechdel's colourful crew hash out their personal and ideological differences, a black and white world takes on surprisingly variegated shades of grey.
The Wind in the Pylons By mysterious means, the much-loved Mole (from The Wind in the Willows) finds himself in a modern adventure which leads him to a series of extraordinary encounters far removed from the original story. Kenneth Grahame's familiary characters reappear here in drastically altered guises, in a book which is both an ingenious Orwellian satire on contemporary affairs, and a heart-rending elegy for a lost world of childhood innocence and an all-but-vanished rural England. The Wind in the Pylons is a cult classic in the making, an affectionate pastiche of an old masterpiece, and arguably the first definitive environmental and counter-corporate satire. "... beneath its cosy exterior is a savage satire on modern Britain."
The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank: Six Women Who Knew Anne Frank
Everyone knows the story of Anne Frank - the extraordinary diary that she wrote during her two years in hiding in the Secret Annexe. But few have even the sketchiest knowledge of how that story ended. Here, six women whose lives touched Anne Frank's in her final months tell their story - of the terrible journey east to Auschwitz, the daily privations and terror of the death camps, and of the friendships and courage that transcended even the most vile conditions. Anne Frank's story did not end with her last words in the Diary; it ended alone on a filthy floor at Bergen-Belsen. These women were the fortunate ones to survive.
Censored 2004: The Top 25 Censored Stories Censored 2004 presents the most censored stories of 2002 and 2003. Read all about it: the plan for global dominance behind the invasion of Iraq; how the U.S. doctored Iraq's UN weapons report; Defense Department plans to instigate terror attacks; the Bush administration's attempt to destroy labour unions; U.S. and British forces continue to use depleted uranium weapons despite known health risks; how poverty, women's rights and civil unrest in Afghanistan are worse than ever; the new threat of colonialism in Africa; how the U.S. was behind the failied military coup in Venezuela.
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