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Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
Julian Sancton · 2021
Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us
Anna Bogutskaya · 2024
<p><i>Zombies want brains. Vampires want blood. Cannibals want human flesh.</i> All <i>monsters need feeding.</i><br> <br> Horror has been embraced by mainstream pop culture more than ever before, with horror characters and aesthetics infecting TV, music videos and even TikTok trends. Yet even with the commercial and critical success of <i>The Babadook, Hereditary, Get Out, The Haunting of Hill House, Yellowjackets</i> and countless other horror films and TV series over the last few years, loving the genre still prompts the question: <i>what's wrong with you?</i> Implying, of course, that there is something <i>not quite right</i> about the people who make and consume it. In <i>Feeding the Monster</i>, Anna Bogutskaya dispels this notion once and for all by examining how horror responds to and fuels our feelings of fear, anxiety, pain, hunger and power.</p>
Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature
Emma Donoghue · 2010
Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power
Bradley Hope, Justin Scheck · 2021
<b>From award-winning <i>Wall Street Journal</i> reporters comes a revelatory look at the inner workings of the world's most powerful royal family, and how the struggle for succession produced Saudi Arabia's charismatic but ruthless Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, aka MBS.</b> <p>35-year-old Mohammed bin Salman's sudden rise stunned the world. Political and business leaders such as former UK prime minister Tony Blair and WME chairman Ari Emanuel flew out to meet with the crown prince and came away convinced that his desire to reform the kingdom was sincere. He spoke passionately about bringing women into the workforce and toning down Saudi Arabia's restrictive Islamic law. He lifted the ban on women driving and explored investments in Silicon Valley.</p> <p>But MBS began to betray an erratic interior beneath the polish laid on by scores of consultants and public relations experts like McKinsey & Company. The allegations of his extreme brutality and excess began to slip out, including that he ordered the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. While stamping out dissent by holding 300 people, including prominent members of the Saudi royal family, in the Ritz-Carlton hotel and elsewhere for months, he continued to exhibit his extreme wealth, including buying a $70 million chateau in Europe and one of the world's most expensive yachts. It seemed that he did not understand nor care about how the outside world would react to his displays of autocratic muscle--what mattered was the flex.</p> <p><i>Blood and Oil</i> is a gripping work of investigative journalism about one of the world's most decisive and dangerous new leaders. Hope and Scheck show how MBS' precipitous rise coincided with the fraying of the simple bargain that had been at the head of US-Saudi relations for more than 80 years: oil, for military protection. Caught in his net are well-known US bankers, Hollywood figures, and politicians, all eager to help the charming and crafty crown prince.</p> <p>The Middle East is already a volatile region. Add to the mix an ambitious prince with extraordinary powers, hunger for lucre, a tight relationship with the White House through President Trump's son in law Jared Kushner, and an apparent willingness to break anything--and anyone--that gets in the way of his vision, and the stakes of his rise are bracing. If his bid fails, Saudi Arabia has the potential to become an unstable failed state and a magnet for Islamic extremists. And if his bid to transform his country succeeds, even in part, it will have reverberations around the world.</p> <p><b>Longlisted for the <i>Financial Times</i> & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award</b></p>
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
Timothy Snyder · 2016
Our Bodies, Their Battlefield
Christina Lamb · 2020
A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women
Southon, Emma · 2023
The Ancient Guide to Modern Life
Natalie Haynes · 2011
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations
Mary Beard · 2013
Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs
Adrienne Mayor · 2022
The Whole Picture
Alice Procter · 2020
Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing
So Mayer · 2020
Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
Anne Applebaum · 2024
Come As You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life
Emily Nagoski Ph.D. · 2021
<b>A revised and updated edition of Emily Nagoski’s game-changing <i>New York Times </i>bestseller <i>Come As You Are</i>, featuring new information and research on mindfulness, desire, and pleasure that will radically transform your sex life.</b><br><br>For much of the 20th and 21st centuries, women’s sexuality was an uncharted territory in science, studied far less frequently—and far less seriously—than its male counterpart.<br> <br>That is, until Emily Nagoski’s <i>Come As You Are</i>, which used groundbreaking science and research to prove that the most important factor in creating and sustaining a sex life filled with confidence and joy is not what the parts are or how they’re organized but how you feel about them. In the years since the book’s initial publication, countless women have learned through Nagoski’s accessible and informative guide that things like stress, mood, trust, and body image are not peripheral factors in a woman’s sexual wellbeing; they are central to it—and that even if you don’t always feel like it, you are already sexually whole by just being yourself. This revised and updated edition continues that mission with new information and advanced research, demystifying and decoding the science of sex so that everyone can create a better sex life and discover more pleasure than you ever thought possible.
Women in the Valley of the Kings
Kathleen Sheppard · 2024
Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future
Jason Stanley · 2025
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Y. Davis
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)
Dean Spade · 2020
Off with Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power
Eleanor Herman · 2022
Bi the Way: The Bisexual Guide to Life
Lois Shearing · 2021
Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
Mark Mathabane
All That Remains: A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes
Sue Black DBE FRSE · 2020
physical
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Reni Eddo-Lodge
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
Emma Southon · 2021
<P><B>An entertaining and informative look at the unique culture of crime, punishment, and killing in Ancient Rome</B></P><P> In Ancient Rome, all the best stories have one thing in common—murder. Romulus killed Remus to found the city, Caesar was assassinated to save the Republic. Caligula was butchered in the theater, Claudius was poisoned at dinner, and Galba was beheaded in the Forum. In one 50-year period, 26 emperors were murdered. </P><P> But what did killing mean in a city where gladiators fought to the death to sate a crowd? In <I>A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum</I>, <B>Emma Southon</B> examines a trove of real-life homicides from Roman history to explore Roman culture, including how perpetrator, victim, and the act itself were regarded by ordinary people. Inside Ancient Rome's darkly fascinating history, we see how the Romans viewed life, death, and what it means to be human. </P>
Doppelganger
Naomi Klein · 2024
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
Rebecca Hall · 2022
Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us
Brian Klaas · 2022
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Mikki Kendall · 2021
<b>A <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER<br><br> “<b>The fights against hunger, homelessness, poverty, health disparities, poor schools, homophobia, transphobia, and domestic violence are feminist fights. Kendall offers a feminism rooted in the livelihood of everyday women.”</b> <b>—Ibram X. Kendi, #1 <i>New York Times-</i>bestselling author of <i>How to Be an Antiracist</i>, in <i>The Atlantic</i></b><br><br>“One of the most important books of the current moment.”—<i>Time</i></b><br> <br> <b>“A rousing call to action... It should be required reading for everyone.”—Gabrielle Union, author of</b> <i><b>We’re Going to Need More Wine</b></i><br> <br> <b><br> <b>A potent and electrifying critique of today’s feminist movement announcing a fresh new voice in black feminism</b></b><br><br>Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki Kendall, but food insecurity, access to quality education, safe neighborhoods, a living wage, and medical care are all feminist issues. All too often, however, the focus is not on basic survival for the many, but on increasing privilege for the few. That feminists refuse to prioritize these issues has only exacerbated the age-old problem of both internecine discord and women who rebuff at carrying the title. Moreover, prominent white feminists broadly suffer from their own myopia with regard to how things like race, class, sexual orientation, and ability intersect with gender. How can we stand in solidarity as a movement, Kendall asks, when there is the distinct likelihood that some women are oppressing others? <br><br>In her searing collection of essays, Mikki Kendall takes aim at the legitimacy of the modern feminist movement, arguing that it has chronically failed to address the needs of all but a few women. Drawing on her own experiences with hunger, violence, and hypersexualization, along with incisive commentary on reproductive rights, politics, pop culture, the stigma of mental health, and more, <i>Hood Feminism</i> delivers an irrefutable indictment of a movement in flux. An unforgettable debut, Kendall has written a ferocious clarion call to all would-be feminists to live out the true mandate of the movement in thought and in deed.
Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion
Gabrielle Stanley Blair · 2022
fantasy
The Jasad Heir
Sara Hashem · 2023
"An unmissable tale of shattered kingdoms, forbidden magic, and cunning royals unfolds in this Egyptian-inspired epic fantasy debut. Ten years ago, the kingdom of Jasad burned. Its magic was outlawed. Its royal family murdered. At least, that's what Sylvia wants people to believe. The Heir of Jasad escaped the massacre, and she intends to stay hidden, especially from the armies of Nizahl that continue to hunt her people. But a moment of anger changes everything. When Arin, the Nizahl Heir, tracks a group of Jasadi rebels to her village, Sylvia accidentally reveals her magic -- and captures his attention. Now Sylvia's forced to make a deal with her greatest enemy: Help him hunt the rebels in exchange for her life. A deadly game begins. Sylvia can't let Arin discover her identity, even as hatred shifts into something more between the Heirs. And as the tides change around her, Sylvia will have to choose between the life she wants and the one she abandoned." -- Back cover.
An Ember in the Ashes
Sabaa Tahir · 2016
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The Queen's Spade
Sarah Raughley · 2025
