Covers political leadership, political parties, political behaviour. In the context of South Asia, the predicaments of political decay and legitimation crisis, according to this article, manifest as after-effects of engagement on the part of the region’s post-colonial polities with the imported values of colonial modernity and neoliberal economic reforms. This magisterial account is required reading for anyone wishing to know more about mankind's greatest achievements. Compilation of essays on the development of the political system in West Bengal (India). Fukuyama argues that the key to successful government can be reduced to three key elements: a strong state, the rule of law and institutions of democratic accountability. If we want to understand the political systems that dominate and order our lives, we must first address their origins - in our own recent past as well as in the earliest systems of human government. This is the story of how state, law and democracy developed after these cataclysmic events, how the modern landscape - with its uneasy tension between dictatorships and liberal democracies - evolved and how in the United States and in other developed democracies, unmistakable signs of decay have emerged. Here, he picks up the thread again in the second instalment of his definitive account of mankind's emergence as a political animal. In The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama took us from the dawn of mankind to the French and American Revolutions. The most important book about the history and future of politics since The End of History
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And when it does, this, too, will be unmentionable… Perfect for fans of THE HANDMAID’S TALE, VOX, and THE POWER. And nothing will be the same after that.Įverything is about to change, forever. Whether anyone likes it or not, the Mass Dragoning is coming. But she is a ghostly shadow of her former self, and with scars across her body – wide, deep burns, as though she had been attacked by a monster who breathed fire.Īlex, growing from young girl to fiercely independent teenager, is desperate for answers, but doesn’t get any. Then Alex’s mother disappears, and reappears a week later, one quiet Tuesday, with no explanation whatsoever as to where she has been. What can’t be named can’t be questioned in this new novel by Minneapolis writer Kelly Barnhill, which immerses readers in a post-World War II period of conformity and repression. And Alex doesn’t see the little old lady after that. In her next-door neighbour’s garden, in the spot where the old lady usually sits, is a huge dragon, an astonished expression on its face before it opens its wings and soars away across the rooftops. Alex Green is four years old when she first sees a dragon. In a world where girls and women are taught to be quiet, the dragons inside them are about to be set free … In this timely and timeless speculative novel, set in 1950s America, Kelly Barnhill exposes a world that wants to keep girls and women small – and examines what happens when they rise up. What he didn't count on: his catfish scenario landing him in a quasi-love triangle. When an anonymous student begins sending him transphobic messages - after publicly posting Felix's deadname alongside images of him before he transitioned - Felix comes up with a plan for revenge. What's worse is that, even though he is proud of his identity, Felix also secretly fears that he's one marginalisation too many - Black, queer and transgender - to ever get his own happily-ever-after. He desperately wants to know what it's like and why it seems so easy for everyone but him to find someone. From award-winning author Kacen Callender comes a revelatory YA novel about a transgender teen grappling with identity and self-discovery while falling in love for the first time.įelix Love has never been in love - and, yes, he's painfully aware of the irony. Who built the maze? Who is watching them? Are the bugs really so wicked? What’s going on? And why, the day after Thomas appears, does everything start changing? The first book leaves Thomas, our hero, stuck in a glade in the middle of an unsolveable maze, patrolled by Grievers, giant metal/animal hybrid monsters and watched by flying camera bugs – all with the word WICKED stamped on them. Much like the Divergent trilogy, the first book is based in a small area, then the second and third widen out to larger society, leaving much weight on the shoulders of our poor protagonist. Somewhat unusually for a dystopian or YA series, The Maze Runner features a male protagonist – waking up one day in a giant maze, together with a collection of other teenage boys, he has to figure out what’s going on in life, and basically save all of humanity. The Maze Runner/The Scorch Trials/The Death Cure – James Dashner Again, prompted by a film (and also Sinéad), I hunted them out and got down to reading them. Another dystopian trilogy (you would think I’d be sick of them by now, but they are very much in vogue) that I read this year was The Maze Runner trilogy by James Dashner. Notes on the Restoration of Jean-Baptiste Oudry’s Rhinoceros and Lion, Mark LeonardĪll of the essays are interesting the one on the restoration of the rhinoceros (dubbed “Clara”) painting is fascinating. “Animal Lovers Are Informed”, by Charissa Bremer-David Technique and Tradition in Oudry’s Animal Drawings, by Christine Giviskos Menageries as Princely Necessities and Mirrors of Their Times, byMarina Belozerskaya Pictorial Relations: New Evidence on Jean-Baptiste Oudry and the Court of To the Art and Career of Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686–1755), by Colin B. “A long working life, considerable research and much thought”: An Introduction In addition to the plates, there are other illustrations and essays on the life and work of Oudry and his contemporaries. The book focuses on several life-size portraits of exotic animals from the royal menagerie at Versailles, which Oudry painted between 17. This entire book, with beautiful color plates, is available online, at no cost, at the Getty Virtual Library. Kowtowing to a bunch of "crinolines" isn't his idea of soldiering. As he heals, Jake is ordered to assist with a local Women's Relief Society auction. When doctors deliver their diagnosis, Jake fears losing not only his greatest skill but his very identity. But can Aletta trust this man?Ĭaptain Jake Winston, a revered Confederate sharpshooter, suffered a head wound at the Battle of Chickamauga. Then a chance meeting with a wounded soldier offers another opportunity-and friendship. With the bank threatening to evict them, she discovers an advertisement for the Women's Relief Society auction and applies for a position-only to discover it's been filled. Recently widowed, Aletta Prescott struggles to hold life together for herself and her six-year-old son. "This tender love story between two wounded people whom God brings together for healing is a book readers will enjoy anytime-but especially at Christmas!" - Francine Rivers, New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love and A Voice in the WindĪmid war and the fading dream of the Confederacy, a wounded soldier and a destitute widow discover the true meaning of Christmas-and sacrificial love. Her father’s apprehension at “Total Blackness.” Her skill and grace in these Parents’ deaths between her dismay at her daughter’s Cinderella yearnings and Juncture – stranded between the birth of her babies and the imminence of her Ross is writing from a particular generational Each poem brings a delight in the midst of hard truths, messy Wit and acuity of Elizabeth Ross’s poetry in After Birth match An incandescent and immensely pleasurable book.” What we have here treats birth, child-rearing, and how the mother-body interacts with the world at large with a crackling combination of wit, tenderness, and absurdity. “The poems in Elizabeth Ross’s After Birth take on the turbulence, epiphanies and heartbreaks of mighty change with unrelenting honesty and brio happily and triumphantly, they steer clear of the soft-focus mawkishness that often dogs the treatment of motherhood. Barker brings to life the mythical Trojan women. The above price comparison of The Women of Troy: The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller compares a comprehensive list of online shops to find the cheapest price for Books. returns again in this rich, readable sequel. Skip Homer, and just enjoy this epic read * Daily Express * Briseis. * i * This is a powerful page-turner, bringing ancient characters and stories into full colour. Her overall achievement is to have taken one of the great myths of European history, something that has permeated Western culture for 3,000 years, and made something new and immediate of it. She extends it even to the often brutal men. Her characterisation is sharp, her sympathy deep. * TLS * As a novelist, Barker has always looked on the world with the combination of a cold eye and a sympathetic understanding. * Publisher's Weekly * This continuation of the Trojan woman's story feels like another victory for every person who was silenced by history, their story stolen from them * Refinery 29 * A stirring adventure set amid a misogynist dystopia - Anthony Cummins * The Observer * Barker is at her best when she evokes Hecuba's grief on the shore, surrounded by a group of female slaves with the ruined city behind them. In a novel filled with names from legend, Briseis stands tall as a heroine: brave, smart and loyal. Following her bestselling, critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our. The result is a miraculous and emotionally textured account of the 33 men who came to think of the San José mine as a kind of coffin, as a "cave" inflicting constant and thundering aural torment, and as a church where they sought redemption through prayer, while the world watched from above. In Deep Down Dark, this master work of a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, Héctor Tobar gains exclusive access to the miners and their stories. While we saw what transpired above ground during the grueling and protracted rescue, the story of the miners' lives buried below the earth's surface-and the lives that led them there-hasn't been heard until now. And across the globe, we sat riveted to television and computer screens while journalists flocked to the Atacama Desert. When Chile's San José mine collapsed outside of Copiapó in August, 2010, it trapped 33 miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking 69 days. The exclusive, official story of the survival, faith, and family of Chile's 33 Trapped Miners, by a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist The main ideas of Discipline and Punish can be grouped according to its four parts: torture, punishment, discipline, and prison. In a later work, Security, Territory, Population, Foucault admitted that he was somewhat overzealous in his argument that disciplinary power conditions society he amended and developed his earlier ideas. Prison is used by the "disciplines" – new technological powers that can also be found, according to Foucault, in places such as schools, hospitals, and military barracks. He traces the cultural shifts that led to the predominance of prison via the body and power. Foucault argues that prison did not become the principal form of punishment just because of the humanitarian concerns of reformists. It is an analysis of the social and theoretical mechanisms behind the changes that occurred in Western penal systems during the modern age based on historical documents from France. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison ( French: Surveiller et punir : Naissance de la prison) is a 1975 book by French philosopher Michel Foucault. |