From Gleeto gay marriage, from lesbian senators to out gay Marines, we have undoubtedlyexperienced a seismic shift in attitudes about gays in American politics andculture. Our reigning national story isthat a new era of rainbow acceptance is at hand. But dig a bit deeper, and thisseemingly brave new gay world is disappointing. For all of the undeniable changes, the plea for tolerance has sabotaged

Winner of the 2012 Gourmand Cookbook Award for Best Eastern European Cookbook! Now available in paperback, this popular Hippocrene cookbook introduces readers to the fresh foods, exquisite tastes, hospitality and generous spirit of the Ukrainian table. Scattered amongst the recipes are quotes, poems, historical facts, folklore, and illustrations, making this cookbook not only a culinary adventure but

Roald Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer whose team were the first to reach the South Pole - this is his astonishing story, in his own words.Amundsen begins by explaining that he was not born with an urge to explorer the farthest, uncharted regions of the world. At fifteen he received as a gift the memoirs of Sir John Franklin, a famous British explorer, which roused an immediate interest. This was

A spine-tingling contemporary horror novel that follows a scary-movie buff as she hosts an elaborate Halloween bash but soon finds the festivities upended when she and her guests are forced to test their survival skills in a deadly game, from debut author Lisa Springer. Seventeen-year-old Noelle Layne knows horror. Every trope, every warning sign, every survival tactic. She even leads a successful

By the bestselling author of Fabulosa! and Outrageous!, this reappraisal of camp across time and in all its glorious forms shows how this inescapable part of popular culture has also played an important role in equality movements as a form of protest or resistance. The following things have seemed impossibly camp to me at one point or another: a doll whose body acts as a cover for a toilet roll, a

A collection of essays on the history of the education inspectorate in Wales. Watchdogs or Visionaries? offers diverse perspectives on the history of the education inspectorate in Wales. Drawing on new interviews and archival research, these essays survey the 1839 origins of the \"England and Wales\" inspectorate through its independently Welsh iteration today. With special attention to expanding roles

A memoir of addiction, body image, and healing, through the lens of a long-distance runner. Emily Pifer\'s debut memoir, The Running Body, wrestles and reckons with power and agency, language and story, body dysphoria and beauty standards, desire and addiction, loss and healing. Pifer employs multiple modes of storytelling--memoir, meditation, and cultural analysis--interweaving research, argument,

In this massive collection, writer Michael Fleisher hits his stride with a series of mold-breaking Conan tales like \"The Temple of the Twelve-Eyed Thing,\" \"Demons of the Firelight\" and \"Dominion of the Bat\" - illustrated by top talents, including Alfredo Alcala, Ernie Chan and the one and only John Buscema! Meanwhile, X-Men superstar Chris Claremont pens an adventure pitting Conan against the

The world is in the midst of a storm. A storm that has shaped the history of modernity along a double fracture: on the one hand, an environmental fracture driven by a technocratic and capitalist civilization that led to the ongoing devastation of the Earth\'s ecosystems and its human and non-human communities, and, on the other hand, a colonial fracture instilled by Western colonization and imperialism

\"Berry is a superb writer. His sense of what makes characters tick is extraordinary . . . Short stories don\'t get any better than these.\" --People As part of Counterpoint\'s celebration of beloved American author Wendell Berry comes this reissue of his 1986 classic, The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership. Those stories include \"Thicker Than Liquor\", \"Where Did They Go?\",

Hire the right person-every time Why is it that so many companies accept mediocre hiring results as the norm? The answer is simple. It doesn\'t occur to them that, in fact, there is a process that virtually guarantees hiring the right person every time. To repeat: there is a process that virtually guarantees hiring the right person every time. That\'s what MATCH is about. Based on author Dan Erling\'s

Eat to meet your evolutionary design and you\'ll see that extra weight - and those niggling health problems - disappear for good. Customise it to meet the needs of modern living and your individual needs and you have a truly effective, doable diet for long-term

A selection the author\'s critical writings, of short fiction and poetry that demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human

A fully illustrated guide to the science and benefits of kindness from leading kindness expert, Dr David R HamiltonScientific evidence has proven that kindness changes the brain, impacts the heart and immune system, is an antidote to depression, improves relationships and even slows the ageing process. Yet, more than this, kindness can power real and lasting change in the world.This little guide shows

Erak\'s Ransom is the seventh thrilling book in John Flanagan\'s Ranger\'s Apprentice series - over eight million sold worldwide. In the wake of Araluen\'s uneasy truce with the raiding Skandians comes word that the Skandian leader has been captured by a dangerous desert

Anthropocene is the proposed name for the new geological epoch in which humans have overwhelming impact on planetary processes. This edited volume invites reflection on the meaning and role of law in light of changing planetary realties. Taking the concept of the Anthropocene as a starting point, the contributions to this book address emerging legal issues from a transnational environmental law perspective.

This book presents recently developed statistical methods and theory required for the application of the tools of functional data analysis to problems arising in geosciences, finance, economics and

This book unravels China\'s new megaregional structure, new megaregional planning and development, new megaregional governance, and new regional planning system. It draws upon a diversity of megaregional cases: city clusters of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, Yangtze River delta region, and Greater Bay Area; and metropolitan circles of Chengdu, Hangzhou, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Zhengzhou.Megaregions

Growing up comes with growing pains no matter what, but for twelve-year-old Libby, the changes feel like more than she can bear. After an incident caused by his worsening dementia, Libby\'s grandfather comes to live with her family, a move that ripples out into other changes. Libby\'s dad quits his job to become the grandfather\'s primary caretaker, while her mom picks up the financial slack by working