Fans of Eleanor and Park, The Spectacular Now, Willow, and Perfectly Good White Boy won't be able to put down this gritty but hopeful love story about two struggling teens.Tyler has a football scholarship to Stanford, a hot girlfriend, and a reliable army of friends to party with. Then his mom kills herself. And Tyler lets it all go. Now he needs to dodge what his dad is offering (verbal tirades and abuse) and earn what his dad i...

This Element examines eighteenth-century manuscript forms, their functions in the literary landscape of their time, and the challenges and practices of manuscript study today. Drawing on both literary studies and book history, Levy and Schellenberg offer a guide to the principal forms of literary activity carried out in handwritten manuscripts produced in the first era of print dominance, 1730-1820. After an opening survey of sociable literary culture and its manuscript forms, numerous cas...

Anna Letitia Barbauld: New Perspectives is the first collection of essays on poet and public intellectual Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743–1825). By international scholars of eighteenth-century and Romantic British literature, these new essays survey Barbauld’s writing from early to late: her versatility as a stylist, her poetry, her books for children, her political writing, her performance as editor and reviewer. They explore themes of sociability, materiality, and affect in Barbauld’s writin...

Natalie didn't always consider herself an investor, even after spending over seven years working on Wall Street and in private equity. The very real and regular covert put downs, aggressive bro culture, and pointed remarks (and harassment) to push women out of the space did just that. Finance wasn't (and still isn't) a space where women were naturally invited - or celebrated. Today, with almost two decades of angel investing experience, a portfolio of 45+ private investments, and an averag...

Philosophy in both Australia and New Zealand has been has been experiencing, for some time now, something of a 'golden age', exercising an influence in the global arena that is disproportionate to the population of the two countries. To capture the distinctive and internationally recognised contributions Australasian philosophers have made to their discipline, a series of public talks by leading Australasian philosophers was convened at various literary events and festivals across Australi...

En Louisiane à la fin du XIXe siècle la vie est paisible: villas du bord de mer, soirées musicales, robes de mousseline et enfants sages. Aux yeux d’Edna, cette quiétude confine à la torpeur. Une émotion amoureuse, un parfum enivrant et la vie change de registre. C’est «l’éveil». La jeune femme découvre son goût de vivre, sa créativité, son corps, elle-même en somme. Découverte qui ne va pas sans poser problème dans l’Amérique de ces années-là; pour l’héroïne du roman et pour l’auteure, do...

La Barbade, 1830. À onze ans, Washington Black n’a d’autre horizon que le champ de canne à sucre de la plantation où il travaille avec d’autres esclaves. Quand le destin frappe à sa porte, c’est sous les traits de Titch, un scientifique anglais, jeune frère de son maître qui le choisit comme serviteur. Wash montre un talent inné pour le dessin et une curiosité d’esprit telle qu’il est promu assistant pour le projet fou de l’extravagant inventeur: construire un ballon dirigeable. Lorsqu’un ...

Une plantation comme une autre, près de Bayonne, en Louisiane. Tout le monde se connaît, s’épie, s’aime ou se jalouse. Dans la touffeur de l’après-midi, la belle Catherine Carmier y promène parfois sa silhouette souple, sa peau si claire, sa solitude, sous les yeux de Jackson, un jeune professeur noir de retour sur sa terre natale. Mais Jackson n’est pas le seul qui la regarde, et, tout au long de soirées interminables, un drame se noue, silencieux.

What would it mean to “get over slavery”? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set of mental manacles that hold us back from imagining a postracist America? Or could the psychic hold of slavery be understood as a tool, helping us get a grip on the systemic racial inequalities and restricted liberties that persist in the present day?Featuring original essays from an array of established and emerging scholars in the inter...

Rédigé sous l'égide du Collège des Enseignants d'Immunologie (ASSIM), cet ouvrage présente l'intégralité du programme de DFGSM 2-3 en immunologie fondamentale et immunopathologie, et constitue le référentiel national. Grâce à un important travail de concertation pédagogique, les auteurs mettent à disposition des étudiants un manuel complet et synthétique qui s'articule en 2 parties : - Tissu lymphoïde et sanguin ; - Immunopathologie et immuno-intervention. Cette 2e édition, tout en couleur...

Inside This Place, Not of It reveals some of the most egregious human rights violations within women's prisons in the United States. In their own words, the thirteen narrators in this book recount their lives leading up to incarceration and their experiences inside- ranging from forced sterilization and shackling during childbirth, to physical and sexual abuse by prison staff. Together, their testimonies illustrate the harrowing struggles for survival that women in prison must end...