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1) My detective
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Language
English
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Description
"Los Angeles is booming. Money is pouring in. Buildings are going up. But someone is killing architects. Detective Sam Carver journeys through sins scattered across the City of Angels, where hipsters, homeless, immigrants, producers, politicians, movie stars, and cops collide in mysterious ways. Every move Carver makes is anticipated by the killer, Dylan Cross. She has hacked his computer and knows his diaries and secrets. She sees in him a kindred...
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Language
English
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Description
"Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches is a "brilliant, well-documented" celebration (Le Monde) by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch as a symbol of female rebellion and independence in the face of misogyny and persecution. Centuries after the infamous witch hunts that swept through Europe and America, witches continue to hold a unique fascination for many: as fairy tale villains, practitioners of pagan religion, as well as feminist icons. Witches...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
"One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisis. How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world--from American 'shooters' and ISIS to Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism across the world to racism and misogyny on social media? In Age of Anger, Pankaj Mishra answers our bewilderment by casting his gaze back to the eighteenth...
Author
Series
Publisher
Salamandra
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
1a. edición.
Physical Desc
506 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"Margaret Atwood recupera la historia quince años después de que Offred se adentrara en lo desconocido, con los testimonios asombrosos de tres narradoras del mundo de Gilead."--Amazon.com.
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm.)
Language
English
Description
Presents an analysis of mysticism, heresy, and the witch craze in Europe between 1000 and 1700. This set of twenty-four lectures examines aspects of elite and popular culture in late medieval and early modern Western Europe, focusing on the way in which men and women seeking to explain, order, and escape the terrors of their lives embraced transcendental religious experiences, dreamed of and worked for the coming of the apocalypse, and seized on a...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a laugh-out-loud, incisive cultural critique, West extolls the world-changing magic of truth, urging readers to reckon with dark lies in the heart of the American mythos, and unpacking the complicated, and sometimes tragic, politics of not being a white man in the twenty-first century. She tracks the misogyny and propaganda hidden (or not so hidden) in the media she and her peers devoured growing up, a buffet of distortions, delusions, prejudice,...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 292 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In her new book, bestselling author Elizabeth Lesser looks to the stories told about women over the ages and how they contribute to persistent misogyny and gender inequality, and offers a path towards framing new stories that honor all people."--
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
El cuento de la criada narra la vida en el estado distopico de Gilead, una comunidad totalitaria en lo que antes era Estados Unidos. Gilead esta gobernado por fundamentalistas que hacen uso de opresion militarizada para “volver a los valores tradicionales” mientras se encuentran al borde de un desastre ambiental y una tasa de natalidad desplomada. Siendo una de las pocas mujeres que todavia son fertiles, Defred es una Criada en la casa del Comandante...
Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
188 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Changing the world means changing the story, the names, and the language with which we describe it. Calling things by their true names cuts through the lies that excuse, disguise, avoid, or encourage inaction, indifference, obliviousness in the face of injustice and violence. In this powerful and wide-ranging collection, Solnit turns her attention to battles over meaning, place, language, and belonging at the heart of the defining crises of our time....
11) Entitled
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An urgent exploration of men's entitlement and how it serves to police and punish women, from the acclaimed author of Down Girl, which Rebecca Traister called "jaw-droppingly brilliant." In this bold and stylish critique, Cornell philosopher Kate Manne offers a radical new framework for understanding misogyny. Ranging widely across the culture, from the Kavanaugh hearings and "Cat Person" to Harvey Weinstein and Elizabeth Warren, Manne shows how...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 341 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Descending into the underworlds of poverty, sex work, and misogyny, Initiated describes Amanda's journey to return to her body, harness her power, and create the magical world she longed for through witchcraft. Hailed by crows, seduced by magicians, and haunted by ancestors broken beneath the wheels of patriarchy, Amanda's quest for self-discovery and empowerment is a deep exploration of a modern witch's trials - healing ancient wounds, chafing against...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"The runaway bestseller that helped launch Korea's new feminist movement, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 follows one woman's psychic deterioration in the face of rigid misogyny. In a small, tidy apartment on the outskirts of the frenzied metropolis of Seoul, Kim Jiyoung-a millennial "everywoman"-spends her days caring for her infant daughter. Her husband, however, worries over a strange symptom that has recently appeared: Jiyoung has begun to impersonate...
Author
Publisher
Alcove Press
Pub. Date
c2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 310 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Over the Influence, communication professor and CNN Opinion contributor Kara Alaimo reveals how social media is affecting every aspect of the lives of women and girls--from our relationships and our parenting to our physical and mental well-being. Over the Influence is a book about what it means to live in the world social media has wrought--whether you're constantly connected or have deleted your accounts forever. Alaimo shows why you're likely...
Author
Publisher
Biteback Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xvi, 288 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"'In 1977, one of the girls at my infant school in Kent asked me if I was a golliwog. I said I wasn't sure. In 2015, when I ran to be mayor in Tower Hamlets, a smartly dressed middle-class man saw me wearing a headscarf and asked me what colour my hair was underneath it. I gave him a big smile. 'Pink,' I replied. Did I win his vote? I rather doubt it.' Engaging and sharply observed, My Hair Is Pink Under This Veil gives a candid insight into the life...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
[2021].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
260 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An Empowering and Celebratory Portrait of Black Women- from Josephine Baker to Aunt Viv to Cardi B. In 2013, film and culture critic Zeba Blay was one of the first people to coin the viral term #carefreeblackgirls on Twitter. As she says, it was 'a way to carve out a space of celebration and freedom for Black women online.' In this collection of essays, Blay expands on this initial idea by delving into the work and lasting achievements of influential...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
389 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The shocking true story of a bizarre kidnapping and the victims' revictimization by the justice system In March 2015, Denise Huskins and her boyfriend, Aaron Quinn, awoke from sound sleep to a nightmare. Armed men bound and drugged them, then abducted Denise and warned Aaron not to call the police or she would be killed. Aaron agonized about what to do. Finally he put his trust in law enforcement and dialed 911. But instead of searching for Denise,...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the James Beard Award-winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays on how food and cooking stoke the flames of her feminism. When celebrity chef Mario Batali sent out an apology letter for the sexual harassment allegationsmade against him, he had the gall to include a recipe--for cinnamon rolls, of all things. When Geraldine DeRuiter decided to make the recipe, she happened to make food journalism history along with...
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