![]() ![]() But a strong case can be made for the primacy of capitalism.Īs already noted, at least 20,000,000 books had already been printed by 1500, signaling the onset of Benjamin's ‘age of mechanical reproduction.' If manuscript knowledge was scarce and arcane lore, print knowledge lived by reproducibility and dissemination. Why, within that type, did the nation become so popular? The factors involved are obviously complex and various. If the development of print-as-commodity is the key to the generation of wholly new ideas of simultaneity, still, we are simply at the point where communities of the type ‘horizontal-secular, transverse-time' become possible. ![]() The following is an excerpt from Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism.įor our 50th anniversary we have 50% off all our Book Club memberships and 40% off ALL BOOKS! However, if you do sign up for our book club then you will get 50% off everything on our site for as long as you are a member. ![]() To celebrate Verso's 50th Anniversary, we are publishing excerpts from some of our classic texts. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He goes after what he wants, plays any game he needs to in order to win the object of his attention, and usually ends up getting what he wants. He's rich (of course), tall and handsome (of course) and a total player (of course). Let me start by saying, that no other author I know can write a hot, brooding, arrogant alphahole like this author. "She's trying to sever this thing between us, and part of me is grateful that she's strong enough to make the attempt, but a bigger part of me feels like I'm losing a limb." Laurelin Paige delivers a twist on Indecent Proposal in this billionaire workplace standalone romance featuring elements of fake relationship, marriage of convenience, enemies to lovers, and a new alphahole readers will love to hate. Not even the man who promised nothing would come between us and his ambition-my husband. No one will stop him, no one will get in his way. He doesn’t just want me on the screen-he wants me in his bed. The heat of them as they rake down my body, taking me in, marking me as his. ![]() I feel his gaze on me when he's in the room. But soon, it's clear he's the one in charge. The man who decides if I’ll always just be a local television anchor or if I’ll be the rising star of my own show. He’ll get what he wants-even if I’m already taken.Īs CEO of the Sebastian News Corp, he’s the man with all the power. ![]() ![]() Facing the severe disapproval of Lucys parents, Kevin asks his friend Sam Nolan, a local vineyard owner on San Juan Island, to romance Lucy and hopefully loosen her up and get her over her anger. Lucys bitterness over being dumped is multiplied by the fact that she has constantly made the wrong choices in her romantic life. She is stunned and blindsided by the most bitter kind of betrayal: her fianc Kevin has left her. Lucy Marinn is a glass artist living in mystical, beautiful, Friday Harbor, Washington. Book Synopsis Rainshadow Road is the second book in Lisa Kleypass popular Friday Harbor series. Complications ensue when Sam and Lucy begin to fall in love. ![]() ![]() Facing the severe disapproval of Lucys parents, Kevin asks his friend, Sam Nolan to romance Lucy and hopefully loosen her up and get her over her anger. About the Book Lucy Marinn is stunned and blindsided by the most bitter kind of betrayal: her fianc Kevin has left her. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Though Hart employs plot twists effectively, it’s his powerful, wounded but courageous lead whom readers will remember. ![]() Adrian is almost gunned down by the victim’s revenge-seeking son and again finds himself a suspect when another woman is killed. ![]() Her plate gets even fuller after Adrian Wall, a cop she once had feelings for, is paroled after 13 years in jail for murdering a woman, a crime she always believed he didn’t commit, despite compelling forensic evidence. But Elizabeth seems strangely indifferent to the investigation’s outcome. Given that Elizabeth, a white cop, shot the men, who were black, 18 times, the incident has attracted major media attention. North Carolina police detective Elizabeth Black faces the prospect of criminal charges arising from her gunning down two men who were sexually abusing 18-year-old Channing Shore in an abandoned house. Hart plays brilliantly on the tradition of the southern gothic, but his grasp of character gives this noveland all his worksthe extra dimension that. However, that redemption comes at a huge cost to himself and also to the victims of the serial killer who framed detective Wall. In this stellar crime thriller, Edgar-winner Hart ( Iron House) explores the human capacity for resilience and trust in the face of heartbreaking betrayal. John Hart's new book, REDEMPTION ROAD, finally here five years after his last, does indeed bring redemption for Wall and the other main characters in the book. ![]() ![]() ![]() He, along with his food, was fresh and enjoyable. He was this fun guy that came up with brilliant and off the wall recipes with minimal ingredients. I remember when Jamie Oliver was The Naked Chef. It’s such a refreshing read when contrasted with the nonsense spiritual save the Earth editorial decisions behind the text of so many modern cookbooks. There are a few notes here and there, but I get the sense that Mom thought Marcella did a pretty good job. I remember a veal dish in a non-Hazan book exed out in pencil with the words “Never Again!” scrawled in the margin. I’ve got my mother’s copy of Marcella Cucina (1997.) Most of Mom’s cookbooks are heavily annotated. ![]() ![]() She’s more fun after she laid the groundwork. They have a sharper focus and capture the mood and culinary fetishes she’s entertaining at a given moment. Her later, shorter books are more adventurous. I assume that was an intentional and successful attempt to claim staple status among Italian cookbooks in the same way Rombauer had general European-American books. It resembles in style and layout, Rombauer’s The Joy of Cooking. Marcella Hazan (Her Name Be Praised) earned her place in the Italian cooking pantheon with Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking (Originally published in separate volumes as The Classic Italian Cookbook in 1973 and More Classic Italian Cooking in 1978 – combined, updated, and revised in the current single volume in 1992)Īs wonderful as it is, Essentials is as advertised. ![]() It has been for quite a while and I’m usually pretty capricious. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Direction of the Wind will both break your heart and send it soaring. “A tender novel about the push and pull between families and independence, obligation and freedom, and the past and the future. “An absorbing and emotional read that follows two women on their journeys to self-discovery while breaking from social confines.” - Booklist Though Sophie goes to Paris to find Nita, she may just also discover parts of herself she never knew. In the City of Light, she chases lead after lead that help her piece together a startling portrait of her mother. Sophie jets off to Paris, even though the impulsive trip may risk her impending arranged marriage. Now that Sophie knows the truth, she’s determined to find the mother who abandoned her. But once in Paris, Nita’s decision and its consequences would haunt her in ways she never expected. Fueled by her creative ambitions, Nita moved to Paris, the artists’ capital of the world-even though it meant leaving her family behind. Nita Shah had everything most women dreamed of in her hometown of Ahmedabad, India-a loving husband, a doting daughter, financial security-but in her heart, she felt like she was living a lie. ![]() But when her father passes away, Sophie discovers a cache of hidden letters revealing a shattering truth: her mother didn’t die. For twenty-two years, she shouldered the burden of that loss. ![]() Sophie Shah was six when she learned her mother Nita had died. ![]() ![]() A conservative approach has been applied to the inclusion of recent transparent borrowings from American popular culture, technology, and business, although some are included. Most terms related to the social sciences and the humanities are included. It does not attempt complete coverage of archaic words technical or scientific terms outside the range of common usage names of uncommon plants and animals most geographic designations the latest in international borrowings. This dictionary contains over 30,000 entries. Its success in that form led to its publication in its present, hard-copy form. Designed to overcome the shortcomings, for learners of Polish, of Polish-English dictionaries written by and intendedįor native-speaking Poles, this work was first published and used in classes over the internet. ![]() A Learner's Polish-English Dictionary is intended primarily for the English-speaking reader of Polish interested in arriving at the central and commonest meanings of a word. ![]() ![]() Its charm will make you say yes." - Ian Sansom, The Guardian You might as well buy it before someone recommends it for your book group. (.) Resistance is futile: you're probably going to end up reading it. There is also much broad humour and musing on the meaning of life.
![]() ![]() ![]() Included in Baltimore Out Loud's Pride Reading List Included in the Bay Area Reporter's Pride Reading List: Prose & Poetry Huffington Post, feature on Bernardine Evaristo Loverman, is her chef d'oeuvre a masterful dissection of the life of a 74-year-old, British-Caribbean gay man. In this vibrant novel, Evaristo draws wonderful character portraits of complex individuals as well as the West Indian immigrant culture in Britain.Īlthough Evaristo has always been an innovative stylist, her latest novel, the critically acclaimed, award-winning smash, Mr. The writing is poetic, the characters are realistic and all sides are well portrayed.Įvaristo crafts a colorful look at a unique character confronting social normativity with a well-tuned voice and a resonant humanity. Description Winner of the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT FictionĮvaristo's confident control of the language, her vibrant use of humor, rhythm and poetry, and the realistic mix of Caribbean patois with both street and the Queen's English.fix characters in the reader's mind.Ī Top Ten Favorite of the American Library Association's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table's 2015 Over the Rainbow ListĪs a writer at the Guardian once proclaimed, if you don't know Evaristo's work, you should.the novel proves to be revolutionary in its honest portrayal of gay men.and Evaristo's writing is both intelligible and compelling. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is also a bit boring, and boring in proportion to his curious lack of ego. The seventy-six-year-old Reverend John Ames, who narrates Marilynne Robinson’s second novel, “Gilead,” is gentle, modest, loving, and above all good. Another reason is that fiction needs egotism, vanity, venality, in order to produce drama and comedy we want our sepulchres craftily whited. This is probably one of the reasons-putting the secular antagonism of novelists aside-that in fiction priests are usually seen as comical, hypocritical, improperly worldly or dangerously unworldly, or a little dim. Most were good men, but the peculiar constrictions of their calling produced peculiar opportunities for unloosing. They were modest but pompous, gentle but tyrannical (one of them got angry if he was disturbed on a Monday, the vicar’s day off), pious but knowing. ![]() The priests I knew practiced self-abnegation but had perfected a quiet dance of ego. Since the ego is irrepressible-and secular-it tends to bulge in odd shapes when religiously straitened. The funereal uniform is supposed to obliterate the self in a shroud of colorlessness, even as it draws enormous attention to the self humility seems to be cut from the same cloth as pride. Growing up in a religious household, I got used to the sight of priests, but I always found them at once fascinating and slightly repellent. ![]() ![]() Marilynne Robinson Illustration by Paul Hamlyn ![]() |