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Punk Paradox: A Memoir
From the legendary singer-songwriter of Bad Religion comes a historical memoir and cultural criticism of punk rock’s evolution.
Greg Graffin is the lead vocalist and songwriter of Bad Religion, recently described as “America's most significant punk band.” Since its inception in Los Angeles in 1980, Bad Religion has produced 18 studio albums, become a long-running global touring powerhouse, and has established a durable legacy as one of the most influential punk rock bands of all time.
Punk Paradox is Graffin's life narrative before and during L.A. punk's early years, detailing his observations on the genre's explosive growth and his band's steady rise in importance. The book begins by exploring Graffin’s Midwestern roots and his life-changing move to Southern California in the mid-’70s. Swept up into the burgeoning punk scene in the exhilarating and often-violent streets of Los Angeles, Graffin and his friends formed Bad Religion, built a fanbase, and became a touring institution. All these activities took place in parallel with Graffin's never ceasing quest for intellectual enlightenment. Despite the demands of global tours, recording sessions, and dedication to songwriting, the author also balanced a budding academic career. In so doing, he managed to reconcile an improbable double-life as an iconic punk rock front man and University Lecturer in evolution.
Graffin’s unique experiences mirror the paradoxical elements that define the punk genre—the pop influence, the quest for society’s betterment, music’s unifying power—all of which are prime ingredients in its surprising endurance. Fittingly, this book argues against the traditional narrative of the popular perception of punk. As Bad Religion changed from year to year, the spirit of punk—and its sonic significance—lived on while Graffin was ever willing to challenge convention, debunk mythology, and liberate listeners from the chains of indoctrination.
As insightful as it is exciting, this thought-provoking memoir provides both a fly on the wall history of the punk scene and astute commentary on its endurance and evolution.
A Good Time to be a Girl
Five years have passed since women were exhorted to `Lean In'. Over that time, the world has transformed beyond all expectations. But why should anyone `lean in' to a patriarchal system that is out of date? Why not change it entirely for the good of us all?
In A Good Time to be a Girl, Helena Morrissey sets out how we might achieve the next big breakthrough towards a truly inclusive modern society.
Drawing on her experience as a City CEO, mother of nine, and founder of the influential 30% Club which campaigns for gender-balanced UK company boards, her manifesto for new ways of working, living, loving and raising families is for everyone, not just women. Making a powerful case for diversity and difference in any workplace, she shows how, together, we can develop smarter thinking and broader definitions of success. Gender balance, in her view, is an essential driver of economic prosperity and part of the solution to the many problems we face today.
Her approach is not aimed merely at training a few more women in working practices that have outlived their usefulness. Instead, this book sets out a way to reinvent the game - not at the expense of men but in ways that are right and relevant for a digital age. It is a powerful guide to success for us all.
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Anime Through the Looking Glass
The magic and mastery of anime springs to life in this gorgeous celebration of the genre that features more than 150 full-color frames.
ANIME GOES TO WAR: A powerful narrative engine, such as Kaneda’s red motorcycle in Katsuhiro Ôtomo’s Akira, war is thebeating heart of anime, its shadow hovering over various genres.
HUMAN, ALL TOO HUMAN?: Man versus machine. Exploring new dialectics of body and mind through films like Rintaro’s Galaxy Express 999 andMamoru Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: On the other side of the mirror, we discover wonderful worlds in dreamlike colors populated with protective spirits, fantastic creatures and humans that save the world like the messianic girl in Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaä to the Space Pirate Captain Harlock
LIFE NOW: Exhibiting the metamorphosis of society and lifestyles, with scenes from family life to the schoolyard to the company, anime also sketches the human tragic-comedy with great acuity like Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name.
This uniquely powerful form of artistic expression has embraced complex and provocative ideas since its inception in the mid twentieth century.
This dynamic and wide-ranging book explores eighty key themes of the genre, from wars to natural disasters, nature to ecology, childhood to magic, dystopias to fables. It looks at more than one hundred masterpieces of Japanese animation, including Akira, Ghost in the Shell, One Piece, Princess Mononoke, Grave of the Fireflies and Howl’s Moving Castle, to show how practitioners consistently balance tradition with modernity and how anime’s distinct style has influenced other forms of media such as video games, comic books and live-action films.
Covering an enormous range of talent—from Isao Takahata, Katsuhiro Ôtomo, and Makoto Shinkai to Studio Ghibli and Mamoru Oshii—it demonstrates how anime makes room for limitless creativity. Unfettered by the physical constraints of nature’s laws, these artists realize our deepest emotions and our wildest dreams.
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Star Wars - Guardians of the Whills
The manga adaptation of the novel Star Wars: Guardians of the Whills, by Greg Rucka, revisits fan-favorite characters Baze Malbus and Chirrut Imwe before they joined the Rebellion in the blockbuster film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
Jump into hyperspace with all-new Star Wars publishing!
The Force is with me, and I am one with the Force.
- Chirrut Imwe
Presiding over the Kyber Temple on Jedha, the Guardians of the Whills, Baze Malbus and Chirrut Imwe, had hoped to maintain a peaceful balance despite the growing presence of the Empire in their Holy City. They struggle to maintain their beliefs as stormtroopers threaten to take over, when Saw Gerrera appears offering them a chance to help Jedha. How far are Baze and Chirrut willing to compromise for peace, or will Saw's plan be too dangerous to risk?
Star Wars: Guardians of the Whills revisits Baze and Chirrut before they meet the rebellion members who turn the tide in the fight against the Empire in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Writer Jon Tsuei and manga artist Subaru bring the origin story of this fan-favorite duo to life in a new manga adaptation based on the novel by Greg Rucka.
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Professor Wooford McPaw's History of Cars
The first in a series of books explaining the history of modern technologies (upcoming titles will include computers and planes), introduced and explained by a helpful (if somewhat arrogant) dog called Professor Wooford McPaw.
In this title, Professor McPaw explores the history of the car, starting with the steam engine in the early 1800s, the advent of the combustion engine in 1872, the popularisation of the car by Henry Ford in the early 1900s, the evolution of motor racing, luxury cars of the 1950s, the Japanese innovations of the 1970s, and finally the new technologies of electric and self-driving cars today.
The book is engagingly illustrated by Elliot Kruszynski, whose bright, clean, Scarry-esque style appeals to children across a broad age range. The Professor and his sidekick (in this case a car, but changing with each book), discuss the intricacies of each historical moment, lending a humorous, personal touch. Comic strip interludes capture key moments, like the first cross-country road trip by the wife of Karl Benz, inventor of the petrol motorcar; or the invention of Ford's assembly line.
Striking a refreshing balance between authoritative, clearly conveyed information, and witty, bright commentary, Professor Peyton McPaw will be a captivating tour-guide through the fascinating developments of the modern world.
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Sustainability - A History
From one of the world's leading experts on the subject, a fully updated introduction to the sustainability movement from the 1600s to today
The word is nearly ubiquitous: at the grocery store we shop for "sustainable foods" that were produced from "sustainable agriculture"; groups ranging from small advocacy organizations to city and state governments to the United Nations tout "sustainable development" as a strategy for local and global stability; and woe betide the city-dweller who doesn't aim for a "sustainable lifestyle." Seeming to have come out of nowhere to dominate the discussion-from permaculture to renewable energy to the local food movement-the ideas that underlie and define sustainability can be traced back several centuries.
In this illuminating and fascinating primer, newly revised and updated, Jeremy L. Caradonna does just that, approaching sustainability from a historical perspective and revealing the conditions that gave it shape. Locating the underpinnings of the movement as far back as the 1660s, Caradonna considers the origins of sustainability across many fields throughout Europe and North America. Taking us from the emergence of thoughts guiding sustainable yield forestry in the late 17th and 18th centuries, through the challenges of the Industrial Revolution, the birth of the environmental movement, and the emergence of a concrete effort to promote a balanced approach to development in the latter half of the 20th century, he shows that while sustainability draws upon ideas of social justice, ecological economics, and environmental conservation, it is more than the sum of its parts and blends these ideas together into a dynamic philosophy.
Caradonna's book broadens our understanding of what "sustainability" means, revealing how it progressed from a relatively marginal concept to an ideal that shapes everything from individual lifestyles, government and corporate strategies, and even national and international policy. For anyone seeking understand the history of those striving to make the world a better place to live, here's a place to start.
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Until Proven Safe
Quarantine has shaped our world, yet it remains both feared and misunderstood. It is our most powerful response to uncertainty, but it operates through an assumption of guilt: in quarantine, we are considered infectious until proven safe. An unusually poetic metaphor for moral and mythic ills, quarantine means waiting to see if something hidden inside of us will be revealed.
Until Proven Safe tracks the history and future of quarantine around the globe, chasing the story of emergency isolation through time and space - from the crumbling lazarettos of the Mediterranean to the hallways of the CDC, to the corporate giants hoping to disrupt the widespread quarantine imposed by Covid-19 before the next pandemic hits through surveillance and algorithmic prediction.
Yet quarantine is more than just a medical tool: Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley drop deep into the Earth to tour a nuclear-waste isolation facility beneath the New Mexican desert, strip down to nothing but protective Tyvek suits to see plants stricken with a disease that threatens the world's wheat supply, and meet NASA's Planetary Protection Officer tasked with saving the Earth from extraterrestrial infections.
The result is part travelogue, part intellectual history - a book as compelling as it is definitive, and one that could not be more urgent or timely.
'Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley offer answers that will make your jaw drop. Nothing about "quarantine" is as simple or straight-forward as you think.' - Laurie Garrett, author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World out of Balance
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The City of Tears
A breathtaking historical novel of revenge, persecution and loss, The City of Tears by Kate Mosse follows on from her Sunday Times number one bestseller, The Burning Chambers.
May 1572: for ten violent years the Wars of Religion have raged across France. Neighbours have become enemies, countless lives have been lost, and the country has been torn apart over matters of religion, citizenship and sovereignty. But now a precarious peace is in the balance and a royal wedding has been negotiated. It is a marriage that could see France reunited at last.
An invitation has arrived for Minou Joubert and her family to attend this historic wedding in Paris in August. But what Minou does not know is that the Joubert family's oldest enemy, Vidal, will also be there. Nor that, within days of the marriage, on the eve of the Feast Day of St Bartholomew, her family will be scattered to the four winds and one of her beloved children will have disappeared without trace . . .
Sweeping from Paris and Chartres to the City of Tears itself - the great refugee city of Amsterdam - this is a story of one family's fight to stay together and survive against the devastating tides of history . . .
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Another Now
What would a fair and equal society look like? The world-renowned economist and bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis presents his radical and subversive answer.
Imagine it is 2025 and that years earlier, in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, a global uprising had birthed a post-Capitalist world in which democracy, equality and justice are truly served.
In a thought-experiment of startling originality, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis blends an ancient form - the Platonic dialogue - with speculative fiction to offer a glimpse of this alternative reality. Through the eyes of three characters - a liberal ex-banker, a radical feminist and a maverick technologist - we see what would be needed to forge such a world, one without commercial banks or stock markets, where companies are collectively owned and housing and income are guaranteed, but also at what cost.
How to balance freedom with fairness? How to generate wealth while protecting the planet? How to encourage the best of humanity without unleashing the worst? As radical in its form as in its vision, Another Now shows how our answers to these questions shape our society, helping us confront the one question that underpins them all: how far are we willing to go in pursuit of our ideals?
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One Piece 3In1 Edition 27 (Includes 79, 80, 81)
Join Monkey D. Luffy and his swashbuckling crew in their search for the ultimate treasure, the One Piece.
As a child, Monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming King of the Pirates. But his life changed when he accidentally ate the Gum-Gum Fruit, an enchanted Devil Fruit that gave him the ability to stretch like rubber. Its only drawback? He’ll never be able to swim again—a serious handicap for an aspiring sea dog! Years later, Luffy sets off on his quest to find the “One Piece,” said to be the greatest treasure in the world…
As the clash with evil warlord Doflamingo intensifies and the fate of the island people of Dressrosa hangs in the balance, Luffy decides it’s time to switch gears! Then, when a beastly new enemy enters the scene, Luffy’s faithful compadres Sanji and Nami are separated from the gang. The Straw Hat crew must seek out their missing members in a bizarre animal kingdom!
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Banana Fish 17
Nature made Ash beautiful; Nurture made him a killer!
VICE CITY: NEW YORK IN THE 80s...
Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of “Papa” Dino Golzine, Ash, now at the rebellious age of seventeen, forsakes the kingdom held out by the devil who raised him. But the hideous secret that drove Ash's older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into Papa's insatiably ambitious hands--and it's exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to make Ash Lynx's acquaintance... Epic in scope, and one of the best-selling shojo titles of all time in Japan, Akimi Yoshida put an electric shock into the genre and gained a huge crossover audience through Banana Fish's stripped-down, non-stop style.
Ash is held captive and interrogated by the brutal Colonel Foxx who does everything in his power to get information on Golzine's "ace in the hole" against the U.S. government. But a caged animal can be held only so long before it bites back. Chaos erupts and Eiji's life hangs in the balance while Ash's key players are captured and brought to Mannerheim's dreaded complex.
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Netrápte sa pre maličkosti v láske
Keď človeka bolí srdce, keď sa hnevá alebo si je neistý, aj malicherná hádka dokáže vyvolať rozkol dokonca u celkom šťastnej dvojice. U ľudí, ktorí spolu žijú už dlhšie, zasa vzniká ten problém, že sú si svojim partnerom istí a vynakladajú veľmi mál
o energie na utužovanie vzťahu. Kniha Netrápte sa pre maličkosti v láske radí párom, ako spolu žiť a obnovovať pritom vášeň, ako nedopustiť, aby im každodenné maličkosti neznepríjemňovali život, ako si vážiť jeden druhého novým, dosiaľ nepoznaným a v
zrušujúcim spôsobom. Kniha Netrápte sa pre maličkosti v láske pomôže vám a vášmu partnerovi žiť oveľa pokojnejšie, bez stresu a určite aj veselšie.Úryvok:Pamätajte si rovnicu: šťastná osoba rovná sa šťastný partner! Veľmi často si tie najsamozrejme
jšie rovnice nevšimneme. Takéto vety istotne poznáte: "Ak sa chceš dobre cítiť, musíš sa o seba starať." Je to samozrejmé? Áno, ale koľkí z nás to naozaj robia? Alebo: "Ak minieš veľa peňazí na dovolenku, v jeseni to budeš ľutovať." Zasa, je to očivi
dné, ale mnohí aj napriek tomu peniaze minieme. Aj nasledujúca taktika zapadá do tejto kategórie. Pre neznámu príčinu si často radšej zvolíme osobné pohodlie alebo nejakú inú sebeckú reakciu, ako by sme sa mali postarať o partnerovo šťastie. Ak tak
robíme, porušujeme rovnicu šťastná osoba rovná sa šťastný partner; a okrem toho si takmer určite zabezpečíme stres a konflikt vo svojom vzťahu. Väčšina z nás sa mylne domnieva, že nie sme zodpovední za to, či je náš partner šťastný. V tejto knihe je
obsiahnutá jedna kompletná taktika, ktorá je zasvätená myšlienke, že my všetci musíme byť zodpovední za svoje šťastie. Hej, sú veci, ktoré každý z náš dokáže potlačiť - napríklad maličkosti, nad ktorými sa netreba priveľmi zamýšľať - a to je istotne
prínosom k partnerovmu šťastiu. A keď je váš partner šťastný, je oveľa ľahšie a príjemnejšie s ním žiť. Šťastný človek je lepším poslucháčom, ľúbi oddanejšie, oveľa radšej sa delí o svoje šťastie a radosť s ostatnými, je ohľaduplnejší, oveľa ľahšie
sa rozhoduje, a to tak, že jeho rozhodnutia prospievajú aj jeho vzťahu. Takže, v čom spočíva problém? Problém spočíva v tom, že z času na čas nám nevyhovuje urobiť také rozhodnutie, ktoré by učinilo nášho partnera šťastným. Alebo si vyžaduje menši
u obeť, alebo pre vás znamená menšie nepohodlie. Koniec-koncov má však veľkú cenu. Pretože nielen činí partnera šťastným, ale prispieva aj k prehlbovaniu vášho vzťahu. Napríklad Kris nevyhovuje, aby ma povzbudzovala tráviť viac času osamote - najmä
preto, že aj tak veľa cestujem. Keď som preč, znamená to pre ňu viac práce. Takže prečo by to mala podporovať, keď by to mnohých iných znechucovalo, alebo by sa na to aspoň posťažovali? Odpoveď znie: preto, lebo vie, že mi prináša radosť, keď niekedy
trávim čas osamote. A keď som šťastný, som aj lepší manžel a otec. Som veselší, vtipnejší, ochotnejší, uvoľnenejší i trpezlivejší. Na oplátku sa snažím Kris odmeniť tým istým. Nie je to pre mňa pohodlné, keď si chce zájsť do mesta s priateľmi, ale
snažím sa ju v tom podporiť. Neviem si predstaviť, že by som sa sťažoval na niečo, čo ju robí šťastnou. Okrem toho Kris miluje kone a je veľmi rada, ak pri nich môže stráviť čo len chvíľu. Ja kone nemám veľmi v láske, avšak celé roky sa snažím nielen
že jej v tom vyjsť v ústrety, ale som ochotný, pomáham jej a podporujem ju v tom. Mimochodom, jednou z mojich domácich prác je kydať konský hnoj! Určite by som nemusel byť takou oporou - ani Kris. Ale prečo by som nemal? Žijeme spoločný život a kedyk
oľvek je to možné, snažíme sa svojím rozhodnutím pričiniť sa o partnerovo šťastie. Nie vždy je to možné, ale aspoň sa zo všetkých síl o to pokúšame. Možno má váš partner nejakého zvláštneho koníčka alebo záľubu, ktorá si vyžaduje určitý čas a energi
u. Možno je členom nejakého klubu alebo organizácie na vzdialenom mieste. Možno rád sleduje športové prenosy alebo si zapáli cigaru so svojimi priateľmi. Alebo má priateľov, s ktorými sa chce vidieť či aspoň porozprávať telefonicky. Možno si skoro rá
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