Darkly
Haunted houses, bitter revenants and muffled heartbeats under floorboards - the American gothic is a macabre tale based on a true story. Part memoir and part cultural critique, Darkly reveals the heart of America's darkness in the specters left fr...
Sick Houses
Horror begins at home From family homes in Amityville to Gothic mansions in Los Angeles and the Unabomber's¿cabin, houses often capture and contain the horror that has happened within them. Sick Houses crosses the threshold of these eerie¿spaces t...
Married By Force
'I was twenty years old and dreamed of marrying for love.' Leila was born and brought up in France by Moroccan-born parents. But her romantic dreams were shattered when she was forced by her father to marry a man she'd never met, fifteen years old...
Global and Regional Strategies in the Middle East
Global and Regional Strategies in the Middle East explores hegemony in the Middle East through understanding different dimensions of power politics and the consequences of the hegemonic ambitions of both global and regional powers. The book adds n...
Measuring Minds
This book explores the origins of the American intelligence testing movement. It follows the life and work of Henry Herbert Goddard, America's first intelligence tester and author of the most popular American eugenics tract, The Kallikak Family. T...
Contesting Immigration Policy in Court
What difference does law make in immigration policymaking? Since the 1970s, networks of progressive attorneys in both the US and France have attempted to use litigation to assert rights for non-citizens. Yet judicial engagement - while numerically...
Palestinian Labour Migration to Israel
Leila Farsakh provides the first comprehensive analysis of the rise and fall of Palestinian labour flows to Israel. Highlighting the interdependence between Israel's confiscation of Palestinian land and the use of Palestinian labour, she shows how...
Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret
It's Saturday night in Key West and the Girlie Show is about to begin at the 801 Cabaret. The girls have been outside on the sidewalk all evening, seducing passersby into coming in for the show. The club itself is packed tonight and smoke has fill...
Geometric Galois Actions: Volume 2, The Inverse Galois Problem, Moduli Spaces and Mapping Class Groups
Geometric Galois Actions: Volume 2, The Inverse Galois Problem, Moduli Spaces and Mapping Class Groups
Geometric Galois Actions: Volume 1, Around Grothendieck's Esquisse d'un Programme
Geometric Galois Actions: Volume 1, Around Grothendieck's Esquisse d'un Programme
Machine Learning with Microsoft Technologies
Know how to do machine learning with Microsoft technologies. This book teaches you to do predictive, descriptive, and prescriptive analyses with Microsoft Power BI, Azure Data Lake, SQL Server, Stream Analytics, Azure Databricks, HD Insight, and m...
The Forget-Me-Not Summer
This charming story about three California sisters spending the summer on Cape Cod is perfect for fans of The Penderwicks-as a starred ALA Booklist review raved-and The Mother-Daughter Book Club. Though Marigold, Zinnia, and Lily Silver couldn't be more different, they're all excited about summer vacation. Twelve-year-old Marigold is hoping to get her first kiss from her big crush, while Zinnia, eleven, will most likely spend her time in Marigold's shadow. And five-year-old Lily, though angelic, has a knack for stirring up mischief wherever she goes. But all of their plans come crashing down when the sisters' parents send them to Cape Cod to visit their Aunt Sunny. Small-town life is not what these LA girls had in mind. They must adjust, however, to things like sharing a room and living without a TV. With the help of Aunt Sunny's cheery disposition and her yummy brownies, though, the girls are quickly won over, and before Marigold, Zinnie, and Lily know it, they're cracking lobster
Självmördarna Vid Världens Ände - En Krönika Om En Patagonisk Stad
Las Heras, en spökstad i provinsen Santa Cruz i Patagonien, belägen vid världens ände, långt ifrån storstädernas sjudande liv. Las Heras välsignelse och förbannelse var oljeutvinningen. Det svarta guldet lockade till sig människor med arbete och framtidshopp men utnyttjade dem också och så småningom kom platsen att förvandlas till ett helvete. År 2002, under pågående strejker mot oljeföretagen och styrande politiker, anländer den argentinska journalisten Leila Guerriero till staden för att söka en förklaring till den självmordsvåg som drog fram över samhället under åren 1997 1999. Journalisten vandrar upp och ned längs stadens gator, besöker restauranger och bordellverksamheter, samtalar med närstående och bekanta till självmordsoffren. Vad var det som drev ungdomarna till att avsluta sina liv? Arbetslöshet? Brist på framtidsutsikter? Och vilka slags demoniska krafter var det invånarna i samhället pratade om? Kanske fanns det ett samband med en lista som cirkulerade i Las Heras, från vilken namn efter namn försvann De var tolv. Mellan mars 1997 och sista dagen 1999 tog tolv kvinnor och män livet av sig i Las Heras. Elva av dem hade en genomsnittsålder på tjugofem år och var emblematiska invånare i staden, barn till anspråkslösa men traditionella familjer : badvakten, provinsens bäste ryttare, den föräldralöse som vuxit upp med sina mostrar och morföräldrar. En officiell förteckning över dessa dödsfall finns inte. Varken kommunen, sjukhuset eller förvaltningsmyndigheten ansåg det vara nödvändigt att upprätta en sådan förteckning, varpå alla fabulerar : det var tjugotvå på mindre än ett år, det var nitton på dryga två år, det var tre och folk överdriver. Självmördarna vid världens ände är en flerstämmig, intim och oroväckande krönika om ett bortglömt samhälle präglat av ensamhet, tonårsgraviditeter, alkoholism, bitande vindar och konsekvenserna av oljeindustrins fluktuationer. Leila Guerriero är en av Argentinas mest framstående journalister. Hon skriver för flertalet latinamerikanska och europeiska medier däribland La Nación, El Mercurio och spanska El País. Hon är även författare till en rad böcker som Una historia sencilla, Opus Gelber, Teoría de la gravedad, Frutos extraños. Hennes arbete inom krönikegenren har prisats internationellt för sitt litterära och sociologiska värde. Hon har tidigare blivit översatt till engelska, norska, tyska, italienska, polska, franska och portugisiska. Självmördarna vid världens ände är hennes första bok och den första att bli översatt till svenska.
Dans le jardin de l'ogre
Dans le jardin de l'ogre
River Spirit
The spellbinding new novel from New York Times Notable Author and Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela about an embattled young woman's coming of age during the Mahdist War in 19th century Sudan. Leila Aboulela, hailed as 'a versatile prose stylist' (New York Times) has also been praised by J.M. Coetzee, Ali Smith, and Ben Okri, among others, for her rich and nuanced novels depicting Islamic spiritual and political life. Her new novel is an enchanting narrative of the years leading up to the British conquest of Sudan in 1898, and a deeply human look at the tensions between Britain and Sudan, Christianity and Islam, colonizer and colonized. In River Spirit, Aboulela gives us the unforgettable story of a people who--against the odds and for a brief time--gained independence from foreign rule through their willpower, subterfuge, and sacrifice. When Akuany and her brother Bol are orphaned in a village raid in South Sudan, they're taken in by a young merchant Yaseen who promises to care for
Earth Repair
Millions of acres of land have been contaminated by pesticides, improperly handled chemicals, dirty energy projects, toxic waste, and other pollutants in the United States alone. This toxic legacy impacts the environment, our health, our watershed...
Elsewhere, Home
Winner of the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year 2018; Longlisted for The People's Book Prize 2018; From one of our finest contemporary writers whose work has been praised by J.M. Coetzee, Ali Smith and Aminatta Forna, Leila Aboulela's Elsew...
River Spirit
1880s Sudan. When Akuany and her brother are orphaned in a village raid, they are taken in by Yaseen, a young merchant whose vow to care for them will tether him to Akuany throughout their lives. As revolution brews, Sudan begins to prise itself f...
Lost Words
Lost Words
Woke Up No Light: Poems
A poignant, rousing debut book of poetry, full of life, from the former Youth Poet Laureate of Oakland, California woke up no light is a Black girl's saunter turned to a woman's defiant strut. These are the hymns of a new generation of poetry. Young, alive, yearning. A mouth swung open and ready to devour. A quest for home in a world that knows only wasteland and wanting. Moving in sections from 'girlhood' to 'neighborhood' to 'falsehood' to, finally, 'womanhood,' these poems reckon with themes of reparations, restitution, and desire. The collection is sharp and raw, wise and rhythmic, a combination that lights up each page. From unearthing histories to searching for ways to dream of a future in a world constantly on the brink of disaster, this young poet sets forth personal and political revelation with piercing detail. woke up no light confirms Leila Mottley's arrival and demonstrates the enduring power of her voice--brave and distinctive and thoroughly her own.
Zona de Obras
Why, for what and how does a journalist write? What is his vocation made of and what gives it meaning in these times? Works Zone brings together columns, conferences and essays that the Argentinean Leila Guerriero put together around these questio...
Regardez-Nous Danser
Regardez-Nous Danser
Regardez-Nous Danser
'Année après année, Mathilde revint à la charge. Chaque été, quand soufflait le chergui et que la chaleur, écrasante, lui portait sur les nerfs, elle lançait cette idée de piscine qui révulsait son époux. Ils ne faisaient aucun mal, ils avaient bien le droit de profiter de la vie, eux qui avaient sacrifié leurs plus belles années à la guerre puis à l'exploitation de cette ferme. Elle voulait cette piscine, elle la voulait en compensation de ses sacrifices, de sa solitude, de sa jeunesse perdue.'1968 : à force de ténacité, Amine a fait de son domaine aride une entreprise florissante. Il appartient désormais à une nouvelle bourgeoisie qui prospère, fait la fête et croit en des lendemains heureux. Mais le Maroc indépendant peine à fonder son identité nouvelle, déchiré entre les archaïsmes et les tentations illusoires de la modernité occidentale, entre l'obsession de l'image et les plaies de la honte. C'est dans cette période trouble, entre hédonisme et répression, qu'une nouvelle