Becoming Women: The Embodied Self in Image Culture
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In a culture where beauty is currency, women's bodies are often perceived as measures of value and...
Diversity in Gender and Visual Representation
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Breaking Negative Thinking Patterns: A Schema Therapy Self-Help and Support Book
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Breaking Negative Thinking Patterns is the first schema-mode focused resource guide aimed at schema...
Germans on the Kenyan Coast: Land, Charity, and Romance
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Diani, a coastal town on the Indian Ocean, is significantly defined by a large European presence...
David McK (3632 KP) rated Biggles: The Camels Are Coming in Books
Jan 3, 2021
Thankfully, Amazon doesn't know (or care).
I've just re-read this for the first time in something like 30 odd years, and it's amazing how well it actually holds together all those years later.
Like 'Biggles Learns To Fly' (which I also re-read recently), this is more a collection of short stories with little in the real way of any over-arching plot: vignettes which, if the author is to be believed (and I've no reason not to) are all based on true stories that either happened to him or that he heard about during his earliest flying days in the latter stages of World War One.
While the character of Biggles may not be as popular or as well-known today as during the years in which the stories were written (the 1930 through to the 1990s), there's a reason why they have endured as long as they have ...
Ross (3284 KP) rated The Boys: The Name Of The Game in Books
Aug 19, 2019
This first volume gives an introduction to the boys, and their purpose, and the fact that the world is now full of twisted, power-hungry superheroes, who have corporate sponsorship.
Hughie is devastated when his girlfriend becomes collateral damage in a fight between supes, and is quickly invited into the boys to seek revenge.
Unlike the TV series, the boys don't go straight after The Seven, preferring a lower profile target to make their comeback known. They go after Teenage Kix, a group of young superheroes who engage in all manners of unsavoury antics behind closed doors. Through spying, blackmail and eventual violence, the boys take down this group and make their purpose known.
Brilliant artwork, fantastic dialogue and a real twisted, yet believable, storyline.
Awix (3310 KP) rated Christopher Robin (2018) in Movies
Aug 22, 2019
No real surprises, to be honest, but it's well-made, quite well-played, reasonably well-written, and it doesn't try to make Winnie the Pooh 'contemporary' or 'irreverent'. Some parts of it are genuinely quite sweet, others funny (Mark Gatiss' hairpiece always seems about to take on a CGI life of its own). Hardly essential viewing, but the whole family could probably watch this together and have a decent time doing so.
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Quit smoking - QuitNow!
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QuitNow! is the most complete tool you will find in the AppStore to quit smoking. More than two...