Pirates: Swashbuckling Stories from the Seven Seas

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The surprising success of Pirates of the Caribbean, a new screen adaptation of the classic Peter Pan, and the Russell Crowe film Master and Commander have fueled interest in seagoing swashbucklers. There is a rich literature on pirates—both in fiction and nonfiction. This collection offers excerpts from the works of contemporary authors: Patrick O'Brian's riveting account of a sea battle with Borneo's pirates will enthrall his fans; Farley Mowat's The Black Joke is a rousing adventure of the rum-running set in the 1930s and written in the tradition of the great classic pirate tales. Readers will also discover and rediscover the most infamous pirates of yore, from Treasure Island's Long John Silver to Peter Pan's Captain Hook. They'll encounter pirate adventures from neglected classics such as L. Frank Baum's Pirates in Oz, Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo and Rafael Sabatini's Captain Blood. And they'll find accounts of the dastardly deeds of female pirates both real (Anne Bonney and Mary Read) and imagined (Arthur Ransome's Chinese pirate Miss Lee). Pirates also draws upon colorful true-life accounts and authentic first-person narratives of pirates—and their victims—discovered in nearly forgotten works such as The Pirates Own Book and Captured by Pirates.

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If Ever Again...It'll Be For Love

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After her divorce, Diane faced the daunting foreboding challenges of establishing a happy and meaningful life for herself, finding new friends, starting a new career, maintaining difficult but legally necessary contact with her ex, and reconnecting with her alcoholic mother. The only bright spot was Becca, her adorable five-year-old daughter, who preserved love and joy in her heart. A facial scar from an auto accident haunted her, but not simply cosmetically and emotionally. It helped to justify staying where she was comfortable - alone. She knew what she wanted, and needed, but obsessive worries - Am I worthy? Am I good enough? Can I trust him? Can I rust myself? - sabotaged her hopes and plans. She was ready to quit trying. Out of the blue, she won a one-week vacation in Jamaica, where Michael came into her life. He rekindled awareness of her womanhood and made her confront her doubts, jealousies and fears. When he held her, kissed her and made love to her, she thought, "If ever again. it'll be for love."

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Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law: Moving Beyond Legal Realism

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Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law is a field-defining collection of work at the intersection of law, cultural analysis and cultural studies. Over the past few decades the marked turn toward claims and policy arguments based on cultural identity—such as ethnicity, race, or religion—has pointed up the urgent need for legal studies to engage cultural critiques. Exploration of legal issues through cultural analyses provides a rich supplement to other approaches—including legal realism, law and economics, and law and society. As Austin Sarat and Jonathan Simon demonstrate, scholars of the law have begun to mine the humanities for new theoretical tools and kinds of knowledge. Crucial to this effort is cultural studies, with its central focus on the relationship between knowledge and power.

Drawing on legal scholarship, literary criticism, psychoanalytic theory, and anthropology, the essays collected here exemplify the contributions cultural analysis and cultural studies make to interdisciplinary legal study. Some of these broad-ranging pieces describe particular approaches to the cultural study of the law, while others look at specific moments where the law and culture intersect. Contributors confront the deep connections between law, social science, and post-World War II American liberalism; examine the traffic between legal and late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century scientific discourses; and investigate, through a focus on recovered memory, the ways psychotherapy is absorbed into the law. The essayists also explore specific moments where the law is forced to comprehend the world beyond its boundaries, illuminating its dependence on a series of unacknowledged aesthetic, psychological, and cultural assumptions—as in Aldolph Eichmann’s 1957 trial, hiv-related cases, and the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent efforts to define the role of race in the construction of constitutionally adequate voting districts.

Contributors. Paul Berman, Peter Brooks, Wai Chee Dimock, Anthony Farley, Shoshanna Felman, Carol Greenhouse, Paul Kahn, Naomi Mezey, Tobey Miller, Austin Sarat, Jonathan Simon, Alison Young

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Love's Gift

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Forty-year-old Lily is a widow, discouraged about her life. Living in Minnesota and estranged from her father for 20 years, Lily resigns herself to the fact she will always be alone. Until the day a letter arrives from a London lawyer. The lawyer urges Lily to come to London to discuss her father's wishes. Thinking that her father is most likely dead, but intrigued, Lily boards an overseas flight where she sits next to a good-looking stranger. Lily checks into her hotel and a good-looking stranger appears stating he is her protection-but protection from whom? A familiar-looking cross necklace is around the man's neck and memories of her childhood come rushing back. The man is Charlie, a grade-school friend who kept Lily's cross, all these years. The two embark on a wondrous and dangerous journey, falling in love and traveling across Europe. Lily discovers her father was involved in government secrets and others are willing to kill for those secrets. As Lily finds out more about her father's past, she may have to sacrifice love once again to discover just who she is. Love's Gift is a thrilling love story that sweeps the reader into an intricate plotline with memorable characters that exude warmth and heartfelt spirit. Cuddle up on the couch with this lovely, juicy novel-you won't stop reading until its surprising ending. Joyce Dorsey Ostlund is a writer and artist and authored travel journals for over 20 years. She lives in Minnesota.

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Sunset Beach: A Spirited Love Story

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For Laura Babson, a seven-week vacation on Sunset Beach, North Carolinas southernmost beach, seemed a relaxing way to escape the routines of life as a doctors wife in a small town. For sports columnist Neal Nickelsen, an eight-week sabbatical on the pristine barrier island promised great things for his golf game. But after seeing each other for the first time in more than twenty years, they soon discover this summer would be about something entirely different.

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Best of the Web 2010

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“The book is heartily significant, featuring work that is sometimes surprising, sometimes frustrating and sometimes exhilaratingnot unlike the Web itself.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review

“There is good work here. Perhaps that’s all that needs to be said.”—Fiction Writers Review

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Listening To Ghosts

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Listening To Ghosts is an accounting of the author's experience growing up in a Northeastern working class neighborhood and subsequent career as an enlisted man in the United States Navy before the Navy became an instrument for social engineering experimentation. Written in the first person the author takes the reader through his adventures - and misadventures - in frank, candid and politically incorrect language.

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