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This book examines trauma in late twentieth- and twenty-first century American popular culture. Trauma has become a central paradigm for reading contemporary American culture. Since the early 1980s, an extensive range of genres increasingly feature traumatised protagonists and traumatic events. From traumatised superheroes in Hollywood blockbusters to apocalyptic-themed television series, trauma narratives abound. Although trauma is predominantly associated with high culture, this project shows how popular culture has become the most productive and innovative area of trauma representation in America. Examining film, television, animation, video games and cult texts, this book develops a series of original paradigms through which to understand trauma in popular culture. These include: popular trauma texts’ engagement with postmodern perspectives, formal techniques termed ‘competitive narration’, ‘polynarration’ and ‘sceptical scriptotherapy’, and perpetrator trauma in metafictional games.

Poems of Grief, Loss, and The Search for Healing…Now That You Are Gone from This World Readers who love poetry collections will want to immerse in the delicate variety of poems contained in this new compilation “Now That You Are Gone from This World”. With engaging and heartwarming poetry that will keep you turning pages, this collection brings an emotionally intense, and yet fascinating sense of healing, through the loving and fond memories inside these pages. Here’s a short list of the poems you’ll find: See You. The Weeping Willow. July 7 The Amber Line The Silent Hills of Memory And more! Take the journey alongside an eclectic group of poets as they help you acknowledge, understand, and accept the grieving process at the very high spiritual and emotional level that only poetry can achieve. Find the support and hope you need for your soul during those painful moments by the hand of the poetic words of people who understand.

Sean Gailmard is the Judith E. Gruber Associate Professor in the Travers Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. John W. Patty is associate professor of political science at Washington University.

‘A case study in human frailty, jealousy and desire … fascinating.’ The Times, Best Books of 2019 ‘Superbly evocative and gripping.’ The Spectator ‘Sean O’Connor can’t resist striking a theatrical note in this “biography of murder”.’ Sunday Times Adultery, alcoholism, drugs and murder on the suburban streets of Bournemouth. The Rattenbury case of 1935 was one of the great tabloid sensations of the interwar period. The glamorous femme fatale at the heart of the story dominated the front pages for months, somewhere between the rise of Hitler and the launch of the Queen Mary. With painstaking research and access to brand new evidence, Sean O’Connor vividly brings this epic story to life, from its beginnings in the South London slums of the 1880s and the open vistas of the British Columbian coast, to its bloody climax in a respectable English seaside resort. The Fatal Passion of Alma Rattenbury is a gripping murder story and a heartbreaking romance as well as the biography of a vital, modern woman trapped between the freedoms of two world wars and suffocated by the conformity of peacetime. A startlingly prescient parable for our times, it is the story of a woman who dared to challenge the status quo only to be crucified by public opinion, pilloried by the press and punished by the relentless machinery of the British legal system. With a wealth of fascinating period detail, from its breathtaking opening to its shocking conclusion, The Fatal Passion of Alma Rattenbury is a true story as enthralling, as provocative and as moving as any work of fiction.

Bienvenue dans le dojo, le dojo de la vie COBRA ; je suis ton sensei. Il est temps de réveiller la bête ! Elle peut être en cage, mais elle est là-dedans. À la fin de ce livre, je vais libérer ton COBRA intérieur, cette bête réussie et motivée qui est en toi. Ce que tu en feras, c'est à toi de décider. Tu peux lire tous les livres du monde sur le succès et la motivation, mais sans action, tu perds ton temps. Les exercices dans ces pages t'aideront à déterminer TON SUCCÈS, à identifier ta RAISON D'ÊTRE et à fixer tes OBJECTIFS pour les atteindre. Je suis juste un garçon d'une petite ville avec un rêve rendu possible par la Voie du COBRA. Ma philosophie m'a propulsé au statut d'icône en tant que Bad Boy du karaté Mike Barnes dans Karate Kid III, puis a sauvé ma vie lors d'une expérience de mort imminente. Récemment, mon badass intérieur a écrit ce livre, a créé et joué dans STUDiO CiTY primé aux Emmy Awards sur Amazon Prime et j'ai perdu 35 livres en un an ! Le total de tes décisions t'a amené à ce moment, cette réalité dans ta vie. Les bons moments comme les défis. Tu ne peux récupérer ton pouvoir qu'en assumant tes choix. Les reproches et le statut de victime n'ont pas leur place dans ce dojo. Sache que à travers le temps et inscrit dans la trame même de l'univers, résonne le désir de ton succès. Le succès est encodé dans notre ADN. Ensemble, nous libérerons ton badass intérieur en écrasant les obstacles et en allumant la motivation pour charmer ton COBRA intérieur, qui se cache dans son panier. Je suis prêt pour le défi... et toi ? Commençons !

A deeply reflective punk rock coming-of-age story about friendship, discovery, and what's real.

"Based on a Ubisoft creation Watch dogs."

A Simon Element book. Simon Element has a great book for every reader.

Four strangers wind up on the road together. One of their acquaintances hears the story and would like to tell it in writing, but wonders if he is the right narrator for the job. He seeks help from the people he has turned into characters. Serving as both their confidant and interrogator, he tries to make their journey more readable than it may have been, and more meaningful than they realized.