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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2025Living with lodgers
Household economy and social relations in working-class Victorian England
by Vicky Holmes
For the Victorian working class, lodging in someone else's home was commonplace. Yet, despite their prevalence, lodgers and their householders have received little scholarly attention. Drawing on hundreds of coroners' inquests reported in the Victorian press, Living with lodgers traverses many domestic dwelling lodgings in England at this time, providing an extraordinary, intimate portrayal of the lives of the inhabitants therein.
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2020Feminist Economy - Why economics needs feminism and vice versa
Why economics needs feminism and vice versa
by Hélène Périvier
Economics as a discipline was conceived by men in the interests of a society run by men. It is also the social science with the fewest women; barely a quarter of economists are women. This book lifts the veil on the apparent neutrality economic concepts and analyses. In so doing, it sheds light on the foundations of a social organization based on the patriarchal model focused on Mr. Breadwinner, while Ms. Housewife has become Ms. Paidappitance.
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Business, Economics & LawOctober 2022Personal Financial Planning
A Comprehensive Guide to Personal Financial Planning in Malaysia
by Joyce Nga
Personal Financial Planning: A Comprehensive Guide to Personal Financial Planning in Malaysia is a comprehensive guide on personal financial planning tailored for the Malaysia context, covering a wide range of relevant topics including consumer credit management, tax planning, bonds and shares, unit trust, real estate, insurance, estate planning, and an overview of Islamic wealth management. Whether you are an undergraduate student, aspiring or experienced financial planner, or just an average Malaysian looking for help to plan your finances, this holistic manual will have all your personal financial planning needs covered. It has also been endorsed by the Malaysian Financial Planning Council. This book is suitable for finance students, practitioners, and the general public. Click here for more information
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FictionMay 2022CHOCOLATE BURNOUT
Chocolate 4 Life
by Emunah La-Paz
Chantel Reed is a successful human resources professional in Seattle who has a hard time with relationships. She has drifted from her friends Astrid and Serenity after the death of their friend Alison; her oldest sister, Daria, the family’s maternal figure, is prickly and controlling; and she finally breaks up with her slacker boyfriend, Cameron, after she finds him cooking dinner for another woman in her apartment. Astrid and Serenity have different ideas about how Chantel should move on after the breakup. Chantel, who has always dated black men, is initially hesitant when Brandon, a white guy, asks her out. She quickly falls for him, and they come close to marriage despite push back from her family and racism from his. But when Brandon and Daria ask an attractive black man to test Chantel’s loyalty, her trust in everyone is shattered. Chantel enters a self-destructive spiral that wreaks havoc on her professional and personal lives in search of the history behind broken relationships past and pressent, within her secrative family. Emunah La-Paz brings this cast of characters to life on the page, with each one somehow more memorable than the last. They bring to light a comment on interracial relationships that is just as enjoyable to read as it is poignant. An intro to the prequel. Featuring Chocolate Recipe and upcoming chocolate website from the characters. Redvelvetseattle.com
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Family & relationshipsFebruary 2015Sticky Girls
Why Women Stay in Bad Relationships
by May Woodworth
Women who cling to toxic relationships. How to recognize the syndrome and tips to overcome it. Includes a Sticky Girl quiz.
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Shadows & Light, The Life of James McBey
by Alasdair Soussi
Creative genius, war artist, adventurer, lover. These are just some of the words that can be used to describe Aberdeenshire-born painter and printmaker James McBey (1883– 1959). This illegitimate son of a blacksmiths’ daughter was the acknowledged heir to Whistler and Rembrandt. But after his death in 1959, his renown as one of Britain’s most accomplished artists faded. At the heart of this biography is his time as a war artist in the Middle East during the Great War, his love affairs, marriage to a beautiful American and his enduring passion for Morocco. This biography reinstates a great 20th century artist whose respectful focus brought the Arab world into the British consciousness.
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Biography & True StoriesJeremiah Hacker
Journalist, Anarchist, Abolitionist
by Rebecca M. Pritchard
"We had much rather be all alone in the right than with the whole world in the wrong.” So wrote Jeremiah Hacker in 1862. He was the main writer and editor of The Pleasure Boat, which may have the distinction of being Portland, Maine’s most controversial newspaper. Inspired by his Quaker background, Hacker worked to end slavery, poverty, and inequality of women through his writing. He spoke out against prisons, advocating instead for reform and education. He broke with all forms of organized religion and urged people to leave their churches and find moral direction from within. He promoted no political party, believing people would be better off without government. He was in favor of land for all. The most controversial of Hacker’s radical ideas, however—and the one that lost him the most readers—was his advocacy for peace as the country headed toward Civil War. Hacker’s life spanned the nineteenth century (1801-1895). His work was widely read and he himself was well-known in his lifetime. But both he and his ideas have largely been forgotten—until now. This book explores the life and writings of Jeremiah Hacker, returning him to his rightful place in history, and showing how his words were an important part of what helped to forge that history.
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Praying to the West
The Story of Muslims in the Americas, in Thirteen Mosques
by Omar Mouallem
Muslims have lived in the New World for over 500 years, before Protestantism even existed, but their contributions were erased by revisionists and ignorance. In this colorful alternative history o f the Americas, we meet the enslaved and indentured Muslims who changed the course of history, the immigrants who advanced the Space Race and automotive revolution, the visionaries who spearheaded civil rights movements, and the 21st-century Americans shifting the political landscape while struggling for acceptance both within and outside their mosques. In search of these forgotten stories, Mouallem traveled 7,000 miles, from the northwest tip of Brazil to the southeast edge of the Arctic, to visit thirteen pivotal mosques. What he discovers is a population as diverse and conflicted as you’d find in any other house of worship, and deeply misunderstood. Parallel to the author’s geographical journey is a personal one. A child of immigrants, Mouallem discovers that, just as the greater legacy of Western Islam was lost on him, so were the stories of prior generations in his family. An atheist since the 9/11 attacks, Mouallem reconsiders Islam and his place within it. Meanwhile, as the rise of hate groups threaten the liberties of Muslims in the West, ideologues from the East try to suppress their liberalism. With pressures to assimilate coming from all sides, will Muslims of the Americas ever be free to worship on their own terms?
