Investigative journalist, Laurie Forbes takes on the highly dangerous world of human trafficking and forced prostitution in the East End of London, while her own personal life faces challenges almost
Swapping houses for an eight-week summer idyll is an equally attractive proposition to two couples, British and American, eager to experience living on the "other side of the pond." For Christy and Ga
A poignant tale of thwarted love, 'The Intimate Strangers' explores many of Fitzgerald's favourite themes, such as the constraints of social pressure on romance and the American fascination for Old Eu
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When Louis Antoine de Bougainville reached Tahiti in 1768, he was struck by the way in which 'All these people came crying out tayo, which means friend, and gave a thousand signs of friendship; they all asked nails and ear-rings of us.' Reading the archive of early contact in Oceania against European traditions of thinking about intimacy and exchange, Vanessa Smith illuminates the traditions and desires that led Bougainville and other European voyagers to believe that the first word they heard in the Pacific was the word for friend. Her book encompasses forty years of encounters from the arrival of the Dolphin in Tahiti in June 1767, through Cook's and Bligh's voyages, to early missionary and beachcomber settlement in the Marquesas. It unpacks both the political and emotional significances of ideas of friendship for late eighteenth-century European, and particularly British, explorations of Oceania.
Explains the psychological and developmental factors in the difference between women and men and their effects on adult relationships, discussing intimacy, sexuality, dependency, work, parenting, and
In explaining the power of celebrity in modern life, Richard Schickel ranges through every realm of our culture—film, theatre, television, literature, art, the media, pop music, politics—for examples
The books of Margaret Laurence and Gabrielle Roy are among the most beloved in Canadian literature. In 1976, when both were at the height of their careers, they began a seven-year written corresponden
An irreverent compilation of celebrity and pop cultural profiles, originally written for Esquire, Rolling Stone, and other publications features a provocative look at Frank Sinatra, Tom Hanks, Jerry S
Hannah Arendt, Herbert Marcuse, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Edward Said each steered major intellectual and political schools of thought shaping American political discourse after World War II. Yet no
If September 11, 2001, changed everything for America, then Intimate Relations with Strangers explores the long-term consequences of that change. Set in a future where the threat of terrorism has see
