Categories: SOCIETY,SOCIAL SCIEN

Gothic Life The Essential Guide to Macabre Style

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<p>The New York Times–dubbed “Martha Stewart for Macabre Homemakers,”</p><p>Aurelio Voltaire, presents the definitive guide to revamping your sanctuary to</p><p>match your eerie vibe.</p><p>Are you ready to embrace your dark side? In Gothic Life, Aurelio Voltaire shows you</p><p>how to do just that, using the expertise honed as founder and host of the show Gothic</p><p>Homemaking and years of stop-motion animation work to take you on a journey to</p><p>goth-hood. From DIY design projects to helpful haunted hosting tips and tricks, with</p><p>this step-by-step reference, you’ll transform your domain to capture your spooky</p><p>essence with lessons on:</p><p>1. The history and mindset of goths, including gothic icons from Vincent Price to</p><p>Tim Burton to Wednesday Addams</p><p>2.&nbsp; Enchanting home décor, making use of spooky color palettes (beyond black!) and</p><p>&nbsp;all the bats and gargoyles your gothic heart could want</p><p>3. A gothic dinner party menu featuring the likes of squid ink linguini and charcoal</p><p>ice cream</p><p>4. Holiday and party prep to celebrate Halloween and beyond</p><p>Whether you are looking for new ways to express your inner goth year-round or</p><p>seeking brilliantly haunting ideas for your next Halloween bash, Gothic Life reveals the</p><p>secrets to unleashing your inner goth and transforming the mundane to the macabre.</p>

Freaky Folklore Terrifying Tales of the World's Most Elusive Monsters and Enigmatic Cryptids

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<p>Discover the history and culture of over 50 of the most fearsome mythical</p><p>creatures to capture the human imagination in this startlingly illustrated</p><p>compendium.</p><p>Accompanied by illustrations of each beast, Freaky Folklore is your guide to the world’s</p><p>most terrifying beings, from ancient times to today. Hosts from Eeriecast, the leading</p><p>horror podcast network, present the most frightening—and entertaining—tales of these</p><p>mysterious creatures, revealing everything you need to know.</p><p>This beautifully creepy collection is filled with wicked monsters, including:</p><p>1. Chupacabra: A legendary monster that is said to drain the blood of livestock</p><p>throughout Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the US Southwest.</p><p>2. Jersey Devil: Said to have been created due to a mother's curse upon her</p><p>newborn in the Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey, USA.</p><p>3. Kelpie: A shape-shifting water horse told of in Celtic folklore. Whatever form it</p><p>takes, it is said to lure its victims to their watery graves.</p><p>4. Moehau: A cryptid from Māori mythology, it stands up to 8 feet tall and can be</p><p>very aggressive when encountered.</p><p>5. Kuchisake-onna: From Japanese folklore, Kuchisake-onna is a yokai with deep</p><p>gashes that forms a haunting smile across her face. Should you happen to meet</p><p>her, she will ask you a question--and you had better answer it correctly.</p><p>Dogman: A werewolf or werewolf-type creature first reported in 1887 in Wexford</p><p>6. County, Michigan, Dogman sightings have been reported in several locations</p><p>throughout Michigan, primarily in the northwestern quadrant of the Lower</p><p>Peninsula.</p><p>Freaky Folklore has the stories, culture, and illustrations for you to be on the lookout</p><p>for these beasts. Dive into the world of mythology and find what makes each creature</p><p>unique.</p>

Punishing Putin Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia

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<p>The essential, must-read insider account of the West’s cat and mouse economic warfare</p><p>against Russia and how it is changing the face of global trade. Magisterial and gripping’</p><p>Catherine Belton</p><p>‘A brilliant, engagingly written and timely book’ Owen Matthews</p><p>Undeterred by eight years of timid US sanctions, Vladimir Putin ordered his full-scale assault on</p><p>Ukraine on 24 February 2022. In the hours that followed, Western leaders weaponized economic</p><p>tools in a world-changing financial experiment. The goal was to sap the strength of Putin’s war</p><p>machine by damaging its economy, without risking a global recession in the process.</p><p>In Punishing Putin, veteran journalist Stephanie Baker uncovers how this furious financial war has</p><p>unfolded, from seizing superyachts to manipulating the global price of oil to blocking the sale of</p><p>military technology. Baker reveals how the West mobilized an army of white-collar-crime investigators</p><p>to crack down on illicit Russian money, targeting oligarchs and their enablers for sanctions evasion.</p><p>Filled with propulsive, fly-on-the-wall details, Punishing Putin takes us into the frantic backroom</p><p>deliberations that led to a whole new era of economic statecraft and radically rearranged global</p><p>alliances, influencing world order for generations to come.</p><div><br></div>

For Such a Time as This On Being Jewish Today

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<p>A poignant exploration of what it means to be Jewish today, from a leading voice in modern Judaism, Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove of Park Avenue Synagogue</p><p>For Jews today, the attack on Israel on October 7th has drawn a clear and irreversible demarcation in time. On that day, the Jewish community woke up to an unrecognizable new reality, witnessing the stark rise in antisemitism, the world’s oldest hatred, in its wake.&nbsp;</p><p>But even in this dark hour, the Jewish community is experiencing something profound and beautiful: a deep, abiding connection to community, culture, and faith. Drawing on the rich trove of Jewish history and tradition, Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, one of today’s most influential thought leaders and spiritual guides, helps readers make sense of this fraught time. With warmth and wisdom, Rabbi Cosgrove explores the challenging questions embedded in the soul of contemporary Jewry. Where did all this antisemitism come from, and was it always there? How have Israel and Zionism shaped American Judaism, and what ties us and divides us today? How do we practice Judaism and understand our place in a world that has, without fail, in every century, turned against us?</p><p>Knitting together storytelling with ancient teachings, Rabbi Cosgrove helps navigate and understand the landscape of this new reality, turning over questions that have no clear or easy answer in the way only a very good rabbi can.</p><p>For thousands of years, the Jewish people have wrestled with what it means to be Jewish. In this often divisive era, Rabbi Cosgrove reminds of how we can come together despite—and even because of—our differences. For Such a Time as This is a guide for a new generation that is reconciling the past with the present and facing the unknown future with courage, spirit, and unwavering hope.</p>

Die Hot with a Vengeance Essays on Vanity

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<p>*ONE OF BUSTLE'S MOST ANTICIPATED SUMMER READS*</p><p>Journalist and former Allure editor Sable Yong debuts with a sharp-toothed and hilarious essay collection about beauty and vanity, examining their stigmatization in the cultural zeitgeist, and how to shift the focus to use both for powerful tools for self-exploration, interpersonal connection, and cultural change.</p><p>The beauty industry has a single mandate: be hot.</p><p>In the same week that you might be encouraged to try curtain bangs, contouring, bleached eyebrows, laser facials, buccal fat removal, fillers, and “non-invasive” facelifts, you’re simultaneously absorbing mantras about self-care, body positivity, empowerment, and loving yourself just as you are.</p><p>Overwhelmed yet?&nbsp;</p><p>Fear not. Die Hot with a Vengeance delves into the machinations of this multi-billion-dollar industry, offering readers an expert analysis of its inner workings with the precision of a scalpel and the humor of a stand-up comedian. Along the way, Yong sets off to answer some of the biggest questions of our time:&nbsp;</p><p>How do you break through the noise of beauty and wellness culture’s endless optimization protocols?</p><p>How can you find actual authenticity in a world of performative artifice?</p><p>Can the antidote to aging be found in a jar, tube, or at the end of a syringe?</p><p>Do blondes really have more fun?</p><p>Using Yong’s many years of experience as a beauty editor to unlock the industry’s myriad secrets, Die Hot with a Vengeance gives beauty and vanity a neutralizing make-over. At its best, beauty is so much more than an aesthetic; it’s an inspirational mindset. It’s a playfulness inherent to the practice of self-expression.</p><p>And yet it’s difficult to engage playfully when it feels like beauty is an ever-moving target. We’re all subject to societal expectations surrounding beauty and vanity, enough so that breaking through the capitalist pressures can feel impossible. Yong argues that while the mandate may be for us to be hot, the beauty industry thrives on us absorbing its teachings so it can keep us in a constant feedback loop of appearance-based anxiety, forever perpetuating unattainable standards. Flipping that imperative, Yong’s debut collection poses the most important question of all: How do you discover your value of beauty so you can free yourself from the loud and bullshitty noise of all these entities telling you that you’re not good enough?</p><p>Digging deep into our most pervasive and questionable beauty trends and conventions, Die Hot with a Vengeance offers an incisive yet wry dissection of one of our most enduring cultural addictions. Irreverent, side-splittingly funny, and astute, the book is as amusing as it is insightful, an instant classic for beauty-readers and aspirant hotties alike.&nbsp;</p>

Deep Water The World in the Ocean

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<p>"Deep Water is a major achievement....Bradley's skills both as novelist and essayist converge here to create this wise, compassionate and urgent book, characterized throughout by a clarity of prose and a bracing moral gaze that searches water, self and reader." —ROBERT MACFARLANE, bestselling author of Underland</p><p>In this thrilling work—a blend of history, science, nature writing, and environmentalism—acclaimed writer James Bradley plunges into the unknown to explore the deepest recesses of the natural world.</p><p>Seventy-one percent of the earth’s surface is ocean. These waters created, shaped, and continue to sustain not just human life, but all life on Planet Earth, and perhaps beyond it. They serve as the stage for our cultural history—driving human development from evolution through exploration, colonialism, and the modern era of global leisure and trade. They are also the harbingers of the future—much of life on Earth cannot survive if sea levels are too low or too high, temperatures too cold or too warm. Our oceans are vast spaces of immense wonder and beauty, and our relationship to them is innate and awe inspired.</p><p>Deep Water is both a lyrically written personal meditation and an intriguing wide-ranging reported epic that reckons with our complex connection to the seas. It is a story shaped by tidal movements and deep currents, lit by the insights of philosophers, scientists, artists and other great minds. Bradley takes readers from the atomic creation of the oceans, to the wonders within, such as fish migrations guided by electromagnetic sensing. He describes the impacts of human population shifts by boat and speaks directly and uncompromisingly to the environmental catastrophe that is already impacting our lives. It is also a celebration of the ocean’s glories and the extraordinary efforts of the scientists and researchers who are unlocking its secrets. These myriad strands are woven together into a tapestry of life that captures not only our relationship with the planet, but our past, and perhaps most importantly, what lies ahead for us.</p><p>A brilliant blend of Robert MacFarlane’s Underland, Susan Casey’s The Underworld, and Simon Winchester’s Pacific and The Atlantic, Deep Water taps into the essence of our planet and who we are.</p>

The Fall of Roe

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<p>Women today are more equal than at any other time in American history. The #MeToo movement has transformed American workplaces. Christian power is weakening as the US grows increasingly secular. Democrats currently control Washington. And yet in this moment of grow ing equality and diminishing religiosity,&nbsp; women have lost one of the cornerstone achievements of liberal politics: the right to access an abortion.</p><p>It's easy to characterise abortion politics as a familiar, decades-long battle-evangelicals against feminists, Republican states versus Democratic states, grassroots fighting elites. That kind of political thinking misunderstands the current moment. Abortion is, of course, about a right to terminate a pregnancy. But it's also the stage w here the United States w orks through some of its most fundamental cultural and moral debates.</p><p>In THE FALL OF ROE, tw o top New York Times journalists, Elizabeth Dias and Lisa Lerer, have w ritten the definitive book on the end of Roe, revealing how the strategic battle over the most contentious topic in politics helps us understand the battle for control over America. THE FALL OF ROE looks at the playbook for how the religious right came to dominate American politics, a strategy that has vaulted anti- abortion activists into central roles in the conservative movement. And unless Democrats shift their strategy, it is those activists who will be the power brokers who determine the future of America. Furthermore, given that these debates and strategies have influence here and throughout the world, THE FALL OF ROE will be essential not only for understanding America but also informing our own future.</p><div><br></div>

AUTOCRATS Charisma, Power, and Their Lives

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<p>Seldom before in the history of the world has rage been so global in scale. Authoritarian leaders are largely to blame for this dangerous pass—their brutal surgery on masses without administering anaesthesia.</p><p>Sadly, we do not know enough about them and their chillingly effective ways. Autocrats: Charisma, Power, and Their Lives fills that gap with real-life situations of how an authoritarian’s cult takes hold, grows, and sustains itself. It describes grippingly their personality, their psychological make-up, and their private lives.&nbsp;</p><p>The book sketches, step by step, the roadmap to tyranny from the earliest times to now, and poses questions that people are afraid to ask:</p><p>Are autocrats born bad? Are their brains wired differently from ours?</p><p>What makes strongmen the evil they become?</p><p>Do they leave their country in a better or a worse shape?</p><p>It is also a deep dive into all that is dishonourable in society; the unreal times when people are their walking images: weak, afraid, cowardly, and fearful.&nbsp;</p><p>This compelling account uncovers the inner demons of strongmen, their anxieties, and their phobias. Intensely researched, Rajiv Dogra’s prose is elegant and sophisticated, making this book a magnificent cathedral of words.</p><p>Autocrats: Charisma, Power, and Their Lives is going to haunt us for a long time.</p>

OUR STORIES, OUR STRUGGLE: VIOLENCE AND THE LIVES OF WOMEN NARRATIVES AND POETRY BY SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN

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<p>This bold and compelling anthology amplifies the voices of women across South Asia, challenging entrenched patriarchy and advocating for justice across borders. From heart-wrenching accounts of gender-based violence to tales of courage and defiance, the real-life stories, analytical essays, and inspiring poetry in this collection illuminate both the harsh realities and the resilience of women in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. Women suffer from a range of violence, including rape, acid attacks, mass rapes during communal violence, dowry deaths, caste-based oppression, killings in the name of ‘honour’, and much worse. Our Stories, Our Struggle is not just a collection of narratives about violations but a call to action, inviting readers to join the chorus of voices demanding change.</p><p>At its core, this volume confronts societal norms that have suppressed women’s freedoms and safety. Its narratives, written by women, have been inspired by pivotal events like the ‘Nirbhaya’ case, and the numerous brutalities ignored, if not perpetrated, by regional governments. They grapple with cultural shifts, complex emotions, and the impact of trauma on survivors of violence and their families, prompting readers to envision a future where equity and fairness prevail.</p>

WIDOWS A GLOBAL HISTORY

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<p>Widows have always far outnumbered widowers (who quickly remarry, usually younger women). War, hunting and the uncertainties of long travel ensured that most husbands died before their wives did. Mineke Schipper’s cultural history of widows examines how these husband-less women have, throughout history and mythology, been portrayed as helpless damsels, easy pickings for men outside the family or clan, or as cunning witches who are suspected of murder. In every case, the motive has been to exclude them and control them. Schipper traverses the world, travelling across time, to collect and analyse stories about widows and their treatment—the loss of status they face after their husband’s death; the harsh rituals of mourning they are forced to perform; the often brutal controls on attire, mobility and sexuality that they must submit to. It is a global legacy of cruelty and shame—as also, occasionally, of resilience and defiance—that has rarely been studied as deeply and thoroughly as in this extraordinary work. Widows draws upon sources from Ancient Egypt and Greece, medieval India and modern-day Europe, Africa and the Americas—examining folk and real-life stories of communities in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Ghana, China, France, and several other countries and regions, as also stories and images from comics and fashion magazines.</p><p>Impressively researched and entertainingly narrated, this book—its information made distinctive by Schipper’s sharp insight and her humour—is an important document that helps us understand our past and, through it, our present.</p><div><br></div>