"When I got home, I put my handbag on the floor and I called his name. ‘Anthony’ I called. But the house was so quiet and I did not hear his voice."

The Mexican painter Frida Kahlo is recognised as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, as her reputation soared in the decades following her untimely death in 1954. Today, Kahlo has attracted so much popular interest that the term “Fridamania” has been coined to describe the phenomenon. Her extraordinary work draws upon a diverse range of influences, including Surrealism, ancient Aztec belief, popular Mexican folklore, Christianity, Eastern philosophy and me...

I never imagined that spilling punch at a ball would lead to this: bent over the knee of the most powerful, untouchable man in England.The Duke of Ashwood is everything I should fear. Stern. Commanding. Impossibly older and devastatingly handsome. When he mistakes me for just another careless girl, I'm determined to prove him wrong. But when my young charges misbehave under my care, he doesn't just threaten consequences. He delivers them.His hand. His rules. His unrelenting...

When “revolution” becomes a recurring theme in mainstream culture, where do we look for the tools for a critical engagement with the present? Addressing the link between allegory and cultural critique in contemporary culture and resisting the thematic abstraction of sexy, fast, revolutionary content, this book suggests that one way is to pay attention not so much to content as to form.Culture Control Critique provides an analysis of how representations of political systems in conte...

On the eve of their wedding, Tania vanishes without a trace—leaving her fiancé Fabian humiliated and enraged. In a twisted act of vengeance, he claims her younger sister Diana as his bride instead, binding the innocent girl to a marriage forged in bitterness.Diana finds herself trapped in a gilded cage with a man whose icy demeanor hides a calculating mind. As she navigates this cruel new reality, shocking truths about her sister's betrayal begin to surface. The terms of her impris...

A delightfully illustrated collection of puns for grownups to giggle and groan over. . . .Artist Frida Clements playfully combines colorfully detailed flora and fauna drawings with funny (and occasionally risqué) hand-lettered wordplay in this collection of beautifully illustrated puns. Honey, bee yourself! Gopher it. Don't be koi. Like puns? That's coo, says the pigeon. Hate puns? Birch, please. Bringing a giggle (and sometimes a groan) with each inspired page, thi...

Why does it seem like our everyday life is shadowed by something menacing? This book identifies and illuminates paranoia as a significant feature of contemporary American society and culture. Centering on what it identifies as three key dimensions – power, truth, and identity – in three different contexts – society, literature, and critique – the book explores and explains the increasing influence of paranoid thinking in American society during the second half of the twentieth century and ...

This book offers a vision of politics that govern the womb; from antiquity (‘be fertile and replenish the earth’), through the ages (hysterectomy, to extirpate women’s ‘hysteria’), up to the present time (abortion wars; assisted reproduction), and into the future (reprogenetics; the artificial womb). It explores how the womb has served humanity, either tacitly or explicitly, through the ages and examines how women have accepted and still perceive the rules created by men as natural - inclu...

Frida Kahlo's legacy continues to grow in the public imagination in the nearly fifty years since her "discovery" in the 1970s. This collection of conversations over the course of her brief career allows a peek at the woman behind the hype. And allows us to see the image of herself she carefully crafted for the public.Frida Kahlo is now an icon. In the decades since her death, Kahlo has been celebrated as a proto-feminist, a misunderstood genius, and a leftist hero,...

Unlock the full potential of your Ninja Air Fryer with this comprehensive and inspiring cookbook! Whether you're new to air frying or looking to expand your culinary repertoire, this book offers over 100 mouthwatering recipes designed to help you create delicious, healthy meals with ease. From crispy appetizers and hearty main courses to vegetarian options and guilt-free desserts – every recipe is tailored to the unique features of the Ninja Air Fryer. With easy-to-follow instructions, nut...

My book is a collection of my poems, poems based on love. What I imagine love to be and what I have learned it to be. The kind of love I had hoped for, the love I found, and that which was lost. The way love can bring such happiness, contentment, and thankfulness. The love I feel for my family and friends. Poems filled with feelings because they are based on the feeling or the moment that I was going through.

In the shadowed corners of Manhattan's elite and a secluded Hudson Valley estate, photographer Elena Reyes accepts a private commission from the enigmatic heiress Vivienne Laurent. What begins as a professional shoot spirals into an intoxicating, all-consuming affair of power, surrender, and exquisite destruction.Vivienne is elegance weaponized—old money, sharp cheekbones, and a predatory grace that dismantles lovers with surgical precision. Elena is hungry, reckless, already achin...