The Nervous Nineties

The Nervous Nineties
Author: Puneet Walia
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2014-11-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9384391700

India is a tough country. Growing up in India is a tough job. Back in the 1990’s, it was even tougher. Armed with a bachelor’s degree in engineering, Pi, at the age 21, embarks on the roller coaster called ‘life’. Seeking love, happiness and a successful career, Pi experiences many firsts. His first kiss, his first pay cheque, a live-in girlfriend and his first million. In a decade, during which the red fort saw six Prime Ministers, and the country saw rapid but haphazard economic growth, he also takes baby steps into the corporate world, learning the ropes all over the country. Myriad happenings around him not just helped him form his world view, but in fact chiseled and sometimes even destroyed his career, happiness and love life. The Mandal commission, The Kashmir exodus, The Mumbai riots, the Gulf War, the south east Asian meltdown and an Indo-Pak war impact his life in unforeseen ways. He also adapts to the invasion of technology through Satellite TV, the internet and the mobile phones. Steering his love life and career through ups and downs, faced with the burden of expectations of a dominant middle-class father, the journey he took during this decade was tumultuous, torturous yet exhilarating. The learnings which came from that road could not have come any other way.

Why the Nineties Matter

Why the Nineties Matter
Author: Terry H. Anderson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2024
Genre: History
ISBN: 0197763014

Why the Nineties Matter offers an incisive yet broad-ranging history of America in that decade. Terry Anderson focuses on key trends that either began or gained steam then and which have had lasting effects until this day: the spread of right-wing extremism, transformations in class voting preferences and party realignment, the expansion of neoliberal economic policy, the emergence of social media, and US foreign policy choices in the Middle East.

Growing Up Communist and Jewish in Bondi Volume 3

Growing Up Communist and Jewish in Bondi Volume 3
Author: John Docker
Publisher: Kerr Publishing
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2020-10-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 187570339X

John Docker grew up in Bondi, the son of Communist parents, his mother Jewish from the East End of London and his father of Irish descent. His Bondi is not the site of sunny mindlessness but rather a place of intense immigrant and political life. This book traces his often comic experiences at Bondi Wellington Primary School and Randwick Boys High School. At the University of Sydney from 1963, he became a teenage Leavisite and participated in the anarchistic New Left. With Ann Curthoys he travelled on the Hippie Trail through Asia to London, which became for both the scene of what Gorky referred to as the University of Life.

The Naughty Nineties

The Naughty Nineties
Author: David Friend
Publisher: Twelve
Total Pages: 1074
Release: 2017-09-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1455567558

A sexual history of the 1990s when the Baby Boomers took over Washington, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue. A definitive look at the captains of the culture wars -- and an indispensable road map for understanding how we got to the Trump Teens. The Naughty Nineties: The Triumph of the American Libido examines the scandal-strafed decade when our public and private lives began to blur due to the rise of the web, reality television, and the wholesale tabloidization of pop culture. In this comprehensive and often hilarious time capsule, David Friend combines detailed reporting with first-person accounts from many of the decade's singular personalities, from Anita Hill to Monica Lewinsky, Lorena Bobbitt to Heidi Fleiss, Alan Cumming to Joan Rivers, Jesse Jackson to key members of the Clinton, Dole, and Bush teams. The Naughty Nineties also uncovers unsung sexual pioneers, from the enterprising sisters who dreamed up the Brazilian bikini wax to the scientists who, quite by accident, discovered Viagra.

The Shorter Wisden 2019

The Shorter Wisden 2019
Author: Lawrence Booth
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2019-04-11
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1472963873

The Shorter Wisden is a compelling distillation of what's best in its bigger brother – and the 2019 edition of Wisden is crammed, as ever, with the best writing in the game. Wisden's digital version includes the influential Notes by the Editor, full coverage of the Pakistan and India tours of England in 2018, and all the front-of-book articles, among which Wisden celebrates the end of Alastair Cook's career, and looks back 100 years to cricket's first post-war season. In an age of snap judgments, Wisden's authority and integrity are more important than ever. Yet again this year's edition is truly a “must-have” for every cricket fan. In essence, The Shorter Wisden is a glass of the finest champagne rather than the whole bottle. @WisdenAlmanack

The Club

The Club
Author: James Barrett
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2022-11-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1803133899

The book is set in rural Suffolk in a small, failing Rotary Club. It is funny, quirky and perceptive and touches on money, class, petty rivalries, societal changes and a moral dilemma over a conflict of interest and other dubious dealings.

Fears and Fantasies

Fears and Fantasies
Author: Kate Murphy
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781433109508

Fears and Fantasies: Modernity, Gender, and the Rural-Urban Divide explores the ways in which fantasies about returning to, or revitalising, rural life helped to define Western modernity in the early twentieth century. Scholarship addressing responses to modernity has focused on urban space and fears about the effects of city life; few studies have considered the 'rural' to be as critical as the 'urban' in understanding modernity. This book argues that the rural is just as significant a reference point as the urban in discourses about modernity. Using a rich Australian case study to illuminate broader international themes, it focuses on the role of gender in ideas about the rural-urban divide, showing how the country was held up against the 'unnatural' city as a space in which men were more 'masculine' and women more 'feminine'. Fears and Fantasies is an innovative and important contribution to scholarship in the fields of history and gender studies.

Ludwig Leichhardt's Ghosts

Ludwig Leichhardt's Ghosts
Author: Andrew Wright Hurley
Publisher: Studies in German Literature L
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 1640140131

A fascinating cultural studies account of the "afterlife" of Leichhardt, revealing both German entanglement in British colonialism in Australia, and in a broader sense, what happens when we maintain an open stance to the ghosts of the past.