Slice Girls

Slice Girls
Author: Joan Arakkal
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2019-02-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1925384608

When Dr Joan Arakkal chooses to specialise in orthopaedics while training in India, a field traditionally occupied by men, she slots into the world of bones with relative ease. But when her career takes her to the UK, and then Australia, she encounters the ‘bonemen’ – a boy’s club whose members are easily identified in the hospital corridors by their loud voices and self-assured swagger, who wield a stranglehold on orthopaedics. Joan is totally unprepared for the obstacles and prejudices she encounters – but the tables are turned when she suffers a health scare of her own, which ultimately gives her the perspective she needs to speak and fight without fear. A provocative reflection on the discrimination and sexism entrenched in the surgical community, and particularly the world of orthopaedics, Slice Girls shines light on a surgical path that is made needlessly challenging for women, and finds that while women are ready for surgery, it forces the question: is surgery ready for women?

thersites 17

thersites 17
Author: Amanda Potter
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2023-11-10
Genre:
ISBN:

thersites is an international open access journal for innovative transdisciplinary classical studies edited by Annemarie Ambühl, Filippo Carlà-Uhink, Christian Rollinger and Christine Walde. thersites expands classical reception studies by publishing original scholarship free of charge and by reflecting on Greco-Roman antiquity as present phenomenon and diachronic culture that is part of today’s transcultural and highly diverse world. Antiquity, in our understanding, does not merely belong to the past, but is always experienced and engaged in the present. thersites contributes to the critical review on methods, theories, approaches and subjects in classical scholarship, which currently seems to be awkwardly divided between traditional perspectives and cultural turns. thersites brings together scholars, writers, essayists, artists and all kinds of agents in the culture industry to get a better understanding of how antiquity constitutes a part of today’s culture and (trans-)forms our present. thersites appears twice yearly and publishes regular issues as well as specially-themed and guest-edited issues focused on individual subjects and questions. Call for papers are released regularly and long in advance on our homepage (https://thersites-journal.de/) and on other pages that feature announcements for classical studies (APA, Mommsen-Gesellschaft etc.).

Do-Over

Do-Over
Author: Christine Hurley Deriso
Publisher: Yearling
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2007-11-13
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0375890912

Imagine having the power to turn back time. Not 100 years—just 10 seconds. Enough to take back those embarrassing missteps and wrong answers. Elsa’s mom died suddenly one year ago, but she appears one night to grant Elsa do-over power. Elsa thinks she dreamt it until she utters the words the next morning and watches her whole world rewind 10 seconds. Elsa needs the do-over power to become cool at her new school. It’s fun taking people’s answers and being a star student one day, and gossip queen the next. Even the ultra-popular Slice Girls want to be her friend now. Elsa can re-do anything until she gets it right. So why doesn’t her new life feel so perfect?

Ra Ta Ee Ka

Ra Ta Ee Ka
Author: Ravi Hanj
Publisher: Ravi Hanj
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2024-04-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

The term "autobiography" has been fancifully interpreted as "Atma Charitre" in Kannada, which loosely means "History of Soul" or "History of Self." Consequently, many Indian autobiographies, or "Histories of Souls," tend to focus more on the self than the soul, and portray history as glory transforming autobiographies into a grandiose celebration of the self. In my personal opinion, it often feels like an exaggerated form of self-indulgence, resembling a glorified expression of self-gratification. This self-centered narrative of glory does not limit itself to mere me and mine but extends to the whole nine damn chakras and then shoots through the enlightened infinity and beyond. Hence, it is rare to come across autobiographies that genuinely explore the harmonious interaction between the individual and society, offering readers the joy of witnessing the writer's selfless engagement and integration with their community rather than with the self. It perplexes me how someone with a profound understanding of the soul can write such egocentric tales in the name of selfless soul philosophy. Indeed, it is challenging for anyone within a society or community to comprehend such self-centered life stories. Therefore, my tale does not revolve around extraordinary souls or unnatural superhumans. It is a familiar story of a curious child who grew up observing the fundamental aspects of society and striving to find their place within the community, much like you, me, or any average individual.

Passing Innocence

Passing Innocence
Author: Francis Dwyer
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2007-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1553696999

Passing Innocence, a mystery within a memoir, vividly portrays the author's orphanage childhood. Evocative, lyrical, and devastating it will add fuel to the contemporary debate -- should society bring back orphanages?

Encyclopedia of Weird Detectives

Encyclopedia of Weird Detectives
Author: Paul Green
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2019-09-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1476638373

The detective genre has explored supernatural and paranormal themes throughout its colorful history. Stories of detectives investigating spiritualists, ghostly apparitions, the occult and psychics have spanned pulp fiction magazines, comic books, novels, film, television, animation and video games. This encyclopedia covers the history of the genre in its multiple forms and informs and adds to the knowledge of either the new or informed reader. Its A-Z format provides ready reference by title. Detective fans browsing for new discoveries will enjoy the entertaining style.

Slice of Cherry

Slice of Cherry
Author: Dia Reeves
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2011-01-04
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1416989684

"Brutally beautiful — not like anything else you'll read this year, or any other." - Cassandra Clare, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Clockwork Angel Kit and Fancy Cordelle are sisters of the best kind: best friends, best confidantes, and best accomplices. The daughters of the infamous Bonesaw Killer, Kit and Fancy are used to feeling like outsiders, and that’s just the way they like it. But in Portero, where the weird and wild run rampant, the Cordelle sisters are hardly the oddest or most dangerous creatures around. It’s no surprise when Kit and Fancy start to give in to their deepest desire—the desire to kill. What starts as a fascination with slicing open and stitching up quickly spirals into a gratifying murder spree. Of course, the sisters aren’t killing just anyone, only the people who truly deserve it. But the girls have learned from the mistakes of their father, and know that a shred of evidence could get them caught. So when Fancy stumbles upon a mysterious and invisible doorway to another world, she opens a door to endless possibilities….