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Books RSS FeedsWilliam Grant Still (Smith) - William Grant Still: A Study in Contradictions, by Catherine Parsons Smith (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)...Feed Source: ark.cdlib.org The Erotic Whitman (Pollak) - The Erotic Whitman (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000), by Vivian R. Pollak (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... Tupai (Emmons) - Tupai: A Field Study of Bornean Treeshrews (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000), by Louise Emmons (frame-dependent illustrated HTML with commentary at UC Press)... Revenge of the Aesthetic (Clark) - Revenge of the Aesthetic: The Place of Literature in Theory Today (Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000), ed. by Michael Clark (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... Letters and Autobiographical Writings (Mills) - Letters and Autobiographical Writings (Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000), by C. Wright Mills, ed. by Kathryn Mills and Pamela Mills (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... Re-Drawing Boundaries (Entwisle) - Re-Drawing Boundaries: Work, Households, and Gender in China (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000), ed. by Barbara Entwisle and Gail Henderson (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... Space in the Tropics (Redfield) - Space in the Tropics: From Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000), by Peter Redfield (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... Politics of Desire (Janan) - Politics of Desire: Propertius IV (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001), by Micaela Wakil Janan (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... An Introduction to R (Venables) - An Introduction to R: Notes on R, A Programming Environment for Data Analysis and Graphics (electronic edition, 2008), by W. N. Venables, D. M. Smith, and R Development Core Team (stable link)... The Mentor (Clarke) - The Mentor (from 1991 onward, with Watt's Out review supplement), ed. by Ron Clarke (partial serial archives)... Selected works and commentary (Laycock) - Selected works and commentary, by Samuel Laycock (HTML in the UK)... Warblin's fro' an Owd Songster (Laycock) - Warblin's fro' an Owd Songster (Oldham: W. E. Clegg, 1894), by Samuel Laycock (illustrated HTML in the UK)... Selected works and commentary (Linton) - Selected works and commentary, by W. J. Linton (illustrated HTML in the UK)... The English Republic (Linton) - The English Republic, by W. J. Linton, ed. by Kineton Parkes (illustrated HTML in the UK)... James Watson (Linton) - James Watson: A Memoire of the Days of the Fight for a Free Press in England and of the Agitation for the People's Charter, by W. J. Linton (illustrated HTML in the UK)... Memories (Linton) - Memories (London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1895), by W. J. Linton (illustrated HTML in the UK)... Claribel and Other Poems (Linton) - Claribel and Other Poems (London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 1865), by W. J. Linton (illustrated HTML in the UK)... The Flower and the Star, and Other Stories for Children (Linton) - The Flower and the Star, and Other Stories for Children (London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1891), by W. J. Linton (illustrated HTML in the UK)... The Experiences of an Asylum Patient (Grant-Smith) - The Experiences of an Asylum Patient (London: Allen and Unwin, c1922), by Rachel Grant-Smith, ed. by Montagu Lomax (page images at tmc.edu)... Keeping Your Teens Drug-Free (United States. Office of National Drug Control Policy) - Keeping Your Teens Drug-Free: A Family Guide (2005), by United States Office of National Drug Control Policy and National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign (U.S.) (PDF with commentary at samhsa.gov)... Khrushchev in New York (Khrushchev) - Khrushchev in New York: A Documentary Record of Nikita S. Khrushchev's Trip to New York, September 19th to October 13th, 1960 (New York: Crosscurrents Press, 1960), by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev (PDF at archive.org)... The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry (Rinehart) - The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1911), by Mary Roberts Rinehart, illust. by Howard Chandler Christy (multiple formats at archive.org)... Life and Struggles of William Lovett, in His Pursuit of Bread, Knowledge, and Freedom (Lovett) - Life and Struggles of William Lovett, in His Pursuit of Bread, Knowledge, and Freedom (2 volumes in different editions; 1920), by William Lovett, contrib. by R. H. Tawney (stable link)... Chartism (Lovett) - Chartism: A New Organization of the People, Embracing a Plan for the Education and Improvement of the People, Politically and Socially (London: J. Watson et al., 1840), by William Lovett and John Collins (illustrated HTML in the UK)... The Poetical Works of James Macfarlan (Macfarlan) - The Poetical Works of James Macfarlan (Glasgow: R. Forrester, 1882), by James Macfarlan (HTML in the UK)... Luminous Debris (Sobin) - Luminous Debris: Reflecting on Vestige in Provence and Languedoc (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), by Gustaf Sobin (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage (Bowditch) - Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001), by Phebe Lowell Bowditch (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... Weimar (Jacobson) - Weimar: A Jurisprudence of Crisis (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000), ed. by Arthur J. Jacobson and Bernhard Schlink (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... Promoting Human Wellness (Jamner) - Promoting Human Wellness: New Frontiers for Research, Practice, and Policy (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000), ed. by Margaret Schneider Jamner and Daniel Stokols (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... By Popular Demand (Gastil) - By Popular Demand: Revitalizing Representative Democracy Through Deliberative Elections (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000), by John Gastil (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... The Promise of the City (Tajbakhsh) - The Promise of the City: Space, Identity, and Politics in Contemporary Social Thought (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001), by Kian Tajbakhsh (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... Becoming Chinese (Yeh) - Becoming Chinese: Passages to Modernity and Beyond (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000), ed. by Wen-Hsin Yeh (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... Regulatory Encounters (Kagan) - Regulatory Encounters: Multinational Corporations and American Adversarial Legalism (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000), ed. by Robert A. Kagan and Lee Axelrad (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... Modern Socialism, As Set Forth by Socialists in Their Speeches, Writings and Programmes (Ensor) - Modern Socialism, As Set Forth by Socialists in Their Speeches, Writings and Programmes (third edition; London and New York: Harper and Bros., 1910), ed. by R. C. K. Ensor (multiple formats at archive.org)... Portraits and Principles of the World's Great Men and Women, With Practical Lessons on Successful Life by Over Fifty Leading Thinkers (King) - Portraits and Principles of the World's Great Men and Women, With Practical Lessons on Successful Life by Over Fifty Leading Thinkers (Springfield, MA: King-Richardson Pub. Co., 1897), ed. by William C. King, contrib. by C. H. Parkhurst (multiple formats at archive.org)... The American Veterans and Servicemembers Survival Guide (Veterans for America) - The American Veterans and Servicemembers Survival Guide (2008), by Veterans for America (PDF with commentary at veteransforamerica.org)... The Americans (Boorstin) - The Americans: The Colonial Experience, by Daniel J. Boorstin (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Wowio)... The Americans (Boorstin) - The Americans: The Democratic Experience, by Daniel J. Boorstin (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Wowio)... The Americans (Boorstin) - The Americans: The National Experience, by Daniel J. Boorstin (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Wowio)... Speaking the Unspeakable (Jonte-Pace) - Speaking the Unspeakable: Religion, Misogyny, and the Uncanny Mother in Freud's Cultural Texts (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001), by Diane E. Jonte-Pace (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... The Country of Memory (Tai) - The Country of Memory: Remaking the Past in Late Socialist Vietnam (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), ed. by Hue-Tam Ho Tai (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... Henry David Thoreau and the Moral Agency of Knowing (Tauber) - Henry David Thoreau and the Moral Agency of Knowing (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001), by Alfred I. Tauber (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China (Harrell) - Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001), ed. by Stevan Harrell (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... Cloudy Jewel (Hill) - Cloudy Jewel (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1920), by Grace Livingston Hill, illust. by Henry Weston Taylor (stable link)... The Tryst (Hill) - The Tryst (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1921), by Grace Livingston Hill, illust. by Ralph P. Coleman (stable link)... A Chautauqua Idyl (Hill) - A Chautauqua Idyl (Boston: D. Lothrop Co., c1887), by Grace Livingston Hill (stable link)... Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; With His Vision of the Angelic World (Defoe) - Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; With His Vision of the Angelic World (London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1899), by Daniel Defoe, ed. by George Atherton Aitken, illust. by J. B. Yeats (page images at Google)... The Search (Hill) - The Search (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1919), by Grace Livingston Hill (Gutenberg text)... The Vatican Library (Tisserant) - The Vatican Library: Two Papers (Jersey City: Snead and Co., 1929), by Eugène Tisserant and Theodore Wesley Koch (PDF with rotated pages at archive.org)... The London Art of Cookery and Domestic Housekeepers' Complete Assistant (Farley) - The London Art of Cookery and Domestic Housekeepers' Complete Assistant (12th edition; London: Printed for Scatcherd and Letterman, 1811), by John Farley (multiple formats at archive.org)... Hunger in America 2006 (Cohen) - Hunger in America 2006: National Report Prepared for America's Second Harvest (2006), by Rhoda Cohen, Myoung Kim, and James C. Ohls (PDF with commentary at hungerinamerica.org)... Hunger in America 2001 (Kim) - Hunger in America 2001: National Report Prepared for America's Second Harvest (2001), by Myoung Kim, James C. Ohls, and Rhoda Cohen (PDF at mathematica-mpr.com)... The Bible, the Qur'an, and Science (Bucaille) - The Bible, the Qur'an, and Science: The Holy Scriptures Examined in the Light of Modern Knowledge, by Maurice Bucaille, trans. by Alastair D. Pannell (HTML at witness-pioneer.org)... The Life of Muhammad (Haykal) - The Life of Muhammad, by Muhammad Husayn Haykal (HTML at witness-pioneer.org)... The Status of Women in Islam (Qaradawi) - The Status of Women in Islam (ca.1998), by Yusuf Qaradawi, trans. by Muhammad Mustafa Geme'ah (HTML at witness-pioneer.org)... Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum (The Sealed Nectar) (Mubarakfuri) - Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum (The Sealed Nectar): Memoirs of the Noble Prophet, by Safi al-Rahman Mubarakfuri (HTML at witness-pioneer.org)... Immigration and the Political Economy of Home (Buff) - Immigration and the Political Economy of Home: West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945-1992 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001), by Rachel Buff (frame-dependent illustrated HTML with commentary at UC Press)... Crimes Against Nature (Jacoby) - Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001), by Karl Jacoby (frame-dependent illustrated HTML with commentary at UC Press)... Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia (Gregor) - Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: An Exploration of the Comparative Method (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001), ed. by Thomas Gregor and Donald F. Tuzon (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)... Pots and Pans of Classical Athens (Sparkes) - Pots and Pans of Classical Athens (6th printing; Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1977), by Brian A. Sparkes and Lucy Talcott, illust. by Alison Frantz (page images at Google)... The Stoa of Attalos II in Athens (Thompson) - The Stoa of Attalos II in Athens (Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1992), by Homer A. Thompson, illust. by Alison Frantz (page images at Google)... The Athenian Citizen (Lang) - The Athenian Citizen: Democracy in the Athenian Agora (second edition; Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2004), by Mabel L. Lang and John McK. Camp, illust. by Alison Frantz and Craig A. Mauzy (page images at Google)... Miniature Sculpture from the Athenian Agora (Thompson) - Miniature Sculpture from the Athenian Agora (4th printing; Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1974, c1959), by Dorothy Burr Thompson, illust. by Alison Frantz (page images at Google)... The Improvement of the Mind; To Which is Added, A Discourse on the Education of Children and Youth (Watts) - The Improvement of the Mind; To Which is Added, A Discourse on the Education of Children and Youth (London: Printed for J. Walker and Co., 1814), by Isaac Watts (page images at Google)... After Death, or Letters from Julia (Stead) - After Death, or Letters from Julia: A Personal Narrative (fourth edition; Chicago: Progressive Thinker Pub. House, 1910), by W. T. Stead (stable link)... Selected works (Cohen) - Selected works, by Colin Cohen (HTML at cc600.com and blogspot.com)... The Making of the Million (Ackworth) - The Making of the Million: Tales of the Twentieth Century Fund, by John Ackworth (HTML with commentary in the UK)... The Battle-Day, and Other Poems (Jones) - The Battle-Day, and Other Poems (London and New York: G. Routledge and Co., 1855), by Ernest Charles Jones (HTML in the UK)... On Democracy (Blackie) - On Democracy: A Lecture Delivered to the Working Men's Institute, Edinburgh (1867), by John Stuart Blackie (HTML with commentary in the UK)... Democracy Vindicated (Jones) - Democracy Vindicated: A Lecture Delivered to the Edinburgh Working Men's Institute (1867), by Ernest Charles Jones (HTML in the UK)... Oration by Ernest Jones, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, on the American Rebellion (Jones) - Oration by Ernest Jones, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, on the American Rebellion (1864), by Ernest Charles Jones (illustrated HTML in the UK)... The Slaveholder's War (Jones) - The Slaveholder's War: A Lecture (1863), by Ernest Charles Jones (illustrated HTML in the UK)... Selected works and commentary (Jones) - Selected works and commentary, by Ernest Charles Jones (illustrated HTML in the UK)... Communism (Cronin) - Communism: Threat to Freedom (New York: Paulist Press, c1962), by John F. Cronin (PDF with rotated pages at archive.org)... The Cuban Scene (Ripoll) - The Cuban Scene: Censors and Dissenters (Washington, DC: Cuban American National Foundation, 1982), by Carlos Ripoll (PDF with rotated pages at archive.org)... Moral Tales, in Prose and Verse, Selected and Revised From the Best Authors (Tabart) - Moral Tales, in Prose and Verse, Selected and Revised From the Best Authors (London: Printed at the Minerva Press for A. K. Newman and Co., 1814), ed. by Benjamin Tabart (multiple formats at archive.org)... My Bird and My Dog - My Bird and My Dog: A Tale for Youth (London: Printed at the Minerva Press for A. K. Newman and Co., 1816) (multiple formats at archive.org)... Jane Goes Out w' the Scouts (Drucker) - Jane Goes Out w' the Scouts (1980), by Johanna Drucker (Flash page images with commentary at artistsbooksonline.org)... Just As (Drucker) - Just As (1983), by Johanna Drucker (Flash page images with commentary at artistsbooksonline.org)... Kidz (Drucker) - Kidz (1979), by Johanna Drucker (Flash page images with commentary at artistsbooksonline.org)... Self and Community in the City (Krase) - Self and Community in the City (c1982), by Jerome Krase (HTML at brooklynsoc.org)... Select Works of Sri Sankaracharya (Sankaracarya) - Select Works of Sri Sankaracharya (English translations only; 1921), by Sankaracarya, trans. by S. Venkataramanan (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)... The Wisdom of the Talmud (Bokser) - The Wisdom of the Talmud (New York: Philosophical Library, c1951), by Ben Zion Bokser (HTML at sacred-texts.com)... Genji Monogatari (Murasaki Shikibu) - Genji Monogatari (From "Japanese Literature"; New York: Colonial Press, 1900), by Lady Shikibu Murasaki, trans. by Suematsu Kencho (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)... Burr (Vidal) - Burr, by Gore Vidal (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Wowio)... Empire (Vidal) - Empire, by Gore Vidal (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Wowio)... Hollywood (Vidal) - Hollywood, by Gore Vidal (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Wowio)... Lincoln (Vidal) - Lincoln, by Gore Vidal (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Wowio)... In Seven Stages (Bisland) - In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World (New York: Harper and Bros., 1891), by Elizabeth Bisland (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)... Biography of a Spaniel (Showes) - Biography of a Spaniel: To Which is Annexed The Idiot (London: Printed at the Minerva Press for Lane and Newman, 1803), by Mrs. Showes, illust. by William Hopwood and James Hopwood (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Bishop's Candlesticks (McKinnel) - The Bishop's Candlesticks: A Play in One Act (London and New York: S. French, c1908), by Norman McKinnel, contrib. by Victor Hugo (multiple formats at archive.org)... Selected works and commentary (Eagle) - Selected works and commentary, by Chester Eagle (PDF files with commentary at Trojan Press)... Victoria Challis (Eagle) - Victoria Challis: A Novel, by Chester Eagle (PDF with commentary at Trojan Press)... Didgeridoo (Eagle) - Didgeridoo: Some Histories, by Chester Eagle (PDF with commentary at Trojan Press)... Waking into Dream (Eagle) - Waking into Dream, by Chester Eagle (PDF with commentary at Trojan Press)... The Garden Gate (Eagle) - The Garden Gate, by Chester Eagle (PDF with commentary at Trojan Press)... Hail and Farewell! An Evocation of Gippsland (Eagle) - Hail and Farewell! An Evocation of Gippsland, by Chester Eagle (PDF with commentary at Trojan Press)... Janus (Eagle) - Janus: Travel Pieces, by Chester Eagle (PDF with commentary at Trojan Press)... Melba (Eagle) - Melba: An Australian City, by Chester Eagle (PDF with commentary at Trojan Press)... Wainwright's Mountain (Eagle) - Wainwright's Mountain, by Chester Eagle (PDF with commentary at Trojan Press)... House of Music (Eagle) - House of Music: A Suite of Stories, by Chester Eagle (PDF with commentary at Trojan Press)... Who Could Love the Nightingale? (Eagle) - Who Could Love the Nightingale?, by Chester Eagle (PDF with commentary at Trojan Press)... Oztralia (Eagle) - Oztralia, by Chester Eagle (PDF with commentary at Trojan Press)... Mapping the Paddocks (Eagle) - Mapping the Paddocks, by Chester Eagle (PDF with commentary at Trojan Press)... Play Together, Dark Blue Twenty (Eagle) - Play Together, Dark Blue Twenty, by Chester Eagle (PDF with commentary at Trojan Press)... The Wainwright Operas (Eagle) - The Wainwright Operas, by Chester Eagle (PDF files with commentary at Trojan Press)... At the Window (Eagle) - At the Window, by Chester Eagle (PDF with commentary at Trojan Press)... Love in the Age of Wings and Other Operas (Eagle) - Love in the Age of Wings and Other Operas, by Chester Eagle (PDF with commentary at Trojan Press)... Four Faces, Wobbly Mirror (Eagle) - Four Faces, Wobbly Mirror, by Chester Eagle (PDF with commentary at Trojan Press)... If Gaza falls . . . · Sara Roy - Israel's siege of Gaza began on 5 November, the day after an Israeli attack inside the strip, no doubt designed finally to undermine the truce between Israel and Hamas established last June. Although both sides had violated the agreement before, this incursion was on a different scale. Hamas responded by firing rockets into Israel and the violence has not abated since then. Israel's siege has two fundamental goals. One is to ensure that the Palestinians there are seen merely as a humanitarian problem, beggars who have no political identity and therefore can have no political claims. The second is to foist Gaza onto Egypt.... Someone to Disturb · Hilary Mantel: A Memoir - In those days, the doorbell didn't ring often, and if it did I would draw back into the body of the house. Only at a persistent ring would I creep over the carpets, as if there were someone to disturb, and make my way to the front door with its spyhole. We were big on bolts and shutters, deadlocks and mortises, safety chains and windows that were high and barred. Through the spyhole I saw a distraught man in a crumpled, silver-grey suit: thirties, Asian. He had dropped back from the door, and was looking about him, at the closed and locked door opposite, and up the dusty marble stairs. He patted his pockets, took out a balled-up handkerchief, and rubbed it across his face. He looked so fraught that his sweat could have been tears. I opened the door.... Caretaker/Pallbearer · James Wolcott: Updike should stay at home - Where Norman Mailer set out to bend the future with his telepathic powers and the Beats sought to hot-wire the American psyche (at the risk of frying their own circuits), Updike wrote as if he were doing fine draftsmanship under a cone of light, honouring creation and the American plenty. He was the ideal son of a platonic union between John Cheever and J.D. Salinger, with Nabokov attending the christening as fairy godfather. Apparent lack of inner struggle and purring efficiency made it possible to take him for granted. 'No one has ever sat around worrying about Updike, the way one apparently worried about Wolfe and Fitzgerald and Hemingway, as if they were all soloing the Atlantic with each book, to see whether he's lost his touch or his nerve or his fastball,' Wilfrid Sheed wrote in Essays in Disguise. 'We know damn well he'll have his touch this time and next: we just want to see whether we like what he's done with it.'... Is it Art? · John Lanchester on video games - There is no other medium that produces so pure a cultural segregation as video games, so clean-cut a division between the audience and the non-audience. Books, films, TV, dance, theatre, music, painting, photography, sculpture, all have publics which either are or aren't interested in them, but at least know that these forms exist, that things happen in them in which people who are interested in them are interested. They are all part of our current cultural discourse. Video games aren't. Their invisibility is interesting in itself, and also allows interesting things to happen in games under the cultural radar.... Among the Graves · Thomas Laqueur: Naming the Dead - Stonewall Jackson, the deeply neurotic but irresistibly romantic, swashbuckling Confederate commander, thought that the great and swift destruction of life and property seen in the American Civil War was the essence of war generally. But this war was not swift. It was long and gruelling: 425 men, on average, died every day for 1458 days. And like the First World War, the Civil War got bloodier and more destructive as it ground inconclusively on. Five of its six costliest battles, with casualties in the tens of thousands on each side, took place after April 1863, roughly the war's midpoint. It ended, as the Second World War ended, in an epic struggle for the enemy's capital. A century and a half later one can still see the miles of ramparts at Petersburg and Richmond; the crater blasted by Union miners in an attempt to breach Confederate defences is still there. Casualties of this final battle were more than 60,000.... Diary · Tariq Ali: Murder in the Family - If cheating in bed was always settled by the bullet, many of us would be dead. Gerald Martin's new biography of Gabriel García Márquez reveals that Chronicle of a Death Foretold was based on the murder of the novelist's friend Cayetano Gentile in Sucre in 1951. He had seduced, deflowered and abandoned Margarita Chica Salas. On her wedding day Margarita's husband was told that she was no longer a virgin. The bride was sent back to her family home. Her brothers then found Gentile and chopped his body into pieces. Márquez blamed the socio-moral dictatorship of the Catholic Church.... Lady Talky · Alison Light on Lydia Lopokova - Why does she want the red shoes? She wants to be special and she wants to be looked at. In Hans Christian Andersen's famous tale, Karen, a peasant girl, goes barefoot in summer and in winter wears wooden clogs that rub her feet raw, but the mirror tells her she's lovely and she thinks that wearing the red shoes will make her feel like a princess. Like selfish Heidi and tomboy Katy, Karen is a mid-19th century girl crippled by egotism. The shoes force her to dance non-stop and to display herself 'wherever proud and vain children live'. Though it seems simply a punitive response to female narcissism, this is a Christian morality tale intended to warn against the sin of self-love. Karen is cast out of her community and her church; she has her feet hacked off, and the story ends with her repentance. What we remember, though, is not the final image of her blissful reunion with God but the red shoes, with the little feet still in them, going on dancing. Shoes were a homely and powerful symbo... America Concedes · Patrick Cockburn - On 27 November the Iraqi parliament voted by a large majority in favour of a security agreement with the US under which its 150,000 troops will withdraw from Iraqi cities, towns and villages by 30 June next year and from all of Iraq by 31 December 2011. The Iraqi government will take over military responsibility for the Green Zone in Baghdad, the heart of American power in Iraq, in a few weeks' time. Private security companies will lose legal immunity. US military operations will only be carried out with Iraqi consent. No US military bases will remain after the last American troops leave in 2011 and in the interim the US military is banned from carrying out attacks on other countries from within Iraq.... 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