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Salsa and Its Transnational Moves presents a brilliant critical analysis of salsa dancing in a major North American city. Drawing from a vast number of disciplines, author Sheenagh Pietrobruno focuses on the tension between the status of dance as a bodily expression of identity and its function as a cultural commodity within the economic life of modern day cities. This engaging work investigates the transnational movements of salsa by exploring the circulation of salsa within the Montreal dance scene, nourished by the continuous flow of a people, and examining the commodification of the Latino culture. Pietrobruno's analysis is singular in highlighting how the migration of a people and a dance represent displacements that are not always homologous. At the core of this work, Pietrobruno offers an extensive and intricate ethnography of the institutions and individuals involved in shaping the Montreal salsa scene that will appeal to academics and general audiences alike, who are interested in the study of anthropology, popular music, dance, gender, ethnicity, and culture.
Salsa and Its Transnational Moves presents a brilliant critical analysis of salsa dancing in a major North American city. Drawing from a vast number of disciplines, author Sheenagh Pietrobruno focuses on the tension between the status of dance as a bodily expression of identity and its function as a cultural commodity within the economic life of modern day cities. This engaging work investigates the transnational movements of salsa by exploring the circulation of salsa within the Montreal dance scene, nourished by the continuous flow of a people, and examining the commodification of the Latino culture. Pietrobruno's analysis is singular in highlighting how the migration of a people and a dance represent displacements that are not always homologous. At the core of this work, Pietrobruno offers an extensive and intricate ethnography of the institutions and individuals involved in shaping the Montreal salsa scene that will appeal to academics and general audiences alike, who are interested in the study of anthropology, popular music, dance, gender, ethnicity, and culture.
The Work of Play: Child Psychotherapy in Contemporary Korea is an ethnography that investigates a child play therapy program as it leaves the United States and takes root in South Korea. At the heart of this book is a group of female therapists figuring out how to make a living in an emerging sector while improving the lives of the children they treat. They grapple with questions about maintaining program fidelity while translating and transforming the program to be socially and culturally relevant. Based on years of research, The Work of Play traces how therapeutic expertise is cultivated by combining instinct with formal training. Readers will follow a group of therapists as they form professional roots in the pediatric mental health landscape of contemporary Seoul and see what life is like at the intersection of stigma and demand.
But even as the company bearing his name pled guilty, Cohen himself was never charged, and is free to start trading publicly again from January 2018. Black Edge offers a revelatory look at the grey zone in which so much of Wall Street functions, and a window into the transformation of the worldwide economy.
Are pregnant women entitled to the same rights of self-determination and bodily integrity as other adults? This is the fundamental question underlying recent high-profile legal interventions in situations when pregnant women and healthcare staff do not agree on management options or appropriate behaviour. Courts on both sides of the Atlantic have sometimes answered that they are not, and the law has at times been manipulated to enforce compliance with medical recommendations. This is the first book of its kind to offer a comprehensive assessment of healthcare law as applied to the unique situation of pregnancy. Drawing on case material from both the UK and the USA, it describes the trend towards 'policing pregnancy' and explores the emergence of the concept of 'maternal-foetal conflict' - and why, in the author's view, this would be more appropriately labelled 'obstetric conflict'. Suggestions are made for alternative approaches that better safeguard the overall well-being of pregnant women and their future children.
A midwife's heartwarming and inspirational true storyCatching Babies is a moving account of an extraordinary career. It reveals the unique experiences that filled midwife Sheena Byrom's days as she looked after mums and dads and helped to bring their precious babies into the world. From her very first day as a nervous student nurse in Blackburn to the dedicated completion of her midwifery qualifications in Burnley, Sheena has never once looked back, enjoying a thirty-five-year career with the NHS. At the forefront of evolving medical practices, she was the first midwife to oversee a home water birth in her area, but also found herself at the centre of a traumatic delivery that tested her to her limits. Yet, whatever has come Sheena's way, ultimately, there are the strong mothers who taught her so much and the little miracles who have made every single moment as a midwife truly magical.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The story of the billionaire trader Steven A. Cohen, the rise and fall of his hedge fund, SAC Capital, and the largest insider trading investigation in history--for readers of The Big Short, Den of Thieves, and Dark Money and fans of Showtime's Billions. Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence and FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2017 The rise over the last two decades of a powerful new class of billionaire financiers marks a singular shift in the American economic and political landscape. Their vast reserves of concentrated wealth have allowed a small group of big winners to write their own rules of capitalism and public policy. How did we get here? Through meticulous reporting and powerful storytelling, New Yorker staff writer Sheelah Kolhatkar shows how Steve Cohen became one of the richest and most influential figures in finance--and what happened when the Justice Department put him in its crosshairs. Cohen and his fellow pioneers of the hedge fund industry didn't lay railroads, build factories, or invent new technologies. Rather, they made their billions through speculation, by placing bets in the market that turned out to be right more often than wrong--and for this they have gained not only extreme personal wealth but formidable influence throughout society. Hedge funds now manage nearly $3 trillion in assets, and competition between them is so fierce that traders will do whatever they can to get an edge. Cohen was one of the industry's greatest success stories. He mastered poker in high school, went off to Wharton, and in 1992 launched SAC Capital, which he built into a $15 billion empire, almost entirely on the basis of his wizardlike stock trading. He cultivated an air of mystery, reclusiveness, and extreme excess, building a 35,000 square foot mansion in Greenwich, Connecticut, and amassing one of the largest private art collections in the world. On Wall Street, Cohen was revered as a genius. That image was shattered when SAC became the target of a sprawling, seven-year government investigation. Labeled by prosecutors as a "magnet for market cheaters" whose culture encouraged the relentless hunt for "edge"--and even "black edge," or inside information--SAC was ultimately indicted in connection with a vast insider trading scheme, even as Cohen himself was never charged. Black Edge offers a revelatory look at the gray zone in which so much of Wall Street functions, and a window into the transformation of the U.S. economy. It's a riveting, true-life legal thriller that takes readers inside the government's pursuit of Cohen and his employees, and raises urgent questions about the power and wealth of those who sit at the pinnacle of modern Wall Street. Praise for Black Edge "A modern version of Moby-Dick, with wiretaps rather than harpoons."--Jennifer Senior, The New York Times "If you liked James B. Stewart's Den of Thieves, Sheelah Kolhatkar's thrilling Black Edge should be next on your reading list."--The Wall Street Journal "A richly reported, entertaining tale about the cat-and-mouse game between the government and Cohen."--Andrew Ross Sorkin, The New York Times Book Review
First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
A falling tortoise is a bizarre way to meet one's end, but it is typical of Sheenagh Pugh's wry humour that it finds a place in her poetry. The more humorous aspects of mortality and human frailty receive the same alert consideration as sombre subjects such as dictatorship, torture, the Dieppe raid and pollution. Whether describing the significance of the maximum break in snooker or exploring the mind of a Nazi, Sheenagh Pugh's individual voice resonates throughout her finely crafted poetry."Sheenagh Pugh's work's accessibility is a feature of the clarity and inevitability with which she can pursue intuitions into territories of luminous significance." Poetry Review"Sheenagh Pugh is a remarkable, sometimes brilliant poet. Her great gifts are accessibility, wit, subtle rhyme schemes and the power to illuminate half-forgotten corners of history" Merryn Williams "... among the top two or three poets of her generation writing English poetry in Wales" Poetry WalesSheenagh Pugh is known to thousands of poetry readers for 'Sometimes', her much anthologised 'poem on the underground' and for her Selected Poems, a set text in schools. She currently lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Glamorgan, and has won numerous prizes for her work, including the Babel Prize for translation and the ACW Book of the Year in 2000.
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Drive Nacho Drive: A Journey from the American Dream to the End of the World
Sheena Van Orden; Brad Van Orden
Nacho Press
2013
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927 Days of Summer: Around the World in a VW Van
Sheena Van Orden; Brad Van Orden
Nacho Press
2015
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In Philly 80's babies were often raised in single parent homes, young girls attracted to fast money and the "glamorous" life. Sex was everywhere, and the older guys took full advantage. Interactions were inappropriate sometimes vulgar yet became the norm. Forced to make grown-up decisions you had to learn quick who had the power and how important it is was to maintain the control .... Filled with explicit and unapologetic truth Penetration takes you on an erotic and emotional ride through the life of a self-aware millennial woman. Often plagued with the question why me? She effortlessly takes the reader through the most profound relationships that have impacted her life and served as a backdrop for every decision she's made thus far. Penetration will leave you speechless and make you think twice about sexuality, influence and power.
Inevitable Deceptions: A Heart's Journey to Nowhere
Sheena Perry
Sheena Perry Publishing
2017
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What happens when one family is plagued with physical, sexual and emotional abuse generation after generation? In this first installment, you will laugh, cry and grow angry as you become acquainted with the Monroe women. Will the cycle of abuse ever be broken?Autumn is an attractive sixteen-year-old girl who has always looked after her drug addicted mother, as well as her younger sister Wintress. Wise beyond her years, Autumn never loses focus of what is truly important...her family. While she should be focusing on parties, dating and hanging out with friends, Autumn is unable to enjoy the simplicities of her teenage years. Instead, she spends her time playing mother to Autumn, searching endlessly in crack houses for her dope fiend mother and escaping into her world of writing poetry. Her entire world came crashing down one day as she and her sister witnessed the brutal murder of their mother. The death of her mother led to a chain of unfortunate events that tested her will, faith, sanity and even her will to live at times. Come join Autumn on her journey to ensure that she and Autumn are never separated as they enter the injustices of the foster system. Celeste Monroe, better known as Cee Cee has endured insurmountable mental and physical abuse at the hands of both her mother and father. While most mothers would give their life to protect their child, Cee Cee's mother used her to shield the attacks that were once directed towards her. She eventually became a participant. From the outside looking in, Cee Cee appeared to have it all. She was raised in a middle class two parent home. Both of her parents were successful and money was never an issue. Cee Cee appeared to be an All-American girl. However, underneath the phony smiles and straight A's, Cee Cee was no stranger to hunger pains, broken bones and humiliation. She had big dreams to one day move as far away from her sadistic parents as possible. The only escape from her torment was her beloved best friend Alicia and eventually a handsome boy named Eli. Cee Cee, however will soon learn that all that glitters, isn't gold. Alicia, Cee Cee's best friend is spoiled rotten by her loving mother. There is nothing that Alicia asks for that she doesn't get. Soon after discovering that she is pregnant by her boyfriend Mike, Alicia realizes that she has been sleeping with a complete stranger. Mike has been living a double life...one of which Alicia wants no parts of. Unfortunately for Alicia, Mike isn't ready to let go. Mike would rather see Alicia dead and buried before he allows another man get close to her or his unborn child. Being raised by a single father wasn't always easy for Gladys. It is difficult not to blame yourself for your mother dying while giving birth to you. She was the apple of her father's eye until he allowed himself to be swept up into the treacherous world of heroin. The most helpless feeling in the world is having to sit back and watch the ones you love die slowly. It's enough to make one wish they could alter the future or at least control a person's free will. Read as these courageous women battle life's many obstacles. Will they conquer their cycles of abuse, despair and hopelessness or will they continue on their journey to nowhere?