![]() In Australia in 2015, a Liberal Democrat politician, David Leyonhjelm, was criticized by police officials in the New South Wales area of the country for his apparent support of soccer fans using the acronym.Ī January 2018 Vice article described the acronym as being “sprayed on walls and etched into public toilet cubicles from Camden to Cairo. The book studied the world of extremist soccer fans in Europe, known as Ultras. The 1312 of the title refers to the alphabet code for ACAB, an ubiquitous acronym which stands for all cops are bastards. 1312: Among the Ultras - with James Montague The Athletic Football 182K subscribers Subscribe 264 Share 9.3K views 2 years ago ultras footballfans activism Visit. The hardest edge of football’s soft power a daring insider’s guide to the violent but complex world of ultra fans). sort by Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. 1312 by James Montague review inside the world of footballs ultras. The Guardian reported in 2015 that fans of the Italian soccer team Livorno named their group “Visitors 1312.” 1312 was also the title of a 2020 nonfiction book by James Montague. 1,652 ratings 148 reviews shelved 4,727 times Showing 20 distinct works. The bag also showed the words, “All Cats Are Beautiful.” ![]() ![]() ![]() In Spain in 2016, a Spanish woman named Belen Lobeto was fined for carrying a bag displaying the acronym ACAB, reports El Pais. ![]() La me acaba de denunciar enfrente de mi casa (cerca del Calderón) por llevar este bolso. ![]()
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![]() ![]() McNeil and McCain (Tilt) provide a vivid look at the volatile and needy personalities who created punk, if they do not offer perceptive musical or cultural analysis. Constructed as an oral history, the book weaves together personal accounts by the crucial players in the scene, many of whom seem to have been so drugged out most of the time that their reliability is questionable. Details of Iggy Pop's drug abuse and seedy sex with groupies receive more attention than important bands such as Television and Blondie, which had comparatively puritan lifestyles. Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Richard Hell, the Ramones, and scores of other punk figures. But the book's take on punk rock as ""doing anything that's gonna offend a grown-up"" overemphasizes the self-destructive side of the movement. A contemporary classic, Please Kill Me is the definitive oral history of the most nihilistic of all pop movements. McNeil, one of the founding writers of the original 'zine, Punk, in 1975, is certainly qualified to tell this tale. Starting out with the electroshock therapy Lou Reed received as a teenager, working through such watersheds as the untimely deaths by overdose or mishap of Sid Vicious, Johnny Thunders and Nico, as well as the complicated sexual escapades of the likes of Dee Dee Ramone, the portrayal here of the birth of an alternative culture is intermittently entertaining and often depressing. Gillian McCain is a published poet and a former editor of the Poetry Project Newsletter. Legs McNeil is responsible for naming the movement punk and is the author of Yuppie like Me. ![]() As its sensationalist title suggests, this stresses the sex, drugs, morbidity and celebrity culture of punk at the expense of the music. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk de McNeil, Legs McCain, Gillian en - ISBN 10: 0349108803 - ISBN 13: 9780349108803 - Abacus. ![]() ![]() ![]() Six poems from the work were suppressed and the ban on their publication was not lifted in France until 1949. As a consequence of this prosecution, Baudelaire was fined 300 francs. The author and the publisher were prosecuted under the regime of the Second Empire as an outrage aux bonnes moeurs ("an insult to public decency"). La Mort (Death)Baudelaire dedicated the book to the poet Théophile Gautier, describing him as a parfait magicien des lettres françaises ("a perfect magician of French letters").The foreword to the volume, Au Lecteur ("To the Reader"), identifying Satan with the pseudonymous alchemist Hermes Trismegistus. ![]() The poems deal with themes relating to decadence and eroticism.This Bilingual English - French edition provides the original text by Baudelaire and its English translation by Cyril Scott.The initial publication of the book was arranged in six thematically segregated sections: 1. First published in 1857, it was important in the symbolist and modernist movements. ![]() ![]() Les Fleurs du mal (English: The Flowers of Evil) is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Realising that writing must inevitably be part-time, he joined the civil service until his retirement in 1971. ![]() Having graduated in philosophy from Cairo University in 1934 he then began an MA in philosophy, which he abandoned when he decided to make a career of writing. He received a traditional education at a kuttab (Koranic school), then at primary and secondary schools, where he read many of the great works of classical Arabic literature and mastered the Arabic language with its complicated grammar and syntax. Mahfouz's life was ordered and singularly devoid of variety or dramatic happenings - if one is to exclude the 1994 assassination attempt by a young extremist from which the writer miraculously escaped with his life. Its features became part of his consciousness and are brought to life in some of his early realistic novels and, more particularly, in The Cairo Trilogy on which, both in the Arab world and in the west, his fame in great part rests. Born in Gamaliya in the old city of Cairo, the son of a minor official, the writer spent his first years in the distinctive medieval atmosphere with its narrow lanes, clustered overhanging buildings and picturesque artisans. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are his ‘Galactic Empire’ novels including classics like ‘The Martian Way’, his non-sci-fi detective stories of ‘The Black Widowers’ and – arguably his rival to the Robot stories in terms of fame and adulation – the Foundation books. And as we have reached the cusp of AI genuinely becoming sentient and talks of legal rights for such robots are now being held seriously by both technology companies and governments, Asimov’s ‘Three Laws of Robotics’ are very likely to be the ground on which ethical AI will be built in decades to come.īut Asimov didn’t just write Robot stories. ![]() So brilliant were his Robot stories that the ‘Rules of Robotics’ have ceased to have any ‘copyright’ value and are more or less considered obligatory to follow for anyone writing fiction involving robots (assuming Terminator-style killer robots are left out of the picture). ![]() The length of reading long outlasted the boyfriend, I have to say (which was not a bad thing).Īsimov is, without doubt, in the very top pantheon of influential sci-fi writers. A discussion with my daughter’s boyfriend a couple of years ago who was a big sci-fi fan (and Asimov in particular) drove me to dig out the books and read again, this time in chronological order of the story-telling. My Foundation books have sat on my shelves since I was young, read long ago, but awaiting a re-read along with many other classics. ![]() ![]() They have two children, Ellen and Charlie. She lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband, Steve. ![]() She is the first researcher to have a filmed lecture on Netflix The Call to Courage special debuted on the streaming service in April 2019. She is the first researcher to have a filmed lecture on Netflix The Call to Courage special debuted on the streaming service in April 2019. Brown hosts the Unlocking Us podcast, and her 2010 TED Talk, ' The power of vulnerability ,' is one of the most viewed talks in the world. She's the author of five #1 New York Times bestsellers: The Gifts of Imperfection, Daring Greatly, Rising Strong, Braving the Wilderness and Dare to Lead, which is the culmination of a seven-year study on courage and leadership.īrown hosts the Unlocking Us podcast, and her 2010 TED Talk, " The power of vulnerability," is one of the most viewed talks in the world. ![]() ![]() Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston, where she holds the Huffington Foundation – Brené Brown Endowed Chair at the Graduate College of Social Work. She is also a visiting professor in management at The University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business.īrown has spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame and empathy. ![]() ![]() A beast filled with rage and methamphetamine and tonight it will break loose. But the drug den they were raiding in the middle of the woods holds a dark secret chained up in the basement. ![]() Get in, kill everyone, and take all the money and drugs. The whole time I was reading it I was PISSED that I hadn't thought of it." -EDWARD LEE, author of HAUNTER OF THE THRESHOLD and HEADER Bigfoot is real and he's addicted to meth! It should have been so easy. "This book gives new meaning to the word OUTRAGEOUS! It's so totally off-the-wall while at the same time so unputdownable that it blew my creative doors off. But the drug den they were raiding in the middle of the woods. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At eighteen months, she was speaking in full sentences. To those who know her it comes as no surprise, in fact, most will tell you she hasn’t shut up since. JL has been talking since she was about seven months old. When a power struggle in Keaton's pack threatens Keaton's life, the two men learn to depend on one another and their relationship to get them through it. Chay must deal with not only his mother's prejudices against gay men but also her hatred of white people. Together the two work to solidify their shaky relationship and battle the prejudices against homosexuals. Keaton wants to make a break for it and pretend he never set eyes on Chay-but Chay is not ready to let him go. Having been in a relationship once before where his partner professed to be "Not gay" left a bad taste in his mouth. He's instantly attracted, but not so thrilled to find out the man is straight. Keaton Reynolds wakes up, in wolf form, and finds himself with a mate. ![]() ![]() ![]() As a heterosexual man, he's not quite sure what to do with a male mate, but more than willing to find out. However, he never imagined his mate would be male. Much to his Native American parent's chagrin, he has always dreamed of a fair-haired, Caucasian mate. Sometimes love just catches you by the tail.Ĭhayton Winston is a veterinarian. ![]() ![]() ![]() Relentlessly paced and brilliantly orchestrated, this cat-and-mouse game of a novel is one of King's most engrossing and topical horror stories. Rose Madder is “an eerie, remarkably mature and moving novel” ( The Washington Post). “Riveting, engrossing.packed with suspense” ( People), Stephen King infuses this novel with an edge-of-your-seat, chilling atmosphere. For Rosie to survive, she must enter her own myth and become a woman she never knew she could be: Rose Madder. He’s very good at finding people, even if he is losing his mind.įixed on revenge, Norman Daniels becomes a force of relentless terror and savageness, a man almost mythic in his monstrosity. ![]() Norman is a cop, with the instincts of a predator. Still, it’s hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder, and with good reason. ![]() Meeting Bill is one and getting an apartment is another. She’ll worry about all the rest later.Īlone in a strange city, she begins to make a new life, and good things finally start to happen. She is determined to lose herself in a place where he won’t find her. Rosie Daniels leaves her husband, Norman, after fourteen years in an abusive marriage. Relentlessly paced and brilliantly orchestrated.fueled by an air of danger immediate and overwhelming” ( Publishers Weekly). The #1 national bestseller about a woman who escapes an abusive marriage is “one of Stephen King’s most engrossing horror novels. ![]() ![]() Whether it is for readers who are experiencing Percy's thrilling adventures with Greek gods and monsters for the first time or for fans who want to devour the saga again, this gift will be prized by young and old.Īmazon Interview: Rick Riordan on Percy Jackson and the Olympians ![]() This beautiful set includes the best-selling The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan's Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, and The Last Olympians. At last the wait is over! All five books in the blockbuster Percy Jackson and the Olympus series, in hardcover, have been collected in a box fit for demigods. ![]() |