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  Clever Girl - Jurassic Park

  Hannah McGregor

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  A smart and incisive exploration of everyone’s favorite dinosaur movie and the female dinosaurs who embody what it means to be angry, monstrous, and free
  		 
  The Jurassic Park series is one of the most famous and profitable cinematic experiences of all time, with an entire generation of people who have never known life without these CGI dinosaurs. But while the movie spectacle broke film and merchandising records, pioneered special effects, and made Jeff Goldblum into an unlikely sex symbol, it has also been re-envisioned as a classic of queer feminist storytelling.
  		 
  In Clever Girl, Hannah McGregor argues that the female-only dinosaurs of Jurassic Park are stand-ins for monstrous women, engineered by men to be intelligent, violent, and adaptive, and whose chaos resists the systems designed to control them. As they run wild through their prison, a profit-driven theme park, they destroy the men and structures who mistakenly believed in their own colonialist and capitalist power, showing the audience what it means to be angry, monstrous, and free. The velociraptors were not just jump scares for children, but also revelatory and predatory symbols of feminist rage. Clever girls, indeed.
  		 
  About the Pop Classics Series
  		 
  Short books that pack a big punch, Pop Classics offer intelligent, fun, and accessible arguments about why a particular pop phenomenon matters.

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  Nature's Embrace of Soothing...

  Molly Mey

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  Discover the profound benefits of nature-inspired wellness in Nature's Embrace of Soothing Frog Soundscapes for Deep Relaxation, Restful Nights & Stress Relief. This book is designed to guide you on a transformative journey toward emotional healing through nature and the serenity you crave in your daily life. 
  Immerse yourself in holistic approaches that promote stress relief techniques for peaceful sleep and nurture your mental clarity. Each chapter offers insights and practices that foster inner calm and invite you to embrace the tranquility of nature. You will learn effective relaxation strategies for self-care that empower you to carve out moments of peace amidst the chaos of everyday life. 
  With practical exercises and inspiring reflections, this book provides tools for creating your own calm environments for restorative practices. You'll discover how to incorporate nature into your wellness routines, ensuring that each day ends with the soothing embrace of tranquility. 
  Nature's Embrace serves as a reminder that achieving balance and harmony is possible when we connect with the natural world. This book invites you to explore serene evening practices and develop mindful living habits that support your emotional well-being. 
  Join the journey to rejuvenation and uncover the potential of tranquil habits for stress reduction. Embrace the healing power of nature and embark on a path toward a more balanced, peaceful life. With Nature's Embrace, you will not just read; you will experience the profound calmness and clarity that comes from aligning with the rhythms of the natural world.

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  Futurism - A Very Short...

  Ara H. Merjian

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  Modern technology radically transformed urban life by the first decade of the twentieth century. As one of Western Europe's least industrialized countries, Italy appeared impervious to such developments. It was this state of affairs at which the Futurist movement took aim. With its founding in 1909, the poet and impresario F. T. Marinetti called for a revitalization of aesthetic expression by means of "movement and aggression." A growing cadre of Futurist painters, poets, authors, and musicians exchanged Italy's cultural patrimony for new technologies, media, and metaphors, championing machine-propelled speed and its salutary hazards.The movement's challenge to twentieth-century culture lay not in any specific set of images or objects, but a more comprehensive revolution of sensibility. By the mid-1910s there circulated several dozen Futurist proclamations on everything from men's clothing to set design, photography to film, dance to politics. That political impetus proved relentlessly paradoxical in origin and upshot. From its base in Milan, Futurist activity spread throughout the entire peninsula. Prefiguring and then propagandizing Fascist imperialism, Futurism also galvanized a range of progressive modernist phenomena. More than a century later, the "activist model" of the Futurist avant-garde remains deeply fraught in its historical implications.

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  Party Lines - Dance Music and...

  Ed Gillett

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  A Guardian Guide Cultural Book of the Year 2023An Irish Times Music Book of the Year 2023'A deep, engrossing history' The Observer'A fascinating deep dive' Jeremy DellerFrom the illicit reggae blues dances and acid-rock free festivals of the 1970s, through the ecstasy-fuelled Second Summer of Love in 1988, to the increasingly corporate dance music culture of the post-Covid era, Party Lines is a groundbreaking new history of UK dance music, exploring its pivotal role in the social, political and economic shifts on which modern Britain has been built.Taking in the Victorian moralism of the Thatcher years, the far-reaching restrictions of the Criminal Justice Act in 1994, and the resurgence of illegal raves during the Covid-19 pandemic, Party Lines charts an ongoing conflict, fought in basement clubs, abandoned warehouses and sunlit fields, between the revolutionary potential of communal sound and the reactionary impulses of the British establishment. Brought to life with stunning clarity and depth, this is social and cultural history at its most immersive, vital and shocking.____'Excellent' The Sunday Times'Reminds us why the dance floor matters . . . fascinating' Telegraph

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  Drawing and Painting Leaves

  Leigh Ann Gale

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  Many artists struggle to stop leaves looking flat in their illustrations or find it challenging to mix shades of green accurately to reflect a true likeness to foliage. This book addresses these problems and many more to help you draw and paint leaves successfully and confidently.
  Written by a leading botanical artist and tutor, it explains key practical techniques and approaches with clear instructions and step-by-step tutorials. It also examines the fascinating world of foliage to reveal the important role that leaves play in the plant kingdom, including modified and adapted forms, so that your artwork accurately reflects the science. Packed with over 300 illustrations, this beautiful book is an essential read for all artists who want to understand the role of leaves and to depict them accurately.

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  Fleetwood Mac's Tusk

  Rob Trucks

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  After Rumours became the best-selling single album of all-time, Fleetwood Mac asked Warner Brothers Records to buy them a studio (the label refused, costing both Warner Brothers and the band significant cash in the long run) and then handed the reins to their guitarist and resident perfectionist Lindsey Buckingham. “You know,” Buckingham said, “we had this ridiculous success with Rumours. We were poised to do another album, and I guess because the axiom ‘If it works, run it into the ground’ was prevalent then, we were probably poised to do Rumours II. I don’t know how you do that, but somehow my light bulb that went off was, ‘Let’s just not do that. Let’s very pointedly not do that.’ ”Here, Rob Trucks talks to Lindsey Buckingham, as well as members of Animal Collective, Camper Van Beethoven, the New Pornographers, Wolf Parade, and the USC Trojan marching band in order to chart both the story and the impact of an album born of personal obsession and a stubborn unwillingness to compromise.

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