Late Bloomers

Late Bloomers Late Bloomers is a humorous romantic drama that tells the story of two middle aged ordinary women who unexpectedly fall in love. Carly is married with two kids and works as the school secretary; Dinah is the single lonely maths teacher who coaches the girls' basketball team. They both work at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in a straight-laced Texan community.They have known each other for a while but their paths never crossed until Carly hears a rumour that Dinah is having an affair with her husband who also works on the school staff.Carly confronts Dinah after a session of basketball practise to dispel the gossip. One-on-one tuition on the court leads to an impulsive kiss it then dawns on them that they are attracted to each other. As their relationship blossoms the reaction of family friends and the community is anything but charitable.Late Bloomers creates a timely story in which woven the notion of family gay relationship and raises the banner on gay marriage.

Tantu

Tantu In this epic novel, Bhyrappa examines the social, political, moral and psychological fibre of contemporary Indian life, spanning the decades between post-Independence and the declaration of the Emergency under Indira Gandhi. In this epic novel...

Women on the Edge: Twelve Political Film Practices

Women on the Edge: Twelve Political Film Practices Women on the Edge re-envisions women's cinema as contemporary political practices by exploring the works of twelve filmmakers. Moving on from the 1970s feminist adage that the personal is political Sharon Lin Tay argues that contemporary women's cinema must exceed the personal to be politically relevant and ethically cogent.

Boudica

Boudica Boudica has been immortalised as the woman who dared take on the Romans. Her known life is a rich tapestry of wife, widow, mother, queen and Celtic quasi-Goddess. But beneath this, lies a history dark and shocking, with archaeological evidence...

Formative Acts: American Politics in the Making

Formative Acts: American Politics in the Making Seventeen essays illuminate critical junctures in American political development-from the social movements for women's suffrage, civil rights, and workers' rights, to...

Boudica

Boudica This is the first book in the Boudica series. In AD 60, Boudica, war leader of the Eceni, led her people in a final bloody revolt against the occupying armies of Rome. It was the culmination of nearly twenty years of resistance. This book recreates the beginnings of a story so powerful its impact has survived through the ages.

Body & Soul

Body & Soul Anita Roddick admits that she knew nothing about business when, at 33, she opened her first Body Shop in Brighton with a bank loan of 4000. Now there are 570 Body Shops in 37 different countries and there will be 1000 before the next century. This book describes the way in which she has achieved this success. Turning conventional business wisdom on its head, the Body Shop spends no money on advertising or designing expensive packaging, but invests time, money and manpower on a range of vital humanist and environmental issues. It has also set up highly successful industries in threatened areas of the Third World - and quite literally, saved whole communities. The Body Shop chain has been acclaimed as Company of the year, Communicator of the year and Retailer of the year. Anita Roddick herself was named Business Woman of the Year in 1985, was awarded an OBE in 1988 and received a United Nations environmental award in 1989.

Classics of Moral and Political Theory

Classics of Moral and Political Theory Features Paul Woodruff's translation of Sophocles' Antigone Rodney Livingstone's translation of Weber's Politics as a Vocation and selections from Mill's The Subjection of Women; and Reeve's translations of Plato's Republic Apology Crito and the death scene from the Phaedo.

Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time

Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time What do Bill Gates, Henry Ford, J.P. Morgan, Mary Kay Ash, and Walt Disney all have in common? Uncompromising vision, a willingness to take risks, and exceptional business acumen. Not only did these individuals amass great fortunes, they revolutionized the business world and helped shape society as we know it.

Benazir Bhutto