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.
Late Bloomers
Tantu
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
Formative Acts: American Politics in the Making
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
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.