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Female Chauvinist Pigs: Woman and the Rise of Raunch Culture

Female Chauvinist Pigs: Woman and the Rise of Raunch Culture

Ariel Levy

This is a world where simulating sex for baying crowds of men on shows like Girls Gone Wild and going to lapdancing clubs - as patrons - is seen as a short cut to cool. Ariel Levy says the joke's on the women if they think this is progress.
It Could Be Worse, You Could Be Me: The Cassandra Chronicles

It Could Be Worse, You Could Be Me: The Cassandra Chronicles

Ariel Levy

Hypochondriac, neurotic and a habitual worrier, Ariel Leve has always looked on the blighted side of life.
The Rules Do Not Apply

The Rules Do Not Apply

Ariel Levy

I am the better for having read this book' Lena Dunham 'Every deep feeling a human is capable of will be shaken loose by this short, but profound book' David Sedaris 'I wanted what we all want: everything.
Ariel

Ariel

Steven R. Boyett

Steven R. Boyett. My eyes snapped open. The lopsided waning moon shone down on Ariel, from whom I'd rolled a few feet during the night. The lumpy shape of George in his sleeping bag snored lightly six feet away, on the other side of Ariel.
Shoemaker by Levy - The Man Who Made an Impact

Shoemaker by Levy - The Man Who Made an Impact

David H. Levy

No one is better suited to tell the story of Gene and Carolyn than David Levy, in this remarkable book.
Ariel

Ariel

Lawrence Block

And her adopted daughter, Ariel, leaves her cold. Now that she has given birth to a son she feels even more alienated from the girl. Is her imagination getting the best of her, or does the strange child know more than she lets on?
Decadent Romanticism: 1780-1914

Decadent Romanticism: 1780-1914

Kostas Boyiopoulos

Levy's most recent biographer, Christine Pullen, challenges these conclusions, arguing that Karl Pearson was a central figure in Levy's intellectual and emotional life; see The Woman Who Dared: A Biography of Amy Levy (Kingston upon ...
Virtual Competition

Virtual Competition

Ariel Ezrachi

Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice Stucke take a hard look at today’s app-assisted paradise of digital shopping.
Virtual Competition

Virtual Competition

Ariel Ezrachi

Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice Stucke take a hard look at today’s app-assisted paradise of digital shopping.
Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

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This book is the first of its kind to be devoted to Levy's work. Combining historical, theoretical and textual perspectives, the volume hosts a wide range of current critical approaches to Levy's fiction.
The Complete Novels and Selected Writings of Amy Levy, 1861-1889

The Complete Novels and Selected Writings of Amy Levy, 1861-1889

Amy Levy

Amy Levy was a talented Anglo-Jewish writer who committed suicide at the age of 28 in 1889.
The American music handbook

The American music handbook

Christopher Pavlakis

Nathalie, 245 Levinson, Herbert, 196 Levy, Frank, 110, 138 Levy, F. Roy, 670 Levy, Jesse, 409 Levy, Marvin David, 231 Levy, Michael E., 250 Levy, Ralph C, 675 Lewando, Ralph, 697 Lewenthal. Raymond. 264, 378, 409 Lewis, Brenda, 393 Lewis, Daniel, 8, 365 Lewis, Eugene S., 709 Lewis, Gerald, 103, 138 Lewis, Henry, 110, 132, 288, 389, 391, 416 Lewis, John, 638 Lewis, John M., 193 Lewis, Edward C, Jr., 538 Lewis, Judd, 545 Lewis, L. Rhodes, 552 Lewis, Lucy, 12 Lewis, ...
The Best American Essays 2014

The Best American Essays 2014

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The Best American Essays 2014 includes Kristin Dombek, Dave Eggers, Leslie Jamison, Ariel Levy, Yiyun Li, Barry Lopez, Zadie Smith, Wells Tower, James Wood, and others. [INSERT AUTHOR PHOTO] John Jeremiah Sullivan, editor, is a contributing ...
The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, ...

The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, ...

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(J. F. St.) LEVY, AMY (1861-1889), English poetess and novelist, second daughter of Lewis Levy, was born at ... She committed suicide on the 10th of September 1889. LEVY, AUGUSTE MICHEL (1844- ), French geologist, was born in Paris ...
Women Poets and Urban Aestheticism: Passengers of Modernity

Women Poets and Urban Aestheticism: Passengers of Modernity

A. Vadillo

Christine Pullen's speculation that Levy substituted 'Prince' for 'Grant' [Allen] is therefore correct. See Christine Pullen, Amy Levy, 204. Levy began writing ballades in 1888, most of which were compiled in her last volume of verse, A London ...
Elliptic Partial Differential Equations with Almost-Real ...

Elliptic Partial Differential Equations with Almost-Real ...

Ariel Barton

Number 1051 Elliptic Partial Differential Equations with Almost-Real Coefficients Ariel Barton May 2013 • Volume 223 • Number 1051 (fifth of 5 numbers) • ISSN 0065-9266 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Barton, Ariel, ...
Swallowing Geography

Swallowing Geography

Deborah Levy

Swallowing Geography is a stunning early novel by the Man Booker-shortlisted Deborah Levy. Embedded in this beautifully written novel is Deborah Levy's gift for blending fairytale with biting satire.
Reuben Sachs: A Sketch

Reuben Sachs: A Sketch

Amy Levy

A Sketch Amy Levy Susan David Bernstein. Esther represents an updated, converted version of Levy's Xantippe. As a liminal, caustic presence, Esther provides the reader with acute commentary on Judith's intellectual, social, and emotional ...
T. S. Eliot: homage from India: A commemoration volume of 55 ...

T. S. Eliot: homage from India: A commemoration volume of 55 ...

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WILLIAM TURNER LEVY ^ William turner levy is Associate Professor of English and chaplain W to Episcopal students at City ... New York. f Eusebio L. Rodrigues Beyond the Frontier [ A Review ] 212 William turner levy : A Letter to the Editor.
Alexander McQueen: Blood Beneath the Skin

Alexander McQueen: Blood Beneath the Skin

Andrew Wilson

“Fashion Guru McQueen Has Designs On,” Daily Express, 19 October 2001. “The Boy Is Back in Town,” Maggie Davis, op. cit. “Alexander the Great,” Ariel Levy, New York, 25 August 2002. “Killer McQueen,” Harriet Quick, Vogue, October 2002.
David Levy's Guide to Eclipses, Transits, and Occultations

David Levy's Guide to Eclipses, Transits, and Occultations

David H. Levy

In this simple guide, David Levy inspires readers to experience the wonder of eclipses and other transient astronomical events for themselves.
Knowing Southeast Asian Subjects

Knowing Southeast Asian Subjects

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Two scholars who eventually relocated to Australia, for similar reasons, are Arief Budiman and Ariel Heryanto. See Ariel Heryanto, “Public Intellectuals, Media, and Democratization: Cultural Politics of the Middle Classes in Indonesia,” in ...
Do Workers in the Informal Sector Benefit from Cuts in the ...

Do Workers in the Informal Sector Benefit from Cuts in the ...

Ariel Fiszbein

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Laws of Maryland Made and Passed at a Session of Assembly

Laws of Maryland Made and Passed at a Session of Assembly

Maryland

27, An act for the relief of Douglass Green, of Frederick 1841. County. - Levy of $40 Be it enacted by the General .1ssembly of JMaryland, authorised That the levy court of Frederick county are hereby authorised and required to levy annually, ...
Laws of the State of Maryland

Laws of the State of Maryland

Maryland

27, An act for the relief of Douglass Green, of Frederick 184J- County. Levy of $40 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, authorised That the levy court of Frederick county are hereby authorised and required to levy annually, ...
Ariel

Ariel

José Enrique Rodó

"May the genius of Uruguay which produced Ariel guide our thoughts." Thus spoke President Otto Arosemena of Ecuador in his keynote address to the Conference of American Presidents in Punta del Este, Uruguay, in April 1967. As U.S. chief ...
Water Pricing Experiences and Innovations

Water Pricing Experiences and Innovations

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Ariel Dinar, Víctor Pochat, José Albiac-Murillo. Volume 9 Editor-in-chief Ariel Dinar Series editors José Albiac-Murillo Stefano Farolfi Rathinasamy Maria Saleth José Albiac-Murillo Editors Water Pricing Experiences and Innovations Ariel Dinar ...
Romain Gary: The Man Who Sold His Shadow

Romain Gary: The Man Who Sold His Shadow

Ralph Schoolcraft

Pierre Calmann—Lévy to Romain Gary, October 11, 1945, Calmann-Lévy Publishers' Archives; emphasis added. 22. Romain Gary to Pierre Calmann-Lévy, October 27, 1945, Calmann-Lévy Publishers' Archives. 23. Blanch would maintain ...
Amy Levy: her life and letters

Amy Levy: her life and letters

Linda Hunt Beckman

Unwilling to cut herself off from her Jewish background, she had the additional burden of attempting to bridge the gap between communities.In Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters Linda Hunt Beckman examines Levy's writings and other cultural ...

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