Public Secrets

Author: Nora Roberts
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553386409
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450

Book Description
New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts deftly blends romance and suspense in this compelling novel of a woman whose career, marriage, and very life are threatened by the truth about her own past. Emma McAvoy may have grown up in the limelight, but some secrets are hidden in a darkness no light can reach. Now on the verge of a successful career, and having fallen in love with the man of her dreams, Emma is looking to the future. Yet it’s the past that is about to catch up with her. For Emma, her childhood had been almost like a rags-to-riches fairy tale—until the tragic night that changed her family forever. But what Emma thinks she knows about that terrible night and the man she’s about to marry is only half the truth. The other half is locked away in the last place she’d ever think to look: her own memories. It’s a mystery a handsome and relentlessly driven homicide detective needs to solve in a case that’s haunted him for years—and a secret someone will kill to keep.

Public Secrets

Author: Nora Roberts
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0307568113
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 513

Public Secrets

Author: Ken Knabb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 432

Book Description
The greatest hits, and a fine read for anyone interested in situationist ideas, anarchism, the 60s counterculture and beyond. Includes both two substantial new texts - 'The Joy Of Revolution' and 'Autobiography,' and reprints of all his old pamphlets, co-authored work, and translations of various situationist texts. A veritable treasure trove of pamphlets, texts, posters, comics, articles, leaflets and essays. Over 400 pages, and every one is a winner!

Public Secrets

Author: Phi Draco
Publisher: Phi Draco
ISBN: 0974612057
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 55

Book Description
Those things most people know but will not say.

Public Secrets

Author: Henrice Altink
Publisher:
ISBN: 1789620007
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
Informed by critical race theory and based on a wide range of sources, including official sources, memoirs, and anthropological studies, this book examines multiple forms of racial discrimination in Jamaica and how they were talked about and experienced from the end of the First World War until the demise of democratic socialism in the 1980s. It also pays attention to practices devoid of racial content but which equally helped to sustain a society stratified by race and colour, such as voting qualifications. Case studies on the labour market, education, the family and legal system, among other areas, demonstrate the extent to which race and colour shaped social relations in the island in the decades preceding and following independence and argue that racial discrimination was a public secret - everybody knew it took place but few dared to openly discuss or criticise it. The book ends with an examination of race and colour in contemporary Jamaica to show that race and colour have lost little of their power since independence and offers some suggestions to overcome the silence on race to facilitate equality of opportunity for all.

The President's Book of Secrets

Author: David Priess
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1610395964
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401

Book Description
Every president has had a unique and complicated relationship with the intelligence community. While some have been coolly distant, even adversarial, others have found their intelligence agencies to be among the most valuable instruments of policy and power. Since John F. Kennedy's presidency, this relationship has been distilled into a personalized daily report: a short summary of what the intelligence apparatus considers the most crucial information for the president to know that day about global threats and opportunities. This top-secret document is known as the President's Daily Brief, or, within national security circles, simply "the Book." Presidents have spent anywhere from a few moments (Richard Nixon) to a healthy part of their day (George W. Bush) consumed by its contents; some (Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush) consider it far and away the most important document they saw on a regular basis while commander in chief. The details of most PDBs are highly classified, and will remain so for many years. But the process by which the intelligence community develops and presents the Book is a fascinating look into the operation of power at the highest levels. David Priess, a former intelligence officer and daily briefer, has interviewed every living president and vice president as well as more than one hundred others intimately involved with the production and delivery of the president's book of secrets. He offers an unprecedented window into the decision making of every president from Kennedy to Obama, with many character-rich stories revealed here for the first time.

Defacement

Author: Michael T. Taussig
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804732000
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 334

Book Description
Defacement asks what happens when something precious is despoiled. In specifying the human face as the ideal type for thinking through such violation, this book raises the issue of secrecy as the depth that seems to surface with the tearing of surface.

Public Secrets, Public Spaces

Author: Stephanie Donald
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description
Donald (communications and media studies, Murdoch U., Australia) argues that before such terms as "national" of "transnational" cinema are settled in respect to Chinese film, the "public" nature of film needs to be acknowledged. She attempts to redefine the notion of civil society by looking at how Chinese film addresses questions of the public sphere, overtly or not. The redefinition, for her, is a complex task that moves beyond the liberal-democratic tradition of autonomy, informality, and non-state institutions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Public Secrets

Author: Henrice Altink
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 178962407X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
Through case studies on, amongst others, the labour market, education, the family and legal system, this book examines the salience and silence of race and colour in Jamaica in the decades preceding and following independence and its impact on individuals and society.

Public Lives, Private Secrets

Author: Ann Twinam
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780804731478
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 447

Book Description
Throughout the 18th and early-19th centuries, illegitimate offspring of elite families in colonial Spanish America appealed to the Council and C'mara of the Indies in Spain to purchase gracias al sacar legitimations. Their applications provided intimate testimony concerning their own lives, accounts of their parents sexual relationships, and details regarding the impact of illegitimacy within their families and communities. Bourbon officials in Spain debated which petitions merited approval, and in the process forged policies concerning gender, sexuality, illegitimacy, and the family.