A View from the Bottom

Author: Tan Hoang Nguyen
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822376601
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
A View from the Bottom offers a major critical reassessment of male effeminacy and its racialization in visual culture. Examining portrayals of Asian and Asian American men in Hollywood cinema, European art film, gay pornography, and experimental documentary, Nguyen Tan Hoang explores the cultural meanings that accrue to sexual positions. He shows how cultural fantasies around the position of the sexual "bottom" overdetermine and refract the meanings of race, gender, sexuality, and nationality in American culture in ways that both enable and constrain Asian masculinity. Challenging the association of bottoming with passivity and abjection, Nguyen suggests ways of thinking about the bottom position that afford agency and pleasure. A more capacious conception of bottomhood—as a sexual position, a social alliance, an affective bond, and an aesthetic form—has the potential to destabilize sexual, gender, and racial norms, suggesting an ethical mode of relation organized not around dominance and mastery but around the risk of vulnerability and shame. Thus reconceived, bottomhood as a critical category creates new possibilities for arousal, receptiveness, and recognition, and offers a new framework for analyzing sexual representations in cinema as well as understanding their relation to oppositional political projects.

Life at the Bottom

Author: Theodore Dalrymple
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
ISBN: 161578019X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 283

Book Description
A searing account of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does, written by a British psychiatrist.

View from the Bottom

Author: Frank Beacham
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781733457927
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286

Book Description
Autobiography of bass player Harvey Brooks who has played with everyone from Bob Dylan to Miles Davis to The Doors to Jimi Hendrix and many more. This is a fascinating collection of stories throughout his career. In this book, Harvey Brooks gives a first-hand account of his involvement in the classic albums "Highway 61 Revisited" by Bob Dylan and "Bitches Brew" by Miles Davis, among many others.

The View from Rock Bottom

Author: Stephanie Tait
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
ISBN: 0736972226
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
I had found my rock bottom, and instead of pulling me out, the God of the universe met me there in the rubble. What is your response when your life turns upside down? When you lose your job? When you receive a difficult diagnosis? Do you blame God or beg Him for a way out of your suffering? In more than a decade of misdiagnoses and debilitating treatments, Stephanie Tait admits she did plenty of both before hearing the two words that had drastically altered her life: Lyme disease. Yet she has discovered it’s in her pain that Jesus is most present. Through personal stories and biblical examples, you will learn that suffering connects you to God as He meets you in your moment of pain strengthens your community when you allow others to comfort you in your sorrow gives you greater appreciation for life’s goodness as you gain an eternal perspective Even if the healing never comes, there is something sacred in the suffering. It’s from holy rubble that God makes all things new.

From the bottom up

Author: Chad Pregracke
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9781426201004
Category : Nonprofit organizations
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description

A View of the Bottom

Author: Chaka Adams
Publisher: Prettygirlsread
ISBN: 9780988701007
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
She can run but she can't hide. No matter where Chaka goes, her past continues to haunt her and brings her back to the streets of New York's infamous QUEENSBRIDGE Houses where she must finally face her demons once and for all. Submerged in a world where sex is for profit and fake smiles hide ulterior motives, she seeks revenge against everyone who has crossed her path. Her power rises with a cold heart and a kinky defiance. But it all shatters when LOVE gets in the way. As flashbacks reveal the secrets she's kept hidden for so long, her memories finally push her over the edge. Soon, she'll have to decide whether to swim or sink further to the bottom. Unfortunately, time isn't on her side.

Race to the Bottom of the Sea

Author: Lindsay Eagar
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763693928
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 433

Book Description
Can a clever girl inventor uncover a ruthless pirate’s heart of gold? Thrilling sea adventure takes on a hint of steampunk in the second book by the author of the acclaimed Hour of the Bees. When her parents, the great marine scientists Dr. and Dr. Quail, are killed in a tragic accident, eleven-year-old Fidelia Quail is racked by grief — and guilt. It was a submarine of Fidelia’s invention that her parents were in when they died, and it was she who pressed them to stay out longer when the raging Undertow was looming. But Fidelia is forced out of her mourning when she’s kidnapped by Merrick the Monstrous, a pirate whose list of treasons stretches longer than a ribbon eel. Her task? Use her marine know-how to retrieve his treasure, lost on the ocean floor. But as Fidelia and the pirates close in on the prize, with the navy hot on their heels, she realizes that Merrick doesn’t expect to live long enough to enjoy his loot. Could something other than black-hearted greed be driving him? Will Fidelia be able to master the perils of the ocean without her parents — and piece together the mystery of Merrick the Monstrous before it’s too late?

Believe in People

Author: Charles Koch
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250200970
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
A surprising take on how you can help tackle the really big problems in society–from one of America’s most successful entrepreneurs. People are looking for a better way. Towering barriers are holding millions of people back, and the institutions that should help everyone rise are not doing the job. Crumbling communities. One-size fits all education. Businesses that rig the economy. Public policy that stifles opportunity and emboldens the extremes. As a result, this country is quickly heading toward a two-tiered society. Today’s challenges call for nothing short of a paradigm shift – away from a top-down approach that sees people as problems to be managed, toward bottom-up solutions that empower everyone to realize their potential and foster a more inclusive society. Such a shift starts by asking: What would it mean to truly believe in people? Businessman and philanthropist Charles Koch has devoted his life to answering that question. Learn what he’s discovered during his 60-year career to help you apply the principles of empowerment in your life, in your business, and in society. By learning from the social movements and applying the principles that have enabled social progress throughout history, Koch has achieved more than he dreamed possible – building one of the world’s most successful companies and founding Stand Together, one of America’s most innovative philanthropic communities. Stand Together CEO Brian Hooks and Koch show how the only way to solve the really big problems – from poverty and addiction to harmful business practices and destructive public policy – is for each and every one of us to find and take action in our unique role as part of the solution. Full of compelling examples of what works – including several first-person accounts from individuals whose lives have been transformed – Koch and Hooks’ refreshing approach promotes partnership instead of partisanship and speaks to people from different perspectives and all walks of life. They show that no injustice is too tough to overcome if you share a deep belief in people, are willing to unite with anyone to do right, and work to empower others from the bottom up.

Crawfish Bottom

Author: Douglas Boyd
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813134099
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238

Book Description
A small neighborhood in northern Frankfort, Kentucky, Crawfish Bottom was located on fifty acres of swampy land along the Kentucky River. “Craw’s” reputation for vice, violence, moral corruption, and unsanitary conditions made it a target for urban renewal projects that replaced the neighborhood with the city’s Capital Plaza in the mid-1960s. Douglas A. Boyd’s Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community traces the evolution of the controversial community that ultimately saw four-hundred families displaced. Using oral histories and firsthand memories, Boyd not only provides a record of a vanished neighborhood and its culture but also demonstrates how this type of study enhances the historical record. A former Frankfort police officer describes Craw’s residents as a “rough class of people, who didn’t mind killing or being killed.” In Crawfish Bottom, the former residents of Craw acknowledge the popular misconceptions about their community but offer a richer and more balanced view of the past.

Trapped at the Bottom of the Sea

Author: Frank E. Peretti
Publisher: Crossway
ISBN: 9781581346213
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
Dr. Jake Cooper, his son Jay, and adventurer-journalist Meaghan Flaherty evade angry terrorists and cannibal tribes as they desperately search for Lila Cooper after her plane is hijacked in a remote corner of the Pacific.