Elizabeth Wilson

When Adorned in Dreams was first published in 1985, Angela Carter described the book as "the best I have read on the subject, bar none." From haute couture to haberdashery, "deviant" dress to Dior, Elizabeth Wilson traces the social and cultural history of fashion and its complex relationship to modernity. She also discusses fashion's vociferous opponents, from the "dress reform" movement to certain strands of feminism. Wilson delights in the power of fashion to mark out identity or subvert it. This brand new edition of her book follows recent developments to bring the story of fashionable dress up to date, exploring the grunge look inspired by bands like Nirvana, the "boho chic" of the mid 90's, retro-dressing, and the meanings of dress from the veil to soccer player David Beckham's pink-varnished toenails.

Fashion and Modernity

Adorned in Dreams

"Adopting the guise of a flaneur, Wilson reconsiders the classical imagery of the city from the viewpoints of diverse groups of women: bourgeois wives, prostitutes, transvestite writers, and others. Its originality resides in its deft, consistently provocative interweaving of underground feminist discourses with the familiar, male-infected rhetorics of urban experience."—Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz

Urban Life, the Control of Disorder, and Women

The Sphinx in the City

In her latest book, Elizabeth Wilson sets out in a linked series of stories, vignettes and essays to map contemporary city culture. We move from the tawdry glamour of the sixties demi-monde to the urban gypsies of the 1980s, from Kafka's search for love to sexual angst in the B-movie cities of Silicon Valley, from the New York of Brian de Palma's Dressed to Kill to the bleak nostalgia of 'film noir', from the defiant resistance of alternative cabaret to the performance artists of the downtown tourist venues--the Beaubourg, Covent Garden, the Piazza della Signoria--who transform themselves into mechanised puppets: the modern hero as machine.

Life in the Post Modern City

Hallucinations

Her Life, Her Music, Her Legend

Jacqueline Du Pre

Juliet Ash

Designed to be as internationally relevant as the fashion it discusses, Chic Thrills extends fashion theory beyond the interpretation of style, and shows how it relates to the economic realities and motivations of those who create the clothing we buy and wear. Among the issues the contributors address are: Feminism and the politics of fashion * The relationship of non-European cultures to Western fashion * Fashion and the negotiation of identity * Recent trends in fashion photography and the media representation of fashion * Industrial conditions, production constraints and the relationship of garment workers to the clothes they make * Playing with a different sex: fashion and the lesbian couple * Fascism and fashion: Paris haute couture under Nazi occupation * Fashion and the postmodern body.

A Fashion Reader

Chic Thrills

Shostakovich: A Life Remembered is a unique study of the great composer, drawn from the reminiscences and reflections of his contemporaries. Elizabeth Wilson sheds light on the composer's creative process and his working life in music, and examines the enormous and enduring influence that Shostakovich has had on Soviet musical life. 'The one indispensable book about the composer.' New York Times

Shostakovich: A Life Remembered

London, 1956. A young woman has been found dead in a hotel in King's Cross. It looks like an accident, and Scotland Yard isn't interested in accidents. But Fleet Street journalist Gerry Blackstone reckons there's more to it than meets the eye. Meanwhile, Oxford is filling with Hungarian migrs fleeing the failed revolution. Special Branch, concerned there could be Soviet spies among the genuine refugees, send in DCI Jack McGovern to keep an eye on proceedings. As McGovern plays spycatcher in Oxford and Blackstone hunts for clues in the seedy corners of London, a complex web of rogues, schemers and potential suspects starts to emerge: the well-to-do madam, the Classics professor, the East London crime boss, the government minister ... does it all lead back to the dead girl in King's Cross? Or is there something even more sinister going on?

She Died Young

Luis De Los Heros

Chifa Chi is an active little girl that gets lost in Theodore Roosevelt Island in Washington DC, with the help of friendly animals she meets along the way she finds her way back to the city while making friends!

Chifa Chi's Little Adventure in Washington DC

Angela Weir

Theory, Politics, and Experience in the Women's Movement

Hidden Agendas

"You know what souls are, don't you, my dear? In their purest form? They're stories." Would your life be a story that death would like to tell? Hopelessly curious, eleven-year-old Blake Callaghan is unable to resist the allure of the abandoned monolith of a house at the end of her street. Climbing the mossy stone wall, she finds herself in an impossible garden, where she is greeted by a kind and knowing old man who teaches her about the realm of fairies: a misunderstood world that offers new insights into death, life, and the power of story. These quiet evenings spent with Mr. Donn and his tales about the Otherworld inspire a new perspective on life that will follow Blake - and the reader - for the rest of her days. House of the Dead is a collection of stories that delves deeply into the rich and haunting domain of Irish mythology, where the mist never settles, things that should be right-side up are upside down, and life is a rare commodity. You, the reader, are invited to join Blake on a journey into a folklore that spans centuries and steps on eternity itself. In this book you will encounter the Dullahan, the headless horseman who heralds death; the cat sidhe, whose fascination with mortal life can have disastrous consequences; and a changeling who dares to defy legend. Filled with childlike wonder in the face of the unknown, these tales encompass a world of fantastic creatures and wild places brimming with magic and mystery, and readers will find themselves dancing with the dead alongside Blake in this heartfelt examination of death and myth.

House of the Dead

Chifa Chi is an active little girl that travels to New York City to find her friends in Central Park but does not know how to get there. With the help of friendly animals she meets along the way she finds her way through the city and to Central Park while making friends! This is the sequel to her first adventure in Washington DC.

Chifa Chi's Little Adventure in New York City

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Blinking against pain knifing inside his skull, Rob willed his eyes to focus. A gasp erupted from his throat when he yanked back his bed sheet. A woman. And blood?so much blood! Dear Lord! She'd been shot!SOMEONE WANTS TO DESTROY HIM. BUT WHY?Star professional hockey player Robert "Robbie" Bouchard seemingly has it all. Idolized by fans, respected by coaches and teammates, feared by opposing goaltenders. He holds nearly every scoring record in the book. But when a corpse turns up in his bed, his charmed life spins out of control.The crack team of former FBI agents, turned private investigators at Thornton Investigative Services Group, along with novice attorney Brittany Franks who desperately wants to prove herself, step in to clear Rob's name.In his quest to prove their client's innocence, private investigator Gary Thornton soon discovers a devious plot with deep tentacles, and adversaries willing to stoop to abhorrent lows to keep their secrets from being revealed and their web of crimes from unraveling.

Skating on Thin Ice

Cook Book

Champneys

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Champneys Spa Secrets for Body and Soul

Winner of Sappho's Prize in Poetry With sharp and delicate exactness, Elizabeth Wilson gives us glimpses of desire in the poems of Windowpanes-pressing down hard with her words, as with small diamonds that etch memory into the glass of a window. Desire shimmers in these lines-hidden, doubled, queer, rejected, accepted, won, lost, longed for-in the angles of the words, the reflections of our own longing and loves. -Minnie Bruce Pratt, author of Crime Against Nature and Magnified Reading Elizabeth Wilson's Windowpanes is like coming upon a small, darkened chapel, one that seems almost too intimate to enter at first, though soon you find you can look out through every one of these stained glass windows, each an intensely colored moment in a heart's education. Sorrowing and reverent, elusive and clear-eyed, these hard-won poems are a remarkable work of attention. -Mark Doty, author of Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems Poetry is the art of discovery. Elizabeth Wilson's poems are intimate and reveal their secrets like Russian nesting dolls, their quiet music wrapped around sensual details that slowly allow the reader into a hidden realm that is stunning in its tenderness and precision. There is a lovely sonic architecture at work, confessions that assimilate into the reader and shimmer with urgency long after the book is put away. Windowpanes is a masterful and assured first collection. -Keith Flynn, author of The Skin of Meaning and editor of The Asheville Poetry Review

Windowpanes

Murder once again seeks out Justine Hillyard and Myra Zone when their friend, the psychiatrist Francis Vaughan, is killed. Was he murdered by the serial killer who is stalking gay men, or was his killing connected with his investigation into a colleague's suicide?

Poisoned Hearts

FAILURE WAS NOT AN OPTION...A reluctant speaker at a pre-Christmas elementary school assembly, FBI Special Agent Lucas Shaw's presentation is abruptly interrupted when terrorists storm the building. Scrambling against a ticking clock, Shaw must find a way to get the children and faculty to safety, a daunting mission for one armed federal agent against a small, but deadly army. As if the pressure of his task isn't bad enough, his day is about to get worse. Fighting for her life when captured by a gunman, Lexie North manages to escape, only to collide with Lucas - a man who has every reason to hate her. With danger closing in on them, rescuing the hostages and ultimately their own survival depends on their ability to work together. But can they put aside their past to do it?

Elizabeth Wilson

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