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Praise for The Good Daughter&ldquo;An eerily beautiful novel...Alexandra Burt fills the Texas woods with her haunting prose and multiple layers of faithfulness, blood ties and betrayals. The suspense draws you in those woods and keeps you there until the final page.&rdquo;&mdash;Kathy Hepinstall, author Blue Asylum &#160; &ldquo;In The Good Daughter, Alexandra Burt expertly weaves a rich tapestry of a story that is surprising at every turn and impossible to put down.&#160;I was incredibly impressed with her ability to take seemingly unrelated threads and connect each one to the core of the story. Excellent read!&rdquo;&mdash;Rena Olsen, author of The Girl Before&#160;&ldquo;A stunning read from a superb storyteller.&rdquo;&mdash;Clare Mackintosh, international bestselling author of I See You&ldquo;The Good Daughter by Alexandra Burt is stunning. Every landscape, from rural Texas to the dark past of the characters, is intricately and beautifully crafted, pulling you in from the very first page to the very last. Rarely do we get to enjoy psychological suspense with such extraordinary descriptive narration. It's a wonderful read!&rdquo;&mdash;Wendy Walker, bestselling author of All is Not Forgotten &ldquo;The Good Daughter pulled me in tight and didn&rsquo;t let go. Eerie and wrenching, it&rsquo;s a captivating story of love, obsession, and the power of secrets.&rdquo;&mdash;Meg Gardiner, Edgar Award-winning author of Phantom Instinct&ldquo;Burt knows how to propel a strongly character-driven novel forward, using intrigue, mystery, plot twists, and rich&mdash;sometimes grisly&mdash;sensory imagery. Her insightful ability to make the turmoil within Memphis and Dahlia visible and believable makes for strong female characters who are nevertheless flawed and somewhat unreliable narrators. The look into their inner chaos is both fascinating and unsettling and speaks to the strength of the human will to survive even under the most adverse conditions. Burt's tale captivates to the bitter end, by which time &lsquo;everything that was done in the dark has come into the light.&rsquo;&rdquo;&mdash;Kirkus Reviews

The Good Daughter

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Pocahontas

"With careful candor and clarity, [Deepak Singh] shows the challenges facing new immigrants and the effort it takes to surmount them."

An Immigrant's Journey from MBA to Minimum Wage

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»In das Buch muss man sich einfach verlieben. (...) Sehr emotional, persönlich und facettenreich (...) Eine Liebeshymne an alle Mamas.«

Mama

"The authors...have convincingly demonstrated why staying on an intercultural route toward better intercultural communication is difficult, how moving on the route is possible, and, to sum up, why we need to put our own cultural mirror aside in order to drive on an intercultural route towards discovery and creation of brighter prospects in global intercultural contexts."
--Language and Intercultural Commuication
"...Reporting Cultures, discusses the complex interrelationships among culture, conversation, and context. Through this discussion, Carbaugh highlights the necessity of deeper intercultural awareness and understanding as a prerequisite to effective communication. Carbaugh is highly successful not only in his endeavor to highlight the impact of culture on conversation but also in his illustration of the ethnographic approach to the study of intercultural communication. For those not familiar with nonquantitative approaches to the study of culture, this text provides a good introduction to one form of ethnographic analysis. The book can serve as a good accompaniment to any research methods course in psychology. In addition to providing an example of one form of qualitative analysis, the book is a necessary inclusion for anyone conducting intercultural or international research."—PsycCRITIQUES
"...the ease with which Carbaugh presents his arguments about culture and his conviction about his methodology leave the reader with the sense that there is intrinsic value to studying cultural moments, that more researchers should undertake this endeavor through his methodological orientation....Carbaugh does not merely translate cultural moments for his reader; instead, he guides the reader through this process and makes them a stakeholder in its outcome."—The Review of Communication
"At a time when our contemporary world seems to be characterized and confused by reactivity, Carbaugh's book offers insight on the ways in which alternate systems of being, living, relating, and speaking take place in human interactions. Going beyond generalizations in exploring cultural communication, Carbaugh demonstrates the interdependence of culture and conversation through a rich collection of culturally situated encounters. His writing expands our imagination, stimulates our minds, and touches the hearts and souls of his readers."—Ozum UcokHofstra University
"Reporting Culturesis another milestone in Donal Carbaugh's exploration of American culture as it manifests itself in characteristically American patterns of communication. The comparative perspective adopted in the present book leads to brilliant new insights into common American ways of speaking as well as the shared cultural assumptions and values reflected in them. Detailed studies of intercultural encounters, with careful attention to native labels for kinds of speech practices and cultural values, allow Carbaugh to identify "cultural rules for conversation" from the insider's point of view, while making them intelligible to outsiders. The book also identifies some sources of intercultural miscommunication and negative cultural stereotypes and suggests some practical remedies for them as well as providing theoretical insights. Cultures in Conversation is "ethnography of speaking" at its best. It will engage anyone interested in intercultural communication, language in society, and American culture."—Anna WierzbickaThe Australian National University
"Whether it be exploring public discourse in Russia, learning to listen with the Blackfeet of Montana, or building relationships in Finland, Carbaugh writes with clarity and enthusiasm, quickly drawing the reader into the subtle workings of culture in everyday life. This book brings together some of his most intriguing work with new research and insights that give the reader a deep understanding of how communication, meaning, and identity are closely interwoven. In doing so, Carbaugh extends and elaborates on the theoretical implications of his work and an ethnographic understanding of the world. I have been reading and using Donal's work in graduate and undergraduate courses for years. The clarity with which he develops his examples and arguments makes his work ideally suited for students. I strongly recommend this book for anyone interested in understanding the relationship between culture and communication and the misunderstandings that are so apt to happen in intercultural contexts. For someone interested in understanding the ethnography of communication perspective and the insights it can provide, this is a must read."—Bradford 'J' HallUniversity of New Mexico
"What Carbaugh does with great delicacy is show how culture is imbricated in the details of conversational practice. He examines cross cultural conversation because the misunderstandings which arise reveal the unusually unstated cultural understandings which the speakers bring to their conversations. Through this work Carbaugh shows how to link the detailed micro-study of conversation with the larger themes of social and cultural anthropology."—Dr. David ZeitlynUniversity of Kent
"In Reporting Cultures Donal Carbaugh offers a compelling and nuanced analysis of the many ways in which culture shapes moments of intercultural contact. His comparative accounts of the working of cultural codes in conversation invite readers to a journey of discovery of both self and other. The book presents a rich array of case studies of face-to-face or mediated encounters in which cultural differences are puzzled over, negotiated and sometimes bridged, and thereby demonstrates how the nexus of communication and culture can be productively and systematically explored."—Tamar KatrielUniversity of Haifa
"Donal Carbaugh makes an outstanding contribution to the study of cultural and cross-cultural communication through his detailed analysis of communicative practices in four different cultures. Using numerous examples of naturally occurring speech, gathered from the author's many ethnographic studies, Carbaugh demonstrates how the premises which guide communication can be discovered, described, and interpreted in such a way as to reveal how people create a sense of shared cultural identity. No other author has so clearly articulated the intersection of communication and culture as has Donal Carbaugh."—Chuck BraithwaiteUniversity of Nebraska at Lincoln
"Donal Carbaugh is one of our wisest analysts of culture and communication. Here he draws on his direct experience of Russian, Finnish, and Blackfeet Indian cultures to present a comprehensive and incisive approach to understanding conversation in cultural perspective. It is a perfect text for classroom use, but even the most seasoned researchers will find enlightening insights as well as delightful and vivid examples. I'll definitely assign this book the next time I teach Cross-cultural communication."—Deborah TannenGeorgetown University
"Donal Carbaugh's book, Reporting Cultures, is remarkable. It is based on first-hand knowledge over a number of years of a considerable range of cultures and situations. The result is an invaluable contribution to understanding of communication and the ethnography of speaking."—Dell HymesUniversity of Virginia

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'This stimulating collection helps us to better understand the colonialism in Zionism as a phenomenon of its day.' - Toby Lichtig, TLS

Between the East End and East Africa

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&#8220;Everything I loved about this book was everything I love about Downton Abbey. The strong female heroines who are also hopelessly sheltered and pampered. The class tension between upstairs and downstairs. The good intentions of the upper class who wish to treat everyone equally...but also don't want to lose their servants or their titles [&#8230;] I can recommend Summerset Abbey with confidence for fans of the genre.&#8221;

Summerset Abbey

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Dynamics of Psychoanalytic Institutions

"At its nucleus, four teenagers are grappling with insecurities that become exacerbated when loved ones turn up the heat. . . . The unrestricted access Hopkins employs is formidable: parents, siblings, love interests, and outliers all thrust frank judgment on the characters. It is how Cara, Sean, Kendra, and Andre react that encourages readers&#8217; emotional attachments. Her writing conveys teenage quandaries with all of the intended consequences, as the verse style only serves to shock as the events unfold."

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Praise for Citizens of the Green Room&ldquo;Mark Leibovich profiles are like flaming Dr. Pepper shots. They&rsquo;re great&hellip;&#160; Leibovich&rsquo;s profiles, read en masse, lay bare Washington&rsquo;s formative paradox: You can&rsquo;t fix D.C. unless you go there, and you can&rsquo;t do well there without becoming everything that&rsquo;s broken about it.&rdquo; &ndash;Slate  &ldquo;Amusing and perceptive tales of the political animals in the zoo that is Washington&hellip;These essays and profiles are uniformly witty&hellip; Leibovich delivers full-dimensional portraits of these eccentric D.C. denizens&hellip;. Humorous, incisive and very droll.&rdquo;&mdash;Kirkus "Leibovich, the chief national correspondent for the New York Times Magazine, who specializes in profiles of people and places, brings together under one roof some of his best and most noteworthy profiles of American political and media figures...Fascinating fare for political wonks."&mdash;BooklistPraise for This Town"This Town is funny, it's interesting, and it is demoralizing ... I loved it as much as you can love something which hurts your heart."&mdash;John Oliver, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart&ldquo;In  addition to his reporting talents, Leibovich is a writer of excellent  zest. At times his book is laugh-out-loud (as well as weep-out-loud). He  is an exuberant writer, even as his reporting leaves one reaching for  Xanax&hellip;[This Town] is vastly entertaining and deeply troubling.&rdquo;&mdash;Christopher Buckley, The New York Times Book Review "It's been the summer of This Town. What lingers from This Town is what will linger in Washington well after its current dinosaurs are extinct: the political culture owned by big money."&mdash;Frank Rich, New York Magazine"Many decades from now, a historian looking at where America lost its way could use This Town as a primary source."&mdash;Fareed Zakaria &ldquo;Here  it is, Washington in all its splendid, sordid glory&hellip;[Leibovich] seems  to wear those special glasses that allow you to x-ray the outside and  see what&rsquo;s really going on. Start to finish, this is a brilliant  portrait &ndash; pointillist, you might say, or modern realist. So brilliant  that once it lands on a front table at Politics & Prose Leibovich  will never be able to have lunch in this town again. There are also  important insights tucked in among the barbs&hellip;So here&rsquo;s to all the big  mouths, big shots, big machers, and big jerks. In case you&rsquo;re wondering,  Mark Leibovich is on to every one of you, and his portrayal of This  Town is spot on.&rdquo; &mdash;David Shribman, The New York Times&ldquo;In his new book&#160;This Town, Mark  Leibovich commits an act of treason against the Washington  establishment&hellip; Thoroughly entertaining&hellip; Leibovich is a keen observer and  energetic writer.&rdquo;&mdash;Reid Pillifant, New York Observer &#160;&ldquo;This Town is  a frothy Beltway insider tell-all &hellip;rollicking fun and sharply written. A  big, sprawling fun beach read of a book&mdash;snappy and well-crafted.&rdquo;&mdash;Susan Gardner, The Daily Kos&#160;&ldquo;This Town is as entertaining for the broader picture it paints of a capital that  corrupts even the most incorruptible as it is for the salacious gossip  that dominated early reviews. Books like Leibovich&rsquo;s are important  resources for historians who, a century from now, will use This Town as a trove of background information for a pivotal period when our politics became poisonous.&rdquo;&mdash;Reid Wilson, The National Journal&#160;&ldquo;Leibovich delivers the reportorial goods. He is in all the parties, and supplies a wildly entertaining anthrolopogical tour.&rdquo;&mdash;Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine&#160;&ldquo;Leibovich has written a very funny book about how horrible his industry can be&hellip; Uncommonly honest.&rdquo;&mdash;David Weigel, Slate&#160;&ldquo;[Leibovich] is a master of the political profile&hellip; This Town is as insidery as Game Change&rdquo;&mdash;Carlos Lozada, Washington Post&#160;&ldquo;Intensely  anticipated&hellip;. [Leibovich] has a real affection for many of his  characters&hellip; [and] also throws a few unapologetically hard punches.&rdquo; &mdash;Ben Smith, Buzzfeed&ldquo;Witty, entertaining&hellip;.the book is enlightening on how journalism is practiced in Washington&hellip;This Town could also be source material for your book about what&rsquo;s wrong with  these horrible people and &ndash; more importantly, but also much more  difficult &ndash; how to fix the culture that led to their ascendance&hellip;.This Town is a funny book, but it should probably make you as angry and depressed as 'Two American Families'.&rdquo; &mdash;Alex Pareene, Salon&#160;&ldquo;For the sweaty, twitching, huddled masses of Washington gossip addicts, This Town is rife with such shiny nuggets, the literary equivalent of crack.&rdquo;&mdash; Lloyd Grove, Newsweek/The Daily Beast&#160;&ldquo;Corrosively funny and subtly subversive&hellip;. siren song of money and pseudo-celebrity &hellip;.irresistible."&mdash;Walter Shapiro, The American Prospect&#160;&ldquo;Like a modern-day Balzac to US capital power players&hellip;.hilarious&hellip;.perceptive.&rdquo; &mdash;Richard McGregor, Financial Times&#160;&ldquo;A rollicking, if disconcerting, read.&rdquo;&mdash;Denver Post&#160;&ldquo;Provides a lancing, often hysterically funny portrait of the capital&rsquo;s vanities and ambitions.&rdquo; &mdash;The New Yorker&#160;&ldquo;A  common trope among conservatives is the 'cocktail party scene,' which  Republican reformers encounter when they go to Washington and which  lures them into selling out their beliefs. This Town provides plenty of evidence not only that those worries are grounded,  but that it&rsquo;s far worse than we imagined&hellip;.[U]nusual and refreshing&hellip;. [A]  successful and needed undertaking&hellip;. Leibovich enlivens his tedious  subjects with a funny and vivid writing style&hellip;. he&rsquo;s also an engaging  storyteller. The last quarter of This Town, which dishes  on Leibovich&rsquo;s encounters with the major players from the 2012 election,  is undeniably good reading&hellip; If you want to understand why you should  wake up quivering with white-hot hatred for elite Washington, This Town is well worth your time.&rdquo; &mdash;Matt Purple, The American Spectator&#160;&ldquo;[A]  sharp-eyed, funny and elegantly written takedown of Washington&rsquo;s crass,  insidery, back-scratching (by journalists and politicians alike)  culture&hellip;. [T]he Tony Soprano of journalists&hellip;but with a heart.&rdquo; &mdash;Margaret Carlson, Bloomberg News&#160;&ldquo;This  book has to be the book of the summer, open on the fat or flat bellies  of Washington's privileged political elite at Rehoboth, Martha's  Vineyard or Nantucket. Even if they are in it, or are looking for  themselves in it with dread or delicious anticipation, a Washington  version of narcissism, This Town is not to be missed.&rdquo; &mdash;Dan Simpson, Pittsburgh Post Gazette&ldquo;Not  since Truman Capote&rsquo;s Answered Prayers knocked New York society on  its heels with its thinly fictionalized revelations of real players who  had thought the author was their friend has a book so riled a city&rsquo;s  upper echelons.&rdquo;&mdash;Lois Romano, Politico

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"Compelling and fascinating. . . The title of this book cannot accurately convey its cumulative power." &#8212Boston Book Review"Soviet history in a new key. . . A rare and extraordinary portrait of Soviet society in a critical decade, comprising fear, bravery, bathos, tragedy, and even humor&mdash;in sum, the broad range of human responses to inhumanity." &#8212Kirkus Reviews"Eloquent. . . . An impressive collection of personal diaries written in the Soviet Union during the harshest years of Joseph Stalin's rule." &#8212Wilson Quarterly

Soviet Diaries of the 1930s

Intimacy and Terror

Der gr&uuml;ne B&auml;r. Ist allen kranken Kindern auf der ganzen Welt gewidmet.
Er wohnt auf einem Stern im Himmel und seine Aufgabe ist es, alle kranken
Kinder auf einer bestimmten Erdh&auml;lfte jede Nacht zu tr&ouml;sten. Er singt Lieder
oder erz&auml;hlt Geschichten und immer wenn er geht, muss er den Kindern Glitzerstaub
von seinem Stern in die Augen streuen, damit sie besser schlafen k&ouml;nnen.
Eines Nachts vergisst er das bei Patrika und dies ist ihre Geschichte.
Mit ihr erlebt der gr&uuml;ne B&auml;r eine Abenteuer, das er sich selbst nicht h&auml;tte
ausdenken k&ouml;nnen. Er ger&auml;t irgendwo im Universum in Lebensgefahr und ist
auf Patrikas Hilfe angewiesen. Wird sie es schaffen, ihn wieder heil zur
Erde zur&uuml;ckzubringen?

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In Darkness

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