Renegades Harrowmaster

"The disparate splinters of the Emperor's Children eke out a violent, hedonistic existence between the stars, raiding and ravaging worlds according to their appetites. Seeking sensation above all else, life is vicious and short-lived for the sons of the III Legion. But for proud Xantine, leader of the Adored and a true son of Fulgrim, pillaging backwater worlds is simply not enough. He wants more, and soon finds what he has been searching for. Serrine - a planet festering under misrule, cut off from the Imperium by warp storms. It is a world characterised by cruelty and inequality, and one that sits upon a stockpile of rejuvenat treatments destined for the Imperium's most rich and powerful. Too tantalising a prize to ignore, the Adored set out to bring perfection to Serrine. But perfection is an elusive concept, and threats soon make themselves known as they begin to expose the rot at the heart of Xantine's perfect rule"--

Renegades

New York Times -bestseller nyt myös suomeksi! Renegades – Born in the USA on vilpitön, paljastava ja viihdyttävä presidentti Barack Obaman ja legendaarisen muusikko Bruce Springsteenin vuoropuhelu. Kirjassa kolutaan kaikkea heidän alkuperätarinoistaan ja uraa määrittävistä hetkistään Yhdysvaltojen polarisoituneeseen politiikkaan ja siihen, miten amerikkalainen unelma ja amerikkalainen todellisuus etääntyvät yhä kauemmaksi toisistaan. Runsaan kuvituksen ja harvinaisen arkistoaineiston täydentämä teos on vangitseva ja silmää hivelevä muotokuva kahdesta epäsovinnaisesta Yhdysvaltain lähihistorian merkkihenkilöstä, jotka miettivät keinoa yhdistää omakohtaiset merkityksen, identiteetin ja yhteisöllisyyden etsintänsä itse Amerikan tarinaan. Obama ja Springsteen tapaavat äänitysstudiossa, jossa on kymmeniä kitaroita, ja käyvät ainakin kerran kruisailemassa avo-Corvettella. He keskustelevat avioliitosta ja isyydestä, rotukysymyksestä ja maskuliinisuudesta, houkutuksesta lähteä tien päälle ja vastaavasti kotiinpaluun vetovoimasta. He vertailevat mieluisimpia protestilaulujaan, kaikkien aikojen inspiroivimpia amerikkalaisia sankareitaan ja paljon muuta. Keskusteluissa he paljastavat myös kautta uransa kokemansa voimakkaan halun – ja sen ajoittain vaatiman hinnan – kertoa isompaa ja todempaa Amerikan tarinaa ja tutkailevat sitä, miten heidän pirstoutunut maansa voisi löytää tiensä takaisin yhtenäisyyteen ja globaaliin johtajuuteen. Barack Obama oli Yhdysvaltojen 44. presidentti. Hänet valittiin vuonna 2008 ja hän palveli kaksi virkakautta. Hän on kirjoittanut kolme New York Times -bestselleriä, Unelmia isältäni, Rohkeus toivoa ja Luvattu maa. Presidentti Obamalle myönnettiin Nobelin rauhanpalkinto vuonna 2009. Hän asuu Washingtonissa vaimonsa Michellen kanssa. Heillä on kaksi tytärtä, Malia ja Sasha. Bruce Springsteen on nimetty Rock and Roll Hall of Fameen ja Songwriters Hall of Fameen. Hän on voittanut 20 Grammya, parhaan laulun Oscarin, Tony-palkinnon ja Kennedy Center Honorin. Springsteen on kirjoittanut New York Times -bestsellerin Born to Run ja sai 2016 Presidential Medal of Freedomin. Hän asuu perheensä kanssa New Jerseyssä.

Renegades - Born in the USA (suomenkielinen)

Renegades. Born in the USA

The launch of a brand-new series from blockbuster Warriors author Erin Hunter about two orphaned cat sisters who discover a secret world of magical creatures . . . and the humans who are out to control them.

Renegades: The Magic Awakens (eBook)

Renegades: Digital Dance Cultures from Dubsmash to TikTok explores how hip hop culture -- principally music and dance -- is used to construct and perform identity and maintain a growing urban youth subculture. This community finds its home on Dubsmash, a social media app that lets users record short dance challenge videos before cross-sharing them on different social media apps such as Instagram and Snapchat. Author Trevor Boffone interrogates the roles that Dubsmash, social media, and hip hop music and dance play in youth identity formation in the United States. These so-called Dubsmashers privilege their cultural and individual identities through the use of performance strategies that reinforce notions of community and social media interconnectedness in the digital age. These young people create a sense of identity and community that informs and is informed by hip hop culture. As such, the book argues that Dubsmash serves as a fundamental space to fashion contemporary youth identity. To do this, the book re-appropriates the term Renegade to explain the nuanced ways that Dubsmashers take up visual and sonic space on social media apps to self-fashion identity, form supportive digital communities, and exert agency to take up space that is often denied to them in other facets of their lives.

Advertising is a business rooted in art, an art rooted in business, and it reached its peak in a specific place at a specific time: New York City at the end of the 1950s and through the '60s. AMC's award-winning drama Mad Men has garnered awards for its portrayal of advertising executives. This engaging, insightful narrative reveals, for the first time, the lives and work of the real advertising men and women of that era. Just as portrayed in the series, these creative people were the stars of the real Madison Avenue. Their innate eccentricity, vanity, and imagination meant their behavior and lifestyle was as candid and original as their advertising. They had it and they flaunted it. People like Bill Bernbach, George Lois, Ed McCabe, Mary Wells, Marion Harper, Julian Koenig, Steve Frankfurt, and Amil Gargano, and others, who in that small space, in that short time, created some of the most radical and influential advertising ever and sparked a revolution in the methods, practice, and execution of the business. Including over 100 full-color illustrations, the book details iconic campaigns such as VW, Avis, Alka Seltzer, Benson & Hedges, Polaroid, and Braniff Airways.

The Real Mad Men

Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War, by veteran journalist Michael Petrou, tells the story of the 1,681 Canadians who, between 1936 and 1939, defied Canadian law to fight fascism in the Spanish Civil war. The war pitted a left leaning, democratically elected Spanish government against a military uprising led by Francisco Franco and supported, with weapons and tens of thousands of troops, by Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. By the time it was over, fascism had triumphed in Spain, and more than 400 Canadians were dead. Until now, little was known about these men and women, and about those who survived. Petrou has changed this. He has drawn on recently declassified material, interviewed veterans, and visited the battlefields of Spain to write the definitive history of Canadians in the war. Jack Granatstein, one of Canada’s leading military historians, concludes: “Based on massive research, this is the best and most complete account of Canadians in the Spanish Civil War we are ever likely to get.” Renegades reveals that Spanish Civil War veterans were pressured to become police informers, with the cooperation of the federal government; that a 1970 application by a veterans’ group for non-profit status was opposed by the federal government out of fear that approving the application might offend Spain's fascist dictator, Francisco Franco; and that the RCMP spied on Canadian veterans at least until 1980, when one police report noted that the veterans’ "political motivations are more in keeping with the NDP philosophies." Other highlights include: Detailed and vivid descriptions of the battles the Canadians fought, and their lives in Spain between action. The stories of Canadian prisoners of war are also told – as are accounts of Canadians who were imprisoned and otherwise punished, sometimes severely, by their own commanders. New and sensational information about Dr. Norman Bethune, whom Spanish authorities accused of espionage and of having a secretly fascist lover. The story of a young University Toronto student who was jailed as a suspected spy and was lucky to leave Spain alive. After reading recently declassified documents from Soviet archives about this man, Petrou tracked him down and interviewed him at the age of 90.

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