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Sarah Shemilt's Masterlist wishlist: Page 3
Bio: This is mainly for my own reference, but if you would like to get me something, I won't object...
This list was last updated on 2009/02/21
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There is no working medical definition for "virginity."
Vaginal rejuvenation – in which a woman’s labia is trimmed and vagina tightened or her hymen is completely replaced (a "revirginization")– is the fastest-growing form of plastic surgery in the U.S.
Over 1,400 federally-funded Purity Balls, where young girls pledge their virginity to their fathers in a prom-like event, were held in 2006 across the United States.
The United States is obsessed with virginityfrom the media to schools to fantastical Purity Balls. This panic is ensuring that young women’s ability to be moral agents is absolutely dependent on their sexuality. Jessica Valenti, author of Full Frontal Feminism and executive editor of Feministing.com, addresses this poignant issue in her latest book, The Purity Myth. Valenti argues that the country’s intense focus on chastity is extremely damaging to young women. Through in depth analysis of cultural stereotypes and media messages, Valenti reveals that powerful messagesranging from abstinence curriculum to Girls Gone Wild commercialsplace a young woman’s worth entirely on her sexuality. Morals are therefore linked purely to sexual behavior, as opposed to values like honesty, kindness, and altruism.
Valenti approaches the topic head-on, shedding light on chastity in a historical context, abstinence-only education, pornography, and public punishments for those who dare to have sex, among other critical issues. She also offers solutions that pave the way for a future without a damaging emphasis on virginity, including a call to rethink male sexuality and reframing the idea of losing it. With Valenti’s usual balance of intelligence and wit, The Purity Myth presents a powerful and revolutionary argument that girls and women, even in this day and age, are overly valued for their sexuality, and that this needs to stop.
Vaginal rejuvenation – in which a woman’s labia is trimmed and vagina tightened or her hymen is completely replaced (a "revirginization")– is the fastest-growing form of plastic surgery in the U.S.
Over 1,400 federally-funded Purity Balls, where young girls pledge their virginity to their fathers in a prom-like event, were held in 2006 across the United States.
The United States is obsessed with virginityfrom the media to schools to fantastical Purity Balls. This panic is ensuring that young women’s ability to be moral agents is absolutely dependent on their sexuality. Jessica Valenti, author of Full Frontal Feminism and executive editor of Feministing.com, addresses this poignant issue in her latest book, The Purity Myth. Valenti argues that the country’s intense focus on chastity is extremely damaging to young women. Through in depth analysis of cultural stereotypes and media messages, Valenti reveals that powerful messagesranging from abstinence curriculum to Girls Gone Wild commercialsplace a young woman’s worth entirely on her sexuality. Morals are therefore linked purely to sexual behavior, as opposed to values like honesty, kindness, and altruism.
Valenti approaches the topic head-on, shedding light on chastity in a historical context, abstinence-only education, pornography, and public punishments for those who dare to have sex, among other critical issues. She also offers solutions that pave the way for a future without a damaging emphasis on virginity, including a call to rethink male sexuality and reframing the idea of losing it. With Valenti’s usual balance of intelligence and wit, The Purity Myth presents a powerful and revolutionary argument that girls and women, even in this day and age, are overly valued for their sexuality, and that this needs to stop.
Added on 2008/10/22
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Amazon (US) $24.95
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Accommodates up to a 600mm lens. Holds multiple DSLRs and various lenses.
USA Domestic airline carry on size.
TSA combination locks.
Front cable and lock secures laptops.
Back cable and lock secures to fixed object.
Security Plate with unique serial number.
Holds up to a 600mm lens.
Replaceable wheels.
Emergency shoulder straps.
Monopod And Tripod Holder.
Seam-sealed raincover.
Stretchable front pocket for 17" laptop.
Front organisational pocket.
Business card holder.
Optional Low Divider Set.
USA Domestic airline carry on size.
TSA combination locks.
Front cable and lock secures laptops.
Back cable and lock secures to fixed object.
Security Plate with unique serial number.
Holds up to a 600mm lens.
Replaceable wheels.
Emergency shoulder straps.
Monopod And Tripod Holder.
Seam-sealed raincover.
Stretchable front pocket for 17" laptop.
Front organisational pocket.
Business card holder.
Optional Low Divider Set.
Added on 2008/09/02
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www.jacobsdigital.co.uk £257.50
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Achieve peak performance. The PowerShot G9 captures 12.1 Megapixels with a 1/1.7" sensor. Flexible control, RAW image recording and a versatile range of accessories set new standards in compact photography.
The Canon Powershot G9 is a high specification digital compact with 12.1 megapixels recorded in RAW format, 6x optical zoom, 3 inch LCD screen and 25 shooting modes.
The Canon Powershot G9 is a high specification digital compact with 12.1 megapixels recorded in RAW format, 6x optical zoom, 3 inch LCD screen and 25 shooting modes.
Added on 2008/08/06
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www.jessops.com £299.99
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Provides simple recipes for non-toxic cleaners made from inexpensive, common ingredients, and offers tips on how to clean a home safely.
Added on 2008/06/25
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Amazon.co.uk £9.99
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John Simm continues into a second thrilling series as Sam Tyler, a driven and ambitious young detective, determined to keep the streets of 21st Century Manchester safe. But after a near fatal car accident, he has waken up, dazed and confused, in 1973. Has he gone back in time? Is he in a coma? Or has he simply gone insane?
In an archaic CID unit he still must adapt to their old-fashioned technologies and etiquettes while working on some of the hardest cases in which he's ever been involved...
In an archaic CID unit he still must adapt to their old-fashioned technologies and etiquettes while working on some of the hardest cases in which he's ever been involved...
Added on 2008/06/24
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Launched in 1936 in the "Sunday Post" in Scotland, The Broons are undoubtedly Scotland's first family - the Nation's favourites - with a readership covering all generations. The Broons 'annual' sells over 100,000 copies. This is a facsimile of Maw Broon's very own cookbook, which we borrowed from the sideboard at No. 10 Glebe Street - first made for her by her mother-in-law when 'Maw' married 'Paw', and added-to over the years with recipes for every day and special days, from friends and neighbours and others that simply caught Maw's eye in "The Sunday Post", or cut-out of the backof a flour bag. These are the very recipes that became the favourite dishes of the whole extended family - Maw and Paw, Granpaw, Daphne, Horace, Joe, Maggie, Hen, the Twins and 'the bairn'.The strip itself is still hugely popular, with the "Sunday Post" having a circulation of over 1,000,000 copies every week, and there are some examples of the strip from years gone by that Maw must have clipped into her Cookbook- perhaps as reminders of special days. We've just left the 'bits and pieces' that you find tucked into a cookbook, exactly as we found them - stains and all.
Added on 2008/10/06
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Amazon.co.uk £6.17
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The Sims for the Wii
Added on 2008/10/31
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www.gamestation.co.uk £14.99
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Picking up where bestseller Nella Last's "War" left off, this fascinating and unique diary of 1945-48 delves into the private life of housewife, mother and skilful narrator Nella Last, as well as that of her family, friends and neighbours.Outwardly Nella's life was probably seen as ordinary; but behind this mask were a lively mind and a persistent pen - a pen that never gave up over almost three decades, reporting, describing, pondering, and disclosing. Nella, 55 when the war ends, writes of what ordinary people felt during those years of privation, hope and the re-building of Britain, providing a moving and inspiring account of the years that shaped the society we live in today. Her diary offers a detailed, moving and humorous narrative of the changing experiences of ordinary people at this time, and thoughts on the aftermath of war and whether 'peace' really meant peace, for everyone.
Added on 2008/10/01
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Amazon.co.uk £4.49
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When war broke out, Nella's younger son joined the army while the rest of the family tried to adapt to civilian life. Writing each day for the "Mass Observation" project, Nella, a middle-aged housewife from the bombed town of Barrow, shows what people really felt during this time. This was the period in which she turned 50, saw her children leave home, and reviewed her life and her marriage - which she eventually compares to slavery. Her growing confidence as a result of her war work makes this a moving (though often comic) testimony, which, covering sex, death and fear of invasion, provides a new, unglamorised, female perspective on the war years.
Added on 2008/10/01
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Amazon.co.uk £5.99
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Fast-paced and full of angst-ridden fun, Skins may be based on teenage characters and aimed at a teenage audience, but its content is strictly adult. Watch as eleven teens struggle with highly-charged issues of race, religion, sexuality, drugs, and food disorders. With a solid set of good actors, expect the drama to consist of a lot of well-played emotional ups and downs.
Includes the complete first and second seasons!
Includes the complete first and second seasons!
Added on 2008/06/24
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Diana Athill's memoir of a life spent working with some of the charismatic characters who have dominated 20th-century literature. In a prose style of inimitable wit and rare candour, she recounts tales from a long life in publishing, including her reflections on editing writers such as V.S. Naipaul, Jean Rhys, Gitta Sereny and Brian Moore. She also provides an account of her own writing career, whcih includes the two critically-acclaimed works, "Instead of a Letter" and "After a Funeral".
Added over a year ago
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Amazon.co.uk £5.99
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<i>In this enormous, beautiful book, we hear the full story of the meteoric rise of Heston Blumenthal and The Fat Duck, birthplace of snail porridge and bacon-and-egg ice cream, and encounter the passion, perfection and weird science behind the man and the restaurant. Heston Blumenthal is widely acknowledged to be a genius, and The Fat Duck has twice been voted the Best Restaurant in the World by a peer group of top chefs. But he is entirely self-taught, and the story of his restaurant has broken every rule in the book. His success has been borne out of his pure obsession, endless invention and a childish curiosity into how things work - whether it's how smell affects taste, what different flavours mean to us on a biological level, or how temperature is distributed in the centre of a souffle.In the first section of "The Big Fat Duck Cookbook", we learn the history of the restaurant, from its humble beginnings to its third Michelin star (the day Heston received the news of this he had been wondering how exactly he would be able to pay his staff that month).
Next we meet 50 of his signature recipes - sardine on toast sorbet, salmon poached with liquorice, hot and iced tea, chocolate wine - which, while challenging for anyone not equipped with ice baths, dehydrators, vacuum pumps and nitrogen on tap, will inspire home cooks and chefs alike. Finally, we hear from the experts whose scientific know-how has contributed to Heston's topsy-turvy world, on subjects as diverse as synaesthesia, creaminess and flavour expectation.With an introduction by Harold McGee, incredible colour photographs throughout, illustrations by Dave McKean, multiple ribbons, real cloth binding and a gorgeous slip case, "The Big Fat Duck Cookbook" is not only the nearest thing to an autobiography from the world's most fascinating chef, but also a stunning, colourful and joyous work of art.</i>
Next we meet 50 of his signature recipes - sardine on toast sorbet, salmon poached with liquorice, hot and iced tea, chocolate wine - which, while challenging for anyone not equipped with ice baths, dehydrators, vacuum pumps and nitrogen on tap, will inspire home cooks and chefs alike. Finally, we hear from the experts whose scientific know-how has contributed to Heston's topsy-turvy world, on subjects as diverse as synaesthesia, creaminess and flavour expectation.With an introduction by Harold McGee, incredible colour photographs throughout, illustrations by Dave McKean, multiple ribbons, real cloth binding and a gorgeous slip case, "The Big Fat Duck Cookbook" is not only the nearest thing to an autobiography from the world's most fascinating chef, but also a stunning, colourful and joyous work of art.</i>
Added on 2008/07/19
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Amazon.co.uk £66.00
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Tasty looking vegan cooking
Added over a year ago
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Amazon.co.uk £11.49
