From floating barges of urban refuse to dung-encrusted works of art, from toxic landfills to dirty movies, filth has become a major presence and a point of volatile contention in modern life. This book explores the question of what filth has to do with culture: what critical role the lost, the rejected, the abject, and the dirty play in social management and identity formation. It suggests the ongoing power of culturally mandated categories of exclusion and repression. Focusing on filth in literary and cultural materials from London, Paris, and their colonial outposts in the nineteenth and...

From floating barges of urban refuse to dung-encrusted works of art, from toxic landfills to dirty movies, filth has become a major presence and a point of volatile contention in modern life. This book explores the question of what filth has to do with culture: what critical role the lost, the rejected, the abject, and the dirty play in social management and identity formation. It suggests the ongoing power of culturally mandated categories of exclusion and repression.Focusing on filth in literary and cultural materials from London, Paris, and their colonial outposts in the nineteenth and...

Over the last several decades, historians of public health in Britain's colonies have been primarily concerned with the process of policy making in the upper echelons of the medical and sanitary administrations. Yet it was the lower level staff that formed the backbone of public health systems in the colonies. Although they constituted the bases of many colonies' public health machinery, there is no consolidated study of these individuals to date. Public Health in the British Empire addresses this gap by bringing together historians studying intermediary and subordinate staff across the...

Veronica Avery. If you ask her she is the baddest bitch Chicago, IL has ever seen next to her sister Pricey of course. After her mother commits suicide, love, murder, rape soon follows and Veronica's teenage life is changed forever. After surviving what she thinks is the worst part of her life she is more than willing to trade in her hardships and poverty to make money by any means. She believes she can capitalize on every situation by manipulating the men in her life. Veronica finds out that every guy can't be had and playing around with dangerous men like Dorian, Tyrese and Richard she...

Veronica Avery. If you ask her she is the baddest bitch Chicago, IL has ever seen next to her sister Pricey of course. After her mother commits suicide, love, murder, rape soon follows and Veronica's teenage life is changed forever. After surviving what she thinks is the worst part of her life she is more than willing to trade in her hardships and poverty to make money by any means. She believes she can capitalize on every situation by manipulating the men in her life. Veronica finds out that every guy can't be had and playing around with dangerous men like Dorian, Tyrese and Richard she...

WHY AM I A CHRISTIAN is a book of more than 200 questions designed to make you reevaluate your beliefs in an effort to grow and improve. None of us can claim to know all the answers or to live mistake free lives and for this reason we always have room to better ourselves and our understanding of humanity, life and God. The questions contained in this book will encourage you to break free from complacency and the false security of unquestioned beliefs. It's not easy to examine your convictions, however it will leave you with a stronger, more secure, faith. This is certainly not a complete list...