One of America's leading feminist voices examines the world of violence and terror, and asks why some lives are more valued than others. Through five essays, this book responds to various US policies to wage perpetual war, and calls for an understanding of how mourning and violence might instead inspire solidarity and a quest for global justice.

In China, women are having their legs broken and extended by 5cms. In Iran, behind the Hijab there are 35,000 cosmetic nose reconstructions a year. In Brazil breasts and bottoms are reshaped along with the face so that women there can reflect western norms of beauty. This book states that our body becomes the measure of our worth.

From the author of the international number one bestseller I Know This Much is True comes a magnificent novel which explores the consequence of violent events, and the chaos that ensues, for human lives blown irrevocably off course

Explores the cultural representations of transvestism and transsexuality in modern screen media (film and Internet), against a historical background.

We all notice things about our body that are annoying, our hair may suddenly become lifeless, or our nails brittle. These are body signs. If we learn how to decode them, they can tell us a lot about the state of our health. This work is about how our bodies communicate our internal health status through external signs.

Attempting to cut a third way between the usual alternatives of social constructionist and naturalist approaches to the body, this collection turns to both the biological and the social sciences as a starting point for an adequate critique of the body, before moving to offer a cultural analysis.

The fourth novel in the Dr Kay Scarpetta series which was awarded the CWA Gold Dagger for the best crime novel of 1993

Dr Kay Scarpetta, female investigator, returns in this novel.

Contains 3D images which reveal your major systems. This book also helps you discover how the nervous system works, the construction of skeleton and muscles, and how your body protects itself when you are under threat. The DVD-ROM helps you see the bodies processes in action from a nerve impulse to blood surging through an artery.

The most extensive collection of Alex Grey's visionary artwork in one volume, now in paperback.

Max Dupain is regarded as one of Australia's most significant photographers. This book charts his work, in relation to the impact in Australia of 'body culture', a broad ranging movement in the interwar period that was concerned with the revitalisation of the individual and the social body.

Presents poetry orchestrated to read as one single movement fed by variations on a theme, with each rapid-fire poem blooming suddenly into the light. This book includes poems which have bleak yet engaging humour facing up to truth. It aims to offer readers a shared sense of recognition that denial or evasion will never heal a wound.

Demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to productive use. Focusing on the 'orientation' aspect of 'sexual orientation' and the 'orient' in 'orientalism', this title examines what it means for bodies to be situated in space and time.

Graphic novel.

Presents the tale of the assassin of the Noh. This title includes nine painted issues of the series Kabuki . It sets the stage for the Alchemy storyline.

Graphic novel.

Introducing sassy new amateur sleuth Ali Reynolds in a spine-tingling tale of suspense