Author: Lauren DeStefano
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442409134
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Time is running out for Rhine in the conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Chemical Garden Trilogy. With time ticking until the virus takes its toll, Rhine is desperate for answers. After enduring Vaughn’s worst, Rhine finds an unlikely ally in his brother, an eccentric inventor named Reed, and she takes refuge in his dilapidated house. However, the people she left behind refuse to stay in the past. While Gabriel haunts Rhine’s memories, Cecily is determined to be at Rhine’s side, even if Linden’s feelings are still caught between them. Meanwhile, Rowan’s growing involvement in an underground resistance compels Rhine to reach him before he does something that cannot be undone. But what she discovers along the way has alarming implications for her future—and on the past her parents never had the chance to explain. In this breathtaking conclusion to Lauren DeStefano’s Chemical Garden trilogy, everything Rhine knows to be true will be irrevocably shattered.
Author: Al Sever
Publisher: Presidio Press
ISBN: 0891418563
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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No one in Vietnam had to tell door gunner and gunship crew chief Al Sever that the odds didn’t look good. He volunteered for the job well aware that hanging out of slow-moving choppers over hot LZs blazing with enemy fire was not conducive to a long life. But that wasn’t going to stop Specialist Sever. From Da Nang to Cu Chi and the Mekong Delta, Sever spent thirty-one months in Vietnam, fighting in eleven of the war’s sixteen campaigns. Every morning when his gunship lifted off, often to the clacking and muzzle flashes of AK-47s hidden in the dawn fog, Sever knew he might not return. This raw, gritty, gut-wrenching firsthand account of American boys fighting and dying in Vietnam captures all the hell, horror, and heroism of that tragic war.
Author: Amy Sever
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781496134561
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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The Three Rs Strategy - Your Guide to a Courageous, Radical Life Makeover Why do so few people today actually walk in the love, authority and power of Jesus? True joy and magnetic power comes from a far deeper understanding of the Word of God. That understanding is found in the pages of this book. If you have salvation through Jesus Christ, yet your life is not filled with the joy you expected ...this book holds your answers. The Three Rs is filled with scripture framed in such a way that you may feel as if you are "seeing it" for the first time. The Three Rs is the author's story, but it is filled with many other personal stories as well. Stories not typically discussed in church settings. Stories usually swept under the rug. Thus keeping the Body of Christ bound with unseen chains and locked in silent prisons. This book illuminates the Word of God in a powerful way. By challenging religious paradigms, The Three Rs will help you to have the freedom, joy, and abundance the Bible promises.
Author: Frances Larson
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 1847088015
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
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Our history is littered with heads. Over the centuries, they have decorated our churches, festooned our city walls and filled our museums; they have been props for artists and specimens for laboratory scientists, trophies for soldiers and items of barter. Today, as videos of decapitations circulate online and cryonicists promise that our heads may one day live on without our bodies, the severed head is as contentious and compelling as ever. From shrunken heads to trophies of war; from memento mori to Damien Hirst's With Dead Head; from grave-robbing phrenologists to enterprising scientists, Larson explores the bizarre, often gruesome and confounding history of the severed head. Its story is our story.
Author: Scott Snyder
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN: 9781607067153
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Originally published in single magazine form as Severed #1-7.
Author: Rita Sever
Publisher: She Writes Press
ISBN: 1647421411
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 319
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Leading in organizations working for justice is not the same as leading anywhere else. Staff expect to be treated as partners and demand internal practices that center equity. Justice leaders must meet these expectations, as well as recognize and address the ways that individuals and organizations inadvertently replicate oppression. Created specifically for social justice leaders, Leading for Justice addresses specific concerns and issues that beset organizations working for social justice and offers practices and models that center justice and equity. Topics include: the role of a supervisor in a social justice organization, the importance of self-awareness, issues of power and privilege, human resources as a justice partner, misses and messes, and clear guidelines for holding people accountable in a manner that is respectful and effective. Written in a friendly, accessible, and supportive tone, and offering discussion questions at the end of each short section to make the book user-friendly for both individuals and teams, Leading for Justice is a book for leaders who want to walk the talk of supporting social justice, in their organizations and in the world.
Author: Lauren DeStefano
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442409061
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 371
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After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, girls are kidnapped and married off in order to repopulate the world.
Author: John Gilmore
Publisher: Amok Books
ISBN: 187892317X
Category : Murder
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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This new edition of the L.A. noir classic is released just in time to accompany the Brian De Palma film.
Author: Julia Kristeva
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231157207
Category : Art, European
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Renowned philosopher and cultural theorist Kristeva (Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection) offers an extended consideration of artistic figurations of the severed head, the organizing theme to an exhibition she coordinated at the Louvre in 1998. Though she follows a single historical trajectory, moving from Paleolithic skull cults to antique Greek sculpture to the Surrealist drawings, Kristeva eschews the disciplinary constraints of art history, instead employing psychoanalysis to explore the intertwined problems of representation and mortality posed by the severed head. For Kristeva, the capacity to figure the life of the mind first requires a confrontation with this horrific object that stands at the boundary between life and death, registering not only the loss of corporeal form but also subjective interiority. Though this book does not engage with recent images of decapitation, it is not without contemporary political-cultural import; for Kristeva, these cruel artistic figurations offer us the capacity to contemplate the sacred within a technology-driven contemporary visual culture. Verdict While a challenging text, this beautifully written and richly layered meditation on mortality and representation will undoubtedly appeal to those readers interested in semiotic and psychoanalytically informed readings of art.-Jonathan Patkowski, CUNY Graduate Ctr.(c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Author: Gary Kleck
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781315142258
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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This book summarizes and synthesizes a vast body of research on the effects of legal punishment and criminal behavior. Covering studies conducted between 1967 and 2015, Punishment and Crime evaluates the assertion that legal punishment reduces crime by investigating the impacts, both positive and negative, of legal punishment on criminal behavior, with emphasis on the effects of punitive crime control policies via the mechanisms of deterrence and incapacitation. Brion Sever and Gary Kleck, author of the renowned Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America, present a literature review on legal punishment in the United States that is unparalleled in depth and scope. This text is a must-read for students, researchers, and policymakers concerned with the fields of corrections and crime prevention.
