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A young man grieves over the state of the US government. This novel includes threats, an assassination attempt, an FBI, a sheriff's department, and a police task force takedown of a supposed extreme right-wing militia group, and at least one crooked politician. Of course, within this wide variety of interesting characters, there has to be romance. Oh yes, there is also a Mafia connection, a rogue CIA agent, and perhaps a few more surprises. In the course of three elections, the new party takes over the government. The grieving young man becomes president, and the vice president is a young Native American woman. This fictional story is based on my life experiences. Some of the characters are real people. Some are not. The personalities of the real people are as I remember them.
Having safely delivered her brother to the portal against impossible odds and unimaginable foes, and choosing not to follow him through it to a shared destiny, Khia Ashworth must forge a new path to an uncertain future. But she is not alone. Whisked away to the questionable sanctuary of the Vatican’s hallowed halls, Khia and her trusted companions must keep themselves from being buried beneath the weight of its history and power, learning who to trust and from whom they need to run. Unwittingly breathing life into ancient prophecies long dismissed as rhetoric and legend, and setting deadly wheels in motion, Khia’s unique family of friends must face the forces of evil that are pitted against them once more, enlisting the help of unlikely allies in their attempt to escape the grasping reach of the church’s army and the deadly enemies hidden within its ranks. Pursued by legendary creatures of mist and fire, across merciless deserts and countless worlds connected by the slimmest of threads, Khia must learn to move beyond the borders of time and place to discover her own power—hidden somewhere along the Corridor of Doors.
A riveting shifter mate romance from USA Today bestselling author Terry Spear full of passion, action, and mystery. They're not the only ones on the prowl...but they're the most dangerous... When jaguar shifters Howard Armstrong and Valerie Chambers are trapped in the jungles of Belize, neither of them will come out with their hearts intact. The United Shifter Force gave jaguar agent Howard Armstrong an impossible task—to protect fierce she-jaguar Valerie Chambers, when the last thing she wants is protecting. They're going international to take down a killer, two shifters unbound and ready to face intense danger. Armstrong is certain he can guard Valerie and keep her from being captured. B...
Robert will have to win the bet because he's fighting for his livelihood, his friends, his business,and more importantly, if he loses, he will have to sleep with Vicky, boy will his wife be mad.
Turn common adolescent missteps, from relationship blunders to rebellions that backfire, into character-building moments—by the author of Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen. “This clear-eyed, practical, fun-to-read guide is an essential read for every parent.”—Lisa Damour, PhD, New York Times bestselling author of Untangled, Under Pressure, and The Emotional Lives of Teenagers Every child messes up, sometimes in ways that seem sure to wreck their futures: a bad report card, poor sportsmanship, underaged drinking. These are tough moments for parent and child alike, often complicated by the fear that the misstep is also an indictment of our parenting. But what each of these “fails” has...
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans public school board fired nearly 7,500 teachers and employees. In the decade that followed, the city created the first urban public school system in the United States to be entirely contracted out to private management. Veteran educators, collectively referred to as the "backbone" of the city's Black middle class, were replaced by younger, less experienced, white teachers who lacked historical ties to the city. In A Burdensome Experiment, Christien Philmarc Tompkins argues that the privatization of New Orleans schools has made educators into a new kind of racialized worker. As school districts across the nation backslide on school integration, Tompkins asks, who exactly deserves to teach our children? The struggle over this question exposes the inherent antiblackness of charter school systems and the unequal burdens of school choice.
Updated to reflect the latest data in the field, the second edition of Majoring in Psychology: Achieving Your Educational and Career Goals remains the most comprehensive and accessible text for psychology majors available today. The new edition incorporates the most up-to-date research, as well as recent changes to the GRE Reveals the benefits of pursuing a psychology degree and shows students how to prepare for a career or to continue with graduate study in the field Features a wide range of supplemental exercises and materials plus topical contributions written by national and international figures in their respective psychology subfields Online support materials for instructors include Powerpoint slides and test banks to support each chapter
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Anyone who was not in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent flooding of the city experienced the disaster as a media event, a flood of images pouring across television and computer screens. The twenty-four-hour news cycle created a surplus of representation that overwhelmed viewers and complicated understandings of the storm, the flood, and the aftermath. As time passed, documentary and fictional filmmakers took up the challenge of explaining what had happened in New Orleans, reaching beyond news reports to portray the lived experiences of survivors of Katrina. But while these narratives presented alternative understandings and more opportunities for empathy than TV news, K...
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, this thoughtful collection of essays reflects on the relationship between the disaster and a range of media forms. The assessments here reveal how mainstream and independent media have responded (sometimes innovatively, sometimes conservatively) to the political and social ruptures "Katrina" has come to represent. The contributors explore how Hurricane Katrina is positioned at the intersection of numerous early twenty-first century crisis narratives centralizing uncertainties about race, class, region, government, and public safety. Looking closely at the organization of public memory of Katrina, this collection provides a timely and intellectually fruitful assessment of the complex ways in which media forms and national events are hopelessly entangled.