Download or read book A Day at the Races Night Vision written by Frank Berrios and published by RH/Disney. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At head of title: Disney Pixar, the world of Cars.
Download or read book White Fragility written by Dr. Robin DiAngelo and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’ (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.
Download or read book A Day at the Races written by Matt Dray and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Flea envied Doom. Not for what he had or what he was. Just his vision. He knew what he wanted to do and he was on his way. Perhaps it was more admiration than envy.Doom, Tragic, Scoop and The Flea treat their whole lives like a day at the races - only in it for the ride. When it really matters, they just can't help mucking up the opportunities life gives them.But Doom wants to break the mould and escape his small-town existence, where chasing girls, getting drunk and picking fights is the best a Saturday night has to offer. He's got visions of greatness, and it's time to take a chance.
Download or read book The Damned Trilogy written by Alan Dean Foster and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans are caught up in an alien war in this epic from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Trek Into Darkness. For millennia, the Weave, an alliance of species, have fought to resist the telepathic Amplitur, who strive to unite all self-aware life-forms in their great “Purpose.” The Weave is slowly losing ground, but for both sides, warfare focuses more on outthinking and outmaneuvering your foe than destruction. In fact, most regard violence as hideously barbaric, and even the thought of harming another sentient being is beyond imagining. Then they come to Earth . . . A Call to Arms When one of its scout ships lands on Earth, the Weave quickly realizes that humanity’s almost innate ability to wreak havoc and death may hold the key to turning the tide in their fight. Unfortunately for all, the Amplitur have the same idea—and mankind is caught in the middle. The False Mirror When the Amplitur unleash an elite cadre of fighters, it soon becomes clear that they have subjected their human prisoners to horrific genetic manipulation. But if the Weave attempts to undo the effects, they may change the former warriors into something far, far worse. The Spoils of War With mankind’s help, the Weave is finally on the verge of victory against the Amplitur. Until an alien scholar uncovers a terrifying truth: Earthlings might not even be capable of being civilized—and a shadowy group of powerful humans is already poised to unleash war across the entire galaxy. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alan Dean Foster including rare images from the author’s collection.
Download or read book A Crude Vision written by Finian O'Sullivan and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of unlikely success: of a man’s journey in oil exploration across four continents before he climbs the foothills of the London Stock Exchange. An often lonely voyage of ambition and irrational perseverance, where knowing who you’re not is just as important as knowing who you are. “The particular morning, standing in silence in my punt, musket in hand, looking out southward to the end of the earth that was the Caspian Sea horizon, I concluded that we must sell.”
Download or read book The Real World of Ti Airea written by Brian P. Taylor and published by F.L.Y. Arts Productions. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Real World of Ti-Airea, is a RPG players manual, like many other popular books of its genre! It is a world like no other! As an RPG gamer, Ti-Airea will have many great and new exciting things that other RPG gaming systems don’t have! There are unique races, that’s in a fantasy world, many would like to play as! In addition to that, some also have powers and abilities that are unique to them alone! There are character classes that are totally different from the normal classes that you would normally see in other gaming systems. As well as the standard class types. There are rules that may seem familiar to you and some that are brand new! But all will make sense without very long explanations. Some characters that you will see may seem to be over powered and some will seem to be to weak but once you see how they are all used you will notice that they all compliment each other to some extent! Not all are good and not all are bad but they all are unique! Ti-Airea follows no earthly commonality, because its not earth! There are God's, Avatars, great beasts, magic & of corse dragons! There is much to do in Ti-Airea, places to explore, ruins to find and things to fight. Ti-Airea has 6 huge continents, five in which are explorable by land and sea and one only by air. There is much more to The Real World of Ti-Airea than just that! So we beckon you all to come to Ti-Airea, to lose yourself, imagine well & enjoy the difference!
Download or read book Race the Night written by Kirsten Hubbard and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] moving tale of resilience, hope, and the meaning of family." -- School Library Journal (starred review) Without you, there'd be no hope for the world. Because you are the whole world. That's what Teacher says, and twelve-year-old Eider knows she's right. The world ended long ago, and the desert ranch is the only thing left. Still, Eider's thoughts keep wandering Beyond the fence. Beyond the pleated earth and scraggly brush and tedious daily lessons. Eider can't help wishing for something more-like the stories in the fairytale book she hides in the storage room. Like the secret papers she collects from the world Before. Like her little sister who never really existed. When Teacher announces a new kind of lesson, Eider and the other kids are confused. Teacher says she needs to test their specialness-the reason they were saved from the end of the world. But seeing in the dark? Reading minds? As the kids struggle to complete Teacher's challenges, they also start to ask questions. Questions about their life on the desert ranch, about Before and Beyond, about everything Teacher has told them. But the thing about questions-they can be dangerous. This moving novel-equal parts hope and heartbreak-traces one girl's journey for truth and meaning, from the smallest slip of paper to the deepest understanding of family. The world may have ended for the kids of the desert ranch . . . but that's only the beginning.
Download or read book Rift in the Races written by John Daulton and published by John Daulton. This book was released on 2013-01-05 with total page 811 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rift in the Races (Book 2 of The Galactic Mage series) follows the continuing story of powerful Prosperion sorcerer Altin Meade and feisty Earth-fleet officer Orli Pewter in the fight against the mysterious alien Hostiles. The Earth fleet is now moving to take advantage of its recent victory. With better combat strategies and Prosperion wizards only a blink away, the time has come to finish the job they set out to do: destroying the Hostiles. But complications arise. Altin's discovery of space-traveling humans from distant Earth has threatened ancient and foundational beliefs for the people of his world. The shockwaves from this revelation begin to unravel a long-standing but precarious balance of power. With her eyes to the sky and all its galactic possibilities, Prosperion's War Queen soon finds her realm on the brink of chaos. Together, Altin and Orli must once again find a way to mediate the forces of pride, frustration and fear between their two peoples, or both planets will be destroyed. What ensues is an action-packed, laser-blasting magic ride through space, war, romance and conspiracy--a thrilling tale of alliances and alien hostility. Unfortunately, sometimes "alien hostility" is a matter of perspective. *** Rift in the Races is the second book in The Galactic Mage series. Book 1, The Galactic Mage, and Book 3, Hostiles, are now available. Book 4, Alien Arrivals, is underway and expected in summer 2014 and a prequel, Ilbei Spadebreaker and the Harpy's Wild, is expected in March 2014.
Download or read book Brit ish written by Afua Hirsch and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Afua Hirsch - co-presenter of Samuel L. Jackson's major BBC TV series Enslaved - the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the uncomfortable truth about race and identity in Britain today. You're British. Your parents are British. Your partner, your children and most of your friends are British. So why do people keep asking where you're from? We are a nation in denial about our imperial past and the racism that plagues our present. Brit(ish) is Afua Hirsch's personal and provocative exploration of how this came to be - and an urgent call for change. 'The book for our divided and dangerous times' David Olusoga
Download or read book Night Vision written by Butch Lee and published by Kersplebedeb. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transformation to a neo-colonial world has only begun, but it promises to be as drastic, as disorienting a change as was the original european colonial conquest of the human race. Capitalism is again ripping apart & restructuring the world, and nothing will be the same. Not race, not nation, not gender, and certainly not whatever culture you used to have. Now you have outcast groups as diverse as the Aryan Nation and the Queer Nation and the Hip Hop Nation publicly rejecting the right of the u.s. government to rule them. All the building blocks of human culture-race, gender, nation, and especially class-are being transformed under great pressure to embody the spirit of this neo-colonial age. The definitive analysis of postmodern capitalism, the decline of u.s. hegemony, and the need and possibilities for a revolutionary movement of the oppressed to overthrow it all. -bell hooks: Night-Vision was so compelling to me because it has a spirit of militancy which reformist feminism tries to kill because militant feminism is seen as a threat to the liberal bourgeois feminism that just wants to be equal with men. It has that raw, unmediated truth-telling which I think we are going to need in order to deal with the fascism that's upon us- -- bell hooks
Download or read book Seeing Through Race written by Martin A. Berger and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is an original reinterpretation of the iconic photographs of the black civil rights struggle. Berger's provocative study shows how the very pictures credited with arousing white sympathy, and thereby paving the way for civil rights legislation, actually limited the scope of racial reform in the 1960s.
Download or read book Adventures in Reasoning written by Jason J. Howard and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helping students think more critically, communicate ideas more effectively, and work more cooperatively with others are goals widely recognized as indispensable to a proper education. Adventures in Reasoning: Communal Inquiry Through Fantasy Role-Play provides middle school, high school, and even post-secondary teachers with a method to cultivate these crucial skill sets in a way that is engaging, academically rigorous, and also fun. The role-playing approach draws upon the pioneering notion of the community of inquiry as a vehicle for enhancing student learning and development through discussing philosophical concepts and issues. Students create characters that they then use to explore a rich fantasy world filled with practical and conceptual challenges specifically designed to enhance a wide range of cognitive and communication abilities. Drawing together the appeal of fantasy narratives with the rigor of communal inquiry, Adventures in Reasoning provides educators with a rich array of tools through which to engage students’ interests, capture their curiosity, and cultivate crucial cognitive and social skills. Some additional key features of this book include: step-by-step instructions on how to implement fantasy-gaming in the classroom tips on how to assess students’ critical and creative reasoning skills easy to understand rules for fantasy role-playing detailed adventure quests provided that target a wide array of skill sets overview of the pedagogical benefits of introducing philosophy and communal inquiry to middle and high school students lots of advice and suggestions on how to facilitate an effective community of inquiry and how to accommodate different class sizes and student abilities recommendations on how to use fantasy role-playing as a type of service learning in college classrooms
Download or read book Night for Day written by Patrick Flanery and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A feverish vision of McCarthy-era Hollywood...
Download or read book Dawn of Dusk written by R. Henry Potter and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twin brothers Borrial and Vistyral find themselves in conflict. The elder brother, Borrial, who is heir to the throne of Karrondor, has determined to conquer and enslave the known world. His younger twin brother by three minutes, Vistyral, is determined to keep peace in the world. Only Vistyral has the knowledge and capability to thwart Borrial's plans, but his futile hope that his brother will be satisfied ruling the largest kingdom in the world may keep Vistyral from moving against his brother until it is too late for anyone to stop him. Vistyral is in love with Mirtar, who is betrothed to Borrial. But Borrial does not want Mirtar; rather, he desires to marry Lymar, who is the princess of Fulsimter. Before releasing Mirtar from her betrothal, however, Borrial tries to rape Mirtar to leave a scar on her marriage with Vistyral. Every time Vistyral comes to her, she will see and feel Borrial attacking her. Fortunately, Vistyral is able to stop the assault. Mirtar forces Borrial to release her from the betrothal and offer independence to the duchy of Cryarlac, making Vistyral a king in his own right. There are several attempts on Vistyral's life. A series of events kills all of Lymar's family, making her the only living heir. Vistyral marries Mirtar and tells her that in spite of his deep love for her, he will remain publicly aloof to protect her from Borrial, who thinks all Vistyral wants from her is the kingdom of Artermador. Borrial marries shortly after Vistyral, and his father, Lamercal, soon abdicates the throne. Borrial then consolidates Artermador and Fulsimter into one country called Nordlund, giving him the largest army and the largest navy in the world. Having created a network of assassins Borrial sends several of them to kill Mirtar's parents, the king and queen of Artermador; Mirtar and Vistyral, the king and queen of Cryarlac; and the king of Westonisia, whom Borrial has framed for the death of Lymar's brother, the then king of Fulsimter. Vistyral calls a meeting of the council of the kings to ratify the combination of Cryarlac and Artermador into a new country called Surdlund.
Download or read book The Elder Pliny on the Human Animal written by and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-03-17 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a detailed study of the human animal, described by its author as the raison d'etre of nature, Book Seven of the elder Pliny's Natural History is crucial to the understanding of the work as a whole. In addition, however, it provides a valuable insight into the extraordinary complex of ideas and beliefs current in Pliny's era, many of which have resonances for other eras and cultures. The present study includes a substantial introduction examining the background to Pliny's life, thought, and writing, together with a modern English translation, and a detailed commentary which emphasizes the importance of Book Seven as possibly the most fascinating cultural record surviving from early imperial Rome.
Download or read book Gaia Saga Universal Role Playing System written by Bill Rosser and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gaia Saga is a universal role-playing system that focuses on as much flexibility for character creation as possible. Using an interesting and unique set of rules, Gaia Saga allows players and game masters alike to experience an ever-changing dice system that grows and develops as your story moves along. This flexible dice system allows characters to endlessly evolve into more powerful beings than you could ever imagine possible in a table top game. The manual includes over thirteen playable races to choose from, each with their own set of ethnic classes to broaden your horizons. It also features lists for job professions, skills, special abilities, spell schools, a personality and emotions engine as well as a leveling system based upon the spending of accrued experience points to any area you desire. You get to upgrade your characters when you want to, as often as you want to, and without the hassle of waiting for multiple game sessions to end just to reach that next level.
Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
