Download or read book A Spell Behind Bars written by Bowvayne and published by Usborne Books. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven-year-old Danny's ex-stepmother and member of the Society of Librarians Against Youth, Aunt Mildred, has put a Zero Hex upon him, and Danny and his friend Imogen must break it before he is forced to endure a spell behind bars.
Download or read book A Spell Behind Bars written by Bowvayne and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second of three spectaculous Misadventures, set in the magical and darkly hilarious world of Danny Cloke, a fabulous new character. This strikingly original series is fast, furious, bizarre, bedazzling and laugh-out-loud funny Synopsis Danny's real-life wicked stepmother is back, and this time she's even meaner than before. She places a Zero Hex on Danny, making him act in the most shameful and embarrassing ways: revealing his underwear in public and cavorting about like a giddy goat. Even worse, the Hex threatens to destroy everyone Danny loves and give him a spell behind bars. In order to save his friends and family, and himself, Danny has to battle with the terrifying Hobblegobs from the spirit world of Gloom, as well as S.L.A.Y. (Society of Librarians Against Youth). Danny needs all the wild magical help he can get from his best friends, Imogen and the ghostly Cyril Spectre.
Download or read book New Perspectives on Prison Masculinities written by Matthew Maycock and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection utilises recent advances in theories on masculinities to explore and analyse the ways in which prisons shape performances of gender, both within prison settings and following release from prison. The authors assess here how the highly gendered world of the prison (where the population is overwhelmingly male in most countries) impacts upon the performance of masculinities. Including original pieces from England, Australia, Scotland and the USA, as well as contributions which take a broader methodological and conceptual approach to masculinity, this engaging and original collection holds international appeal and relevance. Cumulatively, the chapters illustrate the importance of considering a nuanced understanding of masculinity within prison research, and as such, will be of particular interest for scholars of penology, gender studies, and the criminal justice system.
Download or read book Before You Cast A Spell written by Carl McColman and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2003-09-10 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[This] modern guide promises a careful approach to changing life through magic.” —Publishers Weekly A user-friendly introduction to the spirituality of magic. Before You Cast a Spell is for those newly interested in magic, as well as the veteran Witch, this book helps you discover the power and beauty of magic through eternal values such as love, compassion, hope, trust, and practicality. In other words, this is not a book full of spells or lists of magical ingredients. Rather, it reveals the principles of magical energy and power, helping the reader to understand what makes magic work and why. After mastering the spiritual principles in this book, the reader will be empowered not only to work effective spells, but to also find happiness and joy-with or without a spell. Before You Cast a Spell features: · Understanding magic: what it is, where it comes from, and what it can (and cannot) do. · Why some spells work, and why others don't. · The single most important quality of all magic. · How the chakras are a roadmap to understanding magic. · Why ethics are so important to magic. · How to find magical happiness-even without casting spells!
Download or read book Spell Caster written by RD king and published by 大賢者外語. This book was released on with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get Everything You Need To Know To Enter The Spiritual Realm Of Understanding Spells! Is the fact that you would like to learn more about the spiritual world of spells but just don't know how to get started making you feel like you'll never get the information you want... maybe you have even thought about just giving up? Your lack of knowledge may not be your fault, but that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t -- or can’t -- do anything to CHANGE it! So feel fortunate today -- as we’re going to help you STOP wringing your hands in frustration, and learn how you can quickly and easily get a better understanding about the world of spells... for GOOD! This powerful tool will provide you with everything you need to know to learn all about the basics of the world of spell casting. In This Book, You Will Learn: Spell Casting Basics The History Of Spells Understanding The Meaning Of Paranormal What Are Magical Words Understanding Black Magic
Download or read book Transgender Behind Prison Walls written by Sarah Jane Baker and published by Waterside Press. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After explaining ‘What is transgender?’ this first book on transgender in a prison setting looks at the entire HM Prison Service regime for such people. Ranging from hard information about rules and regulations, the transition process and how to access it to practical suggestions about clothing, wigs and hairpieces, make-up and coming out, the book also deals with such matters as change of name, gender identity clinics, hormones, medication and use of prison showers and toilets. Covering the entire transition process the book contains contributions from a number of transgender prisoners as well as extracts from reports showing how those in transition still tend to attract a negative portrayal. Also included are the special security implications of related procedures and descriptions of the attitudes to transgender inmates of other prisoners and staff. It contains a number of appendices dealing with the latest 2016 HM Prison Service Instruction on transgender prisoners and a range of support mechanisms including a list of specialists in the field and other useful reference sources and contacts. It also contains Sarah Jane Baker’s account of her own male-to-female transition and the difficulties she has faced behind bars. The first book of its kind. Written by a transgender life-sentence prisoner. Includes key extracts from official publications. With a graphic account of the author’s own transition journey. Contains practical information and tips. Reviews ‘An important contribution to current debates on the treatment of transgender prisoners’— Mia Harris, Oxford University. ‘I was heartbroken. It felt like a bereavement. The young man I had come to love as a son had disappeared overnight, and been replaced by a girl who was not my daughter, but, I felt, a stranger’— Pam Stockwell (From the Foreword)
Download or read book Cry of the Damned written by Ingrid Seymour and published by Ingrid Seymour. This book was released on 2023-03-10 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lux Academy breeds destruction and hatred. Now, I will breed its end. My pack was disseminated by Academy magistrates. Almost everyone was murdered and the children taken to be molded into fierce enemies of the wildlings. The shifter packs and witch covens want revenge, and they don’t care if they bring pain and destruction to the innocent. But we can’t let our foes turn us into monsters. There is a better way, and along with my triad—three faithful, strong, and sexy allies—I mean to find it. So we infiltrate their city and try to undermine them from within. Except, the Academy’s deceit and cruelty run deeper than we ever could have imagined. If I’m to destroy them, I will have to make choices that might always haunt me, if I manage to escape with my life. And as every moment in Lux City becomes increasingly more dangerous for me and my friend, the choices become impossible. I fear the end is near, and that I won’t live to complete the bond my fated mate craves.
Download or read book Blood Spells written by Alicia Ellis and published by Figmented Ink. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After her parents' deaths, she turns to illegal blood magic to hunt a killer. But is it worth her freedom—or her life? Maddy never made peace with her parents' deaths. Instead of moving on, she summons her mother's spirit whenever possible. So when she finds the bloody corpse of her stepmother—her final parent—Maddy's world falls apart. Devastated, she refuses to believe it was suicide. After all, blood magic users like her stepmother don't spill their blood without purpose. When her school principal is struck by a supernatural illness after he too suspects there's more to the story, Maddy vows to use her own illegal blood magic to investigate, no matter what the cost. The truth is all she has left, but is it worth her freedom—or her life? Blood Spells is a dark, standalone, young adult supernatural mystery full of dramatic twists and turns. Not for the faint of heart.
Download or read book Red Sonja Mother written by Mirka Andolfo and published by Dynamite Entertainment. This book was released on 2023-08-23 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comics icon Mirka Andolfo presents an all-new vision for the She-Devil With a Sword in a thrilling new adventure! Our story begins in a village on fire, set by members of the dreaded Three-Eyed Shezem. When Red Sonja arrives, the only survivor of the flame is a lively child with curious white tattoos. The child will become Sonja’s travel companion, on a journey from hardened ice to imposing forests, where dangerous secrets wait to be revealed... Begin a trailblazing adventure with Mirka Andolfo (Unnatural Mercy) and incredible artist Giuseppe Cafaro (Suicide Squad)!
Download or read book Of Diamonds and Dentistry written by Dr. Brian La Trobe and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-17 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian La Trobe retired from Dental practice in 1986 to pursue his environmental interests. He designed South Africas first energy from waste programme using the landfill site of Grahamstown South Africa. Later, on behalf of the South African Research Commission, he researched and developed a sanitation treatment system which required no water. He then established a company to field test the technology. Finally in 1993 the Enviro Loo unit went into production. To date some 55,000 units have been sold into the African market and exported internationally to many Countries, including the USA. Some years ago, he retired as Chairman of Enviro Options (Pty) Ltd. He now lives in retirement with his wife,Peggy, in Johannesburg where he occupies his time recording old memories.
Download or read book All Spell Breaks Loose written by Lisa Shearin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From national bestselling author Lisa Shearin comes a new chapter in "one of the best fantasy series currently on the market." (Night Owl Reviews) My name is Raine Benares—and it sucks to be me right now. I’m a seeker who found the Saghred, a soul-stealing stone that gave me unlimited powers I never wanted. Now I’ve lost the rock—and the magic it gave me—to a goblin dark mage whose main goals are my death and world domination. This is more than incentive enough for a little trip to the goblin capital of Regor with a small band of good friends, not-so-good friends, and one outright enemy. Don’t ask. All we need to do is destroy the Saghred, kill the mage, and put a renegade goblin prince on the throne. Did I mention I’ll be doing that with no magic?
Download or read book When Brute Force Fails written by Mark Kleiman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One in every one hundred adult Americans is imprisoned. With 2.3 million prison inmates on its hands, the author argues it is time the United States stopped focusing on punishment and turned its attention instead to reducing crime.
Download or read book A Criminal Magic written by Lee Kelly and published by Gallery / Saga Press. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Lee Kelly’s “electric” (Publishers Weekly) fantasy novel, two young sorcerers experiment with magic and mobsters in 1920s Prohibition when a new elixir is created that turns their lives upside down. Washington, DC, 1926. Sorcery opponents have succeeded in passing the 18th Amendment, but the Prohibition of magic has only invigorated the city’s underworld. Smuggling rings carry magic contraband in from the coast. Sorcerers cast illusions to aid mobsters’ crime sprees. Gangs have even established “magic havens,” secret venues where the public can lose themselves in immersive magic and consume a mind-bending, highly addictive elixir known as “the sorcerer’s shine.” Joan Kendrick, a young sorcerer from the backwoods of Norfolk County, accepts an offer to work for DC’s most notorious crime syndicate, The Shaw Gang, when her family’s home is repossessed. Alex Danfrey, first-year Federal Prohibition Unit trainee with a complicated past and talents of his own, becomes tapped to go undercover and infiltrate the Shaws. When Joan meets Alex at the Shaws’ magic haven, she discovers a confidante in her fellow partner and he begins to fall under her spell. But when a new breed of the addictive sorcerer’s shine is created within the walls of the magic haven, Joan and Alex are forced to question their allegiances as they become pitted against one another in a dangerous, heady game of cat-and-mouse.
Download or read book Islam as Political Religion written by Shabbir Akhtar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-10-18 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive survey of contemporary Islam provides a philosophical and theological approach to the issues faced by Muslims and the question of global secularisation. Engaging with critics of modern Islam, Shabbir Akhtar sets out an agenda of what his religion is and could be as a political entity. Exploring the views and arguments of philosophical, religious and political thinkers, the author covers a raft of issues faced by Muslims in an increasingly secular society. Chapters are devoted to the Qur’an and Islamic literature; the history of Islam; Sharia law; political Islam; Islamic ethics; and political Islam’s evolving relationship with the West. Recommending changes which enable Muslims to move from their imperial past to a modest role in the power structures of today’s society, Akhtar offers a detailed assessment of the limitations and possibilities of Islam in the modern world. Providing a vision for an empowered yet rational Islam that distances itself from both Islamist factions and Western secularism, this book is an essential read for students and scholars of Islamic studies, religion, philosophy and politics.
Download or read book Bubbles Crashes and Financial Disasters written by Ralph Lyons and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-05-24 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, the allure of promising opportunities has often ignited a speculative frenzy, arousing the get-rich-quick syndrome in millions of credulous souls, driving them to the extremes of ambition and greed in their quest for wealth. The symptoms of such behaviour frequently manifest during the build-up to a market crash, when months or even years of gains are wiped out in mere hours. This phenomenon is known as the ‘boom-and-bust scenario’, characterized by an economic bubble followed by a devastating crash. In this book, we delve into a number of remarkable events that have taken place between the seventeenth century and the present day, culminating in enormous financial losses for the general public or even the collapse of entire economies. The Great Crash of 1929 and some of the instances depicted from the 1980s onwards had seismic effects felt on a global scale. Today, despite living in a highly sophisticated world of economic regulation, financial manipulation, and extensive application of fiscal policy, economic bubbles still seem to burgeon from invisible beginnings, grow rapidly out of control, and then fragment into a melee of problems for modern society. While many believe that the random forces of human nature are responsible, spiralling out of control during periods of heady speculation, others share a different view. They argue that large economic bubbles are non-organic, engineered from within the system itself. This book takes a light-hearted journey through the subject matter, considering both the historical events and the intriguing possibility that financial engineering plays a role in the creation and destruction of economic bubbles.
Download or read book Literary Buckinghamshire written by Paul Wreyford and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2008-11-10 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet John Betjemen was not the only scribe 'beckoned out to lanes in beechy Bucks'. Many of the country's most famous writers shared his fondness for the county and sought solace within its boundaries. John Milton came here to escape the plague in London; Enid Blyton fled the capital's increasing development, while D.H. Lawrence and his German wife took refuge on the outbreak of the First World War. Running along Buckinghamshire's southern border is the Thames, where Jerome K. Jerome, Percy Shelley and Kenneth Grahame enjoyed 'messing about in boats'.
Download or read book Maximum Security written by Karen Farrington and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-06 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maximum Security tells the stories of the world's harshest prisons, and the people on either side of the locked door. From Alcatraz and Devil's Island to La Santé, France and Boscobel, USA 'supermax', this book is about the eternal cat and mouse game played out between convicts and the warders who try to keep them behind the four tall walls of 'the Big House'. These pages are packed with accounts of repressive prison regimes and the people who fight against them, the vicious hierarchies that operate within the prison population, what it's like to be on Death Row, riots and hostage-taking, violent abuse by both guards and inmates, plus daring escapes against the odds. From institutional corruption and sadistic punishments to drug smuggling and prisoner murder, Maximum Security lets you peer between the cell bars into a hidden world of crime and punishment.
