Download or read book Fickle written by Peter Manus and published by Diversion Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dark, twisting work of digital-age noir is “a riveting mystery . . . An incredibly daring novel and a complete success” (Booklist, starred review). On a winter night in Boston, a man falls to his death in front of a train. The sole witness, a shaken young woman, explains to the police how the man shoved her aside as he made his way to the tracks. But when her blog turns up on the dead man’s computer, the cops begin to look for other connections between them. This dark and intricate tale of obsession and deception is told in the form of a blog written by an elusive narrator known only by her online name, “l. g. fickel.” Deep into the night, every night, Fickel posts about “Mr. Suicide” and the ensuing police investigation. She is joined in her blog chats by a loyal group of commenters. Is Fickel’s tale that of an innocent woman frantically trying to figure out how her online activity has enmeshed her in a murder case, or is she a manipulator, playing an elaborate game as she grinds out her revenge on those she feels have betrayed her? “Noir fans should enjoy the twists and turns that echo such genre classics such as Double Indemnity and The Asphalt Jungle.” —Publishers Weekly

Download or read book A Fickle and Restless Weapon written by Jason Erik Lundberg and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2020-06-07 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quek Zhou Ma, a performer who goes by the stage name Zed, returns to the island-nation of Tinhau after a long absence to attend the funeral of his older sister. As he deals with conflicting feelings about a homeland he hardly recognises, he decides to produce a lavish production with the Ministry of Culture, but opening night is marred by a bombing attributed to a local resistance group, Red Dhole. He meets Tara, a graphic designer with the Ministry of Culture who finds herself uneasily associated with Red Dhole. She is charged with bringing Zed over to the cause, but as the pair grow closer, she doubts whether she can complete her task. Meanwhile, Vahid Nabizadeh, Zed’s creative partner and a master puppeteer, finds a new home in Tinhau, but he becomes embroiled in political and financial intrigue that threatens to unbalance the stability of the government. As Zed, Tara and Vahid struggle with their disaffected identities, Tinhau is abruptly attacked by the Range, a mysterious cloud formation that appears without warning and destroys without mercy, a weapon as fickle and restless as the human mind.

Download or read book The Race Card written by Tara Fickle and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How games have been used to establish and combat Asian American racial stereotypes As Pokémon Go reshaped our neighborhood geographies and the human flows of our cities, mapping the virtual onto lived realities, so too has gaming and game theory played a role in our contemporary understanding of race and racial formation in the United States. From the Chinese Exclusion Act and Japanese American internment to the model minority myth and the globalization of Asian labor, Tara Fickle shows how games and game theory shaped fictions of race upon which the nation relies. Drawing from a wide range of literary and critical texts, analog and digital games, journalistic accounts, marketing campaigns, and archival material, Fickle illuminates the ways Asian Americans have had to fit the roles, play the game, and follow the rules to be seen as valuable in the US. Exploring key moments in the formation of modern US race relations, The Race Card charts a new course in gaming scholarship by reorienting our focus away from games as vehicles for empowerment that allow people to inhabit new identities, and toward the ways that games are used as instruments of soft power to advance top-down political agendas. Bridging the intellectual divide between the embedded mechanics of video games and more theoretical approaches to gaming rhetoric, Tara Fickle reveals how this intersection allows us to overlook the predominance of game tropes in national culture. The Race Card reveals this relationship as one of deep ideological and historical intimacy: how the games we play have seeped into every aspect of our lives in both monotonous and malevolent ways.

Download or read book Life A Fickle Mistress written by Timothy Patrick and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Delisted

Download or read book Little Miss Fickle written by Roger Hargreaves and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-04-05 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little Miss Fickle can never decide on anything. Or, rather, she can decide, but then she changes her mind again, and again, and again! When she visits the library one day, Little Miss Fickle finds 9,999 books to choose from. Will she ever be able to pick one out?

Download or read book Mrs Fickle s Pickles written by Lori Ries and published by Boyds Mills Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhyming text with illustrations tells how Mrs. Fickle likes her pickles.

Download or read book Fickle Fiona written by Kate Hanscom and published by Ambassador-Emerald International. This book was released on 2013-09-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because Fickle Fiona Joyce can never make a choice, she goes to the park dressed in polka dots and stripes with her dog's chew toy. There's no room left on the jungle gym and all the ice cream she likes is gone. Fiona decides she must learn to make up her mind more quickly.

Download or read book The Fixed and the Fickle written by Hans Mol and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume describes the effect of religion on the identity of the native Maoris and Pakehas (white settlers in New Zealand. The description is woven around the idea that the fixed (identity) is constantly "unglued" by the fickle (change). The Maori charismatic movements are seen as attempts to absorb the devastating effects of Pakeha incursion into a viable system of meaning. Yet the white white settlers, too, had to tame the discontinuities with the past and the ravages of cultural change. Religion is seen to be at the forefront of the struggle to defend and reinforce the boundaries around the variety of identities. In presenting his thesis, the author has brought together a wide range of information—other anthropological and sociological studies, historical accounts, official statements, and religious census data. The volume will be of interest to students of sociology, anthropology, and religion.

Download or read book Hazards in a Fickle Environment Bangladesh written by C.E. Haque and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1997-12-31 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A holistic approach to the nature-society relationship and its connection to disasters in Bangladesh. Though rooted in the hard science of the Riverbank Erosion Impact Study carried out between 1984 and 1989, Haque (geography, Brandon U.) is also very concerned with other aspects of the problem such as the displacement, relocation and resettlement of disaster refugees, human coping responses to natural hazards, social class formation and vulnerability of the population, and public policy issues. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book A Fickle Response to Love written by Mason Ambrose and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Fickle Response to Love is the charming ramblings of the author, Mason Ambrose, as he tries to combat strong emotions and awkward situations with poetry. Through a divorce, dating, depression and more than a little self-reflection, A Fickle Response to Love is a collection of very relatable poems that helped the author maintain his sanity (or lack thereof).

Download or read book Capital Flows are Fickle written by Mr.John C Bluedorn and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2013-08-23 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has the unprecedented financial globalization of recent years changed the behavior of capital flows across countries? Using a newly constructed database of gross and net capital flows since 1980 for a sample of nearly 150 countries, this paper finds that private capital flows are typically volatile for all countries, advanced or emerging, across all points in time. This holds true across most types of flows, including bank, portfolio debt, and equity flows. Advanced economies enjoy a greater substitutability between types of inflows, and complementarity between gross inflows and outflows, than do emerging markets, which reduces the volatility of their total net inflows despite higher volatility of the components. Capital flows also exhibit low persistence, across all economies and across most types of flows. Inflows tend to rise temporarily when global financing conditions are relatively easy. These findings suggest that fickle capital flows are an unavoidable fact of life to which policymakers across all countries need to continue to manage and adapt.

Download or read book Fickle Flora and Her Seaside Friends written by Emma Anne G. Davenport and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fickle Finger of Fate written by Raymond Ives and published by . This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the participants in all great battles of the past, the men of the Eighth Air Force flying out of England gradually slip into history, the sound of their living voices, like the tumult of their deadly missions, becoming only echoes in the minds of those surviving them. A treasure of individual stories will die with most of them. Many want or wanted to quietly forget or withhold the details of those times. Some few leave us with more specific remembrances in poignant oral histories or the written word. The following account is one of those precious records. As a farm boy in central Pennsylvania, Ray Ives never imagined the course the world or his life would take as Europe fermented and eventually exploded into World War II. In this fairly brief and crisp telling of how he came to his fate in a German prisoner of war camp next to the North Sea, Ives, a commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, relives "Black Thursday", the 14 October 1943 mission over Schweinfurt, Germany, through the eyes of a bombardier in the Plexiglas nosecone of a B-17 Flying Fortress. From wake up call to the order to bail out of his flak- and bullet-shattered plane at 25,000 feet above the French countryside, to his subsequent evasion, eventual capture and experiences in Stalag Luft I, Ray revisits the emotions and strange coincidences of the time. In doing so, he causes us to think of what must have been the thousands of other unique and fascinating stories of brave airmen shot from the skies and forced to wait out the war at the mercy of the Nazis. Devoid of soppy, fabricated emotions to develop interest, the 'real' story is worthy in itself of substantial publication as part of the archives of World War II history. Underlying it's telling is a tongue-in-cheek sense of humor that Ray has maintained to this day and which invigorates the text. 106 photos, illustrations, documents. A Merriam Press World War 2 Autobiography.

Download or read book Fickle Fickle Melinda McPickle written by Meredith Migliorato and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fickle Melinda McPickle can never make up her mind. She is simply no good at making decisions meaning she usually ends up making very silly choices. As she goes through her day, the lovable little girl finds a different way of doing things, often making multiple choices instead of just one. Through it all, Melinda McPickle remains her delightfully unique self. There is a little Melinda in all of us. Fickle Fickle Melinda McPickle is a lighthearted book with an important message: Be who you are, whoever that is because that person is perfect, just as they are. Through Melinda we learn it s OK to march to the beat of your own drum. Ageless, timeless and seasonless, the book resonates with readers of all ages as it explores themes of character development, self-confidence, and embracing and celebrating each other s and our own special differences."

Download or read book Feelings are Fickle written by Dushka Zapata and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-05-30 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the biggest lies we tell ourselves is that someone else has the answers that we need.That someone else has something we don't have - a wisdom, a perspective, a gift - that can save us.I am adamantly against giving any form of personal advice. I write about things I've experienced and share what I have learned, and that's what this book is about. But, remember.You have all the answers. You have all the power. Do not squander it. Do not relinquish one bit of it. Do not give it away. Do not believe that someone else has everything figured out.You have no idea what a mess I can be, with my inability to sleep and my anxiety, my tendency to go full tilt on everything and the sloppy rainbow love I splatter across pristine things. You don't see the middle of the night panic, the same mistakes I make over and over. My god. I know this. I just wrote about this. Why am I doing it again?I don't have the answers that you need. But you do. You do, and as you stop looking outside of yourself and look inside, these answers will become increasingly clear. Listen to that.

Download or read book Kiasunomics 2 Economic Insights For Everyday Life written by Sumit Agarwal and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered how one can save from taxi rides during surge pricing? Why you would shop more under sunny weather? What effects does a bankrupt neighbour have on residents living in the estate? How do people perceive risks during the coronavirus pandemic? Kiasunomics©2 explores these issues and more in a light-hearted and easy-to-understand manner, by showing the economic ramifications of individual choices through the lens of Teng, the protagonist of this book, and his family and friends. Based on research from the National University of Singapore, the book explains the influences and consequences of the decisions made by all of us, using simple economic logic.This sequel to , a finalist at the Singapore Book Awards 2018, fast forwards a couple of years and follows Teng in his mid-career as a taxi driver. Ferrying passengers for a living, Teng has to grapple with challenges arising from ride hailing services. As one of the breadwinners in a three-generation household, Teng's ability to make wise financial decisions in a fast-changing world becomes increasingly important in attaining his dream of moving his family up the socio-economic ladder.This book covers hot and timely topics, which include: falling prices of old Housing and Development Board flats, rising land prices, wealth disparity among households, the Central Provident Fund retirement policy, regulation of car population, ride hailing services, mobile payments, and the coronavirus pandemic. These are unravelled through the authors' application of research findings.The book brings to light the relevance of research, often seen as esoteric, on our daily life and decision making. It also bears on policy implications, particularly issues on transportation, health, housing, and retirement.

Download or read book Toddler written by Jennifer Margulis and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2003-10-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty delightful essays explore the day-to-day experience of parenting toddlers--those fickle, urgent, irrational, tiny people everyone loves.