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Book Worlds Gone Awry

Download or read book Worlds Gone Awry written by John J. Han and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-08-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dystopian fiction captivates us by depicting future worlds at once eerily similar and shockingly foreign to our own. This collection of new essays presents some of the most recent scholarship on a genre whose popularity has surged dramatically since the 1990s. Contributors explore such novels as The Lord of the Flies, The Heart Goes Last, The Giver and The Strain Trilogy as social critique, revealing how they appeal to the same impulse as utopian fiction: the desire for an idealized yet illusory society in which evil is purged and justice prevails.

Book Gone Awry

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  • Author : B. Hollidae
  • Publisher : Hollidae
  • Release : 2019-08-20
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book Gone Awry written by B. Hollidae and published by Hollidae. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fifth in the Romance Series featuring African American Couples Spring and Bilal Part 2 of 2 Spring's personal life has never gone according to plan. Certainly so when it came to Bilal. She didn't plan to be more than friends with him. She didn't plan to fall in love with him. She didn't plan to find out she was pregnant after he'd broken her heart. She certainly didn't plan to forgive him (for now) and take him back afterward with the promise of starting over and taking things slow. So much for taking things slow though when due to circumstances out both their control, Bilal ends up temporarily staying with Spring and she starts to wonder just how "slow" Bilal really wants to take things when he seems to be making permanent plans for them that go beyond fixing up a space for the baby. But heartwarming as all that is, Spring can't get him to tell her why he won't tell his family that she's pregnant or why he still refuses to go public about their relationship at all. And rather than planning a happily ever after, Spring feels like if she can't get him to be honest about all that and why he broke up with her the first time, they're doomed for another more permanent breakup instead.

Book A Life Gone Awry

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  • Author : Wayne Kernochan
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012-02-17
  • ISBN : 9781469967639
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book A Life Gone Awry written by Wayne Kernochan and published by . This book was released on 2012-02-17 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Product Description When Doctor M. Scott Peck suggested Elan to my parents I was skeptical because the first program he sent me to was a drug program, and I had never done drugs. He said it wasn't, and that Elan treated teens with emotional problems. He told me that Elan had psychiatrists and counselors, and activities, so I agreed to go.What I witnessed was unbelievable. Elan was an insane asylum, run by the inmates, and Joe Ricci was God. For more than thirty years I told people I had been in prison, rather than the truth of what happened there. After you read this book you will understand why.

Book Gone Awry

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  • Author : DJ Park
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2004-04-29
  • ISBN : 1418474479
  • Pages : 545 pages

Download or read book Gone Awry written by DJ Park and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004-04-29 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When David and Althia Tee Harrowsen decided to vacation in tiny Rye, Colorado their intention was to do a little hiking, some gourmet cooking, and for David to contemplate his uncertain future with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. But when an unidentified stalker goes after Tee on a mountain trail, an elderly ranch wife is attacked and seriously injured, and a mysterious young man apparently commits suicide, they find themselves drawn into a tangle of lies, deceit and long-slumbering murder. Aided by Davids partner, Kate Cordova, they begin to unravel the secrets behind these seemingly unconnected events. At last, their investigation leads them to the truth about the dark history of a famiy torn apart by avarice and hypocrisy. Gone Awry is the story of perseverence, fortitude and the price to be paid for sins long buried.

Book Civil War Battlefield Orders Gone Awry

Download or read book Civil War Battlefield Orders Gone Awry written by Donald R. Jermann and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, the outcome of many a battle or campaign hinged on the proper wording, dissemination and interpretation of battlefield orders. Early in the war, officers trained in small unit combat could suddenly find themselves commanding thousands of men and writing orders to subordinates with little experience in the practice. The inclusion of accurate origin information, up-to-date knowledge of the situation in the field, the amount of discretion given to recipients, and the speed and geographical acumen of couriers were critical. This innovative volume examines 13 cases in which the tide of battle turned on written orders, including Ball's Bluff, Fredericksburg, Vicksburg, Gettysburg and Chickamauga. The importance of this seemingly clerical task, this work shows, equaled that of tactics, manpower, and supplies in determining the course of the Civil War.

Book Civil War Battlefield Orders Gone Awry

Download or read book Civil War Battlefield Orders Gone Awry written by Donald R. Jermann and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, the outcome of many a battle or campaign hinged on the proper wording, dissemination and interpretation of battlefield orders. Early in the war, officers trained in small unit combat could suddenly find themselves commanding thousands of men and writing orders to subordinates with little experience in the practice. The inclusion of accurate origin information, up-to-date knowledge of the situation in the field, the amount of discretion given to recipients, and the speed and geographical acumen of couriers were critical. This innovative volume examines 13 cases in which the tide of battle turned on written orders, including Ball's Bluff, Fredericksburg, Vicksburg, Gettysburg and Chickamauga. The importance of this seemingly clerical task, this work shows, equaled that of tactics, manpower, and supplies in determining the course of the Civil War.

Book Good Intentions Gone Awry

Download or read book Good Intentions Gone Awry written by Jan Hare and published by University of British Columbia Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation. Good Intentions Gone Awry chronicles the experiences of a missionary wife through the letters of Emma Crosby to her family and friends in Ontario. Her husband, Thomas Crosby, came to Fort Simpson, near present-day Prince Rupert, in 1874 to set up a mission among the Tsimshian people. The authors critically examine Emma's sincere convictions about mission work and the running of the Crosby Girl's Home, later a residential school, while at the same time exposing them as a product of the times in which she lived. They also examine the roles of Native and mixed-race intermediaries who made possible the feats attributed to Thomas Crosby.

Book A Life Gone Awry

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  • Author : Wayne Kernochan
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011-07-01
  • ISBN : 9781927044117
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book A Life Gone Awry written by Wayne Kernochan and published by . This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Special Exits

Download or read book Special Exits written by Joyce Farmer and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2014-08-03 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joyce Farmer's memoir chronicles the decline of the author's parents' health, their relationship with one another and with their daughter, and how they cope with the day-to-day emotional fragility of the most taxing time of their lives. Joyce Farmer, best known for co-creating the Tits 'n Clits comics anthology in the 1970s, a feminist response to the rampant misogyny in underground comix, spent 11 years crafting Special Exits, a graphic memoir in the vein of Alison Bechdel's Fun Home or Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner, and Frank Stack's Our Cancer Year, about caring for her dying father and stepmother.

Book Misplaced   Magic Gone Awry

Download or read book Misplaced Magic Gone Awry written by Citlalin Ossio and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Misspelled is the third anthology in the Legion of Dorks presents series. These books are put together with love and a generous heart as a way to give back. So 50 percent of all proceeds goes to charity. For Magic Gone Awry, you'll experience: - a magical ER where curses abound - an ancient fairy godmother whose hearing isn't what it used to be - a little girl who summons the monster under her bed on purpose - an apprentice magician who discovers all magic isn't illusion - and so much more. Pick up your copy today and join the adventure while supporting children in need.

Book All Gone Awry

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  • Author : Andrew Kumasaka
  • Publisher : Ganbatte! Books
  • Release : 2021-09-14
  • ISBN : 9780578912349
  • Pages : 392 pages

Download or read book All Gone Awry written by Andrew Kumasaka and published by Ganbatte! Books. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: March 11, 2011. A cataclysmic earthquake in Japan-a tsunami headed straight for the coast of California. With deep psychological fault lines of his own, Dr. Alex Arai has no idea of the personal upheaval ahead. Before long, the respected art history professor will become a graffiti vandal. Alex is mired in life-long conflict with his father, Kazuo Arai. A narcissistic sculptor, Kaz is best known for his memorials to Japanese Americans interned in U.S. concentration camps during World War II. Over the years, he has ridiculed Alex's artistic offerings while exploiting his son's scholarly articles to further his own career. Through an acquaintance in an "over-the-hill" basketball league, Alex is introduced to the world of graffiti. After learning how to wield a spray can, he embarks on a dangerous campaign as a graffiti artist, a journey that takes him to NYC, DC, and LA. The discovery of his "tags" leads to wild speculation as to the vandal's identity and motivation. In the resulting chaos, Alex faces grave legal jeopardy, loss of career, community scorn, and a threatened relationship with his longtime partner. From a desperate place of fragmentation, he must somehow forge a cohesive new self.

Book Insourcing Gone Awry

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Contracting and Workforce
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book Insourcing Gone Awry written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Contracting and Workforce and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Small Business Committee document number 112-024."

Book Teachable Moments

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  • Author : Dennis M. Fare
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2017-02-15
  • ISBN : 1475828268
  • Pages : 98 pages

Download or read book Teachable Moments written by Dennis M. Fare and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teachable Moments will look at various pieces of the vocation of what it means to be a teacher in our school buildings today - through all of the most impactful reforms on the fabric of American education. As administrators, we see the push for the need to create data tables and pie charts in an attempt to make conclusions about improving instructional practices to encourage student performance. Some things - many moments - cannot be quantified, however. So, where do we begin? There is absolutely no singular starting point, but the experience of the teaching practitioner is vast, and goes far beyond that which can be measured numerically. Our vocation, and its many ups and downs, often cannot be assigned a neat number. This book will examine the ways in which school districts approach these educational changes, through the lens of the teacher. From one-on-one teacher interactions with each other, to those memorable moments with students, this book will be a collection of rich essays that capture the experience of the newer teacher.

Book Good Intentions Gone Awry

Download or read book Good Intentions Gone Awry written by Allen M. Parkman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on sociological and economic analysis, Good Intentions Gone Awry presents valuable new insights into the impact of divorce on American society. Rather than blaming the deterioration in the quality of family life on the decline in so-called "family values," lawyer and economist Parkman argues that adults are responding to the incentives created by new opportunities and legal rules. Allen M. Parkman discusses the issues surrounding this sociological phenomena, proposes a reform program in response, and suggests steps that adults can take to create a durable and constructive family until such reforms occur.

Book Gone Awry

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  • Author : Jo Lauer
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1916-06-30
  • ISBN : 9780989007948
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book Gone Awry written by Jo Lauer and published by . This book was released on 1916-06-30 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karma happens. Often at the end of a lifetime of manipulation and betrayal. Sometimes we're not around to see it; sometimes we are.In Gone Awry, we meander through Florence's early life and down the unfolding path leading to the buried treasure that becomes pivotal in Best Laid Plans.This is the last book in the Best Laid Plans trilogy. Will Florence have her final revenge on the women of The Next Step halfway house?Warily Shalese approaches the cabin, now ablaze. It may be too late. Should she call for help? She bolts back down the hill to her car and flees.

Book Good Intentions Gone Awry

Download or read book Good Intentions Gone Awry written by Jan Hare and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emma Crosby's letters to family and friends in Ontario shed light on a critical era and bear witness to the contribution of missionary wives. They mirror the hardships and isolation she faced as well as her assumptions about the supremacy of Euro-Canadian society and of Christianity. They speak to her "good intentions" and to the factors that caused them to "go awry." The authors critically represent Emma's sincere convictions towards mission work and the running of the Crosby Girls' Home (later to become a residential school), while at the same time exposing them as a product of the times in which she lived. They also examine the roles of Native and mixed-race intermediaries who made possible the feats attributed to Thomas Crosby as a heroic male missionary persevering on his own against tremendous odds.

Book Vaccine Gone Awry

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  • Author : Ursula Brightonstar
  • Publisher : Publifye AS
  • Release : 2024-10-16
  • ISBN : 8233934577
  • Pages : 143 pages

Download or read book Vaccine Gone Awry written by Ursula Brightonstar and published by Publifye AS. This book was released on 2024-10-16 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Vaccine Gone Awry"" explores the complex world of vaccine development and implementation, focusing on instances where vaccinations have fallen short of their goals or caused unexpected problems. This thought-provoking book examines the scientific process of vaccine creation, global distribution challenges, and societal impacts of vaccine failures. By delving into specific case studies, the book offers valuable lessons for improving future vaccine development and maintaining public trust in vaccination programs. The book's balanced approach sets it apart, neither sensationalizing failures nor dismissing valid concerns. It provides a nuanced examination of the challenges involved in global vaccination efforts, drawing on a wide range of evidence including scientific studies, historical records, and expert interviews. Readers will gain insights into vaccine safety monitoring, the complexities of global health initiatives, and the ethical considerations surrounding mandatory vaccination policies. Structured in three parts, ""Vaccine Gone Awry"" progresses from an introduction to vaccine development and testing processes, through specific case studies of vaccine controversies, to a discussion of implications for future public health policies. This comprehensive examination offers readers a deeper understanding of the intricate relationship between scientific advancement, public health, and societal trust in medical interventions.