Download or read book The African American Griot written by Adetayo Efunbukola and published by Words From Yesterday. This book was released on 2023-07-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The African American Griot is a comprehensive collection of more than seventy proverbs found in Hip-Hop and R&B songs. It demonstrates how these art forms use proverbs to transmit life wisdom from generation to generation. The meaning of each proverb is explained, followed by a detailed analysis of how one or more songs use that proverb to teach a life lesson.

Download or read book Guilt by Association written by Marcia Clark and published by Mulholland Books. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles D.A. Rachel Knight is a tenacious, wise-cracking, and fiercely intelligent prosecutor in the city's most elite division. When her colleague, Jake, is found dead at a grisly crime scene, Rachel is shaken to the core. She must take over his toughest case: the assault of a young woman from a prominent family. But she can't stop herself from digging deeper into Jake's death, a decision that exposes a world of power and violence and will have her risking her reputation -- and her life -- to find the truth. With her tremendous expertise in the nuances of L.A. courts and crime, and with a vibrant ensemble cast of characters, Marcia Clark combines intimate detail, riotous humor, and visceral action in a debut thriller that marks the launch of a major new figure on the crime-writing scene.

Download or read book The Soul Doctrine written by John Baptiste and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe Thomas wants to follow in his father’s footsteps as a Baptist pastor, but finds minefields in controlling his fleshly passions and struggles to follow the path into spiritual maturity. Follow Joe’s journey through high school, learning to be a cowboy, college, and his discovery of love and freedom as he discovers the truth about the Roman Catholic Church. His search draws him into his calling as a priest and the enemy seeks to devour him with a malicious conspiracy by two young girls into Wicca that lands him in jail for pedophilia. When Joe is sexually and physically assaulted in jail he contracts AIDS. Find out how Joe gains the victory over hate in this journey into the heart of authentic spirituality.

Download or read book A Chip and a Chair written by Stanley Cohen and published by Author House. This book was released on 2005-04-29 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I would like to introduce you to a novel about the World Series of Poker main event in the year 2013 and beyond. The reader will play in this coveted tournament through the eyes of an aging professional poker player, who learns to never give up, when it no longer seems possible to continue, as he comes full circle with his past. It soon becomes apparent that this man has more to worry about than being eliminated from this tournament, as his past could eliminate him from life itself The events leading up to our "heros" unpredictable performance, revolves around the union of a Jewish New Yorker and a Christian Arkansan Coal Miners daughter. All of this set against the excitement of Las Vegas and the "poker god's" latest creation, the Final Table Resort.

Download or read book Gundamentalism and Where It Is Taking America written by James E. Atwood and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gundamentalism and Where It Is Taking America is the work of James Atwood, a retired Presbyterian pastor and an avid deer hunter for half a century who has also been in the forefront of the faith community's fight for two constitutional rights: the right to keep and bear arms and the right to live in domestic tranquility, free of gun violence. He explains why guns mystically control so many Americans and exposes the fallacies of the gun industry's spurious claim that firearms actually protect us. He argues there are no bona fide scientific studies that show defensive guns save us from harm, while there is voluminous research showing a defensive gun puts the owner and his or her family at greater risk. Atwood's book, which details his learning of a lifetime in the struggle for reasonable gun laws in America, puts dependable social and theological analysis of our unique national epidemic into your hands along with scientific data that will provoke honest reflection and discussion for the building of a safer and saner America. Questions for group discussion and suggestions for action are included.

Download or read book An Unspeakable Hope written by Leon Ford and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An unforgettable and stirring memoir in the vein of Free Cyntoia, Just Mercy, and The Sum of Us that both inspires and upends our understanding about the future of policing in the United States. In 2012, nineteen-year-old Leon Ford was shot five times by a Pittsburgh police officer as he was racially profiled during a case of mistaken identity. When he woke up in the hospital, he was faced with two life-changing realities: he was a new father, and he was paralyzed from the waist down. Now, Ford reveals how he faced these new truths and discovered the power of forgiveness and letting go of his hatred. He explains how his harrowing experience inspired his lifelong commitment to social activism. In the wake of countless similar shootings across the country over the years, he has dedicated himself to bridging the gap between the police and the communities they are supposed to serve. With his compassionate voice, Ford not only offers fresh, counterintuitive advice for social change but also demonstrates how together, we can end police brutality and heal as a country. As he once said, "Lead with love. Start compassionate conversations even with individuals and systems that have caused you pain. I know from experience that you can make your pain purposeful.""--

Download or read book Police Selection and Training written by J.C. Yuille and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Police Officer During the past twenty years the tasks required of police officers have expanded and changed with dramatic rapidi ty. The tradi tional roles of the police had been those of law enforcement and the maintenance of public order. As a consequence police officers were typically large-bodied males, selected for their physical abilities and trained to accept orders and enforce the law. Over the past two decades, however, the industrialized nations have placed a variety of new demands on police officers. To traditional law enforcement and public order tasks have been added social work, mental health duties, and cORllluni ty relations work. For example, domestic disputes, violence between husbands and wives, lovers, relatives, etc. , have increased in frequency and severity (or at least there has been a dramatic increase in reporting the occurence of domestic violence). Our societies have no formal system to deal with domestic disputes and the responsibility to do so, in most countries, has fallen to the police. In fact, in some areas as many as 607. of calls for service to the police are related to domestic disputes (see the chapter in this text by Dutton). As a result the police officer has had to become a skilled social worker, able to intervene with sensi ti vi ty in domestic situations. Alternatively, in the case of West Germany, the officer has had to learn to work co-operatively with social workers (see the chapter by Steinhilper).

Download or read book 6 0 Kings written by Derrick Gibson and published by B. T. Books. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 6-0 Kings, Brass Brothers is book one in the 6-0 Kings Series. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is known as a rough and tough city. Within its mean streets, there is an area called Southwest Philly. What’s more notorious is the infamous, treacherous, and well renowned neighborhood centered around the street corner of 60th and Kingsessing, better known as 60th Street. The hood was a mixed melting pot in the 1980’s of black, whites, Jamaicans, dealers, and dope fiends. There where multiple kingpins and street legends who wrote their names in the concrete, stars on a ghetto walk of fame. 6-O Kings, Brass Brothers is a story of one the 6-O kings rise and fall. The tale is action packed: full of blood, guts, gore, love and romance. You will find yourself helplessly turning the pages as you are sure to enjoy the thug life, lessons, tragedies, and joys. You will be entertained as you follow this author’s tales. The protagonist navigates his way, climbs up in the drug game ranks, in the streets of Philly using brute force and wisdom to ultimately become a street legend boss and a 6-O king in his own right as Deidrick Dobbins A.K.A. Fats.

Download or read book Cat s Cradle written by William W. Johnstone and published by Lyrical Press. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one knew where she had come from. A scrap of a girl clinging to a black cat with eerie yellow eyes. A lost child or an orphan, maybe. It was a miracle she had survived on Eden Mountain at all. Suddenly strange things began to happen in placid Ruger County, bizarre killings that the police couldn’t solve. Horrifying accidents that the people couldn’t comprehend. An insatiable beast was stalking their intimate hideaways, their swimming holes—and their children. No one noticed how quickly the little girl’s pale cheeks turned pink with health. How her frail body filled out with sleek, lithe muscles and feline grace. And no one noticed that at night her innocent blue eyes turned an eerie, evil yellow . . .

Download or read book A Bloody Business written by Gerry Schumacher and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2006-04-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the U.S. Army shrinks, a private army steps into the breach. A Bloody Business offers an unprecedented look behind the scenes and into the ranks of this mercenary force (numbering as many as 15,000 today) who guard supply convoys, train foreign soldiers, provide security for foreign leaders and dignitaries—and whose workplaces are the most dangerous hot spots on the planet. With its insights into who these men are, what drives them, where they come from, how they prepare, and what they do, this book provides a uniquely close-up and complete picture of the private army behind America’s military muscle. The author interviewed security contractors and their families, high-ranking coalition officials, and was in Iraq, where he witnessed how private soldiers fought ambushes, trained Iraqi forces, escorted high-level officials in dangerous conditions, and saw the contractor side of the Iraq war. Includes action on the supply lines and front lines of this unique conflict, and the stories of the contractors who live it every day.

Download or read book The Justice Cooperative written by Joseph P. Martino and published by ELDERBERRY PRESS, INC.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WITH CONCEALED WEAPON PERMITS SPREADING ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND WITH THE VAST MAJORITY OF STATES ALLOWING CITIZENS TO BE ARMED, THE JUSTICE COOPERATIVE IS THE RIGHT BOOK AT THE RIGHT TIME.

Download or read book Infamous written by Sherrilyn Kenyon and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world has fallen in love with Nick Gautier and the Dark-Hunters. Now Nick's saga continues in the next eagerly anticipated volume... Go to school. Get good grades. Stay out of trouble. That's the mandate for most kids. But Nick Gautier isn't the average teenager. He's a boy with a destiny not even he fully understands. And his first mandate is to stay alive while everyone, even his own father, tries to kill him. He's learned to annihilate zombies and raise the dead, divination and clairvoyance, so why is learning to drive and keep a girlfriend so dang hard? But that isn't the primary skill he has to master. Survival is. And in order to survive, his next lesson makes all the others pale in comparison. He is on the brink of becoming either the greatest hero mankind has ever known. Or he'll be the one who ends the world. With enemies new and old gathering forces, he will have to call on every part of himself to fight or he'll lose everyone he cares about. Even himself.

Download or read book If I m Dead written by Marcia Clark and published by Mulholland Books. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It started with a haunting image: a Ford Explorer, iridescent in the moonlight and alone on a desolate stretch of beach. Its owner, Melissa Gibbons, has gone missing. Her husband says she flew the coop. But Los Angeles Deputy DA Rachel Knight is convinced otherwise: Melissa Gibbons has been murdered. So begins the confounding case that Rachel must present before a disbelieving jury. A dissatisfied heiress and her philandering husband -- what really happened? The husband has a fiendishly convincing case that Melissa faked her own death and fled. But with the support of her trusty sidekick, Detective Bailey Keller, Rachel pieces together a much more sinister truth. In this short, standalone Rachel Knight thriller, readers follow our savvy and riotously entertaining heroine through the surprising world of LA crime.

Download or read book The Gift of Our Wounds written by Arno Michaelis and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The powerful story of a friendship between two men—one Sikh and one skinhead—that resulted in an outpouring of love and a mission to fight against hate. One Sikh. One former Skinhead. Together, an unusual friendship emerged out of a desire to make a difference. When white supremacist Wade Michael Page murdered six people and wounded four in a Sikh Temple in Wisconsin in 2012, Pardeep Kaleka was devastated. The temple leader, now dead, was his father. His family, who had immigrated to the U.S. from India when Pardeep was young, had done everything right. Why was this happening to him? Meanwhile, Arno Michaelis, a former skinhead and founder of one of the largest racist skinhead organizations in the world, had spent years of his life committing terrible acts in the name of white power. When he heard about the attack, waves of guilt washing over him, he knew he had to take action and fight against the very crimes he used to commit. After the Oak Creek tragedy, Arno and Pardeep worked together to start an organization called Serve 2 Unite, which works with students to create inclusive, compassionate and nonviolent climates in their schools and communities. Their story is one of triumph of love over hate, and of two men who breached a great divide to find compassion and forgiveness. With New York Times bestseller Robin Gaby Fisher telling Arno and Pardeep's story, The Gift of Our Wounds is a timely reminder of the strength of the human spirit, and the courage and compassion that reside within us all.

Download or read book Big Red s Mercy written by Mark Hertsgaard and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moving story of a New Orleans woman who fought for justice and her community even amidst one of the city's darkest moments. Mark Hertsgaard and Deborah Cotton were strangers to one another, united only by a love of jazz and New Orlean’s distinctive Second Line tradition. And then, during a Mother’s Day parade, they were thrown together when two gunmen fired into the crowd… Deborah Cotton—known to all as Big Red—was among the most grievously injured. She is the driving force of this deeply reported parable of two of America’s most deeply rooted issues. A racial justice activist in her forties who was born to a Black father and a white mother, Cotton was one of twenty people—including the author—shot in the biggest mass shooting in the modern history of New Orleans. Once one of the largest slave ports, the city has long been a vortex of violence and racism. From her apparent deathbed, Big Red shocked observers by urging mercy for two young Black men accused of the attack. “Racism can kill Black people even when a Black finger pulls the trigger,” she tells Hertsgaard, who, she later said, is “called” to investigate what actually happened, and why. Charismatic, complicated, and struck down in her prime, Big Red and her heroic life will captivate readers. In the wake of the shooting, she never stopped fighting as she sought to get to the core of this uniquely American maelstrom. Big Red's Mercy is an illuminating narrative that provides a human and unflinching look at modern America.

Download or read book Flim Flam written by John Skrabacz and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-10-23 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting adventure has an historical twist! It will keep you on the edge of your seat as you sail with three amazing characters and their ship the “Bonnie Blue” to faraway islands, searching for a treasure once hidden by Ferdinand Magellan in the 16th century during the first circumnavigation of the Globe. They must solve the mystery of “The coins” in an unusual way. An excellent mixture of danger, romance, and humor weave their way through this tale!

Download or read book Mr Michael Presents the Five S written by Mr. Michael and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-12-06 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are those who would have you believe chivalry is dead in modern society. Stereotypically, men have lost the soft touch. Men have forgotten romance, and the image of a knight in shining armor is long past. Mr. Michaela man who has learned the many aspects of love in his own marriagewould say otherwise. Mr. Michael would have the sadness wiped from the eyes of the beautiful women of this world. He received many wonderful gifts from God, including his wife and the love they share. T rough his enlightened life lessons described in Mr. Michael Presents the Five S, he would like to share the love he found with the world. A true spiritual connection with a higher power paves the way to love on earth. The key to ending loneliness is in giving life to the divine, and fulfifilling mortal relationships will follow. True love will follow, if only you discover the pure God energy within yourself. It is time to love one another, with humbleness, compassion, and honor.