Download or read book Jake and Duke written by HILARY GHUDPHEALE and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006-02-14 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two fictional characters, Jake and Duke, engage in a verbal joust regarding the supposed problems caused by gays, criminals, welfare, and women. Jake's suggestions to deal with these problems are to get laws passed which would allow the authorities an option in dealing with rapists, to execute gangbangers convicted of murder after giving them just one legal appeal, to give no child support to unmarried mothers, to allow Puerto Rico to end its ties with the United States and for them to become partners with South America. Jake would have laws passed to keep the United States an English speaking country by ending all bilingual programs, and to hold the Mexican government liable for all the medical bills generated by Mexican illegals which the hospitals in the Southwest have to absorb. He would have the United States pay the Mexican government room and board to house American prisoners so the taxpayers won't be obliged to construct new jails at an enormous cost. He would have a law passed to make it mandatory for a woman who has had an abortion to put a small cross on her forehead for each abortion, using permanent cosmetics. He would have the authorities turn convicted drug dealers into drug addicts so they could feel the pain they cause to the users. Jake's off-the-wall suggestions are countered by his long time friend, Duke, who suggests more humane treatment for those in need, instead of the barbaric proposals made by Jake.
Download or read book Understories written by Jake Kosek and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-08 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively, engaging ethnography that demonstrates how a volatile politics of race, class, and nation animates the infamously violent struggles over forests in the U.S. Southwest.
Download or read book Wrongly Bodied Two written by Clarissa T. Sligh and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book relates the stories of Jake, a white male who transitions from female to male, and Ellen Craft, a 19th century black woman, who escapes slavery by passing as a white man. Sligh, in photographing Jake's transformation, becomes aware of society's psychological response to the act of changing one's identity. Recalling the methods by which Ellen Craft passes to freedom, Sligh reexamines her own fears of crossing the forbidden boundaries of gender, race and class. Silkscreen and digitally printed.
Download or read book Isaiah After Exile written by Jacob Stromberg and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Also Published By Oxford University Press --
Download or read book Me and Miranda Mullaly written by Jake Gerhardt and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Jake Gerhardt’s debut novel is sweet, knowing, and a super-fun read. Takes you right back to the awkwardness and earnestness of adolescence, with a lot of cringe and even more laughs.” —Patton Oswalt, New York Times bestselling author, comedian, and actor They each have 33% chance with her, but she's 0% interested. Meet Sam, the comedian; Duke, the intellectual; and Chollie, the athlete. Their fates converge at Penn Valley Middle as each falls desperately for the enigmatic Miranda Mullaly—the girl who smiles like she means it, the girl who makes Christmas truly magic when she sings, the girl who…barely realizes her admirers exist! Small misunderstandings lead to big laughs, and beneath the humor, every attempt to win Miranda's favor becomes a compelling look at the larger world of each guy's life.
Download or read book Black France France Noire written by Trica Danielle Keaton and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Black France / France Noire, scholars, activists, and novelists address the paradox of race in France: the state does not acknowledge race as a meaningful category, but experiences of antiblack racism belie claims of color-blindness.
Download or read book Duke written by Ronald L. Davis and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life story of the famous actor from his beginnings in Winterset, Iowa, to his death in 1979, becoming a legendary character in his own right
Download or read book Once Brothers written by P.D. Workman and published by pd workman. This book was released on with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of Jay Bennett and S.E. Hinton will enjoy Once Brothers, award-winning author P.D. Workman’s poignant and powerful account of three urban teens struggling to find a place to belong inside and outside youth gangs. Their uncompromising, interconnecting stories of poverty, violence, and addiction will remind readers of all ages to cherish their families and friendships. Jacob, fifteen and a loner, never thought he’d get mixed up with a gang. Deke, older now, had sought the gang out for protection when he had no family of his own to rely upon. And Sammy, only ten, pressed into service as a gang courier, is terrified of where his job with the gang will lead. Three boys, each brothers, their lives all converging. Can they survive within their gangs? Without them? By the author of Tattooed Teardrops, top fiction winner of the Top Ten Best Books for Teens 2016 literary award, this raw and heartbreaking story of abuse, loneliness, and hope will challenge you to look at your life in a different light. Praise for Once Brothers An easy-to-read portrait of urban gang life and the tough and trying bonds between family, friends, and brothers in arms. Courage and strength tested to the core of life and death in this exhilarating story of three remarkable boys. Praise for P.D. Workman “Every single one of [P.D. Workman’s] books has spoken to me in ways no one or almost anything else has. And I have found strength in the books I've read." "The way that P.D. Workman writes just flows amazingly and allows the reader to get really invested in a book."
Download or read book Wild Things written by Jack Halberstam and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Wild Things Jack Halberstam offers an alternative history of sexuality by tracing the ways in which wildness has been associated with queerness and queer bodies throughout the twentieth century. Halberstam theorizes the wild as an unbounded and unpredictable space that offers sources of opposition to modernity's orderly impulses. Wildness illuminates the normative taxonomies of sexuality against which radical queer practice and politics operate. Throughout, Halberstam engages with a wide variety of texts, practices, and cultural imaginaries—from zombies, falconry, and M. NourbeSe Philip's Zong! to Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are and the career of Irish anticolonial revolutionary Roger Casement—to demonstrate how wildness provides the means to know and to be in ways that transgress Euro-American notions of the modern liberal subject. With Wild Things, Halberstam opens new possibilities for queer theory and for wild thinking more broadly.
Download or read book An Innocent Maid for the Duke written by Ann Lethbridge and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this red-hot Regency romance, an innocent maid plays naughty a newly titled duke. Jacob, Duke of Westmoor, is feeling the weight of his recently inherited title. Escaping to his private gentlemen’s club brings more than the usual comforts when he shares an illicit kiss with a beautiful woman he’s never met. It is impossible to get the mystery woman out of his mind—especially when he discovers she’s a maid! Unable to let the beautiful innocent go, he arranges for Rose Nightingale to become his grandmother’s companion. But living under the same roof, their attraction becomes impossible to resist!
Download or read book First and Goal written by Jake Byrne and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jake Byrne dreamed of playing professional football. He had the size, the talent, the drive...but at age 14, he found out he also had type 1 diabetes. Still, Jake was determined to reach his goal. And God was determined to guide and empower him all along the way. Jake's journey to the NFL is the backdrop for this collection of inspiring devotions based on nearly a hundred football terms. Jake takes you to the weight room, practice field, and even across the goal line. You'll feel as if you're lined up next to him, facing a very large defender you're about to take down. He also includes Scripture and then ties up each story in a way that feels real and encouraging. You'll discover... what to do when God calls an audible in your life how to respond when God puts you on special teams why prayer is never an incomplete pass These quick daily readings will help you press through your own difficulties and experience God's dream for you.
Download or read book Forbidden Valley of the Wolves written by G. J. Martin Strong and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kara makes a last-ditch effort to save her marriage. Kara and Jake survive their own trials and unforeseen hardships through adventure, suspense, and the mysterious battles of good, evil, pain, and sorrow, with an amazing victory for a new beginning. This book shows God’s unconditional love and His way of using circumstances to develop godly faith, love, and character.
Download or read book The Hit Man Crossroads written by Scott Babb and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-07 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jake Chance lives the lonely life of a professional hit man. Ruthless and effecient, his skills are known well throughout the Las Vegas criminal underworld. He is a complicated man, who frequently deals with bouts of depression and self doubt. He lives alone, and besides the unsavory criminal circle that employs him, he has no friends, no family, and no reason to live. The brooding assassin's life is soon complicated by Alicia Blake, an aspiring stripper trying to escape her past. Jake quickly becomes infatuated with the woman, and for the first time he begins to see beyond his dismal existance. Before long her presence in his life begins to interfere with his work. Feelings of guilt cloud his judgement, and he begins to question the profession he has chosen. Jake soon comes to realize that he must chose between what he feels for a woman he has just met, and the only life he knows, the life of a professional killer.
Download or read book Not the Duke s Darling written by Elizabeth Hoyt and published by Forever. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of the Maiden Lane series comes the first book in a new series that "marries her irresistibly witty writing style with an intrigue-steeped plot," (Booklist) perfect for fans of Tessa Dare and Eloisa James. Freya de Moray is many things: a member of the secret order of Wise Women, the daughter of disgraced nobility, and a chaperone living under an assumed name. What she is not is forgiving. So when the Duke of Harlowe, the man who destroyed her brother and led to the downfall of her family, appears at the country house party she's attending, she does what any Wise Woman would do: she starts planning her revenge. Christopher Renshaw, the Duke of Harlowe, is being blackmailed. Intent on keeping his secrets safe, he agrees to attend a house party where he will put an end to this coercion once and for all. Until he recognizes Freya, masquerading among the party revelers, and realizes his troubles have just begun. Freya knows all about his sins-sins he'd much rather forget. But she's also fiery, bold, and sensuous-a temptation he can't resist. When it becomes clear Freya is in grave danger, he'll risk everything to keep her safe. But first, he will have to earn Freya's trust...by whatever means necessary.
Download or read book Flying Saucers Rock n Roll written by Jake Austen and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best of the cult-favorite music magazine Roctobers conversations with overlooked or forgotten artists, from the Outlaw Country singer David Allan Coe to the frustrated interstellar glam act Zolar X.
Download or read book Before the Flood written by Jacob Blanc and published by Duke University Press Books. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Before the Flood Jacob Blanc traces the protest movements of rural Brazilians living in the shadow of the Itaipu dam—the largest producer of hydroelectric power in the world. In the 1970s and 1980s, local communities facing displacement took a stand against the military officials overseeing the dam's construction, and in the context of an emerging national fight for democracy, they elevated their struggle for land into a referendum on the dictatorship itself. Unlike the broader campaign against military rule, however, the conflict at Itaipu was premised on issues that long predated the official start of dictatorship: access to land, the defense of rural and indigenous livelihoods, and political rights in the countryside. In their efforts against Itaipu and through conflicts among themselves, title-owning farmers, landless peasants, and the Avá-Guarani Indians articulated a rural-based vision for democracy. Through interviews and archival research—including declassified military documents and the first-ever access to the Itaipu Binational Corporation—Before the Flood challenges the primacy of urban-focused narratives and unearths the rural experiences of dictatorship and democracy in Brazil.
Download or read book American Herd Book written by American Short-horn Breeders' Association and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
