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Book Keck and Keck

Download or read book Keck and Keck written by Robert Boyce and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over 50 years in Chicago, George and William Keck quietly built a practice that is extraordinary not only for the quality and variety of the work produced, but also because the work is so little known.

Book The Most Activist Supreme Court in History

Download or read book The Most Activist Supreme Court in History written by Thomas M. Keck and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When conservatives took control of the federal judiciary in the 1980s, it was widely assumed that they would reverse the landmark rights-protecting precedents set by the Warren Court and replace them with a broad commitment to judicial restraint. Instead, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice William Rehnquist has reaffirmed most of those liberal decisions while creating its own brand of conservative judicial activism. Ranging from 1937 to the present, The Most Activist Supreme Court in History traces the legal and political forces that have shaped the modern Court. Thomas M. Keck argues that the tensions within modern conservatism have produced a court that exercises its own power quite actively, on behalf of both liberal and conservative ends. Despite the long-standing conservative commitment to restraint, the justices of the Rehnquist Court have stepped in to settle divisive political conflicts over abortion, affirmative action, gay rights, presidential elections, and much more. Keck focuses in particular on the role of Justices O'Connor and Kennedy, whose deciding votes have shaped this uncharacteristically activist Court.

Book Activists beyond Borders

Download or read book Activists beyond Borders written by Margaret E. Keck and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Activists beyond Borders, Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists that coalesce and operate across national frontiers. Their targets may be international organizations or the policies of particular states. Historical examples of such transborder alliances include anti-slavery and woman suffrage campaigns. In the past two decades, transnational activism has had a significant impact in human rights, especially in Latin America, and advocacy networks have strongly influenced environmental politics as well. The authors also examine the emergence of an international campaign around violence against women.

Book Peepers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patrick Keck
  • Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
  • Release : 2021-01-12
  • ISBN : 1683963962
  • Pages : 205 pages

Download or read book Peepers written by Patrick Keck and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This trippy sci-fi romance needs to be seen to be appreciated for its full psychedelic glory. Peepers needs to wake up, eat food, get drunk, and fly to space, because living out your life on top of someone else's brain may not be all it's cracked up to be. Patrick Keck's graphic novel resides in a space vacated by the likes of Vaughn Bode and Ralph Bakshi.

Book Parenting the Hurt Child

Download or read book Parenting the Hurt Child written by Gregory Keck and published by Tyndale House. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is full of hurt children, and bringing one into your home can quickly derail the easy family life you once knew. Get effective suggestions, wisdom, and advice to parent the hurt child in your life. The best hope for tragedy prevention is knowledge! Updated and revised.

Book Adopting the Hurt Child

Download or read book Adopting the Hurt Child written by Gregory Keck and published by Tyndale House. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without avoiding the grim statistics, this book reveals the real hope that hurting children can be healed through adoptive and foster parents, social workers, and others who care. Includes information on foreign adoptions.

Book Avian Reservoirs

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frédéric Keck
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2020-01-17
  • ISBN : 1478007559
  • Pages : 167 pages

Download or read book Avian Reservoirs written by Frédéric Keck and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-17 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After experiencing the SARS outbreak in 2003, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan all invested in various techniques to mitigate future pandemics involving myriad cross-species interactions between humans and birds. In some locations microbiologists allied with veterinarians and birdwatchers to follow the mutations of flu viruses in birds and humans and create preparedness strategies, while in others, public health officials worked toward preventing pandemics by killing thousands of birds. In Avian Reservoirs Frédéric Keck offers a comparative analysis of these responses, tracing how the anticipation of bird flu pandemics has changed relations between birds and humans in China. Drawing on anthropological theory and ethnographic fieldwork, Keck demonstrates that varied strategies dealing with the threat of pandemics—stockpiling vaccines and samples in Taiwan, simulating pandemics in Singapore, and monitoring viruses and disease vectors in Hong Kong—reflect local geopolitical relations to mainland China. In outlining how interactions among pathogens, birds, and humans shape the way people imagine future pandemics, Keck illuminates how interspecies relations are crucial for protecting against such threats.

Book The Big House

    Book Details:
  • Author : J. Keck
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-02
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 460 pages

Download or read book The Big House written by J. Keck and published by . This book was released on 2021-02 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By late 1936, the worst years of the Great Depression are over. Wealth has created new opportunities for Minnie: a beautiful home in California, a luxury car, the yearning desire by a handsome lieutenant, and the family's summer retreat, which draws her like a magnet. Secrets abound. A hidden bohemian community of writers, poets, artists, and escapists is scattered across the shifting, coastal dunes near the cottage.In contrast to the seclusion of the cottage, Minnie's screenwriter cousin introduces her to the intrigue and excitement of Hollywood. Dwayne warns her about the "ruthless" characters willing to do anything to satisfy their lust for fame, fortune, and forbidden pleasures.A crisis forces Minnie to return temporarily to the South and the plantation. Hospitality greets her, but her guard remains razor sharp. Some past grudges will only be settled by the gun. Only Minnie's character will determine her future.

Book In a Time of Treason

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Keck
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2008-02-19
  • ISBN : 9780765313218
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book In a Time of Treason written by David Keck and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-02-19 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Keck captivated readers with In the Eye of Heaven. Now, he continues the gripping story of Durand Col, a man at the heart of a nation divided. Fighting under the banner of Lord Lamoric, Durand and his companions thwarted a mad duke’s ambition and saved the crown. They have spent the winter counting their last pennies in their master’s gloomy hall and wondering what the coming season will bring. One thing seems certain: the peace they forged cannot hold. Too many barons have plotted against the king, too many strongrooms are empty, and no one truly believes that a simple vote will long deter the brooding Duke of Yrlac. With the advent of spring, the king rails against traitors and flings mad edicts across the land. There is open rebellion in the North. And, the Duke of Yrlac steps over the border of Lamoric’s homeland. Even as Durand fights at Lamoric’s side, his loyalties are increasingly torn. As a knight of Lamoric’s household, he cannot stray far from his master’s wife—the one woman he can neither have nor forget—while siege and sorcery conspire to bring him closer to treason. Can his loyalties survive his divided heart? Can the land of his birth survive the forces that tear it asunder? Can love and loyalty endure in a time of treason?

Book How to Draw with a Ballpoint Pen

Download or read book How to Draw with a Ballpoint Pen written by Gecko Keck and published by Quarry Books. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Draw with a Ballpoint Pen is a beginner's guide for new and aspiring artists! Learn to create art with only a ballpoint pen and your imagination. Draw your day, design something fabulous, create a clever sketchbook, practice cartooning - the options are endless. This beginner's guide helps artists and aspiring artists of all levels learn art techinques using only a ballpoint pen and their imaginations. You'll soon be mastering shading, perspective, patchwork, spirals, ornaments, animals, portraits, logos, pictograms, fantasy, abstraction, and much more. Step-by-step pictures, instructions, and inspiration will show you all that you can accomplish with this versatile drawing tool. You can even draw on various materials and objects, but the book includes 16 blank pages to instantly get you started.

Book Oedipus Wrecked

Download or read book Oedipus Wrecked written by Kevin Keck and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If David Sedaris were straight (or Margaret Cho were a man), they might be Kevin Keck. Keck mines the same rich vein of candid, confessional humor as these popular comics, but Oedipus Wrecked goes further in single-mindedly, hilariously recounting every grim detail of the author's almost absurdly varied sexual history. Keck pulls no punches in describing his endless, obsessive erotic experiments. In essays like "Ass Backwards," "Wet, Hot Presbyterian Summer," and "I Was a Teenage Homosexual," Keck skewers his eccentric mother (whose dildo he swipes), documents his plunge into the "chorus of coming" on a sex party line, and limns a particularly outré encounter with a girl who demands he participate in water sports but won't "have sex" because "that's a sin." For a driven horndog like Keck, sexual taboos exist to be broken. Still he always pays a price through numbing guilt or fear of discovery — though neither prevents him from embarking on the next quest for love and orgasms. Keck's tableaux of sexual excess are rendered in vivid, unflinching language that marks the emergence of a new voice in contemporary humor that's both cuttingly comic and startlingly revelatory.

Book Sacred Eyes

    Book Details:
  • Author : L. Robert Keck
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9780964697805
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Sacred Eyes written by L. Robert Keck and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Off Keck Road

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mona Simpson
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2001-09-11
  • ISBN : 0375709061
  • Pages : 182 pages

Download or read book Off Keck Road written by Mona Simpson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2001-09-11 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this flawless novella, Mona Simpson turns her powers of observation toward characters who, unlike Ann and Adele August in her bestselling Anywhere but Here, choose to stay rather than go. As a high school student in Green Bay, Bea Maxwell raised money for good causes; later, she became a successful real estate agent and an accomplished knitter. The one thing missing from her life is a romantic relationship. She soon settles comfortably into the role of stylish spinster and do-gooder. Woven into Bea's story are stories of other lifelong residents of Green Bay and the changes time brings to a town and its residents. This pure and simple work once again proves Mona Simpson one of the defining writers of her generation.

Book Forgetting Whose We are

Download or read book Forgetting Whose We are written by David Keck and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alzheimer's disease - a degenerative disease of the central nervous system characterized especially by premature mental deterioration - is the most publicly visible and widely discussed form of a range of disorders known as senile dementia. The nature of Alzheimer's disease, especially its progressive debilitation of the memory, raises key theological issues. What does it mean to be truly human? Does our ability to remember define who we are as persons? When the mind loses its ability to remember, what happens to the life of the soul? When we forget God, does God still remember us? Forgetting Whose We Are offers a Christian understanding of and response to the difficult theological, spiritual, and pastoral problems raised by Alzheimer's disease. Filling an important gap in existing literature by directly confronting the theological challenges of Alzheimer's disease to victims, caregivers, and their communities, the book affirms the classic Christian doctrines that witness to the reality of grace and the promises of salvation even for those who can no longer remember themselves, their families, or their relationship with God.

Book In the Eye of Heaven

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Keck
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2007-03-06
  • ISBN : 9780765351692
  • Pages : 474 pages

Download or read book In the Eye of Heaven written by David Keck and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fiercely original epic fantasy debut

Book Sisters in Crisis  Revisited

Download or read book Sisters in Crisis Revisited written by Ann Carey and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years ago, nearly 200,000 religious sisters worked in Catholic schools, hospitals and other institutions throughout the United States. American Catholics honored these women of faith who founded and built these flourishing works of mercy. Then came the ideological shifts and moral upheavals of the 1960s, and ever since, most women's orders in the United States have been in a state of crisis. Now the sisters are aging, with fewer and fewer younger women to take their place. Perhaps related to this demographic shift is the continuing doctrinal confusion that has come under the scrutiny of the Vatican. Using the archival records of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and other prominent groups of sisters, journalist and author Ann Carey shows how feminist activists unraveled American women's religious communities from their leadership positions in national organizations and large congregations. She also explains the recent and necessary interventions by the Vatican. After examining the many forces that have contributed to the crisis, Carey reports on a promising sign of renewal in American religious life: the growing number of young women attracted to older communities that have retained their identity and newly formed, yet traditional, congregations.

Book Christ s First Theologian

Download or read book Christ s First Theologian written by Leander E. Keck and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Definitive collection of Leander Keck's Pauline scholarship.