Download or read book Payback Call written by Alan Tootill and published by Alan Tootill. This book was released on 2016-12-17 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve Latham left Blackpool with a bullet hole in his arm and a determination never to return. He ran to the capital, changed his name, became a PI and never looked back. Now, twenty years later, a chance encounter in a London street leads to a plea for him to come back to the seaside town, to look for a missing girl. A daughter he never knew he had. Steve's return rakes up the past, revealing a tale of drugs, deception, long-held grudges and murder. Alan Tootill's second Blackpool Novel continues his fictional vision of a town fuelled by crime, greed and lust.

Download or read book Payback written by Thane Rosenbaum and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We call it justice—the assassination of Osama bin Laden, the incarceration of corrupt politicians or financiers like Rod Blagojevich and Bernard Madoff, and the climactic slaying of cinema-screen villains by superheroes. But could we not also call it revenge? We are told that revenge is uncivilized and immoral, an impulse that individuals and societies should actively repress and replace with the order and codes of courtroom justice. What, if anything, distinguishes punishment at the hands of the government from a victim’s individual desire for retribution? Are vengeance and justice really so very different? No, answers legal scholar and novelist Thane Rosenbaum in Payback: The Case for Revenge—revenge is, in fact, indistinguishable from justice. Revenge, Rosenbaum argues, is not the problem. It is, in fact, a perfectly healthy emotion. Instead, the problem is the inadequacy of lawful outlets through which to express it. He mounts a case for legal systems to punish the guilty commensurate with their crimes as part of a societal moral duty to satisfy the needs of victims to feel avenged. Indeed, the legal system would better serve the public if it gave victims the sense that vengeance was being done on their behalf. Drawing on a wide range of support, from recent studies in behavioral psychology and neuroeconomics, to stories of vengeance and justice denied, to revenge practices from around the world, to the way in which revenge tales have permeated popular culture—including Hamlet, The Godfather, and Braveheart—Rosenbaum demonstrates that vengeance needs to be more openly and honestly discussed and lawfully practiced. Fiercely argued and highly engaging, Payback is a provocative and eye-opening cultural tour of revenge and its rewards—from Shakespeare to The Sopranos. It liberates revenge from its social stigma and proves that vengeance is indeed ours, a perfectly human and acceptable response to moral injury. Rosenbaum deftly persuades us to reconsider a misunderstood subject and, along the way, reinvigorates the debate on the shape of justice in the modern world.

Download or read book The Revival That Never Ended written by Willie Florence Sr and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-04-10 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outreach ministry—presenting the Standard International Sunday School Word Explosion: Like No Other! On the Air Waves: WAGG 610 AM every Saturday night from 9:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Bishop Willie Florence Sr., ESQ., and cohost Sister Ann Florence. Matthew 20:26 (AMP version): “To be the greatest in the kingdom, he must be a servant.”

Download or read book Anger and Forgiveness written by Martha Craven Nussbaum and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume based on her 2014 'Locke Lectures', Martha C. Nussbaum provides a bracing new view that strips the notion of forgiveness down to its Judeo-Christian roots, where it was structured by the moral relationship between a score-keeping God and penitent, self-abasing and erring mortals.

Download or read book An Australian Indigenous Diaspora written by Paul Burke and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some indigenous people, while remaining attached to their traditional homelands, leave them to make a new life for themselves in white towns and cities, thus constituting an “indigenous diaspora”. This innovative book is the first ethnographic account of one such indigenous diaspora, the Warlpiri, whose traditional hunter-gatherer life has been transformed through their dispossession and involvement with ranchers, missionaries, and successive government projects of recognition. By following several Warlpiri matriarchs into their new locations, far from their home settlements, this book explores how they sustained their independent lives, and examines their changing relationship with the traditional culture they represent.

Download or read book The Real Time Contact Center written by Donna Fluss and published by Amacom. This book was released on 2005 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Real-Time Contact Center" is a practical guide to building a service infrastructure that will simultaneously exceed customers' expectations and build revenues.

Download or read book The Towers written by David Poyer and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After surviving the attacks on September 11, 2001, Dan Lenson finds himself quickly drawn into a covert SEAL team in search of the terrorists responsible. Their mission: kill Osama Bin Laden. Martin's Press.

Download or read book To Catch a Leaf written by Kate Collins and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flower shop owner Abby Knight is aglow with happiness now that she's officially engaged to her longtime beau, Marco Salvare. Nothing can possibly dampen her joy-until wealthy dowager Virginia Newport is killed, and Abby's assistant Grace Bingham is the prime suspect. The plot thickens when they stumble upon mysterious stolen art and a missing cat, all part of an elaborate heist. Before Abby can throw her bouquet, she'll have to save her friend and throw a killer and a thief in jail...

Download or read book The Brave New World of eHR written by Hal Gueutal and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brave New World of eHR is an important resource, filled with the most current information and practical advice on eHR for human resource professionals and industrial and organizational psychologists. Written by an expert group of scholars, practitioners, and subject matter experts, this book offers an overview of the major technological trends in eHR, and shows how to use technology to enhance organizational effectiveness. Comprehensive in scope, the book includes information on a wide variety of topics and Reviews the transformation of human resources from manual processes to sophisticated CRM and ERP systems Examines the effectiveness of online strategies for attracting talent Offers valuable guidelines that can help organizations design, deliver, implement, and sustain e-selection systems Includes a review of the recent research on the effectiveness of distance learning in educational and organizational settings Analyzes the potential advantages and disadvantages of using eHR to manage employee performance Shows how technology supports the administration of compensation systems Outlines recent trends in delivering HR products and services Considers the functional and dysfunctional consequences of using eHR to attract, select, and manage the performance of employees in organizations Presents a fascinating and futuristic look at HR and technology for decades to come

Download or read book New Ships written by Kate Duignan and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I think it’s fair to say I was rewarded, praised, applauded, more than most fathers.Peter Collie is adrift in the wake of his wife’s death. His attempts to understand the turn his life has taken lead him back to the past, to dismaying events on an Amsterdam houseboat in the seventies, returning to New Zealand and meeting Moira, an amateur painter who carried secrets of her own, and to a trip to Europe years later with his family. An unexpected revelation forces Peter to navigate anew his roles as a husband, father and son.Set in Wellington after the fall of the Twin Towers, and traversing London, Europe, the Indian subcontinent, The New Ships is a mesmerising book of blood-ties that stretch across borders. A novel of acute moral choices, it is a rich and compelling meditation on what it means to act, or to fail to act.

Download or read book The Battered Husband written by Spensir T. Blake and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-06-17 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there a fine line between love and hate? This novel tests the boundaries of these two innate emotions, intertwining them in a twisted tale filled with broken trust, tragedy and revenge. A dark tale of one mans journey through a hellish divorce, the author explores the role of society in the court system, how men and women in todays world can be both the victim and the destroyer and how a snow globe marriage can easily turn into a Hollywood horror. When the law fails, he takes matters into his own hands. Trying desperately to regain his life and son after the woman he once shared his entire world with, turns his whole world against him. Will revenge or justice prevail? After all, some say all is fair in love and war. In this story, love is war. Just be sure what you are fighting for.

Download or read book Bird s Eye View written by J. F. Freedman and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2001-08-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author J. F. Freedman delivers a catch-your-breath thriller about an unsuspecting birdwatcher who becomes a witness to a murder. Cast out of academia due to an amorous indiscretion, Fritz Tullisretreats to his family's estate in southern Maryland. While photographing a rare whooping crane who's flown off course, he notices a plane land on his neighbor 's airstrip. Three men get off the plane, and Fritz sees one man shoot another. The victim is loaded onto the plane, erasing all evidence of a murder. Shocked by his sightings, Fritz searches for answers and finds that the owner of the airstrip is a highly placed official at the State Department with a long history of connections to the CIA, and that the missing dead man was a foreign diplomat. Now, Fritz is more determined than ever to uncover what may be a deadly government conspiracy. Teaming up with a Washington attorney, a local police detective, his own mother, and a sexy ornithologist, Fritz launches into a harrowing investigation of one murder that leads to many more-perhaps his own.

Download or read book Disbanded Enigma written by Cash Onadele and published by 3p financial network corporation. This book was released on 2022-08-12 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Crayton grows up in a dystopian America, a society bereft of true justice. Life behind bars may be unpleasant and leave him angry because he doesn’t think he should be there. Unbeknownst to him, his football playing skills earned him that stay. He remains cynical about faith and downright hateful even halfway through his stay. Outside prison, unable to get a job, and he sets up a distillery with cousin Hez. That moonshine factory was burned when Catherine Smith, parole officer with a mean streak, and intention to return him to prison, was fast on his trail. In the grips of Robert’s dreams, his magical talent to verse, and the mystery of a global cult with a strange social agenda, a more mysterious con must play out!

Download or read book Telecommunications Cost Management written by Brian Dimarsico and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2002-09-17 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Busy decision-makers need the specifics quickly, without plowing through details that do not affect the economics of a project. Telecommunications Cost Management presents the key facts up front, with sample calculations for broadband, local access, equipment, and service alternatives. It provides a blueprint for cost reduction across all major technologies - from frame relay to IP telephony to contract recommendations. The text presents scenarios showing the effect of different architectural strategies for both voice and data communications. An Architectural Review lists alternatives to the traditional PBX and discusses how to minimize local access costs.

Download or read book The Principal Said No A Week in Hell written by Lucien Stark and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-22 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book Six years after the murder of his fiancé Beth right in her own classroom, Danny Luke is still an English teacher at the very same high school. Just beginning to feel some normalcy in his life again, his world is thrown into chaos with the arrival of the new school principal, Mrs. Moore, and she seems to have a vendetta against Danny and two other teachers in the school, Sims and Carol. As the threat of a fight looms for Monday morning, Danny sets out to attempt to stop the violence, but even all his planning could not stop it—or the consequences that follow. A twisting tale of murder, grief, revenge and more, The Principal Said No is a gripping commentary on politics of the educational system and its inner workings that is sure to leave a mark.

Download or read book Bukowski in a Sundress written by Kim Addonizio and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Somewhere between Jo Ann Beard’s The Boys of My Youth and Amy Schumer’s stand-up exists Kim Addonizio’s style of storytelling . . . at once biting and vulnerable, nostalgic without ever veering off into sentimentality.” —Refinery29 “Always vital, clever, and seductive, Addonizio is a secular Anne Lamott, a spiritual aunt to Lena Dunham.” —Booklist A dazzling, edgy, laugh-out-loud memoir from the award-winning poet and novelist that reflects on writing, drinking, dating, and more Kim Addonizio is used to being exposed. As a writer of provocative poems and stories, she has encountered success along with snark: one critic dismissed her as “Charles Bukowski in a sundress.” (“Why not Walt Whitman in a sparkly tutu?” she muses.) Now, in this utterly original memoir in essays, she opens up to chronicle the joys and indignities in the life of a writer wandering through middle age. Addonizio vividly captures moments of inspiration at the writing desk (or bed) and adventures on the road—from a champagne-and-vodka-fueled one-night stand at a writing conference to sparsely attended readings at remote Midwestern colleges. Her crackling, unfiltered wit brings colorful life to pieces like “What Writers Do All Day,” “How to Fall for a Younger Man,” and “Necrophilia” (that is, sexual attraction to men who are dead inside). And she turns a tender yet still comic eye to her family: her father, who sparked her love of poetry; her mother, a former tennis champion who struggled through Parkinson’s at the end of her life; and her daughter, who at a young age chanced upon some erotica she had written for Penthouse. At once intimate and outrageous, Addonizio’s memoir radiates all the wit and heartbreak and ever-sexy grittiness that her fans have come to love—and that new readers will not soon forget.

Download or read book Sweet Baby Mine written by Maria Daversa and published by Divine Dog Editions. This book was released on 2022-06-20 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is it all the bad things we’ve done in the past never stay in the past? Ana Storm is an American expat who lives with her husband, Tony, and two of their three adult daughters. Ana suffers from a mental illness that prevents her from believing she is worthy of love. It causes her to make grave mistakes in her life, one of which is to stay in her marriage. Her relationship with Tony is toxic, but Ana fears without him, she is nothing. So, when she receives a text from her oldest, Chloe, who is estranged from the family and wants to come home, Ana fears the worst. Mother and daughter share a secret so dark it could destroy her marriage, and Ana vows to do everything possible to prevent Chloe’s return. But her schemes and lies soon overwhelm her, and she spirals downward into a void of marital chaos, drug abuse, and sex with strange men. Then Chloe calls in the middle of the night. She’s in trouble. Now, Ana must choose. Will she turn her back on her daughter and save herself? Or will she rescue her firstborn and risk losing her husband? Set in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, Sweet Baby Mine is about the collateral damage left behind when a marriage fails spectacularly. Told in real time and from the perspectives of the two main characters: Ana and Tony, the story documents the toll secrets, lies, betrayals, and living with dysfunction can have on a couple who once believed they’d found in each other true love. The tale is brutal, oftentimes heartbreaking, but always hopeful as it never deviates from its message. On the road to self-discovery, you will eventually learn that no matter what anyone says—no matter what flawed message you believed about yourself growing up—you are a good person and deserve to be loved. A dark psychological drama, Sweet Baby Mine is unputdownable.