Download or read book The Selfie Generation written by Alicia Eler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether it's Kim Kardashian uploading picture after picture to Instagram or your roommate posting a mid-vacation shot to Facebook, selfies receive mixed reactions. But are selfies more than, as many critics lament, a symptom of a self-absorbed generation? Millennial Alicia Eler's The Selfie Generation is the first book to delve fully into this ubiquitous and much-maligned part of social media, including why people take them in the first place and the ways they can change how we see ourselves. Eler argues that selfies are just one facet of how we can use digital media to create a personal brand in the modern age. More than just a picture, they are an important part of how we live today. Eler examines all aspects of selfies, online social networks, and the generation that has grown up with them. She looks at how the boundaries between people’s physical and digital lives have blurred with social media; she explores questions of privacy, consent, ownership, and authenticity; and she points out important issues of sexism and double standards wherein women are encouraged to take them but then become subject to criticism and judgment. Alicia discusses the selfie as a paradox—both an image with potential for self-empowerment, yet also a symbol of complacency within surveillance culture The Selfie Generation explores just how much social media has changed the ways that people connect, communicate, and present themselves to the world.
Download or read book Adrian Jade in Queen Lara Vega s Secret Roses written by Adrian Jevon Murphy and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Sheila has vanished, whereas the three head overseers are officially gone from the world called Vero. Their lives were taken away by the Gold Overseer, whose only sole purpose is to control life, death, time, space, and eternality all for him. He and four other overseers hired a man named King Oleg to help spread their evil presents throughout the entire universe. This came to a sudden halt by Queen Nye of Shag belonging to the Mali Empire. Unfortunately, her reign came to a sudden end within several years following her domination of the Republic of Vero.” “In the eyes of the Gold Overseer, this was great news to hear from his spies. Now, he can send out his best man named King Oleg to start the new age of menace to the universe once more. King Lo-Sole an African King becomes King Oleg worse nightmare. In every attempt to find him, it always came to a dead end. However, King Oleg along with several others seeks the same interest as the Gold Overseer.” “When King Lo-Sole was finally killed within foreign lands in the attempt to slay his archenemy King Oleg. A new face brimming with the intelligent, tactical warfare experiences, an expert on seduction, a professional on using others to get what she wants, and is a person that doesn’t gives a rat ass about anything arise. This woman name is called Queen Lara Vega. This woman went as far as to slay any nations that pose a threat to her new world order on Vero. To do this, she marries a man named King Tilting by warfare means. The only problem was that he was married to three women for political reasons, which Queen Lara Vega didn’t know about or they assumed.” “The three wives that King Tilting has been wedded too, is named Alicia, Rosaria, and Lady Clair are the only ones that pose a threat to her. However, there is another problem that lies within the marriage. She and three ladies have given birth to King Tilting’s children. In a force agreement Alicia, Jade, Rosaria, Nina, Nyre, Tengo, Lady Clair, and JLee must help and protect their queen and former sisters.” “Like all household, trouble comes in different varities of form such as secrets, betrayal, seduction, warfare, life and death, and finally survival of the fittest. Will Jade ever figure out her family’s secrets and meet Adrian in the future? The question is, who will lead and who will die in the hands of their beholders. These are the “secret roses” of Queen Lara Vega and her five epic phases....”
Download or read book The Coral Kingdom written by Douglas Niles and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far beyond the shores of the Moonshae Isles, Princess Alicia and Queen Robyn battle the vicious undersea race that holds King Tristan prisoner Talos, the god of storms, continues his attack on the Moonshae Isles—and now King Tristan Kendrick has become the newest pawn in his vengeful game. Captured and held in the faraway Coral Kingdom, the king’s fate now lies in the hands of his daughter, high princess Alicia, and his druid wife. So begins a dangerous fight against the Claws of the Deep . . . Alicia and Queen Robyn’s journey takes them first to the elven kingdom of Synnoria, where they call upon the services of an old and faithful friend: Brigit Cu’Lyrran, captain of the kingdom’s mighty, all-female cavalry company. With their forces bolstered by the Sisters of Synnoria, Alicia and her mother march onwards, traveling next to the island nation of Evermeet. There, they seek the aid of the native elves, whose magical gifts may just tip the odds of the looming undersea battle in their favor. With nautical magic, trained warriors, and the Evermeet elves behind them, can the Kendrick women save their beloved patriarch from Talos and his evil minions?
Download or read book Merchant Vessels of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 2152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Paradise Rules written by Jimmy Gleacher and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRUE OR F A L S E ? It’s only a week into summer break and already seventeen-year-old Gates has . . . a) Hustled millionaires on the golf course b) Tried to stop his mother from having a(nother) nervous breakdown c) Promised to lose his virginity with his girlfriend, Mel . . . which would be great if he hadn’t already lost it to his forty-year-old godmother d) Almost killed a man Yeah, Gates has a lot of secrets, but he’s determined to keep his heart true. When he’s not swinging golf clubs like a pro, he reads pulp fiction to old folks at the retirement home. And despite his occasional slip-ups—drinking before noon and sneaking glimpses through his sexy godmother’s open negligees—Gates only has eyes for Mel. But she knows he’s hiding something, and she’s beginning to lose her patience. Just as Gates is about to spill his shameful secrets, he gets tangled up in a golf club scandal that jeopardizes his dreams of a normal life. He’s never been a fighter, but this time he finally pushes back at the world—which could have been a breakthrough but turns into an epic fail. Probably because Gates fights back dirty. Now his life is on the verge of ruin, and he’s got no one to turn to for help. Or so he thinks. Because what Gates is about to discover might hit him with the most amazing shock of his life.
Download or read book Adult Bedtime Stories written by Johnie R. Pullum and published by Johnie Pullum. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These stories are fiction; even though some of the names or the similarities of events will be familiar to some of the readers. After all, how many people have the same names or have had similar experiences? The short stories that I have written deal with God, love, loyalty, greed, trust, wickedness, ungratefulness, revenge and the plain idiocy of some people. These stories also show the results of the aforementioned, when they are given to, or used against, the wrong person. I am sure, that most of you who read these short stories can relate some of the events, or the results of` a specific act, or actions to events that have happened in your own lives. For example, your love taken for granted and rewarded with deceit. Your loyalty and trust repaid by treachery, greed, or ungratefulness. The mistake that you are never forgiven for; even though they benefited greatly by your mistake! And in the end, a thank you very much that really meant, Fuck you very much, sucker! One of the stories was written in a fairy tale fashion in order to justify some of the characters¿ impossible feats. The others are written in a more contemporary fashion, lacking unnecessary and over-sophisticated words, for easier reading pleasure.
Download or read book The Instruments Within written by Evens LaFrance and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queen Alicia was seven months pregnant and was very excited that Sir Chariot, their son, was going to have a brother or sister soon in the royal family. Recently, the queen could not sleep during the night; therefore, King Roy ordered Troubadours, Trouveres, and Minstrels, who were poets and musicians in the kingdom, for aid. They were able to help the queen fall asleep with poetry and playing music, but during her sleep time, she also had some bad dreams about the kingdom invasion and became afraid.
Download or read book The Carnival Trilogy written by Wilson Harris and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, introduced by the author, brings together three novels first published separately. 'The trilogy comprises Carnival (1985), The Infinite Rehearsal (1987) and The Four Banks of the River of Space (1990), novels linked by metaphors borrowed from theatre, traditional carnival itself and literary mythology. The characters make Odyssean voyages through time and space, witnessing and re-enacting the calamitous history of mankind, sometimes assuming sacrificial roles in an attempt to save modern civilisation from self-destruction.' Independent on Sunday ' The Four Banks of the River of Space is a kind of quantum Odyssey... in which the association of ideas is not logical but... a 'magical imponderable dreaming'. The dreamer is Anselm, another of Harris's alter egos, like Everyman Masters in Carnival and Robin Redbreast Glass in The Infinite Rehearsal... Together, they represent one of the most remarkable fictional achievements in the modern canon.' Listener
Download or read book CliffsNotes on Cisneros The House on Mango Street Woman Hollering Creek written by Mary Thornburg and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001-03-07 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This CliffsNotes guide includes everything you’ve come to expect from the trusted experts at CliffsNotes, including analysis of the most widely read literary works.
Download or read book A Touch of Jen written by Beth Morgan and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young couple's toxic Instagram crush spins out of control and unleashes a sinister creature in this twisted, viciously funny, "bananas good" story (Carmen Maria Machado). "Um, holy shit...This novel will be the most fun you'll have this summer." —Emily Temple, Literary Hub Remy and Alicia, a couple of insecure service workers, are not particularly happy together. But they are bound by a shared obsession with Jen, a beautiful former co-worker of Remy’s who now seems to be following her bliss as a globe-trotting jewelry designer. In and outside the bedroom, Remy and Alicia's entire relationship revolves around fantasies of Jen, whose every Instagram caption, outfit, and new age mantra they know by heart. Imagine their confused excitement when they run into Jen, in the flesh, and she invites them on a surfing trip to the Hamptons with her wealthy boyfriend and their group. Once there, Remy and Alicia try (a little too hard) to fit into Jen’s exalted social circle, but violent desire and class resentment bubble beneath the surface of this beachside paradise, threatening to erupt. As small disturbances escalate into outright horror, we find ourselves tumbling with Remy and Alicia into an uncanny alternate reality, one shaped by their most unspeakable, deviant, and intoxicating fantasies. Is this what “self-actualization” looks like? Part millennial social comedy, part psychedelic horror, and all wildly entertaining, A Touch of Jen is a sly, unflinching examination of the hidden drives that lurk just outside the frame of our carefully curated selves.
Download or read book Holstein Friesian Herd book Containing a Record of All Holstein Friesian Cattle written by Holstein-Friesian Association of America and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Queen Alicia written by Camille Bourniquel and published by Editions de Fallois. This book was released on 2004 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Un roman qui dresse le portrait d'une femme qui a choisi de disparaître sans laisser de traces après avoir connu la célébrité jusqu'à inspirer le nom d'un parfum nommé Queen Alicia. [SDM].
Download or read book The Myth of Russian Collusion written by Roger Stone and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in paperback, New York Times best-selling author Roger Stone’s insider tell-all about the presidential campaign that shocked the world. This consummate political strategist continues to be front page news and has updated the book to respond to Robert Mueller’s charges. Two years ago, Roger Stone, a New York Times bestselling author, longtime political adviser and friend to Donald Trump, and consummate Republican strategist, gave us Making of the President 2016—the first in-depth examination of how Trump’s campaign delivered the biggest presidential election upset in history. But since then, the Deep State political establishment has worked tirelessly to undo those results. The Myth of Russian Collusion adds to and updates Stone’s initial work to set the record straight. Trump’s election win was a resounding repudiation of the failed leadership of both parties. The American people wanted something new, and President Trump has delivered: his tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks have given us the strongest economy in American history, he is relentless in his efforts to protect American citizens, and he refuses to do business as usual. But America’s ruling elite and liberal media, feeling threatened, have conspired to create the biggest witch hunt in our country’s history. The phony narrative that Trump was in cahoots with Vladimir Putin, Mueller’s charges that Roger Stone knew about the Wikileaks emails before release—all is debunked here. With a new introduction that responds to the Mueller investigation, The Myth of Russian Collusion is the true story of the Trump campaign that the establishment doesn’t want you to believe.
Download or read book The Making of the President 2016 written by Roger Stone and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Theodore White’s landmark books, the definitive look at how Donald J. Trump shocked the world to become president From Roger Stone, a New York Times bestselling author, longtime political adviser and friend to Donald Trump, and consummate Republican strategist, comes the first in-depth examination of how Trump’s campaign tapped into the national mood to deliver a stunning victory that almost no one saw coming. In the early hours of November 9, 2016, one of the most contentious, polarizing, and vicious presidential races came to an abrupt and unexpected end when heavily favored presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton called Donald J. Trump to concede, shocking a nation that had, only hours before, given little credence to his chances. Donald Trump pulled the greatest upset in American political history despite a torrent of invective and dismissal of the mainstream media. Stone, a long time Trump retainer and confidant, gives us the inside story of how Donald Trump almost single-handedly harnessed discontent among “Forgotten Americans” despite running a guerrilla-style grass roots campaign to compete with the smooth running and free-spending Clinton political machine. From the start, Trump’s campaign was unlike any seen on the national stage—combative, maverick, and fearless. Trump’s nomination was the hostile takeover of the Republican party and a resounding repudiation of the failed leadership of both parties whose policies have brought America to the brink of financial collapse as well as endangering our national security. Here Stone outlines how Donald Trump skillfully ran as the anti-Open Borders candidate as well as a supporter of American sovereignty, and how he used the Globalist trade deals like NAFTA to win over three of ten Bernie Sanders supporters. The veteran adviser to Nixon, Reagan, and Trump charts the rise of the alt-conservative media and the end of the mainstream media monopoly on voter impacting information dissemination. This is an insider’s view that includes studying opposition research into Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton’s crimes, and the struggle by the Republican establishment to stop Trump and how they underestimated him. Stone chronicles Trump’s triumph in three debates where he skillfully lowered expectation levels but skewered Mrs. Clinton for the corruption of the Clinton Foundation, her mishandling of government email, and her incompetence as Secretary of State. Stone gives us the inside word on Julian Assange, Wikileaks, Clinton campaign chief John Podesta, Huma Abedin, Anthony Weiner, Carlos Danger, Doug Band, Jeffery Epstein, and the efforts to hide the former first lady’s infirmities and health problems. Stone dissects the phony narrative that Trump was in cahoots with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin or that the e-mails released by Wikileaks came from the Russians. The Making of the President 2016 reveals how Trump brilliantly picked at Hillary Clinton’s weaknesses, particularly her reputation as a crooked insider, and ignited the passions of out-of-work white men and women from the rust belt and beyond, at a time when millions of Americans desperately wanted change. Stone also reveals how and why the mainstream media got it wrong, including how the polls were loaded and completely misunderstood who would vote. Stone's analysis is akin to Theodore H. White’s seminal book The Making of the President 1960. It is both a sweeping analysis of the trends that elected Trump as well as the war stories of a hard-bitten political survivor who Donald Trump called “one tough cookie."
Download or read book Chicano and Chicana Literature written by Charles M. Tatum and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literary culture of the Spanish-speaking Southwest has its origins in a harsh frontier environment marked by episodes of intense cultural conflict, and much of the literature seeks to capture the epic experiences of conquest and settlement. The Chicano literary canon has evolved rapidly over four centuries to become one of the most dynamic, growing, and vital parts of what we know as contemporary U.S. literature. In this comprehensive examination of Chicano and Chicana literature, Charles M. Tatum brings a new and refreshing perspective to the ethnic identity of Mexican Americans. From the earliest sixteenth-century chronicles of the Spanish Period, to the poetry and narrative fiction of the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, and then to the flowering of all literary genres in the post–Chicano Movement years, Chicano/a literature amply reflects the hopes and aspirations as well as the frustrations and disillusionments of an often marginalized population. Exploring the work of Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Luis Alberto Urrea, and many more, Tatum examines the important social, historical, and cultural contexts in which the writing evolved, paying special attention to the Chicano Movement and the flourishing of literary texts during the 1960s and early 1970s. Chapters provide an overview of the most important theoretical and critical approaches employed by scholars over the past forty years and survey the major trends and themes in contemporary autobiography, memoir, fiction, and poetry. The most complete and up-to-date introduction to Chicana/o literature available, this book will be an ideal reference for scholars of Hispanic and American literature. Discussion questions and suggested reading included at the end of each chapter are especially suited for classroom use.
Download or read book Enrique Iglesias written by Elina Furman and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2000-03-15 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Son of the Latin singing legend Julio Iglesias, Enrique has his own sexy style and his own kind of sound. Born in Spain, he's hit the charts big time and captured hearts around the world. But Enrique is more than just a major hottie-he's got the talent and ambition to stay on top. Find out all about this gorgeous Spanish singer, from his love life to his family life, how he feels about success (as the bestselling Latin recording artist in the world!) and his famous dad, what he likes to do in his free time, and much, much more!
Download or read book The Sign of the End written by J. E. Becker and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After two prominent nations of the world destroy each other with nuclear power, the rest of the world tries to fill in the power void and save civilization from a spreading war. The pope, who has received a mandate from the Holy Virgin to set up the kingdom of God, charges the European Union and other power groups to include God in their endeavors. Increasing his political power over the heads of Europe, he finds himself challenged by Jews preaching about the Lamb of God who steal both Catholic and Protestant church members. Consequently, Ansel Edersohn, a preacher in Belgium, and fellow 'Lambers' come under fierce inquisition-like persecution, instigated by the pope. Meanwhile, the IDF delays David and Rachel's wedding plans by sending David on a secret mission. Follow these beloved characters along with J. Leucus Adoni and Prime Minister Ra'amon as Israel faces yet another war in the second installment of J. E. Becker's The Armageddon Trilogy, The Sign of the End. Will David and Rachel's relationship survive the coming of Messiah? What will happen to Israel's 'faithful' on Yom Kippur? Watch the prophetic events unfold in The Sign of the End."
