Download or read book Ravenlight written by Melissa Riddell and published by Melissa Riddell. This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cursed for his sins. Scarred by her past. Can love set them free - or will fate keep them apart? Sophie Brannigan Ten years ago, when I was eight, a raven rescued me from a 50-foot plunge and a life of abuse. For years, the same bird stayed at my side like a best friend and protector. There was something special about him, but I had no idea just how unique he was until I found him in my room one night--in human form and irresistible. His secret comes with a price, though. Am I willing to pay? Revan Chogan Since the day I saved her life - both from a deadly fall and an abusive, drunken father - I've secretly hoped Sophie could break my curse. Two hundred years ago, a rival enemy's shaman doomed my tribe to live as ravens in retribution for our transgressions. One day each month, during Ravenlight, the spell lifts and we assume our original forms. Instead of joy, though, being human is a reminder of what was lost.
Download or read book The Biopolitics of Breast Cancer written by Maren Klawiter and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly forty years, feminists and patient activists have argued that medicine is a deeply individualizing and depoliticizing institution. According to this view, medical practices are incidental to people’s transformation from patients to patient activists. The Biopolitics of Breast Cancer turns this understanding upside down. Maren Klawiter analyzes the evolution of the breast cancer movement to show the broad social impact of how diseases come to be medically managed and publicly administered. Examining surgical procedures, adjuvant therapies, early detection campaigns, and the rise in discourses of risk, Klawiter demonstrates that these practices created a change in the social relations-if not the mortality rate-of breast cancer that initially inhibited, but later enabled, collective action. Her research focuses on the emergence and development of new forms of activism that range from grassroots patient empowerment to environmental activism and corporate-funded breast cancer awareness. The Biopolitics of Breast Cancer opens a window onto a larger set of changes currently transforming medically advanced societies and ultimately challenges our understanding of the origins, politics, and future of the breast cancer movement. Maren Klawiter holds a PhD in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently pursuing a law degree at Yale University.
Download or read book Raven s Light written by Marianne Schlegelmilch and published by Publication Consultants. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zak was a normal raven until a vacation to Prince William Sound changed his life forever. Caught in the aftermath of the greatest oil spill in Alaska's history, Zak's inner light was nearly smothered as he faced the enormity of the disaster. Unable to reconcile the overwhelming emotions wrought by witnessing the devastation on millions of birds, animals and people, Zak ceased to do little more than exist until meeting the white raven from the heart of Denali. Paired beautifully with the commanding splendor of Alaska and its people, Raven's Light is the tale of Zak's struggle. Set amongst the beauty and people of Alaska's Matanuska Valley, Raven's Light is an intimate glimpse at the journey within that leads to the ultimate serenity of inner peace.
Download or read book Health and Health Care as Social Problems written by Peter Conrad and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging and accessible reader takes a social problems approach to health and medicine, providing a broad and critical lens on contemporary health problems. Designed for courses on social problems and on medical sociology, the volume embraces two fundamental principles: that health and illness are at least partly socially produced, and that health care is not an unfettered good and often brings with it serious social problems. The volume is organized into six sections, addressing the medicalization of human problems; the social construction of health problems; social movements; gender; race and class and the provision of health care; and medical accountability. Taken together, the essays demonstrate the depth and richness of a social problems approach to health and medicine, and the critical perspective it brings to our understanding of health and illness in U.S. society.
Download or read book Feminist Rhetorical Science Studies written by Julie Jung and published by Southern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection disrupts tendencies in feminist science studies to dismiss rhetoric as having concern only for language, and it counters posthumanist theories that ignore human materialities and asymmetries of power as co-constituted with and through distinctions such as gender, sex, race, and ability. The eight essays of Feminist Rhetorical Science Studies: Human Bodies, Posthumanist Worlds model methodologies for doing feminist research in the rhetoric of science. Collectively they build innovative interdisciplinary bridges across the related but divergent fields of feminism, posthumanism, new materialism, and the rhetoric of science. Each essay addresses a question: How can feminist rhetoricians of science engage responsibly with emerging theories of the posthuman? Some contributors respond with case studies in medical practice (fetal ultrasound; patient noncompliance), medical science (the neuroscience of sex differences), and health policy (drug trials of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration); others respond with a critical review of object-oriented ontology and a framework for researching women technical writers in the workplace. The contributed essays are in turn framed by a comprehensive introduction and a final chapter from the editors, who argue that a key contribution of feminist posthumanist rhetoric is that it rethinks the agencies of people, things, and practices in ways that can bring about more ethical human relations. Individually the contributions offer as much variety as consensus on matters of methodology. Together they demonstrate how feminist posthumanist and materialist approaches to science expand our notions of what rhetoric is and does, yet they manage to do so without sacrificing what makes their inquiries distinctively rhetorical.
Download or read book Readings on the Rhetoric of Social Protest written by Charles E. Morris and published by Strata Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Toxic Tourism written by Phaedra C. Pezzullo and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2009-05-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book length study of the environmental justice movement, tourism, and the links between race, class, and waste
Download or read book From Pink to Green written by Barbara L. Ley and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The breast cancer movement has emphasized the importance of reducing or eliminating exposure to chemicals and toxins. The movement's disease prevention philosophy is chronicled from the beginning.
Download or read book Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics written by Elenore Long and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2008-03-22 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a comparative analysis of “community-literacy studies," Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics traces common values in diverse accounts of “ordinary people going public.” Elenore Long offers a five-point theoretical framework. Used to review major community-literacy projects that have emerged in recent years, this local public framework uncovers profound differences, with significant consequence, within five formative perspectives: 1) the guiding metaphor behind such projects; 2) the context that defines a “local” public, shaping what is an effective, even possible performance, 3) the tenor and affective register of the discourse; 4) the literate practices that shape the discourse; and, most signficantly, 5) the nature of rhetorical invention or the generative process by which people in these accounts respond to exigencies, such as getting around gatekeepers, affirming identities, and speaking out with others across difference.
Download or read book People of the Sea written by Kathleen O'Neal Gear and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The harsh post-glacier landscape provides the setting for this story of native American prehistory, in which the pregnant Kestrel flees westward from her vengeful husband after witnessing her lover's murder.
Download or read book People of the Sea written by W. Michael Gear and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1994-09-15 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of life and love, death and adventure in North America eleven thousand years ago.
Download or read book Raven s Light written by and published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how Raven made the earth, animals, monn, and sun.
Download or read book Ravenlight Book 1 Embers of the Past written by Alexander Frost and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dark Fantasy YA novel
Download or read book Behind the Lyrics written by Melissa Riddell and published by Melissa Riddell. This book was released on with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a Rock God falls for a mere mortal? Angela Morales I came to Mesa Palms for a fresh start after my divorce. Needing the serenity and calm of the desert, I spend my afternoons as a DJ rocking the city. It might not be the most glamorous job, but I love the no-frills life and answering only to my cat. That is, until one day, England’s biggest God of Nu Rock walks in like he owns the place, and my boss forces me to interview the arrogant jerk on-air. The entire interview turns into a horrible disaster, but it gets even worse when Viktor sets his sights on me. He thinks he can seduce me with his bedroom eyes, but I’ve dealt with men like him before. I’ll chew him up and spit him out so hard he’ll land back in England, where he belongs. Viktor Farrow When I walked into the dumpy radio station, I’ll admit I didn’t think much of it--until I saw the little angel sitting in front of the microphone with a snarky smile. Yeah, I've made some terrible mistakes in my past, but it’s been years and I’ve cleaned up my act. No drugs. No alcohol. No messing around. Does Angela, the little demon sent to torture me, believe it? That’s a big, fat bloody no. But I have a plan—Operation Angel Seducer. Once it’s sprung, she’ll be putty in my quite capable hands. After all, no woman has ever resisted the lead singer of Angry Gods.
Download or read book Dark Thief written by Melissa Riddell and published by Melissa Riddell. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surviving an alien abduction demands a sharp dagger and an iron heart. It’s too bad she only has one of these… Caught in an alien invasion aftermath, Fala fights for survival armed with only a dagger and unyielding courage. Traveling through the woods on a food run, she’s captured by a colossal, ruthless Henokan soldier. Fala is determined to escape, while her captor is determined to claim her as his own, disregarding the suspicion she might be allied with the Henokan archenemies, the Baltins. Can she escape his cruel cage? Can he break free from her courageous heart?
Download or read book The Descendant An Apocalyptic Sci Fi Antihero Romance written by Melissa Riddell and published by Melissa Riddell. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She wants her world back; he wants her heart. Tilly Morgan and her four-legged companion, Kodiak, are trying to survive an alien arrival. Two years ago, the unearthly visitors unleashed devastation--a worldwide EMP followed by a deadly virus that wiped out more than half of humanity. Traversing the lonely landscape, she runs into an alien on patrol with one order: eradicate all human life. A charismatic, dark-haired stranger named Jareth comes to her aid, and she reluctantly allows him to join her quest to find her sister. As her group travels the desolate world and inches closer to her goal, she's forced to examine her unwanted feelings for Jareth and come to terms with her heart, even if the truth threatens to destroy her and everything she's come to believe. The Descendant is the first book in a sci-fi romance series based in a post-apocalyptic world. If you like slow-burn romances, post-apocalyptic survival, and shocking plot twists, then you'll love The Descendant by Melissa Riddell. Dive into The Descendant to experience this mesmerizing series today!
Download or read book Readings in Rhetorical Fieldwork written by Samantha Senda-Cook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readings in Rhetorical Fieldwork compiles foundational articles highlighting the development of fieldwork in rhetorical criticism. Presenting a wide variety of approaches, the volume begins with a section establishing the starting points for the development of fieldwork in rhetorical criticism and then examines five topics: Space & Place; Public Memory; Publics and Counterpublics; Advocacy and Activism; and Science, Technology, and Medicine. Within these sections, readers evaluate a full spectrum of methods, from interviews, to oral histories, to participant observation. This volume is invaluable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of rhetorical criticism, rhetorical fieldwork, and qualitative methods looking for a comprehensive overview of the development of rhetorical fieldwork.
