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Book Rogue Academic

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  • Author : Isadora Brown
  • Publisher : Isadora Brown
  • Release : 2022-02-05
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 75 pages

Download or read book Rogue Academic written by Isadora Brown and published by Isadora Brown. This book was released on 2022-02-05 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rogue Academic is the first book in a new paranormal academy romance series by USA Today Best Selling Author Isadora Brown. Fans of THE AVENGERS and mythological retellings love the friends-to-lovers romance, the mystery, and the action! Lara Turner wants nothing to do with Godslayer Academy. After her father and hundreds of other innocents were massacred in a small Midwestern town by the gods themselves, an eccentric billionaire funds a school specifically to take them down when they attack again - and they will. And he wants Lara to attend. Lara is brilliant, blunt, and stubborn, but refuses to be part of anything that would inspire the gods' wrath. She doesn't want to risk anyone else. But when Robert Lannister - who happens to be just as stubborn and much more brilliant than she is - makes her an offer she can't refuse, Lara is forced to confront the fact that she does want revenge, and this is the opportunity for it - even if it means putting herself at risk.

Book Rogue Archives

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  • Author : Abigail De Kosnik
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2021-12-14
  • ISBN : 0262544741
  • Pages : 441 pages

Download or read book Rogue Archives written by Abigail De Kosnik and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of how nonprofessional archivists, especially media fans, practice cultural preservation on the Internet and how “digital cultural memory” differs radically from print-era archiving. The task of archiving was once entrusted only to museums, libraries, and other institutions that acted as repositories of culture in material form. But with the rise of digital networked media, a multitude of self-designated archivists—fans, pirates, hackers—have become practitioners of cultural preservation on the Internet. These nonprofessional archivists have democratized cultural memory, building freely accessible online archives of whatever content they consider suitable for digital preservation. In Rogue Archives, Abigail De Kosnik examines the practice of archiving in the transition from print to digital media, looking in particular at Internet fan fiction archives. De Kosnik explains that media users today regard all of mass culture as an archive, from which they can redeploy content for their own creations. Hence, “remix culture” and fan fiction are core genres of digital cultural production. De Kosnik explores, among other things, the anticanonical archiving styles of Internet preservationists; the volunteer labor of online archiving; how fan archives serve women and queer users as cultural resources; archivists' efforts to attract racially and sexually diverse content; and how digital archives adhere to the logics of performance more than the logics of print. She also considers the similarities and differences among free culture, free software, and fan communities, and uses digital humanities tools to quantify and visualize the size, user base, and rate of growth of several online fan archives.

Book Rogue Academic

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  • Author : Isadora Brown
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2022
  • ISBN : 9780463693360
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Rogue Academic written by Isadora Brown and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lara Turner wants nothing to do with Godslayer Academy.After her father and hundreds of other innocents were massacred in a small Midwestern town by the gods themselves, an eccentric billionaire funds a school specifically to take them down when they attack again - and they will.And he wants Lara to attend.Lara is brilliant, blunt, and stubborn, but refuses to be part of anything that would inspire the gods' wrath. She doesn't want to risk anyone else.But when Robert Lannister - who happens to be just as stubborn and much more brilliant than she is - makes her an offer she can't refuse, Lara is forced to confront the fact that she does want revenge, and this is the opportunity for it - even if it means putting herself at risk.Rogue Academic is the first book in a new series by USA Today Best Selling Author Isadora Brown. Fans of THE AVENGERS and Sarah J. Maas can't put this paranormal academy series down!

Book Godslayer Academy Episodes 1 4 Box Set

Download or read book Godslayer Academy Episodes 1 4 Box Set written by Isadora Brown and published by Isadora Brown. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the first four episodes of this paranormal academy romance grouped together in this box set, fans of The Avengers and mythological retelling a will have plenty to binge-read! It's packed with forbidden romance, mystery, and action! Join Lara Turner as she gets an exclusive invitation to the Godslayer Academy from the billionaire founder himself, Robert Lannister. But why does he want Lara there? Lara may be smart, but she’s not a fighter, especially not against the gods themselves. Her father may have been a casualty in their only attack on society, but revenge isn’t something she thought she wanted. Until Robert gives her the chance to have it. Lara must decide how far she’s willing to go to avenge her father’s death - if she’s willing to put her own life on the line for the truth. Scroll up and 1-click your copy today!

Book Rogue

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  • Author : Mark Frost
  • Publisher : Ember
  • Release : 2016-09-13
  • ISBN : 0375871101
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book Rogue written by Mark Frost and published by Ember. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the third book in the New York Times bestselling Paladin Prophecy series, Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost delivers thrilling mystery and electrifying suspense—it is compelling to the very last page. Will West is playing a dangerous game. Months after uncovering the Paladin Prophecy plot to destroy all of humankind, Will continues to work with the mastermind behind the project—none other than his own grandfather, Franklin Greenwood. Will cooperates in order to keep his friends safe. But are they really secure in the hands of a madman? Under constant surveillance, Will and his friends secretly devise a plan to defeat his grandfather and the sinister Knights of Charlemagne. The team must enter the Never-Was, a hellish land beyond our own, and find an elusive group of supernatural beings called the Hierarchy. But as the battle approaches, the alliance uncovers old secrets that threaten to tear them apart. Can they protect Earth from the demons beyond? Or will a rogue player destroy them and the world they live in? Praise for the Paladin Prophecy series “Wonderfully inventive.” —Chris Columbus, director of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone “Heart-pounding. . . . Breakneck pace.” —The New York Times “Nonstop action and a richly layered plot.” —Booklist

Book Rogue Institution

Download or read book Rogue Institution written by David W. Graney and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexual assault, drug, and cheating scandals; institutional malfunction by way of administrative conspiracy, treachery, and delinquency; factious, tyrannical cadet leadership engendered by ideological misgivings and mob-mentality social justice; hazing, fraternal rights of passage, and selective character assassination; kangaroo courts, radicals, and rumor-mongers: These are the collective hallmark of the United States Air Force Academy. Follow a beleaguered class of 2005 cadet as he struggles to cope with and make sense of his surroundings. In Rogue Institution, former cadet Graney exposes the hypocrisy and cruelty that he found there, and vividly illustrates the wide spectrum of human emotion, thought, and behavior resultant from such an environment. Rogue Institution is a thought-provoking, action-oriented tribute to moral courage and self-determination, sure to inspire and enlighten readers.

Book Versions of Academic Freedom

Download or read book Versions of Academic Freedom written by Stanley Fish and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author and New York Times columnist sheds light on the intersection of academia and politics with this look at the debate surrounding academic freedom. Depending on who’s talking, academic freedom is an essential bulwark of democracy, an absurd fig leaf disguising liberal agendas, or, most often, some in-between muddle that both exaggerates its own importance and misunderstands its actual value to scholarship. The crucial question, Fish tells us, is located in the phrase itself: Do you emphasize “academic” or “freedom”? Putting the stress on “academic” suggests a limited, professional freedom, while the conception of freedom implied by the latter could expand almost infinitely. Guided by that distinction, Fish analyzes various arguments for the value of academic freedom: Does it contribute to society’s common good? Does it authorize professors to critique the status quo, both inside and outside the university? Is it an engine of revolution? Are academics inherently different from other professionals? Or is academia just a job, and academic freedom merely a tool for doing that job? No reader of Fish will be surprised by the deftness with which he dismantles weak arguments, corrects misconceptions, and clarifies muddy ideas. And while his conclusion may surprise, it is unquestionably bracing. Stripping away the mystifications that obscure academic freedom allows its beneficiaries to concentrate on what they should be doing: following their intellectual interests and furthering scholarship.

Book Songbooks

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  • Author : Eric Weisbard
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2021-04-23
  • ISBN : 147802139X
  • Pages : 447 pages

Download or read book Songbooks written by Eric Weisbard and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-23 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Songbooks, critic and scholar Eric Weisbard offers a critical guide to books on American popular music from William Billings's 1770 New-England Psalm-Singer to Jay-Z's 2010 memoir Decoded. Drawing on his background editing the Village Voice music section, coediting the Journal of Popular Music Studies, and organizing the Pop Conference, Weisbard connects American music writing from memoirs, biographies, and song compilations to blues novels, magazine essays, and academic studies. The authors of these works are as diverse as the music itself: women, people of color, queer writers, self-educated scholars, poets, musicians, and elites discarding their social norms. Whether analyzing books on Louis Armstrong, the Beatles, and Madonna; the novels of Theodore Dreiser, Gayl Jones, and Jennifer Egan; or varying takes on blackface minstrelsy, Weisbard charts an alternative history of American music as told through its writing. As Weisbard demonstrates, the most enduring work pursues questions that linger across time period and genre—cultural studies in the form of notes on the fly, on sounds that never cease to change meaning.

Book Uproar

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  • Author : Jack MacLeod
  • Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9780889843066
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Uproar written by Jack MacLeod and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 2008 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack MacLeod's first two novels established him as that rarest of talents, a writer who can entertain while also grappling with ideas and social issues. "Uproar, " his new novel, is the story of a marriage in free fall, a career on the skids and the bewildering era we have only just recently survived. Included among the list of zany characters is Zinger' -- that remarkable literary creation who first made an appearance in "Zinger and Me" (1979), and whom the actor Don Harron has called one of the most memorable characters in Canadian literature'.

Book Higher Education in Turmoil

Download or read book Higher Education in Turmoil written by Jane Knight and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationalization is a pervasive force shaping and challenging higher education as it faces the new realities and turbulence of globalization. In a thoughtful and provocative way, this book provides a critical perspective on the rationales, benefits, risks, strategies, and outcomes of internationalization.

Book Rogue Scholar

Download or read book Rogue Scholar written by Richard W. Bailey and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tragic saga of a nineteenth-century fugitive, ne'er-do-well, and would-be savant that touches on themes as compelling today as they were in Victorian times

Book Building Academic Vocabulary

Download or read book Building Academic Vocabulary written by Lawrence J. Zwier and published by University of Michigan Press ELT. This book was released on 2002 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for advanced ESL/EFL and EAP students, Building Academic Vocabulary helps the user develop lexical precision as he or she works in such often-exercised modes as cause/effect, general descriptions of processes or comparison/contrast.

Book Searching the Soul of the College and University in America

Download or read book Searching the Soul of the College and University in America written by Stephen James Nelson and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2023 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of religious and democratic covenants and controversies in the foundations of America and in the soul of its colleges and universities. Coinciding entangled democratic beliefs and convictions distinctly define the American body politic and are in the foundation of the nation and its colleges and universities.

Book The Handbook of Alternative Education

Download or read book The Handbook of Alternative Education written by Jerry Mintz and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text considers issues in alternative education. It looks at the issues from teaching, learning and research perspectives.

Book Rogue States as Norm Entrepreneurs

Download or read book Rogue States as Norm Entrepreneurs written by Carmen Wunderlich and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates whether so-called rogue states – assumed antagonists of a Western-liberal world order – could also act as norm entrepreneurs by championing the genesis and evolution of global norms. The author explores this issue by analyzing the arms control policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran. A comparison with the prototypical norm entrepreneur Sweden and the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea – a notorious norm-breaker – reveals interesting insights for norm research: Apparently, norm entrepreneurship manifests itself in different degrees and phases of the norm life cycle. The finding that Iran indeed acts as a norm entrepreneur in some cases also sheds light on those factors that might account for the success or failure of norm advocacy. Lastly, the book offers a new perspective on “rogue states”, by not only regarding them as irrational antagonists of the current world order, but also as legitimate participants in a discourse on what the ruling order should look like. This book will appeal to scholars interested in critical norm research in international relations. “This book offers cutting-edge norm research, highlighting how norm-breakers can function as norm-makers." Maria Rost Rublee, Associate Professor of International Relations, Monash University (Australia) “So-called ‘rogue states’ are typically understood as norm breakers, but Carmen Wunderlich makes a persuasive conceptual case backed by empirical research that we need to consider the extent to which they are in fact norm entrepreneurs in their own right. In an era characterized by much concern over the status of liberal norms, this is a very timely study.” Richard Price, Department of Political Science, The University of British Columbia (Canada) "At a time when the world order is under pressure, this cutting-edge analysis of how dissatisfied states challenge existing global norms illuminates a topic crucial to understanding contemporary international relations." Nina Tannenwald, Director, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University (Rhode Island USA)

Book Exploiting Children

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  • Author : Matt Spencer
  • Publisher : R&L Education
  • Release : 2013-09-20
  • ISBN : 1475806361
  • Pages : 179 pages

Download or read book Exploiting Children written by Matt Spencer and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America’s citizens want children to receive a high-quality education in clean, orderly and safe schools staffed with quality teachers, support staff and courageous educational leaders. In many communities, such a school experience is something the students will never have. Why? One or more members of the governing board desire to use their elected position for personal gain. They are Exploiters. Some desire to exploit a little. Others crave total domination of the school system and become the petty tyrants of education. Whether the exploitation is minimal or extreme, exploitative board members are highly detrimental to the effectiveness of the local school system. They destroy teamwork, morale, careers and many times entire school systems. They steal a high-quality education from children. The predominant governance structure of public education dictated by law is seriously flawed. What thousands of citizens and educators strongly desire for their schools can be discarded and replaced with the unscrupulous will of one individual. Exploitive school board members must be understood and stopped. The governance structure of public education must be changed.