Download or read book The Broken City written by Mary E. Twomey and published by Mary E. Twomey, LLC. This book was released on 2022-02-02 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to finding a safe haven, Colette is running out of options. Having a baby wasn’t supposed to be possible, but now that Colette is pregnant, the happy couple isn’t sure what to do. While Rome is ready to be a father, Colette knows the road ahead will be rough for the child she carries. Being the Last Deadblood was supposed to ensure the violence against vampires would one day come to an end, but it seems that whether Colette draws breath or not, there are some who will always hate what they do not understand. When a war comes to their doorstep, Colette knows that if she doesn’t put a stop to the revolution once and for all, her child will bear the consequences. Though it might take all she has, Colette will stop at nothing to take this stand… …even if it might be her last. "The Last City" is filled with political intrigue and scandalous secrets, written by USA Today bestselling fantasy romance author, Mary E. Twomey.
Download or read book Nameless written by Jessica Sorensen and published by Jessica Sorensen. This book was released on with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I live in a world where freedom doesn’t exist, and most people aren’t allowed to have names. I had a name once—Allura—but then I was captured by Wardens, creatures that hunt humans, and I became a Nameless. I spent years imprisoned underground beneath the city, dreaming of being outside again until Blaise rescues me. Finally, I’m free again. But the outside world isn’t how I remember it. The city has become extremely dangerous. To survive, I’ll have to learn how to fight and trust Blaise. But as I discover a new world, I also learn a secret about myself that could put me in grave danger.
Download or read book Saints in the Broken City written by Casey Schreiber and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telling the story of Saints football in New Orleans is a way to understand larger social, political and economic conditions during pivotal moments of the city's history. This book is the first to explore the team's role in rebuilding the city following Hurricane Katrina. The author documents New Orleans' initial efforts to attract professional football, the Katrina disaster and some successes and failures during 10 years of post-disaster recovery. The narrative of community recovery and cohesion crafted by Saints fans transcends racial divides and illustrates the relationship between professional sports and the American city. The voices of female fans--largely overlooked in the study of sports--compel a more inclusive definition of football fandom.
Download or read book Fixing Broken Cities written by John Kromer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the insightful lens of an experienced practitioner, this book describes the origin, execution, and impact of urban repopulation strategies—initiatives designed to attract residents, businesses, jobs, shoppers, and visitors to places that had undergone decades of decline and abandonment. The central question throughout the strategies explored in the book is who should benefit? Who should benefit from the allocation of scarce public capital? Who should enjoy the social benefits of urban development? And who will populate redeveloped areas? Kromer provides realistic guidance about how to move forward with strategic choices that have to be made in pursuing the best opportunities available within highly disadvantaged, resource-starved urban areas. Each of the cases presents strategies that are strongly influenced by geography, economics, politics, and individual leadership, but they address key issues that are major concerns everywhere: enlivening downtowns, stabilizing and strengthening neighborhoods, eliminating industrial-age blight, and providing quality public education options.
Download or read book Freestyle Rudiments written by Geoff Fry and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-22 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoff is a passionate educator and performer, In this book he focuses on the expansion of both standard and hybrid drum corps rudiments. He will introduce a simple but effective method allowing the reader to master over 500 modern rudimental variations. For the beginner: This is a great introduction to names and families of the most used rudiments.For the advanced player: This will teach a method that not only creates hundreds of new variations but helps develop complete rudimental freedom.For the teacher: This is a great resource to use as a reference and to expanding a student's rudimental vocabulary.
Download or read book City of Broken Magic written by Mirah Bolender and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mirah Bolender's fast-paced, adventure fantasy debut, City of Broken Magic, features a bomb squad that defuses magic weapons. i09—Best of November Science Fiction and Fantasy SyFy—Best of November Science Fiction and Fantasy Kirkus SFF—Best of November Science Fiction and Fantasy Paste—Best Books of November 2018 Five hundred years ago, magi created a weapon they couldn’t control. An infestation that ate magic—and anything else it came into contact with. Enemies and allies were equally filling. Only an elite team of non-magical humans, known as sweepers, can defuse and dispose of infestations before they spread. Most die before they finish training. Laura, a new team member, has stayed alive longer than most. Now, she’s the last—and only—sweeper standing between the city and a massive infestation. Chronicles of Amicae City of Broken Magic
Download or read book City of Broken Promises written by Austin Coates and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city is Macao, the Portuguese settlement on the China Coast, as it was more than 200 years ago. The promises are those made by Englishmen to marry their Macao mistresses, only to leave them abandoned and their children bastards. Martha Merop and her English lover are unique in this period. He, son of the founder of Lloyd's and cousin of the philosopher, Jeremy Bentham, was one of the first merchants to oppose the trade in opium. She, Chinese, abandoned at birth and sold into prostitution at the age of thirteen, became an international trader in her own right, the richest woman on the China Coast and Macao's greatest public benefactress. This moving novel that captures the time and place so convincingly is a historical reconstruction of the years 1780 to 1795 when the two were together. It is based on oral tradition handed down through generations in Macao, and on documents that survive about them in Macao, Lisbon and London. Austin Coates identified Martha Merop’s lover, about whom little was known. The documents about him confirmed the traditional Macao story, and the outcome was this book.
Download or read book Batman Broken City New Edition written by Brian Azzarello and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning creative team of 100 Bullets puts its stamp on the Dark Knight! A dead girl's body is found in a Gotham City landfill, and the discovery sends Batman on a journey that pits him against The Joker, Killer Croc, and more! Gotham is a city of shadows, as twisted and dangerous as the monsters and maniacs who haunt it. As he pursues a murderer down a path that leads to some of his greatest enemies, can even the Dark Knight Detective withstand the city's psychological horrors? Collects Batman #620-625.
Download or read book Broken City written by D. D. Chant and published by . This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""The fifty eight floors of this building are to all intents and purposes my world. I will never leave it. I was born here, I will marry here, I will have my children here and I will die here -- my life from beginning to end will have no impact on any one outside: to them I might never have existed."Deeta Richards lives in a harsh world, one in which you must be strong to survive. In this world of so many dangers she is protected by her tribe, but even they cannot shield her from the Andak. Deeta knows that when the Andak want something they get it, but why do they want Dec, he's just a child? The only one who can answer her question is Tom. However Tom is facing his own troubles -- fighting against his shadowed past and present fears, Tom is the only one who can save Dec, but only he knows how much it will cost him."
Download or read book Living in the Crossfire written by Maria Alves and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communities organizing to end Brazil's urban war on drugs
Download or read book Hunting days written by Li Donghao and published by Sellene Chardou. This book was released on with total page 2990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moonlight, like water, pours on the precise and complicated lines of the disc, arousing brilliance. The huge disc is like silver moon hanging in the air, and short figures emerge from the mirror of the disc.
Download or read book Legends of Evil Spirit written by Mo ShangFengHua and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100,000 miles of mountains and rivers shattered. 80 million corpses were buried in the sky. In drunkenness, the dream was born with bitterness. After waking up, he would not become an immortal! ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... I am just a village child, forced by fate to go through a tragic life, suffering unspeakably in my heart, becoming an inscriptionist, witnessing the coming of a chaotic world, the rise of demi-humans, the unravel of the Immortal's War, the secrets of the three great dead, step by step, I have to unearth the truth of this world, to find out the true story of myself, the legend of the demonkind ... [Previous Chapter] [Table of Contents] [Next Chapter] [Previous Chapter] [Table of Contents] [Next Chapter]
Download or read book Being Rebuilt Restored written by Anja Bronkhorst and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes you on a Biblical yet poetic journey and through a personal process to view life as a building process. God is the Master Architect of this life and the one beyond. The Holy Spirit works in, with, and through us like our Builder and Site Manager, guiding and constructing us into the image of Christ. By grace, we are being transformed into the Christ Plan—He is our Building Plan, true Blueprint, and the Architectural Drawing of God’s everlasting covenant with us. You are never too broken or ruined to be restored into God’s plan and His purpose for your life! Together, our living stones are being built into His eternal dwelling place. Trust God with your process and become a true builder of His kingdom. See how God is busy restoring your rubble mess into His eternal heavenly fortress.
Download or read book Designing in Dark Times written by Virginia Tassinari and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The architectural historian and critic Kenneth Frampton 'never recovered' from the force of Hannah Arendt's teaching at The New School in New York. The philosopher Richard J. Bernstein considers her the most perceptive political theorist and observer of 'dark times' (a concept which, drawing from Brecht, she made her own). Building on the revival of interest in Hannah Arendt, and on the increasing turn in design towards the expanded field of the social, this unique book uses insights and quotations drawn from Arendt's major writings (The Human Condition; The Origins of Totalitarianism, Men in Dark Times) to assemble a new kind of lexicon for politics, designing and acting today. Taking 56 terms – from Action, Beginnings and Creativity through Mortality, Natality, and Play to Superfluity, Technology and Violence – and inviting designers and scholars of design world-wide to contribute, Designing in Dark Times: An Arendtian Lexicon, offers up an extraordinary range of short essays that use moments and quotations from Arendt's thought as the starting points for reflection on how these terms can be conceived for contemporary design and political praxis. Neither simply dictionary nor glossary, the lexicon brings together designing and political philosophy to begin to create a new language for acting and designing against dark times.
Download or read book A Search for Belonging written by Marc Ripley and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the foremost Spanish directors of all time, Luis Buñuel’s filmography has been the subject of innumerable studies. Despite the fact that the twenty films he made in Mexico between 1947 and 1965 represent the most prolific stage of his career as a filmmaker, these have remained relatively neglected in writing on Buñuel and his work. This book focuses on nine of the director’s films made in Mexico in order to show that a concerted focus on space, an important aspect of the films’ narratives that is often intimated by scholars, yet rarely developed, can unlock new philosophical meaning in this rich body of work. Although in recent years Buñuel’s Mexican films have begun to enjoy a greater presence in criticism on the director, they are often segregated according to their perceived critical value, effectively creating two substrands of work: the independent movies and the studio potboilers. The interdisciplinary approach of this book unites the two, focusing on films such as Los olvidados, Nazarín, and El ángel exterminador alongside La Mort en ce jardin, The Young One, and Simón del desierto, among others. In doing so, it avoids the tropes most often associated with Buñuel’s cinema—surrealism, Catholicism, the derision of the bourgeoisie—and the approach most often invoked in analysis of these themes: psychoanalysis. Instead, this book takes inspiration from the fields of human geography, anthropology, and philosophy, applying these to film-focused readings of Buñuel’s Mexican cinema to argue that ultimately these films depict an overriding sense of placelessness, overtly or subliminally enacting a search for belonging that forces the viewer to question what it means to be in place.
Download or read book Borders Culture and Globalization written by Victor Konrad and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Border culture emerges through the intersection and engagement of imagination, affinity and identity. It is evident wherever boundaries separate or sort people and their goods, ideas or other belongings. It is the vessel of engagement between countries and peoples—assuming many forms, exuding a variety of expressions, changing shapes—but border culture does not disappear once it is developed, and it may be visualized as a thread that runs throughout the process of globalization. Border culture is conveyed in imaginaries and productions that are linked to borderland identities constructed in the borderlands. These identities underlie the enforcement of control and resistance to power that also comprise border cultures. Canada’s borders in globalization offer an opportunity to explore the interplay of borders and culture, identify the fundamental currents of border culture in motion, and establish an approach to understanding how border culture is placed and replaced in globalization. Published in English.
Download or read book Legend of Holy Door written by Dian ShuiHu and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Ye Zangming, Green Lotus Pearl. The strong wind blew against the willow tree, neutralizing the irreversible situation; the Fiery Blaze Needle pierced through the gate of rebirth with a faint glow. After entering the World Gate, a beautiful woman appeared within the world tomb. After experiencing life and death several times, she would obtain the benefits of being able to destroy the heavens. On the road of no return, brothers share the same heart, and the true and false know what a hero is. Outside of Cheng City, demons flew in a frenzy, and people kowtowed to become true kings. The Three Gates of Life and Death would swarm over the world, turning the sun and moon into a new song. The Cave of Samsara, surrounded by mountains, had smoke rising from all corners of the world, looked like a painting in the tenth generation, and within the compass formation, four ferocious beasts and a hundred thousand devil soldiers would be reduced to fragments after ten thousand years of enmity. Her beauty was old, and she had no desire for marriage. She could only look forward to dancing with the king for all eternity. Hand-to-hand desire, the crippled king, life does not love, just to join hands to advance the new article. Communicator 476311286 [Wrap]
