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Book The Riot Act

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  • Author : Sebastian Sim
  • Publisher : Epigram Books
  • Release : 2019-01-29
  • ISBN : 981478575X
  • Pages : 239 pages

Download or read book The Riot Act written by Sebastian Sim and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions abound in the aftermath of the Little India riot. Hashwini wonders if she triggered the chaos. Jessica asks if she should reveal what truly happened in the ambulance. Sharon thinks that the catastrophe could be what she needs to boost her political career. The lives of three women intertwine when accident and coincidence collide. In Gimme Lao!-style hilarity, they become wrapped up in a web of truth, deception and political connections. This is a perceptive, fast-paced romp that asks “what if” of the riot that recently shook Singapore.

Book Riot Act

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  • Author : Diane Tullson
  • Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
  • Release : 2012-03-01
  • ISBN : 1459801423
  • Pages : 124 pages

Download or read book Riot Act written by Diane Tullson and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How often do you get to see a car tipped or stores looted? Seventeen-year-old Daniel gets caught up in a post-game riot, and then he and his best friend escape police by breaking into a store. They only intend to cut through to the alley, but rioters follow and trash the place. Daniel prevents an arsonist from torching the store; the next day he's a hero while his friend is outed as a rioter. Can Daniel save face, and will it cost him his friend?

Book Reading the Riot Act

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  • Author : Michael Dorn Barnholden
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9781895636673
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Reading the Riot Act written by Michael Dorn Barnholden and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Nonfiction. Canadian History. BC Books in BC Schools pick. Reading the Riot Act is a phrase that has entered the popular lexicon, meaning the action taken by authority figures when they perceive that their charges are getting out of hand. The act itself is a seldom-used piece of legislation actually designed to prevent a riot from taking place. Supposedly, the mere mention of the Riot Act is enough to bring hardened miscreants bent on destruction to their collective senses. But if a riot has started, it's already too late to read the Riot Act. Every city has its distinct history of rioting--the Rocket Richard riots in Montreal, the Christie Pits riot in Toronto, the Winnipeg and Regina riots, even the Shakespeare riots in New York where rival factions rioted over which actor was the better interpreter of Shakespeare's work. READING THE RIOT ACT is a popular history that rereads and rewrites the legacy of riots in Vancouver. The project was conceived following the city's Stanley Cup riots in 1994, when official reports and media coverage differed significantly from eyewitness accounts. Later, media reports on the APEC riots downplayed and obscured certain facets of the conflict. Seeking out sources beyond the official reports, Barnholden has compiled a record of participants and observers, allowing the vanquished to have their say. Barnholden shuns the simplistic bad apple explanation, and explores the deeper economic causes and effects of riots. This book contains some stirring narrative of conflicts that have defined the history of Vancouver.--Prairie Fire ...demonstrates that even unexpected, apparently spontaneous flarings are about something deeper, from unemployment pressures, freedom of speech and inhumane conditions in prisons all the way to racism and the disappointing performances by our professional sports teams and Axl Rose, the frontman of the notorious GM Place no-show rock band Guns'n' Roses... This tapestry is woven against a backdrop of class war, demonstrating that while the rowdies ground beneath the heels of the police are always the working poor, it's suspiciously rare that they take their grievances to the neighbourhoods of their bosses... Challenging the popular conception that riots are just the result of 'a few bad apples' sowing discontent, Barnholden advances the competing thesis that the entire orchard may in fact be infested with parasites.--The Columbia Journal Until Reading the Riot Act was published, the book containing the most detailed information on riots in Vancouver was the local police department's autobiography, A Century of Service (1986), which Michael Barnholden makes reference to in his own text. The difference with Reading the Riot Act is its focus and perspective, which presents riots as battles in the class war, as it aims to cut through the media distortion around such events and dispense with the 'bad apple' theory of their cause. It makes for a more engaging, accessible and believable read than the police department's book.--Max Sartin, The RAIN TAXI Review of Books

Book The Riot Act

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  • Author : James Sexton
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1915
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book The Riot Act written by James Sexton and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Riot Act

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  • Author : British Parliament
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2017-09-14
  • ISBN : 9781976257513
  • Pages : 28 pages

Download or read book The Riot Act written by British Parliament and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typed in this February 8, 2002 by Jonathan Walther. The source was cap V, volume XIII, pages 142 146 of the ``Statutes At Large'' series, printed in the year 1764. Also indexed as ``Anno primo GEORGEII I. Stat. 2. C. 5.'' Many sources on the Internet claim the Riot Act was passed in 1715; according to Statutes At Large it was passed in 1714. The confusion may be caused by the fact that the Act took effect in August of 1715. This is, of course, the famous Riot Act that gave rise to the expression "Read them the Riot Act!". CAP. V.An act for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies, and for the more speedy and effectual punishing the rioters. I.Whereas of late many rebellious riots and tumults have been in divers parts of this kingdom, to the disturbance of the publick peace, and the endangering of his Majesty's person and government, and the same are yet continued and fomented by persons disaffected to his Majesty, presuming so to do, for that the punishments provided by the laws now in being.

Book The Riot Act

Download or read book The Riot Act written by Sir James Sexton and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play based on the Liverpool Transport Strike of 1911 written by the leader of the National Union of Dock Labourers.

Book The Riot ACT

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  • Author : Great Britain Parliament
  • Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
  • Release : 2016-06-21
  • ISBN : 9781318787180
  • Pages : 26 pages

Download or read book The Riot ACT written by Great Britain Parliament and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Book The Riot Act

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1985
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Riot Act written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Riot Act

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  • Author : Great Britain Parliament
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2018-10-28
  • ISBN : 9781729581414
  • Pages : 38 pages

Download or read book The Riot Act written by Great Britain Parliament and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-10-28 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Riot Act by Great Britain. Parliament

Book Riot Act

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  • Author : Callie Hart
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2021-10-11
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 444 pages

Download or read book Riot Act written by Callie Hart and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA Today Bestselling Author, Callie Hart, delivers a twisted and edgy new linked standalone dark romance tale, featuring a girl with nothing left to lose and a broken boy with a heart as black as his soul. Want something? Pax will take it from you. Love something? Pax will destroy it. Love him? Heaven help you. You'd have to be the stupidest person to walk the face of the earth. PAX I don't do complicated. I sure as hell don't do love. With graduation in sight, I've made it almost four years at Wolf Hall without getting tangled up in BS with girls. I especially want nothing to do with her: Presley. Maria. Witton. Chase. The timid little mouse with the red hair, who can't even look my way without hyperventilating. She's nothing to me. Beautiful, sure, but I've had plenty of beautiful women. I'm perfectly content ignoring her... ...until her life is suddenly in my hands. PRES I've loved him from the moment I laid eyes on him. The cruel, inked anarchist of Riot House. He's wicked, and he's cold, and there's nothing good left in him. I fear him almost as much as I crave him. With only a few weeks left until graduation, all I have to do is keep my head down, and then I'll be free; I can leave Mountain Lakes and my obsession with Pax Davis in my rearview mirror. But the demons I've been hiding for years now are growing restless... ...and Pax is thing that will keep them at bay. This is not an act of kindness. Not an act of love. Not an act of forgiveness. You'll find no redemption here. This is the final riot. ACT ACCORDINGLY. RIOT ACT is a 137,000-word standalone book in the Crooked Sinners Series and does not end on a cliffhanger. This book contains dark content that may be considered a trigger for some readers, and as such is recommended for readers 17+

Book The Riot Act

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  • Author : Jon Stock
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book The Riot Act written by Jon Stock and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When street-fighting anarchist Dutchie's New Age girlfriend is killed by a bomb blast in Oxford Street, he vows revenge. But how can our dreadlocked, drugged-up hero track down the terrorists responsible? And why is MI5 taking such an interest? And what does the foreign exchange racket have to do with it? And who the hell is Uncle Walter working for? Class war meets Le Carre in Jon Stock's ferocious debut, a millennial thriller set in a terror-struck London on the edge of collapse.

Book RIOT ACT

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  • Author : James Sir Sexton, 1856
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-08-29
  • ISBN : 9781373546517
  • Pages : 100 pages

Download or read book RIOT ACT written by James Sir Sexton, 1856 and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Riot Act  a Play in Three Acts

Download or read book The Riot Act a Play in Three Acts written by James SEXTON (Dramatist.) and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Riot Act

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  • Author : James Sexton
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2018-01-18
  • ISBN : 9780483370937
  • Pages : 98 pages

Download or read book The Riot Act written by James Sexton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Riot Act: A Play in Three Acts This evidently attracts the clerk, who fingers it longingly and turns it over several times. Her curiosity getting the better of her discretion, she turns her back to the glass partition, runs her thumb through the envelope, takes out the letter and reads it with a look of surprise and satisfaction. Comes down to below L. Of table, puts letter on table, and deliberately takes its contents down in Shorthand, and then puts the document under the pile of already opened correspondence on the table when the chief clerk, Mr. Dunne, enters. Dunne looks enquiringly at the Shorthand Clerk and the open note-book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Atlas Obscura

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  • Author : Joshua Foer
  • Publisher : Workman Publishing
  • Release : 2016-09-20
  • ISBN : 076118967X
  • Pages : 481 pages

Download or read book Atlas Obscura written by Joshua Foer and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's time to get off the beaten path. Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura celebrates over 700 of the strangest and most curious places in the world. Talk about a bucket list: here are natural wonders—the dazzling glowworm caves in New Zealand, or a baobob tree in South Africa that's so large it has a pub inside where 15 people can drink comfortably. Architectural marvels, including the M.C. Escher-like stepwells in India. Mind-boggling events, like the Baby Jumping Festival in Spain, where men dressed as devils literally vault over rows of squirming infants. Not to mention the Great Stalacpipe Organ in Virginia, Turkmenistan's 40-year hole of fire called the Gates of Hell, a graveyard for decommissioned ships on the coast of Bangladesh, eccentric bone museums in Italy, or a weather-forecasting invention that was powered by leeches, still on display in Devon, England. Created by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton, ATLAS OBSCURA revels in the weird, the unexpected, the overlooked, the hidden and the mysterious. Every page expands our sense of how strange and marvelous the world really is. And with its compelling descriptions, hundreds of photographs, surprising charts, maps for every region of the world, it is a book to enter anywhere, and will be as appealing to the armchair traveler as the die-hard adventurer. Anyone can be a tourist. ATLAS OBSCURA is for the explorer.

Book The Riot Act

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  • Author : William Clayton Greene
  • Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
  • Release : 1963
  • ISBN : 9780822209553
  • Pages : 88 pages

Download or read book The Riot Act written by William Clayton Greene and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1963 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Katie Delaney, an upright, hard-working widow, struggles to keep her three grown sons from falling into the clutches of designing women. The sons, all members of the New York City police force, are far from pleased by this parental tyr

Book Special Issue  Reading the Riot Act

Download or read book Special Issue Reading the Riot Act written by Rupa Huq and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: