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Book Thomas  James and the Dirty Work

Download or read book Thomas James and the Dirty Work written by Wilbert Awdry and published by Egmont Books (UK). This book was released on 2012 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the Island of Sodor and experience another enchanting tale, all about the Really Useful Engines! This time, James helps out his friends, but gets rather dirty in the process!

Book Dirty Work

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eyal Press
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 2021-08-17
  • ISBN : 0374714436
  • Pages : 201 pages

Download or read book Dirty Work written by Eyal Press and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking, urgent report from the front lines of "dirty work"—the work that society considers essential but morally compromised. Drone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented immigrants who man the “kill floors” of industrial slaughterhouses. Guards who patrol the wards of the United States’ most violent and abusive prisons. In Dirty Work, Eyal Press offers a paradigm-shifting view of the moral landscape of contemporary America through the stories of people who perform society’s most ethically troubling jobs. As Press shows, we are increasingly shielded and distanced from an array of morally questionable activities that other, less privileged people perform in our name. The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn unprecedented attention to essential workers, and to the health and safety risks to which workers in prisons and slaughterhouses are exposed. But Dirty Work examines a less familiar set of occupational hazards: psychological and emotional hardships such as stigma, shame, PTSD, and moral injury. These burdens fall disproportionately on low-income workers, undocumented immigrants, women, and people of color. Illuminating the moving, sometimes harrowing stories of the people doing society’s dirty work, and incisively examining the structures of power and complicity that shape their lives, Press reveals fundamental truths about the moral dimensions of work and the hidden costs of inequality in America.

Book A Crack in the Track  Thomas   Friends

Download or read book A Crack in the Track Thomas Friends written by Rev. W. Awdry and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it take to bring the entire Island of Sodor Railway System to a halt? Just a crack in the track. Well, a crack in the track and some hail on rail . . . and a toad in the road, and a fuss on the bus. In fact, one thing leads to another until just about everything that can go wrong does go wrong. Luckily, there’s a breakdown train with a couple of cranes that can fix a big mess (and they don’t mind the rain). From the Hardcover edition.

Book Cranky  Thomas   Friends Engine Adventures

Download or read book Cranky Thomas Friends Engine Adventures written by Reverend W Awdry and published by HIT Entertainment. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect introduction to Thomas the Tank Engine! All aboard for a Railway adventure! Mighty Cranky the Crane towers overs Sodor’s Docks. But when a big storm hits the Island, will Cranky still stand tall?

Book Peter Priggins     Edited by Theodore Hook   By Joseph Thomas James Hewlett

Download or read book Peter Priggins Edited by Theodore Hook By Joseph Thomas James Hewlett written by Peter PRIGGINS and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book James and the Tar Wagons

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wilbert V. Awdry
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1990-01
  • ISBN : 9781855910263
  • Pages : 29 pages

Download or read book James and the Tar Wagons written by Wilbert V. Awdry and published by . This book was released on 1990-01 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book You re in Charge  Now What

Download or read book You re in Charge Now What written by Thomas J. Neff and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2007-03-27 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you start a new job, you are in a “temporary state of incompetence,” faced with having to do the most when you know the least. Tom Neff and Jim Citrin, two of the world’s experts on leadership and career achievement, know what it takes to succeed in a new position. Through compelling, first-hand stories, from CEOs like Jeffrey Immelt of GE and Bob Eckert of Mattel, You’re in Charge—Now What? offers an eight-point plan to show you how to lay the groundwork for long-term momentum and great performance.

Book Offshore Financial Centres and the Law

Download or read book Offshore Financial Centres and the Law written by Dominic Thomas-James and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the ability of island jurisdictions with financial centres to meet the expectations of the international community in addressing the threats posed to themselves and others by their innocent (or otherwise) facilitation of the receipt of suspect wealth. In the global financial architecture, British Overseas Territories are of material significance. Through their inalienable right to self-determination, many developed offshore financial centres to achieve sustainable economic development. Focusing on Bermuda, Turks and Caicos, and Anguilla, the book concerns suspect wealth emanating from financial crimes including corruption, money laundering and tax evasion, as well as controversial conduct like tax avoidance. This work considers the viability of international standards on suspect wealth in the context of the territories, how willing or able they are to comply with them, and how their financial centres can better prevent receipt of suspect wealth. While universalism is desirable in the modern approach to tackling suspect wealth, a one-size-fits-all approach is inappropriate for these jurisdictions. On critically evaluating their legislative and regulatory regimes, the book advances that they demonstrate willingness to comply with international standards. However, their abilities and levels of compliance vary. In acknowledging the facilitatively harmful role the territories can play, this work draws upon evidence of implication in transnational financial crime cases. Notwithstanding this, the book questions whether the degree of criticism that these offshore jurisdictions have encountered is warranted in light of apparent willingness to engage in the enactment and administration of internationally accepted laws and cooperate with international institutions.

Book James and the Diesel Engines

Download or read book James and the Diesel Engines written by Christopher Awdry and published by Egmont Books (UK). This book was released on 2007 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reverend Awdry created Thomas the Tank Engine for his son, Christopher Awdry, who continued his father's work by writing a further 14 books. Thomas fans will be delighted to see all of Christopher Awdry's stories beautifully reproduced and printed for the first time since 1996. Christopher Awdry's first Thomas book for 10 years is also being published by Egmont in September 2007.

Book The Really Useful Engines

Download or read book The Really Useful Engines written by Britt Allcroft and published by Egmont Books (UK). This book was released on 2011 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turn the pages of this bright and chunky tabbed board book to join the engines for a busy day on Sodor. Have fun finding things in the pictures and answering the questions along the way!

Book Dirty Word

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jim Parker Walker
  • Publisher : Upper Room Books
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9780881775396
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Dirty Word written by Jim Parker Walker and published by Upper Room Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus said he came to heal the sick, not the well. And yet some churches have a feeling about them that is vaguely antiseptic, where there seems to be an unspoken pressure to censor any unpleasantness. Jim Walker wanted to build a church that was honest, that lived out its mission down in the muck of life where Jesus calls us to get our hands dirty. In the rough and often unpleasant neighborhoods of the South Side of Pittsburgh, Jim began finding people who wanted to live in a new way--passionate, committed, and totally devoted to God. The worshiping community they built together, now known as Hot Metal Bridge Church, is a place of harsh honesty and tender caring, of deep pain and great joy. In Dirty Word you''ll meet a street person named Fetus who has an encounter with Jesus at the communion table that leads him to change his name to Feed Us. You''ll visit the weekly Bible Fight Club where guys with plenty of tattoos take their Bible study very seriously, and find a new perspective on how the kingdom of God really looks, sounds and smells. Be forewarned: Some of the stories and descriptions in Dirty Word might offend you, or run afoul of your expectations of the clergy. But if you are equally offended by watered-down theology and pallid discipleship, Dirty Word offers a bracing challenge and a fresh evocation of hope. Dirty Word is a raw, uncensored look at an unapologetic way of being the church. From chapter 8 One Sunday, after worship Amanda and Eric approached me. Amanda is a twenty something with a mix of blond and black and red hair. Eric has the black and blue tint to his hair that I''ve always wanted and have never had the nerve to get. Both Eric and Amanda are eccentric and artsy, love old monster movies and rock n roll. "Pastor Jim", Amanda started, "We want to get involved in a Bible study. Is this church going to have any Bible studies?" I quickly got defensive. That''s what we pastors do when it is insinuated that we''re not providing the right products. "We already have Bible studies going on right now," I replied, "We have a study on Monday night, a study about Ephesians on Wednesday, and a study on Romans on Saturday nights at the coffee shop." Eric looked at me, politely, but pained, and said to me very gently and kindly "Yeah, we went to those...." "It''s just not what we''re looking for, Pastor Jim", Amanda said. "Well, what is it you''re looking for? Maybe we can get something new going." That''s when Amanda got bold. I braced myself. "To be honest, Pastor Jim, I don''t like those other studies because it''s just a bunch of people sitting around nodding at one other. I mean, everyone is just agreeing with each other. I feel like we''re being brain-washed or something." "What are you suggesting?" I replied, kind of confused. "I don''t know. We want to be part of a Bible study where no one agrees." "No one agrees?" "Sure, why don''t we have a study where everyone comes and we fight?" When we started Bible Fight Club, the purpose wasn''t, and still isn''t, discipleship. The club isn''t meant to be a place where we grow in our faith, per se. The point to the gathering is not to worship, and it''s not to study scripture and it''s not to fellowship. The point to Bible Fight Club is to fight. It is a time for debate, a time for wrestling, and for doubting and questioning the things that we sometimes we hold as gospel. Sometimes this even means the Gospel. For our church it has been a place where atheists, agnostics, believers, ''non-believers'', and believers of other faiths can come and toss in their two cents. To make sure that the argument is valued and that people are valued as well, we made the following rules: Bible Fight Club Rules 1. Respect: we love and respect each other, but not necessarily each other''s opinions. We respect the argument by being good listeners. 2. Say Anything: no judging and no holding grudges. The tattoo shop basement is a safe place where anything can be said. 3. Fight: all those in attendance must participate. No one is allowed to come and observe in silence. (Observers and silent onlookers skew the argument by inadvertently becoming a kind of jury that people try to convince.) 4. Get to the point: no speeches. "Make your point and shut up"--so others can speak. 5. Honor the Argument: phrases like ''Well, it''s all just a mystery'' or ''we''ll never know the answer, so why bother arguing'' do not honor the argument. Take a side and fight, no matter how ''mysterious'' you think the subject is. 6. Admit when you''ve been hit: At the end of the evening we take time to talk about the argument. Everyone must share something that was said that made them think. Sometimes this might mean having some humility. But that''s the point.

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries  Third Series

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Doing Prison Work

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elaine Crawley
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-01-11
  • ISBN : 1135991677
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book Doing Prison Work written by Elaine Crawley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in different types of prisons (and drawing form interviews with prison officers' partners and children as well as prison officers themselves), this book will be essential reading for all those with an interest in prisons and the day-to-day interactions and relationship that take place behind their walls."--Jacket.

Book The Journals of Thomas James Cobden Sanderson  1879 1922

Download or read book The Journals of Thomas James Cobden Sanderson 1879 1922 written by Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Western Rebellion

Download or read book The Western Rebellion written by Richard Locke and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Perfect Escape

    Book Details:
  • Author : M.L. Jameson
  • Publisher : Sand Dune Books
  • Release : 2019-01-05
  • ISBN : 1622372115
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book A Perfect Escape written by M.L. Jameson and published by Sand Dune Books. This book was released on 2019-01-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She planned her escape to the last detail.... Megan Thomas wants to get lost—preferably in someone else’s life. But can she really escape the terror of her past, and grab onto some hope of a future? Leaving Chicago and her mob-connected husband behind, she assumes a new identity. She planned her escape to the last detail—but she didn’t plan on Smyth Parker. Smyth Parker is already lost. And he sure as hell doesn’t need a complication like Megan Thomas in his life. He wants nothing from no one and expects to live out his life in solitude. But when Megan fears her husband has found her, she runs again, and no detailed plan can save her this time. When she runs blindly into Smyth’s arms, he has no choice but to protect her. Can two people running away from life, figure out how to trust each other enough to live?