Download or read book Call Your Mutha written by Jane Caputi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ecocide and domination of nature that is the Anthropocene does not represent the actions of all humans, but that of Man, the Western and masculine identified corporate, military, intellectual, and political class that long has masked itself as the civilized and the human. In this book, Jane Caputi looks at two major "myths" of the Earth, one ancient and one contemporary, and uses them to devise a manifesto for the survival of nature--which includes human beings--in our current ecological crisis. These are the myths of Mother Earth and the Anthropocene. The former personifies nature as a figure with the power to give life or death, and one who shares a communal destiny with all other living things. The latter myth sees humans as exceptional for exerting an implicitly sexual domination of Mother Earth through technological achievement, from the plow to synthetic biology and artificial intelligence. Much that we take for granted as inferior or taboo is based in a splitting apart of inherent unities: culture-nature; up-down, male-female; spirit-matter; mind-body; life-death; sacred-profane; reason-madness; human-beast; light-dark. The first is valued and the second reviled. This provides the framework for any number of related injustices--sexual, racial, and ecological. This book resists this pattern, in part, by deliberately putting the dirty back into the mind, the obscene back into the sacred, and vice versa. Ecofeminism and Environmental Justice argue for the significance and reality of the Earth Mother. Caputi engages specifically with the powers of that Mother, ones made taboo and even obscene throughout heteropatriarchal traditions. Jane Caputi rejects misogynist and colonialist stereotypes, and examines the potency of the Earth Mother in order to deepen awareness of how our relationship to the Earth went astray and what might be done to address this. Drawing upon Indigenous and African American, ecofeminism, ecowomanism, green activism, femme, queer and gender non-binary philosophies, literature and arts, Afrofuturism, and popular culture images, Call Your "Mutha" contends that the Anthropocene is not evidence so much of Man's supremacy, but instead a sign that Mother Nature-Earth, faced with disrespect, is turning away, withdrawing the support systems necessary for life and continuance. Caputi looks at contemporary narratives and artwork to consider the ways in which respect for the autonomous and potent Earth Mother and a call for their return has already reasserted itself into our political and popular culture.

Download or read book A Shattered Circle written by Kevin Egan and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A judge’s wife struggles under the deadly weight of secrets both past and present in “Egan’s excellent third legal thriller . . . his best to date” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Ever since a fall from a stepladder, Judge Lonergan hasn’t been the same. The accident triggered traumatic dementia—a condition that his wife and secretary, Barbara, is desperate to keep hidden from the public. With the help of the judge’s law clerk, she seems to be succeeding—until a judicial complaint is filed against her husband. Meanwhile, in another part of the courthouse, court officer Foxx begins an unofficial investigation into a twenty-five-year-old murder that occurred there. It’s the least he can do for his dying childhood friend, the convicted killer who still proclaims his innocence. From the inner sanctums and shadowy depths of the historic Manhattan courthouse, old secrets and scandals come to light, entangling both Foxx and Barbara in a web of ruthless ambition and dangerous obsession . . .

Download or read book Great American Outpost written by Maya Rao and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A surreal, lyrical work of narrative nonfiction that portrays how the largest domestic oil discovery in half a century transformed a forgotten corner of the American West into a crucible of breakneck capitalism. As North Dakota became the nation's second-largest oil producer, Maya Rao set out in steel-toe boots to join a wave of drifters, dreamers, entrepreneurs, and criminals. With an eye for the dark, absurd, and humorous, Rao fearlessly immersed herself in their world to chronicle this modern-day gold rush, from its heady beginnings to OPEC's price war against the US oil industry. She rode shotgun with a surfer-turned-truck driver braving toxic fumes and dangerous roads, dined with businessmen disgraced during the financial crisis, and reported on everyone in between -- including an ex-con YouTube celebrity, a trophy wife mired in scandal, and a hard-drinking British Ponzi schemer--in a social scene so rife with intrigue that one investor called the oilfield Peyton Place on steroids. As the boom receded, a culture of greed and recklessness left troubling consequences for investors and longtime residents. Empty trailers and idle oil equipment littered the fields like abandoned farmsteads, leaving the pioneers who built this unlikely civilization to reckon with their legacy. Part Barbara Ehrenreich, part Upton Sinclair, Great American Outpost is a sobering exploration of twenty-first-century America that reads like a frontier novel.

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Download or read book Mother Fracker written by Larry Bud Meyer and published by . This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do if you were ex-journalist Tip Tyler? Here you are, living off the grid in pristine Rappahannock County, Virginia. Your daughter hits not one, but two deer. Two purple deer. Then you discover your neighbors are running a suspicious industrial site here among the rolling ranches and wooded hollows. And the comely engineer Roxx Bleigh seems to be right in the middle, cavorting in the vineyards and villages with your rancher pal, Provo Starke. Tip must fall back on what he knows best -- environmental reporting -- sifting through old truths with new tools in this modern-day narrative of greed, faith and fame. Larry Bud Meyer uses sly humor to take deadly aim at fracking in a debut novel filled with finely honed characters and a distinct sense of place.

Download or read book In the Outer Game Death Is Forever written by R.J. Pearson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Novella is a Techno-Thriller in the same genre as the "The Hunt for Red October" and "The Andromeda Strain." In the story, a rogue artificial intelligence (AI) reaches out from the virtual world of computer games to try and murder a wounded warrior. In the virtual world of computer games, the AI's and human warrior's avatars, die and are reborn again and again. When their conflict moves to the real world, there can be no rebirth. Either the AI or the human warrior must die forever so that the other can go on living.

Download or read book Allegiance written by Tom Abrahams and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scientist is murdered a mile beneath the earth, his secret laboratory exposed. A formula capable of shifting power among the world's largest nations is missing and its rightful owner wants it back. After staying hidden for months, Quick is pulled back into the darkness he despises. Forced to face his demons and align himself with the very people who betrayed him, he agrees to hunt for the formula. Racing against time and an evil black-market czar, Quick crosses the globe in search of a mathematical equation so valuable that nations and terrorists will pay whatever the cost to control it. From the scientist's lab in South Dakota, to London, Chernobyl, Ukraine, and Heidelberg, Germany, Quick uses his guile and good luck to outwit the competition at every turn. Or so he thinks. In the end, is his freedom worth the price he'll pay to earn it? Or is he better off letting the formula fall where it may.

Download or read book The Postcard written by Tony Abbott and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She died today. One phone call changes Jason's summer vacation-and life!-forever. When Jason's grandmother dies, he's sent down to her home in Florida to help his father clean out her things. At first he gripes about spending his summer miles away from his best friend, doing chores, and sweating in the Florida heat, but he soon discovers a mystery surrounding his grandmother's murky past. An old, yellowed postcard...a creepy phone call with a raspy voice at the other end asking, "So how smart are you?"...an entourage of freakish funeral goers....a bizarre magazine story. All contain clues that will send him on a thrilling journey to uncover family secrets. Award-winning author Tony Abbott weaves an intriguing and entertaining mystery of adventure, friendship and family.

Download or read book Train Running written by Kyler Hood and published by Whispering Pine Press International, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kyler Hood has released another page-turner, the novella, Train Running. The story paints a colorful picture of life in India through the eyes of Mackenzie Riehl, an imaginative young woman who attends her sister’s wedding in Bombay, burdened with a terrible secret. But it’s no secret that Riehl wants the wedding to fail. But her wish quickly becomes mired in family conflict and the overwhelming squeeze of life in the city. Riehl gets some respite as a nurse on the trains and frequently paints, but she finds herself most drawn to her new job as a train runner. The illegal job fills her with a fresh joie de vivre, charm, and an unbending survivalism as she winds the tracks to fantastic places. Along the way, her choices challenge and change her so that she becomes someone she could have never imagined.

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Download or read book Haunted by Death Liz Baker 4 written by Christie Silvers and published by Christie Silvers. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liz Baker always saw herself as a restless bar owner in her small town. She didn't want the white picket fence, two kids, husband, and a dog. Oh, no. Liz wanted more. It didn't matter what, just more. Now she has more, and it's not as fun as she'd hoped. Not only does Liz have to deal with monsters, demons, and being a half-vampire daughter to evil, but now her ex-love has announced his speedy wedding to another woman and wants Liz's help. However, Liz steps in to more than just tending bar when she agrees to help out at the reception.

Download or read book The First To Serve written by Ron Guilmette and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-07-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "First to Serve" is a historic work covering the first ten years of the nations oldest state police agency from 1865 to 1875. Alcohol was the genesis for the first state police force and the primary reason why several other New England states looked to establish state police forces during the second half of the nineteenth century. Journey back in time as Ron Guilmette chronicles the lives and Civil War service of these first state police officers. The First To Serve describes the first decade of the Massachusetts State Police and the hardships and political turmoil the first constables faced enforcing the first alcohol prohibition in the nation for three dollars a day.

Download or read book An Anatomy of Chinese Offensive Words written by Adrian Tien and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-26 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a precise and rigorous analysis of the meanings of offensive words in Chinese. Adopting a semantic and cultural approach, the authors demonstrate how offensive words can and should be systematically researched, documented and accounted for as a valid aspect of any language. The book will be of interest to academics, practitioners and students of sociolinguistics, language and culture, linguistic taboo, Chinese studies and Chinese linguistics.

Download or read book An American Ancestry written by Robert Sale Rudy and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ancestral Records of Family Names Rudy, Arthur, Sale, Phillips: Convergence in Ohio and Traces and Tributaries in Europe and America. Table of Contents: Dedication. Prologue Introduction Table 1: Significant Surnames Featured Chapter 1: The Quest Chapter 2: A Primer On Genetics Chapter 3: Some Of Those Who Went Before Chapter 4: Family Groupings In Descent Chapter 5: Biographies Of Rudys And Ancestors Chapter 6: Biographies of Arthurs And Ancestors Chapter 7: Ancestors By Identifying Number Chapter 8: Descendancy Chart: Five Generations forward From Generation III Chapter 9: Ancestral Charts Chapter 10: Frivolous Anecdotes From The Living Bibliographic References Appendix: 1849 Diary Of M.S. Rudy Index Some of the related family names: Arthur, Bancroft, Bar, Bear, Bohun, Bonner, Bruen, Buckingham, Case, Chastain, Courtney, Cramer, Cushing, Dulty, Egbert, Ferris, Finch, Griebling, Hare, Holcomb, Jones, Lincoln, Mortimer, Muntz, Ostendorf, Phillips, Post, Pratt, Priest, Roos, Rudi, Rudy, Sale, Sisinger, Spelman, Spencer, Spilman, Ward, Wohlgemuth, Wolgamot, Wolgamott, Wolgemuth and others"--Amazon.