Download or read book Scare City written by Paul Jenkins and published by Humanoids, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tensions rise in a Monster Metropolis when spooky things start to happen to its citizens! Will they solve the mystery before ancient rifts tear the community apart?

Download or read book Open Throat written by Henry Hoke and published by MCD. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, and the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction. One of the Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2023. One of The New York Times' 10 Best California Books of 2023. “Open Throat is what fiction should be.” —The New York Times Book Review A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A queer and dangerously hungry mountain lion lives in the drought-devastated land under the Hollywood sign. Lonely and fascinated by humanity’s foibles, the lion spends their days protecting a nearby homeless encampment, observing hikers complain about their trauma, and, in quiet moments, grappling with the complexities of their gender identity, memories of a vicious father, and the indignities of sentience. When a man-made fire engulfs the encampment, the lion is forced from the hills down into the city the hikers call “ellay.” As the lion confronts a carousel of temptations and threats, they take us on a tour that spans the cruel inequalities of Los Angeles and the toll of climate grief. But even when salvation finally seems within reach, they are forced to face down the ultimate question: Do they want to eat a person, or become one? Henry Hoke’s Open Throat is a marvel of storytelling, a universal journey through a wondrous and menacing world recounted by a lovable mountain lion. Feral and vulnerable, profound and playful, Open Throat is a star-making novel that brings the mythic to life.

Download or read book Drawing on Yourself written by Lynn Touloupis and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2018-07-25 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ima is a thinker. One morning she woke up, looked around, and thought she and her husband, Ike, were getting old and boring. He adhered to his strict routine and she wandered aimlessly until time to cook dinner. In an attempt to rejuvenate their relationship, and her life, she searched the internet and discovered drawing lessons that turned out to be more than just rubbing a pencil against a piece of paper. Within each lesson were secrets of ancient wisdom that guided her in unlocking hidden powers. Guided by a mentor, she learned how to embark on an adventure into making positive choices that were uplifting and life enhancing. By the end of the book, she knew she had metaphorically crossed over the bridge and created a beautiful picture on paper and within herself. Others in the story benefitted from her new awareness as may the readers of this book. For example, Imas baby sister, once depressed and suicidal, found the path to peace and pleasure that she had been missing in her life. Ima brought true joy back into her life and the lives of those around her as she proved that human beings already have everything they need. It is just a matter of Drawing on Yourself.

Download or read book Hydraulic City written by Nikhil Anand and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hydraulic City Nikhil Anand explores the politics of Mumbai's water infrastructure to demonstrate how citizenship emerges through the continuous efforts to control, maintain, and manage the city's water. Through extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Mumbai's settlements, Anand found that Mumbai's water flows, not through a static collection of pipes and valves, but through a dynamic infrastructure built on the relations between residents, plumbers, politicians, engineers, and the 3,000 miles of pipe that bind them. In addition to distributing water, the public water network often reinforces social identities and the exclusion of marginalized groups, as only those actively recognized by city agencies receive legitimate water services. This form of recognition—what Anand calls "hydraulic citizenship"—is incremental, intermittent, and reversible. It provides residents an important access point through which they can make demands on the state for other public services such as sanitation and education. Tying the ways Mumbai's poorer residents are seen by the state to their historic, political, and material relations with water pipes, the book highlights the critical role infrastructures play in consolidating civic and social belonging in the city.

Download or read book Concrete Park Volume 1 You Send Me written by Tony Puryear and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2014 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earth's outcasts, exiled to a distant planet and forgotten about, face a choice: slowly wipe each other out with the attritional gang violence that ravages their planet, or find a path to redemption that will create something entirely new. Tony Puryear, writer of the hit film Eraser (Warner Bros., 1996) and Erika Alexander (star of Living Single and The Cosby Show) bring a dark, sexy sci-fi epic with unforgettable characters and non-stop action, all presented in a vibrant, unmistakable style.

Download or read book The Code of Opposites Book 2 A Sacred Guide to Playing with Power and not Getting Burned written by Mahalene Louis and published by emPowering NOW LLC Press. This book was released on 2022-04-22 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 2 of The Code of Opposites (TCO for short) furthers the mission to heal our power issues, and thus shift from the ego’s need to dominate into the adoption of wholesome power. While Book 1 focuses on “no push-pull,” Book 2 looks at “no self-doubt.” Imagine experiencing 100% faith and having total certainty that you can [fill in the blank]… Would that be a valuable change? Yes, but how? Language is where your Power is. To transform, you must look at the story you tell. Activating a metalanguage – a language beyond all languages – allows you to track patterns, understand the purpose of your self-limiting creations, and be able to turn them off. Cracking this code reveals depths of meaning that animate the soul of all wisdom teachings. The codes are so awesome they naturally raise your vibrational field to the sense of enough by which to resonate with oneness. Radical? Crazy? You betcha! Especially as this ancient language that came back from the future renamed itself “S/Hebrew,” to sanctify the union of the feminine and the masculine. Imagine yourself… * Processing trauma by realizing that mysticism may just be the only proven track to healing. * Having a unifying equation to explore the shadow, and stretch beyond fear into the sacred. * Doing what it takes to raise your self-esteem, and trust yourself in your chosen calling. * Moving out of “ScareCity” by being real enough to know what you want, and ask for it in such a way that you might receive it.

Download or read book The Abundance Code written by Julie Ann Cairns and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you frustrated in your efforts to succeed and create abundance in your life? Are you exasperated even though you may have set financial goals for yourself, gained knowledge, and worked hard? Are you wondering what is standing in your way, preventing you from accessing the life of freedom you’ve been dreaming about? Well, The Abundance Code is here to provide the answer you’ve been searching for . . . There is a hidden yet crucial element to success and abundance that most people are unaware of – because that essential element is buried in their unconscious minds. The Abundance Code is about how you can (and must!) rewrite your subconscious programming so that you can effortlessly achieve the rich life of abundance you deserve. Julie Ann Cairns takes you through the "7 Money Myths" – an extremely common set of subconscious barriers put up between you and your attainment of abundant wealth and freedom – and helps you banish them, so that your subconscious "code" can come into alignment with your conscious goals for financial freedom. If your underlying programming does not support your goals – and it probably doesn’t – then Julie will show you how to get out of your own way and finally access the life you have always wanted. You can be successful, you can be wealthy, and you can make money without expending physical effort or sacrificing too much of your precious time. You can become financially free with the luxury of choice. If you have tried and tried to attain financial freedom but are still struggling, then this book will provide the breakthrough you’ve been waiting for.

Download or read book I Had It All the Time written by Alan Cohen and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 1995-03-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quit Fixing Yourself and Get on with the Life You Came to Live! If you are among the millions of people who have devoted years of time, bundles of money, and buckets of effort to finding the teacher, training, or technique that will fix what’s not working in your life, you will find welcome relief in this dynamic, heartful, and humorous array of illuminating insights. Whether you are a newcomer or veteran on the path of self-improvement, I Had It All the Time will awaken you to a life so magnificent that you will laugh at the notion of improving what love made whole.

Download or read book Urban Water Supply and Governance in India written by Satyapriya Rout and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates institutional dimensions of urban water supply in India, with a specific focus on institutional capabilities to provide drinking water to urban households in an efficient, equitable and sustainable manner. This book has been developed through empirical research within the context of growing urbanisation and increasing water needs of Indian cities, and the wider developmental goal of achieving universal and equitable access to safe and affordable water for all – as envisaged in goal 6 of the SDGs. This study revolves around three important aspects of urban water supply and governance. Firstly, it attempts to understand household water service delivery scenarios in urban India, drawing from case studies based on our household survey in four cities – Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Kochi and Hyderabad. Secondly, it examines the question of existing socio-economic inequality and access to water in an urban context in India. While dealing with the issue of inequality and access to water, it attempts to explore the question of whether access to water and water scarcity is socially neutral; whilst also analysing the mechanisms employed by the urban poor to manage their daily water needs. Thirdly, this book explores the role of institutions for efficient and effective delivery of water in urban India. The institutional analysis from a comparative perspective provides important insights to guide current reforms in domestic water supply in India, especially in a neo-liberal context. The book is a valuable resource for academicians, policy makers and practitioners involved in water governance in general and domestic (drinking) water supply in particular. Besides, it is of great interest to those working in the area of urban development, urban planning and household water management. The book is an outcome of a collaborative research project by the authors sponsored jointly by University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi and UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI).

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Download or read book A History of Boston written by Daniel Dain and published by Peter E. Randall Publisher. This book was released on 2024-09-19 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Dain’s A History of Boston helps the reader understand how land-use and environment contribute to shaping a community. Dain’s Boston is the go-to book.” - R.J. Lyman Boston is today one of the world’s greatest cities, first in higher education, hospitals, life science companies, and sports teams. It was the home of the Great Puritan Migration, the American Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the first civil rights movement, the abolition movement, and the women’s rights movement. But the city that gave us the first use of ether as anesthesia, the telephone, technicolor film, and the mutual fund—the city where Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott founded their world-changing partnership—was also the hub of the anti-immigration movement, the divisive busing era, and decades of self-inflicted decay. Boston has the most important history of any American city. Yet its history has never been given a comprehensive treatment until now. Join Dan Dain as he acts as your tour guide from the arrival of First Peoples up to the election of Boston’s first woman and person of color as mayor. Dain’s masterful work explores the policies and practices that took Boston from its highest heights to its lowest lows and back again, and examines the central role that density, diversity, and good urban design play in the success of cities like Boston.

Download or read book Dare to Be Great written by Terry Cole-Whittaker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-08-25 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the number-one New York Times bestseller How to Have More in a Have-Not World gives us her most passionate—and personal—book yet. In her trademark witty, straight-talking style, Terry Cole-Whittaker reveals a seven-step program that teaches readers to become the successful, happy people God has designed them to be.

Download or read book Blood on Steel written by Michael Dennis and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-09 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pivotal moment in the history of the movement for working-class democracy, the “Memorial Day Massacre” vividly captured the conflicting ideals of workers’ rights and the sanctity of private property. On Memorial Day 1937, thousands of steelworkers, middle-class supporters, and working-class activists gathered at Sam's Place on the Southeast Side of Chicago to protest Republic Steel’s virulent opposition to union recognition and collective bargaining. By the end of the day, ten marchers had been mortally wounded and more than one hundred badly injured, victims of a terrifying police riot. Sam's Place, the headquarters for the steelworkers, was transformed into a bloody and frantic triage unit for treating heads split open by police batons, flesh torn by bullets, and limbs mangled badly enough to require amputation. While no one doubts the importance of the Memorial Day Massacre, Michael Dennis identifies it as a focal point in the larger effort to revitalize American equality during the New Deal. In Blood on Steel, Dennis shows how the incident—captured on film by Paramount newsreels—validated the claims of labor activists and catalyzed public opinion in their favor. In the aftermath of the massacre, Senate hearings laid bare patterns of anti-union aggression among management, ranging from blacklists to harassment and vigilante violence. Companies were determined to subvert the right to form a union, which Congress had finally recognized in 1935. Only in the following year would Congress pass the Fair Labor Standards Act, which established a minimum wage and a maximum work week, outlawed child labor, and regulated hazardous work. Like the Wagner Act that protected collective bargaining, this law aimed to protect workers who had suffered the worst of what the Great Depression had inflicted. Dennis‘s wide-angle perspective reveals the Memorial Day Massacre as not simply another bloody incident in the long story of labor-management tension in American history but as an illustration of the broad-based movement for social democracy which developed in the New Deal era.

Download or read book Tejano Tiger written by Jerry Thompson and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riding the rough and sometimes bloody peaks and canyons of border politics, Santos Benavides’s rise to prominence was largely the result of the careful mentoring of his well-known uncle, Basilio Benavides, who served several terms as alcalde of Laredo, Texas, and Chief Justice of Webb County. When the Civil War erupted in 1861, Basilio was one of only two Tejanos in the state legislature. During Santos’s lifetime, five flags flew over the small community he called home—that of the Republic of Mexico, the ill-fated Republic of the Rio Grande, the Republic of Texas, an expansionist United States, and in March 1861, the rebellious Confederate States of America. It was under the Confederacy in the disputed Texas-Mexico borderlands that Santos Benavides reached the pinnacle of his military career as the highest-ranking Tejano in the entire Confederate army. In the decades that followed the Civil War, he became an esteemed political leader, highly respected on both sides of the border. This is the first scholarly study of this important historical figure. At the pinnacle of his political career in 1879, Benavides held the distinction of being the only Tejano in the Texas legislature. Through strife, sweat, blood, and heroism in defense of the border, Benavides rose to economic and political heights few could dream of. As a friend and confidant of two Mexican presidents, he was one of the single most influential individuals in the nineteenth-century history of the border. His life was one of enduring perseverance as well as binational leadership and skilled diplomacy. He was without doubt the single most important individual in the long and often violent history of Laredo. The niche he carved in the tumultuous transnational history of the Texas-Mexico borderlands seems secure.

Download or read book Smart Urban Computing Applications written by M.A. Jabbar and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book is a collection of quality research articles reporting research advances in the area of deep learning, IoT and urban computing. It describes new insights based on deep learning and IoT for urban computing and is useful for architects, engineers, policymakers, facility managers, academicians, and researchers who are interested in expanding their knowledge of the applications of deep learning trends involving urban computing.

Download or read book Princess s Pregnant My Cruel General written by Bo HeMaoPian and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 841 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the wedding, General Xiao evaluated the young mistress of the Prime Minister's family: Shameless! After the wedding, General Xiao judged his wife to be "unsightly". Someone dared to ask, "What about now?" General Xiao immediately said: "Madam, you have gone through thick and thin, closing the moon with your shy flowers, being gentle and virtuous, kind and cute, loving everyone, and blooming flowers ... This general really likes it. "

Download or read book Networked Disease written by S. Harris Ali and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of writings by leading experts and newer researchers on the SARS outbreak and its relation to infectious disease management in progressively global and urban societies. Presents original contributions by scholars from seven countries on four continents Connects newer thinking on global cities, networks, and governance in a post-national era of public health regulations and neo-liberalization of state services Provides an important contribution to the global public debate on the challenges of emerging infectious disease in cities Examines the impact of globalization on future infectious disease threats on international and local politics and culture Focuses on the ways pathogens interact with economic, political and social factors, ultimately presenting a threat to human development and global cities Employs an interdisciplinary approach to the SARS epidemic, clearly demonstrating the value of social scientific perspectives on the study of modern disease in a globalized world