Download or read book Tainted Garden written by Jeff Stanley and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2003-05-06 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Del Rey Books is proud to be publishing Tainted Garden. This powerful first novel from an exciting new writer was selected by online readers as the winner of the Del Rey Online Writing Workshop First Novel Contest in the science fiction category. Living in a world of deadly wonders and beautiful terrors, the Bhajong and the Gagash are mortal enemies willing to acknowledge no common ground but hatred. The Bhajong live within ools, gargantuan flying creatures with whom they have entered into a parasitic symbiosis that ensures survival at an unspeakable cost. The Gagash dwell deep below the landskin, where they conduct desperate experiments upon their grotesquely misshapen bodies, seeking a way to reverse the mutations that are slowly killing them. For ages, the Gagash and Bhajong have fought each other to the death at every turn, their animosity unquestioned, unreasoning, unblemished by mercy or curiosity. But that is about to change. From a dying ool, two strange new forms are birthed into the world: the fruit of a mad god’s twisted dream. The first of these creatures, a male, is found by Rian, a hardened Gagash warrior, who brings the stranger back to his home. There, the vengeful interest of a second god, as old and mad as the first, is awakened. Meanwhile, the Lady Dersi, a young Bhajong scheduled to enter symbiosis with her ool, panics and runs, sparking a rebellion that will uncover an ancient secret with the power to challenge even the plans of gods. Now, as the seeds of an undying enmity reach their final flowering, Rian and Dersi will find themselves pushed into a climactic confrontation with a long-forgotten past—a past whose shocking truths are about to explode into an unimaginable future. . . .

Download or read book Tainted Legacy written by William Schulz and published by Nation Books. This book was released on 2003-09-29 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have human rights as we once understood them become obsolete since 9-11? Aren't new methods needed to combat the apocalyptic violence of al-Qaeda? Shouldn't we sacrifice some rights to make us all safer? And if we can kill a combatant in battle, why shouldn't we torture them if it will save lives? William Schulz, Executive Director of Amnesty International USA, examines these and other fundamental questions through the prism of our new consciousness about terrorism in this provocative new book. It questions America's own ambivalent record—its tainted legacy—and addresses recent human rights violations: the imprisonment without charge of non-citizens and the violation of the Geneva Convention at Guantanamo Bay. Schulz writes, "One of Osama bin Laden's goals is to destroy the solidarity of the international community and undermine the norms and standards that have sustained that community since the end of World War II. The great irony of the post-9/11 world is that, when it comes to human rights, the United States has been doing his work for him."

Download or read book Tainted Witness written by Leigh Gilmore and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1991, Anita Hill's testimony during Clarence Thomas's Senate confirmation hearing brought the problem of sexual harassment to a public audience. Although widely believed by women, Hill was defamed by conservatives and Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court. The tainting of Hill and her testimony is part of a larger social history in which women find themselves caught up in a system that refuses to believe what they say. Hill's experience shows how a tainted witness is not who someone is, but what someone can become. Why are women so often considered unreliable witnesses to their own experiences? How are women discredited in legal courts and in courts of public opinion? Why is women's testimony so often mired in controversies fueled by histories of slavery and colonialism? How do new feminist witnesses enter testimonial networks and disrupt doubt? Tainted Witness examines how gender, race, and doubt stick to women witnesses as their testimony circulates in search of an adequate witness. Judgment falls unequally upon women who bear witness, as well-known conflicts about testimonial authority in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries reveal. Women's testimonial accounts demonstrate both the symbolic potency of women's bodies and speech in the public sphere and the relative lack of institutional security and control to which they can lay claim. Each testimonial act follows in the wake of a long and invidious association of race and gender with lying that can be found to this day within legal courts and everyday practices of judgment, defining these locations as willfully unknowing and hostile to complex accounts of harm. Bringing together feminist, literary, and legal frameworks, Leigh Gilmore provides provocative readings of what happens when women's testimony is discredited. She demonstrates how testimony crosses jurisdictions, publics, and the unsteady line between truth and fiction in search of justice.

Download or read book LATROMMI written by Andrew Adkins; Samantha Hewitt and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lands ravaged by war of supernatural forces leave despair in the hearts of many. Years after the tragic stand of the gifted proving themselves to the ones they used to call family, present a new deadly hurdle that no eyes see coming. Slow and unstoppable sickness known as the Cry Cell Cancer, which plagues countless residents despite age or any other factor. With nowhere to go, trapped within their own lands, the son of the legendary and infamous Nolan Ceeth steps forward. Aiming to correct past transgressions formed from past actions of his relatives. Starting with the most formidable problem first, Cry Cell. Being public enemy number one leaves him alone with just the ambition to put things right. Will his ambition be enough to keep his home from slow, certain demise?

Download or read book Tainted Earth written by Marianne Sullivan and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smelting is an industrial process involving the extraction of metal from ore. During this process, impurities in ore—including arsenic, lead, and cadmium—may be released from smoke stacks, contaminating air, water, and soil with toxic-heavy metals. The problem of public health harm from smelter emissions received little official attention for much for the twentieth century. Though people living near smelters periodically complained that their health was impaired by both sulfur dioxide and heavy metals, for much of the century there was strong deference to industry claims that smelter operations were a nuisance and not a serious threat to health. It was only when the majority of children living near the El Paso, Texas, smelter were discovered to be lead-exposed in the early 1970s that systematic, independent investigation of exposure to heavy metals in smelting communities began. Following El Paso, an even more serious led poisoning epidemic was discovered around the Bunker Hill smelter in northern Idaho. In Tacoma, Washington, a copper smelter exposed children to arsenic—a carcinogenic threat. Thoroughly grounded in extensive archival research, Tainted Earth traces the rise of public health concerns about nonferrous smelting in the western United States, focusing on three major facilities: Tacoma, Washington; El Paso, Texas; and Bunker Hill, Idaho. Marianne Sullivan documents the response from community residents, public health scientists, the industry, and the government to pollution from smelters as well as the long road to protecting public health and the environment. Placing the environmental and public health aspects of smelting in historical context, the book connects local incidents to national stories on the regulation of airborne toxic metals. The nonferrous smelting industry has left a toxic legacy in the United States and around the world. Unless these toxic metals are cleaned up, they will persist in the environment and may sicken people—children in particular—for generations to come. The twentieth-century struggle to control smelter pollution shares many similarities with public health battles with such industries as tobacco and asbestos where industry supported science created doubt about harm, and reluctant government regulators did not take decisive action to protect the public’s health.

Download or read book Under Rose Tainted Skies written by Louise Gornall and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A teenage girl must grapple with her agoraphobia as romance blossoms with her new neighbor in this YA novel—“a poignant work, infused with humor” (School Library Journal). Seventeen-year-old Norah Dean hasn’t left the house in years. Her agoraphobia and OCD are so intense that when groceries are left on the porch, she can’t even step out to get them. Struggling to snag the bags with a stick, she meets Luke. He’s sweet and funny, and he just caught her fishing for groceries. Because of course he did. Norah can’t leave the house, but can she let someone in? As their friendship grows deeper, Norah realizes Luke deserves a normal girl. One who can lie on the front lawn and look up at the stars. One who isn’t so screwed up. Readers themselves will fall in love with Norah in this deeply engaging portrait of a teen struggling to find the strength to face her demons.

Download or read book Tainted ICE written by Derrick Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling memoir, Federal Agent Derrick Taylor tells the story of his twenty-five-year career with the United States Department of Homeland Security. Over the course of his career, Taylor became a top federal agent for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He worked as a Fugitive Apprehension Officer, tracking down and arresting hundreds of hard-core violent criminals. He managed a Prosecution Unit that convicted over one thousand criminal aliens. He was awarded the Medal of Valor from the Department of Homeland Security, the Secretary?s Award for Excellence, and the City of Los Angeles Medal of Honor. In 1997, while serving a Federal Warrant of Deportation, Taylor was shot five times by a gang member . . . and lived to tell about it. But throughout his illustrious career he also witnessed countless cases of corruption and discrimination within the Department of Homeland Security. Could anything be done to change the culture and expose the unfairness? Taylor decided his answer was yes. This book chronicles Taylor?s varied and intriguing career and personal life, culminating in his highly charged lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security, and its surprising outcome.

Download or read book FCC Record written by United States. Federal Communications Commission and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tainted Greatness written by Nancy Anne Harrowitz and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines antisemitic viewpoints of some famous thinkers: Luther, Mircea Aliade, Lombroso, Wagner, Heidegger, Maurice Blanchot, Ezra Pound, De Man, Jean Genet are among them.

Download or read book Tainted written by Phyllis Entis and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-11-21 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salmonella in eggs. Listeria in deli meats. Melamine in milk. Cyclospora in lettuce.In a world where irrigation water is contaminated by run-off from cattle feedlots and where food processors cut corners, the food preparation skills we learned from our parents and grandparents are no longer good enough to keep us safe.Using a variety of foodborne disease outbreaks, often illustrated with the stories of individual victims, Tainted explores the ways in which food becomes contaminated. Some of the stories - such as the deadly 1993 Jack in the Box outbreak - will be very familiar. Others will not.In this update to her 2007 book, "Food Safety: Old Habits, New Perspectives," Phyllis Entis draws on nearly five decades of experience to explain how our regulatory systems have failed us, and to talk about what can be done to protect consumers from unsafe food.

Download or read book Bettany s Book written by Thomas Keneally and published by Sceptre. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A work of towering authority: large in scope; rich in detail; overflowing with ripe humanity . . . more than an engrossing novel: it is a stirring one.' Sunday Telegraph An enthralling novel from Thomas Keneally, set in Australia and the Sudan, and spanning the 19th and 20th centuries. When Dimp Bettany, a Sydney film producer, comes into possession of her ancestor John Bettany's journals, she believes she has finally found the subject of her next masterpiece. Even her more detached sister Prim, an aid worker in the Sudan, becomes intrigued as the story unfolds of how John Bettany carved out a living in the wilds of New South Wales in the 1840s, and of the internment in the notorious Female Factory of Sarah Bernard, the convict woman he was destined to meet. As John's and Sarah's paths converge, each sister finds her life cast in a new and galvanising light.

Download or read book Paradise Preserved written by Max F. Schulz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the ways in which the idea of an earthly paradise inspired English life and thought in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Download or read book Taint written by Lewlin Chard and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carol Dean is a middle-aged, middle-class woman married for over twenty-five years. Her husband, Nigel, has built up a thriving business and Carol runs a chain of up-market boutiques. Their son, Mark, is studying for the bar. When Nigel dies Carol would have preferred to close down her husband's business and concentrate on the shops, but finds herself forced to take the mantle due to a transaction Nigel had committed himself to. Laura Howard is thirty-two. She is a corrupt official who steals from the people she is supposed to investigate. Unknown to Carol, Nigel's buisness involved liaison with Laura. Following his death Laura wants Carol to take over where Nigel left off. Laura was also Nigel's mistress.Carol Dean is a drug dealer.Laura Howard is a detective constable.

Download or read book The Garden written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Final Fall written by Heather Petty and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mori escapes captivity in the English countryside and returns to London, where she plots the downfall of her father and his cohorts but discovers that Lock may no longer be an ally.

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