Download or read book To Prevent Cute Mascots written by Emily Martha Sorensen and published by Emily Martha Sorensen. This book was released on with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's a magical girl with an evil mascot. Naturally, Kendra has to stop this and beat up the cute, conniving little fuzzball. This might work better if she isn't forced to take Tiffany with her. Florence finally figures out what she wants to do from now on. And the answer she comes to might change everything.
Download or read book To Prevent Warm Welcomes written by Emily Martha Sorensen and published by Emily Martha Sorensen. This book was released on with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Rhea's sister is a traitor, she knows what she has to do. She heads to the lair ready to do what's necessary . . . and clueless Tiffany lets her in. Chronos is not delighted. One of Kendra's friends finally gets what she's wanted for a long time. But will it be a dream come true — or will it be a nightmare?
Download or read book Magical Mayhem Books 4 6 Omnibus written by Emily Martha Sorensen and published by Emily Martha Sorensen. This book was released on with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the books four through six of the Magical Mayhem series. To Prevent Smart Choices Kendra has her first assignment: to stop a bully at a school for magical girls. But she underestimates the language barrier, she overestimates her own competence at villainy, and she's not used to fighting without magic. So attacking an entire school of magical girls may not be the wisest thing she's ever done. Especially since a villainous fashion designer is watching. To Prevent Warm Welcomes If Rhea's sister is a traitor, she knows what she has to do. She heads to the lair ready to do what's necessary . . . and clueless Tiffany lets her in. Chronos is not delighted. One of Kendra's friends finally gets what she's wanted for a long time. But will it be a dream come true — or will it be a nightmare? To Prevent Cute Mascots There's a magical girl with an evil mascot. Naturally, Kendra has to stop this and beat up the cute, conniving little fuzzball. This might work better if she isn't forced to take Tiffany with her. Florence finally figures out what she wants to do from now on. And the answer she comes to might change everything.
Download or read book To Prevent Good Luck written by Emily Martha Sorensen and published by Emily Martha Sorensen. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stealing other people's luck isn't a good thing, so Kendra goes to stop a magical girl who's been doing that. Maybe attacking the magical girl with luck powers wasn't such a good idea. Everything seems to be conspiring against Florence. But how do you stop rumors that threaten to ruin everything?
Download or read book HCI International 2024 Posters written by Constantine Stephanidis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Yes It s Hot in Here written by Aj Mass and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yes, It's Hot in Here explores the entertaining history of the mascot from its jester roots in Renaissance society to the slapstick pantomime of the Clown Prince of Baseball, Max Patkin, all the way up to the mascots of the slam-dunk, rock-and-roll, Jumbotron culture of today. Along the way, author AJ Mass of ESPN.com (a former Mr. Met himself) talks to the pioneers among modern-day mascots like Dave Raymond (Phillie Phanatic), Dan Meers (K. C. Wolf), and Glenn Street (Harvey the Hound) and finds out what it is about being a mascot that simply won't leave the performer. Mass examines what motivates high school and college students to compete for the chance to wear a sweaty animal suit and possibly face the ridicule of their peers in the process, as well as women who have proudly served as mascots for teams in both the pro and amateur ranks. In the book's final chapter, Mass climbs inside a mascot costume one more time to describe what it feels like and, perhaps, rediscover a bit of magic.
Download or read book Combat Talons in Vietnam written by John Gargus and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combat Talons in Vietnam is a personal account of the first use of C-130s in the Vietnam War. It provides an insider’s view of crew training and classified missions for this technologically advanced aircraft. Many covert missions over North Vietnam were successful, but one night, John Gargus, a mission planner, oversaw an operation in which the aircraft—carrying eleven crewmembers—failed to return from a nighttime mission. For thirty years, a search for the missing aircraft remained in progress. In the late 1990s, the Combat Talon veteran community at Hurlburt Field in Florida, still uncertain of the full story, decided to dedicate a memorial to the lost crew. When wartime mission records were declassified, Gargus embarked on a long journey of inquiry, research, and puzzle-solving to reconstruct the events of that mission and the fate of its crew. He discovered that the wreckage of the plane had been found in 1992 and that the remains of the crew were being held in Hawaii. Through numerous Freedom of Information Act requests, interviews, and site visits, Gargus sought to answer the question of why it took so long to find the wreckage and, more importantly, why the special operations command units were left uninformed. By 2000, the remains were relocated to a common grave at Arlington National Cemetery at last providing a measure of closure to family, friends, and comrades.
Download or read book Too Pretty to Live written by Dennis Brooks and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder begins with the click of a button in this true crime story of Facebook, catfishing and deadly jealousy—as seen on Investigation Discovery. Chris was a CIA agent worried for the safety of Jenelle Potter. Contacting her parents and boyfriend, Chris warned them that Billy Payne and Billie Jean Hayworth were bullying Jenelle online and posed an imminent, physical threat. Something needed to be done, Chris said. And he’d have their backs if they took action to protect Jenelle. And so they did. Jenelle’s father and boyfriend murdered Payne and Hayworth in their own home—mercifully leaving the couple’s infant unharmed. But when they told their story to the police, they discovered a devastating truth: there was no Chris. It had been Jenelle the entire time, catfishing them to exact revenge over a Facebook feud. Using forensic linguistics and diving through the brambles that Jenelle laid to cover her tracks, police were able to put together a chilling portrait of a sociopath who set a double murder in motion from the shadows of the internet. Dennis Brooks, the lead prosecutor in this strange and tragic case, examines the crime and trial from all angles in Too Pretty to Live. What the police investigation turned up, though, made this crime all the more terrifying. Jenelle had been Chris the entire time, catfishing her family and her boyfriend to act in vengeance on her behalf. Using forensic linguistics and diving through the brambles that Jenelle laid to cover her tracks, police were able to put together a chilling portrait of a sociopath, made all the more ruthless by the anonymity of her online life. Bizarre and unforgettable, Dennis Brooks examines the crime and trial from all angles, bringing his expertise as the lead prosecutor in the strange and disturbing case.
Download or read book Wanderlost written by Natalie Toon Patton and published by Paraclete Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A coming-of-age travel memoir that probes thorny spiritual questions while taking the reader on a wild ride from the deep American South to the Middle East, Europe, and the Far East. Once the golden girl of her Arkansas town, Natalie finds herself squeezed under small town shame and rejection after being kicked out of church for getting a divorce. It’s a hard fall off of a sanctimonious high horse, and religious fundamentalism has left her feeling broken and stuck. But she can’t shake the ‘wanderlust woes’ that have plagued her since childhood, so she runs away to the Middle East. As a mostly-sheltered Southerner, she struggles to adapt but is determined to be ‘at home’ in the world. Her journey is more than a pilgrimage, it’s a peregrination: a one-way ticket to elsewhere in search of the place of her own resurrection. Within these pages is a suspenseful adventure filled with love, loss, laughter, tears, and a little bit of scandalous behavior, but at the heart of it, Natalie walks squarely into the unknown to confront the secret matters of the soul that we wrestle with at night.
Download or read book Carte Blanche written by Jeffery Deaver and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A James Bond thriller set in the present day finds the iconic British spy engaging a horrific modern villain in a cat-and-mouse chase that takes him from the Balkans and London to the African Continent.
Download or read book The Mount Holyoke written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Full Metal Panic Short Stories Volume 8 Unflappable Eight Ball Angle written by Shouji Gatou and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2023-10-13 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sagara Sousuke has the skill and stamina to survive on the world’s most dangerous battlefields, but nothing he’s faced has tested his mind as much as life at a normal school in Tokyo. His latest challenges include diving head-first into a fantasy MMORPG, impersonating a celebrity (for whom he happens to be a dead ringer), and attempting to lead his class to victory against a wily culture festival rival. With Chidori Kaname involved every step of the way, it’s a job that would intimidate anyone... but even when he has to judge her in a school pageant competition, Sousuke always knows the angle to play!
Download or read book Weird Confucius written by Zhao Lu and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning antiquity until the present, Zhao Lu analyses the eclectic and fictitious representations of Confucius that have been widely celebrated by communities of people throughout history. While mainstream scholarship mostly considers Confucius in terms of his role as a celebrated man of wisdom and as a teacher with a humanistic worldview, Zhao addresses the weirder representations. He considers depictions of Confucius as a prophet, a fortune-teller, a powerful demon hunter, a shrewd villain of 19th century American newspapers, an embodiment of feudal evils in the Cultural Revolution, and as a cute friend. Zhao asks why some groups would risk contradicting the well-accepted image of Confucius with such representations and shows how these illustrations reflect the specific anxieties of these communities. He reveals not only how people across history perceived Confucius in diverse ways, but more importantly how they used Confucius in daily life, ranging from calming their anxiety about the future, to legitimizing a dynasty, stereotyping Chinese people, and even to forging a new sense of history.
Download or read book The Politics of Incompetence written by Neriko Musha Doerr and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Incompetence” is not an objective state lacking competence nor a kind of deficiency that needs to be filled. Rather, it is a constructed state that is productive, working in tandem with its opposite, “competence.” Perception of incompetence/competence works as what Michel Foucault (1977) calls a technology of “normalization” that pushes individuals to aspire to follow a shared norm, while hierarchically differentiating individuals according to their proximity to the aspired norm. The notion of incompetence is thus “productive” in that it turns individuals into specific kinds of “subjects” (Foucault 1977). The Politics of “Incompetence”: Learning Language, Relations of Power, and Daily Resistance further investigates other productive processes around the perception of “incompetence” specifically through its intersections with various ideologies—“academic achievement,” teacher-student hierarchy, “native speaker” ideology, normative unit thinking, and privilege of vulnerability—as such intersections generate new knowledge, new reflection on one’s assumptions and privilege, new space for marginalized language, and more. This volume opens up a new area of study—productive cultural politics of “incompetence”—by focusing on language learning in diverse contexts: Japanese as a Foreign Language classrooms in US colleges, Italian language tourism in Italy, and indigenous Māori language revitalization at an Aotearoa/New Zealand school.
Download or read book Ambush Marketing the Mega Event Monopoly written by Andre M. Louw and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-06-06 with total page 771 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book undertakes a critical examination of commercial rights to sports mega-events (focusing on sponsorship), the exclusivity of such rights and the legal implications of the modern mega-event sponsorship model. It examines ambush marketing of events and the law’s treatment of ambushing (specifically in the form of sui generis event legislation) in a review of 10 major jurisdictions selected on the basis of the importance of the events they are to host in the near future or have hosted recently, and the relevant domestic legislation. It critically examines the legitimacy of such commercial rights protection by means of the use of laws in the context of accepted principles of intellectual property law, competition law and human rights law. Specifically, it questions the legitimacy of the creation of statutory ‘association rights’ to mega-events, and considers potential future developments in respect of the law’s treatment of mega-event commercialisation. Valuable for practitioners and academics (in the fields of sportslaw/sponsorship/marketing/intellectual property law); sports administrators (sports governing bodies); corporate sponsors of sports and other events; potential mega-event host governments and law-makers; civil rights organisations.
Download or read book 500 Essential Anime Movies written by Helen McCarthy and published by Harper Design. This book was released on 2008 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This visual handbook covers the most compelling films of the genre, including science fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, fairytales, romance, myster, horror, and more. In assessing the worth of each film it evaluates complex characters, engaging storylines, and creativity. This compilation showcases the most memorable and unusual anime films available in English"--Publisher's blurb
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change Second Edition written by S. George Philander and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 2022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Edition of the Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change provided a multi-authored, academic yet non-technical resource for students and teachers to understand the importance of global warming, to appreciate the effects of human activity and greenhouse gases around the world, and to learn the history of climate change and the research enterprise examining it. This edition was well received, with notable reviews. Since its publication, the debate over the advent of global warming at least partially brought on by human enterprise has continued to ebb and flow, depending literally on the weather, politics, and media coverage of climate summits and debates. Advances in research also change the discourse as new data is collected and new scientific projects continue to explore and explain global warming and climate change. Thus, a new, Second Edition updates more than half of the original entries and adds new perspectives and content to keep students and researchers up-to-date in a field that has proven provocatively lively.
