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This Is What Lesbian Looks Like: Dyke Activists Take On The 21st Century
by Kris KleindienstEssays.
I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad
by Karolyn Smardz Frosta true story of two escape slaves and their trip to Canada. Thornton and Lucy Blackburn beat the ods and escape to Canada, become quite wealthy and help begin the underground railroad.
And Never See Her Again
by Patricia SpringerThe true story of the abduction and murder of Opal Jo Jennings in 1999.
Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Crystal, Gem & Metal Magic
by Scott CunninghamLearn how to find and cleanse stones and use them in divinations, spells, and tarot readings. Discover how to determine the energies and stories contained within each stone,and the symbolic meaning of a stone's color and shape. Also included in this classic guide are: Birthstone and jewelry magic lore; Tables listing both planetary and elementary rulers of stones, magical intentions, and magical substitutions. Scott Cunningham authored more than thirty books, both fiction and nonfiction.
Rattlesnake Romeo
by Joy WellmanVicki Lyn Robinson, 49, wasn't the type of woman to go missing. The divorced mother of two teenage girls, she was a successful realtor and steady churchgoer. When her boyfriend reported her disappearance on June 27, 1998, friends and family feared the worst. Her house in a Tampa, Florida suburb was empty. Her younger daughter Valessa, 15, was also gone without a trace. RATTLESNAKE Valessa was a troubled teen with a trouble-making boyfriend, Adam "Rattlesnake" Davis, 19, a drug dealer with a record for burglary and auto theft. She'd last been seen with him and his buddy Jon Whispel, also 19. Now all three were on the run. BUSTED A multi-state dragnet for the fugitive teen trio ended in their capture in Texas after a high-speed car chase. They confessed that they'd been tripping on acid when Valessa had suggested they kill her mom for trying to break up her romance with Davis. Davis then fatally stabbed Vicki Robinson. This is their story-a tale of the kind of real-life terror that can come out of nowhere and destroy a family forever.
The Golden Road: Notes on my Gentrification
by Caille MillnerThe story of a remarkable young woman's struggle to find a home in the world, a place where she can define herself on her own terms, and live a life that matters.
The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties
by Daniel BellThese essay, in the main, deal with the social changes in the America of the fifties. It was a decade marked by extraordinary changes in the class structure, particularly in the growth of the white-collar class and the spread of suburbia; by the "forced" expansion of the economy, which belied earlier predictions of stagnation; by the creation of a permanent military establishment and a bedrock defense economy; and by the heightening tensions of the Cold War. In consequence, we have had the problem, abroad, of defining ourselves to Indians, Africans, Arabs, et al., and, at home, a preoccupation with "self" and "status" that has brought to the fore not only psychoanalysis but the mirror of popular sociology. The "restless vanity" of which de Tocqueville spoke, which made the American, in his intercourse with strangers, "impatient of the slightest censure and insatiable of praise," has been replaced by an anxious inferiority, fearful of censure and desperately eager to please.
Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole
by Benjamin R. BarberHow advertising and marketing seek to keep adults thinking like children and seek to advertise to children as if they are able to make choices as independent consumers.
Adhunik Vishwa Itihas - Competitive Exam
by Jain Mathurआधुनिक विश्व का इतिहास पुस्तक विश्व के इतिहास का एक दर्पण की तरह है, जिस को विद्यार्थी गण उसे पढ़कर एवं उससे समझ कर भावी जीवन का निर्माण कर सके। भारतीय एवं पाश्चात्य इतिहासकार ने जो विषय लिये है उसमें विश्व की प्रारम्भिक स्थिति, अन्तर्राष्ट्रीय व्यक्तित्व, आधुनिक विश्व की झलक, सुरक्षा परिषद, प्रबोधन तथा आधुनिक विचार, आधुनिक राजनीति के उद्गम, विभिन्न देशों की क्रांति, विश्व युद्ध, शीत युद्ध, औपनिवेशिक मुक्ति, उपनिवेश वाद का अंत तथा अल्प विकास शीलता, यूरोप का एकीकरण, सोवियत विघटन तथा एकध्रुवीय विश्व, एवं महत्वपूर्ण सिंधियों का उल्लेख किया गया है। प्रत्येक विषय तथा उनके उपविषय को अलग अलग करके बहुत ही सरल ढंग से समझाने का प्रयास किया है। विद्यार्थियों एवं प्रतियोगी के लिए आधुनिक विश्व का इतिहास आत्म-बोध दिशा-बोध प्रेरणा एवं सबक का विषय है।
Eat This Book: A Year of Gorging and Glory on the Competitive Eating Circuit
by Ryan NerzFrom the Publisher: Sparing no one's appetite, Nerz reveals the training, game-day strategies, and after-effects of competition in this delectably shocking banquet of gorging and glory on the competitive eating circuit. With barbecue sauce-soaked tongue planted firmly in cheek, Nerz chronicles his amusing adventures in the perverse, repellent, strangely heroic world of "competitive eating." Having moved beyond county fair pie-eating contests, competitive eating is now a global challenge involving national pride, superstars and, in 2005, $200,000 in prize money. Freelance journalist Nerz falls in with the denizens of this world while covering the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog-Eating Contest for the Village Voice. There, the diminutive Japanese Takeru Kobayashi overturns years of American dominance by consuming 50 hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes. From the gastronomical excesses of Coney Island, it's a short hop to the sadomasochistic extremes of Japan, where, during the Superman Dash, "Hungry" Charles Hardy and Kazutoyo Arai devour 180 bento box lunches between them. Along the way, records are broken and countless calories are consumed. Hired by the International Federation of Competitive Eating (IFOCE), Nerz travels the U.S., promoting jambalaya-eating contests in New Orleans, chicken-eating blowouts in Philadelphia and fried asparagus feasts in Sacramento. Despite disgusting details-vomiting, distended bellies, etc.-Nerz presents his story with glee and good humor. 30 pages of b&w photos. --Publisher's Weekly
Signs of Cherokee Culture: Sequoyah's Syllabary in Eastern Cherokee Life
by Margaret BenderThis is the general and social context in which the Cherokee language and the Cherokee syllabary are used today.
Women Healers: Portraits of Herbalists, Physicians, and Midwives
by Elisabeth BrookeFrom antiquity to the present, women have been persecuted. In history, women midwives, healers and herbalists have been burned as witches, raped and tortured for their practices. More recently, women are threatened with sexual discrimination in the medical field in more covert ways. In this book, Elisabeth Brooke highlights women healers, herbalists, and midwives and shows them in both a historical sense, as well as a medical sense.
The Goddess Path: Myths, Invocations & Rituals
by Patricia MonaghanCall the goddess into your life with beautiful and ancient invocations. Awaken to her myths and rediscover her symbols. Create your own rituals to honor the lessons she has to teach. This book will help you nurture your own connection to the goddess and share in her boundless wisdom through celebration, prayer, and ritual.
The Bone Orchard
by Joseph TrigoboffYablonsky was about to enter a world of the very rich, the very powerful the very talented, and the very corrupt. This was a world known as the best of everything. The question was who would want young men who were offering the very best sex anyone could imagine to wind up dead . . . ? The young man was beautiful-and dead. In life, Sean Maysfield was a gorgeous male stripper and an ultra-popular hustler. In death, he was the first of the boys to be found savagely slain. It is homicide detective Alvin Yablonsky's job to sort through all the dirty laundry of even the nicest people's lives and uncover all the nasty things they sometimes do to satisfy perverse lusts. But now he is obliged to put his usual cases on hold as he hunts the calculating killer who is turning New York's sexual underground into a cemetery. ...