Author: Benjamin Ginsberg
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1628955295
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
States are thought only to exercise power over the land of the living. Benjamin Ginsberg argues otherwise, exploring the state’s reach into the realm of the Grim Reaper, bureaucratizing death to strengthen the state’s hold on life. He notes that increasingly institutions are using the regulation of death as an essential source of power. They do this by not only threatening death to their enemies but also securing loyalty and obedience by extending citizens’ lives and promising to effectuate the postmortem fulfillment of citizens’ antemortem desires. The state treats the loyal dead with respect, sometimes offering them a place in the secular afterlife of honor and memory, while consigning the faithless to the void.
Big Brother and the Grim Reaper
Author: Benjamin Ginsberg
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1628955295
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
States are thought only to exercise power over the land of the living. Benjamin Ginsberg argues otherwise, exploring the state’s reach into the realm of the Grim Reaper, bureaucratizing death to strengthen the state’s hold on life. He notes that increasingly institutions are using the regulation of death as an essential source of power. They do this by not only threatening death to their enemies but also securing loyalty and obedience by extending citizens’ lives and promising to effectuate the postmortem fulfillment of citizens’ antemortem desires. The state treats the loyal dead with respect, sometimes offering them a place in the secular afterlife of honor and memory, while consigning the faithless to the void.
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1628955295
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
States are thought only to exercise power over the land of the living. Benjamin Ginsberg argues otherwise, exploring the state’s reach into the realm of the Grim Reaper, bureaucratizing death to strengthen the state’s hold on life. He notes that increasingly institutions are using the regulation of death as an essential source of power. They do this by not only threatening death to their enemies but also securing loyalty and obedience by extending citizens’ lives and promising to effectuate the postmortem fulfillment of citizens’ antemortem desires. The state treats the loyal dead with respect, sometimes offering them a place in the secular afterlife of honor and memory, while consigning the faithless to the void.
The Grim Reaper’s Diary
Author: Reginald Holmes
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665507233
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Instead of watching a soap opera for the streets, here’s one that you can read and it’s called “The Grim Reaper’s Diary”. So let’s take a walk inside the mind of the author, where the ghettos is Satan’s playground. Young Swag is a bag chaser and keeps a clip in his pistol that’s long as a ladder, even while on parole, with hopes of dying old and rich, but money doesn’t come easy, especially for those who try to get wealthy without having to die trying. Swaggah has a little sister named Kayla, and everyday that passes is harder than the next, and not just because everybody who Kay’ knows thats dead, had all died doing what they loved to do, unless someone did something stupid to get their loved one killed. Now Kayla don’t just believe in karma, she believes in warning signs, because everyone ig given one before the self- district, so pay attention to the signs before the last chapter of your life comes to an end.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665507233
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Instead of watching a soap opera for the streets, here’s one that you can read and it’s called “The Grim Reaper’s Diary”. So let’s take a walk inside the mind of the author, where the ghettos is Satan’s playground. Young Swag is a bag chaser and keeps a clip in his pistol that’s long as a ladder, even while on parole, with hopes of dying old and rich, but money doesn’t come easy, especially for those who try to get wealthy without having to die trying. Swaggah has a little sister named Kayla, and everyday that passes is harder than the next, and not just because everybody who Kay’ knows thats dead, had all died doing what they loved to do, unless someone did something stupid to get their loved one killed. Now Kayla don’t just believe in karma, she believes in warning signs, because everyone ig given one before the self- district, so pay attention to the signs before the last chapter of your life comes to an end.
Long Live Magic
Author: Xun HuanJiaoZhu
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1649487355
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 963
Book Description
What was the martial arts world? Sword lights, sword shadows, grudges and enmity, the love between a child and a girl, this was the martial arts world. People of the martial arts world were always involved in matters of the martial arts world, and wherever there were people, there would be people of the martial arts world. Humans were the martial arts world.
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1649487355
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 963
Book Description
What was the martial arts world? Sword lights, sword shadows, grudges and enmity, the love between a child and a girl, this was the martial arts world. People of the martial arts world were always involved in matters of the martial arts world, and wherever there were people, there would be people of the martial arts world. Humans were the martial arts world.
Cry Baby
Author: Lauren Liebenberg
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 0143531220
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
As he nears his fifth birthday, Sam's curious dreams of a lost child begin to steal quietly into his waking state. Sam's mother, Grace, watches with growing fear the disturbing changes taking place in her charming, spirited son – the fighting at school, the bed-wetting, the meteor showers of defiance. Grace is determined to find out what lies behind Sam's nightmares, and the search will take her deeper and deeper into layers of love and bonding buried beneath the surface of the family, and into its molten heart. Cry Baby is a story about boyhood and motherhood, about what binds families, the past to the present, about suffocation and deliverance. It is at once a stinging satirical slap across the face of barren suburbia and a poignant hymn to the extraordinary beauty in ordinary lives.
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 0143531220
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
As he nears his fifth birthday, Sam's curious dreams of a lost child begin to steal quietly into his waking state. Sam's mother, Grace, watches with growing fear the disturbing changes taking place in her charming, spirited son – the fighting at school, the bed-wetting, the meteor showers of defiance. Grace is determined to find out what lies behind Sam's nightmares, and the search will take her deeper and deeper into layers of love and bonding buried beneath the surface of the family, and into its molten heart. Cry Baby is a story about boyhood and motherhood, about what binds families, the past to the present, about suffocation and deliverance. It is at once a stinging satirical slap across the face of barren suburbia and a poignant hymn to the extraordinary beauty in ordinary lives.
The Firebringer
Author: Sean Guy
Publisher: Sean Guy
ISBN: 1646062388
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1047
Book Description
Ancient Power. Organised Crime. Welcome to Tower City. Matthew Norton is a lawyer facing his darkest days. It was once his job to argue the difference between justice and revenge. He’s no longer sure there is a difference. Finding closure means plunging deep into Tower City’s criminal under-world and waging war with the most bloodthirsty assassin the city has to offer. He’s hired someone who might be able to help; a dangerous outcast with enemies of his own. Together they’ll burn Tower City to the ground if they have to. *** The Firebringer is part one of the Tower City Chronicles. Five books set over five weeks. A fast-paced urban fantasy series like no other!
Publisher: Sean Guy
ISBN: 1646062388
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1047
Book Description
Ancient Power. Organised Crime. Welcome to Tower City. Matthew Norton is a lawyer facing his darkest days. It was once his job to argue the difference between justice and revenge. He’s no longer sure there is a difference. Finding closure means plunging deep into Tower City’s criminal under-world and waging war with the most bloodthirsty assassin the city has to offer. He’s hired someone who might be able to help; a dangerous outcast with enemies of his own. Together they’ll burn Tower City to the ground if they have to. *** The Firebringer is part one of the Tower City Chronicles. Five books set over five weeks. A fast-paced urban fantasy series like no other!
A Lady & Her Sire 4
Author: Charmanie Saquea
Publisher: Sullivan Group Publishing
ISBN: 1648400647
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
It's been two years since the aftermath of Sire's sentencing and everyone's been trying to pick up the pieces, especially his woman; Lady. Lady has been trying to hold true to her word by holding down things on the homefront but being a ride or die to a notorious street thug is easier said than done. When Lace, Lady's long lost twin brother pops up on the scene, she soon finds out they're more different than they are the alike. Tired of trying to get Toine to get his act together for her, Lala moves on with someone who is everything she has ever dreamed of. Darius is good to Lala and is everything that she had been missing out on chasing behind her children's father. Will Lala find out that her knight in shinning armor is actually a sheep in wolves clothing? Or will Toine come in and reclaim his woman, getting rid of Darius for good? Things seem to be going good for Monty and Cola, to the outside world but behind closed doors, it's world world three. Cola is tired of trying to pull Monty away from the streets and Monty is tired of Cola trying to change him. Can these two pull it together for the sake of their daughter or will their stubborn, bullheaded ways only tear them apart, causing them to resent each other? Sire has been locked down for two years and it's starting to get the best of him. Will the king rise again and come home to his family? Or will he wither away in a jail cell over something he didn't do? Meanwhile, someone from Sire's past that he fought so hard to forget is back with a personal agenda of their own and isn't taking no for an answer. While trying to focus all his time on his daughter and trying to get his brother home, Ry suddenly reconnects with someone from his past when he least expects it. Ry wants nothing more than to rekindle to the flame but issues from their past might prove too cause more trouble than he would care for. Take one final ride with the Royal Family as they take you on an unforgettable journey to see if they will be able to withstand all the lies, deception, and corruption that comes their way.
Publisher: Sullivan Group Publishing
ISBN: 1648400647
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
It's been two years since the aftermath of Sire's sentencing and everyone's been trying to pick up the pieces, especially his woman; Lady. Lady has been trying to hold true to her word by holding down things on the homefront but being a ride or die to a notorious street thug is easier said than done. When Lace, Lady's long lost twin brother pops up on the scene, she soon finds out they're more different than they are the alike. Tired of trying to get Toine to get his act together for her, Lala moves on with someone who is everything she has ever dreamed of. Darius is good to Lala and is everything that she had been missing out on chasing behind her children's father. Will Lala find out that her knight in shinning armor is actually a sheep in wolves clothing? Or will Toine come in and reclaim his woman, getting rid of Darius for good? Things seem to be going good for Monty and Cola, to the outside world but behind closed doors, it's world world three. Cola is tired of trying to pull Monty away from the streets and Monty is tired of Cola trying to change him. Can these two pull it together for the sake of their daughter or will their stubborn, bullheaded ways only tear them apart, causing them to resent each other? Sire has been locked down for two years and it's starting to get the best of him. Will the king rise again and come home to his family? Or will he wither away in a jail cell over something he didn't do? Meanwhile, someone from Sire's past that he fought so hard to forget is back with a personal agenda of their own and isn't taking no for an answer. While trying to focus all his time on his daughter and trying to get his brother home, Ry suddenly reconnects with someone from his past when he least expects it. Ry wants nothing more than to rekindle to the flame but issues from their past might prove too cause more trouble than he would care for. Take one final ride with the Royal Family as they take you on an unforgettable journey to see if they will be able to withstand all the lies, deception, and corruption that comes their way.
Fighting Robots
Author: Michael Benson
Publisher: Citadel Press
ISBN: 9780806523729
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
It's an ear-splitting, gut-crunching, armor-crashing, booby-trapped fight to the death and the fastest-growing sport on television -- the world of hard-driving robot combat. Millions watch as these metallic maulers, handmade with a vengeance by technical wizards, slash, buzz, and hammer each other into a crowd-pleasing pulp in awesome displays of motorized muscle. This is the only A to Z guide to the fascinating world of mechanical warriors -- from the best Bots in the business to the inventors who created them. Whether you want to build and fight your own robot, learn more about the sport, or get a close-up, behind-the-scenes look at every bit of the action, this comprehensive book delivers it all -- the guts, the gears, and the pulverizing glory! Book jacket.
Publisher: Citadel Press
ISBN: 9780806523729
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
It's an ear-splitting, gut-crunching, armor-crashing, booby-trapped fight to the death and the fastest-growing sport on television -- the world of hard-driving robot combat. Millions watch as these metallic maulers, handmade with a vengeance by technical wizards, slash, buzz, and hammer each other into a crowd-pleasing pulp in awesome displays of motorized muscle. This is the only A to Z guide to the fascinating world of mechanical warriors -- from the best Bots in the business to the inventors who created them. Whether you want to build and fight your own robot, learn more about the sport, or get a close-up, behind-the-scenes look at every bit of the action, this comprehensive book delivers it all -- the guts, the gears, and the pulverizing glory! Book jacket.
The Forgotten Shadows
Author: Drew Parrot
Publisher: Drew Parrot
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A demon named Droktamion has escaped from the depths of hell and raised an army with the intention of conquering the Earth. As a result of the ensuring bloodshed, lives are being lost and people are going missing. By a strange twist of fate, Shane, a young man known for being the brother of the Perfect Clone, has been caught in the middle of the conflict. As the shadows awaken the war against the demons erupts and the A.D.A struggle for control as Droktamion's grip on humanity tightens. The world has become a dangerous place. It's more difficult to fight your demons when they are flesh and blood.
Publisher: Drew Parrot
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A demon named Droktamion has escaped from the depths of hell and raised an army with the intention of conquering the Earth. As a result of the ensuring bloodshed, lives are being lost and people are going missing. By a strange twist of fate, Shane, a young man known for being the brother of the Perfect Clone, has been caught in the middle of the conflict. As the shadows awaken the war against the demons erupts and the A.D.A struggle for control as Droktamion's grip on humanity tightens. The world has become a dangerous place. It's more difficult to fight your demons when they are flesh and blood.
Christianity
Author: Thomas Howard
Publisher: Regent College Publishing
ISBN: 9781573830584
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher: Regent College Publishing
ISBN: 9781573830584
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
My Truth Might Not Be Yours
Author: Anna McCabe
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1035841312
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
‘Anoscetia’ – The anxiety of not knowing ‘the real you’ (John Koenig). McCabe never really knew her ‘real Anna’, going in search of this when she decided to go on the journey enclosed within these covers. A tale so common, yet so unfortunately rarely shared, McCabe details her life to share with those who might walk in similar (or not) shoes to her. McCabe’s poignant yet unfussy account of abuse at the hands of her guardians deals with this ‘taboo’ subject in ways that will open the eyes of those who have never experienced it yet, allow those who have, to find their own voice. What will McCabe reveal? The taboo must be broken.
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1035841312
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
‘Anoscetia’ – The anxiety of not knowing ‘the real you’ (John Koenig). McCabe never really knew her ‘real Anna’, going in search of this when she decided to go on the journey enclosed within these covers. A tale so common, yet so unfortunately rarely shared, McCabe details her life to share with those who might walk in similar (or not) shoes to her. McCabe’s poignant yet unfussy account of abuse at the hands of her guardians deals with this ‘taboo’ subject in ways that will open the eyes of those who have never experienced it yet, allow those who have, to find their own voice. What will McCabe reveal? The taboo must be broken.