Author: Becca Wilhite
Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print
ISBN: 9781432862602
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Greta loves her job as assistant librarian. She loves her best friend, Will, the high school civics teacher and debate coach. Then she meets Mac in the poetry section of the library, and she's smitten. Mac is heart-stoppingly gorgeous and showers her with affection and poetic text messages. But he seems different in texts than face-to-face. When the library is threatened with closure, Greta leaps into action. She arranges a "battle of the bands" book jam, hosts a book signing by a famous author, and stages a protest. Soon she realizes that it's Will, not Mac, she turns to for support and encouragement. Mac has the looks; Will has the heart. How can she choose?
Author: Bernadette Barton
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479828343
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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An up-close look at how porn permeates our culture Pictures of half-naked girls and women can seem to litter almost every screen, billboard, and advertisement in America. Pole-dancing studios keep women fit. Men airdrop their dick pics to female passengers on planes and trains. To top it off, the last American President has bragged about grabbing women “by the pussy.” This pornification of our society is what Bernadette Barton calls “raunch culture.” Barton explores what raunch culture is, why it matters, and how it is ruining America. She exposes how internet porn drives trends in programming, advertising, and social media, and makes its way onto our phones, into our fashion choices, and into our sex lives. From twerking and breast implants, to fake nails and push-up bras, she explores just how much we encounter raunch culture on a daily basis—porn is the new normal. Drawing on interviews, television shows, movies, and social media, Barton argues that raunch culture matters not because it is sexy, but because it is sexist. She shows how young women are encouraged to be sexy like porn stars, and to be grateful for getting cat-called or receiving unsolicited dick pics. As politicians vote to restrict women’s access to birth control and abortion, The Pornification of America exposes the double standard we attach to women’s sexuality.
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Category : Intelligence service
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Author: Nur Kurtoğlu-Hooton
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030818314
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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This book focuses on language and identity online within the context of running from an interdisciplinary perspective. It brings together digital ethnography, existential phenomenology, interpretative phenomenological analysis and sporting embodiment in the pursuit to explore runners’ lived experiences and identities online. Language, identity and identity online are often studied in broader social contexts such as education, culture and politics, and running is intimately related to key issues in contemporary society, such as health and exercise, sport and nationalism, embracing a variety of discourse types and having implications more generally for our identity as human beings. The evolving online media through which people make sense of who they are and which groups they belong to are enabling new ways of realising identities and relationships. This book will be of interest to applied linguists, discourse analysts, as well as those interested in sports, sports psychology, and identity enactment.
Author: Richard Lanning
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1412064422
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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True stories of how learned behaviors and alcoholism created a life of chaos and emotional turmoil; how I repeatedly set myself up for failure to the point of being homeless.
Author: William J. Lea
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1466989467
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 209
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The author grew up in the Cincinnati, OH area and in Kentucky. He used to play in his grandmas barn, and would jump down on bales of hay. That was the beginning to, "let's learn to fly". It is said, "you can't teach a dog new tricks", but being so young, he tried to learn them all, tricks that is. This book is an offering of many of his accomplishments in the flying arena along with excerpts from some of the funniest statements by many of his pilot friends. You might say some are almost like short stories in themselves. So much happens during the flying period of time for a pilot. The responsibility and learning factor is huge. Most will say "it is all worth it". The book, hopefully, will bring laughter & a time to relax to all of who choose to read it. ENJOY!!
Author: Evelyn O'Rourke
Publisher: Hachette Books Ireland
ISBN: 144478983X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 171
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When broadcaster and journalist Evelyn O'Rourke was on maternity leave with her first child she discovered that she was pregnant for the second time. Within a week of this joyous news however, her world came crashing down when she was diagnosed with cancer. In this beautifully written and searingly honest memoir, Evelyn charts her journey - from the realisation that she would have to undergo invasive surgery and chemotherapy to the decisions she made and her determination to protect her unborn baby Ross and live for her family. Told with frankness and great humour, Dear Ross is a story about the strength of love: between families, sisters, brothers, a husband and a wife - but, most of all, the unwavering and uncompromising love between a mother and her children.
Author: Thom Slofer
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1456810332
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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Sometimes Like Dimes: Life Lessons in the Steel City is about Thom Slofer, and chronicles his experiences growing up and becoming older in the Hill District neighborhood of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, USA in the 1980's and 90's. During this time period the people, life passages, and the changing surroundings are described as they affect him. The Hill was once a thriving inner-city neighborhood. World-famous jazz musicians once played in the ballrooms and jazz clubs nightly; the Hill District was to Pittsburgh what Harlem is to New York City. Hard economic times before and after the 1980’s hit the once economically thriving black community at the foot of downtown Pittsburgh hard. The Hill was now nothing more than a snapshot of economic demise. The successes and setbacks through his high school years and into his young adult life are chronicled. Older women he became involved with showed him another way to be despite peer and neighborhood influences. He graduates high school to attend college but drops out and obtains a reasonable job; but the streets and thier infuences are present. He becomes a part-time bartender then begins to carry a gun before loosing his job and succumbing to low self-esteem. He’s then forced to survive on the streets but refuses to take part in any crime. He rises above and eventually beyond the streets, but the lessons "street life" taught stayed within him. Sometimes Like Dimes: Life Lessons in the Steel City not only demonstrates that if every man were to write a book about his experiences every story would be unique; but is also a lens to view what it was like to live life in Southwestern Pennsylvania, USA.
Author: Glenn R. Mosley
Publisher: Sentient Publications
ISBN: 1591810485
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Tens of thousands of people who have attended Dr Mosley's healing workshops have testified to the success of his alternative therapies in treating disease. This book gives us the same information he gives them -- clear and simple steps for maintaining better health. Anyone can develop the gift of healing touch to balance energy, combat disease, and promote well-being, to benefit themselves, their family, and their friends. The reader will learn healing techniques that include light physical touch as well as moving the hands a slight distance above the body, known as Healing Hover Touch. Written for the lay practitioner, this is a guide to new possibilities in healthy living.
Author: Michael Sanderson
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329917189
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 99
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In this book, the author Michael Sanderson shares his amazing story of survival against all odds. He was internally decapitated in an horrific accident that 97% of victims do not survive--and which leaves most of the remaining 3% paralyzed for the rest of their lives. He fought back from the brink of death to tell his story of survival--and his testimony of God's grace and deliverance.
