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Languages : en
Pages : 120
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From the concert stage to the dressing room, from the recording studio to the digital realm, SPIN surveys the modern musical landscape and the culture around it with authoritative reporting, provocative interviews, and a discerning critical ear. With dynamic photography, bold graphic design, and informed irreverence, the pages of SPIN pulsate with the energy of today's most innovative sounds. Whether covering what's new or what's next, SPIN is your monthly VIP pass to all that rocks.
Author: John C. Maher
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027260028
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 255
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Language is a social space, an aesthetic, a form of play and communication, a geographical reference, a jouissance, a producer of numerous social and personal identities. This book takes up salient issues of sociolinguistics with a specific focus on Japan: language and gender (the married name controversy), language and the 'portable' identities being fashioned around traditional, essentialist notions of ethnicity (metroethnicity) endangerment, slang, taboo and discriminatory language in Japanese especially regarding minorities, place-names from indigenous languages, the fellowship and parody of children's songs, and the diversity of nicknames among children and young people. This books gives radical and new perspectives on the sociolinguistics of Japanese.
Author: Sandra Mcleod Humphrey
Publisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 1615920331
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 133
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Did you know that there are kids out there who don’t even want to get out of bed in the morning because they know what going to school means for them? • being teased and taunted ... • being excluded and rejected ... • being afraid that you’re going to be assaulted and possibly hurt… • Sometimes it can even mean that you just can’t hang in there any longer, so you give up and take your own life. If you are one of the cool kids at school, this book is for you. But if you’re not one of the cool kids, this book is especially for you. Emerson Elementary isn’t a real school, but it could be your elementary school. And the students at Emerson aren’t real kids, but the problems they face are real, and so are the choices they make. The Golden Rule is an old rule, but it's still a good rule to live by, and after reading this book, you may just possibly become a kinder, more compassionate human being, someone who treats others the way you want them to treat you. So come along and join the students at Emerson Elementary and help them make some cool choices!
Author: A.B Syahid
Publisher: Booktango
ISBN: 1468943162
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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In this surreal vision of fleeting youth and sexual ambiguity, a 20-something convenience store employee circles around the abjection of life, wondering if he'd ever be normal again. The rare Cogina curse straps him on a roller coaster ride which only ascends towards uncertainty, a place where he can lose and find himself in a blink of an eye.
Author: Prateek Pandey
Publisher: Educreation Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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This sci-fi book is all about dreaming big. People says that don't dream big, I say you to dream big! 90% people fail in their life not because they dreamed so high, They got failed because they dreamed very much low.This book is for dream followers and for the people who wants to do an extraordinary things in their life. This book about a boy who was never a good student in his chidhood days. He was having no dreams but one day after listning to a man he got his dream but a new problem arises here. Society is opposing him to make his dream a truth. Lets see who will win he or society!
Author: Jeff Foley
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1475903766
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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He began with no athletic ability. His pass-catching skills were so bad that he was told he couldn't catch a cold if he were butt-naked. He fell flat on his facemask during a six-minute jog. He was tormented by referees, subjected to rookie initiation pranks, called Rudy by fans and intimidated by a 250-pound ex-NFL player. Welcome to Jeff Foley's adventure in the Arena Football League. A five-foot-six, 180-pound writer, Foley is every bit the average individual. But the AFL's Albany Firebirds agreed to let him join their squad as an offensive specialist/writer in 1999 and 2000. So, despite never having played a down of organized football ? no Pop Warner, high school or college gridiron experience ? Foley played in three professional contests, running pass patterns against seasoned athletes, competing in front of more than 10,000 people. He lived every fan's dream. Or nightmare? He endured grueling practice sessions, hits, injuries and road trips, and attended team meetings and meals. He was a part of locker room conversations. He was overjoyed by the thrill of success, and dealt with the disappointment that accompanies failure. Foley experienced all life in the AFL has to offer. And lived to write about it.
Author: Sheri L. Brown
Publisher: Outfox Digital Publishing
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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I was a part of the invisible crowd in high school, but when I started my freshmen year at college, everything changed. I met Karen, my best friend for life; Kyle, a gorgeous graduate student who I fell for my first day on campus; and Gunnar, a buff rugby player with a great smile and big heart. I heard rumors that the most popular girl from my home town was also at my school. We weren't rivals, she had dismissed me long before our senior year of high school, so we were able to become almost-friends. Yet, this geeky girl, meaning me, of course, would be the one to save the prom queen after a sordid night trying to mend her broken heart with alcohol, frat boys and a fateful walk down a dark alley alone. In between trying to do the right thing, I was falling in love, studying and partying way too hard, and singing with Kyle in his band. Just when I thought my dreams were all coming true, along with a few amazing surprises, I discovered it was my own heart I had to protect when Kyle’s past crept into our lives and changed everything... maybe forever.
Author: Martin H. Greenberg
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780756404390
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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From a boy who discovers life can be an illusion to a man who maintains company security through enchantment, this collection contains 15 imaginative tales of those who earn their living through wizardly professions. Includes stories by Orson Scott Card, Mike Resnick, Steve Perry, and others. Original.
Author: J. W. Wiley
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000980995
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Embrace Leadership to Combat All Forms of PrejudiceIs there a “nigger” in you? If you have attempted to avoid and/or escape oppression, been made to feel as if you are a problem, been treated as “lesser than” or even like a criminal, all just because you are different in a given context, then what Dr. J. W. Wiley asserts through the title of this book inescapably applies to you. Through any of our multiple identities—stereotyped, marginalized, or ostracized by our socio-economic class, level of education, gender, disability, age, race, sexual orientation, or religion—we are all potential victims as well as perpetrators of denigrating language and discrimination. Dr. Wiley borrows the agency of nigger, arguably the quintessential, most universally known term of disparagement of those negatively considered the Other, to re-frame the word as no longer just a racial term but one that symbolizes many of the ways we disrespect or bully one another, are inconsiderate of one another, prejudge one another, and internalize our demonization. He defines the word in a way that demonstrates its equivalence to other dysfunctional language (retard, bitch, fag, trailer trash, etc.) that suggests that those so targeted are unworthy of consideration in our society. By creating a conversation around such language, Dr. Wiley challenges us to recognize that, when we give in to our prejudices and stereotypes, the “nigger in you” is what we are apt to see when we encounter those different from ourselves.The author, who is Director of the Center for Diversity, Pluralism, and Inclusion for the State University of New York–Plattsburg, a Lecturer in Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Studies, and president of his own consulting business, engages diversity in a uniquely inclusive way and as inseparable from social justice. By dissecting the offensive language we often use, consciously or unconsciously, Dr. Wiley provokes us to recognize that, since every one of us has multiple identities beyond just the color of our skin, it is virtually impossible for most of us not to have felt the sting of oppression, or the power of privilege that some of those same multiple identities may confer on us. Consequently, it is morally incumbent on us to contest and ultimately transcend oppression wherever we encounter it, to respect the humanity of those different from us, and become allies in the war to protect and advance people’s right to be different.Through personal stories, scholarship, poetry, commentary on current affairs, lyrics, and his experiences as a Black man both rooted in African American culture and the culture of the academy who daily has to navigate and negotiate multiple worlds, Dr. Wiley leads us on a journey toward social justice. In doing so, he empowers us—in whatever sphere, private or public, in which we have some agency—to embrace our leadership moments by engaging those who would perpetrate dysfunctional language or behavior, and help create a world in which differences are respected and validated.
Author: SS Magazine
Publisher: SS Magazine
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 37
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Style Society Magazine Issue#3 English Version
