Author: Raphael Brown
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105588173
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
THUG-ADDICT: The Evolution is an urban story of Devon Mays. He went from a child to an adult where he experience the trials of life. He was raise in the Housing projects of Brooklyn, East New York where he grew up watching the fast-life, and was intrigued by the sinful desires. He went to jail at a young age for shooting a bully, and he seek revenge. His mother and father was an addict. He experience the responsibilities of life with his childhood girlfriend Tamika, by producing a family. Where he then venture from a thug to an addict. THUG-ADDICT: The Evolution is a page turner. It is a story to learn from. It is vivid, and a book on its own term and style.
THUG-ADDICT: The Evolution
Author: Raphael Brown
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105588173
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
THUG-ADDICT: The Evolution is an urban story of Devon Mays. He went from a child to an adult where he experience the trials of life. He was raise in the Housing projects of Brooklyn, East New York where he grew up watching the fast-life, and was intrigued by the sinful desires. He went to jail at a young age for shooting a bully, and he seek revenge. His mother and father was an addict. He experience the responsibilities of life with his childhood girlfriend Tamika, by producing a family. Where he then venture from a thug to an addict. THUG-ADDICT: The Evolution is a page turner. It is a story to learn from. It is vivid, and a book on its own term and style.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105588173
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
THUG-ADDICT: The Evolution is an urban story of Devon Mays. He went from a child to an adult where he experience the trials of life. He was raise in the Housing projects of Brooklyn, East New York where he grew up watching the fast-life, and was intrigued by the sinful desires. He went to jail at a young age for shooting a bully, and he seek revenge. His mother and father was an addict. He experience the responsibilities of life with his childhood girlfriend Tamika, by producing a family. Where he then venture from a thug to an addict. THUG-ADDICT: The Evolution is a page turner. It is a story to learn from. It is vivid, and a book on its own term and style.
The Evolution of Me
Author: Ronald E. White Jr.
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1098040600
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
I am nothing without God and everything with him. -Ronald E. White Jr. This book provides a glimpse of the emotional and mental traumas that overwhelmed Ronald throughout his childhood. As a young man, these trials and tribulations lead Ronald down a path of addiction. This work is an evolution of the man Ronald E. White Jr. from his many defeats to his many triumphs. He has gone through these trials and tribulations with the guidance of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1098040600
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
I am nothing without God and everything with him. -Ronald E. White Jr. This book provides a glimpse of the emotional and mental traumas that overwhelmed Ronald throughout his childhood. As a young man, these trials and tribulations lead Ronald down a path of addiction. This work is an evolution of the man Ronald E. White Jr. from his many defeats to his many triumphs. He has gone through these trials and tribulations with the guidance of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Peacock Bass Addiction
Author: Larry Larsen
Publisher: Larsen's Outdoor Publishing
ISBN: 9780936513492
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Lakeland, FL -- There are few, if any, writers more qualified or knowledgeable about peacock bass as Larry Larsen. In this, his third book in the series, Larsen reveals new methods and locations from his continued experimentation and exploration.From his many travels, it is apparent to Larsen that anglers who have even just one opportunity to tangle with peacock bass quickly become addicts. This compilation of the very latest information will help all addicts enjoy the most optimal quality of angling possible. In addition, this book attempts to provide readers with an honest overview of the numerous opportunities in South America and around the world where peacock bass exist. It also covers a large variety of peacock bass camps and operators in each country.Each of the first 12 chapters focuses on geographic areas within the various countries that almost always produce good peacock bass fishing. Chapter 13 Battles Won and Lost provides an experienced viewpoint on how to win battles with the giants. It points out common ways to lose the fish of your dreams and ways to prevent such a catastrophe. Chapter 14 discusses the range and seasonal movements of the peacock bass, critical elements to the success of any South American venture. Fly fishing advice is also covered in Chapter 16.I'm often asked about the most appropriate tackle to carry along on an expedition, says Larsen. My favorite lures, tackle and the types of habitats to use them in are also detailed in this book. It is amazing how little consideration is given to the proper tackle by most anglers, he adds. This is perhaps the most important of all pre-trip planning checklists.
Publisher: Larsen's Outdoor Publishing
ISBN: 9780936513492
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Lakeland, FL -- There are few, if any, writers more qualified or knowledgeable about peacock bass as Larry Larsen. In this, his third book in the series, Larsen reveals new methods and locations from his continued experimentation and exploration.From his many travels, it is apparent to Larsen that anglers who have even just one opportunity to tangle with peacock bass quickly become addicts. This compilation of the very latest information will help all addicts enjoy the most optimal quality of angling possible. In addition, this book attempts to provide readers with an honest overview of the numerous opportunities in South America and around the world where peacock bass exist. It also covers a large variety of peacock bass camps and operators in each country.Each of the first 12 chapters focuses on geographic areas within the various countries that almost always produce good peacock bass fishing. Chapter 13 Battles Won and Lost provides an experienced viewpoint on how to win battles with the giants. It points out common ways to lose the fish of your dreams and ways to prevent such a catastrophe. Chapter 14 discusses the range and seasonal movements of the peacock bass, critical elements to the success of any South American venture. Fly fishing advice is also covered in Chapter 16.I'm often asked about the most appropriate tackle to carry along on an expedition, says Larsen. My favorite lures, tackle and the types of habitats to use them in are also detailed in this book. It is amazing how little consideration is given to the proper tackle by most anglers, he adds. This is perhaps the most important of all pre-trip planning checklists.
Anthony & Lorraine - Evolution
Author: Michael Atkinson
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 146289206X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Anthony, on his way from basketball practice with his team mates, is left alone as usual. Not that he minds, he loves his esoteric world. Not tonight, though. He hears sounds emanating from one of Brooklyns sordid alleys, and with nothing better to do, he foolishly goes in to investigate. Now Anthony fi nds himself a witness to . . . He later fi nds out that the victim is an important man, from Washington. The icing on the cake, is that the man he saw committing the violent crime in the alley, is now looking for him, and wants him to be his next victim/trophy. Everyone is in the loop, but not Lorraine. What scares her the most, is that Anthony, her friend from childhood, is acting weird, and looking even worse. An ex-convict, and the nephew of the President of the US of A, Ed is now relishing his new life as a member of the NYPD. His hedonistic mission in life has now changed course, and Ed reluctantly has to use the little police prowess he has to fi nd the witness to his crime. This story is about Brooklyn New York, where two innocent budding high school basketball stars, have to endure the vile and grime that
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 146289206X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Anthony, on his way from basketball practice with his team mates, is left alone as usual. Not that he minds, he loves his esoteric world. Not tonight, though. He hears sounds emanating from one of Brooklyns sordid alleys, and with nothing better to do, he foolishly goes in to investigate. Now Anthony fi nds himself a witness to . . . He later fi nds out that the victim is an important man, from Washington. The icing on the cake, is that the man he saw committing the violent crime in the alley, is now looking for him, and wants him to be his next victim/trophy. Everyone is in the loop, but not Lorraine. What scares her the most, is that Anthony, her friend from childhood, is acting weird, and looking even worse. An ex-convict, and the nephew of the President of the US of A, Ed is now relishing his new life as a member of the NYPD. His hedonistic mission in life has now changed course, and Ed reluctantly has to use the little police prowess he has to fi nd the witness to his crime. This story is about Brooklyn New York, where two innocent budding high school basketball stars, have to endure the vile and grime that
The Night of the Gun
Author: David Carr
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471108422
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
David Carr was an addict for more than twenty years -- first dope, then coke, then finally crack -- before the prospect of losing his newborn twins made him sober up in a bid to win custody from their crack-dealer mother. Once recovered, he found that his recollection of his 'lost' years differed -- sometimes radically -- from that of his family and friends. The night, for example, his best friend pulled a gun on him. 'No,' said the friend (to David's horror, as a lifelong pacifist), 'It was you that had the gun.' Using all his skills as an investigative reporter, he set out to research his own life, interviewing everyone from his parents and his ex-partners to the policemen who arrested him, the doctors who treated him and the lawyers who fought to prove he was fit to have custody of his kids. Unflinchingly honest and beautifully written, the result is both a shocking account of the depths of addiction and a fascinating examination of how -- and why -- our memories deceive us. As David says, we remember the stories we can live with, not the ones that happened.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471108422
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
David Carr was an addict for more than twenty years -- first dope, then coke, then finally crack -- before the prospect of losing his newborn twins made him sober up in a bid to win custody from their crack-dealer mother. Once recovered, he found that his recollection of his 'lost' years differed -- sometimes radically -- from that of his family and friends. The night, for example, his best friend pulled a gun on him. 'No,' said the friend (to David's horror, as a lifelong pacifist), 'It was you that had the gun.' Using all his skills as an investigative reporter, he set out to research his own life, interviewing everyone from his parents and his ex-partners to the policemen who arrested him, the doctors who treated him and the lawyers who fought to prove he was fit to have custody of his kids. Unflinchingly honest and beautifully written, the result is both a shocking account of the depths of addiction and a fascinating examination of how -- and why -- our memories deceive us. As David says, we remember the stories we can live with, not the ones that happened.
Kubrick's Hope
Author: Julian Rice
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810862247
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
There have been two common assumptions about Stanley Kubrick: that his films portray human beings who are driven exclusively by aggression and greed, and that he pessimistically rejected meaning in a contingent, postmodern world. However, as Kubrick himself remarked, 'A work of art should be always exhilarating and never depressing, whatever its subject matter may be.' In this new interpretation of Kubrick's films, Julian Rice suggests that the director's work had a more positive outlook than most people credit him. And while other studies have recounted Kubrick's life and production histories, few have offered lucid explanations of specific sources and their influence on his films. In Kubrick's Hope, Rice explains how the theories of Freud and Jung took cinematic form, and also considers the significant impression left on the director's last six films by Robert Ardrey, Bruno Bettelheim, and Joseph Campbell. In addition to providing useful contexts, Rice offers close readings of the films, inviting readers to note details they may have missed and to interpret them in their own way. By refreshing their experience of the films and discarding postmodern clichZs, viewers may discover more optimistic themes in the director's works. Beginning with 2001: A Space Odyssey and continuing through A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, and Eyes Wide Shut, Rice illuminates Kubrick's thinking at the time he made each film. Throughout, Rice examines the compelling political, psychological, and spiritual issues the director raises. As this book contends, if these works are considered together and repeatedly re-viewed, Kubrick's films may help viewers to personally grow and collectively endure.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810862247
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
There have been two common assumptions about Stanley Kubrick: that his films portray human beings who are driven exclusively by aggression and greed, and that he pessimistically rejected meaning in a contingent, postmodern world. However, as Kubrick himself remarked, 'A work of art should be always exhilarating and never depressing, whatever its subject matter may be.' In this new interpretation of Kubrick's films, Julian Rice suggests that the director's work had a more positive outlook than most people credit him. And while other studies have recounted Kubrick's life and production histories, few have offered lucid explanations of specific sources and their influence on his films. In Kubrick's Hope, Rice explains how the theories of Freud and Jung took cinematic form, and also considers the significant impression left on the director's last six films by Robert Ardrey, Bruno Bettelheim, and Joseph Campbell. In addition to providing useful contexts, Rice offers close readings of the films, inviting readers to note details they may have missed and to interpret them in their own way. By refreshing their experience of the films and discarding postmodern clichZs, viewers may discover more optimistic themes in the director's works. Beginning with 2001: A Space Odyssey and continuing through A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, and Eyes Wide Shut, Rice illuminates Kubrick's thinking at the time he made each film. Throughout, Rice examines the compelling political, psychological, and spiritual issues the director raises. As this book contends, if these works are considered together and repeatedly re-viewed, Kubrick's films may help viewers to personally grow and collectively endure.
The Hate U Give
Author: Angie Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406387933
Category : Police shootings
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Read the book that inspired the movie! Sixteen-year-old Starr lives in two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she was born and raised and her posh high school in the suburbs. The uneasy balance between them is shattered when Starr is the only witness to the fatal shooting of her unarmed best friend, Khalil, by a police officer. Now what Starr says could destroy her community. It could also get her killed. Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, this is a powerful and gripping novel about one girl's struggle for justice.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406387933
Category : Police shootings
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Read the book that inspired the movie! Sixteen-year-old Starr lives in two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she was born and raised and her posh high school in the suburbs. The uneasy balance between them is shattered when Starr is the only witness to the fatal shooting of her unarmed best friend, Khalil, by a police officer. Now what Starr says could destroy her community. It could also get her killed. Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, this is a powerful and gripping novel about one girl's struggle for justice.
Evolutionary Psychopathology
Author: Marco Del Giudice
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190670142
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 579
Book Description
Mental disorders arise from neural and psychological mechanisms that have been built and shaped by natural selection across our evolutionary history. Looking at psychopathology through the lens of evolution is the only way to understand the deeper nature of mental disorders and turn a mass of behavioral, genetic, and neurobiological findings into a coherent, theoretically grounded discipline. The rise of evolutionary psychopathology is part of an exciting scientific movement in psychology and medicine -- a movement that is fundamentally transforming the way we think about health and disease. Evolutionary Psychopathology takes steps toward a unified approach to psychopathology, using the concepts of life history theory -- a biological account of how individual differences in development, physiology and behavior arise from tradeoffs in survival and reproduction -- to build an integrative framework for mental disorders. This book reviews existing evolutionary models of specific conditions and connects them in a broader perspective, with the goal of explaining the large-scale patterns of risk and comorbidity that characterize psychopathology. Using the life history framework allows for a seamless integration of mental disorders with normative individual differences in personality and cognition, and offers new conceptual tools for the analysis of developmental, genetic, and neurobiological data. The concepts presented in Evolutionary Psychopathology are used to derive a new taxonomy of mental disorders, the Fast-Slow-Defense (FSD) model. The FSD model is the first classification system explicitly based on evolutionary concepts, a biologically grounded alternative to transdiagnostic models. The book reviews a wide range of common mental disorders, discusses their classification in the FSD model, and identifies functional subtypes within existing diagnostic categories.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190670142
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 579
Book Description
Mental disorders arise from neural and psychological mechanisms that have been built and shaped by natural selection across our evolutionary history. Looking at psychopathology through the lens of evolution is the only way to understand the deeper nature of mental disorders and turn a mass of behavioral, genetic, and neurobiological findings into a coherent, theoretically grounded discipline. The rise of evolutionary psychopathology is part of an exciting scientific movement in psychology and medicine -- a movement that is fundamentally transforming the way we think about health and disease. Evolutionary Psychopathology takes steps toward a unified approach to psychopathology, using the concepts of life history theory -- a biological account of how individual differences in development, physiology and behavior arise from tradeoffs in survival and reproduction -- to build an integrative framework for mental disorders. This book reviews existing evolutionary models of specific conditions and connects them in a broader perspective, with the goal of explaining the large-scale patterns of risk and comorbidity that characterize psychopathology. Using the life history framework allows for a seamless integration of mental disorders with normative individual differences in personality and cognition, and offers new conceptual tools for the analysis of developmental, genetic, and neurobiological data. The concepts presented in Evolutionary Psychopathology are used to derive a new taxonomy of mental disorders, the Fast-Slow-Defense (FSD) model. The FSD model is the first classification system explicitly based on evolutionary concepts, a biologically grounded alternative to transdiagnostic models. The book reviews a wide range of common mental disorders, discusses their classification in the FSD model, and identifies functional subtypes within existing diagnostic categories.
Houston Rap
Author: Lance Scott Walker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938265051
Category : Hip-hop
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Houston, Texas, neighborhoods of Fifth Ward, Third Ward and South Park have grown to be hallowed ground for modern rap culture, populated with celebrities, entrepreneurs, support networks and a micro-economy of their own. Photographer Peter Beste (photographer of True Norwegian Black Metal) and writer Lance Scott Walker spent nine years documenting the most influential style in twenty-first-century hip hop and the vibrant inner city culture from which it stems. Houston Rap, edited by Johan Kugelberg, profiles noted artists such as Bun B of UGK, Z-Ro, Big Mike, K-Rino, Willie D of the Geto Boys, Lil’ Troy and Paul Wall, alongside reflections on the lives of departed legends such as DJ Screw, Pimp C and Big Hawk. The book also features community leaders, rappers, producers, businessmen and family members, all providing an astonishing and important insight into a great American cultural narrative. In addition to featuring Beste’s previously unseen images of the contemporary Houston rap scene, Houston Rapincludes a detailed timeline charting the growth of rap music in Houston from its origins to the present.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938265051
Category : Hip-hop
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Houston, Texas, neighborhoods of Fifth Ward, Third Ward and South Park have grown to be hallowed ground for modern rap culture, populated with celebrities, entrepreneurs, support networks and a micro-economy of their own. Photographer Peter Beste (photographer of True Norwegian Black Metal) and writer Lance Scott Walker spent nine years documenting the most influential style in twenty-first-century hip hop and the vibrant inner city culture from which it stems. Houston Rap, edited by Johan Kugelberg, profiles noted artists such as Bun B of UGK, Z-Ro, Big Mike, K-Rino, Willie D of the Geto Boys, Lil’ Troy and Paul Wall, alongside reflections on the lives of departed legends such as DJ Screw, Pimp C and Big Hawk. The book also features community leaders, rappers, producers, businessmen and family members, all providing an astonishing and important insight into a great American cultural narrative. In addition to featuring Beste’s previously unseen images of the contemporary Houston rap scene, Houston Rapincludes a detailed timeline charting the growth of rap music in Houston from its origins to the present.
Plough, Sword, and Book
Author: Ernest Gellner
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226287025
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Elucidates and argues for the author's concept of human history from the past to the present.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226287025
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Elucidates and argues for the author's concept of human history from the past to the present.