Author: Brandi Johnson
Publisher: Urban Books
ISBN: 1622860055
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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What's a girl gotta do to get what she wants out of life? According to Ra'Keeyah Jackson, she'll do whatever it takes. Ra'Keeyah has million-dollar dreams. She's determined to come up, and she won't stop until she does. Nothing is going to stop her from getting the hottest clothes, the finest men, and money to burn. Easily influenced by her conniving girls Shayna and Quiana, Ra'Keeyah resorts to shoplifting, stealing married men's credit cards, and passing bad checks to get what she wants. Ra'Keeyah is struggling to stay on top, and she has sunk to an all-time low when she meets Brick. He's a savvy, street-smart hustler who will surely take her young heart for a ride and make her want to change. Will she be able to resist, though, when Shayna comes to her with an idea that is sure to keep their pockets on swole? This idea could cost the girls a little more than they bargained for, along with teaching them that not everyone is to be tricked!
Author: Ben M. Debney
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811555699
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 415
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This book investigates the normalisation of blame-shifting within ideological discourse as a broad feature of history, working from Churchill’s truism that history is written by the victors. To that end, it explores historical episodes of political persecution carried out under cover of moral panic, highlighting the process of ‘Othering’ common to each and theorising a historical model of panic-driven scapegoating from the results. Building this model from case studies in witch panic, communist panic and terrorist panic respectively, The Oldest Trick in the Book builds an argument that features common to each case study reflect broader historical patterning consistent with Churchill’s maxim. On this basis it argues that the periodic construction of bogeymen or ‘folk demons’ is a useful device for enabling the kind of victim-playing and victim-blaming critical to protecting elite privilege during periods of crisis and that in being a recurring theme historically, panic-driven scapegoating retains great ongoing value to the privileged and powerful, and thus conspicuously remains an ongoing feature of world politics.
Author: Trish Granted
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1665913754
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Jeanie literally escapes into the pages of a fantasy novel when she accidentally makes a wish in front of her friend and genie-in-training Willow.
Author: Marliss C. Desens
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874134766
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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None of these assumptions has been tested against the evidence of the surviving plays from the period - an oversight that the present study seeks to remedy.
Author: Charlie Dancey
Publisher: Squeeze Press
ISBN: 9781906069070
Category : Magic tricks
Languages : en
Pages : 749
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Leading circus skills author Charlie Dancey has spent over 20 years compiling this book of the world's coolest tricks, from unicycles to levitation, and vanishing coins to lion-taming.
Author: Robert Burns
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Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Author: Robert Burns
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Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Author: Robert Burns
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Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Author: Robert Burns
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Author: Iain Hood
Publisher: Renard Press Ltd
ISBN: 1804470473
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 131
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‘There’s only control, control of ourselves and others. And you have to decide what part you play in that control.’ Cast your eye over the comfortable north London home of a family of high ideals, radical politics and compassionate feelings. Julia, Paul and their two daughters, Olivia and Sophie, look to a better society, one they can effect through ORGAN:EYES, the campaigning group they fundraise for and march with, supporting various good causes. But is it all too good to be true? When the surface has been scratched and Paul’s identity comes under the scrutiny of the press, a journey into the heart of the family begins. Who are these characters really? Are any of them the ‘real’ them at all? Every Trick in the Book is a genre-deconstructing novel that explodes the police procedural and undercover-cop story with nouveau romanish glee. Hood overturns the stone of our surveillance society to show what really lies beneath.
