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Gun (DVD)
50 Cent, Val Kilmer, Hassan Johnson, John Larroquette, Michael Matthias, …
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Crime drama starring rapper 50 Cent (aka Curtis Jackson) as a
weapons dealer who is under investigation by the FBI. Rich
(Jackson) is in the middle of a gun deal gone wrong when ex-con
Angel (Val Kilmer), who is working for the cops to get inside
information on Rich's crew, saves his life. However, when Rich's
lover and weapons supplier, Gabriella (AnnaLynne McCord) begins to
get suspicious and is caught in the middle of a shoot-up herself,
things look set to turn ugly.
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Black Love Letters
Cole/Brown, Natalie Johnson; Foreword by John Legend
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From celebrated Black writers, creators, and thinkers—and with a
foreword by John Legend—comes a collection of letters and
original illustrations on the subject of Black love, a powerful and
heartfelt celebration of Blackness in all its many forms. In this
exquisite anthology of letters and illustrations, Cole Brown and
Natalie Johnson bring together a constellation of influential Black
figures to write to the people, places, and moments that mean the
most to them. With a foreword from John Legend and contributions
from Brontez Purnell, Morgan Jerkins, Reverend Al Sharpton, and Dr.
Imani Perry, among many others, Black Love Letters is an ode to a
phenomenal community: a testament to the fact that where there has
been pain and suffering, there has also always been immeasurable,
irrepressible joy and love. Contributors: Akili King, Alex Elle,
Allisa Findley, Barbara Edelin Belinda Walker, Ben Crump, Bill
Whitaker, Bilquisu Abdullah, Brianna Holt, Brontez Purnell, Cole
Brown, Danez Smith, Deborah Willis, Dick Parsons, Douglas Jones,
Douglas Kearney, Dr. Imani Perry, Jamila Woods, Jan Menafee, Jayne
Allen, Jeh Johnson, Jenna Wortham, Joel Caston, Jonathan Capehart,
Joy Reid, Justus Pugh, Kwame Dawes, Lynae Vanee, Mahogany L. Brown,
Malachi Elijah, Michael Eric Dyson, Morgan Jerkins, Nadia Owusu,
Natalie Johnson, Rakia Reynolds, Reverend Al Sharpton, Rhianna
Jones, Roze Traore, Sojourner Brown, Tarana Burke, Tembe Denton
Hurst, Topaz Jones, Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts, and VJ Jenkins
Have you ever wondered how the wheel was invented or who created
the first video game? Do you understand how the internet works and
why vaccines save lives? Are you aware that fossil fuels not only
power cars and planes, but are also used to generate the
electricity that powers almost everything else? Do you know about
alternative energy sources and how they work? Would you like to
know more about robotic surgery, vertical farming or gene therapy?
Then this is the book for you!
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The Civil War and the Summer of 2020
Hilary Green, Andrew L Slap; Foreword by Andre E. Johnson; Contributions by John Bardes, Karen Cook Bell, …
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R624
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Investigates how Americans have remembered violence and resistance
since the Civil War, including Confederate monuments, historical
markers, college classrooms, and history books. George Floyd’s
murder in the summer of 2020 sparked a national reckoning for the
United States that had been 400 years in the making. Millions of
Americans took to the streets to protest both the murder and the
centuries of systemic racism that already existed among European
colonists but transformed with the arrival of the first enslaved
African Americans in 1619. The violence needed to enforce that
systemic racism for all those years, from the slave driver’s whip
to state-sponsored police brutality, attracted the immediate
attention of the protesters. The resistance of the protesters
echoed generations of African Americans’ resisting the violence
and oppression of white supremacy. Their opposition to violence
soon spread to other aspects of systemic racism, including a
cultural hegemony built on and reinforcing white supremacy. At the
heart of this white supremacist culture is the memory of the Civil
War era, when in 1861 8 million white Americans revolted against
their country to try to safeguard the enslavement of 4 million
African Americans. The volume has three interconnected sections
that build on one another. The first section, “Violence,”
explores systemic racism in the Civil War era and now with essays
on slavery, policing, and slave patrols. The second section, titled
“Resistance,” shows how African Americans resisted violence for
the past two centuries, with essays discussing matters including
self-emancipation and African American soldiers. The final section,
“Memory,” investigates how Americans have remembered this
violence and resistance since the Civil War, including Confederate
monuments and historical markers. This volume is intended for
nonhistorians interested in showing the intertwined and
longstanding connections between systemic racism, violence,
resistance, and the memory of the Civil War era in the United
States that finally exploded in the summer of 2020.
As a member of the Cacciatore Guild, Danielle Burroughs is one of
the Underworld’s most renowned hitmen. Despite her success,
memories from her past bleed into the present - forcing her to
reconcile the life she now leads. Events are set in motion once she
kills Emilio Francesca, her caretaker, but accidentally ends up
killing his daughter, Lilio, in the process. She realizes that
she’s had enough of this life, one now truly without meaning. In
an attempt to leave it all behind, she soon realizes that even
atonement has a price.
Matériel culture encompasses the material remains of conflict, from buildings and monuments to artefacts and militia, as well as human remains. This collection of essays, from an international range of contributors, illustrates the diversity in this material record, highlights the difficulties and challenges in preserving, presenting and interpreting it, and above all demonstrates the significant role matériel culture can play in contemporary society. Among the many studies are: * the 'culture of shells' * the archaeology of nuclear testing grounds * Cambodia's 'killing fields' * the Berlin Wall * and the biography of a medal *the reappearance of Argentina's 'disappeared' *World War II concentration camps. eBook available with sample pages: 0203165748
This collection considers issues that have emerged in Early Modern
Studies in the past fifteen years relating to understandings of
mind and body in Shakespeare's world. Informed by The Body in
Parts, the essays in this book respond also to the notion of an
early modern 'body-mind' in which Shakespeare and his
contemporaries are understood in terms of bodily parts and
cognitive processes. What might the impact of such understandings
be on our picture of Shakespeare's theatre or on our histories of
the early modern period, broadly speaking? This book provides a
wide range of approaches to this challenge, covering histories of
cognition, studies of early modern stage practices, textual
studies, and historical phenomenology, as well as new cultural
histories by some of the key proponents of this approach at the
present time. Because of the breadth of material covered, full
weight is given to issues that are hotly debated at the present
time within Shakespeare Studies: presentist scholarship is
presented alongside more historically-focused studies, for example,
and phenomenological studies of material culture are included along
with close readings of texts. What the contributors have in common
is a refusal to read the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries
either psychologically or materially; instead, these essays address
a willingness to study early modern phenomena (like the Elizabethan
stage) as manifesting an early modern belief in the embodiment of
cognition.
First published in 1990. This edited work brings together a
collection of studies, by an international team of contributors, on
inter-urban migration, which is largely dominated by labour
migration. The structure of the book reflects the interaction of
the supply and demand of labour and the information flows that make
this possible. The book offers a multi-dimensional analysis of
labour migration, including behavioural, economic and institutional
approaches. It combines various scales of analysis, including the
national scale, the occupational scale and the household scale. The
study also examines labour migration in a variety of national
contexts. It will be of particular value to professional
geographers, economists and sociologists with an interest in the
distribution of population and the labour force, planners with
responsibility for the development of policy and some final year
graduate students.
Ernie Johnson Jr. has been in the game a long time. With one of the
most recognized voices in sports broadcasting, he is a tireless
perfectionist when it comes to preparing and delivering his
commentary. Yet he knows that some of sports' greatest
triumphs--and life's greatest rewards--come from those unscripted
moments you never anticipated. In this heartfelt, gripping
autobiography, the three-time Sports Emmy Award-winner and popular
host of TNT's Inside the NBA provides a remarkably candid look at
his life both on and off the screen. From his relationship with his
sportscaster father to his own rise to the top of sports
broadcasting, from battling cancer to raising six children with his
wife, Cheryl, including a special needs child adopted from Romania,
Ernie has taken the important lessons he learned from his father
and passed them on to his own children. This is the untold story,
the one Ernie has lived after the lights are turned off and the
cameras stop rolling. Sports fans, cancer survivors, fathers and
sons, adoptive parents, those whose lives have been touched by a
person with special needs, anyone who loves stories about handling
life's surprises with grace--Unscripted is for all of these.
First published in 1990. This edited work brings together a
collection of studies, by an international team of contributors, on
inter-urban migration, which is largely dominated by labour
migration. The structure of the book reflects the interaction of
the supply and demand of labour and the information flows that make
this possible. The book offers a multi-dimensional analysis of
labour migration, including behavioural, economic and institutional
approaches. It combines various scales of analysis, including the
national scale, the occupational scale and the household scale. The
study also examines labour migration in a variety of national
contexts. It will be of particular value to professional
geographers, economists and sociologists with an interest in the
distribution of population and the labour force, planners with
responsibility for the development of policy and some final year
graduate students.
Earl S. Johnson has dedicated his life to enriching the lives of
his students, to enhancing global humanism, to perfecting democracy
as both government and way of life, and to improving civic
education. As a person and an educator he has promoted the moral
life in the moral community. This collection of Professor Johnson's
work-reflections on humanism, democracy, and general and social
science education-offers insights that will be valuable not only to
educators but also to anyone concerned with the qualities of
citizenship in a free society.
This volume brings together the work of 32 scholars from 13
countries -- investigations of children learning 15 different
languages, in some instances more than one at a time. The scope of
this work -- as broad as it is -- only partially represents the
research interests and approaches of the more than 350 scholars
from 34 countries who contributed papers or posters to the Sixth
International Congress for the Study of Child Language. This
investigative power and diversity are, for the most part, focused
on topics and issues of modern day child language research that
have been under discussion for the last 30 years or so. Some even
go beyond that in early diary studies and philosophers'
speculations. While the issues are mainly familiar ones, the 17
chapters contribute to the advancement of child language study in
several specific ways. They: * represent current theoretical
frameworks, both bringing the insights of the theories to the
interpretation of language development and testing tenets or
implications of the theories with child language data; * contribute
substantively to the crosslinguistic study of child language,
reflecting both the linguistic diversity of the authors themselves
and a recent major shift in the approach to child language study; *
build on the now considerable body of knowledge about children's
language, both adding to information about the basic systems of
phonology, syntax, and semantics, and extending beyond to explore
aspects of narrative and literacy development, language acquisition
by bilingual and atypical children, and language processing; and *
contain hints of new directions in child language study, such as
increased attention to the impact of phonology on other language
systems. Taken as a whole, this volume reflects the current
strength of crosslinguistic research, the application and testing
of new theoretical developments, a new legitimacy of language
disorder data, and a new appeal to the descriptive possibilities of
language processing models. In addition, there is a theme that runs
through many of the chapters and points the way for important
research in the future: the role of prosody in the acquisition of
various language structures and systems.
Materiel culture encompasses the material remains of conflict, from
buildings and monuments to artefacts and militia, as well as human
remains. This collection of essays, from an international range of
contributors, illustrates the diversity in this material record,
highlights the difficulties and challenges in preserving,
presenting and interpreting it, and above all demonstrates the
significant role materiel culture can play in contemporary society.
Among the many studies are: * the 'culture of shells' * the
archaeology of nuclear testing grounds * Cambodia's 'killing
fields' * the Berlin Wall * and the biography of a medal *the
reappearance of Argentina's 'disappeared' *World War II
concentration camps.
This is an essential reference for describing, measuring and
classifying the foliage of flowering plants. The presented system
provides long-needed guidelines for characterizing the
organization, shape, venation, and surface features of angiosperm
leaves. In contrast to systems focusing on reproductive characters
for identification, the emphasis is on macroscopic features of the
leaf blade including leaf characters, venation, and tooth
characters. The advantage of this system is that it allows for the
classification of plants independently of their flowers, which is
especially useful for fossil leaves (usually found in isolation)
and tropical plants (whose flowering cycles are brief and
irregular, and whose fruits and flowers may be difficult to
access). An illustrated terminology including detailed definitions
and annotated illustrations is the focus of the classification
system, the aim of which is to provide a framework with comparative
examples to allow both modern and fossil leaves to be described and
classified consistently.
Earl S. Johnson has dedicated his life to enriching the lives of
his students, to enhancing global humanism, to perfecting democracy
as both government and way of life, and to improving civic
education. As a person and an educator he has promoted the moral
life in the moral community. This collection of Professor Johnson's
work-reflections on humanism, democracy, and general and social
science education-offers insights that will be valuable not only to
educators but also to anyone concerned with the qualities of
citizenship in a free society.
- Capturing a wealth of experience about the design of object-oriented software, four top-notch designers present a catalog of simple and succinct solutions to commonly occurring design problems. Previously undocumented, these 23 patterns allow designers to create more flexible, elegant, and ultimately reusable designs without having to rediscover the design solutions themselves.
- The authors begin by describing what patterns are and how they can help you design object-oriented software. They then go on to systematically name, explain, evaluate, and catalog recurring designs in object-oriented systems. With Design Patterns as your guide, you will learn how these important patterns fit into the software development process, and how you can leverage them to solve your own design problems most efficiently.
This volume brings together the work of 32 scholars from 13
countries -- investigations of children learning 15 different
languages, in some instances more than one at a time. The scope of
this work -- as broad as it is -- only partially represents the
research interests and approaches of the more than 350 scholars
from 34 countries who contributed papers or posters to the Sixth
International Congress for the Study of Child Language. This
investigative power and diversity are, for the most part, focused
on topics and issues of modern day child language research that
have been under discussion for the last 30 years or so. Some even
go beyond that in early diary studies and philosophers'
speculations.
While the issues are mainly familiar ones, the 17 chapters
contribute to the advancement of child language study in several
specific ways. They:
* represent current theoretical frameworks, both bringing the
insights of the theories to the interpretation of language
development and testing tenets or implications of the theories with
child language data;
* contribute substantively to the crosslinguistic study of child
language, reflecting both the linguistic diversity of the authors
themselves and a recent major shift in the approach to child
language study;
* build on the now considerable body of knowledge about children's
language, both adding to information about the basic systems of
phonology, syntax, and semantics, and extending beyond to explore
aspects of narrative and literacy development, language acquisition
by bilingual and atypical children, and language processing;
and
* contain hints of new directions in child language study, such as
increased attention to the impact of phonology on other language
systems.
Taken as a whole, this volume reflects the current strength of
crosslinguistic research, the application and testing of new
theoretical developments, a new legitimacy of language disorder
data, and a new appeal to the descriptive possibilities of language
processing models. In addition, there is a theme that runs through
many of the chapters and points the way for important research in
the future: the role of prosody in the acquisition of various
language structures and systems.
Impressionism took its name from the title of a painting that
Claude Monet (1840-1926) exhibited in 1874. More than any other
artist, Monet was the creator of the Impressionist vision, which
has so forcefully shaped the way in which he habitually see nature
today. For sixty years he continuously explored ways of translating
his experiences into paint, in pictures that take us from the
bustling life of Paris in the 1860s to the seclusion of his own
water-garden, which he painted in his last years. John House's
introduction to Monet's life and work presents a sequence of
dazzling illustrations that chart the artist's progress as he
became increasingly preoccupied with colour and atmospheric effect,
and the direct studies of nature gave way to paintings of greater
richness and harmony, in which the play of varied colours replaced
the conventional drawing and modelling of forms.
This collection considers issues that have emerged in Early Modern
Studies in the past fifteen years relating to understandings of
mind and body in Shakespeare's world. Informed by The Body in
Parts, the essays in this book respond also to the notion of an
early modern 'body-mind' in which Shakespeare and his
contemporaries are understood in terms of bodily parts and
cognitive processes. What might the impact of such understandings
be on our picture of Shakespeare's theatre or on our histories of
the early modern period, broadly speaking? This book provides a
wide range of approaches to this challenge, covering histories of
cognition, studies of early modern stage practices, textual
studies, and historical phenomenology, as well as new cultural
histories by some of the key proponents of this approach at the
present time. Because of the breadth of material covered, full
weight is given to issues that are hotly debated at the present
time within Shakespeare Studies: presentist scholarship is
presented alongside more historically-focused studies, for example,
and phenomenological studies of material culture are included along
with close readings of texts. What the contributors have in common
is a refusal to read the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries
either psychologically or materially; instead, these essays address
a willingness to study early modern phenomena (like the Elizabethan
stage) as manifesting an early modern belief in the embodiment of
cognition.
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The Civil War and the Summer of 2020
Hilary Green, Andrew L Slap; Foreword by Andre E. Johnson; Contributions by John Bardes, Karen Cook Bell, …
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R2,129
Discovery Miles 21 290
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Investigates how Americans have remembered violence and resistance
since the Civil War, including Confederate monuments, historical
markers, college classrooms, and history books. George Floyd’s
murder in the summer of 2020 sparked a national reckoning for the
United States that had been 400 years in the making. Millions of
Americans took to the streets to protest both the murder and the
centuries of systemic racism that already existed among European
colonists but transformed with the arrival of the first enslaved
African Americans in 1619. The violence needed to enforce that
systemic racism for all those years, from the slave driver’s whip
to state-sponsored police brutality, attracted the immediate
attention of the protesters. The resistance of the protesters
echoed generations of African Americans’ resisting the violence
and oppression of white supremacy. Their opposition to violence
soon spread to other aspects of systemic racism, including a
cultural hegemony built on and reinforcing white supremacy. At the
heart of this white supremacist culture is the memory of the Civil
War era, when in 1861 8 million white Americans revolted against
their country to try to safeguard the enslavement of 4 million
African Americans. The volume has three interconnected sections
that build on one another. The first section, “Violence,”
explores systemic racism in the Civil War era and now with essays
on slavery, policing, and slave patrols. The second section, titled
“Resistance,” shows how African Americans resisted violence for
the past two centuries, with essays discussing matters including
self-emancipation and African American soldiers. The final section,
“Memory,” investigates how Americans have remembered this
violence and resistance since the Civil War, including Confederate
monuments and historical markers. This volume is intended for
nonhistorians interested in showing the intertwined and
longstanding connections between systemic racism, violence,
resistance, and the memory of the Civil War era in the United
States that finally exploded in the summer of 2020.
Understanding the fundamentals of conducting good science, that
will have an impact, is the goal of every aspiring scientist.
Providing a wealth of tips, How to be a Better Scientist is the
book to read if you want to succeed in this competitive field.
Helping readers gain an insight into what good science means and
how to conduct it, this book is ideal to read cover-to-cover or dip
into. It includes easily accessible guidance on topics such as: *
What characteristics should a scientist have? * Understanding the
hypothesis * Integrity in science * Lack of confidence and the
embarrassment factor * Time management * Coping with rejection *
Interacting with the science community With its broad focus, this
friendly guide will enthuse, inspire and challenge, and is an
essential companion for all aspiring scientists.
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book
investigates what international placements of healthcare employees
in low resource settings add to the UK workforce and the efficacy
of its national health system. The authors present empirical data
collected from a volunteer deployment project in Uganda focused on
reducing maternal and new-born mortality and discuss the learning
and experiential outcomes for UK health care professionals acting
as long term volunteers in low resource settings. They also develop
a model for structured placement that offers optimal learning and
experiential outcomes and minimizes risk, while shedding new light
on the role that international placements play as part of
continuing professional development both in the UK and in other
sending countries.
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book
investigates what international placements of healthcare employees
in low resource settings add to the UK workforce and the efficacy
of its national health system. The authors present empirical data
collected from a volunteer deployment project in Uganda focused on
reducing maternal and new-born mortality and discuss the learning
and experiential outcomes for UK health care professionals acting
as long term volunteers in low resource settings. They also develop
a model for structured placement that offers optimal learning and
experiential outcomes and minimizes risk, while shedding new light
on the role that international placements play as part of
continuing professional development both in the UK and in other
sending countries.
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