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5 Days of War (DVD)
Rupert Friend, Val Kilmer, Andy Garcia, Dean Cain, Emmanuelle Chriqui, …
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War drama from director Renny Harlin which follows two journalists
striving to uncover the truth about the Russian-Georgian war in
2008. Thomas Anders (Rupert Friend), a reporter from the USA, and
his cameraman Chris Bailot (Dean Cain) become immersed in finding
out what is really behind the fighting in South Ossetia. After
being caught in the crossfire and witnessing executions in a small
Georgian village, it becomes a race against time for the
journalists to broadcast these horrific crimes to the watching
world. Andy Garcia and Val Kilmer also star.
"Reproducible, ready-to-use forms are accompanied by step-by-step
descriptions of the process involved in over twenty common legal
issues. ... Well designed and easy to use." --American Libraries
Legal Forms for Everyone is the ultimate self-help legal guide to
saving research time and money in legal fees. Written by an
experienced attorney, this book is complete with the most commonly
needed, ready-to-use legal forms, along with precise instructions
and checklists on how and when to use them--and advice for when you
should hire an attorney. In addition, the forms are also made
available to download from a supplemental website to aid in
customizing each form for your individual needs. Legal situations
covered include preparing a will, avoiding probate, buying and
selling real estate, handling divorce or formal separation, getting
a new name, copyrights and trademarks, bankruptcy, and much more.
Due to the ever-evolving legal system and technological
developments, this seventh edition features new sections covering
the following topics: How to protect against credit fraud, identity
theft, and internet fraud How to navigate new electronic filing
systems for copyrights, trademarks, and patents Updated information
in filing fees, exemptions, and forms for filing for bankruptcy The
latest information on filing for patents Legal Forms for Everyone
is a comprehensive tool for assistance with legal situations
without having to pay for a costly attorney.
In this book, Stefan Battle weaves together autoethnographic
narrative and ethnographic performance material from his own life
and those of four other Black men, to show the untold impact of
racial trauma on these everyday lives. By engaging readers with
these experiences, stories and pain, the book aims to help to stop
racial trauma and heal the race-based grief of the many Black men
who need to speak out against racial injustice United States.
Battle organizes the book as a performative account of a one-day
workshop that he might teach to college students or other adults.
He uses individual activities including an interview with a White
woman regarding her relationship to race and racism, a staged
reading in which five Black men share their stories, an audience
discussion about race and racism, and Battle’s performative talk,
sharing the author’s desire for people of all races, to
self-reflect and then talk among themselves about race and racism.
Battle’s powerful book reveals that each Black man’s unique
story is important and that understanding something of a person’s
hidden context for processing the traumas of racism can lead to new
understanding and healing. To this end, Battle examines issues such
as Black men's mental health, and the wider societal systemic
racism in the US that provokes tension and harm to the racial
victimization of Black men. Suitable for students and scholars of
qualitative research and autoethnography in the Social Sciences,
Communication Studies, Education, Social Work, and Africana or
Black Studies, this book will also be of interest to anyone seeking
to better understand and engage with the Black male experience in
the US.
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Waller vs. Wildstorm
Spencer Ackerman, Evan Narcisse; Illustrated by Tom Raney, Eric Battle
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In the early 1980s, as the Cold War stubbornly refuses to thaw, a
new battle heats up…for the soul of the intelligence agency
Checkmate. As the agency’s super-heroic public face, Jackson
King—a.k.a. the armored Battalion, former leader of Stormwatch
and the symbol of American might—has long suspected that Adeline
Kane is up to dirty tricks overseas, engineering horrors that
betray everything he believes about service to one’s
country. But King doesn’t know that Kane has a clever new
ally—an ambitious young woman named Amanda Waller. She has her
own ideas about how metahumans can serve their country. And honor,
dignity, and long lives don’t factor into them…Â
National-security reporter Spencer Ackerman, comics and video
game writer Evan Narcisse, and a variety of top artists
celebrate WildStorm’s legacy of espionage-flavored superhero
morality plays, pitting Stormwatch against the deadliest people in
the DCU—including Deathstroke himself! Collects Waller vs.
Wildstorm #1-4.
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Obsession (Hardcover)
Stuart Woods, Brett Battles
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R807
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In this book, Stefan Battle weaves together autoethnographic
narrative and ethnographic performance material from his own life
and those of four other Black men, to show the untold impact of
racial trauma on these everyday lives. By engaging readers with
these experiences, stories and pain, the book aims to help to stop
racial trauma and heal the race-based grief of the many Black men
who need to speak out against racial injustice United States.
Battle organizes the book as a performative account of a one-day
workshop that he might teach to college students or other adults.
He uses individual activities including an interview with a White
woman regarding her relationship to race and racism, a staged
reading in which five Black men share their stories, an audience
discussion about race and racism, and Battle’s performative talk,
sharing the author’s desire for people of all races, to
self-reflect and then talk among themselves about race and racism.
Battle’s powerful book reveals that each Black man’s unique
story is important and that understanding something of a person’s
hidden context for processing the traumas of racism can lead to new
understanding and healing. To this end, Battle examines issues such
as Black men's mental health, and the wider societal systemic
racism in the US that provokes tension and harm to the racial
victimization of Black men. Suitable for students and scholars of
qualitative research and autoethnography in the Social Sciences,
Communication Studies, Education, Social Work, and Africana or
Black Studies, this book will also be of interest to anyone seeking
to better understand and engage with the Black male experience in
the US.
Black Girlhood, Punishment, and Resistance: Reimagining Justice for
Black Girls in Virginia provides a historical comprehensive
examination of racialized, classed, and gendered punishment of
Black girls in Virginia during the early twentieth century. It
looks at the ways in which the court system punished Black girls
based upon societal accepted norms of punishment, hinged on a
notion that they were to be viewed and treated as adults within the
criminal legal system. Further, the book explores the role of Black
Club women and girls as agents of resistance against injustice by
shaping a social justice framework and praxis for Black girls and
by examining the establishment of the Virginia Industrial School
for Colored Girls. This school was established by the Virginia
State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs and its first President,
Janie Porter Barrett. This book advances contemporary
criminological understanding of punishment by locating the
historical origins of an environment normalizing unequal justice.
It draws from a specific focus on Janie Porter Barrett and the
Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls; a groundbreaking
court case of the first female to be executed in Virginia;
historical newspapers; and Black Women's Club archives to highlight
the complexities of Black girls' experiences within the criminal
justice system and spaces created to promote social justice for
these girls. The historical approach unearths the justice system's
role in crafting the pervasive devaluation of Black girlhood
through racialized, gendered, and economic-based punishment.
Second, it offers insight into the ways in which, historically,
Black women have contributed to what the book conceptualizes as
"resistance criminology," offering policy implications for
transformative social and legal justice for Black girls and girls
of color impacted by violence and punishment. Finally, it offers a
lens to explore Black girl resistance strategies, through the lens
of the Black Girlhood Justice framework. Black Girlhood,
Punishment, and Resistance uses a historical intersectionality
framework to provide a comprehensive overview of cultural,
socioeconomic, and legal infrastructures as they relate to the
punishment of Black girls. The research illustrates how the
presumption of guilt of Black people shaped the ways that
punishment and the creation of deviant Black female identities were
legally sanctioned. It is essential reading for academics and
students researching and studying crime, criminal justice,
theoretical criminology, women's studies, Black girlhood studies,
history, gender, race, and socioeconomic class. It is also intended
for social justice organizations, community leaders, and activists
engaged in promoting social and legal justice for the youth.
A?certified clinical sexologist's?radically inclusive?guide to sex
and dating Swipe. Match. Get ghosted. Repeat. Modern dating can
quickly start to feel like an overwhelming slog. It's easy to
forget the point of it all: this is supposed to be fun. Enter
professional sex and dating coach Myisha Battle. Drawing on an
engaging and diverse collection of client stories, This Is Supposed
to Be Fun is a uniquely inclusive, sex-positive guide to help you
skip past the games and get what you really want out of dating and
relationships-no matter what that may be. Whether you're trying to
create the perfectly imperfect dating profile, stay true to your
authentic self on dates, match with people interested in kink, or
break up with compassion, Battle's friendly, proven advice is
indispensable. This Is Supposed to Be Fun will help make the world
of dating and relationships more enjoyable (and bearable!) for
everyone.
This book explores how the cultural distinctions and conflicts
between Anglo-Saxons and Normans originating with the Norman
Conquest of 1066 prevailed well into the fourteenth century and are
manifest in a significant number of Middle English romances
including King Horn, Havelok the Dane, Sir Orfeo, Sir Gawain and
the Green Knight, and others. Specifically, the study looks at how
the material culture of these poems (architecture, battle tactic,
landscapes) systematically and persistently distinguishes between
Norman and Anglo-Saxon cultural identity. Additionally, it examines
the influence of the English Outlaw Tradition, itself grounded in
Anglo-Saxon resistance to the Norman Conquest, as expressed in
specific recurring scenes (disguise and infiltration, forest exile)
found in many Middle English romances. In the broadest sense, a
significant number of Middle English romances, including some of
the most well-read and often-taught, set up a dichotomy of two
ruling houses headed by a powerful lord, who compete for power and
influence. This book examines the cultural heritage behind each of
these pairings to show how poets repeatedly contrast essentially
Norman and Anglo-Saxon values and ruling styles.
This book explores how the cultural distinctions and conflicts
between Anglo-Saxons and Normans originating with the Norman
Conquest of 1066 prevailed well into the fourteenth century and are
manifest in a significant number of Middle English romances
including "King Horn," "Havelok the Dane," "Sir Orfeo," "Sir Gawain
and the Green Knight," and others. Specifically, the study looks at
how the material culture of these poems (architecture, battle
tactic, landscapes) systematically and persistently distinguishes
between Norman and Anglo-Saxon cultural identity. Additionally, it
examines the influence of the English Outlaw Tradition, itself
grounded in Anglo-Saxon resistance to the Norman Conquest, as
expressed in specific recurring scenes (disguise and infiltration,
forest exile) found in many Middle English romances. In the
broadest sense, a significant number of Middle English romances,
including some of the most well-read and often-taught, set up a
dichotomy of two ruling houses headed by a powerful lord, who
compete for power and influence. This book examines the cultural
heritage behind each of these pairings to show how poets repeatedly
contrast essentially Norman and Anglo-Saxon values and ruling
styles.
W.E.B. Du Bois said that "the problem of the twentieth century is
the problem of the color-line." It has been one hundred years since
Du Bois made that prescient statement, which naturally leads to the
question: "What is the problem of the twenty-first century?"
In this anthology, the authors address a wide range of topics:
race, gender, class, sexual orientation, globalism, migration,
health, politics, culture, and urban issues--from a diversity of
disciplinary perspectives. Paul Attewell, David Lavin, Thurston
Domina, and Tania Levey examine the black middle class at the turn
of the millennium. Todd C. Shaw considers how race shapes
patriotism in the wake of the September 11 attacks. Robert A. Brown
focuses on the growing chasm between blacks and whites with regard
to views of government's obligation to address citizens' basic
needs. H. Alexander Welcome details instances where white scholars
have improperly analyzed black experiences. Antonio Pastrana
revisits Du Bois's theories about the problems facing blacks. Joy
James shows that the United States possesses the means and wealth
to record and preserve (or censor) its slave/penal discourse as
part of its vast warehouse of (neo)slave narratives.
Ajuan Maria Mance hypothesizes that African-American literature
will become less consumed with exploration and documentation of
interracial differences, and more concerned with the relationships
within ethnic groups. Rosamond S. King explores literary
embodiments of the increasing prevalence of interracial
relationships. Anthony J. Lemelle and BarBara Scott present a
comparative historical policy analysis of the HIV/AIDS experience
among African Americans. Sandra Barnes examines sociological
promises and problems of the contemporary black church. Juan Battle
and Natalie Bennett scrutinize the experiences of African American
gays and lesbians in the context of the larger community. Verna
Keith and Diane Brown assess the state of African American health
in the context of social group structures. Michael Bennett looks at
the problems and opportunities facing black Americans from the
perspective of urban studies.
Juan Battle is professor of sociology at Hunter College and the
City University of New York Graduate Center. Michael Bennett is
professor of English at Long Island University, Brooklyn. Anthony
Lemelle is professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee and the editor of the Journal of African American
Studies, published by Transaction.
Series Information: Studies in Medieval History and Culture: Outstanding Dissertations
Become a more effective social worker with this outstanding volume
on inner-city urban youth African-American Adolescents in the Urban
Community: Social Services Policy and Practice Interventions
examines contemporary issues confronting African-American youth. It
highlights key areas such as health, education, the criminal
justice system, and youth development strategies. An essential
overview of the status of urban African-American youth for
students, professionals working with this important population, and
policymakers, this vital book proposes policy and programming
considerations for today and for the future. African-American
Adolescents in the Urban Community is a one-stop view of: ways to
help African-American youth experience responsibility and community
involvement health concerns of this population, including teen
pregnancy, alcohol and drug addiction, and limited access to health
care the challenges that lie ahead for African-American girls,
including crime, poverty, poor self-esteem, and peer pressure ways
to help teenage fathers meet their financial and emotional
obligations to their families police and prosecutorial policies
that need to be examined and challenged to end the perception of a
racially unjust system and much more
Brimming over with over 150 full-page, luscious photographs of
superb jewelry, this is a treasure chest of bakelite, celluliod and
lucite. Several of today's leading bakelite collectors lent their
finest pieces of this book. Layered, carved molded, translucent,
painted and imbedded jewelry styles are displayed in profusion. The
captions include the values guide. From common to exceedingly rare,
this book presents excitement and the best plastic jewelry to be
found.
Help all students reach their full potential. Make the right
decisions! This unique book offers practical tools and strategies
to help you become a strong advocate for every student in your
school. With real world examples and situations, this book will
help you: * Acquire skills to change your students' lives for the
better -- and also reach district goals. * Learn how to advocate
for students even if it conflicts with district policy. * Discover
how to transform your staff so they will also serve as student
advocates. * Strengthen connections with parents to engage them
with their child's education. Also included is how to be an
advocate for special needs students. The book opens with a private
self-assessment to help you discover where you are on the continuum
of student advocacy. It then leads you through the steps to develop
the traits of a skilled advocate for students. There are
application exercises and numerous examples of what works.
Supported by research references in every chapter, the book details
a rich variety of interventions you and your staff can use on a
daily basis. It focuses on curricular as well as co-curricular
programs including subject-matter offerings, the fine arts,
athletics, technical programs, clubs, recreational activities, and
other programs. As the principal, it is your advocacy that will
make a powerful, lifelong difference for all the students in your
school. Also available - PowerPoint slides for in-service
professional development or for principals who wish to discuss this
topic with their staff.
Sexual Identities and the Media encourages students to examine
media as a site of negotiation for how people make sense of their
own and others' sexual identities. Taking a critical/cultural
approach, Wendy Hilton-Morrow and Kathleen Battles weave together
theory, synthesis of existing research, and original analysis of
contemporary media examples in order to explore key areas of
debate, including: an historical context for contemporary GLBTQ
representations; the advantages and limitations of media
visibility, including a discussion of the strengths and limitations
of stereotype research and the quest for "positive"
representations; the role of consumer culture in constructing GLBTQ
identities; strategies of mainstream media resistance by GLBTQ
community members, including oppositional/queer reading strategies
and the production of media products by and for the GLBTQ
community; the complexities of comedy as a popular narrative device
in GLBTQ portrayals; the closet as a structuring metaphor in both
GLBTQ identities and engagement with media; media representations
of GLBTQ bodies as sites of non-normative desires and gender
identities. Featuring an enormous range of discussion questions and
case studies-from celebrity coming-out narratives, transgender
models, and slash fiction writers to Glee and Modern Family-this
textbook offers a timely, informative, and demystifying
introduction to this vital intersection in contemporary culture.
Sexual Identities and the Media encourages students to examine
media as a site of negotiation for how people make sense of their
own and others' sexual identities. Taking a critical/cultural
approach, Wendy Hilton-Morrow and Kathleen Battles weave together
theory, synthesis of existing research, and original analysis of
contemporary media examples in order to explore key areas of
debate, including: an historical context for contemporary GLBTQ
representations; the advantages and limitations of media
visibility, including a discussion of the strengths and limitations
of stereotype research and the quest for "positive"
representations; the role of consumer culture in constructing GLBTQ
identities; strategies of mainstream media resistance by GLBTQ
community members, including oppositional/queer reading strategies
and the production of media products by and for the GLBTQ
community; the complexities of comedy as a popular narrative device
in GLBTQ portrayals; the closet as a structuring metaphor in both
GLBTQ identities and engagement with media; media representations
of GLBTQ bodies as sites of non-normative desires and gender
identities. Featuring an enormous range of discussion questions and
case studies-from celebrity coming-out narratives, transgender
models, and slash fiction writers to Glee and Modern Family-this
textbook offers a timely, informative, and demystifying
introduction to this vital intersection in contemporary culture.
Writing makes history possible, as it aims to sew together a
continuous record of the past. Yet its own history is elusive. Born
of the capacities for attention and invention bequeathed to us by
evolution, it has continually revised and expanded human
consciousness, our sense of self and of others. Writing s origins
are framed in mythology as a gift from heroes or a curse from the
gods. It has been used as an instrument of power and as a channel
of the divine, as a means of social bonding and of individual
self-definition. Now, as the revolution once wrought by the printed
word gives way to an e-revolution, many fear that the art of
writing and the nuanced thinking nurtured by writing are under
threat. But writing itself, despite striving for durability, is
always in the midst of growth and transfiguration. Change is the
destination our letters ever are reaching."
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