The complete first season of the US cop show set in inner city Los Angeles. In the pilot episode Wagenbach and Wyms are on the trail of a kidnapped girl. 'Our Gang' has Internal Affairs look into the death of Detective Cowley. 'The Spread' sees the detectives uncover a gun-smuggling operation. 'Dawg Days' finds Mackey playing the mediator in a hip-hop feud. In 'Blowback' the team have the tables turned on them in a drug bust. 'Cherrypoppers' has the detectives clamp down on underage prostitution in the area. 'Pay in Pain' finds Dutch and Wyms on the trail of a serial killer. 'Cupid and Psycho' sees the team's operations put on hold when allegations against them make front-page news. 'Throwaway' has relations between Lowe and Sofer grow even more troubled. 'Dragonchasers' finds Connie going cold turkey with Mackey's help. 'Carnivores' sees the team attempt to cool things down when relations between Rondell Robinson and the Nation of Islam get heated. 'Two Days of Blood' has Vendrell and Lemansky pursue a suspect through the cockfighting underworld. And finally, in 'Circles', in the aftermath of a riot, local cops start falling victim to a series of planned attacks.

He's a SOUTHRIDGE SPARTAN from GOULDS, FLORIDA. And proud of it Could this quite possibly be the last The King of Erotica novel ever...? FATE WILLIAMS was abused by her own flesh and blood mother over the years. After poisoning her mother's drink, she has to plan her mother's funeral. But someone won't let her forget...Ex-prostitute, PRINCESS WEBSTER'S stomach sticks out further than her Booty-Do...because she's pregnant But her best friend, Georgia, knows she slept with her husband. Does the baby belong to Ed? Or Thomas? FRANCINE, FRANCINE, FRANCINE strikes She was betrayed in Book 1. She makes a pivotal choice when she calls a cab in a wedding dress to rush home to marry the man who has her best friend Chandra hooked on drugs and pregnant. WILL THIS BE THE LAST THE KING OF EROTICA EVER...? FROM THE AUTHOR: I have three personalities when I write. A). I'm Dapharoah69, the author, who edits his words for clarity. B). I'm The King of Erotica...the part of me that doesn't care what nobody has to say; the blunt part of me that tells it lock, stock and barrel. C). I'm Larry Wilson, the sensitive, caring man who loves, hurts and has flaws in his own life. I'm all 3 when I write books, period. FROM THE PUBLISHER: Words can't describe the phenomenal success of The King of Erotica Series. His books have been the subject in over 400 Book Clubs worldwide. His books were featured in New York Times Bestselling author E. Lynn Harris Literary Cafe during the 2009 Memorial Day Weekend. He has a book, Some Men Wear Panties, coming out with New York Times Bestselling author J.L. King. He has a hot new publicist, Fran Briggs. He is one of Meak Productions Official Faces of 2009, a talent agency owned by Miko Evans, Atlanta. He has over 175 (5) Star Reviews on Barnes and Noble.com and counting. His books were all Barnes and Noble.com Top 105 Bestsellers at the same time. He was the ONLY self-published author to achieve the feat. With The King of Erotica 4, Dapharoah69 has received over 200 Book Club requests and is poised to take his series even higher with one of the most anticipated books of the year. From being brutally raped as a child...to making mistakes in his teens...from being a stripper at age 19, to battling the downside of the United States Army; from losing his childhood best friend to gun violence in Portland, Oregon in 1997, to allegations of child abuse suspiciously set against him when he started cooperating a little too much with the police in finding the killer; from doing his prison term without complaint, to being selected as an extra in the Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton blockbuster movie Bandits (while incarcerated); from being published before he was released; to being a porn star for five days when he was 28 to raise money to do his books his way; from successfully completing parole in 2005, to being diagnosed with HIV when he turned 31 years old in 2008; from becoming a spokesman for the disease (using his Face Book status box to inspire thousands with his testimony) and speaking with troubled youth about his life, his choices and his redemption, to using ALL his failures and successes to bluntly carve The King of Erotica books (books that speak the brutal truth about everyday people you know; books with a theme and a message that has helped thousands around the world) Larry C. Wilson, Jr. is a shining example of sticking to your wits, your guns and brushing the dirt off your shoulders and walking into success. He has become a role model, and thousands upon thousands of people around the world applauds the man from Goulds, Florida who has carved a legacy from his painful past. Who is Larry Wilson, Jr? CEO, accountant, model, book format artist, typist, marketing director, outreach coordinator, fashion trend setter, HIV activist: SUPERSTAR.

How many times have you been told you "should" do some particular thing in your walk with Christ? But has anyone ever taken the time to show you how? We often feel guilty when people tell us we should be walking closer with Jesus, because we simply don't know what that looks like in a real and practical sense. In this book, you'll find twelve practical lessons that cover what many consider to be the basics of truly following after Christ. Rather than beat you over the head, this work will actually show you the all-important steps it takes to get closer to God and reveal the even more important reason that sits behind it all. Whether you've been following Christ all your life or you're just taking your first steps, Here's How will show you the path to true discipleship.

Collins CAPE Revision Guides focus on the content and skills students need to master for success in CAPE examinations. They cover all aspects of the syllabus and provide excellent help with exam preparation. Collins CAPE Revision Guide - COMMUNICATION STUDIES is an essential title for all students sitting the CAPE COMMUNICATION STUDIES exam. With clear and accessible information, practice questions, and exam tips throughout, this is an invaluable resource to help students prepare for the exam. The revision guide gives advice and guidance on techniques for the Paper 1 multiple choice questions, Paper 2, and the school-based-assessment. It also gives clear and comprehensive coverage of each module of the syllabus. Accompanying audio files are available online for listening and comprehension practice.

This book presents a collective mediation on writing, methods, violences, and un/becomings in global politics. It combines narratives, fictional stories, academic discussions, passionate unwindings, imagined futures, and more. The editor's intention is to offer a theoretically creative work which engages extensively with the visual and affective to un-discipline knowledge and modes of expression. The book’s point of departure is a conventional academic conference and its peculiar academic concerns (which many readers will only be too familiar with), using this to open up to broader and deeper concerns about everyday-level decisions, realities, and perspectives that feed into and make global politics. It is a polyvocal text that collects traces of thinking, learning, conversing, embodying and ‘finding out’, in an attempt to make visible some of the avalanches of discarded knowing practices. In this sense, this book is a methods book as much as a political/theoretical text that demands we (better) understand or know the worlds we enter, inhabit, to make it quiver otherwise.

This work assembles a group of international scholars to address issues on marriage and the state, motivations to marry, partner selections, marriage ceremonies, religion, kinship ties and marriage, sexual interaction and marriage, and divorce.

We have to give up our rights to make it right. We have a second chance to make it right. Let us not dwell on the fact that we have had problems, they were not stumbling blocks but actually steppingstones. Reading "Daddy, when I grow up will my vote count?" will allow you to put some issues behind you, and to reach that level, that you have been striving for. So that you can leave a mark that cannot be erased.

This book presents a collective mediation on writing, methods, violences, and un/becomings in global politics. It combines narratives, fictional stories, academic discussions, passionate unwindings, imagined futures, and more. The editor's intention is to offer a theoretically creative work which engages extensively with the visual and affective to un-discipline knowledge and modes of expression. The book’s point of departure is a conventional academic conference and its peculiar academic concerns (which many readers will only be too familiar with), using this to open up to broader and deeper concerns about everyday-level decisions, realities, and perspectives that feed into and make global politics. It is a polyvocal text that collects traces of thinking, learning, conversing, embodying and ‘finding out’, in an attempt to make visible some of the avalanches of discarded knowing practices. In this sense, this book is a methods book as much as a political/theoretical text that demands we (better) understand or know the worlds we enter, inhabit, to make it quiver otherwise.

Grief is like ocean waves, hitting hard against the sand and receding, only to return. Waves of emotion crash, and people say, "I don't know what to say or do to help." This book is for them. It's for you. We all have either lost someone or tried to comfort the bereaved and felt helpless. Every page gives a fresh idea for comforting during the hardest time in someone's life-perhaps your own. Luann Lee Brown worked as an occupational therapist for twenty years, mostly in psychiatry, helping depressed people in crisis. She volunteered at a local police department helping give death notifications or supporting a family and friends when a loved one committed suicide, as well as other roles during horrific times. This book includes a section on helping those left behind after suicide or murder and sections on how to help children in the throes of grief. May the waves of grief soften and become less treacherous. May the sun shine and sparkle on the ocean of your or your loved ones' lives. May you feel the joy of serving another while you heal from your near drowning in an ocean of your own loss.

The first comprehensive study of the music of Frederick Delius (1862-1934), from his earliest pieces up to his final compositions, with background information and a complete list of works. There are many biographies and articles about Frederick Delius's life (1862-1934), but there has never been a comprehensive book about his music until now. Everything he wrote, from his earliest compositions right up to his finalworks, is analysed here; the history and background of each work and its critical reception are all examined, set against events in Delius's life and the wider musical world. The book contains numerous music examples and quotations from many contemporary newspapers and journals. A complete list of all of Delius's works, with catalogue numbers, and a select bibliography are also provided. MARTIN LEE-BROWNE is the Chairman of The Delius Society, a former Chairman of the Gloucester Three Choirs Festival, and author of The Life & Times of Frederic Austin (1996). PAUL GUINERY is a pianist and associate of the Royal College of Music, as well as a former broadcaster for BBC Radio 3 and co-author (with Lyndon Jenkins) of Delius and Fenby, A Photographic Journey (The Delius Society, 2004).

Hope's Highway: A Novel (1918) is a historical novel by Sarah Lee Brown Fleming. Published during the Harlem Renaissance, Fleming's novel is a powerful work of fiction exploring the lives of formerly enslaved Black people living in the South during Reconstruction. Recognized as a leading advocate for the advancement of Black girls and women throughout her life, Fleming is a writer whose voice never falters from the task at hand: telling the story of her people. In the aftermath of the Civil War, the promise of the Emancipation Proclamation is fulfilled to with varying results throughout the South. On John Vance's plantation, many of his former slaves have remained to work in their new capacity as wage laborers, fearful of change and confident in the relative kindness of their former master. Among them, Enoch receives financial support and an education, eventually rising to the role of first Black teacher in the Reconstruction South. When John Vance dies, his land and belongings are divided among his former slaves, including the influential Institute, now left for Enoch to run. As much as their situation promises some hope for the future, the specter of enslavement and prejudice lurks around every corner, forcing them to use caution when dealing with those who would sooner have them back in chains than treat them as fellow humans. Hope's Highway: A Novel is a story of tragedy and redemption set in the South during the period of Reconstruction, a time of immense change and even greater promise in a nation only just emerged from the shadows of war. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Sara Lee Brown Fleming's Hope's Highway: A Novel is a classic work of African American literature reimagined for modern readers.

Clouds and Sunshine (1920) is a collection of poems by Sarah Lee Brown Fleming. Published during the Harlem Renaissance, Clouds and Sunshine is a powerful work of poetry exploring themes of faith, racial identity, loss, and love in twentieth century America. Recognized as a leading advocate for the advancement of Black girls and women throughout her life, Fleming is a writer whose voice never falters from the task at hand: telling the story of her people. Separated into three sections, Clouds and Sunshine shows Flemings prowess as a lyric poet of the Romantic persuasion, a dialect poet in the tradition of Paul Laurence Dunbar, and a groundbreaking political writer who observed the experiences of Black Americans while recording and examining her own. In "Tuskegee," she offers an ode to the iconic institution founded by Booker T. Washington in Alabama: "On thy consecrated ground / Is carved a wondrous story, / Out of chaos, Washington / Raised this place to glory." In "The Black Man's Hope," located in the section titled "Race Poems," Fleming condemns the politics of the United States, which promises so much to white Americans while betraying time and again a people it never meant to recognize as citizens: "I hear the talk of the white man's hope / In the ring and at the poll, / But never a word of the black man's hope / Do I hear as time doth roll. // Bowed with the weight which slavery left / Upon his chattled frame, / No star of hope comes into view / The weight is still the same." In two brief stanzas, Fleming effectively condemns the emptiness offered with every election cycle. Far from despairing, she makes a powerful case for resistance while telling a terrible truth: prejudice is a manmade thing, and only targeted action can undo it. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Sara Lee Brown Fleming's Clouds and Sunshine is a classic work of African American literature reimagined for modern readers.

My body is a manifestation of the effects of working at BX. I have acquired physical ailments that are quite advanced for one my age. At 21, I now have a bad back, wear orthopedic shoes, and have joints that ache in the morning as well as when it rains. My body has become dilapidated. Have you ever had a job that you hated? Has work hindered your plans for your life? Do you meet, work with, or work for the most inane and irritating people on Earth in your line of work? Are you tired of working for The Man? Are you The Man? Before you is a compilation of memorable incidents and people from the early working years of Ivey Brown. He began writing this book while working in fast food in high school. Over the following six years, he's been everything from a cashier to a manual laborer...and he's not 24 yet. In this book, you will no doubt find yourself, whether in dealing with the most absurd of customers who are Always right, or in doing the most mind-numbing work ever imagined by any regime skilled in the art of torture.

Advancing Critical Criminology constitutes a timely addition to the growing body of knowledge on critical criminology scholarship. DeKeseredy and Perry have assembled a volume that provides scholars with an in-depth review of the extant literature on several major branches of criminology as well as examples of how critical criminologists apply their theoretical perspectives to substantive topics, such as drugs, interpersonal violence, and rural crime. Accordingly, this work is divided into two main sections: overviews of theories and applications. Each chapter provides a summary of work in a specific area, along with suggestions for moving the field forward. This reader is unique in its choice of topics, which have often been overlooked in the past. An expert collection of international scholars, Advancing Critical Criminology is certain to stimulate lively debates and generate further critical social scientific work in this field.

Advancing Critical Criminology constitutes a timely addition to the growing body of knowledge on critical criminology scholarship. DeKeseredy and Perry have assembled a volume that provides scholars with an in-depth review of the extant literature on several major branches of criminology as well as examples of how critical criminologists apply their theoretical perspectives to substantive topics, such as drugs, interpersonal violence, and rural crime. Accordingly, this work is divided into two main sections: overviews of theories and applications. Each chapter provides a summary of work in a specific area, along with suggestions for moving the field forward. This reader is unique in its choice of topics, which have often been overlooked in the past. An expert collection of international scholars, Advancing Critical Criminology is certain to stimulate lively debates and generate further critical social scientific work in this field.

In Innovations in E-Government, Erwin A. Blackstone, Michael L. Bognanno, and Simon Hakim make the case that E-government is expected to make middle management of lesser value and flatten the pyramid of management in government. Improved communications, measurability of output, and the greater accountability of workers will reduce the necessary level of worker supervision and reduce the need for middle management. In turn, decisions by top management become more transparent and their accountability will also rise. Thus, as a result of improved technology, government could become leaner. Workers will be more empowered, efficient, and accountable. When considering the long term effects of e-government on the structure and activities of government, increased transparency becomes a most beneficial aspect. When activities are reported, meetings are broadcast and information is easily accessed, citizens become more informed. This will make government more accountable and good governance in one locality will increase the pressure on others to also adopt the same innovations. E-government is a technological innovation and moves from an inefficient and mainly unaccountable bureaucracy to a new entrepreneurial and accountable culture. It enables workers at lower levels of the hierarchy to take part in and be accountable for decision-making. E-government is being used to improve the management of cities and to achieve a more efficient use of resources. In the long run, opportunities exist for e-government to bring about a reorganization of government, one that would reduce excessively bureaucratic processes and organizational structures. It is these changes that may ultimately bring the biggest cost savings to taxpayers.

In Innovations in E-Government, Erwin A. Blackstone, Michael L. Bognanno, and Simon Hakim make the case that E-government is expected to make middle management of lesser value and flatten the pyramid of management in government. Improved communications, measurability of output, and the greater accountability of workers will reduce the necessary level of worker supervision and reduce the need for middle management. In turn, decisions by top management become more transparent and their accountability will also rise. Thus, as a result of improved technology, government could become leaner. Workers will be more empowered, efficient, and accountable. When considering the long term effects of e-government on the structure and activities of government, increased transparency becomes a most beneficial aspect. When activities are reported, meetings are broadcast and information is easily accessed, citizens become more informed. This will make government more accountable and good governance in one locality will increase the pressure on others to also adopt the same innovations. E-government is a technological innovation and moves from an inefficient and mainly unaccountable bureaucracy to a new entrepreneurial and accountable culture. It enables workers at lower levels of the hierarchy to take part in and be accountable for decision-making. E-government is being used to improve the management of cities and to achieve a more efficient use of resources. In the long run, opportunities exist for e-government to bring about a reorganization of government, one that would reduce excessively bureaucratic processes and organizational structures. It is these changes that may ultimately bring the biggest cost savings to taxpayers.