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Hobo With a Shotgun (DVD)
Rutger Hauer, Pasha Ebrahimi, Robb Wells, Brian Downey, Gregory Smith, …
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Rutger Hauer stars in this action comedy as a homeless man who
takes vigilantism to a new scale. Arriving in a new city, our hero
soon realises that it is a hotbed of crime and corruption presided
over by gang bosses and bent cops who will do nothing to deliver
justice. Armed robberies, prostitution and paedophilia are rife,
and the only obvious way to tackle the perpetrators is to take to
the streets with a 20-guage pump-action shotgun.
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The Tigger Movie (DVD)
Jim Cummings, Nikita Hopkins, Ken Sansom, John Fiedler, Peter Cullen, …
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Feature length adventure for Winnie the Pooh's ever-bouncing
companion. Tigger is just getting in the way when Pooh, Piglet,
Roo, Rabbit and Owl try to prepare a home for their doleful friend
Eeyore, so Pooh suggests that he go outside and play with some
other tiggers. Tigger thinks this a very foolish suggestion, as he
is the only Tigger in existence - or so he thinks. In fact, this
proves the be the start of an exciting adventure in which Tigger
discovers his long-lost family members.
This edited collection examines the effects that macrosystems have
on the figuration of our everyday-of microdystopias-and argues that
microdystopic narratives are part of a genre that has emerged in
contract to classic dystopic manifestations of world-shattering
events. From different methodological and theoretical positions in
fieldworks ranging from literary works and young adult series to
concrete places and games, the contributors in Microdystopias:
Aesthetics and Ideologies in a Broken Moment sound the depths of an
existential sense of shrinking horizons - spatially, temporally,
emotionally, and politically. The everyday encroachment on our
sense of spatial orientation that gradually and discreetly shrinks
the horizons of possibilities is demonstrated by examining what the
form of the microdystopic look like when they are aesthetically
configured. Contributors analyze the aesthetics that play a
particularly central and complex role in mediating, as well as
disrupting, the parameters of dystopian emergences and emergencies,
reflecting an increasingly uneasy relationship between the
fictional, the cautionary, and the real. Scholars of media studies,
sociology, and philosophy will find this book of particular
interest.
Texans of Mexican descent built a unique and highly developed
ranching culture that thrived in South Texas until the 1880s. In
""Tejano Empire"", historian Andres Tijerina describes the major
elements that gave the Tejano ranch community its identity: shared
reaction to Anglo-American in-migration, tightly interconnected
families, cultural loyalty, networks of communication, Catholic
religion, and a material culture well adapted to the conditions of
the region. After the introduction's historical overview of the
region, the chapters address specific elements of the lives people
led in the Rio Grande Valley and South Texas: work ways and tools,
housing and ranch layouts, family networks and authority patterns,
education and the arts, religion and daily prayer.A gallery of
energetic line drawings by the late Ricardo M. Beasley and graceful
pen-and-ink detail drawings by Servando G. Hinojosa of Alice,
Texas, commissioned especially for this book, intricately portray
scenes from South Texas daily life.
Western philosophy's relationship with prisons stretches from
Plato's own incarceration to the modern era of mass incarceration.
Philosophy Imprisoned: The Love of Wisdom in the Age of Mass
Incarceration draws together a broad range of philosophical
thinkers, from both inside and outside prison walls, in the United
States and beyond, who draw on a variety of critical perspectives
(including phenomenology, deconstruction, and feminist theory) and
historical and contemporary figures in philosophy (including Kant,
Hegel, Foucault, and Angela Davis) to think about prisons in this
new historical era. All of these contributors have experiences
within prison walls: some are or have been incarcerated, some have
taught or are teaching in prisons, and all have been students of
both philosophy and the carceral system. The powerful testimonials
and theoretical arguments are appropriate reading not only for
philosophers and prison theorists generally, but also for prison
reformers and abolitionists.
Reality television remains a pervasive form of television
programming within our culture. The new mantra is go big or go
home, be weird or be invisible. Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck
Dynasty, for example, are arguably two of the most compelling
reality television programs currently airing because of their
uniqueness and ability to transcend traditional boundaries in this
genre. Reality Television: Oddities of Culture seeks to explore not
the mundane reality programs, but rather those programs that
illustrate the odd, unique or peculiar aspects of our society. This
anthology will explore such programs across the categories of
culture, gender, and celebrity.
This collection features three peer-reviewed reviews on managing
arthropod pests in cereals. The first chapter discusses key
arthropod pests of cereals, including Hessian fly, orange wheat
blossom midge, bird cherry oat aphid, greenbug, Russian wheat
aphid, sunn pest, wheat stem sawfly and wheat curl mite. The
chapter provides a detailed case study for each arthropod pest,
exploring the pest's life cycle, its host plants and status as a
wheat pest, best practices for managing populations, as well as our
current understanding of plant susceptibility and plant resistance.
The second chapter highlights the economic importance of corn/maize
to the United States economy, citing that around 37.7 million
hectares of land was used to grow the crop in 2021. As a result of
its economic contribution, farmers are required to have an informed
understanding of important pest species affecting the crop. The
chapter considers recent advances in monitoring of native and
invasive pests of corn and includes case studies on the European
corn borer, corn earworm, western bean cutworm and corn rootworm to
demonstrate the effective implementation of insect pest monitoring
systems. The final chapter reviews the recent emergence of the
Fescue aphid/grass aphid as an invasive pest of small grains
outside of its native range of western Europe and the British
Isles. The chapter considers the biology and management of the
pest, its appearance and identification, its pest status and
damage, as well as its potential for host plant resistance.
This collection features six peer-reviewed reviews on optimising
rootstock health. The first chapter considers recent advances in
irrigation techniques used in sustainable vegetable cultivation and
reviews the performance and efficiency of these systems. The second
chapter details the need to optimise precision in orchard
irrigation management, focussing on matching water supply to plant
demand as a means of achieving this. The third chapter assesses
irrigation management systems for tomato production and how these
can be optimised alongside nutrient management to ensure the
production of safe and nutritious tomatoes. The fourth chapter
summarises the common types of irrigation systems found in soilless
culture production, as well as the emergence of new systems,
including plant-based sensing and monitoring systems. The fifth
chapter highlights the need for more sustainable water use in
ornamental production systems and the methods which can be used to
achieve this, such as reducing runoff volume. The final chapter
considers recent advances in irrigation management in greenhouse
cultivation, focussing on water balance, crop evapotranspiration
techniques and irrigation scheduling.
Responding to the growing need for tried-and-trusted solutions to
the reproductive health care issues confronting millions of women
worldwide, Obstetrics and Gynecology in Low-Resource Settings
provides practical guidelines for ensuring the delivery of quality
OB/GYN care to women in resource-poor countries. Including
contributions from leading clinicians and researchers in the field,
this welcome overview fills an important gap in existing medical
literature on women's health care and will be an invaluable
resource for doctors, clinicians, and medical students at all
stages of their careers who work in the global health arena. The
reproductive health risks that all women face are greatly
exacerbated when health care facilities are inadequate, equipment
and medications are in short supply, and well-trained medical staff
are few and far away. Often in these settings, the sole doctor or
medical professional on hand has expertise in some areas of women's
reproductive care but needs a refresher course in others. This
informative guide features hands-on, step-by-step instruction for
the most pertinent OB/GYN conditions-both acute and chronic-that
health care workers in the field confront. The authors examine a
wide range of topics, including: strategies to reduce maternal
mortality and stillbirths; infectious and sexually transmitted
diseases, including malaria and HIV; cervical cancer;
contraception; prenatal, delivery, and newborn care; and
complications arising from gender-based violence and female genital
cutting. Published in a convenient format with a durable binding,
this reference will be an essential companion to health care
providers throughout the world.
This book addresses the need for theological reflection on
"uncivil" disobedience. Existing scholarship in the area of
theology and politics mostly treats church-state relations
theoretically, with studies supporting non-violent resistance and
in other ways largely assuming traditional forms of governance and
standard means of protest, without paying attention to post-modern
political and other philosophies. Recent eruptions of uncivil
disobedience, oftentimes involving violence, like we have seen with
Antifa, Black Lives Matter protests, the storming of the U.S.
Capitol Building on January 6th, and in the actions of a variety of
other right wing, leftist, and religious groups, all assume new
ways of protesting, new forms of organizing, and are often informed
by post-modern forms of philosophical support. These new political
dynamics present an opportunity for theologians to produce
scholarship in response. After establishing philosophical
underpinnings related to uncivilly disobedient action, the
contributors cover traditional historical and theological responses
to political unrest as foundation for considering or evaluating
attempts to address theologically present-day manifestations of
uncivil disobedience.
Poor diet and substandard nutrition are underlying causes of many
diseases including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer.
Collectively, these ailments are the leading causes of premature
death, most of which are preventable. Cooking for Health and
Disease Prevention: From the Kitchen to the Clinic helps
demonstrate cooking as a fundamental bridge between ideal nutrition
and long-term health. Clinicians, patients, and the public often
lack adequate knowledge to help select and prepare foods for
optimal disease management. This book provides information to
clinicians and their patients about foods and cooking principles to
help prevent common health conditions. Features: Focuses on disease
endpoints, reviewing the disease biology and epidemiology and
presenting dietary interventions for disease prevention. Provides
recommendations for translating dietary and culinary principles of
health prevention into clinical practice and includes a recipe
appendix with practical examples. Features information on healthy
cooking techniques as well as food selection, storage, and
preparation to help maximize nutritional value. Introduces the
reader to fundamental concepts in nutrition and culinary principles
explaining the relationship between food processing and food
preparation and nutritional quality of foods. This book is
accessible to patients and offers evidence-based practical
interventions for healthcare professionals. It is authored by
Nicole Farmer, physician scientist at the NIH Clinical Center, and
nutrition researcher Andres Ardisson Korat, awarded a doctorate
degree in nutrition and epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan
School of Public Health.
Poor diet and substandard nutrition are underlying causes of many
diseases including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer.
Collectively, these ailments are the leading causes of premature
death, most of which are preventable. Cooking for Health and
Disease Prevention: From the Kitchen to the Clinic helps
demonstrate cooking as a fundamental bridge between ideal nutrition
and long-term health. Clinicians, patients, and the public often
lack adequate knowledge to help select and prepare foods for
optimal disease management. This book provides information to
clinicians and their patients about foods and cooking principles to
help prevent common health conditions. Features: Focuses on disease
endpoints, reviewing the disease biology and epidemiology and
presenting dietary interventions for disease prevention. Provides
recommendations for translating dietary and culinary principles of
health prevention into clinical practice and includes a recipe
appendix with practical examples. Features information on healthy
cooking techniques as well as food selection, storage, and
preparation to help maximize nutritional value. Introduces the
reader to fundamental concepts in nutrition and culinary principles
explaining the relationship between food processing and food
preparation and nutritional quality of foods. This book is
accessible to patients and offers evidence-based practical
interventions for healthcare professionals. It is authored by
Nicole Farmer, physician scientist at the NIH Clinical Center, and
nutrition researcher Andres Ardisson Korat, awarded a doctorate
degree in nutrition and epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan
School of Public Health.
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is the deliberate harming of one's
body without suicidal intent. NSSI tends to be secretive, often
involving cutting, bruising, or burning on hidden parts of the
body. While NSSI often occurs among adolescents, it is not limited
to that age group. Communication and NSSI intersect in many ways,
including conversation among family members, consultation with
healthcare providers, representation in the media, discourse among
people who self-injure, and even communication with oneself. Each
chapter in Communicating With, About, and Through Self-Harm:
Scarred Discourse addresses a different context of communication
crucial to our understanding NSSI. An international group of
clinicians and communication specialists describe, analyze, and
explain how NSSI is communicated about, what NSSI is communicating,
and how can we do a better job in communicating with others about
NSSI. This book's fundamental purpose is to empower individuals who
self-injure as well as their families, friends, healthcare
providers, and communities to better understand and deal with NSSI
and the pressures that cause it.
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Firefly: River Run HC (Hardcover)
David M. Booher, Jeff Jensen; Illustrated by Andres Genolet
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It's time for TWO Firefly Specials: a dangerous rescue mission
undercover, followed by a Dickensian look at Jayne in the most
classic Christmas tale in the 'Verse! Simon Tam will do anything to
save his little sister from the Alliance. It'll cost him
everything- his wealth, career, parents, and a perfect life on the
Central Planets. But the love between them, a love more dangerous
than madness, will persevere as Simon goes undercover into the
Alliance to get her away from those that hurt her at any cost. In
addition, it's time for a Christmas Carol, Firefly style! Jayne's
selfish behavior receives the unwanted attention of three visiting
spirits who reveal the hidden past, present and future of
Serenity's most... miserly crew member. Acclaimed writers David M.
Booher (Canto) and Jeff Jensen (Green River Killer: A True
Detective) as well as artists Andres Genolet (Runaways), Vincenzo
Federici (Red Sonja), Jordi Perez (Xena: Warrior Princess), and
Fabiana Mascolo (The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance), finally
reveal the origin of the greatest sibling bond in a story no
Browncoat can afford to miss, as well Firefly's take on Dickens'
beloved cautionary tale. Collects Firefly: River Run #1 and
Firefly: Holiday Special #1.
Changing perceptions about the worth of African Americans and their
communities. Know Your Price establishes new means of determining
value of Black communities. The deliberate devaluation of Blacks
and their communities, stemming from America's centuries-old
history of slavery, racism, and other state-sanctioned policies
like redlining have tangible, far-reaching, and negative economic
and social impacts. Rejecting policies shaped by flawed
perspectives, the book gives fresh insights on these impacts and
provides a new value paradigm to limit them. In the book, noted
educator, journalist, and scholar Andre Perry takes readers on a
guided tour of five Black-majority cities whose assets and
strengths are undervalued. Perry begins the tour in his hometown of
Wilkinsburg, a small city east of Pittsburgh that, unlike its much
larger neighbor, is struggling and failing to attract new jobs and
industry. Perry gives an overview of Black-majority cities and
spotlights four where he has a deep connection to Detroit, New
Orleans, Birmingham and Washington, D.C. providing an intimate look
at the assets residents should demand greater value from. Know Your
Price demonstrates through rigorous research and thorough analysis
the worth of Black people's intrinsic strengths, real property, and
traditional institutions. All of these assets are means of
empowerment, as Perry argues for shifting away from simplified
notions of equality and moving towards maximizing equity.
This book is about accounting in an alternative libertarian
socialist economic system. It explores what information and
transactions we need to enable democratic and effective financial
decisions by those affected by the decisions. Based on the economic
model, participatory economics, the author proposes a set of
accounting principles for an economy comprised of common ownership
of productive resources, worker and consumer councils, and
democratic planning, promoting the model’s core values. The
author tackles questions such as how accounting could be organised
in an economy with no private equity owners or private lenders and
creditors that is not based on greed and competition but instead on
cooperation and solidarity. A large part of the book is focused on
issues regarding investments; thus, he asks how and on what basis
decisions are made about the allocation of an economy’s
production between consumption today and investments that enable
more consumption in the future, and how investments are accounted
for. He also considers how investments in capital assets and
production facilities would be decided, financed, and valued if
they are not owned by private capital owners and if allocation does
not take place through markets but through a form of democratic
planning. In answering these questions and more, the author
demonstrates that alternative economic systems are indeed possible,
and not merely lofty utopias that cannot be put into practice, and
inspires further discussion about economic vision. By applying
accounting to a new economic setting and offering both technical
information and the author’s bold vision, this book is a
comprehensive and valuable supplementary text for courses touching
on critical accounting theory. It will also appeal to readers
interested in alternative kinds of economies.
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is the deliberate harming of one's
body without suicidal intent. NSSI tends to be secretive, often
involving cutting, bruising, or burning on hidden parts of the
body. While NSSI often occurs among adolescents, it is not limited
to that age group. Communication and NSSI intersect in many ways,
including conversation among family members, consultation with
healthcare providers, representation in the media, discourse among
people who self-injure, and even communication with oneself. Each
chapter in Communicating With, About, and Through Self-Harm:
Scarred Discourse addresses a different context of communication
crucial to our understanding NSSI. An international group of
clinicians and communication specialists describe, analyze, and
explain how NSSI is communicated about, what NSSI is communicating,
and how can we do a better job in communicating with others about
NSSI. This book's fundamental purpose is to empower individuals who
self-injure as well as their families, friends, healthcare
providers, and communities to better understand and deal with NSSI
and the pressures that cause it.
This collection of essays, with special reference to Asia, analyzes
religion through lived experience and reveals how religious
phenomena are inextricably linked to globalizing processes.
How did the academy react to the rise, dominance, and ultimate fall
of Germany's Third Reich? Did German professors of the humanities
have to tell themselves lies about their regime's activities or its
victims to sleep at night? Did they endorse the regime? Or did they
look the other way, whether out of deliberate denial or out of fear
for their own personal safety? The Betrayal of the Humanities: The
University during the Third Reich is a collection of groundbreaking
essays that shed light on this previously overlooked piece of
history. The Betrayal of the Humanities accepts the regrettable
news that academics and intellectuals in Nazi Germany betrayed the
humanities, and explores what went wrong, what occurred at the
universities, and what happened to the major disciplines of the
humanities under National Socialism. The Betrayal of the Humanities
details not only how individual scholars, particular departments,
and even entire universities collaborated with the Nazi regime but
also examines the legacy of this era on higher education in
Germany. In particular, it looks at the peculiar position of many
German scholars in the post-war world having to defend their own
work, or the work of their mentors, while simultaneously not
appearing to accept Nazism.
Most American Indian reservations are islands of poverty in a sea
of wealth, but they do not have to remain that way. To extract
themselves from poverty, Native Americans will have to build on
their rich cultural history including familiarity with markets and
integrate themselves into modern economies by creating institutions
that reward productivity and entrepreneurship and that establish
tribal governments that are capable of providing a stable rule of
law. The chapters in this volume document the involvement of
indigenous people in market economies long before European contact,
provide evidence on how the wealth of Indian Nations has been held
hostage to bureaucratic red tape, and explains how their wealth can
be unlocked through self-determination and sovereignty.
Most American Indian reservations are islands of poverty in a sea
of wealth, but they do not have to remain that way. To extract
themselves from poverty, Native Americans will have to build on
their rich cultural history including familiarity with markets and
integrate themselves into modern economies by creating institutions
that reward productivity and entrepreneurship and that establish
tribal governments that are capable of providing a stable rule of
law. The chapters in this volume document the involvement of
indigenous people in market economies long before European contact,
provide evidence on how the wealth of Indian Nations has been held
hostage to bureaucratic red tape, and explains how their wealth can
be unlocked through self-determination and sovereignty.
As well-established as the right to work is in the industrialized
world, in many places it is neither as well-defined nor protected
even though signatories to various international treaties profess
their adherence to the lofty principles contained in the array of
documents addressing what is recognized as a fundamental human
right. The right to work is an important human right-without the
ability to support themselves, workers have a difficult time
affording themselves, and their families, the opportunity to enjoy
their other rights. International documents acknowledge the
fundamental right of individuals to work, but do not explicitly
address the status of teachers. Employment Rights of Teachers
covers twelve different nations in an analysis of rights allowed
and denied to teachers throughout the world.
Western philosophy's relationship with prisons stretches from
Plato's own incarceration to the modern era of mass incarceration.
Philosophy Imprisoned: The Love of Wisdom in the Age of Mass
Incarceration draws together a broad range of philosophical
thinkers, from both inside and outside prison walls, in the United
States and beyond, who draw on a variety of critical perspectives
(including phenomenology, deconstruction, and feminist theory) and
historical and contemporary figures in philosophy (including Kant,
Hegel, Foucault, and Angela Davis) to think about prisons in this
new historical era. All of these contributors have experiences
within prison walls: some are or have been incarcerated, some have
taught or are teaching in prisons, and all have been students of
both philosophy and the carceral system. The powerful testimonials
and theoretical arguments are appropriate reading not only for
philosophers and prison theorists generally, but also for prison
reformers and abolitionists.
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