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He was an emotional wreck. Jack was remembering his vows on his
wedding day that Pastor Wayne had said over them,"We ask of you
Lord, to look over their union & make it one that will last
forever, either here in the mortal or in the spirit-." Jack knew he
had a journey ahead of him without Sam, but he would always keep
her spirit alive through him. He would be inspired by her memories
to go on, especially now having their son to remind him of her
warmth each day. Just at that moment his thoughts of Sam had been
broken.... Written by Breanna Gibson
He rang the door bell, instantly the door opened, for her to say,
"Enzo is that you?" "No, my name is Jack Cash." "What is it I can
do for you miss?" "I seek revenge and retribution on what was done
to my husband..."He was killed, beaten and mutilated." Jack asked,
"What is the precinct doing about this?" "An investigation was done
and they came to the conclusion that the name of King Huffa from
South Africa, where he has Diplomatic Immunity is behind all of
this." Jack knew he needed UN approval to go after this one, so he
texted a request, at that moment she told, "Jack, I want
retribution from all those involved, for that I give you a million
dollars, for your fee, is also a million dollars, for this I know
you get. " As she was looking at Jack, she said, "You could be a
splitting image of my former husband? You have a lot of
resemblances." Jack asked, "Who was that?" "His name was Enzo
Bonn."
At the end of the Cold War, Jack Cash finds himself sitting in a
prison with no hope of parole. It appears that this super spy and
international bounty hunter's days of intelligence gathering are
over. Nicknamed Parthian Stranger by his inmates, Jack spends his
days trying to figure out how to escape the prison where he has
been hidden for the last twenty years. Everything is about to
change for Jack when he awakens one morning to discover he is alone
in the penitentiary. With no guards in sight, Jack makes his way up
the prison walls and out to freedom. Now on the run, Jack is in a
fight for his life and will stop at nothing-even if it means
murdering anyone who gets in his way. But after he meets Sara
Sanders, a victim of a stalker who enlists his help, he has no idea
that the CIA is closing in an attempt to help him. Suddenly the
life of a Parthian Stranger turns in an unexpected direction that
leads him straight into a dangerous situation where he must pull
out all the stops to not only save his own life, but also the lives
of others.
Jack turned slowly to toss his gun at the sheriff's feet, to hear,
"Now you put your hands on top of your head and kneel down." He
looked down to see the pearl handed gun, as the sheriff knelt down
and said, "In these parts, outside of North Memphis is my
territory." "Hold it right there," said a command voice, then added
"Don't you dare touch that weapon, you are under arrest. As Jack
got up to see, it was Danger, with a smile to and said "like that?'
"Yeah like that," as Jack picks up his gun, holsters it, and shows
the sheriff his badge, and then puts it away. Jack said "Now you
were saying sheriff, it's your way which is?" "I want my attorney."
said the sheriff.
The English Jacobin Novel on Rights, Property and the Law is a
study of the radical novel's critique of the evolving social
contract in the 1790s. Focusing on selected novels by Thomas
Holcroft, Charlotte Smith, Elizabeth Inchbald, Robert Bage, William
Godwin, Mary Hays, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Maria Edgeworth, this
book examines narrative investigations into the intricate
relationships between theories of rights, the requirements of
proprietorship in civil society, and the construction of the legal
subject. MARKET 1: Eighteenth-century Studies; Romantic scholars
and students MARKET 2: General readers interested in law and
literature, and the development of the novel
Researchers now recognize that above- and belowground communities
are indirectly linked to one another, often by plant-mediated
mechanisms. To date, however, there has been no single
multi-authored edited volume on the subject. This book remedies
that gap, and offers state-of-the art insights into basic and
applied research on aboveground-belowground interactions and their
functional consequences. Drawing on a diverse pool of global
expertise, the authors present diverse approaches that span a range
of scales and levels of complexity. The respective chapters provide
in-depth information on the current state of research, and outline
future prospects in the field of aboveground-belowground community
ecology. In particular, the book's goal is to expand readers'
knowledge of the evolutionary, community and ecosystem consequences
of aboveground-belowground interactions, making it essential
reading for all biologists, graduate students and advanced
undergraduates working in this rapidly expanding field. It touches
on multiple research fields including ecology, botany, zoology,
entomology, microbiology and the related applied areas of
biodiversity management and conservation.
Johnson argues that Aristotle's Politics needs to be understood as
a 'two-layered' treatise - the first being Aristotle's political
theory, and the second as a set of questions for statesmen and
politicians. Employing this model, the book sets about to provide a
reconceptualization of Politics as a multi-layered, canonical work.
Reshaping the British Constitution provides a vigorous critique of
the deformations of Britain's customary constitution and why it
could not effectively stem the growth of a centralized political
authority. On this foundation it provides a critical description
and assessment of recent constitutional changes including
devolution, House of Lords reform, human rights and the
encroachment of the European Union. Nevil Johnson suggests that
since the reform programme has rested on pragmatic political
expediency rather than on coherent thinking about constitutional
principles, it is likely to strengthen the familiar deformations of
the customary constitution.
Agency in Constrained Academic Contexts examines how social agents
construct autonomous spaces in the context of neoliberal education.
The contributors to this edited collection consider the ways that
educators, students, and families assert agency, claim space, and
thereby reshape the constraints imposed by the durability of the
academic institutions of which they are a part.
This collection of classic papers in shock compression science makes available not only some of the most important classic papers on shock waves by Poisson, Rankine, Earnshaw, Riemann, and Hugoniot, which remain important references, but also some pathbreaking papers from the 1940s and 1950s on shocks in solids and fluids by such theorists as Bethe, and Weyl. Although their ideas and results remain of current interest, many of these papers have been hard to find, since the journals in which they were published are not available in many libraries. The editors have also translated papers written in French to make them accessible to a wider audience. This collection is thus not only a valuable historical resource but also a vital reference for those working in the field.
Viruses that are pathogenic to beneficial insects and other
arthropods cause millions of dollars of damage every year to
industries, such as sericulture, apiculture, and aquaculture (e.g.
infecting honeybees and silk worms). On the other hand, viruses
that are pathogenic to insect pests can be exploited as attractive
biological control agents. Another fascinating feature of these
viruses is that some, e.g. baculoviruses, have been commercially
exploited for use as gene expression and delivery vectors in both
insect and mammalian cells. All of these factors have led to an
explosion in the amount of research into insect viruses in recent
years, generating impressive quantities of information on the
molecular and cellular biology of these viruses. This timely book
reviews the exciting new developments in the field of insect
virology. Written by internationally renowned insect virologists,
the chapters review the current molecular biology of all the major
groups of insect pathogenic viruse
This is the second book in the Counterpoints series and focuses on alternative models of visual-spatial processing in human cognition. Over the last twenty years, theories and research relating to visual-spatial cognition have been of central interest to a broad range of psychologists - in areas of perception, memory, neuropsychology, and problem solving. This book offers extended chapters from three of the most respected and recognized investigators in the field: Michel Denis, Margaret Intons-Peterson, and Philip Johnson-Laird. The arguments are integrated, and ideas for new directions and new research are offered.
The concept of deviance is complex, given that norms vary
considerably across groups, times, and places. Society tends to
primarily recognize traditional portraits of deviants such as
street-offenders and drug addicts. The label "deviant" is commonly
cast upon society's undesirables, but this socially constructed
image often overlooks subtler-and arguably more dangerous-deviance.
Physician malfeasance is an especially problematic form, given that
medical professionals garner trust, autonomy, and prestige from
society, which allows them to operate outside of the public eye.
This book responds to a growing number of concerns regarding
deviant physician actions such as physically and sexually abusive
behaviors, fabricating medical findings and records, and taking
advantage of patients (e.g., filing fraudulent Medicaid claims). It
explores theoretical explanations for physician deviance, and goes
on to consider potential responses such as Medicaid Fraud Control
Units, the Questionable Doctors database, and the ability of
doctors to police themselves. The unique perspective offered in
this book informs discussions of white-collar crime and deviance
and has important implications for researchers, policymakers, and
students involved in criminal justice and public policy.
Socrates' life, as revealed in Plato's dialogues, is defined by a
twofold ambition. On one hand, he scrutinizes people's beliefs,
including his own, with the aim of exposing inconsistencies and
learning about the human excellences. On the other hand, Socrates
attempts to persuade particular individuals that the life of virtue
and justice is far superior to the life of injustice. Curtis A.
Johnson, by focusing specifically on the dialogues with the
"immoralists" Polus, Callicles, and Thrasymachus, illuminates the
complexities of Socrates' thought, showing the complicated
interplay of the seemingly contradictory parts of Socrates'
ambition, ultimately vindicating the overall coherence of the
views. Socrates and the Immoralists assembles an in-depth
exploration of Socrates' argument for the just life, important for
scholars of Socrates, Plato, and Greek philosophy in general.
Molecular Biology of Assemblies and Machines presents a
comprehensive narrative describing the structures of macromolecular
complexes and how they assemble and interact. Richly illustrated,
it is written for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and
researchers in biochemistry, structural biology, molecular biology,
biophysics, cell biology, and microbiology, and will also appeal to
those in chemistry, immunology, and medicine. Essentially all major
biological activities are performed by assemblies of macromolecules
(proteins, RNA, and DNA) acting in concert. These assemblies are
dynamic and many are endowed with machine-like properties. This
unique book explores the molecular mechanisms employed at the
critical level between individual macromolecules and cells and
organelles.
The early drama of Eugene O’Neill, with its emphasis on racial
themes and conflicts, opened up extraordinary opportunities for
Black performers to challenge racist structures in modern theater
and cinema. By adapting O’Neill’s dramatic text—changing
scripts to omit offensive epithets, inserting African American
music and dance, or including citations of Black
internationalism—theater artists of color have used O’Neill’s
dramatic texts to raze barriers in American and transatlantic
theater. Challenging the widely accepted idea that Broadway was the
white-hot creative engine of U.S. theater during the early 20th
century, author Katie Johnson reveals a far more complex system of
exchanges between the Broadway establishment and a vibrant Black
theater scene in New York and beyond to chart a new history of
American and transnational theater. In spite of their dichotomous
(and at times problematic) representation of Blackness,
O’Neill’s plays such as The Emperor Jones and All God’s
Chillun Got Wings make ideal case studies because his work
stimulated extraordinary, and underappreciated, traffic between
Broadway and Harlem—between white and Black America. While it
focuses on investigating Broadway productions of O’Neill, the
book also attends to the vibrant transnational exchange in early to
mid-20th century artistic production. Anchored in archival
research, Racing the Great White Way recovers not only vital lost
performance histories, but also the layered contexts for performing
bodies across the Black Atlantic and the Circum-Atlantic.
This book aims to reach an understanding of how the mind carries
out three sorts of thinking -- deduction, induction, and creation
-- to consider what goes right and what goes wrong, and to explore
computational models of these sorts of thinking. Written for
students of the mind -- psychologists, computer scientists,
philosophers, linguists, and other cognitive scientists -- it also
provides general readers with a self-contained account of human and
machine thinking. The author presents his point of view, rather
than a review, as simply as possible so that no technical
background is required. Like the field of research itself, it calls
for hard thinking about thinking.
The early drama of Eugene O’Neill, with its emphasis on racial
themes and conflicts, opened up extraordinary opportunities for
Black performers to challenge racist structures in modern theater
and cinema. By adapting O’Neill’s dramatic
text—changing scripts to omit offensive epithets, inserting
African American music and dance, or including citations of Black
internationalism—theater artists of color have used O’Neill’s
dramatic texts to raze barriers in American and transatlantic
theater. Challenging the widely accepted idea that Broadway was the
white-hot creative engine of U.S. theater during the early 20th
century, author Katie Johnson reveals a far more complex system of
exchanges between the Broadway establishment and a vibrant Black
theater scene in New York and beyond to chart a new history of
American and transnational theater. In spite of their
dichotomous (and at times problematic) representation of Blackness,
O’Neill’s plays such as The Emperor Jones and All God’s
Chillun Got Wings make ideal case studies because his work
stimulated extraordinary, and underappreciated, traffic between
Broadway and Harlem—between white and Black America. While it
focuses on investigating Broadway productions of O’Neill, the
book also attends to the vibrant transnational exchange in early to
mid-20th century artistic production. Anchored in archival
research, Racing the Great White Way recovers not only vital lost
performance histories, but also the layered contexts for performing
bodies across the Black Atlantic and the Circum-Atlantic.
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