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Diego Luna directs this biographical drama based on the life and
achievements of Mexican American civil rights activist and labour
movement leader Cesar Chavez. The film shows how Chavez (Michael
Peña) went from being just another Latino American farm worker to a
passionate and respected spokesperson whose embrace of non-violent
means of protest led to the securing of a living wage for workers
like himself.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
This is a coming of age story about a young man, Carson Longworth,
who will come to discover he knows virtually nothing about what's
happening in the world around him. In high school his life consists
of music, dance, dating, and good times. Set in the 1960's early
1970's when the Vietnam War is beginning to heat up, Carson has not
given a good deal of thought to anything beyond the here and now
and much less to what is happening around him. Having grown up
"under a lucky star," he just assumes that he merely needs to exist
and good things will happen to him. Carson wrestles with his
personal demons and the general inanity of the world. When he
leaves high school and attempts to tackle the world at large,
though, he finds the relative freedom outside the cocoon somewhat
more than he can handle. Carson's "relative world of plenty" and
his historical insulation from the "real world" contributes to the
perception that he is aloof. In reality, he just doesn't know how
to relate to people. He has no childhood memories of any close
friendships, as he found himself in a new place every few years. As
such, his outlook on life has been shaped somewhat differently from
his peers. This holds particularly true for his relationships with
women. He simply had little idea how to relate to women in any
meaningful manner until he met Kathy Wilkerson. After high school,
Carson spent two academically forgettable, but socially memorable,
years in college. He was eventually drafted by the Army, but joined
the Marine Corps, because he 'wanted to be a man', an experience
that shaped him indelibly. His experiences in the Vietnam War
helped create his antagonistic outlook. He could not come to terms
with the intent of the war nor the manner in which it was being
conducted. He found himself on the outside looking in. He became,
contrary to most who join the Marine Corps, a liberal thinker and a
skeptic who became increasingly frustrated with the inconsistencies
that he observed in the conduc
In the year 15540 the earth is quite different. The few humans that
survived "Pollution man's" poisoning of the earth have evolved into
specialized creatures but now only living off what nature offers.
But through all the changes the earth and its creatures have seen,
does divine intervention still exist? As Singer starts her
extraordinary journey she shows us that indeed that was the one
thing that never changed.
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As it is (Hardcover)
William Russell Smith
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R1,896
Discovery Miles 18 960
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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An interfaith collection of prayers, blessings, and poems offering
comfort and hope to the healthcare workers that give so much. The
COVID-19 pandemic has left few of us unaffected, but our healthcare
workers have borne the brunt of its impact. Chaplains and clergy
across all lines of faith have ministered to those caregivers
through prayers and blessings. This curated collection of
interfaith prayers, blessings, and poems was written by those who
minister to healthcare workers. It's a beautiful resource that
those who work on our medical front lines can carry with them or
keep at their workstations for daily inspiration. It can also be
used by chaplains and pastors who offer support to medical
personnel. Many of the prayers were written to meet specific needs
during the pandemic, yet they speak to the shared grief and hope we
all have carried as we continue to navigate this extraordinary
time. Contributors include The Most Rev. Michael B. Curry, Rev.
Barbara Crafton, Catherine Meeks, Jennifer Grant, Rev. Ineda Pearl
Adesanya, and Rev. Gayle Fisher-Stewart.
New risky fiction — with no names attached. If authors could
write their sex scenes anonymously, would they be less reticent?
Would they include the stuff they didn’t want their mom, or the
newspapers, to read? Here are twenty-four original short pieces of
fiction on the theme of sex, by twenty-four prominent authors
living in Canada. Heather O’Neill, Lisa Moore, Michael Winter,
Zoe Whittall, Pasha Malla, Francesca Ekwuyasi, Drew Hayden Taylor,
Tamara Faith Berger, and Susan Swan are among these. But we won’t
tell you who wrote what. The pieces are uncensored, unpredictable;
they veer from graphic to subtle to surreal. There is straight sex
and gay sex. There is frustrated sex. There is sex that happens
entirely through text messages. Secret Sex is a book of erotic
imaginings by some of Canada’s most sophisticated and respected
writers, working in total freedom, secretly. Featuring Angie Abdou,
Jean-Marc Ah-Sen, Tamara Faith Berger, Jowita Bydlowska, Xaiver
Campbell, K.S. Covert, francesca ekwuyasi, Anna Fitzpatrick, Drew
Hayden Taylor, Victoria Hetherington, Marni Jackson, Andrew
Kaufman, Michael LaPointe, Pasha Malla, Sophie McCreesh, Lisa
Moore, Heather O’Neill, Lee Suksi, Susan Swan, Heidi von
Palleske, Aley Waterman, Zoe Whittall, David Whitton, Michael
Winter A RARE MACHINES BOOK
Crime and Custom in Savage Society represents Bronislaw
Malinowski's major discussion of the relationship between law and
society. Throughout his career he constructed a coherent science of
anthropology, one modeled on the highest standards of practice and
theory. Methodology steps forward as a core element of the
refashioned anthropology, one that stipulates the manner in which
anthropological data should be acquired. Malinowski's choice of law
was not inevitable, but neither was it unmotivated. Anyone
interested in understanding the social structure and organization
of societies cannot avoid dealing with the concept of "law," even
if it is to deny its presence. Law and anthropology have shown a
natural affinity for one another, sharing a beneficial history of
using the methods and viewpoints of one to inform and advance the
other. The best lesson Malinowski provides us with comes in the
last paragraphs of Crime and Custom in Savage Society: "The true
problem is not to study how human life submits to rules; the real
problem is how the rules become adapted to life." On that question,
he has left us richly inspired to continue the quest.
This book, first published in 1965, describes the British penal
system as it existed in the 1960s. It describes how the system
defined, accounted for, and disposed of offenders. As an early work
in criminology, it focuses on differences between, and changes in,
the views held by legislators, lawyers, philosophers, and the man
in the street on the topic of crime and punishment. Walker is
interested in the extent to which their views reflect the facts
established and the theories propounded by psychologists,
anthropologists, and sociologists. The confusion between
criminologists and penal reformers was initially encouraged by
criminologists themselves, many of whom were penal reformers.
Strictly speaking, penal reform, according to Walker, was a
spare-time occupation for criminologists, just as canvassing for
votes is an ancillary task for political scientists. The difference
is that the criminologist's spare-time occupation is more likely to
take a ""moral"" form, and when it does so it is more likely to
interfere with what should be purely criminological thoughts. The
machinery of justice involves the interaction of human beings in
their roles of victim, offender, policeman, judge, supervisor, or
custodian, and there must be a place for human sympathy in the
understanding, and still more in the treatment, of individual
offenders. This book is concerned with the efficiency of the system
as a means to these ends. One of the main reasons why penal
institutions have continued to develop more slowly than other
social services is that they are a constant battlefield between
emotions and prejudices. This is a great empirical study; against
which the policy-maker and criminologist can measure progress or
regression in British criminals and punishments.
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