![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() KINGDRA lives at extreme ocean depths that are otherwise uninhabited. It stores energy by sleeping at underwater depths at which no other life forms can survive. ![]() It is said to cause tornadoes as it wakes. Preview The Alpha and his Blue Christmasby Kindra White The Alpha and his Blue Christmas(Goldencrest Pack short story) by Kindra White(Goodreads Author) it was amazing5. The kid hangs up his stocking - Is there a Santa Claus? - The Crogans' Christmas in the snowshed - The old town - His Christmas gift - The snow babies' Christmas - Jack's sermon - Merry Christmas in the tenements - What the Christmas sun saw in the tenements - Nibsy's Christmas - The little dollar's Christmas journey - Little Will's message - The burgomaster's Christmas.Ĭarlos Colón, the University of Connecticut and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http: //(This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries. It sleeps deep on the ocean floor to build its energy. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() As counterintuitive as it may sound, the military provides an alternative to the brutalities of modern economy. But perhaps the clearest example of a job that resists, at least to some degree, the vagaries of market demand is the military. Police and firefighter unions are too strong (and their work too dangerously complex) to imagine a near future of part-time contract workers with no benefits responding to armed robberies or industrial fires. ![]() Registered nursing is expected to experience nation-wide shortages until at least 2030, giving such workers bargaining power that helps them avoid being replaced. adults struggle with joblessness, near poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives, a sign of deteriorating economic security and an elusive American dream.”īut a few jobs buck these trends by their very nature. According to a recent Associated Press poll, “Four out of five U.S. Real wages for workers have been stagnant since the late ‘70s and have actually fallen since 2007. As Bernie Sanders frequently mentions in his stump speeches, the top 1 percent of workers in America earn more than the bottom 50 percent combined. Economic insecurity is an important theme this election cycle. ![]() ![]() Stephen King, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Institute ![]() "I think Clive Barker is so good that I am literally tongue-tied." As the intricate weavings of the tapestry come undone, Suzanna and Cal must face their biggest fears to save this discovered land and all its inhabitants.īrutal, beautiful, brilliant, and full of his original illustrations, Clive Barker spins his best in this “unhinged and indulgent” ( Entertainment Weekly) imaginative tale. ![]() But two other evils, a ruthless witch and her sidekick, seek the carpet for their own gain and will do whatever it takes to find it. ![]() Here, a race of magical beings have hidden themselves from the normal world to escape human persecution and an evil known as the Scourge. Together they find themselves accidently drawn into the strange world that lies beneath the mysterious rug. Cal Mooney is on the run from an escaped homing pigeon. Suzanna Parish is called to Liverpool after her grandmother has a stroke. In a home of an elderly woman in Liverpool lies a carpet. A horrifying and spellbinding tale by the “great imaginer of our time” (Quentin Tarantino) and New York Times bestselling author Clive Barker about the magical world lying right beneath our feet. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These episodes have been coined “Color Rushes.” Graffiti can float on the air now and people passing through the graffiti become disoriented, one person vomiting flower petals after going through a tag. The fourth defender is Casey, an ex-tagger who abandoned his art when he saw his creations coming to life on their own. Three are children who will face off against the likes of legendary song villain Stagger Lee and a gruesome ghoul he reports to. Take away the songs, songs manifesting themselves as spirits, and the city collapses against a collection of all the storms ever visited on the area.Ī chosen few are tasked with using magic to fend off the attack. Evil is out to kill nine essential songs holding this world together. Music always felt like the heartbeat here, we just never realized it is the heartbeat. There is no place like it, except in “The Ballad of Perilous Graves.” Alex Jennings fires up the torches to show the real Nola. ![]() In the spirit here, I ask that if you are currently deceased, it is imperative that you resume living at once and begin reading – (very loosely taken from part of the digital galley). ![]() ![]() ![]() Beka's magical listening talent is the only way for the Provost's Dogs to find out the identity of this brutal new underlord, for the dead are beyond fear. In this way, Beka learns of someone in the Lower City who has overturned the power structure of the underworld and is terrorizing its citizens into submission and silence. So good, in fact, that she hears things that Mattes and Clary never could - information that is passed in murmurs when flocks of pigeons gather. ![]() Never much of a talker, Beka is a good listener. What they don't know is that Beka has something unique to offer. They're tough, they're capable, and they're none too happy about the indignity of being saddled with a puppy for the first time in years. She's assigned to work with Mattes and Clary, famed veterans among the Provost's Dogs. But it's also where Beka was born, and she's comfortable there.īeka gets her wish. To the surprise of both the veteran "Dogs" and her fellow "puppies," Beka requests duty in the Lower City. This is the beginning of her story, her legend, and her legacy.īeka Cooper is a rookie with the law-enforcing Provost's Guard, commonly known as "the Provost's Dogs," in Corus, the capital city of Tortall. Hundreds of years before Alanna first drew her sword in Tamora Pierce's memorable debut, Alanna: The First Adventure, Tortall had a heroine named Beka Cooper - a fierce young woman who fights crime in a world of magic. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Barton siblings, 14 year old Jessie, 13 year old Josh, and 9 year old Jamie, were stuck in Coalville late at night with Josh’s loser best friend Skate Palmer. ![]() Unfortunately, due to the size and spine of the book I’m unable to make scans without doing serious damage. The book came with some illustrations by Tim Jacobus. I prefer the second story out of the bunch. The first and third stories are weird, the first coming across like a rehash of “Stay Out of the Basement” and the third some prototype for the “Goosebumps Horrorland” series. ![]() There are four stories in this book, a wraparound tale and three short stories that feature the same cast of characters. I think it originally belonged to my sibling back in elementary school, but like so much of their shit, it ended up in my possession because they stopped caring about it. Hell, I’m not even sure how I got this book. I’ve never seen a performance, and I don’t know how long the show ran. In the late 90s there was briefly a Goosebumps stage show, though I was barely aware of this since I was like 8 or 9 at the time. ![]() Time for another long lost Goosebumps treasure, though this one’s slightly better known than “Haunted Library” and “Surprise on the 13th Floor.” Stine (Based on stage play by Rupert Holmes) Title: Goosebumps Live On Stage – Screams In The Night, a.k.a. ![]() ![]() ![]() Owen wanted to scream at the horror before him. ![]() …Or it might just destroy the Kiel Gnomenfoot series, reveal Bethany’s secret to the entire world, and force Owen to live out Kiel Gnomenfoot’s final ( very final) adventure. Besides, visiting the book might help Bethany find her father… It turns out Bethany’s half-fictional and has been searching every book she can find for her missing father, a fictional character.īethany can’t let anyone else learn her secret, so Owen makes her a deal: All she has to do is take him into a book in Owen’s favorite Kiel Gnomenfoot series, and he’ll never say a word. Owen knows that better than anyone, what with the real world’s homework and chores.īut everything changes the day Owen sees the impossible happen-his classmate Bethany climb out of a book in the library. ![]() Life is boring when you live in the real world, instead of starring in your own book series. This “clever opener likely to leave readers breathless both with laughter and anticipation” ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review) is the first in the New York Times bestselling series from the author of the Half Upon a Time trilogy. ![]() ![]() ![]() “It is rather as though a medical student were denied the opportunity to dissect or even examine the naked human body.” ![]() ![]() “To be deprived of this ultimate state of training meant, in effect, to be deprived of the possibility of creating major art works, unless one were a very ingenious lady indeed, or imply, as most of the women aspiring to be painters ultimately did to restrict oneself to the “minor” fields of portraiture, genre, landscape or still-life,” wrote Nochlin. However, women were rarely allowed access to these hallowed halls, and if they were, they would never have been allowed to draw from a nude. ![]() Therefore, it stands to reason that to learn figure painting, an aspirant had to learn by drawing from a nude body in the great art academies in France and Italy. “It was argued by defenders of traditional painting in the 19th century that there could be no great painting with clothed figures, since costume inevitably destroyed both the temporal universality and the classical idealization required by great art,” wrote Nochlin. If there had been an even playing field, women would have had the same chances of institutional and educational support that men had. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Samoa that Mead wrote about no longer exists. Her analysis of the problems of teens is strikingly modern. Early advocates of sexual freedom, such as Havelock Ellis, admired this book. Her viewpoint on the destructive effects of isolation and intensity in nuclear families influenced the first generation of family therapists. nurture debate that raged in the beginning of the 20th century and still rages today. Coming of Age in Samoa influenced the nature vs. Her keen observations contain many ideas that are still powerful today-that sexuality is culturally-shaped, that adolescence need not be stressful, and that the lives of adolescent girls are worthy of attention and respect.īecause Mead had a rich and sophisticated view of the multiple factors that shape human beings, her work has a relevance and resonance with issues of today. ![]() ![]() Mead’s groundbreaking book, dedicated to the girls of Tau, was one of the first studies to pay attention to girls’ lives. It established Mead’s core insights into childhood and culture that challenged and changed our view of life. ![]() This beautifully written study of youth details Margaret Mead’s historic trip and first fieldwork. ![]() ![]() ![]() The extraordinary new conditions in which this entire generation has lived constitute a comprehensive summary of all that, henceforth, the spectacle will forbid and also all that it will permit. Quite simply, the spectacle’s domination has succeeded in raising a whole generation moulded to its laws. In it the author expands on the concept of the Spectacle, coupled with presentations of Marxist critical theory. ![]() “In all that has happened in the last twenty years, the most important change lies in the very continuity of the spectacle. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle. The Society of the Spectacle is a work of philosophy by Guy Debord. ![]() Now finally available in a superb English translation approved by the author, Debord’s text remains as crucial as ever for understanding the contemporary effects of power, which are increasingly inseparable from the new virtual worlds of our rapidly changing image / information culture. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism, and everyday life in the late twentieth century. ![]() Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle. ![]() |