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Defending Irene

Author : Kristin Wolden Nitz
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504038797
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Defending Irene written by Kristin Wolden Nitz and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One girl’s strong spirit and love of soccer drive her to persevere in the face of adversity in this lively and engaging novel. Irene loves soccer, a passion she inherited from her Italian father. She’s thrilled by the sound and feel of the ball exploding off her foot for a shot at the goal. At school back in Missouri, she was one of the top players on her girls’ team. But things are different in Merano, Italy, where bilingual Irene and her family have come for a yearlong stay. There’s no soccer team for girls in the small, very traditional Alpine town. Irene decides to join the highly competitive boys’ team, but she has little idea what she’s getting herself into. First, she must prove herself to the strict coach, the “mister.” And her teammates make it clear they don’t want her on the field. Especially Matteo, the team’s star player, who goes out of his way to make Irene unwelcome. But Irene does not give up easily, even when the disapproval of her Italian grandmother and the doubts of her new classmates—including her best friend, Giulia—threaten to undermine her confidence. Author Kristin Wolden Nitz has created a complex adolescent character. Readers will root for Irene as she struggles to find her place on the team and in a new country. The story also offers a fascinating, and often humorous, look at a collision of cultures and lively descriptions of fast-paced action on the soccer field.

Defending America

Author : Elizabeth Lutes Hillman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691118043
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Defending America written by Elizabeth Lutes Hillman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-25 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From going AWOL to collaborating with communists, assaulting fellow servicemen to marrying without permission, military crime during the Cold War offers a telling glimpse into a military undergoing a demographic and legal transformation. The post-World War II American military, newly permanent, populated by draftees as well as volunteers, and asked to fight communism around the world, was also the subject of a major criminal justice reform. By examining the Cold War court-martial, Defending America opens a new window on conflicts that divided America at the time, such as the competing demands of work and family and the tension between individual rights and social conformity. Using military justice records, Elizabeth Lutes Hillman demonstrates the criminal consequences of the military's violent mission, ideological goals, fear of homosexuality, and attitude toward racial, gender, and class difference. The records also show that only the most inept, unfortunate, and impolitic of misbehaving service members were likely to be prosecuted. Young, poor, low-ranking, and nonwhite servicemen bore a disproportionate burden in the military's enforcement of crime, and gay men and lesbians paid the price for the armed forces' official hostility toward homosexuality. While the U.S. military fought to defend the Constitution, the Cold War court-martial punished those who wavered from accepted political convictions, sexual behavior, and social conventions, threatening the very rights of due process and free expression the Constitution promised.

The Ethics of Self-Defense

Author : Christian Coons
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190614072
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of Self-Defense written by Christian Coons and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifteen new essays collected in this volume address questions concerning the ethics of self-defense, most centrally when and to what extent the use of defensive force, especially lethal force, can be justified. Scholarly interest in this topic reflects public concern stemming from controversial cases of the use of force by police, and military force exercised in the name of defending against transnational terrorism. The contributors pay special attention to determining when a threat is liable to defensive harm, though doubts about this emphasis are also raised. The legitimacy of so-called "stand your ground" policies and laws is also addressed. This volume will be of great interest to readers in moral, political, and legal philosophy.

To Have and To Hold

Author : Tracie Peterson
Publisher : Bethany House
ISBN 13 : 0764208861
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book To Have and To Hold written by Tracie Peterson and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young woman struggles to keep her ancestral property in 1886 Georgia, and discovers the man her father hired to help is more than he seems.

Backs Against the Wall

Author : Kathy A McCloskey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317994116
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Backs Against the Wall written by Kathy A McCloskey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Backs Against the Wall: Battered Women’s Resistance Strategies tackles several controversial aspects involved with intimate partner violence (IPV)—namely the approaches many victims use when resisting their oppressors. This sensitive and sensible feminist perspective concerning battered women's use of different resistance strategies, and the reasons why they use them, also focuses on ways to support victims through intervention and prevention strategies. Leading experts provide current research, revealing viewpoints, and convincing assertions about the victims of IPV. This book powerfully refutes the sweeping assertions made by today’s antifeminist-based mindset that women are as violent as men in cases of IPV perpetration. This insightful source provides strong evidence of the different resistance strategies that battered women use in response to multiple oppressions, including IPV, in the case against the gender parity argument—that may very well be politically motivated. The text provides extensive references and several figures and tables to clearly present data. This book is a valuable resource for activists, educators, students, health providers, justice system workers, advocates, and researchers. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma.

The Asterisk War, Vol. 3 (light novel)

Author : Yuu Miyazaki
Publisher : Yen Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 0316398616
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book The Asterisk War, Vol. 3 (light novel) written by Yuu Miyazaki and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Festa begins! At long last, the largest fighting tournament in the world gets under way! Ayato and Julis blast through the tag team Phoenix event with their sights set on the semifinals, along with Saya and Kirin. But time is not on their side, as each passing match risks revealing Ayato's greatest weakness--the time limit on his power. And when he's facing opponents like Le Wolfe's Irene and Priscilla Urzaiz, he needs all the help he can get...

Heights and Valleys

Author : Emma Marshall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Heights and Valleys written by Emma Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Visitor

Author : C. J. Cherryh
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0756409101
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (564 download)

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Download or read book Visitor written by C. J. Cherryh and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working with the aiji-dowager a year after returning from an interstellar mission to discover that their government had been overthrown, Bren Cameron finds his efforts to reinstate peace throughout the atevi world challenged by an unexpected new threat.

Electric City

Author : K. K. Beck
Publisher : Mysterious Press
ISBN 13 : 0759524327
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book Electric City written by K. K. Beck and published by Mysterious Press. This book was released on 2001-05-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mousy, secretive researcher at a news-clipping service who recently won $20,000 on "Jeopardy!" is missing. Who is Irene March? That's the answer (in the form of a question) facing investigator Jane da Silva, who can collect on her eccentric uncle's vast legacy only when she solves a mystery that's stumped everyone else. When Jane places a large "Have you seen this woman?" ad in the Seattle paper, she gets intriguing responses from a rodeo queen, a dying child, and a disgraced church deacon... leads that send Jane east of the Cascades. By the time she gets to Electric City, the site of more violence, she realizes that Irene March's placid exterior shielded a cunning, even ruthless soul. And a deadly dangerous game that could have people asking, "Who killed Jane da Silva?"

Press Start

Author : Rose Sinclair
Publisher : Art Over Chaos Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Press Start written by Rose Sinclair and published by Art Over Chaos Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-04 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new game has turned the world into an augmented playground where Loren hopes to win first place and the attention of the girl she likes. Bored with daily chores, Loren grinds levels in Holo Heroes and local meet-ups serve as a jumping-off point to a new augmented world around her. But what started as casual fun turns into an accidental rivalry with a veteran champion of the game. Soon she's racing towards the national stage to see who will take the grand title. Can Loren survive the embarrassment of losing when all her new friends are watching, or will she rise to the challenge?

The Ditto List

Author : Stephen Greenleaf
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504027620
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Ditto List written by Stephen Greenleaf and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A slightly sleazy divorce lawyer discovers something strange about himself: a conscience There are seven women in the courtroom, and D. T. Jones loves them all. They are women who married young, have been mistreated, and have no prospects, no hope. For them, Jones will do all he can, which isn’t much. A cut-rate divorce lawyer, he specializes in default settlements—no alimony, no property, no fight. He’s not good, but he’s fast, and his clients ask nothing more. Despite his cynical exterior, Jones considers himself a knight in rusty armor, helping women whom the world has failed. He yearns for a single quest worthy of his talents. He’ll get three: A battered pregnant woman, a penniless sufferer of multiple sclerosis, and a betrayed housewife all come to Jones begging for his help. Each case is impossible. To take all three could be professional suicide. How could he say no?

Suspect

Author : Kristin Wolden Nitz
Publisher : Holiday House
ISBN 13 : 1561457205
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book Suspect written by Kristin Wolden Nitz and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spending her summer helping Grandma Kay run the Schoenhaus, a Victorian bed and breakfast, seventeen-year-old Jen soon finds that her Grandma's plans also include solving an old mystery: the disappearance of Jen's mother. Jen's mother Ellen disappeared without a trace when her daughter was still young. Even so, Jen received holiday gifts in the mail and letters signed by her mother for years. But then the communication abruptly stopped. Now, Grandma Kay is convinced the letters were forged and that her daughter-in-law was murdered. The stage is set for an elaborate Mystery Weekend at the inn. Family members and friends—including Jen's very recent ex-boyfriend, her old childhood crush and his insufferable girlfriend—assemble and are assigned roles to play. But as the drama unfolds, Jen makes an important off-stage discovery in the Schoenhaus library. Soon her worst suspicions are aroused: Could a member of her own close-knit community be responsible for her mother's disappearance? Kristin Wolden Nitz has penned a story that artfully combines all the necessary elements of a great mystery, sweeping readers along Jen's path to discovery.

Understanding Irène Némirovsky

Author : Margaret Scanlan
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 161117869X
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Irène Némirovsky written by Margaret Scanlan and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2018-06-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sympathetic, nuanced exploration of the fiction and turbulent life of this best-selling author A best-selling novelist in the 1930s, Irène Némirovsky (1903-1942) was rediscovered in 2004, when her Suite Française, set during the fall of France and the first year of German occupation, became a popular and critical success both in France and in the United States. Surviving in manuscript for sixty years after the author's deportation to Auschwitz, the work drew respectful attention as the voice of an early Holocaust victim. However, as remaining portions of Némirovsky's oeuvre returned to print, many twenty-first-century readers were appalled. Works such as David Golder and The Ball were condemned as crudely anti-Semitic, and when biographical details such as her 1938 conversion to Catholicism became known, hostility toward this "self-hating" Jew deepened. Countering such criticisms, Understanding Irène Némirovsky offers a sympathetic, nuanced reading of Némirovsky's fiction. Margaret Scanlan begins with an overview of the writer's life—her upper-class Russian childhood, her family's immigration to France, her troubled relationship with her neglectful mother—and then traces how such experiences informed her novels and stories, including works set in revolutionary Russia, among the nouveau riche on the Riviera, and in struggling French families and failing businesses during the Depression. Scanlan examines the Suite Française and other works that address the rise of fascism and anti-Semitism. Viewing Némirovsky as a major talent with a distinctive style and voice, Scanlan argues for Némirovsky's keen awareness of the unsettled times in which she lived and examines the ways in which even her novels of manners analyze larger social issues. Scanlan shows how Némirovsky identified with France as the center of culture and Enlightenment values, a nation where a thoughtful artist could choose her own identity. The Russian Revolution had convinced Némirovsky that violent liberations led to further violence and repression, that interior freedom required political stability. In 1940, when French democracy had collapsed and many seemed reconciled to the Vichy state, Némirovsky's idea of private freedom faltered—a recognition that her last work, Suite Française, for all its seeming reticence, makes poignantly clear.

Angels and Ministers of Grace Defend Us!

Author : Gregory William Mank
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476644039
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Angels and Ministers of Grace Defend Us! written by Gregory William Mank and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like a lovingly guided midnight tour, this book covers the seductive shadows of the most fascinating horror films and melodramas from the 1930s and 1940s. From the bloody censorship battles behind 1935's Bride of Frankenstein, to the sexual controversies of 1941's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the gruesome Nazi atrocities of 1943's Women in Bondage, this book delves into newly excavated research to tell the behind-the-scenes sagas of some of Hollywood's most frightening films. Peek behind the scenes, revel in on-the-set anecdotes and get a look at the script notes illuminating characters like WereWolf of London, Richard III, Panther Woman and Rasputin. Included are profiles of the performers and filmmakers who made the nightmares feel all too real in the darkened theaters of yesteryear, and an examination of the factors that have kept these films popular so many decades later.

Irène Némirovsky

Author : Jonathan M. Weiss
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804754811
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (548 download)

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Download or read book Irène Némirovsky written by Jonathan M. Weiss and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short critical biography by an expert on contemporary French literature is a fine introduction to the work of Irene Nemirovsky, author of "Suite Fran aise," who died in Auschwitz in 1942.

Passing

Author : Nella Larsen
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 166762265X
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Passing written by Nella Larsen and published by Alien Ebooks. This book was released on 2022 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlem Renaissance author Nella Larsen (1891 –1964) published just two novels and three short stories in her lifetime, but achieved lasting literary acclaim. Her classic novel Passing first appeared in 1926.

That Middle World

Author : Julia S. Charles
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469659581
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book That Middle World written by Julia S. Charles and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of racial passing literature, Julia S. Charles highlights how mixed-race subjects invent cultural spaces for themselves—a place she terms that middle world—and how they, through various performance strategies, make meaning in the interstices between the Black and white worlds. Focusing on the construction and performance of racial identity in works by writers from the antebellum period through Reconstruction, Charles creates a new discourse around racial passing to analyze mixed-race characters' social objectives when crossing into other racialized spaces. To illustrate how this middle world and its attendant performativity still resonates in the present day, Charles connects contemporary figures, television, and film—including Rachel Dolezal and her Black-passing controversy, the FX show Atlanta, and the musical Show Boat—to a range of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary texts. Charles's work offers a nuanced approach to African American passing literature and examines how mixed-race performers articulated their sense of selfhood and communal belonging.