Arnesto Modesto The World S Most Ineffectual Time Traveler

Author : Darren Johnson
Publisher : Darren Johnson
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Arnesto Modesto: The World's Most Ineffectual Time Traveler by Darren Johnson Pdf

What if you could go back and do it all over again? By sending his memories back in time, Arnesto Modesto gives himself a do-over. Of course, his much younger self may not be prepared to handle all that foreknowledge... Encouraged by his friend Pete, Arnesto attempts to use his limited recall to do some good — and winds up stumbling through some of the biggest events of the past quarter-century. Take it from Arnesto: Life isn't easier the second time around. (Think Groundhog Day if the main character went much farther back and only got to repeat his life ONCE.) For anyone who has ever wondered, "What if?"

Author : Darren Johnson
Publisher : Darren Johnson
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781386697282

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Darren Johnson's Best Short Stories of 2018 by Darren Johnson Pdf

Including eight disparate tales ranging in length from short story to novella, plus one huge crossover tying them together: THE BABY HUNTER: When mutant superhuman babies cause the apocalypse, you need... The Baby Hunter. They hunt us. He hunts them. CHASING COWQUEST: After thirty years, it seems someone has finally broken Max's record on a mysterious arcade game called Cowquest. With his wife's permission, he's returning to his hometown to get it back. QUINCUNX: In the final game of the Scrabble Championships, one player makes a move no one saw coming. MALTZIE: A CAT'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY: For anyone that’s ever had a special little fuzzface in their life. Adopted as a kitten, Maltzie immediately forged a bond with his humans that only grew stronger with time. THE 2ND AMENDMENTERS: They worship the only Amendment that matters (to them). Second Amendment! TYRONE JACKSON AND THE HALF-COURT DUNK: Harry Potter meets Boyz n the Hood in this explosive parody. Includes special bonus features. IT WAS A GIFT FROM GOD, THEY SAID: Everyone on Earth is suddenly "blessed" with the gift of flight. Why question it? THE BEST DAMN COP ON THE FORCE: You don't get to be the best without taking a few risks. THE GREATEST CROSSOVER OF ALL TIME: They’re some of the worst, most poorly written characters ever created by one man in 2018. Now their worlds are about to collide. They thought they had problems before… Featuring all your favorite (and least favorite) characters from the above compilation. A thriller.

Author : Darren Johnson
Publisher : Darren Johnson
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781393227908

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Darren Johnson's Best Short Stories of 2019 by Darren Johnson Pdf

Flying monuments. Quantum, time-traveling historians. Controllable back hair. Unidentified bussing objects. 14 separate tales plus one immense crossover bringing them together because why not: SPEEDING STEALTH BUS: Its attacks on pedestrians both terrorized and crippled the nation. Now it's back and just as stealthy — and violent — as ever. THE GREATEST LOVE STORY THAT ALMOST WAS: They had the perfect relationship until fate stepped in. You won't see *this* sappy story around the holidays. SINGLE ELIMINATION EARTH: Eight billion competitors forced to fight to the death against their will. One winner. THE LAST CHANCE: He's been unsuccessful for ages. It consumes his every thought. And now, as the last human on Earth, he has one more chance. SITUATIONAL: Even though their lives are the same, they don’t feel quite right. Something is either wrong with them — or everyone else. A QUICK, NEIGHBORLY PROBLEM: The ride's over and your language skills suck. Let the insults fly! 5 YEARS THE VILLAIN: Kidnapped by aliens, he’s been given five years to help humanity clean up their act. The catch? He’s marooned in an alien spacecraft stuck in orbit. One can’t save the human race without pissing a few billion of them off. THE LESSON: If you don't brainwash your kids, who will? Oh, Father O'Malley! Yay! THE UNWONTED 5: Five strangers with "useless" powers come together to form something more. Sorry, bad guys. THE REARRIVALS: The old gods are back and tearing things up, baby! You know, maybe someone *should* question them. INTERVIEW WITH A CANDIDATE: A HORROR STORY: Even the devil would be disgusted by this guy. Do they not care in Alabama, or what? STUR TRONK: Captain Alex Q.T. Pecks has been charged with maintaining the peace. I give it a week. LIMO RIDER: He's used to riding in limos. However, he's also used to being let out. TIME TRAVEL ROMANCE: As Written by a 12-year-old Purely for the Money: subtitle says it all. THE GREATEST CROSSOVER OF ALL TIME 2: All the bad guys from the stories above are teaming up to take over the world(s) and then some. All the good guys are trying to stop them. Note: knowledge of the first (2018's) Greatest Crossover is NOT required. Heck, it's not even recommended. You like crossovers? Well, this is crossover-er than any of them!

Author : Miguel A. Centeno,Agustin E. Ferraro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107311305

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State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain by Miguel A. Centeno,Agustin E. Ferraro Pdf

The growth of institutional capacity in the developing world has become a central theme in twenty-first-century social science. Many studies have shown that public institutions are an important determinant of long-run rates of economic growth. This book argues that to understand the difficulties and pitfalls of state building in the contemporary world, it is necessary to analyze previous efforts to create institutional capacity in conflictive contexts. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the process of state and nation building in Latin America and Spain from independence to the 1930s. The book examines how Latin American countries and Spain tried to build modern and efficient state institutions for more than a century - without much success. The Spanish and Latin American experience of the nineteenth century was arguably the first regional stage on which the organizational and political dilemmas that still haunt states were faced. This book provides an unprecedented perspective on the development and contemporary outcome of those state and nation-building projects.

Author : Sam Kushner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173026901547

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Long Road to Delano by Sam Kushner Pdf

Author : Marc Becker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Ecuador
ISBN : 1478010355

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The CIA in Ecuador by Marc Becker Pdf

Postwar Left -- CIA -- Coups -- Moscow Gold -- Divisions -- Transitions -- Populism -- Dissension -- Everyday Forms of Organization -- Communist Threats -- Resurgent Left -- 1959.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 807 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:919697561

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Conservation/Regeneration: the Modernist Neighbourhood by Anonim Pdf

Author : Maria de los Angeles Torres
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001-02-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0472087886

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In the Land of Mirrors by Maria de los Angeles Torres Pdf

DIVReflects on changes in the politics of the Cuban exile community in the forty years since the Cuban revolution /div

Author : David Pretel,Lino Camprubí
Publisher : Springer
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319754505

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Technology and Globalisation by David Pretel,Lino Camprubí Pdf

This book examines the role of experts and expertise in the dynamics of globalisation since the mid-nineteenth century. It shows how engineers, scientists and other experts have acted as globalising agents, providing many of the materials and institutional means for world economic and technical integration. Focusing on the study of international connections, Technology and Globalisation illustrates how expert practices have shaped the political economies of interacting countries, entire regions and the world economy. This title brings together a range of approaches and topics across different regions, transcending nationally-bounded historical narratives. Each chapter deals with a particular topic that places expert networks at the centre of the history of globalisation. The contributors concentrate on central themes including intellectual property rights, technology transfer, tropical science, energy production, large technological projects, technical standards and colonial infrastructures. Many also consider methodological, theoretical and conceptual issues.

Author : Mamadou Diouf,Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472070961

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Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World by Mamadou Diouf,Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo Pdf

Collected essays exploring the origins and evolution of music and dance in Afro-Atlantic culture

Author : Hito Steyerl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Installations (Art)--Germany
ISBN : 395679057X

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Hito Steyerl by Hito Steyerl Pdf

Hito Steyerl is rightly considered one of the most exciting artists working today who speculates on the impact of the Internet and digitization on the fabric of our everyday lives. Her films and writings offer an astute, provocative, and often funny analysis of the dizzying speed with which images and data are reconfigured, altered, and dispersed, many times over, accelerating into infinity or crashing into oblivion. 0Published to accompany the artist’s survey exhibitions at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, and the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, this book gathers a series of essays and close readings of Steyerl's films from the past ten years. Newly commissioned texts by Sven Lütticken, Karen Archey, Ana Teixeira Pinto, and Nick Aikens, alongside writings by Thomas Elsaesser, Pablo Lafuente, David Riff, and Steyerl, are spliced with over one hundred pages of color stills. This publication is a charged slideshow of the artist’s extraordinary investigations into the status, circulation, and materiality of images.

Author : Catherine Davies,Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies Catherine Davies,Claire Brewster,Hilary Owen
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781846310270

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South American Independence by Catherine Davies,Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies Catherine Davies,Claire Brewster,Hilary Owen Pdf

Examining women writers from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Colombia, this book traces the contradictions inherent in revolutionary movements that, while arguing for the rights of all, remained ambivalent, at best, about the place of women. It reveals the complex role of women in shaping the vexed ideologies of independence.

Author : Linda C. Majka,Theo J. Majka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Agricultural laborers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037439614

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Farm Workers, Agribusiness, and the State by Linda C. Majka,Theo J. Majka Pdf

Historical account of the social conflict between agricultural workers and agribusiness, and the role of state intervention in California, USA - analyses agricultural trade unionism since 1870, immigration of Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans and Filipinos, and its regulation; examines the economic recession of the 1930s, rise of rural worker organizations, internal migration, and state-enrolled contract labour; reports on the formation of the United Farm Workers and its struggle for trade union recognition, opposition, and state mediation. Bibliography.

Author : James M. Boyden
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520301788

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Courtier and the King by James M. Boyden Pdf

Ruy Gómez de Silva, or the prince of Eboli, was one of the central figures at the court of Spain in the sixteenth century. Thanks to his oily affability, social grace, and an uncanny knack for anticipating and catering to the desires of his prince, he rose from obscurity to become the favorite and chief minister of Philip II. From the scattered surviving sources James Boyden weaves a vivid, compelling narrative: one that breathes life not only into Ruy Gómez, but into the court, the era, and the enigmatic character of Phillip II as well. Elegantly written and highly readable, this book discovers in the career of Gómez the techniques, aspirations, and mentality of an accomplished courtier in the age of Castiglione. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995.

Author : Dave Hill,Ravi Kumar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135906511

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Global Neoliberalism and Education and its Consequences by Dave Hill,Ravi Kumar Pdf

In this groundbreaking critique of neoliberalism in schooling and education, an international cast of education policy analysts, educational activists and scholars deftly analyze the ideologies underlying the global, national and local neoliberalisation of schooling and education. The thrilling scholarship that makes up Global Neoliberalism and Education and its Consequences exposes the machinations, agenda and impacts of the privatising and 'merchandisation' of education by the World Bank, the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), biased think tanks, global and national corporations and capital, and the full political spectrum of Neoliberal governments. Including such topics as the increasing polarization of racialized and gendered social classes as a consequence of neoliberal policies, the role and shape of markets and education in the era of globalised Capitalism, the effects of the profit motive in higher education, the impact of the Heritage Foundation in the USA, and even a critical evaluation of education in Cuba--readers are sure to find startling insight and provocative arguments throughout Global Neoliberalism and Education and its Consequences.