Enter The Babylon System

Author : Rodrigo Bascunan,Christian Pearce
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780307368461

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Enter the Babylon System by Rodrigo Bascunan,Christian Pearce Pdf

A docu-style investigation of our fascination with the gun, from the perspective of the hip-hop generation. The 2003 shooting death of Toronto community-centre worker Kempton Howard put the spotlight on hip hop’s fixation with guns. Media and police soon blamed rap music and its tales of gang life on bullet-ridden US streets for the rising use of firearms in Canadian crime. Were these songs artful accounts of a terrible truth, or a self-fulfilling prophecy? Rodrigo Bascunan and Christian Pearce have interviewed many of the major players in the hip-hop world. As publishers of an award-winning magazine of urban culture, they’d watched rap music become a scapegoat for society’s much older and widely spread fascination with guns. What follows is their international adventure to deconstruct modern gun culture in all its manifestations. Bascunan and Pearce seek out hip-hop artists, illegal gun runners, firearms aficionados and manufacturers, museum curators, academics, politicians, video-game creators, activists, victims of gun violence and the family and friends left behind. Somewhere between Fast Food Nation, No Logo and a Michael Moore documentary, featuring sly sidebar material and original artwork, Enter the Babylon System is part outrageous journalistic pursuit and part passionate cri de coeur for sanity in the face of a society’s obsession.

Author : Richard Swift
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781554982240

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Gangs by Richard Swift Pdf

A Booklist Editors’ Choice and a Society of School Librarians International (SSLI) Honor Book Street gangs have exploded worldwide. Tattoos, baggy pants, tagging, gangsta style, the unspoken threat -- it's all just around the corner in most of the world's major cities. From the streets of Los Angeles to the shantytowns of Cape Town, hundreds of thousands of "at risk" youth are deciding whether they should join their local gang. Violence, guns, the drug trade, racism, poverty, families under pressure and ever-widening slums all provide a witch's brew in which the youth gang tempts young males and females with a sense of identity and belonging that their world has denied them. Gangs exposes the roots of the problem as it moves from the banlieues of France to the favelas of Brazil. It offers a startling analysis of the complicity of the official adult world and some controversial ideas for reforms that might just undermine the appeal of gang life. For many of the world's young -- especially those who are poor -- joining a gang is a real career choice. It is a choice that can be as deadly for young gangsters as for their victims. Richard Swift shows us that we fail to understand gangs at our peril.

Author : Peter Squires
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136184642

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Gun Crime in Global Contexts by Peter Squires Pdf

Every year around three-quarters of a million people die (directly or indirectly) as a result of gun violence, with most deaths occurring in the poorest, yet also most highly weaponized parts of the world. Firearm proliferation -- 875 million global firearms -- is a direct contributor to both regional conflicts and to crime. This book attempts to understand the inter-related dynamics of supply and demand which are weaponizing the world. Now over ten years after Peter Squires’s Gun Culture or Gun Control?, the issues pertaining to gun violence and gun control have developed dramatically. With Gun Crime in Global Contexts, Peter Squires offers a cutting-edge account of contemporary developments in the politics of gun crime and the social and theoretical issues that surround the problem. This book contains: an innovative political analysis of neo-liberal globalization and weapon proliferation; an overview of recent gun control debates and gang strategies in the UK; an updated analysis of US gun politics: self-defence, race and the ‘culture war’; a critical analysis of US school and rampage shootings, how they have impacted the gun debate and how different societies have responded to mass shootings; an examination of the UN's development of an Arms Trade Treaty (2001--13); a discussion of weapon trafficking; discussions about youth gangs around the world, including those in Brazil, Kenya, West Africa, Mexico and South Africa. With its interdisciplinary perspective and global reach, this book will be important reading for academics and students interested in youth and gang crime, violent crime and comparative criminal justice, as well as peace and security studies and international relations.

Author : Richard Poplak
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781593762926

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The Sheikh's Batmobile by Richard Poplak Pdf

What happens to our pop culture when it meets another culture head-on—especially one that, according to some, is completely at odds with our own? In The Sheikh’s Batmobile, pop culture commentator Richard Poplak sets out on an unusual two-year odyssey. His mission is to see what becomes of his and America’s obsessions—pop songs and sitcoms, Hollywood movies and shoot-'em-up video games, muscle cars and punk music—when they make their way into the Muslim world. Over the course of his journey, Poplak gets body-slammed by WWE fans in Afghanistan, hangs out with hip-hop artists in Palestine, headbangs to heavy metal in Cairo, discovers a world of extreme makeovers in Beirut, bowls with the chief of police in small-town Kazakhstan, and encounters a mysterious Texan who builds rocket-propelled Batmobiles for a clientele of sheikhs. With uproarious humor and keen cultural insight, Poplak asks some vital questions: How is American pop culture consumed and reinterpreted in the Islamic world? What does that say about how we are viewed by young Muslims? And can Homer Simpson bridge the divisions that are tearing our world apart?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Book industries and trade
ISBN : NWU:35556038763397

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Quill & Quire by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rita Keresztesi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000221565

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Literary Black Power in the Caribbean by Rita Keresztesi Pdf

Literary Black Power in the Caribbean focuses on the Black Power movement in the anglophone Caribbean as represented and critically debated in literary texts, music and film. This volume is groundbreaking in its focus on the creative arts and artists in their evaluations of, and insights on, the relevance of the Black Power message across the region. The author takes a cultural studies approach to bring together the political with the aesthetic, enriching an already fertile debate on the era and the subject of Black Power in the Caribbean region. The chapters discuss various aspects of Black Power in the Caribbean: on the pages of journals and magazines, at contemporary conferences that radicalized academia to join forces with communities, in fiction and essays by writers and intellectuals, in calypso and reggae music, and in the first films produced in the Caribbean. Produced at the 50th anniversary of the 1970 Black Power Revolution in Port of Spain, Trinidad, this timely book will be of interest to students and academics focusing on Black Power, Caribbean literary and cultural studies, African diaspora, and Global South radical political and cultural theory.

Author : William C. Taggart III PhD
Publisher : LifeRich Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781489741608

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Unveiling Three Parts of Babylon by William C. Taggart III PhD Pdf

This second book of the Unveiling Series, Unveiling Three Parts of Babylon, by Dr. William C. Taggart III, offers a biblical study based on Revelation 16:19 where the kingdom of Satan, portrayed as the great city Babylon, falls into three parts. The author noted that in Revelation 18:4, the saints are urged to leave Babylon to avoid her plagues, Jeremiah 51: 35, 49. That the Satanic kingdom is portrayed biblically in three parts in Revelation 16:19, makes it imperative that the saints have a biblical understanding of those three parts to exit the Satanic kingdom completely. A correct biblical understanding of the three parts of Babylon is essential to the fleeing saints as they seek to escape the Satanic influences in all its forms. Unveiling Three Parts of Babylon continues the Unveiling Series by further biblically developing the three parts of Babylon which initially was presented by the author’s doctoral dissertation through corrections made and additional analysis. This second book not only exposes more fully the kingdom of Satan but encourages the successful exit of all humanity from the Babylonian entanglements of all three parts, Revelation 18:4.

Author : Otinel C, Iancu
Publisher : Josue Gerardo Roquet Rivera
Page : 1086 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Did you not know? Have you not heard? by Otinel C, Iancu Pdf

The book contains more than 6,100 questions. Its value is not in the answers, but rather in the way the questions are formulated and in the information they contain. Because the questions are arranged chronologically, the book can be used as a study guide. Although there are questions that require to memorize certain details, most of them contain enough clues within themselves which give the reader the opportunity to find the correct answer by using comparisons and logic. Since the book was conceived with the purpose of using it in Bible contests, most of the questions require one-word answers. The material contained in this book is useful in bringing out things that many readers omit when they read the Bible. It is also useful for getting ideas for sermon subjects, for Bible contests, for obtaining information, etc. There are a variety of types of questions: 1. Simple and straightforward questions 2. Multiple choice questions 3. True and false questions 4. Tricky questions 5. Questions that require logic 6. Questions that require general knowledge 7. Questions that require to know Bible details 8. Interesting questions 9. Questions focused on unique things in the Bible 10. Questions that deal with controversial issues 11. Questions that require a list of names 12. Questions that require special knowledge 13. Doctrinal questions 14. Questions that combine the Old Testament and New Testament 15. Bible geography questions 16. Questions that require memorizing verses Take a look at a few sample questions and answers: Tricky question: "David, Solomon, Jeroboam, Ahab, Jehoiakim, and Omri were just a few of the Kings of Israel. Some of them had problems with the Egyptians, and Israel and Egypt were often at war. So, king of Egypt, came and attacked Israel. If you paid attention, the name of the Egyptian king has already been mentioned. Give his name." Question that requires logic: "Alexander the Great, around 250 BC, gathered in Alexandria, Egypt, 70 Hebrew scholars to translate the Scriptures from Hebrew into Greek. This translation is known under the name of Septuagint (LXX). What part of the Bible did they translate? Was it the Old Testament, the New Testament, or the whole Bible?" Question focused on unique things in the Bible: "This gospel contains nothing about the life of Jesus before he was about 30 years old." Answers: Tricky question: So Questions that require logic: OT (One should know that there was no NT in 250 BC, and the NT was already written in Greek) Questions focused on unique things in the Bible: Mark

Author : Trevor Bryce
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780198726470

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Babylonia by Trevor Bryce Pdf

Exploring key historical events as well as the day-to-day life of the ancient Babylonians. A comprehensive guide to one of history's most profound civilizations.

Author : James Malm
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781989208090

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Bible Studies Daniel Revelation by James Malm Pdf

An extensive study commentary through the Biblical book of Daniel and its New Testament companion book Revelation. The 2300 Day and 70 Weeks prophecies are explained, including dating the birth, ministry and death of Jesus Christ and the approximate onset of the latter day tribulation and the second coming of Messiah the Christ. The 144,000, God's Two Prophets and the Messages to the Seven Churches are explained in detail.

Author : Frank L. Schoonover DD.
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781449755904

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The Second Tree of Life by Frank L. Schoonover DD. Pdf

My book is a book for people that are seeking the TRUTH concerning their Salvation which comes to man through redemption, BASED on a LIVING relationship with the Lord Jesus founded in a LIFE giving process which comes forth out of death to SELF, and a Life that comes forth from a SEED of Life sown in the Natural Life of the Natural Man born in Adam, which produces a Man in the Image of the Lord Jesus, free from INIQUITY and full of the fullness of Christ. A SEED from the TREE of Life, sown in Man, which TRANSFORMS Man into the Image of His creator through redemption, which is a God CREATION process from the Alter of sacrifice and the Cross Jesus died upon applied to the heart of Man redeeming man out of sin called INIQUITY

Author : Duncan Heaster
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326885021

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New European Christadelphian Commentary Volume 10: The Book of Revelation by Duncan Heaster Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555005610

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The Quarterly journal of prophecy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Randy Shankle
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0974103586

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The Rule of God - Shepherd Bishop Rule by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hendrickson
Publisher : Hendrickson Publishers
Page : 2224 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781565639874

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Zondervan NIV Study Bible by Hendrickson Pdf

Setting the standard for a whole new level of study Over 6 million readers have made Zondervan's The NIV Study Bible #1 in the Christian marketplace. Now by special arrangement, this outstanding resource is available from Hendrickson in versatile loose-leaf format. Offering the maximum number of study helps in one place, it features extra wide margins so readers can make their own notes. And because it's a snap to add pages wherever needed-or transfer them to any standard 3- or 5- ring notebook-it's a tremendously versatile tool for teachers and serious students of Scripture.