Secondhand Origin Stories

Author : Lee Blauersouth
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 197839781X

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Secondhand Origin Stories by Lee Blauersouth Pdf

Opal has been planning to go to Chicago and join the Midwest's superhero team, the Sentinels, since she was a little kid. That dream took on a more urgent tone when her superpowered dad was unjustly arrested for protecting a neighbor from an abusive situation. Now, she wants to be a superhero not only to protect people, but to get a platform to tell the world about the injustices of the Altered Persons Bureau, the government agency for everything relating to superpowers. But just after Opal's high school graduation, a supervillain with a jet and unclear motives attacks the downtown home of the Sentinels, and when Opal arrives, she finds a family on the brink of breaking apart. She meets a boy who's been developing secret (and illegal) brain-altering nanites right under the Sentinel's noses, another teenage superhero-hopeful who looks suspiciously like a long-dead supervillain, and the completely un-superpowered daughter of the Sentinels' leader. Can four teens on the fringes of the superhero world handle the corruption, danger, and family secrets they've unearthed?

Author : Lee Brontide
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798635952405

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Secondhand Origin Stories by Lee Brontide Pdf

An outsider with superheroic ambitions A near-invincible teen with infamous powers A prodigy with treasonous technology A frail girl with a family legacy A supervillian with mysterious motives And a family fractured by secrets Content Warnings: Please note that this work contains some elements that may cause distress to some people. This includes instances of misgendering, ableism, intense family conflict, racism, mention of systemic injustice, and mild animal endangerment. The author encourages anyone with specific trigger warning questions to reach out for "spoilery" information if they are concerned about the impact this may have on their wellbeing, and want further information. Please prioritize your needs when reading.

Author : Michael Jones
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781430300953

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Second-Hand Stories by Michael Jones Pdf

"'Second-Hand Stories : 15 Portraits of Louisville' is a cultural, political and social snapshot of Kentucky's largest city. Written between 1993 and 2005, the articles in this book highlight major figurers and movements in Louisville history."--Back cover.

Author : Josh Spero
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03
Category : Book collecting
ISBN : 1783521244

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Second-Hand Stories by Josh Spero Pdf

A unique memoir that celebrates not just one life, but all of the lives connected through the past ownership of second-hand books. Every second-hand book tells two stories: one within its pages and another of the life it lived before changing hands. Whether mundane or extraordinary, on a grand scale or intensely personal, every second-hand book conceals the story of its past life. Lives filled with love, loss, scandal and conflict, these are the intimate and incredible stories that author Josh Spero uncovered after tracking down the previous owners of twelve of his second-hand books. Combined with stories from the author's own life - from growing up in London as a poor boy at a public school to becoming a scholar Oxford and later a tutor in Hampstead - and his lifelong love and pursuit of classical education, this is a memoir that celebrates not just one life, but all the lives connected through second-hand books.

Author : Karen Tranberg Hansen,Jennifer Le Zotte
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000545029

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Global Perspectives on Changing Secondhand Economies by Karen Tranberg Hansen,Jennifer Le Zotte Pdf

Providing interdisciplinary and global perspectives, this book examines historical and contemporary changes in secondhand economies, including the emergence and specialization of secondhand venues, the materials involved, as well as the cultural significance of secondhand things and the professions associated with them. The objects in focus range from used clothing, scrap and waste materials, to antiquities and used cars, thrift stores and circular economies. Growing concerns with sustainability in the West have helped bring about the ‘rediscovery’ of practices of clothing re-use, re-purposing and re-cycling at the same time as major high-street retailers are establishing programs to return used clothing to their stores for re-sale or recycling. As the contributions to this edited volume demonstrate, recent concerns with the fast pace and adverse effects of global commodity flows have increased the scholarly attention to secondhand economies, both in terms of their history and their significance for livelihoods and sustainability. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal, Business History.

Author : Independently Published
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1090152000

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Pourquoi Tales by Independently Published Pdf

During the winter of 2018, second grade students read, compared, and discussed numerous pourquoi tales, also known as origin stories. Then, students used their knowledge of pourquois to create their own using the writing process (plan, draft, revise, edit, publish- all while collecting feedback). Second graders were so excited to type their own tales as well! Students illustrated their stories with collages using self- made paper. Each of the 23 pourquoi tales contains the hard work of a seven or eight year old- I hope you enjoy reading their work and remembering the excitement of childhood imagination. --Elizabeth Park, Second Grade Teacher

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433069263279

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Catalogue of Superior Second-hand Books ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019371495

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A Catalogue of valuable New and Second-Hand Books, English and Foreign ... now on sale ... by Willis and Sotheran by Anonim Pdf

Author : Yaniv Fox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009285032

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The Merovingians in Historiographical Tradition by Yaniv Fox Pdf

The Merovingian centuries were a foundational period in the historical consciousness of western Europe, and their stories were shaped through a process of historiographical adaptation across a millennium. This expert commentary is for scholars interested in early medieval history and historiography.

Author : Sunaura Taylor
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520393066

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Disabled Ecologies by Sunaura Taylor Pdf

A powerful analysis and call to action that reveals disability as one of the defining features of environmental devastation and resistance. Deep below the ground in Tucson, Arizona, lies an aquifer forever altered by the detritus of a postwar Superfund site. Disabled Ecologies tells the story of this contamination and its ripple effects through the largely Mexican American community living above. Drawing on her own complex relationship to this long-ago injured landscape, Sunaura Taylor takes us with her to follow the site's disabled ecology--the networks of disability, both human and wild, that are created when ecosystems are corrupted and profoundly altered. What Taylor finds is a story of entanglements that reach far beyond the Sonoran Desert. These stories tell of debilitating and sometimes life-ending injuries, but they also map out alternative modes of connection, solidarity, and resistance--an environmentalism of the injured. An original and deeply personal reflection on what disability means in an era of increasing multispecies disablement, Disabled Ecologies is a powerful call to reflect on the kinds of care, treatment, and assistance this age of disability requires.

Author : Willis and Sotheran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000622170

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Willis's Price Current. A Catalogue of Superior Second-hand Books, Ancient and Modern ... No. CLIV[-CLXXXVII.] by Willis and Sotheran Pdf

Author : Thomas Connolly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044081270274

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Catalogue of Second-hand Books by Thomas Connolly Pdf

Author : Willis and Sotheran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
ISBN : PRNC:32101046067706

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A Catalogue of Valuable New and Second-hand Books by Willis and Sotheran Pdf

Author : Jelena Cvorovic,Kathryn Coe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9798216149682

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Storytelling around the World by Jelena Cvorovic,Kathryn Coe Pdf

This book provides students, instructors, and lay-readers with a cross-cultural understanding of storytelling as an art form that has existed for centuries, from the first spoken and sung stories to those that are drawn and performed today. This book serves as an indispensable resource for students and scholars interested in storytelling and in multicultural approaches to the arts. By taking an evolutionary approach, this book begins with a discussion of origin stories and continues through history to stories of the 21st century. The text not only engages the stories themselves, it also explains how individuals from all disciplines, from doctors and lawyers to priests and journalists, use stories to focus their readers' and listeners' attention and influence them. This text addresses stories and storytelling across both time (thousands of years) and geography, including in-depth descriptions of storytelling practices occurring in more than 40 different cultures around the world. Part I consists of thematic essays, exploring such topics as the history of storytelling, common elements across cultures, different media, lessons stories teach us, and storytelling today. Part II looks at more than 40 different cultures, with entries following the same outline: Overview, Storytellers: Who Tell the Stories, and When, Creation Mythologies, Teaching Tales and Values, and Cultural Preservation. Several tales/tale excerpts accompany each entry.

Author : Sotheran, Henry and Co
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V001495765

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Sale-catalogues of Second-hand Books on Sale by Henry Sotheran & Co by Sotheran, Henry and Co Pdf