Unnatural Acts

Author : Kevin J. Anderson
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780758277374

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Unnatural Acts by Kevin J. Anderson Pdf

To Be Dead Or Not To Be Dead In the Unnatural Quarter, golems slave away in sweatshops, necromancers sell black-market trinkets to tourists, and the dead rise up--to work the night shift. But zombie detective Dan Shamble is no ordinary working stiff. When a local senator and his goons picket a ghostly production of Shakespeare in the Dark--condemning the troupe's "unnatural" lifestyles--Dan smells something rotten. And if something smells rotten to a zombie, you're in serious trouble. . . Before his way of life, er, death, is destroyed, Dan wants answers. Along the way he needs to provide security for a mummified madame, defend a mixed-race couple (he's a vampire, she's a werewolf) from housing discrimination, and save his favorite watering hole, the Goblin Tavern, from drying up. Throw in a hairy hitman, a necro-maniac, and a bank robber who walks through walls, and Dan Shamble's plate is full. Maybe this time, the zombie detective has bitten off more than he can chew. . . Praise for Death Warmed Over "Wickedly funny, deviously twisted and enormously satisfying. This is a big juicy bite of zombie goodness. Two decaying thumbs up."--Jonathan Maberry "A darkly funny, wonderfully original detective tale."--Kelley Armstrong "An unpredictable walk on the weird side. Prepare to be entertained." --Charlaine Harris

Author : Stuart Woods
Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451238771

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Unnatural Acts by Stuart Woods Pdf

Includes excerpt from Stuart Woods's next thrilling Stone Barrinton novel, Collateral damage (p. (379-387)).

Author : Robert Carroll
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781105902192

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Unnatural Acts: Critical Thinking, Skepticism, and Science Exposed! by Robert Carroll Pdf

Unnatural acts by Robert Todd Carroll, creator of the popular website The Skeptic's Dictionary, is for people who want to improve their thinking, become more accurate in their beliefs and more reasonable in their actions, and who are tired of being fooled by others. The book is about natural and unnatural thinking, and how the way we think affects everything we do - Publisher's description.

Author : Samuel S. Wineburg
Publisher : Critical Perspectives on the P
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : 1566398568

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Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts by Samuel S. Wineburg Pdf

Whether he is comparing how students and historians interpret documentary evidence or analyzing children's drawings, Wineburg's essays offer rough maps of how ordinary people think about the past and use it to understand the present. These essays acknowledge the role of collective memory in filtering what we learn in school and shaping our historical thinking.

Author : Donald Barthelme
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Experimental fiction, American
ISBN : OCLC:223374926

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Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts by Donald Barthelme Pdf

Author : Lucy Taylor
Publisher : Rhinoceros
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1563335522

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Unnatural Acts and Other Stories by Lucy Taylor Pdf

Author : Theodore Steinberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0195309685

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Acts of God by Theodore Steinberg Pdf

This revised edition features a new chapter analyzing the failed response to Hurricane Katrina. Steinberg argues that it is wrong to see natural disasters as random outbursts of nature or expressions of divine judgment. He reveals how business and government decisions have paved the way for the greater losses of life and property.

Author : Judith M. Halberstam,Ira Livingston
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1995-12-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 0253115582

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Posthuman Bodies by Judith M. Halberstam,Ira Livingston Pdf

"... will draw a wide readership from the ranks of literary critics, film scholars, science studies scholars and the growing legion of 'literature and science' researchers. It should be among the essentials in a posthumanist toolbox." -- Richard Doyle Automatic teller machines, castrati, lesbians, The Terminator: all participate in the profound technological, representation, sexual, and theoretical changes in which bodies are implicated. Posthuman Bodies addresses new interfaces between humans and technology that are radically altering the experience of our own and others' bodies.

Author : David Roman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1998-02-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0253211689

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Acts of Intervention by David Roman Pdf

Acts of Intervention traces the ways in which performance and theatre have participated in and informed the larger cultural politics of race, sexuality, citizenship and AIDS in the United States in the last fifteen years.

Author : Susan Leigh Foster
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1995-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0253116503

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Choreographing History by Susan Leigh Foster Pdf

"... I have used essays from the book to help dance graduate students push their thinking beyond the studio and their own physical experience and to realize the varied resources, approaches, and theoretical positions possible in writing about the body." -- Dance Research Journal "Choreographing History... assembles an impressive diversity of sites, disciplines and critical approaches... [and] includes not only historical bodies and discourses, but also the very bodies of the historians themselves." -- Parachute "This volume is not only full of gems (the very lineup of preeminent scholars is impressive), but is also a neat cross-section of the academic conventions and mannerisms of our time." -- Dance Chronicle "... [an] important step... in the ineluctable dance by postmodern historians across a bridge that spans the gaps among disciplines, between theory and practice, and betweeen present and past." -- Theatre Journal Historians of science, sexuality, the arts, and history itself focus on the body, merging the project of writing about the body with theoretical concerns in the writing of history.

Author : Sam Wineburg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226357355

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Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone) by Sam Wineburg Pdf

A look at how to teach history in the age of easily accessible—but not always reliable—information. Let’s start with two truths about our era that are so inescapable as to have become clichés: We are surrounded by more readily available information than ever before. And a huge percent of it is inaccurate. Some of the bad info is well-meaning but ignorant. Some of it is deliberately deceptive. All of it is pernicious. With the Internet at our fingertips, what’s a teacher of history to do? In Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone), professor Sam Wineburg has the answers, beginning with this: We can’t stick to the same old read-the-chapter-answer-the-question snoozefest. If we want to educate citizens who can separate fact from fake, we have to equip them with new tools. Historical thinking, Wineburg shows, has nothing to do with the ability to memorize facts. Instead, it’s an orientation to the world that cultivates reasoned skepticism and counters our tendency to confirm our biases. Wineburg lays out a mine-filled landscape, but one that with care, attention, and awareness, we can learn to navigate. The future of the past may rest on our screens. But its fate rests in our hands. Praise for Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone) “If every K-12 teacher of history and social studies read just three chapters of this book—”Crazy for History,” “Changing History . . . One Classroom at a Time,” and “Why Google Can’t Save Us” —the ensuing transformation of our populace would save our democracy.” —James W. Lowen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me and Teaching What Really Happened “A sobering and urgent report from the leading expert on how American history is taught in the nation’s schools. . . . A bracing, edifying, and vital book.” —Jill Lepore, New Yorker staff writer and author of These Truths “Wineburg is a true innovator who has thought more deeply about the relevance of history to the Internet—and vice versa—than any other scholar I know. Anyone interested in the uses and abuses of history today has a duty to read this book.” —Niall Ferguson, senior fellow, Hoover Institution, and author of The Ascent of Money and Civilization

Author : Stewart B. Segal
Publisher : Livewellthy
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Food habits
ISBN : 061553807X

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Diets and Other Unnatural Acts by Stewart B. Segal Pdf

Not unlike investing for retirement, the authors encourage readers to invest in several areas of their lives that will secure a well rounded life of health.

Author : David L. Dotlich,Peter C. Cairo
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780787961817

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Unnatural Leadership by David L. Dotlich,Peter C. Cairo Pdf

Written by David Dotlich and Peter Cairo-- two of the country's top executive coaches and educators-- Unnatural Leadership debunks the common notion of the natural leader as a flawless figure. The book describes the truth about being a real leader in a business environment turned upside down by e-commerce, diversity, security concerns, globalization, and matrix structures. Drawing on personal experience working with successful leaders in top-tier companies throughout the world, Dotlich and Cairo identify a style of leadership used by those who succeed in complicated business and people situations, a style that maximizes a leader's strengths and acknowledges weaknesses.

Author : Francis Young
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781786722911

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Magic as a Political Crime in Medieval and Early Modern England by Francis Young Pdf

Treason and magic were first linked together during the reign of Edward II. Theories of occult conspiracy then regularly led to major political scandals, such as the trial of Eleanor Cobham Duchess of Gloucester in 1441. While accusations of magical treason against high-ranking figures were indeed a staple of late medieval English power politics, they acquired new significance at the Reformation when the 'superstition' embodied by magic came to be associated with proscribed Catholic belief. Francis Young here offers the first concerted historical analysis of allegations of the use of magic either to harm or kill the monarch, or else manipulate the course of political events in England, between the fourteenth century and the dawn of the Enlightenment. His book addresses a subject usually either passed over or elided with witchcraft: a quite different historical phenomenon. He argues that while charges of treasonable magic certainly were used to destroy reputations or to ensure the convictions of undesirables, magic was also perceived as a genuine threat by English governments into the Civil War era and beyond.

Author : Frank Smith
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111930231

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Unspeakable Acts, Unnatural Practices by Frank Smith Pdf

Smith dismantles the shoddy science undergirding direct, intensive, and early phonics training.