Author : Janet Halley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 32,97 MB
Release : 2008-04-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 0691136327
Janet Halley argues that the law and politics of sexuality involve deeply contested and clashing realities and interests. We can understand some, but not all, of these conflicting stakes through feminism.
Author : Carmen DeSousa
Publisher : Written Musings
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 46,52 MB
Release : 2014-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1945143053
Sometimes you want something so badly you are willing to abandon everything you have ever known—including yourself. Eighteen years ago, Jaynee Monroe married the man of her dreams, became the mother of four, and fulfilled her career goals. About to turn forty, she senses something is missing from her idyllic life. While Googling her name in an attempt to find herself, she unearths something so impossible, it makes her contemplate her own sanity. Seeking answers, she embarks on a journey to discover the truth, only to end up abducted by a deranged stranger who insists on calling her Caycee. Caycee took the road less traveled. After rejecting a marriage proposal from the only decent man she ever dated, she ventured to California to become famous. Eighteen years later, success has left her alone and miserable. Attempting to locate her lost love on Facebook, she discovers his infatuation with her. Not only does his presumed-dead wife share Caycee's uncommon middle name, but it also appears he has photo-shopped Caycee's face over his wife's face. Never could Caycee and Jaynee imagine that decisions they make years earlier would threaten not only their lives but also their loved ones. Caycee must now reunite with the southern gent she dismissed eighteen years ago and convince him to accompany her to New York to locate his wife—the most important person in both their lives. What readers are saying... ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "This is so different from your typical romance. I'd call it romantic suspense with a twist." WiLoveBooks ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "This amazing storyline has incredible twists and turns, unbearable suspense, mystery, and danger in an emotional satisfying plot that all wraps up with an excellent plot twist." Goodreads ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "DeSousa managed a twist I'd never encountered before and made it believable and suspenseful." Goodreads
Author : George Bredehorn
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,64 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Puzzles
ISBN : 9780806959627
Anagram loops, mixagrams, pentads, and phrase forays: if you love wordplay, these intriguing puzzles are better than crosswords! They don't have those awful, never-before-heard words meant just to trip you up. And 7 out of these 10 puzzles have no clues at all! You complete them by doing anagrams or by using the three or four letters provided to get you started. Begin with the simplest and make your way up the ladder to the hardest and trickiest. Split decisions have letter pairs in a grid, surrounded by empty squares. Each answer consists of a pair of words that share the letters that should be entered in those squares. For example: Go two by two to complete miniature crisscross puzzles: the vowels are there, but you have to add the correct consonants. Mixagrams have a five- and a four-letter word on each line; their letters have been mixed together, but their order is unchanged--just like this: D A R I U N V E T = DRIVE + AUNT It's hours and hours of braintwisting! 96 pages, 63 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.
Author : Janet Halley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 33,81 MB
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1400827353
Is it time to take a break from feminism? In this pathbreaking book, Janet Halley reassesses the place of feminism in the law and politics of sexuality. She argues that sexuality involves deeply contested and clashing realities and interests, and that feminism helps us understand only some of them. To see crucial dimensions of sexuality that feminism does not reveal--the interests of gays and lesbians to be sure, but also those of men, and of constituencies and values beyond the realm of sex and gender--we might need to take a break from feminism. Halley also invites feminism to abandon its uncritical relationship to its own power. Feminists are, in many areas of social and political life, partners in governance. To govern responsibly, even on behalf of women, Halley urges, feminists should try taking a break from their own presuppositions. Halley offers a genealogy of various feminisms and of gay, queer, and trans theories as they split from each other in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s. All these incommensurate theories, she argues, enrich thinking on the left not despite their break from each other but because of it. She concludes by examining legal cases to show how taking a break from feminism can change your very perceptions of what's at stake in a decision and liberate you to decide it anew.
Author : Ice-T
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,22 MB
Release : 2023-05-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1982148780
Award-winning actor, rapper, and producer Ice-T unveils a compelling memoir of his early life robbing jewelry stores until he found fame and fortune—while a handful of bad choices sent his former crime partner down an incredibly different path. Ice-T rose to fame in the late 1980s, earning acclaim for his music before going on to enthrall television audiences as Odafin “Fin” Tutuola in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. But it could have gone much differently. In this “poignant and powerful” (Library Journal, starred review) memoir, Ice-T and Spike, his former crime partner—collaborating with New York Times bestselling author Douglas Century—relate the shocking stories of their shared pasts, and how just a handful of decisions led to their incredibly different lives. Both grew up in violent, gang-controlled Los Angeles neighborhoods and worked together to orchestrate a series of jewelry heists. But while Ice-T was discovered rapping in a club and got his first record deal, Spike was caught for a jewelry robbery and did three years in prison. As his music career began to take off, Ice made the decision to abandon the criminal life; Spike continued to plan increasingly ingenious and risky jewel heists. And in 1992, after one of Spike’s robberies ended tragically, he was sentenced to thirty-five years to life. While he sat behind bars, he watched his former partner rise to fame in music, movies, and television. “Propulsive” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), timely, and thoughtful, two men with two very different lives reveal how their paths might have very well been reversed if they made different choices. All it took was a split decision.
Author : Jeff Stallinga
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 30,74 MB
Release : 2011-07-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1257905198
"Sometimes I wish I wasn't a Christian." That was muttered by 13 year old Eric as he went through a period of questioning his faith. Soon after, Eric was taken on a journey that showed him what his life would be like without God in it. Join Eric in this story full of suspense and unexpected twists and turns. Learn, with Eric, how every decision we make will set into motion a set of life-changing consequences.
Author : Geoffrey Mount Varner
Publisher : Beyond the Book Media LLC
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 11,1 MB
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781734256666
We make about 35,000 decisions every day. Most of them are mundane and not significant, but about 70 of those decisions are life-changing and life-altering split-second decisions. What are split-second decisions? They are decisions made when the following factors are involved: time constraint, limited information, and critical consequences. This is also known as the TLC framework. In this book, you will learn: ① Specific strategies to improve and maximize your split-second decision-making ability. ② To manage decision fatigue, which is the decrease in your ability to make optimal decisions as the day progresses, especially if you had to make several mundane decisions throughout the day. ③ The required rules for making split-second decisions- i.e., no decision is a decision. You must decide. If you are an executive, business leader, chief, first responder, or in a leadership role, the framework for split-second decisions is a tool that gives you an advantage in making optimal decisions at the most critical times. When making split-second decisions, you have either been trained or you are guessing. The same is true for your employees and those you lead. They have either been taught and have a clear framework for what and how to respond during these critical times, or they are guessing. Split-second decisions teach extraordinary leaders how to make exceptional decisions and help move good teams to greatness.
Author : J. Cameron Blackhall
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 42,8 MB
Release : 2005
Category : City planning and redevelopment law
ISBN : 9781859417485
The main aim of this book is to provide a text for students, practitioners and members of the public who are engaged in the study and/or practice in the planning system of England and Wales.
Author : Ricardo Perez Jr.
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 27,74 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 130459694X
"Sometimes it's right in front of you the whole time." From writer/poet Ricardo Perez Jr, is a collection of poetry that takes you into the thoughts of inspiration, and ending with wanting to search more within yourself for your own answers. With great metaphorical wordplay all the way down to heartfelt emotional reflections, Ricardo captures the all of a well standing, self conscious poet.
Author : Todd Hafer
Publisher : Zonderkidz
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 27,4 MB
Release : 2010-02-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0310870550
Stand-out efforts on the freshman football and basketball teams have Cody Martin in demand with both the track and baseball coaches. And to complicate matters further, his personal life's a mess since his dad remarried-and now Cody thinks Pork Chop might be using performance-enhancing drugs. When Pork Chop's coach confronts Cody, he is forced to make a tough decision-lie to the coach or risk losing his best friend. What's the right thing to do?
