Me

Me
Author: Tina Marie Lees
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2013-04-02
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1483605868

ME is a composition of collaborative work that opens doors into the very experiences of the author, Tina Marie Lees; a memoir. The work has a focus of penetrating the readers inner core, providing insight that can offer a sense of connection to their very own experiences. Through turmoil and happiness, the literature offers many emotional experiences that permit a peer into the many doors of life.

A Dictionary of Confusable Phrases

A Dictionary of Confusable Phrases
Author: Yuri Dolgopolov
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2016-02-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0786459956

Covering over 10,000 idioms and collocations characterized by similarity in their wording or metaphorical idea which do not show corresponding similarity in their meanings, this dictionary presents a unique cross-section of the English language. Though it is designed specifically to assist readers in avoiding the use of inappropriate or erroneous phrases, the book can also be used as a regular phraseological dictionary providing definitions to individual idioms, cliches, and set expressions. Most phrases included in the dictionary are in active current use, making information about their meanings and usage essential to language learners at all levels of proficiency.

This Isn't The Sort Of Thing That Happens To Someone Like You

This Isn't The Sort Of Thing That Happens To Someone Like You
Author: Jon McGregor
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2012-02-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1408809265

A man builds a tree house by a river, in anticipation of the coming flood. A sugar-beet crashes through a young woman's windscreen. A boy sets fire to a barn. A pair of itinerant labourers sit by a lake, talking about shovels and sex, while fighter-planes fly low overhead and prepare for war. These aren't the sort of things you imagine happening to someone like you. But sometimes they do. Set in the flat and threatened fenland landscape, where the sky is dominant and the sea lurks just beyond the horizon, these delicate, dangerous, and sometimes deeply funny stories tell of things buried and unearthed, of familiar places made strange, and of lives where much is hidden, much is at risk, and tender moments are hard-won.

English Idioms and Phrases Dictionary

English Idioms and Phrases Dictionary
Author: Daniel B. Smith
Publisher: Daniel B. Smith
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2023-07-03
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN:

Idioms are expressions that cannot be understood from their individual words alone, and the English language is full of them—and so is this dictionary: 4,800+ English idioms and phrases with example sentences included for you so as to understand them all. This is the essential idioms dictionary if you want to talk like a native speaker—or just find out more about the colorful phrases you hear and say every day.

Digital Research Methods and the Diaspora

Digital Research Methods and the Diaspora
Author: Dang Nguyen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2023-11-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1003801978

The computational turn in the social sciences and humanities has generated much excitement about the potential to refresh our approaches to the study of the techno-social. From natively digital to digitised data, researchers of digital diasporas increasingly find themselves working with a range of disparate digital objects. These digital objects can include anything from hyperlink to timestamps, from platform behavioural metrics such as react, share, or retweet to different media formats such as text, image, pre-recorded or livestreamed videos. Taking these disparate objects into account, this book introduces digital methods as research strategies not only for dealing with the ephemeral and unstable nature of tracing the diaspora with digital data, but also for reconceptualizing digital diasporas as assemblages and networks of more-than-human actors. The book also introduces a range of theoretical perspectives and methodological techniques to studying digital diasporas as contingent and processual hybrid collectives of heterogeneous material, cultural, and practice-based assemblages. This book will be essential reading for students and scholars interested in the digital space and transnational communities.

The GOAL: How to Access, Dwell & Operate in the Kingdom of God

The GOAL: How to Access, Dwell & Operate in the Kingdom of God
Author: Michael K. Evans Sr.
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2016-03-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1483448843

The Goal, explains how one can access, dwell and operate in the Kingdom of God, based on the teaching of Jesus, found in Matthew Chapter 5. Pastor Evans breaks down each Beatitude and offers the reader a step by step guide to access the Kingdom of God. A powerful book that will move each person who reads it into a powerful and fruitful relationship with the Lord, bringing Heaven to Earth. The Goal, is a modern classic drawing the reader back to it again and again for more wisdom and knowledge.

A History of Chinese Theatre in the 20th Century IV

A History of Chinese Theatre in the 20th Century IV
Author: Fu Jin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2021-09-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1000435571

The 20th century was a dynamic period for the theatrical arts in China. The four volumes of A History of Chinese Theatre in the 20th Century display the developmental trajectories of Chinese theatre over those hundred years. This volume examines the development of Chinese theatrical art from the Cultural Revolution to the end of the 20th century. The Cultural Revolution had a devastating influence on the theatrical profession, reducing the creation of performance art to serving the political authorities. Adopting a critical view, the author argues that the Reform and Opening-up of the late 1970s not only ended this period of political interference, but also brought about chaos and doubts to the theatrical circle, since neither tradition nor western concepts were a panacea for the problems faced by Chinese theatre. He posits that people should advocate patterns of drama that are rich and colourful in their expression while encouraging the coexistence and competition of different artistic concepts. Scholars and students in the history of the arts, especially the history of Chinese theatre, will find this book to be an essential guide.

Life in a Hospice

Life in a Hospice
Author: Ann Richardson
Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2007
Genre: Chronically ill
ISBN: 1846192439

How can hospices make the process dignified and peaceful as possible? What sort of people dedicate their careers to helping the dying? This book provides real-life accounts of hospice life, and gives insights into the type of work undertaken in a hospice setting. It also examines the differences between hospice and hospital care.

The Last Evidence

The Last Evidence
Author: Suhas Inamdar
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2020-04-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 164850888X

What is the shelf-life of our Karma? Is it possible to escape from the fruits of our Karma ever? Can a meticulously built character be marred by a sin committed in the past? Welcome to The Last Evidence. Ramgopal, a tourist guide in New Delhi, often engages in interesting conversations with his tourists, impressing them with his vast knowledge on various subjects. However, by sheer coincidence, all the tourist’s houses are burgled before they reach home after the tour. As the investigation progresses, the needle of suspicion points towards Ramgopal. He flees the city and takes shelter in a remote ashram to avoid being caught. Gradually, he transforms the entire region and earns the trust and respect of the villagers. When he is about to be rewarded by the local administration for his significant contribution to the all-round development of the village, the old investigation reaches his doorstep. Will the law catch up with him? Will he be exonerated? Is he really guilty?

Tracking People

Tracking People
Author: Anthea Hucklesby
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2023-08-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000934837

Tracking technologies are now ubiquitous and are part of many people’s everyday lives. Large sections of the population voluntarily use devices and apps to track fitness, medical conditions, sleep, vital signs or their own or others’ whereabouts. Governments, health services, immigration and criminal justice agencies increasingly rely upon tracking technologies to monitor individuals’ whereabouts, behaviour, medical conditions and interventions. Despite the human rights concerns of some organisations and individuals, most wearers and their significant others tend to welcome the technologies. This paradox is only one of the many fascinating challenges raised by the widespread use of tracking technologies which are explored in this book. This book critically explores the ethical, legal, social, and technical issues arising from the current and future use of tracking technologies. It provides a unique and wide-ranging discussion, via a cross-disciplinary collection of essays, on issues relating to technological devices and apps whose use is imposed upon wearers or suggested by others, whether agencies or individuals, including in the domains of criminal justice, terrorism, and health and social care. Contributions from leading academics from across social sciences, engineering, computer and data science, philosophy, and health and social care address the diverse uses of tracking technologies including with individuals with dementia, defendants and offenders, individuals with mental health conditions and drug users alongside legal, ethical and normative questions about the appropriate use of these technologies. Cross-disciplinary themes emerge focusing on both the benefits of the technologies – freedom, improved safety, security, well-being and autonomy, and increased capacity of and efficiencies for public services – and the challenges – implementation and operational costs, mission creep, privacy concerns, stigmatisation, whether the technologies work as expected, and useability and wearability for all wearers. This book is essential reading for academics and students engaged in criminology, criminal justice, socio-legal studies, science and technology studies, medicine, health and social care, psychology, engineering, computer and data science, philosophy, social policy and social work and security studies. It will also be of great interest to policy-makers, regulators, practitioners already deploying or considering using tracking technologies, and to current and potential wearers.