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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Dwayne Kerr
Your muscles can allow you to move--to run, jump, dance, and do much more. But how exactly do they work? Readers will discover the answer to this question and much more inside this book. The age-appropriate text is paired with clear, labeled diagrams to give readers a well-rounded approach to understanding the human musculature system. The text also includes information about muscle injuries and physical fitness.
With the rapid and ubiquitous spread of urban light pollution, nocturnal darkness has become a rare and neglected experience. In response to the steady decline of gloom, researchers working across multiple disciplines have sought to understand the dynamic and innovative role nighttime plays in human cultures across time. From studies on the ritualistic function of darkened caves in Paleolithic times to contemporary policy concerns over the need for nighttime mayors and tourist economies, night research has emerged as a prolific line of inquiry capturing the night’s distinct qualities. However, while “night studies” brings much-needed attention to human experiences with darkness, little work exists outside the context of cities. The result is that explorations of rural darkness, such as the media genres and styles that culturally shape the meaning of the rural night, have been meager. This book provides a critical and comprehensive account of the mediation of rural darkness. Analyzing a wide range of contemporary media, from astrophotography, tourist advertisements and social media to editing software, online databases and nature documentaries, the book focuses on two competing and irreconcilable cultures of rural darkness. On the one hand, many media genres contribute to a “preservation” ideology based on the Western myth of “wilderness.” Relying on the classic urban/rural binary, this culture of rural darkness imagines the night as a primal and ancient inheritance, a distant and remote frontier free from the ills of human technology. On the other hand, other media genres challenge this preservationist depiction of rural darkness, demonstrating that the rural night does not retreat from modern, urban life but is an extension of the urban-technological. Promoting a hybrid, intermeshed view of the night, this culture of rural darkness dismantles the frontier myth by understanding “pristine” darkness as a cultural technology that seeks to erase the messy connections between the rural and the urban. The book contends that only the latter culture of rural darkness offers a responsible and accurate understanding of the rural night. Not only does the preservationist view of pristine darkness privilege “natural” darkness over other sustainable forms of gloom, but its endorsement of the frontier myth represents a flight from history, a rhetorical strategy that may actually prevent the night’s protection.
In the spring of 2003 when Norman Mailer was 80 years old, he invited an improbable companion into his life: Dwayne Raymond, 40 years his junior, originally from a small town in Oregon, and now a waiter at a restaurant in Provincetown, Cape Cod, where Mailer spent most of his final years. Over the next half-decade, Raymond became Mailer's aide in all matters professional and private. Raymond assisted him with four books he published during this time, including his final novel "The Castle in the Forest". The two spent many hours together each day talking, cooking, and researching new projects. As Raymond's responsibilities grew, so too did his friendship with Mailer, who taught him how to navigate his own personal challenges. In this poignant memoir, Dwayne Raymond presents an alternative portrayal of a writer who is frequently described as controversial, combative, and verbose; the Norman Mailer he depicts is a comparatively temperate, comprehensive man whose quirky, human qualities far outweigh the disquieting legend. Beautifully written and honestly portrayed, "Mornings with Mailer" is a personal and revealing story of a great writer, his Man-Friday, and their unlikely, but enduring, relationship.
In fierce, agile poems, Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration—canvassing a wide range of emotions and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, drug abuse, domestic violence, fatherhood and grace—and, in doing so, creates a travelogue for an imagined life. Reginald Dwayne Betts confronts the funk of post-incarceration existence in traditional and newfound forms, from revolutionary found poems created by redacting court documents to the astonishing crown of sonnets that serves as the volume’s radiant conclusion.
Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration in fierce, dazzling poems—canvassing a wide range of emotions and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, drug abuse, domestic violence, fatherhood, and grace—and, in doing so, creates a travelogue for an imagined life. Reginald Dwayne Betts confronts the funk of postincarceration existence and examines prison not as a static space, but as a force that enacts pressure throughout a person’s life. The poems move between traditional and newfound forms with power and agility—from revolutionary found poems created by redacting court documents to the astonishing crown of sonnets that serves as the volume’s radiant conclusion. Drawing inspiration from lawsuits filed on behalf of the incarcerated, the redaction poems focus on the ways we exploit and erase the poor and imprisoned from public consciousness. Traditionally, redaction erases what is top secret; in Felon, Betts redacts what is superfluous, bringing into focus the profound failures of the criminal justice system and the inadequacy of the labels it generates. Challenging the complexities of language, Betts animates what it means to be a "felon."
In a culture overridden and drowned out by a smorgasbord of sexual ambiguity and mistaken identity, Fatal Attraction: A Story of Pain, Healing and Deliverance is a journey on a road deem less traveled. This book will take you on a journey to find peace.
Acres of Green and Oceans of Blue: Diary of a Runaway
John Dwayne Evans
Writers Club Press
2000
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Douglas Dwayne Decker
War College Series
2015
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Throughout their award-winning careers, visual artist and filmmaker Titus Kaphar and poet, memoirist, and attorney Reginald Dwayne Betts have shed light on the violences of incarceration and the underexplored contradictions of American history. In Redaction, they unite their different mediums to expose the ways the legal system exploits and erases the poor and incarcerated from public consciousness. First exhibited at MoMA PS1, the fifty “Redaction” prints layer Kaphar’s etched portraits of incarcerated individuals with Betts’s poetry, which uses the legal strategy of redaction to craft verse out of legal documents. Three prints are broken apart into their distinct layers, illuminating how the pair manipulated traditional engraving, printing, poetic, and redaction processes to reveal what is often concealed. This beautifully designed volume also includes additional artwork, poetry, and an introduction by MoMA associate director Sarah Suzuki. The result is an astonishing, powerful exploration of history, incarceration, and race in America.
Reginald Dwayne Betts is our foremost chronicler of the ways prison shapes and transforms American life. In Doggerel, Betts examines this subject through a more prosaic—but equally rich—lens: dogs. He reminds us that, as our lives are broken and put back together, the only witness often barks instead of talks. In these poems, which touch on companionship in its many forms, Betts seamlessly and skillfully deploys the pantoum, ghazal, and canzone, in conversation with artists such as Freddie Gibbs and Lil Wayne. Simultaneously philosophical and playful, Doggerel is a meditation on family, falling in love, friendship, and those who accompany us on our walk through life. Balancing political critique with personal experience, Betts once again shows us “how poems can be enlisted to radically disrupt narrative” (Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker)—and, in doing so, reveals the world anew. “. . . every story becomes a multiplication, If the naming is filled less with names than With the best parts, the barking & everything Else, because who among us hasn’t been As mangy as a rescue, even on our best Days, desiring mostly to be loved.” —from “Rings”
Valerie: The Valerie Nightengale Legacy of Sin and Betrayal
Justin Dwayne Foxworth
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2009
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"Stunning new talent "... Andrew Neiderman, author of The Devil's Advocate BOOK ONE OF THE NIGHTENGALE LEGACY OF SIN AND BETRAYAL Trapped a long time ago by the sins of the father, Valerie Nightengale is determined that someday she will no longer be a weak and helpless little girl. Someday, her fairy-tale prince will rescue her from the dreadful, nightmarish curse of her father, the pathetic Larry Nightengale. So, indeed, Valerie does break the dreadful ties that bind her and she becomes the wealthy, powerful kind of woman she always wanted to be, the kind of woman she always deserved to be. Yet wealth and power cannot break the Nightengale legacy of sin and betrayal, still the sins of the father linger, linger... Now, made both warped and hypocritical by them, Valerie is drawn towards a shocking climax that can do nothing but continue to haunt all of the Nightengales and the Prestons forever From Valerie... When I was but a child, I was too weakened by circumstances to defend my rights, too intimidated by those around me to put a stop their insults and their abuses. Then I discovered my weakness was a sign of failure, a trait of something truly defective, so I lifted my head high and stopped being a martyr for everyone else. Their weaknesses only encouraged my own infirmities. It became necessary to learn how to be unfaltering lest I suffer, lest I wither away and die. Because the most diabolical of damages had been inflicted on me by cold and unfeeling, heartless and uncaring people, I taught myself how to ward off their daily, petty persecutions. In the best-selling tradition of the most famous gothic authors... The Nightengale Legacy Of Sin And Betrayal Valerie Valerie's Secrets Valerie's Sinners Valerie's Freaks -- the disturbing story of how it all begins -- Valerie's Family -- and at last the disturbing story of how it all ends -- Valerie's Legacy
Valerie's Secrets: The Valerie Nightengale Legacy of Sin and Betrayal
Justin Dwayne Foxworth
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2009
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"Stunning new talent "... Andrew Neiderman, author of The Devil's Advocate BOOK TWO OF THE NIGHTENGALE LEGACY OF SIN AND BETRAYAL Years ago, in Valerie Nightengale's extravagant Nightengale Manor, the stage was set for secrets, secrets that she did not want anyone to discover. Not even her son. Now, because the sins of the fathers linger still, there are secrets everywhere. Deadly secrets They linger in the deep and silent shadows in the corners of the foreboding Nightengale Manor. They haunt the little house down the hill where once upon a time unspeakable sins of the flesh were committed. Now, thanks to Valerie Nightengale and her hypocritical teachings, they haunt the very grounds surrounding the small dwelling So even more secrets must be planted by the guilty to confound the innocent, to cover the trails of forbidden, wicked lust, and bitter family betrayal. But worst of all, for the son of Valerie Nightengale and Jack Preston, Jon Preston, terrible secrets must be planted to obscure the tracks of betrayal and even the tracks of... murder From Valerie's Secrets... I watched, curiously detached, as a woman appeared to me out of nowhere as if in a dream. She invaded the constant blackness that surrounded me in a blaze of bright light, in a sure coming of glory. The woman was costumed in a long, flowing, habit-like costume that was made entirely of white; she appeared as a nun except she wore nothing on her head. Only her dark, flowing hair offered any real kind of contrast to her brilliant, white outfit. The beautiful, billowing garment enfolded her slight frame and no other part of her was exposed to me except for her face and her hands. In the best-selling tradition of the most famous gothic authors... The Nightengale Legacy Of Sin And Betrayal Valerie Valerie's Secrets Valerie's Sinners Valerie's Freaks -- the disturbing story of how it all begins -- Valerie's Family -- and at last the disturbing story of how it all ends -- Valerie's Legacy