When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. When life put Marques IQ Golden in a coma, he awoke tougher and more determined than ever. He may not have had a penny to his name, and his academic career was seemingly ruined, but he had his friends, his intellectual abilities and his streets smarts. That was enough to create a street empire full of power and riches. But what goes up, must come down. And when life gave Q and his CND crew, a business crippling drought; Q came up with an idea. Why sell drugs when you can make them? And not just any drug? The PERFECT drug. And thus volume 2 begins as Spring blooms in 1999 and Q gambles on an idea as ambitious as any he's ever had. Flying higher and closer to the sun, the stakes continue to increase in a world where what goes up, must come down and all that glitters is not gold.
Once upon a time it was 1999. The economy was booming. The world was changing. And the end was near...the end of what? The world? Some people thought so. Not Marques IQ Golden. IQ was a genius, comfortable on both sides of the track, with a bright future ahead of him. But a walk on the wrong side of the tracks, at the wrong time derailed that future and left him with nothing but the clothes on his back and the friends at his side. For IQ, that was enough. That...and a master plan to change the street game FOREVER! The Golden Era: Winter Season is the first in a four volume cautionary X fairy tale written as a fictional memoir. It is an unflinching look at a talented but troubled young man who chooses to pursue a life of money, drugs and crime to achieve success on his terms, playing by his rules. As Q flies higher and closer to the sun, while Y2K sits on the horizon and uncertainty looms; a few things become painfully evident. What goes up, must come down. And all that glitters is not gold.
Red, White & Black is a provocative critique of socially engaged films and related critical discourse. Offering an unflinching account of race and representation, Frank B. Wilderson III asks whether such films accurately represent the structure of U.S. racial antagonisms. That structure, he argues, is based on three essential subject positions: that of the White (the “settler,” “master,” and “human”), the Red (the “savage” and “half-human”), and the Black (the “slave” and “non-human”). Wilderson contends that for Blacks, slavery is ontological, an inseparable element of their being. From the beginning of the European slave trade until now, Blacks have had symbolic value as fungible flesh, as the non-human (or anti-human) against which Whites have defined themselves as human. Just as slavery is the existential basis of the Black subject position, genocide is essential to the ontology of the Indian. Both positions are foundational to the existence of (White) humanity. Wilderson provides detailed readings of two films by Black directors, Antwone Fisher (Denzel Washington) and Bush Mama (Haile Gerima); one by an Indian director, Skins (Chris Eyre); and one by a White director, Monster’s Ball (Marc Foster). These films present Red and Black people beleaguered by problems such as homelessness and the repercussions of incarceration. They portray social turmoil in terms of conflict, as problems that can be solved (at least theoretically, if not in the given narratives). Wilderson maintains that at the narrative level, they fail to recognize that the turmoil is based not in conflict, but in fundamentally irreconcilable racial antagonisms. Yet, as he explains, those antagonisms are unintentionally disclosed in the films’ non-narrative strategies, in decisions regarding matters such as lighting, camera angles, and sound.
The examination of four great civilizations that existed before Columbus’s arrival in North America offers evidence of sustained contact between the Old and New Worlds • Describes the cultural splendor, political might, and incredibly advanced technology of these precursors to our modern age • Shows that North America’s first civilization, the Adena, was sparked by ancient Kelts from Western Europe and explores links between Hopewell Mound Builders and prehistoric Japanese seafarers Before Rome ruled the Classical World, gleaming stone pyramids stood amid smoking iron foundries from North America’s Atlantic seaboard to the Mississippi River. On its east bank, across from today’s St. Louis, Missouri, flourished a walled city more populous than London was one thousand years ago, with a pyramid larger--at its base--than Egypt’s Great Pyramid. During the 12th century, hydraulic engineers laid out a massive irrigation network spanning the American Southwest that, if laid end to end, would stretch from Phoenix, Arizona, to the Canadian border. On a scale to match, they built a five-mile-wide dam from ten million cubic yards of rock. While Europe stumbled through the Dark Ages, a metropolis of weirdly shaped, multistory superstructures, precisely aligned to the sun and moon, sprawled across the New Mexico Desert. Who was responsible for such colossal achievements? Where did their mysterious builders come from, and what became of them? These are some of the questions investigated by Frank Joseph in his examination of ancient influences at work on our continent. He reveals that modern civilization is not the first to arise in North America but was preceded instead by four high cultures that rose and fell over the past three thousand years: the Adena, Hopewell, Mississippian, and Anasazi-Hohokam. How they achieved greatness and why they vanished so completely are the intriguing enigmas explored by this unconventional prehistory of our country, Advanced Civilizations of Prehistoric America.
When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. When life put Marques IQ Golden in a coma, he awoke tougher and more determined than ever. He may not have had a penny to his name, and his academic career was seemingly ruined, but he had his friends, his intellectual abilities and his streets smarts. That was enough to create a street empire full of power and riches. But what goes up, must come down. And when life gave Q and his CND crew, a business crippling drought; Q came up with an idea. Why sell drugs when you can make them? And not just any drug? The PERFECT drug. And thus volume 2 begins as Spring blooms in 1999 and Q gambles on an idea as ambitious as any he's ever had. Flying higher and closer to the sun, the stakes continue to increase in a world where what goes up, must come down and all that glitters is not gold.
Once upon a time it was 1999. The economy was booming. The world was changing. And the end was near...the end of what? The world? Some people thought so. Not Marques IQ Golden. IQ was a genius, comfortable on both sides of the track, with a bright future ahead of him. But a walk on the wrong side of the tracks, at the wrong time derailed that future and left him with nothing but the clothes on his back and the friends at his side. For IQ, that was enough. That...and a master plan to change the street game FOREVER! The Golden Era: Winter Season is the first in a four volume cautionary X fairy tale written as a fictional memoir. It is an unflinching look at a talented but troubled young man who chooses to pursue a life of money, drugs and crime to achieve success on his terms, playing by his rules. As Q flies higher and closer to the sun, while Y2K sits on the horizon and uncertainty looms; a few things become painfully evident. What goes up, must come down. And all that glitters is not gold.
Set in New York's shady underbelly of crime, we follow Rhoda Gray, alias The White Moll, as she strives to do good but finds herself framed by criminals who also blame her for ruining their schemes. Rhoda Gray devoted her life protecting the poor and weak in the underworld of New York City, and became known as The White Moll, a fearless crime fighter. But when she helps Gypsy Nan, who turns out not to be what she seemed, The White Moll is accused of a crime she didn't commit. Pulled into the criminal world and on the run from the police, she plays against fearful odds to beat the most notorious crime gang in New York City. Frank Lucius Packard (1877-1942) was a Canadian novelist best known for his Jimmie Dale mystery series. As a young man he worked as a civil engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway. His experiences working on the railroad led to his writing a series of railroad stories and novels. Packard also wrote number of mystery novels, the most famous of which featured a character called Jimmie Dale, a wealthy playboy by day and a fearless crime fighter by night. Jimmie Dale novels brought the idea of a costume and mask for hero's secret identity, and also established the concept of a hero's secret hideout or lair.
White-collar crime costs the United States more than $300 billion each year. It is surprisingly common, with one in every three Americans eventually becoming a victim. The criminals often dismiss these crimes as victimless, but those unfortunate enough to fall prey would disagree. An Introduction to Corporate and White-Collar Crime provides readers
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