What walks the earth is not always believable. What we see is sometimes what we choose. Jesse, a miserable, short-order fry cook, understands this better than most when he finds himself stuck in the middle of a battle with the powers of the underworld. Control for the existence of society itself is at stake. Not everything is what it seems as we walk this earth. Secrets and deception are at the heart of every turn, every player, and every move in the conquest for control of ultimate power over the human race. The only question that remains, who comes out victorious?Jason Reinders, the author of Blood On The Barbed Wire and Terminally Human, calls the Sandhills of Nebraska home but grew up in the corn country of Southern Minnesota. He and his wife, along with their two children, reside in the Nebraska town of Valentine.
Walter Conrad's comfortable life as CEO and owner of a local snack food empire is now a curse. His former world of greed, glut and materialism drives him to exist on the barren fringe of his psychological landscape. He discovers the uncomfortable truth that life can be far more unforgiving and cruel that even his prior self.If Walter cannot survive this way, he does not deserve to survive at all – His day-to-day survival depends on finding the value in his deep personal pain.Terminally Human explores the web of justification that connect us all through daily struggles for survival. Jason Reinders probes into the shadows of the homeless community in his fictional world of Boreal Falls, USA and reflects on the characteristics in the people that drive them to extremes.“When a character, whose life, awakens my inquisitiveness, I grab a hold and truly enjoy the roller coaster ride of emotions that the character puts me through. Walter is the best ride I've been on in the last 15 years.” DJ Dark Horse – H.O.E. Entertainment.“A compelling story of curious characters.” m otis aavenueOriginating from the land of 10,000 lakes, Jason Reinders had called Minnesota home for over twenty years. Having been born and raised in the small town of Winnebago, he now calls Valentine, nestled in the Sandhills of Nebraska, home. Terminally Human is his first novel.
What a web we weave... Grace knows more about deception than most. With a string of dead husbands in her wake, this calculating widow lives a simple existence, convincing to everyone except the brother of her latest unfortunate groom. Retired Sheriff John Lancaster cannot come to terms with the account of his brother's death from a fall off a ladder, and so sets off to discover the truth. Along the way he comes to terms with the misery of his own life as he begins to unravel the threads of both carefully constructed webs. In Jason Reinders' second novel, Spider Webs takes you on a dark, mercurial ride that is both compelling and intriguing as a host of twists and turns entertain. "Jason Reinder's is an extremely talented writer who can tailor his writing style to reach different audiences. Spider Webs rivals, with his mainstream horror fiction, any series found on HBO or Showtime." D.J. Dark Horse - Hell On Earth Entertainment
Altered realities, shattered dreams, and haunting memories ... all the tools of the one time best selling author, Allen Ramsey or the current perception of this man's twisted fate? Not even he can be certain. Alone on the isolated, yet beautiful, Lake Mahwee, the one-time destination for he and his now late fiancée, author Allen Ramsey descends into a place some considered to be his best work. Follow the twists and turns in this psychological thriller as you decide what is reality. Jason Reinders, author of Spider Webs and Terminally Human, calls the Sandhills of Nebraska home now, but grew up in the corn country of Southern Minnesota where he spent his first twenty years. He and his wife, along with their two children, reside in the Nebraska town of Valentine.
I am of the opinion the life is best viewed through lenses. It is most comforting if that lens is your own but often times the best rewards come in looking through others lenses, perspectives, and views. Challenging our own perceptions often leads toelevated observation. Many times, after the work of the day is complete, thethinking is over, and it is time to unwind, the little voice in the back of the mind starts. These are the conversations with myself. Often meaningless, sometimes enlightening, but always entertaining, I started writing them down just to see where theywould take me. This is a collection of many of the conversations with myself. Quiet Days Fall Once Again Upon MySoul is a collection of short poetry over the last two years that mimic life as I see it. Often contradictory,sarcastic, humbling, sometimes thickening, but always sincere, this is life as I see it.
When Randall Meacham, a man that spent his life as the working model of his monstrous father, finds himself searching for his future he unwittingly lands In The FINE Diner. While his future may seem derailed by his detour, an old man, a pregnant girlfriend, and a crooked police detective combine with an unknown murderer to help reshape an unsuspecting Randall. While they fight their own demons, face their past, and do their best to avoid the future, each confronts a history that inevitably becomes a reality. In this dysfunctional love story wrapped around a crime thriller with a twist of horror, In The FINE Diner takes you on a ride that is reflective, hard-hitting, and touching and just might leave you hungry for more.
I am of the opinion the life is best viewed through lenses. It is most comforting if that lens is your own but often times the best rewards come in looking through others lenses, perspectives, and views. Challenging our own perceptions often leads toelevated observation. Many times, after the work of the day is complete, thethinking is over, and it is time to unwind, the little voice in the back of the mind starts. These are the conversations with myself. Often meaningless, sometimes enlightening, but always entertaining, I started writing them down just to see where theywould take me. This is a collection of many of the conversations with myself. Quiet Days Fall Once Again Upon MySoul is a collection of short poetry over the last two years that mimic life as I see it. Often contradictory,sarcastic, humbling, sometimes thickening, but always sincere, this is life as I see it.
Drawing on the controversial case of “Ashley X,” a girl with severe developmental disabilities who received interventionist medical treatment to limit her growth and keep her body forever small—a procedure now known as the “Ashley Treatment”—Reconsidering Intellectual Disability explores important questions at the intersection of disability theory, Christian moral theology, and bioethics. What are the biomedical boundaries of acceptable treatment for those not able to give informed consent? Who gets to decide when a patient cannot communicate their desires and needs? Should we accept the dominance of a form of medicine that identifies those with intellectual impairments as pathological objects in need of the normalizing bodily manipulations of technological medicine? In a critical exploration of contemporary disability theory, Jason Reimer Greig contends that L'Arche, a federation of faith communities made up of people with and without intellectual disabilities, provides an alternative response to the predominant bioethical worldview that sees disability as a problem to be solved. Reconsidering Intellectual Disability shows how a focus on Christian theological tradition’s moral thinking and practice of friendship with God offers a way to free not only people with intellectual disabilities but all people from the objectifying gaze of modern medicine. L'Arche draws inspiration from Jesus's solidarity with the "least of these" and a commitment to Christian friendship that sees people with profound cognitive disabilities not as anomalous objects of pity but as fellow friends of God. This vital act of social recognition opens the way to understanding the disabled not as objects to be fixed but as teachers whose lives can transform others and open a new way of being human.
In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments. Mayor Mitch Landrieu led the ceremony, attended by living legends of jazz, music aficionados, politicians, and everyday people. The scene captured the history and culture of the city in microcosm--a city legendary for its noisy, complicated, tradition-rich splendor. In City of a Million Dreams, Jason Berry delivers a character-driven history of New Orleans at its tricentennial. Chronicling cycles of invention, struggle, death, and rebirth, Berry reveals the city's survival as a triumph of diversity, its map-of-the-world neighborhoods marked by resilience despite hurricanes, epidemics, fires, and floods. Berry orchestrates a parade of vibrant personalities, from the founder Bienville, a warrior emblazoned with snake tattoos; to Governor William C. C. Claiborne, General Andrew Jackson, and Pere Antoine, an influential priest and secret agent of the Inquisition; Sister Gertrude Morgan, a street evangelist and visionary artist of the 1960s; and Michael White, the famous clarinetist who remade his life after losing everything in Hurricane Katrina. The textured profiles of this extraordinary cast furnish a dramatic narrative of the beloved city, famous the world over for mysterious rituals as people dance when they bury their dead.
Guiding learners to acquire sufficient knowledge of grammar constitutes an interesting domain in the field of teaching English as a second language. This research-based resource book focuses on the learning of English tenses and verbal categories, which forms a huge and fascinating component of English grammar that merits attention in teachers’ attempts to improve their students’ English proficiency. Inspired by concepts relating to explicit learning, consciousness raising, contrastive analysis and error analysis, the author used a wealth of data derived from a set of elicitation procedures to reveal the linguistic interference encountered by second language learners. Arguing for the need to conceptualise grammatical rules positively, this inquiry focuses on studying learners’ wide-ranging responses to a large number of items designed to explore linguistic interference in the learning of English verb forms in eight major categories. The findings, explanations and illustration-based recommendations provided in this volume will give trainee teachers, instructors and researchers deeper insights into how strategies can be aptly employed to enhance learners’ performance in using English verb forms and related grammatical categories, which constitute a key dimension in the learning and teaching of English as a second language.
The archaeological study of the ancient world has become increasingly popular in recent years. A Research Guide to the Ancient World: Print and Electronic Sources, is a partially annotated bibliography. The study of the ancient world is usually, although not exclusively, considered a branch of the humanities, including archaeology, art history, languages, literature, philosophy, and related cultural disciplines which consider the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean world, and adjacent Egypt and southwestern Asia. Chronologically the ancient world would extend from the beginning of the Bronze Age of ancient Greece (ca. 1000 BCE) to the fall of the Western Roman Empire (ca. 500 CE). This book will close the traditional subject gap between the humanities (Classical World; Egyptology) and the social sciences (anthropological archaeology; Near East) in the study of the ancient world. This book is uniquely the only bibliographic resource available for such holistic coverage. The volume consists of 17 chapters and seven appendixes, arranged according to the traditional types of library research materials (bibliographies, dictionaries, atlases, etc.). The appendixes are mostly subject specific, including graduate programs in ancient studies, reports from significant archaeological sites, numismatics, and paleography and writing systems. These extensive author and subject indexes help facilitate ease of use.
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