The Brood" has cast a demonic shadow over Brighton County, Iowa. This quiet little patch of small-town living is about to become a war zone. Life in Brighton County grows deadlier by the day, and things will never be the same. The citizens face a choice: Will they flee or will they fight? Shaken From Within is a rare combination of suspense, drama, humor, and inspiration that will continually have readers crying, laughing, and sitting on the edges of their seats. Nothing is predictable. No one is safe. Formerly peaceful Brighton County becomes an exciting, gut-wrenching, and brutal place with predicaments so dire they can only be overcome through the grace of God and the courage of conviction. Michael "Mike" Ward is middle-aged, wheelchair-bound, angry, and mean. He thinks his life is meaningless. Fourteen-year-old Emily has recently escaped from a pack of pornographic Satan worshippers and recognizes a hole in Mike's life-his desperate need to be needed-and believes that she can fill it. Emily's former captors, "The Brood," are determined to get her back, and they'll stop at nothing. To make matters even worse, law enforcement cannot be trusted because some are corruptly involved with the evil, powerful "Brood." There is also the disconcerting fact that people keep showing up dead. Unexpected heroes rise to the occasion and, through the use of non-standard methods and the help of a mysterious cave-dwelling vigilante, do what the Feds have tried to do for years; they begin to take down The Brood. Along the way, vigilantes are joined by more vigilantes and aided by a host of oddly endearing characters that seem to emerge from nowhere, risking everything for Emily and others who are tormented by The Brood. In addition to Mike, Emily, and Mike's endearingly old-fashioned farm family, readers will meet a reluctant new sheriff who doesn't want the job, a beautiful FBI agent who is somehow fond of Mike, a seemingly-insane Count who leads a colony of bridge dwellers, a group of church choir members acting like street thugs, mysterious vigilantes dwelling in caves, a feisty band of Kentucky hillbillies, and other unforgettable, purpose-driven misfits. Through it all, The Brood is dealt a blow, and Mike begins to rebuild the bridges he had managed to so thoroughly burn. And somehow, in the midst of all the turmoil, Mike finds a reason to live.
How would you feel if your football club was bought by a businessman who saw your ground as real estate? And what if your ground was demolished leaving you with nowhere to play next season? Many fans believe that when Bill Archer, a Blackburn-based entrepreneur, bought Brighton and Hove Albion, he had no passion for the club or the game but rather saw an opportunity to make a profit. If so, he made the fatal mistake of misjudging football fans. In July 1995, Brighton's local daily paper led its front page with the headline 'Seagulls Migrate', announcing that the Goldstone Ground was to be sold to a property developer for £7.4 million and that 'home' games were to be played at Portsmouth. All this without one word of consultation with the fans. What followed was the biggest campaign in the history of football to save a club. Drawing on dozens of interviews with people directly involved - the fans, the FA, the players and the management - Build a Bonfire dramatically traces the progress of the two-year fight with the board: two years of despair, absurdity and solidarity. In so doing, the book not only explores implications for other clubs, in a world where the battle lines between football and money are being drawn ever tighter, but also creates a picture of that strange and wonderful thing: the football fan. And having lived through the crisis and listened to the fans, the authors can offer their Ten Essential Steps to Depose your Club Chairman, should the need arise . . .
Departures is Paul Zweig’s celebration of life and love. Zweig thought of himself as a sojourner, a contemporary Wandering Jew, a man with “a loose wire in his genes.” He led a number of distinct lives: as a Jewish child in Brooklyn and on a farm in the Catskills; as a literature student at Columbia; as a young exile who spent a decade in Paris transforming himself into a French intellectual, absorbing the language, sex, culture, and leftist politics; and as an American man-of-letters who produced a steady stream of poems, essays, and wide-ranging works of literary scholarship and criticism. In 1978, at the age of forty-three, he abruptly entered a new life—”the life of the dying”—which he inhabited for the next six years. His writing was guided by a steely determination to hold the more pressing and distorting sentiments— self-pity, regret, anger, fear—at bay for the sake of his lucidity, which became his way through the world of cancer. This memoir stands as a testament to the passion and spirit with which Zweig lived and to the dignity that he brought to his final years.
Trinitarian Letters describes How YOU have been Chosen by God and Adopted by God and Included in the Life of God since before Creation. All made possible by Jesus Christ. " Pastor Paul Kurts illustrates through this important work , a Universal Theology of Love that Jesus would be immensely pleased with today. Paul demonstrates how all humanity are recipients of life and immortality through Jesus. These Christian messages inspire great hope for all showing the reader the vast difference between true Christian teachings of unconditional love and that of "Religious dogma and bondage. Truely freeing! " Dr. Stanley D. Murphy, Ed.D. President, SMP Logistics, LLC " Pastor Paul Kurts offers a refreshing panorama of Trinitarian Grace including ALL in relationship WITH The Triune God. Paul shows us we are eternally called and invited into the rich relationship shared between the Father and the Son wonderfully wrapped up in the person of the Holy Spirit." Rev. Michael Rayson, O.S.L., Pastor St Paul UMC, Brighton, Illinois "Minister, Pastor and Teacher, Paul Kurts teaches diligently and tirelessly from a Trinitarian Theology of understanding. His writings, TRINITARIAN LETTERS, is based upon the Great Triune God's love for ALL humanity. We are His adopted children included in His life forever. The reader will see the Gospel as not only Good News, but the BEST news ever for mankind." Joe Johnson, B.S. University of Tennessee, B.L., Southern University of Law. "TRINITARIAN LETTERS expresses in an easy to understand manner the relational nature of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit and the truth that is Jesus alone. This work explains "Who is the Truth" , not only what is the truth. This book, written in 'laymans language' is a must read for anyone wishing to understand the Gospel from an all inclusive Trinitarian perspective and one's involvement in it.
Paul Monette’s fierce and arresting collection of poems on the death of his partner from AIDS Following his partner Roger Horwitz’s death from AIDS in 1986, Paul Monette threw himself into these elegies. Writing them, he says, “quite literally kept me alive.” Both beautifully written and deeply affecting, every poem is full of anger, sorrow, tenderness, and a palpable sense of grief. With graceful language and emotional acuity, Paul Monette captures the enormity of a loss that ravaged a generation. But even more than they are about tragedy, these poems are about love. Each moving line is full of love for one who is no longer there, but whose presence is still achingly felt at every turn. Love Alone is remarkable for its honesty, its passion, and its depth. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Paul Monette including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the Paul Monette papers of the UCLA Library Special Collections.
First, high school senior Andy Koops barely reacts to his father's suicide. Then, in college, a manic episode lands him in a state mental hospital. After three years, he’s still hospitalized, and worse, he’s trapped on a locked back ward by a sadistic psychiatrist, Dr. Enzo Gambelli. Drugged, depressed, and demoralized, Andy is on the verge of becoming a chronic mental patient when he’s befriended by a maverick social worker who challenges him to choose: does he want to stay a patient or go home. Andy chooses home and battles Gambelli for his release—but he has no idea of the evil he is about to encounter.
Declan Thomas is an ex-inmate of an insane asylum that was destroyed in a fire, he has the strange ability to step inside a person's madness—and sometimes cure it. He hopes to one day cure his own, but time is running out, as a demonic predator pursues him. Collects the five-issue miniseries. * From the Eisner nominated writer of Bandette. "Ferreyra has superstar written all over him and the words are written in blood. Visually, this book is leaps and bounds above 99% of the other books on the stands." — IGN
Understanding Development offers a comprehensive introduction to the multidimensional and evolving nature of international development in the contemporary world. This new edition has been fully revised and expanded to incorporate the key events, trends and debates that are shaping development today, such as humanitarianism and the global refugee crisis, the growing number of fragile states, and the contested nature of trade and trade deals. Building on the book's original framework, the second edition also includes three new chapters which explore development in relation to global policy formation, focusing on the end of the UN Millennium Development Goals in 2015 and the start of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which will run until 2030. Designed to offer something different to the standard introductions to the topic, this issues-driven text examines the debates that have generated the most interest and passion among practitioners and non-practitioners alike. Always attentive to the contested and plural nature of the field, it makes the case for a genuinely interdisciplinary approach which takes full account of the impact of globalization. Both wide-ranging and critical, Understanding Development is the essential student guide to one of the most challenging subjects of our age.
Con Weber's Brighton spans seven generations. It is a story of the rise of the industrial age and growth of militarism in nineteenth century Germany, pioneer hardships on the southeast Michigan frontier, and the challenges of the Great Depression. The first century of a small Midwestern town is chronicled in the narrative of a man who began life surrounded by spinning wheels and looms and died when the automotive industry had become king and Henry Ford's factories were revving up to allow the "greatest generation" to win a war the author calls a "microcosm" of small town America. Based on oral history passed down from generation to generation and memoirs of the author's parents, Con Weber's Brighton is supplemented by scores of original pictures and documents. You will want to keep this informative biography for successive generations to enjoy and use as a historical reference.
You would do anything for your family. Wouldn’t you? Book 2 in a fast-paced and riveting Brighton-set police procedural crime series featuring PC Gareth Bell. Perfect for fans of Peter James. ‘Writes with raw, engaging, authenticity’ Peter James
An excellent quiz book full of interesting and entertaining trivia. The author is a true Albion fan for nearly 50 years shows all his knowledge and passion for the subject in this enlightening compendium. His lifetime of fandom and devotion shines through in this comprehensively researched and entertaining little quiz book.
This book seems to be about us. Within a day or two of starting it I devised a title: VAC... The subtle idea was to fuse the suggestion of holiday or vacation with that of vacuum...' Paul Ableman's third novel, first published in 1968, is - through the voice of its narrator Billy Soodernim, libidinous and regretful by turns - a meditation on love and carnality, monogamy and promiscuity, childbirth, separation and indeed the whole of the fraught relations between the sexes: 'male and female, citizens with distinct personalities, flesh inwraught in flesh.' 'Paul Ableman's novels were praised for their inventive language, bawdy high spirits, and originality of form by Anthony Burgess, Philip Toynbee, Robert Nye and other friends of the avant-garde. They are witty, original, and full of good humour, and I am delighted Faber Finds are reissuing them.' Margaret Drabble
The Visual Dictionary of Pre-Press and Production is a comprehensive guide to the over 250 terms relating to the preparation and production of print and digital media. Each term is explained and contextualised, with concise definitions accompanied by a variety of diagrams, illustrations and examples. The book covers traditional terms still in current usage as well as modern terminology, from Acrobat to Woodblock. It also explains a range of practical processes, including Accents, Bitmap and Colour calibration, as well as styles and finishes, such as Perfect bound, Totally chlorine free (TCF), and Offset lithography.
Ever since its inception, British cinema has been obsessed with crime and the criminal. One of the first narrative films to be produced in Britain, the Hepworth's 1905 short Rescued by Rover, was a fast-paced, quick-edited tale of abduction and kidnap, and the first British sound film, Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail (1930), centered on murder and criminal guilt. For a genre seemingly so important to the British cinematic character, there is little direct theoretical or historical work focused on it. The Britain of British cinema is often written about in terms of national history, ethnic diversity, or cultural tradition, yet very rarely in terms of its criminal tendencies and dark underbelly. This volume assumes that, to know how British cinema truly works, it is necessary to pull back the veneer of the costume piece, the historical drama, and the rom-com and glimpse at what is underneath. For every Brief Encounter (1945) there is a Brighton Rock (2010), for every Notting Hill (1999) there is a Long Good Friday (1980).
2014 marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of Stephen King’s first novel Carrie in April 1974. Rescued from the rubbish by his wife Tabitha, the novel launched the Maine schoolteacher on a prolific and extraordinarily successful career. His name has become synonymous with horror and suspense through over fifty works, including The Dark Tower, a retelling of Byron’s Childe Harold to the Dark Tower Came. Simpson traces the writer’s life from his difficult childhood – his father went out to the shops and never came back – through his initial books under the pseudonym Richard Bachman to the success of Carrie, Salem’s Lot and The Shining in the 1970s, and beyond. He examines how King’s writing was affected by the accident that nearly killed him in 1999 and how his battles with alcohol and addiction to medication have been reflected in his stories. The guide will also take a look at the very many adaptation’s of King’s work in movies, on television and radio, and in comic books.
Abandoned time and again by those he holds dear, Patrick Clement is forging a reputation as a forensic sculptor, helping to identify the unclaimed missing. But he can’t leave behind a remarkable summer night in 1993, spent alone on Brighton’s derelict West Pier with Black, a beautiful photography student. Patrick is haunted by the fact that no sooner did he get to know her than she disappeared from his life... Who is this girl? And where is Black, the one who got away? Decades on, while at work, Patrick is tasked with reconstructing the skull of an unidentified girl found on the pier in the 1970s – the pier he still thinks about. A crime he recalls from childhood, when his family life was in turmoil, Patrick works to discover the truth behind what has happened. Set in Brighton, The Girl on the Pier spans several decades, from the seventies to the present day. Inspired by literary novelists such as Ian McEwan, Anne Tyler and John Updike, Paul uses vivid images to make the reader feel as though they are right there in the story. The Girl on the Pier will appeal to lovers of psychological thrillers and suspense novels.
In 1984, Hawkins and Kandel published a seminal paper titled “Is There a Cell-Biological Alphabet for Simple Forms of Learning?” Based on their early findings of the cooperative regulation of adenylyl cyclase in sensory neurons of Aplysia, an overarching concept was presented which opened our mind to molecular mechanisms of experience-dependent neural plasticity. Several basic forms of nonassociative and associative learning (habituation, sensitization, and classical conditioning) were explained on the level of rather simple molecular reaction cascades in specific neurons. At that time, these were radical ideas, and even today we struggle with the question whether cognitive faculties such as learning and memory formation can be reduced to ubiquitous cellular functions, and what such a reduction might mean. The concepts presented in this paper were also radical in the sense that they broke with the speculation that the information of acquired memories is stored in molecules like RNA. Meanwhile, it is well accepted in neuroscience that neural circuits acquire new information by changing network properties on the level of specified neurons and their synaptic connections. Multiple key elements contribute to these adaptations, and it is the task of today’s neuroscience to unravel the complex hierarchies of interactions from the molecular to the systems level in solving the problem of predicting future behavior from experience in the past.
Written by 16 of the club's most-famous players, Match of My Life features these stars' greatest matches for the Seagulls. Each chapter features each player's unique story behind their chosen matches and reflects upon their time with the Albion. Peter Ward, Brian Horton, and Steve Foster look back to games from the club's golden era of the late 1970s and early 1980s—which culminated in the 1983 FA Cup Final against Manchester United. That match is covered in great depth by defender Gary Stevens, who was voted by BBC viewers as Man of the Match. All of the key moments in the club's history are covered—including every promotion, the club's four championship wins as a Football League club, while Robbie Reinelt recalls the day his goal saved Albion from extinction, and Hove-born Adrian Thorne, relives a final-day five-goal haul helped clinch the Albion's first-ever championship in 1959, lifting the club to then unprecedented heights of Football League Division Two. Norman Gall's chapter features Albion's Division Four title triumph of 1965; while from the current era Danny Cullip and Bobby Zamora focus on the back-to-back championships in 2001 and 2002. Each player's personal account includes new revelations and unique insight making Match of My Life the definitive book with which fans can relive the Albion's greatest triumphs.
Vilified by leading architectural modernists and Victorian critics alike, mass-produced architectural ornament in iron has received little sustained study since the 1960s; yet it proliferated in Britain in the half century after the building of the Crystal Palace in 1851 - a time when some architects, engineers, manufacturers, and theorists believed that the fusion of iron and ornament would reconcile art and technology and create a new, modern architectural language. Comprehensively illustrated and richly researched, Iron, Ornament and Architecture in Victorian Britain presents the most sustained study to date of the development of mechanised architectural ornament in iron in nineteenth-century architecture, its reception and theorisation by architects, critics and engineers, and the contexts in which it flourished, including industrial buildings, retail and seaside architecture, railway stations, buildings for export and exhibition, and street furniture. Appealing to architects, conservationists, historians and students of nineteenth-century visual culture and the built environment, this book offers new ways of understanding the notion of modernity in Victorian architecture by questioning and re-evaluating both Victorian and modernist understandings of the ideological split between historicism and functionalism, and ornament and structure.
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