In this daring and compelling work of personal memoir, author William Craig Lachowsky details his life story, from birth to now. Expelled from middle school for penning an off-color illustration not long after the Columbine massacre, Lachowsky finds his life forever changed. Faced with a political climate that increasingly frames the white man as Public Enemy Number One, seeking purpose and meaning in his life, he becomes first in his family to enlist in the Marine Corps and eventually get promoted to Sergeant. Lachowsky faces many challenges that should be familiar to the disenfranchised working-class men of his generation—particularly disabled veterans, such as himself—including finding meaningful employment, a place to call home, and a good woman to share his life with. A born and bred working-class Midwesterner, his story intersects urgently and meaningfully with those of the de-industrialization of middle America, the US’s reckoning with Second Amendment rights and gun culture in the wake of mass shootings, the attack on the Twin Towers and the American launch of the so-called “War on Terror,” and most of the other major political milestones of the last three decades. Along the way, Lachowsky folds in a searing critique of American imperialism, the dominance of US media and government by liberal elites, the same government’s abandonment of American veterans and the working class, and a number of challenging, idiosyncratic takes on race, gender, and power relations that readers are unlikely to have encountered anywhere else. Ultimately, Lachowsky’s is a story of persevering against the odds, and it should bolster the spirit of anyone who feels the world is trying to keep them down.
Since the release of Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins in 2005, there has been a pronounced surge in alternative uses of the computer term ‘reboot,’ a surge that has witnessed the term deployed in new contexts and new signifying practices, involving politics, fashion, sex, nature, sport, business, and media. As a narrative concept, however, reboot terminology remains widely misused, misunderstood, and misinterpreted across popular, journalistic, and academic discourses, being recklessly and relentlessly solicited as a way to describe a broad range of narrative operations and contradictory groupings, including prequels, sequels, adaptations, revivals, re-launches, generic ‘refreshes,’ and enactments of retroactive continuity. Adopting an inter-disciplinary approach that fuses cultural studies, media archaeology, and discursive approaches, this book challenges existing scholarship on the topic by providing new frameworks and taxonomies that illustrate key differences between reboots and other ‘strategies of regeneration,’ helping to spotlight the various ways in which the culture industries mine their intellectual properties in distinct and novel ways to present them anew. Reboot Culture: Comics, Film, Transmedia is the first academic study to critically explore and interrogate the reboot phenomenon as it emerged historically to describe superhero comics that sought to jettison existing narrative continuity in order to ‘begin again’ from scratch.of franchising in the twenty-first century. of franchising in the twenty-first century. /div
Since publication of the First Edition in 1982, Hemostasis and Thrombosis has established itself as the pre-eminent book in the field of coagulation disorders. No other book is as inclusive in scope, with coverage of the field from the standpoint of both basic scientists and clinicians. This comprehensive resource details the essentials of bleeding and thrombotic disorders and the management of patients with these and related problems, and delivers the most up-to-date information on normal biochemistry and function of platelets or endothelial cells, as well as in-depth discussions of the pharmacology of anticoagulant, fibrinolytic, and hemostatic drugs. NEW to the Sixth Edition... • A new team of editors, each a leader in his field, assures you of fresh, authoritative perspectives. • Full color throughout • A companion website that offers full text online and an image bank. • A new introductory section of chapters on basic sciences as related to the field • Entirely new section on Hemostatic and Thrombotic Disorders Associated with Systemic Conditions includes material on pediatric patients, women's health issues, cancer, sickle cell disease, and other groups. • Overview chapters preceding each section address broad topics of general importance. This is the tablet version which does not include access to the supplemental content mentioned in the text.
JOHNSTONE. KEEPING THE WEST WILD. Not every Western hero wears a white hat or a tin star. Most of them are just fighting to survive. Some of them can be liars, cheaters, and thieves. And then there’s a couple of old-time robbers named Slash and Pecos . . . Two wanted outlaws. One hell of a story. After a lifetime of robbing banks and holding up trains, Jimmy “Slash” Braddock and Melvin “Pecos Kid” Baker are ready to call it quits—though not completely by choice. Sold out by their old gang, Slash and Pecos have to bust out of jail and pull one last job to finance their early retirement . . . The target is a rancher’s payroll train. Catch is: the train is carrying a Gatling gun and twenty deputy US marshals who know they’re coming. Caught and quickly sentenced to hang, their old enemy—the wheelchair-bound, bucket of mean, Marshal L.C. Bledsoe—shows up at the last minute to spare their lives. For a price. He’ll let them live if they hunt down their old gang, the Snake River Marauders. And kill those prairie rats—with extreme prejudice . . .
Trilbee is an amateur online film critic. He may love the medium, but that doesn't mean he's easy to impress. His first book 'At the Movies with Trilbee: A Year in Film' has Trilbee review more than 70 movies from 2012. Including: Avengers Assemble, Skyfall, The Dark Knight Rises, The Amazing Spider-Man, Chronicle, Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2, The Hobbit, The Hunger Games, Ice Age 4, Brave, Ted, Men in Black 3, The Imposter, Dredd, Prometheus, Life of Pi, Looper and many many more! All these reviews offer in-depth, insightful and honest analysis and gives the reader a comprehensive guide for what movies to watch (and avoid) from one of the biggest years in movie history! Featuring artwork by Jack Evans - http: //moonmen.wix.com/flippedhyenacartoo
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