News of Naomi Payne's affair with State Representative Calvin Davis is leaked to the press and his team goes into overdrive to protect his reputation. The relationship is dismissed as a rumour, Calvin stops taking Naomi's calls and she's left alone to pick up the pieces of her life. But she quickly learns that it was no simple affair and there are people out there who are unwilling to let it go so easily. After a local murder hits too close to home, Naomi fears she may be next.
Alcohol. Drugs. Fighting. Death. Love. Pain. Blood. It's everything sixteen year old, Cloe Elizabeth, is going through. She can't control her actions anymore. She's completely lost herself. There's nowhere to turn anymore. She's already gone.
Let the reader beware. Educated readers naturally feel entitled to know what they're reading--often, if they try hard enough, to know it with the conspiratorial intimacy of a potential partner. This book reminds us that cultural differences may in fact make us targets of a text, not its co-conspirators. Some literature, especially culturally particular or "minority" literature, actually uses its differences and distances to redirect our desire for intimacy toward more cautious, respectful engagements. To name these figures of cultural discontinuity--to describe a rhetoric of particularism in the Americas--is the purpose of Proceed with Caution. In a series of daring forays, from seventeenth-century Inca Garcilaso de la Vega to Julio Cortázar and Mario Vargas Llosa, Doris Sommer shows how ethnically marked texts use enticing and frustrating language games to keep readers engaged with difference: Gloria Estefan's syncopated appeal to solidarity plays on Whitman's undifferentiated ideal; unrequitable seductions echo through Rigoberta Menchú's protestations of secrecy, Toni Morrison's interrupted confession, the rebuffs in a Mexican testimonial novel. In these and other examples, Sommer trains us to notice the signs that affirm a respectful distance as a condition of political fairness and aesthetic effect--warnings that will be audible (and engaging for readings that tolerate difference) once we listen for a rhetoric of particularism.
Nanobiotechnology is still a developing field. The results and promises of this technology are not only of scientific and economic importance, they also raise grave ethical, legal, and social questions. In this context, the so called "Precautionary Principle" or "Vorsorgeprinzip" is of high relevance. What does it mean to "proceed with caution" in the field of nanobiotechnology? How can the principle be applied and specified? Is it a suitable tool for the protection against potentially dangerous effects on the environment and human health? What is the status of the Precautionary Principle in international agreements and national legislation? "Proceed with Caution?" examines the questions that surround the Precautionary Principle in nanobiotechnology. (Series: Munster Studies on Bioethics / Munsteraner Bioethik-Studien - Vol. 12)
Adam, an everyday Joe, finds himself thrown for loops down the road of life. After a troubling childhood, he finally finds love, but once again things arenat ending happily ever after. With all his past troubles, can he find a way through these trials to find true happiness in the one thing that means everything in lifealove?
In this title, the author takes you behind the scenes of a large firm, to show you what it is really like to be a junior associate. After graduating from law school, William Keates took a job at a blue-chip New York law firm and started keeping a diary where he wrote down his day-to-day life at the firm. This book excerpts his diary from his first day at the firm to the day he quit. It also intersperses diary entries with useful information about what new lawyers at the country's largest firms do on a daily basis. For additional career resources, visit the AttorneyJobs Web site.
He has a good job and is handsome, what would he want with her? Number 1 Listopia's Set In Alaska Sweet multicultural, multiracial romance Nancy has been anything but cautious. Running off to Alaska with a man and investing all her savings in a piece of land where the temperature drops to -40 in winter is foolhardy. When the man dumps her and escapes to warmer climes, it reinforces what she suspects; she always picks losers. Where does Ray fit in? Ramon, Ray to his coworkers at Pump Station 12, a single father once burned, decides Nancy is sweet, pretty and a hard worker, just the woman he wants. A lingering problem has Nancy calling an end to their relationship. A cranky moose and a good friend try to intervene in this sweet tale of pipeline days in rural Alaska circa 1970s.
Introduction : the shape of things to come --The structural basis of genetic differences -- The complexity of diseases : no more magic bullets -- The role of genes in disease -- Finding gene loci and alleles implicated in disease -- Genetic testing in health care -- Technology transfer : from research to the commercial development of genetic tests -- Technology transmittance : from commercial development to the widespread use of genetic tests -- Testing : in whose best interest? -- What is (going) to be done?
