Blue-Eyed Blonde
Blue-Eyed Blonde

Author: Sherman D. Manning

Publisher: American Dream Online Books

Published: 2006-04

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 0974326046

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Sex, Love, Rock & Roll; Jeremy Shackelford has a passion for Justice. This is Sherman Mannings brand new book. A blast. Manning is a master of Generation X writers. In this sensational book, Jeremy Shackelford is a stud, a jock and a fraternity leader. He graduates Magna Cum Laude from U. C. Davis in California . . . He interned at the State Capitol for the Terminator. Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Terry Semel and Marc Cuban all gave Jeremy lucrative job offers. But Jeremy Shackelford is a podcaster, a blogger, an iPodder and the Editor of the Sacramento Bee Newspaper. He kicks it with Marcus Pinkus, Victor Rasuk, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Adam Curry, Josh Davis, Dennis Lloyd and Trent Reznor. In the process of wining, dining, sex, drugs, rock and roll, Jeremy stumbles upon some information . . . A powerful secret. His journalistic discovery; could be deadly . . .

Senses of Touch: Human Dignity and Deformity from Michelangelo to Calvin
Senses of Touch: Human Dignity and Deformity from Michelangelo to Calvin

Author: Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-10-11

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 9004477489

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Senses of Touch anatomizes the uniquely human hand as a rhetorical figure for dignity and deformity in early modern culture. It concerns a valuational shift from the contemplative ideal, as signified by the sense of sight, to an active reality, as signified by the sense of touch. From posture to piety, from manicure to magic, the book discovers touch in a critical period of its historical development, in anatomy and society. It features new interpretations of two landmarks of western civilization: Michelangelo's fresco of the Creation of Adam and Calvin's doctrine of election. It also accords special attention to the typing of women as sensual creatures by using their hands as a heuristic. Its alternative interpretations explore in theory and in practice the sensuality, the creativity, and the plain utility of hands, thus integrating biology and culture.

Glaciers, Nature, Water, and Local Community in Mount Kenya
Glaciers, Nature, Water, and Local Community in Mount Kenya

Author: Kazuharu Mizuno

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-03-18

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 9811678537

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This book describes the challenges for the natural environments and local communities in the future. Among the high mountains of Africa, only Kilimanjaro, Mount Kenya, and the Rwenzori Mountains are still capped with glaciers. The retreating rate of these glaciers has accelerated, and they are expected to disappear in the near future. In the area around Mount Kenya, the precipitation is generally low, such that rainfall cannot stably supply water for farmlands and daily life. It has been revealed that the glacial meltwater has produced springs at the foot of the mountain. It is therefore important to characterize the condition of water sources near Mount Kenya for use by local people. This book discusses the relationships between the actual state of the climate and glacier shrinkage around Mount Kenya, the surrounding vegetation, soil, and water environments, and the lives of the foothill region inhabitants confronting the glacier shrinkage. This book is valuable in the contemporary age, when the assurance of a sustainable relationship between nature and mankind is critical.