Under Currents
Author: Traci Hunter Abramson
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9781591564249
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Undercurrent
Author: Paul Blackwell
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 2013-07-23
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 0385676999
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA blisteringly paced novel full of thrills, twists, and surprises, Undercurrent unfolds with possibilities that are both gripping and unsettling. Sixteen-year-old Callum Harris never wanted to move to Crystal Falls. Neither did Cole, his brawny and fearless older brother. With the recent separation of their parents, the brothers have had quite enough change of late. But the move turns out to be only the first of many changes in Callum's life. After he plunges headlong over the falls, he wakes up in the hospital to find that life is no longer what it once was: his squabbling parents appear to have reconciled; his brother, an unrepentant jock and serial dater, is paralyzed and bed-ridden in a makeshift hospital room at home; and even Callum himself, always studious and unpopular, is now the object of desire for the two hottest girls in school. As he adjusts to this surreal new life--a life both exhilarating and terrifying--Callum struggles to reconcile his past memories with a dangerous and uncertain present. Who is he? Where is he? And what, exactly, has he become?
The Undercurrents
Author: Kirsty Bell
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2022-09-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1635423449
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHumane, thought provoking, and moving, this hybrid literary portrait of a place makes the case for radical close readings: of ourselves, our cities, and our histories. The Undercurrents is a dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism told from a precise vantage point: a stately nineteenth-century house on Berlin’s Landwehr Canal, a site at the center of great historical changes, but also smaller domestic ones. The view from this house offers a ringside seat onto the city’s theater of action. The building has stood on the banks of the canal since 1869, its feet in the West but looking East, right into the heart of a metropolis in the making, on a terrain inscribed indelibly with trauma. When her marriage breaks down, Kirsty Bell—a British-American art critic, adrift in her midforties—becomes fixated on the history of her building and of her adoptive city. Taking the view from her apartment window as her starting point, she turns to the lives of the house’s various inhabitants, to accounts penned by Walter Benjamin, Rosa Luxemburg, and Gabriele Tergit, and to the female protagonists in the works of Theodor Fontane, Irmgard Keun, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. A new cultural topography of Berlin emerges, one which taps into energetic undercurrents to recover untold or forgotten stories beneath the city’s familiar narratives.
Undercurrents
Author: Steve Davis
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2020-10-06
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1119669235
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImprove your knowledge of the ways global trends shape activism with this insightful volume that will supercharge your impact on communities and organizations Undercurrents: Channeling Outrage to Spark Practical Activism brings the perspective of experienced global social innovation leader, scholar and speaker, Steve Davis, to bear on some of the most powerful and helpful macrotrends rippling through society today. The book teaches readers how to harness their outrage and capitalize on global trends to instigate and encourage change across the world. The author identifies five global undercurrents with outsized importance that are shaping our world: Global economies are moving away from the old pyramid model into a diamond, bringing powerful new possibilities for human well-being; Communities are becoming the customer – rather than passive beneficiaries - as social change is increasingly led by local voices and activists; Equity is leveling and reshaping the field of social change and activism; Digital disruption, through the power of data and digital tools, impacts almost everything; and The middle of the journey to social change is becoming surprisingly sexy, as we focus on adapting innovation for widespread impact at scale. The book’s lessons are supported throughout by stories, experiences, data and observations from across the globe. Undercurrents is perfect for activists and leaders of all kinds who aim to increase their impact on their organizations and the world at large, as well as the intellectually curious who hope to increase their understanding of the changing world around them.
Undercurrent
Author: Kaylea Cross
Publisher:
Published: 2021-03-04
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCRIMSON POINT FANS WILL LOVE THE KILL DEVIL HILLS SERIES!She's looking to reinvent herself.After the worst two years of her life, Aspen Savich has just moved across the country to the Outer Banks, looking to start over and leave her painful past behind. But it follows her anyway, bringing consequences she never could have imagined. Someone is watching her. Targeting her-and they don't care who gets in the way. She has no one to turn to except the sexy local mechanic who has found a way past all her defenses, never dreaming the kind of danger they're up against.He's about to have his world turned upside down.Tragedy made Coast Guard vet Bowie Davenport withdraw from the world around him. He's lived in Kill Devil Hills his whole life, focusing on work and family. Being alone is something he made peace with long ago-until the sexiest woman he's ever seen pulls up to his garage in a little red Woody asking for help. There's no way he can say no, even with his unwanted attraction to her. He tries to fight it, but soon he's fallen completely under her spell. And when the unthinkable happens, he won't hesitate to stand between her and the deranged enemy bent on taking her life.
The Undercurrent
Author: Paula Weston
Publisher: Text Publishing
Published: 2017-07-31
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 1925498239
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEighteen-year-old Julianne De Marchi is different. As in: she has an electrical undercurrent beneath her skin that stings and surges like a live wire. She can use it—to spark a fire, maybe even end a life—but she doesn’t understand what it is. And she can barely control it, especially when she’s anxious. Ryan Walsh was on track for a stellar football career when his knee blew out. Now he’s a soldier—part of an experimental privatised military unit that has identified Jules De Marchi as a threat. Is it because of the weird undercurrent she’s tried so hard to hide? Or because of her mother Angie’s history as an activist against bio-engineering and big business? It’s no coincidence that Ryan and Jules are in the same place at the same time—he’s under orders to follow her, after all. But then an explosive attack on a city building by an unknown enemy throws them together in the most violent and unexpected way. Paula Weston, author of the much-admired Rephaim series, returns with a standalone work: a futuristic thriller that is only slightly futuristic—but utterly and undeniably thrilling. Great writing, heart-burning characters, probing questions about where technology is taking us—and a plot that zips and zings like an electrical current itself. This is a great young-adult writer at the peak of her powers.
Undercurrent
Author: Tricia Rayburn
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
Published: 2011-06-27
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0143204505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter losing her sister and finding out that she is a siren, Vanessa faces her biggest challenge yet. In Winter Harbor the ice is melting and what is underneath is about to surface. The sirens Vanessa stopped over the summer will want revenge, and this time they are after her. To protect those she loves, Vanessa will need the powers she has but doesn't know how to use . . . Praise for Siren 'Creepy and unique.' RT Book Reviews 'Suspense, dark drama and romance . . .' Booklist
The Phoenix Takes Revenge
Author: Xiao ZhuPo
Publisher: Funstory
Published: 2020-04-08
Total Pages: 911
ISBN-13: 1648843298
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"I'd rather be ungrateful than ungrateful!" [How can a top assassin be the golden girl of the House of Generals who has been beaten to death?] Yun Weiyang, a single whip strike had scared the world out of its wits! There was no such thing as cowardice or admission of defeat in Missy Yun's dictionary! Let's see how she takes every step she takes, carefully planning, smacking away her direct sister, pummeling up her father, and kicking away the scumbag! Since ancient times, there had been a saying: A person who had obtained a dragon fountain would possess supernatural ability. They would have a peerless beauty that could touch the heavens. They would be able to look down upon the heavens! He wanted to see how she would walk to the top of this era step by step. From now on, she would be a phoenix descending from the heavens, haughty and overbearing! Join Collection
Undercurrents
Author: Helen Hok-Sze Leung
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 077485829X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUndercurrents engages the critical rubric of "queer" to examine Hong Kong's screen and media culture during the transitional and immediate postcolonial period. Helen Hok-Sze Leung draws on theoretical insights from a range of disciplines to reveal parallels between the crisis and uncertainty of the territory's postcolonial transition and the queer aspects of its cultural productions. She explores Hong Kong cultural productions � cinema, fiction, popular music, and subcultural projects � and argues that while there is no overt consolidation of gay and lesbian identities in Hong Kong culture, undercurrents of diverse and complex expressions of gender and sexual variance are widely in evidence. Undercurrents uncovers a queer media culture that has been largely overlooked by critics in the West and demonstrates the cultural vitality of Hong Kong amidst political transition.
