Meet Me Here at Dawn
Meet Me Here at Dawn

Author: Sophie Klahr

Publisher: YesYes Books

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781936919420

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Poetry. Women's Studies. Eroticism tinged with elegy, gratitude knit with doubt; MEET ME HERE AT DAWN contains an unmistakably open voice. Sophie Klahr's debut poetry collection careens from hunger to hunger. With lyric energy and narrative determination, the poems are missives sent back from a threshold, chronicling disease, the unspoken pains of family, the fabric of an extra-marital affair. "What aperture makes a woman?" Klahr asks in "One Slaughter." In MEET ME HERE AT DAWN, even the unanswerable is unfaltering, every question brightly wrought and necessary. "Sophie Klahr moves through the chambers of the mind and heart like an expert escape artist, keys hidden in the body's coverts are revealed in a 'rush of knowing, ' the body's 'first breaking and entering' that feels both clandestine and disclosive. This is poetry of immense vulnerability and fierce mettle; determined, convincing and heroically alive with courage of every kind."--D.A. Powell

Driven by Demand
Driven by Demand

Author: Jimmy Yi-Jie Jia

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-06-18

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 1107104661

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An accessible, non-technical book that reframes the discussion around societal demand for energy via a range of international case studies.

Future Oil Demands of China, India, and Japan
Future Oil Demands of China, India, and Japan

Author: George G. Eberling

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2014-07-02

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 0739191829

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Future Oil Demands of China, India, and Japan examines how Chinese oil energy will likely shape future Sino-Indian and Sino-Japanese relations under conditions of dependency and non-dependency, and whether competition or cooperation for scarce energy resources will result. The author lists and describes three possible Chinese oil energy futures or scenarios (Competitive Dependency, Competitive Surplus, and Cooperative Surplus) using Scenario Analysis and the PRINCE Method to subsequently estimate their associated likelihoods. Further, this book discusses and evaluates their strategic implications for India and Japan and estimates the most likely oil energy future. This book argues that China’s rising dependence on imported oil, along with its adroit use of soft power, economic prowess, strategic engagement of the world as an alternative model of political and economic development, military modernization, and rapid economic growth can only mean that it will alter the global status quo and become the dominant actor in world affairs in the near future. India and Japan will be less influential economically because China is skillfully harnessing and strategically exercising the elements of national power (diplomatic, informational, military, and economic) to acquire scarce oil energy resources in the Near East, Western Hemisphere, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Understanding the Demand for Illegal Drugs
Understanding the Demand for Illegal Drugs

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2010-10-23

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 0309159342

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Despite efforts to reduce drug consumption in the United States over the past 35 years, drugs are just as cheap and available as they have ever been. Cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamines continue to cause great harm in the country, particularly in minority communities in the major cities. Marijuana use remains a part of adolescent development for about half of the country's young people, although there is controversy about the extent of its harm. Given the persistence of drug demand in the face of lengthy and expensive efforts to control the markets, the National Institute of Justice asked the National Research Council to undertake a study of current research on the demand for drugs in order to help better focus national efforts to reduce that demand. This study complements the 2003 book, Informing America's Policy on Illegal Drugs by giving more attention to the sources of demand and assessing the potential of demand-side interventions to make a substantial difference to the nation's drug problems. Understanding the Demand for Illegal Drugs therefore focuses tightly on demand models in the field of economics and evaluates the data needs for advancing this relatively undeveloped area of investigation.

The Rising of Dawn and Her Vampire Crew
The Rising of Dawn and Her Vampire Crew

Author: Brian Painter

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2021-11-24

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1662425171

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Dawn and her crew of good vampires are back at it again. This time, Dawn and her soul mate, Keith, start out in a terrible predicament. They’re surrounded by gigantic Siberian wolves that are craving them for their next meal. Will they make it out of this horrible situation? This time, Dawn and her crew also have to bring on a couple of their witch friends to help stop a powerful coven of evil witches. The leader of the coven, Agnese, has the idea to take over the world by moving through time portals and changing some major happenings in our history. Dawn and crew are sent flying through time portals in pursuit of this very dangerous witch, who has it out for the Egyptian blade-wielding vampire, Dawn. The different worlds they find their way to the ends of are peculiar and dangerous. Dawn’s crew—Keith, Greenie, and Eli—still love to drink blood and tequila too. Their antics will have you laughing, and the dangers they face will have you on the edge of your seat. Why me Wolves is a book filled with twists and turns that will have you so enveloped in the world of Dawn and the other vampires that you won’t want to put this book down. It’s a must-read!

J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Narrative Transgression
J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Narrative Transgression

Author: Alexandra Effe

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-08-16

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 3319601016

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This book is about the metanarrative and metafictional elements of J. M. Coetzee’s novels. It draws together authorship, readership, ethics, and formal analysis into one overarching argument about how narratives work the boundary between art and life. On the basis of Coetzee’s writing, it reconsiders the concept of metalepsis, challenges common understandings of self-reflexive discourse, and invites us to rethink our practice as critics and readers. This study analyzes Coetzee’s novels in three chapters organized thematically around the author’s relation with character, reader, and self. Author and character are discussed on the basis of Foe, Slow Man, and Coetzee’s Nobel lecture, 'He and His Man'. Stories featuring the character Elizabeth Costello, or the figuration Elizabeth Curren, serve to elaborate the relation of author and reader. The study ends on a reading of Summertime, Diary of a Bad Year, and Dusklands as Coetzee’s engagement with autobiographical writing, analyzing the relation of author and self. It will appeal to readers with an interest in literary and narrative theory as much as to Coetzee scholars and advanced students.

Governance of Islam in Pakistan
Governance of Islam in Pakistan

Author: Sarah Holz

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2022-10-15

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1782847650

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Modern states increasingly seek to regulate religious expression, practice and discourse. This is profoundly evident at many levels of Islamic policy interaction: from debates about the banning of the Muslim face-veil in Europe to civic re-education programmes for Muslim citizens in China. Governance of Islam in Pakistan provides a systematic account of how interactions between multiple public and private bodies direct the regulation and standardisation of Islam in one of the largest Muslim-majority states in the world. Analysis centres on the institutional development of the Council of Islamic Ideology, a constitutional body tasked with issuing advice to the executive and legislature about the compatibility of laws with Islamic principles. Based on archival material that has been subject to little scholarly attention, and interviews with Council members and staff of other state bodies, Sarah Holz proposes governance as an analytical framework to study the negotiation of religious expression, practice and discourse. In contrast to the established Islamisation narrative which generally labels such religious institutions as mere rubberstamps in the process of policy-making, the study of governance offers an alternative approach that enables examination of the dynamic competition and cooperation among multiple actors. Through collective interaction the Council and other relevant bodies are active players in the governance of Islam. Insights gained from analysis of the ideational, structural and functional evolution of the Council offers a Global South perspective on liberal democratic ideas about the functionality of the modern state and its institutional structure. Issues of economic, cultural and local/international political influence bear strongly in governance analysis. Engagement with the governance policy tool has applicability across the social sciences, but is particularly relevant for South Asian/Near and Middle East Studies.

Waiting for Liz
Waiting for Liz

Author: Angela C. Kelly

Publisher: JMS Books LLC

Published: 2021-08-21

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1646568559

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Angela is twenty-nine and living what looks like a comfortable life in a Midwestern college town: she has a home with her adoring long-time partner, a circle of good friends, a recently acquired degree, and a job that uses it. But everything isn’t as lovely as it looks. Slowly a soul-level unravelling is occurring within Angela, without her knowledge or consent. Each destructive self-sabotaging choice brings her closer to the kind of destruction that ultimately makes room for new growth in a person’s heart. Enter Elizabeth. Though Angela claims to have paid little attention when they are first introduced, Elizabeth -- Liz -- eventually consumes her every thought, much like the drugs she and her wife have begun to use to mask the growing rift in their relationship. When Angela decides to call her partner’s bluff and invite this new “hot young plaything” to help them patch things up, a decades-long story of pursuit, addiction, love, and growth begins. Angela’s story winds through her past, each tale about her relationship with Liz opening up a window to times even farther past that have shaped how she connects with other people, especially those she loves. Woven through it all are threads of addiction, abandonment, shame, perseverance, joy, and love. Has she come to terms with her past? With Elizabeth herself?