Beyond terror`s reach, Twine, Martha

Автор: Twine, Martha
Название: Terror in britain
ISBN: 1788301668 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788301664
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Описание: Who would believe that international terrorists had targeted a pensioner living in Haslemere, inserting a microchip into the back of her head and cameras into her eyes, in order to attempt to manipulate her for their own purposes? That the terrorists were able to make money by focusing their attacks on elderly people living in nursing homes, with their need for costly knee and hip-replacement operations? Or that this pensioner had then learnt how to fight the terrorists, using telepathy, and that she had then been responsible for killing more than eight thousand of them, thus making a centrally important contribution to national security? In this incredible book, Martha Twine provides detailed and documented evidence for these extraordinary claims and more. By the time you have finished reading Terror in Britain, you may find yourself convinced, or, alternatively, still sceptical - but you will most certainly have been disturbed.

Автор: Rogers Dorriah
Название: Twine: A Memoir
ISBN: 1682618676 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682618677
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Описание: How far would you go to overcome a dark and tragic legacy for a chance at redemption?

Composed from a collection of haunting and colorful memories, Twine chronicles the dark journey of a broken family spanning generations.

Sliding effortlessly between past and present, this is the story of Dorriah Burke--a girl raised among California avocados and a bewildering array of dysfunctional family members. As children, trapped between their alcoholic mother and violent father, Dorriah and her brother are faced with untenable choices and lives of ever-increasing lunacy and sorrow.

Now an adult, Dorriah finally escapes across the country with her own daughter in an attempt to restart her life, but the miles aren't enough. Grief-stricken by her mother's rapidly declining health, her father's shocking choices, and her brother's inability to help, she is forced to make a decision: unlock her past and her only hope to overcome her personal demons, or protect her only child from the dark labyrinth of her family history.

Twine is a seductive memoir of shocking narrative power and sweeping honesty. Written with a clever and profane wit and populated by unforgettable and profoundly relatable characters, it is a beautiful narrative that's impossible to put down--a story of agony and loss, betrayal and love, survival and reinvention that never allows the reader to rest for an instant as the story ruthlessly hurtles towards its surprising conclusion.

Автор: Twine Martha
Название: Kiss Terror Goodbye
ISBN: 1788303806 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788303804
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Martha, a British pensioner, is targeted by the North American Mafia, who have teamed up with Al-Qaide to plan a covert war on Western countries, using secret electromagnetic technologies. Martha learns how to turn the tables on the perpetrators, and later discovers how the secret technologies can be used as a force for good, with the potential to solve many world problems. On her journey, Martha meets people from NATO military intelligence services, top secret prison services and some very advanced space scientists. Nothing is off limits, including visits to the Moon, Mars and other planets where life forms already exist.

Martha's quest, which includes many unexpectedly lighter moments, ends up closer to home, where she is involved in a covert war on Europe, and seeks to enlist the help of the US military in highlighting the plight of victims of targeting in North America.

Автор: Gallagher Charles A., Winddance Twine France
Название: Retheorizing Race and Whiteness in the 21st Century: Changes and Challenges
ISBN: 041568000X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415680004
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book examines the role whiteness and white identities play in framing and reworking racial categories, hierarchies and boundaries within the context of nation, class, gender and immigration. It was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Автор: Twine, France Winddance
Название: Geek girls
ISBN: 1479803820 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781479803828
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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An inside account of gender and racial discrimination in the high-tech industry
Why is being a computer “geek” still perceived to be a masculine occupation? Why do men continue to greatly outnumber women in the high-technology industry? Since 2014, a growing number of employment discrimination lawsuits has called attention to a persistent pattern of gender discrimination in the tech world. Much has been written about the industry’s failure to adequately address gender and racial inequalities, yet rarely have we gotten an intimate look inside these companies. In Geek Girls, France Winddance Twine provides the first book by a sociologist that “lifts the Silicon veil” to provide firsthand accounts of inequality and opportunity in the tech ecosystem. This work draws on close to a hundred interviews with male and female technology workers of diverse racial, ethnic, and educational backgrounds who are currently employed at tech firms such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Twitter, and at various start-ups in the San Francisco Bay area. Geek Girls captures what it is like to work as a technically skilled woman in Silicon Valley.
With a sharp eye for detail and compelling testimonials from industry insiders, Twine shows how the technology industry remains rigged against women, and especially Black, Latinx, and Native American women from working class backgrounds. From recruitment and hiring practices that give priority to those with family, friends, and classmates employed in the industry, to social and educational segregation, to academic prestige hierarchies, Twine reveals how women are blocked from entering this industry. Women who do not belong to the dominant ethnic groups in the industry are denied employment opportunities, and even actively pushed out, despite their technical skills and qualifications.
While the technology firms strongly embrace the rhetoric of diversity and oppose discrimination in the workplace, Twine argues that closed social networks and routine hiring practices described by employees reinforce the status quo and reproduce inequality. The myth of meritocracy and gender stereotypes operate in tandem to produce a culture where the use of race-, color-, and power-evasive language makes it difficult for individuals to name the micro-aggressions and forms of discrimination that they experience.
Twine offers concrete insights into how the technology industry can address ongoing racial and gender disparities, create more transparency and empower women from underrepresented groups, who continued to be denied opportunities.

Автор: Rigby-jones, John
Название: Tintawn and binder twine
ISBN: 1781557918 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781781557914
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Описание: In 1933 an Englishman leased a derelict British cavalry barracks in co. Kildare from the Irish government to build a rope factory. When war came in 1939 Ireland remained neutral and faced both German invasion and a British trade embargo. Desperate measures were needed to ensure that Irish farmers never ran out of twine to gather the harvest.

Автор: Johnson Brandon
Название: Reflections: A Poetic Perspective of Life Through My Eyes I`m Like Rope Your Like Twine Were the Same But Were Knot
ISBN: 1796010421 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781796010428
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Описание: I wrote this book, Reflections, to showcase various aspects of life with different views of people's day-to-day lives, as far as living love relationships, struggles, and addictions; coping with death and loss of loved ones, coming back from the war and senseless shootings, struggling to beat the demon within; and trying to beat addictions. This is how we all experience the same issues in life, yet we all handled them differently. You will all experience love, death, breakups, and good times and bad times. But you will all deal with these things differently. This book is a vantage point of all our lives and the way we experienced the same things yet deal with them differently individually. I hope you enjoy this book and that it gives you a new meaning on life.

Автор: Records Pam
Название: Tied with Twine
ISBN: 1948080796 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781948080798
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A young Polish American woman who has been saving her poker winnings for a train ticket and a chance to be anything other than an immigrant's daughter, Halina knows that Prohibition stinks to high heaven and then some. But her plans are interrupted when whiskey men come to town, hiding their bootleg liquor in the cellar of the abandoned house next door.

Suddenly, the small immigrant community is the backdrop for conniving schemes and escalating violence as rival bootleggers take over the streets, alleys, and a boarded-up tavern with a secret side door. Soon, the whole town is on edge. Buried troubles are dug up as Halina's family and friends become entangled in the strange world of pinstripes, fedoras, tassels, and lies.

Seeing a glimpse of the future, Baba, the aging mystic, realizes it's time for Halina to take over as town healer and become the one to dispense the Old Country poultices and potions to those who are ailing. But Halina isn't sure she wants the job. Can she treat knife wounds, burns, and blindness from a bad batch of hooch?

As she faces her most difficult case yet, Halina must decide just how far she will go to save a dying patient, and learns that healing isn't just about medicine and bandages, but it's also about something much stronger: hope.