On a hot August night in 1966, “drag queens” and gay “hustlers” at the Compton Cafeteria in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco rose up and fought back when police tried to arrest them for doing nothing more than being out. The Ghosts of Stonewall: Policing Gender, Policing Sex And tracing stories from the judicial bench to the streets and behind prison bars, the authors prove that the policing of sex and gender both bolsters and reinforces racial and gender inequalities. The authors unpack queer criminal archetypes-like "gleeful gay killers," "lethal lesbians," and "disease spreaders"-to illustrate the punishment of queer expression, regardless of whether a crime was ever committed. Drawing on years of research, activism, and legal advocacy, Queer (In)Justice is a searing examination of the queer experience-as criminal defendants, prisoners, and survivors of violent crimes. Their supposed crime was later chalked up to a bizarre infraction: "loitering inside a building." The event illuminated a long shadow of policing in America, where discrimination and prejudice are pervasive. Some were hit in the head and back others were slammed into walls while being verbally abused. A groundbreaking work that turns a "queer eye"on the criminal legal system In March 2003-three decades after Stonewall-police stormed the Power Plant, a private Detroit club frequented by African American LGBT people.
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OL15068103W Page_number_confidence 77.27 Pages 90 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210110091714 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 287 Scandate 20210106170653 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780723247838 Tts_version 4. Whenever he moves from one house to another, Tommy Brock moves in to the vacated premises, without permission. Tod owns a number of homes around the wood. Tod, a fox, and Tommy Brock, a badger, are both troublesome neighbors and 'disagreeable people'. Urn:lcp:taleofmrtod0000pott_b3d1:epub:66f2f58e-8980-4d1a-a730-9114542bc4ed Foldoutcount 0 Identifier taleofmrtod0000pott_b3d1 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t2n68hb8w Invoice 1652 Isbn 0723247838 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.8834 Ocr_module_version 0.0.10 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000177 Openlibrary_edition Tod is a book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 02:03:10 Boxid IA40031119 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier I was attracted to their colorful pages and the way the words and pictures played with each other, much like the captioned cartoons I had drawn when I was young. As a kindergarten teacher, she collected picture books. "The inspiration to begin writing and illustrating for children came from my wife, Carol. When not working on his books, Tedd's interests include tennis, sketching, reading, coin collecting, and the computer. He has now published more than 30 books as author and illustrator. His second son, William, now stars in No More Water in the Tub!, a sequel to his first book. Their first son, Walter, inspired his breakthrough picture book, No Jumping on the Bed!. Carol, a Kindergarten teacher, drew Tedd's attention to children's books. He and his wife, Carol, started their family in Tallahassee where Tedd worked as a commercial illustrator. There, Tedd's first art lessons in an abandoned dentist's office over the Happy Hour pool hall eventually led to a fine arts degree from the University of Florida. His father's work then required that they move to Gainesville, Florida. His family lived on a farm in Pennsylvania for several years then returned to Elmira until Tedd was ten years old. Born in Elmira, New York, Tedd grew up in a family of six with three brothers. “This did look like an accident,” he said. Martin mentioned that Michele had been taking several drugs as part of her recovery and suggested that maybe Michele had overdosed and drowned, according to Grunander. RELATED: Utah Man Killed Wife In Their Backyard Fish Pond And Claimed She Drowned By Accident He sent Ada to a neighbor for help as he called 911. Martin said that he found her hunched over the tub like she had been trying to fill it up and then passed out. Michele had been discovered by 6-year-old Ada MacNeil, who alerted her father. Investigators from the Utah County Sheriff’s Department were called to look into how Michele met such an untimely death. Michele was known as a devoted and loving mother of eight, including four adopted children from Ukraine. It was a tragedy for a well-respected member of the community. Michele Macneil, featured on Accident Suicide or Murder 418 Susan Duerden's performance of Embassytown was vastly superior, and I'd hoped I'd get to hear her as Bellis Coldwine. China Miéville is one of my very favourite authors, and I'm quite sad to see Mr Lynch has been further involved in the presentation of his works, not least of all because, of those books, The Scar would seem to be the MOST hospitable to Mr Lynch's tendency to give every character with an accent a Caribbean lilt. Perhaps the most troubling part is that a disturbing number of these errors, even when picked up on and re-read by Mr Lynch, have not been edited out (I counted five untouched gaffes in one unhappy half-hour), possibly due to the soporific monotone in which the story is read. He stumbles and brachiates through the sentences as if each one were a tongue-twister (although, to be fair, it IS Miéville), reading nouns as verbs and verbs as nouns and not really betraying any understanding of what he's reading. Fantastic story let down by subpar renditionĭamian Lynch couldn't ruin one of my favourite books for me, but he gave it a real go. Even better, there’s something lovely about watching a young person conquer an unimaginable adventure. There’s something beautiful about a tough topic dealt with in a way that is consumable by young readers. Anyone who has been following me for any length of time knows how much I love Middle Grade books. So, this is a rough one for me to review. Murder, mayhem and mystery meet in this gripping Victorian adventure. Too soon Lily realizes that those she holds dear may be the very ones to break her heart. With her friends-Robert, the clockmaker’s son, and Malkin, her mechanical fox-Lily is plunged into a murky and menacing world. Her father is missing and now silver-eyed men stalk her through the shadows. Recommended to: Young readers who enjoy quick moving reads with plenty of twists and turns. With 27 years of Amazon experience between them, much of it in the early aughts - a period of unmatched innovation that brought products and services including Kindle, Amazon Prime, Amazon Studios, and Amazon Web Services to life - Bryar and Carr offer unprecedented access to the Amazon way as it was refined, articulated, and proven to be repeatable, scalable, and adaptable. In Working Backwards, these two long-serving Amazon executives reveal and codify the principles and practices that drive the success of one of the most extraordinary companies the world has ever known. Working Backwards is an insider's breakdown of Amazon's approach to culture, leadership, and best practices from two longtime, top-level Amazon executives.Ĭolin started at Amazon in 1998 Bill joined in 1999. This program includes a preface read by the authors. He discarded Anne of Cleves, who, among other things, he considered too old and not a virgin, and took Catherine as his trophy. For the king, limping into his fifth decade, it was, Russell writes, ‘lust at first sight’. In 1539 Catherine, whose uncle was the powerful third Duke of Norfolk, was sent to court and enjoyed a flirtation with Thomas Culpeper, a gentleman of the Privy Chamber. Then there was Francis Dereham, to whom she lost her virginity. For two years, she was in a relationship with Henry Manox, her music teacher. They brought wine and strawberries and, at the hint of grandmother’s footsteps, squirrelled themselves away in a curtained gallery. It gave favoured young men access to the maidens’ chamber in the house of her father’s stepmother, where she grew up. I was reminded of this reading Gareth Russell’s biography of Henry VIII’s fifth wife, Catherine Howard, because she, too, had a spare key cut. They never got caught: where there’s a will – or perhaps just a thrill – there’s a way. She and her friends snuck off to drink, smoke and see the boys. When I was at a mixed boarding school in the countryside, one of the girls in my house pressed the back-door key into a bar of soap and had a copy made. Indecisiveness is both wasteful and destructive to morale. All decisions, no matter how difficult, can be made on a timely basis. Leaders have to be willing to take risks and place big bets. Even in the face of difficulty, an optimistic leader will find the path toward the best possible outcome and focus on that, rather than give in to pessimism and blaming. Its value is nearly five times what it was when Iger took over, and he is recognized as one of the most innovative and successful CEOs of our era.In The Ride of a Lifetime, Robert Iger shares the lessons he’s learned while running Disney and leading its 200,000 employees, and he explores the principles that are necessary for true leadership, including: His vision came down to three clear ideas: Recommit to the concept that quality matters, embrace technology instead of fighting it, and think bigger-think global-and turn Disney into a stronger brand in international markets.Fourteen years later, Disney is the largest, most respected media company in the world, counting Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and 21st Century Fox among its properties. Competition was more intense than ever and technology was changing faster than at any time in the company’s history. A grand vision defined: The CEO of Disney, one of Time’s most influential people of 2019, shares the ideas and values he embraced to reinvent one of the most beloved companies in the world and inspire the people who bring the magic to life.Robert Iger became CEO of The Walt Disney Company in 2005, during a difficult time. The daughter of Confederate President Jefferson Davis read it aloud to her father, with the two of them staying up all night to finish the story. One result was another novel, The Prince of India: Or Why Constantinople Fell. ambassador to Turkey and told him to write more books. President James Garfield was so impressed with the story that he read portions between meetings and then woke up at 5:30 a.m. Grant stayed up for 30-straight hours because he couldn’t put the book down. As they reconnected as young adults in Jerusalem at the time of Christ, Messala turned into the Roman oppressor against Ben-Hur and his family, and the conflict rolls toward the famous life-and-death chariot race between the two men in Rome.Įxcept for the Bible, the book sold better than anything else in that era, including Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Judah Ben-Hur and Messala, the Roman, had been childhood friends, with the orphaned Messala growing up in the Ben-Hur home. David Wallace and a lawyer aspiring to be novelist, wanted to write a story about Jesus Christ from a different angle than the Gospels of the Bible. The best-seller of the 19th century was written by former Union Civil War Gen. What’s less known is the blockbuster nature of the 1880 book Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. A new movie version hit theaters today, capitalizing on the 1959 blockbuster film that won a record-setting 11 Academy Awards. The Ben-Hur story never seems to go out of fashion. |