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Second Chances
A van loaded with explosives is minutes away from causing the total destruction of a downtown office building. But the tragedy is averted. This chance encounter transforms a young man into an instant hero. Reluctantly, he agrees to address the people who worked in and around the office building and tells them that this close call was more than just luck. He believes that it is a Second Chance from their creator, an opportunity to reflect on what they have, a chance to change their lives. The simple, spontaneous speech profoundly impacts the audience and quickly gains momentum as the message spreads. The calm is short lived however. Within days, Chris finds himself the target of a maniacal killer. Who is trying to kill him, and why? Who placed the bomb? Why was it placed at that particular location? Second Chances propels you into a pulse-pounding journey as Chris Maggio, strengthened by his faith in God, runs a desperate race to solve the mystery before his time runs out.
A Culture of Second Chances
This book examines the iconic presence of second chances in everyday life. David Newman explores its various iterations in popular culture, commercial marketplaces, religion, intimate relationships, education, criminal justice, and human bodies. He analyzes how this concept—as a cultural aspiration, driver of policy, and lived personal experience—has become part and parcel of our individual sense of self and our collective national identity. While the rhetoric of redemption is familiar and ubiquitous, Newman uncovers the costs and constraints of second chances, paying particular attention to the factors that affect judgments of deservedness. Informed by an array of data sources including personal interviews, mission statements of nonprofit recovery agencies, images in popular culture, stories from the news, plot summaries of novels, and scriptural texts, Newman frames the second chance experience as the quintessential cultural paradox: a concept that simultaneously represents the pinnacle of our shared hopes for renewal and our deepest suspicions about the intransigence of human nature.
2nd Chance
When a little girl is shot on the steps of a San Francisco church, Detective Lindsay Boxer reconvenes the Women's Murder Club. Working with reporter Cindy Thomas, assistant DA Jill Bernhardt, and medical examiner Claire Washburn, Lindsay tracks a mystifying killer who quickly turns his pursuers into victims. The unorthodox allegiances of the Women's Murder Club lead them to suspect the unexpected - the killer may be an ex-cop. But nothing prepares them for the demented logic behind his choice of victims.
The Seond Chance
Wyatt Harris was born with one arm in mainline China. Because of the one-child policy and figuring he would be of little value to the family, he was abandoned as an infant to an orphanage, where he was adopted by an American family at the age of three. The Second Chance is WyattÕs story of his childhood in the US, and later his search to find his biological parents in China. After finding his biological parents and siblings in a tiny village, he realizes how lucky he was to have been abandoned 20 years before. With his newfound respect for life, he decides to give orphans another chance as well, and starts Second Chances, a non-profit foundation assisting orphans in Taiwan and China. In October of 2012, the first orphan student from Taiwan was brought to the United States to study at a school in Oregon for one year, all funded through Second Chances. The Second Chance is the story of the authorÕs epic journey to discover his past and secure his future.
Averting a Global Environmental Collapse
The numerous and varied indicators of environmental risks point toward the likelihood of a systemic and catastrophic ecological failure at some point during this century. Political inaction and cultural resistance, meanwhile, are even preventing the implementation of already available technical solutions, which has led many experts to conclude that averting a global environmental catastrophe is, foremost, a socio-political, rather than a technical, challenge. The World Science Union (ICSU) has recognized that knowledge of the social sciences is indispensable for facilitating the major socio-cultural transformations now required, and, together with the International Social Science Council (IS...
Made in Prison (English Version)
Prison or also known as The Correctional Facility is not always about dreary and scary things. Many creative works have been produced from behind the walls; the delicious bakeries, high artsy painting, even garment products with export quality. All of those works are produced by prisoners, or also known as the inmates. The products that are made by the inmates, brings many stories behind it, from bitter till touching story. Through those productive activities, they changed the sorrow into hope to get a second chance to bring their life back into society. Through this book, Evy Amir Syamsudin reflected on her experiences to guide the inmates and her vision to humanize them.
