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Bodies Out of Place
Bodies out of Place asserts that anti-Black racism is not better than it used to be; it is just performed in more-nuanced ways. Barbara Harris Combs argues that racism is dynamic, so new theories are needed to help expose it. The Bodies-out-of-Place (BOP) theory she advances in the book offers such a corrective lens. Interrogating several recent racialized events—the Central Park birding incident, the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, sleeping while Black occurrences, and others—Combs demonstrates how the underlying belief that undergirds each encounter is a false presumption that Black bodies in certain contexts are out of place. Within these examples she illustrates how, even amid professions ...
Metamorphosis
Post-Christendom, Christian leaders and preachers in North America struggle to respond to anxiety and despair about the future of the church. Declining participation, fewer resources, decreased influence, and confusion about pastoral and ecclesial identity lead to fear for the survival of the institutional church. Preaching must speak to the despair and confusion faced by congregations today, as well as cast a hopeful vision for an uncertain future. This book argues that preachers can change the narrative of the church post-Christendom, by urging an exit from Christendom ecclesiology and promoting the construction of an identity that embraces vulnerability and incarnation instead of power an...
Will's Downfall, Book One: "Is It All In Your Head?"
Poor William never thought that the start of his senior year would turn into something like this!First of all, the girl that he's always admired but never quite had the stones to ask out finally reveals that she's always had a crush on him! Sounds great, right? So what could be so bad about that? How could this year of high school turn into an ungodly march through the trenches of hell itself?Well, it's quite simple. She was kidnapped. The school's football team have been working with a bizarre government agency in order to test out some equally bizarre chemical that can turn an a stable young man into that of a bloodthirsty beast! All this in the name of gridiron glory! Or should we say, gory?How did we ever go from high school to hell? From the locker rooms to right in the center of a bloody abyss? What kind of nutjob writes a book like this?You'll experience all this and more in this first installment of The Will's Downfall Saga. You've been warned...(Includes Parts One and Two)
Ride It Slow
A military hero. A runaway bride. Never enough time. Marcie is the right woman at the wrong time. My overseas deployment may keep us apart, but we stay in touch until an accident sends me back to the states. By then, I mysteriously stop hearing from her. When I return to small town Glendale Falls I find out why—when I interrupt her in the chapel marrying another man. Love is mightier than duty though, and once she sees me, all bets are off. Something tells me to rev up my motorcycle, and be ready to catch this runaway bride. From USA Today Best-selling Author, Zee Irwin, read Return to Glendale Falls, and join the Hale family of sisters as they navigate life, love, and triumph in the face of loss. Their heroes will swoop in and give them everything they deserve with a satisfying happily ever after. So cuddle up, read their steamy standalone stories, and stay awhile in the small town of Glendale Falls.
THE PUPPETEER
Michael Miller is a computer science professor and a loving father whose life has taken a few bad turns. His wife of ten years, a beautiful, hard-driving corporate executive, has divorced him, and Michael is left to raise their seven year-old son—a quirky, yet lovable little boy who has a near-obsession with spiders. As Michael struggles with his life, Salim Haddad glides to the zenith of his career. Haddad is “America's Newsman” —a media icon, he represents everything that his television viewers admire—honesty, virtue, and professionalism. But Salim Haddad has dark secrets, and it is those secrets that lead to a horrifying incident the puts the professor and the media star on a collision path.
Thinking Television
Thinking Television tells the story of an innovative media literacy project focused on the creation of media programming that «makes money» and «makes a difference». Woven around critiques of student-produced concepts for «television that thinks», this book offers new directions for critical media literacy, popular culture studies and the interdisciplinary concerns of cultural studies.
Diamond
The story of how a mixed-income minority community in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor fought Shell Oil and won. For years, the residents of Diamond, Louisiana, lived with an inescapable acrid, metallic smell—the "toxic bouquet" of pollution—and a mysterious chemical fog that seeped into their houses. They looked out on the massive Norco Industrial Complex: a maze of pipelines, stacks topped by flares burning off excess gas, and huge oil tankers moving up the Mississippi. They experienced headaches, stinging eyes, allergies, asthma, and other respiratory problems, skin disorders, and cancers that they were convinced were caused by their proximity to heavy industry. Periodic industrial explo...
