Hard Damage

Author: Aria Aber
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496218957
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
Hard Damage works to relentlessly interrogate the self and its shortcomings. In lyric and documentary poems and essayistic fragments, Aria Aber explores the historical and personal implications of Afghan American relations. Drawing on material dating back to the 1950s, she considers the consequences of these relations--in particular the funding of the Afghan mujahedeen, which led to the Taliban and modern-day Islamic terrorism--for her family and the world at large. Invested in and suspicious of the pain of family and the shame of selfhood, the speakers of these richly evocative and musical poems mourn the magnitude of citizenship as a state of place and a state of mind. While Hard Damage is framed by free-verse poetry, the middle sections comprise a lyric essay in fragments and a long documentary poem. Aber explores Rilke in the original German, the urban melancholia of city life, inherited trauma, and displacement on both linguistic and environmental levels, while employing surrealist and eerily domestic imagery.

Damage

Author: Josephine Hart
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1639363092
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 185

Book Description
**Soon to be appearing on Netflix as "Obsession," starring Richard Armitage and Charlie Murphy** This New York Times bestselling novel, now in a brand-new edition, is a daring look at the dangers of obsession and the depth of its shattering consequences. Damage is the gripping story of a man’s desperate obsession and scandalous love affair. He is a man who appears to have everything: wealth, a beautiful wife and children, and a prestigious political career in Parliament. But his life lacks passion, and his aching emptiness drives him to an all-consuming, and ultimately catastrophic, relationship with his son’s fiancée. Chilling and brilliant, Damage is a New York Times bestselling masterpiece of the romantic suspense genre.

Damaged

Author: Robert Maunder, MD
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487528345
Category : Adult child abuse victims
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
This is the story of a psychiatrist and his career-long relationship with a difficult patient showing how medical treatment should not just be about biology, but also about psychology.

Damage Control

Author: Lisa Renee Jones
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1250083834
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description
The next novel in a stunningly sexy, explosive new edgy contemporary romance series from heralded New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones.

My Damage

Author: Keith Morris
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306824078
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 335

Book Description
Keith Morris is a true punk icon. No one else embodies the sound of Southern Californian hardcore the way he does. With his waist-length dreadlocks and snarling vocals, Morris is known the world over for his take-no-prisoners approach on the stage and his integrity off of it. Over the course of his forty-year career with Black Flag, the Circle Jerks, and OFF!, he's battled diabetes, drug and alcohol addiction, and the record industry . . . and he's still going strong. My Damage is more than a book about the highs and lows of a punk rock legend. It's a story from the perspective of someone who has shared the stage with just about every major figure in the music industry and has appeared in cult films like The Decline of Western Civilization and Repo Man. A true Hollywood tale from an L.A. native, My Damage reveals the story of Morris's streets, his scene, and his music-as only he can tell it.

Damage Time

Author: Colin Harvey
Publisher: Angry Robot, Limited
ISBN: 0857660640
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 409

Book Description
As the sea-levels rise in New York City, Detective Pete Shah, who, serving with the NYPD as a Memory Association Specialist, reads the last memories of murder victims, is accused of killing a glamorous woman in a bar and must race against time to save himself. Original.

Damage Control

Author: Amber Dermont
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312642814
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
A luminous collection of short stories focusing on privilege and entitlement, from the bestselling author of "The Starboard Sea," Dermont's remarkable giftfor portraying characters at crossroads is on full display.

Damage Done

Author: Amanda Panitch
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 0857987739
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
"Julia Vann has a new identity after being forced to leave town because of her twin brother's terrible crime. Julia is the only survivor but she can't remember what happened--at least, that's what she tells the police"--

Noise Damage

Author: James Kennedy
Publisher: Eye Books (US&CA)
ISBN: 1785632159
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 245

Book Description
The tale that follows is not another clichéd collection of rock'n'roll debaucheries (sorry) nor is it another tired fable of triumph over adversity (you're welcome).It's the story of a half-deaf kid from a tiny, remote village in South Wales who was hailed as a genius by the UK's biggest radio station and headhunted by major record labels, only for the music industry to collapse. It crashed hard, taking with it an entire generation of talented artists who would never now get their shot. CNN called it &‘music's lost decade'.Along the way, there are goodies, baddies, gun-toting label execs, life-saving surgeons, therapy, true love, loyalty, hope, breakdowns, suicidal managers, betrayal, drummers and way too many hangovers. James Kennedy shows that the best lessons are to be learned from good losers. It really is all about the journey.Part memoir, part exposé of the music world's murky underbelly, Noise Damage is emotional, painfully honest, funny, informative and ridiculous. It's also a celebration of the life-changing magic of music.

Collateral Damage

Author: Sharon L. Nichols
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
ISBN: 1612500803
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
Drawing on their extensive research, Nichols and Berliner document and categorize the ways that high-stakes testing threatens the purposes and ideals of the American education system. For more than a decade, the debate over high-stakes testing has dominated the field of education. This passionate and provocative book provides a fresh perspective on the issue and powerful ammunition for opponents of high-stakes tests. Their analysis is grounded in the application of Campbell’s Law, which posits that the greater the social consequences associated with a quantitative indicator (such as test scores), the more likely it is that the indicator itself will become corrupted—and the more likely it is that the use of the indicator will corrupt the social processes it was intended to monitor. Nichols and Berliner illustrate both aspects of this “corruption,” showing how the pressures of high-stakes testing erode the validity of test scores and distort the integrity of the education system. Their analysis provides a coherent and comprehensive intellectual framework for the wide-ranging arguments against high-stakes testing, while putting a compelling human face on the data marshalled in support of those arguments.