At Your Own Risk

Author: Tom Sutherland
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 456

Book Description
In 1983 Tom Sutherland, a professor at Colorado State University, accepted the position of Dean of Faculty of Agriculture and Food Science at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. Two years later, on June 9, 1985, he was kidnapped by gunmen from the Islamic Jihad. That day would be the first of 2,354 - nearly six and a half years of captivity - the second longest period of any western hostage in Lebanon. At Your Own Risk is the passionate chronicle of Tom and his wife Jean's remarkable experience in Lebanon before, during, and after the hostage years. Tom's story of captivity alternates with Jean's, who stayed in Beirut teaching and working for Tom's release. Their voices are interwoven throughout the book, providing a riveting look at a time and place in history that even today few Americans understand. The story of their extraordinary return to Lebanon after Tom's release reaffirms their commitment to and hope for a resolution of the ongoing conflict between Islam and the western world.

At Your Own Risk

Author: Derek Jarman
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473559022
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
Impassioned, witty and polemical, At Your Own Risk is Derek Jarman's defiant celebration of gay sexuality. In At Your Own Risk, Derek Jarman weaves poetry, prose, photographs and newspaper extracts into a rich tapestry of gay experience in the UK. The buttoned-up repression of the fifties and sixties makes way for liberation and free love in the seventies, only to be chased by the terror and pain of HIV/AIDS. This is Jarman at his passionate best, written when he was already ill with HIV and in the midst of the moral panic surrounding the AIDS crisis. Defiant and furious, he not only celebrates his own sexuality but skewers wider society for its brazen homophobia. Reissued here 25 years after Jarman's death, with an introduction by Straight Jacket author Matthew Todd, At Your Own Risk remains a singular work. It is a powerful reminder of how far we have come and how much further we have left to go. 'It blew my mind quite honestly !', It's A Sin star Olly Alexander via Twitter

Bushworld

Author: Maureen Dowd
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780425202760
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 564

Book Description
More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA

Swing at Your Own Risk

Author: Metta Sáma
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780932716903
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Swing at your own risk, structurally designed to swing from one subject to the next, from one lyric utterance to the next, concerns itself with unpacking myths of gender (specifically myths of woman and womanhood), myths of race (specifically myths of the black U.S. person), myths of sexuality (specifically myths of a stable sexual identity) and myths of violence (specifically myths of the scary black man in the U.S. and the scary black woman in the U.S.). Through formal and structural experimentation, the poems attempt to look at the varying issues in the U.S. that can rob humans of opportunities to be radically humane." --

Teen Titans Go! (TM): Read at Your Own Risk

Author: Magnolia Belle
Publisher: LB Kids
ISBN: 0316389285
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27

Book Description
When the Teen Titans decide to exercise their brains and read some books, danger strikes! Does the team have what it takes to battle their own imagination? TM & © DC Comics. (s15)

DUSTOFFF

Author: Mike Disario
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1638142084
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 103

Book Description
The book is a compilation of twelve short stories. It covers stories of missions and places in the career of a DUSTOFF flight medic. These stories are a firsthand account of the medic who experienced it all. DUSTOFF is a book covering twenty daring, incredible, and amazing helicopter rescue missions performed by the medic/author in the ’80s and ’90s. It is a glimpse of the flight medic’s military and civilian career spanning the globe. Caution: some of the stories are graphic and may be upsetting to some readers.

Life of Me, The #14

Author: Henry Winkler
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101078855
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
When Ms. Adolf hurts her back in a tango contest and goes on longterm leave, Mr. Rock (the music teacher) is called in as the sub. Hank is psyched . . . until Mr. Rock suggests that Hank attend an after-school reading program, which means he'll miss tae kwon do. But when Hank gets a crush on a girl in the reading program, and when Mr. Rock says that instead of writing his autobiography (a class assignment), Hank can present his life in scrapbook form, well . . . life's looking good. Then Hank finds out that his crush is actually the cousin of his nemesis, McKelty! Readers will love Hank's newest adventure, plus they will adore reading Hank's scrapbook, which includes black-and-white photos of his school and neighborhood, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, and more!

Ride at Your Own Risk

Author: Darci Dexter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578806518
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Just imagine - you are waiting for your Rideshare to arrive as out of nowhere a big black pickup truck appears and stops exactly where you are expecting your driver to pick you up. It takes a while for you to realize that IT IS YOUR RIDE. You open the door slowly getting over the first shock as to your big surprise the driver is a WOMAN. This book is filled with humor and advice, excitement, and fears. The OMGs and the heck NOs. The compassion, the doubt, the tears, the hugs, and the handshakes. It is filled with LIFE.

Enter at Your Own Risk

Author: Leora Lev
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 0838640885
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 279

Book Description
Dennis Cooper has been both praised and censured as the most controversial writer working today for his creation of a searing, outlaw textuality that charts psychosexual terrain uncensored by desire police. This volume is the first to explore Cooper's significance as a pioneering literary artist who illuminates the hidden or repressed extremities of the fin de millennium American zeitgeist. Leora Lev has assembled a roster of internationally acclaimed scholars, fiction writers, filmmakers, and artists who conjure a provocative encounter between Cooper's fiction, European transgressive literature and philosophy (e.g., Sade, Rimbaud, Bataille, Bresson), and American psychocultural topographies.

Enter at Your Own Risk

Author: Dennis S. Martin
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411626281
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76

Book Description
Cutting edge poetry