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The term “tortured cardboard” sums up what happens to cardboard when making a board game (bound, cut, folded, punched). And, as you’ll learn, great board games often reflect whatever “tortures” culture. Each gained immortality after a chaotic beginning and a chance survival. Why? Because—be it chess, backgammon, Clue®, Monopoly®, Scrabble®, Settlers of Catan®, or one of ten others featured in this book—each is replete with “lessons” applicable to achievement in your life. As the twenty-first century gathers momentum, our love affair with board games continues to strengthen. They involve us, they refine social skills, and they teach great lessons applicable in real life. “Tortuous” is the journey of every great board game, from birth in chaotic times, through survival by mere chance, to raging popularity and eventual immortality. Tortured Cardboard reveals how the great ones came to endure and—all fun aside—how each teaches us something about our own behavior while providing “rules” that can work in your life.
Be enlightened and entertained. Be prepared for irreverence. Come on this journey through time and witness how these games came to be, why they flourish, and what you can gain by applying their “secrets.” The term “tortured cardboard” sums up what happens to cardboard when making a board game (bound, cut, folded, punched). And, as you’ll learn, great board games often reflect whatever “tortures” culture. Each gained immortality after a chaotic beginning and a chance survival. Why? Because—be it chess, backgammon, Clue®, Monopoly®, Scrabble®, Settlers of Catan®, or one of ten others featured in this book—each is replete with “lessons” applicable to achievement in your life. As the twenty-first century gathers momentum, our love affair with board games continues to strengthen. They involve us, they refine social skills, and they teach great lessons applicable in real life. “Tortuous” is the journey of every great board game, from birth in chaotic times, through survival by mere chance, to raging popularity and eventual immortality. Tortured Cardboard reveals how the great ones came to endure and—all fun aside—how each teaches us something about our own behavior while providing “rules” that can work in your life.
Kill Boxes addresses the legacy of US-sponsored torture, indefinite detention, and drone warfare by deciphering the shocks of recognition that humanistic and artistic responses to violence bring to consciousness if readers and viewers have eyes to face them.Beginning with an analysis of the ways in which the hooded man from Abu Ghraib became iconic, subsequent chapters take up less culturally visible scenes of massive violations of human rights to bring us face to face with these shocks and the forms of recognition that they enable and disavow. We are addressed in the photo of the hooded man, all the more so as he was brutally prevented, in our name, from returning the camera's and thus our gaze. We are addressed in the screams that turn a person, tortured in our name, into howling flesh. We are addressed in poems written in the Guantánamo Prison camp, however much American authorities try to censor them, in our name. We are addressed by the victims of the US drone wars, however little American citizens may have heard the names of the places obliterated by the bombs for which their taxes pay. And we know that we are addressed in spite of a number of strategies of brutal refusal of heeding those calls.Providing intensive readings of philosophical texts by Jean Améry, Jacques Derrida, and Christian Thomasius, with poetic texts by Franz Kafka, Paul Muldoon, and the poet-detainees of Guantánamo Bay Prison Camp, and with artistic creations by Sallah Edine Sallat, the American artist collective Forkscrew and an international artist collective from Pakistan, France and the US, Kill Boxes demonstrates the complexity of humanistic responses to crimes committed in the name of national security. The conscious or unconscious knowledge that we are addressed by the victims of these crimes is a critical factor in discussions on torture, on indefinite detention without trial, as practiced in Guantánamo, and in debates on the strategies to circumvent the latter altogether, as practiced in drone warfare and its extrajudicial assassination program.The volume concludes with an Afterword by Richard Falk.
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Now available in one bundle for the first time, the first seven books of the Jack Taggart Mystery series are gathered together, including the latest mystery, Corporate Asset. "Ripped from the headlines ... Easton, an ex-Mountie, knows his police work." - Globe and Mail "One of the best hard-nosed series in Canada." - Hamilton Spectator "Swift action, sudden violence and compassion told in a style that keeps you turning the pages. Easton is a writer at the top of his game." - Hamilton Spectator "Filled with moments of sheer terror that will keep the readers turning pages faster and faster as it builds." - Bookgasm.com Corporate Asset - Jack Taggart Mystery #7 (NEW!) Undercover operative Taggart descends into a world of white-collar crime and murder. Setting himself up as bait to be murdered, Taggart races against time to stop a rapist and catch a serial killer. Birds of a Feather - Jack Taggart Mystery #6 Taggart discovers a Canadian link to a Mexican drug cartel and penetrates the organization. Taggart is sent to El Paso, where he is partnered with U.S. Customs agent Adams. What neither Taggart nor Adams know is they've been paired for a secret purpose. Includes 5 more Jack Taggart titles: Dead Ends - Jack Taggart Mystery #5 Samurai Code - Jack Taggart Mystery #4 Angel in the Full Moon - Jack Taggart Mystery #3 Above Ground - Jack Taggart Mystery #2 Loose Ends - Jack Taggart Mystery #1
All twelve books of the Jack Taggart Mystery series are gathered together in this bundle, including the latest mystery, An Element of Risk. “Ripped from the headlines ... Easton, an ex-Mountie, knows his police work.” — Globe and Mail “One of the best hard-nosed series in Canada.” — Hamilton Spectator “Swift action, sudden violence and compassion told in a style that keeps you turning the pages. Easton is a writer at the top of his game.” — Hamilton Spectator “Filled with moments of sheer terror that will keep the readers turning pages faster and faster as it builds.” — Bookgasm.com Includes: An Element of Risk — Jack Taggart Mystery #12 (NEW!) RCMP operative Jack Taggart goes undercover to identify a murderer who belongs to a white supremacist faction and is a self-proclaimed survivalist. Subverting Justice — Jack Taggart Mystery #11 Jack Taggart never thought he would miss Damien Zabat, until his old nemesis was unseated by a new head of the Satans Wrath motorcycle gang. Now the new boss is settling old scores, and Taggart’s family are on his revenge list. His superiors tell him to hold back, but Taggart knows a bit about vengeance, too. A Delicate Matter — Jack Taggart Mystery #10 Jack Taggart is once again thrown into conflict with his longtime nemesis, Satans Wrath gang leader Damien Zabat. When Jack obtains evidence to implicate Damien’s son, Buck, in a murder, he thinks he finally has what he needs to get Damien to turn informant. But little does Taggart know that a new, even more terrifying, enemy is on the rise. And 9 more Jack Taggart titles: Art and Murder — Jack Taggart Mystery #9 The Benefactor — Jack Taggart Mystery #8 Corporate Asset — Jack Taggart Mystery #7 Birds of a Feather — Jack Taggart Mystery #6 Dead Ends — Jack Taggart Mystery #5 Samurai Code — Jack Taggart Mystery #4 Angel in the Full Moon — Jack Taggart Mystery #3 Above Ground — Jack Taggart Mystery #2 Loose Ends — Jack Taggart Mystery #1
Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize, this novel explores love, obsession and stranger danger. Wallace is a door-to-door salesman. When he meets six-year-old Jania, his life gains a new dimension. He is in love. This is 'pure' adoration. Or is it? Esther, reluctant grandmother, is too self-absorbed to notice the drama that is about to break. Innocence carries its own dangers: love grows where least expected. The little girl might have some answers of her own, but who will listen?
A dynamic exploration of eight radical theater collectives from the 1960s and 70s, and their influence on contemporary performance
This book is a humorous novel by Booth Tarkington that gently satirizes first love, in the person of a callow 17-year-old, William Sylvanus Baxter. Seventeen takes place in a small city in the Midwestern United States shortly before World War and it was the bestselling novel in the United States in 1916.
When her Uncle Charlie dies, Mary discovers that she has inherited a house in Georgia. She travels to Sunset Cove, and unravela why her uncle never mentioned the house and why the townspeople don't want her to stay.