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When the Devil Whistles
No full textHigh-stakes intrigue that will keep you flipping pages long into the night. --James Scott Bell, bestselling and award-winning suspense author Allie Whitman and Connor Norman loved making the devils of the corporate world pay. Now, it’s their turn. And the price could be their lives. “I didn’t have a choice. I didn’t.” That’s what Allie Whitman tells herself every night as she lies awake. Sometimes she even believes it. But mostly she knows deep down that her inability to make a hard choice has put millions of lives at risk, including her own. Now the only one who can help her is her lawyer, Connor Norman. Unfortunately, Allie’s actions have destroyed Connor’s trust in her--and may destroy much, much more. Rick Acker is one of the market\u27s best-kept secrets. When the Devil Whistles blends legal thrills, spies, and military action, offering some unique twists. Acker\u27s characters and settings come to life, and he again breathes new ideas into the genre. Fast-paced and thought-provoking, his third book is his best yet. --Eric Wilson, NY Times bestselling author of Valley of Bones and Fireproof More than once while reading When the Devil Whistles, I had to remind myself that I wasn\u27t reading John Grisham. Rick Acker\u27s pacing and plot are terrific. A wonderful read from a writer I wish I\u27d discovered sooner. —Angela Hunt, author of Let Darkness Come.https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/harper_lee_prize_books_2011/1000/thumbnail.jp
When the Devil Whistles
No full textHigh-stakes intrigue that will keep you flipping pages long into the night. --James Scott Bell, bestselling and award-winning suspense author Allie Whitman and Connor Norman loved making the devils of the corporate world pay. Now, it’s their turn. And the price could be their lives. “I didn’t have a choice. I didn’t.” That’s what Allie Whitman tells herself every night as she lies awake. Sometimes she even believes it. But mostly she knows deep down that her inability to make a hard choice has put millions of lives at risk, including her own. Now the only one who can help her is her lawyer, Connor Norman. Unfortunately, Allie’s actions have destroyed Connor’s trust in her--and may destroy much, much more. Rick Acker is one of the market\u27s best-kept secrets. When the Devil Whistles blends legal thrills, spies, and military action, offering some unique twists. Acker\u27s characters and settings come to life, and he again breathes new ideas into the genre. Fast-paced and thought-provoking, his third book is his best yet. --Eric Wilson, NY Times bestselling author of Valley of Bones and Fireproof More than once while reading When the Devil Whistles, I had to remind myself that I wasn\u27t reading John Grisham. Rick Acker\u27s pacing and plot are terrific. A wonderful read from a writer I wish I\u27d discovered sooner. —Angela Hunt, author of Let Darkness Come.https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/harper_lee_prize_books_2011/1000/thumbnail.jp
Architectural metaphors of knowledge: the Mundaneum designs of Maurice Heymans, Paul Otlet, and Le Corbusier
No full textThe author discusses the architectural plans of the Mundaneum made in the 1930s by the Belgian modernist architect Maurice Heymans in the footsteps of Le Corbusier and in collaboration with Paul Otlet. The Mundaneum was the utopian concept of a world center for the accumulation, organization, and dissemination of knowledge, invented by the visionary encyclopedist and internationalist Paul Otlet. In Heymans's architecture, a complex architectural metaphor is created for the Mundaneum, conveying its hidden meaning as a center of initiation into synthesized knowledge. In particular, this article deconstructs the metaphorical architectural complex designed by Heymans and focuses on how the architectural spaces as designed by Heymans are structured in analogy to schemes for the organization of knowledge made by Otlet. In three different designs of the Mundaneum, the analogy is studied between, on the one hand, the architectural structure (designed by Heymans) and, on the other hand, the structure of the cosmology, the book Monde, and the vision of knowledge dissemination as invented by Odet. The article argues that the analogies between the organization of architectural space and knowledge, as expressed in the drawings of Heymans and Otlet, are elaborated by means of a mode of visual thinking that is parallel to and rooted in the art of memory and utopian imagination
Género y educación, comentario al ensayo de Acker
No full textThis article is a commentary of the book: Acker S. (1995). "Gender and Education, Sociological Reflexions about women, education and feminism". Madrid: Nancea. Three questions are analyzed related to the sociology of education and gender impact: theories and feminist analysis, research about teacher women and professor women. This essay provides a lot of empiric indicators and results about the author studies. Her gender perspective is characterized by her openness and comprehensiveness.Este artículo constituye una referencia bibliográfica del siguiente texto: Acker S. (1995). "Género y Educación: Reflexiones sociológicas sobre mujeres, enseñanza y feminismo". Madrid: Nancea. Se abordan tres grandes cuestiones relativas a la sociología de la educación y la importancia de la variable género: las teorías y análisis feministas, los estudios sobre mujeres maestras en la escuela y sobre profesoras en las instituciones de educación superior. El ensayo aporta numerosos indicadores empíricos y resultados de las investigaciones realizadas por la autora desde una perspectiva de género amplia e integradora
L’(in)cohérence identitaire : Nelly Arcan, Kathy Acker
No full textNelly Arcan et Kathy Acker, deux auteures ayant marqué leur milieu littéraire — celui
québécois contemporain pour l’une, celui punk américain des années 80 pour l’autre —
partagent entre autres thématiques similaires, une réflexion sur l’identité, et plus
spécifiquement sur l’identité de genre, telle qu’elle est créée par le langage. Si chacune
se constate pareillement faite par le discours, leur oeuvre n’en est pas moins, de l’une à
l’autre, singulière. Ce texte s’interroge sur la construction d’une identité fluide,
variable, toujours réinterprétée, telle qu’elle peut se lire dans les romans de Kathy Acker,
en la comparant à l’identité figée dans les mots et leur cohérence écrasante des récits de
Nelly Arcan. Comment penser le rapport à l’identité chez chacune, telle que mise en scène
dans des personnages à la fois vidés et saturés par le langage ?Nelly Arcan and Kathy Acker, two major writers of their own literary community —
present day’s Quebec for one, eighties’ american punk scene for the other — share, in
addition to many similar thematics, a reflexion on identity, and more specifically on gender
identity, such as it is created by the language. If both are postulating an « I » made by
the discourse, each one shows a quite singular way to translate it in words. This essay is
an interrogation on the construction of a fluid and always reinterpreted identity in Kathy
Acker’s work, comparing it to a fixed identity, stuck in the coherence of its own
discourses, as it can be found in the writings of Nelly Arcan. How can we think the relation
to « I » in the texts of each author, who are both staging characters emptied and
paradoxically saturated by the language
[Photograph 2012.201.B0373.0391]
No full textPhotograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Ralph Acker, Stillwater Chamber of Comm.; Lliteras; Haskell Cudd, chamber; W. F. Bernhardt, chamber.
The establishment of apple orchards as temperate forest garden systems and their impact on indigenous bacterial and fungal population abundance in Southern Ontario, Canada
No full textThis thesis investigated soil microbial abundances affected by different ground management systems in establishing apple (Malus domestica cv. Idared, M9) orchards in Ontario. Four treatments including forest garden systems with and without compost (FGSC and FGS) and grass understory systems with and without compost (GC and G) were established, sampled and analyzed over the establishing two years for gene copy abundance of soil arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi, total fungi, and total bacteria using quantitative real-time polymerase chain reactions. From Spring2013 to Fall2014 soil bacterial abundance decreased by -0.78, -0.84, -0.86, and -0.88 ±0.08 Log 16S gene copies g-1 dry soil, total soil fungal abundance increased by 2.12, 1.86, 1.82, and 1.78 ±0.15 Log ITS gene sequence copies g-1 dry soil, and AM fungal abundance decreased by -1.73, -2.15, -2.23, -2.04 ±0.55 Log AML gene sequence copies g-1 dry soil within respective treatments FGSC, FGS, GC, and G.University of Guelp
"Literární dvojakost v metafikční próze: Nin, H.D., Quin, Brophy a Acker."
No full textZávěrečná práce zkoumá díla pěti autorek z dvacátého století, které využívají fenomén literární dvojakostí: H.D., Anaïs Nin, Ann Quin, Brigid Brophy a Kathy Acker. Autorky můžeme rozdělit do třech skupin. První skupina je zastoupena autorkami H.D. a Nin z první poloviny dvacátého století. Autorky jsou modernistky, jejichž autobiografická próza je ovlivněna vývojem psychoanalýzy. Psychoanalýza se pro ně stává zdrojem inspirace, ale zároveň autorky docházejí ke zjištění, že nese známky omezení a šovinismu. Druhou skupinu tvoří Quin a Brophy z počátku druhé polovin dvacátého století, jejichž díla přímo odrážejí změny vyvolané feministickým hnutím. Díla svojí podstatou otevřeně zpochybňují a odmítají patriarchální struktury, které ženy omezují. Acker, jako představitelka třetí generace, vnímá omezování práv žen jako sociální problém. Její sociálně-politická kritika vyjádřená punkovými romány dává do popředí okrajové sociální skupiny. V díle je přítomna dvojakost na různých úrovních, například: odvozování postav od skutečných osobností, přítomnost autora jako postavy, poukazování na duplicitu postav, bipolarita pohlaví, dvojznačnost jazyku a významu, atd. Účelem je zdůraznit a zaměřit pozornost na některé aspekty prózy, která se snaží vyvrátit tradiční diskurz. Diskutované romány jsou metafikčný, což...The thesis explores five twentieth-century female authors, who incorporate the phenomenon of literary doubling in their novels: H.D., Anaïs Nin, Ann Quin, Brigid Brophy and Kathy Acker. They can be divided into three groups. The first group is represented by H.D. and Nin, writing in the first half of the twentieth century. They are modernists whose autobiographic fiction is influenced by the developments of psychoanalysis. While psychoanalysis is a continuous source of inspiration for them, they begin noticing its elements of repression and chauvinism. The second group consists of Quin and Brophy, whose fiction directly reflects the changes that were happening on the feminist front. Their creative writing openly challenges and rejects the patriarchal structures that constrain it. Acker, as a representative of the third generation, sees the oppression of women as an example of social oppression on a larger scale. A socio-political critique, her punk novels focus on centralization of marginal social groups. There is doubling happening on various levels in the novels: doubling of real personages as characters, appearance of the author as a character, doubling among the characters, bipolarity of gender, ambiguity of language and meaning, etc. The purpose is to emphasize and draw attention to certain...Ústav anglofonních literatur a kulturDepartment of Anglophone Literatures and CulturesFilozofická fakultaFaculty of Art
Literary Doubling in Self-Conscious Fiction: Nin, H.D., Quin, Brophy and Acker".
No full textThe thesis explores five twentieth-century female authors, who incorporate the phenomenon of literary doubling in their novels: H.D., Anaïs Nin, Ann Quin, Brigid Brophy and Kathy Acker. They can be divided into three groups. The first group is represented by H.D. and Nin, writing in the first half of the twentieth century. They are modernists whose autobiographic fiction is influenced by the developments of psychoanalysis. While psychoanalysis is a continuous source of inspiration for them, they begin noticing its elements of repression and chauvinism. The second group consists of Quin and Brophy, whose fiction directly reflects the changes that were happening on the feminist front. Their creative writing openly challenges and rejects the patriarchal structures that constrain it. Acker, as a representative of the third generation, sees the oppression of women as an example of social oppression on a larger scale. A socio-political critique, her punk novels focus on centralization of marginal social groups. There is doubling happening on various levels in the novels: doubling of real personages as characters, appearance of the author as a character, doubling among the characters, bipolarity of gender, ambiguity of language and meaning, etc. The purpose is to emphasize and draw attention to certain..
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