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Potboilers looks at the recent re-evaluation of popular forms within literature, sociology, communications, media and cultural studies. The book introduces and summarises two decades of debate about mass-produced fictions and their position within popular culture. It assesses the way commercial strategies and generic conventions have influenced these forms and explores issues of taste, narrative and gender with reference to crime fiction, soap opera, romance and TV sitcom. Distinctions between high' and low' culture have relegated many popular forms to the trashcan of great' literature. This book takes stock of the methods and concepts used to analyse popular culture and argues for a non-elitist approach to the study of literature, film and television

No other investigation across his entire FBI career would ever match the level of intensity, excitement, suspense, and drama of operation "Paesan Blues"--this book is the inside look at that undercover investigation centered on an Italian mafioso and his associates in Miami and Italy.

"No other investigation across his entire FBI career would ever match the level of intensity, excitement, suspense, and drama of operation "Paesan Blues"-this book is the inside look at that undercover investigation centered on an Italian mafioso and his associates in Miami and Italy"--

"Conscription, Conscientious Objection, and Draft Resistance in American History is the definitive history of conscription in America. It is the first book ever to consider the entire temporal sweep of conscription from pre-Revolutionary War colonial militia drafts through the end of the Vietnam era. Each chapter contains an examination of that era's draft law, the actual workings of the conscription machinery, and relevant court decisions that shaped the draft in practice. In addition, the book describes the popular opposition to conscription: organized and unorganized, violent and nonviolent, public and clandestine, legal and illegal. Using sources never before utilized by historians, including government documents obtained in Freedom of Information Act requests, the book demonstrates how anti-conscription sentiment has been far deeper than is popularly appreciated"--

Cover Image -- Title Page -- Epigraph -- Table of Contents -- The Beginning: How I Came into This World -- Introduction -- PART 1 -- Chapter 1. Mystical Experiences -- El Cid - A Glimpse of the Truth -- The Indian Guru -- An Angel with Wings -- The Cross of Clouds -- Chapter 2. A New Aeon -- A Platinum World -- Ancient Frequencies -- Star Consciousness -- Chapter 3. Master of Dark and Light -- Your Mission: Love -- True Mastery -- The Wisdom of Acceptance -- Your Body Is Truly Incredible -- Spiritual Warrior -- Density Shift -- Earth's Galactic History -- The Krystal Spiral: Our True Timeline -- Fear and Other Feelings -- Chapter 4. Preparation and Discipline -- Right Choices -- Self-Empowerment -- Self-Control -- Right Thought -- Calmness -- Action -- Discipline -- Love -- Electromagnetic Beings -- Humans and Evolution -- Star Magic Qigong and Evolution -- Chapter 5. Super-Humans and the Body -- The Power of Cold -- Super-Humans' Golden Nectar -- Feet: Give Them Some Love -- The Platinum Light Body -- Transmission, Transformation, and Transmutation -- Spiritual Nutrition -- Food -- Exercise -- Oxygen - the New Coffee -- Meditation -- Sexual Energy -- Recalibration -- Electromagnetic Heart Transducer Shield -- Chapter 6. Resilience and Gratitude -- Resilience and the Autonomic Nervous System -- Gratitude and Heart Coherence -- Be Deliberate -- Chapter 7. Going Quantum -- Follow the Signs -- Love or Fear -- The Quantum World and Healing -- Real-Life Transformation -- Mary's Lung Transplant -- Interface -- Subatomic Healing and Space Memory -- Part 2. Switching to Higher Frequency -- Chapter 8. Switching On -- The Torus Field -- Star Systems -- Powerhouse 6 -- The Truth about the Pineal Gland -- The Cosmic Fabric and How to "Innerstand" It -- Past the Programming - No Going Back -- Chapter 9. The Pineal Gland and the Ancient Code.

Introduction to Environmental Data Science focuses on data science methods in the R language applied to environmental research, with sections on exploratory data analysis in R including data abstraction, transformation, and visualization; spatial data analysis in vector and raster models and more.

Spectacle and Science: Not So Distant Relatives -- Shellshock: Political Cultural, Medical Minds, and Moving Pictures -- The Spectacle of Anti-war Warriors: Political Dissent Made a Medical Disorder -- Agent Orange: As Spectacle and Trope -- Traumatic Brain Injury: From News to Nomenclature -- Moral Injury: A Hail Mary in War-trauma Discourse -- Trauma in a Post-truth Era: Back to Charcot's Salon?

In 1854, traveling was full of danger. Omnibus accidents were commonplace. Pedestrians were regularly attacked by the Five Points' gangs. Rival police forces watched and argued over who should help. Pickpockets, drunks and kidnappers were all part of the daily street scene in old New York. Yet somehow, they endured and transformed a trading post into the Empire City. None of this was on Elizabeth Jennings's mind as she climbed the platform onto the Chatham Street horsecar. But her destination and that of the country took a sudden turn when the conductor told her to wait for the next car because it had "her people" in it. When she refused to step off the bus, she was assaulted by the conductor who was aided by a NY police officer. On February 22, 1855, Elizabeth Jennings v. Third Avenue Rail Road case was settled. Seeking $500 in damages, the jury stunned the courtroom with a $250 verdict in Lizzie's favor. Future US president Chester A. Arthur was Jennings attorney and their lives would be forever onward intertwined. This is the story of what happened that day. It's also the story of Jennings and Arthur's families, the struggle for equality, and race relations. It's the history of America at its most despicable and most exhilarating. Yet few historians know of Elizabeth Jennings or the impact she had on desegregating public transit