On the night seventeen-year-old Jeremy Glass winds up in the hospital with a broken leg and a blood alcohol level well above the legal limit, his secret crush, Susannah, disappears. When he begins receiving messages from her from beyond the grave, he's not sure whether they're real or if he's losing his grip on reality. Clue by clue, he gets closer to unraveling the mystery, and soon realizes he must discover the truth or become the next victim himself....

The book "Breaking Glass Ceilings" is intended to be a literary celebration of the life and times and achievements of Black luminaries spanning the globe over many centuries. While there have been other efforts to chronicle superlative Black achievement, this is perhaps the first effort to look across continents. Moreover, the book salutes Black achievement in ten thematic categories: Human and Civil Rights, Governance and Politics, Religion, Sports,...

When Peter O'Browne, managing director of Camden Town Records disappears, a fire ravages his north London home and his credit card is used in Dorset, DI Christy Kennedy is called in to investigate. As well as investigating a possible murder, the DI and his team find themselves turning up chart rigging scams and blackmail.

The team is faced with a highly disturbing case of murder and child abuse in a children's home. When Dr. Laurie Poole barges into Boyd's office, she claims to have new information which will shed light on the abuse and disappearance of two boys. Boyd reluctantly takes on the investigation and soon realizes that there is a lot more to it than first meets the eye.

"Classical works have for us become covered with the glassy armor of familiarity," wrote Victor Shklovsky in 1914. Here Kristin Thompson "defamiliarizes" the reader with eleven different films. Developing the technique formulated in her Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible (Princeton, 1981), she clearly demonstrates the flexibility of the neoformalist approach. She argues that critics often use cut-and-dried methods and choose films that easily fit those...

Educational success is the harbinger of good life. From improving one's life to weaving through the social fabric, education is the cornerstone of civilization.In Breaking the Glass Ceiling, Kerich Jonah gives invaluable tips to students and anyone who is a student of life tips on how to succeed.This is not your usual 'do this and that' book but a story of resilience, determination, motivation from a young man who defied failure to succeed in his...

This book is a true-life story of a person who thought all hope was lost for her, even on the journey, she once lost hope because of her Disability. Throughout her life journey, she often proves herself and reshapes perceptions and expectations, she often proves herself and reshapes the perceptions and expectations through society and systems that aim to define us as young people. This book is filled with a fascinating revelation that you will discover....

Breaking the Glass Box includes spiritual formation process for liberation from gender oppression through multiple awareness practices of conflicts in han-based Korean culture of society and church. The metaphor has multiple liberation process: invisible glass box, visible glass box, breaking the glass box, and sticky rice. This liberation process includes consicentization, consciousness-raising, and a heightened cultural awareness in discerning the...

Field Marshal William J. Slim is considered by many historians to be one of the finest generals of World War II. His accomplishments were truly extraordinary. He commanded a polyglot army, consisting of six different nationalities speaking eight different languages, that fought in some of the most inhospitable, disease-ridden country in the world against the war's toughest opponent, the Japanese.

The Writing on the Wall is both the real-life adventure story of a trailblazing woman and a penetrating exploration of working moms. The author's determination as a child to change the norms of the1950s and forge a new path, led to a roller-coaster ride of adventures at an evolutionary time in the woman's movement. After breaking through a glass ceiling at a New York advertising agency and traveling for a year to find her place in the world, the author...