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Did you know that there are kids out there who don t even want to get out of bed in the morning because they know what going to school means for them?


·being teased and taunted ...

·being excluded and rejected ...

·being afraid that you re going to be assaulted and possibly hurt...

·Sometimes it can even mean that you just can t hang in there any longer, so you give up and take your own life.


If you are one of the cool kids at school, this book is for you.

But if you re not one of the cool kids, this book is especially for you.

Emerson Elementary isn t a real school, but it could be your elementary school. And the students at Emerson aren t real kids, but the problems they face are real, and so are the choices they make.

The Golden Rule is an old rule, but it's still a good rule to live by, and after reading this book, you may just possibly become a kinder, more compassionate human being, someone who treats others the way you want them to treat you.

So come along and join the students at Emerson Elementary and help them make some cool choices!.
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It all begins on Christmas morning, 1978. Dan Kennedy is ten years old and wants a black Gibson Les Paul guitar, the kind Peter Frampton plays. It will be his passport to the coolest (only) band in the neighborhood—Jokerz. He doesn’t get it. Instead, his parents present him with what they think he wants most, a real-estate loan calculator (called the Loan Arranger) and a maroon velour pullover shirt with a tan stripe across the chest. It is the first of what will become a lifetime of various-sized failures, misunderstandings, comical humiliations, and just plain silly choices that have dogged this “hipster Proust of youthful loserdom,” as author Jerry Stahl has so eloquently called Mr. Kennedy.

Dan’s hilarious and painfully awkward youth soon develops into a . . . uh . . . hilarious and painfully awkward adulthood. His first two choices for university are Yale (Lit or Drama) and Harvard (Business), so he reviews his high school transcripts and decides on Butte Community College in Oroville, California, where he studies for about four and a half weeks. We could go on here and describe in detail all of Dan’s good-natured stabs at ambition, but he, himself, sums it all up quite nicely: “If you’ve ever tried and failed miserably at being a rock star (no guitar/talent), a professional bass fisherman, an extra in the movie Sleepless in Seattle (guy drinking martini in bar while Tom Hanks makes a phone call), a Madison Avenue advertising executive, a clerk/towel person at a suburban health club (named Kangaroo Kourts), an espresso street-cart owner and operator (in the one neighborhood of that coffee-swilling town, Seattle, where, remarkably, no one really seems to drink coffee), a dot.com millionaire, an MTV VJ, or a forest fire fighter, this book is for you.”

Along the way, a few lessons are learned and we are treated to one of the most original, riotously funny, unsentimental, and offbeat memoirs in recent history. Dan’s a favorite in McSweeney’s and at the very popular Moth readings in New York City. We should be happy that he failed so miserably at so many things—and took notes!.
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After nearly flunking out of her first year of college Molly's parents ship her off to a very strict ivy league boarding university, Falcons Layer. Molly is a selfproclaimedting nympho. On her way to the university she is hell bent on getting laid. She meets another girl who is more of a sexual deviant then Molly. Molly is introduced into the world of BDSM. But first she must be punished for the sins of her past. Her punishment includes extremely hard spankings, bondage and humiliation..
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A young American and his girlfriend, on the run from vengeful mobsters and the numbers–hunting FBI, flee to St. Margaret’s, an out of the way island in the Caribbean Instead of refuge, however, they find a place fighting for its life against Communist guerrillas and themselves the target of the mysterious organization, Caribbean Horizons Ltd. The young man is immediately impressed into the island’s pathetic Air Militia, coming under enemy fire his first night. His girlfriend shortly disappears and he finds himself inexorably drawn into the deadly disputes that infest the island. “Leap Into Darkness” is Part One of the “St. Margaret’s Trilogy,” which together are the sequel to “DeVilliers County Blues“, currently featured as a seventeen part serial at Amazon Shorts. ”The Flight Lieutenant’s Court Martial” is Part Two of the Trilogy and “The Birth Of A [Small] Nation” is the third. An introduction to the island and its people is found in the independent two part Short “Armaggedon: 1973.” Together they tell a story of love and hate, war and intrigue, ambition and survival as they can only exist in a very small, isolated society caught up in the process of nation–building, a process in which the traditional and modern segments of an island’s culture clash in “winner take all” conflict..
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A prostitute's fingers shredded, an extravagant and lethal drinking party, a curator sacrificed in an eccentric theater: all of it seemingly committed by an American pair living in Mexico City. To save themselves, they'll have to discover who's really behind the scenes, and why.

Answering will expose them to an elegant manipulator, and his tools for making others feel desperately inferior. The grime, the corruption and dangers of a third-world megacity will have to be faced, along with the truth about being an American abroad today. There is a way out, but they'll have to see how everything happening around them fits into a larger experiment in imperialism. And they'll have to decide, is American empire good or bad...or just an opportunity?

A suspicion guides this novel: humiliation can be wielded not only to enrage people, but also to twist and ultimately control them. In expert hands, even whole nations may be dominated because they've been made to feel contemptible. If that's right, then episodes of disdain separating foreigners from locals become introductions to power in our world..
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In 1993 Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations offered a vision of a world divided by cultural differences, national interests, and political ideologies. In THE GEOPOLITICS OF EMOTION, Dominique Moïsi brilliantly demonstrates that we are now in the midst of a “clash of emotions.”

Moïsi contends that both the United States and Europe are dominated by a fear of the “other” and of the loss of their national identity and purpose. For Muslims and Arabs, the combination of historical grievances, exclusion from the economic boon of globalization, and civil and religious warfare extending from their homelands to the Muslim diaspora have created a culture of humiliation that is quickly devolving into a culture of hatred. As the West and the Muslim world lock horns, Asia, able to concentrate on building a better future, has become “the culture of hope.”

By understanding the driving emotions behind our cultural differences, THE GEOPOLITICS OF EMOTION offers a better understanding of the world in which we live and perhaps a more peaceful solution to the ignorance and differences that plague us.

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A nitty-gritty how-to book about editing Howard-Johnson gives writers the information and tips they need to get their work ready for submission It's practical and detailed..
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