The politics of Broadway musicals matter a great deal more to U.S. American culture than they appear to mean, and they are especially important to mainstream politics surrounding sex, gender, and sexuality. Love Is Love Is Love looks to the Broadway musicals of the past decade for help understanding the current state of LGBTQ politics in the United States.Through analyses of Promises, Promises, Newsies, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Color Purple, and Frozen

The Violate Man is about the discourse of male/male rape in American culture since the mid‑1960s. Author Aaron C. Thomas analyzes film, television, and theater to indict how treatments of male/male rape narratives have encouraged us to interpret sexual violence over the last sixty years. This discourse is productive for our thinking about the real world. The Violate Man finds that these narratives establish—and often maintain or reinforce—longstanding racialized and sexua...

THE TAROT HAS AWAKENED…The Tarot, a powerful divination artifact, has appeared in the Sixth World. It works its will on anyone who finds one of its mystical cards, from runners surviving on the street to corp executives battling in the boardroom. And not just people’s lives will be changed, for the Awakened Tarot deck is more than just a formidable magic item, it has an agenda all its own, and will use those it comes in contact with to set its pla...

Explore this deep dive into the business side of construction, including how to structure, organize, and operate a construction organization to maximize profitThe most visible work of construction contracting happens on the job site, but some of the most important aspects of running a construction business happen behind the scenes, on the financial and operations side. Construction is the second-most risk-intensive industry in the US, and both minimizing business f...

THE CLUBHOUSE VOLUME ICOMPILED BY CRYSTAL COOKWITHIN THESE PAGES YOU WILL FIND TERRIFYING SHORT STORIES FROM TWELVE OF THE HOTTEST HORROR AUTHORS OUT THERE.THIS ANTHOLOGY IS A GRAB BAG OF TASTY TREATS, A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING THAT THE GENRE HAS TO OFFER.BRIAN ASMAN – THOMAS R CLARK – ASHLEY LISTER – JAMES G CARLSON – MERRILL DAVID – DAVID IRONS – ASH ERICMORE – DANI BROWN – CHASE WILL – A.J. SPENCER – AARON LEBOLD – RYAN C THOMASTHIS BOOK CONTAINS...

THE CLUBHOUSE VOLUME IIICOMPILED BY CRYSTAL COOKWITHIN THESE PAGES YOU WILL FIND TERRIFYING SHORT STORIES FROM FIFTEEN OF THE HOTTEST HORROR AUTHORS OUT THERE.THIS ANTHOLOGY IS A GRAB BAG OF TASTY TREATS, A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING THAT THE GENRE HAS TO OFFER.JOHN WAYNE COMUNALE – BRIAN BOWYER - JAMES G. CARLSON - LUCAS MILLIRON - DANI BROWN - THOMAS R. CLARK - CHASE WILL – AARON LEBOLD - TOM DEADY - ASHLEY LISTER - GARRETT COOK - C.M. SAUNDERS - BEN FARTHIN...

THE CLUBHOUSE VOLUME IICOMPILED BY CRYSTAL COOKWITHIN THESE PAGES YOU WILL FIND TERRIFYING SHORT STORIES FROM THIRTEEN OF THE HOTTEST HORROR AUTHORS OUT THERE.THIS ANTHOLOGY IS A GRAB BAG OF TASTY TREATS, A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING THAT THE GENRE HAS TO OFFER.ROWLAND BERCY JR. – AARON LEBOLD - MATTHEW VAUGHN – MIKE HARRIS – SIDNEY SHIV - SARAH DEROSA - CURTIS M. LAWSON - JESSIKA WILSON - THOMAS R CLARK -R.J. DALY – ASH ERICMORE - MATTHEW A. CLARKE - RYAN C. ...

THE CLUBHOUSE VOLUME IVCOMPILED BY CRYSTAL COOKWITHIN THESE PAGES YOU WILL FIND TERRIFYING SHORT STORIES FROM FOURTEEN OF THE HOTTEST HORROR AUTHORS OUT THERE.THIS ANTHOLOGY IS A GRAB BAG OF TASTY TREATS, A LITTLE BIT OFEVERYTHING THAT THE GENRE HAS TO OFFER.ROBERT ESSIG – BRIAN BOWYER – MERRILL DAVID – KIMBERLY NICOLE – LESLIE KURT – LM KAPLIN – THOMAS R. CLARK & LUCAS MILLIRON – JAMIEKORT – R.E. SHAMBROOK – AARON LEBOLD – THOMAS STEWART – ASH ERICMOR...

Modern crocodylians—crocodiles, alligators, caiman (Central and South America), and gharials (India)—have evolved over 250 million years from a fully terrestrial, bipedal ancestor. Along with birds, crocodylians are the only living members of Archosauria, the group including nonavian dinosaurs.Ruling Reptiles features contributions on a broad range of topics surrounding crocodylian evolution and biology including osteology, osteohistology, developmental biology, myology, o...

Do you know what you're committing to-legally speaking-when you exchange wedding vows?Saying "I do" means you've essentially agreed to a prenup by default. Most people haven't read their state's marital contract, but here's the gist: it was written in the 1800s by a bunch of old chauvinists whose idea of marriage would be best described today as cringe. Have there been tweaks? Sure. How's the foundation? Legally terrifying. And divorce happens. There's nothing colder and m...

Sweeney Todd, the gruesome tale of a murderous barber and his pastry chef accomplice, is unquestionably strange subject matter for the musical theatre – but eight Tony awards and enormous successes on Broadway and the West End testify to its enduring popularity with audiences. Written by Hugh Wheeler, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, the musical premiered in 1979 and has seen numerous revivals, including Tim Burton's 2007 film version.Aaron C. Thomas addresses th...

It is only during his journey told in this story that Marlow realizes that perhaps by avoiding suffering, he has become like the zombies he so fears, and that the only way out is to suffer his fate and become one. "Marlow is a zombie tale about suffering and its part in our humanity, and, in that sense, not about zombies at all.