A groundbreaking study of the connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in American literature and US slave culture.Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveho...

This bookis a cultural history of the interplay between the Western genre and American gun rights and legal paradigms. From muskets in the hands of landed gentry opposing tyrannical government to hidden pistols kept to ward off potential attackers, the historical development of entwined legal and cultural discourses has sanctified the use of gun violence by private citizens and specified the conditions under which such violence may be legally justified. Gunslinging justice explore...

Explore key scenarios required for building quality Ionic apps quickly and easily and bring them to the iOS and Android mobile ecosystem.Learn Ionic 2 explains various techniques to quickly integrate third-party back end systems. With this short guide, you'll benefit from practical examples of implementing authentication and authorization, connecting to social media, integrating with payment gateway, and analytics integration. This book presents solutions to the challenges...

EVEN THE MOST POWERFUL PEOPLE HAVE TO START SOMEWHERE...Over the years, Justine Martiniere has become the fixer for the Martinieres. Have a problem? Go to Justine to get it remedied.But it wasn’t always that way. First, Justine needed to escape the abuses of her father, Philip. She didn’t expect to fall in love with the man she married, Donald Atwood.But she did–and then she faced the choice between remaining married to Donald, or stopping ...

Joyce Whiteley Hawkes is a healer. She arrived at this calling, surprisingly enough, via a doctorate in biophysics and a stellar career in cellular biology. Now she uses her intimate knowledge of the intricate workings of the body's hundred trillion cells to inform and inspire her work.

Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in which Blacks experienced their consumption as a fundamentally homoerotic occurrence.Utilizing many staples of African American...

Are you constantly zoning out or interrupting conversations?Have you ever struggled with social anxiety, especially when meeting new people?Do you find it hard to trust and be vulnerable with others out of fear and judgment?Does any of that sound familiar? Navigating the world as a young adult already has its challenges, let alone a young adult with ADHD. In comes Flourish In Relations...

Four modern masterpieces that dared to push boundaries and disrupt the status quoDeviant. Depraved. Dangerous. Denounced for their transgressive themes and inflammatory ideas, these 20th-century classics have all been considered so seditious that they had to be suppressed. Find out what made these iconic works so threatening to governments worldwide in these superlative dramatisations, featuring stellar casts and specially composed music.Ulysses...