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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "Children like Damon are like the waves of the ocean you never want to turn your back on them." With two older teenage children, Damon's mother Audrey is preoccupied with the mirid of problems common to children of that age. Quiet, never making any trouble at home or school, trouble for anyone, it's so easy to overlook Damon and what he is doing. But like the tide, problems can quietly, unobtrusively slip in, to suddenly sweep parents unexpectedly away. When everything for once is nice and quiet, you feel a comfortable calm about you, that's when a Damon Problem explodes like someone tossing a hand grenade at your feet. And not because he's trying to make trouble or really doing anything wrong. The thing is, what he's doing is quite commendable for someone ten or twenty years older. Over confident, self assured easily getting himself in way over his head. On his tenth Christmas, Damon got a high technology gift, where he could build up to 500 different electronic circuits, a kit to introduce youngsters to the world of electronic technology. And Damon instantly took to the technology like the proverbial duck after a june bug, to the exclusion of almost everything else, and that's when Audrey started pushing back wanting her littlest child to be like the older two. But her husband Shamus has a better understanding of the situation, and counsels Audrey that if she want's a relationship with her son Damon, then she must find a way to accommodate his world in hers. That if she doesn't, then she'll build a wall dividing them that may never be breached. With that, Audrey acquiesces, and thus begins her journey into the world of high technology, the trials and tribulations of a mother being thrust into the world of high technology. A world, that like so many people, she is always careful to avoid as much as possible. Audrey wanted no more understanding about technology, than to stick the key in, turn it and drive away, but with Damon, she's continually forced to face the world of technology. And slowly, but surely, one wave after another starts coming in to un-expectantly sweep a befuddled and perplexed Audrey away. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "A butcher processes animals into edible meat. We process prisoners into usable information!" If a concerted insurrection was to occur, just what would it really be like? What kinds of things would happen . . . what dangers would people face? If the youth of America were to rebel, what horrors await us? And so began the interrogation of federal Judge Laura Pettigrew presiding over the trial Peter Cunningham who's writings brought together the young obsolete people and sparked an insurrection in modern American. The problem of a growing segment of society, of young people as typified by the Occupy Wall Streeters, who have been displaced and made obsolete by technology. Worst, many of them have amassed large debts for education and now find they have no hopes for the future, simply because they've prepared themselves for the past instead of the twenty-first century. And the true profile of a revolutionist is young, under thirty, and having a sense of nothing to lose, and so insurrection has erupted in America. Unlike previous revolutions, the students realize the consequence of actually overthrowing a government, that history tells them civil war will follow and most likely the nation will slide into a very authoritarian, if not a totalitarian government. Instead of destroying the present government and hoping they can substitute another democratic republic able to function effectively, they elect to force reforms to the present government with the adoption of four constitutional amendments (See Appendix A). Speaker Tip O'Neal had warned decades ago on the steps of the Capital, of the sound biters, the new emerging generation of politicians who're skilled at little more than using the media to create and maintain images. Using the exact same mass media and mass marketing technologies used to sell tampons, hemorrhoid medications, laxatives and toilet paper, these sound biters are selected to govern America, and they in turn can only pretend . . . can only address the problems of America by spinning them, by trying to create images that there isn't any real problems, that everything is alright. And the students intend to rid the government of these sound biters through the four amendments to create a functioning government which will address their problems. For years America's political elite has used the phrase To fundamentally change America, unable to grasp that with the continual advancements of technologies, that fundamental change has already come . . . and it doesn't include the bulk of Americans. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. It was a stray orphan kitten, all black save for the white tip of its tail, that made the first, almost in-perceivable crack in the hard shell of an uncaring, savage, heartless young girl consumed with anger. An anger brought on by the sexual abuse of her lawyer stepfather, which she's endured since she was seven. Since her early years, Mia has been one of the covey of scorpion queens, one of the pretty young sexy girls who delighted in torturing and tormenting other girls who they considered inferior, those drab, plain and awkward girls who don't deserve to be happy or enjoy life. And Mia has come to excel at the art of savaging and hurting others using her sharp tongue and powerful intellect, while also having a steel hard impervious shell that leaves her immune to the sufferings of others. This includes her mother, who Mia has savaged unmercifully, which in conjunction with the mental tortures of her step father, has left her mom Sarah Sue a shell of a human, struggling with alcoholism, while hanging on by her fingernails. Since Sarah's decision to leave her husband, Bob the Bastard, she has hoped that by enduring Mia's savaging, she will eventually recover her daughter. Sarah, with Mia, returns to the small town environment of her birth and childhood, the peace and tranquility of her mother's home, and with the help of her all knowing and able mother . given enough time, she will find a way to bring her daughter back to humanity. To undo the wickedness her husband has somehow sown on all of them. To have back that sweet, loving, caring little girl she once had, before the blackness of Bob the Bastard spread and engulfed their lives. But now, that hope is dashed! Now Mia is no where to be found, and obviously has no intention of ever returning. Sarah has failed, and there's no other way to look at it. But Mia is just a few miles away, in the old homestead where Jerry lives and works as an engineer, a boy she met just two days ago. A boy she knows doesn't like her, doesn't want her around, doesn't want to have anything to do with her. It's an old house out in the county amidst the vast brown dusty wheat fields she loathes, the kind of place having the kind of people she distrains and ridicules . . . had looked down upon as one of the scorpion queens. And while the peace, quiet and solitude instantly grates her, it's exactly the tranquil therapeutic environment she needs to start her healing process. And now sitting under the giant cocoa tree in front of the house, with that small seemingly inconsequential kitten, Mia begins her quest to regain her humanity and in the process finding her personal happiness and adulthood, while also healing her relationship with both her mother and grandmother. While Jerry asks the question, "Mia . Eileen . just who are you, anyway?" This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.