The Swoosh Family is presented in poetic format here in all its lack of glory. It is a family shrub of insightful dysfunction. Warning: you may see some of yourself or your family tree in here.

Donated.

This is the second book of Swoosh Family poems. So I guess you might like to know where the Swoosh family came from. The actual Swooshes are scribbles that live at the bottom of some pages in my written idea-journals. They started out as nameless, undistinguished scribbles to end a page and fill up an extra line or so at the bottom. Somewhere about three years in they began to take a particular shape that reminded me of faces so I began adding eyes and mouth indications. That gave them a personality in my jaded eyes. They were looking at me as I turned the page and they sort of reminded me of people I knew or knew about. I wrote a poem, then three, then three hundred or so. The family members and extended family members are not my own family necessarily, but are each based on people I have met, in some cases heard about; it's a writer thing I guess. Check these out; you may know some of them yourself.

This book is one of the first to take an in-depth look at how an advertising image works. It situates the Nike swoosh logo in terms of political economy, sociology, culture and semiotics. Nike Culture describes and deconstructs the themes and structures of Nike's advertising, outlines the contradictions between image and practice, and explores the logic of the sign economy. In addition, by focusing on issues revolving around representations of race, class and gender, the desire for both community and recognition, and the construction of sport as a spiritual enterprise, the book offers insights into the cultural contradictions embedded in sports culture.

In Ling Tian mainland, war spirit was a kind of inherent talent of the martial cultivators. Because of different attributes, every martial cultivator would awake different war spirit when the spirit door opened. Ye Feng, the descendant of a meritorious general, was adopted by the Nangong family because of his family's decline. He was the childhood sweetheart of Nangong Lingshuang and also a loser in the eyes of the public. In order to help Nangong Lingshuang escape from the danger when the spirit door opened, he sacrificed his Life and Spirit Energy, which was comparable to life. But, what he got were Nangong family's dissolution of engagement and murder. Thanks to his father's legacy, the Green Dewdrop, he got mighty energy, and it was also his second Life and Spirit Energy. "Nangong Chen, you betrayed me. One day, I will make you regret for what you've done today!" ☆About the Author☆ Wan Muzhengrong, the contractual writer of Zhu Lang novel, has written "The Peerless God" and "Sky War God". Before becoming a writer, he was a worker at the factory. He began to write network novel due to the life pressure. But with number of writing words increaing and the knowledge accumulating, he embarked on a road to writing career. He is proud of being a full-time web writer.

In a brutal world where everyone is born an Alpha, beta, or omega, is it possible to be one birth nature but still lead a full life while pretending to be another? Tobias Hanson is a cop, specifically a homicide detective. The cases he investigates? Murdered omegas. Except in Tobias’ world, an Alpha killing his omega is perfectly acceptable. After all, omegas are nothing more than easily replaced, purchased property. With his family long since gone, Tobias spends his days with dead omegas, and his nights in self-imposed solitary loneliness. Abundio Chale is an enigma. Like most alphas, he is highly educated, attractive, and possesses the same self-confidence all of his birth nature do. Yet, despite his schooling and his alpha privilege, he hops from job to job as if searching for something. And, like Tobias, he spends most evenings alone, longing for the one thing he doesn’t have. A chance meeting puts both men on a path neither saw coming. Lives will change, love will be found, and both men may get exactly what they want. But, like most things, there will be a price to pay. Will it be worth it? Tags: GAY, EROTICA, DEGRADATION, HUMILIATION, SPH, SEXUAL SLAVERY, BRUTAL, DUB-CON, NON-CON

Education of a Native Son begins where the novel, Native Son, by Richard Wright ends. Thomas, a black young man who grew up in Harlem is accepted to a prestigious Ivy League university in New England. While in college Little, as he his known, will be confronted with the pressures of the everyday college student and the pressures of being Black at an all white university. In addition to adjusting to college life, he will soon learn the secret of his parents past, a past that could lead to the destruction of his family, friendships and ultimately his life.