Internet Down A Modern American Western

Chris is the sole survivor of a terrorist attack on an oil drilling rig off the shore of Chile. His identification is at the bottom of the Pacific along with his credit cards and cash. He will quickly learn the world has changed into a "cash only" paradigm. "By hook or by crook" is now the name of the game. As each person tries to find their own destiny some are successful while others find disappointment and more. Chris becomes part of the western U.S. as the citizens rebuild. Travel becomes more of a threat than adventure for the unprepared.

Chris is the sole survivor of a terrorist attack on an oil drilling rig off the shore of Chile. His identification is at the bottom of the Pacific along with his credit cards and cash. He will quickly learn the world has changed into a "cash only" paradigm. "By hook or by crook" is now the name of the game. As each person tries to find their own destiny some are successful while others find disappointment and more. Chris becomes part of the western U.S. as the citizens rebuild. Travel becomes more of a threat than adventure for the unprepared.

Chris is the sole survivor of a terrorist attack on an oil drilling rig off the shore of Chile. His identification is at the bottom of the Pacific along with his credit cards and cash. He will quickly learn the world has changed into a "cash only" paradigm. "By hook or by crook" is now the name of the game. As each person tries to find their own destiny some are successful while others find disappointment and more. Chris becomes part of the western U.S. as the citizens rebuild. Travel becomes more of a threat than adventure for the unprepared.

The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English offers the ultimate record of modern American Slang. The 25,000 entries are accompanied by citations that authenticate the words as well as offer lively examples of usage from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, television shows, musical lyrics, and Internet user groups. Etymology, cultural context, country of origin and the date the word was first used are also provided. This informative, entertaining and sometimes shocking dictionary is an unbeatable resource for all language aficionados out there.

Encyclopedia of E-Leadership, Counseling and Training offers an in-depth description of key terms and concepts related to different themes, issues, and trends in educational leadership, counseling, and technology integration in modern universities and organizations worldwide. This three volume work serves as an exhaustive compendium of expertise, research, skills, and experiences. Authors with a background in education, leadership, counseling, management, human resource development, or adult education have helped to encourage the education and training of potential leaders with this scholarly work.

This study explores the abiding fascination and provocation of the American frontier West in the contemporary period, in contexts which both ground it historically and extrapolate from it, refracting it through contemporary film, literature, science fiction and the rhetoric of information technology. A historical, geopolitical specificity in granted by chapters on D.H. Lawrence in New Mexico, contemporary Montana literature, and two popular movies set there and in Oregon respectively. The American West is more generally considered strategically in its connections to Europe, as in Wim Wenders's classic Paris, Texas, the Beach Boys' work in the Netherlands and the consideration of the European vision of the internet as a new frontier. Comparable connections to East Asia are granted in a chapter on the presentation of Japan in seminal works by Richard Brautigan. Close textual analysis of abiding works is given, against a background of seminal, related critical works not only in historical and cultural studies, but also in film analysis and information technology. therefore yield a pertinent and timely contribution of that reassessment of the nation as it enters the new millennium.

What is the future of the American West? This book look at works of utopian, dystopian, and apocalyptic science fiction to show how narratives of the past and future powerfully shape our understanding of the present-day West.