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Bland Encounter

Author : Donald Wightman
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1783060980
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Bland Encounter written by Donald Wightman and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take the slap-stick farce of a 1950’s Ealing comedy and update it with a generous portion of risqué humour – this is the laugh-out-loud comedy novel by Donald Wightman. The Bridgnorth writer used his own on-train experiences to create his story. ‘I set out to devise an original plot packed with humour and quirky characters. My own railway industry knowledge provided the ideal platform for this hilarious, read-between-the-lines comedy novel, Bland Encounter. With a heritage railway on my own doorstep, a trip along its meandering route would inevitably fire-up my imagination and help me to create new ways of thickening the plot.’ Woven through with gentle humour as well as outbreaks of pure farce, Bland Encounter features an off-the-wall main character surrounded by a host of amusing supporting roles. Dave Bland is a man struggling to make a new life after the break up of his marriage. The middle-aged train manager turns to an internet dating site and soon gets embroiled in intrigue. Is the mysterious Galina a high-class hooker, a hit woman or simply a lady looking for love? When she arrives in the UK, he invites her into his home, but complications arise when Galina’s niece appears on the scene. A sex-trade worker down on her luck, Irina needs a place to stay. With money tight, old habits die hard, so Dave formulates a plan for Irina and her colleagues to target Trainspotters who are due in town for a special steam weekend. Chaos ensues when members of a rival steam railway try to sabotage the event. The mayhem increases when a train wrecks a nearby Safari Park. Order is eventually restored, but the consequences prove crucial for the people involved.

Until I Am Free

Author : Keisha N. Blain
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807061522
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Until I Am Free written by Keisha N. Blain and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Critics Circle 2021 Biography Finalist 53rd NAACP Image Award Nominee: Outstanding Literary Work - Biography/Autobiography “[A] riveting and timely exploration of Hamer’s life. . . . Brilliantly constructed to be both forward and backward looking, Blain’s book functions simultaneously as a much needed history lesson and an indispensable guide for modern activists.”—New York Times Book Review Ms. Magazine “Most Anticipated Reads for the Rest of Us – 2021” · KIRKUS STARRED REVIEW · BOOKLIST STARRED REVIEW · Publishers Weekly Big Indie Books of Fall 2021 Explores the Black activist’s ideas and political strategies, highlighting their relevance for tackling modern social issues including voter suppression, police violence, and economic inequality. “We have a long fight and this fight is not mine alone, but you are not free whether you are white or black, until I am free.” —Fannie Lou Hamer A blend of social commentary, biography, and intellectual history, Until I Am Free is a manifesto for anyone committed to social justice. The book challenges us to listen to a working-poor and disabled Black woman activist and intellectual of the civil rights movement as we grapple with contemporary concerns around race, inequality, and social justice. Award-winning historian and New York Times best-selling author Keisha N. Blain situates Fannie Lou Hamer as a key political thinker alongside leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Rosa Parks and demonstrates how her ideas remain salient for a new generation of activists committed to dismantling systems of oppression in the United States and across the globe. Despite her limited material resources and the myriad challenges she endured as a Black woman living in poverty in Mississippi, Hamer committed herself to making a difference in the lives of others. She refused to be sidelined in the movement and refused to be intimidated by those of higher social status and with better jobs and education. In these pages, Hamer’s words and ideas take center stage, allowing us all to hear the activist’s voice and deeply engage her words, as though we had the privilege to sit right beside her. More than 40 years since Hamer’s death in 1977, her words still speak truth to power, laying bare the faults in American society and offering valuable insights on how we might yet continue the fight to help the nation live up to its core ideals of “equality and justice for all.” Includes a photo insert featuring Hamer at civil rights marches, participating in the Democratic National Convention, testifying before Congress, and more.

Dictionary of Canadian Biography / Dictionaire Biographique Du Canada

Author : Francess G. Halpenny
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780802034601
Total Pages : 1346 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Canadian Biography / Dictionaire Biographique Du Canada written by Francess G. Halpenny and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1990-05 with total page 1346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These biographies of Canadians are arranged chronologically by date of death. Entries in each volume are listed alphabetically, with bibliographies of source material and an index to names.

Bearing Witness While Black

Author : Allissa V. Richardson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190935529
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Bearing Witness While Black written by Allissa V. Richardson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones and the New Protest #Journalism tells the story of this century's most powerful Black social movement--through the eyes of 15 activists who documented it. At the height of the Black Lives Matter uprisings, African Americans filmed and tweeted evidence of fatal police encounters in dozens of US cities--using little more than the device in their pockets. Their urgent dispatches from the frontlines spurred a global debate on excessive police force, which claimed the lives of African American men, women and children at disproportionate rates. This groundbreaking book reveals how the perfect storm of smartphones, social media and social justice empowered Black activists to create their own news outlets, which continued a centuries-long, African American tradition of using the news to challenge racism. Bearing Witness While Black is the first book of its kind to identify three overlapping eras of domestic terror against African American people--slavery, lynching and police brutality--and explain how storytellers during each period documented its atrocities through journalism. What results is a stunning genealogy--of how the slave narratives of the 1700s inspired the Abolitionist movement; how the black newspapers of the 1800s galvanized the anti-lynching and Civil Rights movements; and how the smartphones of today have powered the anti-police brutality movement. This lineage of black witnessing, Allissa V. Richardson teaches us, is formidable and forever evolving. Richardson's own activism, as an award-winning pioneer of smartphone journalism, informs this text deeply. She weaves in personal accounts of her teaching in the US and Africa--and of her own brushes with police brutality--to share how she has inspired black youth to use mobile devices, to speak up from the margins. It is from this vantage point, as participant-observer, that she urges us not to become numb to the tragic imagery that African Americans have documented. Instead, Bearing Witness While Black conveys a crucial need to protect our right to look--into the forbidden space of violence against black bodies--and to continue to regard the smartphone as an instrument of moral suasion and social change"--

Talking to Strangers

Author : Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316535621
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Talking to Strangers written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers and why they often go wrong—now with a new afterword by the author. A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn’t true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland—throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know. And because we don’t know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.

Winning Em' Over

Author : Jay A. Conger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743230345
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Winning Em' Over written by Jay A. Conger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-10-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historic shift is occurring in the nature of management. Until recently, bosses could simply use the power of their positions to direct and order their subordinates. However, in today's workplace, which is significantly different from the remarkably homogenous and traditional business environment of just two decades ago, the approach of command authority no longer works effectively. Winning 'em Over chronicles a revolution. We are witnessing an ancient model of managing built around command and hierarchy give way to a new model built around persuasion and teamwork. Jay Conger demonstrates to managers on all levels how to thrive in the wake of this momentous transformation. Today we work in an environment where people don't just ask "What should I do?" but "Why should I do it?" To successfully answer this "why" question is to persuade. Yet many businesspeople misunderstand and still more make little use of persuasion. The problem? Persuasion is widely perceived as a skill reserved for selling products and closing deals. But in reality, good managers are persuading all day long. As Conger explains with insight and conviction, today's most effective managers are influencing others through constructive forms of persuasion -- and their employees give them levels of commitment and motivation that the managers of the last generation could only dream of. Conger illustrates how three important forces -- new generations of managers and executives, cross-functional teams, and unprecedented access to information that was once the privilege of the most senior levels of management -- are undermining the old Age of Command and ushering in the new Age of Persuasion. He exposes the most commonly held myths about the art of persuasion and shows how to influence others productively, without manipulation. Most important, he outlines the four crucial components of effective managing by persuasion: building one's credibility, finding common ground so that others have a stake in one's ideas, finding compelling positions and evidence, and emotionally connecting with coworkers so that solutions resonate with them on a personal level. In Winning 'em Over, Conger explains how to implement a management style that will succeed in what is becoming a fundamentally and radically different business environment, and he provides readers with all of the new tools they will need to become effective, constructive persuaders.

Affective Labour

Author : James M. Thomas, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Mississippi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1783483911
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

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Book Synopsis Affective Labour by : James M. Thomas, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Mississippi

Download or read book Affective Labour written by James M. Thomas, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Mississippi and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical examination of affective labour based on ethnographic fieldwork. It traces the centrality of affective labor in enabling and constraining prevailing norms and practices of race, citizenship, class, gender, and sexuality across multiple spatial contexts.

George Washington

Author : Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190456671
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book George Washington written by Kevin J. Hayes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Revered as a general and trusted as America's first elected leader, George Washington is considered a great many things in the contemporary imagination, but an intellectual is not one of them. In correcting this longstanding misconception, George Washington: A Life in Books offers a stimulating literary biography that traces the effects of a life spent in self-improvement"--

Late Westerns

Author : Lee Clark Mitchell
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496201965
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Late Westerns written by Lee Clark Mitchell and published by University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century the cinematic Western has been America’s most familiar genre, always teetering on the verge of exhaustion and yet regularly revived in new forms. Why does this outmoded vehicle—with the most narrowly based historical setting of any popular genre—maintain its appeal? In Late Westerns Lee Clark Mitchell takes a position against those critics looking to attach “post” to the all-too-familiar genre. For though the frontier disappeared long ago, though men on horseback have become commonplace, and though films of all sorts have always, necessarily, defied generic patterns, the Western continues to enthrall audiences. It does so by engaging narrative expectations stamped on our collective consciousness so firmly as to integrate materials that might not seem obviously “Western” at all. Through plot cues, narrative reminders, and even cinematic frameworks, recent films shape interpretive understanding by triggering a long-standing familiarity audiences have with the genre. Mitchell’s critical analysis reveals how these films engage a thematic and cinematic border-crossing in which their formal innovations and odd plots succeed deconstructively, encouraging by allusion, implication, and citation the evocation of generic meaning from ingredients that otherwise might be interpreted quite differently. Applying genre theory with close cinematic readings, Mitchell posits that the Western has essentially been “post” all along.

Report of the ... Annual Meeting of the Virginia State Bar Association

Author : Virginia State Bar Association. Meeting
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Report of the ... Annual Meeting of the Virginia State Bar Association written by Virginia State Bar Association. Meeting and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Evangelical Century

Author : Michael Gauvreau
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773507692
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Evangelical Century written by Michael Gauvreau and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1991 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Evangelical Century will undoubtedly transform the way Canadian intellectual history is interpreted. Michael Gauvreau reassesses the explanations of the role of religion in English-Canadian society put forth in the last twenty years by Ramsay Cook, A.B. McKillop, and Richard Allen, and makes an important contribution to our understanding of the relationship between theology, culture, and society.

Isn't Justice Always Unfair?

Author : J. Kenneth Van Dover
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879727239
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Isn't Justice Always Unfair? written by J. Kenneth Van Dover and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isn't Justice Always Unfair? explores the uncommonly long and uncommonly rich relationship between the fictional detective and his or her South. It begins with the New Orleans expatriate, Legrand, uncovering Captain Kidd's treasure on an island off Charleston, South Carolina; it covers the satires and parodies of Mark Twain and the polished stories of Melville Davisson Post and Irvin S. Cobb; and it concludes with surveys of the many good and excellent writers who are using the form of the detective story to compose inquiries into the character of life in the South today. At the center of Isn't Justice Always Unfair? lies an analysis of a most remarkable phenomenon: William Faulkner's exploitation of the genre as an avenue into his postage stamp of Southern experience, Yoknapatawpha County.

Creativity

Author : Anders Lennart Swahn
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 143438182X
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Creativity written by Anders Lennart Swahn and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the days following 9/11 Europe was placid on the surface, but underneath, it was tense and preparing to deal with an expanding network of terrorists already in place and planning to strike. France had the best preparations in place, having been tested constantly by terrorist organizations aligned with Muslim radicals associated with a myriad of causes dating back to the late 1950s, when its colonial empire in northern Africa began to give way. The attacks on New York City and Washington, DC were just the beginning. In Paris, two Pakistani agents were activated and tasked to assassinate the First Lady of France and the U.S. Ambassador. Tony Chase, a New York attorney and investment banker, who through happenstance escaped being in the North Tower of the World Trade Center on the morning of 9/11, was traveling through Paris on business, when a personal excursion to Bordeaux placed him close to the center of this sinister plot. This thriller takes you through sectors of Paris not frequented by tourists, ventures through its vast and efficient Metro system, travels to Bordeaux on the TGV France's high-speed train, and wanders through this beautiful city and the surrounding wine producing areas as a team of terrorists works to outwit the French internal security apparatus.

Orbitsville Departure

Author : Bob Shaw
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 0575111151
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book Orbitsville Departure written by Bob Shaw and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two hundred years ago mankind found Orbitsville, a vast sphere whose habitable inner surface comprised living space equivalent to five billion Earths. The resulting migration was enthusiastic - and nearly total. Earth itself is a backwater now, a place with which the people of Orbitsville maintain only marginal contact. But just because it's backward doesn't mean it isn't dangerous.

The Retrospect; Or, Youthful Scenes. With Other Poems and Songs

Author : John WRIGHT (of Edinburgh.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Retrospect; Or, Youthful Scenes. With Other Poems and Songs written by John WRIGHT (of Edinburgh.) and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL LAW CASES Fourth Series 2009 VOLUME 1

Author : Oceana Editorial Board
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199758859
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL LAW CASES Fourth Series 2009 VOLUME 1 written by Oceana Editorial Board and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-12-24 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American International Law Cases is the only case law reporter that presents U.S. domestic court opinions related to international law. Since Oceana handpicks each case and categorizes each according to topic, legal researchers will find that this series has already completed for them the first few tedious steps of research. With American International Law Cases, the time-consuming process of weeding out unhelpful cases from an online search is no longer necessary. Volume One of AILC consists of cases involving international law in general and territories, trusteeships, boundaries and navigable waters.

Psychotherapy, the Alchemical Imagination and Metaphors of Substance

Author : Alan Bleakley
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111159906
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Psychotherapy, the Alchemical Imagination and Metaphors of Substance written by Alan Bleakley and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alchemy is popularly viewed as a secret way of turning worthless base metal into gold, and then a precursor to modern chemistry. This is often taken as a metaphor for psychological development. This book describes an innovative "third way" for both the education and exercise of an alchemical imagination that embraces both material matters and psychological insight: alchemy as lyrical poetics, or the intensive production of embodied metaphor. Alchemy here is viewed as an immanent set of metaphor-driven "best practices" for indwelling complex and contradictory earthly matters in a sensual, artistic and humane manner. Or, again, it describes best psychotherapeutic practice. Alchemy is read not as a medium for "personal growth", but optimal co-existence with the natural world. It is an eco-logical rather than ego-logical project with deep aesthetic concerns (education of the senses in close noticing) and political intentions (a democracy of worldly things). The book echoes post-Freudian developments in psychoanalysis that avoid the mysticism of symbol systems to work rather with everyday signs and linguistic registers such as embodied metaphors, keeping the focus on known and sensed phenomena rather than abstractions.