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Book Synopsis Folayan's Promise by : Phyllis Jane Brown
Download or read book Folayan's Promise written by Phyllis Jane Brown and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the OUTSTANDING FICTION AWARD - The Southern California Writers' Conference Set in Ghana, West Africa, 1785 to 1801 in Book 1, Folayan, the long-awaited girl-child, in whom the fate of the clan exists, is adored and adventurous, and must be reminded that her name means "one who walks in dignity."
Book Synopsis Folayan's Promise by : Phyllis Brown (Brown)
Download or read book Folayan's Promise written by Phyllis Brown (Brown) and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living under the shadows of slave holding castles and forts, while watching ships intrude on West Africa's Gold Coast, Kwabena prepared for his only daughter to prosper in spite of lurking predators.
Book Synopsis Survival Is a Promise by : Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Download or read book Survival Is a Promise written by Alexis Pauline Gumbs and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] scintillating tour de force . . . in a free-ranging style as distinctive as its subject . . . Forgoing the strictures and linearity of traditional biography, Gumbs enlivens her narrative with unconventional flourishes that in lesser hands might feel like a gimmick but here come across as revelation . . . Gumbs is a master stylist with a knack for writing sentences at once direct and expansive (“The scale of the life of the poet is the scale of the universe”). This is a feast for the intellect—and the soul." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A celebration of a tireless advocate . . . Stars, hurricanes, and even whale songs feature in a narrative notable for lyrical prose and unabashed admiration . . . Gumbs offers thoughtful analyses of Lorde’s poems, as well as the pressures and pleasures of her life: friends and lovers; marriage to a white gay man; motherhood; divorce; and recurring cancer . . . A defiant woman sensitively and incisively portrayed." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Gumbs, one of our great poets, has delivered not only a masterful biography of Audre Lorde but a revolution in what a biography can be. Whether you only know Lorde through her most famous quotes or if you’ve read everything she wrote a thousand times, there is something new and exciting here for you. Structurally playful, deeply researched, vibrantly felt, it’s a masterwork all around." —LitHub A bold, innovative biography that offers a new understanding of the life, work, and enduring impact of Audre Lorde. We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable teacher whose words and face grace T-shirts, nonprofit annual reports, and campus diversity-center walls. But even those who are inspired by Lorde’s teachings on “the creative power of difference” may be missing something fundamental about her life and work, and what they can mean for us today. Lorde’s understanding of survival was not simply about getting through to the other side of oppression or being resilient in the face of cancer. It was about the total stakes of what it means to be in relationship with a planet in transformation. Possibly the focus on Lorde’s quotable essays, to the neglect of her complex poems, has led us to ignore her deep engagement with the natural world, the planetary dynamics of geology, meteorology, and biology. For her, ecological images are not simply metaphors but rather literal guides to how to be of earth on earth, and how to survive—to live the ethics that a Black feminist lesbian warrior poetics demands. In Survival Is a Promise, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, the first researcher to explore the full depths of Lorde’s manuscript archives, illuminates the eternal life of Lorde. Her life and work become more than a sound bite; they become a cosmic force, teaching us the grand contingency of life together on earth.
Book Synopsis The Place Called “There” by : Pastor Bim Folayan
Download or read book The Place Called “There” written by Pastor Bim Folayan and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2024-01-17 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Place Called “There” We often think that our possessions are only physical or material either as a car, building, piece of land or other tangible assets. Just as physical possessions can be handed down generations, so also can spiritual secrets and assets be transferred like intellectual properties. There are hidden secrets from plain sight, revealed to those who by reason of use, have their senses exercised (Hebrews 5:14) to see, or/and hear, and then act. To these ones, it will belong and be entrusted because they are the ones who follow through the hidden secrets presented to them. ‘The Place Called There’ is a memoir of voyage of enduring faith and friendship with God, through ‘the wildernesses’ of advanced school of patience, trust, and perseverance (PTP).
Download or read book Zero Tolerance written by Andrea Mcardle and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amadou Diallo, Abner Louima, Anthony Baez, Patrick Dorismond. New York City has been rocked in recent years by the fate of these four men at the hands of the police. But police brutality in New York City is a multi-dimensional phenomenon that refers not only to the hyperviolent response of white male police officers as in these cases, but to an entire set of practices that target homeless people, vendors, and sexual minorities. The complexity of the problem requires a commensurate response, which Zero Tolerance fulfills with a range of scholarship and activism. Offering perspectives from law and society, women's studies, urban and cultural studies, labor history, and the visual arts, the essays assembled here complement, and provide a counterpoint, to the work of police scholars on this subject. Framed as both a response and a challenge to official claims that intensified law enforcement has produced New York City's declining crime rates, Zero Tolerance instead posits a definition of police brutality more encompassing than the use of excessive physical force. Further, it develops the connections between the most visible and familiar forms of police brutality that have sparked a new era of grassroots community activism, and the day-to-day violence that accompanies the city's campaign to police the "quality of life." Contributors include: Heather Barr, Paul G. Chevigny, Derrick Bell, Tanya Erzen, Dayo F. Gore, Amy S. Green, Paul Hoffman, Andrew Hsiao, Tamara Jones, Joo-Hyun Kang, Andrea McArdle, Bradley McCallum, Andrew Ross, Eric Tang, Jacqueline Tarry, Sasha Torres, and Jennifer R. Wynn.
Book Synopsis By His Spirit by : Sen. Pastor Bim Folayan
Download or read book By His Spirit written by Sen. Pastor Bim Folayan and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christ gave you a special gift that is still in you so you do not need any other teacher. His gift teaches you about everything, and it is true, not false. So continue to live in Christ, as his gift taught you. 1 John 2:27 (NCV) With the anointing of Gods Spirit, our journeys in life become interesting, especially because of the access that we have by revelation. But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. Job 32:8 (KJV) By His Spirit was born in the place of intercession, intercession over a court case for a then member of my congregation. In passionate prayer and supplication with longing in the Spirit, the situation received clear and precise divine reaction that inspired the writing of this book. When we live By His Spirit, we are channelled and promoted in Gods purposes, hence we achieve constant victories, which is what this book is set to help you attain.
Book Synopsis OBEDIENCE, The Daring and Determined Way to it by : Pastor Bim Folayan
Download or read book OBEDIENCE, The Daring and Determined Way to it written by Pastor Bim Folayan and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wilful action of obedience, regardless of circumstance, yields a fulfilling life journey. Simple obedience brings multiple blessings. The book in your hand, a product of stringent obedience, seeks to enlighten you in the way of obedience for divine purposes. To obey is not to be obstinate in our own ways, but to yield to God so we are not obsolete. "Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life." --Proverbs 4:13
Book Synopsis The Daily Sword by : Folayan Osekita
Download or read book The Daily Sword written by Folayan Osekita and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book, The Flaming Sword, was not so much of a daily devotional at all; but worth exploring as well, if not before this devotional! In my ministry, counselling with so many people, I found that people need the Word of God simply broken down in simple reading; as many just read the Bible without really understanding what they are reading! Folayan Osekita, a servant prophet and evangelist of the Living God, has done this so well; and all the reader needs is to take the time and trouble to commit to daily reading and studying of the devotional - and they would surely be very blessed in Jesus Name!
Book Synopsis The Amistad Revolt by : Iyunolu Folayan Osagie
Download or read book The Amistad Revolt written by Iyunolu Folayan Osagie and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From journalism and lectures to drama, visual art, and the Spielberg film, this study ranges across the varied cultural reactions--in America and Sierra Leone--engendered by the 1839 Amistad slave ship revolt. Iyunolu Folayan Osagie is a native of Sierra Leone, from where the Amistad's cargo of slaves originated. She digs deeply into the Amistad story to show the historical and contemporary relevance of the incident and its subsequent trials. At the same time, she shows how the incident has contributed to the construction of national and cultural identity both in Africa and the African diasporo in America--though in intriguingly different ways. This pioneering work of comparative African and American cultural criticism shows how creative arts have both confirmed and fostered the significance of the Amistad revolt in contemporary racial discourse and in the collective memories of both countries.
Book Synopsis Power of Seed by : Pastor Bim Folayan
Download or read book Power of Seed written by Pastor Bim Folayan and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2021-05-05 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We sow our time and effort in the work we do for the harvest of income. When no planting has been invested, reaping becomes far-fetched. The hand that sows must reap. Sowing can be in any form. It can be in form a simply gesture or a special sacrifice. Sacrifice implies investing the extra and additional endeavour which may not be easy, but difficult and painful. Proverbs 19:17 (ESV) tell us that “Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and He will repay him for his deed.” Whatever good you do for others; you do for yourself. Good gestures are like ladders prepared ahead of the times they will be required in climbing over your own needs. Giving is conduit to Heaven’s assets. It is bed you prepare for how you want to lay.
Book Synopsis The Flaming Sword by : Folayan Osekita
Download or read book The Flaming Sword written by Folayan Osekita and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiration for the writing of the book: "The Flaming Sword" came from deep meditation upon the Word of God. The Lord Spoke to me and Told me to go round buying Bibles - especially old ones and different types and editions. Then I came across this huge Bible referred to in the first chapter of the book: "A Case For The Word Of God: Gateway To True Freedom". What struck me was the fact that men had obeyed God's Word to them and His Leading of them to perform certain tasks like writing the Holy Scriptures and translating the same Holy Scriptures. Just like Noah received Instructions to build the Ark etc. Another thing that struck me was that many people encounter God in life and die without acknowledging or witnessing to that fact. A particular man that I read about in one of the testimonies was not prepared to die without witnessing to the facts of what God had done in his life. That was it. I was caught. God had gotten a good grip on me. I realised that my line of thinking was not my own and that the Lord was actually Speaking to me again. I had been walking very closely with the Lord for several years before this particular encounter. He had Spoken to me that He would use me to speak to the world. I had so many visions and encounters with God's Word previously and in fact to date. I had to pour out my heart. I had to speak to the world of some things the Lord had been Speaking to me about. That was how I started handwriting the book. I wrote the book on my knees mostly in a praying position over a total of about two weeks almost non-stop. I couldn't stop till it was finished. I wrote this book in 2004 after a life-threatening illness. I realise that God spared my life for a reason and I couldn't afford to die with the Word Living in me. I had to share it with the world and quickly. It has interestingly taken about six years for the book to be published. God's Timing is the best. I am fully satisfied that eventually the book got published. I give all the praise and glory to God Almighty in Jesus' Christ. The Flaming Sword is the only sword that can actually separate bone from marrow. It is sharper than any normal double edged sword. It is the Word of God. When the Lord Speaks, He means business. Dishonour His Word at your own peril. But obey the Word of God and be Blessed. For with God, there are Blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience. The Lord has Spoken His Word to me and through me and I have delivered to the best of my ability. The rest is for you my reader. May God Enable you and Bless you to get the best from the book. It is for you. I pray in Jesus' Name. Amen. It is my hope that you, my reader, would read the book in an attitude of reverence and prayer and meditate upon the words written. I believe that the book will benefit you. Of course, like any endeavour in life, the tendency is to get from it as much as you put into it. So therefore, to get the best of the book you must apply yourself to it in terms of commitment. Even if you have no faith at all, just decide that you are going to learn something new and that you will not read the book in vain and you will be Blessed in Jesus' Name.
Download or read book Dark Song written by A.C. Dawn and published by A.C. Dawn. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ciara lived by one rule. Never let them hear you sing. But, she did and now a man is dead. With those notes, her destiny is set in motion. Guided by forces beyond her understanding, she’s taken from everything she knows—her mother, their small village, Dougan… Thrust into a new world where songs weave magic and wield power, Ciara fights to control her verse and learn what it is to be a siren. But the Dark Song’s destiny is not to live among her sister sirens. She walks the rocky shores alone until she discovers the seductive Song of the Siren. Innocent as a lamb, she gives voice to the song and lures a wolf to her shores. Dougan knew his time with Ciara wouldn’t last forever, but he didn’t know he’d fall in love with her, that fate would make her his mate. The gods may think they control all, but Dougan refuses to accept a life without his love. He vows to find Ciara. No man—or God—will stand between him and the Dark Song. Mythological fantasy readers will enjoy this siren’s tale. Celtic myths, pirates, and monsters bring adventure, legend, love, and betrayal. Dark Song has it all. Get your copy today! **Content Warning** includes scenes of imprisonment and torture and some sexual content. Mature audiences only. This is only the beginning for Ciara and Dougan and this story ends on a cliffhanger. Final Verse, the rest of their story, is coming soon!
Book Synopsis Student Stress in Higher Education by : Aloka, Peter
Download or read book Student Stress in Higher Education written by Aloka, Peter and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2023-12-07 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the realm of higher education, the journey to academic success is often accompanied by an array of challenges, particularly in the form of stress and its profound impact on mental health. The multifaceted nature of these challenges, stemming from a variety of factors, has sparked significant interest among scholars and educators alike. Student Stress in Higher Education delves into the intricate interplay between stressors, coping mechanisms, and the psychological well-being of students within higher education institutions. This book addresses a conspicuous gap in existing literature, meticulously examining the dimensions of stress uniquely experienced in higher education settings. The chapters contained within illuminate various facets of this complex issue. From the barriers obstructing effective stress management to the gender disparities in mental health experiences, each chapter dissects a critical aspect of the overarching theme. The insights garnered from these chapters hold potential to reshape institutional approaches to mental health awareness and support. This book serves as a beacon of knowledge for a diverse readership. Scholars seeking to explore the nuanced landscape of student well-being will find this volume to be an indispensable resource. Administrators and counselors entrusted with the welfare of students will discover pragmatic approaches to aid students in acclimating to the challenges of higher education. From gender-specific stress manifestations to the intricacies of institutional mental health provision, this book delivers a holistic perspective.
Book Synopsis Pan-Africanism, and the Politics of African Citizenship and Identity by : Toyin Falola
Download or read book Pan-Africanism, and the Politics of African Citizenship and Identity written by Toyin Falola and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no recent literature that underscores the transition from Pan-Africanism to Diaspora discourse. This book examines the gradual shift and four major transformations in the study of Pan-Africanism. It offers an "academic post-mortem" that seeks to gauge the extent to which Pan-Africanism overlaps with the study of the African Diaspora and reverse migrations; how Diaspora studies has penetrated various disciplines while Pan-Africanism is located on the periphery of the field. The book argues that the gradual shift from Pan-African discourses has created a new pathway for engaging Pan-African ideology from academic and social perspectives. Also, the book raises questions about the recent political waves that have swept across North Africa and their implications to the study of twenty-first century Pan-African solidarity on the African continent. The ways in which African institutions are attracting and mobilizing returnees and Pan-Africanists with incentives as dual-citizenship for diasporans to support reforms in Africa offers a new alternative approach for exploring Pan-African ideology in the twenty-first century. Returnees are also using these incentives to gain economic and cultural advantage. The book will appeal to policy makers, government institutions, research libraries, undergraduate and graduate students, and scholars from many different disciplines.
Book Synopsis Intimate Interventions in Global Health by : Rachel Sullivan Robinson
Download or read book Intimate Interventions in Global Health written by Rachel Sullivan Robinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When addressing the factors shaping HIV prevention programs in sub-Saharan Africa, it is important to consider the role of family planning programs that preceded the epidemic. In this book, Rachel Sullivan Robinson argues that both globally and locally, those working to prevent HIV borrowed and adapted resources, discourses, and strategies used for family planning. By combining statistical analysis of all sub-Saharan African countries with comparative case studies of Malawi, Nigeria, and Senegal, Robinson also shows that the nature of countries' interactions with the international community, the strength and composition of civil society, and the existence of technocratic leaders influenced variation in responses to HIV. Specifically, historical and existing relationships with outside actors, the nature of nongovernmental organizations, and perceptions of previous interventions strongly structured later health interventions through processes of path dependence and policy feedback. This book will be of great use to scholars and practitioners interested in global health, international development, African studies and political science.
Book Synopsis Engineering the Plant Factory for the Production of Biologics and Small-Molecule Medicines by : Domenico De Martinis
Download or read book Engineering the Plant Factory for the Production of Biologics and Small-Molecule Medicines written by Domenico De Martinis and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plant gene transfer achieved in the early ‘80s paved the way for the exploitation of the potential of gene engineering to add novel agronomic traits and/or to design plants as factories for high added value molecules. For this latter area of research, the term "Molecular Farming" was coined in reference to agricultural applications in that major crops like maize and tobacco were originally used basically for pharma applications. The concept of the “green biofactory” implies different advantages over the typical cell factories based on animal cell or microbial cultures already when considering the investment and managing costs of fermenters. Although yield, stability, and quality of the molecules may vary among different heterologous systems and plants are competitive on a case-to-case basis, still the “plant factory” attracts scientists and technologists for the challenging features of low production cost, product safety and easy scale up. Once engineered, a plant is among the cheapest and easiest eukaryotic system to be bred with simple know-how, using nutrients, water and light. Molecules that are currently being produced in plants vary from industrial and pharmaceutical proteins, including medical diagnostics proteins and vaccine antigens, to nutritional supplements such as vitamins, carbohydrates and biopolymers. Convergence among disciplines as distant as plant physiology and pharmacology and, more recently, as omic sciences, bioinformatics and nanotechnology, increases the options of research on the plant cell factory. “Farming for Pharming” biologics and small-molecule medicines is a challenging area of plant biotechnology that may break the limits of current standard production technologies. The recent success on Ebola fighting with plant-made antibodies put a spotlight on the enormous potential of next generation herbal medicines made especially in the name of the guiding principle of reduction of costs, hence reduction of disparities of health rights and as a tool to guarantee adequate health protection in developing countries.
Download or read book Menacing Tides written by Erik de Lange and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-11 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New ideas of security spelled the end of piracy on the Mediterranean Sea during the nineteenth century. As European states ended their military conflicts and privateering wars against one another, they turned their attention to the 'Barbary pirates' of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli. Naval commanders, diplomats, merchant lobbies and activists cooperated for the first time against this shared threat. Together, they installed a new order of security at sea. Drawing on European and Ottoman archival records - from diplomatic correspondence and naval journals to songs, poems and pamphlets - Erik de Lange explores how security was used in the nineteenth century to legitimise the repression of piracy. This repression brought European imperial expansionism and colonial rule to North Africa. By highlighting the crucial role of security within international relations, Menacing Tides demonstrates how European cooperation against shared threats remade the Mediterranean and unleashed a new form of collaborative imperialism.
