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Grasping at Straws

Author : Yvonne Maphosa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780620824859
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Grasping at Straws written by Yvonne Maphosa and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in the village of Matombo, Lwezi finds herself questioning the traditions and culture which seem to favour men at the detriment of women, Girls are excluded from school and are groomed for marriage from a very young age. Women are seen as sub humans who are born to serve men. At initiation school, as she prepares for her transition from childhood to womanhood, Lwezi makes a thoughtless sacrifice in an attempt to save her friend. She’s taken to Chief Nxumalo's homestead to answer for her crime in front of the Dale (Gathering of Elders). Circumstances take an unexpected twist and she finds herself tangled deeper into the Nxumalo web of secrets. She's offered a deal she cannot refuse. Will she choose the city and the liberation it offers or will she stay in the patriarchal society she knows and save those that need her help? -- Publisher's description.

Negotiating Languages

Author : Walter N. Hakala
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231542127
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Negotiating Languages written by Walter N. Hakala and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior to the nineteenth century, South Asian dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies reflected a hierarchical vision of nature and human society. By the turn of the twentieth century, the modern dictionary had democratized and politicized language. Compiled "scientifically" through "historical principles," the modern dictionary became a concrete symbol of a nation's arrival on the world stage. Following this phenomenon from the late seventeenth century to the present, Negotiating Languages casts lexicographers as key figures in the political realignment of South Asia under British rule and in the years after independence. Their dictionaries document how a single, mutually intelligible language evolved into two competing registers—Urdu and Hindi—and became associated with contrasting religious and nationalist goals. Each chapter in this volume focuses on a key lexicographical work and its fateful political consequences. Recovering texts by overlooked and even denigrated authors, Negotiating Languages provides insight into the forces that turned intimate speech into a potent nationalist politics, intensifying the passions that partitioned the Indian subcontinent.

The Y in Your Man is Silent

Author : Yvonne Maphosa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780639811116
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book The Y in Your Man is Silent written by Yvonne Maphosa and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rethinking Hell

Author : Christopher Date
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1630871605
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Hell written by Christopher Date and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most evangelical Christians believe that those people who are not saved before they die will be punished in hell forever. But is this what the Bible truly teaches? Do Christians need to rethink their understanding of hell? In the late twentieth century, a growing number of evangelical theologians, biblical scholars, and philosophers began to reject the traditional doctrine of eternal conscious torment in hell in favor of a minority theological perspective called conditional immortality. This view contends that the unsaved are resurrected to face divine judgment, just as Christians have always believed, but due to the fact that immortality is only given to those who are in Christ, the unsaved do not exist forever in hell. Instead, they face the punishment of the "second death"--an end to their conscious existence. This volume brings together excerpts from a variety of well-respected evangelical thinkers, including John Stott, John Wenham, and E. Earl Ellis, as they articulate the biblical, theological, and philosophical arguments for conditionalism. These readings will give thoughtful Christians strong evidence that there are indeed compelling reasons for rethinking hell.

Grasping at Straws

Author : Steven Wasserman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Grasping at Straws written by Steven Wasserman and published by . This book was released on 2021-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bowie

Author : Christopher Sandford
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0786750960
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Bowie written by Christopher Sandford and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-08-05 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on interviews with family members, colleagues, lovers, and the previously silent William Burroughs, this unsparing yet evenhanded biography guides the reader through the many personas, crises, and musical metamorphoses of David Bowie—also known as Davy Jones, the Laughing Gnome, Major Tom, Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, the Thin White Duke, a drug-addled grandfather of punk, actor, art aficionado, political activist, one of rock's most resonant icons, and a totem of modern pop culture. Nowhere else is the man and musician so convincingly deconstructed and so compellingly humanized.

Jo & Laurie

Author : Margaret Stohl
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984812025
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Jo & Laurie written by Margaret Stohl and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling authors Margaret Stohl and Melissa de la Cruz bring us a romantic retelling of Little Women starring Jo March and her best friend, the boy next door, Theodore "Laurie" Laurence. 1869, Concord, Massachusetts: After the publication of her first novel, Jo March is shocked to discover her book of scribbles has become a bestseller, and her publisher and fans demand a sequel. While pressured into coming up with a story, she goes to New York with her dear friend Laurie for a week of inspiration--museums, operas, and even a once-in-a-lifetime reading by Charles Dickens himself! But Laurie has romance on his mind, and despite her growing feelings, Jo's desire to remain independent leads her to turn down his heartfelt marriage proposal and sends the poor boy off to college heartbroken. When Laurie returns to Concord with a sophisticated new girlfriend, will Jo finally communicate her true heart's desire or lose the love of her life forever?

Self-Portrait with Cephalopod

Author : Kathryn Smith
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571317481
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Self-Portrait with Cephalopod written by Kathryn Smith and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental collapse. The betrayals and alliances of the animal world. A father who works in a timber mill. The celebrities in our feeds, the stories we tell ourselves. Loss, never-ending loss. Self-Portrait with Cephalopod—selected by francine j. harris as winner of the Jake Adam York Prize—is an account of being a girl, and then a woman, in the world; of being a living creature on a doomed planet; of being someone who aspires to do better but is torn between attention and distraction. Here, Kathryn Smith offers observations and anxieties, prophecies and prayers, darkness and light—but never false hope. Instead, she incises our vanities and our hypocrisies, “the bloody hand holding back / the skin,” revealing “the world’s inner workings, / rubbery and caught between the teeth.” These are the poems of someone who feels her and our failings in the viscera, in the bones, and who bears witness to that pain on the page. Self-Portrait with Cephalopod is an urgent and necessary collection about living in this precarious moment, meditative and resolutely unsentimental.

No Hiding in Boise

Author : Kim Hooper
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1684426243
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book No Hiding in Boise written by Kim Hooper and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2021 INDIE NEXT Pick A Women's National Book Association 2021 Great Group Read When Angie is awakened by a midnight call from an officer with the Boise Police Department, she thinks there must be a misunderstanding. The officer tells her that her husband was involved in a shooting at a local bar, but how can that be possible when her husband is sleeping right next to her? Except when she turns to wake him, he isn’t there. Tessa is the twenty-three-year-old bartender who escapes to a backroom storage closet during the shooting. When it comes to light that five people were killed, she is burdened with the question of why she survived. Joyce wakes up to a knock at her front door, a knock she assumes is her wayward son, Jed, who must have lost his keys. It’s not Jed, though. Two police officers tell her that Jed is dead, shot at the bar. Then they deliver even worse news: “We have reason to believe your son was the shooter.” So begins the story of three women tied together by tragic fate—a wife trying to understand why her now-comatose husband was frequenting a bar in the middle of the night, the young woman who her husband was apparently pursuing, and a mother who is forced to confront the reality of who her son was and who she is.

The Robotics Primer

Author : Maja J. Mataric
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026263354X
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book The Robotics Primer written by Maja J. Mataric and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2007-08-17 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broadly accessible introduction to robotics that spans the most basic concepts and the most novel applications; for students, teachers, and hobbyists. The Robotics Primer offers a broadly accessible introduction to robotics for students at pre-university and university levels, robot hobbyists, and anyone interested in this burgeoning field. The text takes the reader from the most basic concepts (including perception and movement) to the most novel and sophisticated applications and topics (humanoids, shape-shifting robots, space robotics), with an emphasis on what it takes to create autonomous intelligent robot behavior. The core concepts of robotics are carried through from fundamental definitions to more complex explanations, all presented in an engaging, conversational style that will appeal to readers of different backgrounds. The Robotics Primer covers such topics as the definition of robotics, the history of robotics (“Where do Robots Come From?”), robot components, locomotion, manipulation, sensors, control, control architectures, representation, behavior (“Making Your Robot Behave”), navigation, group robotics, learning, and the future of robotics (and its ethical implications). To encourage further engagement, experimentation, and course and lesson design, The Robotics Primer is accompanied by a free robot programming exercise workbook that implements many of the ideas on the book on iRobot platforms. The Robotics Primer is unique as a principled, pedagogical treatment of the topic that is accessible to a broad audience; the only prerequisites are curiosity and attention. It can be used effectively in an educational setting or more informally for self-instruction. The Robotics Primer is a springboard for readers of all backgrounds—including students taking robotics as an elective outside the major, graduate students preparing to specialize in robotics, and K-12 teachers who bring robotics into their classrooms.

The Ant Generator

Author : Elizabeth Harris
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 9781587291029
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Ant Generator written by Elizabeth Harris and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For this immense work, Lewis employs a diversity of approaches--bibliographical, historical, socio-cultural and musical--in her study of the role that Gardano and his publications played in the first half of the sixteenth century. Indispensable for research and performance. A collection of 11 short stories, which won the U. of Iowa's John Simmons Short Fiction Award for 1991. Harris's characters respond to ordinary situations in unexpected ways. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Grasping at Straws

Author : Ebenezer Peace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (542 download)

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Download or read book Grasping at Straws written by Ebenezer Peace and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GRASPING AT STRAWS (a compilation of poems) is divided into three parts, namely, Sex and its vices, the community, and its individuals, and self. The interpretation of each poem is made available after each poem, as obvious as most of the poem's interpretation may be; it is still subject to whatever each reader desires. As an English student, it has been made clear to me that a word has different meanings to different individuals and as such, the writer would like each reader to deduct his/her own interpretation. Any similarity to events, individuals, and communities is purely coincidental.

Acacia

Author : David Anthony Durham
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307472930
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Acacia written by David Anthony Durham and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2008-08-26 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “David Anthony Durham has serious chops. I can’t wait to read whatever he writes next." —George R. R. Martin Welcome to Acacia . . . Born into generations of prosperity, the four royal children of the Akaran dynasty know little of the world outside their opulent island paradise. But when an assassin strikes at the heart of their power, their lives are changed forever. Forced to flee to distant corners and separated against their will, the children must navigate a web of hidden allegiances, ancient magic, foreign invaders, and illicit trade that will challenge their very notion of who they are. As they come to understand their true purpose in life, the fate of the world lies in their hands.

Before the Deluge

Author : Otto Friedrich
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060926791
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Before the Deluge written by Otto Friedrich and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1995-10-13 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating portrait of the turbulent political, social, and cultural life of the city of Berlin in the 1920s.

Kafka Was the Rage

Author : Anatole Broyard
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030775748X
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Kafka Was the Rage written by Anatole Broyard and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Hemingway's A Moveable Feast did for Paris in the 1920s, this charming yet undeceivable memoir does for Greenwich Village in the late 1940s. In 1946, Anatole Broyard was a dapper, earnest, fledgling avant-gardist, intoxicated by books, sex, and the neighborhood that offered both in such abundance. Stylish written, mercurially witty, imbued with insights that are both affectionate and astringent, this memoir offers an indelible portrait of a lost bohemia. We see Broyard setting up his used bookstore on Cornelia Street—indulging in a dream that was for him as romantic as “living off the land or sailing around the world” while exercizing his libido with a protegee of Anais Nin and taking courses at the New School, where he deliberates on “the new trends in art, sex, and psychosis.” Along the way he encounters Delmore Schwartz, Caitlin and Dylan Thomas, William Gaddis, and other writers at the start of their careers. Written with insight and mercurial wit, Kafka Was the Rage elegantly captures a moment and place and pays homage to a lost bohemia as it was experienced by a young writer eager to find not only his voice but also his place in a very special part of the world.

The Right Way of Death: Restoring the American Funeral Business to Its True Calling

Author : Eric Layer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781735610924
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Right Way of Death: Restoring the American Funeral Business to Its True Calling written by Eric Layer and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funeral service is dying. Cremation rates are sky-high, new competitors pop up every day, and an entire generation of funeral home owners are considering closing shop. But a thriving future is still possible. Eric Layer paints a vivid picture of what's threatening death care and everything mortuary owners need to know about how to save it.

Androids

Author : Chet Haase
Publisher : No Starch Press
ISBN 13 : 1718502680
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book Androids written by Chet Haase and published by No Starch Press. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating inside story of how the Android operating system came to be. In 2004, Android was two people who wanted to build camera software but couldn't get investors interested. Today, Android is a large team at Google, delivering an operating system (including camera software) to over 3 billion devices worldwide. This is the inside story, told by the people who made it happen. Androids: The Team that Built the Android Operating System is a first-hand chronological account of how the startup began, how the team came together, and how they all built an operating system from the kernel level to its applications and everything in between. It describes the tenuous beginnings of this ambitious project as a tiny startup, then as a small acquisition by Google that took on an industry with strong, entrenched competition. Author Chet Haase joined the Android team at Google in May 2010 and later recorded conversations with team members to preserve the early days of Android's history leading to the launch of 1.0. This engaging and accessible book captures the developers' stories in their own voices to answer the question: How did Android succeed?