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Tightrope

Author : Nicholas D. Kristof
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525564179
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Tightrope written by Nicholas D. Kristof and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With stark poignancy and political dispassion Tightrope addresses the crisis in working-class America while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure. This must-read book from the authors of Half the Sky “shows how we can and must do better” (Katie Couric). "A deft and uniquely credible exploration of rural America, and of other left-behind pockets of our country. One of the most important books I've read on the state of our disunion."—Tara Westover, author of Educated Drawing us deep into an “other America,” the authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the people with whom Kristof grew up, in rural Yamhill, Oregon. It’s an area that prospered for much of the twentieth century but has been devastated in the last few decades as blue-collar jobs disappeared. About a quarter of the children on Kristof’s old school bus died in adulthood from drugs, alcohol, suicide, or reckless accidents. While these particular stories unfolded in one corner of the country, they are representative of many places the authors write about, ranging from the Dakotas and Oklahoma to New York and Virginia. With their superb, nuanced reportage, Kristof and WuDunn have given us a book that is both riveting and impossible to ignore.

Life on the Tightrope

Author : Jay Alix
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Life on the Tightrope written by Jay Alix and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Tightrope Walkers

Author : David Almond
Publisher : Candlewick
ISBN 13 : 0763673102
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book The Tightrope Walkers written by David Almond and published by Candlewick. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International award winner David Almond draws on memories of his early years in Tyneside, England, for a moving coming-of-age novel, masterfully told. A gentle visionary coming of age in the shadow of the shipyards of northern England, Dominic Hall is torn between extremes. On the one hand, he craves the freedom he feels when he steals away with the eccentric girl artist next door, Holly Stroud—his first and abiding love—to balance above the earth on a makeshift tightrope. With Holly, Dom dreams of a life different in every way from his shipbuilder dad’s, a life fashioned of words and images and story. On the other hand, he finds himself irresistibly drawn to the brutal charms of Vincent McAlinden, a complex bully who awakens something wild and reckless and killing in Dom. In a raw and beautifully crafted bildungsroman, David Almond reveals the rich inner world of a boy teetering on the edge of manhood, a boy so curious and open to impulse that we fear for him and question his balance—and ultimately exult in his triumphs.

Hope on a Tightrope

Author : Cornel West
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1401923607
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Hope on a Tightrope written by Cornel West and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2008-10-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times best-selling author of Race Matters and Democracy Matters offers open-hearted wisdom for our times in this courageous collection of quotations, speech excerpts, letters, philosophy, and photographs that reflect the profound humanity that fuels the passionate public intellectual. In a world that seesaws between unconditional love and acceptance and blind hatred and exclusion, Hope on a Tightrope will satisfy readers in search of deep wells of inspiration and challenge that marries the mind to the heart. This gift book features an original CD that highlights Dr. West's outstanding spoken-word artistry. His August 2007 CD release Never Forget: A Journey of Revelations that featured collaborations with best-selling artists Prince, Jill Scott, and Andre 3000 topped the charts as Billboard's #1 Spoken Word album.

Walking a Tightrope

Author : Emma Gilman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781737859901
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (599 download)

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Download or read book Walking a Tightrope written by Emma Gilman and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deeply restless in her privileged life as part of Axminster's high society, Juniper Rose escapes to the wild world of the circus and an adventure that will change her life. Juniper will learn who she is-and fast-as being the show's new star attraction embroils her in what threatens to become a serial murder mystery with the potential to ruin everything. In the midst of all this, Juniper encounters the dark and brooding Cassius whose torment pushes her to the end of herself. And there she discovers her undeniable love for the circus-and despite his efforts to be her worst enemy-her equally undeniable attraction for Cassius.

Generation on a Tightrope

Author : Arthur Levine
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118233832
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book Generation on a Tightrope written by Arthur Levine and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s college students feel as if they are crossing an abyss between their dreams and the reality of an uncertain future. They are a generation seeking stability in a time of profound and accelerating change. They want government and our other social institutions to work in a time when they’re broken; they cling to the American Dream in an age of diminished expectations. They are walking a tightrope, attempting to balance digital connectedness and personal isolation, global citizenship and local vision, commonality and difference in the most diverse generation in American history, and a desire to be treated as mature adults while being more dependent on their parents than previous college students. Generation on a Tightrope offers a compelling portrait of today’s undergraduate college students that sheds light on their attributes, expectations, aspirations, academics, attitudes, values, beliefs, social lives, and politics. Based on research of 5,000 college students and student affairs practitioners from 270 diverse college campuses, the book explores the similarities and differences between today’s generation of students and previous generations. The authors examine the myriad forces that have shaped these students and will continue to shape them as they prepare to meet the future. The first two volumes in this series exploring the psyche of college students, When Dreams and Heroes Died (1980) and When Hope and Fear Collide (1998), offered thoughtful and accurate profiles of the students of the 1980s and 1990s. As Generation on a Tightrope clearly reveals, today’s students need a very different education than the undergraduates who came before them: an education for the 21st Century, which colleges and universities are ill-equipped to offer and which will require major changes of them to provide. Painting a realistic picture of today’s college students, the authors offer guidance to higher education professionals, researchers, practitioners, policymakers, employers, parents, and the public. The book’s insights can help them equip students for the world they face and the world they will help to create.

Dancing on the Tightrope

Author : Beth Kurland
Publisher : Wellbridge Books
ISBN 13 : 9781942497431
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (974 download)

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Download or read book Dancing on the Tightrope written by Beth Kurland and published by Wellbridge Books. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life can feel like a challenging tightrope walk. How do we face life's difficulties yet remain resilient and open hearted? Clinical psychologist & award-winning author Beth Kurland reveals 5 common obstacles - habits of the mind that get in the way of living your fullest life and 5 tools of transformation for resilience, peace, and joy.

Tightrope

Author : Simon Mawer
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1408706199
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Tightrope written by Simon Mawer and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marian Sutro has survived Ravensbruck and is back in dreary 1950s London trying to pick up the pieces of her pre-war life. Returned to an England she barely knows and a post-war world she doesn't understand Marian searches for something on which to ground the rest of her life. Family and friends surround her and a young RAF officer attempts to bring her the normalities of love and affection but she is haunted by her experiences and by the guilt of knowing that her contribution to the war effort helped lead to the development of the Atom Bomb. Where, in the complexities of peacetime, does her loyalty lie? When a mysterious Russian diplomat emerges from the shadows to draw her into the ambiguities and uncertainties of the Cold War she sees a way to make amends for the past and to renew the excitement of her double life. Simon Mawer's sense of time and place is perfect: Tightrope is a compelling novel about identity and deception which constantly surprises the reader.

The Man Who Walked Between the Towers

Author : Mordicai Gerstein
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312368784
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (687 download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Walked Between the Towers written by Mordicai Gerstein and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers.

What If A... Could a Tiger Walk a Tightrope?

Author : Camilla de le Bédoyère
Publisher : QED Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781781716694
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book What If A... Could a Tiger Walk a Tightrope? written by Camilla de le Bédoyère and published by QED Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-21 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could a Tiger Walk a Tightrope? provides a fun and informative introduction into the life of a tiger. Have you ever wondered if a tiger would like to jump on a bouncy castle? By imagining animals in everyday scenarios, readers can learn about their size, diet and other features. Featuring superb illustrations and an engaging question and answer format, this title is extremely engaging and enjoybale. This series will be sure to keep young readers entertained whilst also helping them to understand and retain animal facts. The four titles in this series provide a fun introduction to four jungle animals: African elephant, saltwater crocodile, chimpanzee and a Bengal tiger.

Tightrope

Author : Amanda Quick
Publisher : Berkley
ISBN 13 : 0399585362
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Tightrope written by Amanda Quick and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2019 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's 1930, Burning Cove, California, and an ex-trapeze artist walks the tightrope between desire and danger as she is caught up in the mysterious circumstances surrounding the onstage death of an inventor. The race is on to find his missing invention before others, who are willing to kill for it, find it first."--

Walking the Tightrope

Author : Erica Orloff
Publisher : Financial Times/Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 : 9780131420243
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Walking the Tightrope written by Erica Orloff and published by Financial Times/Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2004 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete, solution-focused program for achieving real balance in life, this book helps readers to balance everything that matters: family, friends, work, money, love, health, spirituality, and more. The authors draw on the latest psychological research to help readers get beyond old habits and self-defeating behavior.

China Wakes

Author : Nicholas D. Kristof
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307764230
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book China Wakes written by Nicholas D. Kristof and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive book on China's uneasy transformation into an economic and political superpower, and an insightful and thought-provoking analysis of daily life in China from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists and bestselling authors of Half a Sky. "Nick Kristof's and Sheryl WuDunn's work as correspondents in China was beyond compare, and now they have written a book every bit as astonishing. China Wakes is filled with anecdote, detail, and analysis of the highest order.... This book demands reading, and yet it is a pleasure as well as an education." —David Remnick, Editor of The New Yorker Featuring 16 pages of photos

Thunder from the East

Author : Nicholas D. Kristof
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375412697
Total Pages : 573 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (754 download)

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Download or read book Thunder from the East written by Nicholas D. Kristof and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2001-02-23 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful and comprehensive look at Asia on the rise—a "masterful job of describing Asia's anguish and ambition" (The Washington Post Book World)—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists and bestselling authors of Half a Sky and Tightrope The 1997 economic crisss in Asia heaped devastation upon millions. Yet Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn argue that it was the best thing that could have happened to Asia. It destroyed the cronyism, protectionism, and government regulation that had been crippling Asian business for decades, and it left in its wake a vast region of resilient and determined millions poised to wrest economic, diplomatic and military power from the West. Thunder from the East is a riveting look at a complex region, a fascinating panoply of compelling characters, and a prophetic analysis from arguably the West's most informed and intelligent writers on Asia.

Family Tightrope

Author : Nazli Kibria
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691021155
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Family Tightrope written by Nazli Kibria and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the popular media have described Vietnamese Americans as the quintessential American immigrant success story, attributing their accomplishments to the values they learn in the traditional, stable, hierarchical confines of their family. Questioning the accuracy of such family portrayals, Nazli Kibria draws on in-depth interviews and participant observation with Vietnamese immigrants in Philadelphia to show how they construct their family lives in response to the social and economic challenges posed by migration and resettlement. To a surprising extent, the "traditional" family unit rarely exists, and its hierarchical organization has been greatly altered.

Tight Rope of Depression

Author : Kellan Fluckiger
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1630479675
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Tight Rope of Depression written by Kellan Fluckiger and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how to navigate the pitfalls of depression from a man whose own experience helped him learn to live with the ebbs and flows of the disease. Do you spend a lot of time doubting yourself? Hating yourself? Paralyzed and afraid to “put yourself out there?” Do you live in fear of being “not good enough” or total failure? Are procrastination and self-sabotage your constant companions? Join Kellan Fluckiger on his forty-year journey through the valley of depression and blissfully and gratefully out the other side. From self-doubt to attempted suicide. From the depths of misery and failure to the heights of confidence, success and inner peace. Imagine wearing fog-covered glasses for forty years and then suddenly taking them off. That’s how dramatic the change had been. Kellan’s liberation came in two parts. First being diagnosed with depression. Finally, there was a framework to understand the crazy journey. Second, creating a way to understand, recognize, cope with and ultimately master this unrelenting monster. You don’t have to be a slave to endless rounds of medication, managing unpleasant side-effects and just barely getting by. There is so much more that can be done. You are the author of your life, the master of your future. No matter where your journey has taken you before, the future is unwritten. Experience the joy, the freedom and the peace and the power to create for yourself. Procrastination won’t help you here. Discover the common themes that underlie all depression and misery from one who suffered along with his friends and family.

Juggling Chainsaws on a Tightrope

Author : Tim McLaughlin
Publisher : NavPress Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9781576838198
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Juggling Chainsaws on a Tightrope written by Tim McLaughlin and published by NavPress Publishing Group. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each study in The Real Life Stuff series for men and women includes eight sessions highlighting anecdotes and excerpts from current events and insights, leading to rich, rewarding, and lively conversation and study.