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Book Synopsis Not in My Neighborhood by : Antero Pietila
Download or read book Not in My Neighborhood written by Antero Pietila and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 2010 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baltimore is the setting for (and typifies) one of the most penetrating examinations of bigotry and residential segregation ever published in the United States. Antero Pietila shows how continued discrimination practices toward African Americans and Jews have shaped the cities in which we now live. Eugenics, racial thinking, and white supremacist attitudes influenced even the federal government's actions toward housing in the 20th century, dooming American cities to ghettoization. This all-American tale is told through the prism of Baltimore, from its early suburbanization in the 1880s to the consequences of "white flight" after World War II, and into the first decade of the twenty-first century. The events are real, and so are the heroes and villains. Mr. Pietila's engrossing story is an eye-opening journey into city blocks and neighborhoods, shady practices, and ruthless promoters. -- Book jacket.
Book Synopsis My Street by : G. Fitzgerald Coaston
Download or read book My Street written by G. Fitzgerald Coaston and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The death of a life-long friend and mentor forces a successful middle-aged executive, John Haley, to face the memories of his youth during the unpleasant return to his hometown to attend the funeral. John realizes his childhood experiences not only where the foundation for his success, but forces him to realize life's cycle predestines certain inevitable events. Through a series of unplanned encounters, John Haley must reconcile the happiness of his youth against the depression that overcomes him as he engages many of the central figures of his life. John maneuvers through these encounters emotionally, but father time's punishing blows weigh heavy on him. John's intermittent visits back to his hometown have never exposed him to the plight of those he grew to know and love, so the untimely death of a major character in his life opens the door to reflection and how he must think about the future. John Haley grew up in the turbulent 60's and innovative 70's. This time of black middle class discovery provided a new era for black youth to grow. Their parents, products of Jim Crow and segregation, look to provide unique educational and social experiences to their children. These experiences however provided John and many of his peers with new challenges in life. During his weekend trip, John tours the city he grew up in and reflects on the almost unbelievable events on his street. Some events hilarious, some events regrettable, but none are forgettable. As John tries to compartmentalize each, he continues to build the case, in his own mind, that his life is much more successful and meaningful because he has left this place. Susan, one of John's oldest and closes friends has returned to their hometown to continue life after a near death experience. Susan has a very different thought about their hometown. She sees it as a place of refuge and security, especially now that John has returned. Susan has a secret that she must share with John which will cause their destiny to become permanently connected. One bright spot in the visit for John is the chance meeting with Jill, his high school sweetheart. Although Jill has remained in their town, she could not help but wonder of the life that could have been. Happiness is relative and for John and Jill, their what if, becomes an excuse for passion and sex. But can chances lost help to establish a potential future? In all, John Haley must get beyond his past, whether pleasant or not, to return to the life that was meant for him. But will Susan's secret or Jill's passion cause him to reconsider?
Download or read book On My Street written by Koos Meinderts and published by Lemniscaat USA. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the different kinds of people who live on this street.
Book Synopsis Murder On My Street by : Edwin Lanham
Download or read book Murder On My Street written by Edwin Lanham and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2019-01-19 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic mystery!
Book Synopsis The Great Mental Models, Volume 1 by : Shane Parrish
Download or read book The Great Mental Models, Volume 1 written by Shane Parrish and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the essential thinking tools you’ve been missing with The Great Mental Models series by Shane Parrish, New York Times bestselling author and the mind behind the acclaimed Farnam Street blog and “The Knowledge Project” podcast. This first book in the series is your guide to learning the crucial thinking tools nobody ever taught you. Time and time again, great thinkers such as Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett have credited their success to mental models–representations of how something works that can scale onto other fields. Mastering a small number of mental models enables you to rapidly grasp new information, identify patterns others miss, and avoid the common mistakes that hold people back. The Great Mental Models: Volume 1, General Thinking Concepts shows you how making a few tiny changes in the way you think can deliver big results. Drawing on examples from history, business, art, and science, this book details nine of the most versatile, all-purpose mental models you can use right away to improve your decision making and productivity. This book will teach you how to: Avoid blind spots when looking at problems. Find non-obvious solutions. Anticipate and achieve desired outcomes. Play to your strengths, avoid your weaknesses, … and more. The Great Mental Models series demystifies once elusive concepts and illuminates rich knowledge that traditional education overlooks. This series is the most comprehensive and accessible guide on using mental models to better understand our world, solve problems, and gain an advantage.
Book Synopsis The Sociology of Radical Commitment by : Gary Backhaus
Download or read book The Sociology of Radical Commitment written by Gary Backhaus and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume presents the life and thought of Kurt H. Wolff, a Jewish refugee from Darmstadt, a student of Karl Mannheim, practitioner of the sociology of knowledge, translator of the classic works of Simmel, Durkheim, and Mannheim, and creator of the radical existential sociology of surrender-and-catch, through multiple modalities. Two interviews provide an autobiographical portrait. Testimonies by close family members, friends, and colleagues allow the reader a more intimate insight into his subjectivity. Excerpts from a travelogue journal kept by his spouse, Carla E. Wolff provide an understanding of how the Wolff's interpreted their situation and times. Several chapters devoted to explicating Wolff's place in the sociological tradition, especially in light of his work in the sociology of knowledge. Several chapters exhibit creative work in the further development of his thought, especially concerning his surrender-and-catch. The thrust of the book is to explicate Wolff's relation to the tradition and to the orientation to which he belongs while at the same time to exhibit how he develops a sociology of radical commitment. This commitment can demand great existential risk in the quest to uncover the universal in the unique--the creation of new meaning (the catch) though the surrender. Wolff's hope is to find possibilities for humankind that lead us out of the crises, to which traditional scientia has been disappointingly ineffective.
Book Synopsis There's a Hole in My Sidewalk by : Portia Nelson
Download or read book There's a Hole in My Sidewalk written by Portia Nelson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to inspire self-discovery, "There's a Hole in My Sidewalk" contains more than 100 touching poems that gently guide readers to a more authentic and fulfilling life.
Download or read book After the Rain written by Erin Akey and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details the journey of one family's survival after one of the most devastating and destructive natural disasters in this country's history. Erin Akey, her three sons aged 13, 9, and 5, and her mother set out to seek safety as Hurricane Katrina approached their home in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Erin was a divorced, single mother who had to find a way for her family to survive as they fled the storm, found out that all that was left of their home and possessions was the slab of concrete and nothing else. She had to learn how to navigate the governmental bureaucracies to get help for them to survive, followed by her home insurance company trying any and everything to avoid honoring their commitment to their policyholders, and securing a safe place for them to live during these trying times. The reader is caught up in her trials and tribulations as they journey with her in her efforts to resolve the seemingly insurmountable obstacles she faced. However, this is not just a story of desperation but also of conquest. Despite the misery and heartache, Erin's story has a wonderful and exciting conclusion and the anticipation of a wonderful future filled with happiness and service to those who find themselves in circumstances similar to those she and her family faced. It is a story of courage in the face of adversity, faith, and the willingness to accept the good things God gives us, thank Him, and go forward, in His name, to help others.
Book Synopsis Loving My Street King by : Evie Shonte
Download or read book Loving My Street King written by Evie Shonte and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jayla was getting along just fine in her eyes, until she was forced to quit her job as a waitress. However, a spur of the moment trip to Dubai with her best friend, Chandler, would set her on a path that she never thought she'd take. Jayla has been in an on again, off again relationship with Keno for years, with her main goal being to keep a roof over her head by any means possible. Chandler convinces her to use Keno for at least the time being. With no income coming in, it forces her to get back with him. But Scrap, her neighbor, has set his sights on Jayla because he knows he can offer her better. While Chandler and Jayla are vacationing in Dubai, they meet an older Colombian man named German who takes a liking to Jayla. Upon hearing about her financial woes, he offers her an opportunity in his family business. Not even thinking twice, she jumps on the deal. However, German has ulterior motives. Will Jayla let greed cloud her judgment, or will she come to her senses in time?
Download or read book Street Data written by Shane Safir and published by Corwin. This book was released on 2021-02-12 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radically reimagine our ways of being, learning, and doing Education can be transformed if we eradicate our fixation on big data like standardized test scores as the supreme measure of equity and learning. Instead of the focus being on "fixing" and "filling" academic gaps, we must envision and rebuild the system from the student up—with classrooms, schools and systems built around students’ brilliance, cultural wealth, and intellectual potential. Street data reminds us that what is measurable is not the same as what is valuable and that data can be humanizing, liberatory and healing. By breaking down street data fundamentals: what it is, how to gather it, and how it can complement other forms of data to guide a school or district’s equity journey, Safir and Dugan offer an actionable framework for school transformation. Written for educators and policymakers, this book · Offers fresh ideas and innovative tools to apply immediately · Provides an asset-based model to help educators look for what’s right in our students and communities instead of seeking what’s wrong · Explores a different application of data, from its capacity to help us diagnose root causes of inequity, to its potential to transform learning, and its power to reshape adult culture Now is the time to take an antiracist stance, interrogate our assumptions about knowledge, measurement, and what really matters when it comes to educating young people.
Download or read book My Puddles written by Thai Peck and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Puddles is a nonfiction short story. Beginning and ending her book in a dream, Thai Peck narrates the reality of her journey from childhood to the age of seventy. Hers is a story of love that survived a war, of shifts in time and place, and of self-discovery. Thai and her husband fought and survived many obstacles to find true love and happiness till the end. The story of the Pecks also includes pictures, poetry, and quotes related to a story of love lost and found.
Download or read book Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Homo Irrealis written by André Aciman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with his collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works Irrealis moods are a category of verbal moods that indicate that certain events have not happened, may never happen, or should or must or are indeed desired to happen, but for which there is no indication that they will ever happen. Irrealis moods are also known as counterfactual moods and include the conditional, the subjunctive, the optative, and the imperative—all best expressed in this book as the might-be and the might-have-been. One of the great prose stylists of his generation, André Aciman returns to the essay form in Homo Irrealis to explore what time means to artists who cannot grasp life in the present. Irrealis moods are not about the present or the past or the future; they are about what might have been but never was but could in theory still happen. From meditations on subway poetry and the temporal resonances of an empty Italian street to considerations of the lives and work of Sigmund Freud, C. P. Cavafy, W. G. Sebald, John Sloan, Éric Rohmer, Marcel Proust, and Fernando Pessoa and portraits of cities such as Alexandria and St. Petersburg, Homo Irrealis is a deep reflection on the imagination’s power to forge a zone outside of time’s intractable hold.
Download or read book My Street written by Rebecca Treays and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toast, you say? Well, how about Toast with Wild Mushrooms, Truffle Oil, and Marsala? Or Crockpot Lamb Shanks with Toasted Cornbread? Or Toasted Lemon Pound Cake with Pears in Port? In this fun and tempting cookbook, more than 60 easy recipes take toasted bread and turn it into a base for delicious appetizers, snacks, sandwiches, main courses, and desserts. "Toast" is a clever way for cooks to expand their repertoire for tasty meals whatever the time of day. Any way you slice it, toast is one of the most versatile innovations ever to have popped up in the kitchen.
Book Synopsis My Side of the Street by : Jason DeSena Trennert
Download or read book My Side of the Street written by Jason DeSena Trennert and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a sticky summer morning at the end of the Eighties, 19-year-old Jason DeSena Trennert—a bright, unconnected Georgetown undergrad with big dreams and an even bigger power tie—set out for Wall Street. Mustering the perceived panache of the bigwigs, he burst through the doors of America's oldest financial firms. He was roundly rejected. And entirely undeterred. Trennert accepted a position as a cold-caller and charged ahead with the blind zeal of inexperience, finding in the process a genuine affinity for the customs and history of his work. Clinging to his dream from humble beginnings in financial sector Siberia—Morgan Stanley's Brooklyn outpost—and enduring the villainization of a respectable profession across two boom-bust cycles, he opened his own boutique company, now one of the world's leading research firms. Part memoir, part love letter to an institution popularly viewed as a necessary (or as just plain) evil, My Side of the Street delivers the long-overdue defense of the investment banking industry critiqued by Michael Lewis and others, illuminating the ethical and decent majority who take the subway, worry about mortgages, and keep the entire enterprise on its feet. Introducing the general reader to captains of finance, famous on The Street but invisible to outsiders, Trennert lays on display the absurdity and unbridled joy of big business—a comic tale of unlikely success in America's most notorious industry.
Book Synopsis Loving My Street King 3 by : Evie Shonte
Download or read book Loving My Street King 3 written by Evie Shonte and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-04 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jayla has been picked up by crooked cops and taken to her uncle, German. She doesn’t know what he wants, nor does she know what will happen to her, but the only thing she can think of is how she will get home. German’s plans are not good for Jayla. However, luck may be on her side. She manages to fight off German and find her way back to her fiancé, Scrap, and the rest of her family. German is forced into hiding while he regroups and tries to figure out how to get his hands on Jayla again. Jayla, with a baby on the way and an impending wedding, just wants her life to go back to normal, but can things be normal when no one knows where German is? German seems to be one step ahead of each of them because someone is feeding him information. Who has double crossed this family? Who can Scrap and Jayla really trust?
Book Synopsis Congressional Record by : United States. Congress
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 1404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
