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On the Brink of Tears

Author : Peter Rimmer
Publisher : Kamba Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 707 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Brink of Tears written by Peter Rimmer and published by Kamba Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-03 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can bitter enemies ever be friends? Harry Brigandshaw is presumed dead, missing in the wilds of Africa. And Colonial Shipping is stolen. Tina is miserable on Elephant Walk whilst the new generation of Brigandshaws and St Clairs are on the threshold of new beginnings. Young, carefree, full of excitement and eager for success. The Great War is behind them, the world has licked their wounds and a new future beckons. But menacing undercurrents are permeating. There’s talk. The Fourth Estate spinning their stories. Scaremongering. Rumours. Hitler inciting hatred. His power, seductive. Yet the Allies are grinding Germany into the dust but for how long? The Gestapo and the Brownshirts are lurking, raising national pride, waiting to strike. And back in England, the youngsters are living the high life, trying to ignore the gossip. But how can they when all the signs are there for the inevitable? It’s the calm before the storm! The world is on the brink of tears.

On the Verge of Tears

Author : Michele Byers
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443821950
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book On the Verge of Tears written by Michele Byers and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea for this book began with David Lavery’s 2007 column for flowtv.org. “The Crying Game: Why Television Brings Us to Tears” asked us to consider that “age-old mystery”: tears. The respondents to David’s initial survey—Michele Byers among them—didn’t agree on anything ... Some cried more over film, some television, some books; some felt their tears to be a release, others to be a manipulation. They did agree, however, as did the readers who responded to the column, that crying over stories, and even “things,” is something that is a shared and familiar cultural practice. This book was born from that moment of recognition. On the Verge of Tears is not the first book to think about crying. Tom Lutz’s Crying: The Natural & Cultural History of Tears, Judith Kay Nelson’s Seeing Through Tears: Crying and Attachment, Peter Schwenger’s The Tears of Things: Melancholy and Physical Objects, and Henry Jenkins’ The Wow Climax: Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture also offer forays into this familiar, if not always entirely comfortable, emotional space. This book differs markedly from each of these others, however. As a collection of essay by diverse hands, its point of view is multi-vocal. It is not a history of tears (as is Lutz’s superb book); nor is its approach psychological/sociological (as is Nelson’s). It does not limit itself to very contemporary popular culture (as does Jenkins’ book) or material culture (as does Schwenger’s study). What On the Verge of Tears offers are personal, cultural, and political ruminations on the tears we shed in our daily engagements with the world and its artifacts. The essays found within are often deeply personal, but also have broad implications for everyday life. The authors included here contemplate how and why art, music, film, literature, theatre, theory, and material artifacts make us weep. They consider the risks of tears in public and private spaces; the way tears implicate us in tragedy, comedy, and horror. On the Verge of Tears does not offer a unified theory of crying, but, instead, invites us to imagine tears as a multi-vocal language we can all, in some manner, understand.

Primal Tears

Author : Kelpie Wilson
Publisher : Frog Books
ISBN 13 : 1583949550
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Primal Tears written by Kelpie Wilson and published by Frog Books. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cross between a human and a bonobo? Carl Sagan and others have speculated: Is it possible? What kind of creature would it be? And how might this affect our world? Kelpie Wilson takes the premise and runs with it in this engaging novel. Primal Tears is the story of Sage, born to a young woman who has volunteered to be a surrogate mother for an endangered species of chimpanzee. The process goes awry, and Sage, a lovable youngster, is neither completely one species nor the other. When her existence becomes public knowledge, she needs all the best characteristics of both species to find a place for herself in our human-dominated world.

The New Trail of Tears

Author : Naomi Schaefer Riley
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 1641772271
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book The New Trail of Tears written by Naomi Schaefer Riley and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want to know why American Indians have the highest rates of poverty of any racial group, why suicide is the leading cause of death among Indian men, why native women are two and a half times more likely to be raped than the national average and why gang violence affects American Indian youth more than any other group, do not look to history. There is no doubt that white settlers devastated Indian communities in the 19th, and early 20th centuries. But it is our policies today—denying Indians ownership of their land, refusing them access to the free market and failing to provide the police and legal protections due to them as American citizens—that have turned reservations into small third-world countries in the middle of the richest and freest nation on earth. The tragedy of our Indian policies demands reexamination immediately—not only because they make the lives of millions of American citizens harder and more dangerous—but also because they represent a microcosm of everything that has gone wrong with modern liberalism. They are the result of decades of politicians and bureaucrats showering a victimized people with money and cultural sensitivity instead of what they truly need—the education, the legal protections and the autonomy to improve their own situation. If we are really ready to have a conversation about American Indians, it is time to stop bickering about the names of football teams and institute real reforms that will bring to an end this ongoing national shame.

Pictures and Tears

Author : James Elkins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113595013X
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Pictures and Tears written by James Elkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-02 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This deeply personal account of emotion and vulnerability draws upon anecdotes related to individual works of art to present a chronicle of how people have shown emotion before works of art in the past.

Holy Tears

Author : Kimberley Christine Patton
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691190224
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Holy Tears written by Kimberley Christine Patton and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What religion does not serve as a theater of tears? Holy Tears addresses this all but universal phenomenon with passion and precision, ranging from Mycenaean Greece up through the tragedy of 9/11. Sixteen authors, including many leading voices in the study of religion, offer essays on specific topics in religious weeping while also considering broader issues such as gender, memory, physiology, and spontaneity. A comprehensive, elegantly written introduction offers a key to these topics. Given the pervasiveness of its theme, it is remarkable that this book is the first of its kind--and it is long overdue. The essays ask such questions as: Is religious weeping primal or culturally constructed? Is it universal? Is it spontaneous? Does God ever cry? Is religious weeping altered by sexual or social roles? Is it, perhaps, at once scripted and spontaneous, private and communal? Is it, indeed, divine? The grief occasioned by 9/11 and violence in Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, and elsewhere offers a poignant context for this fascinating and richly detailed book. Holy Tears concludes with a compelling meditation on the theology of weeping that emerged from pastoral responses to 9/11, as described in the editors' interview with Reverend Betsee Parker, who became head chaplain for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of New York City and leader of the multifaith chaplaincy team at Ground Zero. The contributors are Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Amy Bard, Herbert Basser, Santha Bhattacharji, William Chittick, Gary Ebersole, M. David Eckel, John Hawley, Gay Lynch, Jacob Olúpqnà (with Solá Ajíbádé), Betsee Parker, Kimberley Patton, Nehemia Polen, Kay Read, and Kallistos Ware.

Save Your Own

Author : Elisabeth Brink
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618871933
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (719 download)

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Download or read book Save Your Own written by Elisabeth Brink and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harvard Divinity School student Gillian Cormier-Brandenburg takes a job at a halfway house when her fellowship is revoked. Her encounters with the residents cause her to rethink her own goals.

Echoes from the Past

Author : Peter Rimmer
Publisher : Kamba Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780995756120
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (561 download)

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Download or read book Echoes from the Past written by Peter Rimmer and published by Kamba Limited. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sebastian is stolen away from his lover, Emily, and forced across the sea in order to allow his older brother to take Emily's hand instead. In the wild unknown colonies of Southern Africa, Sebastian becomes one of the first white elephant hunters. There he will see the bloodiest faces of man as loyalty and friendship are divided in the Boer War.

Tears of a Clown

Author : Dana Milbank
Publisher : Doubleday
ISBN 13 : 0385533896
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Tears of a Clown written by Dana Milbank and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank takes a fair and balanced look at the unsettling rise of the silly Fox News host Glenn Beck. Thomas Jefferson famously wrote that “the tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.” In America in 2010, Glenn Beck provides the very refreshment Jefferson had in mind: Whether he’s the patriot or the tyrant, he’s definitely full of manure. The wildly popular Fox News host with three million daily viewers perfectly captures the vitriol of our time and the fact-free state of our political culture. The secret to his success is his willingness to traffic in the fringe conspiracies and Internet hearsay that others wouldn’t touch with a ten-foot pole: death panels, government health insurance for dogs, FEMA concentration camps, an Obama security force like Hitler’s SS. But Beck, who is, according to a recent Gallup poll, admired by more Americans than the Pope, has nothing in his background that identifies him as an ideologue, giving rise to the speculation that his right-wing shtick is just that—the act of a brilliant showman, known for both his over-the-top daily outrages and for weeping on the air. Milbank describes, with lacerating wit, just how the former shock jock without a college degree has managed to become the most recognizable leader of antigovernment conservatives and exposes him as the guy who is single-handedly giving patriotism a bad name.

AFRICAN TEARS

Author : Catherine Buckle
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1868421406
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book AFRICAN TEARS written by Catherine Buckle and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2002 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1990 the author became the proud owners of Stow Farm, with the approval of the Zanu-PF government. In February 2000 a mob of 'veterans' claimed the farm was now their property. This is the account of what then happened, her family's experiences when their home, livelihood and investment is taken from them.

On the Brink of Everything

Author : Parker J. Palmer
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1523095458
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book On the Brink of Everything written by Parker J. Palmer and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This impassioned book invites readers to the deep end of life where authentic soul work and human transformation become pressing concerns.” —Publishers Weekly 2019 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medalist in the Aging/Death & Dying Category From bestselling author Parker J. Palmer comes a brave and beautiful book for all who want to age reflectively, seeking new insights and life-giving ways to engage in the world. “Age itself,” he says, “is no excuse to wade in the shallows. It’s a reason to dive deep and take creative risks.” Looking back on eight decades of life—and on his work as a writer, teacher, and activist—Palmer explores what he’s learning about self and world, inviting readers to explore their own experience. In prose and poetry—and three downloadable songs written for the book by the gifted Carrie Newcomer—he meditates on the meanings of life, past, present, and future. With compassion and chutzpah, gravitas and levity, Palmer writes about cultivating a vital inner and outer life, finding meaning in suffering and joy, and forming friendships across the generations that bring new life to young and old alike. “This book is a companion for not merely surviving a fractured world, but embodying—like Parker—the fiercely honest and gracious wholeness that is ours to claim at every stage of life.” —Krista Tippett, New York Times-bestselling author of Becoming Wise “A wondrously rich mix of reality and possibility, comfort and story, helpful counsel and poetry, in the voice of a friend . . . This is a book of immense gratitude, consolation, and praise.” —Naomi Shihab Nye, National Book Award finalist

On the Verge of Tears

Author : Michele Byers
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Verge of Tears written by Michele Byers and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemplating how and why art, music, film, literature, theatre, theory and material artifacts make us weep, this collection of essays considers the ways in which tears implicate us in tragedy, comedy and horror.

House of Tears

Author : John Hughes
Publisher : Globe Pequot
ISBN 13 : 9781592287994
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (879 download)

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Download or read book House of Tears written by John Hughes and published by Globe Pequot. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic tales of Westerners who crossed behind the veil

Reintegrative Justice in Practice

Author : Helen Miles
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317068521
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Reintegrative Justice in Practice written by Helen Miles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have seen the development of a growing international literature on restorative justice, community justice and reintegrative alternatives to formal criminal justice processes. This literature is stronger on theory and advocacy than on detailed evaluative studies. It often relies for its practical examples on the presumed historical practices of the indigenous peoples of colonised territories, or on attempts to revive or promote modified versions of these in a modern context, which has led to debates about how far modern communities can provide a viable setting for such initiatives. This book provides a unique study of the practice of traditional reintegrative community justice in a European society: the Parish Hall Enquiry (PHE) in the Channel Island of Jersey. This is an ancient institution, based on an informal hearing and discussion of a reported offence with the alleged offender and other interested parties, carried out by centeniers (honorary police officers elected to one of Jersey's twelve parishes). It is still in regular use as an integral part of a modern criminal justice system, and it usually aims to resolve offences without recourse to formal prosecution in court. Helen Miles and Peter Raynor's research, arising from direct observation, contributes to the literature on 'what works' in resolving conflicts and influencing offenders, and their detailed case studies of how problems are addressed gives a 'hands on' flavour of the process. The authors also document the aspects of community life in Jersey that facilitate or hinder the continuation of the PHEs, drawing out the implications of these findings for wider debates about the necessary and sufficient social conditions for reintegrative justice to succeed.

On the Brink of Death

Author : Sanjay Sonawani
Publisher : Booktango
ISBN 13 : 1468955241
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (689 download)

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Download or read book On the Brink of Death written by Sanjay Sonawani and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2015-02-09 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rajeev Gandhi, the former prime minister of India, is brutally assassinated by a LTTE human bomb. The culprits are on the run, trying to escape the cluthces of SIT whose noose is tightening with ever passing day, and the main suspect, Sivrasan, is about to be caught. Krishan is on his way to Jaffna when he gets the blow of his life. The LTTE has declared him a traitor. And then...unfolds a chilling saga of human persistence, macabre political games and heinous internatioinal conspiracies.

The Cherry Orchard

Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802191010
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Cherry Orchard written by Anton Chekhov and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anton Chekhov was a master whose daring work revolutionized theater, and this was as true of Ivanov, his first full-length play, as of The Cherry Orchard, his last. Building on the success of his acclaimed adaptation of The Seagull, Tom Stoppard returns to Chekhov and the themes of bitter social satire, personal introspection, and the electrifying atmosphere of Russia on the brink of change. In these two new versions, Stoppard brings his crisp and nimble style to two masterpieces of the modern theater. In The Cherry Orchard, an improverished landowning family is unable to face the fact that their estate is about to be auctioned off. Lopakhin, a local merchant, presents numerous options to save the estate—including cutting down their prized cherry orchard—but stricken by denial the family leave the estate to the sound of axes.

A Girton Girl

Author : Annie Edwards
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368935240
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (689 download)

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Download or read book A Girton Girl written by Annie Edwards and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.