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Strangers and Misfits

Author : Jason Coy
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047442792
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Strangers and Misfits written by Jason Coy and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Banishment was crucial to law enforcement in early modern Europe, as magistrates used expulsion to punish and control thousands of offenders convicted of crimes ranging from adultery to theft. While early modern social control has attracted considerable scholarly attention in recent decades, banishment has been largely neglected. This book examines the role of banishment in sixteenth-century Ulm, an important south German city-state, using the town’s experience to uncover how early modern magistrates used expulsion to regulate and reorder society. This investigation sheds new light on the application of authority, the intersection between official disciplinary efforts and customary behavioral norms, and the function of public expulsion in displaying and defending social hierarchies, issues central to our historical understanding of the period.

Misfits

Author : Michaela Coel
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1250843456
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Misfits written by Michaela Coel and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the brilliant mind of Michaela Coel, creator and star of I May Destroy You and Chewing Gum and a Royal Society of Literature fellow, comes a passionate and inspired declaration against fitting in. When invited to deliver the MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, Michaela Coel touched a lot of people with her striking revelations about race, class and gender, but the person most significantly impacted was Coel herself. Building on her celebrated speech, Misfits immerses readers in her vision through powerful allegory and deeply personal anecdotes—from her coming of age in London public housing to her discovery of theater and her love for storytelling. And she tells of her reckoning with trauma and metamorphosis into a champion for herself, inclusivity, and radical honesty. With inspiring insight and wit, Coel lays bare her journey so far and invites us to reflect on our own. By embracing our differences, she says, we can transform our lives. An artist to her core, Coel holds up the path of the creative as an emblem of our need to regard one another with care and respect—and transparency. Misfits is a triumphant call for honesty, empathy and inclusion. Championing “misfits” everywhere, this timely, necessary book is a rousing coming-to-power manifesto dedicated to anyone who has ever worried about fitting in.

Strangers and Misfits

Author : Jason Philip Coy
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004161740
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Strangers and Misfits written by Jason Philip Coy and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role of banishment, a prevalent form of punishment largely neglected by scholars, in sixteenth-century Ulm, using the towna (TM)s experience to uncover how early modern magistrates used expulsion to regulate and reorder society.

Maizy Chen's Last Chance

Author : Lisa Yee
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1984830287
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Maizy Chen's Last Chance written by Lisa Yee and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEWBERY HONOR AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD FOR YOUTH LITERATURE Twelve year-old Maizy discovers her family’s Chinese restaurant is full of secrets in this irresistible novel that celebrates food, fortune, and family. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY School Library Journal • Booklist • The Horn Book • New York Public Library Welcome to the Golden Palace! Maizy has never been to Last Chance, Minnesota . . . until now. Her mom’s plan is just to stay for a couple weeks, until her grandfather gets better. But plans change, and as Maizy spends more time in Last Chance and at the Golden Palace—the restaurant that’s been in her family for generations—she makes some discoveries.For instance: You can tell a LOT about someone by the way they order food. People can surprise you. Sometimes in good ways, sometimes in disappointing ways. And the Golden Palace has secrets... But the more Maizy discovers, the more questions she has. Like, why are her mom and her grandmother always fighting? Who are the people in the photographs on the office wall? And when she discovers that a beloved family treasure has gone missing—and someone has left a racist note—Maizy decides it’s time to find the answers.

The Misfit's Manifesto

Author : Lidia Yuknavitch
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501120069
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Misfit's Manifesto written by Lidia Yuknavitch and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author explores the status of being a misfit as something to be embraced, and social misfits as being individuals of value who have a place in society, in a work that encourages people who have had difficulty finding their way to pursue their goals.

Misfit in Love

Author : S. K. Ali
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1534442774
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Misfit in Love written by S. K. Ali and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fun and fresh sequel to Saints and Misfits, Janna hopes her brother’s wedding will be the perfect start to her own summer of love, but attractive new arrivals have her more confused than ever. Janna Yusuf is so excited for the weekend: her brother Muhammad’s getting married, and she’s reuniting with her mom, whom she’s missed the whole summer. And Nuah’s arriving for the weekend too. Sweet, constant Nuah. The last time she saw him, Janna wasn’t ready to reciprocate his feelings for her. But things are different now. She’s finished high school, ready for college…and ready for Nuah. It’s time for Janna’s (carefully planned) summer of love to begin—starting right at the wedding. But it wouldn’t be a wedding if everything went according to plan. Muhammad’s party choices aren’t in line with his fiancée’s taste at all, Janna’s dad is acting strange, and her mom is spending more time with an old friend (and maybe love interest?) than Janna. And Nuah’s treating her differently. Just when things couldn’t get more complicated, two newcomers—the dreamy Haytham and brooding Layth—have Janna more confused than ever about what her misfit heart really wants. Janna’s summer of love is turning out to be super crowded and painfully unpredictable.

Talking to Strangers

Author : Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316535621
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Talking to Strangers written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers and why they often go wrong—now with a new afterword by the author. A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn’t true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland—throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know. And because we don’t know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.

Heaven

Author : Joni Eareckson Tada
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458758214
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Heaven written by Joni Eareckson Tada and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step back a moment, focus your eyes of faith, and then come with Joni into a world you've heard about from your youth but have never seen: heaven. You just might discover that heaven is closer - and more real - than you've ever thought. In this joyful best-seller, Joni Eareckson Tada paints a shining portrait of our heart's true home. Joni talks...

Swarm

Author : Scott Westerfeld
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481443399
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Swarm written by Scott Westerfeld and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As they celebrate the opening of their underground nightclub, the Zeroes, six teenagers with unique abilities, learn about the sinister power of Swarm, who uses a crowd's rage to kill--and who loves killing Zeroes.

Diary of a Misfit

Author : Casey Parks
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593081102
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Diary of a Misfit written by Casey Parks and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part memoir, part sweeping journalistic saga: As Casey Parks follows the mystery of a stranger's past, she is forced to reckon with her own sexuality, her fraught Southern identity, her tortured yet loving relationship with her mother, and the complicated role of faith in her life. "Most moving is Parks’s depiction of a queer lineage, her assertion of an ancestry of outcasts, a tapestry of fellow misfits into which the marginalized will always, for better or worse, fit." —The New York Times Book Review When Casey Parks came out as a lesbian in college back in 2002, she assumed her life in the South was over. Her mother shunned her, and her pastor asked God to kill her. But then Parks's grandmother, a stern conservative who grew up picking cotton, pulled her aside and revealed a startling secret. "I grew up across the street from a woman who lived as a man," and then implored Casey to find out what happened to him. Diary of a Misfit is the story of Parks's life-changing journey to unravel the mystery of Roy Hudgins, the small-town country singer from grandmother’s youth, all the while confronting ghosts of her own. For ten years, Parks traveled back to rural Louisiana and knocked on strangers’ doors, dug through nursing home records, and doggedly searched for Roy’s own diaries, trying to uncover what Roy was like as a person—what he felt; what he thought; and how he grappled with his sense of otherness. With an enormous heart and an unstinting sense of vulnerability, Parks writes about finding oneself through someone else’s story, and about forging connections across the gulfs that divide us.

Magic in Strangers

Author : K. M. M. Sheehy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Magic in Strangers written by K. M. M. Sheehy and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Misfits

Author : James Howe
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 144244942X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book The Misfits written by James Howe and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kids who get called the worst names oftentimes find each other. That's how it was with us. Skeezie Tookis and Addie Carle and Joe Bunch and me. We call ourselves the Gang of Five, but there are only four of us. We do it to keep people on their toes. Make 'em wonder. Or maybe we do it because we figure that there's one more kid out there who's going to need a gang to be a part of. A misfit, like us. Skeezie, Addie, Joe, and Bobby -- they've been friends forever. They laugh together, have lunch together, and get together once a week at the Candy Kitchen to eat ice cream and talk about important issues. Life isn't always fair, but at least they have each other -- and all they really want to do is survive the seventh grade. That turns out to be more of a challenge than any of them had anticipated. Starting with Addie's refusal to say the Pledge of Allegiance and her insistence on creating a new political party to run for student council, the Gang of Five is in for the ride of their lives. Along the way they will learn about politics and popularity, love and loss, and what it means to be a misfit. After years of getting by, they are given the chance to stand up and be seen -- not as the one-word jokes their classmates have tried to reduce them to, but as the full, complicated human beings they are just beginning to discover they truly are.

Reclaiming the Bible

Author : Robert McAfee Brown
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664255534
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Reclaiming the Bible written by Robert McAfee Brown and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this series of messages based on scripture, the author demonstrates the vital applications of the Bible for our times, dealing first with the greater words of faith such as love, grace, and reconciliation. It then sheds light on various events in Jesus' life and beyond. A third group of messages shows the Bible addressing social issues such as sexuality and violence.

Saints and Misfits

Author : S. K. Ali
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481499246
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Saints and Misfits written by S. K. Ali and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen-year-old Janna Yusuf, a Flannery O'Connor-obsessed book nerd and the daughter of the only divorced mother at their mosque, tries to make sense of the events that follow when her best friend's cousin--a holy star in the Muslim community--attempts to assault her at the end of sophomore year.

A Family of Strangers

Author : Kathleen Flanagan Rollins
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781973994275
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (942 download)

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Download or read book A Family of Strangers written by Kathleen Flanagan Rollins and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a corrupt chief dies, the ancestors refuse to welcome him into their ranks. Instead, they send him back to try it again. With his short temper and confused memories, he faces a hard road to redemption. But he gets some help from spirits and friends, both living and dead.

Phenomenologies of the Stranger

Author : Richard Kearney
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823234614
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Phenomenologies of the Stranger written by Richard Kearney and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is strange? Or better, who is strange? When do we encounter the strange? This volume takes the question of hosting the Stranger to the deeper level of embodied imagination and the senses.It asks: How does the embodied imagination relate to the Stranger in terms of hospitality or hostility (given the common root of hostis as both host and enemy)? How do humans sensethe dimension of the strange and alien in different religions, arts, and cultures? How do the five physical senses relate to the spiritual senses, especially the famous sixthsense, as portals to an encounter with the Other? Is there a carnal perception of alterity, which would operate at an affective, prereflective, preconscious level? What exactly do embodied imaginariesof hospitality and hostility entail? And what, finally, are the topical implications of these questions for an ethics and practice of tolerance and peace?

The Way of the Strangers

Author : Graeme Wood (Journalist)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0812988752
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Way of the Strangers written by Graeme Wood (Journalist) and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Way of the Strangers is an intimate journey into the minds of the Islamic State's true believers. From the streets of Cairo to the mosques of London, Wood interviews supporters, recruiters, and sympathizers of the group...Wood speaks with non-Islamic State Muslim scholars and jihadists, and explores the group's idiosyncratic, coherent approach to Islam...Through character study and analysis, Wood provides a clear-eyed look at a movement that has inspired so many people to abandon or uproot their families.