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The Return of the Ragpicker

Author : Og Mandino
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307780937
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Return of the Ragpicker written by Og Mandino and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2010-12-29 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon Potter’s new message of hope and courage for a troubled world Nearly twenty years ago in a Chicago parking lot, Og Mandino met a man who changed his life and who inspired millions of readers in the pages of Mandino’s classic bestseller The Greatest Miracle in the World. The man’s name was Simon Potter and he called himself a ragpicker—because he had devoted his life to rescuing people who had ended up on life’s refuse pile. But just as suddenly and mysteriously as Simon Potter entered Og Mandino’s life, so did he leave it—his work apparently done. Three years ago, however, Simon Potter walked back into Mandino's life. Ninety-five years old and going strong, the ragpicker knew his work was not yet finished; the world was still mired in frustration and despair, plagued by drugs, crime, broken families, and broken dreams. And so, he and Og Mandino vowed to deliver a precious new gift to humankind: a life guide to renewed strength, courage, wisdom, and faith for all.

The Rag-Picker's Guide to Poetry

Author : Eleanor Wilner
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472052039
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Rag-Picker's Guide to Poetry written by Eleanor Wilner and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The venture of this inviting collection is to look, from the many vantages that the 35 poets in this eclectic anthology chose to look, at what it was—knowing that a poem can’t be conceived in advance of its creation—that helped their poems to emerge or connected them over time. The Rag-Picker's Guide to Poetry permits an inside view of how poets outwit internal censors and habits of thought, showing how the meticulous and the spontaneous come together in the process of discovery. Within are contained the work and thoughts of: Betty Adcock Joan Aleshire Debra Allbery Elizabeth Arnold David Baker Rick Barot Marianne Boruch Karen Brennan Gabrielle Calvocoressi Michael Collier Carl Dennis Stuart Dischell Roger Fanning Chris Forhan Reginald Gibbons Linda Gregerson Jennifer Grotz Brooks Haxton Tony Hoagland Mark Jarman A. Van Jordan Laura Kasischke Mary Leader Dana Levin James Longenbach Thomas Lux Maurice Manning Heather McHugh Martha Rhodes Alan Shapiro Daniel Tobin Ellen Bryant Voigt Alan Williamson Eleanor Wilner C. Dale Young

Ragpicker

Author : Ankush Dayanidhi
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1642497428
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Ragpicker written by Ankush Dayanidhi and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Huge population causes poverty and various types of pollution. The story tries to portray these concerning points through Ragpicking. The story also focusses on the negative aspects of the society like adultery, prostitution and mischievous human trafficking. Beyond all these, the story depicts friendship, parental care and affection

The Rag Race

Author : Adam D. Mendelsohn
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479847186
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book The Rag Race written by Adam D. Mendelsohn and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2016 Best First Book Prize from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society Finalist, 2016 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature Winner, 2015 Book Prize from the Southern Jewish Historical Society Finalist, 2015 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies Winner, 2014 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies from the Jewish Book Council The majority of Jewish immigrants who made their way to the United States between 1820 and 1924 arrived nearly penniless; yet today their descendants stand out as exceptionally successful. How can we explain their dramatic economic ascent? Have Jews been successful because of cultural factors distinct to them as a group, or because of the particular circumstances that they encountered in America? The Rag Race argues that the Jews who flocked to the United States during the age of mass migration were aided appreciably by their association with a particular corner of the American economy: the rag trade. From humble beginnings, Jews rode the coattails of the clothing trade from the margins of economic life to a position of unusual promise and prominence, shaping both their societal status and the clothing industry as a whole. Comparing the history of Jewish participation within the clothing trade in the United States with that of Jews in the same business in England, The Rag Race demonstrates that differences within the garment industry on either side of the Atlantic contributed to a very real divergence in social and economic outcomes for Jews in each setting.

Trash!

Author : Gita Wolf
Publisher : Tara Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9788186211694
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Trash! written by Gita Wolf and published by Tara Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An imaginative approach to child rights--intelligently illustrated and designed.

Uncertain Manifesto

Author : Frédéric Pajak
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 168137286X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Uncertain Manifesto written by Frédéric Pajak and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated artist's memoir of the motivations, feelings, ideas, figures (including Samuel Beckett and Walter Benjamin), travels, and love affairs that have influenced his life. The writer and artist Frédéric Pajak was ten when he began to dream of “a book mixing words and pictures: snippets of adventure, random memories, maxims, ghosts, forgotten heroes, trees, the raging sea,” but it was not until he was in his forties that this dream took form as Uncertain Manifesto. The utterly original book that he produced is a memoir born of reading and a meditation on the lives and ideas, the motivations, feelings, and fates of some of Pajak’s heroes: Samuel Beckett and the artist Bram van Velde, and, especially, Walter Benjamin, whose travels to Moscow, Naples, and Ibiza, whose experiences with hashish, whose faltering marriage and love affairs and critique of modern experience Pajak re-creates and reflects on in word and image. Pajak’s moody black-and white drawings accompany the text throughout, though their bearing on it is often indirect and all the more absorbing for that. Between word and image, the reader is drawn into a mysterious space that is all Pajak’s as he seeks to evoke vanished histories and to resist a modern world more and more given over to a present without a past. With the support of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia

A Better Way to Live

Author : Og Mandino
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307780929
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book A Better Way to Live written by Og Mandino and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2010-12-29 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recounts his descent into despair and his discovery of spiritual nourishment in the works of Aristotle, Emerson, Ben Franklin, and Plato, and enumerates the seventeen rules that helped transform his life. Og Mandino was one of the leading inspirational authors in the world. But once, he was a thirty-five-year-old derelict who nearly spent his last few dollars on a suicide gun. In A Better Way to Live, he describes the joyously redemptive process that turned a down-and-out alcoholic into a millionaire and a happy man within ten years. Og Mandino is the only person who could tell this heartwarming tale of personal triumph—because it is his own true story. And it can profoundly influence your life. Here are the principles that turned Og Mandino’s life around: his seventeen “Rules to Live By.” These simple, easy-to-follow rules comprise a sound, wise prescription for inner growth and for a fulfilling everyday life that will work for you—just as it worked for Og Mandino. You can avoid spending even one more day feeling failure, grief, poverty, shame, or self-pity. Here is a better way to live: a way that literally saved Og Mandino’s life, a way that can help make your dreams come true.

The Rag-picker

Author : George Pickering Burnham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rag-picker written by George Pickering Burnham and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Greatest Mystery in the World

Author : Og Mandino
Publisher : Fawcett
ISBN 13 : 0307784754
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Greatest Mystery in the World written by Og Mandino and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Start today to transform your dreams into wonderful reality. . . . Simon Potter was a "ragpicker" and salvager of human lives. When this wise and humble man departed from life, he left author Og Mandino a precious legacy: the distilled wisdom of his unique collection of the greatest books about self-motivation and success--books he called "hand of God" books because they seemed to have been written with God's hand guiding the author's own. In this tender and inspiring book, Og shares with his millions of readers his old friend's bequest. It is nothing less than a blueprint for success, telling us in plain language exactly what we must do to mount the seven rungs of life's ladder--from material achievement and worldly success to the highest spiritual development. Whatever your most cherished dream may be, Og and his good angel Simon will show you the way to bring it within reach.

Castaway Mountain

Author : Saumya Roy
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 166260095X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book Castaway Mountain written by Saumya Roy and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *One of NPR's "Books We Love 2021"* "'I came to see the mountains as an outpouring of our modern lives,' Roy writes, 'of the endless chase for our desires to fill us.' Readers of Behind the Beautiful Forevers will be drawn to this harrowing portrait." —Publishers Weekly "Castaway Mountain deserves every accolade. A stunning achievement." —Kiran Desai, Booker Prize Winner, author of Inheritance of Loss. All of Mumbai’s possessions and memories come to die at the Deonar garbage mountains. Towering at the outskirts of the city, the mountains are covered in a faint smog from trash fires. Over time, as wealth brought Bollywood knock offs, fast food and plastics to Mumbaikars, a small, forgotten community of migrants and rag-pickers came to live at the mountains’ edge, making a living by re-using, recycling and re-selling. Among them is Farzana Ali Shaikh, a tall, adventurous girl who soon becomes one of the best pickers in her community. Over time, her family starts to fret about Farzana’s obsessive relationship to the garbage. Like so many in her community, Farzana, made increasingly sick by the trash mountains, is caught up in the thrill of discovery—because among the broken glass, crushed cans, or even the occasional dead baby, there’s a lingering chance that she will find a treasure to lift her family’s fortunes. As Farzana enters adulthood, her way of life becomes more precarious. Mumbai is pitched as a modern city, emblematic of the future of India, forcing officials to reckon with closing the dumping grounds, which would leave the waste pickers more vulnerable than ever. In a narrative instilled with superstition and magical realism, Saumya Roy crafts a modern parable exploring the consequences of urban overconsumption. A moving testament to the impact of fickle desires, Castaway Mountain reveals that when you own nothing, you know where true value lies: in family, community and love. Interior map illustration copyright (c) Jake Coolidge

Vernacular Verse Histories in Early Medieval England and Francia

Author : Catalin Taranu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000349667
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Vernacular Verse Histories in Early Medieval England and Francia written by Catalin Taranu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a provocative take on Germanic heroic poetry, Taranu reads texts like Beowulf, Maldon, and the Waltharius as participating in alternative modes of history-writing that functioned in a larger ecology of narrative forms, including Latinate Christian history and the biblical epic. These modes employed the conceit of their participating in a tradition of oral verse for a variety of purposes: from political propaganda to constructing origin myths for early medieval nationhood or heroic masculinity, and sometimes for challenging these paradigms. The more complex of these historical visions actively meditated on their own relationship to truthfulness and fictionality while also performing sophisticated (and often subversive) cultural and socio-emotional work for its audiences. By rethinking canonical categories of historiographical discourse from within medieval textual productions, Vernacular Verse Histories in Early Medieval England and Francia: The Bard and the Rag-Picker aims to recover a part of the wide array of narrative poetic forms through which medieval communities made sense of their past and structured their socio-emotional experience.

Lost Spring

Author : Anees Jung
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Lost Spring written by Anees Jung and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2005 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case studies of economically disadvantaged children and their labor in different Indian industries.

Spellbinder's Gift

Author : Og Mandino
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307788334
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Spellbinder's Gift written by Og Mandino and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-01-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The miraculous story of a loving couple, their never-to-be-forgotten friend, a little girl, and a very special teddy bear.... Retired from his long, successful career as an agent to many of the most famous and dynamic motivational speakers in the world, Bart Manning was happily enjoying his newfound freedom with his lovely wife, Mary. So why, one morning, did he find himself headed back to the little office that he had never given up? He didn't know. But as he sat at his dusty desk, he decided to go back into business. If God had sent him there, Bart told himself, he would wait for His plan to unfold. Then, at a crowded convention, he found his answer in the person of a handsome young man named Patrick Donne, whose deep, commanding voice spoke words of profound wisdom that electrified the audience. With the thrill of discovery, Bart recognized Donne's short speech as the best inspirational talk he had ever heard. Bart was soon caught up in the extraordinary realm that was Patrick's ordinary world, where even tragedy and sorrow became transforming experiences and remarkable things happened.

Empire of Scrounge

Author : Jeff Ferrell
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814727379
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Empire of Scrounge written by Jeff Ferrell and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout this engaging narrative, full of a colorful cast of characters, from the mansion living suburbanites to the junk haulers themselves, Ferrell makes a persuasive argument about the dangers of over-consumption.

The Rag-Picker

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Rag-Picker written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Picker's Bible

Author : Joe Willard
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440231788
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Picker's Bible written by Joe Willard and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Science of Scrounging Whether readers are dumpster divers, estate sale addicts or modern archaeologists, this easy-to-use and informative guide to "picking" is guaranteed to improve their antiquing skills. The Picker's Bible provides great tips on where and how to find antiques for the best price. A fun and quick read, the book explains the ins and outs of negotiating price, things to avoid, secrets to success, and how to do it all better than the other guy. There is hidden treasure out there...Picker's Bible will help you find it!

The Rag-Picker; Or, Bound and Free

Author : Burnham Geo P 1814-1902
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781313026420
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book The Rag-Picker; Or, Bound and Free written by Burnham Geo P 1814-1902 and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.