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Book Synopsis The Unfolding Sidewalk by : Winifred Ebmeier Cullen
Download or read book The Unfolding Sidewalk written by Winifred Ebmeier Cullen and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caught up in the enchanting world of fairy tale scenes, Winnie, a little girl with a vivid imagination, longs for an adventure of her own. Learning to ride a trike brings newfound freedom and confidence. And, noticing how the sidewalk seems to unfold in front of her, promising ever more beautiful scenes just ahead, Winnie sets out to find the magical place where she knows a treasure is waiting for her if she can just pedal far enough. She does find something, something very special; but, was this the treasure? Was this lovely thing truly meant for her? Or, had the sidewalk led her to the discovery of something of much higher value? About the Author A former Social Studies and English teacher, the author is currently a licensed counselor at an addictions treatment center. She enjoys a peaceful life in rural Minnesota where she lives near her two adult children and pursues her hobby of recording her early recollections of childhood adventures. This is her first children's book.
Download or read book Progression written by Aaron T. Brownell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Sara Anne Grey's eternity is anything but dull. Between the often-conflicting demands of demon lovers, her corporate responsibilities, staying one step ahead of a murderous family of nobles, and having to please the crown, the afterlife is killing Sara Grey. Traipsing back to London after the bloodletting of the American Civil War, Sara discovers she's been too long absent from her corporation and responsibilities. Before she can focus on her work issues, the men from Grand Duke Bennett's family attempt to destroy her. The entire family just seems to be out for her blood. And if this most recent attempt to end her existence isn't enough, Sara must now trek off to deal with her wayward lover, Antonio, who is rumored to still be given over to his demonic nature. With her trusted amulet for companionship, Sara decides to deal with her problems head on. The Bennetts all need to die, the corporation needs to go, and Antonio needs to pull it together'or be replaced. From the posh streets of London to the Bristol countryside and the money-laden streets of New York City, Lady Sara risks final death and exposure of her vampire secret as she attempts to put her life straight. Will a life 380 years in the making end in triumph over adversity, or will one of the Bennett Family just end it?
Book Synopsis Concrete Reveries by : Mark Kingwell
Download or read book Concrete Reveries written by Mark Kingwell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-08-14 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Concrete Reveries, acclaimed philosopher and cultural critic Mark Kingwell offers a thoughtful answer to Socrates’ injunction about the life worth living, using the urban experience to illustrate the dynamic between concreteness and abstraction that operates within us.Witty and authoritative, the book is an exhilarating journey through unexpected terrain.
Download or read book Sidewalk written by Mitchell Duneier and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2000-12-20 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exceptional ethnography marked by clarity and candor, Sidewalk takes us into the socio-cultural environment of those who, though often seen as threatening or unseemly, work day after day on "the blocks" of one of New York's most diverse neighborhoods. Sociologist Duneier, author of Slim's Table, offers an accessible and compelling group portrait of several poor black men who make their livelihoods on the sidewalks of Greenwich Village selling secondhand goods, panhandling, and scavenging books and magazines. Duneier spent five years with these individuals, and in Sidewalk he argues that, contrary to the opinion of various city officials, they actually contribute significantly to the order and well-being of the Village. An important study of the heart and mind of the street, Sidewalk also features an insightful afterword by longtime book vendor Hakim Hasan. This fascinating study reveals today's urban life in all its complexity: its vitality, its conflicts about class and race, and its surprising opportunities for empathy among strangers. Sidewalk is an excellent supplementary text for a range of courses: INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY: Shows how to make important links between micro and macro; how a research project works; how sociology can transform common sense. RACE AND ETHNIC RELATIONS: Untangles race, class, and gender as they work together on the street. URBAN STUDIES: Asks how public space is used and contested by men and women, blacks and whites, rich and poor, and how street life and political economy interact. DEVIANCE: Looks at labeling processes in treatment of the homeless; interrogates the "broken windows" theory of policing. LAW AND SOCIETY: Closely examines the connections between formal and informal systems of social control. METHODS: Shows how ethnography works; includes a detailed methodological appendix and an afterword by research subject Hakim Hasan. CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Sidewalk engages the rich terrain of recent developments regarding representation, writing, and authority; in the tradition of Elliot Liebow and Ulf Hannerz, it deals with age old problems of the social and cultural experience of inequality; this is a telling study of culture on the margins of American society. CULTURAL STUDIES: Breaking down disciplinary boundaries, Sidewalk shows how books and magazines are received and interpreted in discussions among working-class people on the sidewalk; it shows how cultural knowledge is deployed by vendors and scavengers to generate subsistence in public space. SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE: Sidewalk demonstrates the connections between culture and human agency and innovation; it interrogates distinctions between legitimate subcultures and deviant collectivities; it illustrates conflicts over cultural diversity in public space; and, ultimately, it shows how conflicts over meaning are central to social life.
Download or read book The Fold written by Laura U. Marks and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-02 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Fold, Laura U. Marks offers a practical philosophy and aesthetic theory for living in an infinitely connected cosmos. Drawing on the theories of Leibniz, Glissant, Deleuze, and theoretical physicist David Bohm—who each conceive of the universe as being folded in on itself in myriad ways—Marks contends that the folds of the cosmos are entirely constituted of living beings. From humans to sandwiches to software to stars, every entity is alive and occupies its own private enclosure inside the cosmos. Through analyses of fiction, documentary, and experimental movies, interactive media, and everyday situations, Marks outlines embodied methods for detecting and augmenting the connections between each living entity and the cosmos. She shows that by affectively mediating with the ever-shifting folded relations within the cosmos, it is possible to build “soul-assemblages” that challenge information capitalism, colonialism, and other power structures and develop new connections with the infinite. With this guide for living within the enfolded and unfolding cosmos, Marks teaches readers to richly apprehend the world and to trace the processes of becoming that are immanent within the fold.
Book Synopsis Universal Human Rights in a World of Difference by : Brooke A. Ackerly
Download or read book Universal Human Rights in a World of Difference written by Brooke A. Ackerly and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-26 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the diverse work and often competing insights of women's human rights activists, Brooke Ackerly has written a feminist and a universal theory of human rights that bridges the relativists' concerns about universalizing from particulars and the activists' commitment to justice. Unlike universal theories that rely on shared commitments to divine authority or to an 'enlightened' way of reasoning, Ackerly's theory relies on rigorous methodological attention to difference and disagreement. She sets out human rights as at once a research ethic, a tool for criticism of injustice and a call to recognize our obligations to promote justice through our actions. This book will be of great interest to political theorists, feminist and gender studies scholars and researchers of social movements.
Book Synopsis A Man Alone by : Alexander Alexandrov
Download or read book A Man Alone written by Alexander Alexandrov and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zhivko Mladenov is a Bulgarian orphan who comes from a world of isolation and loneliness. As an adult he finds both identity and purpose as a commando in the special forces. His successful career takes a drastic plunge when the police arrive at his door. Framed and on the run, he finds a champion in the person of investigative reporter Mira Lyubenova. Pursued by both the police and others who intend to do them harm, Zhivko and Mira face the challenge of mutual survival. They must rely on Zhivkos covert expertise and Miras passion for truth in order to clear his name and stay alive. In a country steeped in post-Communist turmoil, their lives hang in the balance at every turn.
Download or read book The House written by Lacey Deaver and published by World Video Bible School. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving story from loss and despair to help and hope. "The House" is a story unlike any other. Cheri Harper is a young woman whose life has been tormented with struggle and bad choices. A set of unforeseen circumstances finds her the reluctant guest of a family who helps her face the important decisions in her life. With her heart wounded by grief, unlikely friends come to the rescue, and with their help Cheri finds hope and learns the truth that will forever change her life.
Download or read book A Killing Sky written by Andy Straka and published by Andy Straka. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Producing Mayaland by : Claudia Fonseca Alfaro
Download or read book Producing Mayaland written by Claudia Fonseca Alfaro and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-04-05 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Producing Mayaland “Producing Mayaland powerfully captures the extent to which the abstract spaces of global capital are infused with colonial fantasies, haunted by uncanny ruins, and plagued by monstrous manifestations of ecological breakdown. Through a compelling account of the maquiladora industry in the Yucatan Peninsula, Claudia Fonseca Alfaro vividly conveys the inextricable entanglements of the capitalist production of space and the coloniality of power.” —Japhy Wilson, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, UK “In Producing Mayaland, Claudia Fonseca Alfaro finds a unique voice to narrate the contested relations between everyday life, urbanization and the uneven development of capitalism in Motul, Yucatán, Mexico. The remarkable insights of this work emerge from her innovative synthesis of critical urban theory, anticolonialism and ‘magical realism’— all grounded in an imaginative appropriation of Henri Lefebvre’s oeuvre on the production of space.” — Kanishka Goonewardena, Professor of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto Critical urban theory and postcolonial approaches are brought together in this compelling book to explore the relationship between colonial legacies, urbanization, and global capitalism in southern Mexico. Producing Mayaland investigates the boom-to-bust story of maquiladoras in the state of Yucatán to shed light on how the built environment was shaped by discourse, imaginaries, and everyday practices. In making sense of this social production of space, the author examines infrastructure constructed to support the maquiladora project and traces the attempts of the state to portray Yucatán as an exotic and business-friendly maquiladora paradise. These practices stand in contrast to the livelihood strategies and life stories of maquiladora workers and residents. Carefully weaving geography, history, and ethnography, the author draws on a wide range of sources to illustrate a central tension in capitalism: its tendency to homogenize while thriving in differentiation. With important insights into an understudied location, Producing Mayaland urges us to understand urbanization in the global South in new ways.
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Book Synopsis Catharsis by : Luis Reinaldo Perez Rosario
Download or read book Catharsis written by Luis Reinaldo Perez Rosario and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grief can do terrible things to us. It can hold us still in time and skew our perspective. That is the case with William Maldonado, who grieves the loss of his father as a child to war; the loss of his mother as a young adult to an illness; the loss of an opportunity to pursue a doctoral degree, and the loss of his professional reputation to an accusation of committing insurance fraud. Subterranean sorrow leads Maldonado to make wrong-minded decisions that eventually lead him to prison and then to a half-way-house. One day, as he tries to understand his grief, he blames the world, and, in particular, a former business partner. Full of rage, he returns to the city where he experienced his deepest wounds. Upon his return, he discovers that his former business partner, now a Pentecostal minister, emerged unscathed from the insurance fraud scandal that sent him fleeing for a decade. That discovery thrusts Maldonado on a path of revenge and into the roiling world of church politics, where he joins a secession group that wants to fire his former partner. It takes the whims of fate and new friendships for Maldonado to experience clarity of purpose.
Download or read book Lurkers written by Sandi Tan and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From author and filmmaker Sandi Tan, director of the acclaimed documentary Shirkers, comes a novel about a neighborhood of immigrants, seekers, lovers, and lurkers. The residents of Santa Claus Lane do their best to stay out of each other’s way, but desire, fury and mischief too often propel these suburban neighbors to collide. Precocious Korean American sisters Mira and Rosemary find their world rocked by a suicide, and they must fight to keep their home; a charismatic and creepy drama teacher grooms his students; a sardonic gay horror novelist finds that aging is more terrifying than any monster; and a white hippie mom and her adopted Vietnamese daughter realize that their anger binds them rather than pushes them apart. Lurkers is an homage to the rangy beauty of Los Angeles and the surprising power that we have to change the lives of those around us.
Book Synopsis Thunder from a Clear Sky by : Raymond Mulesky
Download or read book Thunder from a Clear Sky written by Raymond Mulesky and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-08-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This isn't an ordinary Civil War tale. It is the all-true but little-known story of Adam "Stovepipe" Johnson-Kentucky legend, Texas hero, and Confederate cavalry officer-who boldly led the first Confederate raid across the Mason-Dixon Line to capture the thriving river-port community of Newburgh, Indiana, during the American Civil War. Not a shot was fired. With the politically divided landscape of Civil War Kentucky and the steamboat economy of the Ohio River as its backdrop, this is the historically accurate account of surprise nocturnal strikes, opportunistic military occupations, and a swashbuckling Rebel icon's daring daylight invasion into the Northern homeland that sealed the fate of western Kentucky for the remainder of the war. Vivid, thorough, and painstakingly researched, Thunder from a Clear Sky documents five critical weeks of 1862 Civil War history and shares the untold tale of one man's immeasurable impact on a nation at war. "A fascinating account of how a skilled former Indian fighter gathered a few Kentucky rebels and 'woke up' the slumbering Indiana Home Guard." -Evansville Courier & Press Book Reviews "An important and, until now, largely neglected story about the American Civil War... Thunder from a Clear Sky stands as a fresh and important contribution in a field long studied."-Professor Randy K. Mills, Ph.D., Oakland City University, author of Jonathan Jennings: Indiana's First Governor
Download or read book David’S Star written by Dean Zahav and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-12-29 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sofia, Bulgaria In the tumultuous year of 2020, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues to fester. Fourteen-year-old Dani Madgev accidentally finds several Cyrillic letters interwoven into the graphics of the Star of David symbol. His father, Ian, a mathematical linguist, and his mother, Rovine, a cognitive scientist, help him decipher them. But none of them realize what theyre about to get themselves into. Jerusalem, Israel To unravel the mystery of Davids Star, Dani and his parents travel to Tel Aviv, Israel. Along with Nathan Epstein, a biblical history professor at Hebrew University; Kabbalah alchemist Uri Zohar; Ruben Openheim, the head of Peace Now; and Rabbi Loew, the Madgevs make a series of further discoveries within the symbol, leading them to believe they are on the brink of knowledge that may very well change the course of history. Meanwhile, a mysterious character called the LaW begins sending messages encoded using King Davids military cipher to Dani. Once deciphered, the messages and letters found on the Star of David point to a startling realization about the solution of the conflict between Israel and Palestine. But are the two countries ready for the suggested solution? A domino chain of events is set in motion, and someone may have to pay the highest price.
Book Synopsis Finding a Husband by : Kristen Casey
Download or read book Finding a Husband written by Kristen Casey and published by Gallant Fox Press. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
