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Walking Away

Author : Alexander B. Pratt
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Walking Away written by Alexander B. Pratt and published by IAP. This book was released on 2024-09-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walking away is both refusal and production (Tuck & Yang, 2014), a seeming paradox taken up in work on fugitivity and marronage (Diouf, 2021; Grant, Woodson, & Dumas, 2021; Harney & Moten, 2013; Hartman, 2007), survivance (Powell, 2002; Sabzalian, 2019; Vizenor, 2008), testimonios (Calderon-Berumen, 2021; Delgado Bernal, Burciaga, & Flores Carmona, 2012; Latina Feminist Group, 2001), and other forms of critical pedagogy and curriculum. In other words, walking away presumes both the rejection of a form of status quo (walking away from something) and a new direction taken (a walking toward something else). In the context of education, many teachers and researchers have reached that breaking point where/when no more curricular/pedagogic violence can be survived, and it is in that moment that those researchers and teachers actively remove themselves from those systems and assert new courses with new possibilities. This edited volume is a collection of works chronicling acts of refusal that manifest as walking away. In some cases what is walked away from is the erasure of experience in curriculum while in others it is a fundamentalist religious experience. In still other cases what is walked away from is the carceral nature of school discipline policies. In each case walking away is resistance, refusal, and re/co-producing new possibilities and agencies. What is walked toward is a new curriculum/pedagogy of resistance sometimes within and sometimes without that place ENDORSEMENTS: "Walking Away provides a window into what it is for educators to form a new world: Enter Walking Away and walk into..." — Leonard Harris , Purdue University "Walking away is sure to inspire pre-service educators, practicing teachers, and others to participate in the construction of more just and equitable worlds." — Tristan Gleason, Cal Poly Humbolt "Ultimately, Walking Away represents the capacious thinking that emerges from the various connections, conversations, and profound contributions of each author." — Boni Wozolek, Pennsylvania State University, Abington Campus "This important book insists that we, as curriculum scholars, seriously ask ourselves what our roles and responsibilities are as academics, researchers, and educators in these dire times." — Jennifer A. Sandlin, Arizona State University

Walking Away From The Land

Author : Jonathan Stewart
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1493180924
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Walking Away From The Land written by Jonathan Stewart and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walking Away from the Land focuses on the rapid cultural and climatic changes occurring at the crest of the North American continent. They are challenging the survival of our forests, grasslands, native wildlife, and our very civilization. This book details a three-summer Odyssey hiking the length of the Continental Divide Trail from the Canadian Rockies to the Mexican border. It focuses on the region's cultural and natural history, while using the author's personal history as a Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal and as an Oregon forester to underline the dangers we face as an increasingly urbanized society.

Big Wonderful Thing

Author : Stephen Harrigan
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292759517
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Big Wonderful Thing written by Stephen Harrigan and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Texas is the story of struggle and triumph in a land of extremes. It is a story of drought and flood, invasion and war, boom and bust, and of the myriad peoples who, over centuries of conflict, gave rise to a place that has helped shape the identity of the United States and the destiny of the world. “I couldn’t believe Texas was real,” the painter Georgia O’Keeffe remembered of her first encounter with the Lone Star State. It was, for her, “the same big wonderful thing that oceans and the highest mountains are.” Big Wonderful Thing invites us to walk in the footsteps of ancient as well as modern people along the path of Texas’s evolution. Blending action and atmosphere with impeccable research, New York Times best-selling author Stephen Harrigan brings to life with novelistic immediacy the generations of driven men and women who shaped Texas, including Spanish explorers, American filibusters, Comanche warriors, wildcatters, Tejano activists, and spellbinding artists—all of them taking their part in the creation of a place that became not just a nation, not just a state, but an indelible idea. Written in fast-paced prose, rich with personal observation and a passionate sense of place, Big Wonderful Thing calls to mind the literary spirit of Robert Hughes writing about Australia or Shelby Foote about the Civil War. Like those volumes it is a big book about a big subject, a book that dares to tell the whole glorious, gruesome, epically sprawling story of Texas.

Alamo Across Texas

Author : Jill Stover
Publisher : Lothrop Lee & Shepard
ISBN 13 : 9780688117122
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Alamo Across Texas written by Jill Stover and published by Lothrop Lee & Shepard. This book was released on 1993 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a drought dries up his perfect river home, Alamo the alligator sets off to find a new place to live.

Walking Away from Empire: A Personal Journey

Author : Guy R. McPherson
Publisher : Woodthrush Productions
ISBN 13 : 9781732963146
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book Walking Away from Empire: A Personal Journey written by Guy R. McPherson and published by Woodthrush Productions. This book was released on 2019-03-09 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guy McPherson was a successful professor by every imperial measure: well-published in all the right places, he taught and mentored students who acquired the best jobs in the field, and performed abundant, exemplary professional service. He earned enough to live on a third of his income and still traveled as much as he desired throughout the industrialized world. In other words, McPherson was the perfect model of all that is wrong with the United States and, by extension, the nations looking to us for an example. Rather than questioning the system, he was raising minor questions within the system.During the decade of his forties, McPherson transformed his academic life from mainstream ecologist to friend of the earth. He became a conservation biologist and social critic, and his speaking and writing increasingly targeted the public beyond the classroom. McPherson began teaching poetry in facilities of incarceration, trying to give voice to wise people long marginalized or ignored by industrial society. Guest commentaries in local newspapers pointed out the absurdities of American life, as well as limits to growth for the world's industrial economy. Increasingly strident essays drew the attention of university administrators who tried to fire him, and, when that failed, tried to muzzle him. Shortly after administrators gave up trying to force McPherson's departure from a major research university, he left the institution on his own terms when, at the age of 49, McPherson finally awakened to the costs of the non-negotiable American way of life: obedience at home and oppression abroad. And then he walked away from all that privilege to pursue a life of principle and even more service while raising goats, gardens and working with his neighbors. It meant hours of physical labor, months of loneliness, and finally, betrayal from those closest to him.

How to Walk Away

Author : Katherine Center
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1509858954
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book How to Walk Away written by Katherine Center and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If your life fell apart, could you start again? The New York Times bestseller. Maggie Jacobsen is just about to step into the bright future she’s worked so hard and so long for: her dream job, a fiancé she adores and the promise of a perfect life just around the corner. But on what should have been the happiest day of her life, everything she worked for is taken away in a single catastrophic moment. In hospital Maggie is forced to confront the unthinkable. First there is her fiancé, Charlie, wallowing in self-pity while demanding forgiveness. Then there’s her sister Kit, who shows up after pulling a three-year vanishing act. Finally there’s Iain, her physical therapist, the one the nurses said was too tough for her. Iain, who won’t let her give in to her despair, who makes her cry, but also manages to make her laugh . . . Maggie’s new life is nothing like she expected. But could it be more than she had ever dared hope for? How to Walk Away by Katherine Center is an uplifting story of learning to live – and love – again. 'If you read just one book this year, read How to Walk Away' Nina George, author of The Little Paris Bookshop.

Wanting to Live the Lavish Life

Author : Jody Prince
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1434907740
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Wanting to Live the Lavish Life written by Jody Prince and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-04 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 980 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

One Man's Walk Through Life

Author : Fred Bull
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595440916
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book One Man's Walk Through Life written by Fred Bull and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This moving memoir recounts the story of a life well lived. With a positive attitude and an optimistic view, Fred Bull tells of his difficult upbringing in the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee. After running away from home at the age of sixteen, he enlisted in the U.S. Army. He and his friends enjoyed traveling to different continents, serving their country in uniform in Korea, and constantly trying to adhere to their upbringing. Along the way, he became a husband and father, a musician and entertainer, and a cancer survivor. Honest and heartwarming, One Man's Walk through Life highlights some of the foundations of American society through the eyes of a hardworking man.

Scribner's Monthly, an Illustrated Magazine for the People

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 982 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scribner's Monthly, an Illustrated Magazine for the People written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Scribner's Monthly

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 976 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Scribner's Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Blues Lyric Formula

Author : Michael Taft
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135485992
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book The Blues Lyric Formula written by Michael Taft and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first rigourous and detailed exploration of exactly how blues singers used formulas to create songs, and it more than amply fills the gap in the the study of the blues, where the structure and content of the lyrics have been less fully explored than the musical form. Focusing on the songs recorded by African-American singers for pre-World War Two commercial recording companies, this is an excellent structural analysis of the formulaic composistion of blues lyrics. This book gives a step-by-step description of the rules implicit in this formulaic structure and inspires new discussion of lyric structures. A wide array of readers will find this insightful and informative: from students of African-American music, cultural studies, history and linguistics, to Blues fans fascinated by exactly how the lyrics of this influential music style are written.

Dead Coach Walking

Author : Tom Penders
Publisher : Reedy Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1935806025
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Dead Coach Walking written by Tom Penders and published by Reedy Press LLC. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned college basketball coach Tom Penders revisits his successful, if tumultuous, career in a new autobiography Dead Coach Walking: Tom Penders Surviving and Thriving in College Hoops. One of the winningest head coaches in NCAA Division I basketball history, Penders reflects on four decades steering programs at 7 universities-Tufts, Columbia, Fordham, Rhode Island, Texas, George Washington and Houston. As he lifted them from depths of "death row" to winning glory, he enhanced his reputation as "Turnaround Tom." Penders achieved success with distinction: he has coached more NCAA Division I basketball programs than any coach in history and has taken four different schools to the Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. He also retired in 2010 ranked 4th total among active coaches in games-coached, trailing only Connecticut's Jim Calhoun, Duke's Mike Krzyzewski and Syracuse's Jim Boeheim. In Dead Coach Walking, Penders talks about the teams he led and how he dealt with athletic directors, conference commissioners, assistants, AAU coaches, the NABC and the NCAA. The book also goes behind the scenes, revealing game strategies, coaching personalities, locker room stories, and experiences on the recruiting trail. Penders' perspective, while sometimes controversial, is riveting not to mention entertaining. Dead Coach Walking is truly as unique, quirky, and remarkable as its subject.

Moving Pictures

Author : Paul Root
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1441500006
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book Moving Pictures written by Paul Root and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... Six adapted screenplays ... [and] two traditional stories.''--Back cover.

Subcommittee Hearing on Synthetic Rubber

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Subcommittee Hearing on Synthetic Rubber written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 220. Discusses problems arising from the manufacture and stockpiling of synthetic rubber. Hearings were held in Beaumont, Tex., Nov. 7; Houston, Tex., Nov. 8; Barberton, Ohio, Nov. 14; and Akron, Ohio, Nov. 15.

Country Music

Author : Richard Carlin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135361045
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Country Music written by Richard Carlin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated A-Z guide covers more than 700 country music artists, groups, and bands. Articles also cover specific genres within country music as well as instruments used. Written in a lively, engaging style, the entries not only outline the careers of country music's greatest artists, they provide an understanding of the artist's importance or failings, and a feeling for his or her style. Select discographies are provided at the end of each entry, while a bibliography and indexes by instrument, musical style, genre, and song title round out the work. For a full list of entries, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Country Music: A Biographical Dictionary website.

Overload

Author : Bob Schieffer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538107228
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Overload written by Bob Schieffer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the explosion of fake news to the challenges of the 24 hour news cycle, legendary journalist Bob Schieffer examines political journalism today and those who practice it. Based on interviews with over 40 media leaders, Schieffer provides an inside look at the changing role of media and asks whether today’s citizens are more informed or just overwhelmed.