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Book Synopsis Walking the Precipice by : Barbara Bick
Download or read book Walking the Precipice written by Barbara Bick and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2015-06-07 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “enthralling” memoir of a woman who risked her life to help a people under siege and a country caught between freedom and oppression (Publishers Weekly—starred review). In 1990, sixty-five-year-old activist and grandmother Barbara Bick traveled with a women’s delegation to Afghanistan for what she thought would be her last great adventure. Instead, Bick forged deep friendships with her Afghan hosts—only to watch in horror as the Taliban took over most of the country and instituted fiercely anti-woman policies. Eleven years later, at age 76, Bick returned to Afghanistan, travelling to the region controlled by the Northern Alliance, an anti-Taliban militia. In early September 2001, Bick walked out of a compound where militia leader Ahmad Shah Massoud was also staying. Minutes later, Taliban infiltrators assassinated Massoud—a prelude to the al Qaeda attacks on the United States. As the US government became deeply involved in Afghanistan, Bick decided to return once again to see how women were faring under the new government. In 2004, she was one of the few Western women able to bring years of experience to understanding the country’s trauma. Walking the Precipice gives new insight into the people, politics, and culture of a country that is on everyone’s radar—for its beauty, and for its tragic place history.
Download or read book The Precipice written by Toby Ord and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time. If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Our species could survive for billions of years - enough time to end disease, poverty, and injustice, and to flourish in ways unimaginable today. But this vast future is at risk. With the advent of nuclear weapons, humanity entered a new age, where we face existential catastrophes - those from which we could never come back. Since then, these dangers have only multiplied, from climate change to engineered pathogens and artificial intelligence. If we do not act fast to reach a place of safety, it will soon be too late. Drawing on over a decade of research, The Precipice explores the cutting-edge science behind the risks we face. It puts them in the context of the greater story of humanity: showing how ending these risks is among the most pressing moral issues of our time. And it points the way forward, to the actions and strategies that can safeguard humanity. An Oxford philosopher committed to putting ideas into action, Toby Ord has advised the US National Intelligence Council, the UK Prime Minister's Office, and the World Bank on the biggest questions facing humanity. In The Precipice, he offers a startling reassessment of human history, the future we are failing to protect, and the steps we must take to ensure that our generation is not the last. "A book that seems made for the present moment." —New Yorker
Book Synopsis Walking the Dog by : Elizabeth Swados
Download or read book Walking the Dog written by Elizabeth Swados and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “brilliant and layered” novel about a prodigy turned convict turned dog walker in her 40s from the celebrated author of My Depression: A Picture Book (Oprah.com). A former child prodigy and rich-girl, eighteen-year-old Ester is incarcerated after her kleptomania gets way out of hand. There, she is given the very gentile name Carleen (for her own protection) and for two decades, time is the enemy. When finally let loose onto the streets of New York, Carleen finds a job as a dog walker in Manhattan’s most elite neighborhoods. But despite her remarkable gift for canine communication, Carleen is determined to finally prove that she is a real person. To this end, she tries to reconnect with her estranged—and ferociously Orthodox—daughter. Amid the strained brunch dates, unsent letters, and the continuing trauma of prison, Carleen begins a slow and halting process of self-discovery. Strikingly funny and self-aware, this belated coming-of-age novel asks the question: How do you restart after crashing your first chance at life?
Book Synopsis Great Britain by : Karl Baedeker (Firm)
Download or read book Great Britain written by Karl Baedeker (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Wacko from Waco by : Carolyn Permentier
Download or read book The Wacko from Waco written by Carolyn Permentier and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-04-25 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary purpose of this book is to provide a catharsis for myself. Maybe if I strip my mental, emotional and spiritual selves naked in little one-inch strips, analyzing what I find there, I’ll be able to understand myself. The secondary purpose is to use myself as a model for what I suspect is going on in the world. Mother Earth and all her cells (people) are undergoing a nervous breakdown, I sense. The old ways of being and doing are no longer working. I feel religion (man’s beliefs “about” God) is the fundamental cause of our erroneous assumptions about who we are, as a species, in relation to God (Infinite Intelligence). As I look around, pre- and post-September 11, 2001, I see that warring religious beliefs are at the foundation of the insanity in the world. Whatever God is, I AM THAT. And so are you. We’re all one. Let us minimize our differences and focus on what makes us all human. I feel it is life. And I further feel that LIFE is sending us urgent messages to unite in Love, so we can live in Peace. The alternative is to destroy ourselves and each other.
Download or read book B, Book, and Me written by Sa-gwa Kim and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When outcasts b and Rang's friendship ends they are completely alone until a mysterious man, Book, introduces them to the part of town where lunatics live--the End."--
Book Synopsis Walks on Mount Desert Island, Maine by : Harold Peabody
Download or read book Walks on Mount Desert Island, Maine written by Harold Peabody and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women of Purpose written by Sara Daigle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 days of scripture-based devotions for an intentional and abundant life rooted in Christ Why do some women seem deeply rooted in peace and joy—even in difficult circumstances—while others of us struggle daily with feelings of dissatisfaction, worthlessness, or anxiety? Being a Christian doesn’t mean we’re exempt from pain and suffering—but it does mean we are called to a higher purpose and can claim the gifts of the abundant life that Jesus promises. Sara Daigle is passionate about sharing a message of deliverance, freedom, and ultimate love with women from all places and walks of life. Her passion gave birth to this book composed in devotional form with a Bible verse and prayer for each day, focused on leading women out of the labyrinth of their own thoughts into a higher identity and value found in Christ. For those facing uncertainty and life changes, Sara reminds us that Jesus has “come to bring abundant life that doesn't end when one season flows into the next before you catch your breath.” For those who look around and see women who are prettier, more accomplished, better moms, or even “better” Christians than they are, we are shown that “There is no joy fuller than living out exactly what He's gifted us in without comparison to another.” Readers will resonate with Sara’s authentic voice, honesty about her own struggles, and the wisdom that comes through hard times and a rich relationship with God. This devotional is geared to bring even the busiest of women into daily intimacy with God. It is written to help each heart know they are not alone, but destined for a life of meaning, identity, and purpose in union with a Creator God who designed each of us just as we are.
Book Synopsis The Gossiping Guide to Wales by : Askew Roberts
Download or read book The Gossiping Guide to Wales written by Askew Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coffin Honey written by Todd Davis and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Coffin Honey, his seventh book of poems, celebrated poet Todd Davis explores the many forms of violence we do to each other and to the other living beings with whom we share the planet. Here racism, climate collapse, and pandemic, as well as the very real threat of extinction—both personal and across ecosystems—are dramatized in intimate portraits of Rust-Belt Appalachia: a young boy who has been sexually assaulted struggles with dreams of revenge and the possible solace that nature might provide; a girl whose boyfriend has enlisted in the military faces pregnancy alone; and a bear named Ursus navigates the fecundity of the forest after his own mother’s death, literally crashing into the encroaching human world. Each poem in Coffin Honey seeks to illuminate beauty and suffering, the harrowing precipice we find ourselves walking nearer to in the twenty-first century. As with his past prize-winning volumes, Davis, whose work Orion Magazine likens to that of Wendell Berry and Mary Oliver, names the world with love and care, demonstrating what one reviewer describes as his knowledge of “Latin names, common names, habitats, and habits . . . steeped in the exactness of the earth and the science that unfolds in wildness.”
Book Synopsis Migration and Mobility in the Modern Age by : Anika Walke
Download or read book Migration and Mobility in the Modern Age written by Anika Walke and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection that “eloquently examines the numerous forms of movement from and across Central, Eastern Europe and Russia from a historical perspective” (Comparative Literature Studies). Combining methodological and theoretical approaches to migration and mobility studies with detailed analyses of historical, cultural, or social phenomena, the works collected here provide an interdisciplinary perspective on how migrations and mobility altered identities and affected images of the “other.” From walkways to railroads to airports, the history of travel provides a context for considering the people and events that have shaped Central and Eastern Europe and Russia.
Book Synopsis The Darker Side of Hope by : David G. Fambrough
Download or read book The Darker Side of Hope written by David G. Fambrough and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of hope is that something better awaits us in the future, so we must trek through the darker side of life until the brighter hope is realized. Discovering a path out of the darkness can be hard work. We aren't always blessed with adequate illumination or insight, and there are both rewards and pitfalls along the way. The Darker Side of Hope offers valuable insights for navigating this journey and gravitating toward the brighter side of HOPE. Are you ready? Let's start walking together!
Download or read book Walk the Path written by Dawn Blair and published by Morning Sky Studios. This book was released on 2021-05-17 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having control of his magic didn’t make his duty easier. Rivic wishes he’d left the city when he had the chance. The acolytes who stayed to train in battle and magic were prey to those looking for a little extra amusement. Now, they come for him. Fetched in the middle of the night to fight in spectator battles, Rivic expects little sleep before his morning drills. Until he discovers the Destroyer of Civilizations has other plans. Time for Rivic to make amends and prove his loyalty with a piece of his soul. A fast-paced fantasy novel which reunites friends, exposes new enemies, and oozes with magic. Walk the Path is the enchanting sequel to Tangled Magic. If you like action fantasy, you’ll love this spellbinding novel from the author of the Sacred Knight series.
Book Synopsis Perception as Information Detection by : Jeffrey B. Wagman
Download or read book Perception as Information Detection written by Jeffrey B. Wagman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a chapter-by-chapter update to and reflection on of the landmark volume by J.J. Gibson on the Ecological Approach to Visual Perception (1979). Gibson’s book was presented a pioneering approach in experimental psychology; it was his most complete and mature description of the ecological approach to visual perception. Perception as Information Detection commemorates, develops, and updates each of the sixteen chapters from Gibson’s volume. The book brings together some of the foremost perceptual scientists in the field, from the United States, Europe, and Asia, to reflect on Gibson’s original chapters, expand on the key concepts discussed and relate this to their own cutting-edge research. This connects Gibson’s classic with the current state of the field, as well as providing a new generation of students with a contemporary overview of the ecological approach to visual perception. Perception as Information Detection is an important resource for perceptual scientists as well as both undergraduates and graduates studying sensation and perception, vision, cognitive science, ecological psychology, and philosophy of mind.
Download or read book Blue Voyage written by Diana Renn and published by Viking Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Adrenaline junkie Zan finds herself in the crosshairs of an antiquities smuggling ring while on vacation with her mother. She must help them find the ancient treasure they seek in order to keep her family safe!"--
Download or read book Punch written by Mark Lemon and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wanderers written by Kerri Andrews and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a beguiling view of the history of walking, Wanderers guides us through the different ways of seeing—of being—articulated by ten pathfinding women writers. “A wild portrayal of the passion and spirit of female walkers and the deep sense of ‘knowing’ that they found along the path.”—Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path “I opened this book and instantly found that I was part of a conversation I didn't want to leave. A dazzling, inspirational history.”—Helen Mort, author of No Map Could Show Them This is a book about ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers. Wanderers traces their footsteps, from eighteenth-century parson’s daughter Elizabeth Carter—who desired nothing more than to be taken for a vagabond in the wilds of southern England—to modern walker-writers such as Nan Shepherd and Cheryl Strayed. For each, walking was integral, whether it was rambling for miles across the Highlands, like Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, or pacing novels into being, as Virginia Woolf did around Bloomsbury. Offering a beguiling view of the history of walking, Wanderers guides us through the different ways of seeing—of being—articulated by these ten pathfinding women.
