A Boyfriend S Burden

Author : Brontez Purnell
Publisher : MCD x FSG Originals
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374722470

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100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell Pdf

Winner of the 2022 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Fiction. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Longlisted for the 2022 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award and the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize. One of Buzzfeed's Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2021, NBC's 10 Most Notable LGBTQ Books of 2021, and Pink News' Best LGBTQ Books of 2021. "This hurricane of delirious, lonely, lewd tales is a taxonomy and grand unified theory of the boyfriend, in every tense." —Parul Sehgal, The New York Times "I loved this book—raunchy, irreverent, deliberate, sexy, angry, and tender, in its own way." —Roxane Gay An irrerverent, sensitive, and inimitable look at gay dysfunction through the eyes of a cult hero Transgressive, foulmouthed, and brutally funny, Brontez Purnell’s 100 Boyfriends is a revelatory spiral into the imperfect lives of queer men desperately fighting the urge to self-sabotage. As they tiptoe through minefields of romantic, substance-fueled misadventure—from dirty warehouses and gentrified bars in Oakland to desolate farm towns in Alabama—Purnell’s characters strive for belonging in a world that dismisses them for being Black, broke, and queer. In spite of it—or perhaps because of it—they shine. Armed with a deadpan wit, Purnell finds humor in even the darkest of nadirs with the peerless zeal, insight, and horniness of a gay punk messiah. Together, the slice-of-life tales that writhe within 100 Boyfriends are an inimitable tour of an unexposed queer underbelly. Holding them together is the vision of an iconoclastic storyteller, as fearless as he is human.

Author : Aloka, Peter
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9798369328347

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Mental Health Crisis in Higher Education by Aloka, Peter Pdf

The COVID-19 pandemic brought about a sudden transition from traditional face-to-face instruction to online and blended learning. The repercussions of this seismic change have left an indelible mark on students, particularly those thrust into the challenging realm of fully engaging in online learning during this tumultuous period. As we navigate the delicate landscape of higher education post-pandemic, a critical gap in scholarly literature becomes glaringly apparent; there is a scarcity of focused works addressing the nuanced well-being of students in this new academic reality. Mental Health Crisis in Higher Education is a groundbreaking book that boldly steps into this void, offering a comprehensive and meticulously researched examination of the challenges faced by students transitioning from secondary to higher education amid the pandemic. By delving into stressors, coping mechanisms, and the intricate web of factors influencing emotional, psychological, and physical well-being, the book is an invaluable resource for academics, researchers, and institutions seeking to understand and address the multifaceted dimensions of student well-being.

Author : Allison L. Hurst
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739140611

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The Burden of Academic Success by Allison L. Hurst Pdf

The Burden of Academic Success: Loyalists, Renegades, and Double Agents explores class identity reconstructions among working-class students attending a public university. Rather than focus on working-class failure, this book takes a critical look at the psychological and social costs of academic success. Based on several hours of interviews with a diverse group of working-class students, this book describes how successful students respond to, react to, and manage their academic success. The book does for class what other theorists have done for race, examining the dynamic interplay of class identity and educational success/social mobility. The distinguishing features of the book are rich narrative detail; compelling stories of student success and struggle; intersectional analysis exploring the ways class, race, and gender inform each other in students' understandings and narratives with an interwoven theory throughout; and a new typology for understanding working-class student responses to the burden of academic success. The Burden of Academic Success is ideal for courses on sociology, education, and American studies as well as for use by college educators and administrators.

Author : Rote Writer
Publisher : Rote Writer Publishing
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780973418408

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The Depth to Delve... Deep by Rote Writer Pdf

He slips through the hedgeow and in no time is seen sitting on the bench surprised by it all. In the shadow of Old Sarum he sits. Salisbury is in sight. It slopes slowly from the old to the new. Now hungry and not too sure what to do about the rue he concludes… ‘I can live with the hunger for a bit… but the thirst I can’t.’ He finds a thrown water bottle and heads into town down a road sloping into Salisbury. Just short of the town, he passes by a park and spots a fountain. He doesn’t think he just drinks, with thirsty urgency. He rinses then fills up his bottle. Rote returns to his hideaway without even venturing into the town proper. He’s pickled by the predicament. He’s embarrassed. His pride is really riding him. He’s unable to make eye contact with people passing by. Back at the bench he crawls back into the bushes when no one's looking. He pulls out his orange plastic bag and his basically brand new sleeping bag that after last night looks old. It’s not even midday yet. He doesn’t want anyone to see him. He has no money. He has no food. He has water. He has a briar bush for a home. It’s wet and always leaking. It’s infested with all sorts of crawling things. And there’s garbage strewn here and there. Some of it is blown in and then torn by dogs. He’s fraught with the facts—he’s fucked. That afternoon and night he stays burrowed in his bane going insane, wrestling with his dilemma. He’s haunted and daunted by his hunger. He tries to ignore his starving stomach. He tries to hide his pride. The following morning he awakes slobbered with saliva, washed with froth from another friendly face, truly a restoring grace. Those dogs delight him in their exuberance upon discovering a bushwhacked bum. Aye, a found friend, wagging him well with a non-judgmental manner. It means a whole lot. They in their way, help to raise Rote’s spirits by letting him know it’s okay and to keep his chin up. Upon packing his pack with his makeshift shack, he burrows them back away and begins his day. Out from behind his bespoken bench he crosses the park. Onto the road he strolls, stirring up a sense of purpose to feed his belly and starve his pride. His pride is like a life preserver; it will buoy him back on track. He passes through the subterranean pedestrian passage under the roundabout of traffic alongside the Avon River. He continues along the road now into Salisbury proper. Only to be stopped by his propped pride, a pill still too ill to swallow. He returns to wallow. Back in his burrow with a deep furrow, he struggles with it all. Oh his pride. And as the day turns into night he struggles some more. Unable to sleep, racked with rancour for the heel he has to hallow. As the sun rises so his spirits, and by the lavish licking, he surrenders too. It brings a smile to his face. Hunger soon supersedes all qualms with his pride. He proceeds to Salisbury proper. He’s struggled enough and to no end, with the thought and the need thereof of begging. And boy is it a proud pill to swallow. It’s in his best interest. At that point, he doesn’t see any other way of collecting coins to curb his hunger pangs and his tobacco withdrawals... great motivating factors for sure. He’s desperate. He’s defiantly delayed any render to surrender that in turn will chide his pride. He tries to fend the facts, but faced with them there really is no other possible play. He’s forced to say, “Excuse me… but can you spare some change.” A truly inspired story steeped in history that starts with Rote sending his manuscript overseas to London England.

Author : Mary Monroe
Publisher : Dafina
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780758259097

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Gonna Lay Down My Burdens by Mary Monroe Pdf

Bestselling author Mary Monroe won rave reviews from critics and readers alike with her first two novels, God Don't Like Ugly and The Upper Room, both Main Selections of the Black Expressions Book Club. Now she returns with the masterful Gonna Lay Down My Burdens--that rare novel that inspires laughter, tears, and repeat readings. In the sweltering little town of Belle Helene, Alabama, Carmen Taylor keeps her weaknesses, her frustrations, and her tears to herself. She's too busy shouldering the burdens of her troubled friends, like Desiree Lucienne, the petite, pampered daughter of a doctor who tries to beat the wildness out of her. But it doesn't stop Desiree from trawling for men whenever she can, and trying to drag Carmen along with her. It's not that Carmen hasn't had her share of boozy pick-ups. She has, but they just can't compare to the one steamy night she spent with the man she's loved since they were both kids. Now a local cop, Chester Sheffield, with his Barry White voice and his all-too-fine body, keeps showing up in Carmen's life, wanting to do something about the feelings they obviously have for each other. But that would mean abandoning her "boyfriend" Burl Tupper and that's something Carmen just can't do. Ever since Burl ended up in a wheelchair because of a foolish teenage prank she played on him, Carmen's promised herself that she'd spend the rest of her life making it up to him. When Carmen doesn't take her chance with Chester, Desiree does, and when she learns that she's pregnant with Chester's child, it's almost more than Carmen can bear. Still, her loyalty to Desiree goes back a long way, and she's not about to let a man get in the way of their friendship--even when Desiree starts stepping out on Chester. Then, on a sultry, reckless moonlit night, Carmen commits a desperate crime of passion, and, with Desiree, hits the road running. But she can't run from the truth she's avoided for years--and in a seedy hotel in the middle of nowhere, she confronts her demons head-on. Now Carmen has two choices--a life on the lam, or a full circle return to Belle Helene, the place where it all began. . .and the only place in the world she can lay down her burdens and seize her one true chance at love and redemption.

Author : Bukola B. Ogundipe
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781669801122

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Burdens and Strength of Womanhood by Bukola B. Ogundipe Pdf

This book, “The Burdens of Womanhood” is an effect on what being a woman signifies, the different experiences women goes through, the burdens of their pains from the individual to general and general to personal. An inquisitive reader of the book may ask the normative question of what being a woman really stands for. From a personal expression being a woman means being able to be powerful and assertive, yet kind at the same time. It means being compassionate and vulnerable towards those we love in our live without feeling weak for doing so. It means striving for our goals even in the face of the adversity we may encounter along the way. Women are special for many reasons. They are the most sensitive, caring and maternal people in the world. Women are very sympathetic towards people and things. They use both sides of the brain and men do not. Women play a variety of significant roles in a society from their birth till the end of life. However, after all women have done in the past and continue to do so today, they are still seen as weak because men are still considered the stronger gender of the society. A woman will always be considered beneath her husband, her male classmates and her male co-worker in general society. No matter how much she succeeds in her life as a homemaker or a powerful business women, she will never be able to gain the respect of a man doing the same thing. A woman could do all or any household duty without any appreciation, but a man is held on a pedestal for doing the exact same thing.

Author : Eve Rickert,Franklin Veaux
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1944934294

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Love More, Be Awesome by Eve Rickert,Franklin Veaux Pdf

Author : Dieter Bürgin,Heiner Meng
Publisher : Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783805577069

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Childhood and Adolescent Psychosis by Dieter Bürgin,Heiner Meng Pdf

The recognition and optimal management of early psychosis in adolescence is of great importance not only for its adequate diagnosis and treatment, but also for suicide prevention. In this volume, the latest understandings are reviewed by specialists in child and adolescent psychiatry. It discusses questions such as why schizophrenic psychosis has to be differentiated from borderline personality disorders; why the problem-solving strategy in early detection of neurocognitive disorders and neuropsychiatric behavioural disorders is also relevant for the development of a clinical view of the psychotic process. Further contributions point out the choice of specific individual psychotherapeutic techniques as well as why childhood psychosis needs a full inclusion of the family in the diagnostic and therapeutic process. This publication gives a stimulating overview of the diagnosis, treatment and outcome of psychotic disturbances in adolescence. Child and adolescent psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatrists as well as paediatricians will find it inspiring reading.

Author : Robin Norwood
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-08
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781416550211

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Women Who Love Too Much by Robin Norwood Pdf

Discusses "loving too much" as a pattern of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors which certain women develop as a reponse to various problems in their family backgrounds.

Author : Robin Mayhall
Publisher : Graphic Universe ™
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780761387381

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#07 He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not by Robin Mayhall Pdf

Serena Stevens is already popular in her new school in the tiny Texas town of Rojo-so popular she has two guys interested in her. Self-assured Lance is a football star, and introverted Cam is an intellectual who gets nervous just working with her on their English project about Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In a town with a single-minded obsession with football, Lance is a great catch, but there's something unique about Cam. Between the two of them, Serena has the perfect boyfriend . . . if she can figure out how to keep them apart.Soon there's much more to worry about when two cheerleaders go missing. Serena starts to wonder: could one of the guys be responsible? Appearances might be deceiving . . . and who will Serena end up with when things come to a boil?

Author : Elsa Davidson
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814720899

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The Burdens of Aspiration by Elsa Davidson Pdf

During the tech boom, Silicon Valley became one of the most concentrated zones of wealth polarization and social inequality in the United States—a place with a fast-disappearing middle class, persistent pockets of poverty, and striking gaps in educational and occupational achievement along class and racial lines. Low-wage workers and their families experienced a profound sense of exclusion from the techno-entrepreneurial culture, while middle class residents, witnessing up close the seemingly overnight success of a “new entrepreneurial” class, negotiated both new and seemingly unattainable standards of personal success and the erosion of their own economic security. The Burdens of Aspiration explores the imprint of the region’s success-driven public culture, the realities of increasing social and economic insecurity, and models of success emphasized in contemporary public schools for the region’s working and middle class youth. Focused on two disparate groups of students—low-income, “at-risk” Latino youth attending a specialized program exposing youth to high tech industry within an “under-performing” public high school, and middle-income white and Asian students attending a “high-performing” public school with informal connections to the tech elite—Elsa Davidson offers an in-depth look at the process of forming aspirations across lines of race and class. By analyzing the successes and sometimes unanticipated effects of the schools' attempts to shape the aspirations and values of their students, she provides keen insights into the role schooling plays in social reproduction, and how dynamics of race and class inform ideas about responsible citizenship that are instilled in America's youth.

Author : Geneva Turner Phd Rn,Geneva Turner
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781449764494

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What If Our Father Were Not a Man by Geneva Turner Phd Rn,Geneva Turner Pdf

MAKE A CHANGE IN YOUR LIFE WHILE THERE IS STILL TIME TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE—FOR YOUR CHILDREN! You’ve remodeled your home and landscaped your yard, you like your new hairdo and fabulous clothes. However, your family is a different story. Interested in transformation tips? Dr. Turner shows you how to set you and your family on a new course in life using God’s plan in What if Our Father Were Not a Man. Parts of this insightful book are written from a child’s perspective. It is loaded with life lessons she and her siblings learned as their parents protected them from plan wreckers. Each chapter aims to catapult you to new levels of family living. When and what do you teach your children about work, leadership, people and life issues? Dr. Turner provides opportunities for you to examine your behavior and explains how you can turn your start in life into teaching points for your children. You can change external features of everything imaginable, but if your family is not transformed internally, external changes are short-lived. Get ready to laugh and for challenges! Your transformed family is on the way as you change how your story ends.

Author : Labeodan, Helen A.,Amenga-Etego, Rosemary,Stiebert, Johanna,Aidoo, Mark S.
Publisher : University of Bamberg Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783863098278

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COVID-19 by Labeodan, Helen A.,Amenga-Etego, Rosemary,Stiebert, Johanna,Aidoo, Mark S. Pdf

"COVID-19 has, like other crises, thrown into relief social injustices and gendered inequalities. BiAS 31/ ERA 8 offers theological responses to and reflections on the COVID-19 outbreak and pandemic. All are by African scholars and authors; some are academic, some experiential, and others creative or impressionistic in tone. Reflecting the ethos and commitment of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians ("The Circle") to nurture and promote the publications by and about African women and men committed to social justice and positive change, this issue contains the writings of some established but, predominantly, of emerging theologians. For some contributors, this is their first publication in an international series."

Author : Ueli Kramer
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780128136126

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Case Formulation for Personality Disorders by Ueli Kramer Pdf

Case Formulation for Personality Disorders provides clinical guidance on how to build effective treatment plans for patients presenting with personality disorders. Anchored within a disorder-specific approach, the present volume reviews the evidence base of case formulation methodology. The book takes an integrative and differentiated approach to case formulation, with multiple methods of case formulation, all specifically adapted to the psychotherapy of personality disorders, illustrated with many case examples. Provides individualized assessment and measurement in practice Uses 18 case formulation methods for treating personality disorders Identifies evidence-based effective treatment Includes real life case examples

Author : Lionel Blue
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780826490452

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Best of Blue by Lionel Blue Pdf

In 1972, Lionel Blue was a little known Rabbi in London. Spotted by a perceptive publisher, he then published his first book To Heaven with Scribes and Pharisees . But the range of books that followed was incredible - cookery books, books of Jewish jokes, and the Blue Guide to Eternity . This collection aims to represent this whole range.