A World Outside

Author : Eva Wiseman
Publisher : Tundra Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780887769825

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The World Outside by Eva Wiseman Pdf

An informative and powerful novel, The World Outside explores the life of a teenage girl in a fundamentalist Hasidic community who dreams of a different future. Seventeen-year-old Chanie Altman lives the protected life of a Lubavitcher Hasidic girl in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, in 1991. Religion is the most important aspect of her life, and, like other Lubavitcher girls, she is expected to attend a seminary and to marry as soon as she graduates from high school. But Chanie has a beautiful voice and dreams of becoming an opera singer - a profession forbidden to a Hasidic girl. When she meets David, a non-Hasidic Jewish boy, he opens the portals to the world outside her fundamentalist community. The Crown Heights riots break out, and the Lubavitchers are put under siege by their African-American neighbors. A tragedy occurs. Will Chanie stay in the fundamentalist community she has always known in a life that has been prescribed for her, or will she leave it behind to follow her dreams?

Author : Richard F. Patteson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781477301647

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A World Outside by Richard F. Patteson Pdf

Expatriation, the sense of being "outside" or exposed, is a central theme in the life and work of Paul Bowles. Beginning with Bowles' account of a frightening childhood memory, A World Outside explores how the dichotomies of inside and outside, safety and danger, enclosure and exposure—fundamental dualities in Bowles' fiction—have their deepest origin in the fabric of Bowles' own life and also mark his kinship with other twentieth-century writers. Like V. S. Naipaul, Paul Bowles is one of those writers who have an uncanny grasp of what it is like never to feel "at home." In this much-needed study, Richard Patteson explores how this sense of "outsidedness" characterizes one's experience in a world in which many of the traditional shelters—social, familial, religious—seem to have lost their ability to protect. He discovers that storytelling is the vehicle by which both Bowles and his characters attempt to domesticate inchoate experience, bringing it into the familiar interior of human comprehension. The music world has for decades recognized Paul Bowles' stature as a composer, but his fiction is only recently receiving the close attention it has long deserved from students of American and contemporary literature. Bowles is an author who neither sought nor received the kind of publicity often lavished on his contemporaries but one whom an ever-growing audience regards as a commanding figure of twentieth-century American literature.

Author : Tamika Dezmal
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781467035798

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A World Outside Your Own by Tamika Dezmal Pdf

Just when you thought you were going through, somebody else was doing worst than you. In 2 Timothy 1:8 God says "Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, Nor of me his prisoners, But share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God. A world outside your own is a variety of poems regarding life, Christianity, Hardships, and Personal testimonies from Tamika Dezmal after losing her father and sister two years apart. It offers a riveting collection of poetry regarding life, close friends, relatives, Jesus Christ, and some poems even has a special meaning with what goes on in everyday life. As well as it serves as a motivational message for certain situations about life. This book takes you to the essence about rape, men sleeping with other men on the down low behind their wives back, teenagers having sex, dead beat parents, HIV/Aids and so many more come explore the facts about life through testimony in poetic form. This is a must read book that will leave you heartwarming to different chapters about life and our Lord and savior Jesus Christ.

Author : Les Stroud
Publisher : Annick Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781773215082

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Wild Outside by Les Stroud Pdf

Join TV’s Survivorman on twelve edge-of-your-seat adventures as he proves anyone can be an outdoor explorer. From surviving a frigid night in northern Canada to munching on grubs in the Australian Outback, Les Stroud’s passion for the outdoors has driven him to some of the planet’s most remote and beautiful locations. In Wild Outside, he invites readers into his world of wilderness adventures with fast-paced stories, nature facts, and practical advice for spending time outside. Featuring kid-friendly activities and tips like how to safely observe wildlife, Stroud shows readers that adventure awaits everywhere—whether in a jungle or a city park. Andrew P. Barr’s dramatic illustrations amp up the excitement alongside photos of Survivorman’s adventures.

Author : Eva Wiseman
Publisher : Tundra Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780887769818

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The World Outside by Eva Wiseman Pdf

An informative and powerful novel, The World Outside explores the life of a teenage girl in a fundamentalist Hasidic community who dreams of a different future. Seventeen-year-old Chanie Altman lives the protected life of a Lubavitcher Hasidic girl in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, in 1991. Religion is the most important aspect of her life, and, like other Lubavitcher girls, she is expected to attend a seminary and to marry as soon as she graduates from high school. But Chanie has a beautiful voice and dreams of becoming an opera singer - a profession forbidden to a Hasidic girl. When she meets David, a non-Hasidic Jewish boy, he opens the portals to the world outside her fundamentalist community. The Crown Heights riots break out, and the Lubavitchers are put under siege by their African-American neighbors. A tragedy occurs. Will Chanie stay in the fundamentalist community she has always known in a life that has been prescribed for her, or will she leave it behind to follow her dreams?

Author : Kenneth Rexroth
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0811210251

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World Outside the Window by Kenneth Rexroth Pdf

This book talks about Kenneth's twenty-seven essays written over a period of time of more than forty years. It remains the sanest guide to the cultural upheaval in American society since World War II.

Author : Paul Holmes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317543084

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The Inner World Outside by Paul Holmes Pdf

First published in 1993, The Inner World Outside has become a classic in its field. Paul Holmes walks the reader through the ‘inner world’ of object relationships and the corresponding ‘outside world’ shared by others in which real relationships exist. Trained as a psychotherapist in both psychoanalytical and psychodramatic methods, Paul Holmes has written a well informed, clear introduction to Object Relations Theory and its relation to psychodrama. He explores the links between the theories of J.L. Moreno, the founder of psychodrama, and Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, and presents a stimulating synthesis. Each chapter opens with an account of part of a psychodrama session which focus on particular aspects of psychodrama or object relations theory illuminating the concepts or techniques using the clinical material from the group to illustrate basic psychoanalytic concepts in action. Published here with a new introduction from the author that links the book’s content to concepts of attachment theory, the book weaves together the very different concepts in an inspiring and comprehensive way that will ensure the book continues to be used by mental health and arts therapies professional, whether in training or practice.

Author : Bruce Fleming
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-08-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781040116074

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Academia versus the World Outside by Bruce Fleming Pdf

Academia versus the World Outside lays out the givens of the knowledge industry located within the ivory tower, colleges and universities. It then moves outside academia to consider this restricted world the way most people see it. The contrast between these two views of academia explains and is at the basis of the left–right animosity of our day. The knowledge industry, a creation of the post-Enlightenment modern age along with other industrial and post-industrial enterprises, is based on creating and adding to a store of knowledge as its own end. This makes academia alien to the more random and personal nature of knowledge acquisition in our everyday lives, as indeed every industry is alien to everyday life in the modern age. Yet most academics are so immersed in the peculiar project they have chosen as their life’s work that they are either unaware of or unsympathetic to the fact that people outside live very different lives with very different presuppositions. Most non-academics, for their part, find academia strange, and for very good reason. Academia versus the World Outside makes this contrast and conflict clear from both directions. This book is aimed primarily at academics, most of whom so take for granted the givens of what they do that they fail to understand why the vast majority of people outside find academia alien. This has led to an increasingly hostile and utterly predictable left–right political conflict, academia tending increasingly left and the world outside increasingly right. The goal of this book is to reduce the tension between both sides: if read by non-academics, this book may help these understand the givens of a world as strange to everyday life as any other specialized industry in the modern age.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803293305

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At Winter's End by Anonim Pdf

From the Five-Time Nebula Award-Winner Seven thousand centuries ago, falling death stars unleashed fiery apocalyptic destruction on Earth and inaugurated the Long Winter. One small band of People took refuge in an underground cocoon where they and their descendants waited for the time of ice to end. Now their long winter is over. Prophecy and circumstance urge the tribe out into the half-forgotten world beyond their safe cocoon. Led by their chieftain Koshmar, the tribe journeys to the city of Vengiboneeza, where the prophecy of the gods says they are to rule. On their way the tribe discovers the dangers and wonders of life in the New Springtime. In the face of new temptations and peril, Koshmar and her lover, the priestess Torlyri, struggle to keep the People united and fulfill the prophecy. For soon they will be beset by other trials, as other beings seek to fulfill their own prophecies. Robert Silverberg provides an introduction exclusive to this Bison Books edition.

Author : Tova Mirvis
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307429124

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The Outside World by Tova Mirvis Pdf

Tzippy Goldman was born for marriage. She and her mother had always assumed she’d graduate high school, be set up with the right boy, and have a beautiful wedding with white lace and pareve vanilla cream frosting. But at twenty-two, Tzippy’s fast approaching spinsterhood. She dreams of escape; instead, she leaves for a year in Jerusalem.There she meets–re-meets–Baruch, the son of her mother’s college roommate. When Tzippy last saw him, his name was Bryan and he wore a Yankees-logo yarmulke. Now he has adopted the black hat of the ultra-orthodox, the tradition in which Tzippy was raised. Twelve weeks later, they’re engaged...and discovering that desire and tradition, devotion and individuality aren’t the easiest balance. Hilarious, compassionate, and tremendously insightful, The Outside World illuminates an insular community, marvelously depicting that complicated blend of faith, love, and family otherwise known as life in a modern world.

Author : Jorn Lyseggen
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780241281642

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Outside Insight by Jorn Lyseggen Pdf

Is your business looking out? The world today is drowning in data. There is a treasure trove of valuable and underutilized insights that can be gleaned from information companies and people leave behind on the internet - our 'digital breadcrumbs' - from job postings, to online news, social media, online ad spend, patent applications and more. As a result, we're at the cusp of a major shift in the way businesses are managed and governed - moving from a focus solely on lagging, internal data, toward analyses that also encompass industry-wide, external data to paint a more complete picture of a brand's opportunities and threats and uncover forward-looking insights, in real time. Tomorrow's most successful brands are already embracing Outside Insight, benefitting from an information advantage while their competition is left behind. Drawing on practical examples of transformative, data-led decisions made by brands like Apple, Facebook, Barack Obama and many more, in Outside Insight, Meltwater CEO Jorn Lyseggen illustrates the future of corporate decision-making and offers a detailed plan for business leaders to implement Outside Insight thinking into their company mindset and processes.

Author : Karen Finneyfrock
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780698136533

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Starbird Murphy and the World Outside by Karen Finneyfrock Pdf

In her sixteen years of life, Starbird has never touched a dollar bill. She’s never been in a car. She’s never used a cell phone. That’s because Starbird has always lived on the Free Family Farm, a commune in the woods of Washington State. But all that is about to change. When Starbird gets her “Calling” to be a waitress at the Free Family’s restaurant in Seattle, she decides to leave behind the only home she’s ever known. Nothing could have prepared Starbird for the World Outside, or for what it would teach her about the Family—and herself. From the author of The Sweet Revenge of Celia Door comes this hilarious and poignant story about finding your true calling in life.

Author : E. D. Attanasi,Philip A. Freeman,Jennifer A. Glovier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Oil fields
ISBN : WISC:89093231058

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Statistics of Petroleum Exploration in the World Outside the United States and Canada Through 2001 by E. D. Attanasi,Philip A. Freeman,Jennifer A. Glovier Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Foreign Economic Policy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Economic development
ISBN : WISC:89047710413

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New Directions in the Soviet Economy: The world outside and a selected bibliography of recent monographs, and appendixes by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Foreign Economic Policy Pdf

Author : Dori Ostermiller
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408951064

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Outside The Ordinary World by Dori Ostermiller Pdf

A wife. A husband. A lover. A chance to leave her ordinary life?