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Author : Edward Hoffman
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015019822553
Author : Brad Christerson,Korie Little Edwards,Michael Oluf Emerson
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814722244
Religious institutions continue to be among the most segregated organizations in modern America. This book looks at the problems faced by integrated churches & examines the development of integrated religious organizations.
Author : Scott Brown
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062049377
Against All Odds is the extraordinary personal story of the man who rose up to meet the challenge of terrific opposition and become one of America's most promising new political figures—Senator Scott Brown. Brown is famous for succeeding popular Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy after Kennedy’s death in 2010—but, as he reveals in a compelling memoir reminiscent of Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue and Clarence Thomas’s My Grandfather’s Son, his experiences with struggle and achievement go back a lifetime.
Author : Paul Connolly
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781843582038
It had been years since I had seen any of the children with whom I had grown up. When I left the children's home, I promised myself that I would have nothing to do with them, I was sure that my only chance of living a good life would be to put the past behind me, even though that meant saying goodbye to some of the people I loved the most - as well as the ones I hated...it turned out that six of us had died, several by slow suicide in the form of heroin abuse, and at least two by faster means. When two police officers arrived out of the blue at Paul Connolly's door, he learned the shocking news that, out of the eight children with whom he shared a dormitory in care, only two were still alive. The revelation unearthed painful memories of a childhood that, until this point, Paul had tried desperately to put behind him. Abandoned at two weeks old, Paul came of age in the infamous St Leonards's Children's Home in East London. The children there were routinely abused, often over the course of many years. All were underfed and unloved and told that they would amount to nothing. Angry and frustrated, Paul channelled his rage into boxing - but when an accident shattered his ambition to turn professional, he found his true calling and became a successful trainer, even working as a consultant on the pilot of a top model's fitness video. Paul has finally found peace and fulfilment beyond anyhing he could have imagined all those years ago. He has found happiness with his wife and children and now helps to heal broken bodies, build confidence and transform lives - but he will never forget his past and the unnecessary victims of broken society...
Author : Scott Brown
Publisher : Harper
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0062015540
The extraordinary personal journey of a man who, against all odds, rose to become one of America’s most surprising and promising new political figures Scott Brown's greatest win did not occur on a cold January election night in 2010 when he came from behind to capture the U.S. Senate seat held by Ted Kennedy for nearly fifty years. It began when he survived a savage beating at the drunken, dirty-fingernail hands of a stepfather when he was barely six years old, while trying to protect his mother. In this gripping memoir of resilience and redemption, Brown tells the story of his difficult, often nomadic childhood, shunted from house to apartment, and town to town, seventeen times over his first eighteen years. He somehow thrived despite a largely absent father, who married four separate times. So did his mother, in relationships frequently stained with alcohol, anger, and even violence. For nearly two decades' growing up, Brown endured innumerable hardships and challenges, even stealing food to eat. He was periodically sent off to live with relatives, his possessions wrapped in a few old blankets. Saved by basketball, he was the boy who shoveled snow from the public courts to shoot hoops alone in the frozen cold. With clear-eyed conviction and unflinching can-dor, Brown tells the story of his own bad-boy days, of the coaches who mentored him, and of how he found a way out of familial chaos through the swish of a ball in the net, winning a starting slot on the Tufts varsity basketball team as a freshman player and becoming the tenth-highest scorer to graduate in the school's history. His rise from there was even more improbable: a first-year law student and member of the Massachusetts National Guard, he was picked as Cosmopolitan magazine's "America's Sexiest Man" and was vaulted into the glamorous world of New York modeling at the height of the 1980s. But the man who was once ushered into the backrooms of Studio 54 returned to Massachusetts to continue with his military and legal training, settle down, raise a family, and soon found an unlikely path that would lead him to national political stardom. Here, too, are the secrets from the unprecedented Senate race that captured the country's imagination and how Scott Brown won his remarkable victory. Poignant, heartfelt, humorous, and profound, this is the story of one man's dream and his determination to fight for a better future.
Author : Major Phil Ashby
Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466838772
Against All Odds is the incredible true story of that escape-and of the heart-pounding courage of Major Phil Ashby who defeated the rebel forces of Sierra Leone and became a living testament to the power of the human spirit and the sheer determination to survive. In West Africa's war-ravaged Sierra Leone no one was getting out alive. It took the courage of one man to change the odds. By 1990, Sierra Leone, once hailed as the 'Athens of West Africa', had degenerated into a savage battlefield, overtaken by rebel forces in a devastating civil war. Assigned to spearhead the mission as UN peacekeeper was Major Phil Ashby. But by 2000, the rebel occupation he had worked so diligently to disarm rose again to control an astounding two-thirds of the country. The enemy's mission: get rid of the outside opposition first. A number of Ashby's colleagues were tortured and finally butchered, and more than 500 were taken as hostages. Among the hostages was Phil Ashby. Miles from civilization, with no rescue in sight, Ashby and three of his men knew that their fate was up to them alone. Lost deep inside the rebels' heartland, unarmed, and outnumbered 20-to-1, Ashby devised a plan to escape from the hostile jungles that would test fate and challenge all reason.
Author : Merilee S. Grindle
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 0691118000
'Despite the Odds' examines five examples of education reform in South America, focusing on the political battle to secure reform in the face of powerfully entrenched opposition. It shows how strategic choices by reformers can reshape power equations & undermine institutional biases.
Author : Margaret Dureke
Publisher : Jahs Publishing Group
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001-09
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0970114400
"How to succeed against all odds is an inspirational, motivational and empowerment book - aimed @ people who lack motivation and/or don't knew how to find themselves."
Author : Richard Harris,Craig Challen
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781760899455
Author : Eva Kaufholz-Soldat,Nicola M.R. Oswald
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030476106
This book presents an overview of the ways in which women have been able to conduct mathematical research since the 18th century, despite their general exclusion from the sciences. Grouped into four thematic sections, the authors concentrate on well-known figures like Sophie Germain and Grace Chisholm Young, as well as those who have remained unnoticed by historians so far. Among them are Stanisława Nidodym, the first female students at the universities in Prague at the turn of the 20th century, and the first female professors of mathematics in Denmark. Highlighting individual biographies, couples in science, the situation at specific European universities, and sociological factors influencing specific careers from the 18th century to the present, the authors trace female mathematicians’ status as it evolved from singular and anomalous to virtually commonplace. The book also offers insights into the various obstacles women faced when trying to enter perhaps the “most male” discipline of all, and how some of them continue to shape young girls’ self-perceptions and career choices today. Thus, it will benefit scholars and students in STEM disciplines, gender studies and the history of science; women in science, mathematics and at institutions, and those working in mathematics education.
Author : Wendy Beech
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002-03-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780471436898
Learn and be inspired by the fascinating true stories behind 10leading lights in black enterprise today . . . * While she won't share the formulas for her world-renowned hotsauces, Vivian Gibson, CEO of The MillCreek Company, is glad toimpart her recipe for transforming a passion for cooking into amultimillion-dollar enterprise. * He went from sleeping in Central Park to heading a major filmproduction and syndication company. Get the details on how FrankMercado-Valdes's love of classic black films led to the creation ofthe African Heritage Network. * At only 34 years old, Alonzo Washington is head of his own comicbook publishing empire. Find out how this committed politicalactivist used his genius for cartooning to promote minority causesand make a fortune doing it. Discover the compelling true stories of how these and seven otherAfrican-American men and women beat the odds to become some oftoday's most successful black entrepreneurs.In a series of intimateprofiles, journalist/author Wendy Harris details the paths theytraveled, the obstacles they overcame, and the important lessonsthey learned along the way about what it takes to succeed inbusiness.
Author : Alfred Cave
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1432729128
The Revealing Portrait of an African American Success Story Before he was in his teens, Alfred Cave was already an orphan, a runaway, and a homeless person on the mean streets of New York. Five decades later, he would retire after heading the nation's largest supported work program, as well as his own successful federal contracting company. This amazing story is recounted in Against All Odds, a stirring account of Cave's surviving and thriving despite all life could throw at him. A wide-ranging yet intimate memoir, Against All Odds follows Cave beginning with his earliest recollections in a violently racist South. But the deep-seated attitudes there don't disappear when he escapes to the North and, later, the U.S. Army. Cave brings readers along for the ride as he rises to a Major, commanding two battalions and receiving a Bronze Star. It's a revealing glimpse into an ambitious African American soldier's unique experiences navigating the military's hesitantly integrated ranks, and the challenges of raising a family along the way. As he returns to the private sector, Cave continues to document an engrossing cast of characters - some endearing, others maddening - that readers won't soon forget.
Author : William B. Helmreich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351533447
Against All Odds is the first comprehensive look at the 140,000 Jewish Holocaust survivors who came to America and the lives they have made here. William Helmreich writes of their experiences beginning with their first arrival in the United States: the mixed reactions they encountered from American Jews who were not always eager to receive them; their choices about where to live in America; and their efforts in finding marriage partners with whom they felt most comfortable most often other survivors.In preparation, Helmreich spent more than six years traveling the United States, listening to the personal stories of hundreds of survivors, and examining more than 15,000 pages of data as well as new material from archives that have never before been available to create this remarkable, groundbreaking work. What emerges is a picture that is sharply different from the stereotypical image of survivors as people who are chronically depressed, anxious, and fearful.This intimate, enlightening work explores questions about prevailing over hardship and adversity: how people who have gone through such experiences pick up the threads of their lives; where they obtain the strength and spirit to go on; and, finally, what lessdns the rest of us can learn about overcoming tragedy.
Author : Gladys Lawson
Publisher : Gladys Lawson
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1602664676
Billie Lewis, a scientist working in a hospital laboratory, dreams of a career in music. When her path unexpectedly crosses Jamie Sanders, a singer with a voice made in heaven, she realizes that she has found the voice for the songs she has written. Because of her faith, Billie knows that her dream will one day become a reality.
Author : Charlotte Schmidt
Publisher : Memoirs Foundation
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Germans
ISBN : 9780980426854