Finding A Place To Stand

Author : Jimmy Santiago Baca
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781555848903

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A Place to Stand by Jimmy Santiago Baca Pdf

The Pushcart Prize–winning poet’s memoir of his criminal youth and years in prison: a “brave and heartbreaking” tale of triumph over brutal adversity (The Nation). Jimmy Santiago Baca’s “astonishing narrative” of his life before, during, and immediately after the years he spent in the maximum-security prison garnered tremendous critical acclaim. An important chronicle that “affirms the triumph of the human spirit,” it went on to win the prestigious 2001 International Prize (Arizona Daily Star). Long considered one of the best poets in America today, Baca was illiterate at the age of twenty-one when he was sentenced to five years in Florence State Prison for selling drugs in Arizona. This raw, unflinching memoir is the remarkable tale of how he emerged after his years in the penitentiary—much of it spent in isolation—with the ability to read and a passion for writing poetry. “Proof there is always hope in even the most desperate lives.” —Fort Worth Star-Telegram “A hell of a book, quite literally. You won’t soon forget it.” —The San Diego U-T “This book will have a permanent place in American letters.” —Jim Harrison, New York Times–bestselling author of A Good Day to Die

Author : Edward R. Shapiro
Publisher : Phoenix Publishing House
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781912691340

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Finding a Place to Stand: Developing Self-Reflective Institutions, Leaders and Citizens by Edward R. Shapiro Pdf

What stands between us and authoritarianism seems increasingly fragile. Democratic practices are under attack by foreign intrusion into elections; voter suppression restricts citizen participation. Nations are turning to autocratic leaders in the face of rapid social change. Democratic values and open society can only be preserved if citizens can discover and claim their voices. We access society through our organisations, yet the collective voices and irrationalities of these organisations do not currently offer clear pathways for individuals to locate themselves. How can we move through the mounting chaos of our social systems, through our multiple roles in groups and institutions, to find a voice that matters? What kind of perspective will allow institutional leaders to facilitate the discovery of active citizenship and support engagement? This book draws on psychodynamic systems thinking to offer a new understanding of the journey from being an individual to joining society as a citizen. With detailed stories, the steps – and the conscious and unconscious linkages – from being a family member, to entering outside groups, to taking up and making sense of institutional roles, illuminate the process of claiming the citizen role. With the help of leaders who recognise and utilise the dynamics of social systems, there may be hope for us as citizens to use our institutional experiences to discover a place to stand.

Author : Edward R Shapiro
Publisher : Phoenix Publishing House
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781800130302

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Finding a Place to Stand by Edward R Shapiro Pdf

What stands between us and authoritarianism seems increasingly fragile. Democratic practices are under attack by foreign intrusion into elections; voter suppression restricts citizen participation. Nations are turning to autocratic leaders in the face of rapid social change. Democratic values and open society can only be preserved if citizens can discover and claim their voices. We access society through our organisations, yet the collective voices and irrationalities of these organisations do not currently offer clear pathways for individuals to locate themselves. How can we move through the mounting chaos of our social systems, through our multiple roles in groups and institutions, to find a voice that matters? What kind of perspective will allow institutional leaders to facilitate the discovery of active citizenship and support engagement? This book draws on psychodynamic systems thinking to offer a new understanding of the journey from being an individual to joining society as a citizen. With detailed stories, the steps - and the conscious and unconscious linkages - from being a family member, to entering outside groups, to taking up and making sense of institutional roles, illuminate the process of claiming the citizen role. With the help of leaders who recognise and utilise the dynamics of social systems, there may be hope for us as citizens to use our institutional experiences to discover a place to stand.

Author : Grant Richison
Publisher : Castle Quay Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781894860765

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Certainty: A Place to Stand by Grant Richison Pdf

Two centuries before Christ, the Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes experimented with the lever. He declared that he could “move the earth” if he had a place to stand somewhere in the cosmos. People need a certain place to stand, a point of reference beyond the self. In this bold critique of the emergent church of postevangelicals, Dr. Grant Richison, well-known Bible expositor (versebyversecommentary.com), draws a line in the sand to prevent further erosion of the certainty that we can stand on the absolute truth of the Bible. In his rejection of relativism, he lights the way for those who would present the gospel with certainty and clarity.

Author : Julie Lindquist
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195349849

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A Place to Stand by Julie Lindquist Pdf

Linguists have become increasingly interested in examining how class culture is socially constructed and maintained through spoken language. Julie Lindquist's examination of the linguistic ethnography of a working-class bar in Chicago is an important and original contribution to the field. She examines how regular patrons argue about political issues in order to create a group identity centered around political ideology. She also shows how their political arguments are actually a rhetorical genre, one which creates a delicate balance between group solidarity and individual identity, as well as a tenuous and ambivalent sense of class identity.

Author : Molly A. Berwinkle
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781615667512

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A Place to Stand by Molly A. Berwinkle Pdf

Lord, I do need You each day in every uncertain way. As women in twenty-first century America, we have to face distractions and temptations each and every day. And as the once-solid values of our culture crumble daily beneath us, we grow anxious and begin searching for a safe foundation, and our spirits cry out for familiar footing on secure ground with the only One who can save. In A Place to Stand, Molly A. Berwinkle offers a portrait of women in the Bible, those who also found their feet had suddenly moved to eroding ground. From these standards, we can locate the way to place our lives on the unyielding principles of a tested and tried surface—the Lord Almighty. Find comfort and encouragement in the women who have gone before, and open your eyes to find a place to stand.

Author : Richard Rohr
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781893757820

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A Lever and a Place to Stand by Richard Rohr Pdf

Explores the challenges, the rewards, the call, and the possibilities of integrating a sincere inner life with an active life of engagement with the pain of the world.

Author : Deborah Tall
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780815653769

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From Where We Stand by Deborah Tall Pdf

Why does a particular landscape move us? What is it that attaches us to a particular place? Tall’s From Where We Stand is an eloquent exploration of the connections we have with places—and the loss to us if there are no such connections. A typically rootless child of several American suburbs, Tall set out to make a true home for herself in the landscape that circumstance had brought her—the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. In a mosaic of personal anecdotes, historical sketches, and lyrical meditations, she interweaves her own story with the story of this place and its people—from the Seneca Nation of the Iroquois, to European settlers, to the many utopians who sensed and were inspired by a spiritual resonance here. This edition includes an introduction by William Kittredge and a foreword by Stephen Kuusisto, both highlighting the book’s significance and Tall’s exquisite skill in tracing the relationship between homelands and storytelling.

Author : Ann Bridge
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448202140

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A Place to Stand by Ann Bridge Pdf

First published in 1953, A Place To Stand is set in Budapest in the spring of 1941, Hope - a spoilt but attractive society girl and daughter of a leading American business man - finds herself playing the lead in a dangerous and most unexpected affair of underground intrigue, through the machinations of her journalist fiancé. During the course of her activities she falls in love with a Polish refugee, and at the moment when Germany invades Hungary, she is already deeply involved - both emotionally and politically. Bridge, herself an eye witness of these events, tells in moving and graphic terms the terrible story of Germany's 'protective' invasion; although it is presented in the form of an imaginative episode, the historical significance and accuracy are all too tragically evident. This admirable novel is at once a charming love story in the shadow of fear and disruption, a subtle and intimate portrayal of human beings in a time of crisis, and a most exciting narrative, set against the enchanting background of Budapest.

Author : Natalie Goldberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781416535034

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Old Friend from Far Away by Natalie Goldberg Pdf

In her first book to focus solely on writing since her classic work "Writing Down the Bones," Goldberg reaffirms her status as one of the foremost teachers by redefining the practice of writing memoir.

Author : Mark A. Clarke
Publisher : University of Michigan Press ELT
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015052884643

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A Place to Stand by Mark A. Clarke Pdf

Many teachers enter their profession with a dream of making the world a better place, but they are soon overwhelmed with the realities of working in the educational system and distracted from the dream that inspired them in the first place. In a series of eloquent and moving essays, the author gives renewed hope to teachers who can still imagine a better world and are committed to working toward it. This is a book for people who are dissatisfied with the status quo and discouraged by the pace of change.

Author : Robert Whitlow
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780718083748

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A Time to Stand by Robert Whitlow Pdf

A highly relevant and gripping novel that challenges us to ask what it means to forgive while seeking justice and to pursue reconciliation while loving others as ourselves. Adisa Johnson is living her dream of practicing law with a prestigious firm in downtown Atlanta. Then a split-second mistake changes the course of her career. Left with no other options, Adisa returns to her hometown where a few days earlier a white police officer shot an unarmed black teen who is now lying comatose in the hospital. Adisa is itching to jump into the fight as a special prosecutor but feels pulled to do what she considers unthinkable as a young black woman—defend the officer. As the court case unfolds, everyone in the small community must confront their own prejudices. Caught in the middle, Adisa also tries to chart her way along a path complicated by her budding relationship with a charismatic young preacher who leads the local movement demanding the police officer answer for his crime. In a small Georgia town where racial tensions run high and lives are at stake, can one lawyer stand up for justice against the tides of prejudice? A stand-alone legal drama Book length: approximately 120,000 words Includes discussion questions for book clubs

Author : Margaret Himley,Anne Fitzsimmons
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0536954283

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Critical Encounters with Texts by Margaret Himley,Anne Fitzsimmons Pdf

Author : Gene Edward Veith (Jr.),David J. Vaughan
Publisher : Cumberland House Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1581824203

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A Place to Stand by Gene Edward Veith (Jr.),David J. Vaughan Pdf

New entry in the Leaders In Action Series. Offers a spiritual biography of Martin Luther.

Author : Natalie Goldberg
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781453224571

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Thunder and Lightning by Natalie Goldberg Pdf

DIVDIVIn the sequel to her bestselling Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg advises readers on how to capture the flashes of inspiration of a writer’s life, and turn this “thunder and lightning” into a polished final piece/divDIV /divDIVAny writer may find himself or herself with an abundance of raw material, but it takes patience and care to turn this material into finished stories, essays, poems, novels, and memoirs. Referencing her own experiences both as a writer and as a student of Zen, Natalie provides insight into the struggles and demands of turning ideas into concrete form. /divDIV /divDIVHer guidance addresses ways to overcome writer’s block, deal with the fear of criticism and rejection, get the most from working with an editor, and improve one’s writing by reading accomplished authors. She communicates this with her characteristic humor and compassion, and a deep respect for writing as an act of celebration./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Natalie Goldberg, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection./div /div