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Author : Karen Gedig Burnett
Publisher : GR Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0966853040
When Jason asks his grandfather why people have trouble getting along, it makes them think about how things might be better if we looked past physical attributes to see the person underneath.
Author : Erik Weihenmayer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002-03-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0452282942
The incredible bestselling book from the author of No Barriers and The Adversity Advantage Erik Weihenmayer was born with retinoscheses, a degenerative eye disorder that would leave him blind by the age of thirteen. But Erik was determined to rise above this devastating disability and lead a fulfilling and exciting life. In this poignant and inspiring memoir, he shares his struggle to push past the limits imposed on him by his visual impairment-and by a seeing world. He speaks movingly of the role his family played in his battle to break through the barriers of blindness: the mother who prayed for the miracle that would restore her son's sight and the father who encouraged him to strive for that distant mountaintop. And he tells the story of his dream to climb the world's Seven Summits, and how he is turning that dream into astonishing reality (something fewer than a hundred mountaineers have done). From the snow-capped summit of McKinley to the towering peaks of Aconcagua and Kilimanjaro to the ultimate challenge, Mount Everest, this is a story about daring to dream in the face of impossible odds. It is about finding the courage to reach for that ultimate summit, and transforming your life into something truly miraculous. "An inspiration to other blind people and plenty of us folks who can see just fine."—Jon Krakauer, New York Times bestselling author of Into Thin Air
Author : Tyrone Hill
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781462806676
POETIC REFLECTIONS is a masterpiece. Tyrone shines like an evening star illuminating the darkness and bringing a refreshing light to the reader. Yuri Brigham-author of CHITLINS TO CAVIAR. Recipient of Poet of the Year and International Poets Award. The words of Tyrone are like manna to the wretched soul. May he continue to enlighten us. Kory Roberson-author of the GEMINI SERIES. Tyrone has given us a very real document in POETIC REFLECTIONS. His ability to write about real life stirs the soul. Write on my brother. Valetta Rhinehart-author of SEASONS IN THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE. Poetry is so personal to me. I seek refuge in the brilliant words that express the thoughts of Tyrone. When reading his writings his words fl ow from my lips like honey that still delivers the sting of truth like the nectar of African killer bees. Dr. San Man-author of A POETIC BUFFET TO REALITY, VOLUMES I-V
Author : Susan Sontag
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781466853577
A brilliant, clear-eyed consideration of the visual representation of violence in our culture--its ubiquity, meanings, and effects. Considered one of the greatest critics of her generation, Susan Sontag followed up her monumental On Photography with an extended study of human violence, reflecting on a question first posed by Virginia Woolf in Three Guineas: How in your opinion are we to prevent war? "For a long time some people believed that if the horror could be made vivid enough, most people would finally take in the outrageousness, the insanity of war." One of the distinguishing features of modern life is that it supplies countless opportunities for regarding (at a distance, through the medium of photography) horrors taking place throughout the world. But are viewers inured—or incited—to violence by the depiction of cruelty? Is the viewer’s perception of reality eroded by the daily barrage of such images? What does it mean to care about the sufferings of others far away? First published more than twenty years after her now classic book On Photography, which changed how we understand the very condition of being modern, Regarding the Pain of Others challenges our thinking not only about the uses and means of images, but about how war itself is waged (and understood) in our time, the limits of sympathy, and the obligations of conscience.
Author : Author Shedrick Claycomb
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780557048588
This is a combination of my first poetry book, mixed with my second poetry book. The first book is Poetnology. The 2nd edition is a Black History Version of Poetnology. This special version is being released in dedication to Black History Month. The book includes information on different Kings and Queens throughout our African Heritage. It is designed to teach knowledge through poetry, that is why I call my books, "POETNOLOGY" knowledge through poetry.
Author : Shedrick Claycomb
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780557031849
This book is designed to share uplifting and educational thoughts through the words of poetry. The title ""Poetnology"" was derived from a word I made up meaning knowledge through poetry.
Author : Phillip Leno Wright Sr. Ph.D.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496956422
This book is a carefully documented combination of my free transcendental thoughts, including many of my life experiences recalled and written precisely as creative stories. Some of them have been researched for affirmation, and there are some photos. Some of the stories may also be a bit unusual but true and somewhat ineffable. If anything written in this book, Free Mind Free Speech, seems to be offensive to anyone in any manner, I wish to apologize before you complete reading and cogitating about what you have read, and in the process, I hope that you find something in this book that is more than just words, but informative, enlightening, uplifting, or encouraging to your mind and your spirit. It is all taken from true experiences.
Author : Jason Roberts
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780061979941
He was known simply as the Blind Traveler -- a solitary, sightless adventurer who, astonishingly, fought the slave trade in Af-rica, survived a frozen captivity in Siberia, hunted rogue elephants in Ceylon, and helped chart the Australian outback. James Holman (1786-1857) became "one of the greatest wonders of the world he so sagaciously explored," triumphing not only over blindness but crippling pain, poverty, and the interference of well-meaning authorities (his greatest feat, a circumnavigation of the globe, had to be launched in secret). Once a celebrity, a bestselling author, and an inspiration to Charles Darwin and Sir Richard Francis Burton, the charismatic, witty Holman outlived his fame, dying in an obscurity that has endured -- until now. A Sense of the World is a spellbinding and moving rediscovery of one of history's most epic lives. Drawing on meticulous research, Jason Roberts ushers us into the Blind Traveler's uniquely vivid sensory realm, then sweeps us away on an extraordinary journey across the known world during the Age of Exploration. Rich with suspense, humor, international intrigue, and unforgettable characters, this is a story to awaken our own senses of awe and wonder.
Author : E. Kelly
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401730990
FOUNDATIONALISM IN PHILOSOPHY n his autobiographical work, The Education of Henry Adams, this I brooding and disillusioned offspring of American presidents confronted, at age sixty, his own perplexity concerning the new scientific world-view that was emerging at the end of the century. He noted that the unity of things, long guaranteed morally by the teachings of Christianity and scientifically by the Newtonian world-view, was being challenged by a newer vision of things that found only incomprehensible multiplicity at the root of the world: What happened if one dropped the sounder into the ab yss-let it go-frankly gave up Unity altogether? What was Unity? Why was one to be forced to affirm it? Here every body flatly refused help. . . . [Adams] got out his Descartes again; dipped into his Hume and Berkeley; wrestled anew with his Kant; pondered solemnly over his Hegel and Scho penhauer and Hartmann; strayed gaily away with his Greeks-all merely to ask what Unity meant, and what happened when one denied it. Apparently one never denied it. Every philosopher, whether sane or insane, naturally af firmed it. I Adams, then approaching with heavy pessimism a new century, felt instinc tively that, were one to attack the notion of unity, the entire edifice of human knowledge would quickly collapse. For understanding requires the unification of apparently different phenomena.
Author : New Zealand. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1496 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : New Zealand
ISBN : SRLF:A0001800572
Author : Jesse A. Brinson,Shannon D. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135849474
While racism continues to be a persistent and pervasive issue in our schools nationwide, the professionals charged with creating safe and nurturing educational environments have few resources available to address racism directly. Racialized Schools is on the leading edge of books that do just that and includes the latest research and praxis to help school personnel confront racism in a professional manner. A national qualitative survey of students, school counselors, teachers, and administrators sets the stage by providing readers with a 360-degree picture of today's schools and the many ways racism creeps into the lives of our students. The authors present a number of different models and perspectives on understanding and addressing racism, beginning with their own personal and professional experiences. Significant attention is also given to empowering school personnel and students to become racially aware, sensitive, and competent to address racism and racial conflicts in schools. Racialized Schools is not only a comprehensive look at racism within our schools; it is also a practical tool for use by teachers, school counselors, administrators, etc., for implementing preventative measures to combat racism directly.
Author : John Fraser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Children
ISBN : SRLF:AA0002045326
Author : John Deacon
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000-07-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595011131
Book Description: Marnie’s Place is a refuge for the mentally vulnerable alienated from the helter skelter of urban life. Set in the future, the book unfolds like a series of parables meant to both humour and inspire. Its heroes are the people the world has shut out, characters who to protect themselves take on some rather unique disguises. Included in their number are an ambassador to a Belgian Queen, ‘Maybe’ perhaps the only ever Canadian Philosopher, Aristotle the second and others. Focal to the community is a renegade theologian, who connects all life’s experience to God’s way with us, especially those on the fraying edge of madness. Though not a book on mental illness, it is written with a profound compassion for those mentally ill, allowing that but for a twist in our life’s experience, or a slight variation in the biochemistry of our brains, ‘there go you and I’. Reading the book, you may wish to book a room. The story line slowly weaves the various characters into a community that for most of them is the first place they can call home. But alone as they are, even they are not immune to the divisive forces that work to divide us all. Their ‘salvation’ is no less than our own – God’s mercy through people who have found mercy. Author's Bio: Born in Toronto. Married with 3 children. Partner in a family insurance business. Strongly inclined towards the homeless and mentally ill. Ours is increasingly a world which has no room for them. My life gropes to make room for them, for my sake as much as theirs.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081646915
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030036925487