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Author : Kelvin Christopher James
Publisher : One World/Ballantine
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : 0345382838
Author : Michael Pearl
Publisher : No Greater Joy Ministries
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1892112981
What to do so Your Children Don't Jump Ship to the World When They Get Older
Author : Josh Shipp
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780312646738
We've always been told "winners never quit," but TV personality and motivational speaker Josh Shipp knows it isn't true. Smart people quit the right things at the right time. But how do you know if you're in the wrong career? What is the right thing for you? And when's the best time to jump ship? Jump Ship is a step-by-step guide through one of life's most difficult—and most important—transitions. Leaving behind an unsatisfying job and embarking upon a new career can open up a world of fulfillment, but it isn't easy. As a role model and mentor to tens of thousands of young professionals, Shipp has seen the impact that a new career can have on a person's life. In Jump Ship, he offers you the time-tested tools to get there. This book will help you discover your truest priorities and provide you the resources you need to succeed, drawing inspiration from the countless people whose lives he has improved. Filled with powerful stories and practical guidance, this is a book designed to help you face down your fears—and take the plunge.
Author : Charles Rowell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429720291
An anthology of 70 short stories by writers of African descent. The authors are from Europe and the Americas (about half of them from the United States), and they include Alice Walker, Hal Bennett and John Edgar Wideman.
Author : Glenn Colquhoun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08
Category : Maori (New Zealand people)
ISBN : 1877577766
"A book of essays and poems on the relationship between Pakeha and Maori, and on the practice of medicine... Includes, among other things, a state of the nation speech from Waitangi 2007, organised by the Treaty Resource Centre: He Puna Matauranga te Tiriti; a keynote address for the English teachers conference, Takapuna Grammar, 2008; the introduction to the New Zealand edition of 'Suburban Shaman' by Cecil Helman; and an oration given at the conference of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners, Wellington 2009"--Publisher information.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Short stories
ISBN : UOM:49015003032811
Author : Marion Zimmer Bradley
Publisher : 谷月社
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
FALCONS of NARABEDLA Voltage—from Nowhere! Somewhere on the crags above us I heard a big bird scream. I turned to Andy, knee-deep in the icy stream beside me. "There's your eagle. Probably smells that cougar I shot yesterday." I started to reel in my line, knowing what my brother's next move would be. "Get the camera, and we'll try for a picture." We crouched together in the underbrush, watching, as the big bird of prey wheeled down in a slow spiral toward the dead cougar. Andy was trembling with excitement, the camera poised against his chest, his eyes glued in the image-finder. "Golly—" he whispered, almost prayerfully, "six foot wing spread—maybe more—" The bird screamed again, warily, head cocked into the wind. We were to leeward; the scent of the carrion masked our enemy smell from him. The eagle failed to scent or to see us, swooping down and dropping on the cougar's head. Andy's camera clicked twice. The eagle thrust in its beak— A red-hot wire flared in my brain. The bird—the bird—I leaped out of cover, running swiftly across the ten-foot clearing that separated us from the attacking eagle, my hand tugging automatically at the hunting knife in my belt. Andy's shout of surprised anger was a faraway noise in my ears as the eagle started away with flapping, angry wings—then, in fury, swept down at me, pinions beating around my head. I heard and felt the wicked beak dart in, and thrust blindly upward with the knife, ripped, slashing, hearing the bird's scream of pain and the flapping of wide wings. A red haze spun around me—
Author : Darryl Dickson-Carr
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0231510691
From Ishmael Reed and Toni Morrison to Colson Whitehead and Terry McMillan, Darryl Dickson-Carr offers a definitive guide to contemporary African American literature. This volume-the only reference work devoted exclusively to African American fiction of the last thirty-five years-presents a wealth of factual and interpretive information about the major authors, texts, movements, and ideas that have shaped contemporary African American fiction. In more than 160 concise entries, arranged alphabetically, Dickson-Carr discusses the careers, works, and critical receptions of Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Jamaica Kincaid, Charles Johnson, John Edgar Wideman, Leon Forrest, as well as other prominent and lesser-known authors. Each entry presents ways of reading the author's works, identifies key themes and influences, assesses the writer's overarching significance, and includes sources for further research. Dickson-Carr addresses the influence of a variety of literary movements, critical theories, and publishers of African American work. Topics discussed include the Black Arts Movement, African American postmodernism, feminism, and the influence of hip-hop, the blues, and jazz on African American novelists. In tracing these developments, Dickson-Carr examines the multitude of ways authors have portrayed the diverse experiences of African Americans. The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction situates African American fiction in the social, political, and cultural contexts of post-Civil Rights era America: the drug epidemics of the 1980s and 1990s and the concomitant "war on drugs," the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement, the struggle for gay rights, feminism, the rise of HIV/AIDS, and racism's continuing effects on African American communities. Dickson-Carr also discusses the debates and controversies regarding the role of literature in African American life. The volume concludes with an extensive annotated bibliography of African American fiction and criticism.
Author : William H. Coles
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781477281932
Nine short stories about American life, unrequited love, familial distrust, and unfair parental control, and a novella where cultures clash and humans survive with caring and selflessness overcoming the default of violence and destruction. Each story rich with unique characters proving they have the will to survive life's most difficult obstacles, and discover their own capabilities to affect their own destinies.
Author : Georgina Prasad
Publisher : eBookIt.com
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781456615833
This is a collection of stories with simple themes and characters in exotic locations. A man on a mission to find a long-lost ancestor on another continent; a young couple in love and their stressful family situations; a woman during the partitioning of India amidst one of the greatest genocidal massacres in history; and a poor snack vendor who leaves an indelible impression on a boy. The stories encompass three generations and four countries on three continents. A delightful read, sometimes sad but always engaging.
Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618249227
A collection of award-winning science fiction written by two-time Nebula award winner, Gardner Dozois. Here youll find Dozois short stories "Morning Child" and _The Peacemaker,Ó both winners of the Nebula for best science fiction short story. Also includes Dozois classics "A Dream at Noonday," "Chains of the Sea," "The Hanging Curve," "The Bride" (with Jack Dann), and "Ancestral Voices" (with Michael Swanwick). From the introduction: The stories in this collection were published between 1970 and 2003, and thus represent a considerable chunk, perhaps a majority share, of not only my career but my life. . .when some critic asks me what was in my mind when I came up with a certain trope in one of those stories, or what some bit of symbolism really means, why I chose some word or image instead of another, or sometimes even just what the specific inspiration for a story was, often I just cant tell him¾Im not that kid anymore. . .So, perhaps its an odd way to review your career, by the places where youve lived. Probably not very satisfactory to the critics. The most disgruntled among them will just have to get that time-machine and go back and ask that bright-eyed young twenty-year-old kid about his work. If you see him, say hi for me. Gardner Dozois is known for his beautiful evocation of setting and emotional intensity within a truly alien and often austere vision of the future. He is a science fiction master of the first order¾a fact fully on display in this outstanding collection. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). _Lyric, haunting, heartbreaking¾this is science fiction at its best.Ó¾George R.R. Martin Science Fiction Hall of Fame Inductee Gardner Dozois is the winner of two Nebula awards for fiction. _My generation of writers has produced relatively few authentic masters of the short form. Gardner Dozois is one of them.Ó¾William Gibson
Author : Yogita Goyal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009159715
This book provides a systematic and vibrant account of the range and achievements of contemporary Black writers.
Author : Kenneth Ramchand
Publisher : Ian Randle Publishers
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789766371517
An account of the emergence of the West Indian novel in English, this work provides valuable insights into the social, cultural and political background, offering concise and focused accounts of the growth of education, the development of literacy, and the formation of West Indian Creole languages.
Author : Judith Merril
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Science fiction, American
ISBN : UOM:39015019978298
Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307389466
From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments • This brilliant collection of connected short stories strings together several decades of moments in the life of one woman—as an ambitious girl in the 1930s, as a young professional coming of age in the uncertain ‘50s and ‘60s, and as half of a couple growing old together. In a series of vividly evoked settings that span cities, backwoods, and farm country, we see this woman contending over time with an unstable sister, a married lover, aging parents, mystifying stepchildren, vulnerable farm animals, and her own changing self. By turns funny, lyrical, earthy, shocking, and deeply personal, Moral Disorder displays Margaret Atwood’s celebrated storytelling gifts and unmistakable style to their best advantage.
