Perish

Author : LaToya Watkins
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593185933

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Perish by LaToya Watkins Pdf

“Watkins’s prose is effortless and forthright. . . . This is an impressive feat of storytelling. . . . It’s a difficult read and a tender story of silences and secrets. It’s a novel about coming home, despite that home being broken. And it’s a brave triumph of a novel that readers won’t forget long after finishing it.” —The New York Times Book Review Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Good Morning America * Essence* Esquire * The Root * Bustle * Ebony * PopSugar * Ms. * The Millions From a stunning new voice comes a powerful debut novel, Perish, about a Black Texan family, exploring the effects of inherited trauma and intergenerational violence as the family comes together to say goodbye to their matriarch on her deathbed. Bear it or perish yourself. Those are the words Helen Jean hears that fateteful night in her cousin’s outhouse that change the trajectory of her life. Spanning decades, Perish tracks the choices Helen Jean—the matriarch of the Turner family—makes and the way those choices have rippled across generations, from her children to her grandchildren and beyond. Told in alternating chapters, Perish follows four members of the Turner family: Julie B., a woman who regrets her wasted youth and the time spent under Helen Jean’s thumb; Alex, a police officer grappling with a dark and twisted past; Jan, a mother of two who yearns to go to school and leave Jerusalem, Texas, and all of its trauma behind for good; and Lydia, a woman whose marriage is falling apart because her body can’t seem to stay pregnant, as they're called home to say goodbye to their mother and grandmother. This family’s “reunion” unearths long-kept secrets and forces each member to ask themselves important questions about who is deserving of forgiveness and who bears the cross of blame. Set in vividly drawn Texas and tackling themes like trauma, legacy, faith, home, class, race, and more, this beautiful yet heart-wrenching novel will appeal to anyone who is interested in the intricacies of family and the ways bonds can be made, maintained, or irrevocably broken.

Author : Kayla Cagan
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781452162010

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Piper Perish by Kayla Cagan Pdf

Piper Perish inhales air and exhales art. The sooner she and her best friends can get out of Houston and get to New York City, the better. Art school has been Piper's dream her whole life, and now that senior year is halfway over, she's never felt more ready. But in the final months before graduation, things are weird with her friends and stressful with three different guys, and Piper's sister's tyrannical mental state seems to thwart every attempt at happiness for the close-knit Perish family. Piper's art just might be enough to get her out. But is she brave enough to seize that power when it means giving up so much? Debut author Kayla Cagan breathes new life into fiction in this dynamic, utterly authentic work featuring interior art from Rookie magazine illustrator Maria Ines Gul. Piper will have readers asking big questions along with her. What is love? What is friendship? What is family? What is home? And who is a person when she's missing any one of these things?

Author : Imad A. Moosa
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781786434937

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Publish or Perish by Imad A. Moosa Pdf

Imad Moosa’s thought-provoking book explores the contemporary doctrine that plagues the academic sphere: the principle of publish or perish. This book identifies the pressures placed upon academics to either publish their work regularly, or suffer the consequences, including lack of promotion, or even redundancy.

Author : Anne-Wil Harzing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Academic writing
ISBN : OCLC:815731941

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The Publish Or Perish Book by Anne-Wil Harzing Pdf

Author : James Hynes
Publisher : Picador
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429975776

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Publish and Perish by James Hynes Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Publisher's Weekly Best Book of the Year Combining the wit of David Lodge with Poe's delicious sense of the macabre, these are three witty, spooky novellas of satire set in academia—a world where Derrida rules, love is a "complicated ideological position," and poetic justice is served with an ideological twist.

Author : Fletcher Fleming
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021774766

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“Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.” A sermon [on Luke xiii. 4, 5]. by Fletcher Fleming Pdf

Author : Sandra Wallenius-Korkalo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317075271

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Progress or Perish by Sandra Wallenius-Korkalo Pdf

Drawing on contemporary and historical case studies from Finland, Sweden and Norway, Progress or Perish highlights the roles that art, culture and academic research play alongside technology and economics as bearers of change, approaching the study of progress from the human level. By turning attention towards communities and the everyday social activities of individuals in their socio-cultural and microhistorical contexts, this volume links the idea of progress to the emancipation and empowerment of collectives. Multidisciplinary in nature, Progress or Perish brings together the work of leading scholars to explore the changes that individual and social agency can effect. It engages with the wider theoretical and methodological debates to be of key interest to sociologists, geographers and anthropologists, as well as those with interests in gender studies, cultural and environmental history, literary studies and political science.

Author : Lynette H. Ong
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801465956

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Prosper or Perish by Lynette H. Ong Pdf

The official banking institutions for rural China are Rural Credit Cooperatives (RCCs). Although these co-ops are mandated to support agricultural development among farm households, since 1980 half of RCC loans have gone to small and medium-sized industrial enterprises located in, and managed by, townships and villages. These township and village enterprises have experienced highly uneven levels of success, and by the end of the 1990s, half of all RCC loans were in or close to default, forcing China's central bank to bail out RCCs. In Prosper or Perish, Lynette H. Ong examines the bias in RCC lending patterns, focusing on why the mobilization of rural savings has contributed to successful industrial development in some locales but not in others. Interweaving insightful and theoretically informed discussions of rural credit, development, governance, and bank bailouts, Ong identifies various sources for China's uneven development. In the highly decentralized fiscal environment of the People's Republic, successful industrialization has significant implications for rural governance. Local governments depend on revenue from industrial output to provide public goods and services; unsuccessful enterprises starve local governments of revenue and result in radical cutbacks in services. High peasant burdens, land takings without adequate compensation by local governments, and other poor governance practices tend to be associated with unsuccessful industrialization. In light of the recent liberalization of the rural credit sector in China, Prosper or Perish makes a significant contribution to debates within political science, economic development, and international banking.

Author : Prof. Jamal Sanad Al-Suwaidi
Publisher : ZAWYAT ALMAARFEH
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789948344827

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Change: Adapt or Perish by Prof. Jamal Sanad Al-Suwaidi Pdf

Prof. Jamal Sanad Al-Suwaidi examines the myriad social, economic, technological and political changes currently taking place globally, exploring the extent to which these changes will redefine humanity’s role, function and position, even the very concept of human existence itself. Change, Adapt, or Perish explores change from an analytical perspective, while also bringing together ideas on how we can coexist with it, mitigating its negative aspects in order to leverage its positive effects. While technology is the most prolific driver of change in modern societies, Change, Adapt, or Perish looks at a broader array of ways in which change is taking place. Education, IT, jobs, warfare and energy are all being transformed by the process of change, but so too is language. Prof. Jamal takes an in-depth look at the challenges facing the Arabic language and presents solutions for how it can be protected. The book also focuses on the impact that change has on some communities that are excluded from it, an important aspect of the conversation about the future of the Middle East. By providing a conceptual framework to understand change, and the nuances of its impact on education, employment, communication, and the future of security, warfare and energy, Prof. Jamal also provides an important examination of the position of the UAE and the wider Arab world in relation to change, as well as a strategy to positively respond to it. The UAE has taken a proactive approach in preparing for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and while the implications of change are neither identical nor inevitable in all societies, Prof. Jamal reveals the inherent advantage industrialized communities will have in facing these implications. Traditional societies, such as those of the Arab world, may lack the education, skills and cultural adaptability to respond effectively to change, highlighting the importance of the proactive steps being taken by the UAE to not only confront the changes taking place, but actively leverage them to enhance the country.

Author : Audrey Evans
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781644627051

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Seriously There is No Need to Perish by Audrey Evans Pdf

Seriously There is No Need to Perish by Audrey Evans [--------------------------------------------]

Author : J. Denniston
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368846435

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The Perishing Soul by J. Denniston Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Author : Steven Deace
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781602666429

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Without a Vision the People Perish by Steven Deace Pdf

According to the author, Americans are a confused people who want to post the Ten Commandments in public, but often don't live by them in their private lives. He urges this generation to get back to basics and boldly proclaim the vision of grace found only in the transforming truth of the Word of God. (Christian)

Author : Dr. Smiley Blanton
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781787207882

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Love or Perish [Expanded Edition] by Dr. Smiley Blanton Pdf

The New York Times called this famous guide to a more rewarding life “sound and solid, the product of a richly furnished mind, a book of wisdom.” Written by one of America’s most distinguished psychiatrists, Dr. Smiley Blanton, it has already found its way into some 200,000 American homes. Hundreds of readers have written to the author saying they were helped, inspired—and wanted more. In response to these letters, Dr. Blanton added an enormously valuable new section showing how men and women of all ages can give themselves as second chance at happiness—this section, titled “On Making a Fresh Start,” is included in this Expanded Edition, which was first published in 1957. “I believe that it is possible to achieve an emotional change with the insight developed through books. Books can make a change in one’s philosophy and attitude toward life. That is why so many books of the world are so deeply cherished. “It is in this hope that I write, in an effort to bring to people the hard-won truths of my observation over many years of life and during more than forty years of practice in psychiatry.”—Dr. Smiley Blanton, Introduction

Author : Esther Ahn Kim,I-suk An
Publisher : Moody Pub
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802440037

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If I Perish by Esther Ahn Kim,I-suk An Pdf

A remarkable true story of the savage persecution of Christians in Korea during World War II.

Author : Natashia Deón
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781640095601

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The Perishing by Natashia Deón Pdf

A Black immortal in 1930's Los Angeles must recover the memory of her past in order to discover who she truly is in this extraordinarily affecting novel for readers of N. K. Jemisin and Octavia E. Butler. Lou, a young Black woman, wakes up in an alley in 1930s Los Angeles with no memory of how she got there or where she’s from. Taken in by a caring foster family, Lou dedicates herself to her education while trying to put her mysterious origins behind her. She’ll go on to become the first Black female journalist at the Los Angeles Times, but Lou’s extraordinary life is about to take an even more remarkable turn. When she befriends a firefighter at a downtown boxing gym, Lou is shocked to realize that though she has no memory of meeting him, she’s been drawing his face for years. Increasingly certain that their paths previously crossed—and beset by unexplainable flashes from different eras haunting her dreams—Lou begins to believe she may be an immortal sent here for a very important reason, one that only others like her can explain. Setting out to investigate the mystery of her existence, Lou must make sense of the jumble of lifetimes calling to her, just as new forces threaten the existence of those around her. Immersed in the rich historical tapestry of Los Angeles—Prohibition, the creation of Route 66, and the collapse of the St. Francis Dam—The Perishing is a stunning examination of love and justice through the eyes of one miraculous woman whose fate seems linked to the city she comes to call home.