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Author : Barry Denenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 043955506X
In the diary account of her journey from Ireland in 1847 and of her work in a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, fourteen-year-old Mary reveals a great longing for her family.
Author : Margaret J. Wheatley
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-08
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781609945381
AN INVITATION TO WARRIORSHIP I wrote this book for you if you offer your work as a contribution to others, whatever your work might be, and if now you find yourself feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, and sometimes despairing even as you paradoxically experience moments of joy, belonging, and greater resolve to do your work. This book describes how we can do our good work with dedication, energy, discipline, and joy by consciously choosing a new role for ourselves, that of warriors for the human spirit. This book contains maps of how we ended up in a world nobody wants—overtaken by greed, self-interest, and oppressive power—the very opposite of what we worked so hard to create. These maps look deeply into the darkness of this time so that we can develop the insight we need to contribute in meaningful ways. This book provides maps for the future, how we can transform our grief, outrage, and frustration into the skills of insight and compassion to serve this dark time with bravery, decency, and gentleness. As warriors for the human spirit, we discover our right work, work that we know is ours to do no matter what. We engage wholeheartedly, embody values we cherish, let go of outcomes, and carefully attend to relationships. We serve those issues and people we care about, focused not so much on making a difference as on being a difference.
Author : Ann Knope & Krystyna Stachowicz Farley
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Polish people
ISBN : 9781491708804
A first hand account of a Polish family's experience during the deconstruction of Poland by Hitler and Stalin as seen through the eyes of a feisty 14 year old girl, Krystyna Stachowicz. Krystyna is a living witness to the unraveling of the Second Polish Republic when they were left to face alone the Nazi and Communist threat to the free world, while the rest of the world looked the other way.
Author : Margaret J. Wheatley
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781609945367
Wheatley provides encouraging maps for how to design organizations based on living systems' capacity for creativity, change, and adaptation. But in the 20 years since the first publication, she's seen that in spite of our best efforts the world that's emerged is on a destructive trajectory.
Author : C.L. Dews,Carolyn Leste Law
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1995-04-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781566392914
These autobiographical and analytical essays by a diverse group of professors and graduate students from working-class families reveal an academic world in which "blue-collar work is invisible." Describing conflict and frustration, the contributors expose a divisive middle-class bias in the university setting. Many talk openly about how little they understood about the hierarchy and processes of higher education, while others explore how their experiences now affect their relationships with their own students. They all have in common the anguish of choosing to hide their working-class background, to keep the language of home out of the classroom and the ideas of school away from home. These startlingly personal stories highlight the fissure between a working-class upbringing and the more privileged values of the institution.
Author : Lorelie Brown
Publisher : Riptide Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781626494510
**The marriage was of convenience. The feelings? Not so much.** My name is Rachel. I'm straight ... I think. I also have a mountain of student loans and a smart mouth. I wasn't serious when I told Pari Sadashiv I'd marry her. Except Pari needs a green card, and she's willing to give me a breather from drowning in debt."
Author : Jeffery Williams
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781552381199
Far From Home recounts the life of a soldier who grew up in 1920s Calgary and became an officer in the Canadian army who travelled the world. Williams offers a vivid retelling of growing up in Calgary during the depression. Williams transition from "the most untrained officer in the army" to an army officer at home in the Pentagon, along with the culture shock of moving from a relatively simple upbringing to the sophisticated life of an international officer, is told with great humour and rare insight into the human side of the military life.
Author : Chris Jones
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780385521901
An incredible, true-life adventure set on the most dangerous frontier of all—outer spaceIn the nearly forty years since Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, space travel has come to be seen as a routine enterprise—at least until the shuttle Columbia disintegrated like the Challenger before it, reminding us, once again, that the dangers are all too real. Too Far from Home vividly captures the hazardous realities of space travel. Every time an astronaut makes the trip into space, he faces the possibility of death from the slightest mechanical error or instance of bad luck: a cracked O-ring, an errant piece of space junk, an oxygen leak . . . There are a myriad of frighteningly probable events that would result in an astronaut’s death. In fact, twenty-one people who have attempted the journey have been killed. Yet for a special breed of individual, the call of space is worth the risk. Men such as U.S. astronauts Donald Pettit and Kenneth Bowersox, and Russian flight engineer Nikolai Budarin, who in November 2002 left on what was to be a routine fourteen-week mission maintaining the International Space Station. But then, on February 23, 2003, the Columbia exploded beneath them. Despite the numerous news reports examining the tragedy, the public remained largely unaware that three men remained orbiting the earth. With the launch program suspended indefinitely, these astronauts had suddenly lost their ride home. Too Far from Home chronicles the efforts of the beleaguered Mission Controls in Houston and Moscow as they work frantically against the clock to bring their men safely back to Earth, ultimately settling on a plan that felt, at best, like a long shot. Latched to the side of the space station was a Russian-built Soyuz TMA-1 capsule, whose technology dated from the late 1960s (in 1971 a malfunction in the Soyuz 11 capsule left three Russian astronauts dead.) Despite the inherent danger, the Soyuz became the only hope to return Bowersox, Budarin, and Pettit home. Chris Jones writes beautifully of the majesty and mystique of space travel, while reminding us all how perilous it is to soar beyond the sky.
Author : N. Michelle Murray
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781469647470
Home Away from Home: Immigrant Narratives, Domesticity, and Coloniality in Contemporary Spanish Culture examines ideological, emotional, economic, and cultural phenomena brought about by migration through readings of works of literature and film featuring domestic workers. In the past thirty years, Spain has experienced a massive increase in immigration. Since the 1990s, immigrants have been increasingly female, as bilateral trade agreements, migration quotas, and immigration policies between Spain and its former colonies (including the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, and the Philippines) have created jobs for foreign women in the domestic service sector. These migrations reveal that colonial histories continue to be structuring elements of Spanish national culture, even in a democratic era in which its former colonies are now independent. Migration has also transformed the demographic composition of Spain and has created complex new social relations around the axes of gender, race, and nationality. Representations of migrant domestic workers provide critical responses to immigration and its feminization, alongside profound engagements with how the Spanish nation has changed since the end of the Franco era in 1975. Throughout Home Away from Home, readings of works of literature and film show that texts concerning the transnational nature of domestic work uniquely provide a nuanced account of the cultural shifts occurring in late twentieth- through twenty-first-century Spain.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822037817285
"The purpose of the hearing today is to examine the criteria used to determine the placement of D.C. Code offenders, as well as to discuss the rehabilitation and reintegration challenges that these individuals face as a result of being in prison so far from their homes and supportive networks."--P. 1.
Author : Jean Little
Publisher : Markham, Ont. : Scholastic Canada
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Canada
ISBN : 043996900X
With more than 200,000 books in print, Dear Canada has fast become the historical fiction series for young girls. It has been two long years since Eliza's beloved older brother, Hugo, went away to war. Caught up in his enthusiasm, she couldn't understand her parent's less-than enthusiastic reaction. Now that her other brother Jack has also enlisted, she yearns for the safe return of both brothers. If only she had a friend that she could talk to about her feelings....
Author : Sarah Parker Rubio
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Picture books for children
ISBN : 9781496436733
A small boy has to leave his home suddenly, leaving his extended family and most of his possessions behind. In the middle of a very trying journey, a kind stranger tells the boy the story of Jesus' escape to Egypt.
Author : Naomi Shmuel
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781541591523
"There's an Ethiopian; there's an Ethiopian!" I heard them shouting. I looked behind me, but I couldn't see any Ethiopian. Children began crowding round me, and I still didn't realize that they meant me, I was the Ethiopian. Meskerem was born in a small town in the Golan Heights of Israel, to an Ethiopian mother and an American father. Soon after Operation Solomon, when several thousand Ethiopian immigrants were brought to Israel, Meskerem's parents decided to move to the center of the country, to the town of Herzelia. Meskerem comes face-to-face with the ignorance and prejudices of her new classmates, many of whom are meeting someone dark-skinned for the first time. With the help of her Ethiopian grandmother, who remained in Kazerin, Meskerem comes to terms with who she is and finds strength in belonging to three different cultures.
Author : Ffh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451604900
In this book, the popular Christian artists of FFH share experiences from their lives on the road as well as devotional thoughts learned from those experiences. You know what it's like to be far from home, craving the warmth of those you love. You experience feelings and emotions that you don't normally feel when at home, surrounded by those who care. In this book, the popular Christian artists of FFH share experiences from their lives on the road as well as devotional thoughts learned from those experiences. Also included are "letters from the road"—prayers to our Heavenly Father, expressing struggles, hopes, longings, and challenges just like the ones you feel—and room for you to write your own "letters from the road" to God who eagerly anticipates your homecoming. Though the world we live in can feel strange, even hopeless at times, your loving Father offers acceptance, love, forgiveness, and understanding. So join FFH in this inspirational book that will help you feel closer to the Father who loves you unconditionally. You will never be the same. And although you may be far from home, you will feel closer than you ever dreamed you could.
Author : Richard Wright Simpson,Taliaferro N. Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1994-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195086638
These compelling letters of two young enlisted men coming of age in the midst of war read like a good historical novel, complete with plot, character development, suspense, tragedy, and even more than a little romance, offering both a vivid picture of war at the battlefront and the texture ofthe home life of a Southern family during the Civil War.
