Wise Otherwise

Author : Sudhā Mūrti
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : India
ISBN : 0143062220

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Wise and Otherwise by Sudhā Mūrti Pdf

Fifty Vignettes Showcase The Myriad Shades Of Human Nature A Man Dumps His Aged Father In An Old-Age Home After Declaring Him To Be A Homeless Stranger, A Tribal Chief In The Sahyadri Hills Teaches The Author That There Is Humility In Receiving Too, And A Sick Woman Remembers To Thank Her Benefactor Even From Her Deathbed. These Are Just Some Of The Poignant And Eye-Opening Stories About People From All Over The Country That Sudha Murty Recounts In This Book. From Incredible Examples Of Generosity To The Meanest Acts One Can Expect From Men And Women, She Records Everything With Wry Humour And A Directness That Touches The Heart. First Published In 2002, Wise And Otherwise Has Sold Over 30,000 Copies In English And Has Been Translated Into All The Major Indian Languages. This Revised New Edition Is Sure To Charm Many More Readers And Encourage Them To Explore Their Inner Selves And The World Around Us With New Eyes. &Nbsp;

Author : Sudha Murthy
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-07-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9788184759006

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Wise & Otherwise by Sudha Murthy Pdf

Fifty vignettes showcase the myriad shades of human nature A man dumps his aged father in an old-age home after declaring him to be a homeless stranger, a tribal chief in the Sahyadri hills teaches the author that there is humility in receiving too, and a sick woman remembers to thank her benefactor even from her deathbed. These are just some of the poignant and eye-opening stories about people from all over the country that Sudha Murty recounts in this book. From incredible examples of generosity to the meanest acts one can expect from men and women, she records everything with wry humour and a directness that touches the heart. First published in 2002, Wise and Otherwise has sold over 30,000 copies in English and has been translated into all the major Indian languages. This revised new edition is sure to charm many more readers and encourage them to explore their inner selves and the world around us with new eyes.

Author : Frederic Swartwout Cozzens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Wit and humor
ISBN : HARVARD:32044019981653

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Sayings, Wise and Otherwise by Frederic Swartwout Cozzens Pdf

Author : Pansy
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382822446

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Wise and Otherwise by Pansy Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : Angela Carter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786826923

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Wise Children by Angela Carter Pdf

In Brixton, Nora and Dora Chance – twin chorus girls born and bred south of the river – are celebrating their 75th birthday. Over the river in Chelsea, their father and greatest actor of his generation Melchior Hazard turns 100 on the same day. As does his twin brother Peregrine. If, in fact, he's still alive. And if, in truth, Melchior is their real father after all... Wise Children is adapted for the stage from Angela Carter's last novel about a theatrical family living in South London. It centres around twin chorus girls, Nora and Dora Chance, whose lives are brimming with mystery, illegitimacy and scandal. Dora narrates the story as her older self, looking back on a tumultuous life, throughout which she and her sister have loved to sing and dance. A big, bawdy tangle of theatrical joy and heartbreak, Wise Children is a celebration of show business, family, forgiveness and hope. Expect show girls and Shakespeare, sex and scandal, music, mischief and mistaken identity – and butterflies by the thousand.

Author : Flannery O'Connor
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571266104

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Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor Pdf

Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's first novel, is the story of Hazel Motes who, released from the armed services, returns to the evangelical Deep South. There he begins a private battle against the religiosity of the community and in particular against Asa Hawkes, the 'blind' preacher, and his degenerate fifteen-year-old daughter. In desperation Hazel founds his own religion, 'The Church without Christ', and this extraordinary narrative moves towards its savage and macabre resolution. 'A literary talent that has about it the uniqueness of greatness.' Sunday Telegraph 'No other major American writer of our century has constructed a fictional world so energetically and forthrightly charged by religious investigation.' The New Yorker 'A genius.' New York Times

Author : Walter Isaacson,Evan Thomas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1997-06-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780684837710

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The Wise Men by Walter Isaacson,Evan Thomas Pdf

A captivating blend of personal biography and public drama, The Wise Men introduces the original best and brightest, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to postwar chaos: Averell Harriman, the freewheeling diplomat and Roosevelt's special envoy to Churchill and Stalin; Dean Acheson, the secretary of state who was more responsible for the Truman Doctrine than Truman and for the Marshall Plan than General Marshall; George Kennan, self-cast outsider and intellectual darling of the Washington elite; Robert Lovett, assistant secretary of war, undersecretary of state, and secretary of defense throughout the formative years of the Cold War; John McCloy, one of the nation's most influential private citizens; and Charles Bohlen, adroit diplomat and ambassador to the Soviet Union.

Author : Judy Blume
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781101564080

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Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great by Judy Blume Pdf

Sheila Tubman sometimes wonders who she really is: the outgoing, witty, and capable Sheila the Great, or the secret Sheila, who's afraid of the dark, spiders, swimming, and dogs. When her family spends the summer in Tarrytown, Sheila has to face some of her worst fears. Not only does a dog come with the rented house, but her parents expect Sheila to take swimming lessons! Sheila does her best to pretend she's an expert at everything, but she knows she isn't fooling her new best friend, Mouse Ellis, who happens to be a crackerjack swimmer and a dog lover. What will it take for Sheila to admit to the Tarrytown kids -- and to herself -- that she's only human?

Author : David Treuer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698157309

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Prudence by David Treuer Pdf

A haunting and unforgettable novel about love, loss, race, and desire in World War II–era America. On a sweltering day in August 1942, Frankie Washburn returns to his family’s rustic Minnesota resort for one last visit before he joins the war as a bombardier, headed for the darkened skies over Europe. Awaiting him at the Pines are those he’s about to leave behind: his hovering mother; the distant father to whom he’s been a disappointment; the Indian caretaker who’s been more of a father to him than his own; and Billy, the childhood friend who over the years has become something much more intimate. But before the homecoming can be celebrated, the search for a German soldier, escaped from the POW camp across the river, explodes in a shocking act of violence, with consequences that will reverberate years into the future for all of them and that will shape how each of them makes sense of their lives. With Prudence, Treuer delivers his most ambitious and captivating novel yet. Powerful and wholly original, it’s a story of desire and loss and the search for connection in a riven world; of race and class in a supposedly more innocent era. Most profoundly, it’s about the secrets we choose to keep, the ones we can’t help but tell, and who—and how—we’re allowed to love.

Author : Chris Paige
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1951124030

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OtherWise Christian by Chris Paige Pdf

OtherWise Christian: A Guidebook for Transgender Liberation by Mx. Chris Paige is a love letter to transgender communities, a self defense manual against Bible abuse and Christian trans-antagonism, and the beginning of a historical record of how far we have come.

Author : Warner Shedd
Publisher : Crown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780307421418

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Owls Aren't Wise & Bats Aren't Blind by Warner Shedd Pdf

In this fascinating book, wildlife expert and enthusiast Warner Shedd refutes popular animal myths like squirrels remembering where they bury nuts, wolves howling at the moon, and oppossums "playing dead." Have you ever seen a flying squirrel flapping through the air, watched a beaver carrying a load of mud on its tail, or ducked when a porcupine started throwing its quills? Probably not, says Shedd, former regional executive for the National Wildlife Federation. Offering scientific evidence that refutes many of the most tenacious and persevering folklore about wild animals, Owls Aren't Wise & Bats Aren't Blind will captivate you with fascinating facts and humorous anecdotes about more than thirty North American species-- some as familiar as the common toad, and others as elusive as the lynx. Owls Aren't Wise & Bats Aren't Blind is an entertaining dose of scientific reality for any nature enthusiast or armchair adventurer.

Author : Virginia Morell
Publisher : Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Animal behavior
ISBN : 9780307461445

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Animal Wise by Virginia Morell Pdf

Explores the frontiers of research on animal cognition and emotion, offering a surprising examination into the hearts and minds of wild and domesticated animals.

Author : Amanda Tachine,Z Nicolazzo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000980226

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Weaving an Otherwise by Amanda Tachine,Z Nicolazzo Pdf

Who (and what) are you bearing witness to (and for) through your research? When you witness, what claims are you making about who and what matters? What does your research forget, and does it do it on purpose?This book reconceptualizes qualitative research as an in-relations process, one that is centered on, fully concerned with, and lifts up those who have been and continue to be dispossessed, harmed, dehumanized, and erased because of white supremacy, settler colonialism, or other hegemonic world views.It prompts scholars to make connections between themselves as “researchers” and affect, ancestors, community, family and kinship, space and place, and the more than human beings with whom they are always already in community.What are the modes and ways of knowing through which we approach our research? How can the practice of research bring us closer to the peoples, places, more than human beings, histories, presents, and futures in which we are embedded and connected to? If we are the instruments of our research, then how must we be attentive to all of the affects and relations that make us who we are and what will become? These questions animate Weaving an Otherwise, providing a wellspring from which we think about our interconnections to the past, present, and future possibilities of research.After an opening chapter by the editors that explores the consequences and liberating opportunities of rejecting dominant qualitative methodologies that erase the voices of the subordinated and disdained, the contributors of nine chapters explore and enact approaches that uncover hidden connections and reveal unconscious value systems.

Author : Brendan O'Donoghue (Director of the National Library of Ireland)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0716532999

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Activities Wise and Otherwise by Brendan O'Donoghue (Director of the National Library of Ireland) Pdf

"This is the first biography of Sir Henry Augustus Robinson, who in addition to his duties as a senior civil servant in Dublin's Custom House between 1898 and 1922, acted as unofficial adviser to British ministers on many of the major political issues of the day. A consummate administrator, Robinson was responsible for planning and implementing a new and democratic local government system in 1898--99, and for supervising infrastructural, health and social services in the proceeding twenty years. Yet, in defiance of civil service norms, he became a figure who had a significant influence on major political issues and the administration of Ireland during the critical years of 1912 to 1922. Brendan O Donoghue uncovers Robinson's official and unofficial life and work, including his role in the Home Rule controversy, the Conscription Crisis, the release of political prisoners and the decision to agree a truce in 1921. Emerging as a man who loved Ireland but whose unionist status was never in doubt, he was critical of the 'die-hard' group who, even in 1918, could not accept that some form of Home Rule was inevitable. He was concerned, however, to avert any solution which would entail complete separation from the Empire or partition. This remarkable biography justifies Robinson's critical role at a time of momentous events in the last pre-independence decade."--Book jacket.

Author : Mac Barnett
Publisher : Balzer + Bray
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0062393448

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The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown by Mac Barnett Pdf

An exceptional picture book biography of Margaret Wise Brown, the legendary author of Goodnight Moon, The Runaway Bunny, and other beloved children’s classics, that's as groundbreaking as the icon herself was—from award-winning, bestselling author Mac Barnett and acclaimed illustrator Sarah Jacoby. What is important about Margaret Wise Brown? In forty-two inspired pages, this biography artfully plays with form and language to vivdly bring to life one of greatest children’s book creators who ever lived: Margaret Wise Brown. Illustrated with sumptuous art by rising star Sarah Jacoby, this is essential reading for book lovers of every age.