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Book Defying the Defiance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kim "Tip" Frank, Ed.S.
  • Publisher : Youthlight Incorporated
  • Release : 2005-01-01
  • ISBN : 9781889636771
  • Pages : 140 pages

Download or read book Defying the Defiance written by Kim "Tip" Frank, Ed.S. and published by Youthlight Incorporated. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the most challenging classes, the oppositional and defiant student is on the verge of preventing him/herself and many of other students from focusing on learning. This book will help the classroom teacher find effective ways to avoid disruption and increase cooperation from the most resistant students. As you begin to understand the underlying causes and dynamics of opposition, you will be able to develop additional strategies that will lead to increased classroom success and satisfaction for both the defiant student and the teacher!

Book Joyful Defiance

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  • Author : Anna M. Madsen
  • Publisher : Fortress Press
  • Release : 2022-06-07
  • ISBN : 1506472621
  • Pages : 187 pages

Download or read book Joyful Defiance written by Anna M. Madsen and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sitting in the pew at her husband's funeral, author Anna Madsen heard the last verse of the great Reformation hymn: "Were they to take our house, goods, honor, child, or spouse, though life be wrenched away, they cannot win the day. The kingdom's ours forever!" Reflecting on this experience, Madsen realized that death takes victories when its power appears to be greater than life. And she defiantly refused to cede death any more wins: "Not my spirit, not my strength, not my joy, and certainly not those of my children." The challenge is to acknowledge death in its manifold forms and own one's indignation and grief, and yet transcend it so that even if we are angry, we do not become anger. This book names the tension between grief and hope, acknowledges the reality of both, and defines a path forward to a life of joyful defiance. That path runs through Holy Saturday, a day that has one foot in the fear, grief, and death of Good Friday while the other is in Easter, a day of hope, freedom, life, and joy. Christians are not immune from experiencing anxiety, anger, exhaustion, and grief--emotions and effects arising from personal and communal trauma, including the trauma of death. Yet, the accompanying angst and pain, while real, are not the last word for people of faith. This book is written particularly for advocates, caregivers, and those who suffer in any number of ways, among them chronic illness, chronic injustice, and chronic exhaustion. Despite facing grief, anger, fear, and fatigue, readers will be encouraged not just to cope but to embrace hope and joy again, and then to plow them back into the ground of the wider world for the sake of their neighbors.

Book I Am Defiance  A Novel of WWII

Download or read book I Am Defiance A Novel of WWII written by Jenni L. Walsh and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jenni L. Walsh delivers a gripping story about a real-life youth resistance group in World War II Germany, and about the power of thinking for yourself in the fight against hatred. Brigitte tries not to ask questions. They don't seem very welcome at her League of German Girls meetings, where she and her friends learn about their duties to Hitler's war effort.But she can't help asking questions when a mysterious pamphlet appears in her mailbox: a pamphlet full of words like resistance and freedom, from a group that calls itself the White Rose. Brigitte's father and older sister, Angelika, seem to agree with the forbidden papers -- an opinion that is dangerous even to whisper at home. And when Angelika becomes involved with secret resistance efforts, Brigitte's questions only bloom.Could Angelika be connected to the White Rose? Is Brigitte's family in danger of being arrested? And if she chooses a side, will Brigitte be able to take a stand?

Book The Alpha s Mate

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  • Author : Eve Adrian
  • Publisher : Eve Adrian
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 59 pages

Download or read book The Alpha s Mate written by Eve Adrian and published by Eve Adrian. This book was released on with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alpha wolf searching for his mate… Max Stone rules the werewolves of Boise, Idaho. Driven to serve and protect them he has put aside all personal desire for too long. Now a long dormant urge to find his mate has taken control, compelling him to make her his in every way. New in town and driven by forces she can’t imagine… Kelly Shaw dedicates her life to studying wolves. New in Boise she is driven to prove herself capable in her field. A fateful meeting with a handsome stranger introduces her to a whole new world, bringing out the wolf within. Fate ties Kelly and Max together, but life may drag them apart. A 14,000 word novelette, first in the Werewolf Mates series Get the first in the series free! The Alpha's Mate will give you werewolves, paranormal erotic romance, mates, and alpha males. Continue the series with: The Lawyer's Mate The Doctor's Mate The Werewolf Mates Anthology and Her Wolf's Desire

Book Defying Hitler

Download or read book Defying Hitler written by Sebastian Haffner and published by Plunkett Lake Press. This book was released on 2019-07-29 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defying Hitler was written in 1939 and focuses on the year 1933, when, as Hitler assumed power, its author was a 25-year-old German law student, in training to join the German courts as a junior administrator. His book tries to answer two questions people have been asking since the end of World War II: “How were the Nazis possible?” and “Why did no one stop them?” Sebastian Haffner’s vivid first-person account, written in real time and only much later discovered by his son, makes the rise of the Nazis psychologically comprehensible. “An astonishing memoir... [a] masterpiece.” — Gabriel Schoenfeld, The New York Times Book Review “A short, stabbing, brilliant book... It is important, first, as evidence of what one intelligent German knew in the 1930s about the unspeakable nature of Nazism, at a time when the overwhelming majority of his countrymen claim to have know nothing at all. And, second, for its rare capacity to reawaken anger about those who made the Nazis possible.” — Max Hastings, The Sunday Telegraph “Defying Hitler communicates one of the most profound and absolute feelings of exile that any writer has gotten between covers.” — Charles Taylor, Salon “Sebastian Haffner was Germany’s political conscience, but it is only now that we can read how he experienced the Nazi terror himself — that is a memoir of frightening relevance today.” — Heinrich Jaenicke, Stern “The prophetic insights of a fairly young man... help us understand the plight, as Haffner refers to it, of the non-Nazi German.” — The Denver Post “Sebastian Haffner’s Defying Hitler is a most brilliant and imaginative book — one of the most important books we have ever published.” — Lord Weidenfeld

Book Forms of Defiance

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  • Author : Cynthia Sample
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2022-01-25
  • ISBN : 9781950730940
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Forms of Defiance written by Cynthia Sample and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ancient proverb claims that "Every man's way is right in his own eyes." Such is reflected in the various ways people tell themselves their own stories and the meaning within their experiences, but actual revelation of characters' tales defy the traditional methods of the telling. Forms of Defiance presents a broad variety of people caught in the complexities of their humanity, revealing their narratives, even to themselves according to their peculiarities - Bible concordance entries, playlists, poems, diaries and others - while dissecting the human complexities they are experiencing, and making choices about them.

Book Defying the IRA

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  • Author : Brian Hughes (Historian)
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 1781382972
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Defying the IRA written by Brian Hughes (Historian) and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the grass-roots relationship between the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the civilian population during the Irish Revolution. It is primarily concerned with the attempts of the militant revolutionaries to discourage, stifle, and punish dissent among the local populations in which they operated, and the actions or inactions by which dissent was expressed or implied. Focusing on the period of guerilla war against British rule from c. 1917 to 1922, it uncovers the acts of 'everyday' violence, threat, and harm that characterized much of the revolutionary activity of this period. Moving away from the ambushes and assassinations that have dominated much of the discourse on the revolution, the book explores low-level violent and non-violent agitation in the Irish town or parish. The opening chapter treats the IRA's challenge to the British state through the campaign against servants of the Crown - policemen, magistrates, civil servants, and others - and IRA participation in local government and the republican counter-state. The book then explores the nature of civilian defiance and IRA punishment in communities across the island before turning its attention specifically to the year that followed the 'Truce' of July 1921. This study argues that civilians rarely operated at either extreme of a spectrum of support but, rather, in a large and fluid middle ground. Behaviour was rooted in local circumstances, and influenced by local fears, suspicions, and rivalries. IRA punishment was similarly dictated by community conditions and usually suited to the nature of the perceived defiance. Overall, violence and intimidation in Ireland was persistent, but, by some contemporary standards, relatively restrained.

Book Defiance of Eagles

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  • Author : William W. Johnstone
  • Publisher : Pinnacle Books
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 0786031301
  • Pages : 335 pages

Download or read book Defiance of Eagles written by William W. Johnstone and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his niece is kidnapped by a band of raiders, Falcon MacCallister vows to get her back from the ruthless, Army-trained criminal, Boyd Ackerman.

Book Devotion and Defiance  My Journey in Love  Faith and Politics

Download or read book Devotion and Defiance My Journey in Love Faith and Politics written by Humaira Awais Shahid and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prominent Muslim woman activist describes how she transformed the "women's section" of a local newspaper to reveal the true lives of Pakistani women and became a passionate advocate for women's rights, ultimately winning a seat on the Provincial Assembly.

Book Defiance

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  • Author : Nechama Tec
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2008-12-26
  • ISBN : 0199744025
  • Pages : 408 pages

Download or read book Defiance written by Nechama Tec and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-26 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prevailing image of European Jews during the Holocaust is one of helpless victims, but in fact many Jews struggled against the terrors of the Third Reich. In Defiance, Nechama Tec offers a riveting history of one such group, a forest community in western Belorussia that would number more than 1,200 Jews by 1944--the largest armed rescue operation of Jews by Jews in World War II. Tec reveals that this extraordinary community included both men and women, some with weapons, but mostly unarmed, ranging from infants to the elderly. She reconstructs for the first time the amazing details of how these partisans and their families--hungry, exposed to the harsh winter weather--managed not only to survive, but to offer protection to all Jewish fugitives who could find their way to them. Arguing that this success would have been unthinkable without the vision of one man, Tec offers penetrating insight into the group's commander, Tuvia Bielski. Tec brings to light the untold story of Bielski's struggle as a partisan who lost his parents, wife, and two brothers to the Nazis, yet never wavered in his conviction that it was more important to save one Jew than to kill twenty Germans. She shows how, under Bielski's guidance, the partisans smuggled Jews out of heavily guarded ghettos, scouted the roads for fugitives, and led retaliatory raids against Belorussian peasants who collaborated with the Nazis. Herself a Holocaust survivor, Nechama Tec here draws on wide-ranging research and never before published interviews with surviving partisans--including Tuvia Bielski himself--to reconstruct here the poignant and unforgettable story of those who chose to fight.

Book Born of Defiance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Press
  • Release : 2015-05-12
  • ISBN : 146684096X
  • Pages : 361 pages

Download or read book Born of Defiance written by Sherrilyn Kenyon and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born an Outcast, Talyn Batur has spent the whole of his life fighting against the prejudice of his people. An Andarion without a father is not something anyone wants to be. But when his companion's brother draws him into a plot against the Andarion crown, he finds himself torn between the loyalty to their planetary government that his mother has beaten into him and his own beliefs of justice and right. Now, he must decide for himself to remain a pawn of their government or to defy everything and everyone he's ever known to stand up to tyranny. It's a gamble that will either save his life or end it. And when old enemies align with new ones, it's more than just his own life at risk. And more than just his homeworld that will end should he fail, in Born of Defiance, the next League novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon.

Book On Resistance

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  • Author : Howard Caygill
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 2013-10-24
  • ISBN : 1472529669
  • Pages : 331 pages

Download or read book On Resistance written by Howard Caygill and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No word is more central to the contemporary political imagination and action than 'resistance'. In its various manifestations - from the armed guerrilla to Gandhian mass pacifist protest, from Wikileaks and the Arab Spring to the global eruption and violent repression of the Occupy movement - concepts of resistance are becoming ubiquitous and urgent. In this book, Howard Caygill conducts the first ever systematic analysis of 'resistance': as a means of defying political oppression, in its relationship with military violence and its cultural representation. Beginning with the militaristic doctrine of Clausewitz and the evolution of a new model of guerrilla warfare to resist the forces of Napoleonic France, On Resistance elucidates and critiques the contributions of seminal resistant thinkers from Marx and Nietzsche to Mao, Gandhi, Sartre and Fanon to identify continuities of resistance and rebellion from the Paris Commune to the Greenham Women's Peace Camp. Employing a threefold line of inquiry, Caygill exposes the persistent discourses through which resistance has been framed in terms of force, violence, consciousness and subjectivity to evolve a critique of resistance. Tracing the features of resistance, its strategies, character and habitual forms throughout modern world history Caygill identifies the typological consistencies which make up resistance. Finally, by teasing out the conceptual nuances of resistance and its affinities to concepts of repression, reform and revolution, Caygill reflects upon contemporary manifestations of resistance to identify whether the 21st century is evolving new understandings of protest and struggle.

Book The Art of Insubordination

Download or read book The Art of Insubordination written by Todd B. Kashdan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly practical and researched-based toolbox for anyone who wants to create a world with more justice, creativity, and courage. For too long, the term insubordination has evoked negative feelings and mental images. But for ideas to evolve and societies to progress, it’s vital to cultivate rebels who are committed to challenging conventional wisdom and improving on it. Change never comes easily. And most would-be rebels lack the skills to overcome hostile audiences who cling desperately to the way things are. Based on cutting-edge research, The Art of Insubordination is the essential guide for anyone seeking to be heard, make change, and rebel against an unhealthy status quo. Learn how to Resist the allure of complacency Discover the value of being around people who stop conforming and start deviating. Produce messages that influence the majority-- when in the minority. Build mighty alliances Manage the discomfort when trying to rebel Champion ideas that run counter to traditional thinking Unlock the benefits of being in a group of diverse people holding divergent views Cultivate curiosity, courage, and independent, critical thinking in youth Filled with engaging stories about dissenters in the trenches as well as science that will transform your thinking. The Art of Insubordination is for anyone who seeks more justice, courage, and creativity in the world.

Book A Quirky Eye

    Book Details:
  • Author : William E. Woodruff
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2008-09-17
  • ISBN : 1436316685
  • Pages : 433 pages

Download or read book A Quirky Eye written by William E. Woodruff and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-09-17 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Collected Works of William E. Woodruff Jr. is being published posthumously by William's wife, Gloria Avrech, to honor him. William died on April 22, 2004. Brace yourself for an unforgettable reading experience as Xlibris releases A Quirky Eye. William E. Woodruff Jr. is a writer of great clarity, wit and wisdom. His gifted facility with imagery and love of the English language shines through in this unique collection that contains most of his creative writing. Inside are an enticing and diverse smorgasbord, including haiku, light and serious lyric poems, gimmick, visual and scrabble poems, and several short stories. Regarding his literary work Mr. Woodruff comments, "All my writings, whatever their differences, have in common the darkness outside my window as I write, the green glow of the letters on my computer screen, and caffeine."

Book Defying  The Plan

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  • Author : Kim Jezabel Zinngrebe
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2022-07-12
  • ISBN : 0253062519
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Defying The Plan written by Kim Jezabel Zinngrebe and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living under settler colonialism and patriarchal oppressions, Palestinian women in Israel are expected to operate even the most intimate aspects of their lives according to what some call "The Plan," which dictates everything from clothing, marriage, religion, and sex to how children are born and raised. In Defying "The Plan," Kim Jezabel Zinngrebe draws from a series of moving interviews to reveal that despite various forms of intertwined oppressions by both the Israeli state and Palestinian society, Palestinian women show defiance by the quotidian choices they make in their own intimate lives under occupation, which, Zinngrebe argues, cannot be perceived as a mere corollary but constitute a pivotal and contested terrain of the struggle between settler and colonized. Defying "The Plan" explores such issues as the segregation of sexual education in Palestine; the politics of dress, menstruation, and tattoos; and the roles of class, feminism, and race. Importantly, she highlights the intersectional experiences of women typically excluded from existing accounts, such as Black Palestinian women, women with disabilities, unmarried and divorced women, Bedouin women, and LGBTQI women. The stories gathered in Defying "The Plan" trace and unpack settler colonial power at the level of the intimate and native women's various practices of defiance.

Book The Nature of Human Creativity

Download or read book The Nature of Human Creativity written by Robert J. Sternberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together the research programs and findings of the twenty-four psychological scientists most cited in major textbooks on creativity.

Book Defying Pack Law

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  • Author : Eve Langlais
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-07-07
  • ISBN : 9781988328256
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book Defying Pack Law written by Eve Langlais and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dana fled her pack and their laws to live on her terms, but the price of defiance was her happiness. Pack law states Lycan females must be shared by two or more males, but young and in love, Dana flees rather than be forced into a mEnage. Her life on the run, constantly on guard, leaves no room for happiness-or love. When her past catches up and returns her to the home she fled, she finds herself reevaluating her beliefs. To her surprise, she discovers her body and inner wolf want to claim three males. Could it be that now older and wiser, she can accept the Lycan polyamorous way of life? Or will jealousy and fear send her running again?