Download or read book Forever Home Within An Ivory Castle written by Vanessa Bunting and published by ShieldCrest. This book was released on 2020-05-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If home is where the heart is and that home is one's own castle, then this special place is about to be discovered by one starry-eyed individual, her husband and five cats. In this fifth book about everyday true life, an idyllic countryside region to move to has been found but not so the actual property. To accept the current situation and favourable lifestyle would be easy, but that would mean ignoring the yearning to find a better life within a Forever Home at last. This may be a case of castles in the sky and so nothing more than a mere fantasy, but somehow life has a way of showing us all that's achievable. It's time to shine.
Download or read book Forever Home Within Music Dance written by Vanessa Bunting and published by ShieldCrest Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This true story is ongoing from nine years in print and follows the life of a restless female who finally found inner peace in her forever home, shared with her husband and four cats in semi-rural countryside. It’s a simple life lived without the nearness of friends or family but yet entrenched with a deep-rooted sense of belonging, gratitude and privilege. Much like music & dance, this life does become out of tune sometimes with the wrong steps taken at the wrong time. At other times there’s complete harmony from being on the right track, with the right beat and taking the right steps. There are different ways of listening, recognising, reacting and responding to whatever situation comes to be and whether literally or metaphorically, alone or shared, the power of music & dance can while away the toughest of times, bringing us back to this space we occupy here in this solar system where planets and stars are moving too - in another shared space. So, here’s to all the moving and shaking of another year to be DISCOvered!
Download or read book Forever Home Within 360 Degrees written by Vanessa Bunting and published by ShieldCrest Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a true story about finding a forever home, feathering that nest then feeling at peace within one-self. The search is over and a new life has begun for Vanessa, her husband and four cats, in the beautiful English countryside. As this next phase of life gets underway, there’s the inevitable highs and lows, mysteries and laughter involved, at every single turn. Apart from moving to an unknown area, away from family and friends, with limited funds and no jobs, there’s still a sense of freedom and flying high. So, what could possibly go wrong when the pull of intuition that all will be well, remains stronger and more convincing, than the panoramic vision showing all the surrounding stumbling blocks? Better fetch some biscuits and get yourself comfy.
Download or read book Forever Home Within Two Pots written by Vanessa Bunting and published by ShieldCrest Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all bear the knocks and chips of life in some way or other but we can adapt and still function whilst keeping our goals in sight. In this sixth book of the Forever Home Within series, all plans have been placed on the back burner but that's understandable. Follow this true story about everyday life and the search for a forever home which awaits. Something magical is cooking in this kitchen.
Download or read book Forever Home Within That Third Year written by Vanessa Bunting and published by ShieldCrest Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the ongoing true story of the Forever Home Within books, a pattern of major events has emerged every twenty years, and then, three years later, a further pinnacle to that change occurs. That's not to say that nothing else happens in between times – it certainly does. One such 'twenty year' revelation was the discovery of a beautiful location in which a permanent home may be found. Now three years on, comes the actual move to a 'Forever Home'. 2021 is 'That Third Year' and is on course to deliver a new and meaningful life and so prove that patterns do exist at certain times - and despite every glitch along the way.
Download or read book Upending the Ivory Tower written by Stefan M. Bradley and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2019 Anna Julia Cooper and C.L.R. James Award, given by the National Council for Black Studies Finalist, 2019 Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History, given by the African American Intellectual History Society Winner, 2019 Outstanding Book Award, given by the History of Education Society The inspiring story of the black students, faculty, and administrators who forever changed America’s leading educational institutions and paved the way for social justice and racial progress The eight elite institutions that comprise the Ivy League, sometimes known as the Ancient Eight—Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, and Cornell—are American stalwarts that have profoundly influenced history and culture by producing the nation’s and the world’s leaders. The few black students who attended Ivy League schools in the decades following WWII not only went on to greatly influence black America and the nation in general, but unquestionably awakened these most traditional and selective of American spaces. In the twentieth century, black youth were in the vanguard of the black freedom movement and educational reform. Upending the Ivory Tower illuminates how the Black Power movement, which was borne out of an effort to edify the most disfranchised of the black masses, also took root in the hallowed halls of America’s most esteemed institutions of higher education. Between the close of WWII and 1975, the civil rights and Black Power movements transformed the demographics and operation of the Ivy League on and off campus. As desegregators and racial pioneers, black students, staff, and faculty used their status in the black intelligentsia to enhance their predominantly white institutions while advancing black freedom. Although they were often marginalized because of their race and class, the newcomers altered educational policies and inserted blackness into the curricula and culture of the unabashedly exclusive and starkly white schools. This book attempts to complete the narrative of higher education history, while adding a much needed nuance to the history of the Black Power movement. It tells the stories of those students, professors, staff, and administrators who pushed for change at the risk of losing what privilege they had. Putting their status, and sometimes even their lives, in jeopardy, black activists negotiated, protested, and demonstrated to create opportunities for the generations that followed. The enrichments these change agents made endure in the diversity initiatives and activism surrounding issues of race that exist in the modern Ivy League. Upending the Ivory Tower not only informs the civil rights and Black Power movements of the postwar era but also provides critical context for the Black Lives Matter movement that is growing in the streets and on campuses throughout the country today. As higher education continues to be a catalyst for change, there is no one better to inform today’s activists than those who transformed our country’s past and paved the way for its future.
Download or read book After the Ivory Tower Falls written by Will Bunch and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Will Bunch, the epic untold story of college—the great political and cultural fault line of American life Winner of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia Literary Award | Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction | "This book is simply terrific." —Heather Cox Richardson | "Ambitious and engrossing." —New York Times Book Review | "A must-read." —Nancy MacLean, author of Democracy in Chains Today there are two Americas, separate and unequal, one educated and one not. And these two tribes—the resentful “non-college” crowd and their diploma-bearing yet increasingly disillusioned adversaries—seem on the brink of a civil war. The strongest determinant of whether a voter was likely to support Donald Trump in 2016 was whether or not they attended college, and the degree of loathing they reported feeling toward the so-called “knowledge economy" of clustered, educated elites. Somewhere in the winding last half-century of the United States, the quest for a college diploma devolved from being proof of America’s commitment to learning, science, and social mobility into a kind of Hunger Games contest to the death. That quest has infuriated both the millions who got shut out and millions who got into deep debt to stay afloat. In After the Ivory Tower Falls, award-winning journalist Will Bunch embarks on a deeply reported journey to the heart of the American Dream. That journey begins in Gambier, Ohio, home to affluent, liberal Kenyon College, a tiny speck of Democratic blue amidst the vast red swath of white, post-industrial, rural midwestern America. To understand “the college question,” there is no better entry point than Gambier, where a world-class institution caters to elite students amidst a sea of economic despair. From there, Bunch traces the history of college in the U.S., from the landmark GI Bill through the culture wars of the 60’s and 70’s, which found their start on college campuses. We see how resentment of college-educated elites morphed into a rejection of knowledge itself—and how the explosion in student loan debt fueled major social movements like Occupy Wall Street. Bunch then takes a question we need to ask all over again—what, and who, is college even for?—and pushes it into the 21st century by proposing a new model that works for all Americans. The sum total is a stunning work of journalism, one that lays bare the root of our political, cultural, and economic division—and charts a path forward for America.
Download or read book Ivory Tower written by Grant Matthew Jenkins and published by Atmosphere Press. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ivory Tower is a campus crime thriller about Margolis Santos, a charismatic film professor in her prime, who risks her career and life to uncover sexual corruption inside her university’s football program where rich boosters pay sorority girls to have sex with star recruits. Embroiled in a sex scandal of her own, Margolis’s life goes into a tailspin. She unthinkingly sleeps with a student from another school, and when the parents find out, they threaten to sue her University. To protect its reputation, the conniving university president, Art ‘Lightning’ Lane, takes revenge on Margolis and has her fired. At rock bottom, Margolis decides to make a documentary to expose the exploitation and violence at “The U.” The trouble is, her husband, Frank Sinoro, is the head football coach, while her daughter, Brie, loves the sorority. So Margolis has to make a choice: she has to find a way to protect her family, while also saving the women on campus and, eventually, her own soul. Publisher's Weekly made Ivory Tower and Editor's Pick and said that it is "a smoothly written first novel…Jenkins has made an impressive start as a novelist.” “A fast-paced thriller that tackles contemporary issues with confidence and insight. Jenkins gives voice to a wide variety of characters, demonstrating how complex real-world conflicts often are. This is a book you won't want to put down, won't want to end, and will be glad you read.” –William Bernhardt, author of The Last Chance Lawyer and the Ben Kinkaid series "This is an engrossing, evenly paced drama about how a woman lost in her own world discovers a real sense of purpose in helping other women. Suspense fans with an interest in current events will thrill to this riveting, insightful deep dive into corruption at an elite university." –Booklife “Timely and fearless, Ivory Tower is a resonant meditation on power, family, and sexual predation that rings particularly poignant in today's social climate. Tackling many of today's most controversial and essential issues facing collegiate campuses and broader society, Ivory Tower pulls no punches, painting an at-times scathing picture of authority, corruption, and modern morality. A hard-hitting and insightful work of contemporary fiction.” –Self-Publishing Review
Download or read book Abriendo Puertas Cerrando Heridas Opening doors closing wounds written by Frank Hernandez and published by IAP. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abriendo Puertas, Cerrando Heridas (Opening Doors, Closing Wounds): Latinas/os Finding Work-Life Balance in Academia is the newest book in the series on balancing work and life in the academy from Information Age Publishing. This volume focuses on the experiences of Latina/o students, professors, and staff/administrators in higher education and documents their testimonios of achieving a sense of balance between their personal and professional lives. In the face of many challenges they are scattered across the country, are often working in isolation of each other and must find ways to develop their own networks, support structures, and spaces where they can share their wisdom, strategize, and forge alliances to ensure collective The book focuses on Latinas/os in colleges of education, since many of them carry the important mission to prepare new teachers, and research new pedagogies that have the power of improving and transforming education. Following the format of the work-life balance book series, this volume contains autoethnographical testimonios in its methodological approach. This volume addresses three very important guiding questions (1) What are the existing structures that isolate/discriminate against Latinas/os in higher education? (2) How can Latinas/os disrupt these to achieve work-life balance? And, (3) Based on their experiences, what are the transformative ideologies regarding Latinas/os seeking work-life balance?
Download or read book In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower written by Davarian L Baldwin and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across America, universities have become big businesses—and our cities their company towns. But there is a cost to those who live in their shadow. Urban universities play an outsized role in America’s cities. They bring diverse ideas and people together and they generate new innovations. But they also gentrify neighborhoods and exacerbate housing inequality in an effort to enrich their campuses and attract students. They maintain private police forces that target the Black and Latinx neighborhoods nearby. They become the primary employers, dictating labor practices and suppressing wages. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower takes readers from Hartford to Chicago and from Phoenix to Manhattan, revealing the increasingly parasitic relationship between universities and our cities. Through eye-opening conversations with city leaders, low-wage workers tending to students’ needs, and local activists fighting encroachment, scholar Davarian L. Baldwin makes clear who benefits from unchecked university power—and who is made vulnerable. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower is a wake-up call to the reality that higher education is no longer the ubiquitous public good it was once thought to be. But as Baldwin shows, there is an alternative vision for urban life, one that necessitates a more equitable relationship between our cities and our universities.
Download or read book Finding God in North Carolina written by Randy Wasserstrom and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of personal narratives about how current and former North Carolinians became followers of Meher Baba.
Download or read book Calder The Conquest of Time written by Jed Perl and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of America's greatest twentieth-century sculptor, Alexander Calder: an authoritative and revelatory achievement, based on a wealth of letters and papers never before available, and written by one of our most renowned art critics. Alexander Calder is one of the most beloved and widely admired artists of the twentieth century. Anybody who has ever set foot in a museum knows him as the inventor of the mobile, America's unique contribution to modern art. But only now, forty years after the artist's death, is the full story of his life being told in this biography, which is based on unprecedented access to Calder's letters and papers as well as scores of interviews. Jed Perl shows us why Calder was--and remains--a barrier breaker, an avant-garde artist with mass appeal. This beautifully written, deeply researched book opens with Calder's wonderfully peripatetic upbringing in Philadelphia, California, and New York. Born in 1898 into a family of artists--his father was a well-known sculptor, his mother a painter and a pioneering feminist--Calder went on as an adult to forge important friendships with a who's who of twentieth-century artists, including Joan Miró, Marcel Duchamp, Georges Braque, and Piet Mondrian. We move through Calder's early years studying engineering to his first artistic triumphs in Paris in the late 1920s, and to his emergence as a leader in the international abstract avant-garde. His marriage in 1931 to the free-spirited Louisa James--she was a great-niece of Henry James--is a richly romantic story, related here with a wealth of detail and nuance. Calder's life takes on a transatlantic richness, from New York's Greenwich Village in the Roaring Twenties, to the Left Bank of Paris during the Depression, and then back to the United States, where the Calders bought a run-down old farmhouse in western Connecticut. New light is shed on Calder's lifelong interest in dance, theater, and performance, ranging from the Cirque Calder, the theatrical event that became his calling card in bohemian Paris to collaborations with the choreographer Martha Graham and the composer Virgil Thomson. More than 350 illustrations in color and black-and-white--including little-known works and many archival photographs that have never before been seen--further enrich the story.
Download or read book The Ivory Tower written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graham ("Gray") Fielder returns from Europe to the wealthy resort of Newport, Rhode Island, to see his dying uncle Frank Betterman. Rosanna Gaw, the daughter of Betterman's embittered ex-partner Abel Gaw, is also at Newport. She has succeeded in bringing about a partial reconciliation between the two elderly men
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Download or read book The Wedding Guide for the Grownup Bride written by Shelley Christiansen and published by Berkley Trade. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geared to the woman marrying for the first or subsequent time in mid-life, this guide addresses the unique complications facing mature brides, offering advice on sensible gift and shower strategies; dealing with exes, in-laws, and stepchildren; prenuptial agreements; merging marriage and careers, and more.
Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1956-06-02 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
