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Book I Only Say This Because I Love You

Download or read book I Only Say This Because I Love You written by Deborah Tannen and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2002-05-28 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does talk in families so often go in circles, leaving us tied up in knots? In this illuminating book, Deborah Tannen, the linguist and and bestselling author of You Just Don't Understand and many other books, reveals why talking to family members is so often painful and problematic even when we're all adults. Searching for signs of acceptance and belonging, we find signs of disapproval and rejection. Why do the seeds of family love so often yield a harvest of criticism and judgment? In I Only Say This Because I Love You, Tannen shows how important it is, in family talk, to learn to separate word meanings, or messages, from heart meanings, or metamessages —unstated but powerful meanings that come from the history of our relationships and the way things are said. Presenting real conversations from people's lives, Tannen reveals what is actually going on in family talk, including how family conversations must balance the longing for connection with the desire for control, as we struggle to be close without giving up our freedom. This eye-opening book explains why grown women so often feel criticized by their mothers; and why mothers feel they can't open their mouths around their grown daughters; why growing up male or female, or as an older or younger sibling, results in different experiences of family that persist throughout our lives; and much, much more. By helping us to understand and redefine family talk, Tannen provides the tools to improve relationships with family members of every age.

Book Antisemitism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Deborah E. Lipstadt
  • Publisher : Schocken
  • Release : 2019-01-29
  • ISBN : 0805243372
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book Antisemitism written by Deborah E. Lipstadt and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***2019 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER—Jew­ish Edu­ca­tion and Iden­ti­ty Award*** The award-winning author of The Eichmann Trial and Denial: Holocaust History on Trial gives us a penetrating and provocative analysis of the hate that will not die, focusing on its current, virulent incarnations on both the political right and left: from white supremacist demonstrators in Charlottesville, Virginia, to mainstream enablers of antisemitism such as Donald Trump and Jeremy Corbyn, to a gay pride march in Chicago that expelled a group of women for carrying a Star of David banner. Over the last decade there has been a noticeable uptick in antisemitic rhetoric and incidents by left-wing groups targeting Jewish students and Jewish organizations on American college campuses. And the reemergence of the white nationalist movement in America, complete with Nazi slogans and imagery, has been reminiscent of the horrific fascist displays of the 1930s. Throughout Europe, Jews have been attacked by terrorists, and some have been murdered. Where is all this hatred coming from? Is there any significant difference between left-wing and right-wing antisemitism? What role has the anti-Zionist movement played? And what can be done to combat the latest manifestations of an ancient hatred? In a series of letters to an imagined college student and imagined colleague, both of whom are perplexed by this resurgence, acclaimed historian Deborah Lipstadt gives us her own superbly reasoned, brilliantly argued, and certain to be controversial responses to these troubling questions.

Book You Just Don t Understand

Download or read book You Just Don t Understand written by Deborah Tannen and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of New York Times bestseller You're Wearing That? this bestselling classic work draws upon groundbreaking research by an acclaimed sociolinguist to show that women and men live in different worlds, made of different words. Women and men live in different worlds...made of different words. Spending nearly four years on the New York Times bestseller list, including eight months at number one, You Just Don't Understand is a true cultural and intellectual phenomenon. This is the book that brought gender differences in ways of speaking to the forefront of public awareness. With a rare combination of scientific insight and delightful, humorous writing, Tannen shows why women and men can walk away from the same conversation with completely different impressions of what was said. Studded with lively and entertaining examples of real conversations, this book gives you the tools to understand what went wrong -- and to find a common language in which to strengthen relationships at work and at home. A classic in the field of interpersonal relations, this book will change forever the way you approach conversations.

Book You re the Only One I Can Tell

Download or read book You re the Only One I Can Tell written by Deborah Tannen and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Washington Post Notable Book of 2017. Deborah Tannen's bestselling You Just Don't Understand: Conversations Between Women and Men made us aware of the deep and subtle meanings behind the words we say. She has since explored the way we talk at work, in arguments, to our mothers and our daughters. Now she turns to that most intense, precious and potential minefield: women's friendships. Best friend, old friend, good friend, new friend, neighbour, fellow mother at the school gate, workplace confidante: women's friendships are crucial. A friend can be like a sister, daughter, mother, mentor, therapist or confessor. She can also be the source of pain and betrayal. From casual chatting to intimate confiding, from talking about problems to sharing funny stories, there are patterns of communication and miscommunication that affect friendships. Tannen shows how even the best of friends - with the best intentions - can say the wrong thing, how the ways women friends talk can bring friends closer or pull them apart, but also how words can repair the damage done by words. She explains the power of women friends who show empathy and can just listen; how women use talk to connect - and to subtly compete; how fears of rejection can haunt friendships; how social media is reshaping relationships. Exploring what it means to be friends, helping us hear what we are really saying, understanding how we connect to other people; this illuminating and validating book gets inside the language of one of most women's life essentials - female friendships.

Book The Game

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  • Author : A. S. Byatt
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2012-04-25
  • ISBN : 0307819558
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book The Game written by A. S. Byatt and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession comes a novel portraying a sibling rivalry which compels us to reconsider the uses and misuses of imagination. "Complex and thoughtful."—The Times Literary Supplement When they were little girls, Cassandra and Julia played a game in which they entered an alternate world modeled on the landscapes of Arthurian romance. Now the sisters are grown, and hostile strangers—until a figure from their past, a man they once both loved and suffered over, reenters their lives.

Book Countdown

    Book Details:
  • Author : Deborah Wiles
  • Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
  • Release : 2016-04-26
  • ISBN : 0545455499
  • Pages : 406 pages

Download or read book Countdown written by Deborah Wiles and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a formative year in 12-year-old Franny Chapman's life, and the life of a nation facing the threat of nuclear war. Franny Chapman just wants some peace. But that's hard to get when her best friend is feuding with her, her sister has disappeared, and her uncle is fighting an old war in his head. Her saintly younger brother is no help, and the cute boy across the street only complicates things. Worst of all, everyone is walking around just waiting for a bomb to fall. It's 1962, and it seems that the whole country is living in fear. When President Kennedy goes on television to say that Russia is sending nuclear missiles to Cuba, it only gets worse. Franny doesn't know how to deal with what's going on in the world -- no more than she knows how to deal with what's going on with her family and friends. But somehow she's got to make it through. Featuring a captivating story interspersed with footage from 1962, award-winning author Deborah Wiles has created a documentary novel that will put you right alongside Franny as she navigates a dangerous time in both her history and our history.

Book Statistical Inference as Severe Testing

Download or read book Statistical Inference as Severe Testing written by Deborah G. Mayo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mounting failures of replication in social and biological sciences give a new urgency to critically appraising proposed reforms. This book pulls back the cover on disagreements between experts charged with restoring integrity to science. It denies two pervasive views of the role of probability in inference: to assign degrees of belief, and to control error rates in a long run. If statistical consumers are unaware of assumptions behind rival evidence reforms, they can't scrutinize the consequences that affect them (in personalized medicine, psychology, etc.). The book sets sail with a simple tool: if little has been done to rule out flaws in inferring a claim, then it has not passed a severe test. Many methods advocated by data experts do not stand up to severe scrutiny and are in tension with successful strategies for blocking or accounting for cherry picking and selective reporting. Through a series of excursions and exhibits, the philosophy and history of inductive inference come alive. Philosophical tools are put to work to solve problems about science and pseudoscience, induction and falsification.

Book Collier s

Download or read book Collier s written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book And I Don t Want to Live This Life

Download or read book And I Don t Want to Live This Life written by Deborah Spungen and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Honest and moving . . . Her painful tale is engrossing.”—Washington Post Book World For most of us, it was just another horrible headline. But for Deborah Spungen, the mother of Nancy, who was stabbed to death at the Chelsea Hotel, it was both a relief and a tragedy. Here is the incredible story of an infant who never stopped screaming, a toddler who attacked people, a teenager addicted to drugs, violence, and easy sex, a daughter completely out of control—who almost destroyed her parents’ marriage and the happiness of the rest of her family.

Book Collier s

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hansi
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1915
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 696 pages

Download or read book Collier s written by Hansi and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book With My Other Hand

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  • Author : Bonnie Weiss
  • Publisher : Archway Publishing
  • Release : 2022-04-04
  • ISBN : 1665721073
  • Pages : 125 pages

Download or read book With My Other Hand written by Bonnie Weiss and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-04 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet Bonnie Weiss presents a collection of stories and poems filled with vivid memories, halfway between verse and prose. Her words are honest, sensitive, and profound but also sometimes humorous, sometimes deep. The style is lyrical and deceptively simple as she presents the incredible power of love and the pain of loss. In this evocative and entertaining collection, Weiss uses colorful images and description. See and hear the bees, hummingbirds, and ocean. Yet it goes beyond the visceral to the emotional in poems like “My Shrine to You:” I love you; you gave me your love. And now a whole year without you, a lifetime without you, without the glory of you. Autumn has passed. Winter is here. Its message lies deep within bare trees, their rich sap husbanding energy. I am pregnant with the sap of winter. I gaze at the snow blossoms on the pear tree And wonder, “Will spring arrive for me?” Empathize with the pain but find beauty and joy, too, as you walk the poet’s path to truth and enlightenment.

Book The Harlem of the South

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  • Author : Ronald D. Small
  • Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
  • Release : 2019-05-07
  • ISBN : 1684561515
  • Pages : 220 pages

Download or read book The Harlem of the South written by Ronald D. Small and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the amazing journey of a music store owner Joe Higdon, whose journey was filled with and joy also sadness; his walk in life led him in 1924 to open the legendary Hollywood Music Store in Jacksonville, Florida, in the historic African American community of Lavilla, which was incorporated as a city of its own in 1869 and was known as the "Harlem of the South." Hundreds came through the music store on their walk to fame and fortune, such as Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Sarah "Sassy" Vaughn, Nat King Cole, Bill Daniels, Ray Charles, James Brown, The O'Jays, Al Green, Sam Cook, Sam and Dave, The Temptations, and many more. Joe Higdon had a business relationship with Ms. Clare White, then the daughter of Eartha M. M. White. He befriended gangster such as James "Charlie Edd" Craddock. One of Jacksonville's wealthiest and most prosperous African American businessman, he owned hotels, restaurants, a pawnshop, the Two Spot nightclub, and the famous whorehouse, the "Blue Chip Hotel" It was Joe Higdon who asked Eartha M. M. White to lease Charlie Edd the land to build the most popular club in the African American community, the "Two Spot." Charlie Edd employed ruthless gangsters who battled the Youngblood family in Nassau County to keep running moonshine up and down I–95. After Joe Higdon's death in 1958, the music store was inherited by Nathaniel D. Small, Joe's nephew, who continued the business for over forty years. This story is filled with events throughout the times. It walks you through from the life and time of Joe Higdon, the gangster Charlie Edd, Eartha M. M. White, and into the crime life of Ronald D. Small, how he inherited the Hollywood music store, to his life–changing experience with God, to this face–to–face encounter with Scarface, the drug lord in Miami, to finding himself face down on the floor surrounded by ten cops with guns pressed against his face, to his jaw–dropping courtroom jury trail. The only child of Nathaniel and Lillian Small, his struggle with crime was what led him home to the hall of God.

Book Something to Hide

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  • Author : Elizabeth George
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2023-01-10
  • ISBN : 0593296869
  • Pages : 705 pages

Download or read book Something to Hide written by Elizabeth George and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are back in the next Lynley novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George. When a police detective is taken off life support after falling into a coma, only an autopsy reveals the murderous act that precipitated her death. She'd been working on a special task force within North London's Nigerian community, and Acting Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley is assigned to the case, which has far-reaching cultural associations that have nothing to do with life as he knows it. In his pursuit of a killer determined to remain hidden, he's assisted by Detective Sergeants Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata. They must sort through the lies and the secret lives of people whose superficial cooperation masks the damage they do to one another.

Book A Family Gathering

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eugene Gordon Cartwright
  • Publisher : Gene Cartwright
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 0964975629
  • Pages : 512 pages

Download or read book A Family Gathering written by Eugene Gordon Cartwright and published by Gene Cartwright. This book was released on 2006 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Family Gathering, a saga fourteen years in the making, spans twenty-five years in the life of its young herionea young, black southern girl facing trauma never experienced by women many times her age. Author Gene Cartwright, while penning other novels during this time, was determined this story not be released before its time. It is time.

Book Once a Week

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  • Author : Eneas Sweetland Dallas
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1862
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 742 pages

Download or read book Once a Week written by Eneas Sweetland Dallas and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Devil s Game

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  • Author : Jr. Charles A. Reap
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2006-06
  • ISBN : 0595392105
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book Devil s Game written by Jr. Charles A. Reap and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everytime George Sheldon sees a particular blue SUV bad things happen, but no one believes that George is seeing the Devil at his most devious. Losing his wife, his home, and his job, George must find a way to prove that he has not lost his sanity so as to get himself out of the mental institution he is finally committed to.

Book A Touch of Bittersweet

Download or read book A Touch of Bittersweet written by Nan L. Seefluth and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Galilean woman presses through the crowd one day in Capernaum, touches the tassel of the radical rabbi's robe and is healed. She naively assumes that all of her problems are over, but her troubles are only beginning, She is alienating almost everyone important to her. Caught in the powerless role of a woman in the first-century world, she must choose where her happiness lies-in the security of a marriage and friendship in which her beliefs are forfeited, or with the group who leaves all security behind to follow Jesus. Nan Seefluth lives with her husband in a beautiful senior lifestyle community in southern Ohio. She is the author of devotionals and short stories. This is her first novel.