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Book Making Our Way Home

    Book Details:
  • Author : Blair Imani
  • Publisher : Ten Speed Press
  • Release : 2020-01-14
  • ISBN : 1984856928
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book Making Our Way Home written by Blair Imani and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful illustrated history of the Great Migration and its sweeping impact on Black and American culture, from Reconstruction to the rise of hip hop. Over the course of six decades, an unprecedented wave of Black Americans left the South and spread across the nation in search of a better life--a migration that sparked stunning demographic and cultural changes in twentieth-century America. Through gripping and accessible historical narrative paired with illustrations, author and activist Blair Imani examines the largely overlooked impact of The Great Migration and how it affected--and continues to affect--Black identity and America as a whole. Making Our Way Home explores issues like voting rights, domestic terrorism, discrimination, and segregation alongside the flourishing of arts and culture, activism, and civil rights. Imani shows how these influences shaped America's workforce and wealth distribution by featuring the stories of notable people and events, relevant data, and family histories. The experiences of prominent figures such as James Baldwin, Fannie Lou Hamer, El Hajj Malik El Shabazz (Malcolm X), Ella Baker, and others are woven into the larger historical and cultural narratives of the Great Migration to create a truly singular record of this powerful journey.

Book Making Their Own Way

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  • Author : Marcia B. Baxter Magolda
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2023-07-03
  • ISBN : 1000981320
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book Making Their Own Way written by Marcia B. Baxter Magolda and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF AERA’S NARRATIVE & RESEARCH SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP 2003 BOOK AWARDWhat impact does a college education have on students' careers and personal lives after they graduate? Do they consider themselves well prepared for the demands and ambiguities of contemporary society? What can we learn from their stories to improve the college learning experience?This groundbreaking book extends Marcia Baxter Magolda’s renowned longitudinal study and follows her participants’ lives from their graduation to their early thirties. We follow these students’ journeys to an internally-authored sense of identity and how they make meaning of their lives. From this, the author proposes a new framework for higher education to better foster students' crucial journeys of transformation--through the shaping of curriculum and co-curriculum, advising, leadership opportunities, campus work settings, collaboration, diversity and community building.This is an important book for all faculty, administrators and student affairs professionals.

Book Making Your Way

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  • Author : Marion Debruyne
  • Publisher : Lannoo Publishers
  • Release : 2021-01-11
  • ISBN : 9789401472760
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book Making Your Way written by Marion Debruyne and published by Lannoo Publishers. This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Debunks 15 common myths that hold people back in achieving success in their careers and life goals - This is the book the authors (one a business school dean, the other a business school professor) wish they had when they were starting their careers - Advice based on years of teaching, professional testimonials, and the latest academic research - Will appeal to readers of Lean in (Sheryl Sandberg), Thrive (Arianna Huffington) and Nice girls don't get the corner office (Lois P. Frankel) What does success mean? Is it just climbing the ladder? Does the perfect job exist? Do you have to plan everything in advance, preferably before your 30th birthday? And what about that work-life balance? Making important career and life choices is a struggle for many people. In this book, the authors examine 15 persistent myths and popular beliefs that hold us back, and share valuable tips based on their own experiences, outsider testimonials, and academic research. This is the book the authors, both business school professors, wish they could have read before they started their own careers. "We often meet people with amazing potential, who don't realize that potential because of some limiting beliefs they have about what a career and happiness should look like. We want to encourage people to set themselves free from such myths and pursue their dreams with confidence." - the authors.

Book Making our Way through the World

Download or read book Making our Way through the World written by Margaret S. Archer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-14 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we reflect upon ourselves and our concerns in relation to society, and vice versa? Human reflexivity works through 'internal conversations' using language, but also emotions, sensations and images. Most people acknowledge this 'inner-dialogue' and can report upon it. However, little research has been conducted on 'internal conversations' and how they mediate between our ultimate concerns and the social contexts we confront. In this book, Margaret Archer argues that reflexivity is progressively replacing routine action in late modernity, shaping how ordinary people make their way through the world. Using interviewees' life and work histories, she shows how 'internal conversations' guide the occupations people seek, keep or quit; their stances towards structural constraints and enablements; and their resulting patterns of social mobility.

Book How to Make Books

Download or read book How to Make Books written by Esther K. Smith and published by Potter Craft. This book was released on 2012-06-06 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From zines you can fold in a minute to luxurious leather journals and sumptuous sketchbooks, How to Make Books will walk you through the easy basics of bookmaking. Whether you’re a writer, a scrapbooker, a political activist, or a postcard collector, let book artist Esther K. Smith be your guide as you discover your inner bookbinder. Using foolproof illustrations and step-by-step instructions, Smith reveals her time-tested techniques in a fun, easy-to-understand way.

Book Making Their Own Way

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  • Author : Peter Gottlieb
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780252066177
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Making Their Own Way written by Peter Gottlieb and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A model study, one of two or three genuinely indispensable books on that momentous movement historians know as the Great Migration. Peter Gottlieb shatters the received portrait of southern migrants as bewildered, premodern folk, 'utterly unprepared' for the complexities of urban life. African Americans in his account emerge as complex, creative agents, exploiting old solidarities and building new ones, transforming the urban landscape even as it transformed them." -- James Campbell, Northwestern University "Engagingly written and well organized. . . . A major addition to the fields of Afro-American, urban, and working-class history." -- Howard N. Rabinowitz, Georgia Historical Quarterly "Gottlieb uses oral histories, corporate records, and primary and secondary scholarship to present a useful picture of an important part of the Great Migration that followed World War I." -- George Lipsitz, Choice "Sensitive and yet also incisive. . . . clear and often compelling. An outstanding study." -- James R. Barrett, Journal of American Ethnic History Publication of this work was supported in part by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Book Making Great Strategy

Download or read book Making Great Strategy written by Glenn R. Carroll and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making strategy requires undertaking major—often irreversible—decisions aimed at long-term success in an uncertain future. All leaders must formulate a clear course of action, yet many lack confidence in their ability to think systematically about their strategy. They struggle to apply the abstract lessons offered by conventional approaches to strategic analysis to their unique contexts. Making Great Strategy resolves these challenges with a straightforward, readily applicable framework. Jesper B. Sørensen and Glenn R. Carroll show that one factor underlies all sustainably successful strategies: a logically coherent argument that connects resources, capabilities, and environmental conditions to desired outcomes. They introduce a system for formulating and managing strategy through a set of three core activities: visualization, formalization and logic, and constructive argumentation. These activities can be implemented in any organization and are illustrated through examples and case studies from well-known companies such as Apple, Walmart, and The Economist. This book shows that while great strategic thinking is hard, it is not a mystery. Widely applicable and relevant for managers and leaders at all levels, especially executive teams charged with setting the course of their organizations, it is essential reading for anyone faced with practical problems of strategic management.

Book To Make Their Own Way in the World

Download or read book To Make Their Own Way in the World written by Ilisa Barbash and published by Aperture. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Make Their Own Way in the World is a profound consideration of some of the most challenging images in the early history of photography. The fifteen daguerreotypes--made in 1850 by photographer Joseph T. Zealy--portray Alfred, Delia, Drana, Fassena, Jack, Jem, and Renty, men and women of African descent who were enslaved in South Carolina. Since 1976, when the daguerreotypes were rediscovered at Harvard University's Peabody Museum, the photographs have been the subject of intense and widespread study. To Make Their Own Way in the World features essays by prominent scholars who explore everything from the photographs' historical context and the "science" of race to the ways in which photography created a visual narrative of slavery and its effects. Multidisciplinary, deeply collaborative, and with more than two hundred illustrations, including new photography by contemporary artist Carrie Mae Weems, this book frames the Zealy daguerreotypes as works of urgent contemporary inquiry. Copublished by Aperture and Peabody Museum Press

Book Making His Way Home

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  • Author : Kathryn Springer
  • Publisher : Harlequin
  • Release : 2013-04-01
  • ISBN : 1460310640
  • Pages : 153 pages

Download or read book Making His Way Home written by Kathryn Springer and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You Can Go Home Again The only thing Cole Merrick wants to do with the Mirror Lake property he inherited is sell it. And the sooner the better. The handsome pilot has no attachment to the place where he and Grace Eversea fell in love years ago. He never meant to break his promises—or her heart—when he left town without a word. Now, just in time for Mirror Lake's 125th birthday celebration, he comes face-to-face with all he left behind, including Grace. And he wonders if he ought to give this town a second chance. If only he can convince Grace to do the same for him….

Book Gideon  Or  the Humble Christian Making His Way Through Difficulties     to Heaven     Containing the     Life     of Gideon     and a View of Him as a Type of     Jesus Christ

Download or read book Gideon Or the Humble Christian Making His Way Through Difficulties to Heaven Containing the Life of Gideon and a View of Him as a Type of Jesus Christ written by Henry WATMUFF and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Making Your Way in Headship

Download or read book Making Your Way in Headship written by Gerald Haigh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by authors who have been dealing with school management on a day-to-day basis for years, this book will help you to see what’s important in your headship, what should be done and what MUST be done.

Book Making My Way in Ethics  Worship  and Wood

Download or read book Making My Way in Ethics Worship and Wood written by William Johnson Everett and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-09-17 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Everett has taught in Catholic and Protestant theological schools in the United States, Germany, India, and South Africa. Out of these rich and varied experiences he lays out here in concise manner the main concepts, theories, and commitments that have emerged in his work. From his origins in Washington, DC, to his later research in Germany, India, South Africa, and Cyprus, he reflects on how his experience and life story have shaped his intellectual and religious vision. This exposition of his thought ranges from construction of frameworks for relating Christianity to the behavioral sciences to substantive engagement with concepts of covenant and constitutionalism, the oikos of work, family, and faith, and ecological and restorative justice. Moving beyond the academic, he shows us how his poetry, liturgies, historical fiction, and woodcraft also manifest many of these themes in other forms. In this exposition and interrogation of his life and work, Everett invites us into deeper reflection on the connections that constitute our own.

Book Making Your Way to the Pulpit

Download or read book Making Your Way to the Pulpit written by Jerrilee Parker Lewallen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Your Way to the Pulpit is a book for beginning preachers, for preachers who will never have a seminary course called "homiletics" (the art of preaching), for preachers who studied homiletics with William Hethcock and want a review, and for all preachers who are looking for a tested, reliable approach to sermon preparation. In short, this is a book for those who preach regularly or occasionally and would like a clear guide for making their way to the pulpit. At the School of Theology (SofT), University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, the Rev. Dr. William H. Hethcock directed field education from 1979 to 1985 and taught homiletics from 1985 until his retirement in 1997. After retiring, he continued to teach homiletics on semester contracts at the SofT and the Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS). He remains active as a teacher, speaker on the subject of preaching, and preacher. Assimilating the work of other scholars, Hethcock developed his own process for approaching sermon preparation on a weekly basis. This book summarizes and describes the Hethcock method. When followed, his process reliably gets the preacher to the pulpit with a biblical proclamation that resonates with individuals in today's congregations.

Book Making Our Way to Shore

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eileen O'Farrell
  • Publisher : Virtualbookworm Publishing
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9781589395497
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book Making Our Way to Shore written by Eileen O'Farrell and published by Virtualbookworm Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1991, members of the Jewish Catholic Couples Dialogue Group in Chicago have celebrated a combination Hebrew Baby Naming and Baptism ceremony as they welcome their children into the world, with the support and participation of a Catholic Priest and Reform Rabbi. These ceremonies are spiritual moments, created in the spirit of finding new pathways for interfaith families to share in their religious traditions. For some couples, their ceremony makes a statement about the religious identity of their child, either in one tradition or another. For others, it is an expression of thanks to God for new life and the wish to ask for God's blessing on their family. In either case, the celebration is an authentic manifestation of a Divine presence in their new family. In addition to the ceremony, this text includes an overview of the current literature regarding Catholic/Jewish families; a review of Hebrew Rites of Initiation as well as a short course on Catholic sacramentality and Baptism; commonly asked questions and answers facing Catholic Jewish couples; a lively conversation between a Rabbi and a Priest regarding rites of initiation; a resource section of books and websites and a closing chapter on topics of family faith formation.

Book Making his Way

    Book Details:
  • Author : Horatio Alger
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2019-09-25
  • ISBN : 3734068142
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book Making his Way written by Horatio Alger and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Making his Way by Horatio Alger

Book Agayuliyararput Our Way of Making Prayer

Download or read book Agayuliyararput Our Way of Making Prayer written by Ann Fienup-Riordan and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the remembrances of elders who were born in the early 1900s and saw the last masked Yup’ik dances before missionary efforts forced their decline, Agayuliyararput is a collection of first-person accounts of the rich culture surrounding Yup’ik masks. Stories by thirty-three elders from all over southwestern Alaska, presented in parallel Yup’ik and English texts, include a wealth of information about the creation and function of masks and the environment in which they flourished. The full-length, unannotated stories are complete with features of oral storytelling such as repetition and digression; the language of the English translation follows the Yup’ik idiom as closely as possible. Reminiscences about the cultural setting of masked dancing are grouped into chapters on the traditional Yup’ik ceremonial cycle, the use of masks, life in the qasgiq (communal men’s house), the supression and revival of masked dancing, maskmaking, and dance and song. Stories are grouped geographically, representing the Yukon, Kuskokwim, and coastal areas. The subjects of the stories and the masks made to accompany them are the Arctic animals, beings, and natural forces on which humans depended. This book will be treasured by the Yup’ik residents of southwestern Alaska and an international audience of linguists, folklorists, anthropologists, and art historians.

Book Making His Way  Or  Frank Courtney s Struggle Upward

Download or read book Making His Way Or Frank Courtney s Struggle Upward written by Horatio Jr. Alger and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-08-12 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Making His Way; Or, Frank Courtney's Struggle Upward' by Horatio Jr. Alger, readers are taken on a journey of self-improvement and perseverance. Written in a captivating narrative style, Alger depicts the challenges faced by the protagonist, Frank Courtney, as he strives to better his circumstances through hard work and determination. Set against the backdrop of the late 19th century, Alger's novel explores themes of social mobility and the American Dream, making it a quintessential example of the 'rags to riches' genre popular during his time. Alger's straightforward prose and moralistic undertones will appeal to readers looking for a heartwarming tale of overcoming adversity. Horatio Jr. Alger, known for his numerous works focusing on moral development and success, drew inspiration from his own experiences working with disadvantaged youth. Through the character of Frank Courtney, Alger imparts valuable lessons on integrity and resilience. I highly recommend 'Making His Way; Or, Frank Courtney's Struggle Upward' to those interested in classic American literature and narratives of personal growth.