Download or read book Paradise Misplaced written by Sylvia Montgomery Shaw and published by Swedenborg Foundation. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Benjamin Nyman Vizcarra, son of the wealthiest man in Mexico, has everything a young man could want. But in the days leading up to the Mexican Revolution of 1910, he finds himself questioning whether he can support the old regime--and more and more distracted by his brother's bewitching fiancee, Isabel. Accused and convicted of his father's murder after a fateful late-night encounter, Benjamin relives the events that led to his imprisonment. As he plots escape, a new question begins to form: will he run, or will he stay to confront his mistakes and win back the woman he loves? -- back cover.
Download or read book Misplaced written by Angelina Wentz Memon and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In war-torn Vietnam, a young Amerasian girl struggles to find herself. Witnessing the horrors of war, and manas inhumanity to man, she finds no place in her life is safe and the only person she can count on is herself. A ahalf-breed, a as she is referred to by other children, Angelina Wentz Memon finds little acceptance from others as she grows older. Experiencing frustrating multiple setbacks with Vietnamese governmental red tape, it appears as if she may never realize her dream of moving to America. Once in her newly adopted country, she adapts quickly and thrives, excelling in her studies and educating family members to become productive US citizens. The inspiration for this journey? The unspoken bond between father and daughter. Two connected souls unwillingly separated by nearly half the world. Their unwavering love and mutual admiration provides the catalyst for a long-awaited and overdue reunion of a father and daughter who had been separated when she was just three days old.
Download or read book A Misplaced Massacre written by Ari Kelman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early morning of November 29, 1864, with the fate of the Union still uncertain, part of the First Colorado and nearly all of the Third Colorado volunteer regiments, commanded by Colonel John Chivington, surprised hundreds of Cheyenne and Arapaho people camped on the banks of Sand Creek in southeastern Colorado Territory. More than 150 Native Americans were slaughtered, the vast majority of them women, children, and the elderly, making it one of the most infamous cases of state-sponsored violence in U.S. history. A Misplaced Massacre examines the ways in which generations of Americans have struggled to come to terms with the meaning of both the attack and its aftermath, most publicly at the 2007 opening of the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site. This site opened after a long and remarkably contentious planning process. Native Americans, Colorado ranchers, scholars, Park Service employees, and politicians alternately argued and allied with one another around the question of whether the nation’s crimes, as well as its achievements, should be memorialized. Ari Kelman unearths the stories of those who lived through the atrocity, as well as those who grappled with its troubling legacy, to reveal how the intertwined histories of the conquest and colonization of the American West and the U.S. Civil War left enduring national scars. Combining painstaking research with storytelling worthy of a novel, A Misplaced Massacre probes the intersection of history and memory, laying bare the ways differing groups of Americans come to know a shared past.
Download or read book Misplaced Distrust written by Eric Montpetit and published by University of British Columbia Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Citizens of industrialized countries largely share a sense that their national governance is inadequate, believing not only that governments are incapable of making the right policy decisions, but also that the entire network of state and civil society actors responsible for the discussion, negotiation and implementation of policy choices is untrustworthy. Using agro-environmental policy development in France, the United States, and Canada as a case study, Eric Montpetit sets out to investigate the validity of citizens' mistrust through careful attention to the policy-making performance of the relevant policy networks. He concludes that distrust in policy networks is, for the most part, misplaced because high levels of performance by policy networks are more common than citizens appear to expect. Moreover, his analysis reveals that policy networks providing for a participation in governance to powerful interest groups and strong government bureaucracies are more likely to succeed in producing sound environmental policies for agriculture. A timely and crucial contribution to the good governance debate, this book should be required reading for policy-makers and politicians, as well as students and scholars of public policy, political science, environmental studies, and government.
Download or read book Faith Misplaced written by Ussama Makdisi and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative account of the decayed relationship between the U.S. and Arab world, and a powerful recommendation for how it can be salvaged
Download or read book A Misplaced Child written by Heather Michelle and published by Late For Dinner Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Torn between two worlds, which will she embrace? Elodie Harper is heir to the magical kingdom of Aluna. Trapped by an evil wizard in an illusion; Elodie grows up caught between two worlds, one of magic, and one of technology. As the facade of her mundane life of lies and fake smiles cracks, her kingdom crumbles in the absence of its ruler. Join Elodie as she navigates both lives not knowing which to embrace, and which to push into the back of her mind and forget as a bad dream.
Download or read book Misplaced Ideas written by Roberto Schwarz and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Misplaced Ideas spans the 19th and 20th centuries, and examines the life and work of Brazil's most influential novelist, Machado de Assis, as well as Brazilian film, poetry, theatre and music. Among the themes that run through the text are the dangers of nationalism, the West's attraction for exotic backwardness and the notion of Third World literature.
Download or read book Misplaced Compassion written by Ward M. Clark and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are groups out there that want to radically change the way you live your life. They want to stop you from hunting and fishing in the great outdoors. They want to stop life saving medical research. They want to ban circuses and zoos. They want to force you to stop eating meat and using other animal based products. They even want to stop you from owning pets. These groups resort to a variety of tactics, from lobbying Congress, to protests and rallies. They even resort, in some cases, to violence. Who are these groups? They are proponents of the Animal Rights agenda. Read this book to find out who these groups are, and what they are doing to change the way you are allowed to live your life! This book debunks the shaky foundations of the AR agenda with equal doses of common sense and scientific evidence. It is fully referenced for further research by the curious reader.
Download or read book Heaven Misplaced written by Douglas Wilson and published by Canon Press & Book Service. This book was released on 2008 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though most Christians refrain from predicting exactly when our world will end, many believe that when earth's finale does arrive, it will be a catastrophe. They expect that before Christ comes back to reclaim His own, Satan will escape his chains and return to wreak havoc on our planet. Details vary, but the general assumption is the same: things will get much, much worse before they get better. But is this really what the Bible teaches? Leaving aside the theological terms that often confuse and muddle this question, Douglas Wilson instead explains eschatology as the end of the greatest story in the world - the story of humanity. He turns our attention back to the stories and prophecies of Scripture and argues for "hopeful optimism": the belief that God will be true to His promises, that His will shall be done on earth as it is in heaven, and that the peace and good will we sing about at Christmas will one day be a reality here on earth.
Download or read book HOPE Misplaced written by Kristi Decker and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hope Misplaced is a non-fiction memoir based on true events: It is the story of Kristi Hughes, a young woman struggling to find her way amid the greatest tragedy of her life. As a teenager, she journeys down the road of rebellion and often finds herself in harm's way. It's Kristi's senior year in high school and she is forced to choose between the life of freedom she's been chasing and the young man she loves. When the consequences of her reckless choices come crashing down, Kristi finds hope in the last place she would have ever expected.
Download or read book Curious Case of the Misplaced Modifier written by Bonnie Trenga and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-04-03 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seven Writing Mysteries that Really Matter Most people think that good grammar leads to good writing. But the truth is that while good writing may be technically correct, it's also strong, concise, and specific. This guide identifies the seven writing weaknesses that editors everywhere must fix again and again; in fact, almost all of an editor's corrections on any piece of writing will come from the material covered in this book's lessons. In an engaging solve-the-mystery format, you'll solve these cases: • The Tantalizing Tale of Passive Voice • The Peculiar Puzzle of the Vague -ing Word • The Confusing Caper Concerning the Super-Long Sentence You don't have to wade through hundreds of pages of dry grammar references to improve your writing. Rather than memorize the picky details that very few people care about, learn what really leads to good writing in this easy-to-use and friendly book.
Download or read book Misplaced written by Natalie Villanueva and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Aspyn gets kidnapped by one of the biggest pimps known to East Riverside, her life completely turns inside out. She learns the skills needed for survival and enters a world of unraveling chaos. Not only does she have to comply with a lifestyle that she didn't sign up for, she has to figure out how to escape and go back to the life that she once lived. This epic poem has become an outlet for the voices under captivity and brings awareness of injustices in society. Through Aspyn's journey, she learns the value of life itself and realizes that not all stories end with a happily ever after.
Download or read book Faith Misplaced written by Ussama Makdisi and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-01-19 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this riveting account of U.S.-Arab relations, award-winning author Ussama Makdisi explores why Arabs once had a favorable view of America and why they no longer do. Firmly rejecting the spurious notion of a civilizational clash between Islam and the West, Makdisi instead demonstrates how an initial zealous American missionary crusade was transformed across the nineteenth-century into a leading American educational presence in the Arab world, and how the advent of the idea of Wilsonian self-determination, amidst wide-scale Arab emigration to the United States, further bolstered a positive, foundational Arab idea of America. However, a series of subsequent political turning points-beginning with the British and French colonial partition of the Arab world in 1920 and culminating in the U.S.-backed creation of Israel in 1948 at the expense of the Palestinians-systematically alienated Arabs from America. Drawing on both American and Arab sources, Makdisi brings to the fore for the first time a wide range of hitherto marginalized Arab perspectives on their multifaceted cultural and political encounters with America. Unearthing this neglected history puts current politics and Arab attitudes toward the United States in a crucial historical perspective. By tracing how American missionaries laid the basis for an initial Arab discovery of America, and then how later U.S. policy decisions fueled anti-Americanism, Makdisi tells a powerful historical tale brimming with contemporary relevance.
Download or read book Adventures in Misplaced Marketing written by Herbert Rotfeld and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-09-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern marketing concept, with its focus on creating consumer satisfaction, makes marketing seem beyond reproach. Instead of its successes and failures, Rotfeld focuses on the uses, and frequent abuses, of marketing analysis. His book--a collection of clearly observed and forceful case studies drawn from his personal research and study--deals with the pragmatic realities of marketing and its limitations. He argues that marketing can only serve consumer predispositions. It cannot guarantee satisfaction. When marketers lose sight of this, they actually ignore their market. Rotfeld takes the unusual approach of providing a fundamental view of the relationship between marketing and its customers. He shows what can happen when that relationship is misperceived or its implications are mistaken. Marketing gets misplaced. For marketing practitioners and academics, his book is a unique study of how marketing and consumers interact. As Rotfeld explains: Misplaced Marketing is a term I coined, using `marketing' to refer to the marketing analysis of consumers and `misplaced' to mean either `lost' or `ignored.' Many firms `misplace' marketing in the sense of losing track of what it is and what it can do; many not-for-profit organizations do not use marketing in a way that could improve the results of their efforts. Just because marketing is satisfying consumers does not mean it is above reproach, since Al Capone satisfied many consumers too. Moreover, there are critics who fear marketing power and feel that any service to consumers is a problem for society. This is misplaced marketing in the sense that it is misused, abused, or tied to products that do not serve society's interests. Just because marketing perspectives are misplaced does not mean a product or service will fail, nor does it mean it should be banned. My book gives a perspective to understand the view of business critics and ways to improve business decision-making. The book also provides an unusual examination of the entire relationship of business to its customers.
Download or read book Misplaced Trust written by John Panter and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Drake's orderly life is suddenly turned upside down when his wife absconds with his business partner, his personal money and his clients' funds held by his accounting firm. Unable to satisfy his creditors, he is forced into bankruptcy.After several hard years, Tom believes his fortune is about to change when he is offered a challenging job opportunity. Little does he know that his troubles are only just beginning. Tom is found by the police at the scene of a serious crime. Is Tom guilty? Could the nightmare that follows be aimed to put his new appointment in jeopardy? Is someone trying to kill him, or is he just accident prone? To kill or be killed seems to be the only option. Will the sequence of events, and his paranoia, result in murder?
Download or read book Martians and Misplaced Clues written by Jack Seabrook and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brown (1906-1972) was a popular and respected author of more than 20 mysteries and science fiction novels (The Fabulous Clipjoint, won the 1948 Edgar Award for best mystery novel). This study looks closely at his work and chronicles his unusual life. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Blind Faith written by Edward Winslow and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2003-05-10 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 40 percent of households own some form of common stock. Winslow presents why Americans have misplaced trust in the stock market and presents smarter, safer ways to invest.
