Download or read book Robi for the Close Friends written by Alain Auderset and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2011-09-23 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nokyo is a city of 38,801,225 robots. In a world of monotonous routine, Robi is in search of happiness. But he is troubled by an aching void within. Neither materialism, nor culture, nor wisdom, nor music, nor religion, nor the practice of magic—nothing can fill it. A story that reminds us of the maxim, “In every man’s heart, there is a hole in shape of God ...” The creator is the only one who can fill our souls. The great love of Jesus offering his life is the bridge that connects us to God in this parable for our times.
Download or read book White Fragility written by Dr. Robin DiAngelo and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’ (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.
Download or read book The Sweet Robin Collection Containing the Newest Songs Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What Must I Do written by Tas Banton and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After four calm but uncertain years, violence again visits the tiny town of Bayside. Following close behind is a figure from the past, back to protect those he once betrayed. The tight little community is in for more than they bargained for when one solved mystery leads to another.
Download or read book The Illuminated written by Anindita Ghose and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-19 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'One of the best books for 2023' Cosmopolitan Against a rising tide of fundamentalism in India, a mother and daughter lose the most important man in their lives. Shashi, fifty-something and suddenly widowed, tries to contact her only daughter, Tara, to break the news, but cannot reach her. As Shashi confronts her loss, she finds, amidst grief, unexpected new freedoms. Meanwhile, Tara, a spoiled but brilliant university student, has retreated to Dharamsala to deal with the fall out from an ill-advised relationship. Her self-imposed solitude makes contact near impossible, so by the time she learns of her loss, the funeral is already over. Without the man that bound them, Shashi and Tara struggle to reconcile. But his absence also makes them a target for an emerging religious group determined to put women in their place, and Shashi and Tara individually prepare to defend their independence. If mother and daughter are to come together, they must find a way to understand both their new world, and each other. But can you ever emerge from an eclipse unscathed? 'Lyrical throughout yet so deceptively easygoing... an extraordinary novel' André Aciman 'Powerful, evocative and accomplished – it's hard to believe The Illuminated is a debut' Alice Ryan 'Gives voice to a new generation' BBC Radio 4
Download or read book Man S Best Friend written by John A. Greer Sr. and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alofus, an Australian shepherd pup, has never been one to give up. When his mother goes into premature labor, Alofus is the only puppy to survive; even then, his link to life is tenuous. His owners, Nana and PawPaw, whisk him to the veterinarian, where he is watched around the clock. His story so touches the heart of everyone in the city that its citizens wait with bated breath to hear his fate. When six weeks passes and Alofus is now a cute, furry bundle of joy, everyone celebratesincluding ten-year-old Little Jay, Nana and PawPaws eldest grandson. Little Jay, along with his father and mother, become Alofuss proud new owners, and the entire family forges a strong bond with the dog. Alofus fiercely protects his family from harm. But when Jays father, a policeman, starts investigating a sinister crime syndicate, the criminals take their revenge on Alofus, nearly beating him to death. Once again, the town rallies behind the dog and determines to put the perpetrators behind barsand clean up their city once and for all. An inspiring tale about the love between man and dog, Mans Best Friend will warm your heart.
Download or read book Varieties of Fear written by Peter Kenez and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an absorbing memoir by a major historian of the Soviet Union, which relates a harrowing youth and coming of age. It is at once moving and matter of fact. It accomplishes the goals of good autobiographical writing: the illumination of some larger truth by focusing on the smaller and more personal realm of life.
Download or read book The Wednesday Club written by Kjell Westö and published by MacLehose Press. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1938. Hitler's expansionist policies are arousing both anger and admiration, not least in Helsinki's Wednesday Club. The members of this relaxed gentleman's club are old friends of lawyer Claes Thune. But this year it is apparent that the political unrest in Europe is having an effect on the cohesion of the group. Thune has recently divorced and is at something of a loss, running his law practice with no great enthusiasm. Luckily he has the assistance of an efficient new secretary, Matilda Wiik. But behind her polished exterior Mrs Wiik is tormented by memories of the Finnish Civil War, when she experienced horrors she has been trying to forget ever since. And one evening, with the Wednesday Club gathered in Thune's office, she hears a voice she hoped she would never hear again. She is suddenly plunged back into the past. But this time she is no longer a helpless victim . . .
Download or read book Monsoon Tango written by Koki Logan and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2023-07-19 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Monsoon Tango: A Love Beyond Boundaries" is an enchanting and uplifting novel that takes readers on a remarkable journey of friendship and love, spanning continents and navigating through life's highs and lows. It artfully weaves together a tapestry of real-life incidents that add depth and authenticity to the narrative. At its heart, the story revolves around the profound bond between two men: Abhi Kumar, a student from India, and Robi Bascom, an African American student. Their paths converge at a prestigious university in the United States, bringing together their distinct backgrounds and cultures. Their friendship becomes an unbreakable thread that defies geographical boundaries and sets the stage for a series of extraordinary adventures, including their foray into a start-up in India. Amidst their enthralling journey, a captivating love story unfolds between Abhi's beautiful cousin sister, Gayatri, and the charismatic Robi, within the confines of a culturally conservative setting. The resistance they face from Gayatri's parents adds a compelling layer of tension, leading to heartbreak and strained friendships. However, fate takes an unexpected turn, and their relationship is ultimately consummated in a sensational manner, transcending continents once again. What sets this story apart is the immersive experience it offers. The author, inspired to capture the true essence of the ambiance and cultural nuances, wrote the story while physically present in all the important locations. This approach infuses the narrative with an authentic and palpable sense of place, enriching the reading experience for audiences. The book seamlessly blends heartfelt emotions, thought-provoking themes, and moments of sheer delight, making it a truly compelling read from start to finish.
Download or read book My Vanishing African Dreams written by Susan M. Hall and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Vanishing African Dreams describes my unusual and exciting life as a woman, both on our cattle ranch where we were traders in beef cattle in Kenya, and my remarkable experiences exploring Kenya’s mostly uninhabited Northern Frontier District. My story includes the mountains I’ve climbed and the dangers of those climbs, as well as treacherous experiences encountering wildlife. I was taught to fly by my father, and during our flying years, survived aircraft accidents and other unforeseen tragedies. My travels to the United States and the adventures there with friends are also included. But my story is really about the never-ending excitement and danger of everyday life in the African wilderness. Even though it is almost 2017, we still get our hot water from lighting a fire in a wood burner to heat it. We collect our rain water off the house roof, which runs along gutters into huge underground storage tanks. We are miles from a shopping centre, and need a 4x4 Land Rover to get anywhere on our dirt roads that are filled with huge potholes.
Download or read book Falling into the Lesbi World written by Evelyn Blackwood and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Falling into the Lesbi World offers a compelling view of sexual and gender difference through the everyday lives of tombois and their girlfriends ("femmes") in the city of Padang, West Sumatra. While likening themselves to heterosexual couples, tombois and femmes contest and blur dominant constructions of gender and heterosexuality. Tombois are masculine females who identify as men and desire women; their girlfriends view themselves as normal women who desire men. Through rich, in-depth, and provocative stories, author Evelyn Blackwood shows how these same-sex Indonesian couples negotiate transgressive identities and desires and how their experiences speak to the struggles and desires of sexual and gender minorities everywhere. Blackwood analyzes the complex and seemingly contradictory practices of tombois and their partners, demonstrating how they make sense of Islamic, transnational, and modern state discourses in ways that seem to align with normative gender and sexual categories while at the same time subverting them. The childhood and adolescent narratives of tombois and femmes offer bold new insights into a social process that is rarely addressed in anthropological, lesbian, gay, or transgender studies. We see how tombois and femmes come to view themselves as boys and girls, respectively, through their interactions with family and community, and how as teenagers tombois learn that masculinity needs its opposite: feminine women. By contrast femmes notice shifts in their desires as they develop long-term relationships with tombois. The book reveals the complexity of tomboi masculinity, showing how tombois enact both masculine and feminine behaviors as they move between the anonymity and vulnerability of public spaces and the familiarity of family spaces. Falling into the Lesbi World demonstrates how nationally and globally circulating queer discourses are received and reinterpreted by tombois and femmes in a city in Indonesia. Though less educated than many internet-savvy activists in major urban centers, their identities are clearly both part of yet different than global gay models of sexuality. In contrast to the international LGBT model of "modern" sexualities, this work reveals a multiplicity of sexual and gender subjectivities in Indonesia, arguing for the importance of recognizing and validating this diversity in the global gay ecumene.
Download or read book Ebony written by and published by . This book was released on 1982-07 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
Download or read book Greed s a Funny Thing written by Judith Kimmel Barnes and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greed's a Funny Thing By: Judith Kimmel Barnes A cure for cancer has been sought for thousands of years. History shows treatments were used as far back as ancient Egypt and ancient Greece. With all the searching and money put into a cure for cancer, it is amazing that man has never conquered the dread disease. But what if someone had found something that would actually cure, even just one type of cancer? Think of the money spent on research, medical, pharmaceutical and surgical treatments, caring for the victims, etc. Would the possibility of an impact on the economy make someone greedy enough to try to maintain the status quo? In Greed’s a Funny Thing, Julie and her husband stumble across a journal detailing a possible treatment for cancer and are immediately thrust into a whirlwind of intrigue and danger.
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Download or read book Friends written by Robin Dunbar and published by Little, Brown Book Group. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Fascinating...In essence, the number and quality of our friendships may have a bigger influence on our happiness, health and mortality risk than anything else in life save for giving up smoking' Guardian, Book of the Day Friends matter to us, and they matter more than we think. The single most surprising fact to emerge out of the medical literature over the last decade or so has been that the number and quality of the friendships we have has a bigger influence on our happiness, health and even mortality risk than anything else except giving up smoking. Robin Dunbar is the world-renowned psychologist and author who famously discovered Dunbar's number: how our capacity for friendship is limited to around 150 people. In Friends, he looks at friendship in the round, at the way different types of friendship and family relationships intersect, or at the complex of psychological and behavioural mechanisms that underpin friendships and make them possible - and just how complicated the business of making and keeping friends actually is. Mixing insights from scientific research with first person experiences and culture, Friends explores and integrates knowledge from disciplines ranging from psychology and anthropology to neuroscience and genetics in a single magical weave that allows us to peer into the incredible complexity of the social world in which we are all so deeply embedded. Working at the coalface of the subject at both research and personal levels, Robin Dunbar has written the definitive book on how and why we are friends.
Download or read book Paint the Stars Bright written by R.G. Gallardo and published by EOT Publications. This book was released on 2023-12-08 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depressed, desperate, and divorced, Jansen Aquino moves back to California from Colorado to seek the company and wisdom of three men: his aloof father, his carefree brother, and an eccentric therapist. When you fall down hard, how do you get up and reclaim your life and perhaps get another shot at happiness? Jansen, haunted by his misfortune and failures, is on a personal quest to find out. * * * Three Major Truths About Life: 1. Life is full of adversities and opportunities. 2. It is always good to move forward. 3. It is always good to change for the better. Paint the Stars Bright is an inspirational fiction and self-improvement book about facing crises with courage. Explore the pages and learn how to deal with adversities by turning them into opportunities.
Download or read book Zach Smith written by Ali A Darwish and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dont ever underestimate the effect that words have on people, especially a kid. Growing up Zach Smith was told and taught that he was manipulative, narcissistic, heartless, and more. Those words caused Zach to center his life around other peoples perceptions. Craving satisfaction, Zach eventually changed the world by destroying it and destroying himself. This book takes you inside the mind of an indecisive, rude, heartless, kind, loving, and amazing individuala famous man who thought he couldnt love anyone else. He thought he could control everything and everyone but he lost control of himself.
