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Book The Stranger s Guide in Philadelphia to All Public Buildings  Places of Amusement  Commercial  Benevolent  and Religious Institutions and Churches  Principal Hotels  c

Download or read book The Stranger s Guide in Philadelphia to All Public Buildings Places of Amusement Commercial Benevolent and Religious Institutions and Churches Principal Hotels c written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stranger s Guide Through Birmingham  Being an Account of All the Public Buildings  Religious  Educational and Charitable Foundations  Literary and Scientific Institutions  and Manufactories

Download or read book Stranger s Guide Through Birmingham Being an Account of All the Public Buildings Religious Educational and Charitable Foundations Literary and Scientific Institutions and Manufactories written by William Cornish and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Talking to Strangers

Download or read book Talking to Strangers written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers and why they often go wrong—now with a new afterword by the author. A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn’t true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland—throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know. And because we don’t know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.

Book Hello  Stranger  Stories of Connection in a Divided World

Download or read book Hello Stranger Stories of Connection in a Divided World written by Will Buckingham and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We navigate our interactions with strangers according to a host of unwritten rules, rituals and (sometimes awkward) attempts at politeness. But what if the people we meet were not a problem, but a gift? When philosopher and traveller Will Buckingham's partner died, he sought solace in throwing open the door to new people. Now, as we reflect on our experiences of the pandemic and its enforced separations, and as global migration figures ever more prominently in our collective future, Buckingham brings together insights from philosophy, anthropology, history and literature to explore how our traditions of meeting the other can mitigate the issues of our time. Taking in stories of loneliness, exile and friendship from classical times to the modern day, and alighting in adapting communities from Birmingham to Myanmar, Hello, Stranger asks: how do we set aside our instinctive xenophobia - fear of outsiders - and embrace our equally natural philoxenia - love of strangers and newness?

Book The Way of the Strangers

Download or read book The Way of the Strangers written by Graeme Wood (Journalist) and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Way of the Strangers is an intimate journey into the minds of the Islamic State's true believers. From the streets of Cairo to the mosques of London, Wood interviews supporters, recruiters, and sympathizers of the group...Wood speaks with non-Islamic State Muslim scholars and jihadists, and explores the group's idiosyncratic, coherent approach to Islam...Through character study and analysis, Wood provides a clear-eyed look at a movement that has inspired so many people to abandon or uproot their families.

Book When Strangers Meet

Download or read book When Strangers Meet written by Kio Stark and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues for the practice of talking to strangers as a way of widening one's experience of the world, addressing the transformative possibilities as well as the political and practical considerations of engaging with strangers in public.

Book A New Guide for Strangers and Residents in the City of York

Download or read book A New Guide for Strangers and Residents in the City of York written by and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Stranger s Companion in Chester  Being a Familiar Guide to Its Public Buildings  Institutions  and Other Places Remarkable Either for Their Curiosity Or Antiquity  By George Batenham  With a Plan

Download or read book The Stranger s Companion in Chester Being a Familiar Guide to Its Public Buildings Institutions and Other Places Remarkable Either for Their Curiosity Or Antiquity By George Batenham With a Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Strangers in the West

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  • Author : Linda K. Jacobs
  • Publisher : Kalimahpress
  • Release : 2019-10-02
  • ISBN : 9780983539278
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Strangers in the West written by Linda K. Jacobs and published by Kalimahpress. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strangers in the West is the never before told story about the Syrian/Lebanese immigrants who, beginning in 1880, settled on the lower west side of Manhattan. Coming from what was then known as "Greater Syria," these immigrants gathered near the Battery where they disembarked after their long journey from the Middle East. Settling in tenements recently abandoned by Irish immigrants, these recent arrivals to the New World founded an Arabic-speaking enclave just south of the future site of the World Trade Center. They opened Syrian restaurants, half a dozen Arabic-language newspapers, oriental merchandise and food shops, and four Syrian churches. They capitalized on the orientalist craze sweeping the United States by opening Turkish smoking parlors, presenting belly dancers on vaudeville stages, and performing across the country in native costume. Peddlers and merchants, midwives and doctors, priests and journalists, belly dancers and impresarios--all were part of the small community in its first 20 years. This is their story.

Book Land of Strangers

Download or read book Land of Strangers written by Ash Amin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-24 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impersonality of social relationships in the society of strangers is making majorities increasingly nostalgic for a time of closer personal ties and strong community moorings. The constitutive pluralism and hybridity of modern living in the West is being rejected in an age of heightened anxiety over the future and drummed up aversion towards the stranger. Minorities, migrants and dissidents are expected to stay away, or to conform and integrate, as they come to be framed in an optic of the social as interpersonal or communitarian. Judging these developments as dangerous, this book offers a counter-argument by looking to relations that are not reducible to local or social ties in order to offer new suggestions for living in diversity and for forging a different politics of the stranger. The book explains the balance between positive and negative public feelings as the synthesis of habits of interaction in varied spaces of collective being, from the workplace and urban space, to intimate publics and tropes of imagined community. The book proposes a series of interventions that make for public being as both unconscious habit and cultivated craft of negotiating difference, radiating civilities of situated attachment and indifference towards the strangeness of others. It is in the labour of cultivating the commons in a variety of ways that Amin finds the elements for a new politics of diversity appropriate for our times, one that takes the stranger as there, unavoidable, an equal claimant on ground that is not pre-allocated.

Book The Stranger s Companion in Chester  Being a Familiar Guide to Its Public Buildings  Institutions and Other Places Remarkable Either for Their Curiosity Or Antiquity

Download or read book The Stranger s Companion in Chester Being a Familiar Guide to Its Public Buildings Institutions and Other Places Remarkable Either for Their Curiosity Or Antiquity written by George Batenham and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Strangers at Our Door

Download or read book Strangers at Our Door written by Zygmunt Bauman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refugees from the violence of wars and the brutality of famished lives have knocked on other people's doors since the beginning of time. For the people behind the doors, these uninvited guests were always strangers, and strangers tend to generate fear and anxiety precisely because they are unknown. Today we find ourselves confronted with an extreme form of this historical dynamic, as our TV screens and newspapers are filled with accounts of a 'migration crisis', ostensibly overwhelming Europe and portending the collapse of our way of life. This anxious debate has given rise to a veritable 'moral panic' - a feeling of fear spreading among a large number of people that some evil threatens the well-being of society. In this short book Zygmunt Bauman analyses the origins, contours and impact of this moral panic - he dissects, in short, the present-day migration panic. He shows how politicians have exploited fears and anxieties that have become widespread, especially among those who have already lost so much - the disinherited and the poor. But he argues that the policy of mutual separation, of building walls rather than bridges, is misguided. It may bring some short-term reassurance but it is doomed to fail in the long run. We are faced with a crisis of humanity, and the only exit from this crisis is to recognize our growing interdependence as a species and to find new ways to live together in solidarity and cooperation, amidst strangers who may hold opinions and preferences different from our own.

Book Smith s Strangers Guide to Liverpool  Its Environs  and Part of Cheshire  for 1842

Download or read book Smith s Strangers Guide to Liverpool Its Environs and Part of Cheshire for 1842 written by Alexander BROWN (A.M.) and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Smith s Strangers  Guide to Liverpool  Its Environs  and Part of Cheshire  for 1843

Download or read book Smith s Strangers Guide to Liverpool Its Environs and Part of Cheshire for 1843 written by Alexander Brown and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-27 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.