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Book This is Not a Pipe Dream

Download or read book This is Not a Pipe Dream written by Barry Kornhauser and published by Anchorage Press (UK). This book was released on 1992 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book This Is Not a Pipe

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  • Author : Michel Foucault
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2023-11-10
  • ISBN : 0520353412
  • Pages : 122 pages

Download or read book This Is Not a Pipe written by Michel Foucault and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to write "This is not a pipe" across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? René Magritte's famous canvas provides the starting point for a delightful homage by French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault. Much better known for his incisive and mordant explorations of power and social exclusion, Foucault here assumes a more playful stance. By exploring the nuances and ambiguities of Magritte's visual critique of language, he finds the painter less removed than previously thought from the pioneers of modern abstraction.

Book Pipe Dream

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  • Author : Solomon Jones
  • Publisher : Villard
  • Release : 2001-09-04
  • ISBN : 0375506594
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book Pipe Dream written by Solomon Jones and published by Villard. This book was released on 2001-09-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lawyer turned on the tape recorder, handed his client a cigarette, and lit it for him. Black drew hard, squinting as the smoke rushed into his lungs. "Where do you want to start?"the lawyer said, lighting a cigarette of his own. "I guess there’s only one place to start; at Broad and Erie." Johnny Podres, a politician whose record against corruption had been propelling him straight to the mayor’s office, is found murdered in a North Philly crack house. Enter Samuel Jackson, a.k.a. Black, a drug addict who knows better, a man embittered by the fact that he can’t seem to escape from his addiction to crack cocaine or, for that matter, from himself. Though he was once a family man with a wife and son, Black’s only concern these days is getting his next high, that is, until he stumbles across a friend and fellow addict, Leroy, and both become prime suspects in the Podres murder. Black and Leroy hook up with two female pipers: Clarisse, a registered nurse who is slowly losing to crack any semblance of a respectable life, and Pookie, who already has lost it. Soon the hunt is on for all four as they try to stay one step ahead of a police department under tremendous pressure to solve the case—because if a killer isn’t found soon, this could blow up into one of the biggest scandals in Philadelphia history. Solomon Jones weaves a suspenseful story against the backdrop of corruption in the Philadelphia police department and centers it on a group of drug addicts who, in the process of fleeing the law, come to terms with their own addiction, leading to some devastating consequences.

Book The Artist s Way

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  • Author : Julia Cameron
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2002-03-04
  • ISBN : 1101156880
  • Pages : 295 pages

Download or read book The Artist s Way written by Julia Cameron and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-03-04 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With its gentle affirmations, inspirational quotes, fill-in-the-blank lists and tasks — write yourself a thank-you letter, describe yourself at 80, for example — The Artist’s Way proposes an egalitarian view of creativity: Everyone’s got it."—The New York Times "Morning Pages have become a household name, a shorthand for unlocking your creative potential"—Vogue Over four million copies sold! Since its first publication, The Artist's Way phenomena has inspired the genius of Elizabeth Gilbert and millions of readers to embark on a creative journey and find a deeper connection to process and purpose. Julia Cameron's novel approach guides readers in uncovering problems areas and pressure points that may be restricting their creative flow and offers techniques to free up any areas where they might be stuck, opening up opportunities for self-growth and self-discovery. The program begins with Cameron’s most vital tools for creative recovery – The Morning Pages, a daily writing ritual of three pages of stream-of-conscious, and The Artist Date, a dedicated block of time to nurture your inner artist. From there, she shares hundreds of exercises, activities, and prompts to help readers thoroughly explore each chapter. She also offers guidance on starting a “Creative Cluster” of fellow artists who will support you in your creative endeavors. A revolutionary program for personal renewal, The Artist's Way will help get you back on track, rediscover your passions, and take the steps you need to change your life.

Book Pipe Dream

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  • Author : Richard Rodgers
  • Publisher : Vocal Score Series
  • Release : 1981-04
  • ISBN : 9780881880458
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Pipe Dream written by Richard Rodgers and published by Vocal Score Series. This book was released on 1981-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Vocal Score). Complete vocal score to the 1955 musical with 22 pieces in all: All at Once You Love Her * All Kinds of People * Everybody's Got a Home but Me * How Long * The Man I Used to Be * Suzy Is a Good Thing * Sweet Thursday * Will You Marry Me * and more.

Book Jesus and the Abolitionists

Download or read book Jesus and the Abolitionists written by Terry Stokes and published by Broadleaf Books . This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isn't anarchy just chaos? How could it possibly relate to Christianity? Countless people, including (and sometimes especially) those from religious backgrounds, are exploring radical ideas. The pandemic, the Black liberation movement, climate disaster--all these concerns are leading us to ask, "Does our system actually work? Is capitalism ethical? Is this the only way to build a society?" Questions like these led author and pastor Terry Stokes to the political philosophy of anarchy. Now, we all have a scary picture in our minds about anarchy: that it calls for chaos, violence, and disorder. But anarchy actually calls for the end of rulership, not violence in the streets. Anarchy seeks to empower small communities of people to take care of their own needs at the local level, thereby making the state obsolete. It's all about constructing societies in which people are placed above profit and systems are built on ethics of justice and equality. To Stokes, that sounded a whole lot like the building blocks of Christian faith. In Jesus and the Abolitionist, Stokes introduces readers to the ancient practice of anarchy and how it intersects with Christian beliefs and values. We see how beliefs about God, humanity, divine-human interaction, the Bible, and more can be illuminated and faithfully reformulated through an anarchist lens. This view, which Stokes calls anarchist Christianity, seeks to abolish tyrannical systems that do not recognize the changing values of our times and that disempower the people. Stokes's vision of an anarchist Christian future charts a caring theology and practice of living, one based in our voluntary cooperation, the goodness of all people, and faith in God. We can build an ethical world--one built on structures of care--and anarchy might just be the unlikely key.

Book American Social History   1959

Download or read book American Social History 1959 written by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and published by Argo Books. This book was released on 1997-08 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of a Pipe Dream

Download or read book History of a Pipe Dream written by Susan Miller and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up on a farm in Wyoming taught Susan Miller perseverance. Her parents, hard-working and inspiring, taught her that life is full of obstacles-and one has to choose how she will overcome them. History of a Pipe Dream is the story of her struggle to overcome the prejudice that existed (and to a certain degree, continues to exist) regarding women in the field of industrial construction. She started out as a common laborer and worked her way up to journeyman, and along the way, she got to know people from all walks of life. Some amused her, some inspired her, but most just stood in her way. And then there was Jack, one of the most helpful men she ever met-who was also, at the same time, the most destructive force she'd ever know in her life. Through it all, she fought hard to stay focused on her goal: to be accepted as an equal. She chose to pursue a career that challenged her as fiercely as it challenged the perceptions and prejudices of others. The art of survival she learned so well as a child and young woman would soon be the key to her success. Hers is a journey into a world that few women have known, but all women can relate to.

Book Pipe Dreams

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  • Author : Maya K. Peterson
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2019-05-23
  • ISBN : 1108475477
  • Pages : 423 pages

Download or read book Pipe Dreams written by Maya K. Peterson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long environmental history of the Aral Sea region, focusing on colonization and development in Russian and Soviet Central Asia.

Book The Art of Michael Whelan

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  • Author : Michael Whelan
  • Publisher : Bantam Dell Publishing Group
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780553074475
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book The Art of Michael Whelan written by Michael Whelan and published by Bantam Dell Publishing Group. This book was released on 1993 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning artist Whelan has illustrated the work of almost every major author in speculative fiction. Here are featured all the artist's major recent paintings, as well as a series of 25 never-before-seen works produced especially for this book. Over 100 full-color reproductions.

Book Semiosis in the Postmodern Age

Download or read book Semiosis in the Postmodern Age written by Floyd Merrell and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Who are we to suppose we are capable of comprehending the world of which we are a part, and what is the world to suppose it can be understood by us, minuscule and insignificant spatiotemporal warps contained within it?" This provocative question opens Floyd Merrell's study of postmodernism and the thought of Charles Sanders Peirce, part of the author's ongoing effort to understand our contemporary cultural and intellectual environment. The specific focus in this interdisciplinary study is the modernism/postmodernism dichotomy and Peirce's precocious realization that the world does not lend itself to the simplistic binarism of modernist thought. In Merrell's examination of postmodern phenomena, the reader is taken through various facets of the cognitive sciences, philosophy of science, mathematics, and literary theory. Merrell's consideration of Peirce's complex and inadequately understood concept of the sign is enhanced through numerous charts and figures. Theories, hypotheses, and speculation in the physical sciences are then brought to bear on Peircean semiotics. The final chapter critiques the often undiscriminating acceptance of postmodern practices in today's academic world.

Book This Is Not a Feminism Textbook

Download or read book This Is Not a Feminism Textbook written by Catherine Rottenberg and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminist scholars from around the world on key debates and concerns ranging from motherhood, home, and family to media, technology, and medicine. This thought-provoking book is written by prominent feminist scholars from around the world. It is engaging and accessible, distilling the highest level of knowledge into fascinating but concise entries. This Is Not A Feminism Textbook offers a clear, straightforward overview of key feminist debates and concerns ranging from motherhood, home, work and family to media, technology, and medicine. This book is a must-read for everyone who is curious about the sex/gender distinction, and the relation between gender and other aspects of identity; and it tackles plenty more questions along the way. Are smart homes really smart? Will technology save the world? What does class have to do with feminism? And what does ‘intersectionality’ actually mean? The work of feminism to help create a more just and equal society is not yet done. This book provides a roadmap to inspire each and every reader to continue exploring, thinking about, discussing, and ‘doing’ feminism. Contributors Celia Roberts, Amber Jamilla Musser, Simidele Dosekun, Sara R. Farris, Chiara Pellegrini, Cynthia Barounis, Suzanne Leonard, Yolande Strengers, Heather Berg

Book Leader to Leader  LTL   Volume 61  Summer 2011

Download or read book Leader to Leader LTL Volume 61 Summer 2011 written by LTL (Leader to Leader) and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Parliamentary Debates

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  • Author : Sri Lanka. Pārlimēntuva. Senate
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1970
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1134 pages

Download or read book Parliamentary Debates written by Sri Lanka. Pārlimēntuva. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Social Engagement of Social Science  Volume 3

Download or read book The Social Engagement of Social Science Volume 3 written by Eric Trist and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume three completes this set, which also presents socio- psychological (volume one) and socio-technical (volume two) perspectives. Thirty-four articles focus on nonhierarchical forms of organization facilitating interorganizational relations in complex and rapidly changing environments. The collection serves as a guide to institution building for the future. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book The Social Engagement of Social Science  a Tavistock Anthology  Volume 3

Download or read book The Social Engagement of Social Science a Tavistock Anthology Volume 3 written by Eric Trist and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War II brought together a group of psychiatrists and clinical and social psychologists in the British Army who developed a number of radical, action-oriented organizational innovations in social psychiatry. They became known as the "Tavistock Group," since the core members had been at the pre-war Tavistock Clinic. At the post-war Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, they developed a pioneering mode of relating theory and practice, called in these volumes "The Social Engagement of Social Science." Previous volumes presented two of three interdependent perspectives: the socio-psychological (Volume I, 1990) and the socio-technical (Volume II, 1993). The latest volume, on the socio-ecological perspective, completes the set. The socio-ecological perspective is concerned with the coevolution of systems and their environments. It considers the broader environment which shapes not only the task environments of socio-technical organizations but the institutional and cultural environment that confronts the individual. Volume III focuses on nonhierarchical forms of organization facilitating inter-organizational relations in complex and rapidly changing environments. This perspective provides a guide to institution building for the future.

Book Born to Dream

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  • Author : Rollan A Roberts, II
  • Publisher : Tate Publishing
  • Release : 2009-08
  • ISBN : 1607998459
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book Born to Dream written by Rollan A Roberts, II and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you be or do if you knew you could not fail? How would you live if time and money were no object? What are you so passionate about that sleep escapes you? Rollan A. Roberts II dynamically conveys what dreams are, what they are not, and how to achieve yours in Born to Dream. In this powerful, hard-hitting read, Rollan helps you to define your dream, achieve it, and keep it alive. Learn why people give up on their dreams and the attributes of successful dreamers.Born to Dreamwill bring clarity to your life's purpose and the dreams within you like no other book you've read.Born to Dreamwill inspire you to pursue your dreams with everything you are, have, and hope to be. This thrilling book is for champions-you wereBorn to Dream. You will discover: bull; 10 questions you can ask to define your dreams bull; 7 step play-by-play for achieving your dreams bull; 10 ways to keep your dream alive bull; 27 reasons people quit pursuing their dreams bull; 5 attributes of a champion 'Dreams are a form of goal setting. Without our dreams, we have no reason to move forward.Born to Dreammotivates its readers to dream big and follow through to reach success.' Shannon Miller Olympic Gymnast This is an eLIVE book. Each printed copy contains a special code redeemable for the free download of the audio version of the book.