Download or read book Unquestioned Ease written by Xiaowei Shi and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-09-28 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights hidden unintentional biases, emotional defense mechanisms, and responses in haste. By revealing these preconceived notions present in message choices, Xiaowei Shi and Steve Mortenson demonstrate techniques to help prevent communication from becoming problematic. In a conversational style, the authors extend their interdisciplinary theoretic perspectives by introducing concepts and practices of supportive confrontation and argumentative interaction management. Through examining those automatic responses and reactions in our everyday conversation with friends, coworkers, and loved ones, this book engages the readers to confront their own hidden preferences and underlying beliefs about gender, relationships, and themselves with a new eye. The book moves beyond prior work on rational choice model in strategic communication by considering actual human attributes. Shi and Mortenson offer new insights into communication “noises” and how to engage in communication during a difficult life event or on a difficult subject in a more skillful manner. Scholars of social psychology, interpersonal communication, and communication training and development will find this book of particular interest.

Download or read book Unquestioned Ease written by Xiaowei Shi and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the authors describe and challenge the pervasive and often unconscious "ease" in our everyday communication. By both raising critical awareness of "ease" and introducing cognitive, emotional and communicative resources, the authors provide readers with strategies to engage in effective communication about difficult subjects.

Download or read book For the Term of His Natural Life written by Marcus Clarke and published by A G Printing & Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-07 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Richard Devine, knight, shipbuilder, naval contractor, and millionaire, was the son of a Harwich boat carpenter. Early left an orphan with a sister to support, he soon reduced his sole aim in life to the accumulation of money. In the Harwich boat-shed, nearly fifty years before, he had contracted—in defiance of prophesied failure—to build the Hastings sloop of war for His Majesty King George the Third’s Lords of the Admiralty. This contract was the thin end of that wedge which eventually split the mighty oak block of Government patronage into three-deckers and ships of the line; which did good service under Pellew, Parker, Nelson, Hood; which exfoliated and ramified into huge dockyards at Plymouth, Portsmouth, and Sheerness, and bore, as its buds and flowers, countless barrels of measly pork and maggoty biscuit. The sole aim of the coarse, pushing and hard-headed son of Dick Devine was to make money. He had cringed and crawled and fluttered and blustered, had licked the dust off great men’s shoes, and danced attendance in great men’s ante-chambers. Nothing was too low, nothing too high for him. A shrewd man of business, a thorough master of his trade, troubled with no scruples of honour or of delicacy, he made money rapidly, and saved it when made. The first hint that the public received of his wealth was in 1796, when Mr. Devine, one of the shipwrights to the Government, and a comparatively young man of forty-four or thereabouts, subscribed five thousand pounds to the Loyalty Loan raised to prosecute the French war. In 1805, after doing good, and it was hinted not unprofitable, service in the trial of Lord Melville, the Treasurer of the Navy, he married his sister to a …

Download or read book For the Term of His Natural Life written by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-02-13 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the convict Rufus Dawes, transported to Australia for a crime which he didn't commit.

Download or read book For the Term of His Natural Life Book IV written by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-03 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For the Term of His Natural Life book IV " by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke is a seminal work in Australian literature, capturing the harsh realities of convict life in the colonial era. Set in the unforgiving penal colony of Tasmania, Clarke's historical fiction delves deep into the intricate web of the prison system, portraying the injustice endured by its inhabitants. Through vivid prose and meticulous attention to detail, Clarke paints a poignant picture of survival amidst brutal conditions, offering a narrative of redemption amidst despair. The novel serves as a powerful social commentary, shedding light on the harsh realities faced by convicts and the systemic injustices that permeate their lives. Against the backdrop of Tasmania's rugged landscapes, Clarke weaves an escape narrative that grips readers from the very beginning, immersing them in a world where hope flickers dimly amidst the darkness of confinement. "For the Term of His Natural Life IV" stands as a testament to Clarke's literary talent, offering a haunting portrayal of human resilience in the face of adversity, making it an enduring classic in Australian literature.

Download or read book Testing Intelligence and Achievement written by Albert Julius Levine and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book For the Term of His Natural Life written by Marcus Clarke and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book His natural life written by Marcus Andrew H. Clarke and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poetics of Dislocation written by Meena Alexander and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sets the work of contemporary American poetry within the streams of migration that have made the nation what it is in the 21st century. This book outlines the dilemmas that face modern immigrant poets, including how to make a place for oneself in a new society and how to write poetry in a time of violence worldwide.

Download or read book For the Term of His Natural Life written by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Genuine Pretending written by Hans-Georg Moeller and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genuine Pretending is an innovative and comprehensive new reading of the Zhuangzi that highlights the critical and therapeutic functions of satire and humor. Hans-Georg Moeller and Paul J. D’Ambrosio show how this Daoist classic, contrary to contemporary philosophical readings, distances itself from the pursuit of authenticity and subverts the dominant Confucianism of its time through satirical allegories and ironical reflections. With humor and parody, the Zhuangzi exposes the Confucian demand to commit to socially constructed norms as pretense and hypocrisy. The Confucian pursuit of sincerity establishes exemplary models that one is supposed to emulate. In contrast, the Zhuangzi parodies such venerated representations of wisdom and deconstructs the very notion of sagehood. Instead, it urges a playful, skillful, and unattached engagement with socially mandated duties and obligations. The Zhuangzi expounds the Daoist art of what Moeller and D’Ambrosio call “genuine pretending”: the paradoxical skill of not only surviving but thriving by enacting social roles without being tricked into submitting to them or letting them define one’s identity. A provocative rereading of a Chinese philosophical classic, Genuine Pretending also suggests the value of a Daoist outlook today as a way of seeking existential sanity in an age of mass media’s paradoxical quest for originality.

Download or read book The Creative Spirit written by Rollo Walter Brown and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book His Natural Life written by Marcus Clarke and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Household Words A Novel written by Joan Silber and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005-11-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award "Unqualified praise goes to this rarity: an extraordinary novel about ordinary people." —Chicago Tribune The year is 1940, and Rhoda Taber is pregnant with her first child. Satisfied with her comfortable house in a New Jersey suburb and her reliable husband, Leonard, she expects that her life will be predictable and secure. Surprised by an untimely death, an unexpected illness, and the contrary natures of her two daughters, Rhoda finds that fate undermines her sense of entitlement and security. Shrewd, wry, and sometimes bitter, Rhoda reveals herself to be a wonderfully flawed and achingly real woman caught up in the unexpectedness of her own life.

Download or read book Maxine Smith s Unwilling Pupils written by Sherry Lee Hoppe and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maxine Smith's Unwilling Pupils is the authorized biography of Maxine Atkins Smith. As such it tells the story of the civil rights movement in Memphis from Smith's viewpoint. Primarily based on newspaper accounts from the 1960s and 1970s and on Smith's papers housed at the Memphis Public Library, the book also draws from a rich source of interviews conducted by the coauthors and others. This book presents a well-balanced historical background of the civil rights era even while serving as a tribute to Maxine Smith and her work. A panoramic view of Maxine's life, Maxine Smith's Unwilling Pupils, presents one woman's struggle as a prism for understanding the human dimensions of the fight for equality. The biography portrays Smith's lifelong focus on education as she tried to enlighten both blacks and whites about equality and the inalienable rights of all races. Along the way she became the face of the civil rights movement in Memphis during a critical time in the movement's history. Maxine's unwilling pupils often hated her for her outspoken and tenacious advocacy for those rights; her followers loved her for her unwavering commitment to ensure the rights of African Americans. Smith's selfless struggles as chronicled in this biography will leave no doubt that her influence on the progress of civil rights in Memphis was profound. Moreover, her example of tireless commitment should inspire the efforts of new generations of equal rights activists to come. Sherry L. Hoppe is president of Austin Peay State University. She has coedited a number of volumes with Bruce W. Speck in the New Directions for Teaching and Learning series. She is coeditor, with Dr. Speck, of Service-Learning: History, Theory, and Issues. Bruce W. Speck is provost and vice president for academic and student affairs at Austin Peay State University. He is the co-author, with Jordy Rocheleau, of Rights and Wrongs in the College Classroom: Ethical Issues in Postsecondary Teaching. He has written numerous articles and contributed to edited volumes.

Download or read book March Moonlight written by Dorothy M. Richardson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "March Moonlight" by Dorothy M. Richardson. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Download or read book Life of Henry Ward Beecher written by Joseph Howard and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: