Download or read book Welcoming the Unwelcome written by Pema Chodron and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of When Things Fall Apart, an open-hearted call for human connection, compassion, and learning to love the world just as it is during these most challenging times. In her first new book of spiritual teachings in over seven years, Pema Chödrön offers a combination of wisdom, heartfelt reflections, and the signature mix of humor and insight that have made her a beloved figure to turn to during times of change. In an increasingly polarized world, Pema shows us how to strengthen our abilities to find common ground, even when we disagree, and influence our environment in positive ways. Sharing never-before told personal stories from her remarkable life, simple and powerful everyday practices, and directly relatable advice, Pema encourages us all to become triumphant bodhisattvas--compassionate beings--in times of hardship. Welcoming the Unwelcome includes teachings on the true meaning of karma, recognizing the basic goodness in ourselves and the people we share our lives with--even the most challenging ones, transforming adversity into opportunities for growth, and freeing ourselves from the empty and illusory labels that separate us. Pema also provides step-by-step guides to a basic sitting meditation and a compassion meditation that anyone can use to bring light to the darkness we face, wherever and whatever it may be.
Download or read book Unwelcome to Grouchland written by Suzanne Weyn and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grizzly leads a tour of Grouchland with Elmo following close behind in a colorful "Pictureback Shape Book."
Download or read book The Unwelcome written by Jacob Steven Mohr and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-29 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kait’s volcanic temper has already scared most of her friends away, and a bad breakup with her college boyfriend Lutz has left her crippled by guilt and painful memories. So, when she learns that her best friend Alice is planning a three-day sabbatical in a secluded mountain cabin, Kait jumps at the chance to tag along, convinced that rekindling their fractured friendship is the key to fixing whatever’s breaking down inside of her. She should have known… Lutz would never let her go so easily. After a chance roadside meeting, Kait’s jealous ex-boyfriend pursues her into the foothills, revealing the monster under his skin for the first time: a body-snatching inhuman entity capable of assimilating and adopting the guise of any human host. Lutz is determined to prove his twisted love to Kait, even if it means carving his monument to his devotion in the pilfered flesh of her closest friends. Now, with miles of snow-hushed Appalachia between them and civilization, Kait must unite her friends against this horrifying threat, and learn to embrace her own inner monster, before the shadows of her past swallow up her life for good.
Download or read book Unwelcome written by Quincy Carroll and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anti-coming-of-age story, set between the U.S. and China, that examines themes of escapism and toxic masculinity. In the years following his graduation from college, Cole Chen has been back and forth between the U.S. and China, struggling to navigate his transition into adulthood. Estranged from his parents, he returns to Hunan province to work for his friends, while also attempting to write a memoir based on his experiences. During the course of this year abroad, he meets a young woman named Harmony under initially dubious circumstances, whom he dates briefly, before returning to live with his brother in California, where he is forced to confront a dark reality from his past. With perspectives shifting between Cole's rose-colored accounts of his time in Hunan and his friends and family members' less flattering portrayals of him in the States, the novel attempts to inspect the extent to which one's surroundings (both geographical and cultural) shape conceptions of self-identity, while also raising a more complicated discussion about the ways in which men are taught to view the opposite sex. The #MeToo movement has changed the way we tell stories, and more importantly, the way we listen. This story is an attempt to reflect honestly on the problems of misogyny and toxic masculinity endemic to our society. Too often, representations of sexual abuse at the hands of male authors tend toward the exploitative (gratuitous depictions of violence, the use of female trauma as a redemptive tool, the co-opting of victims' stories, etc.), but Unwelcomeactively (and repeatedly) challenges the credibility of its protagonist, to the point that, in the end, his version of events is denied primacy. Unwelcome is reminiscent of Garth Greenwell's What Belongs to You (a fraught relationship abroad) and Teju Cole's Open City (an introspective/aborted personal reckoning).
Download or read book Unwelcome written by Michael Griffo and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gay teenage American vampire adjusts to life at a prestigious—and mysterious—English boarding school and its dangerous headmaster in this YA adventure. Archangel Academy is more than a school to Michael Howard. Within its majestic buildings and serene English grounds, he’s found friends, new love, and a place that feels more like home than Nebraska ever did. But the most important gift of Archangel Academy is immortality . . . Life as a just-made vampire is challenging for Michael, even with Ronan, an experienced vamp, to guide him. Michael’s abilities are still raw and unpredictable. To add to the turmoil, the ancient feud between rival vampire species is sending ripples of discord through the school. And beneath the new headmaster’s charismatic front lies a powerful and very personal agenda. Yet the mysteries lurking around the Academy pale in comparison to the secrets emerging from Michael’s past. And choosing the wrong person to trust—or to love—could lead to an eternity of regret . . .
Download or read book Unwelcome written by Captain Dawn Ottman and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a sample book created using QuarkXPress
Download or read book Unwelcome Guests written by Harold S. Wechsler and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines how American colleges and universities since the mid-nineteenth century have used students' race, religion, and ethnicity in deciding whom to admit and how to shape enrolled students' campus social life"--
Download or read book Unwelcome and Unlawful written by Raymond F. Gregory and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly every American woman will, at some point during her working life, be sexually harassed, according to Raymond F. Gregory, a lawyer specializing in employment and discrimination law. Unwelcome and Unlawful provides information for those victims as well as for those suffering same-sex harassment and for male victims of sexual harassment. Gregory analyzes sexual harassment from the perspective of existing federal law and describes the legal rights that may be asserted by victims of harassment to obtain either injunctive or monetary relief. Conduct of a sexual nature that occurs in normal workplace socialization is generally not unlawful, but it will be considered to have crossed the line of legality if it is unwelcome and is sufficiently severe or pervasive to undermine an employee's work life. Questions typically arising in a sexual harassment case include: *What types of workplace conduct are classified as sexually harassing? *When is sexual conduct considered unwelcome? *When is sexual conduct perceived as severe or pervasive? *What are the obligations of an employee to report acts of sexual harassment? *If sexual harassment is proven, what monetary damages and other relief may the victim expect to be awarded? *When is an employer liable for acts of sexual harassment committed by its workers and supervisors? *What privacy rights does an employee claiming sexual harassment have? By clarifying little-understood aspects of the law barring sexual harassment, the author presents an indispensable resource for victims seeking to learn what to expect from the legal system if they contest the actions of their harassers in the courts.
Download or read book An Unwelcome Intrusion written by Bobbie Barton and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-05-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN UNWELCOME INTRUSION is the story of Lucy Grumbachs life. She struggles to win her father Hermans love and approval. She worries about her abused mother, Gertrude. Her solace is found during the summers she spends on her grandparents farm. There she meets a young neighbor. Jim Hunter eventually rescues her from her father. The Vietnam conflict takes Jim away. Jims father, Zachary, assumes the role of protector to Lucy and her mother. He is so successful that Lucy convinces herself she need never see her father again. But, when Herman reaches deaths doorstep, Gertrude pleads with her daughter to save her fathers life by donating one of her kidneys to him. Lucys emotions are once again thrown into turmoil.
Download or read book The Unwelcome Journey written by Yvonne D. Osko and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this resource, those dealing with grief will learn they are not alone in their feelings and their experiences are not unique. The text also explains ways the Christian community can develop more effective ways to support those who are grieving. (Practical Life)
Download or read book The Unwelcome Visitor written by Denise Welch and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Though we have come a long way this crippling, debilitating, often terminal illness is still shockingly misunderstood. This is my story that you have asked me to tell. Those who suffer from depression will understand and those who don't will hopefully learn how to.' This is the book that Denise Welch wished for as she found herself exhausted and defeated after yet another visit from The Unwelcome Visitor - the name she gives to the episodes of clinical depression she has suffered from over the past 30 years. For so many, understanding their mental health is a leap into the unknown, and they are left grappling with the physical and emotional fallout without any guidance or someone to tell them 'you're not alone and you can live a happy and successful life alongside your illness'. Within these pages Denise reveals her ongoing journey from breakdowns to breakthroughs and through self-destruction to self-acceptance. Typically candid, Denise brings her trademark humour and honesty to a conversation that we urgently need to have, and shows readers it is brave and courageous to be open and vulnerable, and you too can take back control.
Download or read book The Unwelcome Neighbour written by Asa Lundgren and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-03-30 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asa Lundgren explores Turkish policy towards northern Iraq from the beginning of the 1990s to the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and draws important conclusions about the relation between nation-building and foreign policy. The author argues that there is a crucial interplay between the protection of state borders, foreign policy practice and the construction of national identity. Turkey's policy towards northern Iraq during the last decade can be described as a balancing act where the integrity of the Turkish-Iraqi border was firmly defended by Ankara, while at the same time it was consistently violated through Turkish military incursions against a perceived Kurdish threat and by the permanent military presence of the Turkish army on Iraqi territory. The author's highly original proposition is that Ankara's policy opposition to all attempts to break up Iraq along ethnic lines was a mirror image of an almost obession-like concern with the unity of the Turkish nation state.
Download or read book Unwelcome Good News written by Andrew P. Porter and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-10-11 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you wanted to treat all of life as good, in full view of its pains? It is not 'simply' that all of life is good, because its pains can clearly be overwhelming. But is it possible to find life good, including its hard and painful parts? How might one live that way? ---------------- This book is written so that rumors of God in his functional presence might not die out. It is written so that those who want to affirm life in full view of its pains and wrongs may do so with recognition and intention.
Download or read book The Unwelcome Child written by Terese Pampellonne and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Victorian home in Martha's Vineyard is the site of a shocking pregnancy--a bundle of evil that will become a mother's most terrifying nightmare in this chilling tale of horror. Original.
Download or read book The Unwelcome Assistant written by Steven Hensley and published by The Overmountain Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Wright brothers saga, Edward Huffaker enters and exits Kitty Hawk in 1901, before the fabled first controlled manned flight in 1903. Rescuing this figure from obscurity, the authors admirably refrain from overplaying his significance. The value of their short, straightforward biography is that Huffaker's place in aviation history might have been lost had not the late Steven Hensley found, in the 1950s, Huffaker's letters strewn about a Tennessee barn. What they reveal is that Huffaker dreamt of flight, constructed models of flying machines, and, as the Wrights did, sought out the era's recognized experts, Samuel Langley and Octave Chanute. The latter two recognized that Huffaker was serious, and Langley even hired him, so why Huffaker abandoned the field after 1901 and returned to his previous occupation (surveying) remains a bit of a mystery. In any event, the authors credit Huffaker with a crucial insight about flight (that the Bernoulli effect explains a wing's lift), and that in itself is enough to lure aviation buffs to this biography.
Download or read book O U C H Our Unwelcome Colored Help written by Clarence E. Freeman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-03-20 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A damning account of federal racism run amuck, after a local management trainee has the temerity to show up at the workplace, wearing a black face and a white shirt and tie, and is subjected to verbal and psychological abuse, job and promotion discrimination, hate literature and other downright “unneighborly” acts, such as losing or discarding his completed work, by upper management. Also evident are several examples of laughable managerial incompetence and silliness, and housewives lacking both education and open minds, functioning as ersatz managers, and drawing salaries comparable to people in private industry, who have advanced degrees, all the while doing their level best to prevent even educated blacks from attaining their own level of advancement. Included, also, is frank discussion about the fallacies of race and racial superiority and racial purity. There are also examples of abusive, arrogant, and sadistic “preppie pork chopper” officers, insensitive, racist stereotyping by an officers’ wives’ club, a secret, pre-planned promotion denial arrangement, and racially motivated police stops and assaults.
Download or read book Tourette Syndrome The Unwelcome Companion written by Rick Fowler and published by Silver Run Publications / RF Media. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourette Syndrome, The Unwelcome Companion is written by a person with Tourette syndrome. It attempts to let the reader know “how it feels” to experience the symptoms of the disorder. The book is concise yet it imparts an unsurpassed inside view of tics, (and in some people with TS) obsessions, compulsions, and intrusive thoughts. Some of the included material is from the author’s earlier publication Beyond the Unwelcome Companion. This information has been revised and updated and new material has been added. The rarely discussed, often most troubling aspects of Tourette syndrome are addressed in detail. In spite of these torturous symptoms, most people with TS are incredibly strong individuals who do well in life. Symptoms of Tourette syndrome vary according to the affected person and the author makes no claim to speak for anyone else with the disorder. For those desiring to know how it may feel to an individual experiencing tics and other symptoms of Tourette syndrome, this book is a "must read."
