Download or read book Ynang Maria written by Mary Anne Barcelona and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Girl Named Maria written by Valerie S. Kreutzer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "She was found abandoned in the lavatory of a little cafeteria in Bogota, Colombia, and the police who picked her up named her Consuelo. The toddler quickly bonded with her new mother in Washington D.C. She struggled with a severe learning disability, despite a superior I.Q., and blossomed into an award-winning young artist. Her impulsive behavior led to fits and false starts during adolescence, until she found happiness at twenty-one with David and his extended family. Their love and lives ended in the curve of a rural road in Florida."--Cover.
Download or read book Product Design and Development written by Karl T. Ulrich and published by Irwin/McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 2004 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents a set of product development techniques aimed at bringing together the marketing, design, and manufacturing functions of the enterprise. The integrative methods facilitate problem-solving and decision-making.
Download or read book Why Civil Resistance Works written by Erica Chenoweth and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other forms of nonviolent noncooperation, these efforts help separate regimes from their main sources of power and produce remarkable results, even in Iran, Burma, the Philippines, and the Palestinian Territories. Combining statistical analysis with case studies of specific countries and territories, Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan detail the factors enabling such campaigns to succeed and, sometimes, causing them to fail. They find that nonviolent resistance presents fewer obstacles to moral and physical involvement and commitment, and that higher levels of participation contribute to enhanced resilience, greater opportunities for tactical innovation and civic disruption (and therefore less incentive for a regime to maintain its status quo), and shifts in loyalty among opponents' erstwhile supporters, including members of the military establishment. Chenoweth and Stephan conclude that successful nonviolent resistance ushers in more durable and internally peaceful democracies, which are less likely to regress into civil war. Presenting a rich, evidentiary argument, they originally and systematically compare violent and nonviolent outcomes in different historical periods and geographical contexts, debunking the myth that violence occurs because of structural and environmental factors and that it is necessary to achieve certain political goals. Instead, the authors discover, violent insurgency is rarely justifiable on strategic grounds.
Download or read book Nevada written by Imogen Binnie and published by MCD x FSG Originals. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Vogue's Best Books of 2022 So Far, Buzzfeed's Summer Books You Won’t Be Able To Put Down, Book Riot's Best Summer Reads for 2022, and Dazed's Queer Books to Read in 2022 "[Nevada] is defiant, terse, not quite cynical, sometimes flip, addressed to people who think they know. It is, if you like, punk rock." —The New Yorker "Nevada is a book that changed my life: it shaped both my worldview and personhood, making me the writer I am. And it did so by the oldest of methods, by telling a wise, hilarious, and gripping story." —Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction finally back in print, Nevada follows a disaffected trans woman as she embarks on a cross-country road trip. Maria Griffiths is almost thirty and works at a used bookstore in New York City while trying to stay true to her punk values. She’s in love with her bike but not with her girlfriend, Steph. She takes random pills and drinks more than is good for her, but doesn’t inject anything except, when she remembers, estrogen, because she’s trans. Everything is mostly fine until Maria and Steph break up, sending Maria into a tailspin, and then onto a cross-country trek in the car she steals from Steph. She ends up in the backwater town of Star City, Nevada, where she meets James, who is probably but not certainly trans, and who reminds Maria of her younger self. As Maria finds herself in the awkward position of trans role model, she realizes that she could become James’s savior—or his downfall. One of the most beloved cult novels of our time and a landmark of trans literature, Imogen Binnie’s Nevada is a blistering, heartfelt, and evergreen coming-of-age story, and a punk-smeared excavation of marginalized life under capitalism. Guided by an instantly memorable, terminally self-aware protagonist—and back in print featuring a new afterword by the author—Nevada is the great American road novel flipped on its head for a new generation.
Download or read book Manila written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dragon Hoops written by Gene Luen Yang and published by First Second. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his latest graphic novel, Dragon Hoops, New York Times bestselling author Gene Luen Yang turns the spotlight on his life, his family, and the high school where he teaches. Gene understands stories—comic book stories, in particular. Big action. Bigger thrills. And the hero always wins. But Gene doesn’t get sports. As a kid, his friends called him “Stick” and every basketball game he played ended in pain. He lost interest in basketball long ago, but at the high school where he now teaches, it's all anyone can talk about. The men’s varsity team, the Dragons, is having a phenomenal season that’s been decades in the making. Each victory brings them closer to their ultimate goal: the California State Championships. Once Gene gets to know these young all-stars, he realizes that their story is just as thrilling as anything he’s seen on a comic book page. He knows he has to follow this epic to its end. What he doesn’t know yet is that this season is not only going to change the Dragons’s lives, but his own life as well.
Download or read book DEJAVU CINTA written by Emma Maizura and published by Alaf 21. This book was released on 2015 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Saya tak percaya! Kalau benar dia dah mati, mana buktinya! Kenapa saya tak dibenarkan tengok mayat dia? Kenapa pihak polis macam teragak-agak nak sahkan identitinya?” Tiga tahun Ridwan hidup dalam ilusi. Beranggapan isterinya masih hidup sedangkan isterinya telah meninggal dunia dalam suatu kemalangan ngeri. Dia semakin panasaran saat bertemu dengan gadis bernama DD yang mirip wajah isterinya, Dian Daliya. Beria-ia dia menyatakan DD adalah isterinya. Lekuk lesung pipit di kedua-dua belah pipi dan tahi lalat di pipi kanan dijadikan bukti. Dia separuh gila mengejar DD. DD menganggap Ridwan gila. Dia jadi takut dengan perangai Ridwan. Puas dinafikan, namun Ridwan tetap tidak percaya. Dia jadi fobia dikejar oleh bayangan cinta Ridwan. Bila Ridwan tetap bertegas menyatakan yang DD isterinya, dia jadi keliru. Betulkah dia isteri Ridwan sedangkan dia sudah bertunang dengan Dazrin?
Download or read book Sophia Maria written by Thomas Schipflinger and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable source of reference for anyone wanting to learn more about the Sophianic movement. Schipflinger collected the material for this book over two decades. He traces Her throughout history: in scripture, art and literature, in the writing of Sophia scholars, in Russian iconography and architecture/ and in the images and incarnations of Sophia in Eastern traditions.
Download or read book Alexandra written by Willie Wheeler Esq. and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willie J. Wheeler began his career in writing at UMass Amherst from 1974 through 1979, where he graduated with a BA degree. For three of those years, he edited a campus newspaper named Nummo News. Since that time, he has self-published volumes of poetry and fiction. His life mission is to spread love and happiness to all mankind. He has had a lot of different jobs in his life, but the one job he enjoys the most is writing. He hopes by reading his fiction you come away a little bit sweeter and a lot lighthearted.
Download or read book How Creativity Rules the World written by Maria Brito and published by HarperCollins Leadership. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Axiom Business Book Award Winner in Entrepreneurship Category Learn to make creativity work for your career. Anyone, regardless of who you are or what you do, can cultivate the habits, actions, and attitudes that inspire creativity and innovation. There has never been a more crucial time than now to develop your creativity and your ability to innovate. Coming up with original ideas of value is today’s most precious skill. How Creativity Rules the World shows that, despite contrary beliefs, creativity can be taught and learned by anyone. Creativity is an inexhaustible resource that is the key to thriving in the business world and beyond. This timeless guide promises to make the creative process of successful seven-figure artists and billion-dollar entrepreneurs—as well as Maria’s own—accessible and actionable for you to take the power of their ideas to the next level. In How Creativity Rules the World, you will learn how to: Overcome limiting thoughts and dispel myths about creativity. Unleash creativity through concrete data, historical passages, and examples of modern entrepreneurship. Develop timeless habits, principles, and tools that worked six centuries ago and continue to work today. Employ creativity in an everyday context to produce extraordinary results. With revealing studies and stories spanning business and art, this book is a deep dive into history, culture, psychology, science, and entrepreneurship; analyzing the elements used by some of the most creative minds today and throughout the last 600 years. Contemporary art curator and founder of The Groove, Maria Brito discovered the power of creativity when she transitioned from being an unhappy Harvard-trained corporate lawyer to a thriving entrepreneur and innovator in the art world. After applying the principles in How Creativity Rules the World to her own business, Maria started teaching them to hundreds of people, ranging from entrepreneurs to artists to CEOs. Proven by her students’ creative successes, Maria will guide you to strike gold with your ideas as well.
Download or read book Lena the Sea and Me written by Maria Parr and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a charming sequel to Adventures with Waffles, Trille and Lena navigate the rough waters of friendship when a new soccer coach and a new girl in school disrupt their seaside escapades. Trille and Lena may be getting older, but they still find everyday adventure—and trouble—in their coastal village, including sinking every raft they build, getting little sisters stuck up flag poles, and attending those dreaded music lessons. But that’s not all. The arrival of a less-than-encouraging new soccer coach is putting twelve-year-old Lena's goalkeeping career in doubt. And Trille is wondering how to impress the girl who has just joined his class. As the best friends battle the elements and their own emotions, one thing is for sure: they're not giving up, not if Lena has anything to do with it! In Maria Parr’s follow-up to Adventures with Waffles, the acclaimed author returns to Mathildewick Cove with a rib-tickling story of growing up.
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Download or read book And One More Thing Before You Go written by Maria Shriver and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning journalist, First Lady of California, and bestselling author Maria Shriver offers young women a powerful book on how to put your greatest gifts and even your shortcomings to work for you as you begin the rest of your life. Graduating from high school is a big step for any girl. She is leaving her childhood behind and beginning the rest of her life. She is also leaving her mother’s protective circle of love and guidance. One of the greatest gifts a mother can give her daughter at this pivotal moment in her life is good counsel. In And One More Thing Before You Go...Maria Shriver, bestselling author, acclaimed journalist, First Lady of California, and mother of two daughters, provides a loving and heartfelt guide for girls as they go off to college. Expanded from a speech given to her young friend Ally’s graduating class, Maria writes as a wiser, more experienced girlfriend, but also as both the daughter of a mother whose advice she still seeks and as the mother of daughters for whom she wishes a fulfilling and happy life. In this stirring and inspiring guide, Maria talks to young women about how to find abundance and emotional richness, and how not to overlook life’s most special gifts. Her ten rules—told in a witty and poignant anecdotal style—offer a firm grasp on what’s really important in life. And One More Thing Before You Go... is a book that transcends age groups, a book that will make you laugh, cry, and open your eyes to a new way of looking at life. Thoughtful, compassionate, and above all, filled with love, And One More Thing Before You Go... is a book that will make every mother cry and every daughter stop and think about her mother’s words.
Download or read book Air Mata Siti Hajar written by Nazihatul Hanan and published by Alaf 21. This book was released on 2011 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SITI HAJAR – Rasa cintanya terhadap Ibrahim sangat mendalam. Meskipun dimusuhi Khadijah… Hajar tetap mampu bertahan kerana ALLAH sentiasa melindunginya. ILAH itu dekat dengannya, lebih hampir daripada urat merihnya sendiri. IBRAHIM – Tidak diragui sama sekali, cintanya terhadap Hajar menggunung tinggi. Namun sayang, dia berlaku tidak adil tatkala mengadili konflik antara Hajar dan adiknya, Khadijah. Akibatnya, sang isteri asyik menjeruk hati. Namun, rasa cinta Ibrahim berubah sejak kehadiran Sarah. Dia kasihkan Hajar tetapi tidak mampu menidakkan kesetiaan Sarah terhadapnya. Hajar pula, sudah tidak berdaya mempertahankan cintanya lagi. Kata-kata Aisyah mungkin ada benarnya. Cinta Hajar kepada Ibrahim selama ini bukanlah kerana ALLAH. Buktinya jelas. Hajar tidak mampu menerima hakikat hidup bermadu. Ada, tetapi… Hajar bukanlah gerangannya.
Download or read book Diplomatic List written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Directory of foreign diplomatic officers in Washington.
