Download or read book Seeing Red written by Lina Meruane and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Meruane's prose has great literary force: it emerges from the hammer blows of conscience, but also from the ungraspable, and from pain."—Roberto Bolaño This powerful, profound autobiographical novel describes a young Chilean writer recently relocated to New York for doctoral work who suffers a stroke, leaving her blind and increasingly dependent on those closest to her. Fiction and autobiography intertwine in an intense, visceral, and caustic novel about the relation between the body, illness, science, and human relationships. Lina Meruane (b. 1970), considered the best woman author of Chile today, has won numerous prestigious international prizes, and lives in New York, where she teaches at NYU.
Download or read book The Ecology of Conversation written by Judith Beck M.A. and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-26 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From its core, dialogue is indeed, a model for love. For it to succeed, participants must recognize the value of each person's perspective. They must demonstrate that belief through generous and heartfelt interaction. To value and be valued, after all, is at the core of humanity." (Chapter 15) Especially suited for self-inquiry and/or discussion groups, The Ecology of Conversation is a seminal book on the subject of authentic, generous and heartfelt communication. Written with elegance, vulnerability and heart, author Judi Beck empowers readers with information, stories and tools for excavating and understanding the inner messages that power one's relationships and interactions - with self and others. Equipped with fresh perspectives and self-knowledge, readers may expect to: Decipher the ingrained messages that influence interactions Acquire generative conversational skills and improve listening skills Direct newfound self-awareness toward deeper interactions Create a group of committed conversationalists
Download or read book 7 Conversations to Freedom written by Walt F.J. Goodridge and published by a company called W. This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is freedom achievable? I believe it is. This freedom is the freedom to live true to your self, and includes: 1. The freedom to live a life of greatness that is in alignment with your purpose. 2. The freedom to profit & prosper on your own terms doing what you love. 3. The freedom to escape whatever restrictions and limitations you feel have been imposed on you. 4. The freedom to love honestly and true to your self. 5. The freedom to live a healthy life and actually age less than you do now. That's the simple idea. It may not be easy to achieve given how much of the society is geared towards keeping us poor, enslaved and unhealthy, but it is achievable. As a coach, I’ve discovered there are several conversations I repeatedly have with individuals who are at various stages of creating lives of freedom, so I’ve put them all into this one resource. Those conversations are: (introduction) "Something different is possible," (1) "What is freedom?" (2) "Your purpose is where it all begins," (3) "You CAN turn your passion into profit," (4) "The trouble with capitalism," (5) "The Tao of Shawshank," (6) "The carrot conversation" and (7) "The freedom to love true to your self" Over the course of these seven conversations, I’ll share some ideas, proven strategies that serve as introductions to the books in the various life enhancement series in my catalog. This is my manifesto for what's achievable.
Download or read book Chicano Anglo Conversations written by Madeleine Youmans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book--about differences in communication practices between Mexican-American underclass residents in an East Los Angeles housing project and white, middle-class literacy tutors who worked with them--makes an important contribution to research on the sociolinguistics of the Chicano gang culture. More specifically, this work adds substantially to research on understanding linguistic politeness theories, the use of epistemic modals for negative politeness, and evidentiality. It refines, and in a number of cases, defines, function categories for epistemic modals through a rigorous grammatical analysis. This book is also distinctive in that the author subjects the language of middle-class Anglos to the same type of scrutiny that is often reserved for non-mainstream groups. Youmans contends that the differences between the Chicano and Anglo speakers are the result of the two groups’ different sociocultural circumstances, including historical and current living and working patterns and the relative value placed on familialism and communalism versus individualism and independence. (The terms Chicano and Anglo are used as a kind of shorthand in this book--not to raise larger sociocultural issues implied by these terms.) Although the number of participants in the study limits the applicability of the findings as they might be extrapolated to all Chicanos/as, or all Anglos when reporting sociolinguistic observations, the main argument advanced is that language use may provide insights into beliefs, attitudes, and practices in the larger society. This volume is directed to researchers and graduate students in the areas of sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, discourse analysis, and cross-cultural communication, and will also interest language and linguistics educators and grammarians.
Download or read book Jewelry Talks written by Richard Klein and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Campy, bitchy, outrageous, and quite a bit more than over the top, Abby Zinzo describes himself as “a cross between Auntie Mame and Louis the Sun King.” Abby has lived a life dedicated to pleasure, and nothing has given him more pleasure than owning, wearing, or merely contemplating the lustrous objects with which women and men have always adorned themselves. In this sexy, funny book that is part novel and part thesis on jewelry, Abby sits down to record everything he has learned over a lifetime, planning to leave this story along with his collection of valuable stones to his beloved niece, Zeem. He recounts the history of famous gems–like the fabulous Koh-i-Noor and the brilliant blue Hope diamond–and regales us with naughty tales of the women who made the beautiful jewelry their own, including Coco Chanel, the Duchess of Windsor, and Elizabeth Taylor. He also narrates his own sensational life, from Harvard undergraduate to dancer in a notorious Paris drag cabaret to his twilight as a man for whom gender is just another glittering ornament. Sharp, fascinating, and sparkling with its own inner fire, Jewelry Talks is precious gem in and of itself.
Download or read book How to Be written by Judith Valente and published by Hampton Roads Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-10 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Readers will want to savor these wise and lyrical offerings.”—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) The spiritual seeker’s guide to living with authenticity and integrity in troubled times by a lauded journalist and monk mentored by Thomas Merton. This book is a dialogue between two spiritual seekers—one a Trappist monk and the other a married professional woman. It is two people “stuttering to articulate life’s universal questions from diverse contexts and perspectives.” Brother Paul writes as one steeped in silence and the daily rhythms of the ancient prayer practices of monasticism. Judith Valente writes as a professional woman attempting to bring a sense of prayer and contemplation to a scattered life in the secular world. Valente uses the story of Brother Paul’s interview for a PBS documentary as a jumping-off point: When asked the purpose of the Trappist life in the modern world, he said that it is “to show you don’t need a purpose.” The purpose of life, he said, is life. “You’re to live your life.” How to Be offers a window into two people living their lives on purpose (or not) and struggling to come to terms with the big issues everyone faces: faith, mortality, mystery, prayer, work. It is a book that provides insight and inspiration for those walking the spiritual path—particularly for those interested in the contemplative path. Includes a 16-page study guide—for individuals and group use.
Download or read book Seasonal Cycles written by Victor C. De Munck and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1993 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Of Social Change And Continuity In A Sri Lankan Village.
Download or read book Lines of Truth and Conversation written by Joan Alexander and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 2005 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joan Alexander's stories are intelligent and sure-footed investigations of the darker sides of urban life. They begin with familiar situations -- the failure of a business, the death of a loved one, an affair that never gets physical -- but they chart the rough terrain of emotional trauma with unsettling precision. Many of the stories in "Lines of Truth and Conversation" deal in the pangs and pumellings of loss in all its guises, but Alexander has a gift for bittersweet humour, and even her most harrowing stories are lightened by a sense of the comic continuity of life.
Download or read book Country Path Conversations written by Martin Heidegger and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-14 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The philosopher’s meditations on nature, technology, and evil, written in the final years of WWII, presented in “clear and highly readable translation” (Philosophy in Review). First published in German in 1995, volume 77 of Heidegger’s Complete Works consists of three imaginary conversations written as World War II was coming to an end. Composed at a crucial moment in history and in Heidegger’s own thinking, these conversations present meditations on science and technology; the devastation of nature, World War II, and the nature of evil. Heidegger also delves into the possibility of release from representational thinking into a more authentic relation with being and the world. The first conversation involves a scientist, a scholar, and a guide walking together on a country path; the second takes place between a teacher and a tower-warden, and the third features a younger man and an older man in a prisoner-of-war camp in Russia, where Heidegger’s two sons were missing in action. Unique because of their conversational style, this lucid and precise translation of these texts offers insight into the issues that engaged Heidegger’s wartime and postwar thinking.
Download or read book Talks Volume 1 written by Swami Paramatmananda Puri and published by M A Center. This book was released on 2014-11-09 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1968, Swami Paramatmananda Puri Has Lived The Life Of A Renunciate In India, Moving There At The Age Of Nineteen. It Has Been His Good Fortune To Have Kept The Company Of Many Saints And Sages Over The Years, Culminating In His Meeting With His Guru, Mata Amritanandamayi, Amma, In 1979. As One Of Her Senior Disciples, He Was Eventually Asked To Return To The U.S. To Serve As Head Of The First Ashram In The West, And Was So From 1990 To 2001. Many Of The Residents And Visitors To The Center Have Shared That One Of The High Points In Programs Were Swami’s Talks. With Wit And Humor, He Has Synthesized East And West And Created A Forum For Spiritual Learning. Contents: Stories Of Saints; Faith In Mother; Developing Will Power; Christmas And The Mystic Christ; Detachment; Bhajan As Sadhana; Food And Sadhana. Published By The Disciples Of Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Affectionately Known As Mother, Or Amma The Hugging Saint.
Download or read book CoffeeTime Dialogues written by Cláudio Canas Dorotea and published by Claudio Canas Dorotea. This book was released on 2024-08-19 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into the CoffeeTime Universe, where history's greatest minds converge in a cosy inter-dimensional café! Imagine sharing a table with Socrates and Genghis Khan, bridging millennia in a single conversation. This captivating philosophical adventure invites you to join the CoffeeTime crew for discussions that dance between the profound and the whimsical. As you turn each page, you'll find yourself debating the nature of justice with the father of Western philosophy, exploring leadership and conquest with the founder of the Mongol Empire, and unravelling the mysteries of existence through unexpected dialogues. But beware: this is no ordinary book. Once you cross the threshold into this interdimensional bubble, you'll be swept into a whirlwind of ideas that challenge your perceptions and expand your mind. Prepare to laugh, ponder, and perhaps shed a tear as you confront truths that shake the very foundations of your beliefs. CoffeeTime isn't just a read — it's an experience. As a member of the crew, you'll uncover hidden jokes and delightful moments, discover intriguing connections between characters and concepts, and have the chance to question everything you thought you knew about yourself and the universe. Join us for a cup of cosmic wisdom, a dash of humour, and a journey that transcends time and space. Welcome to CoffeeTime — where every sip brings a new perspective!
Download or read book Marginalities written by Gisela Norat and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection of essays, written in clear critical discourse, is a practical tool for first-time or hesitant Eltit readers who seek discussion of a particular book or books and are not familiar with the author's entire production."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Whereabouts written by Jhumpa Lahiri and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies about a woman questioning her place in the world, wavering between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. “Another masterstroke in a career already filled with them.” —O, the Oprah Magazine Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. In the arc of one year, an unnamed narrator in an unnamed city, in the middle of her life’s journey, realizes that she’s lost her way. The city she calls home acts as a companion and interlocutor: traversing the streets around her house, and in parks, piazzas, museums, stores, and coffee bars, she feels less alone. We follow her to the pool she frequents, and to the train station that leads to her mother, who is mired in her own solitude after her husband’s untimely death. Among those who appear on this woman’s path are colleagues with whom she feels ill at ease, casual acquaintances, and “him,” a shadow who both consoles and unsettles her. Until one day at the sea, both overwhelmed and replenished by the sun’s vital heat, her perspective will abruptly change. This is the first novel Lahiri has written in Italian and translated into English. The reader will find the qualities that make Lahiri’s work so beloved: deep intelligence and feeling, richly textured physical and emotional landscapes, and a poetics of dislocation. But Whereabouts, brimming with the impulse to cross barriers, also signals a bold shift of style and sensibility. By grafting herself onto a new literary language, Lahiri has pushed herself to a new level of artistic achievement.
Download or read book Visual Sociology written by Douglas A. Harper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text discusses a variety of approaches in visual sociology, including exemplars that connect visual sociology to the history of documentary, photojournalism and art photography.
Download or read book An Encyclopaedia of Translation written by Sin-wai Chan and published by Chinese University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 1184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language-specific entries relate to the interaction between the Chinese-speaking and English-speaking communities of Hong Kong. At the same time, the work draws on Western knowledge and experience with translation studies in general. This book is a valuable reference for translators, scholars, and students of translation studies.
Download or read book Enough with the Secrets Mama written by Lin Green and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enough with the Secrets, Mama! is the gripping tale, told by the daughter of a difficult yet self-empowered Matriarch, of a family who holds many secrets. The story follows Lin’s family as they journey from her mother’s origins in the Dominican Republic, to Puerto Rico, and throughout the east coast of the United States, to find their way in the country they’ve chosen to call home. Lin finds herself struggling to live a “normal” childhood, as she’s sandwiched between her drug-addled brother and free-spirited sister, both of whom demand much of their mother’s attention. As a survivor of child molestation, sexual, and emotional abuse, Lin yearns for a close relationship with her mother and tries to earn it by being the “good child.” But as life’s circumstances continue getting in the way, Lin fears that she will lose her grasp on the mother-daughter relationship. The twists and turns in Lin’s own life motivate her to create a world that is worthy of her existence. Despite the rejection and trauma she’s endured along the way, she’s determined to break generational curses and set a new course for herself and her family. Enough with the Secrets, Mama! is written to women who are frustrated by self-perceived emotional neglect, who are looking to spare themselves the grief that comes with developing detrimental relational habits in life and are determined to carve out their own destiny.
Download or read book Confident Speaking written by Christine C. M. Goh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confident Speaking provides language teachers and teacher educators with evidence-informed ideas to help second language (L2) learners speak fluently and confidently in different social and academic contexts. Christine C. M. Goh and Xuelin Liu, thought leaders in the field of language education, draw on scholarly literature and their own experience to show language teachers how to apply insights from research and theory in everyday classroom teaching. They offer 80 hands-on activities to help learners develop speaking skills through fluency practice and language-focused activities, and tap into their metacognitive thinking to adopt strategies for facilitating oral communication. Also included is guidance for teachers in designing lessons and larger units of work with the activities and carrying out professional inquiry activities into their own practice of teaching L2 speaking. This book is a valuable resource for language teachers and teacher educators, as well as researchers interested in the teaching and development of second language speaking.
