Download or read book Dilemmas and Scattered Weaves written by Jayshree Misra Tripathi and published by Vij Books India Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dilemmas & Scattered Weaves is a collection of impressions -- from life in the diaspora, to tales of love and longing, security and loss. Jayshree Misra Tripathi calls upon stories, both shared and lived - her own three decades outside the homeland and struggles with feelings of desolation, to weave her own blend of magic, in poetry and prose...to strike upon the transience of life itself".
Download or read book Dilemmas and Scattered Weaves written by Jayshree Misra Tripathi and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of poetry and short fiction is embedded with historical facts. "I tend to render James Joyce's (1882-1941) 'stream of consciousness' form of narrative into a rather pragmatic dramatization, reflective of the mundane manner in which some of us silently address ourselves."Jayshree Misra Tripathi calls upon stories, both shared and lived, including her own three decades outside the homeland. She weaves struggles - feelings of desolation and hope, in a distinctive blend of poetry and prose, to strike upon the transience of life itself. First published by Quills Ink (India) in 2014.
Download or read book The Devil s Own Dilemma written by Archibald L. Patterson and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silesia seemed dark, silent, mysterious and far away. In the year 1800 the American Ambassador to the Prussian Court at Berlin set out with his English-born wife to explore this veiled land. He was John Quincy Adams and his father was the sitting President of the United States. Twenty five years later he himself would become the Sixth President of the United States and his wife, Louisa, the only First Lady not born in America. They intended the trip as a recreation to mend their troubled marriage. Instead John Quincy Adams found himself exploring the nature of evil, and Louisa, found herself investigating a murder. Their destination was Europe's oldest spa, and no place, Adams wrote, "was more calculated to preserve or restore health than Landeck." But they were inevitably drawn to the labyrinth of Schloss Angelpunkt, known as the hinge of good and evil, and there the trouble began. The author was sitting in a tub of bubbling mineral water in Europe's oldest spa in the sequestered little town of Ladek Zdroj, a place where Poland meets the Czech Republic. For centuries kings and tsars as well as many others seeking the balm of these famous healing waters had soaked themselves here. Gazing down from a mural was the face of John Quincy Adams, Sixth President of the United States. What had he been doing here? So began the author's inquiry into the lives of John Quincy Adams and his wife Louisa. They had been here a quarter century before he became President, he then 33 years old, she 25, nursing a marriage fractured by psychological depression, four miscarriages, a vanished dowry, and conflicting views of the world. Archibald Patterson is also author of "Between Hitler and Stalin," a biography of Poland's Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz.
Download or read book Weaving for Beginners written by Peggy Osterkamp and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated guide for step-by-step beginning and advanced weaving. 424 pages; over 600 illustrations; indexed
Download or read book Gender in Crisis written by Julie Peteet and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1992-02-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender in Crisis
Download or read book A Touch of Scarlet written by Liz Talley and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Adam Hinton is a by-the-book kind of guy. And as the new chief of police in Oak Stand, Texas, he has a few mottos. ... Those mottos are put to the test when too-tempting, too-sexy, too-everything Scarlet Rose speeds into town. Before the ink is dry on the ticket he gives her, he's hooked. Which means his efforts to create an ordinary, respectful life could be at risk"--P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book Discourse In Educational And Social Research written by Maclure, Maggie and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2003-03-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER: 2004 AESA Critics' Choice Award "With wonderful clarity Maggie MacLure shows how deconstructionism opens new avenues of critical inquiry and understanding for educational researchers. In exposing the hidden, ideological side of terms like clarity, certainty, mastery, and relevance she allows us to see schooling and educational policy in new ways. In so doing she allows us to imagine classrooms as liberating, pedagogical places, as places where new forms of desire, knowledge, and learning take place" Norman K. Denzin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign This book is both practical and provocative. It demonstrates the insights and the challenges of a discourse-based orientation to educational and social research. Drawing on a variety of educational and social science 'texts' - including press articles, life history interviews, parent-teacher consultations, policy debates and ethnographies - the author shows how knowledge, power, identities and realities are constructed and problematised in discourse. The book also deals with research itself as discursive practice, examining the texts that qualitative researchers produce and consume: reports, monographs, journal articles. Practical examples are included for researchers and graduate students wishing to 'interrogate' their own data from a discourse perspective. The author develops a critical awareness of the researcher's role as writer/reader of texts. The book makes the case for 'discursive literacy' in research. While its primary allegiances are to poststructuralism and deconstruction, it draws from a wide range of disciplines, including interaction sociology, feminist ethnography, literary theory, critical discourse analysis and art history. What holds the book together is the persistent question: how to do educational research and social research within a 'crisis of representation' that has unsettled the relationship between words and worlds?
Download or read book Public Women Public Words written by Dawn Keetley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1997 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expansive assemblage of historical sources recounts a public history written and spoken by women from colonial America to the end of the 19th century. Introductions to each of the sections place the documents (which include little-known texts as well as the classics) within their cultural and historical context, providing biographical information for each author. The texts are ordered chronologically, often subdivided by topics such as revolutionizing the family and relations between the sexes; education and women's literary culture; the anti-slavery movement; suffrage and other essential rights; and the professions and higher education. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Download or read book Dissidence and Literature Under Nero written by Vasily Rudich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work inquires into the impact of dissident sensibilities on the writings of the major Neronian authors. It offers a detailed and innovative analysis of essays, poetry and fiction written by Seneca, Lucan and Petronius, and illuminates their psychological and moral anguish. The study is intended as a companion volume to Vasily Rudich's earlier work Political Dissidence under Nero: The Price of Dissimulation, where he discussed the ways in which 'dissident sensibilities' of the Neronians affected their actual behaviour. Dissidence and Literature under Nero extends this analysis to show how the same sensibilities became manifest in the texts written by the Neronian authors. It explores the pressures on authors under a repressive regime, who strive to maintain their artistic integrity. Thus the argument of this book can be seen as a comparison between the predicament of a Neronian dissident and the situation of the postmodern intellectual. It will interest professional classicists and the wider audience concerned with the ongoing debate on the benefits and perils of rhetorical discourse.
Download or read book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind written by Julian Jaynes and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000-08-15 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Work and Family written by Tammy D. Allen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Work and Family examines contemporary work-family issues from a variety of important viewpoints. By thoroughly examining where the field has been and where it is heading, this important volume offers razor-sharp reviews of long-standing topics and fresh ideas to move work-family research and practice in new and necessary directions. In providing comprehensive, interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and cross-national perspectives, Tammy D. Allen and Lillian T. Eby have assembled a world-class team of scholars and practitioners to offer readers cutting-edge information on this rapidly growing area of scientific inquiry. The Handbook also includes reviews of historically under-studied groups and highlights the important role that technology plays in shaping the work-family interface, the potential contribution of neuroscience to better understanding work-family issues, the ways in which work-family scholarship and practice can be enhanced through theoretical perspectives, and the use of social media to translate important research findings to the public. The Oxford Handbook of Work and Family is a roadmap for moving work-family scholarship forward, while also providing rich descriptive accounts of how major organizations have been able to turn research findings into effective evidence-based policies and practices to help adults better manage both work and family responsibilities.
Download or read book The Church in Puerto Ricos Dilemma written by International Missionary Council. Department of Social and Economic Research and Counsel and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trouble written by Gary D. Schmidt and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2010-04-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Henry Smith’s father told him that if you build your house far enough away from Trouble, then Trouble will never find you.” But Trouble comes careening down the road one night in the form of a pickup truck that strikes Henry’s older brother, Franklin. In the truck is Chay Chouan, a young Cambodian from Franklin’s preparatory school, and the accident sparks racial tensions in the school—and in the well-established town where Henry’s family has lived for generations. Caught between anger and grief, Henry sets out to do the only thing he can think of: climb Mt. Katahdin, the highest mountain in Maine, which he and Franklin were going to climb together. Along with Black Dog, whom Henry has rescued from drowning, and a friend, Henry leaves without his parents’ knowledge. The journey, both exhilarating and dangerous, turns into an odyssey of discovery about himself, his older sister, Louisa, his ancestry, and why one can never escape from Trouble.
Download or read book Working Class Americanism written by Gary Gerstle and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic interpretation of the 1930s rise of industrial unionism, Gary Gerstle challenges the popular historical notion that American workers' embrace of "Americanism" and other patriotic sentiments in the post-World War I years indicated their fundamental political conservatism. He argues that Americanism was a complex, even contradictory, language of nationalism that lent itself to a wide variety of ideological constructions in the years between World War I and the onset of the Cold War. Using the rich and textured material left behind by New England's most powerful textile union--the Independent Textile Union of Woonsocket, Rhode Island--Gerstle uncovers for the first time a more varied and more radical working-class discourse.
Download or read book Jackson s Dilemma written by Iris Murdoch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-03-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of their wedding, Edward Lannion and Marian Berran are led away onto dark and strange paths, while their friends and lovers are forced to make new and surprising choices. Watching over all of them is Jackson, a mysterious and charismatic manservant who, in guiding all the young lovers into the light, has to make his own agonizing decisions.
Download or read book Fever Dream written by Samanta Schweblin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A wonderful nightmare of a book: tender and frightening, disturbing but compassionate. Fever Dream is a triumph of Schweblin’s outlandish imagination.” –Juan Gabriel Vasquez, author of The Sound of Things Falling and Reputations A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She’s not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family. Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale. One of the freshest new voices to come out of the Spanish language and translated into English for the first time, Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of strange psychological menace and otherworldly reality in this absorbing, unsettling, taut novel.
Download or read book The Novel and the World s Dilemma written by Edwin Berry Burgum and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: