Download or read book Thunder Doesn t Live Here Anymore written by Anath Ariel de Vidas and published by . This book was released on 2004-10-15 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in English, Thunder Doesn't Live Here Anymore explores the highly unusual worldview of the Teenek people of Tantoyuca, Veracruz, whose self-deprecating cosmology diverges quite radically from patterns of positive cultural identity among other indigenous groups in Mexico. The Teeneks speak of themselves as dirty, dumb, ignorant, and fearful, a vocabulary that serves to justify the Teeneks' condition of social and spatial marginality in relation to their mestizo neighbors. However, as Anath Ariel de Vidas argues in this masterful ethnography, this self-denigration - added to the absence among the Teeneks of emblematic Indian features such as traditional costumes, agricultural rituals, specific ceremonies, or systems of religious cargos or offices - are not synonymous with collective anomie. Rather, as Ariel de Vidas demonstrates, their seeming ontological acceptance of a marginal social and economic condition is - in its own peculiar way - a language of indigenous resistance.
Download or read book Dave Hill Doesn t Live Here Anymore written by Dave Hill and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his signature matter-of-fact humor, comedian and musician Dave Hill explores his increasingly close relationship with his recently widowed father in a series of painfully funny essays you will want to read again and again by the fire, at the beach, in a truck stop men’s room, or just about anywhere. It’s your call, really. These days, Dave has just the right amount of spare time to write books at home, preferably in his underwear, but things weren’t always perfect. When he found himself pushing thirty while still living with his parents in Cleveland, unsuited for anything but what an “employment expert” vaguely called a career in “art, music, writing, or entertainment,” he decided to visit some friends in New York for the weekend and never left. However, getting his life together wasn’t as easy as he’d hoped, and even an illegally subletted, rent controlled fifth-floor walk-up studio apartment with a (for the most part) working toilet wasn’t glamorous enough to erase the fact that his four siblings were all married with steady jobs and actual human offspring. And in recent years, Dave’s father had grown tired of loaning him cash and living alone in the empty family home, neither of which made much sense to Dave, but whatever. Through the process of his father’s eventual move to a retirement community, Dave and his dad bonded over the things in life that really matter: scorching-hot rock jams, the gluten allergy craze, eighteen-wheelers, Italian food (pizza and spaghetti), and whatever else could possibly be left after that. Meanwhile, Dave discovered his late-blooming manhood via experiences as disparate and dangerous as a visit to a remote Mexican prison, where he learned that people everywhere love the Eagles, and a martial arts class that pushed his resolve and his groin to their limit. In Dave Hill Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Hill’s voice is sharp, carefree, laced with just the right amount of profanity, and he is—seemingly despite himself—deeply empathetic as he portrays a difficult time in his family’s life and grows up just enough to realize that maybe he and his dad aren’t so different after all.
Download or read book Tom and Huck Don t Live Here Anymore written by Ron Powers and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2002-09-14 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Tom and Huck Don't Live Here Anymore is a powerful, disturbing, and eye-opening dispatch from the homefront that will take its place alongside the works of Antony Lucas, Robert Coles, and Tracy Kidder. Ron Powers' hometown is Hannibal, Missouri, home of Mark Twain, and therefore birthplace of our image of boyhood itself. Powers returns to Hannibal to chronicle the horrific story of two killings, both committed by minors, and the trials that followed. Seamlessly weaving the narrative of the events in Hannibal with the national withering of the very concept of childhood, Powers exposes a fragmented adult society where children are left adrift, transforming isolation into violence. "Powers's storytelling style keeps such good control over the pacing, readers will know they're not headed for a disappointment at the ending." - Publishers Weekly
Download or read book Claiming the Call to Preach written by Donna Giver-Johnston and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Claiming the Call to Preach traces the history of call through the nineteenth century, at a time when the question of women's call to preach, although seemingly fixed by ecclesial authority and cultural convention, was being raised by courageous women in different settings, through different genres, and to different effect. This book recovers the neglected narrative of women's call to preach through the historical accounts and rhetorical witness of four ground-breaking women preachers: Jarena Lee, Frances Willard, Louisa Woosley, and Florence Spearing Randolph. Scholarship has been written on women who have preached in history, but not on how they managed to claim their call to preach despite the restrictions of gender inequality. This project explores the question: how did women claim their call to preach? Through feminist hermeneutics, this book examines call narratives which used rhetorical strategies to articulate effective arguments for women's call to the preaching ministry of the church. In response, these women received endorsement of their claims to pulpit places, engaged in sacred persuasive speech, and preached as ministers of the sacred office. This project examines women's call to preach-the history and theology, rhetoric and practice, struggle and success, and the necessary work of interpretation and re-interpretation through call narratives. This book concludes with practical applications for contemporary homiletics, showing how historical tradition can be re-invented in order to give women-and anyone struggling with their call to preach-rhetorical tactics and narrative scripts in order to make effective claims to preach today"--
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Film written by James Monaco and published by Perigee Trade. This book was released on 1991 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alphabetical reference on the major film figures (stars, producers, directors, writers, et al.), past and present. Each entry provides a substantial career biography and a complete listing of all films the individual has been involved with. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book In the Realm of Nachan Kan written by Marilyn A. Masson and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prevailing view of the lowland Maya during the Postclassic period (A.D. 1050-1500) has been one of an impoverished, "degenerated" society devoid of cultural accomplishment. However, Marilyn A. Masson offers a fresh interpretation of this society as one that represented a complex, sophisticated, extensive organization of semiautonomous units that were closely integrated, yet embraced a decentralized political economy. In the Realm of Nachan Kan opens a window on Postclassic Maya patterns of cultural development and organization through a close examination of the small rural island of Laguna de On, a location that was distant from the governing political centers of the day. Using diachronic analysis of regional settlement patterns, ceramic traditions, household and ritual features, and artifacts from the site, Masson tracks developmental changes throughout the Postclassic period. These data suggest that affluent patterns of economic production and local and long-distance exchange were established within northern Belize by the eleventh century, and continued to develop, virtually uninterrupted, until the time of Spanish arrival. In addition, Masson analyzes contemporary political and religious artistic traditions at the temples of Mayapan, Tulum, and Santa Rita to provide a regional context for the changes in community patterns at Laguna de On. These cultural changes, she maintains, are closely correlated with the rise of Mayapan to power and participation of sites like Laguna de On in a pan-lowland economic and ritual interaction sphere. Offering a thoroughly new interpretation of Postclassic Mayan civilization. In the Realm of Nachan Kan is a must for scholars of Mesoamerican history and culture.
Download or read book GI Joe Doesn t Live Here Anymore written by Thomas C. Utts and published by Publish America. This book was released on 2006 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in the 20th century, the hoofbeats of U.S. Cavalry horses were a familiar sound at Americaas new base in the Philippines. At the beginning of WWII, Japanese bombs destroyed American planes on the runway. After the war, the base played a vital role, providing men and equipment to wars in Korea and Vietnama]until the 1991 monster eruption of Mt. Pinatubo sent American airmen away, never to return. This gritty, poignant, humorous, and sometimes disturbing chronicle reconstructs the 90-year history of what was the largest, and one of the most colorful, overseas United States military bases. That story is told in previously unpublished letters, writings, and personal accounts by the men, women, and families who were stationed there.
Download or read book Country Hearts written by Cindi Madsen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA TODAY Bestseller! She shouldn't get involved with the cowboy next door... Laid off from her teaching job in the city, Jemma Monroe takes a job teaching in a tiny town and rents a house on the outskirts. A visitor soon shows up at her door—a horse. His owner, a handsome neighbor in boots and a cowboy hat, comes by to collect him. When single dad Wyatt Langford meets Jemma, it’s the first time he feels interest in a woman since his wife left. But she’s his daughter’s new teacher, so they both know they should keep their distance. Nonetheless, Wyatt keeps finding excuses to spend time with Jemma, and Wyatt’s daughter becomes more and more attached to her. With them, Jemma discovers the good things about country life, from starry skies to s’mores cooked over a fire. But she still misses her past life in the city. Is there any reason for them to dream of a future together? This heartwarming cowboy romance includes a Hallmark original recipe for Classic Italian Lasagna.
Download or read book Golden Miles written by Clinton Walker and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Golden Miles is a book about cars, people and Australia in the late 60s and early 70s. With the energy and irreverent humour of a fanzine, the acuity of investigative journalism, and the eye of an art book, this new, expanded edition of Golden Miles explores the archetypal product of Australian suburbia - the muscle car. Clinton Walker is the author of seven books and several hit documentaries including the 2001 series on the history of Australian rock, Long Way to the Top. 'A rambling journey that's provocative and lavishly illustrated ... as much for pop culture lovers as rev heads.' - Sydney Morning Herald.
Download or read book A Very Maverick Christmas written by Rachel Lee and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Category: Home and family"--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Issue VII Prose and Poetry Edited By JP Reese and Matthew Porubsky June 23 2012 written by scissors and spackle and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-06-24 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: scissors and spackle began in 2011 with the belief that words, in their purest form both cut and repair, sometimes simultaneously. We are a sanctuary for words without homes. We are language without boundaries. Issue VII, guest edited by JP Reese and Matthew Porubsky, features the poetry and prose of Thomas Fox Averill. Other contributors include: Heather Bell, Jules Archer, Mathieu Caller, Andrews Stancek, Alex Pruteanu, Meg Tuite, Stella Robbins, James Claffey and more. An exceptional collection of established and emerging writers, scissors and spackle Issue VII showcases the best in new poetry and fiction
Download or read book Latinx Belonging written by Natalia Deeb-Sossa and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be Latinx? This pressing question forms the core of Latinx Belonging, which brings together cutting-edge research to discuss the multilayered ways this might be answered. Latinx Belonging is anchored in the claim that Latinx people are not defined by their marginalization but should instead be understood as active participants in their communities and contributors to U.S. society. The volume’s overarching analytical approach recognizes the differences, identities, and divisions among people of Latin American origin in the United States, while also attending to the power of mainstream institutions to shape their lives and identities. Contributors to this volume view “belonging” as actively produced through struggle, survival, agency, resilience, and engagement. This work positions Latinxs’ struggles for recognition and inclusion as squarely located within intersecting power structures of gender, race, sexuality, and class and as shaped by state-level and transnational forces such as U.S. immigration policies and histories of colonialism. From the case of Latinxs’ struggles for recognition in the arts, to queer Latinx community resilience during COVID-19 and in the wake of mass shootings, to Indigenous youth’s endurance and survival as unaccompanied minors in Los Angeles, the case studies featured in this collection present a rich and textured picture of the diversity of the U.S. Latinx experience in the twenty-first century. Contributors Andrés Acosta Jack “Trey” Allen Jennifer Bickham Mendez Stephanie L. Canizales Christopher Cuevas Natalia Deeb-Sossa Yvette G. Flores Melanie Jones Gast Monika Gosin Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo Nolan Kline Verónica Montes Yvonne Montoya Michael De Anda Muñiz Suzanne Oboler Gilda L. Ochoa Dina G. Okamoto Marco Antonio Quiroga Michelle Téllez
Download or read book Decision in Paris written by Lynn Lamarr and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-25 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decision in Paris - Part 2 With the first lie the winter began! With the slamming of the grand piano lid, a decision is made that has bitter consequences for all and fate inexorably takes its course ans this forever! When we close our eyes in this last part of 'Decision in Paris - Volume II', we are in the middle of Paris! And find ourselves in a beautiful but tragic love story, as in the last book, which finds its continuation here seamlessly. With a variety of new events, which the author skillfully set the scene, so that a very tightly knit, haunting and under the skin drama has emerged. Emotions that we can hardly escape. This book makes your heart beat faster and the tears flow, if we let them, but only if we realize the meaning of this story. Above all, see what the author wanted to tell us with his story. Now we begin where the second volume ends, in Paris! Who has never been in this city of love, wants to go there after this book, and who has been there before, wants to do so again immediately! It is the finding of a very special love in this city that chance allows. It is the hymn to a single summer in Paris. Of love! Perhaps the events from the book will become blurred with your own memories of that city, which in films and in so many songs always tells of only one thing ... love. We would all like to experience it as intensively as these two protagonists in this novel! But maybe it's also the exuberant feelings that immediately sweep you away!
Download or read book Bountiful Deserts written by Cynthia Radding and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the arid lands of northwestern Mexico, this book foregrounds the knowledge of Indigenous peoples who harvested the desert as bountiful in its material resources and sacred spaces. Author Cynthia Radding uses the tools of history, anthropology, geography, and ecology to re-create the means of defending Indigenous worlds through colonial encounters, the formation of mixed societies, and the direct conflicts over forests, grasslands, streams, and coastal estuaries that sustained wildlife, horticulture, foraging, hunting, fishing, and--after European contact--livestock and extractive industries. She returns in each chapter to the spiritual power of nature and the enduring cultural significance of the worlds that Indigenous communities created and defended.
Download or read book She Creeps written by Alex Hairston and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this suspenseful, romantic thriller, one woman longs to feel alive--in every possible way. . . You Live, You Love-- Naomi Gaffney was only eight-years-old the day they found her momma's body. Then the police took her daddy away. Twenty-one years later, Naomi's father remains in jail, and she's still not sure if he's guilty of a crime of passion, or an innocent victim of southern justice. In fact, there isn't much Naomi is sure about these days. . . And If You're Smart, You Learn. . . Raised by a cruel aunt, Naomi married young to escape her bitter household. But all she got was more heartache. She knows she's too smart and pretty to waste away in a dead small town. She aches to feel alive again. Her childhood taught her that adultery can be deadly, but when a handsome young man offers her everything she craves, Naomi finds that some lessons are more easily learned than others. . . "A captivating tale that is sure to make readers think about the things they take for granted in relationships." --The Rawsistaz Reviewers
Download or read book Networks of Power written by Edward Schortman and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2011-02-18 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little is known about how Late Postclassic populations in southeast Mesoamerica organized their political relations. Networks of Power fills gaps in the knowledge of this little-studied area, reconstructing the course of political history in the Naco Valley from the fourteenth through early sixteenth centuries. Describing the material and behavioral patterns pertaining to the Late Postclassic period using components of three settlements in the Naco Valley of northwestern Honduras, the book focuses on how contests for power shaped political structures. Power-seeking individuals, including but not restricted to ruling elites, depended on networks of allies to support their political objectives. Ongoing and partially successful competitions waged within networks led to the incorporation of exotic ideas and imported items into the daily practices of all Naco Valley occupants. The result was a fragile hierarchical structure forever vulnerable to the initiatives of agents operating on local and distant stages. Networks of Power describes who was involved in these competitions and in which networks they participated; what resources were mustered within these webs; which projects were fueled by these assets; and how, and to what extent, they contributed to the achievement of political aims.
Download or read book A Cowboy s Christmas Reunion written by Sasha Summers and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A HAPPY REUNION? Way back when, Hunter Boone thought he and Josie Stephens had something that would last forever. Then she got her ticket out of town and took off—alone. The hurt nearly tore him apart. By the time Josie realized she'd made a mistake, Hunter had already married. Now Josie's back in Stonewall Crossing, and while instant fire flares between them, she can't come between the now single dad and his son. As the whole town gets ready for Christmas, Josie finds it hard to avoid Hunter. No matter how much he tempts her with the promise of a future together, she has to tell herself—for her own survival—that relationships just aren't her thing… ALSO INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME A HOME FOR CHRISTMAS by Laura Marie Altom
