Download or read book WORDS of a MAN written by Yusef Salaam and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WORDS of a MAN is a selection of poems written by transformational speaker, Yusef Salaam, during his wrongful incarceration (1987-1995) in connection with the Central Park Jogger case. The case attracted nationwide attention and was the subject of many articles and books, both during and after the trials. Convictions were overturned when the real rapist - a since convicted murderer serving a life sentence - confessed to the crimes and proved to be a DNA match. Ten years later, documentarian Ken Burns, his daughter Sarah Burns and her husband David McMahon released the award-winning film, The Central Park Five, which told of this travesty from the perspective of Yusef and his cohorts.. These writings - addressing a wide range of subjects from the justice system, to love, and black life in general - helped to get a young Yusef Salaam through several years of unjust imprisonment. He hopes they will be a source of inspiration for others - especially young men of color.
Download or read book A Man Without Words written by Susan Schaller and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a quarter of a century, Ildefonso, a Mexican Indian, lived in total isolation, set apart from the rest of the world. He wasn't a political prisoner or a social recluse, he was simply born deaf and had never been taught even the most basic language. Susan Schaller, then a twenty-four-year-old graduate student, encountered him in a class for the deaf where she had been sent as an interpreter and where he sat isolated, since he knew no sign language. She found him obviously intelligent and sharply observant but unable to communicate, and she felt compelled to bring him to a comprehension of words. The book vividly conveys the challenge, the frustrations, and the exhilaration of opening the mind of a congenitally deaf person to the concept of language. This second edition includes a new chapter and afterword.
Download or read book A Man Betrayed written by J. V. Jones and published by Aspect. This book was released on 2001-12-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 of the Book of Words series, is a fantasy adventure where the lethal conspiracies and deadly intrigues of the mighty can be countered only by the power of magic.
Download or read book Words for Elephant Man written by Kenneth Sherman and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Man is a / fascinating animal’, Kenneth Sherman writes, and it is this fascination that drives the narrative in Words for Elephant Man. Written in the voice of Joseph Merrick, the ‘Elephant Man’ plagued with a disfiguring condition that ravaged much of his body, Sherman reveals his subject to be more than just a living fascination. Sherman’s Merrick, acutely observant, is equally fascinated by those around him. Using found lines from historical record interwoven with his own beautifully rendered verse, Sherman’s collection triumphs as a haunting, eloquent portrait of a man whose body was both disabler and enabler, a man who was both a commodity and a salesman, mechanical and organic, and whose extraordinary circumstances overshadowed the remarkably ordinary desires he shared with humanity. Sherman’s Merrick is observant, clever and authentic, and possessed of a voice that resonates through the years and into the hearts and minds of readers.
Download or read book The Man Who Tasted Words written by Dr. Guy Leschziner and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Man Who Tasted Words, Guy Leschziner leads readers through the senses and how, through them, our brain understands or misunderstands the world around us. Vision, hearing, taste, smell, and touch are what we rely on to perceive the reality of our world. Our senses are the conduits that bring us the scent of a freshly brewed cup of coffee or the notes of a favorite song suddenly playing on the radio. But are they really that reliable? The Man Who Tasted Words shows that what we perceive to be absolute truths of the world around us is actually a complex internal reconstruction by our minds and nervous systems. The translation into experiences with conscious meaning—the pattern of light and dark on the retina that is transformed into the face of a loved one, for instance—is a process that is invisible, undetected by ourselves and, in most cases, completely out of our control. In The Man Who Tasted Words, neurologist Guy Leschziner explores how our nervous systems define our worlds and how we can, in fact, be victims of falsehoods perpetrated by our own brains. In his moving and lyrical chronicles of lives turned upside down by a disruption in one or more of their five senses, he introduces readers to extraordinary individuals, like one man who actually “tasted” words, and shows us how sensory disruptions like that have played havoc, not only with their view of the world, but with their relationships as well. The cases Leschziner shares in The Man Who Tasted Words are extreme, but they are also human, and teach us how our lives and what we perceive as reality are both ultimately defined by the complexities of our nervous systems.
Download or read book The Man Made of Words written by N. Scott Momaday and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects the author's writings on sacred geography, Billy the Kid, actor Jay Silverheels, ecological ethics, Navajo place names, and old ways of knowing.
Download or read book Words from a Man of No Words written by Osho and published by Osho Media International. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers a radically different approach to life and to seeing the world. Short excerpts from Osho are selected to inspire, to provoke, and to trigger a self-reflection that leads to change. It is easy to read but perhaps difficult to digest . . . in essence, it is a meditation book! "The truth that you will find — you will be surprised — is nowhere written, cannot be written. It is impossible to write it. It has never been uttered by anybody and it is not going to be uttered by anybody." You are looking at a bit of magic here. It is as though the vast ocean is contained in a very small volume. Open this book anywhere and you come upon such a depth of wisdom, such utter truth, that even just a sentence can be the start of a new way of looking at life, a new way of living life to the fullest. This is a lovely gift to yourself or to share with a friend. "I teach you to be authentic, integrated individuals with immense self-respect." — Osho
Download or read book Words for Women Written by a Man written by Adrian Cutinov and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-06-05 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life starts with a woman.They are our mothers, sisters, friends and lovers......but sometimes they don't see their valueDeep in the thoughts of the women who make our lives wonderful often lies doubt and criticism. These sensitive and powerful people have questions that need answering, if only to put their minds at ease. What can the words of a man do to help the women we love see their true value?Adrian Cutinov has always felt close to the feminine soul, and in this book poured out his heart and beliefs in a hope that a different perspective would help.Women have questions.Do men feel emotions?Are men able to love?Can men really grow? Do they even want to? Has society just become too superficial for deep meaningful relationships to ever exist again? Is the age of true love, dead?Adrian sets out to remind women how special they are and to dig into these questions.You'll love his perspective, because maybe it will help you find the love you desire.Get it now.
Download or read book A Man of Few Words written by Katherine Woodbury and published by Peaks Island Press. This book was released on 2009-07-23 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lighthearted look at the critical events in Jane Austen's most famous work from the perspective of Fitzwilliam Darcy. Later accounts have too often transformed Darcy into the stereotypical alpha male of Regency romances. Within the pages of this novella, he endeavors to correct that popular misunderstanding.
Download or read book The Words of a Wise Man s Mouth are Gracious Qoh 10 12 written by Mauro Perani and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume of collected papers, acknowledged authorities in Jewish Studies mark the milestones in the development of the Jewish religion from ancient times up to the present. They also take full account of the interactions between Judaism and its ancient and Christian environment. The renowned Viennese scholar Günter Stemberger is honoured with this festschrift on the occasion of his 65th birthday.
Download or read book A few plain words about Popery and the Pope A plain man s examination of Popery addressed to plain people Revised and enlarged written by FEW PLAIN WORDS. and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 7 Greatest Words of the Greatest Man Ever Lived written by Rev. Dr. T. P. Samuel Stuart and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2024-03-18 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author has been preaching on these seven Words of Christ from the cross for more than 50 years, on Good Fridays, in various Churches, including the Holy Trinity English Church (CSI), at Tuticorin Town, where he is ministering as a pastor. His book on the ‘Seven Words of Christ,’ in Tamil, written in 2007, has been well received by the Tamil speaking Christians, all over the world. To share the benefit with more children of God, he desired to publish the book in English. This book, however, is not a translation of the Tamil book. Rather, he has written afresh in English, in a simple language, so that any person with a basic knowledge of English could understand. The Message of the book: About two thousand years ago, the Heavenly Virtue (The Holy One) came to the world, in human form, in the Person of our Lord Jesus Christ; the religious men of His time, instead of prostrating at His feet in worship, they had Him nailed to the Cross. But our Lord in His death, saved humankind from (1) the bondage of sin, (2) the slavery of Satan, (3) the fear of death, and (4) the Great Judgment of God. By His death upon the cross, Christ revealed His eternal opposition of God to sin. In God’s redemptive Plan of the Ages, the salvation of man necessitated the vicarious suffering-cum-death of God, the Creator. Jesus’ life shows us how one should live the human life in this God-hating world. In Him, the ‘Perfect Goodness’ is expressed in a human character. He, the Son of God, came to the world and lived a ‘Perfect Life’ which is unique from any other life that was ever lived or has ever since been lived.
Download or read book A Few Words on Every Man s Right to possess and read the Scriptures and on his right and duty to make use of his private judgment in the interpretation of them written by Algernon CAPEL (Hon.) and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No Man s Land The war of the words written by Sandra M. Gilbert and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V.1 the war of the words. V.2 sexchanges.
Download or read book Act Like a Lady Think Like a Man LP written by Steve Harvey and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve Harvey, the host of the nationally syndicated Steve Harvey Morning Show, can't count the number of impressive women he's met over the years, whether it's through the "Strawberry Letters" segment of his program or while on tour for his comedy shows. Yet when it comes to relationships, they can't figure out what makes men tick. Why? According to Steve it's because they're asking other women for advice when no one but another man can tell them how to find and keep a man. In Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, Steve lets women inside the mindset of a man and sheds light on concepts and questions such as: The Ninety Day Rule: Ford requires it of its employees. Should you require it of your man? The five questions every woman should ask a man to determine how serious he is. And much more . . . Sometimes funny, sometimes direct, but always truthful, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man is a book you must read if you want to understand how men think when it comes to relationships.
Download or read book Rocket Man written by Jessica Easto and published by Agate Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of inspiring and motivational quotes from Elon Musk, “the world’s most remarkable living entrepreneur” (Chris Anderson, curator of TED). Elon Musk, the South African-born entrepreneur who made his first fortune with Internet companies such as PayPal, has risen to global prominence as the visionary CEO of both Tesla Motors and SpaceX, two companies with self-proclaimed missions to improve life as we know it and better secure the future of humanity. For the first time, the most insightful, thought-provoking, and revealing quotes from this entrepreneurial engineer have been compiled into a single book. Rocket Man: Elon Musk in His Own Words is a comprehensive guide to the inner workings of the man dubbed “the real Tony Stark.” Hundreds of his best quotes, comprising thoughts on business, clean energy, innovation, engineering, technology, space, electric vehicles, entrepreneurship, life lessons, and more, provide an intimate and direct look into Silicon Valley’s most ambitious industrialist. How could a young man who at one time seemed like “just” another Internet entrepreneur have gone on to build two highly disruptive companies and innovate technologies related to everything from electric batteries to rocket manufacturing? There’s no better way to learn than through his own words. This book curates Musk quotes from interviews, public appearances, online postings, company blogs, press releases, and more. What emerges is a “word portrait” of the man whose companies’ swift rise to the top will undoubtedly keep their status-quo competitors scrambling to keep up.
Download or read book Gutenberg written by John Man and published by New York : Wiley. This book was released on 2002-04-11 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gutenberg, simply put, helped found the Modern Age.".
