Author : Michael Johnston
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 38,18 MB
Release : 2003-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780802140241
A Teach for America volunteer recounts his own tenuous education as well as his tenure in the rural Mississippi Delta, one of the poorest districts in the country, during which he encountered fierce racial divisions, drug problems, and gang violence. Reprint.
Author : Lisa Fishman
Publisher : New Issues Poetry & Prose
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 37,27 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780932826473
Author : Michael Johnston
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 25,28 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780802140241
In the Deep Heart's Core is the uplifting story of young Teach for America volunteer who becomes an English teacher in a desperately impoverished African-American high school in the rural Mississippi Delta beset by gang violence, drug abuse, ruptured families and teen pregnancy-but among the sorrow and struggle he finds dignity and hope, and works to bring the nascent intellectual curiosity of his students to full flower.
Author : John Eldredge
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Inc
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 10,20 MB
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1400200385
What Wild at Heart did for men, Captivating is doing for women. Setting their hearts free. This groundbreaking book shows readers the glorious design of women before the fall, describes how the feminine heart can be restored, and casts a vision for the power, freedom, and beauty of a woman released to be all she was meant to be.
Author : Joan C. Browning
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 48,23 MB
Release : 2002-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820324197
Deep in Our Hearts is an eloquent and powerful book that takes us into the lives of nine young women who came of age in the 1960s while committing themselves actively and passionately to the struggle for racial equality and justice. These compelling first-person accounts take us back to one of the most tumultuous periods in our nation’s history--to the early days of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the Albany Freedom Ride, voter registration drives and lunch counter sit-ins, Freedom Summer, the 1964 Democratic Convention, and the rise of Black Power and the women’s movement. The book delves into the hearts of the women to ask searching questions. Why did they, of all the white women growing up in their hometowns, cross the color line in the days of segregation and join the Southern Freedom Movement? What did they see, do, think, and feel in those uncertain but hopeful days? And how did their experiences shape the rest of their lives?
Author : John Eldredge
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 35,19 MB
Release : 2011-04-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1400200393
In all your boyhood dreams of growing up, did you dream of being a "nice guy"? Eldredge believes that every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. That is how he bears the image of God; that is what God made him to be.
Author : Rumi
Publisher : Hampton Roads Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 15,25 MB
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1612832210
From Madonna to Deepak Chopra, celebrities have been recording and embracing Rumi's poetry for the past two decades, creating a resurgence of interest in this 13th century Sufi mystic. Rumi's Little Book of Life is a beautiful collection of 196 poems by Rumi, previously unavailable in English. Translated by native Persian speakers, Maryam Mafi and Azima Melita Kolin, this collection will appeal to Rumi lovers everywhere. This collection of mystical poetry focuses on one of life's core issues: coming to grips with the inner life. During the course of life, each of us is engaged on an inner journey. Rumi's Little Book of Life is a guidebook for that journey. The poetry is a companion for those who consciously enter the inner world to explore the gardens within--out of the everyday "world of dust"--through an ascending hierarchy that restores one's soul to the heart; the heart of the spirit; and in finding spirit, transcending all.
Author : Bessel A. Van der Kolk
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 13,51 MB
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0143127748
Originally published by Viking Penguin, 2014.
Author : Mark Nepo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,57 MB
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0757391796
Stories carry the seeds of our humanness. They help us, teach us, heal us, and connect us to what matters. As Far As the Heart Can See is an invitation to be in relationship with deep and life-giving material. Many spiritual gurus present dense metaphysical theses with an intellectual approach for "working" a spiritual path; poet and philosopher Mark Nepo reaches people through their hearts, bringing something fresh and new to the field by stimulating change through reflection of thoughts and feelings. The stories he shares in As Far As the Heart Can See come from many places—from Nepo's personal history to dreams to the myths of our ancestors. Each one is an invitation to awaken an aspect of living in relationship with the sacred. Following each of the forty-five stories are three forms of an invitation to further the conversation: journal questions, table questions, and meditations. The questions, whether reflected upon in a journal or discussed in deeper conversation with friends or family, are meant to lead the seeker down unimagined paths and back into life; the meditations are meant to ground the learning. These stories and parables about universal concepts and themes offer a poet's sensuality and a philosopher's sensibility to personalizing the journey of the human experience in the world.
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