Author : Jeff Chang
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 12,66 MB
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0312571291
Incorporating powerful images from a range of artistic venues, an intellectual follow-up to the award-winning Cant Stop Won't Stop considers how violent culture disputes are still occurring in spite of the past half century's progress in race relations.
Author : Ingrid Green
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 29,39 MB
Release : 2022-03-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1669816648
The more things change the more they stay the same. I’m sure that’s the way many black people feel today. Are you willing to understand the struggles of the Black man? This book explains the Black man’s plight for acceptance in our Country. The struggle for acceptance is still real you see, Because Black people are not acknowledged for WHO WE BE.
Author : Rebecca Frech
Publisher : Our Sunday Visitor
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 18,34 MB
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1681922630
These days more than ever, finding good friends is just plain hard. Even for those who are lucky enough to have found their people, making time to keep friendships strong and healthy can be a daunting task. Can We Be Friends? tackles the issue head on, taking a fun and honest look at friendship: why we need friends, where we find friends, and even when to let friends go. Author Rebecca Frech details the different types of friends, ways to grow intentionally in friendship, and how to decide which friends really deserve a place in our inner circle. Ultimately,Can We Be Friends?reminds us that authentic, life-giving friendship not only gives us a stable “tribe” in which to belong, it helps us to become our true self. With relatable and personal anecdotes, this book will take you beyond the shallow façade of friendship and help you find your people on the other side. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rebecca Frech is a Catholic author, speaker, CrossFit coach, and the Managing Editor of The Catholic Conspiracy website. She is the author of the best-selling Teaching in Your Tiara: A Homeschooling Book for the Rest of Us, a co-host of the popular podcast The Visitation Project, and a columnist for The National Catholic Register. She and her husband live just outside Dallas with their eight children and an ever-multiplying family of dust-bunnies.
Author : Benedict Chidi Nwachukwu-Udaku
Publisher : Author House
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 40,34 MB
Release : 2011-08-05
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1463414129
HIV/AIDS constitutes a global problem. A good number of scholars from different nationalities, multiple rationalities, religious sensibilities, theological intelligibilities and ethical, cultural, and ecclesiastical backgrounds have affirmed that this worldwide quagmire constitutes a global health problem and social malady which does not have a well-defined geographically limited spread. The global nature of HIV/AIDS as seen in the statistics does not however undermine the fact that the effects of this sickness are not felt proportionally from one nation to another. This book proposes to situate the local as a veritable site of empowerment for communities dealing with HIV/AIDS, as it is the case with the African continent. The author of this book, over and above the way the problem of HIV/AIDS has been constructed, projected, and reviewed, decided to situate this epidemic of the 20th Century within the socio-cultural and political context of the Nigerian nation with particular reference to the Igbo people. The task of contextualizing this problem reveal the identity of the author as an Igbo, and as a theologian, who engages the indigenous ethical principles, unsophisticated traditional wisdom, cultural and religious values of his people in offering solutions that resonate the cultural identity of his people in dialogue with modern and post-modern constructs.
Author : Jim Tushinski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 34,16 MB
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1317953401
Gay men and lesbians present humorous and hard-hitting accounts of the need to belong . . . somewhere Why would a lesbian raised in a Jewish home have a sudden desire to be a tough-talking Catholic girl? And why would a gay man travel to Ireland in a desperate attempt to escape his “hillbilly” roots? Identity Envy—Wanting to Be Who We’re Not explores the connections gay men and lesbians have to religions, races, ethnicities, classes, families of origin, and genders not their own. This unique anthology takes both humorous and serious looks at the identities of others as queer writers explore their own identity envies in personal essays, memoirs, and other creative nonfiction. Gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, transgendered, intersex, and other sexual minorities often feel marginalized by mainstream culture and have a need to belong somewhere, to claim a group as their own. This surprising book presents stories of identity envy that are humorous and hard-hitting, poignant and provocative, written with energy, wit, and candor by many of your favorite writers-and some exciting newcomers. Identity Envy—Wanting to Be Who We’re Not includes: Gerard Wozek’s King Fu-infused “Chasing the Grasshopper” Max Pierce’s fantasy of being a “Child Star” that helped him through a troubled family life Lori Horvitz’s “Shiksa in my Living Room” D. Travers Scott's “EuroTex” Perry Brass's “A Serene Invisibility: Turning Myself into a Christian Girl” Jim Tushinski’s ode to Lost in Space, “The Perfect Space Family” Al Cho’s unlikely identification with Laura Ingalls Wilder characters, “Farmer Boy” Irish-American John Gilgun wishes he could be one of those “Italian-American Boys” Joan Annsfire rejects her Jewish heritage to become Catholic schoolgirl Corinne O'Donnell in “The Promise of Redemption” Andrew Ramer’s “Tales of a Male Lesbian” city slicker Mike McGinty’s life with the cattle folk, “You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Helen” and much more! Identity Envy—Wanting to Be Who We’re Not is a must-read for anyone who appreciates good writing—especially gay and lesbian readers who know what it’s like to wish you were someone else.
Author : Dr. Henri Marcoux
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 17,2 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1460205219
WEIGHT MANAGEMENT IS NOT ABOUT LOSING WEIGHT to become someone you are not. Weight loss programs can help you lose weight, but fail in the long run because the starting point is based on a negative image of yourself. Successful weight management only works when you feel confident and happy about who you are and consciously choose to lose weight (or not) from a positive perspective. Managing weight is really about managing yourself into being the best you can be, loving yourself and letting your body find the shape that best suits who you are. Managing weight is not about losing pounds. It is about losing what is weighing you down "You cannot be anything but yourself so you might as well...GET INTO IT ..".
Author : Jan Malone
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 39,29 MB
Release : 2013-09-09
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1491813083
ABOUT WHO WE ARE IN CHRIST When we become a Christian and have fellowship with the Lord we grow glory to glory as we become more and more like our Lord and Savior. This book tells us 160 qualities that are accessible to us through Jesus Christ. Also like Metamorphic stones that are formed by going through heat and pressure in the earth, being created into the most beautiful, pure, precious and valuable stones like diamonds, rubies, onyx, and the like. As we go through the heat and pressure of life we are being created as extremely valuable jewels. The Lord sees us more precious than fine gold and precious valuable jewels. We are His precious treasure. All these qualities are available to us in our life through our Lord God. Praise God.
Author : Colin Wright
Publisher : Asymmetrical Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 13,8 MB
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1682870081
Author : Margaret J. Wheatley
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 30,8 MB
Release : 2017-06-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1523083646
On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of her classic Leadership and the New Science, bestselling author Margaret Wheatley once again turns to the new science of living systems to help leaders persevere in a time of great turmoil. I know it is possible for leaders to use their power and influence, their insight and compassion, to lead people back to an understanding of who we are as human beings, to create the conditions for our basic human qualities of generosity, contribution, community and love to be evoked no matter what. I know it is possible to experience grace and joy in the midst of tragedy and loss. I know it is possible to create islands of sanity in the midst of wildly disruptive seas. I know it is possible because I have worked with leaders over many years in places that knew chaos and breakdown long before this moment. And I have studied enough history to know that such leaders always arise when they are most needed. Now it's our turn.
Author : Gina Lake
Publisher : Endless Satsang Foundation, Inc
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,9 MB
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1544781083
We expect that getting what we want will finally make us happy, but what we find is that it mostly just leads to wanting more or wanting something different. Our desires toss us to and fro until we tire of this and begin to question the value of following our desires. Being Happy (Even When You Don't Get What You Want) will help you understand desire and its purpose in your life. It will also help you discriminate between your Heart's desires and the ego's and to relate to the ego's desires in a way that reduces suffering and increases joy. By pointing out the myths about desire that keep us tied to our ego's desires and the suffering they cause, Being Happy (Even When You Don't Get What You Want) will help you be happy regardless of your desires and whether you are attaining them. So it is also about spiritual freedom, or liberation, which comes from following the Heart, our deepest desires, instead of the ego's desires. It is about becoming a lover of life rather than a desirer. A review from Neale Donald Walsch, author of Conversations with God: "Conversations with God says that happiness is not getting what you want, it is wanting what you get. Others have made the same observation, and in fact, this thought seems to be as old as time. Still, it is good to hear it again, to visit it once more, to connect with the wisdom yet one more time. And few books do as good a job, as quickly, of reconnecting us with that wisdom than this one by Gina Lake. This book had a lasting impact on me. I highly recommend it.... It offers a simple, accessible, articulate, and interesting take on the very human experience of desire and gives us the tools to make clear choices about how we want to live our lives. An excellent read." This book was formerly titled Anatomy of Desire.
