Author : Jamie McGhee
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 10,32 MB
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1506478948
It is not enough to hold progressive views on racial justice, LGBTQ+ identity, and economic inequality. Through a rich examination of James Baldwin's writing and interviews, You Mean It or You Don't spurs today's progressives from conviction to action, from dreaming of justice to living it out in our communities, churches, and neighborhoods.
Author : Meryl Runion
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 23,8 MB
Release : 2010-10-11
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1600378722
Learn to strengthen your communication skills and handle difficult conversations with confidence in this guide from the author of Power Phrases. Research shows ninety percent of us stay silent in situations that call for strong words. But while many of us don’t want to rock the boat, author Meryl Runion explains that some boats need to be rocked—provided that it happens for the right reasons, at the right time, and in the right way. In Speak Srong, Runion helps you know when it’s time to speak up, overcome resistance to unwelcome truths, establish and implement boundaries, create new communication standards, supercharge your message, elevate the quality of your conversations, overcome destructive communication habits, and put your best foot forward sincerely. Runion’s “PowerPhrases!” book series has helped over a quarter million readers find the perfect phrases to communicate clearly. Speak Strong is the perfect “next step” for those who rely on communication skills to build successful careers and relationships.
Author : Colette Dowling
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 39,87 MB
Release : 1993-05-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780553371697
"A down-to-earth, hopeful, useful--and, from the point of view of this 'recovered' depressive--accurate account of how to treat depression."--Mike Wallace, 60 Minutes. Colette Dowling watched depression destroy her husband's life and leap to the next generation to nearly destroy her daughter's--until dramatic help was found. Now her ground-breaking book offer the same lifesaving help to the millions who still suffer depression and related disorders--which include panic, anxiety, phobias, PMS, alcohol and drug abuse, bulimia, migraine, and obesity. You Mean I Don't Have To Feel This Way? documents the latest research that links depression and related disorders to a physical cause and shows why willpower, understanding, and psychotherapy so often fail to work. It explains the state-of-the-art medical treatments that can bring about dramatic improvement--and often full recovery--within weeks. This important book includes: startling new links between eating disorders, addiction, and depression. How to recognize the symptoms of depression and anxiety disorders. Vital information about new treatments for depressed children and adolescents. A guide to breakthrough drugs for treating mood, anxiety, and eating disorders. The newest research on the use of antidepressants to prevent substance-abuse relapse. How to find expert help and evaluate the treatment you are given. Upbeat, filled with hope and warmth, Colette Dowling's book will change minds and save lives.
Author : David A. Croteau
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 11,7 MB
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1498271553
Tithing is a well-known church practice in our day and age, but do church-goers really practice it? When did the concept of tithing begin? How is it justified? What does the Bible say about it? You Mean I Don't Have to Tithe? is a detailed study on the controversial topic of tithing, covering over 2,000 years of well-known theologians regarding this topic. Dr. Croteau's intense tithing investigation will enable you to explore tithing and related topics in-depth, expounding many misconceptions of tithing as well as aiding in a correct understanding of this popular topic.
Author : Jamie McGhee
Publisher : Broadleaf Books
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 31,32 MB
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1506478956
After a speech at UMass Amherst on February 28, 1984, James Baldwin was asked by a student: "You said that the liberal facade and being a liberal is not enough. Well, what is? What is necessary?" Baldwin responded, "Commitment. That is what is necessary. You mean it or you don't." Taking up that challenge and drawing from Baldwin's fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and interviews, You Mean It or You Don't will spur today's progressives from conviction to action. It is not enough, authors Hollowell and McGhee urge us, to hold progressive views on racial justice, LGBTQ+ identity, and economic inequality. True and lasting change demands a response to Baldwin's radical challenge for moral commitment. Called to move from dreams of justice to living it out in communities, churches, and neighborhoods, we can show that we truly mean it. Welcome to life with James Baldwin. It is raw and challenging, inspired and embodied, passionate and fully awake.
Author : Pierre Bayard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 49,54 MB
Release : 2010-08-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1596917148
In this delightfully witty, provocative book, literature professor and psychoanalyst Pierre Bayard argues that not having read a book need not be an impediment to having an interesting conversation about it. (In fact, he says, in certain situations reading the book is the worst thing you could do.) Using examples from such writers as Graham Greene, Oscar Wilde, Montaigne, and Umberto Eco, he describes the varieties of "non-reading"-from books that you've never heard of to books that you've read and forgotten-and offers advice on how to turn a sticky social situation into an occasion for creative brilliance. Practical, funny, and thought-provoking, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read-which became a favorite of readers everywhere in the hardcover edition-is in the end a love letter to books, offering a whole new perspective on how we read and absorb them.
Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 15,66 MB
Release : 1991-08-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 014191596X
'These essays ... live and grow in the mind' James Campbell, Independent Being a writer, says James Baldwin in this searing collection of essays, requires 'every ounce of stamina he can summon to attempt to look on himself and the world as they are'. His seminal 1961 follow-up to Notes on a Native Son shows him responding to his times and exploring his role as an artist with biting precision and emotional power: from polemical pieces on racial segregation and a journey to 'the Old Country' of the Southern states, to reflections on figures such as Ingmar Bergman and André Gide, and on the first great conference of African writers and artists in Paris. 'Brilliant...accomplished...strong...vivid...honest...masterly' The New York Times 'A bright and alive book, full of grief, love and anger' Chicago Tribune
Author : Josie Long
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 30,59 MB
Release : 2023-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1838856102
From a comic mastermind comes this brilliant collection of stories Three teenagers believe they are witches. A woman defaces a local billboard. A bored landlord tries to influence his son’s best friend. A cul-de-sac WhatsApp group discusses eggs at length. A heavily pregnant woman finds a way to time travel and a girl discovers joy on a stolen bicycle . . . Each tale paints a life in miniature and offers an escape chute from the mayhem of modern life.
Author : Randy Pausch
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,86 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Cancer
ISBN : 9780340978504
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Author : Susan O'Neill
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 20,74 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781558494428
In this debut story collection, the first by a woman who served in Vietnam, Susan O'Neill offers a remarkable, unprecedented glimpse into the war from a female perspective.
