Author : Barbara Wallraff
Publisher : Counterpoint
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,24 MB
Release : 2004-03-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
The author of "The Atlantic Monthly's" Word Court column shows readers how to develop a genuine style that's both correct and personal--a style that expresses the writer at his or her best.
Author : Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 11,38 MB
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 150114524X
"The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993--a ... collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had [an] ... influence on law, women's rights, and popular culture"--
Author : Jennifer Kelly
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 22,61 MB
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0252094832
This collection of new interviews with twenty-five accomplished female composers substantially advances our knowledge of the work, experiences, compositional approaches, and musical intentions of a diverse group of creative individuals. With personal anecdotes and sometimes surprising intimacy and humor, these wide-ranging conversations represent the diversity of women composing music in the United States from the mid-twentieth century into the twenty-first. The composers work in a variety of genres including classical, jazz, multimedia, or collaborative forms for the stage, film, and video games. Their interviews illuminate questions about the status of women composers in America, the role of women in musical performance and education, the creative process and inspiration, the experiences and qualities that contemporary composers bring to their craft, and balancing creative and personal lives. Candidly sharing their experiences, advice, and views, these vibrant, thoughtful, and creative women open new perspectives on the prospects and possibilities of making music in a changing world.
Author : Juliet Mousseau
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 35,68 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0814645208
Written by a diverse group of younger women religious from North America, In Our Own Words offers a collection of essays on issues central to apostolic religious life today. The thirteen authors represent different congregations, charisms, ministries, and histories. The topics and concerns that shape these chapters emerged naturally through a collaborative process of prayer and conversation. Essays focus on the vows and community life, individual identity and congregational charisms, and leadership among younger members leading into the future. The authors hope these chapters may form a springboard for further conversation on religious life, inviting others to share their experiences of religious life in today's world.
Author : The National Archives
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 37,73 MB
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 184486524X
Letters, postcards, notes and telegraphs from the great and the good, the notorious and the downright wicked, shine a spotlight on a range of historical events and movements providing an immediate link to the immediate and much more distant past. The book includes letters from: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mikhail Gorbachev, Lucien Freud, Barbara Hepworth, Nelson Mandela, Caitlin Thomas, Mary Whitehouse, Gandhi, George Washington among many others. Subjects covered include suffragette disturbances, obscene publications, relations between international leaders, child emigration including the Kindertransport. The book features 55 letters, each with a 600-word essay, and a 3000 word introduction. There are 150 images in the book: 55 of the letters themselves, and a further 95 supplementary images.
Author : Beverley Glick
Publisher : Right Book Press
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 25,47 MB
Release : 2024-02-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1915483387
Are you curious to explore the transformative potential of your life’s stories and harness the captivating power of storytelling? Whether you’re a leader, speaker, blogger or author, storytelling is a vital business skill that forges a memorable connection with your audience and cultivates trust, loyalty and integrity. Crafting a personal story with a purposeful message can seem challenging. You may feel your stories aren’t worth telling, feel trapped in an outdated narrative or uncertain about which words will make an impact. Join Beverley Glick, a seasoned wordsmith, coach and former national newspaper journalist, on a life-enhancing journey. She introduces you to a unique method that will help you navigate your life stages and create a personal ‘life dictionary’, providing profound insights into your identity, motivations and passions. As you journey through the book, reflecting on Beverley’s own story, you'll discover: > A deep-dive process to support you as you look back on your life. > A list of significant words that will unlock your most meaningful experiences. > A treasury of inspiring stories to help you shape and convey your messages. > An empowering new narrative shedding light on your past while illuminating your future. Your life is anything but ordinary; it’s a treasure trove of extraordinary stories waiting to be shared. In Your Own Words is your key to unearthing, unlocking and sharing them in a way that will resonate deeply with you and, most importantly, your audience.
Author : John Muir
Publisher : Great West Books
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 19,23 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0944220029
The best of John Muir -- 332 quotations, the distillation of his thought, the essence of his beliefs. Muir was the foremost conservationist of his time -- nature writer, social critic, realist, a romantic, a visionary. A long-needed collection that features an excellent subject index. Painstaking bibliographic references make this an invaluable addition to one's Muir Library. (Yosemite Association.) If asked for a succinct statement of his beliefs, Muir might have replied:
Author : Julian Assange
Publisher : OR Books
Page : pages
File Size : 41,4 MB
Release : 2021-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781682192634
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Author : Jill Ker Conway
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 809 pages
File Size : 18,32 MB
Release : 2011-06-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307797244
Jill Ker Conway, author of one of the most celebrated memoirs of recent decades, is also the premier anthologist of women's autobiographical writing. In Her Own Words is Conway's distillation of women's experience from the British Commonwealth world she came from, compared with major themes in women's lives in the United States, which is now her home. In this dazzling collection, we meet twelve remarkable women−from Shirley Chisholm, the West Indian-raised girl who became the first black woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress, to Janet Frame, the brilliant New Zealand writer who overcame involuntary treatment in a mental institution to write one of the archetypal analyses of the post-colonial experience. We learn how the world of politics and the private self intersect in the four offshoots of the old British world, and see how these women have made a difference−by their honesty, by the scale of their struggle for self-knowledge and autonomy, and by the power of their writing. Patricia Adam-Smith Lillian Hellman Rosemary Brown Dorothy Hewett Kim Chernin Robin Hyde Shirley Chisholm Dorothy Livesay Lauris Edmond Sally Morgan Janet Frame Gabrielle Roy
Author : Senator Robert Torricelli
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 46,97 MB
Release : 2000-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0743410521
Presents a collection of oratory including sermons, speeches, courtroom arguments, radio broadcasts, eulogies, and commencement addresses.
