Nobody Leaves

Nobody Leaves
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Publisher : Penguin Press
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1846143608
ISBN-13 : 9781846143601
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Nobody Leaves by : Ryszard Kapuściński

Download or read book Nobody Leaves written by Ryszard Kapuściński and published by Penguin Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A peculiar genius with no modern equivalent, except possibly Kafka' - Jonathan Miller Regarded as a central part of Kapuscinski's work, these vivid portraits of life in the depths of Poland embody the young writer's mastery of literary reportage When the great Ryszard Kapuscinski was a young journalist in the early 1960s, he was sent to the farthest reaches of his native Poland between foreign assignments. The resulting pieces brought together in this new collection, nearly all of which are translated into English for the first time, reveal a place just as strange as the distant lands he visited. From forgotten villages to collective farms, Kapuscinski explores a Poland that is post-Stalinist but still Communist; a country on the edge of modernity. He encounters those for whom the promises of rising living standards never worked out as planned, those who would have been misfits under any political system, those tied to the land and those dreaming of escape.

No One Leaves the World Unhurt

No One Leaves the World Unhurt
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Publisher : Donald Justice Poetry Prize
Total Pages : 80
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ISBN-10 : 1938769759
ISBN-13 : 9781938769757
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Book Synopsis No One Leaves the World Unhurt by : John Foy

Download or read book No One Leaves the World Unhurt written by John Foy and published by Donald Justice Poetry Prize. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Foy's newest collection is a tour de force of formal poetry, offering a blend of wit, cleverness, and deftness. Working in the lineage of poets like Billy Collins, Robert Frost, Frank O'Hara, W. H. Auden, and Elizabeth Bishop, Foy probes everyday experiences to generate compassionate, clever, and deeply knowing verse. While moments in No One Leaves the World Unhurt may appear absurd or even funny on the surface--such as a psychological exploration of the Lord of the Rings character Gollum--beneath this lightheartedness lies a tone that is grim and foreboding. Foy satirizes various elements of contemporary society, reflecting on war, wandering through the Museum of Sex in New York with his wife, and plucking apart idiomatic speech, which he breaks down, saying "It is what it is. / It's not what it might have been." Influenced by pop art and fine art and his New York home, which forms the backdrop of many of these poems, Foy's vibrant collection is simultaneously philosophical, whimsical, serious, and searching.

You Can't Hide

You Can't Hide
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Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : 9780446549080
ISBN-13 : 0446549088
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Book Synopsis You Can't Hide by : Karen Rose

Download or read book You Can't Hide written by Karen Rose and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-16 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terror has forever changed the life of psychiatrist Tess Ciccotelli. Someone is tormenting her patients, pushing them to commit suicide, and setting her up to take the blame. But Tess can't break her oath to protect her patients' privacy at all costs. Even when detective Aidan Reagan demands a list of everyone she's treating. Even when the mounting danger threatens Tess herself. Aidan doesn't like anyone who stalls his cases. Still, he can't help but admire Tess's fierce loyalty to her patients, especially when it becomes clear that a nameless, facelss enemy is set on destroying her career, her family , and finally, Tess herself. As Aidan's heart softens, the killer's will hardens, and one thing becomes clear - the noose is tightening around Tess's neck.

Collaborating for Change

Collaborating for Change
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Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Total Pages : 220
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ISBN-10 : 9781978801172
ISBN-13 : 1978801173
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Collaborating for Change by : Susan D. Greenbaum

Download or read book Collaborating for Change written by Susan D. Greenbaum and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-17 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the U.S. immigrants, laborers, domestic workers, low-income tenants, indigenous communities, and people experiencing homelessness are conducting research to fight for justice. Collaborating for Change: A Participatory Action Research Casebook documents the stories of a dozen community-based research projects. Academics and their partners share authorship about the importance of gathering credible evidence, both for organizing and persuading. The emphasis is on community organizations involved in struggles for equality and justice. Research projects directly engage community partners in all phases of the research process. Finally, the stories capture how the research changes the roles of researchers and those being researched. The book is designed for students, but also for community organizers, social justice activists, and their research allies; it offers real stories and real projects that show how democratizing research supports social change and heightens our understanding of complex social issues.

Of Course You Can Have Ice Cream for Breakfast!

Of Course You Can Have Ice Cream for Breakfast!
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Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Total Pages : 392
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ISBN-10 : 9781490782423
ISBN-13 : 1490782427
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Of Course You Can Have Ice Cream for Breakfast! by : Ron Cohen

Download or read book Of Course You Can Have Ice Cream for Breakfast! written by Ron Cohen and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Managing Editor of United Press International and Executive Editor of Gannett News Service during a 40-year-journalism career, Ron Cohen has been directly responsible for instantly bringing the top headlines every day to hundreds of millions of readers, viewers and listeners in every corner of the globe. Assassinations, impeachments, terrorist attacks, elections, wars, disasters both natural and man-made these constitute the 24-hour-a-day breaking news cycle that helped make Cohen one of the worlds most influential journalists. In these days of political turmoil and allegations of "fake news," this highly personal book offers a chance to see and feel how it's been to work in a changing media universe with constant challenges, excitement and pressure to perform, plus the thrills, satisfaction and frustration that make the news business at once rewarding and exhausting. Now, shifting gears a bit, Cohen has written Of Course You Can Have Ice Cream for Breakfast! A Journalists Uncommon Memoir. It is sweet, humorous, quirky, serious a sort of written/oral history of his 80 years on Planet Earth. With this collection of stories, Ron tells you about the fascinating characters he has encountered along his journey, as well abouta rich North Jersey Italian-Jewish heritage dating back to the early 20th Century when mixed marriages were rare and often frowned upon. The stories aim at his four young grandkids whom he cannot and simply will not deny Ice Cream for Breakfast in hopes they will get to better know (and remember) a grandfather who is geographically distant if emotionally close. But it also is for the 70 million grandparents in America and for kids of all ages looking for a grin, a sigh, a belly-laugh even an occasional throat lump. Cohen's previous book, "Down to the Wire: UPI's Fight for Survival" (McGraw-Hill, 1989) was named Best Business Book of the Year by Business Week magazine, and won, among other awards, the coveted Gold Medal for Journalism History from theSociety of Professional Journalists.

The Spawn of the Death Machine

The Spawn of the Death Machine
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Publisher : Gateway
Total Pages : 157
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ISBN-10 : 9780575117846
ISBN-13 : 0575117842
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Spawn of the Death Machine by : Ted White

Download or read book The Spawn of the Death Machine written by Ted White and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'You are an artificially constructed human being, a mobile gathering device.' That is what the computer's metallic voice tells Tanner when it releases him from his cell. Naked, unarmed, with no memory to guide him, he emerges into a savage world, into the ruins of Manhattan in the 23rd century where wild animals roam and men have become cannibals in a frantic struggle to survive. Who has unleashed this chaos upon the world? Has Tanner really been dispatched to gather facts to help save the tragic remnants of humanity? Or is he to be the final instrument of its destruction?

Sherman Plays: 1

Sherman Plays: 1
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Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 266
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ISBN-10 : 9781472536846
ISBN-13 : 1472536843
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Sherman Plays: 1 by : Martin Sherman

Download or read book Sherman Plays: 1 written by Martin Sherman and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection by a seminal contemporary gay playwright BENT (1979): "A heroic myth ... It has the laughter which Yeats asserted lay at the heart of tragedy." (Listener) "It is ... a play of importance, power and pathos which should concern us all." (Guardian) The play follows the persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany. It received a Tony nomination for Best Play and won The Dramatists' Guild Hull-Warriner Award. CRACKS (1973): a comedy set in the gay scene in California of the 70s where an assassin is on the loose. MESSIAH (1982) is a moving drama about the life of a small Jewish community in the 17th century.. ROSE (1999): Rose is a survivor of the Warsaw ghettos. She arrives on the boardwalks of Atlantic City, the Arizona canyons and salsa-flavoured nights in Miami beach. The play is sharply drawn reminder of some of the events that shaped the century.