Outskirts press jan 2021 (22 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This story begins when two nine-year-old boys (Zack and Riley) meet. Zack has to move in with his grandmother after losing his parents in an auto accident. Sitting on his steps being teased by other kids, Riley befriends him and they form a great friendship. With their imaginations, they go on some great adventures. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This is a humorous tale that occurred while a father and daughter are preparing what becomes a not so typical breakfast on a school day.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - We are not born with sense that is something that is learned, and sometimes bought sense is better than given. Now and then we have to learn on our own in order to understand why you are told no and places not to go.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This book tells the story of ending tracking in a suburban school district that denied African Americans rigorous education in 2007. This is the story of a local effort in 2008 to elect Barack Obama the first black US President, Art Haywood, and Kathy Hampton, the first black township commissioners in Cheltenham in 2009 and Art Haywood the first black state senator from Montgomery County Pa 2014. More importantly it tells the struggles to gain power and divest pension funds from gun manufacturers, adopt a local nondiscrimination ordination, a sustainability plan, address lead in water in schools, add money for affordable housing and protect victims of domestic and sexual violence in public housing. It tells of the struggle of ordinary people to make extraordinary changes, including electing an historic 14 Democratic members of the PA legislature in 2018. We beat the Democratic and Republicans establishments and won victories for everyday people. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Inspiring and Bold, an artist and a philosopher, the author brings the subtle message of philosophy and creativeness into her books. The story of The Russian Cow and The Colorful Birds brings colorful imagination into play in conjunction with a message that brings strong emotion and delightfully reaches all audiences.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Think but a thought Let it swirl and be made For you are the Ringmaster and I am the same Every day is meant to be an adventure. Jump in and discover what happens when you open your mind and allow your thoughts to flow! Think But A Thought! is a beautifully illustrated action adventure picture book, written for children of all ages to enjoy. This intriguing story offers an opportunity for adult readers to remember, reflect, and wonder as they read aloud to young listeners. A book to be enjoyed through the ages and remembered fondly as a favorite.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - When Joan Ringelheim began to write, she had no intention of becoming personal. Since she is a philosopher by training, she kept thinking solely of intellectual essays. Then she read Mary Karr's The Art of Memoir and realized that the ideas about which she wanted to write were not separate from the experiences in her life and that she had to be transparent about what they meant. She could no longer keep the personal and intellectual separated as she had meant to do. The six essays in this book cover the parts of her life that were crucial in her struggle to meet the strange and the familiar: music and the piano, teaching, the Holocaust and women in the Holocaust, oral history, a trip to Sarajevo after the siege, and breast cancer.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Seventy-eight year-old Sherman Crumpler turns his imaginary march to the sea into a real adventure when, aided by the mysterious Savanannah Lovejoy, he steals back his Lincoln from his disapproving children and sets off across country. But is Savannah taking him for a ride instead And will his children stop him from reaching the Pacific.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - 'I believe Dr. Blake's memoir is the classic of classics of books written about the Black/White race thing. It catches more of the reality than 'To Kill a Mockingbird - and 'Gone with the Wind'. Even better than all of Faulkner's novels. Why do I say this More important, he captured the reality of the past century of Black/White reality through his parents and extended family. After finishing the Ole Miss School of hard-core white supremacy, he was introduced to the reality of racial reconciliation. Dr. Blake's memoir is a must read for everyone interested in the Black/White race thing in the world.' James Meredith, Esq. First Black Graduate of the University of Mississippi '62.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Inspiring and Bold, an artist and a philosopher, the author brings the subtle message of philosophy and creativeness into her books. The story of The Russian Cow and The Colorful Birds brings colorful imagination into play in conjunction with a message that brings strong emotion and delightfully reaches all audiences.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This is a humorous tale that occurred while a father and daughter are preparing what becomes a not so typical breakfast on a school day.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Who would choose to expose their mistakes, their flaws, their embarrassments, or even their disappointments on a public platform Not my idea of 'private' healing. And certainly not my idea of fun. But, I guess God saw otherwise. Because here I am! I have never been much involved with social media. But, while God has been transforming, renewing, restoring, & healing my heart, writing has ultimately become my 'social media' platform. 'Growing Up In Marriage.Perfectly Flawed,' is a book about choices. My choices. My journey. My detours. My vulnerabilities. My insecurities. My feelings. My life. This book is all about me. Although it is about me living through my brokenness and my pain, it is mainly about my testimony of how God redeemed and healed me through the beauty of it all. I would not have chosen to expose myself in a public forum. But, I did not. God did. So, in my obedience, I am putting myself out there to possibly be ridiculed. To possibly be judged. Even to be condemned. And, maybe even to possibly be ostracized. But even with all of that, my obedience to God's instructions outweighs everything. If being transparent in my flaws means that God can use my experiences, then my journey will have been worth it. It just reaffirms what God has already told me, 'Your life 'really' is not about you. For you are living a borrowed life not your own.'.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - For Those Times I Never Told You: Sculpture is a collection of poems as vivid as an album of photographs. Under Dennis Daugherty's deft hand, these poems are not inaccessible wanderings through philosophy; instead, they express emotions experienced every day, by everyone, everywhere. They take Daugherty's personal experiences, from his coming of age in the 1960s and 1970s to today, and write them in a way that resonates with everyone at some point in their lives. Open the album-you'll see yourself here.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Think but a thought Let it swirl and be made For you are the Ringmaster and I am the same Every day is meant to be an adventure. Jump in and discover what happens when you open your mind and allow your thoughts to flow! Think But A Thought! is a beautifully illustrated action adventure picture book, written for children of all ages to enjoy. This intriguing story offers an opportunity for adult readers to remember, reflect, and wonder as they read aloud to young listeners. A book to be enjoyed through the ages and remembered fondly as a favorite.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Mike Lucas was born in 1906 in a small coal mining town in northeastern Pennsylvania. His father was killed in a coal mining accident when he was seven years old. He lived with his mother and older brother Lukey that worked in the coal breaker for $2.80 a day, and he was the sole support of the family. When Mike was in second grade, he got a job after school at a shirt factory cleaning up. They Struggled for several years, when in 1918 the flu virus hit and killed over 700,000 people in the US. During the flu, Mike was a good Samaritan, helping the sick. He then quit school when he was 12 years old and went to work to help his mother pay the bills. When Mike was 13, he was working down in a mine shaft and the elevator operator took him and his boss up over the top of a 100-foot-high had frame. At the last second Mike leapt off and grabbed onto an upright beam and his boss fell to his death. Years later Mike was working in another mine that flooded with water, and five of his fellow minors drowned, Mike was the only one that survived. Several of the miners hung the rude arrogant mine boss that caused their death. For years after that, the boss's ghost could be seen along the road where he was hung. In the 1930s the Ku Klux Klan was very active, and Mike and his friends ran them out of town. During the depression all of the men were out of work, so they dug their own coal mine. The coal barons claimed they own the land and had their own police force shoot many the miners to run them off of the land. Mike and his brothers were the first ones to stand up to the coal and iron cops. Mike was one of the best boxers in the country and was scheduled for the heavyweight boxing championship of the world. he was known as iron Mike. In 1925 Mike played football for the Pottsville maroons, who won the first National Football League championship. Mike had his own coal mine and struck a vein of coal that was a gold mine. A greedy coal Baron that had several crooked politicians and a judge in bed with him, made a deal with the Department of mines, where they could go and steal Mike's coal. While Mike was working in the mines, he had several brushes with death. …

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Cribbage can be even more fun if you understand it better. Cribbage is far from a simple game. Great cribbage players and most other cribbage players have adopted playing strategies. Some of those strategies are correct and some are not. If lessons were given by several of the best players, you would find many differences in opinions and strategies. This book re-examines some well-known cribbage ideas and adds some ideas not previously defined. From this book you will understand the better strategies, find helpful ideas, be entertained, play better cribbage, and enjoy cribbage more. This book also introduces the reader to organized cribbage and information about tournaments and clubs.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - At a time when college football players routinely take under-the-table cash from boosters, when a player's father shops his son to the highest bidder, when a coach discovers violations by his players and sweeps them under the rug, the story of Stewart Ferguson and the Wandering Weevils is a timely reminder that the game wasn't always saturated with money and corruption - that there once was a team that played the game for laughs.From 1939 to 1941, the football team from tiny Arkansas A&M College (now the University of Arkansas at Monticello) traveled the country from coast to coast in a battered green school bus playing football for fun. Their coach, a quirky iconoclast named Stewart Ferguson, was also a professor of history, dean of men, and in possession of the most coveted contract in the history of coaching; Ferguson did not have to win a game - not one - for three years. He thumbed his nose at college football's establishment and played the game on his terms. His players were country boys from the segregated South and most had never been more than 10 miles from home. For three seasons, they traveled thousands of miles and along the way they walked the streets of New York, met movie stars and politicians, and stood on the shores of both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. They played their first game against an African-American and were exposed to different people, cultures and ideas that challenged their preconceived notions and prejudices. They became national sensations. Collier's magazine called them the Marx Brothers of college football. They rode bicycles from sideline to huddle and stood at attention with their helmets removed as enemy ball carriers raced through them for touchdowns. They tackled their own quarterback, quacked like ducks in the rain, and serenaded fans with their own version of 'You Are My Sunshine.' They lost most of the time, but Ferguson didn't care and neither did his players. As Ferguson often told repo.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - 'I believe Dr. Blake's memoir is the classic of classics of books written about the Black/White race thing. It catches more of the reality than 'To Kill a Mockingbird - and 'Gone with the Wind'. Even better than all of Faulkner's novels. Why do I say this More important, he captured the reality of the past century of Black/White reality through his parents and extended family. After finishing the Ole Miss School of hard-core white supremacy, he was introduced to the reality of racial reconciliation. Dr. Blake's memoir is a must read for everyone interested in the Black/White race thing in the world.' James Meredith, Esq. First Black Graduate of the University of Mississippi '62.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - NUGGETS OF AUTHENTICITY If you have ever felt like you are existing instead of living. If you have ever avoided your own thoughts for fear of hearing your inner voice tell you the truth. If you have looked at others and secretly wished you were as comfortable in your skin as they appear to be in theirs. If you want to unmask, discover the real you, and live a life of purposeful meaning. This book is for you! Ephesians 5:14-17 (Amplified Bible) 14 For this reason He says, 'Awake, sleeper, And arise from the dead, And Christ will shine [as dawn] upon you and give you light.' 15 Therefore see that you walk carefully [living life with honor, purpose, and courage; shunning those who tolerate and enable evil], not as the unwise, but as wise [sensible, intelligent, discerning people], 16 [a]making the very most of your time [on earth, recognizing and taking advantage of each opportunity and using it with wisdom and diligence], because the days are [filled with] evil. 17 Therefore do not be foolish and thoughtless, but understand and firmly grasp what the will of the Lord is.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Emma's Waterloo is based on actual events. Love, jealousy, and murder shake the small rural community of Waterloo, Michigan, on May 31, 1896.Emma, a young and beautiful woman of 19, agonizes as her purported affianced relationship with Lewis rapidly disintegrates during the preceding winter months. Lewis's growing reliance on alcohol transforms his demeanor from kind to belligerent. His increasingly boorish behavior pushes Emma away and into the arms of another man. Lewis's malicious bitterness prevents him from accepting reality. A series of escalating events results in a violent murder.As facts leading to the killing surface they become entangled with deep family bonds and a grieving mother's religious conviction. Soon afterward details of the murder are manipulated in an attempt to obscure the truth.Emma's Waterloo sets the stage by drawing the reader into the arduous journeys each of the story's three families made as they forged their way into sparsely populated Michigan and developed neighboring farms. Powerful bonds formed as these families worked together in establishing their church and local community. On May 31, 1896, everything changed.The story opens a window into everyday 1890s rural life and the emotional impact of a horrific murder. The tragedy sets the stage for an intriguing example of late nineteenth century politics and jurisprudence when, as is now, one side wins and justice is fiercely debated by both.Emma's Waterloo is a page-turner with a thought provoking ending.The book then continues with a moving epilog, followed by brief historical accounts of the story's main characters. Photographs from the era are a bonus.The AuthorTom Tisch was raised in the blue-collar town of Muskegon Heights, Michigan, once a thriving city with two sand foundries operating twenty-four hours a day along with manufacturing firms and several small retail businesses. During the 1970s the foundries and factories began closing and retailers shuttered their doors. The 'Heights,' a city of almost 20,000, collapsed, leaving behind a remnant of a once-thriving community. Crime in the Heights increased as the city sickened, culminating, for Tom's family, on May 18, 1994, when both his elderly parents were brutally murdered during a home invasion.Tom was schooled at since demolished Sacred Heart Grade School in Muskegon Heights and Muskegon Catholic Central High School. He later attended Michigan State University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts from the College of Communication Arts and Sciences. During his career Tom has served in several technical and marketing positions in the motion picture equipment, video post-production, and digital imaging industries.Tom's writing explores the emotional devastation that impacted persons drawn into horrible events from days long gone. Recorded history may detail a tragedy, but it takes an author like Tom Tisch to compassionately describe the intimate feelings of those involved. Emma's Waterloo reminds us that people who lived decades ago reacted to crisis no differently than we do now, and that that our human experience has not changed since the time this impactful story took place.Tom Tisch resides in metropolitan Chicago, Illinois.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The letters of Monsignor Firmin M. Schmidt are a firsthand account of the experiences of an administrator of a Capuchin Franciscan mission in the early 1960s. Written almost sixty years ago to Mary C. Schmidt, his sister, the letters offer a singular perspective regarding missionary work in the New Guinea Highlands. Letters to Mary: A Missionary Writes Home from New Guinea, 1959-1963 presents a selection of fifty-five of the many letters he wrote to Mary. Having served as a priest of the Order of Friars Minor (OFM), Capuchin, Fr. Firmin M. Schmidt was ordained a Monsignor and appointed the head of the Capuchin Franciscan Mission in Papua New Guinea in 1959, spending thirty-six years administering the Mission. The Papuan Highlands were among the last places on earth to be subject to the influences of Europeans, with parts opened up by Australians only after World War II. The letters provide information about the numerous challenges facing the head of a Catholic mission in the Highlands, including staffing, travel in mountainous terrain to outstations, being accessible only by air, etc. The letters also tell about his new experiences with the Papuans, including details about their culture. In addition to the letters, the book provides an introduction that tells of Msgr. Firmin's family background and education. In addition, three appendices follow the letters: an account of the founding of the Capuchin Franciscan Mission in Papua, anthropological information about the culture of the Papuans, and a brief history of European contact/colonization in Papua.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Three Houses has a tripartite structure: The House of Pride, twenty-six stories cataloguing Price's childhood and youth with her parents and seventeen siblings on their small farm in West Helena, Arkansas; her young adulthood at a(n) historically black college. The House of Woe (Marriage) examines Price's marriages to two charming and seemingly compatible partners and the failure of those tumultuous relationships; and My House-seventeen stories that chart Price's forty-eight-year career as a public speaker and English instructor as well as the cumulative effect on the author of the interesting people who have enriched her odyssey. Potentially the forty-six discrete narratives engage readers in the way that we patronize films and plays, read short stories and novels, hear concerts, and frequent houses of worship. The final two chapters, together with a generous Album of photos of the principal participants in Price's life, analyze the role of performance art, including music, in Price's journey and recount the Price Family's appearance on stage at Lone Star College-North Harris; Houston, Texas. Collectively, the accounts invite readers to explore afresh their connectedness to others in the human family through communal experiences and traditions.…