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Author: Susan Glenney Publisher: ISBN: 9781076664532 Category : Languages : en Pages : 354
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16 Men and I6 hearts. Some good, some bad, and some downright cruel. In talented teacher Jennifer Grace Donnelly's life, there have been 16 men who've left their mark. From her childhood playmate who was her first kiss, to the traveler who opened her eyes to the world's natural beauty, to the handsome drug addict who only cared about his next fix, they have all been imprinted on Jennifer's heart. The most difficult to forget is the unknown man. During Jennifer's late 30s, he comes back to haunt her dreams. Just like the years when he visited her in bed at night, these long-hidden memories now return to awaken her like to an ugly beast from the past. Her night terrors begin to encroach on her teaching life, blurring her past into present, and forcing her to live in a turbulent world of doubt and fear. As the figure of the unknown man becomes more clear, the truth of her family secrets is revealed. With this knowledge comes an understanding of her relationship to men, and Jennifer must find a way to pull on her reserves of patience and resilience to survive. Even in her bleakest moments, Jennifer will never give up-she knows that she must choose to live. And maybe with time, she can learn to find not only support and comfort in others, but maybe even learn to trust and find new love again.
Author: Susan Glenney Publisher: ISBN: 9781076664532 Category : Languages : en Pages : 354
Book Description
16 Men and I6 hearts. Some good, some bad, and some downright cruel. In talented teacher Jennifer Grace Donnelly's life, there have been 16 men who've left their mark. From her childhood playmate who was her first kiss, to the traveler who opened her eyes to the world's natural beauty, to the handsome drug addict who only cared about his next fix, they have all been imprinted on Jennifer's heart. The most difficult to forget is the unknown man. During Jennifer's late 30s, he comes back to haunt her dreams. Just like the years when he visited her in bed at night, these long-hidden memories now return to awaken her like to an ugly beast from the past. Her night terrors begin to encroach on her teaching life, blurring her past into present, and forcing her to live in a turbulent world of doubt and fear. As the figure of the unknown man becomes more clear, the truth of her family secrets is revealed. With this knowledge comes an understanding of her relationship to men, and Jennifer must find a way to pull on her reserves of patience and resilience to survive. Even in her bleakest moments, Jennifer will never give up-she knows that she must choose to live. And maybe with time, she can learn to find not only support and comfort in others, but maybe even learn to trust and find new love again.
Author: Randy Pausch Publisher: ISBN: 9780340978504 Category : Cancer Languages : en Pages : 0
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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: Chip Heath Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1501147765 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 320
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The New York Times bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick explore why certain brief experiences can jolt us and elevate us and change us—and how we can learn to create such extraordinary moments in our life and work. While human lives are endlessly variable, our most memorable positive moments are dominated by four elements: elevation, insight, pride, and connection. If we embrace these elements, we can conjure more moments that matter. What if a teacher could design a lesson that he knew his students would remember twenty years later? What if a manager knew how to create an experience that would delight customers? What if you had a better sense of how to create memories that matter for your children? This book delves into some fascinating mysteries of experience: Why we tend to remember the best or worst moment of an experience, as well as the last moment, and forget the rest. Why “we feel most comfortable when things are certain, but we feel most alive when they’re not.” And why our most cherished memories are clustered into a brief period during our youth. Readers discover how brief experiences can change lives, such as the experiment in which two strangers meet in a room, and forty-five minutes later, they leave as best friends. (What happens in that time?) Or the tale of the world’s youngest female billionaire, who credits her resilience to something her father asked the family at the dinner table. (What was that simple question?) Many of the defining moments in our lives are the result of accident or luck—but why would we leave our most meaningful, memorable moments to chance when we can create them? The Power of Moments shows us how to be the author of richer experiences.
Author: Tom Pendergast Publisher: University of Missouri Press ISBN: 0826262244 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 301
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Pendergast traces the shift in US periodicals from Victorian masculinity--which valued character, integrity, hard work, and duty--to modern masculinity--which valued personality, self- realization, and image. Arguing that the rise of mass consumer culture was a key factor in the change, he describes how such magazines as American Magazine, Esquire, and True presented masculinity in ways that reflected the magazines' relationship to advertisers, contributors and readers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Author: John Greville Agard Pocock Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691172234 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 666
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Originally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought. Celebrated historian J.G.A. Pocock looks at the consequences for modern historical and social consciousness arising from the ideal of the classical republic revived by Machiavelli and other thinkers of Renaissance Italy. Pocock shows that Machiavelli's prime emphasis was on the moment in which the republic confronts the problem of its own instability in time, which Pocock calls the "Machiavellian moment." After examining this problem in the works of Machiavelli, Guicciardini, and Giannotti, Pocock turns to the revival of republican ideology in Puritan England and in Revolutionary and Federalist America. He argues that the American Revolution can be considered the last great act of civic humanism of the Renaissance and he relates the origins of modern historicism to the clash between civic, Christian, and commercial values in eighteenth-century thought. This Princeton Classics edition of The Machiavellian Moment features a new introduction by Richard Whatmore.
Author: John Portmann Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1474267912 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 192
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Friendships between women and gay men captivated the American media in the opening decade of the 21st century. John Portmann places this curious phenomenon in its historical context, examining the changing social attitudes towards gay men in the postwar period and how their relationships with women have been portrayed in the media. As women and gay men both struggled toward social equality in the late 20th century, some women understood that defending gay men – who were often accused of effeminacy – was in their best interest. Joining forces carried both political and personal implications. Straight women used their influence with men to prevent bullying and combat homophobia. Beyond the bureaucratic fray, women found themselves in transformed roles with respect to gay men – as their mothers, sisters, daughters, caregivers, spouses, voters, employers and best friends. In the midst of social hostility to gay men during the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, a significant number of gay women volunteered to comfort the afflicted and fight reigning sexual values. Famous women such as Elizabeth Taylor and Barbra Streisand threw their support behind a detested minority, while countless ordinary women did the same across America. Portmann celebrates not only women who made the headlines but also those who did not. Looking at the links between the women's liberation and gay rights movements, and filled with concrete examples of personal and political relationships between straight women and gay men, Women and Gay Men in the Postwar Period is an engaging and accessible study which will be of interest to students and scholars of 20th- and 21st century social and gender history.
Author: Walter Kasper Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 0567403971 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 305
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Here at last is a reissue of Kasper's major work with a brilliant new introduction surveying recent developments in Christology. Kasper assesses the Christological enterprise in the Church from the earliest down to the most recent times which can be recommended without hesitation to teacher and serious student. The book also provides a solid theological basis for preaching. This may also be described as a work of Christian serenity, but one which is not indifferent to current problems. It is the fruit of the deep peace which all men can gain from contemplation of Jesus the Christ. As Karl Rahner has said - this book is 'modern' in the very best sense of the word. Synthesising biblical, philosophical and traditional material, the book remains essential reading for specialists and is used widely for courses on Christology - the very basis of Christian theology itself.
Author: Oliver O'Donovan Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing ISBN: 1467447099 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 246
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Oliver O'Donovan's Ethics as Theology project began with Self, World, and Time, an "induction" into Christian ethics as ordered reflection on moral thinking within the life of faith. Volume 2, Finding and Seeking, shifted the focus to the movement of moral thought from a first consciousness of agency to the time that determines the moment of decision. In this third and final volume of his magnum opus, O'Donovan turns his attention to the forward horizon with which moral thinking must engage. Moral experience, he argues, is necessarily two-directional, looking both back at responsibility and forward at aims. The Pauline triad of theological virtues (faith, love, and hope) describes a form of responsibility, and its climax in the sovereignty of love opens the way to a definitive teleology. Entering into Rest offers O'Donovan's mature reflections on questions that have engaged him throughout his career and provides a synoptic view of many of his main themes.
Author: Susan Glenney
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