Becoming Apart

Author : Michael Lewis
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684173426
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming Apart written by Michael Lewis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the marginal region of Toyama, on the Sea of Japan, the author explores the interplay of central and regional authorities, local and national perceptions of rights, and the emerging political practices in Toyama and Tokyo that became part of the new political culture that took shape in Japan following the Meiji Restoration. Lewis argues that in response to the demands of the centralizing state, local elites and leaders in Toyama developed a repertoire of supple responses that varied with the political or economic issue at stake.

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Publisher : Chalice Press
ISBN 13 : 0827202598
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Born Apart, Becoming One: Disciples Defeating Racism written by and published by Chalice Press. This book was released on with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jasminne Mendez
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
ISBN 13 : 1518507190
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islands Apart written by Jasminne Mendez and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jasminne Mendez didn’t speak English when she started kindergarten, and her young, white teacher thought the girl was deaf because in Louisiana, you were either black or white. She had no idea that a black girl could be a Spanish speaker. In this memoir for teens about growing up Afro Latina in the Deep South, Jasminne writes about feeling torn between her Dominican, Spanish-speaking culture at home and the American, English-speaking one around her. She desperately wanted to fit in, to be seen as American, and she realized early on that language mattered. Learning to read and write English well was the road to acceptance. Mendez shares typical childhood experiences such as having an imaginary friend, boys and puberty, but she also exposes the anti-black racism within her own family and the conflict created by her family’s conservative traditions. She was not allowed to do things other girls could, like date boys, shave her legs or wear heels. “I wanted us to find some common ground,” she writes about her parents, “but it seemed like we were from two different worlds, and our islands kept drifting farther and farther apart.” Despite her father’s old-style approach to raising girls, he valued education and insisted his daughters do well in school and maintain their native language. He took his children to hear Maya Angelou speak, and hearing the poet read was a defining moment for the black Dominican girl who struggled to fit in. “I decided that if Maya Angelou could be the author of her own story and rewrite her destiny to become a phenomenal woman, then somehow, so could I.” Teens—and adults too—will appreciate reading about Mendez’s experiences coming of age in the United States as both black and Latina.

Author : Martin Kranitz
Publisher : Impact Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781886230217
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Getting Apart Together written by Martin Kranitz and published by Impact Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guess which couple got more of what they wanted: Charles and Charlotte, who worked out a negotiated settlement together? Or John and Joyce, who let the court settle their differences? Couples who want to negotiate their own divorce settlements now have a comprehensive self-help guide, complete with ground rules, agendas for discussion, sample forms, and options for divorce mediation without "bloodshed." Not quite a "do-it-yourself" manual - you'll still need an attorney - but packed with real-couple examples of successful agreements on Co-Parenting, Custody, Financial Support, College Planning, Property, Insurance, Taxes.... An organized, thorough guide to the important issues for every separating couple, and an effective aid for those who seek professional mediation. "Your chances of getting the outcome you want are best when you take control of the decision-making process," says Martin Kranitz, Director of the National Center for Mediation Education in Annapolis, Maryland. "Couples can work out their own decisions, if they know what to talk about."

Author : Cláudio Jr. Michelon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781402042829
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Being Apart from Reasons written by Cláudio Jr. Michelon and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-03-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being Apart from Reasons deals with the question of how we should go about using reasons to decide what to do. More particularly, the book presents objections to the most common response given by contemporary legal and political theorists to the moral complexity of decision-making in modern societies, namely: the attempt to release public agents from their argumentative burden by insulating a particular set of reasons from the general pool of reasons and assigning the former systematic priority over all other reasons. That strategy is apparent both in Rawls’ claim that reasons concerning the right are systematically prior to reasons concerning the good and in Raz’s claim that pre-emptive reasons are systematically prior to first-order reasons. The same strategy is also instantiated by certain arguments for the procedural value of law, such as Jeremy Waldron’s. In the book, each of those arguments for the insulation of reasons is objected to in order to defend the thesis the reasoning by public agents must always be as comprehensive as possible. The remaining chapters object to those arguments mentioned above which aim at justifying the exclusion of certain reasons from public agents' decision-making.

Author : Pema Chödrön
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1590302265
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Things Fall Apart written by Pema Chödrön and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2005-01-11 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes a traditional Buddhist approach to suffering and how embracing the painful situation and using communication, negative habits, and challenging experiences leads to emotional growth and happiness.

Author : Chris Hobgood
Publisher : Chalice Press
ISBN 13 : 9780827202399
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Born Apart, Becoming One written by Chris Hobgood and published by Chalice Press. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former General Minister and President of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Chris Hobgood enables the reader to engage in a deep exploration of the relationship of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) to the pro-reconciliation/anti-racism initiative of the denomination. By explaining what the Christian Church is doing and has done to become an anti-racism denomination, Born Apart, Becoming One engages individuals and congregations in their initiative to dismantle institutional racism.

Author : Douglas K. Snyder
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 1606237993
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Getting Past the Affair written by Douglas K. Snyder and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2007-01-06 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been replaced by Getting Past the Affair, Second Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-4748-7.

Author : Gabrielle Hartley
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062689428
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Better Apart written by Gabrielle Hartley and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Potent, accessible tools for your family and your future.” —Gwyneth Paltrow Marital strife and divorce can be your chance to profoundly transform yourself, your mindset and your relationship with a more harmonious and steady vision. While many of us may be better together, some of us can actually become better apart. What if you emerged from your divorce stronger and more resilient than ever before? Better Apart is the first book to apply the life-changing, healing wisdom of meditation and yoga, combined with practical advice, to help anyone going through the painful and seemingly intractable realities of divorce. Gabrielle Hartley and Elena Brower are warm and caring guides who can help you compassionately part from your partner. Whether your separation is amicable, or your ex is combative, Better Apart can help you find peace, calm, and hope. Blending practical advice from a legal perspective together with spiritual wisdom, Gabrielle and Elena are experts and realists who have created a simple five-step process that uses original meditations, perspective-shifting exercises, and fresh suggestions to help navigate the common legal and emotional pitfalls of divorce. Don’t worry if you’ve never tried yoga or mediation; Gabrielle’s insight buttressed by Elena’s practices and exercises are accessible for all. Together, they show you how to meaningfully shift your mindset and to move forward though any—or all—parts of this emotionally fraught process. Better Apart radically reframes the way couples experience, execute, and recover from when “for better or worse” is no longer an option, and helps you find the road to a new mindset and better life.

Author : LaRose T. Parris
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813938147
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Being Apart written by LaRose T. Parris and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Being Apart, LaRose Parris draws on traditional and radical Western theory to emphasize how nineteenth- and twentieth-century Africana thinkers explored the two principal existential themes of being and freedom prior to existentialism's rise to prominence in postwar European thought. Emphasizing diasporic connections among the works of authors from the United States, the Caribbean, and the African continent, Parris argues that writers such as David Walker, Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, C. L. R. James, Frantz Fanon, and Kamau Brathwaite refute what she has termed the tripartite crux of Western canonical discourse: the erasure of ancient Africa from the narrative of Western civilization, the dehumanization of the African and the creation of the Negro slave, and the denial of chattel slavery's role in the growth of Western capitalism and empire. These writers’ ontological and phenomenological ruminations not only challenge the assigned historical and epistemological marginality of Africana people but also defy current canonical demarcations. Charting the rise of Eurocentrism through a genealogy of eighteenth-century Enlightenment racial science while foregrounding the lived Africana experience of racism in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Parris shows that racist ideology is intrinsic to modern Western thought rather than being an ideological aberration.