Jacobs Wake

Author : Michael Cook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780889220973
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jacob's Wake written by Michael Cook and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacob's Wake explores the relationship of a father, Winston, with his three sons, Wayne, a corrupt politician, Alonzo, a cynical business man, and Brad, a failed priest. It quickly moves from an apparently realistic family drama to nightmarish, expressionistic drama of 20th century failure as an approaching storm begins to dominate the stage. Once again, ritual lies at the heart of this play; Cook establishes clear patterns of behaviour that are transgressed and broken by the gathered family. The whole play, not merely the last few moments, is a wake, specifically for Jacob, the lost son of the title, but more generally for Newfoundland. A Maritime family's tragedy, set in a raging storm. Cast of 2 women and 5 men.

Author : Paul Samuel Jacobs
Publisher : Apple
ISBN 13 : 9780590423984
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sleepers, Wake written by Paul Samuel Jacobs and published by Apple. This book was released on 1994 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dody, a space pioneer of the future, wakes long before anyone else during his ship's journey and grows old while his family continues to sleep.

Author : Alan Jacobs
Publisher : Currency
ISBN 13 : 0451499603
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Think written by Alan Jacobs and published by Currency. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Absolutely splendid . . . essential for understanding why there is so much bad thinking in political life right now." —David Brooks, New York Times How to Think is a contrarian treatise on why we’re not as good at thinking as we assume—but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life. As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications like The Atlantic and Harper’s, Alan Jacobs has spent his adult life belonging to communities that often clash in America’s culture wars. And in his years of confronting the big issues that divide us—political, social, religious—Jacobs has learned that many of our fiercest disputes occur not because we’re doomed to be divided, but because the people involved simply aren’t thinking. Most of us don’t want to think. Thinking is trouble. Thinking can force us out of familiar, comforting habits, and it can complicate our relationships with like-minded friends. Finally, thinking is slow, and that’s a problem when our habits of consuming information (mostly online) leave us lost in the spin cycle of social media, partisan bickering, and confirmation bias. In this smart, endlessly entertaining book, Jacobs diagnoses the many forces that act on us to prevent thinking—forces that have only worsened in the age of Twitter, “alternative facts,” and information overload—and he also dispels the many myths we hold about what it means to think well. (For example: It’s impossible to “think for yourself.”) Drawing on sources as far-flung as novelist Marilynne Robinson, basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain, British philosopher John Stuart Mill, and Christian theologian C.S. Lewis, Jacobs digs into the nuts and bolts of the cognitive process, offering hope that each of us can reclaim our mental lives from the impediments that plague us all. Because if we can learn to think together, maybe we can learn to live together, too.

Author : Mira Jacob
Publisher : One World
ISBN 13 : 0399589058
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Talk written by Mira Jacob and published by One World. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “beautiful and eye-opening” (Jacqueline Woodson), “hilarious and heart-rending” (Celeste Ng) graphic memoir about American identity, interracial families, and the realities that divide us, from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing. ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Chicago Tribune, The New York Public Library, Publishers Weekly • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Time, BuzzFeed, Esquire, Literary Journal, Kirkus Reviews “How brown is too brown?” “Can Indians be racist?” “What does real love between really different people look like?” Like many six-year-olds, Mira Jacob’s half-Jewish, half-Indian son, Z, has questions about everything. At first they are innocuous enough, but as tensions from the 2016 election spread from the media into his own family, they become much, much more complicated. Trying to answer him honestly, Mira has to think back to where she’s gotten her own answers: her most formative conversations about race, color, sexuality, and, of course, love. Written with humor and vulnerability, this deeply relatable graphic memoir is a love letter to the art of conversation—and to the hope that hovers in our most difficult questions. LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/OPEN BOOK AWARD “Jacob’s earnest recollections are often heartbreaking, but also infused with levity and humor. What stands out most is the fierce compassion with which she parses the complexities of family and love.”—Time “Good Talk uses a masterful mix of pictures and words to speak on life’s most uncomfortable conversations.”—io9 “Mira Jacob just made me toss everything I thought was possible in a book-as-art-object into the garbage. Her new book changes everything.”—Kiese Laymon, New York Times bestselling author of Heavy

Author : Swift Reads
Publisher : Swift Reads
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summary of Gregg D. Jacobs’s Say Good Night to Insomnia by Swift Reads written by Swift Reads and published by Swift Reads. This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Say Good Night to Insomnia (1998) by sleep doctor Gregg D. Jacobs is a primer on sleeplessness and how to correct it. Insomnia is a widespread problem that’s often treated with dangerous prescription drugs, if it’s treated at all… Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more.

Author : Andrew Jacobs (Jr.)
Publisher : Alistair Press (IN)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 1600 Killers written by Andrew Jacobs (Jr.) and published by Alistair Press (IN). This book was released on 1999 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lynn Domina
Publisher : Modern Language Association
ISBN 13 : 1603296565
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Teaching Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl written by Lynn Domina and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2024-07-13 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most commonly taught slave narratives, Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is rightly celebrated for its progressive and distinctive appeals to dismantle the dehumanizing system of American slavery. Depicting the abuse Jacobs experienced, her years in hiding, and her escape to the North, the work evokes sympathy for Jacobs as a woman and a mother. Today, it continues to inform readers about gender and sexuality, power and justice, and Black identity in the United States. Part 1 of this volume, "Materials," discusses different editions of the work and suggests background readings. The essays in part 2, "Approaches," explore Jacobs's literary techniques and influences, drawing on autobiography theory, medical humanities, and theology, among other perspectives. Contributors also propose pairings with historical and recent literary works as well as teaching approaches involving visual arts, geography, archives, digital humanities, and service learning.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1442 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hill's Raleigh (Wake County, N.C.) City Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jack Teeter
Publisher : Jack Teeter
ISBN 13 : 1301610542
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living On A PEG written by Jack Teeter and published by Jack Teeter. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I want to tell my story in a way that celebrates life." That's how this author describes his latest work. The author is a long-term throat cancer survivor. Every day of life is a blessing, but there have been stumbling blocks along the way. “We’re very proud of this work,” the author’s wife said, “and we hope it’s an inspiration to cancer survivors everywhere.”

Author : North Carolina. Corporation Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1084 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the Corporation Commission for the Year Ending ... written by North Carolina. Corporation Commission and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: