Piece Of Work

Author : Michael Hines
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807007420
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Worthy Piece of Work written by Michael Hines and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Madeline Morgan, the activist educator who brought Black history to one of the nation’s largest and most segregated school systems A Worthy Piece of Work tells the story of Madeline Morgan (later Madeline Stratton Morris), a teacher and an activist in WWII-era Chicago, who fought her own battle on the home front, authoring curricula that bolstered Black claims for recognition and equal citizenship. During the Second World War, as Black Americans both fought to save democracy abroad and demanded full citizenship at home, Morgan’s work gained national attention and widespread praise, and became a model for teachers, schools, districts, and cities across the country. Scholar Michael Hines unveils this history for the first time, providing a rich understanding of the ways in which Black educators have created counternarratives to challenge the anti-Black racism found in school textbooks and curricula. At a moment when Black history is under attack in school districts and state legislatures across the country, A Worthy Piece of Work reminds us that struggles over history, representation, and race are far from a new phenomenon.

Author : Cynthia L. Hale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780817015718
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I'm a Piece of Work! written by Cynthia L. Hale and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rev. Dr. Cynthia L. Hale has written out of her own experience of struggle in order to help other women realize and celebrate our uniqueness, acknowledge without shame our issues and challenges, and receive healing and forgiveness. I'm a Piece of Work! Sisters Shaped by God features poetry, reflections, and Scripture, taking women on a journey from brokenness to wholeness. It is a book designed to help women affirm themselves and to claim God's best.

Author : Laura Zigman
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0759568472
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Piece of Work written by Laura Zigman and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2006-09-25 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for book clubs, this rollicking novel follows a stay-at-home mother as she re-enters the workforce and juggles the demands of orchestrating a has-been celebrity's comeback. Julia Einstein knew that being a stay-at-home mom had a lot in common with her former job as a celebrity publicist - endless, irrational demands, little to no appreciation, and constant hustle. But it isn't until her husband is laid off from his job and she's forced to go back to work and resurrect screen legend Mary Ford's career that Julia realizes how very much she prefers an actual child to a formerly famous client. For example, her child doesn't steal ten-thousand-dollar leather coats from photo shoots. Nor does he require a constant, fresh supply of a soda that is no longer in production. He doesn't curse at Julia, pronounce her name "Einstein" with a thick layer of disdainful irony, or incessantly poke at her with his index finger while reciting odd variations on childlike rhymes like a psych patient on day pass. With a mortgage looming and three years out of the business, however, Julia knows she has no choice but to make Mary's comeback a success. Even if it kills her. Which, at this pace, is a possibility. But if there is one thing Julia has learned from her time off from the office, it's that sheer determination can solve almost everything. After all, if she can get through suburban living with its uncontrolled clutter and playground politics, how hard can it be to resuscitate the career of an aging, desperate has-been? And get over the fact that her husband is a better stay-at-home mom than Julia ever was?

Author : Robert Littell
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250021456
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Nasty Piece of Work written by Robert Littell and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Krimi. Former CIA agent Lemuel Gunn left the battlefield of Afghanistan for the desert of New Mexico, where he works as a private investigator from the comforts, such as they are, of a mobile home. Into his life comes Ornella Neppi, a thirty-something woman making a hash out of her uncle's bail bonds business

Author : Roger Law
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Nasty Piece of Work written by Roger Law and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of Roger Law's life as a caricaturist, revealing the artistry behind his often grotesque forms. As co-creator of the Spitting Image puppets, he did a great deal to broaden the appeal of caricature.

Author : Yvette Heyliger
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491750065
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What a Piece of Work Is Man! written by Yvette Heyliger and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatist Yvette Heyliger delivers power-packed full-length plays for leading women, each prefaced by an artistic statement. Her instincts for comic relief are genius." Backstage West "Heyliger has a solid flair for dialogue and a good ear for comedy." Park LaBrea News Bridge to Baraka (Excerpt) Yvette X appeared in a dashiki and huge Afro to bring the 60s Black Arts Movement to the present womens struggle in her side-splitting and astute Bridge to Baraka. The Dramatist White House Wives: Operation Lysistrata! Playwright Yvette Heyliger, herself African American and female (a combination not seen enough in American theatre, particularly when commenting on the nations political landscape) takes advantage of her position and writes dialogue that brings her unique perspective to light. Theatre is Easy Hillary and Monica: The Winter of Her Discontent It's more absurd than any Saturday Night Live sketch on the same subject, but it has more to say about ambition and the reasons behind one's actions than your average comedy routine... you'll end up having a hearty laugh. NYTheatre.com What Would Jesus Do? "Talk about great plays, this powerful drama depicting AIDS and its cover-up is as important as those Larry Kramer plays in the early stages of the dreaded scourge. Listen up theatre producers, this play should make it to Broadway, where it belongs." Celebrity Society Fathers Day A profound psychological drama with hard-hitting, solid characters and realistic dialogue; a tour de force for directors and actors The BCS Experience, GoProRadio Homegirl "A fresh and vivid comedy that connects the political to the personal, American history to Roanetta's story with a light touch and a warm heart." Los Angeles Times

Author : Jay Woodruff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Piece of Work written by Jay Woodruff and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning how to revise may well be the most excruciating part of writing - frequently it is what makes or breaks new writers. Now, in this unique and highly useful book, Jay Woodruff gives some of America's finest contemporary writers an opportunity to talk with passion and professionalism about revision - about the hard work of their writing. Books on writing generally offer prescriptions and proscriptions about this "craft so hard to learn" instead of evidence. But in A Piece of Work Woodruff's incisive questions guide five writers - Tobias Wolff, Tess Gallagher, Robert Coles, Joyce Carol Oates, and Donald Hall - through specific examples that enable the reader to see how good writing becomes better. From the first draft through various revisions and finally to the printed version of a single piece of each author's work, Woodruff traces the full course of the revision process. While we might prefer to picture all authors as Coleridge, with the perfectly formed lines and stanzas of "Kubla Khan" emerging from a dream, the truth of the matter is that the development of a final text is often as much a hard-won discovery as it is an initial inspiration. A Piece of Work offers a road map to that discovery.

Author : Self Help
Publisher : Popular Books Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1105711358
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Books written by Self Help and published by Popular Books Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Helen Oppenheimer
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1845404254
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What a Piece of Work written by Helen Oppenheimer and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a small book on a large subject: What is special about human beings? Hamlet mused, ‘What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! how like a god!' but went on to speak of ‘this quintessence of dust'. Helen Oppenheimer prefers to start with the dust and move to the glory: we really are animals — and from these animals has come Shakespeare. People are indeed ‘miserable sinners’ — and also magnificent creatures. The author does not disguise that she is a Christian theologian whose subject is ethics, but she writes equally for non-Christians. Her invitation to the reader is: Here is a way of looking at things that I find exciting and convincing — I hope you do too.

Author : Curtis Bunn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1593093764
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Cold Piece of Work written by Curtis Bunn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Essence"-bestselling author Bunn boldly brings the reader on an unfettered, organic journey that lends honest, raw perspective and provides the how and why men act as they do in relationships.