Relative Distance

Author : David Pruitt
Publisher : SparkPress
ISBN 13 : 168463170X
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Relative Distance written by David Pruitt and published by SparkPress. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relative Distance is a powerful memoir of resilience and faith. While it’s an unflinching look at brothers being raised by a violent, abusive father and a detached, mentally ill mother, it’s also an inspiring account of two distinctive life journeys and an examination of the role played by family and society in individual homelessness. After surviving his tumultuous upbringing, David Pruitt rises to become a CEO in Corporate America, while his brother, Danny, becomes a long-time homeless traveler. As David helps to grow a fledgling North Carolina business into what is at the time the largest specialty bicycle retailer in the United States, Danny sleeps under overpasses, jumps passing freight cars, lives in and out of shelters, faces death more than once—and encounters the best and worst of America in a restless search to find a better place in the world. Yet, despite their differences, a common thread runs through the distinct trajectories of the brothers’ lives: each of them struggles with difficult psychological issues stemming from their troubled past. This deeply moving memoir examines the lifelong challenges that often come for those raised in an abusive home, along with the limitless possibilities we open ourselves to when we allow faith and determination to overcome judgment and fear.

Author : Leslie Fesenmyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009335057
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Relative Distance written by Leslie Fesenmyer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The socio-economic and political uncertainties of Kenya in the 1990s jeopardised what many saw as the promises of modernity. An increasing number of Kenyans migrated, many to Britain, a country that felt familiar from Kenyan history. Based on extensive fieldwork in Kenya and the United Kingdom, Leslie Fesenmyer's work provides a rich, historically nuanced study of the kinship dilemmas that underlie transnational migration and explores the dynamic relationship between those who migrate and those who stay behind. Challenging a focus on changing modes of economic production, 'push-pull' factors, and globalisation as drivers of familial change, she analyses everyday trans-national family life. Relative Distance shows how quotidian interactions, exchanges, and practices transform kinship on a local and global scale. Through the prism of intergenerational care, Fesenmyer reveals that the question of who is responsible for whom is not only a familial matter but is at the heart of relations between individuals, societies, and states.

Author : Jean-Paul Rodrigue
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136777326
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Geography of Transport Systems written by Jean-Paul Rodrigue and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mobility is fundamental to economic and social activities such as commuting, manufacturing, or supplying energy. Each movement has an origin, a potential set of intermediate locations, a destination, and a nature which is linked with geographical attributes. Transport systems composed of infrastructures, modes and terminals are so embedded in the socio-economic life of individuals, institutions and corporations that they are often invisible to the consumer. This is paradoxical as the perceived invisibility of transportation is derived from its efficiency. Understanding how mobility is linked with geography is main the purpose of this book. The third edition of The Geography of Transport Systems has been revised and updated to provide an overview of the spatial aspects of transportation. This text provides greater discussion of security, energy, green logistics, as well as new and updated case studies, a revised content structure, and new figures. Each chapter covers a specific conceptual dimension including networks, modes, terminals, freight transportation, urban transportation and environmental impacts. A final chapter contains core methodologies linked with transport geography such as accessibility, spatial interactions, graph theory and Geographic Information Systems for transportation (GIS-T). This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the field, with a broad overview of its concepts, methods, and areas of application. The accompanying website for this text contains a useful additional material, including digital maps, PowerPoint slides, databases, and links to further reading and websites. The website can be accessed at: http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans This text is an essential resource for undergraduates studying transport geography, as well as those interest in economic and urban geography, transport planning and engineering.

Author : Orion Daley
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304999440
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Object Oriented Design for Unification Theory - Essay On Relative Gravity written by Orion Daley and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orion Daley's revolutionary new theory of Relative Gravity explains in an object oriented way how the universe is put together. The fundamental universe is viewed like a plasma of alternating currents. Symmetry is conserved through polymorphism of inherent properties. Given a wave length of some deep time, symmetry in properties is not at the exclusion of randomness. As derivatives, the four known forces: the Electro Strong and Weak, Electromagnetism and Gravity are considered to share symmetry where differentiated by their context. The relationship of dark and light matter is seen as that of impedance where particles to galaxies, or any other body between, are first viewed as manifolds having common and inherent properties. Particles can have opposite charge, and harmonics of vectors for strings with wavelengths subject to distortion. Bodies are considered skew-able and cumulative with respect to others within their context. Gravity is viewed as their fundamental relationship through superposition.

Author : Thomas R. Zentall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019993066X
Total Pages : 960 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Cognition written by Thomas R. Zentall and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past decade, the field of comparative cognition has grown and thrived. No less rigorous than purely behavioristic investigations, examinations of animal intelligence are useful for scientists and psychologists alike in their quest to understand the nature and mechanisms of intelligence. Extensive field research of various species has yielded exciting new areas of research, integrating findings from psychology, behavioral ecology, and ethology in a unique and wide-ranging synthesis of theory and research on animal cognition. The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Cognition contains sections on perception and illusion, attention and search, memory processes, spatial cognition, conceptualization and categorization, problem solving and behavioral flexibility, and social cognition processes including findings in primate tool usage, pattern learning, and counting. The authors have incorporated findings and theoretical approaches that reflect the current state of the field. This comprehensive volume will be a must-read for students and scientists who want to know about the state of the art of the modern science of comparative cognition.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 337512273X
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Review of the Relative Commercial Progress of the Cities of New York & Philadelphia written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.

Author : G. W. Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Review of the Relative Commercial Progress of the Cities of New-York & Philadelphia written by G. W. Baker and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Disha Experts
Publisher : Disha Publications
ISBN 13 : 9389645743
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Comprehensive Guide to SBI Bank PO Preliminary & Main Exam with 5 Online Tests (9th Edition) written by Disha Experts and published by Disha Publications. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Disha Experts
Publisher : Disha Publications
ISBN 13 : 9355643306
Total Pages : 536 pages
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Download or read book CDS 16 Years Mathematics Topic wise Solved Papers (2007 - 2022) 3rd Edition written by Disha Experts and published by Disha Publications. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CDS & CDS OTA 16 Years Mathematics Topic-wise Solved Papers (2007 Feb - 2022 April)' consists of last 16 years (both Feb and November papers) from 2007 Paper 1 – 2022 Paper 1 solved papers of English distributed into 25 topics. # In all there are 31 Question papers from 2007 to 2022 - I which have been divided into the above discussed 25 topics. # Practicing these questions, aspirants will come to know about the pattern and toughness of the questions asked in the examination. # The book contains 3600+ MILESTONE MCQ’s from the above 31 Question papers. # The strength of the book lies in the originality of its question papers and Errorless Solutions. # The solution of each and every question is provided in detail (step-by-step) so as to provide 100% concept clarity to the students.

Author : Frank H. Atkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
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