The Best Are Leaving

Author : Clair Wills
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316123618
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best Are Leaving written by Clair Wills and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-02 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clair Wills's The Best Are Leaving is an important and wide-ranging study of post-war Irish emigrant culture. Wills analyses representations of emigrants from Ireland and of Irish immigrants in Britain across a range of discourses, including official documents, sociological texts, clerical literature, journalism, drama, literary fiction, and popular literature and film. This book, written by a leading critic of Irish literature and culture, discusses topics such as the loss of the finest people from rural Ireland and the destruction of traditional communities; the anxieties of women emigrants and their desire for the benefits of modern consumer society; the stereotype of the drunken Irishman; the charming and authentic country Irish in the city; and the ambiguous meanings of Irish Catholicism in England, which was viewed as both a threatening and civilising force. Wills explores this theme of emigration through writers as diverse as M. J. Molloy, John B. Keane, Tom Murphy, and Edna O'Brien.

Author : Clair Wills
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107048400
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best Are Leaving written by Clair Wills and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-09 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clair Wills's The Best Are Leaving is a study of representations of Irish emigrant culture and of Irish immigrants in Britain.

Author : Clair Wills
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781316129067
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best are Leaving written by Clair Wills and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Albert Espinosa
Publisher : GRIJALBO
ISBN 13 : 8425359600
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best Thing About Leaving is Coming Back written by Albert Espinosa and published by GRIJALBO. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There comes a day in your life when you must decide whether you want to be right or be at ease. ALBERT ESPINOSA is back with a beautiful story about memories, forgiveness, and love that takes place on April 23, the day of books and roses, between Barcelona and the islands of Ischia and Menorca.

Author : LAUREN. HOUGH
Publisher : Coronet
ISBN 13 : 9781529382525
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing written by LAUREN. HOUGH and published by Coronet. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tara Altebrando
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1619638045
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Leaving written by Tara Altebrando and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six were taken. Eleven years later, five come back--with no idea of where they've been. A riveting mystery for fans of We Were Liars. Eleven years ago, six kindergartners went missing without a trace. After all that time, the people left behind moved on, or tried to. Until today. Today five of those kids return. They're sixteen, and they are . . . fine. Scarlett comes home and finds a mom she barely recognizes, and doesn't really recognize the person she's supposed to be, either. But she thinks she remembers Lucas. Lucas remembers Scarlett, too, except they're entirely unable to recall where they've been or what happened to them. Neither of them remember the sixth victim, Max--the only one who hasn't come back. Which leaves Max's sister, Avery, wanting answers. She wants to find her brother--dead or alive--and isn't buying this whole memory-loss story. But as details of the disappearance begin to unfold, no one is prepared for the truth. This unforgettable novel--with its rich characters, high stakes, and plot twists--will leave readers breathless.

Author : Thomas M. Bloch
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470639598
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stand for the Best written by Thomas M. Bloch and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen years ago, Tom Bloch was CEO of H&R Block, the groundbreaking tax organization. The son of the company’s founder, he was a happily married 41-year-old executive, but something was missing from his life. After a nineteen-year career at the company, Bloch resigned his position to become a math teacher in an impoverished inner-city section of Kansas City. Stand for the Best reveals Bloch’s struggles to make a difference for his marginalized students and how he eventually co-founded a successful charter school, University Academy.

Author : David Heenan
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey
ISBN 13 : 185788938X
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leaving on Top written by David Heenan and published by Nicholas Brealey. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leaving on Top: Graceful Exits for Leaders explores what it means to move on from a career with a class and a view for what?s next. While most graceful exiters pursue a variety of interests throughout their professional lifetime, others are content to reach the top and then cling to it. Through this research, David Heenan has found that most leaders can be categorized into four exiting types: Timeless wonders: With their skills very much intact, these white-haired prodigies have no need to call it quits. Aging Despots: Reluctant to leave the spotlight, they are past their prime and should turn the reigns over to a new generation. Comeback Kids: Whether to return their enterprises to their former glory, or simply save themselves from boredom, these once-departed leaders have returned with a vengeance. Graceful Exiters: Quitting while ahead, they leave a sterling reputation as they move on. Heenan understands how to exit gracefully from his profession?he?s done it several times. In Leaving On Top, he pairs wisdom derived from his experience with dozens of high-profile exits, both graceful and untimely. Heenan?s examination includes ten exiting lessons from leaders of industry, such as: Know Thy Situation: Situations change, and the intuitive know when a great career has fizzled. Take Risks: Accept change as a natural part of your transition, push your comfort zone to confront new challenges. Keep Good Company: Build alliances to help plan your exit strategy, then stay connected. Keep Learning: Graceful exiters remain curious. They are intellectually interested, alert, and adaptable. Know When to Walk Away: Blind determination often backfires. Don?t let professional success cloud your personal life.

Author : Ann Moore
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453201009
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leaving Ireland written by Ann Moore and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Irish mother must flee her beloved homeland for a new life in America, in the “gripping” second novel of the acclaimed historical trilogy (Publishers Weekly). Forced to flee Ireland, Gracelin O’Malley boards a coffin ship bound for America, taking her young daughter with her on the arduous transatlantic voyage. In New York, Gracelin struggles to adapt to a strange new world and to the harsh realities of immigrant life in a city teeming with crime, corruption, and anti-Irish prejudice. As she tries to make a life for herself and her daughter, she reunites with her brother, Sean . . . and a man she thought she’d never see again. When her friendship with a runaway slave sweeps her into the volatile abolitionist movement, Gracelin gains entrée to the drawing rooms of the wealthy and powerful. Still, the injustice all around her threatens the future of those she loves, and once again, she must do the unthinkable. This sweeping novel of the Irish immigrant experience in 1840s America brings a long-ago world to vibrant life and continues a remarkable heroine’s bold, dramatic journey through extraordinary times.

Author : Margaret Lazarus Dean
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555973418
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leaving Orbit written by Margaret Lazarus Dean and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, a breathtaking elegy to the waning days of human spaceflight as we have known it In the 1960s, humans took their first steps away from Earth, and for a time our possibilities in space seemed endless. But in a time of austerity and in the wake of high-profile disasters like Challenger, that dream has ended. In early 2011, Margaret Lazarus Dean traveled to Cape Canaveral for NASA's last three space shuttle launches in order to bear witness to the end of an era. With Dean as our guide to Florida's Space Coast and to the history of NASA, Leaving Orbit takes the measure of what American spaceflight has achieved while reckoning with its earlier witnesses, such as Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, and Oriana Fallaci. Along the way, Dean meets NASA workers, astronauts, and space fans, gathering possible answers to the question: What does it mean that a spacefaring nation won't be going to space anymore?