The Impossible Will Take A Little While

Author : Paul Loeb
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465038581
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Impossible Will Take a Little While written by Paul Loeb and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Impossible Will Take a Little While, a phrase borrowed from Billie Holliday, the editor of Soul of a Citizen brings together fifty stories and essays that range across nations, eras, wars, and political movements. Danusha Goska, an Indiana activist with a paralyzing physical disability, writes about overcoming political immobilization, drawing on her history with the Peace Corps and Mother Teresa. Vaclav Havel, the former president of the Czech Republic, finds value in seemingly doomed or futile actions taken by oppressed peoples. Rosemarie Freeney Harding recalls the music that sustained the civil rights movement, and Paxus Calta-Star recounts the powerful vignette of an 18-year-old who launched the overthrow of Bulgaria's dictatorship. Many of the essays are new, others classic works that continue to inspire. Together, these writers explore a path of heartfelt community involvement that leads beyond despair to compassion and hope. The voices collected in The Impossible Will Take a Little While will help keep us all working for a better world despite the obstacles.

Author : Art Berg
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006051213X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Impossible Just Takes a Little Longer written by Art Berg and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003-09-16 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A postscript to this edition includes a touching letter that Berg's young daughter wrote about her father for the Books for a Better Life Awards ceremony. On December 26, 1983, Art Berg was traveling to see his fiancée when his car went off the road. A broken neck left him a quadriplegic. Doctors told Berg he would never walk, hold a job, or have children. But they could not have been more wrong. Berg was determined to prevail, and would one day wear his own Super Bowl ring. In The Impossible Just Takes a Little Longer, Berg recounts his harrowing and inspirational story while imparting larger lessons about life, fear, and passion. Never giving up, Art resolved to embrace life even more fully, and established a thriving career as a motivational speaker, giving more than 150 speeches each year. Tragically, Art Berg died in February 2002, but his inspiring story -- a singular vision of passion and conviction -- lives on in The Impossible Just Takes a Little Longer.

Author : Ellie Roscher
Publisher : Chalice Press
ISBN 13 : 0827214693
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Coffee Saved My Life written by Ellie Roscher and published by Chalice Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the author's true life experiences, How Coffee Saved My Life is a funny, tragic, provocative and touching story of a rich, white, North American overachiever who spends a year in Uruguay in hopes of becoming a more responsible and sensitive member of the global community. Throughout the book, vignettes tied to the Spanish language flow from observation to theological analysis.

Author : Paul Rogat Loeb
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780465031733
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Impossible Will Take a Little While written by Paul Rogat Loeb and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More relevant than ever, this seminal collection of essays encourages us to believe in the power of ordinary citizens to change the world In today's turbulent world it's hard not to feel like we're going backwards; after decades of striving, justice and equality still seem like far off goals. What keeps us going when times get tough? How have the leaders and unsung heroes of world-changing political movements persevered in the face of cynicism, fear, and seemingly overwhelming odds? In The Impossible Will Take a Little While, they answer these questions in their own words, creating a conversation among some of the most visionary and eloquent voices of our times. Today, more than ever, we need their words and their wisdom. In this revised edition, Paul Rogat Loeb has comprehensively updated this classic work on what it's like to go up against Goliath--whether South African apartheid, Mississippi segregation, Middle East dictatorships, or the corporations driving global climate change. Without sugarcoating the obstacles, these stories inspire hope to keep moving forward. Think of this book as a conversation among some of the most visionary and eloquent voices of our times--or any time: Contributors include Maya Angelou, Diane Ackerman, Marian Wright Edelman, Wael Ghonim, Václav Havel, Paul Hawken, Seamus Heaney, Jonathan Kozol, Tony Kushner, Audre Lorde, Nelson Mandela, Bill McKibben, Bill Moyers, Pablo Neruda, Mary Pipher, Arundhati Roy, Dan Savage, Desmond Tutu, Alice Walker, Cornel West, Terry Tempest Williams, and Howard Zinn.

Author : Francesc Miralles
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698406397
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love in Lowercase written by Francesc Miralles and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A feel-good novel for fans of A Man Called Ove and The Rosie Project, about an eccentric, language-loving bachelor and the cat that opens his eyes to life’s little pleasures The Silver Linings Playbook author Matthew Quick: “A delightfully absurd, life-affirming celebration. I literally stood up and cheered as I read the last page.” When Samuel, a lonely linguistics lecturer, wakes up on New Year’s Day, he is convinced that the year ahead will bring nothing more than passive verbs and un-italicized moments—until an unexpected visitor slips into his Barcelona apartment and refuses to leave. The appearance of Mishima, a stray, brindle-furred cat, becomes the catalyst that leads Samuel from the comforts of his favorite books, foreign films, and classical music to places he’s never been (next door) and to people he might never have met (a neighbor with whom he’s never exchanged a word). Even better, the Catalan cat leads him back to the mysterious Gabriela, whom he thought he’d lost long before, and shows him, in this international bestseller for fans of The Rosie Project, The Solitude of Prime Numbers, and A Man Called Ove, that sometimes love is hiding in the smallest characters.

Author : Northern Ireland. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1048 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Total Pages : 558 pages
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Author : Great Britain. Parliament
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1252 pages
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Author : American Baptist Foreign Mission Society
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1066 pages
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Total Pages : 454 pages
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