True Notebooks

Author : Mark Salzman
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307429849
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book True Notebooks written by Mark Salzman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1997 Mark Salzman, bestselling author Iron and Silk and Lying Awake, paid a reluctant visit to a writing class at L.A.’s Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for violent teenage offenders, many of them charged with murder. What he found so moved and astonished him that he began to teach there regularly. In voices of indelible emotional presence, the boys write about what led them to crime and about the lives that stretch ahead of them behind bars. We see them coming to terms with their crime-ridden pasts and searching for a reason to believe in their future selves. Insightful, comic, honest and tragic, True Notebooks is an object lesson in the redemptive power of writing.

Author : William Gedney
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393048247
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What was True written by William Gedney and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2000-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of photographs is complemented by notes and excerpts from the journals and correspondence of the late photographer

Author : Amir D. Aczel
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767920341
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Descartes's Secret Notebook written by Amir D. Aczel and published by Crown. This book was released on 2006-10-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: René Descartes (1596–1650) is one of the towering and central figures in Western philosophy and mathematics. His apothegm “Cogito, ergo sum” marked the birth of the mind-body problem, while his creation of so-called Cartesian coordinates have made our physical and intellectual conquest of physical space possible. But Descartes had a mysterious and mystical side, as well. Almost certainly a member of the occult brotherhood of the Rosicrucians, he kept a secret notebook, now lost, most of which was written in code. After Descartes’s death, Gottfried Leibniz, inventor of calculus and one of the greatest mathematicians in history, moved to Paris in search of this notebook—and eventually found it in the possession of Claude Clerselier, a friend of Descartes. Leibniz called on Clerselier and was allowed to copy only a couple of pages—which, though written in code, he amazingly deciphered there on the spot. Leibniz’s hastily scribbled notes are all we have today of Descartes’s notebook, which has disappeared. Why did Descartes keep a secret notebook, and what were its contents? The answers to these questions lead Amir Aczel and the reader on an exciting, swashbuckling journey, and offer a fascinating look at one of the great figures of Western culture.

Author : Mark Salzman
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0394755111
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iron and Silk written by Mark Salzman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1987-10-12 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salzman captures post-cultural revolution China through his adventures as a young American English teacher in China and his shifu-tudi (master-student) relationship with China's foremost martial arts teacher.

Author : Mark Salzman
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400077753
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lying Awake written by Mark Salzman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Salzman's Lying Awake is a finely wrought gem that plumbs the depths of one woman's soul, and in so doing raises salient questions about the power-and price-of faith. Sister John's cloistered life of peace and prayer has been electrified by ever more frequent visions of God's radiance, leading her toward a deep religious ecstasy. Her life and writings have become examples of devotion. Yet her visions are accompanied by shattering headaches that compel Sister John to seek medical help. When her doctor tells her an illness may be responsible for her gift, Sister John faces a wrenching choice: to risk her intimate glimpses of the divine in favor of a cure, or to continue her visions with the knowledge that they might be false-and might even cost her her life.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061582484
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Notebook written by Doris Lessing and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier years. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroine relives part of her own experience. And in a blue one she keeps a personal diary. Finally, in love with an American writer and threatened with insanity, Anna resolves to bring the threads of all four books together in a golden notebook. Doris Lessing's best-known and most influential novel, The Golden Notebook retains its extraordinary power and relevance decades after its initial publication.

Author : Pat Bussard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615796857
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thirty True Tales of the Weird, Unusual and Macabre written by Pat Bussard and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-12 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories between the covers of this book are for those who love their tales of the weird, unusual and macabre deliciously - real. Werewolves, vampires, aliens, cryptids, and ghosts are just a few of the mysterious creatures to whom you will be introduced or reintroduced through the voices of those who have encountered them. Come join the Paranormal Journalist as she guides you through a fantastical landscape inhabited by otherworldly beings too often relegated to the dark corners of humanity's consciousness. Read about real paranormal investigators who go places few would go to meet and communicate with the spirits of those long dead. Find out about a harbinger of doom that foretold the collapse of a superstructure and launched a legend. Learn about an organization dedicated to the pursuit of evidence of UFO abductions and visitations. Many writers conduct academic research, but Pat Bussard has also traveled to many of the locations she wrote about in this book to bring to the reader a deeper connection to these places of historical supernatural significance. She has interviewed some of the most renowned voices in the paranormal field to give readers authentic true stories of the preternatural. The book is heavily illustrated by photographs taken by the author while she was on location. Foreword by Rosemary Ellen Guiley. Hear their voices. Read the book. Know the truth.

Author : Albert Camus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notebooks: 1942-1951. Translated from the French and annotated by J. O'Brien written by Albert Camus and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lorri Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781945334016
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book So What If It's True written by Lorri Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection from the works of Lorri Jackson

Author : Mark Salzman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780747571308
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book True Notebooks written by Mark Salzman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Salzman never thought he would be teaching writing at Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for kids in LA, but their writing changed his mind. Underneath their bravado, his students were scared, and wrote about it. This is an account of these classes and of Salzman's own transformation.