Author: Ben Young
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 0805426973
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
"Brad, Lauren, and Jarrod sit around a table at Common Grounds, enjoying their weekly Sunday evening get-together. The three are old college friends and, like many of their classmates, they started their careers in Houston . . . they make time on Sunday evenings to catch up, laugh, and compare notes on life . . . " Three friends all at different places in the journey. A Southern Baptist, a nonpracticing Catholic, and a non-believer all meet a retired seminary professor who becomes their Socratic guide to explore Christ's teachings.
Common Grounds
Author: Ben Young
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 0805426973
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
"Brad, Lauren, and Jarrod sit around a table at Common Grounds, enjoying their weekly Sunday evening get-together. The three are old college friends and, like many of their classmates, they started their careers in Houston . . . they make time on Sunday evenings to catch up, laugh, and compare notes on life . . . " Three friends all at different places in the journey. A Southern Baptist, a nonpracticing Catholic, and a non-believer all meet a retired seminary professor who becomes their Socratic guide to explore Christ's teachings.
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 0805426973
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
"Brad, Lauren, and Jarrod sit around a table at Common Grounds, enjoying their weekly Sunday evening get-together. The three are old college friends and, like many of their classmates, they started their careers in Houston . . . they make time on Sunday evenings to catch up, laugh, and compare notes on life . . . " Three friends all at different places in the journey. A Southern Baptist, a nonpracticing Catholic, and a non-believer all meet a retired seminary professor who becomes their Socratic guide to explore Christ's teachings.
Common Ground
Author: J. Anthony Lukas
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030782375X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the bestselling Common Ground is much more than the story of the busing crisis in Boston as told through the experiences of three families. As Studs Terkel remarked, it's "gripping, indelible...a truth about all large American cities." "An epic of American city life...a story of such hypnotic specificity that we re-experience all the shades of hope and anger, pity and fear that living anywhere in late 20th-century America has inevitably provoked." —Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030782375X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the bestselling Common Ground is much more than the story of the busing crisis in Boston as told through the experiences of three families. As Studs Terkel remarked, it's "gripping, indelible...a truth about all large American cities." "An epic of American city life...a story of such hypnotic specificity that we re-experience all the shades of hope and anger, pity and fear that living anywhere in late 20th-century America has inevitably provoked." —Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times
No Common Ground
Author: Karen L. Cox
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146966268X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century--but they've never been as intense as they are today. In this eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments, Karen L. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning. She lucidly shows the forces that drove white southerners to construct beacons of white supremacy, as well as the ways that antimonument sentiment, largely stifled during the Jim Crow era, returned with the civil rights movement and gathered momentum in the decades after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Monument defenders responded with gerrymandering and "heritage" laws intended to block efforts to remove these statues, but hard as they worked to preserve the Lost Cause vision of southern history, civil rights activists, Black elected officials, and movements of ordinary people fought harder to take the story back. Timely, accessible, and essential, No Common Ground is the story of the seemingly invincible stone sentinels that are just beginning to fall from their pedestals.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146966268X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century--but they've never been as intense as they are today. In this eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments, Karen L. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning. She lucidly shows the forces that drove white southerners to construct beacons of white supremacy, as well as the ways that antimonument sentiment, largely stifled during the Jim Crow era, returned with the civil rights movement and gathered momentum in the decades after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Monument defenders responded with gerrymandering and "heritage" laws intended to block efforts to remove these statues, but hard as they worked to preserve the Lost Cause vision of southern history, civil rights activists, Black elected officials, and movements of ordinary people fought harder to take the story back. Timely, accessible, and essential, No Common Ground is the story of the seemingly invincible stone sentinels that are just beginning to fall from their pedestals.
Common Ground
Author: Molly Bang
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780590100564
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Imagines a village in which there are too many people consuming shared resources and discusses the challenge of handling our world's environment safely.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780590100564
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Imagines a village in which there are too many people consuming shared resources and discusses the challenge of handling our world's environment safely.
On Common Ground
Author: John Emmeus Davis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734403008
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Land that is owned and managed for the common good is a hallmark of community land trusts. CLTs are locally controlled, nonprofit organizations that steward permanently affordable housing (and other assets) for people of modest means. This book explores the global growth of CLTs in twenty-six original essays by authors from a dozen countries.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734403008
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Land that is owned and managed for the common good is a hallmark of community land trusts. CLTs are locally controlled, nonprofit organizations that steward permanently affordable housing (and other assets) for people of modest means. This book explores the global growth of CLTs in twenty-six original essays by authors from a dozen countries.
Common grounds
Author: Museum Villa Stuck
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
ISBN: 9783775739672
Category : Arab countries
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The rising cities of the Gulf region and arenas of conflict in the Middle East are captivating subjects of media coverage. Both in terms of their content and through their manipulative aesthetic, the often extreme images from these areas shape our western view of the region. Twelve artists counter this flood of images with more diverse artistic practices that reflect on social conditions. Some of these artists - Ahmed Mater, Hazem Harb, and Nasser Al Salem - are for the first time introduced to the German and Munich public. The exhibition title refers to the concept of "grounding" in communication theory, which posits that communication partners share common knowledge, which allows for dialog to be successful. The artists' cross-media works put this knowledge to the test. Ultra-modern urban construction and mass demonstrations are subjects that point to global aspiration and tradition. There is a notable broadening of artistic image-making to reflect on overriding themes such as space itself and the characteristics and possibilities of public space. Conceptual works go beyond a documentary approach and reveal social structures oscillating between West and East, sensing a cultural continuity under the surface of new urban phenomena such as Dubai or Abu Dhabi. The change in this region can also be seen as a global realignment. The collecting and archiving of objects, which gain in value due to personal selection and presentation, makes for a subjectively structured and at times also biographical narrative style, thereby reflecting and condensing collective historiography. The artists included in the exhibition conceive of themselves as scholarly and searching; in their works they collect, archive and research imagery that, as material appropriated from others, reveals stories which lie underneath the surface of known historiography. They have adopted a view from the outside, which allows them to subject their own experiences to scrutiny and to process such analytical reflections in artistic terms.--Museum website.
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
ISBN: 9783775739672
Category : Arab countries
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The rising cities of the Gulf region and arenas of conflict in the Middle East are captivating subjects of media coverage. Both in terms of their content and through their manipulative aesthetic, the often extreme images from these areas shape our western view of the region. Twelve artists counter this flood of images with more diverse artistic practices that reflect on social conditions. Some of these artists - Ahmed Mater, Hazem Harb, and Nasser Al Salem - are for the first time introduced to the German and Munich public. The exhibition title refers to the concept of "grounding" in communication theory, which posits that communication partners share common knowledge, which allows for dialog to be successful. The artists' cross-media works put this knowledge to the test. Ultra-modern urban construction and mass demonstrations are subjects that point to global aspiration and tradition. There is a notable broadening of artistic image-making to reflect on overriding themes such as space itself and the characteristics and possibilities of public space. Conceptual works go beyond a documentary approach and reveal social structures oscillating between West and East, sensing a cultural continuity under the surface of new urban phenomena such as Dubai or Abu Dhabi. The change in this region can also be seen as a global realignment. The collecting and archiving of objects, which gain in value due to personal selection and presentation, makes for a subjectively structured and at times also biographical narrative style, thereby reflecting and condensing collective historiography. The artists included in the exhibition conceive of themselves as scholarly and searching; in their works they collect, archive and research imagery that, as material appropriated from others, reveals stories which lie underneath the surface of known historiography. They have adopted a view from the outside, which allows them to subject their own experiences to scrutiny and to process such analytical reflections in artistic terms.--Museum website.
Common Ground
Author: Scott Strazzante
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996058711
Category : Family farms
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
By Scott Strazzante.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996058711
Category : Family farms
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
By Scott Strazzante.
Common Grounds
Author: Ancil Lea III
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781549940545
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
"Over the years, I've learned to work from a coffee shop out of necessity and my love for coffee. What has happened is something magical and profitable! Clients feel comfortable having meetings, signing agreements, and discussing their business. It is a familiar, professional, safe, creative place to work! A place to come for community. Really, we're on 'Common Ground'.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781549940545
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
"Over the years, I've learned to work from a coffee shop out of necessity and my love for coffee. What has happened is something magical and profitable! Clients feel comfortable having meetings, signing agreements, and discussing their business. It is a familiar, professional, safe, creative place to work! A place to come for community. Really, we're on 'Common Ground'.
Uncommon Grounds
Author: Mark Pendergrast
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465024041
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
The definitive history of the world's most popular drug. Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade, from the disastrous "Coffee Crisis" that caused global prices to plummet to the rise of the Fair Trade movement and the "third-wave" of quality-obsessed coffee connoisseurs. As the scope of coffee culture continues to expand, Uncommon Grounds remains more than ever a brilliantly entertaining guide to the currents of one of the world's favorite beverages.
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465024041
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
The definitive history of the world's most popular drug. Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade, from the disastrous "Coffee Crisis" that caused global prices to plummet to the rise of the Fair Trade movement and the "third-wave" of quality-obsessed coffee connoisseurs. As the scope of coffee culture continues to expand, Uncommon Grounds remains more than ever a brilliantly entertaining guide to the currents of one of the world's favorite beverages.
Our Common Ground
Author: John D. Leshy
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030023578X
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
The little-known story of how the U.S. government came to hold nearly one-third of the nation's land primarily for recreation and conservation.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030023578X
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
The little-known story of how the U.S. government came to hold nearly one-third of the nation's land primarily for recreation and conservation.