Author: Michael Laskey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
The poems in Andrew Forster's third collection continues his exploration of what it means to make a home: from Cumbria, where he now lives, to South Yorkshire where he grew up, this book is firmly rooted in the north of England.
The Tightrope Wedding
Author: Michael Laskey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
The poems in Andrew Forster's third collection continues his exploration of what it means to make a home: from Cumbria, where he now lives, to South Yorkshire where he grew up, this book is firmly rooted in the north of England.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
The poems in Andrew Forster's third collection continues his exploration of what it means to make a home: from Cumbria, where he now lives, to South Yorkshire where he grew up, this book is firmly rooted in the north of England.
Hope on a Tightrope
Author: Cornel West
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
ISBN: 1401923607
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The New York Times best-selling author of Race Matters and Democracy Matters offers open-hearted wisdom for our times in this courageous collection of quotations, speech excerpts, letters, philosophy, and photographs that reflect the profound humanity that fuels the passionate public intellectual. In a world that seesaws between unconditional love and acceptance and blind hatred and exclusion, Hope on a Tightrope will satisfy readers in search of deep wells of inspiration and challenge that marries the mind to the heart. This gift book features an original CD that highlights Dr. West's outstanding spoken-word artistry. His August 2007 CD release Never Forget: A Journey of Revelations that featured collaborations with best-selling artists Prince, Jill Scott, and Andre 3000 topped the charts as Billboard's #1 Spoken Word album.
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
ISBN: 1401923607
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The New York Times best-selling author of Race Matters and Democracy Matters offers open-hearted wisdom for our times in this courageous collection of quotations, speech excerpts, letters, philosophy, and photographs that reflect the profound humanity that fuels the passionate public intellectual. In a world that seesaws between unconditional love and acceptance and blind hatred and exclusion, Hope on a Tightrope will satisfy readers in search of deep wells of inspiration and challenge that marries the mind to the heart. This gift book features an original CD that highlights Dr. West's outstanding spoken-word artistry. His August 2007 CD release Never Forget: A Journey of Revelations that featured collaborations with best-selling artists Prince, Jill Scott, and Andre 3000 topped the charts as Billboard's #1 Spoken Word album.
Journeying The Tightrope
Author: Edna Maher
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1446101762
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 541
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1446101762
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 541
Book Description
Generation on a Tightrope
Author: Arthur Levine
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118233832
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Today’s college students feel as if they are crossing an abyss between their dreams and the reality of an uncertain future. They are a generation seeking stability in a time of profound and accelerating change. They want government and our other social institutions to work in a time when they’re broken; they cling to the American Dream in an age of diminished expectations. They are walking a tightrope, attempting to balance digital connectedness and personal isolation, global citizenship and local vision, commonality and difference in the most diverse generation in American history, and a desire to be treated as mature adults while being more dependent on their parents than previous college students. Generation on a Tightrope offers a compelling portrait of today’s undergraduate college students that sheds light on their attributes, expectations, aspirations, academics, attitudes, values, beliefs, social lives, and politics. Based on research of 5,000 college students and student affairs practitioners from 270 diverse college campuses, the book explores the similarities and differences between today’s generation of students and previous generations. The authors examine the myriad forces that have shaped these students and will continue to shape them as they prepare to meet the future. The first two volumes in this series exploring the psyche of college students, When Dreams and Heroes Died (1980) and When Hope and Fear Collide (1998), offered thoughtful and accurate profiles of the students of the 1980s and 1990s. As Generation on a Tightrope clearly reveals, today’s students need a very different education than the undergraduates who came before them: an education for the 21st Century, which colleges and universities are ill-equipped to offer and which will require major changes of them to provide. Painting a realistic picture of today’s college students, the authors offer guidance to higher education professionals, researchers, practitioners, policymakers, employers, parents, and the public. The book’s insights can help them equip students for the world they face and the world they will help to create.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118233832
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Today’s college students feel as if they are crossing an abyss between their dreams and the reality of an uncertain future. They are a generation seeking stability in a time of profound and accelerating change. They want government and our other social institutions to work in a time when they’re broken; they cling to the American Dream in an age of diminished expectations. They are walking a tightrope, attempting to balance digital connectedness and personal isolation, global citizenship and local vision, commonality and difference in the most diverse generation in American history, and a desire to be treated as mature adults while being more dependent on their parents than previous college students. Generation on a Tightrope offers a compelling portrait of today’s undergraduate college students that sheds light on their attributes, expectations, aspirations, academics, attitudes, values, beliefs, social lives, and politics. Based on research of 5,000 college students and student affairs practitioners from 270 diverse college campuses, the book explores the similarities and differences between today’s generation of students and previous generations. The authors examine the myriad forces that have shaped these students and will continue to shape them as they prepare to meet the future. The first two volumes in this series exploring the psyche of college students, When Dreams and Heroes Died (1980) and When Hope and Fear Collide (1998), offered thoughtful and accurate profiles of the students of the 1980s and 1990s. As Generation on a Tightrope clearly reveals, today’s students need a very different education than the undergraduates who came before them: an education for the 21st Century, which colleges and universities are ill-equipped to offer and which will require major changes of them to provide. Painting a realistic picture of today’s college students, the authors offer guidance to higher education professionals, researchers, practitioners, policymakers, employers, parents, and the public. The book’s insights can help them equip students for the world they face and the world they will help to create.
Tightrope
Author: Nicholas D. Kristof
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525564179
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With stark poignancy and political dispassion Tightrope addresses the crisis in working-class America while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure. This must-read book from the authors of Half the Sky “shows how we can and must do better” (Katie Couric). "A deft and uniquely credible exploration of rural America, and of other left-behind pockets of our country. One of the most important books I've read on the state of our disunion."—Tara Westover, author of Educated Drawing us deep into an “other America,” the authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the people with whom Kristof grew up, in rural Yamhill, Oregon. It’s an area that prospered for much of the twentieth century but has been devastated in the last few decades as blue-collar jobs disappeared. About a quarter of the children on Kristof’s old school bus died in adulthood from drugs, alcohol, suicide, or reckless accidents. While these particular stories unfolded in one corner of the country, they are representative of many places the authors write about, ranging from the Dakotas and Oklahoma to New York and Virginia. With their superb, nuanced reportage, Kristof and WuDunn have given us a book that is both riveting and impossible to ignore.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525564179
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With stark poignancy and political dispassion Tightrope addresses the crisis in working-class America while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure. This must-read book from the authors of Half the Sky “shows how we can and must do better” (Katie Couric). "A deft and uniquely credible exploration of rural America, and of other left-behind pockets of our country. One of the most important books I've read on the state of our disunion."—Tara Westover, author of Educated Drawing us deep into an “other America,” the authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the people with whom Kristof grew up, in rural Yamhill, Oregon. It’s an area that prospered for much of the twentieth century but has been devastated in the last few decades as blue-collar jobs disappeared. About a quarter of the children on Kristof’s old school bus died in adulthood from drugs, alcohol, suicide, or reckless accidents. While these particular stories unfolded in one corner of the country, they are representative of many places the authors write about, ranging from the Dakotas and Oklahoma to New York and Virginia. With their superb, nuanced reportage, Kristof and WuDunn have given us a book that is both riveting and impossible to ignore.
Dancing on the Tightrope
Author: Beth Kurland
Publisher: Wellbridge Books
ISBN: 9781942497431
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Life can feel like a challenging tightrope walk. How do we face life's difficulties yet remain resilient and open hearted? Clinical psychologist & award-winning author Beth Kurland reveals 5 common obstacles - habits of the mind that get in the way of living your fullest life and 5 tools of transformation for resilience, peace, and joy.
Publisher: Wellbridge Books
ISBN: 9781942497431
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Life can feel like a challenging tightrope walk. How do we face life's difficulties yet remain resilient and open hearted? Clinical psychologist & award-winning author Beth Kurland reveals 5 common obstacles - habits of the mind that get in the way of living your fullest life and 5 tools of transformation for resilience, peace, and joy.
The Tightrope Men
Author: Desmond Bagley
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008211264
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in Norway and Finland.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008211264
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in Norway and Finland.
Tightrope Poppy the High-Wire Pig
Author: Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 140272411X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Poppy dreams of walking the high wire and practices every chance she gets, but when she fails in her first attempt on a real circus wire, she believes she must quit.
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 140272411X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Poppy dreams of walking the high wire and practices every chance she gets, but when she fails in her first attempt on a real circus wire, she believes she must quit.
Tightrope
Author: Amanda Quick
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 0399585362
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
"It's 1930, Burning Cove, California, and an ex-trapeze artist walks the tightrope between desire and danger as she is caught up in the mysterious circumstances surrounding the onstage death of an inventor. The race is on to find his missing invention before others, who are willing to kill for it, find it first."--
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 0399585362
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
"It's 1930, Burning Cove, California, and an ex-trapeze artist walks the tightrope between desire and danger as she is caught up in the mysterious circumstances surrounding the onstage death of an inventor. The race is on to find his missing invention before others, who are willing to kill for it, find it first."--
Teetering
Author: Ken Rees
Publisher: Radius Book Group
ISBN: 1635767415
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Nearly half of American adults walk a financial tightrope. They live paycheck to paycheck, in constant danger of job loss or unexpected expenses. Following decades of rising income instability and falling savings—not to mention the twin economic upheavals of the Great Recession and the COVID-19 pandemic—they have become the new normal. Rather than treat “Tightropers” as victims or blame them for their financial decisions, Teetering lets them tell their own stories of setbacks, sacrifice, and perseverance, and provides original research into their unique pressures and needs. Tightropers deserve support at all stages of their lives to build savings for both daily emergencies and long-term retirement. Teetering shows how legislators and regulators can make a difference without unintended consequences and how financial technology innovation can help Tightropers manage their money in uncertain times. Teetering makes the case for urgent action by financial institutions, investors, regulators, policymakers, employers, and influencers to recognize and address the financial forces that have pushed the American dream out of reach for so many. It proposes common ground solutions that work regardless of political leaning and provides a roadmap for how innovators can serve this growing need and how banks and others can start saying “yes” to their customers again.
Publisher: Radius Book Group
ISBN: 1635767415
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Nearly half of American adults walk a financial tightrope. They live paycheck to paycheck, in constant danger of job loss or unexpected expenses. Following decades of rising income instability and falling savings—not to mention the twin economic upheavals of the Great Recession and the COVID-19 pandemic—they have become the new normal. Rather than treat “Tightropers” as victims or blame them for their financial decisions, Teetering lets them tell their own stories of setbacks, sacrifice, and perseverance, and provides original research into their unique pressures and needs. Tightropers deserve support at all stages of their lives to build savings for both daily emergencies and long-term retirement. Teetering shows how legislators and regulators can make a difference without unintended consequences and how financial technology innovation can help Tightropers manage their money in uncertain times. Teetering makes the case for urgent action by financial institutions, investors, regulators, policymakers, employers, and influencers to recognize and address the financial forces that have pushed the American dream out of reach for so many. It proposes common ground solutions that work regardless of political leaning and provides a roadmap for how innovators can serve this growing need and how banks and others can start saying “yes” to their customers again.