Author: Frances K. Conley
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374525951
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In May 1991, Conley, the first female tenured full professor of neurosurgery in the country, made headlines when she resigned from Stanford to protest the school's unabashed gender discrimination. In this forthright memoir, she tells her controversial story.
Walking Out on the Boys
Author: Frances K. Conley
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374525951
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In May 1991, Conley, the first female tenured full professor of neurosurgery in the country, made headlines when she resigned from Stanford to protest the school's unabashed gender discrimination. In this forthright memoir, she tells her controversial story.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374525951
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In May 1991, Conley, the first female tenured full professor of neurosurgery in the country, made headlines when she resigned from Stanford to protest the school's unabashed gender discrimination. In this forthright memoir, she tells her controversial story.
The Boys of My Youth
Author: Jo Ann Beard
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316091863
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
The "utterly compelling, uncommonly beautiful" collection of personal essays (Newsweek) that established Jo Ann Beard as one of the leading writers of her generation. Cousins, mothers, sisters, dolls, dogs, best friends: these are the fixed points in Jo Ann Beard's universe, the constants that remain when the boys of her youth -- and then men who replace them -- are gone. This widely praised collection of autobiographical essays summons back, with astonishing grace and power, moments of childhood epiphany as well as the cataclysms of adult life: betrayal, divorce, death. The Boys of My Youth heralded the arrival of an immensely gifted and influential writer and its essays remain surprising, original, and affecting today. "A luminous, funny, heartbreaking book of essays about life and its defining moments." --Harper's Bazaar
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316091863
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
The "utterly compelling, uncommonly beautiful" collection of personal essays (Newsweek) that established Jo Ann Beard as one of the leading writers of her generation. Cousins, mothers, sisters, dolls, dogs, best friends: these are the fixed points in Jo Ann Beard's universe, the constants that remain when the boys of her youth -- and then men who replace them -- are gone. This widely praised collection of autobiographical essays summons back, with astonishing grace and power, moments of childhood epiphany as well as the cataclysms of adult life: betrayal, divorce, death. The Boys of My Youth heralded the arrival of an immensely gifted and influential writer and its essays remain surprising, original, and affecting today. "A luminous, funny, heartbreaking book of essays about life and its defining moments." --Harper's Bazaar
What Is the What
Author: Dave Eggers
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307371379
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 563
Book Description
What Is the What is the story of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee in war-ravaged southern Sudan who flees from his village in the mid-1980s and becomes one of the so-called Lost Boys. Valentino’s travels bring him in contact with enemy soldiers, with liberation rebels, with hyenas and lions, with disease and starvation, and with deadly murahaleen (militias on horseback)–the same sort who currently terrorize Darfur. Eventually Deng is resettled in the United States with almost 4000 other young Sudanese men, and a very different struggle begins. Based closely on true experiences, What Is the What is heartbreaking and arresting, filled with adventure, suspense, tragedy, and, finally, triumph.
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307371379
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 563
Book Description
What Is the What is the story of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee in war-ravaged southern Sudan who flees from his village in the mid-1980s and becomes one of the so-called Lost Boys. Valentino’s travels bring him in contact with enemy soldiers, with liberation rebels, with hyenas and lions, with disease and starvation, and with deadly murahaleen (militias on horseback)–the same sort who currently terrorize Darfur. Eventually Deng is resettled in the United States with almost 4000 other young Sudanese men, and a very different struggle begins. Based closely on true experiences, What Is the What is heartbreaking and arresting, filled with adventure, suspense, tragedy, and, finally, triumph.
Alex, the Walking Accident
Author: Ian Whybrow
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
ISBN: 9780340911112
Category : Behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Alex doesn't mean to cause trouble. He didn't mean to cover his dad with pink yoghurt, or drop the goldfish in the bath. He just couldn't help it. Alex's mum and dad ask him to keep out of trouble for just one day - so the sideways skateboard isn't such a bad idea, is it?
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
ISBN: 9780340911112
Category : Behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Alex doesn't mean to cause trouble. He didn't mean to cover his dad with pink yoghurt, or drop the goldfish in the bath. He just couldn't help it. Alex's mum and dad ask him to keep out of trouble for just one day - so the sideways skateboard isn't such a bad idea, is it?
Abused Men Walking Out, Leaving Their Kids Behind
Author: Ravey D. Wesley
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499044291
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
This story is about four boys who grew up as close friends, while growing up they would see women or their friend's mothers in their neighborhood being abused by men leaving these four boys with a sick feeling inside over the years. It would play back in their minds time after time, so much that they gave their word to treat their women with love and respect. Little did these boys know after growing, things have changed with women in todays fast-paced society mainly in the home and work. Never would the four friends would have thought for one second that women would have abusive behavior toward men, carrying out acts of physical, sexual, emotional, and verbal abuse against men. This leaves a man no choice but to walk out his home leaving his children behind.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499044291
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
This story is about four boys who grew up as close friends, while growing up they would see women or their friend's mothers in their neighborhood being abused by men leaving these four boys with a sick feeling inside over the years. It would play back in their minds time after time, so much that they gave their word to treat their women with love and respect. Little did these boys know after growing, things have changed with women in todays fast-paced society mainly in the home and work. Never would the four friends would have thought for one second that women would have abusive behavior toward men, carrying out acts of physical, sexual, emotional, and verbal abuse against men. This leaves a man no choice but to walk out his home leaving his children behind.
Flying in Walking Out
Author: Edward Sniders
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 0850526930
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Edward Sniders'' experiences of World War Two make compelling reading. As a Mosquito pilot, he led a charmed life until his luck ran out in dramatic fashion.'
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 0850526930
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Edward Sniders'' experiences of World War Two make compelling reading. As a Mosquito pilot, he led a charmed life until his luck ran out in dramatic fashion.'
Boys and Girls Come Out at Play
Author: Glynis Dunnitt
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291193200
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Young man appointed as first male Master at The Alternative Academy, soon finds things are not quite what they seem: given a group of girls to teach, soon find out their sport is taking boys' clothes, wearing them themselves-making boys wear their's! He confesses he had exciting nightmares about it happening to him, when their age. In short order he is tricked and ambushed and wearing schoolgirl uniform, leashed by string around 'her' balls up and out of the blouse, so her ex-schoolgirl 'boyfriend' can keep her under control. Then he is paraded round the streets with another similar 'girl' and their two 'boyfriends' before the two 'girls' are put to bed in a caravan, whilst the 'boys' take their customary places; the first stage in a planned full takeover of their lives, leads to our young man being installed in the maids quarters, to learn that trade and life that life for the rest of her days-whilst his life and property is taken by the girl who ensnared him.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291193200
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Young man appointed as first male Master at The Alternative Academy, soon finds things are not quite what they seem: given a group of girls to teach, soon find out their sport is taking boys' clothes, wearing them themselves-making boys wear their's! He confesses he had exciting nightmares about it happening to him, when their age. In short order he is tricked and ambushed and wearing schoolgirl uniform, leashed by string around 'her' balls up and out of the blouse, so her ex-schoolgirl 'boyfriend' can keep her under control. Then he is paraded round the streets with another similar 'girl' and their two 'boyfriends' before the two 'girls' are put to bed in a caravan, whilst the 'boys' take their customary places; the first stage in a planned full takeover of their lives, leads to our young man being installed in the maids quarters, to learn that trade and life that life for the rest of her days-whilst his life and property is taken by the girl who ensnared him.
Boys' Life
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.
The Lost Boys of Sudan
Author: Mark Bixler
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820346209
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
In 2000 the United States began accepting 3,800 refugees from one of Africa’s longest civil wars. They were just some of the thousands of young men, known as “Lost Boys,” who had been orphaned or otherwise separated from their families in the chaos of a brutal conflict that has ravaged Sudan since 1983. The Lost Boys of Sudan focuses on four of these refugees. Theirs, however, is a typical story, one that repeated itself wherever the Lost Boys could be found across America. Jacob Magot, Peter Anyang, Daniel Khoch, and Marko Ayii were among 150 or so Lost Boys who were resettled in Atlanta. Like most of their fellow refugees, they had never before turned on a light switch, used a kitchen appliance, or ridden in a car or subway train—much less held a job or balanced a checkbook. We relive their early excitement and disorientation, their growing despondency over fruitless job searches, adjustments they faced upon finally entering the workforce, their experiences of post-9/11 xenophobia, and their undying dreams of acquiring an education. As we immerse ourselves in the Lost Boys’ daily lives, we also get to know the social services professionals and volunteers, celebrities, community leaders, and others who guided them—with occasional detours—toward self-sufficiency. Along the way author Mark Bixler looks closely at the ins and outs of U.S. refugee policy, the politics of international aid, the history of Sudan, and the radical Islamist underpinnings of its government. America is home to more foreign-born residents than ever before; the Lost Boys have repaid that gift in full through their example of unflagging resolve, hope, and faith.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820346209
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
In 2000 the United States began accepting 3,800 refugees from one of Africa’s longest civil wars. They were just some of the thousands of young men, known as “Lost Boys,” who had been orphaned or otherwise separated from their families in the chaos of a brutal conflict that has ravaged Sudan since 1983. The Lost Boys of Sudan focuses on four of these refugees. Theirs, however, is a typical story, one that repeated itself wherever the Lost Boys could be found across America. Jacob Magot, Peter Anyang, Daniel Khoch, and Marko Ayii were among 150 or so Lost Boys who were resettled in Atlanta. Like most of their fellow refugees, they had never before turned on a light switch, used a kitchen appliance, or ridden in a car or subway train—much less held a job or balanced a checkbook. We relive their early excitement and disorientation, their growing despondency over fruitless job searches, adjustments they faced upon finally entering the workforce, their experiences of post-9/11 xenophobia, and their undying dreams of acquiring an education. As we immerse ourselves in the Lost Boys’ daily lives, we also get to know the social services professionals and volunteers, celebrities, community leaders, and others who guided them—with occasional detours—toward self-sufficiency. Along the way author Mark Bixler looks closely at the ins and outs of U.S. refugee policy, the politics of international aid, the history of Sudan, and the radical Islamist underpinnings of its government. America is home to more foreign-born residents than ever before; the Lost Boys have repaid that gift in full through their example of unflagging resolve, hope, and faith.
The Boys of Burleigh
Author: Scott B. Eggert
Publisher: Scott B. Eggert
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
A book about a group of kids growing up in a middle class neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They were young, restless, and out of control. They went from hoods, to wise-guys and bikers. Compares to The Outsiders on steroids. You will laugh, cry, and laugh some more. 5-star rating so far.
Publisher: Scott B. Eggert
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
A book about a group of kids growing up in a middle class neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They were young, restless, and out of control. They went from hoods, to wise-guys and bikers. Compares to The Outsiders on steroids. You will laugh, cry, and laugh some more. 5-star rating so far.