Author: Ryan Wickham
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460260287
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
#WickhamsWords is a plain-spoken book of motivations for everybody from an average guy who has faced down depression and survived. In the fall of 2013, I went out on a national book tour promoting my first book, Outlaw Principles. As part of that tour, I did a number of suicide prevention talks. During these events, I met a lot of troubled individuals, and it reminded me just how much despair there is out there. This isn't the case for everyone, of course, and I don't want to speak only to those folks hanging on by their fingernails. I guess what I want you to know is that, regardless of the challenges you face, if you can shrug off the body blows that life dishes out and get up whenever you get knocked down, there is no fight you can't win.
#WickhamsWords
Author: Ryan Wickham
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460260287
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
#WickhamsWords is a plain-spoken book of motivations for everybody from an average guy who has faced down depression and survived. In the fall of 2013, I went out on a national book tour promoting my first book, Outlaw Principles. As part of that tour, I did a number of suicide prevention talks. During these events, I met a lot of troubled individuals, and it reminded me just how much despair there is out there. This isn't the case for everyone, of course, and I don't want to speak only to those folks hanging on by their fingernails. I guess what I want you to know is that, regardless of the challenges you face, if you can shrug off the body blows that life dishes out and get up whenever you get knocked down, there is no fight you can't win.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460260287
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
#WickhamsWords is a plain-spoken book of motivations for everybody from an average guy who has faced down depression and survived. In the fall of 2013, I went out on a national book tour promoting my first book, Outlaw Principles. As part of that tour, I did a number of suicide prevention talks. During these events, I met a lot of troubled individuals, and it reminded me just how much despair there is out there. This isn't the case for everyone, of course, and I don't want to speak only to those folks hanging on by their fingernails. I guess what I want you to know is that, regardless of the challenges you face, if you can shrug off the body blows that life dishes out and get up whenever you get knocked down, there is no fight you can't win.
The National Cyclopedia of American Biography ... V.1-
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
The Student Movement and National Politics in Egypt, 1923-1973
Author: Ahmed Abdalla
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN: 9789774161995
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Nasserist revolution of 1952 had a massive impact on the Egyptian educational system. For the first time, the doors of university education were opened to masses of people in a Third World country, and hundreds of thousands of the sons and daughters of peasants, workers, and lower-middle-class employees seized the opportunity. But quantitative growth was not matched by qualitative advance, and the gap between expectations and reality has rarely been so wide. The result was one of the world's most turbulent student movements. This history of that movement's most critical years, first published in 1985, was written by a young Egyptian who was a participant in many of the events and was intimately acquainted with them. Ahmed Abdalla describes the sociological composition of the student body, the physical and social conditions in the universities, the shifts in government education policy, and the attempts of the students to influence the direction of national development in both domestic and foreign policy. The Student Movement and National Politics in Egypt is an important contribution to our understanding of Egypt's modern history, and will also be of interest to anyone concerned with the more universal issues of higher education, social change, and state politics in the Third World.
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN: 9789774161995
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Nasserist revolution of 1952 had a massive impact on the Egyptian educational system. For the first time, the doors of university education were opened to masses of people in a Third World country, and hundreds of thousands of the sons and daughters of peasants, workers, and lower-middle-class employees seized the opportunity. But quantitative growth was not matched by qualitative advance, and the gap between expectations and reality has rarely been so wide. The result was one of the world's most turbulent student movements. This history of that movement's most critical years, first published in 1985, was written by a young Egyptian who was a participant in many of the events and was intimately acquainted with them. Ahmed Abdalla describes the sociological composition of the student body, the physical and social conditions in the universities, the shifts in government education policy, and the attempts of the students to influence the direction of national development in both domestic and foreign policy. The Student Movement and National Politics in Egypt is an important contribution to our understanding of Egypt's modern history, and will also be of interest to anyone concerned with the more universal issues of higher education, social change, and state politics in the Third World.
Women's Lives
Author: Jennifer Newby
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 184468654X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
“Helps you put those in your female line into context, whether they were factory workers, Land Girls, aristocrats, or even criminals!” —Family History Monthly Women’s lives have traditionally gone unrecorded in history. But housewives, factory girls and servants all had their own distinctive voices, and, if you know where to look, there are plenty of sources to explore. Jennifer Newby’s guide to women’s social history between 1800 and 1939 includes essential starting points for research. A useful handbook for family historians, as well as an engaging read for social history lovers, each chapter focuses on a different group, with suggestions for further reading and a helpful timeline. Compare the lives of factory workers, middle-class women, domestic servants, criminals, aristocrats and agricultural laborers. Hear the voices of obscure women alongside those of celebrities from rebellious servant Hannah Cullwick to daring aristocrat, Lady Colin Campbell, prostitute Ellen Reece, and bored middle-class daughter, Katherine Chorley. If you want to trace female ancestors or simply discover more about how women lived in the past, then this book is ideal to help you get started with your own research. “Jennifer Newby tackles this subject in a readable way, bringing it alive in every aspect: domestic service, on the land, in the factories, middle class women, aristocratic women, and criminal women.” —Ryedale Gazette and Herald “An invaluable research tool and a well compiled collection of historical accounts. It would make a suitable read for not only the student or early career researcher, but also the casual reader interested in learning more about the topic of women’s social history.” —Feminist Studies Association
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 184468654X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
“Helps you put those in your female line into context, whether they were factory workers, Land Girls, aristocrats, or even criminals!” —Family History Monthly Women’s lives have traditionally gone unrecorded in history. But housewives, factory girls and servants all had their own distinctive voices, and, if you know where to look, there are plenty of sources to explore. Jennifer Newby’s guide to women’s social history between 1800 and 1939 includes essential starting points for research. A useful handbook for family historians, as well as an engaging read for social history lovers, each chapter focuses on a different group, with suggestions for further reading and a helpful timeline. Compare the lives of factory workers, middle-class women, domestic servants, criminals, aristocrats and agricultural laborers. Hear the voices of obscure women alongside those of celebrities from rebellious servant Hannah Cullwick to daring aristocrat, Lady Colin Campbell, prostitute Ellen Reece, and bored middle-class daughter, Katherine Chorley. If you want to trace female ancestors or simply discover more about how women lived in the past, then this book is ideal to help you get started with your own research. “Jennifer Newby tackles this subject in a readable way, bringing it alive in every aspect: domestic service, on the land, in the factories, middle class women, aristocratic women, and criminal women.” —Ryedale Gazette and Herald “An invaluable research tool and a well compiled collection of historical accounts. It would make a suitable read for not only the student or early career researcher, but also the casual reader interested in learning more about the topic of women’s social history.” —Feminist Studies Association
Love of Worker Bees
Author: Alexandra Kollontai
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 089733955X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
A rare, graphic portrait of Russian life in 1917 immediately after the October Revolution. The heroine struggles with her passion for her husband, and the demands of the new world in which she lives.
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 089733955X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
A rare, graphic portrait of Russian life in 1917 immediately after the October Revolution. The heroine struggles with her passion for her husband, and the demands of the new world in which she lives.
Bayram Al-Tunisi's Egypt
Author: Marilyn Booth
Publisher: Ithaca Press (GB)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Mahmud Bayram al-Tunisi has, through his political commitment and the popular orientation of his literary works, become something of a folk hero in Egypt. This book presents a discussion of the context of his work, and of the intellectual development and stylistic innovations that occurred within his writing. Following a biographical sketch in which close attention is paid to his journalistic activity in Tunisia and Egypt, the study analyses the way in which the connection developed between al-Tunisi's political attitudes and the original manner in which he chose to write. Three sets of texts, which were originally published in the 1920s and revised and republished a decade later, are analysed both for their literary style and for their political rhetoric. These texts include narrative poems and prose dialogues written in colloquial Arabic, as well as satirical maqamat. Al-Tunisi's choice of form and the register of his literary diction demonstrate the link between textual structure and political intent. Appendices include annotated translations of selected poems, details of the periodicals to which al-Tunisi contributed, and bibliographical information on the texts analysed in the course of the study.
Publisher: Ithaca Press (GB)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Mahmud Bayram al-Tunisi has, through his political commitment and the popular orientation of his literary works, become something of a folk hero in Egypt. This book presents a discussion of the context of his work, and of the intellectual development and stylistic innovations that occurred within his writing. Following a biographical sketch in which close attention is paid to his journalistic activity in Tunisia and Egypt, the study analyses the way in which the connection developed between al-Tunisi's political attitudes and the original manner in which he chose to write. Three sets of texts, which were originally published in the 1920s and revised and republished a decade later, are analysed both for their literary style and for their political rhetoric. These texts include narrative poems and prose dialogues written in colloquial Arabic, as well as satirical maqamat. Al-Tunisi's choice of form and the register of his literary diction demonstrate the link between textual structure and political intent. Appendices include annotated translations of selected poems, details of the periodicals to which al-Tunisi contributed, and bibliographical information on the texts analysed in the course of the study.
Debrett's Handbook
Author: Elizabeth Wyse
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 0992934869
Category : Etiquette
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
A quintessentially British reference tool, and an entertaining guide to modern manners, Debrett's Handbook contains informed insights on a range of formal occasions, hosting and entertaining, dress codes, written forms of address, social correspondence and correct form. This fantastically thorough compendium of advice is now available in ebook form, making it easier to use than ever before. With informed insights on a range of occasions including weddings and formal events, the Handbook is a trustworthy companion to social life and rites of passage. It also addresses many modern dilemmas such as social graces, mobile manners and dining etiquette, and offers advice on civilised hosting and entertaining.
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 0992934869
Category : Etiquette
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
A quintessentially British reference tool, and an entertaining guide to modern manners, Debrett's Handbook contains informed insights on a range of formal occasions, hosting and entertaining, dress codes, written forms of address, social correspondence and correct form. This fantastically thorough compendium of advice is now available in ebook form, making it easier to use than ever before. With informed insights on a range of occasions including weddings and formal events, the Handbook is a trustworthy companion to social life and rites of passage. It also addresses many modern dilemmas such as social graces, mobile manners and dining etiquette, and offers advice on civilised hosting and entertaining.
Popular Narrative Ballads of Modern Egypt
Author: Pierre Cachia
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 9780198265450
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Arabic folk literature is a territory long neglected, and therefore still largely unexplored. This book represents the first full-length study in any language (including Arabic) of a genre hardly known in the West, and yet rich in surprises. The author, an academic Arabist who has resided inEgypt for a quarter of a century, has the intimate knowledge of colloquial Arabic needed to deal with material which not only contains linguistic elements unrecorded in any reference work, but also abounds in elaborate puns. In providing not so much an interpretation as an accurate and economicalrecord of facts and direct observations, the book will be of use to more than just linguists and literary historians; folklorists will encounter here a living, many-faceted, and fast changing art, and social scientists will acquire insights into a society whose practices and priorities are seldomreflected in the literature of the elite. In fact, the greater part of the book consists of integral texts, meticulously transcribed and translated, ranging from erotic tales to accounts of contemporary deeds of violence. One of its significant aspects lies in showing how few of the modernisticvalues of the educated Egyptian elite have percolated to the masses, and how questionable it is to take the literature of this elite as the main indicator of cultural change.
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 9780198265450
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Arabic folk literature is a territory long neglected, and therefore still largely unexplored. This book represents the first full-length study in any language (including Arabic) of a genre hardly known in the West, and yet rich in surprises. The author, an academic Arabist who has resided inEgypt for a quarter of a century, has the intimate knowledge of colloquial Arabic needed to deal with material which not only contains linguistic elements unrecorded in any reference work, but also abounds in elaborate puns. In providing not so much an interpretation as an accurate and economicalrecord of facts and direct observations, the book will be of use to more than just linguists and literary historians; folklorists will encounter here a living, many-faceted, and fast changing art, and social scientists will acquire insights into a society whose practices and priorities are seldomreflected in the literature of the elite. In fact, the greater part of the book consists of integral texts, meticulously transcribed and translated, ranging from erotic tales to accounts of contemporary deeds of violence. One of its significant aspects lies in showing how few of the modernisticvalues of the educated Egyptian elite have percolated to the masses, and how questionable it is to take the literature of this elite as the main indicator of cultural change.
Egyptian Colloquial Poetry in the Modern Arabic Canon
Author: N. Radwan
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137015675
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Noha Radwan offers the first book-length study of the emergence, context, and development of modern Egyptian colloquial poetry, recently used as a vehicle for communications in the revolutionary youth movement in Egypt on January 25th 2011, and situates it among modernist Arab poetry.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137015675
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Noha Radwan offers the first book-length study of the emergence, context, and development of modern Egyptian colloquial poetry, recently used as a vehicle for communications in the revolutionary youth movement in Egypt on January 25th 2011, and situates it among modernist Arab poetry.
Tracing Your Nonconformist Ancestors
Author: Stuart A. Raymond
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1473883474
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
We all have Nonconformist ancestors. In the mid-nineteenth century almost half of the English population were Nonconformists. And there were very few villages where there was not at least one Nonconformist chapel. Local and family historians need to be aware of the diversity of Nonconformity, and of the many sources which will enable them to trace the activities of Nonconformist forebears.Stuart Raymond's handbook provides an overview of those sources. He identifies the numerous websites, libraries and archives that local and family historians need to consult. These are described in detail, their strengths and weaknesses are pointed out, and the contribution currently made by the internet is highlighted.Most Nonconformist denominations are discussed not just the mainstream Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Quakers and Methodists, but also obscure sects such as the Muggletonians and Glasites, and even the two groups who regularly appear on our doorsteps today Jehovahs Witnesses and the Mormons.The religious activities of our Nonconformist ancestors tell us a great deal about them, and provide fascinating insights into their lives.
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1473883474
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
We all have Nonconformist ancestors. In the mid-nineteenth century almost half of the English population were Nonconformists. And there were very few villages where there was not at least one Nonconformist chapel. Local and family historians need to be aware of the diversity of Nonconformity, and of the many sources which will enable them to trace the activities of Nonconformist forebears.Stuart Raymond's handbook provides an overview of those sources. He identifies the numerous websites, libraries and archives that local and family historians need to consult. These are described in detail, their strengths and weaknesses are pointed out, and the contribution currently made by the internet is highlighted.Most Nonconformist denominations are discussed not just the mainstream Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Quakers and Methodists, but also obscure sects such as the Muggletonians and Glasites, and even the two groups who regularly appear on our doorsteps today Jehovahs Witnesses and the Mormons.The religious activities of our Nonconformist ancestors tell us a great deal about them, and provide fascinating insights into their lives.