World Relief staffers Matthew Soerens and Jenny Yang move beyond the rhetoric to offer a Christian response to immigration. With careful historical understanding and thoughtful policy analysis, they debunk myths about immigration, show the limits of the current immigration system, and offer concrete ways for you to welcome and minister to your immigrant neighbors.
Immigration is one of the most complicated issues of our time. Voices on all sides argue strongly for action and change. Christians find themselves torn between the desire to uphold laws and the call to minister to the vulnerable. In this book World Relief staffers Matthew Soerens and Jenny Hwang move beyond the rhetoric to offer a Christian response to immigration. They put a human face on the issue and tell stories of immigrants' experiences in and out of the system. With careful historical understanding and thoughtful policy analysis, they debunk myths and misconceptions about immigration and show the limitations of the current immigration system. Ultimately they point toward immigration reform that is compassionate, sensible and just, as they offer concrete ways for you and your church to welcome and minister to your immigrant neighbors.
In her first collection of poems, Jenny Yang Cropp writes about growing up mixed-race, overcoming abandonment and addiction, and surviving the enormity of grief. Moving from supernovas to microscopic black holes, these poems reimagine love, family, and physics as the speaker tries to navigate a world of damaged, often severed, human connections and come to terms with her own fragmented sense of identity. At its heart, String Theory is a meditation on multiplicity and the soul's capacity to hold countless versions of itself.
Aspiring young Chinese immigrant Gigi O survives by working as a stripper, but she strives for true success in the U.S. real-estate industry. Navigating this highly competitive business is tough, especially when her only support comes from the deeply flawed man she loves and her old cohorts from the strip club. Issues of betrayal and trust, loyalty and commitment complicate her goals even as one lesbian friend adds new dimensions to her understanding of love versus desire. Then the market crashes and financial turmoil threatens to rob Gigi O of all she has achieved. Can she find new ways to chase her dreams—and still manage to keep her clothes on? Or might she find a better reason to take them off? Girl Wears Those Shoes is a tale of love and power, the story of one woman who wants to make the world her own—if only she can figure out how.
Charlie merasakan jemari bak cakar mencengkeram bahunya. Nenek Bone membungkuk di atasnya. “Katakan apa yang kau dengar,” desak Nenek Bone. “Suara-suara,” kata Charlie. “Rasanya seperti berasal dari foto ini.” Akibat bakat ajaibnya, Charlie dikirim ke sekolah asrama Bloor’s Academy ketika berusia sepuluh tahun. Sekolah itu berisi ratusan murid yang sepuluh di antaranya adalah anak-anak berbakat ajaib, seperti Billy yang bisa berbicara kepada binatang dan Gabriel yang bisa mendeteksi perasaan pemilik benda yang disentuhnya. Di Bloor’s Academy yang penuh misteri, Charlie menyelidiki hilangnya Emma, seorang anak perempuan yang diduga telah dihipnotis oleh Manfred Bloor, anak kepala sekolah. Bersama sahabat-sahabatnya, Benjamin dan Fidelio, Charlie berusaha mengungkapnya. Mampukah mereka memecahkan misteri tersebut? Selain itu, bisakah Charlie bertemu kembali dengan ayahnya, yang baru ia ketahui hilang, bukannya meninggal? Volume pertama dari seri Charlie Bone. Sebuah novel terjemahan berbahasa Indonesia persembahan Fantasious #CDS
Shanghai, long known as mainland China’s most cosmopolitan city, is today a global cultural capital. This book offers the first in-depth examination of contemporary Shanghai-based art and design – from state-sponsored exhibitions to fashionable cultural complexes to cutting edge films and installations. Informed by years of in-situ research, the book looks beyond contemporary art’s global hype to reveal the socio-political tensions accompanying Shanghai’s transitions from semi-colonial capitalism to Maoist socialism to Communist Party-sponsored capitalism. Case studies reveal how Shanghai’s global aesthetic constructs glamorising artifices that mask the conflicts between vying notions of foreign-influenced modernity and anti-colonialist nationalism, as well as the city’s repressed socialist past and its consumerist present.
Menjadi seorang single mom memang tidak menyenangkan. Penuh tantangan dan godaan, belum lagi harus menghadapi gosip atau dianggap warga kelas dua. Itulah yang dialami Lavender Green. Menikah muda, walau dilandasi cinta tidaklah cukup bagi Lavender dan Nick dalam mengarungi bahtera perkawinan. Ketidaksiapan menjadi orangtua, materi yang belum mencukupi, semuanya dapat memicu permasalahan yang berakhir dengan perpisahan. Sammy, yang memendam perasaan suka pada Lavender, harus tetap memendam perasaannya ketika Lavender memilih menikahi Nick. Namun, setelah mereka berpisah, Sammy tak kunjung menyatakan perasaannya. Apa yang membuatnya ragu? Dan Lavender tetaplah Lavender. Dia selalu ingin mengobati luka lama yang menggores batinnya. Lalu, bagaimana dia menghadapi sikap Sammy yang tak jelas seperti itu? Mampukah dia menaklukkan hatinya?
Charlie Bone berharap semester baru di Bloor’s Academy tidak akan memberikan kejutan yang mengecewakan. Namun, muncullah Henry Yewbeam, yang keluar melalui mesin waktu dari musim dingin bersalju pada tahun 1916. Dengan para bibi Yewbeam yang jahat selalu memata-matainya dan keluarga Bloor siap untuk menangkapnya, Henry membutuhkan bantuan Charlie hanya untuk bertahan hidup. “Novel yang sangat menarik.” —Sunday Telegraph Volume kedua dari seri Charlie Bone. Sebuah novel terjemahan berbahasa Indonesia persembahan Fantasious #RamadhanWeek1Fantasious #CDS
World renowned wellness coach and yoga instructor Jenny Gallagher has developed a revolutionary new approach to getting motivated and achieving dreams. In Yen Path: Taking Steps Towards What You Want in Life, Jenny approaches her life changing concepts as she would approach a yoga class. By combining the best past, present, and future motivational concepts, Jenny will help you learn to: Create a deeper understanding of what you want Manage stress Have a life/work balance Relax and find joyYen Path uses yoga in a holistic approach that encourages positive thought and action. Jenny explains yoga concepts as they relate to the benefits of stillness, balance, observation, nonjudgment, intention, perception, metaphysical laws, energetic patterns, biological characteristics, nutrition, exercise, wisdom, and gratitude. Her approach is logical, geared toward the professional, and leaves no stone unturned.
Here is my disconnect: the private and public self. My mind and body. The real person and curated spectacle. . . . Are there actual roots with which to fasten this performance to anything real?" As a transnational and transracial adoptee, Jenny Heijun Wills has spent her life navigating the fraught spaces of ethnicity and belonging. As a pan-polyam individual, she lives between types of family—adopted, biological, chosen—and "community"; heternormativity and queerness; commitment and a constellation of love. And as a parent with a lifelong eating disorder, who self-harms to cope with mental illness, her love language is to feed, but daily she wishes her body would disappear. These facets of Wills' being have served as the anchors she once clung to and the harsh parameters of what others now imagine she can be. Everything and Nothing At All weaves together a lifetime of literary criticism, cultural study, and a personal history into a staggering tapestry of knowledge. And though the experiences of accumulating this knowledge have often been shot through with pain, Wills spins these threads into priceless gold—a radical, fearless vision of kinship and family. Devastating, illuminating, and beautifully crafted, these essays breathe life into the ambiguities and excesses of Wills' self, transforming them into something more—something that could be everything.
An empowering story about a Chinese American girl who proudly translates for her mom, helping her to demonstrate her skill as a seamstress on Career Day at school. It will soon be Career Day at Zia’s school and she cannot wait for Mama to tell her classmates all about her job as a seamstress and about the beautiful dresses she sews. There are just two problems: Mama cannot take time off from work and she also cannot speak English fluently. Zia is determined, however, and hatches a plan. When Career Day arrives, we meet a vet, a stay-at-home dad, and more. And when Mama finally makes her debut, Zia is the proudest kid in class. Everyone loves career day, but most of all, Zia.
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