Tribalization is a global megatrend in today’s world. The election of Donald Trump, the Brexit vote, populist movements like Catalan separatism – together with democratic backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe – are all examples of tribalization. Fuelled by anti-globalism and identity politics, tribalization is drawing up the drawbridge to the world. It is putting cultural differences before dialogue, collaboration and universal liberal values. But tribalism is a dangerous road to go down. With it, argues Marlene Wind, we have put democracy itself in danger. Tribalism is not just about being pro-nation, anti-EU and anti-global. It is in many instances a bigger and more fundamental movement that casts aside the liberal democratic principles we once held in common. At a time when former defenders of liberal values are increasingly silent or have even joined the growing chorus of tribalists, this book is a wakeup call. Drawing on a wide range of examples from the UK and the US to Spain, Hungary and Poland, Wind highlights the dangers of identity politics and calls on people to stand up for democracy and the rule of law.
How are we to live? When we are done with providing and procuring – when we have had enough noise, nonsense and negativity – when we no longer wish to gather up trophies, toys and talismans. What is left? Do we see a dark wall or a shimmering edge? In 2008, the author turned seventy. Because this was a big birthday, marking the undeniable transition into old age, she decided to journal. For one year she would write a short piece daily. There was to be no theme but, as life happened, themes emerged. Some entries are narrative, some are conjecture and some are poetry. All are brief and are seen through the lens of the author’s Zen, Contemplative, Twelve Step background. November Roses is about simple living in a complex world. About aging, holding on and letting go. It is about death and birth, loss and recovery. About many things that we think but do not often say. But it is mostly about paying attention: to the first light of dawn; to the movement of the breath; to tastes, smells and sounds; to the content and quality of our thoughts and behaviors; and to the last light of day. It is about living the moment fully and fully aware. The moment, in all its splendor and drudgery. The terrible, glorious, dull, mystical moment.
This is a fictional romance about an outstanding high school girl athlete whose courage, high standards and dedication to sports was an inspiration to her family, friends and fellow athletes. She meets and falls in love with the sports reporter who has been hired by her school. She helps him overcome his alcoholism by sponsoring him at AA meetings and exposing him to her religious background and her high standards of living. He falls in love with her and they overcome one hardship after another. He pledges to love her forever. She has a vision of her death, which happens because of a tragic traffic accident as she is driving home after a championship game. Will her vision become reality?
Experienced educator and new age philosopher, Marlene George authored "Your Life is Now" in response to her clients and students requests for a book to summarize her teachings. In clean concise language, Marlene covers every aspect of living a life of joy in a stressful modern world. Using her Nine Skills for Joyous Living, readers will improve their relationship with themselves, their work and their significant others. Illustrated with stories from her personal experiences, included are easy to follow exercises and inspirational visualizations. Marlene's book will improve every aspect of the reader's life.
It is April of 1948 as Marty Toliver, her pilot husband, his father, and two children fly high above a snow-encrusted landscape. With their 1937 Grunman Goose airplane filled with camping gear and enough food to feed five people for two weeks, the family is more than ready for their adventure near a Calgary lake. But when the plane encounters an unexpected storm, everything changes in an instant. Moments later, Marty crawls from the planes wreckage to find herself stranded in a mountain wilderness with two small children, completely unprepared for such a catastrophe. Marty is determined to do everything she can to keep her children alive in a desolate, cold, and unfamiliar environment. As she struggles with the strenuous tasks required to survive, she must rely on her novice hunting, butchering, and plant gathering skills. Soon, Marty realizes that rescuers are not coming; it is up to her to find a way out of the deep mountain valley and back home. But she is about to discover that her mission may be more difficult than she ever imagined. In this tale of survival, one woman must become what she has always considered savage in order to survive and keep her children alive.
How are we to live? When we are done with providing and procuring – when we have had enough noise, nonsense and negativity – when we no longer wish to gather up trophies, toys and talismans. What is left? Do we see a dark wall or a shimmering edge? In 2008, the author turned seventy. Because this was a big birthday, marking the undeniable transition into old age, she decided to journal. For one year she would write a short piece daily. There was to be no theme but, as life happened, themes emerged. Some entries are narrative, some are conjecture and some are poetry. All are brief and are seen through the lens of the author’s Zen, Contemplative, Twelve Step background. November Roses is about simple living in a complex world. About aging, holding on and letting go. It is about death and birth, loss and recovery. About many things that we think but do not often say. But it is mostly about paying attention: to the first light of dawn; to the movement of the breath; to tastes, smells and sounds; to the content and quality of our thoughts and behaviors; and to the last light of day. It is about living the moment fully and fully aware. The moment, in all its splendor and drudgery. The terrible, glorious, dull, mystical moment.
Everyone who has signed the roster to go to Oregon or California has their own reasons and dreams for doing so. Let us hope that your dreams, reasons, and ambitions for this treacherous trip are worth the hardships and sufferings you'll go through to reach your destination. But let me be first to tell you that not all of you who start this weary pilgrimage will complete it.' These words from a wagon train leader begin the long trek to a new land ripe with opportunity. For Marcy, the change is thrilling. A brave, spirited young pioneer, she feels prepared for all that might befall her family as they travel from Minnesota. But little does she comprehend the cost of such a trip. When Marcy's family changes course for California, they soon realize they've made a mistake that will separate them forever. Marcy must suddenly lay aside her grief and call upon all the survival skills she has to get through the harsh winter and find a safe place to call home. Take an unforgettable journey with Marcy.
“I was immediately mesmerized . . . as brilliant as it is haunting.” —Toni Morrison In 1940s apartheid South Africa, Milla de Wet discovers a child abandoned in the fields of her family farm. Ignoring the warnings of friends and family, Milla brings the girl, Agaat, into her home. But the kindness is fleeting, as Milla makes Agaat her maidservant and, later, a nanny for her son. At turns cruel and tender, this relationship between a wealthy white woman and her Black maidservant is constantly fraught and shaped by a rigid social order. Decades later, Milla is confined to her bed with ALS, and is quickly losing her ability to communicate. Her family has fallen apart, her country is on the brink of change, and all she has left are her memories—and a reckoning with the only person who remains by her side: Agaat. In complex and devastating ways, the power shifts between the two women, mirroring the historic upheavals happening around them and revealing a shared lifetime of hopes, sacrifices, and control. Hailed as an international masterpiece, Marlene van Niekerk’s Agaat is a haunting and deeply layered saga of resilience, loyalty, betrayal, and how the passage of time cannot heal all wounds.
“An incredible book about the strength of women . . . an important book and a read that is nothing if not timely with current politics.” —FangirlNation A #1 Bestseller in 21st Century U.S. History for Teens Still I Rise takes its title from a work by Maya Angelou and it resonates with the same spirit of an unconquerable soul, a woman who is captain of her fate. It embodies the strength of character of the inspiring women profiled. Each chapter will outline the fall and rise of great women heroes who smashed all obstacles, rather than let all obstacles smash them. The book offers hope to those undergoing their own Sisyphean struggles. Intrepid women heroes are the antithesis of the traditional damsels in distress; rather than waiting for the prince, they took salvation into their own hands. Celebrate girl power! Women leaders in history celebrated in this book include: Madame C. J. Walker—first female American millionaireAung San Suu Kyi—Burma’s first lady of freedomBetty Shabazz—civil rights activistNellie Sachs—Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize recipientSelma Lagerlof—first woman Nobel LaureateFannie Lou Hamer—American voting rights activistBessie Coleman—first African-American female pilotWilma Rudolph—first woman to win three gold medalsSonia Sotomayor—first Hispanic Supreme Court justiceWangari Maathai—Nobel Prize winnerWinnifred Mandela—freedom fighterLois Wilson—founder of Al-AnonRoxanne Quimby—cofounder of Burt’s Bees “Inspirational . . . If you need a little encouragement in your life during these difficult times, the lives of these women will give you hope.” —Says Me Says Mom
The main theme of this poetry book is love, the love that God has for all and the love that we have for each other. This theme is very important because in today's society love is largely misinterpreted and misunderstood. POETIC ECHOES is different from any other poetry book you may have read, due to the fact that it was written by a five-member family, (mother, father, teenage son and two daughters) instead of one individual, and therefore it contains poems that adults, children and teenagers can relate to. By reading the poems contained in POETIC ECHOES a taste for realistic modern day poetry will be aroused in you. You will come face to face with the fact that when unity exists in a family, there will be no room for boundaries. And you will no doubt want to start putting your inspirations on paper, so that you too can share something with your fellow men. Your friends are special and deserve to receive a special poem, which expresses how grateful you are for their friendship, whether it is valentine or just whenever impressed to do so. At times you want to let your spouse know just how special he/she is and how blessed and complete their presence make you feel. You might have faced tragic moments in your life and need some words of encouragement. Most likely you are an admirer of nature and also of the God of nature. Whatever the situation there is a poem in POETIC ECHOES just for you.
It is April of 1948 as Marty Toliver, her pilot husband, his father, and two children fly high above a snow-encrusted landscape. With their 1937 Grunman Goose airplane filled with camping gear and enough food to feed five people for two weeks, the family is more than ready for their adventure near a Calgary lake. But when the plane encounters an unexpected storm, everything changes in an instant. Moments later, Marty crawls from the planes wreckage to find herself stranded in a mountain wilderness with two small children, completely unprepared for such a catastrophe. Marty is determined to do everything she can to keep her children alive in a desolate, cold, and unfamiliar environment. As she struggles with the strenuous tasks required to survive, she must rely on her novice hunting, butchering, and plant gathering skills. Soon, Marty realizes that rescuers are not coming; it is up to her to find a way out of the deep mountain valley and back home. But she is about to discover that her mission may be more difficult than she ever imagined. In this tale of survival, one woman must become what she has always considered savage in order to survive and keep her children alive.
“A scatologocial black satire . . . Triomf may be the signal Afrikaans novel of the 1990s . . . A daring, vicious and hilarious flight of imagination” (The Washington Post). This is the story of the four inhabitants of 127 Martha Street in the poor white suburb of Triomf. Living on the ruins of old Sophiatown, the freehold township razed to the ground as a so-called “black spot,” they await with trepidation their country’s first democratic elections. It is a date that coincides fatefully with the fortieth birthday of Lambert, the oversexed misfit son of the house. There is also Treppie, master of misrule and family metaphysician; Pop, the angel of peace teetering on the brink of the grave; and Mol, the materfamilias in her eternal housecoat. Pestered on a daily basis by nosy neighbors, National Party canvassers and Jehovah’s Witnesses, defenseless against the big city towering over them like a vengeful dinosaur, they often resort to quoting to each other the only consolation that they know; we still have each other and a roof over our heads. Triomf relentlessly probes Afrikaner history and politics, revealing the bizarre and tragic effect that apartheid had on exactly the white underclass who were most supposed to benefit. It is also a seriously funny investigation of the human endeavor to make sense of life even under the most abject of circumstances. “South Africa as you’ve never seen it: a tale of incest and white trash. Funny, feisty, ferociously clever.” —Gillian Slovo, author of Ten Days “A world-class tragicomic novel, the kind of book that stabs at your heart while it has you rolling on the floor.” —The New York Times Book Review
It was not until Kawabata Yasunari won the 1968 Nobel Prize for literature that the average Western reader became aware of contemporary Japanese literature. A few translations of writings by Japanese women have appeared lately, yet the West remains largely ignorant of this wide field. In this book Sachiko Schierbeck profiles the 104 female winners of prestigious literary prizes in Japan since the beginning of the century. It contains summaries of their selected works, and a bibliography of works translated into Western languages from 1900 to 1993. These works give insight into the minds and hearts of Japanese women and draw a truer picture of the conditions of Japanese community life than any sociological study would present. Schierbeck's 104 biographies constitute a useful reference work not only to students of literature but to anyone with an interest in women's studies, history or sociology.
A fascinating look at the stories behind the dedications of 50 literary classics. Mary Shelley dedicated Frankenstein to her father, her greatest champion. Charlotte Brönte dedicatedJane Eyre to William Makepeace Thackeray for his enthusiastic review of the book’s first edition. Dostoyevsky dedicated The Brothers Karamazov to his typist-turned-lover Anna Grigoyevna. And, as this collection’s title indicates, F. Scott Fitzgerald dedicated his masterpiece The Great Gatsby to his wife Zelda. Often overlooked, a novel’s dedication can say much about an author and his or her relationship to the person for whom the book was consecrated. Once Again to Zelda explores the dedications in fifty iconic books that are an intrinsic part of both literary and pop culture, shedding light on the author’s psyche, as well as the social and historic context in which the book was first published.
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