A Place to Stand
A Place to Stand

Author: Jimmy Santiago Baca

Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

Published: 2007-12-01

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1555848907

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The Pushcart Prize–winning poet’s memoir of his criminal youth and years in prison: a “brave and heartbreaking” tale of triumph over brutal adversity (The Nation). Jimmy Santiago Baca’s “astonishing narrative” of his life before, during, and immediately after the years he spent in the maximum-security prison garnered tremendous critical acclaim. An important chronicle that “affirms the triumph of the human spirit,” it went on to win the prestigious 2001 International Prize (Arizona Daily Star). Long considered one of the best poets in America today, Baca was illiterate at the age of twenty-one when he was sentenced to five years in Florence State Prison for selling drugs in Arizona. This raw, unflinching memoir is the remarkable tale of how he emerged after his years in the penitentiary—much of it spent in isolation—with the ability to read and a passion for writing poetry. “Proof there is always hope in even the most desperate lives.” —Fort Worth Star-Telegram “A hell of a book, quite literally. You won’t soon forget it.” —The San Diego U-T “This book will have a permanent place in American letters.” —Jim Harrison, New York Times–bestselling author of A Good Day to Die

Finding a Place to Stand
Finding a Place to Stand

Author: Edward R Shapiro

Publisher: Phoenix Publishing House

Published: 2020-04-29

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1800130309

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What stands between us and authoritarianism seems increasingly fragile. Democratic practices are under attack by foreign intrusion into elections; voter suppression restricts citizen participation. Nations are turning to autocratic leaders in the face of rapid social change. Democratic values and open society can only be preserved if citizens can discover and claim their voices. We access society through our organisations, yet the collective voices and irrationalities of these organisations do not currently offer clear pathways for individuals to locate themselves. How can we move through the mounting chaos of our social systems, through our multiple roles in groups and institutions, to find a voice that matters? What kind of perspective will allow institutional leaders to facilitate the discovery of active citizenship and support engagement? This book draws on psychodynamic systems thinking to offer a new understanding of the journey from being an individual to joining society as a citizen. With detailed stories, the steps - and the conscious and unconscious linkages - from being a family member, to entering outside groups, to taking up and making sense of institutional roles, illuminate the process of claiming the citizen role. With the help of leaders who recognise and utilise the dynamics of social systems, there may be hope for us as citizens to use our institutional experiences to discover a place to stand.

Certainty: A Place to Stand
Certainty: A Place to Stand

Author: Grant Richison

Publisher: Castle Quay Books

Published: 2011-02-15

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 1894860764

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Two centuries before Christ, the Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes experimented with the lever. He declared that he could “move the earth” if he had a place to stand somewhere in the cosmos. People need a certain place to stand, a point of reference beyond the self. In this bold critique of the emergent church of postevangelicals, Dr. Grant Richison, well-known Bible expositor (versebyversecommentary.com), draws a line in the sand to prevent further erosion of the certainty that we can stand on the absolute truth of the Bible. In his rejection of relativism, he lights the way for those who would present the gospel with certainty and clarity.

A Lever and a Place to Stand
A Lever and a Place to Stand

Author: Richard Rohr

Publisher: Paulist Press

Published: 2014-05-14

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13: 189375782X

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Explores the challenges, the rewards, the call, and the possibilities of integrating a sincere inner life with an active life of engagement with the pain of the world.

A Place to Stand
A Place to Stand

Author: Julie Lindquist

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2002-01-17

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 0195349849

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Linguists have become increasingly interested in examining how class culture is socially constructed and maintained through spoken language. Julie Lindquist's examination of the linguistic ethnography of a working-class bar in Chicago is an important and original contribution to the field. She examines how regular patrons argue about political issues in order to create a group identity centered around political ideology. She also shows how their political arguments are actually a rhetorical genre, one which creates a delicate balance between group solidarity and individual identity, as well as a tenuous and ambivalent sense of class identity.

A Place to Stand
A Place to Stand

Author: Molly A. Berwinkle

Publisher: Tate Publishing

Published: 2010-04

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 1615667512

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Lord, I do need You each day in every uncertain way. As women in twenty-first century America, we have to face distractions and temptations each and every day. And as the once-solid values of our culture crumble daily beneath us, we grow anxious and begin searching for a safe foundation, and our spirits cry out for familiar footing on secure ground with the only One who can save. In A Place to Stand, Molly A. Berwinkle offers a portrait of women in the Bible, those who also found their feet had suddenly moved to eroding ground. From these standards, we can locate the way to place our lives on the unyielding principles of a tested and tried surface—the Lord Almighty. Find comfort and encouragement in the women who have gone before, and open your eyes to find a place to stand.

A Place to Stand
A Place to Stand

Author: Ann Bridge

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2011-10-28

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1448202140

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First published in 1953, A Place To Stand is set in Budapest in the spring of 1941, Hope - a spoilt but attractive society girl and daughter of a leading American business man - finds herself playing the lead in a dangerous and most unexpected affair of underground intrigue, through the machinations of her journalist fiancé. During the course of her activities she falls in love with a Polish refugee, and at the moment when Germany invades Hungary, she is already deeply involved - both emotionally and politically. Bridge, herself an eye witness of these events, tells in moving and graphic terms the terrible story of Germany's 'protective' invasion; although it is presented in the form of an imaginative episode, the historical significance and accuracy are all too tragically evident. This admirable novel is at once a charming love story in the shadow of fear and disruption, a subtle and intimate portrayal of human beings in a time of crisis, and a most exciting narrative, set against the enchanting background of Budapest.

A Place to Stand
A Place to Stand

Author: Becca Lynn Mathis

Publisher: Becca Lynn Mathis

Published: 2020-10-30

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1733162631

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With a simple phone call, 2000-year-old werebear Kristos finds himself inexorably pulled back toward the purpose he was built for. A purpose he's been trying to ignore for easily half his life. A purpose he thought died long ago. But this purgatum is the first he's known of in centuries. The church killed the last one. Racing to her side from halfway across the country, Kristos learns that the day-walking vampire from his past is still alive. And he’s probably not looking to rekindle their passions. If Kristos can’t find a way to stop him, it spells certain death for the purgatum, and likely all of the werewolves soon after. He can’t let himself fail again.

A Place to Stand
A Place to Stand

Author: Mark A. Clarke

Publisher: University of Michigan Press ELT

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13:

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Many teachers enter their profession with a dream of making the world a better place, but they are soon overwhelmed with the realities of working in the educational system and distracted from the dream that inspired them in the first place. In a series of eloquent and moving essays, the author gives renewed hope to teachers who can still imagine a better world and are committed to working toward it. This is a book for people who are dissatisfied with the status quo and discouraged by the pace of change.