Voices of Courage
Author: Michael J. Domitrz
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780972928212
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwelve accounts from sexual assault survivors.
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Mi María: Surviving the Storm
Author: Ricia Anne Chansky
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2021-09-04
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1642596760
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Hurricane María made landfall in Puerto Rico in September 2017, it left no part of the archipelago unscathed. The hurricane triggered floods and mudslides, washed out roads, destroyed tens of thousands of homes, farms, and businesses, caused the largest blackout in US history, knocked out communications, led to widespread food, drinking water, and gasoline shortages, and caused thousands of deaths. The seventeen oral histories collected in Mi María: Surviving the Storm share stories of surviving the storm and its long aftermath as people waited for relief and aid that rarely arrived. Zaira and her husband floated on a patched air mattress for sixteen hours while floodwaters rose around them. The road washed out in front of Emmanuel as he desperately tried to drive his pregnant wife who had begun labor to the hospital. Luis and his father anxiously counted the days that the dialysis clinic remained closed and lifesaving treatment was unavailable, while Miliana’s mother was sent home from the hospital —undiagnosed— only to fall critically ill in her own home. Weaving together long-form oral histories and shorter testimonios, the book offers a multivocal peoples’ history of disaster that fosters a greater understanding of the failures of governmental disaster response and the correlating perseverance of the people impacted by these failures, highlighting the colonial relationship between Puerto Rico and the United States. Ultimately, the ways in which these oral histories demonstrate the strength of community response to disaster in Puerto Rico are pertinent to other parts of the world that are being impacted by our current climate emergency.
Surviving Domestic Violence
Author: Elaine Weiss
Publisher: Volcano Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781884244278
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the only book on the market today that focuses on the entire spectrum of emotional, verbal, sexual, and physical abuse. Written by University of Utah Clinical Associate Professor Elaine Weiss, a survivor, the book goes right to the heart of the reader and changes their perspective on this topic. She paints a clear picture of women who stay in a marriage because of their fierce loyalty and commitment to the sanctity of marriage. Elaine emphasizes the period of time after women leave their abuser and describes in detail what they go on to do with their lives. These are stories of twelve women from various walks of life, including professionals. Each a victim of domestic violence. Each escaped from her abuser. Each reclaimed her dignity, reconstructed her life, rediscovered peace. Every woman who has left an abuserevery woman who has yet to leavewill find encouragement and support in the voices of these women who broke free.
Surviving in Two Worlds
Author: Lois Crozier-Hogle
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010-06-28
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0292789645
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSurviving in Two Worlds brings together the voices of twenty-six Native American leaders. The interviewees come from a variety of tribal backgrounds and include such national figures as Oren Lyons, Arvol Looking Horse, John Echohawk, William Demmert, Clifford Trafzer, Greg Sarris, and Roxanne Swentzell. Their interviews are divided into five sections, grouped around the themes of tradition, history and politics, healing, education, and culture. They take readers into their lives, their dreams and fears, their philosophies and experiences, and show what they are doing to assure the survival of their peoples and cultures, as well as the earth as a whole. Their analyses of the past and present, and especially their counsels for the future, are timely and urgent.
Titanic Voices
Author: Hannah Holman
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2011-10-15
Total Pages: 938
ISBN-13: 1445607336
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPaperback edition of Amberley's bestselling title of 2012. Collects together unabridged, all the major substantial first-hand accounts of the sinking of the Titanic.
Remembering Slavery
Author: Marc Favreau
Publisher: New Press, The
Published: 2021-09-07
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1620970449
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe groundbreaking, bestselling history of slavery, with a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed With the publication of the 1619 Project and the national reckoning over racial inequality, the story of slavery has gripped America’s imagination—and conscience—once again. No group of people better understood the power of slavery’s legacies than the last generation of American people who had lived as slaves. Little-known before the first publication of Remembering Slavery over two decades ago, their memories were recorded on paper, and in some cases on primitive recording devices, by WPA workers in the 1930s. A major publishing event, Remembering Slavery captured these extraordinary voices in a single volume for the first time, presenting them as an unprecedented, first-person history of slavery in America. Remembering Slavery received the kind of commercial attention seldom accorded projects of this nature—nationwide reviews as well as extensive coverage on prime-time television, including Good Morning America, Nightline, CBS Sunday Morning, and CNN. Reviewers called the book “chilling . . . [and] riveting” (Publishers Weekly) and “something, truly, truly new” (The Village Voice). With a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning scholar Annette Gordon-Reed, this new edition of Remembering Slavery is an essential text for anyone seeking to understand one of the most basic and essential chapters in our collective history.
Our Voices, Our Generation: Still Surviving 2014
Author: autobiography of the Class of 2018
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2015-06-04
Total Pages: 71
ISBN-13: 1329193768
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Never again will I doubt myself, mentally regain my thoughts, ...Never again will I forget, ... Never again will I rage, and hopefully turn the page, into the chapter of reality." -RM, 2014 When we were asked to introduce ourselves, we asked around, and what we realized is that we cannot be summed up. We are a generation of individual voices. We are one, yes, but we are many, and we each come with our own stories. We are heroes, yes; survivors, yes; dreamers, yes; speaking, yes; but we have each become these things, learned these stories we tell from our own paths. While these paths may have intersected at some point in 2014 and these stories have intertwined into one autobiography, we are a group that has come from the corners of this continent, and we will not stop speaking until we make it to the corners of the globe. This book is our autobiography. These are OUR VOICES and this is OUR GENERATION. We are STILL SURVIVING.
Dead Voice
Author: Jesus R. Velasco
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2020-01-24
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0812251865
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of the thirteenth-century law code known as Siete Partidas Conceived and promulgated by Alfonso X, King of Castile and León (r. 1252-1282), and created by a workshop of lawyers, legal scholars, and others, the set of books known as the Siete Partidas is both a work of legal theory and a legislative document designed to offer practical guidelines for the rendering of legal decisions and the management of good governance. Yet for all its practical reach, which extended over centuries and as far as the Spanish New World, it is an unusual text, argues Jesús R. Velasco, one that introduces canon and ecclesiastical law in the vernacular for explicitly secular purposes, that embraces intellectual disciplines and fictional techniques that normally lie outside legal science, and that cultivates rather than shuns perplexity. In Dead Voice, Velasco analyzes the process of the Siete Partidas's codification and the ways in which different cultural, religious, and legal traditions that existed on the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages were combined in its innovative construction. In particular, he pays special attention to the concept of "dead voice," the art of writing the law in the vernacular of its clients as well as in the language of legal professionals. He offers an integrated reading of the Siete Partidas, exploring such matters as the production, transmission, and control of the material text; the collaboration between sovereignty and jurisdiction to define the environment where law applies; a rare legislation of friendship; and the use of legislation to characterize the people as "the soul of the kingdom," endowed with the responsibility of judging the stability of the political space. Presenting case studies beyond the Siete Partidas that demonstrate the incorporation of philosophical and fictional elements in the construction of law, Velasco reveals the legal processes that configured novel definitions of a subject and a people.
Surviving
Author: Jenny Paliska
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2017-01-24
Total Pages: 662
ISBN-13: 1514494574
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEven though the base was severely damaged and Callie had sustained a critical injury nearly costing her life, she would not take her condition as a sign to cease working. Joseph secured the only wheelchair on the base for her benefit, and it sat at the end of her bed waiting for that moment when she would wake, review her medical condition and insist she should supervise the medical centres repair and refurbishment. They would heal together, herself and her medical centre.
Still With Us
Author: Lena M. Q. Heilmann
Publisher: Bdi Publishers
Published: 2019-10-07
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9781946637024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLena Heilmann lost her sister, Danielle, to suicide in 2012. Experiencing the enormous weight of grief, she reached out to other sibling suicide loss survivors to find comfort, healing, and connection. Still With Us contains 23 stories of sibling suicide loss survivors who, after experiencing devastating losses, navigated through their grief and found a path forward. The essays in Still With Us are arranged chronologically to move the reader from the first years of grieving to decades of healing. The authors commemorate the love that they continue to have for their siblings by telling us stories of grief, support, and strength. All of these essays share a common message: No matter how much time passes, our siblings are still with us.
