American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

Author: Terrance Hayes

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2018-06-19

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 0525504966

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Finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry One of the New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2018 A powerful, timely, dazzling collection of sonnets from one of America's most acclaimed poets, Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead "Sonnets that reckon with Donald Trump's America." -The New York Times In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assassin, and of love in the sonnet form. Written during the first two hundred days of the Trump presidency, these poems are haunted by the country's past and future eras and errors, its dreams and nightmares. Inventive, compassionate, hilarious, melancholy, and bewildered--the wonders of this new collection are irreducible and stunning.


Dare to Invent the Future

Dare to Invent the Future

Author: Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2023-11-21

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 0262376725

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A rallying manifesto for the innovative problem-solving we need to build a better, more verdant, and sustainable planetary existence. Academics are letting Africa down. With all that we know, what do we have to show for it? Whose lives have been changed for the better by it? What have we done for and with our communities lately? In this provocative book—the first in a trilogy—Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga argues that our critical thinkers must become actual thinker-doers. Taking its title from one of Thomas Sankara’s most inspirational speeches, Dare to Invent the Future looks for moments in Africa’s story where precedents of critical thought and knowledge in service of problem-solving are evident to inspire readers to dare to invent such a knowledge system. Mavhunga revisits insights from Edward Wilmot Blyden, Booker T. Washington, Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Amílcar Cabral, Julius Nyerere, and Thomas Sankara to illustrate how the academic disciplines have been, and could be, deployed in the service of and through problem-solving, building on what people are doing and know. At its core, he writes, knowledge in the service of and through problem-solving derives from reading the past for new questions, doing due diligence in the present, and contriving an anticipatory approach toward the future. Questioning the fundamental premises of Western and white knowledge production, especially regarding science and technology, Mavhunga proposes in this book refreshingly new approaches to thinking-doing that stem from African realities, in the hopes of inspiring a generation that will run toward, not away from, problems to solve them.


To Dare More Boldly

To Dare More Boldly

Author: John C. Hulsman

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2018-04-03

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 0691172196

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Ten lessons from history on the dos and don’ts of analyzing political risk Our baffling new multipolar world grows ever more complex, desperately calling for new ways of thinking, particularly when it comes to political risk. To Dare More Boldly provides those ways, telling the story of the rise of political risk analysis, both as a discipline and a lucrative high-stakes industry that guides the strategic decisions of corporations and governments around the world. It assesses why recent predictions have gone so wrong and boldly puts forward ten analytical commandments that can stand the test of time. Written by one of the field's leading practitioners, this incisive book derives these indelible rules of the game from a wide-ranging and entertaining survey of world history. John Hulsman looks at examples as seemingly unconnected as the ancient Greeks and Romans, the Third Crusade, the Italian Renaissance, America's founders, Napoleon, the Battle of Gettysburg, the British Empire, the Kaiser's Germany, the breakup of the Beatles, Charles Manson, and Deng Xiaoping's China. Hulsman makes sense of yesterday's world, and in doing so provides an invaluable conceptual tool kit for navigating today's. To Dare More Boldly creatively explains why political risk analysis is vital for business and political leaders alike, and authoritatively establishes the analytical rules of thumb that practitioners need to do it effectively.


Dan Dare: Mission Of The Earthmen

Dan Dare: Mission Of The Earthmen

Author: Frank Hampson

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2017-11-14

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1785862898

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The continuing of one of science fiction's most enduring hero, Dan Dare. These are the continuing adventures of Dan Dare as he explores a region of unknown space and encounters the Zylans, a mysterious alien race a lifeform like nothing he's encountered before.


Care to Dare

Care to Dare

Author: George Kohlrieser

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-05-29

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1118361288

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Have you ever been led by someone who cared for you like family, and dared you to achieve more than you ever thought possible for yourself, your organization, and even society? Award-winning author of Hostage at the Table, George Kohlrieser, along with his co-authors Susan Goldsworthy and Duncan Coombe, explain how becoming a secure base leader releases extraordinary potential in others. Part of the Warren Bennis leadership series Care to Dare shows you how to become a Secure Base Leader so that you release your followers from the fears that get in the way of their performance. It shows you how you can unleash astonishing potential by building the trust, delivering the change, and inspiring the focus that underpins sustainable high performance. From extensive interviews with executives from all over the world, as well as from surveys with more than a thousand executives, the book reveals the nine characteristics that Secure Base Leaders display on a daily basis. The research shows that a primary difference between a successful leader and a failed leader is the presence or absence of secure bases in his or her life. Care to Dare will take you on a journey where you will discover your own secure bases, past and present, and determine how you can be a secure base for other people in your life at work and at home.


DARE to Say No

DARE to Say No

Author: Max Felker-Kantor

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2024-02-14

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 1469676370

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With its signature "DARE to keep kids off drugs" slogan and iconic t-shirts, DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) was the most popular drug education program of the 1980s and 1990s. But behind the cultural phenomenon is the story of how DARE and other antidrug education programs brought the War on Drugs into schools and ensured that the velvet glove of antidrug education would be backed by the iron fist of rigorous policing and harsh sentencing. Max Felker-Kantor has assembled the first history of DARE, which began in Los Angeles in 1983 as a joint venture between the police department and the unified school district. By the mid-90s, it was taught in 75 percent of school districts across the United States. DARE received near-universal praise from parents, educators, police officers, and politicians and left an indelible stamp on many millennial memories. But the program had more nefarious ends, and Felker-Kantor complicates simplistic narratives of the War on Drugs. He shows how policing entered US schools and framed drug use as the result of personal responsibility, moral failure, and poor behavior deserving of punishment rather than something deeply rooted in state retrenchment, the abandonment of social service provisions, and structures of social and economic inequality.


The Will to Do, The Soul to Dare (PB)

The Will to Do, The Soul to Dare (PB)

Author: Zsolt Rumy

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2018-07-25

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13: 148095330X

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The Will to Do, the Soul to Dare By: Zsolt Rumy Zsolt Rumy is the founder of Zoltek Corporation, the company that brought carbon fibers out of aerospace down to earth, making them affordable in a variety of everyday commercial products. Today, Zoltek carbon fibers can be found in most aircraft brakes, giant - over one hundred meters long - wind turbine blades and in cars, like the Tesla Roadster, Cadillac and Corvette. This book tells, in his own words, Zsolt’s story, starting from living in an oppressive communist society in Hungary to experiencing freedom and unbridled opportunity in America. Zsolt, at the age of fourteen, along with his family, escaped from Budapest after the Russians crushed the 1956 revolution. He started in America as a poor immigrant, educated as a chemical engineer and spent a decade in the corporate world before striking out on his own. In this autobiography, Zsolt shares his life experiences as a skinny kid throwing Molotov cocktails at Russian tanks on the streets of his beloved Budapest to an exciting and full life in America. He also shares the inspirational business experiences of an entrepreneur starting with nothing and reaching great financial success. Zsolt’s tale will not disappoint.


To Dare the Our Father

To Dare the Our Father

Author: John Shea

Publisher: Liturgical Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 0814645607

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The Lord's Prayer accompanies the lives of Christians. When we are happy or sad, when we eagerly wait for a child to be born or silently keep watch as an elder dies, alone in the woods or together in liturgy, filled with gratitude or emptied by grief, driven to praise or dragged to repent, the Our Father finds its way to our lips. To Dare the Our Fatherrecognizes and respects these experiences but it envisions praying the prayer as a more sustained and challenging undertaking. How does praying the Our Father inform our thinking, feeling, willing, and acting? How does it become for us a transformative spiritual practice? John Shea explores these questions and more to discover what it looks like to become people of prayer.