Under Currents
Author: Traci Hunter Abramson
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9781591564249
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The Undercurrents
Author: Kirsty Bell
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2022-09-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1635423449
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHumane, thought provoking, and moving, this hybrid literary portrait of a place makes the case for radical close readings: of ourselves, our cities, and our histories. The Undercurrents is a dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism told from a precise vantage point: a stately nineteenth-century house on Berlin’s Landwehr Canal, a site at the center of great historical changes, but also smaller domestic ones. The view from this house offers a ringside seat onto the city’s theater of action. The building has stood on the banks of the canal since 1869, its feet in the West but looking East, right into the heart of a metropolis in the making, on a terrain inscribed indelibly with trauma. When her marriage breaks down, Kirsty Bell—a British-American art critic, adrift in her midforties—becomes fixated on the history of her building and of her adoptive city. Taking the view from her apartment window as her starting point, she turns to the lives of the house’s various inhabitants, to accounts penned by Walter Benjamin, Rosa Luxemburg, and Gabriele Tergit, and to the female protagonists in the works of Theodor Fontane, Irmgard Keun, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. A new cultural topography of Berlin emerges, one which taps into energetic undercurrents to recover untold or forgotten stories beneath the city’s familiar narratives.
Under Currents
Author: Nora Roberts
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2019-07-09
Total Pages: 509
ISBN-13: 1250213274
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor both Zane and Darby, their small town roots hold a terrible secret. Now, decades later, they've come together to build a new life. But will the past set them free or pull them under? Zane Bigelow grew up in a beautiful, perfectly kept house in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains. Strangers and even Zane’s own aunt across the lake see his parents as a successful surgeon and his stylish wife, making appearances at their children’s ballet recitals and baseball games. Only Zane and his sister know the truth, until one brutal night finally reveals cracks in the facade, and Zane escapes for college without a thought of looking back... Years later, Zane returns to his hometown determined to reconnect with the place and people that mean so much to him, despite the painful memories. As he resumes life in the colorful town, he meets a gifted landscape artist named Darby, who is on the run from ghosts of her own. Together they will have to teach each other what it means to face the past, and stand up for the ones they love.
Undercurrents
Author: Steve Davis
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2020-10-06
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1119669235
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImprove your knowledge of the ways global trends shape activism with this insightful volume that will supercharge your impact on communities and organizations Undercurrents: Channeling Outrage to Spark Practical Activism brings the perspective of experienced global social innovation leader, scholar and speaker, Steve Davis, to bear on some of the most powerful and helpful macrotrends rippling through society today. The book teaches readers how to harness their outrage and capitalize on global trends to instigate and encourage change across the world. The author identifies five global undercurrents with outsized importance that are shaping our world: Global economies are moving away from the old pyramid model into a diamond, bringing powerful new possibilities for human well-being; Communities are becoming the customer – rather than passive beneficiaries - as social change is increasingly led by local voices and activists; Equity is leveling and reshaping the field of social change and activism; Digital disruption, through the power of data and digital tools, impacts almost everything; and The middle of the journey to social change is becoming surprisingly sexy, as we focus on adapting innovation for widespread impact at scale. The book’s lessons are supported throughout by stories, experiences, data and observations from across the globe. Undercurrents is perfect for activists and leaders of all kinds who aim to increase their impact on their organizations and the world at large, as well as the intellectually curious who hope to increase their understanding of the changing world around them.
Undercurrents
Author: Robert Buettner
Publisher: Baen Publishing Enterprises
Published: 2011-07-01
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1618248189
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSecond in the hard-hitting military science fiction Orphan's Legacy series. Ace intelligence operative Lt. Jazen Parker parachutes into a giant habitat known as Paleozoic on a mission to bring down the local politicos. He quickly realizes he's been handed a near-impossible task. Paleozoic is a politically quarantined nightmare world with a culture confined to iron rivet technology and a ruling regime a bit to the right of Heinrich Himmler. Jazen's inclined to abandon this particular hellhole to its ways¾that is, until he uncovers a plot afoot that will throw a five hundred-planet alliance into the death-throes of anarchy. So the local Nazis must go. Unfortunately, all Jazen's got to work with is a handful of rust-bucket tanks, a retread rebellion, and two strong, beautiful women who love him, but think he's tilting at windmills and is about to get himself killed. What they don't know is, once committed, Jazen Parker is the best there is when it comes to getting the dirty job done on the ground. It's the local bullies who are about to be taught a lesson in losing. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Undercurrents of Power
Author: Kevin Dawson
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2021-05-07
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 0812224930
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKevin Dawson considers how enslaved Africans carried aquatic skills—swimming, diving, boat making, even surfing—to the Americas. Undercurrents of Power not only chronicles the experiences of enslaved maritime workers, but also traverses the waters of the Atlantic repeatedly to trace and untangle cultural and social traditions.
Undercurrents
Author: The Wire
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2002-11-07
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1441109935
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor the last twenty years The Wire has fearlessly bypassed fashion in it's search to expose the most innovative, radical, and compelling music from every genre all across the world. As listeners have grown increasingly eclectic and adventurous in their tastes, The Wire has emerged as the most authoritative source on modern music. In Undercurrents some of the best music writers of our time uncover the hidden wiring of the past century's most influential music. Ian Penman discusses how the microphone transformed the human voice and made phantom presences of great singers such as Billie Holiday, Robert Johnson, and Brian Wilson. Christoph Cox demonstrates how the pioneers of live electronic music, the West Coast ensemble Sonic Arts Union, redefined virtuosity for the electronic age. Philip Smith and Peter Shapiro examine Harry Smith's Smithsonian Anthology of American Folk Music, which led to a massive reappraisal of musical values that went far beyond the folk music revival.
Undercurrents
Author: Martha Manning
Publisher:
Published: 1998-02
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780788152412
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the memoir of an ordinary woman--a mother, a daughter, a psychologist, a wife--who tells the tale of her spiraling descent into a severe, debilitating depression. Undercurrents pioneers a new literature about women and depression that offers a vision of action instead of victimhood, hope instead of despair.
The Undercurrents
Author: Divya Radhakrishnan
Publisher: Notion Press
Published: 2024-06-21
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSwim through the unexpected, the unseen, across to the land of money - To discover the brilliant business survival of young entrepreneurs against lashing waves of unscrupulous politics. For the readers who value ambition as much as happiness, career as much as family, and above all, who find the time to work for their dreams. Arjun - A well-settled Chemical Engineer who gave up his corporate career to become an entrepreneur for his own invention. "Politics and business both had seemed to bore Until they entered into the life I adore - My dream castle was built - perfect and abuzz I had only dreamt of becoming rich like everyone does But then he came with power and spite Melting my empire into dark blight..." - Arjun (The Hero) Anahita - A gorgeous millionaire born into a wealthy family with her days and nights dedicated to the family business until .... her love was denied! "An enchanted Tigress that I am, I don't growl, but then I hunt - Wealth - was never my aim, It was always the smile on my Pa's face…." - Anahita (The Heroine) "I love books with speed With a surprise on every page I read, So when I decided to create mine Added the same fire into each line - Classics are not my type So if you love the fast lane hype Read through and you will find - This simple story will change your mind." - Divya (The Author) (Psst... Anahita and Arjun don't fall in love with each other - They have distinctly separate lives - But they both reign my book." Enjoy!!)
Undercurrents
Author: Steve Davis
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2020-09-14
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1119669251
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImprove your knowledge of the ways global trends shape activism with this insightful volume that will supercharge your impact on communities and organizations Undercurrents: Channeling Outrage to Spark Practical Activism brings the perspective of experienced global social innovation leader, scholar and speaker, Steve Davis, to bear on some of the most powerful and helpful macrotrends rippling through society today. The book teaches readers how to harness their outrage and capitalize on global trends to instigate and encourage change across the world. The author identifies five global undercurrents with outsized importance that are shaping our world: Global economies are moving away from the old pyramid model into a diamond, bringing powerful new possibilities for human well-being; Communities are becoming the customer – rather than passive beneficiaries - as social change is increasingly led by local voices and activists; Equity is leveling and reshaping the field of social change and activism; Digital disruption, through the power of data and digital tools, impacts almost everything; and The middle of the journey to social change is becoming surprisingly sexy, as we focus on adapting innovation for widespread impact at scale. The book’s lessons are supported throughout by stories, experiences, data and observations from across the globe. Undercurrents is perfect for activists and leaders of all kinds who aim to increase their impact on their organizations and the world at large, as well as the intellectually curious who hope to increase their understanding of the changing world around them.
