Ynang Maria
Author: Mary Anne Barcelona
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13:
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A Girl Named Maria
Author: Valerie S Kreutzer
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2008-12-23
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 0595612172
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShe was found abandoned in the lavatory of a cafeteria in Bogota, Colombia. The police who picked her up named her Maria Consuelo. From a stack of would-be parents, Colombias welfare agency chose Valerie Kreutzers application, and the toddler quickly bonded with her new mom in Washington, DC. At school Maria struggled with severe learning disabilities despite a superior I.Q., but also blossomed into an award-winning young artist. Her impulsive behavior led to fits and false starts during adolescence, until she found happiness at twenty-one with David and his extended family. Their love and lives ended in the curve of a rural road in Florida. A Girl Named Maria chronicles an adopted daughters struggle with identity and her yearning for a birth family that may have included a twin brother. Marias legacy lives on in this poignant personal story of one mothers unconditional love for her adopted daughter. I loved this book! This story, although carrying the deep sorrow of a daughters death, will give parents of transnational adoptions a guideline for their own experience. This book is a much needed addition to the adoption literature. Nancy Verrier, The Primal Wound; Coming Home to Self www.nancyverrier.com
Sophia-Maria
Author: Thomas Schipflinger
Publisher: Weiser Books
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 1609256980
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn indispensable source of reference for anyone wanting to learn more about the Sophianic movement. Schipflinger collected the material for this book over two decades. He traces Her throughout history: in scripture, art and literature, in the writing of Sophia scholars, in Russian iconography and architecture/ and in the images and incarnations of Sophia in Eastern traditions.
Product Design and Development
Author: Karl T. Ulrich
Publisher: Irwin/McGraw-Hill
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text presents a set of product development techniques aimed at bringing together the marketing, design, and manufacturing functions of the enterprise. The integrative methods facilitate problem-solving and decision-making.
Why Civil Resistance Works
Author: Erica Chenoweth
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2011-08-09
Total Pages: 451
ISBN-13: 0231527489
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other forms of nonviolent noncooperation, these efforts help separate regimes from their main sources of power and produce remarkable results, even in Iran, Burma, the Philippines, and the Palestinian Territories. Combining statistical analysis with case studies of specific countries and territories, Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan detail the factors enabling such campaigns to succeed and, sometimes, causing them to fail. They find that nonviolent resistance presents fewer obstacles to moral and physical involvement and commitment, and that higher levels of participation contribute to enhanced resilience, greater opportunities for tactical innovation and civic disruption (and therefore less incentive for a regime to maintain its status quo), and shifts in loyalty among opponents' erstwhile supporters, including members of the military establishment. Chenoweth and Stephan conclude that successful nonviolent resistance ushers in more durable and internally peaceful democracies, which are less likely to regress into civil war. Presenting a rich, evidentiary argument, they originally and systematically compare violent and nonviolent outcomes in different historical periods and geographical contexts, debunking the myth that violence occurs because of structural and environmental factors and that it is necessary to achieve certain political goals. Instead, the authors discover, violent insurgency is rarely justifiable on strategic grounds.
Nevada
Author: Imogen Binnie
Publisher: MCD x FSG Originals
Published: 2022-06-07
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0374606625
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of Vogue's Best Books of 2022 So Far, Buzzfeed's Summer Books You Won’t Be Able To Put Down, Book Riot's Best Summer Reads for 2022, and Dazed's Queer Books to Read in 2022 "[Nevada] is defiant, terse, not quite cynical, sometimes flip, addressed to people who think they know. It is, if you like, punk rock." —The New Yorker "Nevada is a book that changed my life: it shaped both my worldview and personhood, making me the writer I am. And it did so by the oldest of methods, by telling a wise, hilarious, and gripping story." —Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction finally back in print, Nevada follows a disaffected trans woman as she embarks on a cross-country road trip. Maria Griffiths is almost thirty and works at a used bookstore in New York City while trying to stay true to her punk values. She’s in love with her bike but not with her girlfriend, Steph. She takes random pills and drinks more than is good for her, but doesn’t inject anything except, when she remembers, estrogen, because she’s trans. Everything is mostly fine until Maria and Steph break up, sending Maria into a tailspin, and then onto a cross-country trek in the car she steals from Steph. She ends up in the backwater town of Star City, Nevada, where she meets James, who is probably but not certainly trans, and who reminds Maria of her younger self. As Maria finds herself in the awkward position of trans role model, she realizes that she could become James’s savior—or his downfall. One of the most beloved cult novels of our time and a landmark of trans literature, Imogen Binnie’s Nevada is a blistering, heartfelt, and evergreen coming-of-age story, and a punk-smeared excavation of marginalized life under capitalism. Guided by an instantly memorable, terminally self-aware protagonist—and back in print featuring a new afterword by the author—Nevada is the great American road novel flipped on its head for a new generation.
Rose Fear
Author: Maria Laina
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780999261316
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTranslated from the Greek by Sarah McCann. Maria Laina's debut English collection. Laina's poems carve symbolically rich images drawn from mythology and the natural world. Rose Fear follows in the Sapphic vein: fragmented, prophetic, and emotionally charged. Sarah McCann in her translations deftly captures the music and the vividness of Laina's scenes, which take their inspiration from regions as diverse as Japan, the Caribbean, and her native Greece. Yet always behind the recognizable world lie the rhythms and lights of the fairytale, the fable, and the spell. "A moving, vivid collection of verse ... The collection's strength lies in its ability to challenge the reader, and its study of time offers new ways of imagining the intangible."--Kirkus Reviews "Like a grim fairytale, Laina's silvery lullaby lyricism morphs into beautifully dark chants and hanging, haikulike scenes as it moves between voices and scraps of stories, complicating and recoloring the feeling of fear itself."--World Literature Today Poetry. Women's Studies. Greek Studies
DEJAVU CINTA
Author: Emma Maizura
Publisher: Alaf 21
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9678606151
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Saya tak percaya! Kalau benar dia dah mati, mana buktinya! Kenapa saya tak dibenarkan tengok mayat dia? Kenapa pihak polis macam teragak-agak nak sahkan identitinya?” Tiga tahun Ridwan hidup dalam ilusi. Beranggapan isterinya masih hidup sedangkan isterinya telah meninggal dunia dalam suatu kemalangan ngeri. Dia semakin panasaran saat bertemu dengan gadis bernama DD yang mirip wajah isterinya, Dian Daliya. Beria-ia dia menyatakan DD adalah isterinya. Lekuk lesung pipit di kedua-dua belah pipi dan tahi lalat di pipi kanan dijadikan bukti. Dia separuh gila mengejar DD. DD menganggap Ridwan gila. Dia jadi takut dengan perangai Ridwan. Puas dinafikan, namun Ridwan tetap tidak percaya. Dia jadi fobia dikejar oleh bayangan cinta Ridwan. Bila Ridwan tetap bertegas menyatakan yang DD isterinya, dia jadi keliru. Betulkah dia isteri Ridwan sedangkan dia sudah bertunang dengan Dazrin?
