Our Secret Territory

Author: Laura Simms
Publisher: Sentient Publications
ISBN: 1591811724
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
This book is composed of revelations from the life of a world famous storyteller including extensive travel and projects spanning thirty years. It helps readers understand the power of storytelling as a profound and unique art form combining modern solo theatre, spoken literature, spirituality, and direct oral tradition akin to ancient ritual. The book is shaped with stories and poems and a remarkable fairytale that weaves in and out of a life of experiences: rescuing ex-child soldiers from a devastating war; working with epic singers, Native American storytellers and Tibetan meditation masters; designing a playground; telling tales to Roma mothers and children; and saving a zoo in Northern Romania. This is a unique combination of personal story, myth, memoir, and fairytales that will interest anyone involved in storytelling as performance; those using narrative in healing, business, or education; peacemakers and humanitarians; writers; anyone seeking a deeper spiritual practice; and those hoping to understand the psychology of personal memoir, myth and symbol, the importance of anthropology in our cultural life, and how communities are affected by the stories we tell.

Dark Territory

Author: Fred Kaplan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476763267
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
Originally published in hardcover in 2016 by Simon & Schuster.

Our Little Secret

Author: Emily Carrington
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
ISBN: 1770466398
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
At 15, Emily is a relatively typical teenage girl living in the Maritimes. She lives with her eccentric dad as he prepares to build a log cabin. She rides her beloved horse and spends all her free time taking in the fresh air. But things aren't perfect, the winters are harsh and her dad's place is cold and draughty. Enter their neighbour who sees a girl in need and offers to lend a hand. Three words: "OUR LITTLE SECRET," and Emily's fate is sealed. Twenty five years later, Emily is adrift and depressed when she spots her neighbour again on a ferry. The events of that long-ago winter come rushing back, and she is forced to reckon with the past anew. She vows that she will bring him to justice, tell her secret, and come to terms with the wounds that defined so many years of her life. Inept lawyers, expensive therapy, and a broken justice system block Emily's path to peace. Only when she rediscovers her youthful artistic talent by putting pen to paper does she see a way out. Now in her fifties, Carrington has crafted a compulsively readable debut that shows a powerful command of the comics medium. Our Little Secret is a testament to survival and to the importance of telling your story your way.

Shy Shelly Vs The Bully

Author: Justine Hail
Publisher: OMF Literature
ISBN: 9710094386
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 71

Book Description
The second book featuring the painfully shy Shelly Trudy. Now, she belongs to a group of loyal friends who call themselves "The Secret Squad." Their mission is to protect their schoolmates from bullying, and to fight againts bullying. Their first mission is to make the biggest bully of their class—Jake—sorry for everything that he's done to everybody who does not belong to his group of friends. Everything was going according to plan until Shelly stumbles into something that she shouldn't have seen. Now, she's wondering if their mission to make Jake pay is the right thing to do after all.

Body of Secrets

Author: James Bamford
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307425053
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 782

Book Description
The National Security Agency is the world’s most powerful, most far-reaching espionage. Now with a new afterword describing the security lapses that preceded the attacks of September 11, 2001, Body of Secrets takes us to the inner sanctum of America’s spy world. In the follow-up to his bestselling Puzzle Palace, James Banford reveals the NSA’s hidden role in the most volatile world events of the past, and its desperate scramble to meet the frightening challenges of today and tomorrow. Here is a scrupulously documented account—much of which is based on unprecedented access to previously undisclosed documents—of the agency’s tireless hunt for intelligence on enemies and allies alike. Body of secrets is a riveting analysis of this most clandestine of agencies, a major work of history and investigative journalism. A New York Times Notable Book

Lullabies for Old Ladies

Author: Vera Varga
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1503593819
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
The thirteen short stories show the life and challenges of a group of Romanian and Romanian Jew friends after they escape Romania of Ceausescu. Their destinies brought them first to Israel and subsequently to Canada or USA. The main characters are Dan and Vera, a couple struggling to come to terms with immigration, assimilation, and with Dans mild borderline personality disorder. Veras struggle to keep the balance in life and the sanity in her family as a first-generation immigrant is also shown. The stories are fiction inspired by real life.

Telling the Story

Author: Geoff Mead
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118617096
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 249

Book Description
How to master the art of narrative leadership Telling the Story shows how leaders affect our understanding of what is possible and desirable through the stories they tell. It opens a door into the world of narrative leadership: what stories are and how they work; when to tell a story and how to tell one well; and how the language and metaphors we use influence our actions and change how we think about the world. • Explains how narrative leadership shapes and defines what’s possible on an organizational level • Written by a renowned consultant on the art of narrative leadership • Challenges leaders to consider how narrative can influence and help create the kind of society they envision

Our Secret Discipline

Author: Helen Vendler
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674026957
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 460

Book Description
The fundamental difference between rhetoric and poetry, according to Yeats, is that rhetoric is the expression of ones quarrels with others while poetry is the expression of ones quarrel with oneself. Through exquisite attention to outer and inner forms, Vendler explores the most inventive reaches of the poets mind.

Story of a Secret State

Author: Jan Karski
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 1589019830
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 463

Book Description
Jan Karski’s Story of a Secret State stands as one of the most poignant and inspiring memoirs of World War II and the Holocaust. With elements of a spy thriller, documenting his experiences in the Polish Underground, and as one of the first accounts of the systematic slaughter of the Jews by the German Nazis, this volume is a remarkable testimony of one man’s courage and a nation’s struggle for resistance against overwhelming oppression. Karski was a brilliant young diplomat when war broke out in 1939 with Hitler’s invasion of Poland. Taken prisoner by the Soviet Red Army, which had simultaneously invaded from the East, Karski narrowly escaped the subsequent Katyn Forest Massacre. He became a member of the Polish Underground, the most significant resistance movement in occupied Europe, acting as a liaison and courier between the Underground and the Polish government-in-exile. He was twice smuggled into the Warsaw Ghetto, and entered the Nazi’s Izbica transit camp disguised as a guard, witnessing first-hand the horrors of the Holocaust. Karski’s courage and testimony, conveyed in a breathtaking manner in Story of a Secret State, offer the narrative of one of the world’s greatest eyewitnesses and an inspiration for all of humanity, emboldening each of us to rise to the challenge of standing up against evil and for human rights. This definitive edition—which includes a foreword by Madeleine Albright, a biographical essay by Yale historian Timothy Snyder, an afterword by Zbigniew Brzezinski, previously unpublished photos, notes, further reading, and a glossary—is an apt legacy for this hero of conscience during the most fraught and fragile moment in modern history.

Be, Awake, Create

Author: Rebekah Younger
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
ISBN: 1684032407
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description
“The Artist’s Way for the twenty-first century.” —Nancy Coleman, PhD, clinical psychologist, writer, facilitator, and teacher Settle your mind, connect with the moment, and unleash your creativity with this unique and mindful art journal. In our demanding, fast-paced culture, it’s increasingly important to find ways to decompress and recuperate from the busyness and stress of life. More and more, mindfulness and creativity are being recognized as antidotes to the speed and overstimulation of modern society. This beautiful book combines the two, offering both creative and meditative practices to provide a guided journey into contemplative art for healing, relaxation, deeper connection, and greater well-being. Rather than focusing on any one medium or art form, this unique guide offers basic meditation instructions, and a variety of creative prompts and activities—from collage and coloring to meditative mark making and sketching to photography and perceptual exercises—making it perfect for anyone who wants to deepen and cultivate their mindfulness and creativity. With these artistic and introspective practices, you’ll put meditation into action, and learn to view yourself and your own creative process without judgment or aggression. Using Be, Awake, Create, you’ll see beyond habitual patterns, discover the richness of your world, and recognize the ordinary magic of your own creativity, with greater freshness of expression and spontaneity. By cultivating awareness and allowing yourself to play in the open space of artistic creation, you’ll come to discover all of the positive impacts mindfulness and creativity can have on every area of your life.