Walking Away

Author: Simon Armitage
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571298358
Category : Travel writing
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
As heard on BBC Radio 4, the brilliant sequel to Simon Armitage's acclaimed bestseller Walking Home - the story of his travels on Britain's South West coast. Not content with walking the Pennine Way as a modern day troubadour, an experience recounted in his bestseller and prize-wining Walking Home, the restless poet has followed up that journey with a walk of the same distance but through the very opposite terrain and direction far from home. In Walking Away Simon Armitage swaps the moorland uplands of the north for the coastal fringes of Britain's south west, once again giving readings every night, but this time through Somerset, Devon and Cornwall, taking poetry into distant communities and tourist hot-spots, busking his way from start to finsh. From the surreal pleasuredome of Minehead Butlins to a smoke-filled roundhouse on the Penwith Peninsula then out to the Isles of Scilly and beyond, Armitage tackles this personal Odyssey with all the poetic reflection and personal wit we've come to expect of one of Britain's best loved and most popular writers.

Loving Your Spouse When You Feel Like Walking Away

Author: Gary Chapman
Publisher: Moody Publishers
ISBN: 0802496423
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
What to do when you feel like giving up When you said, “I do,” you entered marriage with high hopes, dreaming it would be supremely happy. You never intended it to be miserable. Millions of couples are struggling in desperate marriages. But the story doesn’t have to end there. Dr. Gary Chapman writes, “I believe that in every troubled marriage, one or both partners can take positive steps that have the potential for changing the emotional climate in their marriage.” Loving Your Spouse When You Feel Like Walking Away, the revised and updated edition of the award-winning Desparate Marriages, teaches you how to: Recognize and reject the myths that hold you captive Better understand your spouse’s behavior Take responsibility for your own thoughts, feelings, and actions Make choices that can have a lasting, positive impact on you and your spouse An experienced marriage and family counselor, Gary Chapman speaks to those whose spouse is any of the following: Irresponsible A workaholic Controlling Uncommunicative Verbally abusive Physically abusive Sexually abusive Unfaithful Addicted to alcohol or drugs Depressed Marriage has the same potential to be miserable as it does to be blissful. Read Loving Your Spouse When You Feel Like Walking Away to learn how you can turn things around.

Walking Away from Terrorism

Author: John Horgan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135285489
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 215

Book Description
This accessible new book looks at how and why individuals leave terrorist movements, and considers the lessons and implications that emerge from this process. Focusing on the tipping points for disengagement from groups such as Al Qaeda, the IRA and the UVF, this volume is informed by the dramatic and sometimes extraordinary accounts that the terrorists themselves offered to the author about why they left terrorism behind. The book examines three major issues: what we currently know about de-radicalisation and disengagement how discussions with terrorists about their experiences of disengagement can show how exit routes come about, and how they then fare as ‘ex-terrorists’ away from the structures that protected them what the implications of these findings are for law-enforcement officers, policy-makers and civil society on a global scale. Concluding with a series of thought-provoking yet controversial suggestions for future efforts at controlling terrorist behaviour, Walking Away From Terrorism provides an comprehensive introduction to disengagement and de-radicalisation and offers policymakers a series of considerations for the development of counter-radicalization and de-radicalisation processes. This book will be essential reading for students of terrorism and political violence, war and conflict studies, security studies and political psychology. John Horgan is Director of the International Center for the Study of Terrorism at the Pennsylvania State University. He is one of the world's leading experts on terrorist psychology, and has authored over 50 publications in this field; recent books include the The Psychology of Terrorism (Routledge 2005) and Leaving Terrorism Behind (co-edited, Routledge 2008)

Walking Away from Hate

Author: Jeanette Manning
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781990160004
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
As a troubled teen, Lauren Manning sought a refuge online in the angry world of black metal music. When she met a recruiter who offered her the acceptance she craved, the doctrine of white supremacy supplanted the values of her middle class upbringing and Lauren traded suburbia for a life of violence and criminality on the streets of Toronto. Told from the perspective of both mother and daughter, Walking Away From Hate chronicles Lauren's descent into extremism, her life within the movement and her ultimate reconnection with the family she once denounced and the mother who refused to give up on her.

Walking Away from Empire: A Personal Journey

Author: Guy R. McPherson
Publisher: Woodthrush Productions
ISBN: 9781732963146
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 270

Book Description
Guy McPherson was a successful professor by every imperial measure: well-published in all the right places, he taught and mentored students who acquired the best jobs in the field, and performed abundant, exemplary professional service. He earned enough to live on a third of his income and still traveled as much as he desired throughout the industrialized world. In other words, McPherson was the perfect model of all that is wrong with the United States and, by extension, the nations looking to us for an example. Rather than questioning the system, he was raising minor questions within the system.During the decade of his forties, McPherson transformed his academic life from mainstream ecologist to friend of the earth. He became a conservation biologist and social critic, and his speaking and writing increasingly targeted the public beyond the classroom. McPherson began teaching poetry in facilities of incarceration, trying to give voice to wise people long marginalized or ignored by industrial society. Guest commentaries in local newspapers pointed out the absurdities of American life, as well as limits to growth for the world's industrial economy. Increasingly strident essays drew the attention of university administrators who tried to fire him, and, when that failed, tried to muzzle him. Shortly after administrators gave up trying to force McPherson's departure from a major research university, he left the institution on his own terms when, at the age of 49, McPherson finally awakened to the costs of the non-negotiable American way of life: obedience at home and oppression abroad. And then he walked away from all that privilege to pursue a life of principle and even more service while raising goats, gardens and working with his neighbors. It meant hours of physical labor, months of loneliness, and finally, betrayal from those closest to him.

Walking Away

Author: Sue Langford
Publisher: Booktango
ISBN: 1468929690
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
When Leah Harris moved in with Ty Williams, she thought it was the right move. She thought that being with him was the best thing she could do. When she realized it wasn't and tried to leave, it was a lot harder than she thought. She needed a knight in shining armor to save her. Blaze Hamilton was every woman's dream man. He was the defender, the lover and the bad boy all wrapped up in a country music package. He'd been looking for so long for that right woman. A chance meeting and one look at Leah and he was head over heels. Who knew a whirlwind could end up like this? A love of country music, good men and Nashville. Who could ask for more?

Walk Away

Author: Lee Trepanier
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498595200
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 204

Book Description
This book examines key twentieth-century philosophers, theologians, and social scientists who began their careers with commitments to the political left only later to reappraise or reject them. Their reevaluation of their own previous positions reveals not only the change in their own thought but also the societal changes in the culture, economics, and politics to which they were reacting. By exploring the evolution of the political thought of these philosophers, this book draws connections among these thinkers and schools and discovers the general trajectory of twentieth-century political thinking in the West.

How to Walk Away

Author: Katherine Center
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1760780588
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
"If you read just one book this year, read How to Walk Away" Nina George, author of The Little Paris Bookshop Maggie Jacobson has a bright future ahead of her, with a handsome boyfriend and a promising career, until an accident on what should be one of the happiest days of her life takes it all away. In the hospital and forced to face the possibility that nothing will ever be the same again, Maggie must figure out how to move forward on her own terms while facing family secrets, heartbreak, and the possibility that love might find her in the last place she would ever expect. PRAISE FOR HOW TO WALK AWAY "A marvelous example of acceptance and healing and a celebration of family." USA Today "A story about survival that is heartbreakingly honest and wryly funny, perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes and Elizabeth Berg." Kirkus "Poignant, funny, heartbreaking." Jenny Lawson, bestselling author of Furiously Happy "A heartbreak of a novel that celebrates resilience and strength." Jill Santopolo, bestselling author of The Light We Lost "Warm, witty, and wonderfully observed." Emily Giffin, New York Times bestselling author of First Comes Love "With its appealing characters and wisdom about grappling with life's challenges, Center's sixth novel has all the makings of a breakout hit." Booklist (starred review)

Walking Away

Author: Luciana Fiore
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 140

Book Description
I decided to walk away from my mother when I discovered she murdered my step-father. I was in my 30’s then and shortly before had learned she murdered who I thought was a stranger. I didn’t realize the man she murdered was my biological father until my 50’s. That is only the beginning of what I learned my mother kept from us – my sisters, step-siblings, the police, and me. My memoir, Walking Away: Unburied Truths of my Murderous Mother, tells the simple and relatable story of a woman falling in love, having two children, supporting her husband, getting divorced and finding my footing. But all of this is tainted by my slow discovery that my mother got away with multiple murders. To call this a “rags to riches” story – I was born in a small town to a loving father but raised by our drunk mother who left him; put myself through college; built my own businesses; and then married a man who eventually pulled in millions – undersells what really happened: that I grappled with raising children because I knew what was in our bloodline; that I had to learn what forgiveness meant in order to ensure my family stayed honest; and that I had to overcome myself in order to live a life without pain. There are thousands of self-help books that teach people how to handle relationships differently, how to talk and act. But there are not many that explain what it feels like to choose to walk away; to raise your children only knowing that you need to do the opposite of what was done to you; or to struggle to know whether or not to share any of your past with your children. This book is for all the individuals out there that have discovered unsettling realities about their families, and who want to continue to live a beautiful and productive life despite the earth shattering revelations.

Walking Away To Stay

Author: Bridget Jean
Publisher: Bridget Jean Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description
Emma has not lived a life worth living. She endured one horrific tragedy only to be placed within the hands of a narcistic woman. She took it upon herself to walk away. Will she learn how to trust and love again? Her life definitely takes a complete spin on its axis!