Author: Clare O'DeaPublisher:
ISBN: 9783905252910
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Author: Clare O'DeaVoting Day
Author: Clare O'DeaPublisher: Fairlight Books
ISBN: 1914148088
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
In February 1959, Switzerland held a referendum on women’s suffrage. The men voted ‘no’. In this powerful novella, Clare O’Dea explores that day through the eyes of four very different Swiss women. Vreni is a busy farmer’s wife, longing for a break from family life. Her grown-up daughter Margrit is carving out an independent life in Bern, but finds herself trapped in an alarming situation. Esther, a cleaner, is desperate to recover her son who has been taken into care. Beatrice, a hospital administrator, has been throwing herself into the ‘yes’ campaign. The four women’s paths intersect on a day that will leave its mark on all their lives.
WDF: The Naked Truth
Author: Timna AugustinePublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387166948
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
This is a book about my bipolar - biracial 20-year marriage. It reveals the reality of a modern day love story that starts from the beginning which takes you on an unbelievable, unexpected ride through the ups and downs of a marriage. The message of the book is that things can happen in one's relationship but we must ask the question we stay or leave based on circumstances. Nevertheless, sometimes we say ""What Da Fck?"" through this roller coaster we call life.
The Naked Swiss
Author: Clare O'DeaPublisher:
ISBN: 9783905252989
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Cross-cultural journalist Clare O'Dea goes in search of the truth behind the 10 clichEs that clothe modern Switzerland. Her examination of the facts and real people of this unique nation reveals a complex and dynamic land, whose citizens are often poorly served by the assumptions we make about them, which include: - The Swiss Are Neutral - The Swiss Are Xenophobic - The Swiss Are Rich - The Swiss Are Swiss - The Swiss Are Crooked Bankers - The Swiss Are Boring - The Swiss Are Sexist - The Swiss Helped the Nazis - The Swiss Have the Perfect Democracy - The Swiss Are Brilliant
How to be Swiss
Author: Diccon BewesPublisher: Bergli
ISBN: 9783038690009
Category : National characteristics, Swiss
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The art of being Swiss isn't an easy thing to master, even if you have a head start by being born that way, but How to be Swiss will help you make it (or fake it). This instruction manual is the result of years of hard work by the authors themselves, one British and one Swiss.
The Naked Future
Author: Patrick TuckerPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1591847702
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
“A thorough yet thoroughly digestible book on the ubiquity of data gathering and the unraveling of personal privacy.” —Daniel Pink, author of Drive Thanks to recent advances in technology, prediction models for individual behavior grow more sophisticated by the day. Whether you’ll marry, commit a crime or fall victim to one, or contract a disease are becoming easily accessible facts. The naked future is upon us, and the implications are staggering. Patrick Tucker draws on fascinating stories from health care to urban planning to online dating. He shows how scientists can predict your behavior based on your friends’ Twitter updates, anticipate the weather a year from now, figure out the time of day you’re most likely to slip back into a bad habit, and guess how well you’ll do on a test before you take it. Tucker knows that the rise of Big Data is not always a good thing. But he also shows how we’ve gained tremendous benefits that we have yet to fully realize.
The Naked Anabaptist
Author: Stuart MurrayPublisher: MennoMedia, Inc.
ISBN: 0836199847
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Click here to read the introduction to The Naked Anabaptist. In churches and kitchens and neighborhood centers across the world, communities of Jesus-followers are crafting a vision of radical service, simple living, and commitment to peace. Many are finding a home in a Christian tradition almost five centuries old: Anabaptism. Who are the Anabaptists? What do they believe? Where did they come from? What makes them different from other Christians? And can you become an Anabaptist without leaving your own church? Follow Stuart Murray as he peels back the layers to reveal the core convictions of Anabaptist Christianity, a way of following Jesus that challenges, disturbs, and inspires. Glimpse an alternative to nationalistic, materialistic, individualistic Christian faith. If you are seeking a community of authentic discipleship, heartfelt worship, sacrificial service, and radical peacemaking, consider this your invitation. This new edition features: Voices and stories from North America and the global church. Updated and expanded definition and discussion of Christendom. Updated resource section. Free downloadable study guide available here.
Author: ..... Hensleigh WedgwoodBetween
Author: Angie AbdouPublisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
ISBN: 1551525690
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Vero and her husband Shane have moved out of the sweet suite above his parents' garage and found themselves smack in the middle of adulthood?two kids, two cars, two jobs. They are not coping well. In response to their looming domestic breakdown, Vero and Shane get live-in help with their sons?a woman from the Philippines named Ligaya (which means happiness); the children call her LiLi. Vero justifies LiLi's role in their home by insisting that she is part of their family, and she goes to great lengths in order to ease her conscience. But differences persist; Vero grapples with her overextended role as a mother and struggles to keep her marriage passionate, while LiLi silently bears the burden of a secret she left behind at home. Between offers readers an intriguing, searing portrait of two women from two different cultures. At the same time, it satirizes contemporary love, marriage, and parenthood by exposing the sense of entitlement and superiority at the heart of upper-middle-class North American existence through a ubiquitous presence in it: the foreign nanny. Angie Abdou comically and tragically tackles the issue of international nannies by providing a window on motherhood where it is tangled up with class, career, labor, and desire. Angie Abdou has a PhD in English literature from the University of Calgary and teaches English and creative writing at the College of the Rockies in Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada. Her first novel, The Bone Cage (NeWest Press), was a finalist in CBC's Canada Reads competition.
