What's Mine Is Yours

Author: Rachel Botsman
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062014056
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 310

Book Description
“Amidst a thousand tirades against the excesses and waste of consumer society, What’s Mine Is Yours offers us something genuinely new and invigorating: a way out.” —Steven Johnson, author of The Invention of Air and The Ghost Map A groundbreaking and original book, What’s Mine is Yours articulates for the first time the roots of "collaborative consumption," Rachel Botsman and Roo Roger's timely new coinage for the technology-based peer communities that are transforming the traditional landscape of business, consumerism, and the way we live. Readers captivated by Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail, Van Jones’ The Green Collar Economy or Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point will be wowed by this landmark contribution to the evolving ecology of commerce and sustainability.

What's Mine and Yours

Author: Naima Coster
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1398703354
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
'What's Mine and Yours is a book about parents who try and fail and then try again. An extraordinary cast of characters, nuanced and full of insight. Read this book.' -ANGIE CRUZ, author of Dominicana In the Piedmont of North Carolina, two families' paths become unexpectedly intertwined over twenty years. Jade and Lacey May are two mothers determined to give their children the opportunities they never had. After a harrowing loss, Jade wants to hand down the tools her son, Gee, will need to survive in America as a sensitive young Black man. Meanwhile, Lacey May, having left the husband she loves, strives to protect her three half-Latina daughters from their charming father's influence. When a county initiative draws students from the largely Black east side of town into a predominantly white high school on the west, each mother stands on different sides of the integration debate. Gee meets Lacey May's daughter Noelle during the school play, and their families begin to form deeply knotted, messy ties that will shape the trajectory of their adult lives. And their mothers make choices that will haunt them for decades to come. What's Mine and Yours is an expansive yet intimate multigenerational tapestry of motherhood, identity, and the legacies we inherit. It explores the unique organism that is every family: what breaks them apart and how they come back together.

Halsey Street

Author: Naima Coster
Publisher: Platinum Spotlight Series
ISBN: 9781683248439
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"After her mother, Mirella, abandoned her family to reclaim her roots in the Dominican Republic, Penelope Grand moved back to Brooklyn to keep an eye on her ailing father. When she receives a postcard from Mirella seeking reconciliation, old wounds are reopened, secrets revealed, and a journey across an ocean of sacrifice and self-discovery begins"--

What's Mine's Mine

Author: George MacDonald
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 552

Book Description

Loop Group

Author: Larry McMurtry
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439129444
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Loop Group is Larry McMurtry at his contemporary best, a novel that can best be described as Thelma and Louise meets Terms of Endearment, in which two aging ladies set out on a road trip that will take them from Hollywood to Texas, with many adventures on the way. In perhaps his finest contemporary novel since Terms of Endearment, Larry McMurtry, with his miraculously sure touch at creating instantly recognizable women characters and his equally miraculous sharp eye for the absurdities of everyday life in the modern West, writes about two women, old friends, who set off on an adventure—with unpredictable and sometimes hilarious results. As Loop Group opens, we meet Maggie, whose three grown-up daughters have arrived at her Hollywood home to try and make her see sense about her busy life, a life that intersects with lots of interesting—all right, bizarre—people. Her daughters push her into having a few second thoughts about it, and these are reinforced when her best friend, Connie, seeks an escape from her own world of complex and difficult relationships with men. Maggie conceives the idea of driving to visit her Aunt Cooney’s ranch near Electric City, Texas, and the two women prepare for the trip by buying a .38 Special revolver (which leads to unexpected trouble along the way). This road trip will end by changing their lives. Alternately hilariously funny and profoundly sad—even tragic—Loop Group is a major Larry McMurtry novel and a joy to read.

Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: BookCaps Study Guides
ISBN: 1621073556
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 6052

Book Description
Shakespeare is the most critically acclaimed playright of all time. So why is he so hard to understand? This massive anthology of Shakespeare's comedies will give you a new appreciation of William Shakespeare by putting each of his comedy works in plain and simple English. Included in this anthology: All’s Well That Ends Well As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Love’s Labour’s Lost Measure for Measure The Merry Wives of Windsor Pericles, Prince of Tyre The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona Two Noble Kinsmen The Merchant of Venice A Midsummer Nights Dream Much Ado About Nothing The Winter Tale The original text is also presented in the book, along with a comparable version of both text. We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month.

To Have or Not to Have That Is the Question

Author: Nilton Bonder
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1426939892
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 171

Book Description
After having lectured at large corporations around Brazil and several other countries, Rabbi Bonder wrote this book to meet the rising interest in the business world for spirituality. This book is about the ultra-wisdom to be found in frontiers between intelligence and ignorance. The very border that divides between clarity and superstition, intuition and illusion, discernment and fantasy, is an area of mixed light and darkness. In this twilight zone abide truths that will never turn into certainties. This is the zone where good sense is usually not the common sense, but a countersense. Where wisdom is forged out of experience, sensitivity and intuition; where doubt is the resource and where fog rather than light is the medium. Companies searching for their earthly kingdom have discovered that the intelligence of the kingdom of heaven could be of some use for efficiency sake, and in a highly competitive world nobody can afford to ignore a form of intelligence. In our days, we have begun to recognize a field of thought that until just recently was seen as lying outside the realm of categories of intelligence.

The Sacred Path of Tears

Author: M.B. Tosi
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1449721672
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
The Sacred Path of Tears is a journal written by a young Cheyenne Indian woman, nicknamed Mokee, during the Indian Wars in Kansas in the late 1860s. After Mokee and her companion observe the Sand Creek Massacre, they warn the other Indian camps along the Smoky Hill River. They take cover in a barn near Salina, Kansas, where they are discovered by a widow and her two sons. Mokee’s companion leaves to join the fight against the white soldiers but hating war, Mokee, with her lighter coloring, gains a safe haven with the widow’s family. She finds a mentor in the well-educated widow and embraces the opportunity to read and write English. As her life unfolds, Mokee is torn between two worlds at war and the two men she loves, one a white settler and the other her companion, who has become a Cheyenne Dog Soldier. Though war is her constant shadow, Mokee tries to find the purpose for her life and a path of peace in her war-torn world. “M.B. Tosi mixes history and fiction with believable characters and the result is a fascinating, enjoyable, and inspiring story.” - Jim Langford, author of The Spirit of Notre Dame

Double Dealing

Author: Chuck Closson
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 145351788X
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 294

Book Description
Humor has at least two elements: incongruity and surprise. The double deals in this book contain these two elements. Other words that describe double dealing statements are ironic, paradoxical,coincidental, serendipitous, cynical, satirical, burlesque, teasing,absurdity, and farce. My preferred term is double entendre. It’s a phrase or word open to two interpretations which triggers incongruity and surprise. The contents are divided into three parts: I Statements of Double Dealing II Re-Verses—Tongue in Cheek Poems III Verse—Poem

The Ghost on Horseback

Author: Stephen Badman
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1470957620
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195

Book Description
A corpse riding over the sea on a coffin, a cat's mess served up for dinner, brownies dancing on the rafters, The Devil carrying his skin under his arm, witches so old that their teeth grow moss, trolls, ogres, dragons, even a drunken fox - you'll find them all in The Ghost on Horseback. Thirty folk and wonder tales taken from the collection of Jens Kamp and translated into English for the first time.