Writing to Change the World

Author: Mary Pipher, PhD
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440679460
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Reviving Ophelia, Another Country, and The Shelter of Each Other comes an inspirational book that shows how words can change the world. Words are the most powerful tools at our disposal. With them, writers have saved lives and taken them, brought justice and confounded it, started wars and ended them. Writers can change the way we think and transform our definitions of right and wrong. Writing to Change the World is a beautiful paean to the transformative power of words. Encapsulating Mary Pipher's years as a writer and therapist, it features rousing commentary, personal anecdotes, memorable quotations, and stories of writers who have helped reshape society. It is a book that will shake up readers' beliefs, expand their minds, and possibly even inspire them to make their own mark on the world.

Sincerely, YOU

Author: Savannah Maddison
Publisher: Rodale Kids
ISBN: 1635653568
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
A letter can brighten a day, change a life, even unite the world--and so can you! Have you ever missed a friend who lives far away and wished you could bring them back home? Do you know someone who could use a smile and have just the right story to brighten their day? Maybe you have a great idea to make your school better for everyone but don't know how to share it. With a letter, you can connect with friends and feel heard. Your stories, art, music, and ideas can travel near and far to make a difference! Packed with tips on how to conquer writer's block, find your own creativity, and connect with your friends, family, and community, this book will inspire you--and help you inspire the world around you!

The Point Is to Change the World

Author: Andaiye
Publisher: Between the Lines
ISBN: 1771135085
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388

Book Description
Radical activist, thinker, and comrade of Walter Rodney, Andaiye was one of the Caribbean’s most important political voices. For the first time, her writings are published in one collection. Through essays, letters, and journal entries, Andaiye’s thinking on the intersections of gender, race, class, and power are powerfully articulated, Caribbean histories emerge, and stories from a life lived at the barricades are revealed. We learn about the early years of the Working Peopl’s Alliance, the meaning asnd impact of the murder of Walter Rodney and the fall of the Grenada Revolution. Throughout, we bear witness to Andaiye’s acute understanding of politics rooted in communities and the daily lives of so-called ordinary people. Featuring forewords by Clem Seecharan and Robin DG Kelley, these texts will become vital tools in our own struggles to “overcome the power relations that are embedded in every unequal facet of our lives.”

Writing to Change the World

Author: Mary Pipher, PhD
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781594482533
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Managing to Change the World

Author: Alison Green
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118137612
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
Why getting results should be every nonprofit manager's first priority A nonprofit manager's fundamental job is to get results, sustained over time, rather than boost morale or promote staff development. This is a shift from the tenor of many management books, particularly in the nonprofit world. Managing to Change the World is designed to teach new and experienced nonprofit managers the fundamental skills of effective management, including: managing specific tasks and broader responsibilities; setting clear goals and holding people accountable to them; creating a results-oriented culture; hiring, developing, and retaining a staff of superstars. Offers nonprofit managers a clear guide to the most effective management skills Shows how to address performance problems, dismiss staffers who fall short, and the right way to exercising authority Gives guidance for managing time wisely and offers suggestions for staying in sync with your boss and managing up This important resource contains 41 resources and downloadable tools that can be implemented immediately.

The Boy Who Could Change the World

Author: Aaron Swartz
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1784784974
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
In January 2013, Aaron Swartz, under arrest and threatened with thirty-five years of imprisonment for downloading material from the JSTOR database, committed suicide. He was twenty-six years old. But in that time he had changed the world we live in: reshaping the Internet, questioning our assumptions about intellectual property, and creating some of the tools we use in our daily online lives. Besides being a technical genius and a passionate activist, he was also an insightful, compelling, and cutting critic of the politics of the Web. In this collection of his writings that spans over a decade he shows his passion for and in-depth knowledge of intellectual property, copyright, and the architecture of the Internet. The Boy Who Could Change the World contains the life's work of one of the most original minds of our time.

Writing the Book of the World

Author: Theodore Sider
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199697906
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 333

Book Description
Theodore Sider presents a broad new vision of metaphysics centred on the idea of structure. To describe the world well we must use concepts that 'carve at the joints', so that conceptual structure matches reality's structure. This approach illuminates a wide range of topics, such as time, modality, ontology, and the status of metaphysics itself.

The Shelter of Each Other

Author: Mary Pipher, PhD
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101665890
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
“Simple solutions for survival in this family-unfriendly culture…Eye-opening…heart-wrenching and uplifting.”—San Francisco Chronicle Even more resonant today than at its original publication in 1996, The Shelter of Each Other traces the effects of our society’s “anti-family” way of life, where parents are overtaxed, children are undersupervised, and technology is rapidly dictating how we interact. As she did in her number-one bestseller Reviving Ophelia, Mary Pipher illuminates how our families are suffering at the hands of shifting cultural norms, and she snaps our gaze into crisp focus. Drawing on the fascinating stories of families rich and poor, angry and despairing, religious and skeptical, and probing deep into her own family memories and experiences, Pipher clears a path to the strength and energy at the core of family life. Compassionate and heart-wrenching, The Shelter of Each Other is an impassioned call for us to gather our families in our arms and hold on to them for dear life.

The Busy Woman's Guide to Writing a World-Changing Book

Author: Cynthia Morris
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780975922477
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Book Description
This book takes the confusion and uncertainty out of writing a non-fiction book. It's a step-by-step guide to clarifying the message, organizing the material and writing in ways that work for the reader's goals and lifestyle. Writer's coach Cynthia Morris gives you a map to help you design and enjoy your own writing practice.

Story Genius

Author: Lisa Cron
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
ISBN: 1607748908
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
Following on the heels of Lisa Cron's breakout first book, Wired for Story, this writing guide reveals how to use cognitive storytelling strategies to build a scene-by-scene blueprint for a riveting story. It’s every novelist’s greatest fear: pouring their blood, sweat, and tears into writing hundreds of pages only to realize that their story has no sense of urgency, no internal logic, and so is a page one rewrite. The prevailing wisdom in the writing community is that there are just two ways around this problem: pantsing (winging it) and plotting (focusing on the external plot). Story coach Lisa Cron has spent her career discovering why these methods don’t work and coming up with a powerful alternative, based on the science behind what our brains are wired to crave in every story we read (and it’s not what you think). In Story Genius Cron takes you, step-by-step, through the creation of a novel from the first glimmer of an idea, to a complete multilayered blueprint—including fully realized scenes—that evolves into a first draft with the authority, richness, and command of a riveting sixth or seventh draft.