Author: Fred H. Alexander Jr. Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1491833289 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 35
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The author states and believes he is the best driver he knows. This book simply tells and illustrates how he drives. With this book you can become a driver almost as good as the author, a driver who drives safely and enjoys driving. This book is a driving attitude changer.
Author: Ralina L. Joseph Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 147984036X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 273
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Winner, 2019 Outstanding Book Award, International Communication Association How Black women in the spotlight negotiate the post-racial gaze of Hollywood and beyond From Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, and Shonda Rhimes to their audiences and the industry workers behind the scenes, Ralina L. Joseph considers the way that Black women are required to walk a tightrope. Do they call out racism only to face accusations of being called “racists”? Or respond to racism in code only to face accusations of selling out? Postracial Resistance explores how African American women celebrities, cultural producers, and audiences employ postracial discourse—the notion that race and race-based discrimination are over and no longer affect people’s everyday lives—to refute postracialism itself. In a world where they’re often written off as stereotypical “Angry Black Women,” Joseph offers that some Black women in media use “strategic ambiguity,” deploying the failures of post-racial discourse to name racism and thus resist it. In Postracial Resistance, Joseph listens to and observes Black women as they perform and negotiate race in strategic ambiguity. Using three methods of media analysis—textual readings of the media's representation of these women; interviews with writers, producers, and studio executives; and audience ethnographies of young women viewers—Joseph maps the tensions and strategies that all Black women must engage to challenge the racialized sexism of everyday life, on- and off-screen.
Author: Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste Publisher: University Press of Florida ISBN: 168340386X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 239
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A hemispheric view of the practice of digital humanities in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Americas As digital media and technologies transform the study of the humanities around the world, this volume provides the first hemispheric view of the practice of digital humanities in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Americas. These essays examine how participation and research in new media have helped configure identities and collectivities in the region. Featuring case studies from throughout Latin America, including the United States Latinx community, contributors analyze documentary films, television series, and social media to show how digital technologies create hybrid virtual spaces and facilitate connections across borders. They investigate how Latinx bloggers and online activists navigate governmental restrictions in order to connect with the global online community. These essays also incorporate perspectives of race, gender, and class that challenge the assumption that technology is a democratizing force. Digital Humanities in Latin America illuminates the cultural, political, and social implications of the ways Latinx communities engage with new technologies. In doing so, it connects digital humanities research taking place in Latin America with that of the Anglophone world. Contributors: Paul Alonso | Morgan Ames | Eduard Arriaga | Anita Say Chan | Ricardo Dominguez | Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo | Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste | Jennifer M. Lozano | Ana Lígia Silva Medeiros | Gimena del Río Riande | Juan Carlos Rodríguez | Isabel Galina Russell | Angharad Valdivia | Anastasia Valecce | Cristina Venegas A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America, edited by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez
Author: Maggie Gee Publisher: Saqi ISBN: 1846591333 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 225
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Vanessa Henman, a plucky but accident-prone white writer, flies from London to Uganda for an African writers' conference. She also means to visit her former cleaner, Ugandan Mary Tendo, now the successful Executive Housekeeper of Kampala's up-market Sheraton Hotel. But Mary has her own agenda: her son Jamil is missing, and she has secretly summoned Vanessa's beloved ex-husband Trevor, a plumber, to her home village to build a new well. Vanessa sets off alone on safari to distant Bwindi Impenetrable Forest to see the mountain gorillas. But she quarrels with her driver and a bloody war closes in on Bwindi from Congo. Can anyone save her? Will Mary Tendo find her son? One of her strongest novels to date...fast-moving, energetic, constantly surprising' Hilary Mantel Maggie Gee has never written better' Rose Tremain A tour de force - brilliantly structured, surprising, humane, and suspenseful' Elaine Showalter Brilliant...just brilliant...this book deserves to be published in every language' Hillary Jordan 'Executed with a lovely, light touch ... an immensely enjoyable novel.' Lionel Shriver, Daily Telegraph 'Worldy, witty, enjoyable, impressive' Doris Lessing 'Sparky, funny and terrifically entertaining' Guardian
Author: Paul J Spencer Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 129143576X Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 117
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It was 1986 and I was 23 years old, the owner of the business drove outside the showroom in a red BMW with the roof reclined, he was talking on a car phone and he was dressed like a model from a magazine! WOW, I would love to be him, sports car, amazing clothes, a phone in his car, I didn't even have one at home. That's what I want - I want to be like him, I want to have the things he has got. I was the only one that had the confidence to approach him, so I asked him, how he got to where he was and he said "I have goals, I have a plan to achieve them and I follow the plan" Eddie became my inspiration, if he could do it, then I could do it, I need to set my goals, make a plan and follow it and success will be mine!
Author: Paul J Spencer Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1291420606 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 106
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Have you ever wondered why some people wake up in the morning and have an abundance of motivation? They radiate passion, enthusiasm, positivity and self-confidence. They are unstoppable and whatever set backs or obstacles that come their way, they simply knock them over like a bowling ball crashing through skittles. This book will provide you the strategies that these people use, which means that you too could be like them!
Author: Jack Favorite Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1450016758 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 291
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This is the story of one man’s journey through life. You will find Inspiration from the stories of an ordained minister having served for 25 plus years as a Fire Dept Chaplain, An unusual history of the changing world of health care. A life is saved from a possibly fiery death, The Minister who made the best Moon-shine in town, but didn’t drink. But mostly it is a love story “love at first sight; she was 14, he was 17 and the four and one half years of the chase. And a love of God and HIS faithfulness.
Author: Jonathan Raban Publisher: Pantheon ISBN: 0307906884 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 513
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Spanning two decades, this frank, witty, and provocative volume—part essay collection, part diary—charts a course through the Pacific Northwest, American history, and current events as witnessed by “one of our most gifted observers” (Newsday). For more than thirty years, Jonathan Raban has written with infectious fascination about people and places in transition or on the margins, about journeys undertaken and destinations never quite reached, and, as an Englishman transplanted in Seattle, about what it means to feel rooted in America. Stops en route include a Missoula bar, a Tea Party convention in Nashville hosted by Sarah Palin, the Mississippi in full flood, a trip to Hawaii with his daughter, a steelhead river in the Cascades, and the hidden corners of his adopted hometown, Seattle. He deftly explores public and personal spaces, poetry and politics, geography and catastrophe, art and economy, and the shifts in various arenas that define our society. Whether the topic is Robert Lowell or Barack Obama, or how various painters, explorers, and homesteaders have engaged with our mythical and actual landscape, he has an outsider’s eye for the absurd, and his tone is intimate, never nostalgic, and always fresh. Driving Home is irresistibly insightful about America’s character, contradictions, and idiosyncrasies.
Author: Fred H. Alexander Jr.
Author: Fred Alexander
Author: Ralina L. Joseph
Author: Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste
Author: Maggie Gee
Author: Paul J Spencer
Author: Paul J Spencer
Author: Jack Favorite
Author: Jonathan Raban
Author: James B. Twitchell