reflections immigration intranquilo self-delusion

books:

5 reviews
Maria Mazziotti Gillan

Viking Adult, 1994

A True Education
One of the most honest and needed collections around. This anthology is wonderfully edited with a great selection of writers and work. It is very comprehensive and is loaded with truths America needs to hear. Hats go off to the editors !

A Dangerous Place : California's Unsettling Fate

16 reviews
Marc Reisner, 2003

It Makes You Think
In light of Hurricane Katrina, and if you live in California, a must read. Quick, easy, scary, and thought provoking. It should be required reading for all of those who make decisions in California.

Unsettling Encounters: First Nations Imagery in the Art of Emily Carr

1 review
Emily Carr

UBC Press, 2006

Canadian artist of Native American culture and her influence
The varied content on this 20th-century Canadian painter "moves through a series of concentric circles, putting into place the multiple dimensions of the period...." Carr's life and career do not lend themselves to a straightforward, chronological account. While her interests in the regional Native American culture never changed and her artistic subjects and style are distinguishable, how she was ...

Unsettling : A Novel

5 reviews
Lynda Sandoval, 2004

Very Empowering
I just finished reading the book. The characters were so real and deep. I really got to know and love them. They felt like real women with real strengths and real problems and the real power to change their lives for the better. This book will encourage you to un-settle and go for what you really want in life. Every 30 or 40-something woman should read this and feel the power for herself.

Does Anything Eat Wasps?: And 101 Other Unsettling, Witty Answers to Questions You Never Thought You Wanted ...

13 reviews
New Scientist

Free Press, 2006

Very Interesting reading
I've really enjoyed this book. So did my sister and dad when they read it. I definitely recommend this book. There are so many questions that are answered in this book that you wonder about but don't know the answers to.

The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

1 review
Wendell Berry

Random House, Inc., 1982

A Celebration of Farming & An Indictment of Mass Machine Culture
From back cover: "This book is about culture in the deep, ripe sense; a nurturing habitat. Our habitat is the planet in all its local specifics. This has meant, for most people, for centuries, "the farm." The farm not only grows food, it nourishes human character, is a challenge and a teacher, a source of insight and values. With unwavering focus, Wendell Berry shows what we lost of our ...

The unsettling season

1 review
Donald J Shelby

Upper Room Books, 1989

For the Holidays
A series of daily devotionals for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany. Don Shelby, senior pastor of First Methodist church in Santa Monica, CA, is a wonderful and insightful writer/preacher. Many sermon illustrations here. Included are questions that could be used in group discussions. A fabulous resource for the holiday season.

Unsettling Beliefs: Teaching Theory To Teachers (HC) (International Social Studies Forum)

1 review

Information Age Publishing, 2008

Challenging Unexamined Assumptions and Theorizing About Professional Practice
This book is essential reading for anyone who is interested in critical pedagogy and social justice across the curriculum in schools of education. Not only does the book provide clear examples of how instructors in schools of education grapple with the challenges of teaching theory to students who believe theory is irrelevant to practice, and in teaching social justice without being dogmatic, it ...

The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

17 reviews
Wendell Berry

Peter Smith Publisher Inc, 1995

Discovering a buried treasure
I grew up in Clarksville, TN, on the border with Guthrie, KY. Up the road not too far is Port Royal, KY, where one of the greatest living Americans still resides. He has lived there as long as I have been alive, and I am now over 30, but I had never heard of Wendell Berry until I had passed my thirtieth year. Were it not for the incomparable radio program "Unwelcome Guests", I may never have ...

A Stream of Windows: Unsettling Reflections on Trade, Immigration, and Democracy

2 reviews
Jagdish N. Bhagwati

Mit Pr, 1998

Ice-dancing on an iceberg
This man is an intellectual dynamo. Bhagwati says that as an academic his public articles have to be merely the tip of the iceberg (his words) representing the years of careful model-building and thought. If the articles in this compilation are the tip, we should be awed at the prospect of the iceberg. And his style isn't stilted , it is ice-dancing on top of the iceberg. Can protectionism be ...

The Unsettling

3 reviews
Peter Rock

MacAdam/Cage, 2006

Incredible!
I picked this collection up on the recommendation of a friend and was blown away. It's one of the most original collections I've read this year. The stories seem to start in the everyday and then suddenly take a turn to wonderland. Amazing.

Standing Firm in Unsettling Times

1 review
Skip Heitzig

Connection Communications, 2002

A Response to September 11
This booklet was written as a response to the events of Sept. 11. Psalm 46 is the main text used by Mr. Heitzig. This booklet is divided into 5 chapters. The author reminds readers of God's presence, peace and power. In chapter 5 the author lays out the proper response to terror for God's followers. Stillness and Surrender and Repentance and Prayer are given as the solution.

2000: un año intranquilo.(problemas para la industria bancaria)(TT: 2000: an unsettling year.)(TA: troubles ...
Ricardo García Sáinz

Edicional Siempre, 1999

This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on April 15, 1999. The length of the article is 774 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: 2000: un año intranquilo.(problemas para la industria ...

Truly Wilde: The Unsettling Story of Dolly Wilde, Oscar's Unusual Niece

14 reviews
Joan Schenkar, 2001

meaning without words...a wisp of a shadow
How do you relate the life of someone who never stepped forward from the shadows of her disgraced uncle, Oscar Wilde? Someone who sparkled like a thousand shards of a broken mirror on a sunlit day? Dolly was a wisp of a shadow, mesmerizing, bewitching permanently etching herself into onto one's memory with her mere presence. Those who knew her well, Janet Flanner, Natalie Barney, Honey Harris - ...

Unsettling: how self-delusion led Israel and America to disastrous occupations of Arab lands.(The Accidental ...

1 review
Rebecca Sinderbrand

Thomson Gale, 2006

Stupid
This review of "The Accidental Empire" says everything I expected it to say. It starts by discussing the first few Jewish communities in the disputed West Bank after their liberation by Israel in the Six Day war. Oh, excuse me, did I say disputed? In this review, one might think that they are anything but that, and are instead Holy Arab Land. And that the entire Pantheon has decreed that ...

Unsettling Europe

2 reviews
Jane Kramer

Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1992

A thought provoking and insightful book
The book provokes mixed feelings. On one hand, a disturbing portrait of immigrants' isolation, but also a story of their courageous (sometimes out of desperation) perseverance in face of overwhelmingly difficult circumstances. You have to leave all your prejudices aside to understand what the author is trying to convey. If you can, you will gain an insight into the sometimes unbearable lives ...

TRULY WILDE: THE UNSETTLING STORY OF DOLLY WILDE, OSCAR'S UNUSUAL NIECE.

2 reviews
Joan. Schenkar

Virago, 2000

Fascinating life, scattered writing
I have read numerous books by and about Oscar Wilde and received this book as a Christmas gift. I was excited to learn about Oscar Wilde's niece, and they do have an eerily similar face. I have to agree with the previous reviewer: the writing is all over the place and topics are repeated over and over. I don't think, however, that Oscar was overdone. The best parts of the book were when Schenkar ...

Unsettling the West: Eliza Farnham and Georgiana Bruce Kirby in Frontier California (California Legacy Book)

2 reviews
Jo Ann Levy

Santa Clara University, 2004

Terrific reading!!
Wonderful! Like the author's groundbreaking classic, "They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush," extensive quotes from humorous, poignant, and often astonishing primary sources bring to life these two remarkable women and the time they lived in. And what a fascinating time! California gold rush, women's rights, suffrage, phrenology, Sing Sing prison, Gettysburg, Spiritualism - ...

The Birth-mark: unsettling the wilderness in American literary history

2 reviews
Susan Howe

Wesleyan, 1993

Illuminating the Literary Wilderness
For those who have read Susan Howe's poetry and marvelled at, but did not fully understand it, this book is compelling in its explanatory power. The quotations in the preface alone are worth the price of admission, for it is here than one can see how impressive is her understanding of Emily Dickinson's writing. By exposing the manuscript story behind Dickinson's works, Susan Howe has made a ...

Preaching Mark's Unsettling Messiah

1 review

Chalice Press, 2006

from Chalice Press
The authors have brought together an impressive list of homileticians and preachers to answer the question "How can we draw our congregations into the world that Mark has imagined for us in his gospel?" At the heart of this book is the homiletic work of Fred Craddock, addressing issues of whether the sermon says and does what the biblical text says and does and what qualities can enrich the ...

search for books
immigration, international, intranquilo, reflections, self-delusion

Impressum / about us