A Place to Stand

A Place to Stand
Author: Jimmy Santiago Baca
Publsiher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2007-12-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781555848903

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The Pushcart Prize–winning poet’s memoir of his criminal youth and years in prison: a “brave and heartbreaking” tale of triumph over brutal adversity (The Nation). Jimmy Santiago Baca’s “astonishing narrative” of his life before, during, and immediately after the years he spent in the maximum-security prison garnered tremendous critical acclaim. An important chronicle that “affirms the triumph of the human spirit,” it went on to win the prestigious 2001 International Prize (Arizona Daily Star). Long considered one of the best poets in America today, Baca was illiterate at the age of twenty-one when he was sentenced to five years in Florence State Prison for selling drugs in Arizona. This raw, unflinching memoir is the remarkable tale of how he emerged after his years in the penitentiary—much of it spent in isolation—with the ability to read and a passion for writing poetry. “Proof there is always hope in even the most desperate lives.” —Fort Worth Star-Telegram “A hell of a book, quite literally. You won’t soon forget it.” —The San Diego U-T “This book will have a permanent place in American letters.” —Jim Harrison, New York Times–bestselling author of A Good Day to Die

Old Friend from Far Away

Old Friend from Far Away
Author: Natalie Goldberg
Publsiher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2009-03-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781416535034

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In her first book to focus solely on writing since her classic work "Writing Down the Bones," Goldberg reaffirms her status as one of the foremost teachers by redefining the practice of writing memoir.

Finding a Place to Stand Developing Self Reflective Institutions Leaders and Citizens

Finding a Place to Stand  Developing Self Reflective Institutions  Leaders and Citizens
Author: Edward R. Shapiro
Publsiher: Phoenix Publishing House
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2019-09-12
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781912691340

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What stands between us and authoritarianism seems increasingly fragile. Democratic practices are under attack by foreign intrusion into elections; voter suppression restricts citizen participation. Nations are turning to autocratic leaders in the face of rapid social change. Democratic values and open society can only be preserved if citizens can discover and claim their voices. We access society through our organisations, yet the collective voices and irrationalities of these organisations do not currently offer clear pathways for individuals to locate themselves. How can we move through the mounting chaos of our social systems, through our multiple roles in groups and institutions, to find a voice that matters? What kind of perspective will allow institutional leaders to facilitate the discovery of active citizenship and support engagement? This book draws on psychodynamic systems thinking to offer a new understanding of the journey from being an individual to joining society as a citizen. With detailed stories, the steps – and the conscious and unconscious linkages – from being a family member, to entering outside groups, to taking up and making sense of institutional roles, illuminate the process of claiming the citizen role. With the help of leaders who recognise and utilise the dynamics of social systems, there may be hope for us as citizens to use our institutional experiences to discover a place to stand.

A Place to Stand

A Place to Stand
Author: Julie Lindquist
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2002-01-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780195349849

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Linguists have become increasingly interested in examining how class culture is socially constructed and maintained through spoken language. Julie Lindquist's examination of the linguistic ethnography of a working-class bar in Chicago is an important and original contribution to the field. She examines how regular patrons argue about political issues in order to create a group identity centered around political ideology. She also shows how their political arguments are actually a rhetorical genre, one which creates a delicate balance between group solidarity and individual identity, as well as a tenuous and ambivalent sense of class identity.

A Place to Stand

A Place to Stand
Author: Gene Edward Veith (Jr.),David J. Vaughan
Publsiher: Cumberland House Publishing
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1581824203

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New entry in the Leaders In Action Series. Offers a spiritual biography of Martin Luther.

A Place to Stand

A Place to Stand
Author: Elton Trueblood
Publsiher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2014-07-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780062338976

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A Place to Stand is addressed to those who recognize the need for a strong stand from which to operate in the confusion of contemporary thought. Ours has become an age, says Trueblood, in which people simply do not know what to think. Trueblood is convinced that there is an objective truth about everything. Here, Trueblood explains what Christians believe and why, exploring through each chapter rational Christianity, a center of certitude, the living God, the reality of prayer, and the life everlasting. He is convinced that part of the weakness of the Christian movement in this age has been the relative lack of emphasis upon belief. However good and important service to humanity is, it loses its motivating power when the sustaining beliefs are allowed to wither. A Place to Stand is a classic text that shows it is possible, without contradiction or confusion, to hold a Christian position which is both evangelical and rational.

Critical Encounters with Texts

Critical Encounters with Texts
Author: Margaret Himley,Anne Fitzsimmons
Publsiher: Pearson
Total Pages: 684
Release: 2005
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0536954283

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A Glass of Water

A Glass of Water
Author: Jimmy Santiago Baca
Publsiher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2010-09-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780802198921

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“[A] blistering novel” of family, loyalty, ambition, and revenge that offers an intimate look into the tragedies unfurling at the US-Mexico border (Publishers Weekly). The promise of a new beginning brings Casimiro and Nopal together when they are young immigrants, having made the nearly deadly journey across the border from Mexico. They settle into a life of long days in the chili fields, and in a few years their happy union yields two sons, Lorenzo and Vito. But when Nopal is brutally murdered, the boys are left to navigate life in this brave but capricious new world without her. A Glass of Water is a searing, heartfelt tribute to brotherhood, and an arresting portrait of the twisted paths people take to claim their piece of the American dream. The first novel from award-winning memoirist, poet, and activist, Jimmy Santiago Baca, it is a passionate and galvanizing addition to Chicano literature. “The sheer passion that drives Baca’s novel is undeniable.” —Publishers Weekly “[With] image-rich writing . . . A Glass of Water adds another strong voice to the growing body of literature on immigration and migrant farmworkers . . . . Baca should be commended for tackling injustice in his fiction.” —High Country News “A well-written and at times lyrical saga told with understanding and compassion.” —Library Journal