This memoir is a beautifully written, unflinching portrait of what it is like to grow up white and working class in Detroit, a place that symbolizes black urban decay.
Points is a guide to improving the quality of your life by reinforcing a positive self-image. You will learn how you enhance or detract from your self-image through your every thought and action. By exploring how you gain or lose self-esteem "points", you can learn to overcome past negative experiences and truly have the happiness, success, and ...
As I see it all around me, the trees are dying out, our water is contaminated, and our air is not good to breathe. Those are the reasons why today I'm trying my best to come back to our ways of thousands of years ago. We have to come back to the Native way of life. The Native way is to pray for everything, to take care of everything. Our Mother ...
Improvisation had long been acknowledged as one of the most valuable resources an actor and teacher can utilize. But until now there has never been a single, handy, comprehensive book of material on which to base these exercises. The situations in this book are geared specifically toward the actor's development rather than just the entertainment ...
The Handbook of Rational and Social Choice provides an overview of issues arising in work on the foundations of decision theory and social choice over the past three decades. Drawing on work by economic theorists mainly, but also with contributions from political science, philosophy and psychology, the collection shows how the related areas of ...
Comprehensive and accessible, this title offers a clear and original framework for studying the important issues in colonial American history. It provides students with more than 60 essential documents on Colonial America. Short headnotes introduce each selection. It begins with a brief introduction by the editor and concludes with a bibliography ...
This book is the fruit of a close collaboration between three leading scholars with a background in systematics, philosophical theology and ethics. It sets out a new account of how incarnation is mediated in the world of space and time, leading to a new orientation of theology within the world. The doctrinal ('from above') and philosophical ('from ...
Following the publication of his magnum opus L'tre et l'vnement (Being and Event) in 1988, Alain Badiou has been acclaimed as one of France's greatest living philosophers. Since then, he has released a dozen books, including Manifesto for Philosophy, Conditions, Metapolitics and Logiques des mondes (Logics of Worlds), many of which are now ...
Having a stroke can be a devastating experience for both the patient and family. The crisis creates an immediate need for the family to understand how to take care of the stroke patient. After years of nursing experience and teaching nurses' assistants, Helen Underwood has compiled a practical manual for families and caregivers. Noting the causes ...
We guarantee every item's condition, as described on Alibris. If you are not satisfied that an item is as described, return your purchase for a refund.
