Tearing the Silence

Tearing the Silence
Author: Ursula Hegi
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2011-05-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1439144133

Ursula Hegi grew up in Germany and moved to the United States at age eighteen. As she grew older and raised a family, questions about her roots and her native land haunted her until, at last, she felt compelled to write about them. Tearing the Silence brings together her interviews with dozens of German-born Americans, and their confrontations with the taboo of the Holocaust.

Tearing the Silence

Tearing the Silence
Author: Ursula Hegi
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2011-05-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781439144138

Ursula Hegi grew up in Germany and moved to the United States at age eighteen. As she grew older and raised a family, questions about her roots and her native land haunted her until, at last, she felt compelled to write about them. Tearing the Silence brings together her interviews with dozens of German-born Americans, and their confrontations with the taboo of the Holocaust.

Tears We Cannot Stop

Tears We Cannot Stop
Author: Michael Eric Dyson
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2017-01-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1250136008

NOW A NEW YORK TIMES, PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY, INDIEBOUND, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, CHRONICLE HERALD, SALISBURY POST, GUELPH MERCURY TRIBUNE, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER | NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: The Washington Post • Bustle • Men's Journal • The Chicago Reader • StarTribune • Blavity• The Guardian • NBC New York's Bill's Books • Kirkus • Essence “One of the most frank and searing discussions on race ... a deeply serious, urgent book, which should take its place in the tradition of Baldwin's The Fire Next Time and King's Why We Can't Wait." —The New York Times Book Review Toni Morrison hails Tears We Cannot Stop as "Elegantly written and powerful in several areas: moving personal recollections; profound cultural analysis; and guidance for moral redemption. A work to relish." Stephen King says: "Here’s a sermon that’s as fierce as it is lucid...If you’re black, you’ll feel a spark of recognition in every paragraph. If you’re white, Dyson tells you what you need to know—what this white man needed to know, at least. This is a major achievement. I read it and said amen." Short, emotional, literary, powerful—Tears We Cannot Stop is the book that all Americans who care about the current and long-burning crisis in race relations will want to read. As the country grapples with racist division at a level not seen since the 1960s, one man's voice soars above the rest with conviction and compassion. In his 2016 New York Times op-ed piece "Death in Black and White," Michael Eric Dyson moved a nation. Now he continues to speak out in Tears We Cannot Stop—a provocative and deeply personal call for change. Dyson argues that if we are to make real racial progress we must face difficult truths, including being honest about how black grievance has been ignored, dismissed, or discounted. "The time is at hand for reckoning with the past, recognizing the truth of the present, and moving together to redeem the nation for our future. If we don't act now, if you don't address race immediately, there very well may be no future."

A Time to Keep Silence

A Time to Keep Silence
Author: Patrick Leigh Fermor
Publisher: John Murray
Total Pages: 65
Release: 2011-12-08
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1848547021

From the French Abbey of St Wandrille to the abandoned and awesome Rock Monasteries of Cappadocia in Turkey, the celebrated travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor studies the rigorous contemplative lives of the monks and the timeless beauty of their monastic surroundings. In his occasional retreats, the peaceful solitude and the calm enchantment of the monasteries was passed on as a kind of 'supernatural windfall' which A Time to Keep Silence so effortlessly records.

Breaking the Silence Habit

Breaking the Silence Habit
Author: Sarah Beaulieu
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2020-02-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1523087420

Top consultant Sarah Beaulieu offers a five-part framework that enables employees to have difficult but necessary conversations about sexual harassment and violence and develop new, better ways of working together. In the wake of the #MeToo movement, employees and leaders are struggling with how to respond to the pervasiveness of sexual harassment. Most approaches simply emphasize knowing and complying with existing laws. But people need more than lists of dos and don'ts—they need to learn how to navigate this uncertain, emotionally charged terrain. Sarah Beaulieu provides a new skills-based approach to addressing sexual harassment prevention and response in the workplace, including using underdeveloped skills like empathy, situational awareness, boundary setting, and intervention. Beaulieu outlines a five-part framework for having conversations about sexual harassment: Know the Facts; Feel Uncomfortable; Get Curious, Not Furious; See the Whole Picture; and Embrace Practical Questions. By embracing these conversations, we can break the cycle of avoidance and silence that makes our lives and workplaces feel volatile and unsafe. Grounded in storytelling, humor, and dozens of real-life scenarios, this book introduces the idea of uncomfortable conversation as the core skill required to enable everyone to bring their full talent and contributions to safe and respectful workplaces.

Tearing the Silence

Tearing the Silence
Author: Ursula Hegi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1997
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The bestselling author of "Stones from the River" breaks the silence which has haunted the lives of postwar German immigrants to tell the one story of the Holocaust readers have not been privy to--the legacy of shame and grief that shadows a people that can neither escape nor embrace its national heritage.

Stones from the River

Stones from the River
Author: Ursula Hegi
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2011-01-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1439144761

From the acclaimed author of Floating in My Mother’s Palm and Children and Fire, a stunning story about ordinary people living in extraordinary times—“epic, daring, magnificent, the product of a defining and mesmerizing vision” (Los Angeles Times). Trudi Montag is a Zwerg—a dwarf—short, undesirable, different, the voice of anyone who has ever tried to fit in. Eventually she learns that being different is a secret that all humans share—from her mother who flees into madness, to her friend Georg whose parents pretend he’s a girl, to the Jews Trudi harbors in her cellar. Ursula Hegi brings us a timeless and unforgettable story in Trudi and a small town, weaving together a profound tapestry of emotional power, humanity, and truth.

Tear Down This Wall of Silence

Tear Down This Wall of Silence
Author: Dale Ingraham
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2017-01-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9780998198118

a call to churches to be prepared to understand the sin of sexual abuse, to believe and speak the truth, and to take action to help those who have been affected by abuse.

Breaking The Silence

Breaking The Silence
Author: G25 Malaysia
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2015-12-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9814721999

On 7 December 2014, a group of 25 prominent Malays (G25) issued an open call for moderate Malays and Muslims to speak out against the hate speeches targeted at non-Muslims by supremacist groups. They stressed that the extremist and intolerant voices do not speak for the general Muslim community, and they called for a review of Shariah law and civil law to be in line with the supremacy of the Federal Constitution. Will it be possible to arrest these destructive forces that are taking control of the future wellbeing of Malaysia? The G25 hopes it would, and that this book will bring greater awareness of the dangers that are tearing apart Malaysian's social fabric. In this important volume, 22 leading academics, lawyers and social activists discuss the impact of Islamic bureaucracy in Malaysia and its consistency with the provisions of the Federal Constitution. They also address the socio-political dimensions and cultural-economic implications on Malaysian society. The Contributors Dr Asiah Abu Samah Dr Asma Abdullah Aston Paiva Dr Azmi Sharom Dr Chandra Muzaffar Farouk A. Peru Fawza Sabila Faudzi Firdaus Husni Koh Kek Hoe Lim Heng Seng Dr Maszlee Malik Mohd Afif bin Daud Dr Mohd Azizuddin Mohd Sani Mohd Sheriff Mohd Kassim Dr Mohd Nawab Osman Nizam Bashir Ranita Hussein Rosli Dahlan Dr Shad Saleem Faruqi Shazal Yusuf Zain Dr Syed Farid Alatas Zainah Anwar

The Worst Thing I've Done

The Worst Thing I've Done
Author: Ursula Hegi
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2009-04-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1847398715

Friends since childhood, Annie, Jake and Mason had a special bond that transcended all other relationships. When Annie's parents die on her and Mason's wedding night, the three friends decide to raise Annie's infant sister, Opal, together. Entangled relationships ensue between them and Annie struggles to be both a sister and a mother to Opal. And then, on one fateful night, the friends step over a line that has shocking, unforeseen consequences. Beautifully written and brilliantly vivid, this truth-telling and engaging novel of friendship, love and death and -- ultimately -- of resilience and understanding, will resonate long after each character tells their story.