The Pen Is Mightier Than the Broom

The Pen Is Mightier Than the Broom
Author: Julia Weller
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2006-11
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0595414036

A collection of memoirs, stories and poems by Stromboli Streghe, a group of women writers from Bethesda, Maryland.

A Theory of Everything Else

A Theory of Everything Else
Author: Laura Pedersen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2020-09-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 163152738X

That elusive Holy Grail of modern physics, A Theory of Everything (ToE), would explain the universe in a single set of equations. Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking tackled the problem during their lifetimes and the quest continues today in laboratories around the world. Leaving string theory, galaxy clusters, and supersymmetry to the Quantum Computer and Hadron Collider crowd, Pedersen has taken up the rest—that is, A Theory of Everything Else (ToEE), based on her own groundbreaking experiences as a dog walker, camp counselor, and Bingo caller. Pedersen’s essays are a series of colorful helium balloons that entertain as well as affirm and uplift. Why, she ponders in one essay, are thousands perishing as a result of assault weapons, carbon emissions, forest fires, pesticides, and processed foods—and yet how lawn darts were banned in the 1980s after two people died? In A Theory of Everything Else, Pedersen vividly demonstrates how life can appear to grind us down while it’s actually polishing us up—and why everyone wants to live a long time but no one wants to grow old.

Friendship and Work Culture of Women Managers in Japan

Friendship and Work Culture of Women Managers in Japan
Author: Swee-Lin Ho
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2018-01-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351597426

Drawing on ethnographic data gathered from fieldwork spanning a 15-year period, this book offers new insights into understanding the lives and experiences of women managers in Japan. Based on empirical case studies, it explores the ways in which professional women in Tokyo creatively mobilize their friendships as a strategic site for mitigating the disappointments in their working lives, and conceptualizing new understandings of independence and equality. It analyses their use of language, time, space and money to negotiate new identities in an increasingly flexible work environment. In examining the challenges and opportunities faced by these corporate workers, this book also extends anthropological debates about the changing meaning and importance of work for women, as well as their relationship with money and separation from the realm of domesticity. As a study of women's lives in and out of the workplace in Japan, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Japanese studies, Japanese culture and society, anthropology, sociology, gender and women's studies.

The Collected Writings of Sherman and Grace Coolidge

The Collected Writings of Sherman and Grace Coolidge
Author: Sherman Coolidge
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2023-05
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 149623488X

Sherman and Grace Coolidge were a remarkable couple in many respects. Sherman Coolidge (Runs On Top), born in the early 1860s into the Northern band of Arapahos, experienced the extreme violence of the Indian Wars, including the death of his father, as a young boy. Grace Wetherbee Coolidge was born into wealth and privilege in 1873, only to reject her life as a New York heiress and become a missionary on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. It was there that Sherman and Grace met and later married in 1902. After eight years together at Wind River, both went on to achieve prominence: Sherman as the president of the Native-run reform group the Society of American Indians (1911–1923), Grace as the author of Teepee Neighbors, a book describing her time on the reservation that drew praise from critics such as H. L. Mencken. Sherman was an Episcopal priest and a mesmerizing speaker who had the unique ability to blend his assimilated Western perspective with Arapaho values to educate the American public about the significant challenges facing Native peoples, including endemic poverty, racism, and inequality. Offering unprecedented entrée into the most significant writings and documents of a leading Native American advocate and his wife, this volume is an intimate portrait of their life and contributes to our understanding of American Indian activism at a key moment of Indigenous resurgence against the settler state.

The American Missionary

The American Missionary
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 806
Release: 1914
Genre: Congregational churches
ISBN:

Vols. 13-62 include abridged annual reports and proceedings of the annual meetings of the American Missionary Association, 1869-1908; v. 38-62 include abridged annual reports of the Society's Executive committee, 1883/84-1907/1908.

Vanished Reality and Other Poems

Vanished Reality and Other Poems
Author: Tapeshwar Prasad
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2018-04-23
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1543702775

The anthology Vanished Reality and Other Poems is startlingly artistic in emotional endowments, poetic materials, in style and ability, and in structure and texture to reveal innate literary distinction and touch the heart of the readers for a perspective view of life through poetry. The poet possesses the perfect instrumenthis virtuoso language. His poetry bears on existential gravitas. The author seems to dovetail his subtle, objective, ethical ideas and thoughts in his heartfull subjective feelings and emotions, and he presents them on a pheromonous platter of perfumed and glittering potentialities. Intertwined with the words are cosmic truths. The meanings are besides the words and behind the lines and under the slippers. An enchanting illusion and delusion hallucinates the reader and keeps him mesmerized, albeit saner and wiser. Simple and concrete, thoughts and ideas interlaced and intertwined with deep philosophical certitude keep the readers entangled and enthralled, bound with amazement with the tapestry of playing existentialism and haunting individualism. Verse with verve. The ideas that the words and the poems convey are sacrosanct as they are both jettisoned, felt and followed. Only with regret could a genuine reader and connoisseur pass but casually over such a rare and unique vibrating book and literary bonanza.