Walking a Tightrope

Walking a Tightrope
Author: Emma Gilman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2021-09-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781737859901

Deeply restless in her privileged life as part of Axminster's high society, Juniper Rose escapes to the wild world of the circus and an adventure that will change her life. Juniper will learn who she is-and fast-as being the show's new star attraction embroils her in what threatens to become a serial murder mystery with the potential to ruin everything. In the midst of all this, Juniper encounters the dark and brooding Cassius whose torment pushes her to the end of herself. And there she discovers her undeniable love for the circus-and despite his efforts to be her worst enemy-her equally undeniable attraction for Cassius.

Walking a Tightrope

Walking a Tightrope
Author: James Muzondidya
Publisher: Africa World Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2005
Genre: Racially mixed people
ISBN: 9781592212460

Focusing mainly on the process of identity formation among members of Zimbabwe's coloured community, this book challenges conventional wisdom on race and ethnic identities. When viewed in the broad perspective of studies which focus on identities in general, this work is one of the few that clearly tries to demonstrate how social identities are produced and reproduced in the dialect of internal and external definition while paying adequate attention to the role played by the people themselves.

Walking the Tightrope Without a Grace Net

Walking the Tightrope Without a Grace Net
Author: Brenda M. Myers
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2010-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1450237630

The Christian life was meant to be danced but not on your tip toes. A tightrope walk was my spiritual life. One missed step meant you were falling into hell if you didn't repent immediately. I was taught that true Christians never sinned, or if they did, they would have to "get saved" all over again. An unreasonable standard of "holiness" and a constant striving of perfection flowed from this belief. Lists of dos and don'ts were in abundance in an effort to practice the "idol of holiness." Are you walking that tightrope? By understanding God's true character through His saving grace on the cross, you can break free from the bondage of legalism and unholy fear, anxiety, and frustration, into a life of gratefulness for God's love, mercy, and grace. You can begin the balancing act of leaving legalism behind and finding true liberty in Christ.

The Man Who Walked Between the Towers

The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
Author: Mordicai Gerstein
Publisher: Square Fish
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2007-04-17
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1429939958

The story of a daring tightrope walk between skyscrapers, as seen in Robert Zemeckis's The Walk, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. In 1974, French aerialist Philippe Petit threw a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center and spent an hour walking, dancing, and performing high-wire tricks a quarter mile in the sky. This picture book captures the poetry and magic of the event with a poetry of its own: lyrical words and lovely paintings that present the detail, daring, and--in two dramatic foldout spreads-- the vertiginous drama of Petit's feat. The Man Who Walked Between the Towers is the winner of the 2004 Caldecott Medal, the winner of the 2004 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Picture Books, and the winner of the 2006 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video.

Soviet Women

Soviet Women
Author: Francine du Plessix Gray
Publisher: Virago Press
Total Pages: 213
Release: 1991
Genre: Soviet Union
ISBN: 9781853814655

In this book, the author brings us the voices of women doctors, dissidents, party workers, journalists and factory workers, who talk about their lives. It emerges that women continue to suffer a variety of injustices, and there is backwardness in sex education and women's health facilities.

Walking the Tightrope

Walking the Tightrope
Author: Willy Carl Van den Hoonaard
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780802085238

Are formal ethics research guidelines congruent with the aims and methodology of inductive and qualitative social research? Using the experiences of 16 Canadian, American, and British researchers, this collection explores answers to the question.

Leadership in the LAPD

Leadership in the LAPD
Author: Renford Reese
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Police administration
ISBN: 9781594600203

The most successful public sector leaders today are ones that have the capacity to lead internally and externally. They are able to see and understand the inherent contradictions in their multiple roles. For instance, appeasing the community with a more humanistic approach to policing, while getting tough on crime; giving the community a greater role in police affairs, but maintaining the autonomy to make unilateral decisions; supporting tough actions against bad cops to appease the community while steadfastly defending the rank and file. These are scenarios that are difficult for police chiefs to reconcile. This book examines how chiefs of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) have attempted to reconcile contradictory objectives. It explores the history of leadership in this famed police department, analyzing the leadership styles of its contemporary chiefs. This book explores the leader's capacity to walk the public leadership tightrope. This exercise is the most important task of any public sector leader. As one of the most highly profiled public agencies in the U.S., the LAPD has embraced many contradictions. The department has been a model of professionalism and misconduct. The LAPD has been at the center of many of the nation's most racially explosive experiences: the 1965 Watts riots, the Rodney King beating and subsequent 1992 riots, and the O.J. Simpson case. Additionally, the Rampart Scandal was one of the biggest police corruption scandals in the nation. Because of its proximity to Hollywood, the contradictory culture of the LAPD has been exposed in television and film. Indeed, America has become familiar with the LAPD through its periodic scandals and by its media and popular culture profile. Specifically written for students of criminal justice and public administration, this book examines the ways in which the LAPD's leaders have attempted to navigate crisis after crisis. The author uses interviews with thirty LAPD officers of various rankings and several Los Angeles residents to tell the LAPD story.

What About Me

What About Me
Author: D. John Jackson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2021-02-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781544519005

Have you ever felt unseen, unheard, misjudged, or misunderstood? In What About Me: Walking the Tightrope as a Black Man in America, D. John Jackson, a Fortune 50 corporate leader with over thirty years of engineering and business leadership, shares a simple, powerful message: Your life matters. Your dreams matter. And you can achieve them, no matter who you are or where you're starting out. Through the stories and lessons of his own personal journey, Jackson proves time and again that what you say and do can change the trajectory of your life. Written specifically for young Black men and boys in America today, What About Me speaks to, and for, all marginalized or underrepresented voices with a call of courage and perseverance. When young Black men and boys are fully appreciated, when we all come together through stories of success and hope, this country will finally reach its true potential.

Tightrope

Tightrope
Author: Nicholas D. Kristof
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2020-09-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0525564179

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With stark poignancy and political dispassion Tightrope addresses the crisis in working-class America while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure. This must-read book from the authors of Half the Sky “shows how we can and must do better” (Katie Couric). "A deft and uniquely credible exploration of rural America, and of other left-behind pockets of our country. One of the most important books I've read on the state of our disunion."—Tara Westover, author of Educated Drawing us deep into an “other America,” the authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the people with whom Kristof grew up, in rural Yamhill, Oregon. It’s an area that prospered for much of the twentieth century but has been devastated in the last few decades as blue-collar jobs disappeared. About a quarter of the children on Kristof’s old school bus died in adulthood from drugs, alcohol, suicide, or reckless accidents. While these particular stories unfolded in one corner of the country, they are representative of many places the authors write about, ranging from the Dakotas and Oklahoma to New York and Virginia. With their superb, nuanced reportage, Kristof and WuDunn have given us a book that is both riveting and impossible to ignore.

Tightrope Poppy the High-Wire Pig

Tightrope Poppy the High-Wire Pig
Author: Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 37
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 140272411X

Poppy dreams of walking the high wire and practices every chance she gets, but when she fails in her first attempt on a real circus wire, she believes she must quit.