Through unknown doors

Through unknown doors
Author: Dr. Linda J. Stillman
Publisher: Europa Edizioni
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2024-04-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

THROUGH UNKNOWN DOORS highlights the lifelong journey of Dr. Linda J. Stillman. The intent was to highlight her numerous inter-cultural/global adventures and anecdotes, as experiential episodes, both challenging and rewarding. The key themes emphasize: Culture & Communication Matter Life Happens While Making Plans New York Minute Decisions Zero Tolerance Towards Violence. As she discovered her multi-layered destiny through constant opportunities and change, she studied to obtain degrees that would complement her experiences to fulfill emerging passions. Her journey revolved around entering unknown doors that resulted in successes and missteps down unusual paths crisscrosses the immortal poem The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. The memoirs also illuminate influential people in her life, focusing on their productive and positive impact. As she traversed through frequent unknown doors, the myriad of eclectic experiences expanded her horizons far beyond home state New Hampshire. She engaged with vivid cultures and various communities when living amidst Arabic, Communist, Nordic, European, Asian societies, plus unique Manhattan -- before her recent return to reside in New England after half a century. Dr. Linda J. Stillman is a global mentor and founder/chair of the Young Global Leadership Foundation (YGLF.org) with UN NGO ECOSOC status since 2018. YGLF adheres to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She guides young adult leaders, from refugees to royals, with their ambitious academic~ professional ~ UN civic engagement ~ personal challenges. Professionally, Dr. Linda has served as a culture & communication educator, professional development expert, writer and speaker. For decades, she also contributed to intercultural/diplomatic relations in Manhattan, Morocco, former Yugoslavia, Iceland, Germany, and China. She was president of the American/ International Women’s Association, Rabat, president of the American Women’s Club, Belgrade, creator/chair of the International Women’s Association, Reykjavik, and vice president of the International Women’s Association, Bonn. In New York, she was president and UN representative of Soroptimist International NYC and much more. Educationally, Dr. Linda acquired her BS in Communication Arts, Cornell University; learned German at the Goethe Institute; completed her Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT), highest distinction, Webster University; and earned her international PhD in philosophy, honors, from the University of Bonn. Personally, Dr. Linda passionately shares her Chez L&P (Love & Peace) with family, friends and colleagues to promote peaceful, productive and positive inter-generational relations in the 21st Century.

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Author: Rebecca Solnit
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2006-06-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1101118717

“An intriguing amalgam of personal memoir, philosophical speculation, natural lore, cultural history, and art criticism.” —Los Angeles Times From the award-winning author of Orwell's Roses, a stimulating exploration of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown Written as a series of autobiographical essays, A Field Guide to Getting Lost draws on emblematic moments and relationships in Rebecca Solnit's life to explore issues of uncertainty, trust, loss, memory, desire, and place. Solnit is interested in the stories we use to navigate our way through the world, and the places we traverse, from wilderness to cities, in finding ourselves, or losing ourselves. While deeply personal, her own stories link up to larger stories, from captivity narratives of early Americans to the use of the color blue in Renaissance painting, not to mention encounters with tortoises, monks, punk rockers, mountains, deserts, and the movie Vertigo. The result is a distinctive, stimulating voyage of discovery.

The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell

The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
Author: Aldous Huxley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2017-03-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9781544816227

Two great classics come to life in one of the most loved books in American History. Remastered to include Illustrated exercises, a biography of Aldous Huxley, and including the full essay of Heaven and Hell, and The Doors to Perception, this book is a great gift to those who are unfamiliar with his work, or may have forgotten about Huxley's famous contemplations of life and death. - ZKBS(c) All Rights Reserved.

The Law Reports

The Law Reports
Author: Great Britain. High Court of Justice. Queen's Bench Division
Publisher:
Total Pages: 780
Release: 1920
Genre: Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN:

100 Deadly Skills

100 Deadly Skills
Author: Clint Emerson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2015-10-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 147679605X

Offers one hundred concise methods of surviving dangerous situations based on the skills of military special forces operatives, covering such topics as evading ambushes, escaping confinement, and winning a knife fight.

The Eight of Swords: A Dr. Gideon Fell Mystery (An American Mystery Classic)

The Eight of Swords: A Dr. Gideon Fell Mystery (An American Mystery Classic)
Author: John Dickson Carr
Publisher: Penzler Publishers
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2021-12-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1613162588

A tarot card discovered at a murder scene provides a clue for Dr. Gideon Fell In a house in the English countryside, a man has just turned up dead, surrounded by a crime scene that seems, at first glance, to be fairly straightforward. He’s found with a bullet through the head in an unlocked room, and all signs point to a recent strange visitor as the perpetrator. The body is even accompanied by an ostentatious clue, presumably left by the killer: The tarot card of The Eight of Swords, an allusion, perhaps, to justice. But when Dr. Gideon Fell arrives at the house to investigate, he finds that certain aspects of the murder scene don’t quite add up—and that every new piece of evidence introduces a new problem instead of a new solution. Add to that the suggestion of a poltergeist on the property, the appearance of American gangsters, and the constant interruptions of two dabbling amateur sleuths adjacent to the case, and you have a situation puzzling enough to push Fell’s powers of deduction to their limits. But will Fell be able to cut through their distractions and get to the heart of the matter, before more murders take place? Reissued for the first time in years, The Eight of Swords is an early Carr novel that highlights many of the qualities that made him such a successful writer, including his baffling plots, his twisty investigations, and his memorable characters. It is the third installment in the Dr. Gideon Fell series, which can be read in any order.