Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility among Labor Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims, Mirjam Lucking
Автор: MIRJAM MILHARCIC HLADNIK Название: Going Places: Slovenian Women`s Stories on Migration ISBN: 1937378713 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781937378714 Издательство: Amazon Internet Цена: 3520.00 р. 5029.00-30% Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) Описание: Going Places is a narrative of a century of Slovenian Women's immigration stories. The book traces the migration of these Eastern European women to several destinations including Argentina, Egypt, Italy, and the United States. The research has been carefully culled from the subjects' letters, personal diaries, and oral interviews. What results is a story that covers the span of three or four generations.The book highlights in biography the story of identity under construction. Each woman's identity surpasses ethnic, national identity or belonging, but at the same time, contains different elements of identity transformation at different stages of the narrator's life. As one participant said, While their suitcases may be light with personal belongings, their stamina, strength and determination and emotional commitment would sink a battleship.
Описание: "Luckier Than Most" is the true story of a boy named Harry. As one of the last surviving verterans of WWII, Harry is part of a generation born in the decade following World War I, spent their childhood in great poverty and then, while still in their teens, were sent off to distant lands to fight in the next world war. Raised during the Great Depression, Harry and his family struggled to find a better life, desperately in search of the American Dream and a place to call home. Uprooted 19 times by the age of 16, Harry learned early how to cope with the harsh realities of a chaotic life. His childhood was spent on freight trains and hitchhiking back and forth across country, being sent out to beg for food to feed his family, working the fields of California and living out in the open under an old oak tree. His determination to distance himself from an unhappy childhood led Harry to a life in the United States Army and into two war zones (World War II and the Korean Conflict). Harry's decades-long career in bomb disposal and the U.S. Army Infantry exposed him to more danger than one can imagine. But when it mattered most, good training, luck and God always seemed to be on his side. Having survived an unimaginable childhood, two wars and a dangerous career, Harry was determined to find happiness and by golly, he did It's not always a happy story. In fact, there's an awful lot of heartache between the pages. But even during the bad times, Harry's eternal optimism shines through as does his steadfast belief that life is what you make it. Reading Harry's story - which in many ways is his generation's story - you'll realize why Tom Brokaw called this "The Greatest Generation."
Описание: Can luck be learned? Absolutely! Discover how in this special condensation of the landmark book on cultivating good fortune. A.H.Z. Carr's How to Attract Good Luck is not about carrying a rabbit's foot, or winning at games of chance. Rather it is a workable, practical program for increasing luck in all areas of your life, from career and reputation to relationships and love. Abridged and introduced by New Thought historian Mitch Horowitz, this powerful condensation teaches you:
How to spot chance events that can help you.
What kinds of personality traits attract good luck.
Описание: In the long annals of sports and crime, no story compares to the one that engulfed the Luckman family in 1935. As 18-year-old Sid Luckman made headlines across New York City for his high school football exploits at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, his father, Meyer Luckman, was making headlines in the same papers for a very different reason: the gangland murder of his own brother-in-law. Amazingly, when Sid became a star at Columbia and a Hall of Fame NFL quarterback in Chicago, all of it while Meyer Luckman served 20-years-to-life in Sing Sing Prison, the connection between sports celebrity son and mobster father was studiously ignored by the press and ultimately overlooked for eight decades.
Tough Luck traces two simultaneous historical developments through a single immigrant family in Depression-era New York: the rise of the National Football League led by the dynastic Chicago Bears, whose famed owner George Halas convinced Sid Luckman to help him turn the sluggish game of pro football into America's favorite pastime; and the demise--triggered by Meyer Luckman's crime and initial coverup--of the Brooklyn labor rackets and Louis Lepke's infamous organization Murder, Inc. Filled with colorful characters--from ambitious district attorney-turned-governor Thomas Dewey and legendary columnist Walter Winchell, to Sid Luckman's rival quarterback "Slingin'" Sammy Baugh and pro football's unsung intellectual genius Clark Shaughnessy; from the lethal Lepke and hit men like "Tick Tock" Tannenbaum, to Sid's powerful post-career friends Frank Sinatra and Joe DiMaggio--Tough Luck memorably evokes an era of vicious Brooklyn mobsters and undefeated Monsters of the Midway, a time when the media kept their mouths shut and the soft-spoken son of a murderer could become a beloved legend with a hidden past.
This book is designed to provide tools, strategies, and procedures to assist in empowering not only those who feel the need to increase their effectiveness at changing the world around them, but also to those who feel totally ineffective, powerless, and economically trapped, to change their reality for the better and forever.
We start with Elements of Substantive Leadership as the foundation from which LUCK emerges and examine its exercise by people who are effective because they are experienced at solving difficult problems. We examine Leadership Style as the complement for substance to form the truly effective leader. This is a book about "How" and "Why". It provides tools and techniques to motivate and enable the reader to develop leadership skills that result in the ability to make things happen, to be the essence of effectiveness.
We then set forth Lessons for Life as an Effective Person. Lessons 1 through 9 provide case studies that illustrate Leadership and the use of Protocols for Problem Solving in action against, what many times seem, as impossible odds.
We end by summarizing and promising a future treatise that will describe using these skills to develop economic activity designed to eliminate financial helplessness.
Описание: The Revelation to John-with its vivid images and portraits of conflict leading up to the formation of a new heaven and a new earth-was widely read, even as it was variously interpreted in the early church. Drawing heavily on both Eastern and Western ancient commentators, much appearing in English for the first time, this ACCS volume is a treasure trove of early interpretation.
Описание: Taking us on an anecdotal ride through the more popular theories and histories of luck - from pseudoscience to paganism, through mathematicians to magicians, this book presents a set of scientific conclusions as to the nature of luck, and the possibility of managing it.
