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Movements, Motions, Moments shows how African Americans have
negotiated their participation and engagement in religious spaces.
The book is divided into three sections—Movements, Motions, and
Moments. Images of figures including Rev. Henry Highland Garnett,
Noble Drew Ali, Father Divine, Prophet Elijah Muhammad, Rev. Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. Pauli Murray, Bishop Myokei
Cain-Barrett, and others are depicted next to photographs of
religious celebrations, ritual practices, and individual moments of
faith and spirituality. Photographers include Lola Flash, Chester
Higgins, Jason Miccolo Johnson, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Kenneth
Royster, James Van Der Zee, Milton Williams, Lloyd W. Yearwood, and
others. Photographs in this volume range from the nineteenth,
twentieth, and twenty-first centuries and include religious
traditions such as Christianity, Islam, Judaism, African
indigenous, non-secular, and other religious traditions (Humanism,
Atheism, Spiritualism, and others). It also includes photography
capturing contemporary events and movements including Black Lives
Matter and the global pandemic.
Now in paperback, the national bestselling riches-to-rags true
story of an advertising executive who had it all, then lost it
all--and was finally redeemed by his new job, and his
twenty-eight-year-old boss, at Starbucks.
In his fifties, Michael Gates Gill had it all: a mansion in the
suburbs, a wife and loving children, a six-figure salary, and an
Ivy League education. But in a few short years, he lost his job,
got divorced, and was diagnosed with a brain tumor. With no money
or health insurance, he was forced to get a job at Starbucks.
Having gone from power lunches to scrubbing toilets, from being
served to serving, Michael was a true fish out of water.
But fate brings an unexpected teacher into his life who opens his
eyes to what living well really looks like. The two seem to have
nothing in common: She is a young African American, the daughter of
a drug addict; he is used to being the boss but reports to "her"
now. For the first time in his life he experiences being a member
of a minority trying hard to survive in a challenging new job. He
learns the value of hard work and humility, as well as what it
truly means to respect another person.
Behind the scenes at one of America's most intriguing businesses,
an inspiring friendship is born, a family begins to heal, and,
thanks to his unlikely mentor, Michael Gill at last experiences a
sense of self-worth and happiness he has never known before.
Watch a QuickTime trailer for this book.
Absquatulate. Flumadiddle. Gongoozler. Squintifego. If you love
words, you know the strange byways of memory or reverie that
stumbling across a certain word or phrase will take you down,
especially if it's one you're discovering and finding the meaning
of for the first time. Chances are, you have never encountered
words as unusual as those collected in this 170-page book.
You'll find definitions and parts of speech for each entry. And
for each word, the author has also included a quotation to show how
the word can be used in context. His hope is that this book will
spark interest in these ostrobogulous words and that you will use
them in your daily conversations--perhaps as a humorous
social-science experiment to see what kinds of reactions you
receive. Amaze your friends with your selcouth vocabulary and
indulge your inner logophile
The author of the "New York Times" bestseller "How Starbucks Saved
My Life" perks up America with inspiring lessons on finding true
happiness at any age and any stage of life.
Michael Gill's lemons-to-lemonade memoir chronicled his
transformative year working at Starbucks after losing his
high-powered job, his marriage, and his health (he developed a
brain tumor). In response to overwhelming requests from readers who
wanted to know how they, too, could weather downturns, he has
distilled his wisdom into fifteen meaningful lessons, including:
? Leap...With faith: Sometimes it pays to leap without looking and
say "yes" without thinking (Gill accepted the Starbucks job
immediately, on a whim).
? Let . . .Yourself be Helped: pride is even more paralyzing than
fear.
? Lose . . .Your Watch (and Cell phone and PDA ): Our obsession
with productivity produces madness, not gladness.
Offering living proof that extraordinary happiness is found in
ordinary moments, "How to Save Your Own Life" provides empowering
words and hope for anyone facing a reversal of fortune. True
fortune, Gill discovered, lies not in fate but in discovering the
innate capacity we all possess to rescue ourselves.
Many people don't realize that the Bush administration changed U.S.
military policy, particularly towards Iraq, after the congressional
elections of 2006. The start of the 110th Congress in 2007, and the
shift in Congressional power, also coincided with the decline of
the Rumsfeld-Cheney cabal that had been extremely influential in
directing the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and U.S. military policy
in general, prior to that.******The emerging direction of the new
U.S. military and defense policy is more pragmatic, less
ideological and quietly (though not explicitly) recognizes the
failure of policies in the earlier years of the current
administration.******The man epitomizing this change more than any
other is Robert M. Gates, the man who replaced Donald Rumsfeld as
the U.S. Secretary of Defense. With vast experience in public
service as well as in academia (he has lectured at Universities
like Yale and Georgetown, and was the interim Dean of the Business
School at Texas A&M just before being selected to replace Mr.
Rumsfeld), he has quietly reversed a number of older policies and
brought a much needed pragmatic approach to U.S. policies
abroad.******He is also a lively speaker with a great sense of
humor. Here are his speeches, as released by the U.S. Department of
Defense, from his inauguration to February 2008-the key period when
a lot of these changes in U.S. policies were taking place. These
provide a valuable insight into where U.S. defense and military
policies are headed during the remaining days of the Bush
administration.
In this timely report, a bipartisan group of experts concludes that
the Islamic Republic is solidly entrenched and that the urgency of
the concerns around Irans policies mandates that Washington deal
with the current regime rather than wait it out. The Task
Forceco-chaired by former National Security Adviser Zbigniew
Brzezinski and former Director of Central Intelligence Robert M.
Gatesrecommends selective engagement with Tehran to promote
regional stability, dissuade Iran from pursuing nuclear weapons,
preserve reliable energy supplies, reduce the threat of terror, and
address the democracy deficit that pervades the Middle East as a
whole. This volume includes a chronology of important dates in
U.S.-Iranian history, economic and demographic facts about Iran,
plus reference materials on Iranian state institutions and
governance. The reports recommendations have sparked debate in
Washington and generated extensive coverage by U.S. and
international media.
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