Author: Askhari Johnson Hodari
Publisher: Broadway Books
ISBN: 030758920X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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This little book contains the wisdom of the ages, and is guaranteed to produce a smile of appreciation at the sheer sense of the proverbs you will find inside. From advice you wish your mother had given you, to things you probably suspected, but had never put into words, Lifelines is a book to be read, absorbed and treasured.—Pearl Cleage, New York Times best selling author of What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day This illustrated treasury of proverbs unites the timeless wisdom of Black communities in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, while speaking to the triumphs and challenges of everyday life. Lifelines: The Black book of Proverbs travels to all corners of the globe to reclaim and preserve African wisdom. This book offers the remarkably wise heart of Africa and her children to readers experiencing career changes, new births, weddings, death, and other rites of passage. Readers will find truth in the African saying, “When the occasion arises, there is a proverb to suit it.” Proverbs are presented in vibrant story-poem form; and are uniquely arranged by key life cycle events such as birth, initiation, marriage, and death. The proverbs can be found under themes such as “wealth”, “parenting”, “change” and “strength.” Inspired illustrations introduce each section along with beautiful vignettes showing how African proverbs comfort, inspire and instruct during different phases of life. Lifelines illuminates how traditions, civilization and spirit survive and thrive, despite centuries of loss of freedom, family, identity, language, land, and wealth. The proverbs offer wisdom for every stage of our lives. Collected in one place as never before, it is the perfect addition to the book shelves of families large and small, from Nairobi to New Orleans and every city in between. From Birth: Every cackling hen was an egg at first. -Rwanda to Marriage: A woman's clothes are the price her husband pays for peace. -Central Africa, East Africa, and Southern Africa (Bantu) and Elderhood: Every time an old man dies it is as if a library has burnt down. -West Africa as well as every stage of life in between, the proverbs found in Lifelines offer the guidance and wisdom to last a life time. Unlike other collections of proverbs, Lifelines hews closely to the cycle of life and draws inspiration from the authors combined 110 years of experience. Askhari Johnson Hodari and Yvonne McCalla Sobers have set out to let their proverbs both tell a story and stand alone. So whether you flip it open to a random page, read it through from start to finish, or go searching for a proverb to match your unique circumstance, you’ll find just the right lifeline to provide the comfort and guidance you’re looking for. From the Hardcover edition.
Author: Salvatore D. Fazzolari
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491725796
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Author Salvatore Fazzolari knows firsthand what it takes to be the chairman, president, and CEO of a large multinational corporation—as well as why it’s not a position suited to everyone. In CEO Lifelines, he shares nine principles to help people become more productive, capable, engaged, and effective leaders. Building on almost forty years of experience at all levels of leadership, Fazzolari outlines nine key leadership practices that underpin strong, decisive leadership and build enduring, high-performance organizations. Through three segments focusing on personal, enterprise, and luck, he discusses three practices needed for sustained leadership; the six practices of a healthy enterprise; and the serendipity of chance—both good and bad. A practical guide and workbook that includes related tools for building careers and organizations, CEO Lifelines provides useful advice from Fazzolari’s own experiences as CEO of a major corporation. It offers an examination of principles essential for building a successful career and an enduring enterprise—a blueprint for excellence.
Author: Valentin Matcas
Publisher: Valentin Leonard Matcas
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 55
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We live in an objective world, with almost everything happening everywhere causally, naturally, and fairly. Your entire lifetime activity is also causal, since almost everything happening in your life is a continuous succession of causes and effects. This means that, through a highly systematic study, you could be capable to place all events of your life along one single line of causality. And since you are a living human being, this is your own lifeline of causality. When you study your lifeline of causality closely, you may understand the reason why you have chosen and done everything throughout life in this specific manner, in this specific order, and for these specific reasons. Even more, through your own lifeline of causality, you may seek to understand your own meaning in life, your own meaning in society, and your own meaning in this world, because these also have their own lifelines of causality. And by studying these, you are capable to pinpoint the exact interaction between your own lifeline of causality and these extraordinary, comprehensive lifelines of causality, in order to identify, study, and explain all significant events of your life and of this world, how they happen, for what reason, and through what circumstances. This book studies your life and all significant events influencing your life, how everything happens, and through what circumstances, because everything is always found along specific lines of causality, since everything is connected. You will understand human beings, society, and this world, along with al higher beings of the wider world.
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Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Author: Ase Berit
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317466039
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1050
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This lavishly illustrated full-color set is organized by the time frames that mirror the National Standards for world history for grades 6-12. An ideal supplement to all the major textbooks, it offers appealing and comprehensive biographies of history's most influential figures - both famous and infamous."Lifelines in World History" features biographies of figures from Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, and Southwest Asia, and covers the most significant events and trends in world history. Each volume includes 15-20 biographies, and in addition to biographical information, each entry includes engaging sidebars that feature key dates, more people to know, words from their time, and cultural connections. The set also includes numerous full-color maps.
Author: L. S. Stavrianos
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317466063
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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This book offers an extraordinary interpretation of world history, from the paleolithic era to the present. Renowned historian L.S. Stavrianos conceptualizes human history into three categories: kinship societies, tributary societies, and capitalist societies. In each, he discerns and studies four "life-line" issues - ecology, gender relations, social relations, and war - that encompass the broadest areas of human experience. The revised edition projects forward to the twenty-first century, offering the author's views on possible future scenarios involving the same lifeline issues.
