The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies, Langan John
Автор: Langan John Название: The Fisherman ISBN: 1939905214 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781939905215 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 19610.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Tosteson Heather, Brockett Charles D., Langan Kerry Название: Creativity & Constraint ISBN: 0982693338 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780982693339 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 19930.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Creativity & Constraint, A Wising Up Anthology Heather Tosteson, Charles D. Brockett, Kerry Langan, Michele Markarian, Editors We often think of true creativity as unfettered liberty-but is creativity something that only takes root, flourishes, within bounds? What happens to our ideas if they must work their way through the material world-often being materially changed in the process? Why is it that we often feel more empowered, more intimately related within the artifice of a story, a song, a painting than we do in the world at large? What do we learn when we try to take that expansiveness back out into the world? What, if anything, do experiences of creativity and constraint have to do with real world challenges, where our desires and drives are checked daily, where our playing fields are far from level, where hard work isn't always rewarded? Join forty writers of poetry, fiction and memoir as they muse on the various permutations of creativity and constraint in their own lives and in their artistic process. Contributors: Deborah Bacharach, Patricia Barone, Barbara Crooker, Vida Cross, Deborah Pratt Curtiss, Maureen Tolman Flannery, Diane Giardi, Jo Going, Jim Govoni, John Grey, Patrick Hansel, Michael J. Hess, Paul Hostovsky, Celine Keating, Tom Leskiw, Katharyn Howd Machan, Mike Maggio, John Manesis, Michele Markarian, Milt Montague, Michael Onofrey, Carl Palmer, Richard King Perkins II, Mary Kay Rummel, Frank Salvidio, Ira Schaeffer, Ruth Margolin Silin, Laurence Snydal, Anna Steegmann, J.J. Steinfeld, Alan Swyer, Don Thackrey, Hannah Thomassen, Claudia Van Gerven, Bill Vernon, Rosemary Volz, Joel Wachman, Petra Dai Walech, John Sibley Williams, Tyree Deshawn Wilson
Автор: Langan Kerry Название: Live Your Life & Other Stories ISBN: 0982726260 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780982726266 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 19930.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In her second book of stories, Live Your Life & OTher Stories, Kerry Langan explores, through characters drawn from academe and the wider world, the myths that unconsciously shape our behavior and our sense of possibility-and what happens when, in an unguarded moment, an unforseen circumstance, we catch a defining glimpse of who we actually are. In the first section, Live Your Life , an unemployed philosophy major fresh from college tries to live out his utopia; a teenage telemarketer learns success is more than cold calls and sales volume; a jilted groom stumbles into a full life; a hair dresser and single mother discovers freedom where she least expects it; a soap opera star finally learns where his character ends and he begins. In the stories in A Lonely Virtue, all set in a small college town, a student balances the scales with her seductive teacher; a post-doc on her first job interview unwittingly follows in her mother's footsteps; a competitive professor learns what he has in common with a colleague he scorns; a shy dean discovers courage and his ambitious wife come-uppance. We recognize ourselves in these characters; they cause us to wince and to laugh, and to wonder what myths we may be blindly living by-and what surprises await us if we open our eyes. "Kerry Langan will delight her readers with her comic eye, her honest heart, and her feats of characterization. These smart, lively stories are more than a pleasure to read. They are fun to read." Joe David Bellamy, author of Green Freedom and Atomic Love "The characters in Live Your Life, Kerry Langan's masterful new collection of short stories, are you, me, and everybody: people navigating the ordinariness of life, and coming to terms with how often ordinary falls short of expectation. Her characters work in hair salons or in telemarketing call centers; they are aging soap opera actors with waning careers. They are also jilted lovers, divorc es, wounded children, and middle-aged women who remain invisible to the second-rate entertainers they hoped might have saved them from loneliness. With sharp eye and even sharper intuition, Langan captures every disappointment, every yearning, but also brings to light those fractional turns each person makes that signal a determination to continue on and lead lives of quiet dignity. Langan possesses a delicate yet assured touch and no tendency toward the sentimental. In her capable hands, characters make progress that is subtle, never mawkish, and every step is imbued with humanity." Jane Ward, author of Hunger and The Mosaic Artist "Kerry Langan has an eye for the grace that sometimes comes as the unanticipated consequence loneliness and loss. She transforms even the tokens of her characters' absurdities and failures-a pogo stick, a For Sale sign, an inexpensive ring-into unexpected instruments of grace.Each of her wonderful stories is a lesson in sympathy, delivered with gentle humor and a deep understanding of the human heart." Rob Hardy, author of The Collecting Jar
Автор: Langan Mark Название: Busting Bad Guys: My True Crime Stories of Bookies, Drug Dealers, and Ladies of the Night ISBN: 0991311019 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780991311019 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 22930.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: 13 seconds of pure terror in a shootout with a drug dealer... Real crime. Real-life cop stories. Sergeant Mark Langan relives his front-row seat working the seamier side of crime during his decorated twenty-six-year career from youngest rookie in 1978 to narcotics sergeant on the Omaha Police force. Langan caught bold burglars who silently entered homes to get thrills off of touching sleeping victims. He hit bookie joints in smoke-filled bars, squeezed snitches for information, and arrested prostitutes and their everyday "Johns" in dangerous downtown alleys. Langan worked his way up the ranks to command undercover narcotics operations in the 1980s when sinister LA gangbangers invaded Omaha and claimed neighborhoods to sell crack. In his celebrated career, Langan felt the gut-wrenching pain of innocent children caught inside the wicked world of drugs and crime, their "safe" worlds shattered when the battering ram knocked down their doors-their cries haunt him every day. And two players from his past reemerge in startling ways. Busting Bad Guys delivers a graphic and authentic look at solid policing on the streets of America's heartland and takes readers inside the high-adrenaline, top-secret investigations to develop innovative tactics to outsmart the criminals. Steven Eskew, book reviewer and writer in New York City, says "Langan relates his many adventures with meat and potatoes precision, illustrating a cop's life with detailed imagery but without sensationalizing the excitement. He balances his memoir by sharing his years-later encounter with "One-Eyed Jack's" daughter, (the drug dealer that was killed during a shoot out at the beginning of the book), and an update on a childhood playmate who had descended into prostitution. The book's sheer readability and intriguing subject matter makes you sorry to find yourself on the final page."
Автор: Langan Kerry Название: My Name Is Your Name & Other Stories ISBN: 0982693370 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780982693377 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 19930.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Kerry Langan's warm and generous third short story collection, My Name Is Your Name, includes stories of women at all ages--from little girls to old women whose long lives are now only fleeting memories. A six-year old girl wanders an amusement park alone; a teenager tries to balance the loyalty and shame she feels toward her schizophrenic sister; a young woman stubbornly makes a home for herself in an insular fishing village for reasons that elude her and those around her; a newlywed touring houses with her husband doesn't see an exciting future, rather unsettling glimpses of her own mortality. Finding unsuspected reservoirs of strength and purpose, girls and women negotiate young love, their first jobs, single motherhood, the death of friends, infidelity, the illness of spouses, memories of the Holocaust, and the indignities, anguishes, and gifts of age and aging in ways that are sharp, funny, poignant, and often quirky. Langan draws us into a world in which the very young blunder but also face truths that sometimes elude adults and the middle-aged and elderly turn to their younger selves to guide them in an ambiguous, challenging present. We come away encouraged and replenished--more ready to face many of the same issues ourselves.
"Once again, short story writer Kerry Langan knocks it out of the park. Her newest collection is a kaleidoscope of beautifully rendered stories illuminating, with tremendous verisimilitude, great insight, and lyrical and precise prose, the complex nature of the female heart and mind." Janice Eidus, author of The Last Jewish Virgin and The War of the Rosens
"Kerry Langan's collection offers a lovely new literary voice and a quiet, sharp, perceptive mind. These stories are intimate, surprising and graceful, a pleasure to read." Roxana Robinson, author of Sparta, Cost, and A Perfect Stranger & Other Stories
"Kerry Langan's My Name is Your Name, an impressive and readable collection, is a sort of primer on the ages of women. Her female protagonists take on issues and problems that are familiar to us, struggling with identity, finding autonomy, dealing with and fighting against expectations in a wonderfully detailed world, where desire and choice are fraught with consequence. This suspension between the ordinary and the arrival of the unexpected permeates the collection, highlighting the darkness behind the bright scrim of daily life." Mary Grimm, author of Left to Themselves and Stealing Time
Автор: Langan Nicholas Название: Crowns of Hebron: A David Story: Book 2 ISBN: 1632963302 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781632963307 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 12250.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Saul has been selected as the first monarch of Israel, and it cannot have been a worse time for him. Surrounded by hostile nations and invaded by the vicious Philistines, all Saul wants is to secure the survival of his people--especially his firstborn son, Jonathan. But that seems to be getting increasingly difficult because Jonathan shares none of his father's fears or worries. And as Jonathan becomes increasingly bold in his attacks on the enemies of Israel, it becomes harder for Saul to deal with the stresses of being king.
With his family scattered after the Philistine invasion and with Jonathan preparing to mount a large-scale assault on Saul's home city at Gibeah, Saul struggles with a very real question:
Is he a political puppet? Or is he God's ordained king and warrior?
Автор: Langan Nicholas Название: Crowns of Hebron: A David Story: Book 1 ISBN: 1632963272 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781632963277 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 12250.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: ¢ Are you member of either the management team or the board and do you see the need to adapt your organization to Agile? Do you intend to make the organization more agile? ¢ Are you a coach helping organizations in the transformation to becoming more agile? And are you planning to support this transition using a bottom-up or top-down approach?In this pocket guide you will find a practical approach on how to handle this. Governing an organization in a fast-changing world. And all this although the issues of the day require a lot of your attention and can distract you from the results you want to achieve. The authors consider how to operationalize the organization`s strategic goals and consequently the governance of the entire organization.The authors start from the position of: ¢ Clarifying what has to be achieved in the next quarter in order to achieve the strategic goals. ¢ Introducing a system of short cyclical adjustments, with which you can respond to changing demand from customers or emerging laws and regulations. ¢ Working closely together as management team or board towards the long-term strategic goals and preventing everyone within the organization from following their own goals. ¢ Bringing more focus on the operationalization of the strategy, less `fire-fighting` and greater emphasis on fire prevention. ¢ Getting a clear picture of what prevents your employees from doing their jobs effectively. Will you succeed in removing the barriers holding back your organization? The core message of this pocket guide is application of the FOCUS board. This is a visual approach to management and a strong tool for governing the organization. When this is applied, it will result in collaboration between all layers of the organization, enable short cyclical adjustment and provide a clear focus on achieving the strategic goals.
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