Adopting Anton
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Adopting Anton
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Author : Robert Klose
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-08-20
Adopting Anton written by Robert Klose and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-20 with categories.
Single women have a long and successful track record as adoptive parents, but single men seeking to adopt have had a tougher time of it. And yet the need for role models in this regard exists, if for no other reason than to offer hope to those men who want to adopt but are daunted by the seeming immensity of the challenge. Available children tend to live in countries that are both traditional and conservative and think in terms of "mother and child" but rarely "father and child." Presuming that his already being an adoptive parent (he had previously adopted a boy from a Russian orphanage) would make a second attempt easier, Robert Klose was nevertheless confronted by a Ukrainian bureaucracy hobbled by its Soviet origins, as well as the vagaries of personalities in whose hands his fate would rest. The result is a harrowing narrative full of characters both picaresque and sympathetic, with all the actors, including the author, playing their roles in the chaotic aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Adopting Anton is the story of a single man's determination to bring a five-year-old boy to a new home in America, but not knowing, until the last moment, whether his efforts would result in failure or success.
Deceptions
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Author : Mia Rabb
language : en
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
Release Date : 2012-04-01
Deceptions written by Mia Rabb and has been published by Strategic Book Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-01 with Fiction categories.
Robert Cass, a brilliant and cocky young lawyer and pilot for the navy thought he was immune to injustice. He strived for the truth and fairness for all of his clients, except one. Cass locks horns with Anton Balistrano, mob boss, billionaire, ruthless and cunning, a man who stops at nothing to get what he wants. Anton shrewdly befriends Rear Admiral AJ Zueleger, both men in position of power, both men fighting over the man they want in their organization. Francesca, AJ's daughter falls in love with Anton the first time she sees him. Will he use that power over AJ to get Cass to join the mob? Can AJ keep Cass safe and away from the glamorous life Anton promises him or will Anton's deceptions turn Cass against the truth and justice he's known his whole life?
I Never Met A Dog I Didn T Like
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Author : Miranda McAdams
language : en
Publisher: Author House
Release Date : 2014-04
I Never Met A Dog I Didn T Like written by Miranda McAdams and has been published by Author House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04 with Pets categories.
This book details the true stories of the author's and her husband's many dogs and cats-from Lizzie, who loved to be dressed up as a witch and give out Halloween treats--to Lucky, whose life was saved just in time--to Anton, who survived distemper, a disease that kills many dogs and cats. All of the animals featured in this book came from animal rescue groups and shelters, with most of them coming from out-of-state kill shelters. For the most part, these animals had problematic behaviors, and were adults, except for the two puppies, Lucky and Anton. Some of these animals growled as their main form of communication to both humans and dogs alike and many of the male dogs marked or were incontinent indoors. Most of the animals needed obedience and leash training, and some dogs exhibited aggression over food, toys, and space. The growling, marking, lack of obedience to basic commands, absence of leash training, and aggressive tendencies all had made these otherwise good-natured animals unattractive to potential and first-time adopters. Another issue that surfaced was the fact that black animals are often overlooked or even avoided by adopters. The chapter, entitled "Ashley, the Black Dog," addresses this unfortunate and widespread prejudice toward black dogs and cats. The author found that it was extremely rewarding to adopt rescue dogs. Although they were difficult at times, she found them to be interesting, challenging, and loveable. She also felt that they had taught her a lot about how to handle dogs with their particular problems. The author also loved adopting the less complicated dogs-the ones who just eat, play, sleep, and lick your hand-like Ashley, Lucky, Pooky, and Gumby. These dogs may not have been the most intelligent dogs, but because of their gentle natures, they got along well with, and balanced out, the author's more difficult and aggressive dogs.
Report
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Author : United States. Congress. House
language : en
Publisher:
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Report written by United States. Congress. House and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with United States categories.
Adopting Alyosha
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Author : Robert Klose
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2011-08-15
Adopting Alyosha written by Robert Klose and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-15 with Family & Relationships categories.
Although single women have long been permitted to adopt children, adoption by unmarried men remains an uncommon experience in Western culture. However, Robert Klose, who is single, wanted a son so badly that he faced down the opposition and overcame seemingly insurmountable barriers to realize his goal. The story of his quest for a son is detailed in this intimate personal account. The frustrating truth he reports is that most adoption agencies seem unsure of how to respond to a single man's application. During the three years that it took for him to proceed through the adoption maze, Klose met resistance and dead ends at every attempt. Happenstance finally led him to Russia, where he found the child of his dreams in a Moscow orphanage, a Russian boy named Alyosha. This is the first book to be written by a single man adopting from abroad. The narrative of his quest serves as an instructional firsthand manual for single men wishing to adopt. It details the prospective father's heightening sense of anticipation as he untangles bureaucratic snarls and addresses cultural differences involved in adopting a foreign child. When he arrives in Russia, he supposes the adoption will be a matter of following cut-and-dried procedures. Instead, his difficulties are only beginning. Although he meets kind and generous Russians, his encounter with the child welfare system in Moscow turns out to be both chaotic and bizarre. However, his dogged ordeal pays off more bountifully than he ever could have hoped. In the end he comes face to face with a little boy who changes his life forever.
The Examined Run
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Author : Sabrina B. Little
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024
The Examined Run written by Sabrina B. Little and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with Athletes categories.
"The Examined Run provides an accessible treatment of what it might look like to use running as a laboratory for virtue development. This book engages many topics in the field of virtue ethics-virtue, vice, exemplarism, emotions, and competition-and places them in conversation with training and racing in endurance sports. The Examined Run explores happiness and success, competition and character. It investigates whether certain definitions of success conflict with being morally good, and whether certain virtues may be performance-enhancing in the world of sport. It asks whether athletes should strive to be "limitless," and it examines how to take seriously considerations of human nature in competitive sport. This book welcomes readers into a tradition of inquiry about character, flourishing, and suffering, so that they can ask better questions about what it means to live a happy life and how running might fit in"--
Gunantuna
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Author : Arnold Leonard Epstein
language : en
Publisher: C. Hurst & Co. Publishers
Release Date : 1999
Gunantuna written by Arnold Leonard Epstein and has been published by C. Hurst & Co. Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Adoption categories.
Focusing on concepts of person, the self, and the individual, Epstein analyzes how these notions are conceptualized and interpreted by the Tolai people of the Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain, where the author has conducted intensive field research since 1959.
Small Worlds
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Author : Robert Klose
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2006
Small Worlds written by Robert Klose and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Collected essays by Robert Klose, longtime contributing essayist for the Christian Science Monitor. In a style comparable to that of Garrison Keillor and Jean Shepherd, Klose shares his experiences raising adoptive sons, stories of traveling abroad, memories of his childhood, and depictions of life in his small Maine community"--Provided by publisher.
Constructing Transnational And Transracial Identity
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Author : Sigalit Ben-Zion
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-11-26
Constructing Transnational And Transracial Identity written by Sigalit Ben-Zion and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-26 with Social Science categories.
Norway, Sweden, and Denmark are home to more than 90,000 transnational adoptees of Scandinavian parents raised in a predominantly white environment. This ethnography provides a unique perspective on how these transracial adoptees conceptualize and construct their sense of identity along the intersection of ethnicity, family, and national lines.
Contemporary Second And Third Person Autobiographical Writing
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Author : Christina Schönberger-Stepien
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-03-31
Contemporary Second And Third Person Autobiographical Writing written by Christina Schönberger-Stepien and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-31 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book explores 21st-century uses of the second- and third-person perspective in Anglophone autobiographical narratives by canonical male writers. Through detailed readings of contemporary autobiographical works by Paul Auster, Julian Barnes, J.M. Coetzee, and Salman Rushdie, the study demonstrates the multiple aesthetic, rhetorical, and un/ethical implications of the choice of narrative perspective as well as the uncommon step of articulating the self from a perspective which is not I. Drawing on (rhetorical) narratology and autobiography theory, the book engages with questions and tensions of subjectivity and relationality, the interplay of distance and proximity resulting from the narrative perspective, and its effects on the relationship between autobiographer, text, and reader. In addition, the book traces relevant guiding principles that the authors use to navigate their self-narratives in relation to others, such as questions of embodiment, visuality, grief, ethics, and politics. Situating the narratives in their socio-political and cultural context, the book uncovers to what extent these autobiographical narratives reflect the authors’ position between self-withdrawal and self-promotion as well as their response to questions of male agency, self-stylisation, and celebrity status.