Home eBooks Download › the ordinary road

The Ordinary Road

Download The Ordinary Road PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get The Ordinary Road book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page

The Ordinary Road

DOWNLOAD
Author : Terri Broome
language : en
Publisher: CrossBooks Publishing
Release Date : 2013-07

The Ordinary Road written by Terri Broome and has been published by CrossBooks Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07 with categories.

For too many years, Terri Broome lived in open rebellion against God. She married at twenty-one, hoping that her husband could fulfill her and quiet the gnawing unrest in her soul. Instead, she remained unhappy, and the marriage ended in divorce. Terri blithely continued living her life-until God intervened. Down-to-earth and brutally honest, "The Ordinary Road" chronicles what happened when Terri decided to give everything to God, no matter the cost. She shares how, at the age of twenty-two, God found her and washed her clean from her sin. She reconciled with her husband and became a wife and mother. Yet Terri still had to surrender all to God, even down to the smallest aspects of her life, and it wasn't an easy process. With gentle humor, she describes how she wrote a letter to the IRS to confess tax evasion, rooted out hypocrisy, and tried to focus on talking to God instead of always talking about God. She began inviting neighbors to her home for Bible study, and soon the Holy Spirit started to work in her life in ways Terri never could have imagined. Inspiring and unforgettable, "The Ordinary Road" shares how God's magnificent grace made one woman's life extraordinary.

City Street And Citizen

DOWNLOAD
Author : Suzanne Hall
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-06-25

City Street And Citizen written by Suzanne Hall and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-25 with Social Science categories.

How can we learn from a multicultural society if we don’t know how to recognise it? The contemporary city is more than ever a space for the intense convergence of diverse individuals who shift in and out of its urban terrains. The city street is perhaps the most prosaic of the city’s public parts, allowing us a view of the very ordinary practices of life and livelihoods. By attending to the expressions of conviviality and contestation, ‘City, Street and Citizen’ offers an alternative notion of ‘multiculturalism’ away from the ideological frame of nation, and away from the moral imperative of community. This book offers to the reader an account of the lived realities of allegiance, participation and belonging from the base of a multi-ethnic street in south London. ‘City, Street and Citizen’ focuses on the question of whether local life is significant for how individuals develop skills to live with urban change and cultural and ethnic diversity. To animate this question, Hall has turned to a city street and its dimensions of regularity and propinquity to explore interactions in the small shop spaces along the Walworth Road. The city street constitutes exchange, and as such it provides us with a useful space to consider the broader social and political significance of contact in the day-to-day life of multicultural cities. Grounded in an ethnographic approach, this book will be of interest to academics and students in the fields of sociology, global urbanisation, migration and ethnicity as well as being relevant to politicians, policy makers, urban designers and architects involved in cultural diversity, public space and street based economies.

The House On Silat Road

DOWNLOAD
Author : S. S. Si-Hoe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018

The House On Silat Road written by S. S. Si-Hoe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Families categories.

The Road Movie Book

DOWNLOAD
Author : Steven Cohan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-01-04

The Road Movie Book written by Steven Cohan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-04 with Social Science categories.

The Road Movie Book is the first comprehensive study of an enduring but ever-changing Hollywood genre, its place in American culture, and its legacy to world cinema. The road and the cinema both flourished in the twentieth century, as technological advances brought motion pictures to a mass audience and the mass produced automobile opened up the road to the ordinary American. When Jean Baudrillard equated modern American culture with 'space, speed, cinema, technology' he could just as easily have added that the road movie is its supreme emblem. The contributors explore how the road movie has confronted and represented issues of nationhood, sexuality, gender, class and race. They map the generic terrain of the road movie, trace its evolution on American television as well as on the big screen from the 1930s through the 1980s, and, finally, consider road movies that go off the road, departing from the US landscape or travelling on the margins of contemporary American culture. Movies discussed include: * Road classics such as It Happened One Night, The Grapes of Wrath, The Wizard of Oz and the Bob Hope-Bing Crosby Road to films * 1960's reworkings of the road movie in Easy Rider and Bonnie and Clyde * Russ Meyer's road movies: from Motorpsycho! to Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! * Contemporary hits such as Paris Texas, Rain Man, Natural Born Killers and Thelma and Louise * The road movie, Australian style, from Mad Max to the Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

China Road

DOWNLOAD
Author : Rob Gifford
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2007-05-29

China Road written by Rob Gifford and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-29 with Business & Economics categories.

Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of the social and economic revolution that is turning China upside down. In this utterly surprising and deeply personal book, acclaimed National Public Radio reporter Rob Gifford, a fluent Mandarin speaker, takes the dramatic journey along Route 312 from its start in the boomtown of Shanghai to its end on the border with Kazakhstan. Gifford reveals the rich mosaic of modern Chinese life in all its contradictions, as he poses the crucial questions that all of us are asking about China: Will it really be the next global superpower? Is it as solid and as powerful as it looks from the outside? And who are the ordinary Chinese people, to whom the twenty-first century is supposed to belong? Gifford is not alone on his journey. The largest migration in human history is taking place along highways such as Route 312, as tens of millions of people leave their homes in search of work. He sees signs of the booming urban economy everywhere, but he also uncovers many of the country’s frailties, and some of the deep-seated problems that could derail China’s rise. The whole compelling adventure is told through the cast of colorful characters Gifford meets: garrulous talk-show hosts and ambitious yuppies, impoverished peasants and tragic prostitutes, cell-phone salesmen, AIDS patients, and Tibetan monks. He rides with members of a Shanghai jeep club, hitchhikes across the Gobi desert, and sings karaoke with migrant workers at truck stops along the way. As he recounts his travels along Route 312, Rob Gifford gives a face to what has historically, for Westerners, been a faceless country and breathes life into a nation that is so often reduced to economic statistics. Finally, he sounds a warning that all is not well in the Chinese heartlands, that serious problems lie ahead, and that the future of the West has become inextricably linked with the fate of 1.3 billion Chinese people. “Informative, delightful, and powerfully moving . . . Rob Gifford’s acute powers of observation, his sense of humor and adventure, and his determination to explore the wrenching dilemmas of China’s explosive development open readers’ eyes and reward their minds.” –Robert A. Kapp, president, U.S.-China Business Council, 1994-2004

17a Keong Saik Road

DOWNLOAD
Author : Charmaine Leung
language : en
Publisher: Ethos Books
Release Date : 2023-04-25

17a Keong Saik Road written by Charmaine Leung and has been published by Ethos Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Mummy, why do you always have to leave for 17A… 17A Keong Saik Road recounts Charmaine Leung’s growing-up years on Keong Saik Road in the 1970s when it was a prominent red-light precinct in Chinatown in Singapore. An interweaving of past and present narratives, 17A Keong Saik Road tells of her mother’s journey as a young child put up for sale to becoming the madame of a brothel in Keong Saik. Unfolding her story as the daughter of a brothel operator and witnessing these changes to her family, Charmaine traces the transformation of the Keong Saik area from the 1930s to the present, and through writing, finds reconciliation. A beautiful dedication to the past, to memory, and to the people who have gone before us, 17A Keong Saik Road tells the rich stories of the Ma Je, the Pei Pa Zai, and the Dai Gu Liong—marginalised, forgotten women of the past, who despite their difficulties, persevered in working towards the hope of a better future.

The Delight Of Being Ordinary

DOWNLOAD
Author : Roland Merullo
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2017-04-11

The Delight Of Being Ordinary written by Roland Merullo and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-11 with Fiction categories.

What happens when the Pope and the Dalai Lama decide they need a secret vacation? Roland Merullo’s playful, eloquent, and life-affirming novel finds the world’s two holiest men teaming up for an unsanctioned road trip through the Italian countryside--where they rediscover the everyday joys and challenges of ordinary life. During the Dalai Lama’s highly publicized official visit to the Vatican, the Pope suggests an adventure so unexpected and appealing that neither man can resist: they will shed their robes for several days and live as ordinary men. Before dawn, the two beloved religious leaders make a daring escape from Vatican City, slip into a waiting car, and are soon traveling the Italian roads in disguise. Along for the ride is the Pope’s neurotic cousin and personal assistant, Paolo, who--to his terror-- has been put in charge of arranging the details of their disappearance. Rounding out the group is Paolo’s estranged wife, Rosa, an eccentric entrepreneur with a lust for life, who orchestrates the sublime disguises of each man. Rosa is a woman who cannot resist the call to adventure--or the fun. Against a landscape of good humor, intrigue, and spiritual fulfillment, The Delight of Being Ordinary showcases the uniquely charming sensibilities of author Roland Merullo. Part whimsical expedition, part love story, part spiritual search, this uplifting novel brings warmth and laughter to the universal concerns of family life, religious inspiration, and personal identity—all of which combine to transcend cultural and political barriers in the name of a once-in-a-lifetime adventure.