The Invisible People

Author : Alex Tizon
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439918309
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Invisible People written by Alex Tizon and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Somewhere in the tangle of the subject’s burden and the subject’s desire is your story.”—Alex Tizon Every human being has an epic story. The late Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Alex Tizon told the epic stories of marginalized people—from lonely immigrants struggling to forge a new American identity to a high school custodian who penned a New Yorker short story. Edited by Tizon’s friend and former colleague Sam Howe Verhovek, Invisible People collects the best of Tizon’s rich, empathetic accounts—including “My Family’s Slave,” the Atlantic magazine cover story about the woman who raised him and his siblings under conditions that amounted to indentured servitude. Mining his Filipino American background, Tizon tells the stories of immigrants from Cambodia and Laos. He gives a fascinating account of the Beltway sniper and insightful profiles of Surfers for Jesus and a man who tracks UFOs. His articles—many originally published in the Seattle Times and the Los Angeles Times—are brimming with enlightening details about people who existed outside the mainstream’s field of vision. In their introductions to Tizon’s pieces, New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet, Atlantic magazine editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg, Pulitzer Prize winners Kim Murphy and Jacqui Banaszynski, and others salute Tizon’s respect for his subjects and the beauty and brilliance of his writing. Invisible People is a loving tribute to a journalist whose search for his own identity prompted him to chronicle the lives of others.

Author : Greg Behrman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439103615
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Invisible People written by Greg Behrman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-16 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Invisible People is a revealing and at times shocking look inside the United States's response to one of the greatest catastrophes the world has ever known -- the global AIDS crisis. A true story of politics, bureaucracy, disease, internecine warfare, and negligence, it illustrates that while the pandemic constitutes a profound threat to U.S. economic and security interests, at every turn the United States has failed to act in the face of this pernicious menace. During the past twenty years, more than 65 million people across the globe have become infected with HIV. Already 25 million around the world have died -- more than all of the battle deaths in the twentieth century combined. By decade's end there will be an estimated 25 million AIDS orphans. If trends continue, by 2025, 250 million global HIV-AIDS cases are a distinct possibility. Beyond the ineffable human toll, the pandemic is reshaping the social, economic, and geopolitical dimensions of our world. Eviscerating national economies, creating an entire generation of orphans, and destroying military capacity, the disease is generating pressures that will lead to instability and possibly even state failure and collapse in sub-Saharan Africa. Poised to explode in Eastern Europe, Russia, India, and China, AIDS will have devastating and destabilizing effects of untold proportions that will reverberate throughout the global economy and the international political order. In this gripping account that draws on more than two hundred interviews with key political insiders, policy makers, and thinkers, Greg Behrman chronicles the red tape, colossal blunders, monumental egos, power plays, and human pain and suffering that comprise America's woeful response to the AIDS crisis. Behrman's unprecedented access takes you inside the halls of power from seminal White House meetings to tumultuous turf battles at World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva, heated debates in the United Nations, and chilling discoveries at the Centers for Disease Control. Behrman also brings us into the field to meet the people who live in the midst of AIDS devastation in places like a school yard in Namibia, the red-light district in Bombay, and an orphanage in South Africa. Intensely researched and vividly detailed, The Invisible People is a groundbreaking and compellingly readable account of the appalling destruction caused by more than two decades of American abdication in the face of the defining humanitarian catastrophe of our time.

Author : Will Eisner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393328097
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Invisible People written by Will Eisner and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of four extraordinary graphic novels celebrating the Big Apple, from the master of American comics art.

Author : John Stokes Holley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781567353488
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Invisible People of the Pikes Peak Region written by John Stokes Holley and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "John Stokes Holley’s The Invisible People of the Pikes Peak Region: An Afro-American Chronicle, published in 1990, presented the first comprehensive history dedicated to the local African American community. Co-published by the Friends of the Pikes Peak Library District and the Friends of the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum, the book brought to light a history of accomplishments and struggles often ignored by popular local history books. This reprint presents the original publication in its entirety with an expanded index and new images, as well as new content not available in the original. It is our hope that this reprint will further illuminate the stories of the Invisible People of the Pikes Peak region and enlighten readers with a more complete and representative history of our community." -- Back Cover.

Author : Andrea Elliott
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0812986962
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Invisible Child written by Andrea Elliott and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A “vivid and devastating” (The New York Times) portrait of an indomitable girl—from acclaimed journalist Andrea Elliott “From its first indelible pages to its rich and startling conclusion, Invisible Child had me, by turns, stricken, inspired, outraged, illuminated, in tears, and hungering for reimmersion in its Dickensian depths.”—Ayad Akhtar, author of Homeland Elegies ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Atlantic, The New York Times Book Review, Time, NPR, Library Journal In Invisible Child, Pulitzer Prize winner Andrea Elliott follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani, a girl whose imagination is as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn shelter. In this sweeping narrative, Elliott weaves the story of Dasani’s childhood with the history of her ancestors, tracing their passage from slavery to the Great Migration north. As Dasani comes of age, New York City’s homeless crisis has exploded, deepening the chasm between rich and poor. She must guide her siblings through a world riddled by hunger, violence, racism, drug addiction, and the threat of foster care. Out on the street, Dasani becomes a fierce fighter “to protect those who I love.” When she finally escapes city life to enroll in a boarding school, she faces an impossible question: What if leaving poverty means abandoning your family, and yourself? A work of luminous and riveting prose, Elliott’s Invisible Child reads like a page-turning novel. It is an astonishing story about the power of resilience, the importance of family and the cost of inequality—told through the crucible of one remarkable girl. Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize • Finalist for the Bernstein Award and the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award

Author : Jostein Saether
Publisher : CLAIRVIEW BOOKS
ISBN 13 : 9781902636269
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living with Invisible People written by Jostein Saether and published by CLAIRVIEW BOOKS. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After years of working methodically with meditative exercises and anthroposophy, Saether began to experience past lives. He vividly describes his past incarnations and shows how they were transformed into aspects of his present life. He takes us on a journey, beginning in Lemuria and Atlantis, through the cultures of Egypt, Crete, India, and Greece, early Christianity, the Middle Ages, and eventually into the nineteenth century. He describes numerous spiritual experiences and discusses the art and science of karmic investigation.

Author : Alex Tizon
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544232852
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big Little Man written by Alex Tizon and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Alex Tizon fearlessly penetrates the core of not just what it means to be male and Asian in America, but what it means to be human anywhere.”—Cheryl Strayed, New York Times bestselling author Shame, Alex Tizon tells us, is universal—his own happened to be about race. To counteract the steady diet of American television and movies that taught Tizon to be ashamed of his face, his skin color, his height, he turned outward. (“I had to educate myself on my own worth. It was a sloppy, piecemeal education, but I had to do it because no one else was going to do it for me.”) Tizon illuminates his youthful search for Asian men who had no place in his American history books or classrooms. And he tracks what he experienced as seismic change: the rise of powerful, dynamic Asian men like Yahoo! cofounder Jerry Yang, actor Ken Watanabe, and NBA starter Jeremy Lin. Included in this new edition of Big Little Man is Alex Tizon’s “My Family’s Slave”—2017’s best-read digital article. Published only weeks after Tizon’s death in 2017, it delivers a provocative, haunting, and ultimately redemptive coda. “A ruthlessly honest personal story and a devastating critique of contemporary American culture.”—The Seattle Times “Part candid memoir, part incisive cultural study, Big Little Man addresses—and explodes—the stereotypes of Asian manhood. Alex Tizon writes with acumen and courage, and the result is a book at once illuminating and, yes, liberating.”—Peter Ho Davies, author of The Welsh Girl “This personal narrative of self-education and growth will engage any reader captivated by the sources of American, and Asian-American, manhood—its multitude of inheritances and prospects.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune

Author : Viviane Namaste
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226568105
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Invisible Lives written by Viviane Namaste and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-12-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines transgendered people in their everyday lives and how they are erased in a variety of institutional and cultural settings. Additionally, difficulties in employment, health care, and identity papers are examined.

Author : C.K. Meena
Publisher : Hachette India
ISBN 13 : 9391028756
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Invisible Majority written by C.K. Meena and published by Hachette India. This book was released on 2021-12-03 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen fractures and eight surgeries caused by brittle bone disease could not stop Ummul Kher from cracking the prestigious IAS exam and joining the civil services. The determination of homemaker Smrithy Rajesh to educate her child affected by autism and ADHD empowered her to forge a career path for herself. Inspired by a blind friend, Pancham Cajla successfully transformed several railway stations, making them accessible to the visually impaired. These are only a few of the umpteen stories of resilience, courage and remarkable determination that offer a sensitive, holistic view of the lives of persons with disabilities in this much-needed book for today's India. Navigating a range of topics with lucid ease - from history and laws to widespread social attitudes - it meticulously records and amplifies the diverse, vibrant voices of persons with disabilities. Equally, it turns its gaze on those inextricably linked to their lives - health professionals, educators, trainers, employers, caregivers and activists - highlighting the key roles they play. Insightful, informative and moving, The Invisible Majority: India's Abled Disabled is a timely and invaluable book that inspires societal transformation while addressing the crucial question: how do we make India a more inclusive nation?

Author : Stephen Gill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780954940508
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Invisible written by Stephen Gill and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: