This story describes a short period of my life when I left behind my husband and family to take up an assignment with the New Zealand Volunteer Service Abroad. This organisation employed me to work in Zimbabwe from 2002 to 2004, a difficult time in that countrys history. For me, it was a life-changing experience that a decade later I feel compelled to share. I have used the diaries I kept during my time there and also drawings to convey the lasting...

Las críticas que aparecen en Postcapital. Crítica del futuro, fueron publicadas por Iván de la Nuez durante unos seis años y recorren el tránsito entre el siglo XX y el siglo XXI. Aparecidas en el suplemento libros de El Periódico de Catalunya, interrogan las diferentes alternativas del pensamiento contemporáneo y se desplazan desde el impacto causado por el derribo del muro de Berlín hasta el cambio suscitado por el atentado a las Torres...

Viajes por Filipinas es un libro de Juan Álvarez Guerra escrito en 1871 por encargo del gobernador general de Filipinas, Rafael Izquierdo. Esta obra contiene datos relevantes de carácter etnográfico, geográfico, histórico y político. Juan Álvarez Guerra escribió tres libros de viajes sobre las islas. El primero lo tituló Un viaje por Oriente. De Manila a Marianas, publicado en Madrid en 1872 y reeditado en 1883 y 1887. Lo dedicó al general...

An American writer joins her husband, a contractor/consultant working in Iraq, to live in Amman, Jordan, and keeps a diary of day-to-day events. Out of this emerge so many stories of the pain and frustration of a forgotten world dating from a half-century earlier-the Palestinians who fled Israel in the '48 and '67 wars. In both cases - whether the Iraqi war or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - she finds herself squarely within the enemy camp and...

Issues of the Heart is a collection of topics that we face through-out life. It is designed to present issue monthly and daily reflections related to the issue. This reflection journal act as a user guide to process where you are and ignite your desire to change to develop into the person you would like to become. Issues of the Heart is a collection of powerful reflection activities to guide you on your journey toward self-awareness.

"Dancing on the Ceiling of My Existential Kitchen" is Nathan's 2nd collection of poetry & random writings, mostly encompassing the period between 2005-2009 when Nathan left Los Angeles for Boston & New York City, eventually settling in Austin, Texas.In addition to poetry inspired by Nathan's first weeks & months in Austin, Dancing on the Ceiling of My Existential Kitchen includes anecdotes about busking in Brooklyn (Cop Utopia), visions of an oversexed,...

Student Marcus Fyer is at odds with both family and campus life, and is about to quit university and just take off. His father arranges a course of therapy to see him through his crisis, though Marcus finds himself at odds with that arrangement too. His therapist can get very little out of him, so suggests he keep a diary recording his reactions to his designated therapy group. This Marcus does, but what can his diary tell us about his state of mind?...

A woman reluctantly takes on the responsibility of putting her eccentric rebellious mother into a retirement home, and managing her care. She has her own daughter to raise and nurture, a marriage and a business to hold together, and her own psychological troubles due in good part to how she was mothered. my mother, my madness is Colleen Higgs’s diary of her mother’s last ten years. It is at once funny, harrowing, mundane, chaotic, and full of...

La periodista Jineth Bedoya no sólo ha conocido como pocos el tenebroso mundo de las cárceles colombianas, sino que además ha sido víctima de la violencia y la corrupción que campea en ellas. Famosa entre sus colegas y entre los miles de lectores de sus crónicas y libros por haber sido capaz de llegar—en las entrañas de nuestro conflicto armado y las fauces de nuestra más cruda realidad—hasta donde ningún otro comunicador se ha atrevido,...

Always Stay True is a true journey through a relatively sexist work environment that favored a predominantly male presence. It defined me as a woman of strength, at times a woman of weaknesses, but overall a woman who came out on the other side a better version of myself in my working capacity. There has been no greater journey and no greater reward. Navigating disparity was an ultimate challenge to which sometimes I wanted to give in. Quit fighting...