I'm getting more done in less time, but where are the rich relationships, the inner peace, the balance, the confidence that I'm doing what matters most and doing it well?
In 1974 two Black Americans fought in Zaire, in Africa. One was Muhammad Ali. After the fight, he was the boxing champion of the world - again. But why did a young boy from Kentucky start to box? Why did he stop boxing? And what is he doing now?
This book has been brought together from two broad sources of interest and concern. All contributors would like to see more teachers doing their own research, but at the same time believe that such research must have a sharp methodological focus for it to have sufficient rigour to be of any practical use at all.
Bernie Rhodenbarr - a romantic? Hey, even burglars fall in love and in this case it's Bernie doing the falling, with the lovely and alluring Ilona. Night after night, sharing popcorn in the flickering shadow of a Bogie movie, Bernie finds himself tongue-tied - sometimes literally. It would appear Ilona's now doing all the stealing. Well, not really. Bernie's been approached by the oddly named Hugo Candlemas to pilfer a posh East Side apartment, make off with the portfolio and collect a fast, easy sum. A reasonable enough request for a trained burglar, sure, but just when things are going well, things turn bad.
Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel by J. M. Coetzee
Added by: KundAlini | Karma: 1594.10 | Fiction literature | 29 August 2013
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Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel by J. M. Coetzee
A modern classic, this early novel by Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee centers on the crisis of conscience and morality of the Magistrate-a loyal servant of the Empire working in a tiny frontier town, doing his best to ignore an inevitable war with the "barbarians."
