One man's odyssey from skid row to rebuilding a major collegiate sports program.In Making Your Own Luck, former Indiana University athletic director Fred Glass recounts how even a self-described "knucklehead" learned to be prepared to recognize and seize opportunities and thus make his own luck through life.Growing up in a skid row bar, having an alcoholic father, struggling with anxiety and self-doubt, and making his share of stupid mistakes, Glas...

There is no better time than now to consider the labor history of the Golden State. While other states face declining union enrollment rates and the rollback of workers’ rights, California unions are embracing working immigrants, and voters are protecting core worker rights. What’s the difference? California has held an exceptional place in the imagination of Americans and immigrants since the Gold Rush, which saw the first of many waves of working people moving to the state to find work. ...

Unions have been essential institutions for worker empowerment for more than a century and a half, and they remain so today.More than fourteen million workers in the United States belong to unions. Yet in a workforce of roughly 150 million, union density has fallen to just 10 percent, a ninety-five-year low. The result is that many people have never seen a union in action, even as inequality deepens and insecurity spreads. That loss matters. In a society dominated ...

Symbolized by a three-hundred-year-old Seder plate, the religious life of Fred Behrend's family had centered largely around Passover and the tale of the Jewish people's exodus from tyranny. When the Nazis came to power, the wide-eyed boy and his family found themselves living a twentieth-century version of that exodus, escaping oppression and persecution in Germany for Cuba and ultimately a life of freedom and happiness in the United States. Behrend's childhood came to a crashing end with ...

This cross-stitch chart is one of a dense cluster of tulips. The tulips are the dominant feature, filling most of the frame. They are depicted in a wide range of red and orange hues, with some showing yellow and even hints of purple in their petals. The colour palette is highly saturated, giving the tulips an almost glowing appearance. The individual petals are clearly defined but rendered in a slightly impressionistic style, not photorealistic. The blooms are in various stages of openness...

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This book starts from the premise that honest and constructive dialogue between scholars and educators of interculturality, especially from different geopolitical spheres, is needed more than ever. The book is about the important and yet contested notion of interculturality—a notion used in different fields of research. It was co-written by two scholars who have never met before and who got to know each other intellectually and personally in the process of writing this book, using intercul...

A Pathway to an Ending takes readers on a captivating journey through the vivid and thought-provoking essays and memoirs of Canadian author, Fred Madryga. This collection of non-fiction works offers a unique and compelling glimpse into the author’s life and experiences, providing an intimate look at the human condition and the complexities of existence.Spanning a wide range of topics, Madryga’s writing delves into the depths of what it means to be human, exploring themes o...

Step into the imaginative world of Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, a timeless classic brought to life through calm and immersive British narration.Follow Alice as she steps through the mirror into a strange and fascinating world where logic bends, time behaves unpredictably, and every encounter leads to something unexpected. This beautifully narrated edition captures the charm, wit, and dreamlike quality of one of literature’s most enduring classics.

Meet Tyrone Lock: born of farmers' stock; overeducated, underemployed. An inveterate pick-nose and clandestine squeezer of Revels in the supermarket. Disaffected in a way that Adrian Mole would recognize (though as Tyrone takes pains to point out, he's hardly a tortured artist; his BA was in Economics). Inexplicably involved with the lovely, pampered Miss Athena Till.The young couple are preparing for their first trip abroad: the obligatory horizon-widening sojourn in Europe, the L...