Denny Taylor

Gebundenes Buch

One Man's Journey

Beschreibung

Part One is one of betrayal and a path that leads into darkness. The path traces the author's life from sixteen to twenty-seven years old, and starts with the first two women he dated. He was Catholic then, and lonely. Part Two chronicles his time with Carolyn: how they met, how the Lord transferred all the love he had for the first woman he dated to Carolyn. It's about how she gave him four wonderful children, only to find out she had cancer when the last child was born. This is about how he lost everything-even his belief in the Lord. But he kept a promise that his late wife asked of him: "Keep the kids all together, under your roof, and take them to Sunday school and church. If you do those two things, the Lord will forgive all the rest." Part Three tells of how he meets his present wife of thirty-two years and how she married into a family that had four kids-when she only had one. It visits how they started and built their business through the years. It also tells of the hurt and pain that came with the death of two sons, and how the man did not get angry with the Lord, despite how little help he received from his family.

Autor

Professor Emerita, Denny Taylor is the co-founder of Garn Press, and a global scholar and activist. She was inducted into the Reading Hall of Fame in 2004. In 2019 she received Columbia University's Distinguished Alumni Award and also the NCRLL Distinguished Scholar Award. James Paul Gee writes, "Denny is, in my view, one of the most brilliant and important scholars of sociocultural approaches to literacy in the 20th century-a field to which I contributed as well. Her work on literacy combines technical sophistication about language and a deep commitment to human dignity and social change. She has always worked at the intersection of human development both in terms of the development of language, literacy, and learning in children, but also in the sense of the development of more humane people, institutions, and societies." Since 1977 Denny has been continuously engaged in research with families living in extreme poverty, and in regions of armed conflict and weather related catastrophes. The concept of "family literacy" originates in her doctoral research at TC, Columbia University. Today, there are family literacy initiatives in most UN Member States established to build more just, peaceful and inclusive societies. Family literacy has become a conduit for many local and regional initiatives to address poverty and hunger, public health emergencies, gender inequality, and strengthen partnerships to address the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Most recently Denny has used her evidence-based research on family, literacy and learning to focus on existential risks and science based macrostrategies for achieving the SDGs and human survival. Her many books span the sciences, and include novels and children's books as well as research texts. Accounts of her research on families, literacy and catastrophic events are available on her website together with many of her publications on family literacy in global contexts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Author Solutions Inc
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 523g
• ISBN-13: 9781512713879
• ISBN-10: 1512713872
• Artikelnr.: 43955870