Award-winning author and professor Alexs Pate delivers a message of hope and self-discovery in a time of uncertainty in our world. BEING YOU is a beautiful picture book celebrating every readers' individuality and talents. With an authentic voice, BEING YOU's poetic message of love and optimism for the future speaks directly to today's children. BEING YOU helps us to see the wonder and light within each of us.

While at a bookstore signing copies of his first novel, an African-American author recognizes the teenaged daughter whom he had abandoned years earlier, and the two struggle to bridge the gap between them.

Das erste Buch, das sich UNIX Filesystemen widmet und dabei alle Versionen von UNIX und Linux Dateisystemen behandelt. Die meisten Fortune 1000 Unternehmen benutzen noch immer UNIX für ihre Mission Critical Daten und verwenden oft gleichzeitig Windows für nicht kritische Daten. "UNIX Filesystems" enthält mehr Details zu I/O-Dateiaspekten bei der UNIX Programmierung als jedes andere Buch auf dem Markt. Es diskutiert darüber hinaus auch performance- und adminstrationsbezogene Themen, die sich auf Backup Technologien konzentrieren. Mit VERITAS und OpenVision Beispielen.

Set in the early 1960s, West of Rehoboth is the moving story of twelve-year-old Edward Massey. Each summer, to escape the heat of Philadelphia, Edward's family moves to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. The "coloreds only" side of a pristine resort on Rehoboth Beach offers work for his mother and a sandy playground for his sister. But for Edward -- an imaginative, inquisitive boy -- it offers the chance to understand his reclusive, curmudgeonly Uncle Rufus, a man caught in a swirl of hard luck and bad choices. Forging a tenuous bond, their relationship will take Edward on a harrowing journey through Rufus's past, facing the violence, disappointment, and frustration that shaped his destiny. Award-winning author Alexs Pate tells a mesmerizing story -- of family, of coming of age, of reconciliation -- revealing the extraordinary compassion and healing power of one unforgettable boy.

Sonny Goodman may have hopped the "modern underground railroad called education" and arrived in far-flung Minneapolis, but with the impending death of his father, North Philadelphia is calling him home. Quickly caught in the web that inner-city life has woven around his family's dreams, Sonny must find the strength to confront the toll urban corrosion has wrought upon the ones he loves. Named Best First Novel by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, winner of the Minnesota Book Award and compared to the work of James Baldwin and August Wilson, Alexs D. Pate's highly absorbing debut novel "rings with a truth as immediate as body counts in the headlines, as enduring as a classic tragedy."-"San Francisco Chronicle"

A struggling black writer in Minneapolis summons a policeman, ties him to a chair and harangues him on what is wrong with white underwriting of minority artists. It's his way of explaining the presence of a dead philanthropist in his apartment.

Anyone wishing to accomplish all that they can, whether financial success or the achievement of lifelong dreams, needs to understand and harness the power of Leverage. This easy to read, thought provoking book will unleash a flood of ideas to help you make realistic, practical changes in your approach to life and work, a transformation that can lead you to levels of achievement and success you may have never dreamed possible. Regardless of your occupation or financial status, Leverage: A Key to Success and Wealth can help you move faster and farther on your journey to success

To Every People From Every People trains people to plant reproducing churches in the mainstream of unreached cultures around the world. There are over two billion people living in over seven thousand such cultures who will never have an adequate chance to know Christ as Lord and Savior unless someone plants churches in the mainstream of their culture and language group. This book teaches clearly and biblically about why that is important. More important, it teaches you how to do it. It focuses on practical subjects like how to learn another language without studying it in a school and how to make an effective strategy. It actually walks you through case studies with illustrations so you can get a mental picture of how to plant reproducing churches in the mainstream of any people group. An earlier version of this book was originally written specifically for Latin America. It was published by Editora Vida (Miami, Florida) in several editions of Spanish and Portuguese. It has long been the best-selling book of its kind for many years. This English edition has been revised and updated for a global English-speaking audience. Many thousands of people have used this book to plant new churches in other cultures and even in their own cultures. The anthropological, communications, and sociological principles in this book have also helped people understand the Bible better and how to apply its truths anywhere. Most of all, this book is designed to implant vision and passion for cross-cultural ministry in the mind and heart of the reader. It creates a mental image of how to do it. It is a powerful tool intended for the Holy Spirit to use to thrust forth dedicated and effective laborers into the unreached harvest fields of the world!