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by Laura Z. Hobson
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
In the shifting social landscape of America in the 1960s, a mother struggles to understand—and accept—her son’s homosexuality
Tessa Lynn considers herself independent and progressive, a liberated woman of the 1960s. And yet, when she receives a letter from her youngest son, Jeff, informing...
by Laura Z. Hobson
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
A novel of midlife motherhood and the basis for the TV movie starring Carol Burnett—from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Gentleman’s Agreement.
Dori Gray—married, then divorced, age forty, professional journalist—had given up hope of a child. A botched abortion...
Unchecked And Unbalanced
Presidential Power in a Time of Terror
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Thirty years after the Church Committee unearthed COINTELPRO and other instances of illicit executive behavior on the domestic and international fronts, the Bush administration has elevated the flaws identified by the committee into first principles of government.
Through a constellation of...
The National Health System in the United Kingdom: History, present situation and a need for reforms?
The National Health System in the United Kingdom: History, present situation and a need for reforms?
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2004
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2+ (B+), University of Szczecin (Institute for English Studies), 13 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The time of the Industrial Revolution induced...
Run the Race
A Fatherýs Legacy of Life Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
Honest, humorous, and at times heart breaking, Run the Race: A Father's Legacy of Life Lessons is the moving true story of how one loving and devoted father inspired his daughter to run not only long distances, but also the real races of life.
During the spring of seventh grade, author Susan...
The Arkansas Delta Oral History Project
Culture, Place, and Authenticity
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
In rural America, perhaps more than other areas, high school students have the ability to contribute to the revitalization and sustainability of their home communities by engaging in oral history projects designed to highlight the values that are revered and worth saving in their region. The Arkansas...
Religion and Politics in a Global Society
Comparative Perspectives from the Portuguese-Speaking World
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Religion and Politics in a Global Society: Comparative Perspectives from the Portuguese-Speaking World, edited by Paul Christopher Manuel, Alynna Lyon, and Clyde Wilcox, explores the legacy of the Portuguese colonial experience, with careful consideration of the lasting impression that this experience...
The Haitian Creole Language
History, Structure, Use, and Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
The Haitian Creole Language is the first book that deals broadly with a language that has too long lived in the shadow of French. With chapters contributed by the leading scholars in the study of Creole, it provides information on this language's history; structure; and use in education, literature,...
Developing Multicultural Leaders
The Journey to Leadership Success
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
The authors identify three stages of leadership development:early ingredients for success starting from childhood;paths that current and aspiring leaders should follow once they start a career; and what leaders should doexceptionally well to become and remain outstanding in organizations operating in multicultural environments.
Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 36
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international...
Translated Christianities
Nahuatl and Maya Religious Texts
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Beginning in the sixteenth century, ecclesiastics and others created religious texts written in the native languages of the Nahua and Yucatec Maya. These texts played an important role in the evangelization of central Mexico and Yucatan. Translated Christianities is the first book to provide readers...
by Z. Arashiro
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
The first detailed historical account of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations, this book covers the genesis of the project in the early 1990s to its demise in late 2003. It examines how the FTAA, an Inter-American policy idea, was incompatible with the predominant ideas and beliefs...
Canadian-Daoist Poetics, Ethics, and Aesthetics
An Interdisciplinary and Cross-cultural Study
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
This monograph takes an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approach to 20th and 21st -century Canadian Daoist poetry, fiction and criticism in comparative, innovative and engaging ways. Of particular interest are the authors’ refreshing insights into such holistic and topical issues as the globalization...
by Nicolas Z Porter
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
This is a short story. A young couple arrive in a bus terminal. Both are nervous at their impending separation. We assume it's a sad time for both, but is it? Are they running from a problem, or merely solving it in a different way?