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Best Intentions

Author : Erika Raskin
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250101239
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Best Intentions written by Erika Raskin and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Best Intentions is that rare novel that grows more gripping and emotionally rich with every turn of the page.” —Carla Buckley Marti Trailor—social worker on hold, mother of three, wife of a successful obstetrician, daughter of a Congressman—is ready to go back to work. She’s thrilled when the perfect opportunity falls in her lap. The catch? The job is at her husband's hospital and he seems not to share her enthusiasm. Undeterred, she takes the position counseling vulnerable young women as they prepare to give birth. Marti quickly begins to feel like she is making a difference in the lives of her clients. Soon, though, she finds herself caught up in the dark side of the medical center—with its long hours, overworked doctors and entrenched practices. When she witnesses something she can't unsee, Marti, who has always done her best to keep a low-profile, finds herself thrust under a dangerous spotlight with all of Richmond, Virginia watching. In her captivating domestic suspense novel Best Intentions, Erika Raskin weaves together high stakes hospital politics, the pressures of family life, and the consequences of trying to do the right thing, particularly in a city with a history as fraught as Richmond's.

Only the Best Intentions

Author : Alice Savage
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781948492065
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Only the Best Intentions written by Alice Savage and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-11 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only the Best Intentions teaches students language skills as they produce an original one-act play.Life¿s ups and downs do not slow down the busy Curry family whose members are juggling jobs, family, school, sports, and wedding plans. But when 20-year-old Gigi announces that she has broken off her engagement to a computer gamer, everything comes to a stop. Eve wants to help Gigi and Oscar, but in a modern romance, the rules the game are always changing.As students prepare to perform the play, they will practice many skills, including: Pronunciation Practice: Sentence stress Pragmatics Practice: Consoling someone Production Skills: Learning a part and staging plays for students Attentive Listening: esports vs. real sports Readings on the growing world of esports, the realities of having a gamer in the family, and the new reality of family life in the age of screens. Debate and Discussion Creative Writing

Despite the Best Intentions

Author : Amanda E. Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190250879
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Despite the Best Intentions written by Amanda E. Lewis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the surface, Riverview High School looks like the post-racial ideal. Serving an enviably affluent, diverse, and liberal district, the school is well-funded, its teachers are well-trained, and many of its students are high achieving. Yet Riverview has not escaped the same unrelenting question that plagues schools throughout America: why is it that even when all of the circumstances seem right, black and Latino students continue to lag behind their peers? Through five years' worth of interviews and data-gathering at Riverview, John Diamond and Amanda Lewis have created a rich and disturbing portrait of the achievement gap that persists more than fifty years after the formal dismantling of segregation. As students progress from elementary school to middle school to high school, their level of academic achievement increasingly tracks along racial lines, with white and Asian students maintaining higher GPAs and standardized testing scores, taking more advanced classes, and attaining better college admission results than their black and Latino counterparts. Most research to date has focused on the role of poverty, family stability, and other external influences in explaining poor performance at school, especially in urban contexts. Diamond and Lewis instead situate their research in a suburban school, and look at what factors within the school itself could be causing the disparity. Most crucially, they challenge many common explanations of the 'racial achievement gap,' exploring what race actually means in this situation, and why it matters. An in-depth study with far-reaching consequences, Despite the Best Intentions revolutionizes our understanding of both the knotty problem of academic disparities and the larger question of the color line in American society.

Best Intentions

Author : Simran Dhir
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9354891594
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (548 download)

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Download or read book Best Intentions written by Simran Dhir and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-10-30 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Lawyer-turned-author Simran Dhir's debut novel is the exciting airport read we often need in our lives.' -- The Telegraph 'This sharp, acute and accomplished debut novel ... carries deep insights into human relationships and the social schisms and fault lines that surround us.' -- Namita Gokhale Gayatri Mehra is tired of her parents trying to find her a suitable husband. She would much rather focus on the history journal she edits and leave the happily-ever-after to Nandini and Amar, her newly married sister and brother-in-law. But when the journal faces pressure to fall in line from the right-wing SSP, headed by a corrupt godman, Gayatri is forced to seek help from Akshay Grewal, Amar's brother and elder son of lawyer-turned-politician Gyan Singh Grewal. Gayatri finds Akshay arrogant and unprincipled; he thinks she is naive and self-righteous. Enter Vikram Gera, a self-made banker willing to go to any lengths to break into Delhi's elite circles, even if it means stringing Gayatri along. As Gayatri and Akshay come together to salvage the situation at the journal, they realize that their siblings' marriage is coming undone. Politics, ambition and hard truths collide, and familial bonds are tested. But as they navigate this complex world, Akshay and Gayatri learn that while some things can't be fixed, love often finds a way. Best Intentions is a sharply observed and compulsively readable novel of manners marking the arrival of an accomplished new voice.

Best Intentions

Author : Emily Listfield
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416576835
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Best Intentions written by Emily Listfield and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of Waiting to Surface comes a page-turning novel about four college friends whose reunion reawakens old desires and grudges—with fatal results. What happens when you think you know the person you love—and you’re dead wrong? Thirty-nine-year-old Lisa Barkley looks over at her sleeping husband, Sam, and can’t help but feel that their fifteen-year marriage is in a funk that she isn’t able to place. She tells herself that the strain must be due to their mounting financial pressures. With two daughters about to start another year at an elite Upper East Side private school and her own career hitting a wall, the effort of trying to stay afloat in their privileged world is increasingly difficult. But when she listens to Sam’s voicemail and hears a whispered phone call from a woman he is to meet that night, she begins to suspect he is having an affair. Lisa’s best friend, Deirdre, claims it can’t be true. But how can Lisa fully trust her opinion when Deirdre is mired in her own obsessive affair? When Deirdre’s former college flame, Jack, comes to town and the two couples meet to celebrate his fortieth birthday, the stage is set for an explosive series of discoveries with devastating results. Filled with suspense and provocative questions about the relationships we value most, Best Intentions is a tightly woven drama of love, friendship and betrayal.

The Best Intentions

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309052300
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Best Intentions written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1995-07-02 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experts estimate that nearly 60 percent of all U.S. pregnanciesâ€"and 81 percent of pregnancies among adolescentsâ€"are unintended. Yet the topic of preventing these unintended pregnancies has long been treated gingerly because of personal sensitivities and public controversies, especially the angry debate over abortion. Additionally, child welfare advocates long have overlooked the connection between pregnancy planning and the improved well-being of families and communities that results when children are wanted. Now, current issuesâ€"health care and welfare reform, and the new international focus on populationâ€"are drawing attention to the consequences of unintended pregnancy. In this climate The Best Intentions offers a timely exploration of family planning issues from a distinguished panel of experts. This committee sheds much-needed light on the questions and controversies surrounding unintended pregnancy. The book offers specific recommendations to put the United States on par with other developed nations in terms of contraceptive attitudes and policies, and it considers the effectiveness of over 20 pregnancy prevention programs. The Best Intentions explores problematic definitionsâ€""unintended" versus "unwanted" versus "mistimed"â€"and presents data on pregnancy rates and trends. The book also summarizes the health and social consequences of unintended pregnancies, for both men and women, and for the children they bear. Why does unintended pregnancy occur? In discussions of "reasons behind the rates," the book examines Americans' ambivalence about sexuality and the many other social, cultural, religious, and economic factors that affect our approach to contraception. The committee explores the complicated web of peer pressure, life aspirations, and notions of romance that shape an individual's decisions about sex, contraception, and pregnancy. And the book looks at such practical issues as the attitudes of doctors toward birth control and the place of contraception in both health insurance and "managed care." The Best Intentions offers frank discussion, synthesis of data, and policy recommendations on one of today's most sensitive social topics. This book will be important to policymakers, health and social service personnel, foundation executives, opinion leaders, researchers, and concerned individuals.

Best Intentions

Author : Robert Sam Anson
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307756998
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Best Intentions written by Robert Sam Anson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-03-16 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complex, poignant exploration of racial attitudes in America, as illumined by the case of Edmund Perry. Perry, a seventeen-year-old black honors student from Harlem, was fatally shot by a young white plainclothes policeman in 1985 in an alleged mugging attempt. Perry had recently graduated from Philips Exeter Academy and was to attend Stanford University that fall. The shooting and the subsequent case, in which Edmund's elder brother Jonah, an undergraduate at Cornell University, was accused, tried, and found not guilty, drew national headlines and was the subject of heated debate among black and white communities alike. Using interviews with Perry's parents, friends, and former teachers in Harlem and at Exeter, journalist Robert Sam Anson has written a compelling account of a boy caught between two worlds and a profound portrait of the state of race in America.

The Best Intentions

Author : James Traub
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312426743
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The Best Intentions written by James Traub and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traub recounts the dramatically entwined history of Kofi Annan and the U.N. from 1992 to the present. In Annan he sees a conscientious idealist given too little credit for advancing causes like humanitarian intervention, an honest broker crushed between American conservatives and Third World opponents, and a U.N. careerist who has absorbed that culture and cannot, in the end, escape its limitations.

On Marriage

Author : Devorah Baum
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030027193X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book On Marriage written by Devorah Baum and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compulsively readable, startling, and philosophically rich book about marriage, from an acclaimed critic and filmmaker "Baum is an erudite and entertaining guide through the landscape of marriage. . . . A fascinating exploration."--Stephanie Merritt, The Guardian "As far back as our history books go, we have no record of a time preceding marriage. Isn't that an extraordinary fact?" So writes Devorah Baum in this searching and revelatory book. Marriage, for better or for worse, is how humans have organized their world and told their story. Straight, queer, coupled, single: none live outside the remit of marriage. One might as well try to live beyond language. But when confronted with the question "What do intellectuals think of marriage?" Baum concludes that most philosophers have preferred to avoid the subject. Is marriage then an intellectual blind spot? To fill in the gaps, she draws on a wide range of cultural material, from the classical to the contemporary, while interweaving reflections on her own experiences of matrimony to both critique and celebrate marriage's many contradictions and its profound effects on us all. In doing so, she reveals how marriage has worked as a cover story for power and its abuses on the one hand, and for subversive and even utopian relational practices on the other. Entertaining, illuminating, consoling, and candid, On Marriage is an unprecedented investigation of what we are really talking about when we talk about marriage.

Let Us Consider

Author : Isaac Barlow
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1098040724
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Let Us Consider written by Isaac Barlow and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-10-23 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To summarize this book, I can only say that it is intended to cause one to think about what things really matter in life and what things are truly insignificant. We are only earthbound for a moment. Hopefully, our eternity will be in a heavenly place.

FORCES

Author : Joshua S Lundquest
Publisher : Joshua S Lundquest
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book FORCES written by Joshua S Lundquest and published by Joshua S Lundquest. This book was released on 2020-01-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FORCES, an adrenaline fueled pop culture homage to several Sci-Fi films, anime and video games. Go on a Science Fantasy adventure with young scientist Mason and rough female soldier/mecha pilot Rust as they battle giant spider-like creatures created through genetic splicing by Mason's former partner from before he had been cryogenically frozen. The IRON-ARACHNIDS! Humanity walled off from those beasts cling desperately to survival in the apocalypse as elite soldiers, and Mason search for an answer to this crisis as new more mysterious problems begin to bubble up and emerge from the shadows

Hearings

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1614 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Breathing Patterns

Author : Robert P. Hoch
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498271502
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Breathing Patterns written by Robert P. Hoch and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preaching to the "choir" is always complicated, but especially so when that choir happens to be a seminary community. In this collection of sermons, delivered in the chapel of the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary (PCUSA), Robert P. Hoch, Assistant Professor of Homiletics and Worship, weaves together life experiences, careful readings of the Scripture, and pastoral wisdom for the benefit of seminarians, pastors, and educators. Often poetic, Dr. Hoch's sermons are crafted so that they speak not only to the peculiar life of a seminary community, but more broadly to the larger life of the church. Beyond the sermons themselves, readers will hear Dr. Hoch's reflections on individual sermons, reflections that sometimes betray the sermon behind the sermon. Whether as a student, seasoned pastor, or officer in the church, readers will find in these pages a partner with whom they can share the journey of faith.

The Forgery, Or, Best Intentions

Author : George Payne Rainsford James
Publisher : London : George Routledge and Sons, [18--?]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Forgery, Or, Best Intentions written by George Payne Rainsford James and published by London : George Routledge and Sons, [18--?]. This book was released on 1853 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Annals of Education and Instruction

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book American Annals of Education and Instruction written by and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Traits of Character Illustrated in Bible Light

Author : Henry F. Kletzing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traits of Character Illustrated in Bible Light written by Henry F. Kletzing and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bringing Your Soul to Work

Author : Cheryl Peppers
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1609943244
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Bringing Your Soul to Work written by Cheryl Peppers and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2000-08-30 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EMPLOYEES TODAY are actively searching for more meaning in the workplace, for work that resonates with their being. How does one dare yearn for something more, when so many workplaces seem aligned solely with financial survival and profit making? How do we get work done amidst the demands and tugs on our soul? Bringing Your Soul to Work addresses these troubling questions in a way that provides a pathway for readers who want to bridge the gap between their spiritual and work lives. It honors readers' unique experiences and challenges them to think differently, aligning their actions with their hearts. Engaging, inspiring, and poetic, yet grounded in real life, this book is written by consultants who see the contradictions of the workplace firsthand. Using case examples, personal stories, inspirational quotes, visual images, reflective questions, and specific applications, it shows readers how to use their own experience to grapple with the gritty realities of the workplace. Throughout the book, readers are invited to consider the book's concepts in relation to their own unique situations and, in the case of the applications, to record their responses in writing. They then learn to construct meaning from their own experience, drawing on imagination and practice, as well as the specific circumstances of their work lives. Addressing what many feel but cannot say out loud, Bringing Your Soul to Work links ideas about soul to the realities of work in a unique way. For all those looking to increase their effectiveness at work and bring more feeling, imagination, and heart into their efforts with others, it will serve as a guide for creating something new and lasting.