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Straitjacket

Author : George A. Goens
Publisher : R&L Education
ISBN 13 : 1475805683
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book Straitjacket written by George A. Goens and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public schools have been placed in a straitjacket over the past 30 years through overregulation as a result of the growing power of the federal government over public education, expanding court decisions, state government legislation, school board policies and procedures, and the media's influence on public opinion. The straitjacket of centralized control and coercive approaches to the problems that public education is facing is not the solution, but actually is part of the problem. And where achievement is lower than desired this book brings attention to the root cause – lack of student preparation so that more resources can be put into catching these kids up, rather than into more tests, more curriculum development, and more administrative staff needed to comply with all of this complexity and growing regulations. We must break out of our straitjacket and give schools more flexibility in finding creative and innovative ways to address the needs of students, changing times, and professional expectations—not shackle them through regulatory mandates, closed thinking, and defective accountability processes.

Straitjacket & Tie

Author : Eugene Stein
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Straitjacket & Tie written by Eugene Stein and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1994 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this poignant yet comic tour de force, Stein creates a phantasmagoric Manhattan, where craziness seems omnipresent and alienation replaces family and community. Against a backdrop of madness and troubled family relations, a young man sets off for college and ultimately lands a job in Manhattan with the Department of Sewers.

On the Fly!

Author : Iain McIntyre
Publisher : PM Press
ISBN 13 : 1629635324
Total Pages : 725 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book On the Fly! written by Iain McIntyre and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first anthology of its kind, On the Fly! brings forth the lost voices of Hobohemia. Dozens of stories, poems, songs, stories, and articles produced by hoboes are brought together to create an insider history of the subculture’s rise and fall. Adrenaline-charged tales of train hopping, scams, and political agitation are combined with humorous and satirical songs, razor sharp reportage and unique insights into the lives of the women and men who crisscrossed America in search of survival and adventure. From iconic figures such as labor martyr Joe Hill and socialist novelist Jack London through to pioneering blues and country musicians, and little-known correspondents for the likes of the Hobo News, the authors and songwriters contained in On the Fly! run the full gamut of Hobohemia’s wide cultural and geographical embrace. With little of the original memoirs, literature, and verse remaining in print, this collection, aided by a glossary of hobo vernacular and numerous illustrations and photos, provides a comprehensive and entertaining guide to the life and times of a uniquely American icon. Read on to enter a world where hoboes, tramps, radicals, and bums gather in jungles, flop houses, and boxcars; where gandy dancers, bindlestiffs, and timber beasts roam the rails once more.

Jewels

Author : Danielle Steel
Publisher : Dell
ISBN 13 : 0307566544
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Jewels written by Danielle Steel and published by Dell. This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Sarah Whitfield's seventy-fifth birthday, memories take her back to New York in the 1930s. To a marriage that ends after a year, leaving Sarah shattered. A trip to Europe with her parents does little to raise her spirits, until she meets William, Duke of Whitfield. In time, despite her qualms, William insists on giving up his distant right to the British throne to make Sarah his dutchess and his wife. On their honeymoon, the newlyweds buy an old French chateau, but not long after, the war begins. William joins the allied forces, leaving Sarah, their first child, an infant, and their second child on the way, in France. After the Nazi forces take over the chateau, Sarah continues to survive the terror and deprivation of the Occupation, unwavering in her belief that her missing-in-action husband is still alive. After the war, as a gesture of goodwill, the Whitfields start buying jewels offered for sale by impoverished war survivors. With Sarah's style and keen eye, the collection becomes the prestigious Whitfield's jewelry store in Paris. Eventually, their jewelry business expands to London and Rome, as their family grows. Phillip, their firstborn, is stubborn and proud; Julian, their second son, is charming and generous and warm; Isabelle is rebellious and willful; and Xavier, unusual and untamed, is the final unexpected gift of their love. They each find their own way, but will be drawn to the great house of gems their parents built. In Jewels, Danielle Steel takes the reader through five eventful decades that include war, passion, international intrigue, and the strength of family through it all.

To Charm a Killer

Author : W. L. Hawkin
Publisher : Blue Haven Press
ISBN 13 : 0995018421
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book To Charm a Killer written by W. L. Hawkin and published by Blue Haven Press. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "a magically edgy coming-of-age story" —Didi Oviatt "a deliciously sensuous dive into Wicca" —JP McLean "As one of you has spun the charm, now none of you are safe from harm. One who all felt they could trust, breeds deception cloaked in lust. One will gain their heart's desire; while yet another pays with fire. Before the dark of winter night, four souls pass over into light. Once begun it cannot end, but circles round as circles bend." When a third witch vanishes from Vancouver, the witches of Hollystone Coven spin a charm to catch the killer. But spells spin ripples and in the ensuing chaos, an innocent girl gets caught up in the charm. As obsessed with the killer as the killer is with him, their high priest, Estrada, vows to find the man and stop him. A Wicca coven. A terrifying prophecy. A seventeen-year-old girl and a serial killer hunting witches. Can Estrada stop him or is he too caught up in the charm? W.L. Hawkin weaves threads of Macbeth, ancient Irish myth, and edgy love into this mysterious urban fantasy. "Maggie lifted her long black sleeve and stared at the stinging tattoo on her left inner forearm just below the elbow. It hurt like hell, but she hadn't flinched. An exquisite Celtic war horse, it reared up on its hind legs and kicked out with its front. The body was solid black, the main and tail, a rippling white and black ribbon of Celtic knots. It had amber eyes and nostrils that flared like an angry dragon."

Use of Seclusion and Restraints in Mental Hospitals

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Use of Seclusion and Restraints in Mental Hospitals written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Madman and the Nun & The Crazy Locomotive

Author : Stanis_aw Ignacy Witkiewicz
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780936839837
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book The Madman and the Nun & The Crazy Locomotive written by Stanis_aw Ignacy Witkiewicz and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Startling discontinuities and surprises erupt throughout these avant-garde landscapes by Poland's outstanding modern dramatist where duchesses and policemen, gangsters and surrealist painters, psychiatrists and locomotive engineers wander in and out, kill one another, and carry on philosophical conversations at the same time.

Eve's Daughters

Author : Lynn Austin
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1441202234
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Eve's Daughters written by Lynn Austin and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Would You Do If a Secret Was Causing Your Family to Crumble? Is there a secret terrible enough that it should never be revealed, not even if it was tearing a family apart? For more than five decades Emma Bauer has kept one--carefully guarding it with all her strength, and for more than five decades that choice has haunted her life and also the lives of her daughters and granddaughter. Is it too late for wrongs to be righted? Does Emma even have the strength to let the healing power of truth work in her family? The story of four generations of women and the powerful effects that their choices have had on their lives is at the heart of Eve's Daughters, an epic novel from author Lynn Austin. Grand in scope but tender and personal at the same time, it will please you as a fan of contemporary or historical fiction. Exploring times from World War I to the 980s, Eve's Daughters is an insightful look at mothers, daughters, sisters, and families that allows you to see a little bit of yourself through the characters' triumphs, struggles, and hard-tested faith. Yearning for love, dignity, and freedom, the four generations of women must come to terms with the choices they have made. Healing comes when the past is forgiven but only when they embrace God's forgiveness can they shatter the cycle that has ruled their lives over the decades. Link to Readers' Discussion Questions

Outpost

Author : Adam Baker
Publisher : Hodderscape
ISBN 13 : 1444709054
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (447 download)

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Download or read book Outpost written by Adam Baker and published by Hodderscape. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They took the job to escape the world They didn't expect the world to end. Kasker Rampart: a derelict refinery platform moored in the Arctic Ocean. A skeleton crew of fifteen fight boredom and despair as they wait for a relief ship to take them home. But the world beyond their frozen wasteland has gone to hell. Cities lie ravaged by a global pandemic. One by one TV channels die, replaced by silent wavebands. The Rampart crew are marooned. They must survive the long Arctic winter, then make their way home alone. They battle starvation and hypothermia, unaware that the deadly contagion that has devastated the world is heading their way...

Is There No Place on Earth for Me

Author : Susan Sheehan
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804169195
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Is There No Place on Earth for Me written by Susan Sheehan and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This renowned journalist's classic Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of schizophrenia—now reissued with a new postscript—follows a flamboyant and fiercely intelligent young woman as she struggles in the throes of mental illness. “Sylvia Frumkin” was born in 1948 and began showing signs of schizophrenia in her teens. She spent the next seventeen years in and out of mental institutions. In 1978, reporter Susan Sheehan took an interest in her and, for more than two years, became immersed in her life: talking with her, listening to her monologues, sitting in on consultations with doctors—even, for a period, sleeping in the bed next to her in a psychiatric center. With Sheehan, we become witness to Sylvia’s plight: her psychotic episodes, the medical struggle to control her symptoms, and the overburdened hospitals that, more often than not, she was obliged to call home. The resulting book, first published in 1982, was hailed as an extraordinary achievement: harrowing, humanizing, moving, and bitingly funny. Now, some two decades later, Is There No Place on Earth for Me? continues to set the standard for accounts of mental illness.

Balancing Wealth and Health

Author : Rochelle Dreyfuss
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191664650
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Balancing Wealth and Health written by Rochelle Dreyfuss and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focusses on the debates concerning aspects of intellectual property law that bear on access to medicines in a set of developing countries. Specifically, the contributors look at measures that regulate the acquisition, recognition, and use of patent rights on pharmaceuticals and trade secrets in data concerning them, along with the conditions under which these rights expire so as to permit the production of cheaper generic drugs. In addition, the book includes commentary from scholars in human rights, international institutions, and transnational activism. The case studies presented from 11 Latin American countries, have many commonalities in terms of economics, legal systems, and political histories, and yet they differ in the balance each has struck between proprietary interests and access concerns. The book documents this cross-country variation in legal norms and practice, identifies the factors that have led to differences in result, and theorizes as to how differentials among these countries occur and why they endure within a common transnational regulatory regime. The work concludes by putting the results of the investigations into a global administrative law frame and offers suggestions on institutional mechanisms for considering the trade-offs between health and wealth.

The Memory Palace

Author : Nate DiMeo
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0593446151
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book The Memory Palace written by Nate DiMeo and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-11-19 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incredible true stories reveal strange new magic in American history in this wondrous first book from the creator of the award-winning podcast The Memory Palace. “One doesn’t often find the words imagination and history in the same sentence. Nate DiMeo has forever woven them together. The Memory Palace wants you to linger, to stay awhile, and find a deeper meaning both in the stories of the past and perhaps in your own life as well.”—Ken Burns The Memory Palace is a collection of crystalline historical tales that read like luminous short fiction and, like Nate DiMeo’s acclaimed podcast of the same name, conjure lost moments and forgotten figures who are calling out across time to be remembered. Space capsules filled with fruit flies and future senators. A socialite scientist who gives up her glamorous life to follow love and the elusive prairie chicken. A boy genius on a path to change the world who gets lost in the theoretical possibilities of streetcar transfers. An enslaved man who steals a boat and charts a course that leads him to freedom, war, and Congress. A farmer’s wife who puts down her butter churn, picks up the butter, and becomes an international art star. An amusement park glowing at the water’s edge when electric lights are a brand-new thing. This cabinet of curiosities teems with wonder. For fifteen years, Nate DiMeo has turned to the past to make sense of the way we live today, finding beauty and meaning in history’s dustier corners, holding things up to the light and weaving facts, keen insight, wit, and poignant observation into unforgettable tales. With new stories and treasured favorites from the beloved podcast assembled alongside dynamic illustrations and archival photographs for the first time, enchantment awaits you.

The Drama of Doctrine

Author : Kevin J. Vanhoozer
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664223274
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book The Drama of Doctrine written by Kevin J. Vanhoozer and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Observing a strange disappearance of doctrine within the church, Kevin Vanhoozer argues that there is no more urgent task for Christians today than to engage in living truthfully with others before God. He details how doctrine serves the church--the theater of the gospel--by directing individuals and congregations to participate in the drama of what God is doing to renew all things in Jesus Christ. Taking his cue from George Lindbeck and others who locate the criteria of Christian identity in Spirit-led church practices, Vanhoozer relocates the norm for Christian doctrine in the canonical practices, which, he argues, both provoke and preserve the integrity of the church's witness as prophetic and apostolic.

Harry Houdini for Kids

Author : Laurie Carlson
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613741952
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Harry Houdini for Kids written by Laurie Carlson and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: &&LDIV&&R&&LDIV&&R&&LP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&&RIllusionist, escape artist, movie star, aviator, and spy—Harry Houdini was all these and an international celebrity and the world’s most famous magician. This fascinating biography looks at all the facets of Houdini’s amazing life and includes 21 magic tricks and illusions for a hands-on learning experience. Children will be inspired by this Jewish immigrant who grew up in poverty and, through perseverance and hard work, went on to become one of the most popular and successful entertainers of all time. Houdini was an artist who created his acts carefully, practicing them for years in some cases. He performed such seemingly impossible stunts as escaping several sets of handcuffs and ropes after jumping off a bridge into a flowing river. &&L/P&&R&&LP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&&R &&L/P&&R&&LP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&&RKids will learn how he devised his most legendary stunts and will also learn the science and logic behind many of Houdini’s acts including his famous milk can escape. Kids can amaze their family and friends with these simple, entertaining, and fun tricks and illusions: &&L/P&&R Stepping through an index card Performing an odd number trick Making a coin appear Mind reading with a secret code Making a magic box Lifting a person with one hand Making a talking board And much more &&LP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&&R &&L/P&&R&&L/DIV&&R&&L/DIV&&R

Washing the Brain Metaphor and Hidden Ideology

Author : Andrew Goatly
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027292930
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Washing the Brain Metaphor and Hidden Ideology written by Andrew Goatly and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-17 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary metaphor theory has recently begun to address the relation between metaphor, culture and ideology. In this wide-ranging book, Andrew Goatly, using lexical data from his database Metalude, investigates how conceptual metaphor themes construct our thinking and social behaviour in fields as diverse as architecture, engineering, education, genetics, ecology, economics, politics, industrial time-management, medicine, immigration, race, and sex. He argues that metaphor themes are created not only through the universal body but also through cultural experience, so that an apparently universal metaphor such as event-structure as realized in English grammar is, in fact, culturally relative, compared with e.g. the construal of 'cause and effect' in the Algonquin language Blackfoot. Moreover, event-structure as a model is both scientifically reactionary and, as the basis for technological mega-projects, has proved environmentally harmful. Furthermore, the ideologies of early capitalism created or exploited a selection of metaphor themes historically traceable through Hobbes, Hume, Smith, Malthus and Darwin. These metaphorical concepts support neo-Darwinian and neo-conservative ideologies apparent at the beginning of the 21st century, ideologies underpinning our social and environmental crises. The conclusion therefore recommends skepticism of metaphor’s reductionist tendencies.

Night Waking

Author : Kathleen Snow
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504029313
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Night Waking written by Kathleen Snow and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Suspense filled psychological thriller.” —Literary Guild “Will scare the hell out of all but the most lionhearted.” —Publishers Weekly “A terrifying novel about paranoia.” —Chicago Sun-Times “Will grab you right by the psyche.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “Continually engrossing.” —Los Angeles Times “Supremely suspenseful.” —Doubleday Book Club “Will have those little hairs standing at brittle attention.” —Post-Gazette (Boston) “Powerful and disturbing.” —Mystery Guild “Explosive shocker.” —The News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne) “For thriller fans and serious literature readers.” —Green Valley News (Arizona) “The work of a real pro.” —Houston Chronicle “Keeps the reader guessing-entranced.” —The Post-Standard (Syracuse) “Wrenching study of people under pressure.” —Quote magazine

Horses, Hitches, and Rocky Trails

Author : Joe Back
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781555661410
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book Horses, Hitches, and Rocky Trails written by Joe Back and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 1959-12 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horses, Hitches and Rocky Trails is often referred to as the packer's bible. Written in the language of the West, it is a complete and often humorous presentation of the method of packing horses into the wilderness. Amplified by the brilliant drawings of artist Joe Back, the book is for both the amateur and professional packer.