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The true narrative of a slave from Africa, crafted in verse by Marilyn Nelson. Born an African prince, Broteer Furro was captured by slave traders at age six. As he stepped onto a cargo ship, the vessel's steward purchased the boy and gave him a new name: Venture. He landed in Rhode Island and worked through a lifetime of slavery to buy not only his own freedom but the freedom of his wife and children. Remarkable in his own time for his ambiti...

Are you going through a divorce or break-up? Are you a professional helping divorcing couples and families get through the process? Whether acrimonious or amicable, divorce is a painful process that imposes emotional, financial, and ethical strains on everyone involved. Many people are now seeking the help of teams of professionals to take them through this transition in a respectful, non-adversarial way so that those divorcing and thei...

Chuck Robbins' personal experiences guide the reader through the myriad public lands. He explains the geology, animal and plant life, and history of Montana's most storied and scenic locales, with a special emphasis on birds found in Montana. Out-of-staters and Montana residents alike will find much of interest in this full-color guide.

A down-to-earth search for everyday Zen mindfulness from well-known master of formal poetry.

A young lawyer fights to free an innocent man on death row. A savage prison rape of a young inmate . . . a grisly revenge murder . . . a forced confession results in a conviction and death sentence. Jason Cornell, a young court appointed lawyer fights for justice in a flawed legal system...

Original texts in various languages, followed by English translations.

When miracles happen our spirit soars in happiness!God or an angel of God spoke to me at a critical time and (I believe) saved my life.... This story, my beliefs, and other miracles are inside this book for you to read as you walk with me in my Christian walk, see the struggles and joys I have gone through as a Christian. I do know miracles are still available to us all through Jesus Christ our precious Lord and Savior.

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Delight in observing frenzied shoppers buying last-minute gifts, artificial trees adorned with tacky christmas decorations, and eccentric Brits up and down the country ''expressing themselves'' by decorating their houses with miles of twinkling lights, fake plastic Santas and wire-framed reindeer.

Any boy or girl subjected to a long traffic journey might have been given one or more of the 'I-Spy' books to help relieve the monotony of British roads. Printed from the 1950s all the way through the the late "90s, they came to signify a particular part of our popular culture, and said something intrinsic about the national psyche.

Esta obra, publicada pstumamente en 1804, ofrece el esbozo de una exposicin sistemtica de la filosofa de Kant. Contiene valiossimas explicaciones sobre los principales conceptos de la filosofa crtica. Presenta una interpretacin de conjunto de la filosofa trascendental, interpretacin que es particularmente significativa por proceder de la mano del propio Kant. En ella se realzan los aspectos metafsicos de la filosofa kantiana. Los manuscritos f...

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Debates about education often revolve around standardized testing, taxes and funding, teacher certification, and more. This work presents an array of historical and contemporary alternatives to traditional schooling, demonstrating that children's capacity to learn decreases as soon as they enter bureaucratic, institutional facilities.

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Investigating the Teacher's Life and Work attempts to bring together the methodological and substantive aspects of studying the teacher's life and work. Some of the chapters in the book provide a "how to do" approach for those wishing to study the teacher's life and work employing a life history method, whilst other chapters provide the kind of substantive and generic findings which might be anticipated when conducting life history work. The f...

Investigating the Teacher's Life and Work attempts to bring together the methodological and substantive aspects of studying the teacher's life and work. Some of the chapters in the book provide a "how to do" approach for those wishing to study the teacher's life and work employing a life history method, whilst other chapters provide the kind of substantive and generic findings which might be anticipated when conducting life history work. Th...

In this volume "The Learning Potential of the Workplace" we set the task to analyse, describe and explain the conditions of the workplace as a tool for learning. Learning potential is for some experts an individual asset, others see the learning potential in the external conditions in work and work processes, again others see it in the refl ection on action by peers, colleagues and experts. Some results are disappointing when the belief is tha...

In this volume "The Learning Potential of the Workplace" we set the task to analyse, describe and explain the conditions of the workplace as a tool for learning. Learning potential is for some experts an individual asset, others see the learning potential in the external conditions in work and work processes, again others see it in the refl ection on action by peers, colleagues and experts. Some results are disappointing when the belief is tha...

In this book Devorah Kalekin-Fisman and Karlheinz Schneider analyze how the relationship between the traditional and the modern is unfolding in a particular milieu by centering on the Haredi women in Israel who become part of the national (rather than the community) work force. The book is based on analyses of interviews with people in the Haredi world. The authors' goal is to attain an understanding of what women's work means to the women, to...

Today, unprecedented emphasis is being placed on research as key motor for advancing the knowledge society and its offspring, the knowledge economy. Consequently, "research on the state of research" has moved high on the priority agendas for governments, for their specialized agencies and bodies devoted to this area, and for higher education institutions. Against this background, the central premise of the 2006 Global Colloquium of the UNESC...