There wasn't anything that George Washington Carver couldn't grow. He took the common goober--today's peanut--and created hundreds of useful products from it, turning goobers into a very profitable staple for the South. At the same time, this very special man passed on to everyone who knew him the importance of following one's own dreams.

The book is about family tales handed down by my ancestors, including my mother, Cherry Gordon-Thomas, and my grandmother, Bertha Heath-Gordon

The first time I tried to imagine going back, I did not picture a machine. I pictured a door. A simple door in a simple house. A door I had passed a thousand times as a child. A door I had never fully understood until I became a man.I wanted to walk through it again. Not to change anything. Not to rewrite history. Just to see the beginning of my own story with my own eyes. I grew up believing strength was a choice. That grit was something you earned. That determination was a moral ...

I did not set out to write a book. I set out to serve. To lead with integrity. To protect those under my care. To honor the mentors and matriarchs who shaped me. And to leave behind something more than a résumé, a legacy.This is not a story of perfection. It is a story of presence. Of showing up when trust was withheld. Of standing firm when integrity was tested. Of mentoring through grief, crisis, and quiet victories. I have been underestimated. I have been challenged. I have been...

In recent times there has been growing awareness about various heirs' property problems, including massive, decades-long, involuntary land loss. Heirs' Property and the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act: Challenges, Solutions, and Historic Reform should increase that awareness among lawyers, the general public, and policymakers. Just as importantly, the book offers many practical solutions for those seeking to address a variety of heirs' property problems.The contrib...

Earthquakes are some of the most dynamic features of the Earth. This multidisciplinary volume presents an overview of earthquake processes and properties including the physics of dynamic faulting, fault fabric and mechanics, physical and chemical properties of fault zones, dynamic rupture processes, and numerical modeling of fault zones during seismic rupture.This volume examines questions such as:• What are the dynamic processes recorded in fault gouge?• What can we...

Since the Maastricht ratification debate of the early 1990s, the legitimacy of the European Union has become a subject of controversy. With unprecedented force, Europeans have begun to question the need for deeper integration. Some fear threats to established national identities, while others perceive the emergence of a distant but powerful Brussels, beyond the reach of democratic control. Legitimacy and the European Union breaks with established approaches to the problem of the l...

Though traditionally defined as a relatively brief time period - typically the half century of 1780-1830 - the "Romantic era" constitutes a crucial, indeed unique, transitional phase in what has come to be called "modernity," for it was during these fifty years that myriad disciplinary, aesthetic, economic, and political changes long in the making accelerated dramatically. Due in part to the increased velocity of change, though, most of modernity’s essential master-tropes - such as secular...

This is the first of two volumes announcing the emergence of the new legal realism as a field of study. At a time when the legal academy is turning to social science for new approaches, these volumes chart a new course for interdisciplinary research by synthesizing law on the ground, empirical research, and theory. Volume 1 lays the groundwork for this novel and comprehensive approach with an innovative mix of theoretical, historical, pedagogical, and empirical perspectives. Their empirica...

Have you struggled to find short plays that challenge actors and directors for class and production?Do you require plays that are 10 minutes in length for competitions or class work?Are you interested in reading plays from some of the most exciting contemporary American writers?This anthology solves the above problems for theatre teachers and their students, offering excellent, contemporary material written for high...

For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Classroom aides job, or to apply for a better job.What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important points. With this book, you'll be able to revise your application into a much str...

A history of the world's first democracy from its beginnings in Athens circa fifth century B.C. to its downfall 200 years later.The first democracy, established in ancient Greece more than 2,500 years ago, has served as the foundation for every democratic system of government instituted down the centuries. In this lively history, author Thomas N. Mitchell tells the full and remarkable story of how a radical new political order was born out of the revolutionary move...