This manuscript was written to serve as a guide for finding, selecting, and keeping the "right" partner/mate. It is for those who desire and demand a highly functional "union"―with the aim of achieving a very specific set of goals and aspirations on various levels within a partnership. In other words, a partnership in a union of marriage ought to have an enduring and meaningful purpose, rather than a bucket of undefined dreams and desires. My intention is to deliver a framework to find, se...

How many summers do we really have to shape the life we want?If you step back and think about adulthood not in years but in seasons, most of us are given roughly twenty-one summers to explore, grow, and decide what truly matters. It’s enough time to build a meaningful life—if we recognize the opportunity while it’s still ahead of us.Twenty One Summers is a reflective exploration of how we spend our most valuable resource: t...

Living Racism is based on the premise that race and racism are well-entrenched elements of US society. The contributors of this volume argue that race and racism are more than mere concepts; instead, they see and treat these as part of the fabric that constitutes and organizes everyday life. Consequently, race and racism are maintained through structures such as social institutions (e.g., schools, criminal justice system, media, etc.) and are carried by individual actors through racial ide...

Central to the development of the American legal system, writes Professor Finkelman in Slavery & the Law, is the institution of slavery. It informs us not only about early concepts of race and property, but about the nature of American democracy itself.Prominent historians of slavery and legal scholars analyze the intricate relationship between slavery, race, and the law from the earliest Black Codes in colonial America to the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law and the D...

There is no greater hope for single mothers than to watch their sons succeed, and African-American single mothers face more adversity than most. Raise Him Up delves into the challenges faced by African-American single moms and offers advice, scriptural support, and helpful prayers. Each chapter relates a spiritual point taken from the book of Acts, a mother's story, and draws parallels to the struggles of the modern day African-American mother. Chapters also offer...

The roles of race and racism in explaining current controversies related to public schools in America is both understudied and misunderstood. Part of the problem is the absence of a critical paradigm that facilitates the development and application of ideas, theories, and methods that do not fit within the confines of mainstream scholarship. Race, Population Studies, and America's Public Schools: A Critical Demography Perspective explores the paradigm of critical demography—established in ...

The book is about the battles for equality in America. The author is an Air Force Veteran, with a degree in Business Management and career in investment and insurance. Now living in New York and loves to travel. He is now a grandparent to a cute girl and three boys.

Georgia has played a formative role in the writing of America. Few states have produced a more impressive array of literary figures, among them Conrad Aiken, Erskine Caldwell, James Dickey, Joel Chandler Harris, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Jean Toomer, and Alice Walker.This volume contains biographical and critical discussions of Georgia writers from the nineteenth century to the present as well as other information pertinent to Georgia literature. Organized in alphabetica...

Prepare to be captivated by a literary tapestry woven with the threads of diverse voices in "Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 038." This anthology showcases a kaleidoscope of perspectives, from poignant memoirs to thought-provoking essays, each piece a testament to the power of storytelling. Immerse yourself in the depths of human experience, where laughter and tears intertwine, and the boundaries of imagination are pushed to their limits.

Kenichi Zenimura – known as “Zeni” – loved baseball. As a young man in the 1920s he developed a Nisei baseball league in Fresno, California, and later organized barnstorming tours that brought the likes of Babe Ruth to the West Coast and Japan. And despite being sent to a Japanese-American internment camp in Arizona during World War II, he knew that somehow, baseball would be the key to improving the lives of his fellow detainees.This play is sponsored by the California Civil Liber...

John Derricke’s Image of Irelande*,* with a Discoverie of Woodkarne is a key work of English print-making, Irish and English history and cultural misunderstanding. The work attests to the complexity of English and Irish relations, colonisation, military history, imperial propaganda, poetry, art, printing and the forging of identity in the early modern British Isles. The original work comprises of a lengthy poetic narrative and twelve famous woodcuts of the highest quality produced...

Many grandparents, aunts, distant relatives, foster parents and other guardians issued by the state, raising today’s children. Some of these people are long past the retirement age and should be taking cruises, vacations in the summer or moved to warmer climates enjoying their latter years until they are unable to take care of themselves. Instead, they are coming to parent teacher conferences, buying school clothes and shoes, finding tutors for homework that they stopped doing long ago. Wa...