In Oklahoma, one out of every six residents is poor. One in five children lives in poverty and faces food insecurity. In Hungry Oklahoma, native son and sociologist Robert Lee Maril follows in the tradition of the national bestsellers Nickel and Dimed and Evicted to illuminate the lived experience of poverty and food insecurity in communities across the state.Maril’s account is immediately personal. He begins with “guests,” as shoppers are called by volun...

The Canada Company was responsible for the opening and settling of over two million acres of land in Upper Canada. Author Robert C. Lee focuses his attention on the extensive parcel of land on the shores of Lake Huron that became known as the Huron Tract. His comprehensive research explores the underlying forces leading to the formation of the Company, the intriguing mix of people charged with responsibilities for the Company and the overall impact of its operations, leading to its present...

Flying Tiger: Chennault of China by Robert Lee Scott, Jr. tells the story of a rebel whose concepts as to the use of air power often clashed with the orthodox and standardized teachings of the military schools of his time.

Three thousand hours.Sixty-seven thousand in gross commission. Forty-one thousand net. About thirteen dollars and seventy-three cents an hour.Wade Roberts is at the end of year three in real estate, and that's what he has to show for it. His wife runs an ICU. His daughters are seven and five. His father - the hardest worker he ever knew - died eighteen months ago, and the line Wade can't get out of his head is the one his father always said: work can wait, family can't....

A unique take on modern life in Tokyo. A Japan of trains, every day to and fro, carriage scenes and theatre, vistas from the window, advertising posters. To be savoured through the Odakyu line. Pitched as creative text and line-graphics, Tokyo Commute offers on-track and off-track observations. Poetics of Japanese routine and etiquette.

Scotland, 1746. The Jacobite dream lies bleeding on the moor of Culloden, and the English Redcoats are burning the glens to ash.Robert MacAllen and Duncan MacDonald—two hard-drinking, harder-fighting Highlanders from Wick—never asked to be heroes. All they wanted was one quiet night at the inn, a dram of whisky, and to forget the faces of the men they lost. But when English dragoons start throwing their weight around, insults turn to fists, fists turn to steel, and suddenly the two ...

Across more than two centuries Afro-America has created a huge and dazzling variety of literary self-expression. Designs of Blackness provides less a narrative literary history than, precisely, a series of mappings—each literary-critical and comparative while at the same time offering cultural and historical context. This carefully re-edited version of the 1998 publication opens with an estimation of earliest African American voice in the names of Phillis Wheatley and her contempo...

Chuck is such a naughty younger brother. Poor Charlie! He had to do everything around the house and he even had to put up with Chuck's games and amusements. But Chuck went too far when he tried to steal the rope used to keep the washed clothes on the line!

People are deeply curious about origins. Cosmologists seek the origin of the universe. Biologists seek the origin of life. Genealogists seek their family history. Humans want to know their connections to the past. Most know their parents and the circumstances of their birth. But for many even that is veiled in a shroud of mystery. Dawn on the Northern Plains is a fictionalized account of a birth family search. It is set during the period of the Vietnam War at a time when secrecy was still ...

Naturalists notice things. Scientists attempt to explain the natural world. Religions attempt to give meaning to human life. Writing as first-person narrative history, a naturalist explores, noticing things and the inner struggle of growing up and living in a Christian culture while science continued to bring new discoveries and knowledge into human grasp. This work is about the joy of a free mind noticing things and breaking free of one of humanitys primal afflictions: the ide fixe. It is...

Why are we here? What is our purpose? Do we have a choice in what direction to go in life, or is everything preordained or left up to fate?Within the span of eleven months, Robert Lee asked these questions and received the answers through reading the Bible and praying to God. Precipitated by a divorce and subsequent move from Ottawa to Chilliwack, the answers were revealed to him through the Bible, his experiences, and the people he met.How we got to where we are in life is...

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