This YA biography of the former First Lady considers her journey from Chicago to the White House in the larger context of African American history.Michelle Obama grew up on Chicago's South Side, and while the world outside her door was chaotic and ever-changing, her family provided a stable environment in which she could grow and flourish. This biography of the former First Lady shows how a girl from a working class background could rise to become one of the most i...

America According to Colbert: Satire as Public Pedagogy post 9/11 argues that, in contrast to the anti-intellectualism, the sensationalism, and the punditry that tend to govern most mass media today, Stephen Colbert's program offers his audience the opportunity to understand the context through which most news is reported and to be critical of it.

A book written to encourage positive expressions and outlets through poetry. A book of youth encouraging youth to make positive choices in life. A great read for young adults. A book filled with expressions of reality. Great topic for group discussions . Research shows that a vase number of schools and youth organizations are using music, and poetry(and other arts) to help with the building of our youth. With so many issues in society, the struggle of our youth today is harder than ever. H...

Transformers did not begin as an American empire of heroes, villains, cartoons, comics, movies, and billion-dollar nostalgia. It began with clever Japanese toys, corporate timing, and the strange magic of machines that could hide a robot inside a truck, jet, cassette player, or pistol.Hasbro saw more than plastic and metal. With Marvel’s help, those imported mechanisms became Optimus Prime, Megatron, Autobots, Decepticons, Cybertron, Energon, and a war that somehow made children ca...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles should have disappeared as quickly as the late-night doodle that created them. Instead, four absurd words became one of the strangest success stories in pop culture history.Behind the pizza jokes and catchphrases was a gritty black-and-white comic born from parody, borrowed money, and two artists who had no idea they were holding a franchise in their hands. What started as a violent underground oddity soon found itself pulled toward television, toy aisl...

Discover delicious recipes and a health resource you'll use for years as you seek to live a healthy life and follow in Jesus' footsteps.Jesus cared about the health of people. After all, many of his healing miracles are a testimony to that fact. In What Would Jesus Eat Cookbook, renowned physician and New Your Times bestselling author, Dr. Don Colbert presents a delicious combination of fascinating biblical insights, the latest in medical research...

Lawrence J. Quirk's fascinating portrait and filmography of Hollywood legend, Claudette Colbert.

Diets like Keto and Mediterranean are great, but now there's something better!This book will empower you to lose weight, heal your gut, and reverse disease with information and recipes for a healthy, low-carb, anti-inflammatory lifestyle.New York Times best-selling author Don Colbert, MD, has created a new dietary lifestyle, the Beyond Keto lifestyle. Beyond Keto blends the best of both worlds, the Ketogenic and Mediterrane...

She heard everything.Standing in the east wing of the Blackridge Covenant clubhouse she helped build with her own hands.The woman her husband chose was wearing her world like it belonged to her.Scarlett Wade was not supposed to find out like this.She was the President's wife.The woman who tiled these walls, fed these men, and bled loyalty into every corner of this club.For years, she gave everything.

Claudette Colbert’s mixture of beauty, sophistication, wit, and vivacity quickly made her one of the film industry’s most famous and highest-paid stars of the 1930s and 1940s. Though Colbert (1903–1996) began her career on the New York stage, she was beloved for her roles in such films as Preston Sturges’s The Palm Beach Story, Cecil B. DeMille’s Cleopatra, and Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night, for which she won an Academy Award. She showed remarkable prescien...

This collection of writings is theological & biblical stories teachings mixed with modern times for understanding. As we deal with the war we're in every day for the souls of the innocent.

This book brings together its contributors to study the figure of Seignelay Colbert de Castlehill, born in Inverness on 13th August 1735 into a Presbyterian family and who died in London, an anti-Concordant bishop and leader of the ‘Little Church’ on 15th July 1811. Vicar general of Loménie de Brienne in Toulouse, frequenting the Parisian salons, he was the guide of the economist Adam Smith in Toulouse and in the Southwest, from Bordeaux to Montpellier, from March 1764 to October 1765. In ...