Ross Campbell always had a thing for Callie Jones when they were growing up, but she was one of the “Jones girls,” from the richest family in the county, far above him, untouchable. Now Ross, deputy for a corrupt county sheriff, finds Callie stranded in the pouring rain on the side of the road–on her wedding day.Ross gallantly gives her a ride, but when the wedding is a disaster, Ross is the rock that keeps Callie standing. Her high-school crush has grown up to be a gorgeous, hard-...

In 1952, Professor Allan Holmberg arranged for Cornell University to lease the Hacienda Vicos, an agricultural estate in the central Peruvian highlands on which some 1800 Quechua-speaking highland peasants resided. Between 1952 and 1957 Holmberg, with colleagues and students, initiated a set of social, economic, and agrarian changes, and nurtured mechanisms for community-based management of the estate by the resident peasants. By the end of a second lease in 1962, sufficient political pres...

The first authorized biography of Art Ross, Hockey Hall of Famer, NHL founding father, and long-time member of the Boston Bruins.Though he last played the game nearly one hundred years ago, Art Ross remains connected with the greatest stars in hockey. Gordie Howe, Bobby Orr, Wayne Gretzky, and Sidney Crosby have all won the award that bears his name, the trophy given annually to the NHL’s top scorer. Ross himself managed just one goal during his NHL career; however...

As an aspiring or seasoned writer, do you feel like you aren't making headway, stumbling on what to write next, or wondering if you're even on the right path? Are you unable to find the motivation to charge up your computer and put your fingers on the keyboard after that last rejection?Between the pages of What I Wish I'd Known: For Writers, 100 highly accomplished authors share their time, energy, and knowledge to pay it forward and inspire other writers, experienced or a...

Unveil the secrets of the Lean system and learn how to revolutionize your business!Are you tired of putting up with inefficient workflows, poor Project Management, and shaky business foundations?Want to escape the endless treadmill of unoptimized business and supercharge your business model like never before?No matter your area of business, Lean methodologies are proven, championed ways of streamlining your sales,...

Become a master at SCRUM and discover how to build the perfect business frameworks!Are you a team leader, project manager, or CEO of a small to medium enterprise?Are you looking for the best methodologies and proven strategies for building the perfect team and accelerating your performance?Then keep reading.SCRUM is a powerful, proven, and highly effective framework for rapidly im...

Master project management and take your business to the next level with the power of Kaizen and Kanban!Are you a team leader, manager, or business owner, and you want to drastically boost your workflow and project management skills?Want to unlock the secrets of Kaizen and Kanban to supercharge your productivity?Inside this comprehensive and detailed guide, you’ll uncover how the powerful, proven methodologies of K...

Are you ready to have kids? More and more gay men are turning to adoption and surrogacy to start their own families. An estimated two million American LBGTQ people would like to adopt and an estimated 65,000 adopted children are living with a gay parent. In 2016, the Chicago Tribune reported that ten to twenty percent of donor eggs went to gay men expanding their families via surrogacy, and in many places the numbers were up fifty percent from the previous five years.Havin...

Uncover how to revolutionize your business skills with the power of Agile Project Management!Are you a CEO or owner of a startup, and you want to take your business to the next level?Do you want to improve the way your business functions, and you’re looking for the best strategies to supercharge the way you plan and manage projects?Agile project management is a revolutionary way of approaching the world of softwar...

Create your Ultimate Business with the help of the Proven LEAN System.Are you looking for a ground-breaking guide for business success?Do you want to revolutionize your project management, streamline your business operations, and drastically improve your company?Then this audiobook is for you.Whether you’re an aspiring entrepreneur, the CEO of a small to medium enterprise, or a team leader...

En este número de Texturas se pueden encontrar textos de Wilkie Collins, Juan Miguel Salvador, Joaquín Rodríguez, Manuel Gil, Jaume Balmes Sierra, Jesús Ortiz, Fiona Ross, Alice Savoie, Eric Gill, Jason Forrest, CERLALC, Alejandro Dujovne, Simón Ergas, Hernán López Winne, Juan Villoro y Luis Herrero.

Before the founding of the United States, enslaved Africans advocated literacy as a method of emancipation. During the Reconstruction period after the Civil War, blacks were at the forefront of the debates on the establishment of public schools in the South. In fact, a wealth of ideas about the role of education in American freedom and progress emerged from African American civic, political, and religious communities and was informed by the complexity of the Black experience in America.