This anthology focuses on the experiences of Americans whose lives have been strongly affected by the pursuit of equality in areas such as politcs, law, education and government. Each of the autobiographical essays gives voice to the writer's first personal experience of inequality.

This volume reports in detail how a particular portion of the American wilderness developed into a settled farming community. To fully comprehend the history of the American people in the early national period, an understanding of this transformation from forest to community—and the pattern of life within such communities where the vast majority of the people live—is essential.Three major conclusions emerge from Philip L. White's study of Beekmantown, New York. First, the economic ...

Leadership for Safe Schools is every school and district leader’s guide to developing practical policies and carefully designed action plans to ensure that K–12 students are physically and psychologically safe, secure, and supported. With today’s students experiencing soaring rates of depression, anxiety, trauma, loneliness, and suicidality—in addition to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the normalization of school shootings—school personnel desperately need multifaceted a...

A definitive resource for understanding such far-reaching and often interconnected crimes as cyber theft, drug trafficking, human smuggling, identity theft, wildlife poaching, and sex tourism.While many international corporations have benefited from the global economy and distribution of information, globalization has also had serious negative consequences. This important reference work offers students and general readers a critical understanding of how technology,...

The Membranes of Cells, Third Edition, provides a basic guide to biomembranes, connecting researchers to the numerous fields of biology. The new edition offers a complete update of content based on new understandings in the field. Foundational content for graduate students, researchers, professors, and undergraduate students across the sciences is provided, succinctly covering all of the basic information needed for lipids and membranes. - Connects membrane research to numerous fields of b...

All are keen to know God in the power of His resurrection, but what do we do when we are called also to share with Him in the fellowship of suffering? Where is God in the heartbreak and disappointment? When your life is turned upside down? Where do you turn in the deep darkness of loss and grief?In Blessed: A Journey through Grief to Gratitude, the author shares a frank and personal story of finding true joy on the other side of great loss.Although we each have our own uniq...

**A mysterious encounter in the heart of Los Angeles leads two young boys on a whirlwind romance that captures the attention of the world.“Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist meets Cinderella.”—HelloGiggles“A rare sort of romance that is cheesy in the best of ways.”—Publishers Weekly**Late one night in a dingy Los Angeles club, Nate and Cameron meet and discover they have much more in common than their love of an obscure indie band. But whe...

**In this “sweet and satisfying” (Booklist) queer young adult romance with a dash of magic, a highschooler finds himself in a desperate search for love.“The most fantastic, hopeful, aspirational story of gay teens in a red state since David Levithan’s Boy Meets Boy.”—Aaron Hartzler, author of Lambda Literary Award finalist Rapture Practice“If you like a solid YA read that makes you shamelessly squee, Perfect Ten will deliver.”—HelloGi...

"Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist meets Cinderella in this thoroughly modern romance." —HelloGigglesLate one night in a dingy Los Angeles club, Nate and Cameron meet and discover they have much more in common than their love of an obscure indie band. But when Nate learns that Cameron is the heir to a soul-sucking record label—the very one that destroyed his father’s life—he runs away as fast as he can. The only evidence of their brief but intens...

**In this “sweet and satisfying” (Booklist) queer young adult romance with a dash of magic, a highschooler finds himself in a desperate search for love.“The most fantastic, hopeful, aspirational story of gay teens in a red state since David Levithan’s Boy Meets Boy.”—Aaron Hartzler, author of Lambda Literary Award finalist Rapture Practice“If you like a solid YA read that makes you shamelessly squee, Perfect Ten will deliver.”—HelloGi...

Religion and Worldviews: The Triumph of the Secular in Religious Education provides the first serious analysis and review of the Commission on Religious Education’s proposed worldviews framework for the subject. It argues that religious education has an important contribution to make to the aims of liberal education and examines whether the shift to a worldview framework is capable of overcoming current weaknesses and initiating a new positive direction for the future. Chapters ex...

Plunkitt of Tammany HallA Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical PoliticsWilliam L. Riordan“Nobody thinks of drawin’ the distinction between honest graft and dishonest graft.”This classic work offers the unblushing, unvarnished wit and wisdom of one of the most fascinating figures ever to play the American political game and win. George Washington Plunkitt rose from impoverished beginnings to become ward boss of the Fifteenth Assembly District in New Yor...