The second volume in the True Tales for Young Readers series, this short biography of the civil rights leader is intended for middle school and high school readers. Ella Baker, who grew up in Littleton, North Carolina, is best remembered for the role she played in facilitating in April 1960 the organizational meeting of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee at Shaw University, her alma mater. With passion and clear understanding, Lea E. Williams outlines the life that brought Baker...

"Benjamin Franklin: Self-Revealed" by William Cabell Bruce is a comprehensive and engrossing biography that delves deep into the life, character, and achievements of one of America's most iconic Founding Fathers. This detailed account paints a vivid portrait of Benjamin Franklin, not just as a statesman and inventor, but as a multifaceted individual whose intellect, wit, and relentless curiosity left an indelible mark on history.Bruce meticulously chronicles Franklin's journey from...

Serena Williams, amerikanische Tennislegende: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

The Smile Box is a story about a little girl who has feeling of sadness because things are not going her way. Her mother teaches her how to look inside one's self to find happiness and not to rely on the things going on in the outside world. This book teaches children that even though things do not go their way you can always seek happiness within one's self. The story is told in a light-hearted way so that in reading the reader should feel happier at the end as well. This is a story that ...

Basic text for freshman composition courses. Draws on the most significant theory, strategy, and techniques in composition studies. Emphasizes writing as a vehicle for learning.

Ellen La Motte: nurse, writer, activist, is a biography of La Motte that traces the arc of her life, from her birth in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1873 to her death in Washington, D.C. in 1961. It integrates original unexamined sources such as diaries, unpublished manuscripts, and publishing contracts along with primary sources—letters, newspaper articles, health department reports, and public records—with an examination of her prolific published writings, about topics as diverse as ...

Quantitative Anthropology: A Workbook contributes an anthropological perspective to quantitative methods. The book's authors address characteristics of quantitative data, entering and manipulating data in SPSS, graphical displays, distributions and measures of central tendency and dispersion, and including hypothesis testing with both parametric and nonparametric statistical tests. Increasingly complex exercises build on cumulative learning from chapter to chapter and stress the applicatio...

On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision overturned Roe v. Wade, stripping federal protection for abortion rights and placing control in the hands of individual states. This monumental shift in policy underscores the need for deeper historical perspectives on reproductive rights.The Nursing Clio Reader answers that call, bringing together essays that examine reproductive health through historical research...

Nancy’s stories were born from her prayer journals, often her cry for help and healing knowing Scripture was her only anchor. A pure honest collection full of hope. Nancy’s encouraging words and scripture references will leap from these pages and into your heart. Life is uncertain, and it is guaranteed too NOT be easy. Determined to never give up, Nancy shares what it means to be kept in the Love of Jesus and sustained by His Word. Precious memories line these pages expressing a fierce, un...

In the last decade, the technology, regulation, and industry structure of our information infrastructure (telephone services, cable and broadcast television, and myriad new data and information services) have changed dramatically. Since the break-up of AT&T's Bell System monopoly, telephone services in the United States are no longer purchased from a single firm. Advances in fiber optics, wireless communications and software-controlled switching are changing how communication services are ...

This book considers the pollutants formed by the combustion of solid biomass fuels. The availability and potential use of solid biofuels is first discussed because this is the key to the development of biomass as a source of energy.This is followed by details of the methods used for characterisation of biomass and their classification.The various steps in the combustion mechanisms are given together with a compilation of the kinetic data. The chemical mechanisms for the forma...

This important volume presents the pros and cons of a national service that will meet the information needs and wants of all people. In the preface, Everette E. Dennis, Executive Director of The Freedom Forum Media Studies Center, asks, "What will a true information highway -- where most citizens enjoy a wide range of information services on demand -- do to local communities, government, and business entities, other units of society and democracy itself?"It is no longer a question ...