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Who really wrote the classic song "Dixie"? A white musician, or an African American family of musicians and performers?
Author : Howard L. Sacks
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 21,88 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252071607
Who really wrote the classic song "Dixie"? A white musician, or an African American family of musicians and performers?
Author : Jennifer M. Morton
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 29,67 MB
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 0691216932
"Upward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students. While we know this path usually entails financial sacrifices and hard work, very little attention has been paid to the deep personal compromises such students have to make as they enter worlds vastly different from their own. Measuring the true cost of higher education for those from disadvantaged backgrounds, Moving Up without Losing Your Way looks at the ethical dilemmas of upward mobility--the broken ties with family and friends, the severed connections with former communities, and the loss of identity--faced by students as they strive to earn a successful place in society"--Dust jacket.
Author : Luther Adams
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,35 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 080783422X
"Adams makes a splendid contribution to the historical literature of the post-World War II years in African American and U.S. urban and social history. Grounded in careful research from a variety of primary and secondary sources, this book advances a comp
Author : Beverly Kaye
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 20,7 MB
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1523083492
For anyone who has an interest in influencing career growth--their own or that of someone else, this book encourages readers to be open to ever-shifting patterns of opportunities and possibilities so they can create a unique, personalized path to a truly rewarding career.
Author : Yong Zhao
Publisher : ASCD
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,60 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : 1416608737
Yong Zhao, a distinguished professor at Michigan State University who was born and raised in China, offers a compelling argument for what schools can--and must--do to meet the challenges and opportunities brought about by globalization and technology.
Author : Andi Payne
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 35,39 MB
Release : 2013-10-02
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1291544836
A big birthday was looming and a return to Switzerland seemed like a good way of celebrating. Of course it couldn't be that simple...
Author : Nicholas Boles
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 17,67 MB
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1849542775
Nicholas Boles, newly elected MP for Grantham and Stamford, is the founder and former director of the influential right-of-centre think tank, Policy Exchange. More importantly, this close friend of David Cameron and leading Conservative moderniser drew up the Tories' plans for government, making him more powerful than most members of the former Shadow Cabinet. In Which Way's Up, this leading political thinker looks at how David Cameron, at the head of a modern, coalition government, can transform Britain. This book is a wide-ranging examination of the problems (and solutions) facing Britain, from one of the new government's preeminent movers and shakers. It will also be a unique chronicle of the first six months of this historic new government.
Author : Patti Clark
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 37,31 MB
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1631520296
International Excellence Body, Mind, Spirit Book Awards Winner: Self-help Women spend so much of life nurturing and giving to others that when they find themselves alone—because of an empty nest, the end of a marriage, or the death of a partner—they often struggle with feeling purposeless. This Way Up: Seven Tools for Unleashing Your Creative Self and Transforming Your Life provides a step-by-step way out of this sense of loss and into a life filled with enthusiasm, creativity, and joy. This story of healing centers on the essential wisdom of introspection and on the importance of following one’s dreams. Join the protagonist, Katya, a widow whose two sons have recently left home, as she learns seven tools for uncovering her best self: visualization, heart-centered goal setting, positive focus, meditation on love; meditation on forgiveness, gratitude, and taking action on inspiration. Katya’s experience highlights these insights in an easily digestible, highly relatable format that readers can systematically apply to their own circumstances as they work through This Way Up’s twelve weeks’ worth of day-by-day journaling exercises, thought-provoking questions, and reader support. For any woman who yearns to lead a fuller life but doesn’t know how to begin, this book is an ideal starting point.
Author : Alice McGill
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 33,29 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780618387960
In this retelling of a folktale, five Africans escape the horrors of slavery by simply disappearing into thin air.
Author : Mary Connealy
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 31,60 MB
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1441269568
New Western Romance Series from Bestselling Author Mary Connealy When Cimarron ranch patriarch Chance Boden is caught in an avalanche, the quick actions of hired hand Heath Kincaid save him. Badly injured, Chance demands that his will be read and its conditions be enforced immediately. Without anyone else to serve as a witness, Heath is pressed into reading the will. If Justin, Sadie, and Cole Boden don't live and work at home for the entire year, the ranch will go to their low-down cousin Mike. Then Heath discovers the avalanche was a murder attempt, and more danger might follow. Deeply involved with the family, Heath's desire to protect Sadie goes far beyond friendship. The danger keeps them close together, and their feelings grow until being apart is the last thing on their minds.