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www.BigColoringBooks.comThe Story of Petroleum tells the exciting adventures of Oil Dude and his helpers Lil' Bit, Piper and Derrick. Together they set out to discover fossil fuels. This storybook helps children to understand where oil, coal and gas come from. Children will learn how fossil fuels are found and why every person uses some product from a fossil fuel in their daily life. The book also details in a fun and exciting way why it's important to protect the environment and our drinking water. It describes how petroleum resources help keep our country healthy and how fossil fuels make our lives so much easier and better.Really Big Coloring Books are teaching/learning tools, tell a stor...
Now We Will Be Happy is a prize-winning collection of stories about Afro-Puerto Ricans, U.S.-mainland-born Puerto Ricans, and displaced native Puerto Ricans who are living between spaces while attempting to navigate the unique culture that defines Puerto Rican identity. Amina Gautier’s characters deal with the difficulties of bicultural identities in a world that wants them to choose only one. The characters in Now We Will Be Happy are as unpredictable as they are human. A teenage boy leaves home in search of the mother he hasn’t seen since childhood; a granddaughter is sent across the ocean to broker peace between her relatives; a widow seeks to die by hurricane; a married woman takes a bathtub voyage with her lover; a proprietress who is the glue that binds her neighborhood cannot hold on to her own son; a displaced wife develops a strange addiction to candles. Crossing boundaries of comfort, culture, language, race, and tradition in unexpected ways, these characters struggle valiantly and doggedly to reconcile their fantasies of happiness with the realities of their existence.
This book is about depression: it critically reviews both the latest results, and the most recent advances in clinical therapy techniques. The first part of the book provides a clear and concise overview of all the important new results concerning the course of affective psychoses, discussing them against the background of comprehensive and quite interesting genetic studies. The pathogenetic findings provide the framework for presenting recent studies on chronobiology, neuroendocrinology, and personality research. The second part of the book provides a clearly structured overview of the most effective forms of clinical therapy for depressive disorders known to date. The focus here is on prac...
More than a quarter-century ago, the last great wave of coeducation in the United States resulted in the admission of women to almost all of the remaining men's colleges and universities. In thirteen original essays, Going Coed investigates the reasons behind this important phenomenon, describes how institutions have dealt with the changes, and captures the experiences of women who attended these schools.
THE BOOK BEHIND THE HIT DOCUMENTARY A glimpse of life inside the world’s most secretive country, as told by Britain’s best-loved travel writer. In May 2018, former Monty Python stalwart and intrepid globetrotter Michael Palin spent two weeks in the notoriously secretive Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, a cut-off land without internet or phone signal, where the countryside has barely moved beyond a centuries-old peasant economy but where the cities have gleaming skyscrapers and luxurious underground train stations. His resulting documentary for Channel 5 was widely acclaimed. Now he shares his day-by-day diary of his visit, in which he describes not only what he saw – and his fl...
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To tens of thousands of volunteers in its first decade, the Peace Corps was “the toughest job you’ll ever love.” In the United States’ popular imagination to this day, it is a symbol of selfless altruism and the most successful program of John F. Kennedy’s presidency. But in her provocative new cultural history of the 1960s Peace Corps, Molly Geidel argues that the agency’s representative development ventures also legitimated the violent exercise of American power around the world and the destruction of indigenous ways of life. In the 1960s, the practice of development work, embodied by iconic Peace Corps volunteers, allowed U.S. policy makers to manage global inequality while as...