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1920-2020! The 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment! In 2019 the Stow Historical Society and Stow's Ancient Documents Committee began an in-depth search of the town's archives and previously written histories of Stow, MA for primary documents and resources about Stow 1920 and her women. There was nothing. What a journey it was to learn about Stow's women who registered to vote!The SHS created a short list was created of families who lived in Stow in 1920: Gates, Peck, Warren, Lawrence, Derby, Gleason, Priest, Fletcher, Smith, Trumpolt, Bryon, and Gould. Using www.ancestry.com (Ancestry® Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History Records), each surname, the date, 1920, and the place, Stow, ...
World War II and Islamically informed Soviet patriotism -- Institutionalizing Soviet Islam, 1944-1958 -- SADUM's new ambitions, 1943-1958 -- The anti-religious campaign, 1959-1964 -- The muftiate on the international stage -- The Brezhnev Era and its aftermath, 1965-1989
Seven hundred and fifty Jewish refugees fled Nazi Germany and founded the agricultural settlement of Sosúa in the Dominican Republic, then ruled by one of Latin America’s most repressive dictators, General Rafael Trujillo. In Tropical Zion, Allen Wells, a distinguished historian and the son of a Sosúa settler, tells the compelling story of General Trujillo, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and those fortunate pioneers who founded a successful employee-owned dairy cooperative on the north shore of the island. Why did a dictator admit these desperate refugees when so few nations would accept those fleeing fascism? Eager to mollify international critics after his army had massacred 15,000 unarmed...
Does the criminal justice system actually help victims and offenders? What does justice look like for those who have been harmed? For those who have done harm? Twenty-five years after it was first published, Changing Lenses by Howard Zehr remains the classic text of the restorative justice field. Now with valuable author updates on the changing landscape of restorative justice and a new section of resources for practitioners and teachers, Changing Lenses offers a framework for understanding crime, injury, accountability, and healing from a restorative perspective. Uncovering widespread assumptions about crime, the courts, retributive justice, and the legal process, Changing Lenses offers provocative new paradigms and proven alternatives for public policy and judicial reform. What’s New in the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition: Author updates of terminology, paradigms, and recommended reading Foreword by restorative justice practitioner Sujatha Baliga New resources for teachers, facilitators, and practitioners
Doorway Thoughts: Cross-Cultural Health Care for Older Adults, Volume III addresses the told of religion in health care decision-making in America. This book focuses on how clinicians caring for older adults can develop an understanding of different religious groups to care for their patients effectively.Chapters in this volume address cross-cultural health care for older adults from varying religions, including American Indian, Traditions and Theologies, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and many more.
Whether you're a beginner, ready to learn the basics, or an experienced beader, this title provides you with the information you need to know along with 102 designs to spark your creativity. It also includes information on beads and findings.
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR "[A] poignant addition to the literature of moneyed glamour and its inevitable tarnish and decay…like something out of Fitzgerald or Waugh."—The New Yorker A parable for the new age of inequality: part family history, part detective story, part history of a vanishing class, and a vividly compelling exploration of the degree to which an inheritance—financial, cultural, genetic—conspired in one person's self-destruction. Land, houses, and money tumbled from one generation to the next on the eight-hundred-acre estate built by Scott's investment banker great-grandfather on Philadelphia's Main Line. There was an obligation to protect it, a license...
The book focuses on how believers should respond to the world we find ourselves in.
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