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Fighting to Save Our Urban Schools-- and Winning!
Don McAdams, one of a small group of activists elected to the Houston Independent School District Board of Education in 1989, provides a fast moving first-person account of successful reform in the nation’s seventh largest school district. With tact and wisdom, the author shows that school reform is seldom about reading, writing, and arithmetic. Rather, it is mostly about power, status, and money. This is a great story filled with conflict and surprising turns of fate. No one interested in politics, governance, and management of urban school districts can afford to miss Fighting to Save Our Urban Schools . . . and Winning!
Houston, Space City USA
On July 20, 1969, humanity paused with attention locked to television and radio broadcasts as the astronauts of the Apollo 11 mission dramatically touched down on the dusty face of the moon. The first word from the lunar surface: Houston. Houston, Space City USA is a visual celebration of the city’s historic ties to the US human space program. When President Kennedy declared, “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard,” he did so from the campus of Rice University. More than half a century later, Houston continues to serve as the nerve center of the American human space program. Author and photographer Ray V...
All Trails Lead to Houston
For years, veteran Houston photographer Ray Viator has followed the trail rides that lead up to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo and has captured the color, the camaraderie, and the flavor of this popular annual event. In All Trails Lead to Houston: Riding to the Rodeo, which opens with a foreword from Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo COO Emeritus M. Leroy “Shafe” Shafer, Viator’s stunning photographs are accompanied by brief narratives and informative sidebars that provide insight into life on a trail—from sunrise to sunset. The trail rides began in January 1952 when Brenham rancher Reese Lockett and five friends were having lunch in Houston. The conversation turned to the joys ...
Until Proven Safe
'Manaugh and Twilley shed illuminating light on a phenomenon that seems utterly of the present moment.' Financial Times’ Best Books of the Year 'Startlingly timely, authoritatively researched, and electrifyingly written.' Steve Silberman, author of NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity Quarantine has shaped our world, yet it remains both feared and misunderstood. It is our most powerful response to uncertainty, but it operates through an assumption of guilt: in quarantine, we are considered infectious until proven safe. An unusually poetic metaphor for moral and mythic ills, quarantine means waiting to see if something hidden inside of us will be revealed. Unti...
Dun's Consultants Directory
Includes information about the twenty-five thousand largest consulting firms in the U.S. Consultants are listed alphabetically and indexed by geography and consulting activities.
The Descendants of John Milliman of Kingston, Rhode Island
Descendants of John Milliman (d. 1739) and his wife, Anna Bryant (d. 1741) of North Kingston, Washington Co., Rhode Island. There they had three children born to them: 1. John Milliman (1736-1810); 2. Anna Abigail Milliman (b. 1738) (nothing more is known about her); and 3. Bryant Milliman (1740-1829). Descendants live in Rhode Island, New York, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, California, Texas, Kansas and elsewhere. Includes some unconnected Milliman families in America, and Milliman families that immigrated to America in the 1800s from Germany, Switzerland, France and elsewhere.
