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Home is where the School is
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Home is where the School is

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

Explores the experiences of homeschooling mothers Mothers who homeschool their children constantly face judgmental questions about their choices, and yet the homeschooling movement continues to grow with an estimated 1.5 million American children now schooled at home. These children are largely taught by stay-at-home mothers who find that they must tightly manage their daily schedules to avoid burnout and maximize their relationships with their children, and that they must sustain a desire to sacrifice their independent selves for many years in order to savor the experience of motherhood. Home Is Where the School Is is the first comprehensive look into the lives of homeschooling mothers. Drawing on rich data collected through eight years of fieldwork and dozens of in-depth interviews, Jennifer Lois examines the intense effects of the emotional and temporal demands that homeschooling places on mothers’ lives, raising profound questions about the expectations of modern motherhood and the limits of parenting.

The Alcalde
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 72

The Alcalde

  • Type: Magazine
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  • Published: 2002-03
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  • Publisher: Unknown

As the magazine of the Texas Exes, The Alcalde has united alumni and friends of The University of Texas at Austin for nearly 100 years. The Alcalde serves as an intellectual crossroads where UT's luminaries - artists, engineers, executives, musicians, attorneys, journalists, lawmakers, and professors among them - meet bimonthly to exchange ideas. Its pages also offer a place for Texas Exes to swap stories and share memories of Austin and their alma mater. The magazine's unique name is Spanish for "mayor" or "chief magistrate"; the nickname of the governor who signed UT into existence was "The Old Alcalde."

Finding Fernanda
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

Finding Fernanda

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-05-15
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  • Publisher: Beacon Press

A compelling, dramatic narrative of how an American housewife discovered that the Guatemalan child she was about to adopt had been stolen from her birth mother, shedding light on the alarming and growing problem of international adoption fraud. Over the past five years, over 100,000 children were adopted into the United States, 20,000 of whom came from Guatemala. Finding Fernanda, a dramatic true story paired with investigative reporting, tells the side-by-side tales of an American housewife who adopts a two-year-old girl from Guatemala and the birth mother whose two children were stolen from her. Each woman gradually comes to realize her role in what was one of Guatemala's most profitable black-market industries: the buying and selling of children for international adoption. Finding Fernanda is an overdue, unprecedented look at adoption corruption--and a poignant, riveting human story about the power of hope, faith, and determination.

Georgetown Journal of International Affairs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 251

Georgetown Journal of International Affairs

Climate—Change is Inevitable is the theme of the twenty-first edition of the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. This issue confronts one of humanity’s most consequential challenges head-on in pursuit of a better world. With insights from practitioners, experts, and academics from around the globe, this edition provides a full and robust picture of the intersecting impacts of climate change—from business to security to culture and beyond. The Georgetown Journal of International Affairs (GJIA) is the flagship, peer-reviewed academic journal of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. GJIA goes beyond the headlines in identifying and discussing tre...

Against the Odds
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 399

Against the Odds

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-12-18
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  • Publisher: MIRA

"Mr. Justice! Mr. Justice, can you give us a moment of your time?" Sabrina Eckhart stared at the news broadcast on KTRK-TV. She had watched the segment run on an earlier edition, but found herself watching it again. The reporter, a small man with dark hair and a determined expression, hurried to keep up with Alex Justice's long strides as he walked out of the downtown Houston Police Department building. "Mr. Justice!" At the sight of several TV cameras, Alex's steps reluctantly slowed. "Everyone in the city is grateful for what you did," the reporter said. "People are calling you a hero. What do you think about that?" The man thrust a microphone into Alex's handsome face. Six two, dark blond...

Recent Advances and Emerging Challenges in STEM
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 653

Recent Advances and Emerging Challenges in STEM

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The Customer-Funded Business
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 309

The Customer-Funded Business

Who needs investors? More than two generations ago, the venture capital community – VCs, business angels, incubators and others – convinced the entrepreneurial world that writing business plans and raising venture capital constituted the twin centerpieces of entrepreneurial endeavor. They did so for good reasons: the sometimes astonishing returns they've delivered to their investors and the astonishingly large companies that their ecosystem has created. But the vast majority of fast-growing companies never take any venture capital. So where does the money come from to start and grow their companies? From a much more agreeable and hospitable source, their customers. That's exactly what Mi...

You Only Have to Be Right Once
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 216

You Only Have to Be Right Once

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-10-16
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  • Publisher: Penguin

The ultimate insider look at the newest titans of tech—and what you can learn from their success In 2007, twenty-one-year old David Karp launched Tumblr, a simple micro-blogging platform, on a whim. By 2012, it had become one of the top ten online destinations, drawing 170 million visitors. By 2013, Yahoo had acquired Tumblr for over $1 billion. Just like that, a kid who hadn’t even earned his high school diploma was worth over a quarter billion dollars. And he’s not the only one . . . Silicon Valley’s newest billionaires represent a unique and unconventional breed of entrepreneur: young, bold, and taking the world by storm with their extreme speed, insatiable hunger, and progressive...

Piece of My Heart
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 418

Piece of My Heart

Uncompromising in its honesty, at times humorous, angry, confrontational, and erotic, Piece of My Heart celebrates the lives of women both out and coming out.

Experts in Pink
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 408

Experts in Pink

Experts in Pink: Your Guide to Breast Health is the third installment on the topic of breast cancer from Cindy Papale-Hammontree and Sabrina Hernandez-Cano, RD, NC, CDE. Following the success of their popular releases The Empty Cup Runneth Over (2007) and Miami Breast Cancer Experts (2015), the co-authors expanded upon an invaluable foundation of knowledge that breast cancer patients and their caregivers need to navigate their way through this complex and difficult disease. New chapters of the book inform readers about the impact of breast cancer treatment on often overlooked functions of the body like cardiac and dental health, in addition to exploring the healing benefits of Yoga and participation in music and singing. If you are dealing with breast cancer or care for a breast cancer patient, Experts In Pink is your indispensable ally through diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. Experts In Pink has received critical acclaim from prominent reviewers like Mariel Hemingway, who enthuses,