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Girl, Don't Count Yourself Out
Thirteen woman of faith sharing stories to remind you that in order to succeed you can't give up. Despite any setbacks, you have to get back up and continue on the path to achieve your goals. These are stories of resilience, faith, and tenacity from women who were determined to make a difference in their lives and show others how it can be done for them too
Rituals and Patterns in Children's Lives
Trick-or-treating. Flower girls. Bedtime stories. Bar and bat mitvah. In a nation of increasing ethnic, familial, and technological complexity, the patterns of children's lives both persist and evolve. This book considers how such events shape identity and transmit cultural norms, asking such questions as: * How do immigrant families negotiate between old traditions and new? * What does it mean when children engage in ritual insults and sick jokes? * How does playing with dolls reflect and construct feelings of racial identity? * Whatever happened to the practice of going to the Saturday matinee to see a Western? * What does it mean for a child to be (in the words of one bride) "flower-girl material"? How does that role cement a girl's bond to her family and initiate her into society? * What is the function of masks and costumes, and why do children yearn for these accoutrements of disguise? Rituals and Patterns in Children's Lives suggests the manifold ways in which America's children come to know their society and themselves.
Scars of War
Scars of War examines how the exclusion of mixed-race persons and people of Asian descent in the United States shaped the efforts of policymakers to recognize the Amerasians of Vietnam as American children and initiate legislation that designated them unfit for American citizenship.
Scars of War
Scars of War examines the decisions of U.S. policymakers denying the Amerasians of Vietnam—the biracial sons and daughters of American fathers and Vietnamese mothers born during the Vietnam War—American citizenship. Focusing on the implications of the 1982 Amerasian Immigration Act and the 1987 Amerasian Homecoming Act, Sabrina Thomas investigates why policymakers deemed a population unfit for American citizenship, despite the fact that they had American fathers. Thomas argues that the exclusion of citizenship was a component of bigger issues confronting the Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan administrations: international relationships in a Cold War era, America’s defeat in the Vietnam W...
The Fireman's Pole
Sparks of passion ignite between the lord of the manor and the hot, new firefighter. But when Ben’s home goes up in flames, will Dale be in time to save his life? Dale runs from the big city to a rural fire station to nurse his broken heart. But he immediately incurs the wrath of the handsome lord of the manor when he knocks over the village maypole. Ben is used to people avoiding him. But the sexy, new firefighter is not like everyone else. Everywhere Ben goes; Dale is there too, and Ben can’t ignore the magnetism between them. Will Ben ever forgive Dale for knocking over the maypole? Will Dale wait for Ben to disentangle himself from a relationship he was forced into? Will the villagers, the firefighters, and the staff at the manor house, stop interfering in their relationship? So many questions and no time to answer them, as an arsonist’s crimes are escalating, and Dale is worried that Ben could be his next target.
The First Amerasians
During the 1950s, thousands of mixed race children were born to US servicemen and local Korean women in US-occupied South Korea. Assumed to be the progeny of camptown women--or military prostitutes--their presence created a major problem for the image of US democracy in the world at a time when the nation was vying for Cold War allegiances abroad. As mixed race children became a discernible population around US military encampments in South Korea, communists seized upon the image of those left behind by their GI fathers as evidence of US imperialism, irresponsibility, and immorality in the Third World. Aware of this and keen to redeem the image of America's intervention in Asia, US citizens ...
Historical and Biographical
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Bound To Protect
The opportunity of a lifetime… Genevieve Holt headed to New Orleans to interview with one of the top advertising agencies in the country. It’s one of her most cherished dreams – to become an advertising executive before she hits thirty-five. She figured she would tackle the interview, and celebrate by spending a few days enjoying the fabulous French Quarter. She never expected to wind up stuck in her pajamas on the eleventh floor of her hotel while it was on fire. Or that she would be rescued by the hottest firefighter she had ever met, and experience the most erotic night of her life in his arms. But all actions have consequences… Firefighter Killian Raveau loves his job. It doesnâ€...
After Saigon's Fall
A new understanding of US policy toward Vietnam after the end of the Vietnam War based on fresh archival discoveries.
