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Mary C. Beaudry mines archaeological findings of sewing and needlework to discover what these small traces of female experience reveal about the societies and cultures in which they were used. Beaudry's geographical and chronological scope is broad: she examines sites in the United States and Great Britain, as well as Australia and Canada, and she ranges from the Middle Ages through the Industrial Revolution.The author describes the social and cultural significance of "findings": pins, needles, thimbles, scissors, and other sewing accessories and tools. Through the fascinating stories that grow out of these findings, Beaudry shows the extent to which such "small things" were deeply entrenched in the construction of gender, personal identity, and social class.
Sara's Story is a work of romantic fiction. Sara is a young woman in her early twenties. She works in a family restaurant in downtown Los Angeles. Sara struggles with her memories of a chaotic childhood and her present day reality. Then she meets James; a romance begins. Sara discovers her inner strengths.
Sara's family move to a sleepy New England town her senior year of high school where she is faced with the anxiety of starting over, meeting new people, and worst of all a serial killer that is targeting young girls. Over the Edge is a cling to your seat, nail-biting experience just waiting for you to dive in and become part of the story.
The return to school following traumatic brain injury (TBI) is fraught with challenges for children and adolescents, their families, and school professionals. This volume provides the practical knowledge needed to understand the neuropsychological problems associated with TBI and facilitate students' reintegration into the regular or special education classroom. Research-based strategies are presented for assessing and accommodating each student's needs, with suggestions for testing that can be completed by practitioners without extensive neuropsychological training. Featuring numerous illustrative clinical examples, the book also includes an extended case history that brings to life the ent...
A Collection of songs from musicals written by Mel Atkey. Mr. Atkey has been writing musicals ever since he was in high school in his native Vancouver. He was a finalist for the Musical of the Year competition in Aarhus, Denmark, and his work has been short-listed for the Vivian Ellis Prize, the Quest for New Musicals, the Ken Hill Prize and Musical Stairs. His two-character musical Perfect Timing was a finalist in the 1996 Musical of the Year competition in Aarhus, Denmark, and was showcased at Greenwich Theatre, London, in 2005. He made his New York debut in 2001 with O Pioneers, and followed it in 2003 with A Little Princess, both with book by Robert Sickinger.
Ursula Hegi returns with a luminous epic of a bicultural family filled with passion and aspirations, tragedy, and redemption. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Stefan Blau, whom readers will remember from Stones from the River, flees Burgdorf, a small town in Germany, and comes to America in search of the vision he has dreamed of every night. The novel closes nearly a century later with Stefan's granddaughter, Emma, and the legacy of his dream: the Wasserburg, a once-grand apartment house filled with the hidden truths of its inhabitants both past and present. The Vision of Emma Blau illustrates a fascinating picture of immigrants in America, including their dreams and disappointments, the challenges of assimilation, the frailty of language and its transcendence, the love that bonds generations and the cultural wedges that drive them apart.
This four-volume collection reprints key debates about exactly what it means to be literate and how literacy can best be taught. Rather than centering on the emotional reaction of mass media debates, this set focuses on research findings into processes and pedagogy. The themes covered include Literacy : its nature and its teaching, Reading - processes and teaching, Writing - processes and teaching and New Literacies - the impact of technologies.
Sara Moore has met her soul mate, in the last place she thought she would find love. Sara is a typical New Yorker, a summer vacation upstate in a place she refers to as 'Hicksville is not exactly open season on a man hunt. But a lot of strange things have been happening since she arrived at her great aunts lake side mansion. Soon she is locked in an ancient battle between good and evil, old evil, the kind people never survive, and the scary thing is, Sara is the thing both sides are fighting for. With the love and dedication from her beautiful and devoted true love Adam, together they must fight to keep Sara alive! But it's not going to be easy, Adams adoptive family, who are part of an ancient order of demon hunters, will try anything to keep the young lovers apart!
Fairacres Publications 131 For many centuries and in many cultures, the animal fable has been popular as a key to understanding ourselves and our neighbour. Using the same light, ironic touch and pin-point accuracy, Waltraud Kirschke has invented modern fables for the nine Enneagram types, based upon the animals traditionally assigned to them. The worst and best aspects of each type are woven amusingly into these eighteen tales. They are delightfully illustrated with line drawings by Dee Lane.
"Readers should be forewarned that the text contains racial and cultural references of the era in which it was written and may be deemed offensive by today's standards."--