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Won Over
What was it like growing up white in Mississippi as the Civil Rights Movement exploded in the 1950s and '60s. How did white children reconciled the decency and fairness taught by their parents with the indecency and unfairness of the Mississippi Way of Life, the euphemism applied to the pervasive Jim Crow. How did the Civil Rights Movement influence white kids coming of age in the most segregated place in America? Won Over, a memoir, examines these questions as it traces the journey of United States District Judge William Alsup, born white in 1945 to hard-working parents in Mississippi. They believed in segregation. But they also taught their children fairness and decency and therein lay the conflict, a struggle at the core of the human predicament in the South. As Won Over recalls near its outset, the author's earliest doubt about the system came at age twelve when what he'd thought stood as an abandoned shack at the bottom of a sand quarry turned out to be a school for black kids, whom we saw playing in the mud outside its door. At the end, Won Over reflects on a 1966 challenge by the author and his college roommate to the Mississippi Speaker Ban, an official rule against any "controversial" speaker coming onto a college campus in Mississippi, a rule used to quash their invitation to the state president of the NAACP to speak at their college, Mississippi State University. After a tense showdown, the roommates won that challenge. In January 1967, Aaron Henry became the first black ever to speak on a white college campus in Mississippi, receiving a standing ovation. The memoir traces the influences that drew the author from traditional Southern attitudes toward a color-blind ideal. Those influences included his older sister, Willanna, his closest circle of friends, a charismatic mentor in college, and the moral force of the Civil Rights Movement. Won Over recounts their steps along that journey -- a counter protest to a John Birch Society billboard calling for the impeachment of Chief Justice Earl Warren; meeting personally with the brother of slain leader Medgar Evers to convey condolences; a letter to the editor of the statewide paper on behalf of his circle of friends declaring "We are for civil rights for Negroes"; joining his college roommate in a rally at Tougaloo College to support the Meredith March Against Racism; and going to the Liberty Baptist Church in Chicago to hear Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. exhort the faithful in their summer-long protest against housing and employment discrimination. In 1967, William Alsup went on to Harvard Law School, then to clerk for Justice William O. Douglas. He briefly practiced civil rights law in Mississippi before moving to San Francisco, where he became a trial attorney and, in 1999, received an appointment as United States District Judge.
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Missing in the Minarets
This riveting narrative details the mysterious disappearance of Peter Starr, a San Francisco attorney from a prominent family, who set off to climb alone in the rugged Minaret region of the Sierra Nevada in July 1933. Rigorous and thorough searches by some of the best climbers in the history of the range failed to locate him despite a number of promising clues. When all hope seemed gone and the last search party had left the Minarets, mountaineering legend Norman Clyde refused to give up. Climbing alone, he persevered in the face of failure, resolved that he would learn the fate of the lost man. Clyde's discovery and the events that followed make for compelling reading. Recently reissued with a new afterword, this re-creation of a famous episode in the annals of the Sierra Nevada is mountaineering literature at its best.
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Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
The assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby robbed the nation of the closure it so desperately needed following the death of John F. Kennedy. The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald asks what might have happened if the assassin had lived to stand trial for his murder of America’s beloved president. This meticulously researched and riveting courtroom drama follows prosecutors Abe Summer and Elaine Navarro as they work to bring Oswald to justice despite the legend in Oswald’s corner: famed attorney Percy Foreman. With mysteries and coincidences swirling around the case, Oswald’s conviction doesn’t seem set in stone. After Ruby fails to assassinate the assassin, can Summer and Navaro bring peace of mind back to the American people by sending a murderer to prison?Author William Alsup’s fair and thrilling novel is all the more compelling thanks in no small part to his experiences and expertise as a federal judge. With his background in research and jurisprudence, Alsup has become an expert on the Oswald case. From newspaper clippings to the Warren Report, The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald is based on real and complicated history. Readers with a passion for the procedural will relish the details Alsup provides behind the scenes of a prosecution, demonstrating just how much time and effort goes into even cases that seem cut and dry. America never recovered from the killing of its king of Camelot, but The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald provides a window into what might have been.
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Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
The assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby robbed the nation of the closure it so desperately needed following the death of John F. Kennedy. The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald asks what might have happened if the assassin had lived to stand trial for his murder of America’s beloved president. This meticulously researched and riveting courtroom drama follows prosecutors Abe Summer and Elaine Navarro as they work to bring Oswald to justice despite the legend in Oswald’s corner: famed attorney Percy Foreman. With mysteries and coincidences swirling around the case, Oswald’s conviction doesn’t seem set in stone. After Ruby fails to assassinate the assassin, can Summer and Navaro bring peace of mind back to the American people by sending a murderer to prison?Author William Alsup’s fair and thrilling novel is all the more compelling thanks in no small part to his experiences and expertise as a federal judge. With his background in research and jurisprudence, Alsup has become an expert on the Oswald case. From newspaper clippings to the Warren Report, The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald is based on real and complicated history. Readers with a passion for the procedural will relish the details Alsup provides behind the scenes of a prosecution, demonstrating just how much time and effort goes into even cases that seem cut and dry. America never recovered from the killing of its king of Camelot, but The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald provides a window into what might have been.
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Tinderbox
Lynn watched her beloved Clare, newly adopted from Haiti, crawl the house in a frantic search for her lost mother. Preschool Clare enchanted with belly laughs and shining smiles. Also, thrashed and wailed in her room as Lynn crouched on her own bed—pillow clutched over her head—her past trauma triggered. A pre-teen trip to Haiti brought sunshine, ruby red hibiscus blooms, and the music of Haitian Creole. Back at home, Clare shattered mirrors into shards on the subway tiles of their bathroom. And just before her thirteenth birthday, as she and Lynn walked hand in hand through their neighborhood, Clare calmly detailed her plan to die.Over the next years, Lynn and her family walked through psychiatric hospitals, along the Appalachian Trail, and in and out of residential placements, marriage, faith, and sanity barely surviving the journey. But then Lynn learned about fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD)—a source of neurodivergence in one in twenty American children—and discovered the FASCETS Neurobehavioral Model, a strengths-based approach to celebrating and accommodating neurodiversity. It was a discovery that transformed them all.At times joyous, at times harrowing, but always full of love, Tinderbox is a mother’s story of brokenness, unrelenting resilience, and hope.
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Introduction to Sociology
Introduction to Sociology: A Public Sociology Framework provides students with a collection of articles that present key concepts in sociology from a civic-minded perspective. The anthology encourages an active level of engagement and brings students in conversation with their communities.The book is organized into eight distinct units. Opening units introduce students to important sociological frameworks, the field of public sociology, and key sociological theories. Additional units discuss gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, the family, education, the environment, and social movements. Each unit includes post-reading questions to encourage students to think about social injustice, social policy, and social change.Featuring a unique social justice orientation and a focus on public sociology, Introduction to Sociology is an ideal core or supplementary textbook for foundational courses in sociology.
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Millennial Teacher Identity Discourses
Over ten years after the original edition of Teacher Identity Discourses, Janet Alsup revisits her work with a new research study examining the characteristics of the millennial teachers now beginning to populate K-12 classrooms. Building off the first edition, this text is based on a qualitative, interview-based research study, and provides a contemporary look at how millennial teachers experience professional identity growth through language use. This innovative research investigates how formation of a professional identity is central in the process of becoming an effective teacher. Updated with new analyses of teacher identity discourses, the second edition covers themes that still resonate today and provides practical suggestions and sample assignments for teacher educators to use or adapt in methods courses.
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Case for Teaching Literature in the Secondary School
Taking a close look at the forces that affect English education in schools—at the ways literature, cognitive science, the privileging of the STEM disciplines, and current educational policies are connected—this timely book counters with a strong argument for the importance of continuing to teach literature in middle and secondary classrooms. The case is made through critical examination of the ongoing "culture wars" between the humanities and the sciences, recent research in cognitive literary studies demonstrating the power of narrative reading, and an analysis of educational trends that have marginalized literature teaching in the U.S., including standards-based and scripted curricula. The book is distinctive in presenting both a synthesis of arguments for literary study in the middle and high school and sample lesson plans from practicing teachers exemplifying how literature can positively influence adolescents’ intellectual, emotional, and social selves.
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Millennial Teacher Identity Discourses
Over ten years after the original edition of Teacher Identity Discourses, Janet Alsup revisits her work with a new research study examining the characteristics of the millennial teachers now beginning to populate K-12 classrooms. Building off the first edition, this text is based on a qualitative, interview-based research study, and provides a contemporary look at how millennial teachers experience professional identity growth through language use. This innovative research investigates how formation of a professional identity is central in the process of becoming an effective teacher. Updated with new analyses of teacher identity discourses, the second edition covers themes that still resonate today and provides practical suggestions and sample assignments for teacher educators to use or adapt in methods courses.
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Is the Bible Good for Women?
Bible teacher and theologian Wendy Alsup offers her readers tools for interpreting tough passages surrounding the female identity in Scripture. Wendy shows that it is possible to embrace the fullness of femininity while still cherishing the Bible. A Jesus-centered understanding of Scripture weaves a connected and coherent story that gives context to individual passages about or to women. In this book, we will find a noble, inspiring commission to women, one that remains orthodox and connects that understanding of womanhood to the transcendent message of Scripture, the good news of Jesus Christ. After reading this text, women will have a better understanding of Scripture as a whole, and they will understand the noble, inspiring vision of a Biblical womanhood that is good for women and therefore good for the world that the Bible gives us.
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Case for Teaching Literature in the Secondary School
Taking a close look at the forces that affect English education in schools—at the ways literature, cognitive science, the privileging of the STEM disciplines, and current educational policies are connected—this timely book counters with a strong argument for the importance of continuing to teach literature in middle and secondary classrooms. The case is made through critical examination of the ongoing "culture wars" between the humanities and the sciences, recent research in cognitive literary studies demonstrating the power of narrative reading, and an analysis of educational trends that have marginalized literature teaching in the U.S., including standards-based and scripted curricula. The book is distinctive in presenting both a synthesis of arguments for literary study in the middle and high school and sample lesson plans from practicing teachers exemplifying how literature can positively influence adolescents’ intellectual, emotional, and social selves.
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Young Adult Literature and Adolescent Identity Across Cultures and Classrooms
Taking a critical, research-oriented perspective, this exploration of the theoretical, empirical, and pedagogical connections between the reading and teaching of young adult literature and adolescent identity development centers around three key questions: Who are the teens reading young adult literature? Why should teachers teach young adult literature? Why are teens reading young adult literature? All chapters work simultaneously on two levels: each provides both a critical resource about contemporary young adult literature that could be used in YA literature classes or workshops and specific practical suggestions about what texts to use and how to teach them effectively in middle and high school classes. Theorizing, problematizing, and reflecting in new ways on the teaching and reading of young adult literature in middle and secondary school classrooms, this valuable resource for teachers and teacher educators will help them to develop classrooms where students use literature as a means of making sense of themselves, each other, and the world around them.
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ALSTAT PC
ALSTAT PC ist eine Realisierung des Konzeptes, wie es in "ALSTAT 1 - Algorithmen der Statistik fUr Kleinrechner" beschrieben wird. Es ist fur den Einsatz auf IBM PC und kompatiblen Rechner ent- wickelt worden. ALSTAT PC bietet nicht fertige Statistik-Programme an, sondern pr sentiert sich in Form eines Tischrechners, welcher nur diejenigen Resultate liefert, welche ausdrUcklich verlangt werden. In diesem Sinne knupft ALSTAT PC an die Programme fur den HP-4l-C Taschenrechner an, welche im Band "ALSTAT 2" vorgestell t wurden. Die Realisierung auf einem Personal Computer bietet aller- dings wesentlich mehr Komfort hinsichtlich Schnelligkeit, Ueber- sichtlichkeit, Datenmanipulation und Weiterverarbeitung der Resul- tate. Wie erste Erfahrungen gezeigt haben, eignet sich das Pro- gramm auch gut zur Beglei tung des Statistik-Unterrichts. Vom Be- nutzer wird lediglich vorausgesetzt, dass er das Betriebssystem MS-DOS einigermassen kennt und einen Texteditor bedienen kann. Das vorliegende Handbuch ist der Beglei ttext zur ALSTAT-PC Pro- grammdiskette. Diese kann mit der diesem Band beigefugten Bestell- karte direkt beim Verlag oder tiber den Buchhandel bezcgen werden. Neben der grunds tzlichen Beschreibung des Programmes enth l t das Handbuch zahlreiche leicht nachvollziehbare Auswertungen von Zah- lenmaterial, welches ebenfalls auf der Programmdiskette mi tgelie- fert wird. Dami t kann der Benutzer samtliche Moglichkei ten von ALSTAT PC kennenlernen, bevor er das Programm fur seine eigenen Arbeiten einsetzt. Am Schluss des Handbuches finden Sie ein Formular, mit welchem Sie allf llige programmfehler oder auch Verbesserungsvorschlage den Autoren mitteilen konnen.
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Young Adult Literature and Adolescent Identity Across Cultures and Classrooms
Taking a critical, research-oriented perspective, this exploration of the theoretical, empirical, and pedagogical connections between the reading and teaching of young adult literature and adolescent identity development centers around three key questions: Who are the teens reading young adult literature? Why should teachers teach young adult literature? Why are teens reading young adult literature? All chapters work simultaneously on two levels: each provides both a critical resource about contemporary young adult literature that could be used in YA literature classes or workshops and specific practical suggestions about what texts to use and how to teach them effectively in middle and high school classes. Theorizing, problematizing, and reflecting in new ways on the teaching and reading of young adult literature in middle and secondary school classrooms, this valuable resource for teachers and teacher educators will help them to develop classrooms where students use literature as a means of making sense of themselves, each other, and the world around them.
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SmartUp - als Führungskraft klug aufsteigen
SmartUp ist der wirksam gestaltete Aufstieg in deine neue Führungsfunktion. Die 3x3-Matrix verknüpft die Phasen der Orientierung, der Entscheidungsfindung und der Umsetzung mit den Dimensionen der Selbstorganisation, der Führung von Menschen und dem Management der neuen geschäftlichen Herausforderung. Nutze deine Neuorientierung, um innezuhalten, zu reflektieren und die berufliche Veränderung optimal zu gestalten. Bisherige Erfahrungen helfen dir nicht überall, sie können unter neuen Rahmenbedingungen gar zur heiklen Stolperfalle werden. Nutze deine Stärken. Suche aber auch nach den Potenzialen, die dich im neuen Umfeld effektiv und erfolgreich machen. Starte neugierig, entscheide achtsam und handle mutig – und Humor hilft dabei immer!
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Foreign Seed
Set in China asAmerica gets involved in WWI, Foreign Seed follows newly minted ViceConsul Samuel Sokobin’s first case as he investigates the disappearance ofFrank Meyer (of Meyer Lemon fame), explorer for the U.S. Department of ForeignSeed and Plant Introduction, when he disappears from a steamship on the YangtzeRiver. A rugged, Dutch immigrant, Meyer made a living seeking foreign specimensas a man without a country, a feeling Sokobin denies as he ticks off one moreyear living in temporary housing in China and shielding himself from thepossibility of close friendship. Moreover, Meyer is rumored to be Jewish,igniting the prejudice Sokobin can’t shake as the son of Jewish immigrantlaborers in New Jersey. Sokobin needs to find Meyer, and quickly, if the bodyis to be properly cared for. Sokobin travels upriver with his enigmaticinterpreter, Mr. Lin, while fighting flaming visions of his fighter pilotlittle brother’s apparent demise in France. Always the hotshot, young Ethan hasbeen missing for months, and Sokobin refuses to betray him by mourning him. Thesearch for Meyer leads Sokobin from Nanking to uncharted villages to thestreets of Shanghai, where he is confronted with his past and a love that is nolonger within his reach.
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