Author: Tom Salinsky
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462821278
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
The Quest: A Bike Adventure Across America was written during a 47 day solo bicycle trek from Carlsbad, California to Cape May, New Jersey. This book takes you on the day to day journey as it was captured on the pages of a personal journal during the cyclist’s bike ride across the United States of America. The entries are updated with vivid “side note” descriptions and afterthoughts to help you fully understand the context of the experience. The Quest: A Bike Adventure Across America captures the essence of adventure, overcoming adversity, and reveals some interesting insights into people, life, nature, and faith. If you ever wanted to taste the trials and tribulation of a challenging adventure this day to day record of a solo cross country bike trip is a must read.
Hello, Washington, D.C.!
Author: Candice F. Ransom
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781402769122
Category : Board books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A young girl visits the Washingon D.C.'s most popular sites and ends her busy day with a gentle good night to the Jefferson Memorial.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781402769122
Category : Board books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A young girl visits the Washingon D.C.'s most popular sites and ends her busy day with a gentle good night to the Jefferson Memorial.
Black Broadway in Washington, DC
Author: Briana A. Thomas
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467139297
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
"Before chain coffeeshops and luxury high-rises, before even the beginning of desegregation and the 1968 riots, Washington's Greater U Street was known as Black Broadway. From the early 1900s into the 1950s, African Americans plagued by Jim Crow laws in other parts of town were free to own businesses here and built what was often described as a "city within a city." Local author and journalist Briana A. Thomas narrates U Street's rich and unique history, from the early triumph of emancipation to the days of civil rights pioneer Mary Church Terrell and music giant Duke Ellington, through the recent struggle of gentrifiction" --
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467139297
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
"Before chain coffeeshops and luxury high-rises, before even the beginning of desegregation and the 1968 riots, Washington's Greater U Street was known as Black Broadway. From the early 1900s into the 1950s, African Americans plagued by Jim Crow laws in other parts of town were free to own businesses here and built what was often described as a "city within a city." Local author and journalist Briana A. Thomas narrates U Street's rich and unique history, from the early triumph of emancipation to the days of civil rights pioneer Mary Church Terrell and music giant Duke Ellington, through the recent struggle of gentrifiction" --
Washington, DC
Author: Mari Kesselring
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781602534933
Category : Washington (D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Describes the customs, people, and places of Washington, D.C. Maps and symbols are included to enrich the student's understanding of geography and state identity.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781602534933
Category : Washington (D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Describes the customs, people, and places of Washington, D.C. Maps and symbols are included to enrich the student's understanding of geography and state identity.
Hello, Washington DC!
Author: Martha Zschock
Publisher: Commonwealth Editions
ISBN: 9780981943039
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Colorful and Fun Tour of Washington D.C. for the Littlest Explorers
Publisher: Commonwealth Editions
ISBN: 9780981943039
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Colorful and Fun Tour of Washington D.C. for the Littlest Explorers
The Quest
Author: Tom Salinsky
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462821278
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
The Quest: A Bike Adventure Across America was written during a 47 day solo bicycle trek from Carlsbad, California to Cape May, New Jersey. This book takes you on the day to day journey as it was captured on the pages of a personal journal during the cyclist’s bike ride across the United States of America. The entries are updated with vivid “side note” descriptions and afterthoughts to help you fully understand the context of the experience. The Quest: A Bike Adventure Across America captures the essence of adventure, overcoming adversity, and reveals some interesting insights into people, life, nature, and faith. If you ever wanted to taste the trials and tribulation of a challenging adventure this day to day record of a solo cross country bike trip is a must read.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462821278
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
The Quest: A Bike Adventure Across America was written during a 47 day solo bicycle trek from Carlsbad, California to Cape May, New Jersey. This book takes you on the day to day journey as it was captured on the pages of a personal journal during the cyclist’s bike ride across the United States of America. The entries are updated with vivid “side note” descriptions and afterthoughts to help you fully understand the context of the experience. The Quest: A Bike Adventure Across America captures the essence of adventure, overcoming adversity, and reveals some interesting insights into people, life, nature, and faith. If you ever wanted to taste the trials and tribulation of a challenging adventure this day to day record of a solo cross country bike trip is a must read.
The Muted Trumpet's Call
Author: Chuck Knox
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1456752170
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Stories from veterans of every branch of the military who served in WWII--from letters, diaries, and live interviews or recorded by their families.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1456752170
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Stories from veterans of every branch of the military who served in WWII--from letters, diaries, and live interviews or recorded by their families.
Protecting All
Author: Truman Packard
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 1464814287
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
"Socially inclusive growth is the talk of the town in developing countries. But to go from talk to walk these countries face a critical task: reconstructing their welfare states given the failures of the standard Bismarckian model and the challenges posed by rapid technological change. This book—known to many as the White Paper—is indispensable for tackling this task. It develops a clear conceptual framework to helppolicy makers understand this complex issue, set clear objectives, evaluate trade-offs, and chart a coherent path of reform. A much-needed and very welcome contribution."--Santiago Levy, Senior Fellow—Global Economy and Development, Brookings Economic and Social Policy in Latin America Initiative, Brookings Institution"Most countries have failed to support people adequately as the combination of globalization and technology changes the structure of their economies and their jobs. This has fostered a backlash in which economic insecurity is widespread and support for populist policies is on the rise. We can do much better than this by sharing risks and providing a guaranteed minimum to everyone. This important book lays out a set of policies that strikes a new balance between economic flexibility and individual security that is relevant to both advanced and developing countries."--Minouche Shafik, Director, London School of Economics and Political Science"Economic insecurity confronts working people around the world today. To overcome this insecurity through suitable risk-sharing interventions is a policy challenge of the first order. This exceptionally thoughtful and clearly written book charts a course for replacing employment-based risk-sharing policies with social insurance–based ones, financed by general revenues with the broadest possible base. The resultant Flexicuritymodel promises 'a more robust and resilient policy response to a diverse and fluid world of work.' "--Gary Fields, Professor of International and Comparative Labor and Professor of Economics, Cornell University"Protecting All presents thoughtful, thorough, and bold proposals to achieve universal social protection in a modern welfare state. This lucid document identifies implementable policies for poverty prevention, coping with livelihood shocks, and managing labor market risks that range from state-guaranteed publicly funded income floors to mandated consumption-smoothing mechanisms funded by individual contributions to privately financed incentivized and purely voluntary consumption-smoothing schemes. Clearly written, rich with ideas, and relevant for countries at all income levels, Protecting All is bound to become an essential reference for policy makers and policy analysts focused on (re)designing social protection systems that achieve key social goals in ways consistent with fast-changing labor markets, fiscal sustainability, and economic efficiency and growth."--Nora Lustig, Professor of Latin American Economics and Director of the Commitment to Equity Institute, Tulane University
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 1464814287
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
"Socially inclusive growth is the talk of the town in developing countries. But to go from talk to walk these countries face a critical task: reconstructing their welfare states given the failures of the standard Bismarckian model and the challenges posed by rapid technological change. This book—known to many as the White Paper—is indispensable for tackling this task. It develops a clear conceptual framework to helppolicy makers understand this complex issue, set clear objectives, evaluate trade-offs, and chart a coherent path of reform. A much-needed and very welcome contribution."--Santiago Levy, Senior Fellow—Global Economy and Development, Brookings Economic and Social Policy in Latin America Initiative, Brookings Institution"Most countries have failed to support people adequately as the combination of globalization and technology changes the structure of their economies and their jobs. This has fostered a backlash in which economic insecurity is widespread and support for populist policies is on the rise. We can do much better than this by sharing risks and providing a guaranteed minimum to everyone. This important book lays out a set of policies that strikes a new balance between economic flexibility and individual security that is relevant to both advanced and developing countries."--Minouche Shafik, Director, London School of Economics and Political Science"Economic insecurity confronts working people around the world today. To overcome this insecurity through suitable risk-sharing interventions is a policy challenge of the first order. This exceptionally thoughtful and clearly written book charts a course for replacing employment-based risk-sharing policies with social insurance–based ones, financed by general revenues with the broadest possible base. The resultant Flexicuritymodel promises 'a more robust and resilient policy response to a diverse and fluid world of work.' "--Gary Fields, Professor of International and Comparative Labor and Professor of Economics, Cornell University"Protecting All presents thoughtful, thorough, and bold proposals to achieve universal social protection in a modern welfare state. This lucid document identifies implementable policies for poverty prevention, coping with livelihood shocks, and managing labor market risks that range from state-guaranteed publicly funded income floors to mandated consumption-smoothing mechanisms funded by individual contributions to privately financed incentivized and purely voluntary consumption-smoothing schemes. Clearly written, rich with ideas, and relevant for countries at all income levels, Protecting All is bound to become an essential reference for policy makers and policy analysts focused on (re)designing social protection systems that achieve key social goals in ways consistent with fast-changing labor markets, fiscal sustainability, and economic efficiency and growth."--Nora Lustig, Professor of Latin American Economics and Director of the Commitment to Equity Institute, Tulane University
Shaw, LeDroit Park & Bloomingdale in Washington, D.C.
Author: Shilpi Malinowski
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 143967390X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Let residents tell you what it's been like to live in D.C.'s most gentrified neighborhood. When Gretchen Wharton came to Shaw in 1946, the houses were full of families that looked like hers: lower-income, African American, two parents with kids. The sidewalks were full of children playing. When Leroy Thorpe moved in in the 1980s, the same streets were dense with drug markets. When John Lucier found a deal on a house in Shaw in 2002, he found himself moving into one of four occupied homes on his block. Every morning, he waited by himself on the empty platform of the newly opened metro station. When Preetha Iyengar became pregnant with her first child in 2016, she jumped into a seller's market to buy a rowhouse in the area. Journalist and Shaw resident Shilpi Malinowski explores the complexities of the many stories of belonging in the District's most dynamic neighborhood.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 143967390X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Let residents tell you what it's been like to live in D.C.'s most gentrified neighborhood. When Gretchen Wharton came to Shaw in 1946, the houses were full of families that looked like hers: lower-income, African American, two parents with kids. The sidewalks were full of children playing. When Leroy Thorpe moved in in the 1980s, the same streets were dense with drug markets. When John Lucier found a deal on a house in Shaw in 2002, he found himself moving into one of four occupied homes on his block. Every morning, he waited by himself on the empty platform of the newly opened metro station. When Preetha Iyengar became pregnant with her first child in 2016, she jumped into a seller's market to buy a rowhouse in the area. Journalist and Shaw resident Shilpi Malinowski explores the complexities of the many stories of belonging in the District's most dynamic neighborhood.
Desires of My Heart
Author: Ken Peery
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1615790411
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
In a story that spans one-fourth of America's history, Ken Peery reveals what can be accomplished when a person learns to Delight yourself in the Lord. (Ps. 37:4) From the story of how his ancestors came to America, to small town life in the Midwest, to Naval service during World War II, to a distinguished career in law and Christian mediation, to political involvement, to a miraculous medical recovery, Ken's story is not only all-American, it is a compelling story of the benefits of delighting in the Lord. What is a methobapterian? What is Justice? How do you define it? Can it be defined? What would you do if you and your mate were seriously sunburned on your honeymoon? Re-live trips through the Gorges of the upper Yangtze River. Ken Peery was born in 1925 and raised and nurtured in Emporia, Kansas. After service in the US Navy in WWII, Ken practiced law in Emporia, did a seven year stint as a lawyer in a government agency in Washington, DC, and, in 1962, re-entered law practice in Concordia, Kansas. In 1982 he escaped from law practice to establish Christian conciliation programs in the Kansas City area and later in Bentonville and Rogers, Arkansas. Ken and Doris, his wife, have been married 56 years. They are the parents of two sons, grandparents of six grandchildren and have two great- grandsons. The Peerys live in Topeka, Kansas.
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1615790411
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
In a story that spans one-fourth of America's history, Ken Peery reveals what can be accomplished when a person learns to Delight yourself in the Lord. (Ps. 37:4) From the story of how his ancestors came to America, to small town life in the Midwest, to Naval service during World War II, to a distinguished career in law and Christian mediation, to political involvement, to a miraculous medical recovery, Ken's story is not only all-American, it is a compelling story of the benefits of delighting in the Lord. What is a methobapterian? What is Justice? How do you define it? Can it be defined? What would you do if you and your mate were seriously sunburned on your honeymoon? Re-live trips through the Gorges of the upper Yangtze River. Ken Peery was born in 1925 and raised and nurtured in Emporia, Kansas. After service in the US Navy in WWII, Ken practiced law in Emporia, did a seven year stint as a lawyer in a government agency in Washington, DC, and, in 1962, re-entered law practice in Concordia, Kansas. In 1982 he escaped from law practice to establish Christian conciliation programs in the Kansas City area and later in Bentonville and Rogers, Arkansas. Ken and Doris, his wife, have been married 56 years. They are the parents of two sons, grandparents of six grandchildren and have two great- grandsons. The Peerys live in Topeka, Kansas.
Washington, DC, Baby!
Author: Feather Flores
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1797217771
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Washington, DC, has room for everyone, and exploring has never been so much fun! Embrace adventure with this memorable rhyming picture book—the perfect gift for anyone living in or visiting the United States' capital city. Good morning, Washington, DC! Let's go explore! There's much to see! This whirlwind tour of the United States' capital city takes little adventurers to the Washington Monument, through the Smithsonian museums, up to the White House—and more! With vibrant illustrations and an engaging text brimming with hope and heart, this rhyming read-aloud will delight lifelong residents and visitors alike. Washington, DC, here we come! A REGIONAL CELEBRATION FOR DC RESIDENTS: Featuring some of DC's most popular foods, well-known destinations, and family-friendly attractions, this book makes a great gift for (or from!) any DC resident looking to pass on a love of their city to the little ones in their life. PERFECT MEMORIES FOR LITTLE TRAVELERS: With so much to see and do, travel can feel overwhelming for toddlers—but telling the story of a place you've been (or are planning to visit) can make the experience so much more fun and accessible! SWEET AND SATISFYING READ-ALOUD: Rhyming text and short, easy-to-understand sentences make this spirited picture book an excellent candidate for story time, just right for rereading—and for reliving the adventures little explorers and their families have enjoyed together in the city! GO-TO GIFT FOR TODDLERS ON THE GO: DC resident or transplant, frequent visitor or first-time traveler, planning a trip or simply learning about U.S. history—in every case, this lighthearted introduction to the United States' capital city is a gift-giver's dream. Perfect for: • Parents, grandparents, and caregivers of children who live in Washington, DC • Museumgoers and travelers to the DC area • Teachers and librarians who live in the DC area • Gift-givers looking for a fun and quirky regionally inspired present
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1797217771
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Washington, DC, has room for everyone, and exploring has never been so much fun! Embrace adventure with this memorable rhyming picture book—the perfect gift for anyone living in or visiting the United States' capital city. Good morning, Washington, DC! Let's go explore! There's much to see! This whirlwind tour of the United States' capital city takes little adventurers to the Washington Monument, through the Smithsonian museums, up to the White House—and more! With vibrant illustrations and an engaging text brimming with hope and heart, this rhyming read-aloud will delight lifelong residents and visitors alike. Washington, DC, here we come! A REGIONAL CELEBRATION FOR DC RESIDENTS: Featuring some of DC's most popular foods, well-known destinations, and family-friendly attractions, this book makes a great gift for (or from!) any DC resident looking to pass on a love of their city to the little ones in their life. PERFECT MEMORIES FOR LITTLE TRAVELERS: With so much to see and do, travel can feel overwhelming for toddlers—but telling the story of a place you've been (or are planning to visit) can make the experience so much more fun and accessible! SWEET AND SATISFYING READ-ALOUD: Rhyming text and short, easy-to-understand sentences make this spirited picture book an excellent candidate for story time, just right for rereading—and for reliving the adventures little explorers and their families have enjoyed together in the city! GO-TO GIFT FOR TODDLERS ON THE GO: DC resident or transplant, frequent visitor or first-time traveler, planning a trip or simply learning about U.S. history—in every case, this lighthearted introduction to the United States' capital city is a gift-giver's dream. Perfect for: • Parents, grandparents, and caregivers of children who live in Washington, DC • Museumgoers and travelers to the DC area • Teachers and librarians who live in the DC area • Gift-givers looking for a fun and quirky regionally inspired present