Author: Sandra Hanson
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1592136230
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Following African American women who "swim against the tide" in the white male science education system.
Swimming Against the Tide
Author: Sandra Hanson
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1592136230
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Following African American women who "swim against the tide" in the white male science education system.
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1592136230
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Following African American women who "swim against the tide" in the white male science education system.
Swimming Against the Tide
Author: Madhavi Latha Prathigudupu
Publisher: Sage Publications Pvt. Limited
ISBN: 9789391370527
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Swimming against the tide is the true story of a sportsperson who challenges her circumstances and physical disability to overcome the odds and emerge a winner, along the way becoming an inspiration to many.
Publisher: Sage Publications Pvt. Limited
ISBN: 9789391370527
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Swimming against the tide is the true story of a sportsperson who challenges her circumstances and physical disability to overcome the odds and emerge a winner, along the way becoming an inspiration to many.
Swimming Against the Tide
Author: Helen Bailey
Publisher: Hachette Children's
ISBN: 1444903748
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Everyone's got major lurve-action except Electra. She hates swimming against the tide; she'd rather go with the flow. She should be planning how to hook a hunk, but all she can think is, What's for lunch? She can be VERY shallow.
Publisher: Hachette Children's
ISBN: 1444903748
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Everyone's got major lurve-action except Electra. She hates swimming against the tide; she'd rather go with the flow. She should be planning how to hook a hunk, but all she can think is, What's for lunch? She can be VERY shallow.
A Swim Against the Tide
Author: David R. I. McKinstry
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780973094954
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This book examines the long-time frustrations encountered by one of many married members of the gay community who search to find and adopt needy children who will complete their loving families. Endorsed by Rev. Tom Harper, a champion of civil rights and famed author. McKinstry's three-time near victory of swimming Lake Ontario makes him more determined to be successful at the adoption game. His partner, Nicholas, joins him in his desire to adopt children to complete their loving family After great financial sacrifice he wins the right in India to adopt a ten-year-old street kid. His second son, Canadian born, helps in his struggle to change society's rules and customs. He grieves from a major personal loss but the love and support receives from his new partner in marriage sustains his drive to create a family of their own. McKinstry, as an adopted child who later finds his birth parents, brings a fascinating read so timely and evident in today's media. He's a front runner of what is happening in today's society. With his new partner, Michael, and the hoped-for adoption of a third child, a little girl, their loving family continues to set a splendid example of the joy there can be in gay families. The book's insights will help all to understand the love and values to society that same-sex marriages make in their commitment
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780973094954
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This book examines the long-time frustrations encountered by one of many married members of the gay community who search to find and adopt needy children who will complete their loving families. Endorsed by Rev. Tom Harper, a champion of civil rights and famed author. McKinstry's three-time near victory of swimming Lake Ontario makes him more determined to be successful at the adoption game. His partner, Nicholas, joins him in his desire to adopt children to complete their loving family After great financial sacrifice he wins the right in India to adopt a ten-year-old street kid. His second son, Canadian born, helps in his struggle to change society's rules and customs. He grieves from a major personal loss but the love and support receives from his new partner in marriage sustains his drive to create a family of their own. McKinstry, as an adopted child who later finds his birth parents, brings a fascinating read so timely and evident in today's media. He's a front runner of what is happening in today's society. With his new partner, Michael, and the hoped-for adoption of a third child, a little girl, their loving family continues to set a splendid example of the joy there can be in gay families. The book's insights will help all to understand the love and values to society that same-sex marriages make in their commitment
Joni Eareckson Tada
Author: Catherine MacKenzie
Publisher: Christian Focus
ISBN: 9781527110533
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A teenage trip to the beach, a diving accident, and a life of disability testifies to the goodness of God. Joni Eareckson Tada is a Christian author, speaker and artist whose life was turned upside down at the age of seventeen when a serious diving accident meant she was paralysed from the shoulders down. This short biography tells the story of what happened on that fateful day, and in the days and years that followed. Catherine MacKenzie skilfully shows how Joni's story is a story of God's goodness in the face of extreme suffering. Her testimony is one that has encouraged and moved people around the world. Read it here and see how the God of love is working for the good of those who love him, even in the most challenging circumstances.
Publisher: Christian Focus
ISBN: 9781527110533
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A teenage trip to the beach, a diving accident, and a life of disability testifies to the goodness of God. Joni Eareckson Tada is a Christian author, speaker and artist whose life was turned upside down at the age of seventeen when a serious diving accident meant she was paralysed from the shoulders down. This short biography tells the story of what happened on that fateful day, and in the days and years that followed. Catherine MacKenzie skilfully shows how Joni's story is a story of God's goodness in the face of extreme suffering. Her testimony is one that has encouraged and moved people around the world. Read it here and see how the God of love is working for the good of those who love him, even in the most challenging circumstances.
The Community Development Reader
Author: James DeFilippis
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135705232
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The Community Development Reader is the first comprehensive reader in the past thirty years that brings together practice, theory and critique concerning communities as sites of social change. With chapters written by some of the leading scholars and practitioners in the field, the book presents a diverse set of perspectives on community development. These selections inform the reader about established and emerging community development institutions and practices as well as the main debates in the field. The second edition is significantly updated and expanded to include a section on globalization as well as new chapters on the foreclosure crisis, and emerging forms of community .
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135705232
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The Community Development Reader is the first comprehensive reader in the past thirty years that brings together practice, theory and critique concerning communities as sites of social change. With chapters written by some of the leading scholars and practitioners in the field, the book presents a diverse set of perspectives on community development. These selections inform the reader about established and emerging community development institutions and practices as well as the main debates in the field. The second edition is significantly updated and expanded to include a section on globalization as well as new chapters on the foreclosure crisis, and emerging forms of community .
Swimming Against the Tide: A Wall Street Novel
Author: Gloria Tausk Glickman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781935751083
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Power... Money... Jealousy... Deceit... Jessica Allen experiences it all. In Swimming Against The Tide, Wall Street novice, Jessica Allen, starts out as a twenty-something trainee and evolves into the forty-something corporate executive she always knew she could be. Swimming Against The Tide is a powerful and poignant novel drawn from Gloria Tausk Glickman s thirty-year career at seven Fortune 500 companies. Through fiction based on reality, the author provides guidelines for successfully navigating the rough waters of life even when swimming against the tide.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781935751083
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Power... Money... Jealousy... Deceit... Jessica Allen experiences it all. In Swimming Against The Tide, Wall Street novice, Jessica Allen, starts out as a twenty-something trainee and evolves into the forty-something corporate executive she always knew she could be. Swimming Against The Tide is a powerful and poignant novel drawn from Gloria Tausk Glickman s thirty-year career at seven Fortune 500 companies. Through fiction based on reality, the author provides guidelines for successfully navigating the rough waters of life even when swimming against the tide.
Against the Tide
Author: John Ringo
Publisher: Baen Books
ISBN: 0743498844
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
In the distant future, the world was a paradise-and then, in a moment, it was ended by the first war in centuries.
Publisher: Baen Books
ISBN: 0743498844
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
In the distant future, the world was a paradise-and then, in a moment, it was ended by the first war in centuries.
Against the Tide
Author: Irini Savvides
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780733322907
Category : Novels in verse
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
"Intercultural romance and prejudice in Australia - Greek and Lebanese vs Anglo Australians."--Provided by publisher.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780733322907
Category : Novels in verse
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
"Intercultural romance and prejudice in Australia - Greek and Lebanese vs Anglo Australians."--Provided by publisher.
Crazy World of Electra Brown 3
Author: Helen Bailey
Publisher: Hachette Children's
ISBN: 9780340950302
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Everyone's got major lurve-action except Electra. She hates swimming against the tide; she'd rather go with the flow. She should be planning how to hook a hunk, but all she can think is, What's for lunch? She can be VERY shallow.
Publisher: Hachette Children's
ISBN: 9780340950302
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Everyone's got major lurve-action except Electra. She hates swimming against the tide; she'd rather go with the flow. She should be planning how to hook a hunk, but all she can think is, What's for lunch? She can be VERY shallow.