As librarians experience a changing climate for all information services professionals, Cassell and Hiremath provide the tools needed to manage the ebb and flow of changing reference services in the 21st century.
I dedicate this book to my Mother, Katherine Elizabeth Thren (Kay), who thoughts and phrases I have put on paper. She has been a spiritual guidance to all that have known her for so many years. My mother had a stroke about ten years ago that left her right side paralyzed; she left us August 28, 2000 at the age of 89. My father had Multiple Scleroses since he was 23 years old and he passed away at 92 years old on November 24, 2000. They have had many hardships through the years; I guess that is what guided her to the spiritual being that she had become. Many of us didnt understand her drive for the spiritual side, but God was always with her. If only these words would help at least one person, she would know her work on earth was not in vain. We love you and miss you, mother. Your loving daughter, Mary Ann Miller
During the 1990s and early 2000s, China became the world s largest supplier of healthy, predominantly female, children for international adoption--a veritable diaspora of 120,000 girls. We in the west have come to believe that this situation was the result of China s One-Child Policy, combined with a traditional Chinese cultural disdain for females and for adopting outside family bloodlines. While there is one truth in this account it does not nearly tell the whole story. Kay Ann Johnson should know. For the last twenty-five years she has been one of the few scholars who has done research on child abandonment and local adoption in China itself. She is also the mother of an adopted Chinese daughter. Her book paints a startlingly different picture. For Chinese parents, giving up their daughters is fraught with grief and remorse. Were it not for the punishments and threats of birth planning campaigns, they would have kept and raised the girls they gave birth to, regardless of how many daughters they had. Johnson presents parents stories about why and how they relinquished a second or third daughter in an often desperate effort to hide her birth from authorities to avoid punishment (including the threat of mandatory sterilization). As the Chinese government cracked down and increased its surveillance, the methods of relinquishing one child changed: from adopting-out a child to a known daughterless family among friends or extended kin, to secret abandonments at carefully chosen doorsteps of likely potential adopters, then finally to outright abandonment in public places. In the 21st century, the so called abandoned children of China have become stolen children. Declining fertility rates and increased seizures of illegally, but locally adopted children have made the dwindling numbers of relinquished children more vulnerable to increasing interregional child trafficking for official and unofficial adoption. Ironically, childless Chinese couples no longer can readily fin healthy young children locally to adopt. Ultimately, Johnson argues that birth planning policies and restrictive adoption regulations, including the perverse incentives these policies create, help drive current patterns of child trafficking and make its eradication difficult if not impossible.
Who is God? What is He really like? Does He truly care when we are hurting? Why does He allow bad things to happen to people who are serving Him? How can we feel His loving, comforting arms around us when we're lonely, sad or discouraged? Have you ever grieved over the loss of your father, tragically killed in an airplane crash? Have you longed for friendship, felt lonely or emotionally empty? Have you asked: Can God be trusted? Is God fair? Why doesn't God answer my prayer? Does God even care? The author of this book has. If you have struggled with understanding God from a human perspective then this book is for you. Barbara has taken a serious look at God's character both from scripture and personal experience. You will get glimpses of what God is really like as Barbara Ann Kay shares stories, allegories, and vivid word pictures depicting our compassionate Heavenly Father. Filled with encouraging Bible passages and stories, this book is excellent for morning devotions or any time you need to hear an encouraging word from a Father who is eager to spend quality time with you!
Mary, a Korean girl growing up with her brother above her parents' convenience store in 1980s Toronto, is caught between the traditional culture of her parents and her desire to be a Canadian.
Kay Ann Johnson provides much-needed information about women and gender equality under Communist leadership. She contends that, although the Chinese Communist Party has always ostensibly favored women's rights and family reform, it has rarely pushed for such reforms. In reality, its policies often have reinforced the traditional role of women to further the Party's predominant economic and military aims. Johnson's primary focus is on reforms of marriage and family because traditional marriage, family, and kinship practices have had the greatest influence in defining and shaping women's place in Chinese society. Conversant with current theory in political science, anthropology, and Marxist and feminist analysis, Johnson writes with clarity and discernment free of dogma. Her discussions of family reform ultimately provide insights into the Chinese government's concern with decreasing the national birth rate, which has become a top priority. Johnson's predictions of a coming crisis in population control are borne out by the recent increase in female infanticide and the government abortion campaign.
American Educator, Activist, and Advocate provides in-depth research into Eleanor Archer's life as one of the first Black public school teachers in Des Moines and presents a gateway for academics to acknowledge the lives and ideas of women during the Jim Crow era, clarifying Black women's standpoint on the segregated South"--
This practical guide teaches failsafe methods for identifying important materials by matching specific types of questions to the best available sources, regardless of format. Information on more than 300 sources has been updated to provide you high quality information.
History has, until recently, minimized the role of nuns over the centuries. In this volume, their rich lives, their work, and their importance to the Church are finally acknowledged. Jo Ann Kay McNamara introduces us to women scholars, mystics, artists, political activists, healers, and teachers - individuals whose religious vocation enabled them to pursue goals beyond traditional gender roles.
From Bedpans to Boardrooms is intended to take you from tears to belly laughs as you experience some snafus in family life and health care that the average person would never believe. The story is inspirational in the sense that it could be everyones story.
Lombo's Miracle was inspired by the true story of a horse who survived two trips to the kill pen. It is written from the horse's perspective and is appropriate for children of all ages as well as adults who are young at heart. Join Lombo on his journey from the racetrack to the auctions, multiple homes, and eventually to the kill pens. Experience through his eyes, heart, and mind the courage, strength, and faith necessary to survive when it appears that all hope is lost.
Looking closely at the recent reform efforts in San Diego, this book explores the full range of critical issues pertaining to urban school reform. Drawing on the systemic school reform initiative that was launched in San Diego in the 1990s, this book explores all layers of the school reform process - from leadership in the central office, to work with principals and teachers, to the impact on how teachers worked with students in the classroom. The authors draw on careful ethnographic research collected over the entire four years of the San Diego reforms, in order to identify, not only how teachers, principals and other district educators were shaped by the large-scale reforms, but also the ways in which the reform unfolded. In doing so, the book shows more broadly how actors throughout a school system can change the views of leaders and impact the larger reform process.
A faith-based manual for those who have friends and family members suffering from the disease of addiction. Readings can be used for recovery groups or for individual help. Also contains tips for starting your own recovery group.
Acclaimed writers, family, friends, and more pay homage to the celebrated Southern author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini. New York Times–bestselling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his fifty-year career. In sharing their stories of Conroy, his fellow writers honor his memory and advance our shared understanding of his lasting impact on literary life in and well beyond the American South. Conroy’s fellowship drew from all walks of life. His relationships were complicated, and people and places he thought he’d left behind often circled back to him at crucial moments. The pantheon of contributors includes Rick Bragg, Kathleen Parker, Barbra Streisand, Janis Ian, Anthony Grooms, Mary Hood, Nikky Finney, Nathalie Dupree and Cynthia Graubart, Ron Rash, Sandra Brown, and Mary Alice Monroe; Conroy biographers Katherine Clark and Catherine Seltzer; his longtime friends; Pat’s students Sallie Ann Robinson and Valerie Sayers; members of the Conroy family; and many more. Each author in this collection shares a slightly different view of Conroy. Through their voices, a multifaceted portrait of him comes to life and sheds new light on who he was. Loosely following Conroy’s own chronology, the essays herewith wind through his river of a story, stopping at important ports of call. Cities he called home and longed to visit, along with each book he birthed, become characters that are as equally important as the people he touched along the way.
An illustrated almanac including thousands of facts about such topics as the universe, countries of the world, science and nature, government, world history and religions, the arts, sports, and others.
Seventh grader Kay Garber’s happy home is made up of four generations of women: Great Gran Eula; Grandma Margie; Kay’s mother, Karine; and Kay. But on the evening Grandma Margie tells her family she has a lump in her breast, Kay’s world is changed forever. Struggling with issues of popularity in junior high school, trying to understand her too-perfect mother, dealing with her feelings about friends, and coming to terms with Grandma Margie’s cancer diagnosis and illness, Kay is awhirl with questions that have no easy answers. But Kay is a survivor, and as she journeys through these difficult months she comes to a new understanding of the complexities and importance of faith and family. Told through forthright and perceptive poems in Kay’s own voice, Loose Threads reverberates with emotion and depth and will leave no reader untouched.
Provides insight into the unique relationship that exists between women and animals and includes contributions from Diane Ackerman, Annie Dillard, Jane Goodall, Temple Grandin, and Barbara Kingsolver.
Dr. Stan Parker was famously known as Dean of Students at the prestigious Charleston Southern University. He was a writer, pioneer in diversity and cultural studies, an educational genius, renown life coach, successful business leader, loving husband, father and grandfather, and confidant to many. Although he has passed from this life to eternal glory, a piece of his eternal spirit has influenced thousands. His work is without border. His name is beyond praise. In this anthology lies lessons of true leadership. In it is the blueprint on how to leave a living legacy on the world around you. Dr. Stan Parker. Our true American hero. Leadership On Purpose.
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