A captivating tale with timeless impact of a young lad who discovers what his world would be like if Jesus had never been born. This unimaginable notion will surely generate thought-provoking discussions, whether at the kitchen table, before bedtime, in the car or classroom.
A multigenerational story of hope and resilience, The Garretts of Columbia is an American history of Black struggle, sacrifice, and achievement. At the heart of David Nicholson's beautifully written and carefully researched book, The Garretts of Columbia: A Black South Carolina Family from Slavery to the Dawn of Integration, are his great-grandparents, Casper George Garrett and his wife, Anna Maria. Papa, as Garrett was known to his family, was a professor at Allen University, a lawyer, and an editor of three newspapers. Dubbed Black South Carolina's "most respected disliked man," he was always ready to attack those he believed disloyal to his race. When his quixotic idealism and acerbic editorials resulted in his dismissal from Allen, his wife, who was called Mama, came into her own as the family bread winner. She was appointed supervisor of rural colored schools, trained teachers, and oversaw the construction of schoolhouses. At 51, this remarkable woman learned to drive, taking to the back roads outside Columbia to supervise classrooms, conduct literacy drives, and instruct rural farm women in the basics of home economics. Though Papa and Mama came of age in the bleak Jim Crow years after Reconstruction, they believed in the possibility of America. Resolutely supporting their country during the First World War, they sent three of their sons to serve. One son wrote a musical with Langston Hughes during the Harlem Renaissance. Another son became a dentist. A daughter earned a doctorate in French. And the family persevered. But, for all that Papa and Mama did to make Columbia a nurturing place, their sons and daughters joined the Great Migration, scattering north in search of the freedom the South denied them. The Garretts embraced the hope of America and experienced the melancholy of a family separated by the search for opportunity and belonging. On the basis of decades of research and thousands of family letters—which include Mama's tart-tongued observations of friends and neighbors—The Garretts of Columbia is family history as American history, rich with pivotal events viewed through the lens of the Garretts's lives.
Philosophy of Education in Action is an innovative, inquiry-based introductory text that invites readers to study philosophy of education through the lens of their own observations and experiences. Structured according to a "Wonder Model of Inquiry," each chapter begins by posing a fundamental What if question about curriculum, pedagogy, and the role of the school before investigating the various philosophical perspectives that guide and influence educational practices. Classroom vignettes and examples of actual schools and educational programs help to ground philosophical perspectives in real-world scenarios, while the book’s unique inquiry-based approach leads students to both think critically about philosophical questions and apply the concepts to their own teaching. Features of the text include: What if questions that structure each chapter to pique students' curiosity, stimulate creativity, and promote critical thinking. Authentic classroom vignettes that encourage students to analyze what it means to "do" philosophy and to reflect upon their own practices, examine their role in the educational process, and articulate their own philosophical beliefs. A concluding section asking readers to imagine and design their own hypothetical school or classroom as a project-based means of analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating the different philosophies discussed. Accessible and thought-provoking, Philosophy of Education in Action provides a dynamic learning experience for readers to understand and apply philosophy in educational practice.
In Flying Home, David Nicholson writes of the real Washington, D.C., a secret city worlds away from the heroic statues, white marble monuments, and broad, tree-lined avenues. His characters are ordinary working men and women -- maids, taxi drivers, janitors, barbers and handymen. While the women in his first collection of stories are vivid and fully realized, Nicholson is particularly concerned with fathers, sons and brothers. The men in his stories are men in extremis -- a boy-man who seeks to belong without understanding what it will cost him, a janitor who has lost his job and now must teach his son what it is to be a man, and, in the title story, a Smithsonian curator reluctantly making the long journey back to the streets he fled years before. Theirs is a city of neighborhoods and back-porch summer nights, a city where men swap lies in barber shops, toasts are proclaimed on street corners, and fathers pray their legacy will, one day, allow their children to stand on their own"--Back cover.
In the last two decades, Indonesia has seen a dramatic proliferation of environmental disputes in a variety of sectors, triggered by intensified deforestation and large scale mining operations in the resource rich outer islands, together with rapid industrialisation in the densely populated inner island of Java. Whilst the emergence of environmental disputes has sometimes attracted political repression, attempts have also been made in recent times to explore more functional approaches to their resolution. The Environmental Management Act of 1997 created a legal framework for the resolution of environmental disputes through both litigation and mediation. This book is the first attempt to analyse the implementation of this framework in detail and to assess the effectiveness of litigation and mediation in resolving environmental disputes in Indonesia. It includes a detailed overview of the environmental legal framework and its interpretation by Indonesian courts in landmark court cases. The book features a number of detailed case studies of both environmental litigation and mediation and considers the legal and non-legal factors that have influenced the success of these approaches to resolving environmental disputes.
Filled with guidance from understanding the dynamincs of a healthy relationship to learning why certain types of people attract each other, What You Need to Know Before You Fall in Love points out the pitfalls of romantic relationships and offers guidelines to help singles choose the right mate.
Most people don't realize the hardships rural Ozark Mountain people faced without electricity, phones, employment, and money. Folks raised in urban environments cannot understand the hardships rural families had to endure to have food and shelter. The chores and duties of rural children provided them with values that they used throughout their life. The environment with animals to care for, which the animals provided milk and food, with food to raise and harvest and preserve from gardens, and the examples observed from good honest rural folks with little to no formal education, provided attitudes of independence, strong ethics, and day light to dark work habits that served rural children throughout their lives. This is a story about a rural child through school, Future Farmers of America, the Marine Corps, college, a career with the USDA, and into retirement. This is a youth who hunted and fished for family food. This is a youth who shot a neighbor when ten years old, who was shot at a few times, was threatened to be shot as an USDA agent, and survived other hardships with the values and work ethics learned as an Ozark Mountain country child.
Poetry and prose are as much about observation as they are about the romance or the travails of life. In this volume, the poems range over a number of topics, mostly concerned with the human condition, the world in vision, the harsh reality of parting and the joy that is love. Some of the verse within these pages is of a personal nature but there to be shared as much of human experience is enacted in the full view of the world. But whilst experience is there to be passed on, learned from and ultimately provide guidance, it is also, as Oscar Wilde so accurately put it, "Something one can do without
There can be few BBC series that have generated as many gripping tales as Planet Earth. With producers and camera crews travelling to almost every corner of the world, from the highest mountains to the lowest depths, using every kind of craft and technological wizardry imaginable, from helicopters and submersibles to satellites and remote cameras, they have witnessed remarkable things. This book tells the dramatic tales of their encounters, trials and tribulations. Particularly memorable are the ingenious means by which some of the unique sequences in the series were made. High-definition film-footage photos will bring the tales to life."--Publisher description.
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