Jean Hornsby''s ''Tree-Riffic!''..." is set on ''Shawnee Mountain'' in Pennsylvania in 1947. The Ned and Nora Hammermill family is made up of Jean, Susie, Johnny, Carol and baby, Janice. Jean, at 10, is the oldest and the wisest and central to our story, while the rest of the kids play equally important supporting roles, as ''Johnny'' plays pirate in his treehouse and Susie makes hot steaming biscuits with her mother and Carol looks for her kittens, while Janice steals everyone''s attention as ''the apple in everyone''s eye.'' There is ''Lucky,'' the smartest German shepherd since ''Rin-Tin-Tin.'' And, "Gunner," the retired military horse, who now pulls Ned''s plow. Together, this group of interesting characters take us down the road to a past more innocent and fun, than anything we''ve seen since "The Waltons," made television history. ....Jean loves her black stallion, "Buck," who stumbles and breaks his leg. Johnny plays his trombone to the light of the full moon. Jean sees a beautiful ghost in her mother''s rock garden, where angels also visit and offer their blessings. Ned survives the tornadoes that strike the mountain. This "novel for children," with beautiful color illustrations by John E. Ayers. is told through the eyes of "Mr. Oak" and "Miss Maple," two leaves Jean enters into a 4-H contest in hopes of "winning first prize
Jean Hornsby''s ''Tree-Riffic!''..." is set on ''Shawnee Mountain'' in Pennsylvania in 1947. The Ned and Nora Hammermill family is made up of Jean, Susie, Johnny, Carol and baby, Janice. Jean, at 10, is the oldest and the wisest and central to our story, while the rest of the kids play equally important supporting roles, as ''Johnny'' plays pirate in his treehouse and Susie makes hot steaming biscuits with her mother and Carol looks for her kittens, while Janice steals everyone''s attention as ''the apple in everyone''s eye.'' There is ''Lucky,'' the smartest German shepherd since ''Rin-Tin-Tin.'' And, "Gunner," the retired military horse, who now pulls Ned''s plow. Together, this group of interesting characters take us down the road to a past more innocent and fun, than anything we''ve seen since "The Waltons," made television history. ....Jean loves her black stallion, "Buck," who stumbles and breaks his leg. Johnny plays his trombone to the light of the full moon. Jean sees a beautiful ghost in her mother''s rock garden, where angels also visit and offer their blessings. Ned survives the tornadoes that strike the mountain. This "novel for children," with beautiful color illustrations by John E. Ayers. is told through the eyes of "Mr. Oak" and "Miss Maple," two leaves Jean enters into a 4-H contest in hopes of "winning first prize
The use of polymers is restricted by their flammability - they may indeed initiate or propagate fire. Fire Retardancy of Polymers focuses on mineral additives from either micro- or nano-composites for application in fire retardants. With the use of fire retardant additives containing halogen or phosphorus compounds in decline, the need for other systems is evident. The major materials that are used are alumina trihydrate or magnesium hydroxide which account for more than 50% by weight of the world-wide sales of fire retardants. Recent works have shown that such halogen-free compounds may give enhanced fire retardancy to polymeric materials when used in low levels, alone, or in synergistic mixtures. The corresponding fire performance depends on the dispersion of the mineral filler, with micrometer-scale dispersion leading to the best performances. Specialists discuss these new applications of mineral fillers with particular emphasis on action mechanisms, new materials including textiles, toxicology and hazards. With extensive references, this book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date view of these applications. This book will appeal to professionals, materials scientists and engineers looking for novel ways to eliminate fire hazards and improve flame retardancy of materials, with a special interest in sustainable development.
Emily Oliphant does not want to settle down to the life of a normal Victorian young lady. She gets a job as a Lady's Companion. This tells of her travels and adventures in Victorian England and Europe.
It is estimated that around 50,000 Brigade Lads served in the First World War, during which many honors and distinctions were awarded. The Brigade contributed two Service Battalions of the King's Royal Rifle Corps whose members were comprised entirely of past and present members of the Church Lads' Brigade. These were known as ‘Pals’ Battalions. The story of the battalion centers around the experiences of eight men who served and some who died in the Battles of The Somme, Arras and The Lys. In the latter half of the nineteenth century influential Christians were worried about the poor spiritual and physical development of young people. It was at that time that ‘Brigade’ groups began to spring up all over the UK. Walter Mallock Gee, who was Secretary of the Junior Branch of the Church of England Temperance Society and a ‘Volunteer’ Army Officer, founded the Church Lads’ Brigade in 1891. By 1908 the membership of the brigade stood at about 70,000 in 1,300 companies. When the ‘Call to Arms’ came from Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener in 1914, thousands of Britain’s youth flocked to join the armed forces. Members of the Church Lads’ Brigade joined up in their droves at recruiting stations all over Great Britain. Two Battalions were formed entirely from serving and ex-members of the Church Lad’s Brigade. The 16th (Service) Battalion and later the 19th (Service) Battalion, both sponsored by the Church Lads’ Brigade, became known as ‘The Churchmen’s Battalion’. In 1914 no one could have imagined the horrendous stories that would unfold from the bloody massacre at so many notorious battles across Belgium and the fields of Flanders. Ypres, Passchendale, Somme, Arras, Lys, and the brutal decimation of the battalion during the hell of the fighting at High Wood. No one could have imagined the discomfort and disease brought on by living in a trench full of water for days on end, or ‘over the top’ through acres of knee-high mud. More than 24 of the Church Lads’ Brigade were awarded a Victoria Cross for their bravery, but by 1918 many of those gallant young Lads would not return home. This is their story. The Author and the Publishers acknowledge that some material in this title has been taken from the website www.1914-1918.net without permission or acknowledgement and are grateful to the copyright holder, Chris Baker, for granting this permission retrospectively.
No history of the civil rights era in the South would be complete without an account of the remarkable life and career of Grace Towns Hamilton, the first African American woman in the Deep South to be elected to a state legislature. A national official of the Young Women's Christian Association early in her career, Hamilton later headed the Atlanta Urban League, where she worked within the confines of segregation to equalize African American access to education, health care, and voting rights. In the Georgia legislature from 1965 until 1984, she exercised considerable power as a leader in the black struggle for local, state, and national offices, promoting interracial cooperation as the key to racial justice. Her probity and moderation paved the way for the election of other black women, and by the end of her political career no southern legislature was without women members of her race. Lorraine Nelson Spritzer and Jean B. Bergmark examine two generations of African American history to give the long view of Hamilton's activism. The life spans of Hamilton and her father, an Atlanta University professor who was her greatest mentor, encompassed the best and worst of the African American experience, inevitably shaping Hamilton's outlook and achievements.
From living rooms to boardrooms, sports has become a second language -- and one that women can't afford to misinterpret. Now they can learn about sports without ever watching a game Sports Goddess and former ESPN producer Jean McCormick shows women how to score big points with bosses, boyfriends, and all the sports fans in their lives with tips on how to get hip to: -- The lingo of football, hockey, basketball, baseball, golf, and even extreme sports -- Fun facts about star players -- from Michael Jordan to Tiger Woods to Martina Hingis -- Where to find sports highlights on television, in print, or on the Internet -- How to fill out a pool sheet and read a box score -- Why it's okay to complain about major league baseball -- How to embrace college basketball's March Madness -- Why size doesn't matter in hockey -- How to master the Masters golf tournament -- And more.
Many people are troubled and lost in the search for solutions to their problems. But majority of them don't even know their problems. How can you find the right solution to your problem if you don't know exactly what it is? You may be experiencing an emotional storm right now, confused and wondering if anything valuable can ever come out of you. But I am telling you today that that is about to change. In "Victory in Your Problems," Apostle Jean Saflo demonstrates how you can identify your problems and therefore find the most suitable solutions for them. It doesn't matter if your problems are a result of sin, wrong and unwise decisions, or simply the consequence of living in a fallen world, God still has a perfect plan for you to deliver you from all your troubles to permanent victory!
The stories in this book take place in the 1920s, during the childhood of the eldest five of the nine siblings as they remembered them and then retold to the grandchildren as the author remembers them. Some were softened as the aunts and uncles related the tales, and occasionally they became somewhat different for the younger generation. Nonetheless, the stories are a part of Jean Saulss history. This is a book for people who also remember that time and for children who never knew such a history existed.
An updated edition of the most comprehensive account of Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize-winning work yet published, with the full story of every recording session, every album, and every single released during his nearly 60-year career. Bob Dylan: All the Songs focuses on Dylan's creative process and his organic, unencumbered style of recording. It is the only book to tell the stories, many unfamiliar even to his most fervent fans, behind the more than 500 songs he has released over the span of his career. Organized chronologically by album, Margotin and Guesdon detail the origins of his melodies and lyrics, his process in the recording studio, the instruments he used, and the contribution of a myriad of musicians and producers to his canon.
A Bit of History Although the Cherokees discovered gold in Colorado Territory a year before it was discovered in California, the Cherokees did nothing with it. The William Green Russell group worked the gold fields in California in 1849 and had returned to Georgia. When Russell learned about the discovery through his wife, a Cherokee, he returned to Colorado to search for gold. News of his discovery in 1858 brought thousands of "gold-hungry immigrants" infringing on land that was promised to Arapahoe and Cheyenne Indians in 1851. * * * * * * *Chapter 1 Yancy Sodders stabled his horse and muttered "God, am I tired!" as he half-walked, mostly stumbled to the barracks. Shrugging he pulled open the barracks door and stepped inside. He stalked to the table in the corner, glanced at the cards Sergeant Travis had spread out for a game of solitaire, and tried not to groan as he sat down. Sergeant Travis scooped up his cards, and said, "What's it like working every day with that new colonel, Connors?" Connors said, "Lt. Colonel Albert Hornsby is tall, lean, and mean. Sodders, what do you think chances of survival would be if the detachment is ordered out, under Hornsby?"" "Under Lt. Colonel Hornsby? Chances of coming back alive 'bout like the old snowball-in-hell." "We ain't going out on patrol are we?" Corporal Jasper asked. Connors shook his head. "Haven't heard anything, but, if the Colonel doesn't figure out that this is Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, not a post in Washington DC or Atlanta, Georgia like he had before, nobody's got a chance of living long unless Major Douglas is with the detachment." "How come they sent Hornsby out here anyway?" Jasper asked. The major was doing just fine." Travis spoke up quickly. "Better than fine. They don't come any better than Major Douglas."Sodders nodded. "Ethan Douglas is all right for an officer. He takes care of his men, his mounts, and he isn't afraid to listen to his noncoms. He's not too damned proud to admit he doesn't know it all.""It's going to take a hell of a lot of cussing and scratching before you'll say that about Colonel Hornsby." Connors put out his cigarette, stood, and stretched. "I'm going to hit the sack. I sure as hell don't intend to be late getting to my desk in the morning." He sat on the edge of the bunk and pulled off his boots. "Tell you something else. I'm damned glad I'm desk sergeant and don't have to ride out with him. I feel real sorry for you fellers." "Sure you do." Travis doused the lamp and hoped he went to sleep before Corporal Jasper started to snore. * * * * * * * Sunlight slipped under Conner's half-opened eyelids. Groaning, he rolled over and hit his knuckles on the wooden rail on the bunk above his. "Dammit." He pressed his knuckles against his lips, then opened his eyes and looked at them. "Oh, dammit!" he said when he saw the room was filled with sunlight. He rolled out of the bunk and jammed his legs into his trousers. "I'm going to be late. Sonovabitch, I'm going to be late." He grabbed his razor and shaving mug. "Go ahead. Get dressed and get to hell over there. I'll make up your bunk. Jasper can straighten things around here. Get out of here." Yancy sat up and reaching inside his long-johns scratched his belly. "You'd better run." "Thanks, Yancy. I won't forget it." Connors pulled his suspenders over his shoulders as he ran across the parade ground to the office. Colonel Hornsby was yelling when Connors entered the door. "Sergeant!" Colonel Albert Hornsby pushed back from his desk. He stared at the paper in his left hand. A dispatch case was open; papers were spread across the desktop "Yes, sir?" "Get Major Douglas. I want him in here, on-the-double." "Yes, sir." Within two days of Col. Hornsby's arrival at Fort Leavenworth, Connors learned that on-the-double for the major meant triple time for the sergeant or any other enlisted man.
Into The Twilight Zone: The Rod Serling Programme Guide includes complete episode guides with cast, credits and story summaries of the original Twilight Zone series, as well as its many film and television revivals, and Rod Serling's Night Gallery. The book features an overview and filmography of Serling's life and career, and interviews with many of his colleagues, including Buck Houghton, Richard Matheson, Frank Marshall, Joe Dante, Phil DeGuere, Wes Craven, Alan Brennert, Paul Chitlik and Jeremy Bertrand Finch. It also includes indices of actors and creative personnel. "The best TV programme guide I have seen." -Ty Power, Dreamwatch "The perfect complement to The Twilight Zone Companion." -David McDonnell, Starlog
First published in 1997. This book provides practitioners in the field of special education with the information they need to decide whether controversial diagnoses and treatments in this field are valid. The aim of this book is to review the literature on each topic and comment on the current state of the art of each in a way which is accessible to teachers, other professionals and parents. The book is of relevance to all teachers and other professionals who are concerned with the education of children with SEN, including teachers in mainstream and special schools.
As the title makes clear, this book is about the design and delivery of service experiences. This includes the design of installations, facilities, technologies and scripts used in the staging of such experiences. It introduces the reader to many fundamental notions in service operations, from positioning to execution, with much attention paid to human experiences such as those of customers and service workers; be they performing simple repetitive tasks or complex mental tasks. The subject is treated in an user-friendly manner with a storytelling context, focusing initially on every day services (coffee shops, fast food, supermarkets) and then moving on to complex services (lawyers, physicians, engineers, accountants). Contrary to popular hype, not all service experiences are meant to be memorable. If all you need is a cup of coffee and this is done quickly, effortlessly, and painlessly, thats good. If theres a little plus along the way, thats better: youll make a mental note that this is a good place to stop next time you are in the area. In an age of exponential technological change, service delivery processes are changing quickly and service industries are being creatively destroyed. You want to be the disruptor, willing to disrupt a large part of your actual income streams. The ability to maintain differentiation rests largely on an in-depth understanding of the service experience and operational excellence. The future belongs to the fastest learner. Intuition is only part of the story.
Complexity, complex systems and complexity theories are becoming increasingly important within a variety disciplines. While these issues are less well known within the discipline of spatial planning, there has been a recent growing awareness and interest. As planners grapple with how to consider the vagaries of the real world when putting together proposals for future development, they question how complexity, complex systems and complexity theories might prove useful with regard to spatial planning and the physical environment. This book provides a readable overview, presenting and relating a range of understandings and characteristics of complexity and complex systems as they are relevant to planning. It recognizes multiple, relational approaches of dynamic complexity which enhance understandings of, and facilitate working with, contingencies of place, time and the various participants' behaviours. In doing so, it should contribute to a better understanding of processes with regard to our physical and social worlds.
A long-standing tradition of excellence is extended in the Fourth Edition of this authoritative introduction to the field of therapeutic recreation. The authors effectively combine a broad orientation to the profession with the practical information necessary for students to become successful practitioners. Part I contains a comprehensive discussion of the fields history and theoretical underpinnings, providing students with the perspective they need to evaluate the social, cultural, demographic, economic, and technical forces that have shaped and are continuing to impact health and human services in general, and therapeutic recreation in particular. Part II introduces students to the client populations served by therapeutic recreation specialists and describes specific approaches and activities employed by TR professionals to help clients achieve meaningful improvements in health status, functional capacities, and quality of life. The authors have retained the practical, student-oriented approach that makes this an ideal text for introductory courses. They address all content areas included in the NCTRC certification exam, are compatible with the American Psychiatric Association on psychological classifications, and incorporate the World Health Organizations international classification of functioning, disability, and health. The latest edition contains updated information on baby boomers, the obesity epidemic, and evidence-based practices; field-based photographs and illustrations; and study questions and exercises designed to engage students.
This book engages with what are widely recognized as the two core dimensions of emotion. When we are afraid, glad or disappointed, we feel a certain way; moreover, our emotion is intentional or directed at something: we are afraid of something, glad or disappointed about something. Connecting with a vital strand of recent philosophical thinking, Müller conceives of these two aspects of emotion as unified. Examining different possible ways of developing the view that the feeling dimension of emotion is itself intentional, he argues against the currently popular view that it is a form of perception-like receptivity to value. Müller instead proposes that emotional feeling is a specific type of response to value, an affective ‘position-taking’. This alternative conceives of emotional feeling as intimately related to our cares and concerns. While situating itself within the analytic-philosophical debate on emotion, the discussion crucially draws on ideas from the early phenomenological tradition and thinks past the theoretical strictures of many contemporary approaches to this subject. The result is an innovative view of emotional feeling as a thoroughly personal form of engagement with value.
Sustainable Preservation takes a nuanced look at the hundreds of choices that adaptive reuse requires architects to make—from ingenious ways to redeploy existing structural elements to time-honored techniques for natural ventilation to creation of wetlands that restore a site's natural biological functions. In addition, Sustainable Preservation presents 50 case studies of projects—schools, houses, offices, stores, museums, and government buildings—that set new standards for holistic approaches to adaptive reuse and sustainability. The author covers design issues, from building location to lighting systems, renewable power options, stormwater handling, and building envelope protection and integrity. The book also reviews operational issues, including materials choices for low lifetime maintenance, green housekeeping, and indoor air quality.
A comprehensive revised edition incorporating recent developments such as changes to species names, significant changes to classifications, as well as information on newly described plants.
Introducing Multilingualism is a comprehensive and user-friendly introduction to the dynamic field of multilingualism. Adopting a compelling social and critical approach and covering important social and educational issues, the authors expertly guide readers through the established theories, leading them to question dominant discourses on subjects such as integration, heritage and language testing. This second edition has been fully revised and updated, featuring new chapters on multilingualism in new media, the workplace and the family. Other key topics include: language as a social construct language contact and variation language and identity the differences between individual and societal multilingualism translanguaging flexible multilingual education. With a wide range of engaging activities and quizzes and a comprehensive selection of case studies from around the world, this is essential reading for undergraduate students and postgraduate students new to studying multilingualism.
Designed to help readers make organic gardening easy and productive by using plants themselves in place of chemical care, a master gardener offers a system that combines certain plants, bugs, and herbs to encourage pest-free growth.
Pacific Pidgins and Creoles discusses the complex and fascinating history of English-based pidgins in the Pacific, especially the three closely related Melanesian pidgins: Tok Pisin, Pijin, and Bislama. The book details the central role of the port of Sydney and the linguistic synergies between Australia and the Pacific islands in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the role of Pacific islander plantation labor overseas, and the differentiation which has taken place in the pidgins spoken in the Melanesian island states in the 20th century. It also looks at the future of Pacific pidgins at a time of increasing vernacular language endangerment.
While baseball is traditionally perceived as a game to be played, enjoyed, and reported from a masculine perspective, it has long been beloved among women—more so than any other spectator sport. Breaking into Baseball: Women and the National Pastime upends baseball’s accepted history to at last reveal just how involved women are, and have always been, in the American game. Through provocative interviews and deft research, Jean Hastings Ardell devotes a detailed chapter to each of the seven ways women participate in the game—from the stands as fans, on the field as professionals or as amateur players, behind the plate as umpires, in the front office as executives, in the press box as sportswriters and reporters, or in the shadows as Baseball Annies. From these revelatory vantage points, Ardell invites overdue appreciation for the affinity and talent women bring to baseball at all levels and shows us our national game anew. From its ancient origins in spring fertility rituals through contemporary marketing efforts geared toward an ever-increasing female fan base, baseball has always had a feminine side, and generations of women have sought—and been sought after—to participate in the sport, even when doing so meant challenging the cultural mores of their era. In that regard, women have been breaking into baseball from the very beginning. But recent decades have witnessed great strides in legitimizing women’s roles on the diamond as players and umpires as well as in vital management and media roles. In her thoughtfully organized and engagingly written survey, Ardell offers a chance for sports enthusiasts and historians of both genders to better appreciate the storied and complex relationship women have so long shared with the game and to glimpse the future of women in baseball. Breaking into Baseball is augmented by twenty-four illustrations and a foreword from Ila Borders, the first woman to play more than three seasons of men’s professional baseball.
What happens after the excitement of the wedding day? Nancy had high hopes of a bright future. Due to circumstances beyond her control she was not able to study medicine, so she put her heart into nursing. Yet when she married, her husband demanded she become just a housewife. Over the years, he became bored with her and his verbal abuse increased. As dripping water wears a stone, Nancys Christian values, perseverance and hope for change are sorely tested by her husbands behaviour. During a trip across Canada she began to compare her marriage with other marriages, and started to wonder: how much is enough?
Determined to change his wimp image, 16-year-old Jason turns to the personal ads in order to meet an experienced older woman, but winds up employed by an eccentric, elderly woman living with a young refugee girl. How will he possibly cope?
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