True North is the inspirational Canadian Chapter of Jill Ker Conway's life story, which began with her much love, bestselling memoir, The Road from Coorain. Beginning with her departure from Australia, Jill Ker Conway tells of her romance with Harvard House Master John Conway, of coming to grips with his manic-depressive disorder, and of their move to Canada in 1964 where she became the first female vice-president at the University of Toronto. In this vibrant memoir, we watch as a most private woman makes of herself a public persona in Canada.
After a childhood in outback Australia, at the age of twenty-five, Jill Ker Conway lands in New York during a hurricane and is soon at Harvard; A Canadian professor becomes her husband. We follow them through the early years of their marriage as they move from America to Europe and back to Canada, and they learn how each person has a role in their joint lives.
Discover America explores each state, district, and territory in the United States of America. From Alabama to Wyoming, this series features vivid images, informative charts, and detailed maps to guide readers through their nation. Each book explores geography, history, culture, and economics to illustrate the diversity of this unique country.
In an updated, annotated edition, this book includes all changes enacted by the General Assembly through the end of the 2007 session. The compilation includes many provisions of the public health chapter of the General Statutes (Chapter 130A) as well as selected excerpts from other chapters. For example, it includes emergency management and public records laws as well as laws that govern when a minor may consent to his or her own health care and how a public health inspector can obtain an administrative inspection warrant. It also contains an index.
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the factors providing the impetus for change in the North American beef industry and how the industry is responding to the challenges. The beef industry story provides lessons for other agri-food industries attempting to respond to rapidly evolving food markets. The book provides important insights into the process whereby industries respond to a rapidly changing marketplace and, in particular, industries with complex supply chains consisting of many actors. The agri-food industry provides an excellent example of a market that is evolving rapidly in ways few would have contemplated even a few years ago. The beef industry has an exceedingly complex supply chains that must co-ordinate complex resources such as genetics, extensive grazing, precision feeding strategies, high tech processing, cold chain logistics and food safety protocols. The interaction between changing demands and the beef industry's responses to an evolving marketplace provide the focus of the book. The book examines the process whereby the beef industry prior is making the transition from a supplier of commodities to a provider of differentiated products with attributes tailored to individual consumers. The book then provides a theoretical basis for the examination of evolving supply chains and a means by which the industry's response can be assessed using modern quantitative methods. Case studies are developed to dig deeper into the transition the beef industry is experiencing. Insights are drawn for other agri-food sectors facing similar challenges. Ranchers have always had a special place in the cultural heritage that defines North Americans and beef has been the premium product in the dietary hierarchy in traditional North American cuisine. As urban dwellers who are generations removed from agricultural production now overwhelmingly make up the consumer base, the image of cattle producers is buffeted by new customer priorities such as animal welfare, environmental sustainability and the ability to determine the place of origin of their food. As the proportion of food consumed at home declines and consumers seek to expand their range of culinary experiences, food from cultures where beef is not a mainstay of the diet have gained more prominence. These restaurant experiences are increasingly being reflected in the near table ready products on offer in supermarkets. Consumers are still likely to enjoy a good steak, other traditional beef products now struggle for consumers. The implications of the response of the beef industry to the changes buffeting the sector goes beyond strictly commercial concerns and will determine the place of beef and the industry's participants in the evolving North American culture.
Despite Andie’s own terrible track record with romance, even she knows that her father’s sudden move to his girlfriend’s goat farm in North Carolina is a rash, unwise decision. She races south of the Mason Dixon to coax him home, but runs into a man-shaped obstacle in the form of burly paramedic Seth, the adopted son of her father’s lady love. Farm life is as unpalatable as Andie suspected—stinky goats, malicious chickens and millions of bloodthirsty mosquitos. Her father wants to give up a rent-controlled apartment, lifelong friendships and a satisfying teaching career for this? She’s got to get him to come to his senses before Seth figures out her homewrecking intentions. It’s a difficult position to be in, especially when the positions she’d like to be in involve fantasies about sexy, infuriating Seth. As she runs from man trouble in New York and heads toward bigger trouble in North Carolina, Andie will have to decide whether she can support her father’s leap of faith and maybe even take one of her own. *This full-length novel can be read as a standalone story. Andie and Seth's love story is perfect for readers who enjoy enemies-to-lovers, small-town settings, steamy love scenes, ride-or-die friendships, grumpy heroes, sassy heroines, forced proximity, farm humor, and happily ever afters! (You should also have an affinity for goats.)
Did you know that the Wright brothers completed the first successful airplane flight in North Carolina in 1903? Or that North Carolina grows the most sweet potatoes in the country? Discover more exciting facts about the history, geography, and symbols of this state in North Carolina, part of the Explore the U.S.A. series. Each book in the series uses vibrant images and engaging text to take beginning readers on a journey across the nation.
The lives and fortunes of the colorful inhabitants of Fulton, North Carolina, intersect at the establishment of Quee Purdy, an energetic, widowed free spirit and tireless entrepreneur whose specialty is in fixing broken hearts and changing lives.
Award-winning author Jill McCorkle takes us on a splendid journey through time and memory in this, her tenth work of fiction. Life After Life is filled with a sense of wonder at our capacity for self-discovery at any age. And the residents, staff, and neighbors of the Pine Haven retirement center (from twelve-year-old Abby to eighty-five-year-old Sadie) share some of life’s most profound discoveries and are some of the most true-to-life characters that you are ever likely to meet in fiction. Delivered with her trademark wit, Jill McCorkle’s constantly surprising novel illuminates the possibilities of second chances, hope, and rediscovering life right up to the very end. She has conjured an entire community that reminds us that grace and magic can—and do—appear when we least expect it. -- from the Algonquin catalog
The author of Carolina Moon presents a new colleciton of nine short stories that introduces a variety of colorful and unforgettable characters in such tales as "Paradise," "Life Prerecorded," and "It's a Funeral! RSVP.
Preventing and controlling the spread of communicable disease is one of the core activities of public health systems. Law provides part of the infrastructure that allows public health systems to detect and respond to communicable diseases and conditions. This book provides an introduction to the law of communicable disease control in North Carolina. Part One addresses core topics in the legal structure for communicable disease control: detecting communicable disease in the population through surveillance and disease reporting laws, -investigating communicable disease cases and outbreaks, -controlling communicable disease, -enforcing communicable disease laws using public health legal remedies, and -the interaction of confidentiality laws with public health agencies' communicable disease control activities. Part Two takes a more in-depth look at three special topics: -isolation and quarantine, -bloodborne pathogen exposures, and -public health and bioterrorism. The book is supplemented by materials on the author's North Carolina public health law website, ncphlaw.unc.edu. The link to "Legal Information by Topic" leads to the topic, "Communicable Disease Control," which contains links to blog posts, bulletins, and frequently asked questions about some of the book's topics. A free PDF download of the table of contents is available (https://www.sog.unc.edu/publications/books/north-carolina-communicable-disease-law!/details).
Traces the epic story of the struggle to build Penn Station, describing how the nation's most powerful railroad tackled Tammany Hall corruption and the forces of nature to create a tunnel system linking Manhattan, New Jersey, and Long Island.
The North Wind and the Sun retells the classic fable of the sun and the wind's different approaches to getting a man to remove his coat.The North Wind and the Sun is a book-banded reading book for developing readers, carefully levelled at Green Book Band for guided reading. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this fiction story is suitable for ages 9-13.The North Wind and the Sun features a longer, less structured text with a more extended vocabulary. It has more varied and longer sentences, no repetition, and includes made-up words. Story events are longer and there are more words on each page.The North Wind and the Sun is part of Ransom Reading Stars Plus, a structured programme for students learning to read. The series has ten levels: four phonics levels and six book band levels (Pink through to Orange).
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