Joan Brown Cox has been creating children stories for many years. She is a mother, grandmother and a great-grandmother and has fostered her craft by sharing poems, songs, and storytelling with her own family and others. Long before she was writing her own stories she was listening to tales at the knees of her own grandmother, mother, aunts, uncles, and cousins as they laughed and swapped exaggerated versions of the truth. For her, story making and storytelling is a way to convey life lessons and to cherish every single day. Alongside her writing, Joan has owned children's clothing stores, traveled broadly, and volunteered with a range of community service organizations including children's day care services for single mothers. She frequently recites stories in elementary schools nationwide and is always writing new children's pieces which are fun, exciting, and above all, worth telling.
After her alcholic and abusive husband leaves her and their three children in 1889, a woman defies societal conventions by embarking upon a career, taking a lover and refusing to bend in the face of personal and professional conflict.
Arguing that climate injustice is one of our most pressing urban problems, this volume explores the possibilities and challenges for more just urban futures under climate change. Whether the situation be displacement within cities through carbon gentrification or the increasing securitization of elite spaces for climate protection, climate justice and urban justice are intimately connected. Contributors to the volume build theoretical tools for interrogating the root causes of climate change, as well as policy failures. They also highlight knowledge produced within communities already seeking transformative change and demonstrate meaningful learning from activist groups working to address the socionatural injustices caused by the impact of climate change. The editors’ introduction situates our current climate emergency within historical processes of colonization, racial capitalism, and heteropatriarchy, while the editors’ conclusion offers pathways forward through abolition, care, and reparations. Where other books focus on the project of critique, this collection advances real-world politics to help academics, practitioners, and social justice groups imagine, create, and enact more just urban futures under climate change.
Experience learning made easy—and quickly teach yourself how to create impressive documents with Word 2007. With Step By Step, you set the pace—building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them! Apply styles and themes to your document for a polished look Add graphics and text effects—and see a live preview Organize information with new SmartArt diagrams and charts Insert references, footnotes, indexes, a table of contents Send documents for review and manage revisions Turn your ideas into blogs, Web pages, and more Your all-in-one learning experience includes: Files for building skills and practicing the book’s lessons Fully searchable eBook Bonus quick reference to the Ribbon, the new Microsoft Office interface Windows Vista Product Guide eBook—plus more resources and extras on CD For customers who purchase an ebook version of this title, instructions for downloading the CD files can be found in the ebook.
Experience learning made easy-and quickly teach yourself how to build database solutions with Access 2010. With STEP BY STEP, you set the pace-building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them! Topics include building an Access database from scratch or from templates; publishing your database to the Web; exchanging data with other databases and Microsoft Office documents; creating data-entry forms; using filters and queries; designing reports; using conditional formatting; preventing data corruption and unauthorized access; and other core topics.
For the many baby-boomers who are postponing pregnancy comes reassuring advice from a specialist in late pregnancy. Includes complete, up-to-date medical information on everything from amniocentesis to coping with motherhood and a career.
A guide to the concepts and features of Windows Vista discusses such topics as how to get started, computer security, adding hardware and software, file and folder management, Internet connectivity, networking, and digital media options.
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