Edited by two of the most respected scholars in the field, this milestone reference combines "facts-fronted" fast access to biographical details with highly readable accounts and analyses of nearly 3000 scientists' lives, works, and accomplishments. For all academic and public libraries' science and women's studies collections.
On 17th March, 1977 in Tasmania, Lance and Lynn Scott were the proud parents of their baby daughter, Renae Joy Scott. Renae was born with a congenital disease known as Myotonic Dystrophy, which is a muscle wasting disease. Renae had a sister Danielle, born in 1981. Her Dad and step-mother gave her a brother, James, born in 1997. In 2007, Danielle married Jonathon and they gave Renae 2 gorgeous nephews, Joel and Ryan. When she was 3, Renae had speech therapy because the muscles in her face were affected and so she had trouble with her speech. She also had physio- therapy to help with other muscles in her body. There is no cure for this disease, 1 in 80,000 people are affected. She had a normal childhood, although she needed to attend a special school. 10 years ago, Renae had many falls which caused a spiral breakage each time on the same leg. Her muscles were wasting on her leg, consequently she couldnt walk. She had an electric wheel chair and she was lifted with a machine from the chair onto her bed at night. Because of her demand for high care she lived in a Group Home with 3 other people with various needs. They had 2 support workers each day of the week. Renae wrote this story because she loved babies and couldnt have one of her own. Some of the people in the Family Life are names of support workers at the Group Home. Renae went to be with the Lord on 29th March 2011. She is sadly missed.
When Joy discovers with horror that her four children are being sexually abused by their daddy, their life is thrown into turmoil. Caught in the web of child welfare, social workers, police, psychologists, and years of court cases, Joy must watch—helpless—as she is legally forced to hand her precious little ones over to Daddy for visitations and more abuse. Despite questioning where God is in this nightmare, Joy’s faith gives her strength to fight. To protect her little ones. Finally free of the abusive relationship, Joy and her four children are safe as a new man enters the picture. A man who loves the Lord, who desires to go into the ministry. This man takes an interest in Joy and her children. Will Joy let her guard down, to trust again? Will the statistics about choosing a second abuser come true?
Before the "accident" Genie was an aspiring ballerina, a star pupil at her exclusive New York dance school, now she is a bitter teenager, permanently confined to a wheelchair, shutting herself off from her friends, her beloved teacher, and even her mother; but at physical therapy she meets Kyle, a gymnast whose traumatic brain injury has landed him in therapy--and through their growing friendship Genie realizes that she has to confront the things around her: like the booze her mother is hiding, or the fact that maybe her fall was not entirely accidental.
A gripping post-apocalyptic tale from the acclaimed author of Mallawindy and the Woody Creek series The world as it was has been all but destroyed. Those few who survived the Great Ending are now ruled by an all-powerful group known as the Chosen, whose walled city encloses a diminishing population riddled with plague and threatened with extinction. Desperate to repopulate, the Chosen send searchers to capture every surviving female still living in the wild lands beyond the city for their new breeding stations. There is a girl with a name neither of her companions can remember, who is found by the Chosen's searchers living on a remote property. Since then, she has known little more than the life they enforce-a life dominated by their breeding program and genetic experimentation-while they immunise her and prepare to take her to their city. Then one afternoon a son of one of the Chosen arrives at the girl's farm, a boy who has fled from a life that he has come to find unbearable. His arrival sets in motion a chain of events which change the girl's life in ways she could not possibly have imagined-offering her a chance to regain the unthinkable-freedom. . .
This multidisciplinary study determines the mean age and range of variation for the calcification and eruption of the permanent teeth in Native Canadian populations. An Eruption Index is developed to more accurately predict age in skeletal material from the age of alveolar emergence.
Lilly, a first-year school teacher is roped into chaperoning a backpacking trip over the Spider Gap glacier. Unfortunately, she cannot find a sitter for her purse-dog and must smuggle him along on the trip. All her friskiest 6th grade students are participating as well as a handsome ski instructor who resists her efforts to organize their trip in a mathematically pleasing manner. Can Lilly evoke a thirst for learning within her skeptical students, when she herself can barely survive the rigors of the trail?
Viridis 6000 dived from the sky and cut deep down through the icy waters at the North Pole and remained sub-merged in the Arctic Ocean covered with ice. The visitors were no strangers to earth The visitors had a mission to complete during their visit to Earth. Many years ago they had relocated animals to Earth because their own world called Viridis was dying. During the journey to Earth, an unknown virus had struck down most of the older members of the crew. However, the expedition had to continue on with the younger members including the children. They, with their unique animal communication skills, would help complete the mis-sion. Whilst monitoring the animals, they find them under attack from the Yapikus who had played a part in the eradication of many of the ani-mals on Viridis. It soon became apparent to Captain Genesis and his crew, the troubles that lay ahead for them. Testifying to the bonds between children and animals, this novel also highlights the real threat of animal extinction. The Children take us through extraordinary and breathtaking adventures as they pursue their mission to protect the animals whilst remaining undetected by the media and governments of Earth.
Freemasonry has played a significant role in the history of Native Americans since the colonial era--a role whose extent and meaning are fully explored for the first time in this book. The overarching concern of Native American Freemasonry is with how Masonry met specific social and personal needs of Native Americans, a theme developed across three periods: the revolutionary era, the last third of the nineteenth century, and the years following the First World War. Joy Porter positions Freemasonry within its historical context, examining its social and political impact as a transatlantic phenomenon at the heart of the colonizing process. She then explores its meaning for many key Native leaders, for ethnic groups that sought to make connections through it, and for the bulk of its American membership--the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant middle class. Through research gleaned from archives in New York, Philadelphia, Oklahoma, California, and London, Porter shows how Freemasonry's performance of ritual provided an accessible point of entry to Native Americans and how over time, Freemasonry became a significant avenue for the exchange and co-creation of cultural forms by Indians and non-Indians.
Organic vocabulary is a term that describes a child’s inner source of thoughts. Based on the early work of Sylvia Ashton-Warner in New Zealand with Maori children, organic vocabulary can help promote early literacy among children who have little connection and prior experiences with print. This book connects the early research and methodology to today’s classrooms. These connections are applied to Title 1 schools (indicating low socioeconomic status), second language learners, and children with multiple levels of ability and adverse risk factors.
Australian Autobiographical Narratives Volume 2 and its partner Volume 1 provide researchers with detailed annotations of published Australian autobiographical writing. Both volumes are a rich resource of the European settlement of Australia. Theis selection concentrates on the post-gold rush period, providing portraits of 533 individuals, from amateur explorers to politicians, from pioneer settlers to sportsmen. Like Volume 1, it offers an intimate and absorbing insight into nineteenth-century Australia.
If you have ever wanted to discuss a difficult issue but didn't know where to begin, this book is for you. Throughout this book, I will coach you on the fundamentals of difficult conversations via concepts, stories, games, and exercises. I have curated seventeen concepts to teach you the framework for engaging in difficult conversations. These concepts also lay the foundation for the CALM Dialogue construct. The CALM Dialogue is a four-step process I created to enable anyone to engage in tough conversations. I have taught the CALM Dialogue process to thousands of people all over the world. I hope you will use this book to help you transform and improve your relationships, community, and world.
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