A story about death, life, a young girl's search for her womanhood and agency while surrounded by drugs and prostitution, blood, the desert, palm trees, and butterfly knives.
An inspiring sports memoir from the family who captured America?s heart at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The Lopez family set new records at the Beijing Olympics with three siblings on the same U.S. taekwondo team?and a fourth sibling as their coach. Mark took the silver medal, and Steven and Diana both brought home the bronze, with big brother Jean coaching them to victory. Here, for the first time, is the inspiring story of a family united behind a dream. In 1972 Julio Lopez and his wife Ondina emigrated from Nicaragua, hoping for a better life for their family in America. In an atmosphere of love, support, mutual respect, and healthy competition, their children trained hard in taekwondo, daring to dream they might reach the pinnacle of their athletic field in the Olympics. Told in turn by Steven, Mark, Diana, and Jean, this is the incredible story of how one close-knit family?s boundless determination and rock-solid support system took them from their home in Texas to Olympic glory in Beijing.
Maddy's blue "magic" marker takes her back in time to May 13, 1805, where she joins the Corps of Discovery, frequently accompanies Sacajawea, and faces the dangers of the American wilderness.
Turn a stressful situation into a golden opportunity with The Little Black School Book, Volume 2: Exams. Volume 2 can be used as a sequel to Volume 1: Essays or on its own. This book provides you with powerfully effective exam techniques, offering comprehensive coverage on planning, preparation, and performance. It will liberate you from pre-exam jitters. Mark Lopez enables you in cultivating the personal qualities that make success more likely, and he exposes the examination system, explaining what goes on in examiners' minds. As well as showing you how to get A's from capable, competent educators, these indispensable insights also reveal how to consistently triumph even if your examiner is biased, jaded or prejudiced.
Mexican American Baseball in the San Gabriel Valley puts on record the resounding and brilliant history of baseball and softball in this vibrant and colorful region. Since the early 1900s, baseball and softball have brought boundless joy and immense honor to their fans, families, and neighborhoods. The rich memories of baseball and softball serve as critical prisms to better understand community history; the struggle for social, educational, and cultural equality; the untold contributions of women; the critical role of immigration and labor movements; economic autonomy; political self-determination; and an unmatched love for sports. These breathtaking images and extraordinary stories shed unparalleled light on baseball and softball in this celebrated area of California."--Page 4 of cover.
The master of Horror is back! The direct sequel to the Vincent Price classic THE TINGLER, Dr. Chapin and his crew search for a primitive tribe with ties to the elusive creature spawned from fear with a grip like iron. But what they find in the dark jungle gives new meaning to the word terror!
Running for My Life is not a story about Africa or track-and-field athletics. It is about outrunning the devil and achieving the impossible; it is about faith, diligence, and the desire to give back. It is the American dream come true and a stark reminder that saving one can help save thousands more. In this heart-wrenching story, you’ll learn about Lopez Lomong’s harrowing kidnapping at the age of six, becoming one of the Lost Boys of Sudan; his survival in a prison refugee camp and his miraculous escape; how he arrived in the U.S. through the Unaccompanied Refugee Minor program; and Lomong’s journey from high-school track star to U.S. Olympic team captain. Lopez Lomong chronicles his inspiring ascent from a barefoot lost boy of the Sudanese Civil War to a Nike-sponsored athlete on the U.S. Olympic Team. Though most of us fall somewhere between the catastrophic lows and dizzying highs of Lomong's incredible life, every reader will find in his story the human spark to pursue dreams that might seem unthinkable, even from circumstances that might appear hopeless. "Lopez Lomong's story is one of true inspiration. His life is a story of courage, hard work, never giving up, and having hope where there is hopelessness all around. Lopez is a true role model." MICHAEL JOHNSON, Olympic Gold Medalist "This true story of a Sudanese child refugee who became an Olympic star is powerful proof that God gives hope to the hopeless and shines a light in the darkest places. Don't be surprised if after reading this incredible tale, you find yourself mysteriously drawn to run alongside him." RICHARD STEARNS, president, World Vision US and author of The Hole in Our Gospel
Findings from the high-profile John S. and James L. Knight Foundation-sponsored surveys of over 100,000 high school students in 2004 and 2006 provided a wake-up call to those interested in preserving the future of free expression rights in America. These studies documented the current lack of appreciation for free expression rights among the nation's high school students, and thus raised serious questions about the vitality of those rights as this generation reaches adulthood. In The Future of the First Amendment, the scholars who conducted the Knight studies identify a number of important connections and relationships that education reformers should account for as they seek to raise the status of the First Amendment among the nation's youth. This book documents and explores the ramifications of First Amendment education and student media activities--both traditional and digital--on student support for free expression rights. Linking these curricular and extra-curricular activities to the next generation's tolerance for free expression rights, it provides guidance to educators and policy-makers on methods of improving the next generation's appreciation for these rights which are so central to the health of American democracy.
The Land's Wild Music explores the home terrains and the writing of four great American writers of place—Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Terry Tempest Williams, and James Galvin. In their work and its relationship with their home places, Tredinnick, an Australian writer, searches for answers to such questions such as whether it’s possible for a writer to make an authentic witness of a place; how one captures the landscape as it truly is; and how one joins the place in witness so that its lyric becomes one’s own and enters into one’s own work. He asks what it might mean to enact an ecological imagination of the world and whether it might be possible to see the work—and the writer—as part of the place itself. The work is a meditation on the nature of landscape and its power to shape the lives and syntax of men and women. It is animated by the author’s encounters with Lopez, Matthiessen, Williams, and Galvin, by critical readings of their work, and by the author’s engagement with the landscapes that have shaped these writers and their writing—the Cascades, Long Island, the Colorado Plateau, and the high prairies of the Rocky Mountains. Tredinnick seeks “the spring of nature writing deep in the nature of a place itself, carried in a writer’s wild self inside and resonated over and over again at the desk until it is a work in which the place itself sings.”
The first collection of Mark Rothko's writings, which range the entire span of his career While the collected writings of many major 20th-century artists, including Barnett Newman, Robert Motherwell, and Ad Reinhardt, have been published, Mark Rothko's writings have only recently come to light, beginning with the critically acclaimed The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art. Rothko's other written works have yet to be brought together into a major publication. Writings on Art fills this significant void; it includes some 90 documents--including short essays, letters, statements, and lectures--written by Rothko over the course of his career. The texts are fully annotated, and a chronology of the artist's life and work is also included. This provocative compilation of both published and unpublished writings from 1934--69 reveals a number of things about Rothko: the importance of writing for an artist who many believed had renounced the written word; the meaning of transmission and transition that he experienced as an art teacher at the Brooklyn Jewish Center Academy; his deep concern for meditation and spirituality; and his private relationships with contemporary artists (including Newman, Motherwell, and Clyfford Still) as well as journalists and curators. As was revealed in Rothko's The Artist's Reality, what emerges from this collection is a more detailed picture of a sophisticated, deeply knowledgeable, and philosophical artist who was also a passionate and articulate writer.
The Little Black School Book, Volume 2 (Exams) can be appreciated as a sequel to Volume 1 (Essays) or enjoyed on its own. The Little Black School Book Volume 2 provides you with powerfully effective exam techniques, comprehensively covering planning, preparation, and performance, liberating you so exams become an easier option. The Little Black School Book Volume 2 enables you to cultivate the personal qualities to make success more likely, how to make the positive changes on the inside so that positive changes to your outward circumstances follow. The Little Black School Book Volume 2 also explores examination systems, explaining what goes on in examiners' minds. As well as showing you how to get 'A's from capable, competent educators, these indispensable insights also show you how to consistently triumph even if your examiner is biased, jaded or prejudiced. With The Little Black School Book, any circumstance in which students find themselves becomes an opportunity.
Presents the story of the Lopez family, whose three siblings went on to set records in taekwondo at the Beijing Olympics, and how their Nicaraguan immigrant parents raised them with love, support, and a healthy sense of competition.
Even death couldn't stop him...He dreams of killing. In fact, it consumes him completely.What happens when he dies and has nobody to kill anymore?You can't kill whats already dead.Don't miss the tale of one mans journey into death and the beyond as he explores all the options available to him as he pursues his purpose, in the art of death.Can it ever be too late for a soul to be saved?This book is part 3 in the Death Series. Get the full story!
Sometimes the dead come back.What would you do if you were murdered and found out there was a way to get revenge? Would you do whatever it takes to get back from the beyond? People around the world are murdered every day. But he wasn't going to be able to move on until he was sure that this was all a part of life's plan. Be prepared though, because sometimes when you go digging, you find more than you bargained for!If you had the chance to avenge yourself, would you take it? This is one man's journey to get revenge from the other side, by any means necessary! Can he figure out a way to come back and set things right before all is lost?This book is 2nd in a series, don't wait to get the FULL story!If you had the chance to avenge yourself, would you take it? This is one man's journey to get revenge from the other side, by any means necessary! Can he figure out a way to come back from the land of the dead and set things right before all is lost?
If you could live forever, would you want to?Rick and James created a serum that can cure anything, anything at all. A side effect of this injection is anti aging.The world can handle when people start living forever can't it?Overpopulation, Mother Earth fights back, the devastation is in the billions.Can they get this problem under control before humanity itself is wiped out?Find out now in Who Wants To Live Forever!
In this book Maddie uses her magic markers and goes back in time to Colonial New England where she participates in the Salem Witch Trials. Maddie battles wolves, the sinister Reverand Parris and the evil that grips Salem Village during this terrible time. She fails miserably and her only hope is a surprise visitor from the future.
What damage does psychology do to people's lives, and what can we do about it? How do we recognise and support resistance? Written by expert practitioners-researchers, this co-authored book explores how psychology legislates on normality and then uses its "expert" knowledge to turn social marginalisation into pathology. Chapters address a range of cultural and institutional arenas in which inequalities structured around categories of gender, "race", class and sexuality are reproduced by psychological practices: from self-help books to special hospitals, from school exclusions to Gender Identity Clinics, from mothering magazines to mental health services. But far from just documenting the damage, this book identifies the ways in which both professionals and users of services can act to counter psychology's abuses. As practical intervention as well as theoretical critique, Psychology, Discourse and Social Practice offers tangible examples of how change can be effected. This book will be of interest to advanced undergraduates and postgraduates in psychology, health, education and welfare disciplines. It is also relevant to social workers and education and health professionals, as well as professional psychologists.
Something's happening to Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. First, a shared dream of a trapped alien consciousness ... and then all hell breaks loose as giant robots and then the mighty Konvikt attack! But why are Morgana Le Fay, Despero and the mysterious Enigma taking an interest in the three heroes?
The undead return with more strange, terrifying, and bizarre tales of the unlife beyond life. Zombies, ghouls, vampires, and other things that should not be shamble through the pages of this anthology. Among the tales told: An old gunslinger and a horse thief hunt down a rather peculiar prize that does more than haunt them in Bring Me The Head Of Pepe Cortez! The competition at the Annual Southeastern Necromancer's Invitational proves to be a real killer in Deadest in Show. How much of a body can you replace and life still be life? A man desperate to save his wife confronts this question in Fixing Nancy.
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