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Where Success Lies

By: Rhona Ferguson

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When a young black woman discovers she is barred from procuring property, she is forced to take the course of clever schemes. She wrangles herself into one of the most prestigious positions on the Upper East Side of Manhattan that resulted in the change of corporate law through the Fortune 500 advertising media in order to get where success lies.

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1481744461

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Famous Scots

By: Rhona Dick

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Famous Scots

By: Rhona Dick

A look at the lives of famous Scottish people through history and up to the modern day.

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Evans Brothers

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0237532050

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9780237532055

Bloody Living

The Loss of Selfhood in the Plays of Marina Carr

By: Rhona Trench

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Bloody Living

The Loss of Selfhood in the Plays of Marina Carr

By: Rhona Trench

This book deals with the process of negotiation with the past in the present through the plays of Marina Carr. The title frames the work, connoting the path towards destruction and the sense of lethargy acquired along the way. The book offers an in-depth and extensive reading of Carr's plays. In doing so, it surveys some of the destructive issues represented in the works and provides a series of social and cultural contexts to which the concerns in the works are related. Carr is best known for her trilogy, The Mai, Portia Coughlan and By the Bog of Cats..., and more recently Woman and Scarecrow, The Cordelia Dream and Marble. The plays are regularly concerned with notions of identity in the context of self-destruction, self-estrangement and displacement. This book applies Julia Kristeva's theory of abjection to Carr's plays in an effort to structure the loss the author identifies in the works. Themes of memory, history and myth are examined in the context of these concerns in provocative and confrontational ways.

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334

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Peter Lang

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3039119648

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9783039119646

The Learning and Teaching of Reading and Writing

By: Naomi Flynn,Rhona Stainthorp

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The Learning and Teaching of Reading and Writing

By: Naomi Flynn,Rhona Stainthorp

This book provides a unique description of teacher-pupil interaction during the Literacy Hour in good schools. It is based on detailed observations in inner-city primary schools that were recognised as effective and improving. The analysis is informed by contemporary research into the development and teaching of early literacy. The book provides practice-based examples of how teachers and schools might adapt their delivery for literacy as they move to greater creativity in their teaching of reading and writing. The analysis begins within the classrooms of three expert Key Stage 1 teachers and broadens out in to the wider setting of the schools and their senior management teams. An important theme running throughout the book is how the three teachers were able to make exceptional provision for their pupils, who were largely second language speakers and from socio-economically disadvantaged groups. The teachers’ successful practice grew from their understanding of both early literacy development and planning for individual need. The information in this book will enable student teachers, recently qualified teachers, and teachers interested in enhancing their literacy teaching to develop their practice in a similarly successful way.

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240

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470029102

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9780470029107

Reaching Higher

The Power of Expectations in Schooling

By: Rhona S. Weinstein

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Reaching Higher

The Power of Expectations in Schooling

By: Rhona S. Weinstein

“She has a funny way of looking at you,” a fourth-grader told Rhona Weinstein about his teacher. “She gets that look and says ‘I am very disappointed in you.’ I hate it when she does that. It makes me feel like I’m stupid. Just crazy, stupid, dumb.” Even young children know what adults think of them. All too often, they live down to expectations, as well as up to them. This book is about the context in which expectations play themselves out. Drawing upon a generation of research on self-fulfilling prophecies in education, including the author’s own extensive fieldwork in schools, Reaching Higher argues that our expectations of children are often too low. With compelling case studies, Weinstein shows that children typed early as “not very smart” can go on to accomplish far more than is expected of them by an educational system with too narrow a definition of ability and the way abilities should be nurtured. Weinstein faults the system, pointing out that teachers themselves are harnessed by policies that do not enable them to reach higher for all children. Her analysis takes us beyond current reforms that focus on accountability for test results. With rich descriptions of effective classrooms and schools, Weinstein makes a case for a changed system that will make the most of every child and enable students and teachers to engage more meaningfully in learning.

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358

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Harvard University Press

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0674045041

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9780674045040

Leisure and the Family Life Cycle

By: Rhona Rapoport,Robert N. Rapoport

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Leisure and the Family Life Cycle

By: Rhona Rapoport,Robert N. Rapoport

This volume, first published in 1975 with a new introduction by Ziona Strelitz, marked a pioneering contribution to family and leisure studies. The study includes empirical material collected in the form of biographical case studies. The case studies are not only rich in detail and well presented, but they provide a meaning of leisure within the pattern of life of the individuals studied. This book will be of great interest to students of leisure and family studies.

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598

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Routledge

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0429638795

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9780429638794

Achieving College Dreams

How a University-Charter District Partnership Created an Early College High School

By: Rhona S. Weinstein,Frank C. Worrell

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Achieving College Dreams

How a University-Charter District Partnership Created an Early College High School

By: Rhona S. Weinstein,Frank C. Worrell

Achieving College Dreams: How a University-Charter District Partnership Created an Early College High School tells the story of a remarkable 10-year collaboration between the University of California, Berkeley and Aspire Public Schools to develop and nurture the California College Preparatory Academy. Bridging the two cultures--artfully described as "Pac-Man (the charter district) meets chess (the university)"--the school serves as an exemplar in providing low-income and first-generation college youth with an excellent and equitable education. Framed by a longitudinal lens, findings from community-engaged scholarship, and a diversity of voices from students to superintendents, this book charts the journey from the initial decision to open a school to the high school graduation of its first two classes. The book captures struggle, improvement, and success as it takes readers inside the workings of the partnership, the development of the school, and the spillover of effects across district and university. Confronting the challenge of interweaving rigor and support, its authors explore such critical ingredients as teacher-student advisories; school transition; the home-school divide; building a supportive college-preparatory culture; teaching with depth, relational power, and equity; the forging of an academic identity; and scaling up. At a time of sharply unequal schools, glaring disparities in college readiness, and heightened expectations, Achieving College Dreams uniquely extends the knowledge base about how to better prepare underserved students for college eligibility and success. The book also calls for universities to step up to the plate as partners with districts to ensure both excellence and equity in secondary education for all children.

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Oxford University Press

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0190260912

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9780190260910

The Myth of Work-Life Balance

The Challenge of Our Time for Men, Women and Societies

By: Richenda Gambles,Suzan Lewis,Rhona Rapoport

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The Myth of Work-Life Balance

The Challenge of Our Time for Men, Women and Societies

By: Richenda Gambles,Suzan Lewis,Rhona Rapoport

Many regard the ways in which paid work can be combined or ‘balanced’ with other parts of life as an individual concern and a small, rather self-indulgent problem in today’s world. Some feel that worrying about a lack of time or energy for family relationships or friendships is a luxury or secondary issue when compared with economic growth or development. In the business world and among many Governments around the world, the importance of paid work and the primacy of economic competitiveness, whatever the personal costs, is almost accepted wisdom. Profits and short term efficiency gains are often placed before social issues of care or human dignity. But what about the impact this has on men and women’s well being, or the long-term sustainability of people, families, society or even the economy? Drawing from interviews and group meetings in seven diverse countries – India, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, the UK and USA – this book explores the multiple difficulties in combining paid work with other parts of life and the frustrations people experience in diverse settings. There is a myth that ‘work-life balance’ can be achieved through quick fixes rather than challenging the place of paid work in people’s lives and the way work actually gets done. As well as exploring contemporary problems, this book attempts to seed hope and new ways of thinking about one of the key challenges of our time.

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134

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470094621

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9780470094624

The Naked Drinking Club

By: Rhona Cameron

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The Naked Drinking Club

By: Rhona Cameron

It was dark when I came to. What woke me was the cold and the water on my legs. I was doing spoons with Scotty, me behind him. We were on a beach. We didn't speak for the first minute, we were so disorientated. I had to genuinely think very hard about where I was. Then I remembered I was in Australia.' It's the late eighties and 24-year-old Kerry has been drifting aimlessly through life in Edinburgh. Rarely having plans of any kind, she gets drunk and things happen: sex, drugs, parties, relationships, and, when she's really pushed, work. Setting off on a hastily arranged visit to Australia, Kerry packs only three items of clothing, a pair of flip-flops, two hundred pounds and her young persons' work visa. Soon broke, hungry and homeless, she joins ART, a likeable but mismatched band of travellers who sell dodgy oil paintings door-to-door in the suburbs. Young, beautiful and free, they drink wildly and live for the moment. Embarking on a riotous road trip together, their lives become deeply entangled, and the drinking spirals out of control. Eventually, Kerry is forced to admit that her journey to Australia isn't quite what it seems ...

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Random House

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1407029290

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Where Success Lies

By: Rhona Ferguson

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Where Success Lies

By: Rhona Ferguson

~I started writing with a need to take action to resolve certain social issues that I and others have faced. It is my intension to get people talking while I present positive solutions to certain social issues by writing books that have a plausible storyline allowing the reader to put himself in that situation. It is my goal to go from book to screen using the media as a forum to discuss those changes as I dramatize it in the backdrop of a mental movie. An example of this is Where Success Lies The book is written with true life experiences. It is a storyline that people will talk about because its something people can relate to and likewise a story that will go from book to screen on demand. While it is not my design and will never be my intension to draw sympathizers, I most certainly write in a fashion that challenges the reader to see himself in the setting thereby causing the reader to ask and then later answer the question: What would you do? Drawing him out and into the picture so no matter who he is, he will be able to experience my story just as if it had happened to himself. Its a story that will entertain all adult people men and women alike because who doesnt like to win? Who doesnt revel in what prevents the bad from taking place? Who does not triumph when one finally escapes from what is eating him up or cause the thing of value to become safe again? So while the story may only address a specific group of people, Im confident that anyone drawn to read a book with good content written in a spirit embodied as a plausible storyline would be compelled to read Where Success Lies ~ ~When a young Black woman discovers she is barred from procuring property, she is forced to take the course of clever schemes. She wrangles herself into one of the most prestigious positions on the Upper East Side of Manhattan that resulted in the change of corporate law through the Fortune 500 advertising media in order to get where success lies.~

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Book's by Rhona Ferguson

Where Success Lies

Where Success Lies

Famous Scots

Famous Scots

Bloody Living

Bloody Living

The Learning and Teaching of Reading and Writing

The Learning and Teaching of Reading and Writing

Reaching Higher

Reaching Higher

Leisure and the Family Life Cycle

Leisure and the Family Life Cycle

Achieving College Dreams

Achieving College Dreams

The Myth of Work-Life Balance

The Myth of Work-Life Balance

The Naked Drinking Club

The Naked Drinking Club

Where Success Lies

Where Success Lies

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