The past two decades have witnessed the emerging role of grassroots social movements and community-based peacebuilding as key sites of transformative political and cultural engagement. Merging Fires explores three grassroots alliances between Indigenous communities and non-Indigenous activists in Canada, including the actions of the Chippewa of Nawash, the Grassy Narrows First Nation and the Anishnabe Grand Council of Treaty #3. These Canadian examples offer insights into the challenges, limitations and complexities of transformative, community-based alliance building and raise critical questions about power, knowledge and critical pedagogy at the grassroots level. While this analysis is uniquely Canadian in scope, Merging Fires is of great political relevance in light of the Idle No More movement as well as other initiatives occurring worldwide. Furthermore, Rick Wallace's sophisticated research methodologies are starkly different from many academic approaches, and his documentation of on-the-ground grassroots efforts at peacebuilding fills a noticeable gap in the work on this subject.
With this official MCSE TRAINING KIT, IT professionals learn how to install, administer, and troubleshoot Microsoft Windows XP Professional-the next edition of the Windows 2000 Professional operating system. As they build these essential system-support skills, they're also getting in-depth preparation for one of the new core exams on the Windows MCSE certification track. Topics map directly to the objectives measured by the exam; students learn through an integrated system of lessons, hands-on exercises, and self-assessment. An economical alternative to classroom instruction, this kit enables working professionals to set their own pace and learn by doing!
The book addresses the concept of holistic education, the permeation and influence of white supremacy on the educational process, the African American identity crisis and the subsequent inferiority complex, the school to prison pipeline, the misdiagnosis of mental disorders for young black boys and the prescription of psychotropic drugs, and the destruction of the black family nucleus and its impact on the ability to effectively and holistically educate black youth.
ANOKA is the story of a couple who are confronted with strange and bizarre happenings, an unsolved murder, and the specter of a deadly drug ring, as they undertake to build a retirement cabin on a remote lake in Maine. As Tim and Joan Henry seek to discover the identity of the killer, they find themselves entangled in a web of danger and intrigue, and learn that the place has a deadly, and some say haunted, history. Tim=s risky plan to catch the killer culminates in a night of terror which changes his life forever.
TO PUSH OR NOT TO PUSH - is that the question?What is the importance of pushing ourselves?...Why do we push?Pushing implies effort, Effort implies desire, Desire implies emotion, And emotion implies passion.If this is accurate for most of us, Pushing To The Frontassumes a passionate mindset.The Celebrity Authors in this book have one thing incommon - passion for their goals. They have 'blood, sweatand tears' invested to make a success of their pursuits.Now, we all have passion, which is one part of the menufor success - but: Do we have a plan to utilize and direct that passion?The Celebrity Experts in their field in this book havedeveloped multiple methods to succeed in their fields.They started out looking to improve their health, wealthand success in their lives. See how they achieved theirsuccess. They will show you their secrets.With odds not much different to yours, and at timesmuch more difficult, read how these Celebrity Expertshave done it, then copy these methods of "Pushing ToThe Front" to achieve YOUR goals.One finds limits by pushing them. Herbert Simon
Wallace guides readers through PageMaker's many powerful capabilities, whether they're being used to produce a flyer, a newsletter, or a 1,000 page book. Readers learn how to produce well-designed, professional looking documents using their own printer, a print shop or a service bureau. The CD-ROM contains utilities, fonts, graphics files and shareware.
Sought after by every agent and actress in New York, handsome casting director James B. Lockhart Jr. is at the top of his craft. Red-haired beauty Elizabeth Ash lives in a third-floor apartment and earns her living as a flutist. Both have loved deeply...but things haven't turned out as they'd hoped. Then Elizabeth discovers a story scribbled in purple ink in the margins of some old novels at a nearby church thrift shop. It moves her like nothing else has...and makes her long for something more. Jim has spent months mired in the past. Now he hopes to start a new chapter in his life...create a new beginning. But is that really possible after all this time? Or is it too late?
In a crisis, all you can do is trust. You have to surrender, and surrender is at the heart of prayer. When Rick Hamlin was rushed to the ER, he was immediately admitted to the ICU. No quick diagnosis was made, and for two weeks the doctors struggled to keep his body alive as Rick struggled to keep his faith alive. PRAY FOR ME is the story of one man's spiritual odyssey to learn how to pray in a new way as healing slowly came and a medical crisis became a spiritual opportunity--a chance for him to learn he was being called to something new, to be born anew. In the end the doctors were never able to diagnose the cause of his illness, but Rick is convinced that the healing came through prayer.
A comprehensive reference and guide to make using PageMaker easier and faster. Readers learn how to use PageMaker effectively, how to produce well-designed, professional looking documents with their own printer, a print shop or service bureau. The CD-ROM contains utilities, fonts, graphics files and shareware recommended by the pros.
With this official MCSE TRAINING KIT, IT professionals learn how to install, administer, and troubleshoot Microsoft Windows XP Professional-the next edition of the Windows 2000 Professional operating system. As they build these essential system-support skills, they're also getting in-depth preparation for one of the new core exams on the Windows MCSE certification track. Topics map directly to the objectives measured by the exam; students learn through an integrated system of lessons, hands-on exercises, and self-assessment. An economical alternative to classroom instruction, this kit enables working professionals to set their own pace and learn by doing!
Great-looking documents and publications are easy with this complete tutorial and reference. This popular guide puts readers on the cutting edge of publication production and helps with design. Step-by-step instructions explore professional layout strategies, mixed format layouts, PageMaker's typesetting features, spot-color overlays, and much more.
With his bestselling All Over but the Shoutin', Rick Bragg gave us memorable stories of his own childhood. Here he offers the best of his work as a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist writing the remarkable stories of others. For twenty years, Bragg has focused his efforts on the common man. So while some of these stories are about people whose names we know—such as Susan Smith, the South Carolina mother who drowned her two sons—most are people whose names we've never heard, people who have survived tornadoes and swamps, racism and bombs. In incisive, unadorned prose that is nonetheless strikingly beautiful, these pieces rise above journalism to become literature and show the triumph of the human spirit.
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