Fragments of a Conversation: A Poet Speaks on Love and Life is a compilation of words and wisdom from the heart of first-time author Shirley Howard. Howard's poems reflect the wide range of her emotions and experiences--from love and marriage, to family, to her simple, but profound observations of life. Fragments of a Conversation: A Poet Speaks on Love and Life is a poetry lover's delight, a tantalizing read, and a journey into the depths of a poet's soul. She warmly invites her readers to join her along the way.
Every Day with Jesus: God Loves and Cares for You acknowledges that only faith and trust in God impart the strength, hope, and peace to surmount each days struggles. This inspirational guide for daily devotions offers a theme, memorable Bible verse, brief reflection on the scripture, a prayer that lifts up the days worries and wonders, and space for recording ones reactions to the devotion. The guides author, Dr. Shirley Howard, brings to this collection a lifetime of experience as a schoolteacher, a leader of Bible studies, a presenter of workshops on prayer, and a leader of classes on spiritual growth and development that seek wholesome Christian living.
FLAVOR is the story of Shirley Howard, a white female, and John Billy, a black male, who met and fell in love in segregated Baltimore, Maryland in 1954. It tells of the hardships they faced as a mixed couple and how their love for one another led to a court battle that resulted in a major change in Maryland law.
Author Shirley A. Howard reveals the major message that the real meaning and satisfaction in life is centered on a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. These poems touch all areas of life and reach deep within your inner-most being to stir your heart, emotions, and thoughts. They help provide a solution to your emotional and spiritual needs and offer physical and mental strength for your life's journey.
This is not a "once upon a time" book. Life has been a fight. Each self-contained chapter is packed with revealing episodes of an extraordinary life. It is a sharing of her marriage, career, and children, and how love and sabotage lived as partners. In this book, I reflect on the life long friendships that sustained me through the years, and the world travel that has been integral in the enjoyment and enrichment of eight of Shirley's dearest friends. Portions of this book read like a travel log from the Carribean islands to the Great Barrier Reefs of Australia and the capitals of Europe. From the Great Wall of China to the Wailing Wall of Jerusalem, Shirley has shared meaningful memories with her friends. The book highlights her extraordinary children and their own careers as Ivy League trailblazers, as well as their lives and accomplishments. Also included are love letters to her amazing eight grandchildren, whose careers and ambitions span globally due to their early exposure to world travel. Between the anecdotes of her career and family life, the author shares "witticisms" of her parents and grandparents, favorite quotes, songs and humorous stories that are sure to leave you smiling. Also included are perspectives on challenges like Waiting, Electronic Devices, and even a day she overslept. This book shares the power of a positive attitude and is sure to stay on your nightstand as inspiring reading when faced with a need to overcome or persevere.
In 'Tales From Home' Shirley Ann Howard paints an uplifting picture of a genuine family, blended with love, seasoned with memory and stirred with perseverance. The storms of life may rock them like a boat on their beloved Massachusetts coast, but even the darkest clouds and deepest suspicions leave room for hope. A satisfying novel, like a twelve course meal with every plate well planned." - Sheila Deeth, Author of "Genesis People
Mrs. Virginia Hall writes: "I love to start my day with my mind on the Lord. Reading this daily journal has helped me realize God's presence when you dive into His Word. Opening your heart and mind, letting God's Word guide and keep you. You can see a brighter future and forgiveness for your past. . . No way His word will leave you void. Thanks, Shirley for allowing me to enjoy and go on this journey with you." Ms. Erica Wade states: This journal helped me cope with everyday life. The daily scriptures and prayers inspired me to stay positive when I was going through difficult times. The poems were inspirational and refreshing; I sensed God's presence. God's blessing is within this journal and you can feel every word as you read and meditate. I also shared the devotions with my children. As we read together, we drew closer to God-no matter what, God is always there for you. I gained strength and was able to trust God more in everyday life. It turned my negative thoughts into positive ones, increasing my belief and faith in God. Thank you Shirley for sharing your journey with me.
Originally published in 1967, William H. Leckie’s The Buffalo Soldiers was the first book of its kind to recognize the importance of African American units in the conquest of the West. Decades later, with sales of more than 75,000 copies, The Buffalo Soldiers has become a classic. Now, in a newly revised edition, the authors have expanded the original research to explore more deeply the lives of buffalo soldiers in the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry Regiments. Written in accessible prose that includes a synthesis of recent scholarship, this edition delves further into the life of an African American soldier in the nineteenth century. It also explores the experiences of soldiers’ families at frontier posts. In a new epilogue, the authors summarize developments in the lives of buffalo soldiers after the Indian Wars and discuss contemporary efforts to memorialize them in film, art, and architecture.
Taxation for Decision Makers, 2016 Edition is designed for a one-semester, introductory tax course focused on decision-making at either the undergraduate or graduate level. This text introduces all relevant tax topics covered on the CPA exam, and strikes the perfect balance between concepts and details. Tax concepts and applications are presented in a clear, concise, student-friendly writing style with sufficient technical detail to provide a foundation for future practice in taxation and consulting while not overwhelming the student with seldom-encountered minutia. This text is an unbound, three hole punched version.
As we approach the centenary of [Jackson's] birth comes this ... compilation of fifty-six pieces--more than forty of which have never been published before. Two of Jackson's children co-edited this volume, culling through the vast archives of their mothers paper's at the Library of Congress, selecting only the very best for inclusion"--Dust jacket flap.
For the first time in one volume, a collection of Shirley Jackson’s scariest stories, with a foreword by PEN/Hemingway Award winner Ottessa Moshfegh After the publication of her short story “The Lottery” in the New Yorker in 1948 received an unprecedented amount of attention, Shirley Jackson was quickly established as a master horror storyteller. This collection of classic and newly reprinted stories provides readers with more of her unsettling, dark tales, including the “The Possibility of Evil” and “The Summer People.” In these deliciously dark stories, the daily commute turns into a nightmarish game of hide and seek, the loving wife hides homicidal thoughts and the concerned citizen might just be an infamous serial killer. In the haunting world of Shirley Jackson, nothing is as it seems and nowhere is safe, from the city streets to the crumbling country pile, and from the small-town apartment to the dark, dark woods. There’s something sinister in suburbia. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Before Lewis and Clark relates the extraordinary saga of the Chouteaus, the dynastic family that guarded the gates to the West for three generations. From their St. Louis base, the Chouteaus, patrician and French in their origins, made their fortunes along the two-thousand-mile length of the Missouri River. Led by the brothers Auguste and Pierre, the family not only engaged in land speculation, finance, and the fur trade but also acted as suppliers and advisers to expeditions and enterprises between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains?including the famous expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark from 1804 to 1806. This is the story of the Old World meeting the New, of the eastern United States discovering the West, and of a wealthy, powerful, charming, and manipulative family that dominated business and politics in the Louisiana Purchase territory before and after the Lewis and Clark expedition.
One of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker in 1948. "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. Today it is considered a classic work of short fiction, a story remarkable for its combination of subtle suspense and pitch-perfect descriptions of both the chilling and the mundane. The Lottery and Other Stories, the only one to appear during Shirley Jackson's lifetime, unites "The Lottery" with twenty-four equally unusual short stories. Together they demonstrate Jackson's remarkable range -- from the hilarious to the horrible, the unsettling to the ominous -- and her power as a storyteller.
After her mother's untimely death, seven-year-old Abigail must endure an alcoholic stepfather, a well-meaning but unsavory orphanage, and a grandfather ruled by a designing woman. The traumatic seeds of Abigail's unstable childhood grow, flourish and pervade her adolescence and marriage.
In Green Dimensions, Cliff Moughtin relates sustainable development and green design to the realm of urban design and development. Examining regional and local frameworks for design and planning, this book shows how sustainable urban design can be implemented on every scale. Working from a strong theoretical base, the author uses case studies and discusses policy developments, in order to challenge the conventional wisdom on sustainable design. The book provides a rounded discussion of the application and suitability of current practice, and predicts future design needs. Updating the reader on topics such as energy efficiency, sustainable city forms and the culture of new urbanism, this completely revised and restructured second edition also includes brand new chapters on the Urban Park and Bio-diversity.
Donna Shirley's 35-year career as an aerospace engineer reached a jubilant pinnacle in July 1997 when Sojourner--the solar-powered, self-guided, microwave-oven-sized rover--was seen exploring the Martian landscape in Pathfinder's spectacular images from the surface of the red planet. The event marked a milestone in space, but for Donna Shirley, the leader of the mostly male team that designed and built Sojourner--and the first woman ever to manage a NASA program--it marked a triumph of another kind. Managing Martians is Shirley's captivating memoir of a life and career spent reaching for the stars. From her seemingly outlandish aspiration at age ten to build aircraft, to abandoning high school Home Ec in favor of mechanical drawing, and, at sixteen, becoming a licensed pilot, Shirley defied expectations from the beginning. In a vivid narrative, rich with anecdotes and thrilling turning points, Shirley recounts the intense battles she waged to defend her vision and the ingenuity and resourcefulness of her committed team. Her moment-by-cliffhanging-moment account of Pathfinder's landing and Sojourner's first tentative foray across the sands of Mars brilliantly captures the fulfillment of a lifelong dream as it heralds a brave new era of space exploration.
This collection is a generous selection of Shirley Jackson's work, consisting of three complete books: The Bird's Nest, Life Among the Savages, Raising Demons, and eleven short stories--including the world-famous "The Lottery.
By the 1970s, the Brooklyn piers had become a wasteland on the New York City waterfront. Today, they have been transformed into a stunning park that is enjoyed by countless Brooklynites and visitors from across New York City and around the world. A History of Brooklyn Bridge Park recounts the grassroots, multivoiced, and contentious effort, beginning in the 1980s, to transform Brooklyn's defunct piers into a beautiful, urban oasis. The movement to resist commercial development on the piers reveals how concerned citizens came together to shape the future of their community. After winning a number of battles, park advocates, stakeholders, and government officials collaborated to create a thoroughly unique city park that takes advantage of the water and the 'Manhattan skyline, combining an innovative design with vibrant cultural programming. From start to finish, this history emphasizes the contributions, collaborations, and spirited disagreements that made the planning and construction of Brooklyn Bridge Park a model of natural urban development and public–private partnership. The book includes interviews with Brooklyn residents, politicians, activists, urban planners, landscape architects, and other key participants in the fight for the park. The story of Brooklyn Bridge Park also speaks to larger issues confronting all cities, including the development of postindustrial spaces and the ways to balance public and private interests without sacrificing creative vision or sustainable goals.
No matter who we are man woman or child we are born with a purpose and for a purpose. We all start out as a child, boy or girl. We do not come with an instruction booklet on how to live the perfect life. We are given a birth certificate and that can and may complicate ones life right from the start, as it did mine. No matter how bizarre, no matter our age, our color or ethnic background, despite our situations and circumstances, people everywhere suffer. We all to often find ourselves living in a crazy mixed up world all be it (a sinful world), no matter where we are geographically. Hard times, trouble times, sad times, financial difficulties, family problems, sickness, accidents, and death it comes to all of us. They can and do come at times least expected maybe even from people who were supposed to love and protect us. How do we survive it all? Can we overcome? Absolutely! We can not fix all our problems, we cant change who we are, we cant fix the world, but we can be fixed. This book is full of life lessons learned. Written to inspire and encourage every reader of this generation and the next. To give every reader hope! You can live a purposeful and productive life. A life of success, love, peace and joy. Never, never give up!
Thank you for visiting our website. Would you like to provide feedback on how we could improve your experience?
This site does not use any third party cookies with one exception — it uses cookies from Google to deliver its services and to analyze traffic.Learn More.