The actress and singer explores her life and career, examining "the real flesh-and-blood Shirley Jones, not just the movie star or Mrs. Partridge"--Dust jacket flap.
This book stems from more than 25 years of systematic research into the experience of learning undertaken by a research team trying to account for the obvious differences between more or less successful instances of learning in educational institutions. The book offers an answer in terms of the discovery of critical differences in the structure of the learner's awareness and critical differences in the meaning of the learner's world. The authors offer a detailed account of the empirical findings that give rise to theoretical insights, and discuss the particular form of qualitative research that has been employed and developed. The form of learning that is the object of study is considered to be the most fundamental form -- namely a change in the learner's way of seeing, experiencing, handling, and understanding aspects of the world. The need for rigorous analysis of learning of specific subject matter, the individual construction of knowledge, and its social and cultural embeddedness -- the defining features of rival approaches into research on learning -- are reconciled from the approach adopted here into an intertwined and whole experience of learning. The learner's experience is always one of learning something, in some way, and in some context; by holding the learner's experience of learning as the focus of study throughout -- and not studying the learning of the content and the acts and the context as separate and distinct focuses -- the content, the act, and the context remain united as constituents of the learner's experience. By empirically revealing critical differences in the ways of experiencing these aspects of learning, and by developing a theoretical framework for the dynamics through which change comes about in the learner's awareness, this book gradually leads the reader to a powerful new view of learning. Equipped with the analytical tools and conceptual apparatus to be found in this book, the reader will be empowered to learn and to assist others to learn by creating environments conducive to the most fundamental form of learning: experiencing aspects of the world in new ways.
The second volume in the trilogy—“a complex, bizarre, and unique vision of the near future with a kaleidoscopic mix of politics, pop, and paranoia” (Bruce Sterling, author of The Hacker Crackdown). World War Three continues. A nuclear strike has laid waste to much of Europe. And the fascists and fundamentalists of the Second Alliance are diligently working on Project Total Eclipse—a nightmare scenario that seeks to establish the SA’s control over a much wider territory through a takeover of the first orbiting space colony in human history. And they are running out of patience with the New Resistance—technologically skilled guerillas who are the only ones standing in the way of their grand plans for apartheid and world domination . . . This extraordinary trilogy, which anticipated such phenomena as surveillance drones and the rising threat of right-wing authoritarianism, is a riveting saga of out-of-control corporate power, a near-future world riven by rage and fear, and the need for individuals to stand up and fight back if they want to hold on to their freedom. “Vivid, dense, powerful imagery . . . hard to put down.” —The Washington Post
Through the lens of the everyday, this book explores ’the countryside’ as an inhabited and practised realm with lived rhythms and routines. It relocates the topography of everyday life from its habitually urban focus, out into the English countryside. The rural is often portrayed as existing outside of modernity, or as its passive victim. Here, the rural is recast as an active and complex site of modernity, a shift which contributes alternative ways of thinking the rural and a new perspective on the everyday. In each chapter, pieces of visual culture - including scrapbooks, art works, adverts, photographs and films - are presented as tools of analysis which articulate how aspects of the everyday might operate differently in non-metropolitan places. The book features new readings of the work of significant artists and photographers, such as Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane, Stephen Willats, Anna Fox, Andrew Cross, Tony Ray Jones and Homer Sykes, seen through this rural lens, together with analysis of visually fascinating archival materials including early Shell Guides and rarely seen scrapbooks made by the Women’s Institute. Combining everyday life, rural modernity and visual cultures, this book is able to uncover new and different stories about the English countryside and contribute significantly to current thinking on everyday life, rural geographies and visual cultures.
In the small town of Harrison City, Pennsylvania, Jim Shirley began his life surrounded by family and community members. It didn¿t matter that they didn¿t have electricity, used a galvanized steel washtub for bathing, and had an outhouse for other necessities. A loving and caring mother, older siblings, and a home built of love were the stepping stones to a self made man. As Jim grows older, he learns what he wants to do in life, how to create a family of his own, and how to draw the most out of what life has to offer a person. After becoming a licensed funeral director in 1959, he was employed in the Pittsburgh area. Later, he purchased a home under unusual circumstances in North Huntingdon Township, Pennsylvania. As a budding funeral director he inadvertently became a community leader in the Lions International organization and, presented his speaking skills, he showed us what it means to bring a new meaning to life and enjoy every moment of it with the same wondrous awe we had as children.
Supplemented by recollections from the present era, Tell Us a Story is a colorful mosaic of African American autobiography and family history set in Springfield, Illinois, and in rural southern Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas from the 1920s through the 1950s.
Filled with examples, case studies, and practical advice, this well-written and engaging book guides readers through each of the ten steps to career independence. Learn how to understand today's changing work environment, create a vision, define your livelihood, and develop a financial strategy.
The Savvy Studio Owner details all aspects of starting and running a professional sound-recording studio, from smaller project-style facilities to million-dollar majors. The authors discuss the business and engineering aspects of operating a studio logically and chronologically, starting with initial considerations and continuing through planning, startup, and expansion. From business structures, financing, and government regulations to marketing, taxes, and long-term financial planning, the information in The Savvy Studio Owner is based on detailed research and sound practices in the recording industry. The practical "how-to" style presents numerous examples and applications from the business and sound-recording worlds. Even if you have no prior business or sound-recording experience, The Savvy Studio Owner will let you research, start, and succeed in creating a sound-recording studio. Book jacket.
This text on finite mathematics is aimed at students of business, social sciences, economics, and biological science. The three major topics covered are probability, linear mathematics, and the mathematics of finance. The topics are self-contained and can be taught in any sequence.
From New York Times bestselling author Shirley Jump comes a heartwarming tale about friendship, family, and the unbreakable bond between sisters. THE SECRET INGREDIENT FOR A HAPPY MARRIAGE Nora has always been the sister who binds the O'Bannons together. No matter what crisis hits, smart, dependable Nora knows how to fix it. But for Nora, the pressure of perfection is taking its toll. Nora's marriage is in trouble, and she has been reluctant to worry her sisters with just how dire her situation is. Now though, faced with losing her husband, her home, and the life she's worked so hard to build, Nora can no longer pretend. As the O'Bannon women rally around her, Nora begins to see that failure is nothing to fear. It's like they say in the bakery: if you want to make something good, you can't be afraid to get messy. When her husband returns, asking Nora to give their family a second chance, Nora must decide if their relationship can be saved-or if it's time to throw out the old recipe and start from scratch.
Sherryl Woods is the author of Feels Like Family, a Netflix Book Club Pick! BESTSELLING AUTHOR COLLECTION Reader-favorite romances in collectible volumes from our bestselling authors. ALWAYS A BRIDESMAID Luke Cassidy has finally returned home to his small town, with one motive in mind—to convince his best friend, Katie Jones, to marry him. Katie is overjoyed by the prospect of finally marrying the love of her life—unfortunately, the groom has anything but romance on his mind. Luke wants only a marriage of convenience and a mother for his five-year-old son. After a disastrous first marriage, Luke refuses to believe in love. Katie’s dreams of bridal bliss are turning into her worst nightmare. She has loved Luke for as long as she can remember, so she’ll just have to convince him that she is more than a temporary business partner—she is a marital partner for life! FREE BONUS STORY INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME! His Love Match by bestselling author Shirley Hailstock Wedding planner Diana Greer is looking for her happily-ever-after. When a dating site matches her up with her ideal mate, it seems like fate—too bad he’s someone she already knows… Previously published.
Welcome to Fortune’s Island, where the only rule is to follow your heart. Love is an extravagance Darcy Williams can’t afford. She prefers the simple life, which includes waitressing at The Love Shack and avoiding temptation. But when a forbidden part of her past steps off the ferry, her safe, guarded existence is turned upside down. Kincaid Foster has never gotten over his first love. When he sees the wild, beautiful blonde again, dancing her way around The Love Shack, the memories of Darcy’s soft skin, gentle touch, and heated kisses come rushing back. As the privileged son of a wealthy family, Kincaid was too young to stand up to his overbearing father when he and Darcy were together. Now, he’s back on the island—free of the family shackles—and the chiseled, big-time lawyer wants a second chance. But, Darcy made a promise to keep a secret from Kincaid—a secret that is now a six-year-old girl who looks just like her daddy. If Kincaid finds out about their daughter, Darcy could lose everything. But, she can’t resist the man who stole her heart all those years ago. And it doesn’t take long before both of them realize that anything can happen on a hot summer night.
In "Out on a Leash," award-winning actress Shirley MacLaine--whose blockbuster books have gone where no one has gone before--treads once again on new ground, offering a dog's-eye view of companionship.
A heartwarming story of sisterhood, second chances, and falling in love Gabriella Monroe is doing her best to pretend that everything is fine, but her life is a mess. Sales are down at her vintage dress shop, her beloved grandmother isn’t her usual spunky self, and Gabby desperately misses the closeness she had with her sisters, Margaret and Emma—who were once so inseparable that their family called them the Monroe Musketeers. When the sisters stumble across a stash of letters that reveals their grandmother’s secret life, Gabby sees an opportunity to bring the sisters back together again and best of all, raise her grandmother’s spirits. And sure, this new project makes it easier to pretend her own life isn’t crashing around her, but concentrating on helping everyone else and ignoring her own feelings is what Gabby does best. Except when it comes to Jake Maddox. Once the boy next door she crushed on—hard—he’s grown into an even more intriguing man, and her attraction to him isn’t so easy to hide. It’s clear he’s just as interested in her, but dating Jake would only muddy up her already complicated life. Or is it finally time to put herself first and risk it all for a chance at happiness?
Interpretation of Historic Sites offers essential knowledge on how to develop and conduct interpretive programs for every historic site, regardless of size or budget.
Marketing Solutions for the Home-Based Business is prime for a revision with the explosion of social media marketing. Business News Daily notes that two of the top 50 home-based jobs to watch are for Social Media Consultants and Internet Marketing Consultant. With more than a half million copies sold, Globe Pequot Press continues to grow its ever popular How To Start a Home-based Business series. Each volume includes worksheets, business and marketing forms, and everything you need to know about business start-up costs and strategies. This title will make the perfect companion to any book in the series offering up-to-date marketing stratregies to help better position your home-based business.
Harlequin Special Edition brings you three new titles for one great price, available now! These are heartwarming, romantic stories about life, love and family. This Harlequin Special Edition bundle includes Never Trust a Cowboy by NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Kathleen Eagle, The Homecoming Queen Gets Her Man by NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Shirley Jump and Romancing the Rancher by Stacy Connelly. Look for 6 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin Special Edition!
Shadow Dancers is a vampire taleno werewolves, no zombies, no witches. Just a small clan of vampires who enjoy residing in colorful, exotic Miami and who are hopelessly addicted to all twenty-first-century technologysmartphones, tablets, computers, flat-screen TVs, and so on. When radiation from super solar flares starts killing them, the clans only hope for survival is a young woman who possesses blood with healing and protective properties. Things grow complicated when Rodrigo, the vampire assigned to watch the young woman, begins to develop feelings for her. After centuries of living in the shadows, the clan is forced to integrate with the human community for help and protection.
Martinmas is the fourth instalment of 1588: A Calendar of Crime, a collection of short stories published in step with the sixteenth century calendar. In St Salvator's college at the start of the academic year a young student claims that he has seen the ghost of a Spanish soldier. Giles and Hew dismiss this as the fevered product of a wild imagination; the students are unsettled by a spate of violent storms, and fears of the apocalypse readily resurge. In the close confines of college, they can be contained. But when a merchant dies, on the feast of St Martin known as 'killing time', with the words 'dead Spaniard' the last upon his lips, the terror of the students spills out to the streets, and Hew is called upon to rid the town of ghosts.
Her mother sternly said, "Gene! Stop that tap dancing right now! You're going to dance your way to hell!" The first half of her life surely felt that way - three sexual assaults, two abusive husbands, three children for whom she was the sole provider. Nevertheless, during that same period of her life, Gene and her violin went on a summer tour with young Billy Graham. She was also given a TV contract with the original Hank Williams Band in Montgomery, Alabama, as twin fiddler. DANCING MY WAY THROUGH HELL! focuses on life struggles and a forgiving spirit which was the key to bringing Gene through those experiences in six states from coast to coast and leading her to an amazing future....
Harlequin® Special Edition brings you three new titles for one great price, available now! These are heartwarming, romantic stories about life, love and family. This Special Edition box set includes: HER FAVORITE MAVERICK Montana Mavericks: Six Brides for Six Brothers by Christine Rimmer Logan Crawford might just be the perfect man. A girl would have to be a fool to turn him down. Or a coward. Sarah Turner thinks she might be both. But the single mom has no time for love. Logan, however, is determined to steal her heart! THE FAMILY HE DIDN’T EXPECT The Stone Gap Inn by Shirley Jump Dylan Millwright’s bittersweet homecoming gets a whole lot sweeter when he meets Abby Cooper. But this mother of two is all about “the ties that bind,” and Dylan isn’t looking for strings to keep him down. But do this bachelor’s wandering ways conceal the secretly yearning heart of a family man? A FATHER FOR HER CHILD Sutter Creek, Montana by Laurel Greer Widow Cadence Grigg is slowly putting her life back together—and raising her infant son. By her side is her late husband’s best friend, Zach Cardenas, who can’t help his burgeoning feelings for Cadie and her baby boy. Though determined not to fall in love again, Cadie might find that Cupid has other plans for her happily-ever-after…
New York Times–Bestselling Author: All it takes is one spark . . . A month ago, Colton Barlow was a decorated Atlanta firefighter haunted by a tragic accident on the job. Now he’s taking a grand tour of a North Carolina town he’s never heard of—and being welcomed into a family he didn’t know existed! His newly discovered half brothers aren’t the only ones making Colton feel right at home. If he isn’t careful, Stone Gap—and one winsome wedding planner—could steal his heart. Rachel Morris doesn’t see many sexy strangers passing through her tiny Southern town. And falling for the hunky firefighter sure wasn’t part of her life-on-hold plan. But is Colton here to stay? Are they both ready to say “I will” to a future together?
Harlequin® Special Edition brings you three new titles for one great price, available now! These are heartwarming, romantic stories about life, love and family. This Special Edition box set includes: FORTUNE'S JUNE BRIDE The Fortunes of Texas: Cowboy Country by Allison Leigh Galen Fortune Jones isn't the marrying kind...until he's roped into playing groom at the new Cowboy Country theme park in Horseback Hollow, Texas. His "bride," beautiful Aurora McElroy, piques his interest, especially when she needs a real-life fake husband. This one cowboy may have just met his match! THE INSTANT FAMILY MAN The Barlow Brothers by Shirley Jump Luke Barlow is happily living the single life in Stone Gap, North Carolina—until his ex's gorgeous little sister, Peyton Reynolds, shows up. She announces Luke is now the caretaker for a four-year-old daughter he never knew about. Determined to be a good dad, Luke tries to create a home for little Maddy and her aunt, one that might just be for forever... FALLING FOR THE MOM-TO-BE Home in Heartlandia by Lynne Marshall Ever since his wife passed away, Leif Andersen has had no time for love. Enter Marta Hoyas, a beautiful—and pregnant!—artist who's in town to paint a local mural. She's also living in Leif's house while she does so. The last thing Marta wants is to fall for someone who couldn't be a father to her unborn child, but Leif might just be the perfect dad-to-be. Look for Harlequin Special Edition's June 2015 Box set 2 of 2, filled with even more stories of life, love and family! Look for 6 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Special Edition!
Harlequin® Special Edition brings you three new titles for one great price, available now! These are heartwarming, romantic stories about life, love and family. This Special Edition box set includes: His Destiny Bride Welcome to Destiny by Christyne Butler The one time responsible Katie Ledbetter throws caution to the wind, she winds up pregnant after one night of passion. Her child's father, gorgeous Nolan Murphy, wants Katie and their baby in his life. But is the single dad ready to give love and family a second shot? Lucy & the Lieutenant The Cedar River Cowboys by Helen Lacey Back home from war, ex-soldier Brant Parker wants nothing more than to bury his grief in his work.Dr. Lucy Monero, who's loved him since childhood, is determined to keep the loner afloat - and make him hers! The Firefighter's Family Secret The Barlow Brothers by Shirley Jump While trying to repent for a past accident, Colton Barlow is shaken when he learns of his long-lost family in Stone Gap. Rachel Morris tempts him to stay in town, but how can he give her his heart when he's not sure who he really is anymore? Look for Harlequin Special Edition's June 2016 Box set 2 of 2, filled with even more stories of life, love and family!
A former agoraphobic and her doctor tell how people with panic disorder can overcome their fears. A 7-step program combined with stress reduction and nutrition plans can provide results in 6-8 weeks without drugs.
Four of today's most exciting writers join forces for this rollicking collection of stories with a common link. Henry Chambers, deceased founder of Georgia's only black PI firm leaves each of his four daughters a case to solve. Shirley Hailstock, Margie Walker, Bridget Anderson and Shelby Lewis take up a pen each for the four cases, combining humour, emotion and a dash of romance as Henry's daughters rush to wrap up their cases. And as the mysteries wind towards their conclusions, each one learns more than they ever imagined about their father - and themselves.
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