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Black Intimacies

A Gender Perspective on Families and Relationships

By: Shirley Ann Hill

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Black Intimacies

A Gender Perspective on Families and Relationships

By: Shirley Ann Hill

In Black Intimacies: A Gender Perspective on Families and Relationships, Shirley A. Hill applies a gender lens to the multiple systems of oppression that have shaped the lives of African American women and men. She challenges the image of a monolithic black population, a legacy of the civil rights movement that she argues is impossible to sustain in the postmodern era. Through a critique of intersectionality theory, Hill examines the ways in which gender has affected experiences of intimacy, family relationships, child rearing and motherhood for contemporary African Americans. Drawing on ethnographic material, interviews, and scholarly research, Hill's work rethinks the cultural and historical definitions of black identity, and reconceptualizes the various forms of oppression faced by black women. This book will be useful to students and instructors of African American Studies, Gender Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Marriage and Family, and Social Work.

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Rowman Altamira

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0759101523

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9780759101524

To Place Our Deeds

The African American Community in Richmond, California, 1910-1963

By: Shirley Ann Wilson Moore

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To Place Our Deeds

The African American Community in Richmond, California, 1910-1963

By: Shirley Ann Wilson Moore

To Place Our Deeds traces the development of the African American community in Richmond, California, a city on the San Francisco Bay. This readable, extremely well-researched social history, based on numerous oral histories, newspapers, and archival collections, is the first to examine the historical development of one black working-class community over a fifty-year period. Offering a gritty and engaging view of daily life in Richmond, Shirley Ann Wilson Moore examines the process and effect of migration, the rise of a black urban industrial workforce, and the dynamics of community development. She describes the culture that migrants brought with them—including music, food, religion, and sports—and shows how these traditions were adapted to new circumstances. Working-class African Americans in Richmond used their cultural venues—especially the city's legendary blues clubs—as staging grounds from which to challenge the racial status quo, with a steadfast determination not to be "Jim Crowed" in the Golden State. As this important work shows, working-class African Americans often stood at the forefront of the struggle for equality and were linked to larger political, social, and cultural currents that transformed the nation in the postwar period.

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Univ of California Press

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0520927125

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9780520927124

Biographical Dictionary of Modern American Educators

By: Shirley Ohles,Frederik Ohles,John Ramsay

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Biographical Dictionary of Modern American Educators

By: Shirley Ohles,Frederik Ohles,John Ramsay

Widely praised, Greenwood's Biographical Dictionary of American Educators (Greenwood, 1978) quickly became a standard reference work for students and scholars of American education. This new volume includes biographical sketches of more than 400 notable researchers, leaders, reformers, critics, and practitioners from all major fields of education and extends the coverage of its predecessor to the mid-20th century. Its topical range encompasses such diverse areas as psychology, music, health, measurement and evaluation, science, special education, history, and administration. It treats education at all levels, including early childhood, elementary and secondary, higher, and adult. Most of the educators profiled were active in the 20th century, but several dozen have been included from the 19th century. A special effort has been made to include women and educators of color whose contributions have often been overlooked in the past. Each biographical sketch includes information on family background, a description of the educator's accomplishments, and a digest of the person's education and career, professional and civic service, major publications, and principal honors. Each profile ends with a list of references, and the volume closes with appendices listing birth places, states of major service, fields of work, a chronological listing of educators, and a list of important dates in American education. A comprehensive index concludes the volume. Educators are included from all fifty states and were selected from numerous suggested candidates for inclusion. Most of the educators profiled were active in the 20th century, but several dozen have been included from the 19th century. A special effort has been made to include women and educators of color whose contributions have often been overlooked in the past.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313005001

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9780313005008

Parma and Hilton

By: Shirley Cox Husted

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Parma and Hilton

By: Shirley Cox Husted

Near the shores of Lake Ontario lie Parma, Hilton, and several other pioneer communities once connected by Indian trails. Parma was named in honor of the Italian city and province of the same name and Hilton village, once known as North Parma, was renamed after Rev. Charles A. Hilton, a Civil War veteran and Baptist minister. Before the Civil War, the area was known as the Nation's Breadbasket. It became a leading fruit production center near the end of the 19th century and attracted immigrants from around the world. Parma and Hilton uses images from throughout the century to illustrate the pioneer times, the development of government, life on the waterfront, transportation and communication, schools and churches, business and industry, and festive days of celebration.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738503401

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9780738503400

Our Family

Peckham, Moore, Webb, Walley

By: Shirley Niles

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Our Family

Peckham, Moore, Webb, Walley

By: Shirley Niles

Stories for the family to enjoy and learn about about our ancestors, where they came from, what they did for a living, where they lived and who their children were.

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Outskirts Press

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1977265650

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9781977265654

The Keepers of the House

By: Shirley Ann Grau

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The Keepers of the House

By: Shirley Ann Grau

A “beautifully written” Pulitzer Prize–winning novel about prejudice and a distinguished family’s secrets in the American South (The Atlantic Monthly). Seven generations of the Howland family have lived in the Alabama plantation home built by an ancestor who fought for Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812. Over the course of a century, the Howlands accumulated a fortune, fought for secession, and helped rebuild the South, establishing themselves as one of the most respected families in the state. But that history means little to Abigail Howland. The inheritor of the Howland manse, Abigail hides the long-buried secret of her grandfather’s thirty-year relationship with his African American mistress. Her fortunes reverse when her family’s mixed-race heritage comes to light and her community—locked in the prejudices of the 1960s—turns its back on her. Faced with such deep-seated racism, Abigail is pushed to defend her family at all costs. A “novel of real magnitude,” The Keepers of the House is an unforgettable story of family, tradition, and racial injustice set against the richly drawn backdrop of the American South (Kirkus Reviews). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Shirley Ann Grau, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.

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Open Road Media

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1453247203

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9781453247204

The Diary of Jack the Ripper - The Chilling Confessions of James Maybrick

By: Shirley Harrison

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The Diary of Jack the Ripper - The Chilling Confessions of James Maybrick

By: Shirley Harrison

The pages of The Diary of Jack the Ripper reveal the unimaginable - that over a century ago, the legendary serial killer at work in London's Whitechapel kept a record of his bestial mutilations of women. The writer of the horrific journal is James Maybrick, a depraved drug-taking, womanising, 49-year-old Liverpool cotton merchant with a history of domestic violence. In this analysis of his diary, investigative author Shirley Harrison explains all about the origins of the text, the rigorous scientific analysis it has endured and reveals startling new information about Maybrick's shadowy background. All this combines with a chilling confession scratched into a watch, 'I am Jack. J Maybrick,' provide powerful justification that Maybrick was Jack the Ripper. The diary itself is reproduced in full, so that you too can judge whether these are the deeply distributing words of Jack the Ripper himself, reaching out from across the abyss of more than a century.

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Kings Road Publishing

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1782191550

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9781782191551

Justice Prevails

By: Shirley Hassen

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Justice Prevails

By: Shirley Hassen

Frank is a patrol officer who has been transferred to Newtown Police Station as a street-beat officer to help with the catching drug dealers. He becomes involved with two women; the redhead Julia, his fellow officer. The other woman is his deceased partner's wife; who is always drunk; Gloria and who is now married to Baines, suspected drug dealer. Frank is protective towards Gloria's ten years old son, Bobby who suffers much at the hands of Baines. Frank promises himself to put the drug dealer Baines behind bars and anybody else connected with Blaine's drug dealings even his own brother David. Frank's reasoning for justice is that kith or kin are not exempted from the law.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1450096727

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9781450096720

A Gallery of Her Own

An Annotated Bibliography of Women in Victorian Painting

By: Elree I. Harris,Shirley R. Scott

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A Gallery of Her Own

An Annotated Bibliography of Women in Victorian Painting

By: Elree I. Harris,Shirley R. Scott

First Published in 1997. This book is intended as a resource for anyone interested in the artistic contributions and activities of women in nineteenth-century Britain. It is an index as well as an annotated bibliography and provides sources for information about women well known in their own time and about women who were little known then and are forgotten now

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Routledge

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113549441X

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9781135494414

Sophia Jex-Blake

A Woman Pioneer in Nineteenth Century Medical Reform

By: Shirley Roberts

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Sophia Jex-Blake

A Woman Pioneer in Nineteenth Century Medical Reform

By: Shirley Roberts

In this first modern biography of Sophia Jex-Blake, Shirley Roberts charts the career of the woman who led the campaign for British women to enter the medical profession. A fascinating account of one woman's struggle for equality.

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Routledge

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113488267X

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9781134882670

Guide to the White House Staff

By: Shirley Anne Warshaw

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Guide to the White House Staff

By: Shirley Anne Warshaw

Guide to the White House Staff is an insightful new work examining the evolution and current role of the White House staff. It provides a study of executive-legislative relations, organizational behavior, policy making, and White House–cabinet relations. The work also makes an important contribution to the study of public administration for researchers seeking to understand the inner workings of the White House. In eight thematically arranged chapters, Guide to the White House Staff: Reviews the early members of the White House staff and details the need, statutory authorization, and funding for staff expansion. Addresses the creation of the Executive Office of the President (EOP) and a formal White House staff in 1939. Explores the statutes, executive orders, and succession of reorganization plans that shaped and refined the EOP. Traces the evolution of White House staff from FDR to Obama and the specialization of staff across policy and political units. Explores how presidential transitions have operated since Eisenhower created the position of chief of staff. Explains the expansion of presidential in-house policymaking structures, beginning with national security and continuing with economic and domestic policy. Covers the exodus of staff and the roles remaining staff played during the second terms of presidents. Examines the post–White House careers of staff. Guide to the White House Staff also provides easily accessible biographies of key White House staff members who served the presidencies of Richard M. Nixon through George W. Bush. This valuable new reference will find a home in collections supporting research on the American presidency, public policy, and public administration.

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CQ Press

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1452234329

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9781452234328

A History of Brooklyn Bridge Park

How a Community Reclaimed and Transformed New York City's Waterfront

By: Nancy Webster,David Shirley

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A History of Brooklyn Bridge Park

How a Community Reclaimed and Transformed New York City's Waterfront

By: Nancy Webster,David Shirley

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.

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Columbia University Press

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0231542941

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9780231542944

Sweet Freedom's Plains

African Americans on the Overland Trails, 1841–1869

By: Shirley Ann Wilson Moore

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Sweet Freedom's Plains

African Americans on the Overland Trails, 1841–1869

By: Shirley Ann Wilson Moore

The westward migration of nearly half a million Americans in the mid-nineteenth century looms large in U.S. history. Classic images of rugged Euro-Americans traversing the plains in their prairie schooners still stir the popular imagination. But this traditional narrative, no matter how alluring, falls short of the actual—and far more complex—reality of the overland trails. Among the diverse peoples who converged on the western frontier were African American pioneers—men, women, and children. Whether enslaved or free, they too were involved in this transformative movement. Sweet Freedom’s Plains is a powerful retelling of the migration story from their perspective. Tracing the journeys of black overlanders who traveled the Mormon, California, Oregon, and other trails, Shirley Ann Wilson Moore describes in vivid detail what they left behind, what they encountered along the way, and what they expected to find in their new, western homes. She argues that African Americans understood advancement and prosperity in ways unique to their situation as an enslaved and racially persecuted people, even as they shared many of the same hopes and dreams held by their white contemporaries. For African Americans, the journey westward marked the beginning of liberation and transformation. At the same time, black emigrants’ aspirations often came into sharp conflict with real-world conditions in the West. Although many scholars have focused on African Americans who settled in the urban West, their early trailblazing voyages into the Oregon Country, Utah Territory, New Mexico Territory, and California deserve greater attention. Having combed censuses, maps, government documents, and white overlanders’ diaries, along with the few accounts written by black overlanders or passed down orally to their living descendants, Moore gives voice to the countless, mostly anonymous black men and women who trekked the plains and mountains. Sweet Freedom’s Plains places African American overlanders where they belong—at the center of the western migration narrative. Their experiences and perspectives enhance our understanding of this formative period in American history.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806156856

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9780806156859

Roadwalkers

By: Shirley Ann Grau

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Roadwalkers

By: Shirley Ann Grau

From the author of The Keepers of the House, a “beautiful” novel following a black mother and daughter through the Great Depression and Civil Rights era (The Boston Globe). Mary is an orphaned, homeless, African American child, abandoned by the rest of her family and left to care for her younger brother. She becomes a “roadwalker,” a nomad who wanders across the rural south and quickly learns to rely on herself to survive. When she grows up to become a successful artist and a designer, she has a daughter of her own, Nanda, and she’s determined to hold her child close. But when Nanda is accepted into an elite school on the East Coast, integrating the all-white Catholic girls’ academy, Mary finds she can’t keep some of the world’s cruel realities at bay forever. Told from the perspective of both mother and daughter, Roadwalkers is the story of a special bond forged by savage history, and a tale of extraordinary loyalty and sacrifice. From a National Book Award finalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, it is “a bold novel [that] seduces us with its vigorous prose, enthralls us with its narrative—and disquiets us with its defiance of our expectations” (The New York Times Book Review). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Shirley Ann Grau, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.

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Open Road Media

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1453247254

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9781453247259

Crucifixion

By: Shirley Giebel

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Crucifixion

By: Shirley Giebel

Crucifixion by Shirley Giebel __________________________________

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Page Publishing Inc

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1682134148

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9781682134146

Building Blocks to Better Relationships

Case Studies, Simulations, and Learning Activities

By: Mary Holbrook,Shirley Van Horne

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Building Blocks to Better Relationships

Case Studies, Simulations, and Learning Activities

By: Mary Holbrook,Shirley Van Horne

Teaches students to be flexible, set and respect boundaries, and resolve conflicts Builds critical-thinking and problem- solving skills Addresses important issues including dating, family conflict, and child abuse

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Walch Publishing

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0825125235

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9780825125232

My Montana

By: Nadine Ann Shirley

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My Montana

By: Nadine Ann Shirley

About the Book Nadine Ann Shirley is a mother, retired mental health therapist, and author with very deep roots in the state of Montana. In My Montana, Shirley shares many memories of her own Montana experiences together with those of family and friends. In addition, she takes her readers on a rather extensive tour of Montana, covering both east and west with a dash of central Montana too. A story based in and about Montana wouldn’t be complete without its history, the highlights of which are on virtually every page. Shirley’s fondness for her home state becomes ever so evident throughout the entirety of My Montana. About the Author Nadine Ann Shirley currently lives independently in her favorite place in the whole world, a cabin on the Stillwater River considered to be in Nye, Montana. She has been blessed with the companionship of her two Bichons, Koko and Kasper, until very recently when they died within three weeks of each other. But she still has the, oh so precious, if long distant, support of her six adult children, dispersed among four states.

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Dorrance Publishing

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9798887299358

Family Policy

Constructed Solutions to Family Problems

By: Shirley L. Zimmerman

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Family Policy

Constructed Solutions to Family Problems

By: Shirley L. Zimmerman

The latest work from respected family policy expert Shirley Zimmerman. Family Policy offers the only single-authored reference book to provide a comprehensive and coherent introduction to the topic. The author clearly and cogently guides students through the foundations, policy frameworks, and implications of policy decisions for family well-being, ending with a carefully considered set of conclusions and implications for policy practice.

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SAGE Publications

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1452246696

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9781452246697

two west

By: Shirley L. Walker

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two west

By: Shirley L. Walker

Sarah Ruston grew up in a small town in the southeastern part of Michigan. The Ruston children know their place in society and their duty to the family and the community. The story follows Sarah’s life as she graduates from high school and goes to college in 1953. Her life does not adhere to the expectations of the era. Her life becomes “the road less traveled” by girls from small towns. Part I begins in the summer of 1953 when Sarah graduates from Sheldon High School. Shortly after graduation Sarah goes to camp as a counselor for the summer and leaves the sheltered life of the small town. She does, however, continue something of a relationship with one of her sometimes boyfriends. Part II opens as Sarah arrives on campus in the fall of 1953 and checks into two west of King Hall. Her life as a freshman means change. Her roommate, a wealthy industrial’s daughter, introduces Sarah to the core of the academic world: boys. Sarah hasn’t expected men to be such a large part of college life. It seems that some girls of that era came to college to get a guy. But Sarah likes the game and rises to the occasion and begins to look for romance in the academic world.

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Dorrance Publishing

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1434935159

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9781434935151

Story Stretchers for Infants, Toddlers, and Twos

Experiences, Activities, and Games for Popular Children's Books

By: Shirley C. Raines,Karen Miller,Leah Curry-Rood

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Story Stretchers for Infants, Toddlers, and Twos

Experiences, Activities, and Games for Popular Children's Books

By: Shirley C. Raines,Karen Miller,Leah Curry-Rood

It's never too early to read to a child, especially when you have Story S-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-r-s (R) The youngest children love the repetition of words and experiences that stories provide. "Story S-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-r-s(R) for Infants, Toddlers and Twos "contains 80 age-appropriate children's books and 240 ways to s-t-r-e-t-c-h the stories in new ways to enhance the learning process. Organized by age, this book is a wonderful addition to the Story S-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-r-s(R) series, offering new ways for young children to experience the magic of a good book. Children reap amazing benefits from being exposed to reading at an early age, and "Story S-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-r-s(R) for Infants, Toddlers and Twos "makes reading with infants, toddlers, and twos an adventure in learning and fun

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Gryphon House, Inc.

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0876592744

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9780876592748

Israel and the Palestinian Territories

The Rough Guide

By: Daniel Jacobs,Shirley Eber,Francesca Silvani

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Israel and the Palestinian Territories

The Rough Guide

By: Daniel Jacobs,Shirley Eber,Francesca Silvani

This is the most complete and topical guide to the region, with detailed accounts of all the historic monuments and the Jewish, Islamic and Christian holy sites.

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1858282489

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