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Hot Dogs for the Queen

A Child's Memories of Her Famous Neighbor- Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

By: Shirley Vaughn Jackson

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Hot Dogs for the Queen

A Child's Memories of Her Famous Neighbor- Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

By: Shirley Vaughn Jackson

At a time when racism pervaded American society, a young African-American girl from Hyde Park, NY, developed a close relationship with the wife of one of the most powerful world leaders of her time. While Eleanor Roosevelt is remembered by many as a first lady of our country, a compelling humanitarian, and a champion for women’s rights, she extended the same down-to-earth warmth, kindness, and hospitality to Shirley, as she did royalty, dignitaries and other neighbors. One of the few books documenting an African-American youth’s experiences with the First Lady, “Hot Dogs for the Queen” is a collection of Shirley Jackson’s treasured childhood memories of her family relationship with “Mrs. Eleanor.”

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1796094285

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Hot Dogs for the Queen

A Child's Memories of Her Famous Neighbor- Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

By: Shirley Vaughn Jackson

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A Child's Memories of Her Famous Neighbor- Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

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Dying, Death and Bereavement in a British Hindu Community

By: Shirley Firth

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Dying, Death and Bereavement in a British Hindu Community

By: Shirley Firth

This study is an exploration of the religious beliefs, attitudes, traditions and rituals of a British hindu community, with respect to dying, death and bereavement. The observations of this community are compared with material obtained during three months of fieldwork in India and ethnographic sources. The primary focus of this study is on individual Hindus, seen in the context of their family and community: their beliefs, experiences and perceptions about death, and their reactions to the changes that take place. It also examines the process of adaptation and change in the death rituals and the role of the pandits in maintaining continuity. The first part of this study sets the context, introducing the issues confronting Hindus facing death and bereavement in Britain. It discusses theoretical issues in a multicultural study as well as beliefs about death and life after death. In the second part, Hindu ritual practices around death are explored, using a model of nine stages from preparation for death to the final post-mortem and annual ancestral rituals. The third part explores the social and psychological dimensions of death, grief and mourning, the implications of death in hospital and the professional and bureaucratic issues which affect Hindu deaths in Britain. The social aspects of mourning are discussed, with reference to pollution, the role of the family and community, young people and widows. Finally, the author examines the implications of social changes for British Hindus and for those who are involved with them in the caring professions.

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Peeters Publishers

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9068319760

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9789068319767

The Enchanted Land Eighth Hill

By: Shirley M. Denmon

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The Enchanted Land Eighth Hill

By: Shirley M. Denmon

Shirley M. Denmon is a native of Rome, Georgia. She is a great writer and has written other books of great quality and value. However, this most recent book, Rome, Georgia: The Enchanted Land Eighth Hill, express and exemplifies her deep passion and desire to expose to the world contributions and accomplishments made by residents that lived and yet live on the Enchanted Land Eighth Hill. She recognizes that for many years Americans of Africa descent has not received proper recognition for their positive abilities in many aspects of life, and, therefore wishes to provide through her writings, a reason and desire for readers to continue to read about their accomplishments. Readers will be interested in her voice as a writer because of her unique ability to illustrate through her God given talent and ability, a clear and specific style of writing. She received her secondary education in the Rome City Schools and received an Associate Degree in Secretarial Science from Georgia Highland College.

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145208954X

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9781452089546

The Letters of Shirley Jackson

By: Shirley Jackson

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The Letters of Shirley Jackson

By: Shirley Jackson

A bewitchingly brilliant collection of never-before-published letters from the renowned author of “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS • “This biography-through-letters gives an intimate and warm voice to the imagination behind the treasury of uncanny tales that is Shirley Jackson’s legacy.”—Joyce Carol Oates Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American authors of the last hundred years and among our greatest chroniclers of the female experience. This extraordinary compilation of personal correspondence has all the hallmarks of Jackson’s beloved fiction: flashes of the uncanny in the domestic, sparks of horror in the quotidian, and the veins of humor that run through good times and bad. i am having a fine time doing a novel with my left hand and a long story—with as many levels as grand central station—with my right hand, stirring chocolate pudding with a spoon held in my teeth, and tuning the television with both feet. Written over the course of nearly three decades, from Jackson’s college years to six days before her early death at the age of forty-eight, these letters become the autobiography Shirley Jackson never wrote. As well as being a bestselling author, Jackson spent much of her adult life as a mother of four in Vermont, and the landscape here is often the everyday: raucous holidays and trips to the dentist, overdue taxes and frayed lines of Christmas lights, new dogs and new babies. But in recounting these events to family, friends, and colleagues, she turns them into remarkable stories: entertaining, revealing, and wise. At the same time, many of these letters provide fresh insight into the genesis and progress of Jackson’s writing over nearly three decades. The novel is getting sadder. It’s always such a strange feeling—I know something’s going to happen, and those poor people in the book don’t; they just go blithely on their ways. Compiled and edited by her elder son, Laurence Jackson Hyman, in consultation with Jackson scholar Bernice M. Murphy and featuring Jackson’s own witty line drawings, this intimate collection holds the beguiling prism of Shirley Jackson—writer and reader, mother and daughter, neighbor and wife—up to the light.

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673

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Random House Trade Paperbacks

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0593134656

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9780593134658

Become a Tough and Tender Listener

A User's Guide to Rewarding Communication

By: Shirley Brackett Mathey

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Become a Tough and Tender Listener

A User's Guide to Rewarding Communication

By: Shirley Brackett Mathey

Would you like people to listen and make a positive difference in their relationship with others? We will: Identify listening responses. Separate and practice the listening skills into a understandable process. Recognize appropriate patterns of listening. Develop an appreciation for the appropriate listening response.

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1468577018

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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion For Dummies

By: Dr. Shirley Davis

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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion For Dummies

By: Dr. Shirley Davis

Strengthen your company culture through inclusive and equitable policies and practices The global workforce and marketplace will continue to undergo dramatic demographic shifts—redefining the workplace, the workers, and how work gets done. Organizations that want to attract and retain the best talent and to capitalize on the full breath of their perspectives and experiences must first reflect our society as a whole, and secondly, must create the right kind of work environment where ALL talent can thrive. That means valuing diversity, creating more equitable policies and practices, and fostering a welcoming and inclusive culture. In Diversity, Equity & Inclusion For Dummies, global workforce expert, and three-time Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Dr. Shirley Davis unveils her extensive collection of real-world experiences, stories, case studies, checklists, assessments, tips, and strategies that will give you a deeper understanding of the business impact of DEI and how your role as a leader can contribute to your company's long term success. You'll learn: The fundamentals of DEI and how it drives business performance and impact How to conduct comprehensive DEI organizational assessments to identify systemic and institutional inequities Tactics and strategies for having necessary but difficult conversations, and how to make them impactful Skills and competencies that every leader needs in order to effectively lead the new generation of workers How to operationalize DEI across your organization, measure its impact, and sustain it long term Diversity, Equity & Inclusion For Dummies is a must-read guide for any leader at any level who wants to ready themselves for the workplace of the future and reap the benefits of a full spectrum diverse ideas, backgrounds, and experiences. It also belongs on the reading lists of human resources and DEI professionals actively seeking to go broader, deeper, and have greater impact in their DEI work.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119824753

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9781119824756

God, Ghosts, and Grannies

Guiding Me Through the Generations

By: Shirley Booth-Byerly

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God, Ghosts, and Grannies

Guiding Me Through the Generations

By: Shirley Booth-Byerly

Shirley Booth-Byerly has been addicted to the study of genealogy since childhood; she loves the never-ending battle of discovering subtle links, possibilities, impossibilities, and misconceptions. In God, Ghosts, and Grannies, she tells the story of her family—where they came from and how they settled in South Alabama and Northwest Florida. Telling the events as literary nonfiction and taking genealogy to a new level, her story shares insights from six generations, six unique individuals, each viewing life from slightly skewed, rose-colored glasses. Shirley melds humor, drama, and a living experience with research, resources, and revelations. Gods, Ghosts, and Grannies narrates a story of people’s lives, their hopes, their dreams, and the realities they faced while struggling, working, and tending their homes; the same homes that convey tranquil memories, laughter, sunshine, and contentment—memories forever gone when no one is left to tell the stories or no one cares to listen.

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Abbott Press

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1458220710

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9781458220714

Two Dreams

New and Selected Stories

By: Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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Two Dreams

New and Selected Stories

By: Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Two Dreams draws together the best of Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s short fiction from nearly three decades, most of it never before available in the United States, and includes important new work. The setting of these sometimes wryly funny, sometimes heartbreaking stories shifts from the war-torn, tradition-bound Malaysia of Lim’s childhood to the liberating, but confusing and often harsh United States of her adulthood. Her memory is undiluted by nostalgia, her ear is perfectly tuned to the voices of both her old country and her new, and her eye is sharp to the special dilemmas faced by girls and women.

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Feminist Press at CUNY

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1936932334

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9781936932337

Trails and Trailblazers

Public Education and School Desegregation in Lunenburg County, Virginia 1870 - 1970

By: Shirley Robertson Lee

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Trails and Trailblazers

Public Education and School Desegregation in Lunenburg County, Virginia 1870 - 1970

By: Shirley Robertson Lee

Trails and Trailblazers By: Shirley Robertson Lee Following the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, this book provides a story of how Lunenburg County, a rural school district, in Southside Virginia transitioned - in the span of one hundred years - from a segregated to an integrated, unified system. The Lunenburg story is as important as that of its neighbor, Prince Edward County, although its transition is less dramatic. This story is part of what occurred in public education during this important chapter. As a life-long resident of Lunenburg County and former student attending segregated schools from the first to eleventh grade and an integrated school during her senior year, Shirley Robertson Lee offers a thoroughly researched and passionate study of public education and school desegregation. By the time segregated schools ended in Lunenburg County in the fall of 1969, it had been nearly fifteen years since America’s racially segregated school systems were found to be unconstitutional in the case of Brown v. Board of Education on May 1, 1954. The first totally integrated Lunenburg senior class graduated in spring of 1970. Shirley Robertson Lee is a member of that class. “Many people remember Brown v. Board of Education and think of that as the end of segregated schools in our country. The truth is, of course, infinitely more complicated. This book meticulously documents that transition and all that led up to it in one Virginia County. It is both scholarly and personal and will be of interest to educators and local government, but also to anyone who wants to understand the important history of mid-twentieth century America.” -STEPHANIE DEUTSCH, Author, You Need a Schoolhouse- “The telling of this story is important to Lunenburg County’s history; and I know that those who live here now, others who have journeyed from the County but stay connected, and others into the future will enjoy and learn from it. Shirley’s research was both thorough and very interesting in both the written word as well as her historical photograph collection. Well done and many thanks!” -STEPHEN S. ISRAEL, President, Lunenburg County Historical Society-

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Dorrance Publishing

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1480912182

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9781480912182

Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts, Volume II

A Project of the International Reading Association

By: James Flood,Shirley Brice Heath,Diane Lapp

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Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts, Volume II

A Project of the International Reading Association

By: James Flood,Shirley Brice Heath,Diane Lapp

The Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts, Volume II brings together state-of-the-art research and practice on the evolving view of literacy as encompassing not only reading, writing, speaking, and listening, but also the multiple ways through which learners gain access to knowledge and skills. It forefronts as central to literacy education the visual, communicative, and performative arts, and the extent to which all of the technologies that have vastly expanded the meanings and uses of literacy originate and evolve through the skills and interests of the young. A project of the International Reading Association, published and distributed by Routledge/Taylor & Francis. Visit http://www.reading.org for more information about Internationl Reading Associationbooks, membership, and other services.

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Routledge

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1317639707

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9781317639701

Belle Starr and Her Times

The Literature, the Facts, and the Legends

By: Glenn Shirley

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Belle Starr and Her Times

The Literature, the Facts, and the Legends

By: Glenn Shirley

Who was Belle Starr? What was she that so many myths surround her? Born in Carthage, Missouri, in 1848, the daughter of a well-to-do hotel owner, she died forty-one years later, gunned down near her cabin in the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma. After her death she was called “a bandit queen,” “a female Jesse James,” “the Petticoat Terror of the Plains.” Fantastic legends proliferated about her. In this book Glenn Shirley sifts through those myths and unearths the facts. In a highly readable and informative style Shirley presents a complex and intriguing portrait. Belle Starr loved horses, music, the outdoors-and outlaws. Familiar with some of the worst bad men of her day, she was, however, convicted of no crime worse than horse thievery. Shirley also describes the historical context in which Belles Starr lived. After knowing the violence of the Civil War as a child in the Ozarks, She moves to Dallas in the 1860s and married a former Confederate guerilla who specialized in armed robbery. After he was killed, she found a home among renegade Cherokees in the Indian Territory, on her second husband’s allotment. She traveled as far west as Los Angeles to escape the law and as far north as Detroit to go to jail. She married three times and had two children, whom she idolized and tormented. Ironically she was shot when she had decided to go straight, probably murdered by a neighbor who feared that she would turn him in to the police. This book will find a wide readership among western-history and outlaw buffs, folklorists, sociologists, and regional historians. Shirley’s summary of the literature about Belle Starr is as interesting as the true story of Belle herself, who has become the West’s best-known woman outlaw.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806187263

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9780806187266

The Magic of Shirley Jackson

The Bird's Nest, Life Among the Savages, Raising Demons, and Eleven Short Stories, including The Lottery

By: Shirley Jackson

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The Magic of Shirley Jackson

The Bird's Nest, Life Among the Savages, Raising Demons, and Eleven Short Stories, including The Lottery

By: Shirley Jackson

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.

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146680050X

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Book's by Shirley Vaughn Jackson

Hot Dogs for the Queen

Hot Dogs for the Queen

Hot Dogs for the Queen

Hot Dogs for the Queen

Dying, Death and Bereavement in a British Hindu Community

Dying, Death and Bereavement in a British Hindu Community

The Enchanted Land Eighth Hill

The Enchanted Land Eighth Hill

The Letters of Shirley Jackson

The Letters of Shirley Jackson

Become a Tough and Tender Listener

Become a Tough and Tender Listener

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion For Dummies

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion For Dummies

God, Ghosts, and Grannies

God, Ghosts, and Grannies

Two Dreams

Two Dreams

Trails and Trailblazers

Trails and Trailblazers

Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts, Volume II

Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts, Volume II

Belle Starr and Her Times

Belle Starr and Her Times

The Magic of Shirley Jackson

The Magic of Shirley Jackson

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