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Book Carla s Fault

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Cappi
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1847995691
  • Pages : 83 pages

Download or read book Carla s Fault written by Paul Cappi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Troublemakers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carla Shalaby
  • Publisher : The New Press
  • Release : 2017-03-07
  • ISBN : 1620972379
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book Troublemakers written by Carla Shalaby and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radical educator's paradigm-shifting inquiry into the accepted, normal demands of school, as illuminated by moving portraits of four young "problem children" In this dazzling debut, Carla Shalaby, a former elementary school teacher, explores the everyday lives of four young "troublemakers," challenging the ways we identify and understand so-called problem children. Time and again, we make seemingly endless efforts to moderate, punish, and even medicate our children, when we should instead be concerned with transforming the very nature of our institutions, systems, and structures, large and small. Through delicately crafted portraits of these memorable children—Zora, Lucas, Sean, and Marcus—Troublemakers allows us to see school through the eyes of those who know firsthand what it means to be labeled a problem. From Zora's proud individuality to Marcus's open willfulness, from Sean's struggle with authority to Lucas's tenacious imagination, comes profound insight—for educators and parents alike—into how schools engender, exclude, and then try to erase trouble, right along with the young people accused of making it. And although the harsh disciplining of adolescent behavior has been called out as part of a school-to-prison pipeline, the children we meet in these pages demonstrate how a child's path to excessive punishment and exclusion in fact begins at a much younger age. Shalaby's empathetic, discerning, and elegant prose gives us a deeply textured look at what noncompliance signals about the environments we require students to adapt to in our schools. Both urgent and timely, this paradigm-shifting book challenges our typical expectations for young children and with principled affection reveals how these demands—despite good intentions—work to undermine the pursuit of a free and just society.

Book Trouble for Lucy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carla Stevens
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 1987-10
  • ISBN : 9780899195230
  • Pages : 84 pages

Download or read book Trouble for Lucy written by Carla Stevens and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1987-10 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lucy! Get that dog away from here! How often do I have to tell you that he is not to go near the oxen." Lucy's father is touchy because he's worried about her mother, who's expecting a baby any day. The year is 1843 and the Stewart family is emigrating to Oregon by wagon train. And Finn, Lucy's frisky fox terrier, just can't seem to stay out of mischief. One day when the wagons break camp to move on, Finn is nowhere to be found. Lucy knows her father will be angry, but she can't help that. She simply has to sneak away from the wagon train and search for her missing puppy. Carla Stevens' story is based on actual journals of the pioneers' journey to Oregon. The text combines with Ronald Himler's striking illustrations to evoke an exciting time in American history. Book jacket.

Book Better Days

    Book Details:
  • Author : Veronica Tharpe
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2021-11-19
  • ISBN : 1664195718
  • Pages : 84 pages

Download or read book Better Days written by Veronica Tharpe and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-11-19 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shala and Tyler grew up in Cleary, IL. As kids they were rivals and competitors. After high school they left Cleary a small town 30 minutes outside of Chicago, IL. The town is run by the Fields family. Ted Fields a classmate of Shala and Tyler, he has sunk the town into a large debt, he begs them to return to save the town. Can Shala and her motorcycle riding skills bring the town back to life or is Tyler going to rush in with his good looks, money and his entourage.

Book Conversations

Download or read book Conversations written by Brandino Rangoni Machiavelli and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A totally genuine, unadulterated document tracing a relationship which has taken place online over 12 years from 2001 to 2012. Only the names of the protagonists have been changed to names to names we felt better reresent their predicament. An irrepressible bond develops between these two poeple of entirely differen backgrounds, based on a strong common chemistry. Resisted at first by them and then finally acknowledged, in the face of impossible odds the two heroes of this unique and fascinating story of poetry and chats, of passion and doubts and desperation manage to set down on the pages of their laptops and phones a beautiful and unforgettable love story full of tenderness, drama an fun.

Book Professional Responsibility

Download or read book Professional Responsibility written by Nathan M. Crystal and published by Aspen Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buy a new version of this textbook and receive access to the Connected eBook with Study Center on Casebook Connect, including lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities. Access also includes practice questions, an outline tool, and other helpful resources. Connected eBooks provide what you need most to be successful in your law school classes. Professional Responsibility: Problems of Practice and the Profession, Eighth Edition, is known for its flexibility and adaptability to different teaching methods and student learning styles. The text is easily adaptable to a variety of teaching methods, including question and answer discussion of text and problems, role play, student presentations, guest speakers, and writing seminars. The book is structured to enable instructors to present the materials doctrinally or by area of practice. The extensive multifaceted problems provide instructors with a wide range of options for presenting the material. The authors have carefully crafted the text so that reading assignments are reasonable – typically 10-15 pages for a one-hour session and 20-25 pages for a two-hour session. The book offers three types of problems, each of which has a specific purpose in the student’s ethical education. The text and principal discussion problems are designed to help students develop the ability to make sound judgments for difficult questions of professional responsibility. Each chapter contains Rule Review questions that present multiple hypotheticals enabling students to understand the scope and limitations of important rules of professional conduct. Multiple-choice assessment questions at the end of each chapter with detailed answers help the students review major concepts in the chapter and prepare for the MPRE. New to the Eighth Edition: Length shortened by almost 200 pages, to focus on the most important ethical issues for two-hour courses, which are now the standard. A number of problems have been moved from the text to the website and are still available for professors who have used them in the past. More in-depth discussion of the duty of confidentiality, including comparing the scope of the duty of confidentiality in New York, the District of Columbia, and California with ABA Model Rule 1.6; examining the concepts of use and disclosure; and adding analysis of the “possession exception” to the duty of confidentiality focusing on the lawyer’s decision to take possession of such evidence and the distinction between tangible criminal material and real incriminating evidence. Coverage of a number of contemporary issues involving ethics and technology, including ethical propriety of a lawyer responding to on-line criticism and the ethical aspects of a lawyer’s use of artificial intelligence. Additional material on the obligations of defense counsel and prosecutors, including defense counsel’s obligations when advising a client regarding a competency defense and new problem material on prosecutors’ ethical obligations under Rule 3.8 dealing with evidence of a wrongful conviction. Revised material on delivery of legal services, including new material on removal of restrictions on the unauthorized practice of law, comments on legal services plans and delivery of legal services in criminal cases, and pro bono services offered by law firms. Post-2020 ethical issues, including the application of the crime-fraud exception to the attorney-client privilege and issues of frivolous claims in litigation involving the 2020 Presidential election; new material on Justice Department investigation of “pattern and practice” investigations of a number of city police departments; and scrutiny of financial benefits received by Supreme Court Justices. Benefits for instructors and students: Realistic problems that develop students’ ability to make sound judgments. Emphasis on guiding students to articulate a cogent philosophy of lawyering. Innovative, flexible organization suited to a variety of courses and clinical programs. Organized by major doctrinal concepts, such as confidentiality and conflicts of interest. Offers alternative organization by area of practice. Modular organization for professor choice. Manageable length. Extensive Teacher’s Manual suggests lessons, sample syllabi (for two- and three-hour classes), Q & A, and role-playing models. Multiple-choice assessment questions and answers located at the end of each chapter to prepare students for the MPRE. PowerPoint slides dealing with fundamental concepts and the basic problems presented in the book. Essay questions with outlines of answers on the course website that instructors can use for class discussion or student review.

Book TransNational Leadership Development

Download or read book TransNational Leadership Development written by Beth Fisher-Yoshida, Ph.D. and published by AMACOM. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the business world becomes increasingly borderless, leaders and managers of all cultures are being called on with greater frequency to assume leadership roles in other countries or to lead diverse multicultural teams in their own countries. Transnational Leadership Development acquaints readers with the paradoxes and mental processes leaders need to relate successfully to people with different backgrounds, cultures, and societal identities. The book advises readers on how leaders may learn to see, feel, and experience the world with different lenses; take the necessary amount of time to reflect on what they know and what they need to know; find new ways to communicate; and be resilient in the face of this unique challenge. This powerful guide lights the way for those seeking to develop their people’s proficiency in leading globally.

Book How Can We Make This Happen

Download or read book How Can We Make This Happen written by Nic Vine and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Change can help or it can hurt. The people factor is crucial to success. This book is an eye-opener and a game-changer for everyone involved in making change happen, in any kind of organisation. It is a treasure trove of insights and guidance for young professionals, and a vital refresher for those with more experience. Read how to: get buy-in from everyone through understanding incentives build and maintain trust to get the right decisions quickly avoid crises that may send your change off the rails.Passionate and practical advice is brought to life through engaging fictional stories, personal anecdotes & real-life illustrations. This book helps you to make successful change happen.

Book The Other Canyon

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patricia Geary
  • Publisher : Crossroad Press
  • Release : 2018-06-16
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 181 pages

Download or read book The Other Canyon written by Patricia Geary and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2018-06-16 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carla is a “sensitive”—a woman vulnerable to the vibrations and energies of metal that most people can’t feel. She has settled into a comfortable Southern California nest to minimize her vulnerability and to prepare for her upcoming marriage to the uber-normal Michael. When she comes into possession of a silver necklace that was probably stolen from the Navajo reservation, Carla cannot ignore the signs that compel her to leave her comfortable nest. With her ever-indulgent best friend Lucy, Carla embarks on a journey to Canyon de Chelly to return the necklace to its rightful place. Along the way, Carla and Lucy encounter a bizarre cast of cowboys, Navajos, Hopis, and German experimental filmmakers. Carla must discover new rules for surviving, and what transpires becomes an odyssey that forever blurs the lines between imagination and reality.

Book Luke Castello  The Wind  The Dove  and The Book

Download or read book Luke Castello The Wind The Dove and The Book written by Lucas Stocks and published by Lucas Stocks. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When both Luke’s friends and Hell’s forces spring into action, waking the Hybrid becomes a war on its own. With their old lives gone for good, they will each discover things not only about themselves, but the new world that has become the norm as well. The Wind, Peter Williams, fights full of optimism for his cause, but his own power nags at the edge of his mind. The Dove, Kassidy Ann, will do anything to see the return of the one she loves. However, a new darkness looms over her shoulders. One that isn’t easily shaken. The Book, Audrey Davis, struggles with the lingering effects of their last mission. Still, she’ll fight to her last breath if need be. Hell may not have stopped them the first time, but more sinister schemes have been put into motion. Will they prevail to reawaken the Hybrid, or will the seven commanders under Lucifer swallow them into the dark?

Book Growin    Pains

    Book Details:
  • Author : Deshonda C. Fields
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2014-11-26
  • ISBN : 1499055226
  • Pages : 355 pages

Download or read book Growin Pains written by Deshonda C. Fields and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growin’ Pains by Deshonda C. Fields is about Michelle Collins, an eighteen-year-old girl from Detroit, Michigan, who tries to balance her family and friends after her mother was killed in a tragic car accident. This left Michelle to take care of all her siblings—her three sisters and her two brothers. For her it’s hard being the oldest, but it’s even harder for her when her father is constantly unemployed. So it’s up to Michelle to save her family before it is too late.

Book Keeping out of Trouble

Download or read book Keeping out of Trouble written by Tina Rae and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Keeping Out of Trouble programme will enable secondary schools to provide interventions targeted at students who are, or are at risk of, committing criminal offences. By developing the students' awareness of victims, the consequences of their actions and sensitive issues as well as by encouraging students to engage in self-reflection, students will develop the strategies, knowledge and understanding to support themselves in making informed choices about their behaviour and future actions. This essential new resource is based on a programme that was developed by staff in the Youth Offending Team and The Hillingdon Pupil Referral Unit, who recognised that students needed more support. The programme fits in with the Every Child Matters agenda, tackling the 'Be Healthy' 'Stay Safe' 'Enjoy & Achieve' and 'Making a Positive Contribution' aims. The Keeping Out of Trouble programme consists of an initial tutorial session, followed by 16 group sessions and a final self-evaluation and target setting session. These strands of support aim to meet the following objectives: To enable students to develop consequential thinking To encourage the development of victim awareness To develop an understanding of restorative work and ways that they can engage in this kind of work To enable students to develop an awareness of their own feelings and the ability to label, identify and express these feelings in a safe way To further develop personal insight, gaining knowledge of strengths and weaknesses and the ability to take structured criticism and feedback To encourage the development of confidence and self-assurance To encourage the development of self-reflection skills To develop an awareness of the consequences of their behaviours - both for themselves and others To further develop a sense of responsibility and locus of control, that is, to have internal control To encourage students to further develop and appreciate the perspectives of others, that is, empathy To encourage students to develop a range of strategies to pre-empt and avoid anti-social and offending behaviours To encourage facilitators and students to cooperate as joint problem-solvers, engaging in wide ranging discussions around key issues The programme is aimed at: All young people, especially those who have demonstrated anti-social or criminal behaviour A group of young people of a similar age Young people who have not been identified as prolific offenders

Book New Advances in Dependability of Networks and Systems

Download or read book New Advances in Dependability of Networks and Systems written by Wojciech Zamojski and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book consists of papers on selected topics of dependability analysis in computer systems and networks which were discussed during the 17th DepCoS-RELCOMEX conference held in Wrocław, Poland, from June 27th to July 1st, 2022. Their collection will be an interesting source material for scientists, researchers, practitioners and students who are dealing with design, analysis and engineering of computer systems and networks and must ensure their dependable operation. Being probably the most complex technical systems ever engineered by man (and also, the most dynamically evolving ones), organization of contemporary computer systems and networks cannot be interpreted only as a structure built on the base of unreliable technical resources. Their evaluation must take into account a unique blend of interacting people, networks (together with mobile properties, cloud organization, Internet of Everything, etc.) and a large number of users dispersed geographically and constantly producing an unconceivable number of applications. Research methods being continuously developed for dependability analyses apply newest results of artificial and computational intelligence. Selection of papers in this book illustrates broad range of topics, often multi-disciplinary, which is considered in present-day dependability explorations; it also reveals an increasing role of the latest methods based on machine/deep learning and neural networks in these studies.

Book Straight Through the Heart

Download or read book Straight Through the Heart written by Franz Birgel and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to the articles, this volume includes an interview with Doris Dorrie and the filmmaker's own English translation of her original script for Nobody Loves Me."--Jacket.

Book How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Download or read book How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents written by Julia Alvarez and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2010-01-12 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the international bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and Afterlife, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents is "poignant...powerful... Beautifully captures the threshold experience of the new immigrant, where the past is not yet a memory." (The New York Times Book Review) Julia Alvarez’s new novel, The Cemetery of Untold Stories, is coming April 2, 2024. Pre-order now! Acclaimed writer Julia Alvarez’s beloved first novel gives voice to four sisters as they grow up in two cultures. The García sisters—Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía—and their family must flee their home in the Dominican Republic after their father’s role in an attempt to overthrow brutal dictator Rafael Trujillo is discovered. They arrive in New York City in 1960 to a life far removed from their existence in the Caribbean. In the wondrous but not always welcoming U.S.A., their parents try to hold on to their old ways as the girls try find new lives: by straightening their hair and wearing American fashions, and by forgetting their Spanish. For them, it is at once liberating and excruciating to be caught between the old world and the new. Here they tell their stories about being at home—and not at home—in America. "Alvarez helped blaze the trail for Latina authors to break into the literary mainstream, with novels like In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents winning praise from critics and gracing best-seller lists across the Americas."—Francisco Cantú, The New York Times Book Review "A clear-eyed look at the insecurity and yearning for a sense of belonging that are a part of the immigrant experience . . . Movingly told." —The Washington Post Book World

Book Kiss the Moon

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carla Neggers
  • Publisher : MIRA
  • Release : 2019-05-13
  • ISBN : 1488053197
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book Kiss the Moon written by Carla Neggers and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2019-05-13 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovering a decades-old plane crash pushes a woman into a world of mystery and danger in this romantic suspense novel by a New York Times bestseller. Lost in the frozen woods of New Hampshire, Penelope Chestnut discovers the wreckage of a small plane. An aviator herself, she sees clues to a conspiracy in the rusted-out remains. Rumors of her discovery bring Wyatt Sinclair to Cold Spring, determined to put to rest a family scandal and learn what really happened to his legendary uncle, who had disappeared with his adventuress lover years earlier. As Wyatt and Penelope investigate, old motives are uncovered and new ones created, including a growing attraction between the pair. But when an unknown enemy emerges with a violence rooted in desperation, uncovering the truth will be far less problematic than surviving it. Originally published in 1999. Praise for Kiss the Moon “Tantalizing mysteries . . . a thrilling climax. . . . Neggers has fun with various red herrings while keeping the real secret a surprise to the very last.” —Publishers Weekly

Book Wire Monkey

Download or read book Wire Monkey written by Lynne Bizell and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone who has studied psychology knows about the famous wire monkey experiment by Harry Harlow. My mother was the wire monkey and incapable of giving or showing love. She was very ignorant and abusive. My life paralleled this famous experiment. This book is my struggle to live and survive the wire monkey and my abusive sister and brother. My life mistakes were all due to my mothers influence by not giving love or showing love. This book is about my struggle to find love and overcome the wire-monkey influence.