Download or read book The Paper Daughters of Chinatown written by Heather B. Moore and published by Shadow Mountain. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on true events, The Paper Daughters of Chinatown is a powerful story about a largely unknown chapter in history and the women who emerged as heroes. In the late nineteenth century, San Francisco is a booming city with a dark side, one where a powerful underground organization-the criminal tong-buys and sells young Chinese women into prostitution and slavery. These "paper daughters," so called because fake documents gain them entry to America but leave them without legal identity, generally have no recourse. But the Occidental Mission Home for Girls is one bright spot of hope and help. Told in alternating chapters, this rich narrative follows the stories of young Donaldina "Dolly" Cameron, who works in the mission home, and Mei Lien, a "paper daughter" who thinks she is coming to America for an arranged marriage but instead is sold into a life of shame and despair. Dolly, a real-life pioneering advocate for social justice, bravely fights corrupt officials and violent gangs, helping to win freedom for thousands of Chinese women. Mei Lien endures heartbreak and betrayal in her search for hope, belonging, and love. Their stories merge in this gripping account of the courage and determination that helped to shape a new course of women's history in America.

Download or read book Will My Name Be Shouted Out written by Stephen O'Connor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-09-02 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes efforts to educate urban youngsters through writing.

Download or read book The Manuscript written by Michael Stephen Fuchs and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-01-14 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two million dollars in a black bag. The meaning of life hidden on a deviously encrypted web site. And several dozen heavily armed guys with serious existential issues. The hunt is on for The Manuscript. The Manuscript is a philosophical cyber-thriller – a novel of huge ideas disguised as a blow-your-hair-back thrill ride. Its cast of unforgettable characters includes a gun-toting urban professional with a tragic weakness for Internet discussion groups; a former chemistry student and hacker turned wildly successful online narcotics dealer; a pair of slacker post-grads with big questions and rapidly escalating problems; a demonstrably unstoppable hitman; a dodgy federal agent with his hands in the cookie jar up to both elbows; a nameless cadre of menacing and well-armed mercenaries (possibly in the employ of one of the world's major religions); and an entire gang of Angry Young Taoists, serenely blasting hell out of all and sundry. What could bring a group like this together? Nothing less than the meaning of life – discovered in the remote highlands of South America by an infamous 19th-century explorer, and now said to be hidden in the vast out-of-bounds spaces at the far edge of a shadow Internet. This is the Manuscript. Caught up in a perilous race to recover and control it are a group of young people so beset by existential unease that they are willing to risk death to know the truth; and others, backed by powerful interests, who have little compunction about killing to keep it hidden. Get ready for an ungentle ride where a number of people will get enlightened, a few will get rich, and all too many will get dead. Along the way, be prepared for some uncommon commentary on the eternal verities, computer security, rules for gunfights, post-millennial information soot, and the possibility of human connection for a generation that believes in nothing – save what they read on the Net.

Download or read book Horse Thief written by Bonnie Bryant and published by Skylark. This book was released on 2013-02-27 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Saddle Club is taking part in a big Pony Club rally being held at Pine Hollow. Riders from all the local Pony Clubs are there, including Stevie's boyfriend, Phil Marsten. For once Stevie and Phil aren't being too competitive so everyone is having a good time—until a thief spoils the fun by stealing $500 from the stable office. Veronica diAngelo says she saw Phil hanging around the office and acting suspiciously. And Phil did need money. But he'd never resort to theft, would he? Is Veronica up to something? Or is there a thief among the riders? It's up to the Saddle Club to find out and clear Phil's name.

Download or read book Mastering Access 2002 written by Celeste Robinson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-07-14 with total page 1218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master Everything Access 2002 Has to Offer Reap the benefits of the latest release of Microsoft Access with Mastering Access 2002 Premium Edition. Get clelear, in-depth coverage of the entire range of Access functionality, from basic to advanced. Special attention to new features makes the transition from an earlier version quick and painless, and 200 pages of bonus macro material teaches you ways to customize and automate Access to make it work for you. Establish Key Skills Create a database that meets your precise needs Design easy-to-use forms with effective visual elements Expand and collapse views to bring in supporting details Import and export data, including XML Examine data using subdatasheet views Summarize, analyze, and trend data with PivotTables and PivotCharts Filter data and create reports Publish Access data to a Web server Personalize Access menus and toolbars Keep your data secure Take advantage of improved integration with other Office applications Create custom error messages Then Tackle These Cutting-Edge Topics Recording and running macros Maintaining data with macros Handling complex macro navigation Using macros to work with groups of records Identifying and correcting macro errors Using Access as SQL Server's front end Using Access as the core of a database-driven Web site Managing replication and conflict resolution Using Visual Basic to get the most out of Access Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Download or read book Speaking of Race written by Celeste Headlee and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Boston Globe Most Anticipated Fall Book In this urgently needed guide, the PBS host, award-winning journalist, and author of We Need to Talk teaches us how to have productive conversations about race, offering insights, advice, and support. A self-described “light-skinned Black Jew,” Celeste Headlee has been forced to speak about race—including having to defend or define her own—since childhood. In her career as a journalist for public media, she’s made it a priority to talk about race proactively. She’s discovered, however, that those exchanges have rarely been productive. While many people say they want to talk about race, the reality is, they want to talk about race with people who agree with them. The subject makes us uncomfortable; it’s often not considered polite or appropriate. To avoid these painful discussions, we stay in our bubbles, reinforcing our own sense of righteousness as well as our division. Yet we gain nothing by not engaging with those we disagree with; empathy does not develop in a vacuum and racism won’t just fade away. If we are to effect meaningful change as a society, Headlee argues, we have to be able to talk about what that change looks like without fear of losing friends and jobs, or being ostracized. In Speaking of Race, Headlee draws from her experiences as a journalist, and the latest research on bias, communication, and neuroscience to provide practical advice and insight for talking about race that will facilitate better conversations that can actually bring us closer together. This is the book for people who have tried to debate and educate and argue and got nowhere; it is the book for those who have stopped talking to a neighbor or dread Thanksgiving dinner. It is an essential and timely book for all of us.

Download or read book Rebels Romantics written by Jeanmarie Anaya and published by Jeanmarie Anaya. This book was released on 2023-07-01 with total page 741 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Netflix’s Outerbanks meets Southern California’s skateboarding scene in a YA coming-of-age contemporary romance about carving your own path, perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen, Kasie West, and Emily Lowry. Vista Buscato, once a perfect coastal paradise, now teeters on the edge of a revolution. Skateboards and the badass punks who ride them aren’t welcome. Which is exactly why gutsy skateboarder Effie Fox plans to ditch the bougie SoCal town now that high school has ended. But her breakout partner and lifelong crush, Matty, is suddenly lovesick for Celeste—a sweet and mysterious beauty who’s everything Effie is not. It turns out Celeste has a load of secrets and an ever-changing identity. The sooner she’s gone, the better. So Effie pulls off the perfect trick to get rid of the girl. But the move feels like a failure, not fearless, when she’s no closer to a future with a heartbroken Matty. As their skateboarder friends fight for space in their uptight hometown, new possibilities kickflip Effie’s heart in another direction, closer to a certain sexy rebel who believes Vista Buscato is worth fighting for. Effie’s torn to pieces wondering what it means to care about someone and if it’s braver to stay and fight than it is to split.

Download or read book Child of Darkness written by Virginia Andrews and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-25 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She grew up in the shadows of lies. Now the past will come to light ... As a child, she was Baby Celeste, the one thing that kept her mother in touch with reality. But now her mother is in an institution, and 16-year-old Celeste Atwell is alone in the world. Adopted by a wealthy couple, Celeste has everything a girl could desire: designer clothes, luxury cars, even a handsome boyfriend. But her indulgence may come at a steep price - because the secrets hidden within her new family are too dangerous to keep under wraps ...

Download or read book Only You written by Celeste O. Norfleet and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a media fiasco leads to unexpected love between fashion buyer Prudence Washington and NFL quarterback Michael "Speed" Hunter, Prudence becomes the target of a relentless stalker who will stop at nothing to destroy her. Original.

Download or read book Private Demons written by Robert Masello and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone hides a secret from the past . . . but Lucien’s secret is inescapable. A living thing that has followed him across the world, from the horrors of Southeast Asia to the penthouse suites of the rich and famous. Everyone craves money, power, and sex . . . but Lucien can satisfy his every urge, every decadent impulse, every erotic whim—for a price. Everyone has private demons . . . but Lucien’s demon is all too real. All too powerful. All too hungry . . . for human souls.

Download or read book Data Driven HR written by Bernard Marr and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINALIST: Business Book Awards 2019 - HR and Management Category Traditionally seen as a purely people function unconcerned with numbers, HR is now uniquely placed to use company data to drive performance, both of the people in the organization and the organization as a whole. Data-Driven HR is a practical guide which enables HR professionals to leverage the value of the vast amount of data available at their fingertips. Covering how to identify the most useful sources of data, collect information in a transparent way that is in line with data protection requirements and turn this data into tangible insights, this book marks a turning point for the HR profession. Covering all the key elements of HR including recruitment, employee engagement, performance management, wellbeing and training, Data-Driven HR examines the ways data can contribute to organizational success by, among other things, optimizing processes, driving performance and improving HR decision making. Packed with case studies and real-life examples, this is essential reading for all HR professionals looking to make a measurable difference in their organizations.

Download or read book Clearer Cleaner Safer Greener written by Gary Null and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses environmental pollution, food production, and waste disposal while offering suggestions on how to clean up the environment.

Download or read book Coalition Provisional Authority s Experience with Governance in Iraq written by Celeste J. Ward and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is a product of the U.S. Institute of Peace¿s Iraq Experience Project. It is the third of three reports examining important lessons identified in Iraq prior to the country¿s transition to sovereignty in June 2004 and is based on extensive interviews with 113 officials, soldiers, and contractors who served there. This report is focused specifically on governance in Iraq under the Coalition Provisional Authority. The other two reports examine security and reconstruction, respectively. These reports are intended for use as training aids in programs that prepare individuals for service in peace and stability operations, so that lessons identified in Iraq may be translated into lessons learned by those assigned to future missions.

Download or read book Virtual Cities written by Konstantinos Dimopoulos and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtual cities are places of often-fractured geographies, impossible physics, outrageous assumptions and almost untamed imaginations given digital structure. This book, the first atlas of its kind, aims to explore, map, study and celebrate them. To imagine what they would be like in reality. To paint a lasting picture of their domes, arches and walls. From metropolitan sci-fi open worlds and medieval fantasy towns to contemporary cities and glimpses of gothic horror, author and urban planner Konstantinos Dimopoulos and visual artist Maria Kallikaki have brought to life over forty game cities. Together, they document the deep and exhilarating history of iconic gaming landscapes through richly illustrated commentary and analysis. Virtual Cities transports us into these imaginary worlds, through cities that span over four decades of digital history across literary and gaming genres. Travel to fantasy cities like World of Warcraft’s Orgrimmar and Grim Fandango’s Rubacava; envision what could be in the familiar cities of Assassin’s Creed’s London and Gabriel Knight’s New Orleans; and steal a glimpse of cities of the future, in Final Fantasy VII’s Midgar and Half-Life 2’s City 17. Within, there are many more worlds to discover – each formed in the deepest corners of the imagination, their immense beauty and complexity astounding for artists, game designers, world builders and, above all, anyone who plays and cares about video games.

Download or read book One Sure Thing written by Celeste O. Norfleet and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forced to team up with brilliant plastic surgeon Raymond Gates to care for his beloved grandmother, Mamma Lou, emergency room doctor Hope Adams finds herself trapped in the clutches of this mischievous matchmaker who is determined to bring these two wounded souls together. Original.

Download or read book Gender and Rock written by Mary Celeste Kearney and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book of its kind, Gender & Rock introduces readers to how gender operates in multiple sites within rock culture, including its music, lyrics, imagery, performances, instruments, and business practices. Additionally, it explores how rock culture, despite a history of regressive gender politics, has provided a place for musicians and consumers to experiment with alternate identities and ways of being. Drawing on feminist and queer scholarship in popular music studies, musicology, cultural studies, sociology, performance studies, literary analysis, and media studies, Gender & Rock provides readers with a survey of the topics, theories, and methods necessary for understanding and conducting analyses of gender in rock culture. Via an intersectional approach, the book examines how the gendering of particular roles, practices, technologies, and institutions within rock culture is related to discourses of race, sexuality, age, and class.

Download or read book Mother on Fire written by Sandra Tsing Loh and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sandra Tsing Loh is the fiercest, funniest, and most incredibly honest voice to emerge from the "mommy war" debates. Here she fires away with the trademark satire of societal and personal irks, prompted by her own midlife crisis, when she realizes she can't afford private school for her daughter -- and her only alternative is her neighborhood's beyond-repair public school"--Publisher's note