Download or read book The Soccer Fence written by Phil Bildner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a country struggling with acceptance, hope can come in many different forms. As a boy, Hector loved playing soccer in his small Johannesburg township. He dreamed of playing on a real pitch with the boys from another part of the city, but apartheid made that impossible. Then, in 1990, Nelson Mandela was released from prison, and apartheid began to crumble. The march toward freedom in South Africa was a slow one, but when the beloved Bafana Bafana national soccer team won the African Cup of Nations, Hector realized that dreams once impossible could now come true. This poignant story of friendship artfully depicts a brief but critical moment in South Africa’s history and the unique role that sports can play in bringing people together.
Download or read book Fencing Phillip In written by Rose Walker and published by . This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phillip, the youngest Whitaker son, is in need of a wife, and Aunt Isobel is more than happy to help him find one in Black Butte. He prefers Appaloosa fillies until he meets his Aunt's boarder, Lulu, but will he come to realize that a second boarder, Susan, is learning how to be his perfect partner?
Download or read book Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence written by Doris Pilkington and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary story of courage and faith is based on the actual experiences of three girls who fled from the repressive life of Moore River Native Settlement, following along the rabbit-proof fence back to their homelands. Assimilationist policy dictated that these girls be taken from their kin and their homes in order to be made white. Settlement life was unbearable with its chains and padlocks, barred windows, hard cold beds, and horrible food. Solitary confinement was doled out as regular punishment. The girls were not even allowed to speak their language. Of all the journeys made since white people set foot on Australian soil, the journey made by these girls born of Aboriginal mothers and white fathers speaks something to everyone.
Download or read book Baseball Sleuth written by Mark Fidler and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-08-26 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You buried the body in the yard?” These words, spoken to a man named Bob, crackle from the baby monitor. Phillip strains to hear more through the static. A murder! No one will believe him unless he finds out who Bob is, and where Bob lives. Phillip Crafts loves baseball but he is a terrible player. He loves mysteries, but his teammates laugh at him when he sees crimes where they don’t exist. Meanwhile, at home, his life is even worse. After twelve years of being an only child, Phillip's newborn sister has taken all of his mother's time, energy, and maybe even her love. And he is sure that he can never earn the respect of his “jock” stepfather. The only good thing in his life is his best friend Jackson, the girl next door. Armed with few clues, Phillip and Jackson work to unravel the mystery of the buried body. Their investigation builds to an exciting and dangerous climax, just as Phillip’s baseball season builds toward its final, dramatic game.
Download or read book The Fence written by Robin Friedman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Other Books By Robin Friedman: The Silent Witness: A True Story of the Civil War "Lula's experiences are the basis for this thoughtful tale. The delicate, detailed illustrations convey the experience of living in a civil war with haunting power." -The New York Times Book Review "Friedman expertly weaves the major facts of the Civil War into her narrative, always returning to Lula's experiences as a touchstone By focusing on Lula and her doll-the 'silent witness' of the title-the grand sweep of history is placed very firmly and humanely within the grasp of young readers." -Kirkus Reviews "Friedman's economical text clearly shows how the Civil War touched the life of a young child." -School Library Journal How I Survived My Summer Vacation: And Lived to Write the Story "Friedman's comic timing along with her insights are what readers will remember." -Publishers Weekly "Jackie's tantalizing first lines introduce each chapter, while his witty, fast-paced narrative relates the silly and serious episodes The exaggerated characters and broad humor have a cinematic quality. Like an old 1950s comedy, this first novel is entertaining summer reading." -Booklist "Cleverly drawn characters use convincing dialogue and the plot is loaded with humor The book is an amusing light read that makes some good points about honesty, understanding others, and friendship." -Voice of Youth Advocates
Download or read book The Soccer Fence written by Phil Bildner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a country struggling with acceptance, hope can come in many different forms. As a boy, Hector loved playing soccer in his small Johannesburg township. He dreamed of playing on a real pitch with the boys from another part of the city, but apartheid made that impossible. Then, in 1990, Nelson Mandela was released from prison, and apartheid began to crumble. The march toward freedom in South Africa was a slow one, but when the beloved Bafana Bafana national soccer team won the African Cup of Nations, Hector realized that dreams once impossible could now come true. This poignant story of friendship artfully depicts a brief but critical moment in South Africa’s history and the unique role that sports can play in bringing people together.
Download or read book The Fence written by Darrell J. Steffensmeier and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1986 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on the experiences of a dealer in stolen goods (alias 'Sam Goodman'), whose history serves as a model for understanding the role that fences play in today's society. Steffensmeier provides a detailed analysis of how a fence develops relationships with thieves, customers, and other fences, how prices are set and negotiated, the profits derived, and the skills required for the job, and the meaning and rewards of fencing. Steffensmeier relates the potential consequences: the events surrounding Sam's eventual arrest and conviction for receiving stolen property. Sociologists, criminologists, law enforcement officers, and public policy makers will find this an book enlightening and engaging portrayal of the criminal career.
Download or read book Phil May s Illustrated Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Perfect Souvenir written by Ethan Laughman and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel, and the exhilarating experiences it offers us, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction series. More than seventy volumes, which include approximately eight hundred stories, have won the Flannery O'Connor Award. This stunning trove of always engaging, often groundbreaking short fiction is the common source for this anthology on childhood—and for planned anthologies on such topics as family, gender and sexuality, animals, and more. Travel can whisk us away to craggy mountainsides and sunny coastlines or bustling cities and mysterious jungles. Travel can excite and rejuvenate or intimidate and overwhelm. These sixteen stories reflect upon our immense, intriguing world and our explorations of it, whether you choose to follow the beaten path or abandon it.
Download or read book Bernard Mandeville A Treatise of the Hypochondriack and Hysterick Diseases 1730 written by Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work reflects on hypochondria as well as on the global functioning of the human mind and on the place of the patient/physician relationship in the wider organisation of society. First published in 1711, revised and enlarged in 1730, and now edited and published with a critical apparatus for the first time, this is a major work in the history of medical literature as well as a complex literary creation. Composed of three dialogues between a physician and two of his patients, Mandeville’s Treatise mirrors the digressive structure of a talking cure. Thanks to the soothing and enlightening effects of this casual conversation, the physician Mandeville demonstrates the healing power of words for a class of patients that he presents as men of learning who need above all to be addressed in their own language. Mandeville’s aim was to delineate his own cure for hypochondria and hysteria, which consisted of a talking cure followed by diet and exercise, but also to discuss the practice of medicine in England and continental Europe at a time when physicians were beginning to lose ground to apothecaries. Opposing a purely theoretical approach to medicine, Mandeville takes up the principles presented by Francis Bacon, Thomas Sydenham, and Giorgio Baglivi, and advocates a medical practice based on experience and backed up by time-tested theories.
Download or read book History of Barnstable County Massachusetts written by Simeon L. Deyo and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 1406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Victorian Hansard Containing the Debates and Proceedings of the Legislative Council and Assembly written by Victoria. Parliament. Legislative Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 2040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dog Fence written by James Woodford and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At 5400 kilometres, the Dog Fence is one of the longest man-made structures on Earth. It slices across Australia's desert heart, dividing the continent to keep dingoes away from livestock. James Woodford embarks on a journey to follow its length, travelling some of the loneliest and harshest country in the world. He begins on a clifftop overlooking the Great Australian Bight and ends in the foothills of Queensland's Bunya Mountains.
Download or read book Black Decker The Complete Guide to Garden Walls Fences written by Phil Schmidt and published by Cool Springs Press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether it is for aesthetics, security, or simple privacy, no project is more important to a landscape than its vertical boundary structures—the fences, walls, screens, and retaining wall terraces. This book includes classic favorites, like picket fences and panel fences, but also includes interesting regional variations, like Virginia split rail fences and dry-fit stone garden walls. Also included here are the latest materials, such as new variations on PVC vinyl and polymer-coated, wrought-iron look-alikes. And special attention is given to decorative boundary walls for patios—the latest trend in today’s cutting-edge landscape architecture. Add in major hardscape retaining wall terraces, and even an invisible electronic dog-fence project, and you have the most complete and modern book on fences and garden walls available.
Download or read book Government Gazette written by New South Wales and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Black Picket Fences written by Mary Pattillo and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, Mary Pattillo’s Black Picket Fences explores an American demographic group too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the black middle class. Nearly fifteen years later, this book remains a groundbreaking study of a group still underrepresented in the academic and public spheres. The result of living for three years in “Groveland,” a black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side, Black Picket Fences explored both the advantages the black middle class has and the boundaries they still face. Despite arguments that race no longer matters, Pattillo showed a different reality, one where black and white middle classes remain separate and unequal. Stark, moving, and still timely, the book is updated for this edition with a new epilogue by the author that details how the neighborhood and its residents fared in the recession of 2008, as well as new interviews with many of the same neighborhood residents featured in the original. Also included is a new foreword by acclaimed University of Pennsylvania sociologist Annette Lareau.
