Download or read book Streetwise written by Nancy Baker and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of photographs of Seattle's street children that captures their lives on the streets--and the effects of that life. Meet Tina, a 13-year-old prostitute with dreams of diamonds and furs; Rat and Mike, 16-year-olds who eat from dumpsters; and Dewayne, a 16-year-old boy who hanged himself in a juvenile facility when faced with the prospect of returning to the streets. 57 duotone photographs.

Download or read book Our Towns written by James Fallows and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "James and Deborah Fallows have always moved to where history is being made.... They have an excellent sense of where world-shaping events are taking place at any moment" —The New York Times • The basis for the HBO documentary streaming on HBO Max For five years, James and Deborah Fallows have travelled across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, the America they saw is acutely conscious of its problems—from economic dislocation to the opioid scourge—but it is also crafting solutions, with a practical-minded determination at dramatic odds with the bitter paralysis of national politics. At times of dysfunction on a national level, reform possibilities have often arisen from the local level. The Fallowses describe America in the middle of one of these creative waves. Their view of the country is as complex and contradictory as America itself, but it also reflects the energy, the generosity and compassion, the dreams, and the determination of many who are in the midst of making things better. Our Towns is the story of their journey—and an account of a country busy remaking itself.

Download or read book The Nameplate written by Marcel Rosa-Salas and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2023-07-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vibrant photographic celebration of nameplate jewelry featuring deeply personal stories and rich cultural contexts, collected by the creators of the Documenting the Nameplate project. “Names don’t just tell stories. They are stories.”—Rawiya Kameir Nameplate jewelry comes in many shapes, styles, and sizes—from simple scripted pendants to bejeweled rings, belts, and bracelets with a first, last, and/or nickname. Like so many individuals who proudly wear nameplates, Marcel Rosa-Salas and Isabel Attyah Flower were first introduced to this storied jewelry during childhood. Their love of the style gradually blossomed into a wide-reaching research project, Documenting the Nameplate, through which they’ve spent years collecting photographs and testimonials from nameplate-wearers across the country and world. Featuring essays and interviews from scholars and cultural figures, portraits by contemporary photographers, archival imagery, and a historical exploration into the multifaceted and often overlooked significance of nameplate jewelry, The Nameplate is a tribute to the people who make, wear, and cherish it.

Download or read book The Story of Me written by Diane Jones and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everybody is fascinated by dreams and everybody is fascinated by nightmares. Doctor Jacobson wanted to change the world using dreams and nightmares but became so obsessed that it drove him crazy. It also drove him to kill, or was it just a dream.

Download or read book Peace Within written by Shirley Horn and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Forward by Thomas Shepherd Peace Within introduces new voices to the world of spiritual literature All the stories, poems and spiritual journeys you will encounter in this volume have a common denominator; each contributor was willing to risk whatever it took to find balance and harmony in their lives, expressed in the simple phrase Peace Within. Although life may not always be joyful, people who find that axis of spiritual integrity within, and stay centered upon it, soon discover that nothing which happens in life can disturb their peace. Now, more than ever, humanity needs to grow up, to enter a new phase of life. Our new millennium requires a renewed consciousness of the potentiality within every sentient being. The search for new consciousness has found some guiding voices in the book you hold in your hands. In this profound collection of stories, learn how each author has found a deep sense of inner peace, often in the face of extraordinary circumstances. Your mind and heart will be quickened as you read these stories of courage and commitment. May you find that peace is contagious, and may you catch it here. Wayne Manning, Life and Business Coach, Manning Consulting, Auburn, CA Each story has an unmistakable sense of peace, love and joy in some mixture and balance. Each person found their own way to this treasure in their own timing. Their stories are not only inspiring and informative; they are critical to our future. M Marylou Palmer, Certified Transitional Ministry Specialist, Unity of Beaverton, OR

Download or read book Trip 2 written by Jid the Kid and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOK(S) BY LUKAS/S K/JID THE KID Consider a series dealing with a boy and girl living through some of Americas special time periods. As the series progresses, they will have offspring who will continue to live through significant time periods, etc. We will continue the series after the Civil War. The significant periods will be as follows: 1. Civil War and just after (1845-1866) 2. Post-Civil War and Reconstruction and Industrial Revolution (1866-1915) 3. World War I to the Great Depression (1915-1928) 4. Great Depression through World War II (1929-1945) 5. Post-World War II through the 1950s (1945-1960) 6. The 1960s 7. The 1970s and 1980s 8. The 1990and the 21st Century GET READY TO HAVE SOME FUN AND LEARN A LITTLE BIT AT THE SAME TIME! Blog site has been set up for interaction with the readers. It will be active sometime in March, 2014. It is titled, RETrips.com. Copyright c 2013 Ken Hanna. All rights reserved.

Download or read book It Started That Night written by Virna DePaul and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her mother's killer is on death row...or so Lily thought. Now the case is being reopened--by Detective John Tyler, the man who broke her teenage heart the night of the murder. Only she can help him find the truth. For Lily Cantrell, suffering amnesia and hiding a secret, John's investigation unleashes tormenting dreams, grave doubts and conflicting emotions about the crush she never got over. As much as she wants John, how can she forgive the man who treated her so cruelly? Or trust a man who might betray her? What Lily does know is their reawakening passion is bound to be dangerous...but not nearly as dangerous as the madman bent on killing her.

Download or read book Potpourri written by Martin Green and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-10-21 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Green is a retiree/free-lance writer living in Roseville, California. In 1991, the year after he retired, he started writing articles for a weekly alternative newspaper in Sacramento, Suttertown News. In the same year, he began free-lancing for the Neighbors section of the Sacramento Bee, contributing over 100 articles until Neighbors was discontinued in 2002.. Since 2000, Hes been writing for a monthly newspaper, the Sun Senior News, which goes to over 10,000 households in two retirement communities, Sun City Roseville (where he lives) and Sun City Lincoln Hills. He currently does two monthly features, Observations and Favorite Restaurants. Earlier in 2011 Martin put out a collection of his journalistic pieces, People, Places and Events. In addition to his journalism, Martin has had about 250 short stories published in online magazines and has self-published three collections of these stories (2006, 2007 and 2008) as well as a longer work, One Year in Retirement (2009) and a collection of his Observations(2010). This book is called Potpourri, defined as a mixture or stew, as it contains short stories (published since 2009), a year and a half of Observations, and something new, Last Words, which are essays On Growing Old, On Writing, On Reading, and On Travel. Martin has been married to Beverly (a water-color artist) for 46 years, has three sons (David, Michael and Christopher), three grandsons (Mason, Morgan and Logan), one granddaughter (Stephanie) and two cats (Bun-Bun and Shandyman).

Download or read book On the Wings of Geezers written by The Friday Pilots and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-04-05 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First person stories of The Friday Pilots of Tucson Arizona. Lessons learned flying the old airplanes in the old Air Force, Army and Navy in peace and war. They crashed, they burned, they laughed, they cried, they soared. These pilots are the REAL DEAL. They’ve been there, done that. You’ll enjoy.

Download or read book Cycle World Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1981-01 with total page 1842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Conspiracy of Silence written by Augustine Sam and published by AuthorSuite Books. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "hypnotic" political thriller... with an epic courtroom showdown. The conscience of a town steeped in sexism, vanity, and hypocrisy is pricked by the brutal murder of a mysterious woman in a park in Los Angeles. The shock is transformed into a steamy, seductive scandal when the body turns out to be that of Susan Whitaker, the flamboyant wife of the governor of California. Soon, a dazzlingly intricate shuffle of volatile links leads the police to the delicate theory of secret lover/blackmailer, and to the indictment of Benjamin Carlton, Hollywood's most influential black celebrity. Then curious things begin to happen when Carlton's ambitious girlfriend, Rita Spencer, suddenly unearths the shocking secret that Susan Whitaker did not, in fact, exist. Little does anyone realize that this colossal fraud is a mere curtain raiser to a chilling world of ugly skeletons dating back to the assassination of a U.S. senator in a Washington hotel sauna, skeletons connected to riveting sex scandals in high places, skeletons the FBI and political kingmakers will kill for...

Download or read book Eugenic Nation written by Alexandra Minna Stern and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With an emphasis on the American West, Eugenic Nation explores the long and unsettled history of eugenics in the United States. This expanded second edition includes shocking details that demonstrate that the story is far from over. Alexandra Minna Stern explores the unauthorized sterilization of female inmates in California state prisons and ongoing reparations for North Carolina victims of sterilization, as well as the topics of race-based intelligence tests, school segregation, the U.S. Border Patrol, tropical medicine, the environmental movement, and opposition to better breeding. Radically new and relevant, this edition draws from recently uncovered historical records to demonstrate patterns of racial bias in California's sterilization program and to recover personal experiences of reproductive injustice. Stern connects the eugenic past to the genomic present with attention to the ethical and social implications of emerging genetic technologies"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 2010-10-02 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Download or read book No Sympathy for the Devil written by David Ware Stowe and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this cultural history of evangelical Christianity and popular music, David Stowe demonstrates how mainstream rock of the 1960s and 1970s has influenced conservative evangelical Christianity through the development of Christian pop music. For an earlier

Download or read book Happy Endings and a New Beginning written by Michael Black and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aspiring to share his passion for life through writing and public speaking, Michael reveals intimate details of his lifelong jour¬ney through the pages of his tell-some book, "Happy Endings and a New Beginning." Michael was born in Southern California and grew up with a lot of family around him. At eight years of age, his family moved to Northern California to a small town a couple of hours from the Oregon border. He lived there with his mother, brother and new stepdad in a small town with small town values. Unfortunately, those small town values did not attach them¬selves to every person that Michael encountered. As such, Michael now speaks openly of the many years he endured sexual abuse by several different pedophiles, along with his sexual orientation and the struggles that illuminated because of his choices. He struggled to live two separate lives as he had been raised in a home and church where homosexuality was looked down upon, yet he tried to live his own truth. In order to cope with the mass confusion festering in his young mind, Michael casually began using street drugs, which led him to a fourteen-year affair with those same drugs and so much more. It darkened his life path. At age 33, Michael's high-life party¬ing came to an abrupt end, leaving him hospitalized and sober. He began looking to his Higher Power to sort out his life that was in a state of ruin. Now, years later, Michael shares his personal journey of mayhem over the years, how he met and fell in love with his wife and gives each one of us hope for a better tomorrow.

Download or read book The Rotarian written by and published by . This book was released on 1962-08 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.

Download or read book He s Ok She s Ok written by Jeannette Lofas and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: