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Book Life with Sally

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tricia L. McDonald
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2009-11-01
  • ISBN : 9780615329505
  • Pages : 151 pages

Download or read book Life with Sally written by Tricia L. McDonald and published by . This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sally s Team

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  • Author : Vauna Jayne Armstrong
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2013-08-30
  • ISBN : 1483674711
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Sally s Team written by Vauna Jayne Armstrong and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-08-30 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After performing a partial birth abortion, Dr. David Hampstead is disgusted with himself and seeks forgiveness, becoming a Christian. A few months later, his mentor and friend (the doctor that talked him into doing the partial birth abortion) has a heart attack and won't go into surgery until David agrees to take his patient the next day. Against the advice of his good friend, Kyle-an anesthesiologist-David promises to help the woman. When he finds out that it is a late-term abortion, a plan hatches. They fake the abortion and actually deliver the baby alive and, with the help of an old rebel pastor, smuggle her to an adoption agency. Feeling that saving this baby, and more, is the right thing to do, they perform more fake abortions. Soon they are joined by others who love the Lord as well as unborn children. In spite of the danger of losing their medical licenses or going to jail, over the next two years, the "team" rescues over eighty babies from women with a broad variety of stories. They hope to be put out of business by the federal government outlawing late-term abortions rather than by getting caught.

Book The Viper Squad

    Book Details:
  • Author : J.B. Hadley
  • Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
  • Release : 2009-09-26
  • ISBN : 9780446567664
  • Pages : 207 pages

Download or read book The Viper Squad written by J.B. Hadley and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-26 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike Campbell, a Special Forces veteran, organizes a squadron of mercenaries to travel to El Salvador and rescue a wealthy American businessman's daughter.

Book The Real All Americans

Download or read book The Real All Americans written by Sally Jenkins and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-05-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sally Jenkins, bestselling co-author of It's Not About the Bike, revives a forgotten piece of history in The Real All Americans. In doing so, she has crafted a truly inspirational story about a Native American football team that is as much about football as Lance Armstrong's book was about a bike. If you’d guess that Yale or Harvard ruled the college gridiron in 1911 and 1912, you’d be wrong. The most popular team belonged to an institution called the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. Its story begins with Lt. Col. Richard Henry Pratt, a fierce abolitionist who believed that Native Americans deserved a place in American society. In 1879, Pratt made a treacherous journey to the Dakota Territory to recruit Carlisle’s first students. Years later, three students approached Pratt with the notion of forming a football team. Pratt liked the idea, and in less than twenty years the Carlisle football team was defeating their Ivy League opponents and in the process changing the way the game was played. Sally Jenkins gives this story of unlikely champions a breathtaking immediacy. We see the legendary Jim Thorpe kicking a winning field goal, watch an injured Dwight D. Eisenhower limping off the field, and follow the glorious rise of Coach Glenn “Pop” Warner as well as his unexpected fall from grace. The Real All Americans is about the end of a culture and the birth of a game that has thrilled Americans for generations. It is an inspiring reminder of the extraordinary things that can be achieved when we set aside our differences and embrace a common purpose.

Book Discussion Draft Legislation to Address Law and Order in Indian Country

Download or read book Discussion Draft Legislation to Address Law and Order in Indian Country written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- ) and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 1388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sally Squad

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  • Author : Tricia McDonald
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-03-17
  • ISBN : 9781939294708
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book The Sally Squad written by Tricia McDonald and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Sally hears voices in the airplane cargo area, she is annoyed her trip to meet her new family is interrupted by nonsense chatter.What the mini bull terrier doesn't realize is a mysterious creature is lurking in the dark watching and waiting for just the right moment to snatch one of Sally's travel companions. Who will it be? And why?That's not all! After Sally meets her new furry family, The Sally Squad find themselves entangled in rescue after rescue. First up-a crabby short-tailed cat named Orangey who is on his way to being a "goner." Along their many adventures, The Sally Squad meets curious and exciting friends. But how can a crown-wearing toad king and directional dragonflies be of any help against real danger? And what about the terrifying man with the gun?

Book Greater Things than Thou

Download or read book Greater Things than Thou written by Dean R. L. and published by R.L. Dean. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gray eyes are the mark of those with the Gift: an inherent ability to connect with otherworldly technology. In a dangerous world filled with thieves and bloodshed, the Gift can change your entire life. Patrin is one such gifted person, and he knows it’s the only reason he’s alive. As a teenager, rescued from bloodthirsty bandits, Patrin give his loyalty to Galin, a deposed Crown Prince, promising to help him seize power. As Galin teaches him about technology, history, and the shifting moralities of man, Patrin must choose where fate will take him. Galin intends for him to assassinate the current king, but Patrin does not know if he can carry out the bloody task. With the help of new friends and the beautiful Lady Lena, Patrin will have to decide between helping one of the few people who have ever valued him, or forging his own way in a dark and treacherous world.

Book Brighter Skies Ahead

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  • Author : Terri DeBoer
  • Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
  • Release : 2021-06-22
  • ISBN : 1631955489
  • Pages : 154 pages

Download or read book Brighter Skies Ahead written by Terri DeBoer and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspiring advice on how to stop mourning the empty nest—and find meaning in a new phase of your life: “Relatable . . . thoroughly entertaining.” —Tracy Brogan, USA Today–bestselling author The transition to an empty nest as children move out and move on to independent lives can be very tough, leaving parents with overwhelming emotions of sadness, grief, and, sure enough, emptiness. In this book, meteorologist and television personality Terri DeBoer reminds you that no matter how quiet your home may seem, you are definitely not alone! With insight and good humor, she shares fifty strategies she’s discovered for weathering the often stormy transition to an empty nest, in short, easy-to-read chapters. Incorporating lessons learned from her own experience as well as from the challenges of the recent pandemic, DeBoer also provides practical exercises and reflection questions—to help you find hope, peace, comfort, and joy in this next stage of life.

Book Bargains

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  • Author : Jack Heifner
  • Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9780822212997
  • Pages : 102 pages

Download or read book Bargains written by Jack Heifner and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1992 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: At the beginning of BARGAINS, the female clerks in the local discount store are preparing for a mid-summer sale and gossiping over marked-down goods that nobody wants. Sally, prim and conservative, still lives with her tyrannical mother.

Book The Orphans of Davenport  Eugenics  the Great Depression  and the War over Children s Intelligence

Download or read book The Orphans of Davenport Eugenics the Great Depression and the War over Children s Intelligence written by Marilyn Brookwood and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating—and eerily timely—tale of the forgotten Depression-era psychologists who launched the modern science of childhood development. “Doomed from birth” was how psychologist Harold Skeels described two toddler girls at the Iowa Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home in Davenport, Iowa, in 1934. Their IQ scores, added together, totaled just 81. Following prevailing eugenic beliefs of the times, Skeels and his colleague Marie Skodak assumed that the girls had inherited their parents’ low intelligence and were therefore unfit for adoption. The girls were sent to an institution for the “feebleminded” to be cared for by “moron” women. To Skeels and Skodak’s astonishment, under the women’s care, the children’s IQ scores became normal. Now considered one of the most important scientific findings of the twentieth century, the discovery that environment shapes children’s intelligence was also one of the most fiercely contested—and its origin story has never been told. In The Orphans of Davenport, psychologist and esteemed historian Marilyn Brookwood chronicles how a band of young psychologists in 1930s Iowa shattered the nature-versus-nurture debate and overthrew long-accepted racist and classist views of childhood development. Transporting readers to a rural Iowa devastated by dust storms and economic collapse, Brookwood reveals just how profoundly unlikely it was for this breakthrough to come from the Iowa Child Welfare Research Station. Funded by the University of Iowa and the Rockefeller Foundation, and modeled on America’s experimental agricultural stations, the Iowa Station was virtually unknown, a backwater compared to the renowned psychology faculties of Stanford, Harvard, and Princeton. Despite the challenges they faced, the Iowa psychologists replicated increased intelligence in thirteen more “retarded” children. When Skeels published their incredible work, America’s leading psychologists—eugenicists all—attacked and condemned his conclusions. The loudest critic was Lewis M. Terman, who advocated for forced sterilization of low-intelligence women and whose own widely accepted IQ test was threatened by the Iowa research. Terman and his opponents insisted that intelligence was hereditary, and their prestige ensured that the research would be ignored for decades. Remarkably, it was not until the 1960s that a new generation of psychologists accepted environment’s role in intelligence and helped launch the modern field of developmental neuroscience.. Drawing on prodigious archival research, Brookwood reclaims the Iowa researchers as intrepid heroes and movingly recounts the stories of the orphans themselves, many of whom later credited the psychologists with giving them the opportunity to forge successful lives. A radiant story of the power and promise of science to better the lives of us all, The Orphans of Davenport unearths an essential history at a moment when race science is dangerously resurgent.

Book Road Tripping the South Atlantic League

Download or read book Road Tripping the South Atlantic League written by Walter Triebel and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive visitor's guide to the teams of baseball's South Atlantic League lays out the methods needed to plan efficient, cost-effective and rewarding road trips to see home games at ballparks throughout the league. It provides carefully planned travel routes, including lists of interesting eateries and attractions (both baseball-related and otherwise) in or near each team's city. The text traces the history of the league, profiles each current team in detail, describes each ballpark and identifies players who have led the league in batting or pitching. Team profiles list more than 300 players who played with a South Atlantic League team and went on to have a successful major league career. Information about nearby teams outside the SAL is also included for travelers wanting to broaden their baseball road trip experience.

Book TSP SM  Coaching Development Teams

Download or read book TSP SM Coaching Development Teams written by Watts S. Humphrey and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2006-04-10 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most modern software development projects require teams, and good teamwork largely determines a project’s success. The Team Software Process (TSP), created by Watts S. Humphrey, is a set of engineering practices and team concepts that produce effective teams, thereby helping developers deliver high-quality products on time and within budget. TSP bridges Humphrey’s seminal work on the Capability Maturity Model (CMM), an improvement framework for the entire software organization, and his Personal Software Process (PSP), practices designed to improve the work of individual developers. Typical first-time TSP teams increase productivity by more than 50 percent while greatly increasing the quality of their delivered products. However, TSP teams only continue to improve under the guidance of a capable coach. One industrial-strength team, for example, increased its productivity by an additional 94 percent and reduced test defects by 85 percent through three consecutive TSP quarterly product release cycles. Without competent coaching, teams often do not progress much beyond the initial one-time improvement seen after the introduction of the TSP. Humphrey distinguishes between TSP coaching and TSP leadership, explaining why the skillful performance of both functions is critical. In this practical guide, he shares coaching methods that have repeatedly inspired TSP teams and steered them toward success. With the help of a coach, TSP teams undergo a brief but intense project launch in which they define their own processes, make their own plans, and negotiate their commitments with management, resulting in dramatically enhanced performance. Whether you are considering the TSP or are actively implementing it, TSPSM–Coaching Development Teams provides the invaluable examples, guidelines, and suggestions you need to get started and keep developing as a team coach. It’s meant to complement Humphrey’s other books, TSPSM–Leading a Development Team and PSPSM: A Self-Improvement Process for Software Engineers. Together, the three works offer a rich resource for improving your software development capabilities.

Book Plan Bee

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hannah Reed
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2012-01-03
  • ISBN : 1101553936
  • Pages : 259 pages

Download or read book Plan Bee written by Hannah Reed and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moraine, Wisconsin's annual Harmony Festival is anything but harmonious for Story Fischer, as a dead body makes an uninvited appearance in the parade-and the person who may be responsible for putting it there starts dating Story's mother...

Book Business Models for Teams

Download or read book Business Models for Teams written by Tim Clark and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you frustrated by these common problems? -Lack of a source of motivation common to millennials and boomers alike -Teambuilding exercises that fail to produce lasting results -Groups that isolate themselves in specialty silos -“Job description myopia,” or employee inability see the bigger picture -Organization charts that fail to show how work gets done Business Models for Teams helps you solve these problems. In fact, it may be the last teamwork toolkit you will ever need! Most leaders make the mistake of over-relying on verbal and written communications. But that approach is outmoded in today’s systems-driven world. Using the same visual tools that made Business Model Generation and Business Model You so successful worldwide, Business Models for Teams lets you visually depict how any team really works — and how each person fits in. The Business Models for Teams toolkit provides the missing half of teambuilding, plus a research-based engagement method that works for employees of all ages. You will discover how to fix job-description myopia and how to accurately depict where work truly gets done: in the “white space” of organization charts. Business Models for Teams imparts must-have operating acumen, whether you work in business, government, or the not-for-profit world.

Book The South Atlantic League  1904 1963

Download or read book The South Atlantic League 1904 1963 written by Marshall D. Wright and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents season-by-season information for the original South Atlantic Baseball League, which operated for 60 years in the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida. (In 1963, with the collapse of the Southern Association, the league was promoted to Double-A status and renamed the Southern League.) Each chapter opens with a season summary and is followed by league standings, team records and rosters, and statistics for each player.

Book  Only the God Knows   Sally Ann Slivinski

Download or read book Only the God Knows Sally Ann Slivinski written by Susan Littmann and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only the God Knows is a labor of profound love. Despite what appeared to be an unnecessary burden to many outsiders, caring for Sally provided our family with insight, compassion, and a deep trust in God. In a remarkable parallel to Flowers for Algernon’s main character, Charlie Gordon, Sally defied the predictions of her medical staff by overcoming the debilitation of a genetic disorder and transforming from complete dependence as a child to a productive member of society. Like Charlie, Sally’s life ended tragically—hers the result of a traumatic head injury that occurred during her early adolescence. In addition to a biographical lens that peers deeply into the life of an individual with multiple handicaps, Only the God Knows provides a historical handbook that critically evaluates the ongoing development of the various agencies involved in supporting our nation’s disabled population. Only the God Knows is intended to provide struggling families, experiencing frustrations similar to ours, with knowledge, awareness, and determination in order to independently research and seek the appropriate services that extend beyond the well-intended advice of professionals in the field.

Book Brushing Back Jim Crow

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bruce Adelson
  • Publisher : University of Virginia Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780813918846
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Brushing Back Jim Crow written by Bruce Adelson and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adelson interviews dozens of athletes, managers, and sportswriters to chronicle the social plight of the presence of African-American ballplayers in the minor leagues. 20 illustrations.