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Book Mother West Wind s Neighbors

Download or read book Mother West Wind s Neighbors written by Thornton Waldo Burgess and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In Defense of Our Neighbors

Download or read book In Defense of Our Neighbors written by Mary Woodward and published by Fenwick Publishing Group. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the start of WWII, the Seattle suburb of Bainbridge Island was 10% Japanese-American. Walt and Milly Woodward, publishers of the island's community newspaper, fought the forced internment of their neighbors, and helped the island community grapple with their exile. This brave, principled couple remain heroes to the Japanese-American community and the story of their fight helps us comprehend how precious our civil liberties are, and how easily they can be lost. --from publisher.

Book Making Good Neighbors

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  • Author : Abigail Perkiss
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2014-03-20
  • ISBN : 0801470846
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Making Good Neighbors written by Abigail Perkiss and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1950s and 1960s, as the white residents, real estate agents, and municipal officials of many American cities fought to keep African Americans out of traditionally white neighborhoods, Philadelphia’s West Mount Airy became one of the first neighborhoods in the nation where residents came together around a community-wide mission toward intentional integration. As West Mount Airy experienced transition, homeowners fought economic and legal policies that encouraged white flight and threatened the quality of local schools, seeking to find an alternative to racial separation without knowing what they would create in its place. In Making Good Neighbors, Abigail Perkiss tells the remarkable story of West Mount Airy, drawing on archival research and her oral history interviews with residents to trace their efforts, which began in the years following World War II and continued through the turn of the twenty-first century. The organizing principles of neighborhood groups like the West Mount Airy Neighbors Association (WMAN) were fundamentally liberal and emphasized democracy, equality, and justice; the social, cultural, and economic values of these groups were also decidedly grounded in middle-class ideals and white-collar professionalism. As Perkiss shows, this liberal, middle-class framework would ultimately become contested by more militant black activists and from within WMAN itself, as community leaders worked to adapt and respond to the changing racial landscape of the 1960s and 1970s. The West Mount Airy case stands apart from other experiments in integration because of the intentional, organized, and long-term commitment on the part of WMAN to biracial integration and, in time, multiracial and multiethnic diversity. The efforts of residents in the 1950s and 1960s helped to define the neighborhood as it exists today.

Book Hello Neighbor Collection

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  • Author : Carly Anne West
  • Publisher : Scholastic Incorporated
  • Release : 2019-01-10
  • ISBN : 9781338600858
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Hello Neighbor Collection written by Carly Anne West and published by Scholastic Incorporated. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plagued by terrifying nightmares of robotic mannequins, rotting theme parks, and a dark basement, Nicky Roth aims to find out what really happened to Aaron and Mya

Book Uninvited Neighbors

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  • Author : Herbert G. Ruffin
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2014-03-28
  • ISBN : 080614582X
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book Uninvited Neighbors written by Herbert G. Ruffin and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-03-28 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1960s, African American protests and Black Power demonstrations in California’s Santa Clara County—including what’s now called Silicon Valley—took many observers by surprise. After all, as far back as the 1890s, the California constitution had legally abolished most forms of racial discrimination, and subsequent legal reform had surely taken care of the rest. White Americans might even have wondered where the black activists in the late sixties were coming from—because, beginning with the writings of Fredrick Jackson Turner, the most influential histories of the American West simply left out African Americans or, later, portrayed them as a passive and insignificant presence. Uninvited Neighbors puts black people back into the picture and dispels cherished myths about California’s racial history. Reaching from the Spanish era to the valley’s emergence as a center of the high-tech industry, this is the first comprehensive history of the African American experience in the Santa Clara Valley. Author Herbert G. Ruffin II’s study presents the black experience in a new way, with a focus on how, despite their smaller numbers and obscure presence, African Americans in the South Bay forged communities that had a regional and national impact disproportionate to their population. As the region industrialized and spawned suburbs during and after World War II, its black citizens built institutions such as churches, social clubs, and civil rights organizations and challenged socioeconomic restrictions. Ruffin explores the quest of the area’s black people for the postwar American Dream. The book also addresses the scattering of the black community during the region’s late yet rapid urban growth after 1950, which led to the creation of several distinct black suburban communities clustered in metropolitan San Jose. Ruffin treats people of color as agents of their own development and survival in a region that was always multiracial and where slavery and Jim Crow did not predominate, but where the white embrace of racial justice and equality was often insincere. The result offers a new view of the intersection of African American history and the history of the American West.

Book Missing Pieces  Hello Neighbor  Book 1

Download or read book Missing Pieces Hello Neighbor Book 1 written by Carly Anne West and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lock your doors! From the creators of the blockbuster horror video game Hello Neighbor comes the story that started it all. Unravel the mystery in this gripping prequel novel!

Book Quiet Neighbours

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  • Author : Catriona McPherson
  • Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
  • Release : 2020-09-01
  • ISBN : 1448304679
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Quiet Neighbours written by Catriona McPherson and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman on the run uncovers a series of deadly secrets in this gripping, twisty standalone psychological thriller from award-winning master storyteller Catriona McPherson. Lowland Glen is the oldest bookshop in a quiet Scottish town full of bookshops; rambling and disordered, full of hidden treasures. Londoner Jude fell in love with it when she visited last summer, the high point of a miserable holiday. Now, in the depths of winter, it seems a strange place to run away to - but Jude's tired and heartsick, and when the bookstore's charming but eccentric owner, Lowell, welcomes her with open arms, she knows she's made the right decision. Lowell needs an assistant, and the job comes with accommodation too. The isolated gravedigger's cottage isn't perfect for a woman alone, but it's a good place to hide from her troubles - and at least she has quiet neighbors. Quiet, but not silent. The long dead and the books they left behind have tales to tell, and the dusty bookshop is not the haven it seems. Lowell's past and Jude's present are a dangerous cocktail of secrets and lies - and someone is coming to light the taper that could burn everything down around them . . .

Book Waking Nightmare  Hello Neighbor  Book 2

Download or read book Waking Nightmare Hello Neighbor Book 2 written by Carly Anne West and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2018-12-26 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't miss this pulse-pounding original story, the sequel to Hello Neighbor: Missing Pieces, based on the hit video game from tinyBuild!

Book Neighbours and strangers

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  • Author : Bernhard Zeller
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2020-03-24
  • ISBN : 1526139839
  • Pages : 383 pages

Download or read book Neighbours and strangers written by Bernhard Zeller and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores social cohesion in rural settlements in western Europe from 700–1050, asking to what extent settlements, or districts, constituted units of social organisation. It focuses on the interactions, interconnections and networks of people who lived side by side – neighbours. Drawing evidence from most of the current western European countries, the book plots and interrogates the very different practices of this wide range of regions in a systematically comparative framework. It considers the variety of local responses to the supra-local agents of landlords and rulers and the impact, such as it was, of those agents on the small-scale residential group. It also assesses the impact on local societies of the values, instructions and demands of the wider literate world of Christianity, as delivered by local priests.

Book Neighbors  Not Friends

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  • Author : Dilip Hiro
  • Publisher : Psychology Press
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780415254113
  • Pages : 438 pages

Download or read book Neighbors Not Friends written by Dilip Hiro and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an essential overview to the conflicts in the Gulf, and should be read by anyone with an interest in the region, its politics and its interactions with the US and UN.

Book The New Neighbor

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  • Author : Leah Stewart
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2016-06-28
  • ISBN : 1501103520
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book The New Neighbor written by Leah Stewart and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the tradition of Zoe Heller's What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal, a darkly sophisticated novel about an old woman's curiosity that turns into a dangerous obsession as she becomes involved in her new neighbor's complicated and cloaked life"--

Book Daniel Meets the New Neighbors

Download or read book Daniel Meets the New Neighbors written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new generation of children love Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, inspired by the classic series Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood! Daniel learns how to help when a new neighbor moves to town in this sweet 8x8 storybook based on a special episode. A new family is coming to Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood and Daniel can’t wait to meet them. One of the new neighbors is even his age, and Daniel wants to be her friend. Can Daniel help her feel at home? © 2018 The Fred Rogers Company

Book Old Fences  New Neighbors

Download or read book Old Fences New Neighbors written by Peter Decker and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The residents of Ridgway, Colorado, who once numbered only a few hundred, now watch ski-toting tourists head for the Rockies and the new ""gentleman ranchers"" buy more and more land in the area. Once an outsider himself, the author takes a hard look at the pros and cons of change in the American West. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Book Neighbors

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  • Author : Thomas Berger
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2005-07-15
  • ISBN : 0743287592
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Neighbors written by Thomas Berger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-07-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suburban regular guy Earl Keese confronts the yawning pit of chaos in the persons of Harry and Ramona, a younger couple who have just moved into the only other house on their dead-end street. Literally overnight, Earl's painstakingly controlled world is turned upside down. Soon he is engaged in guerilla warfare with his new neighbors, who seem to threaten the very fabric of his carefully constructed reality.

Book Desert Neighbors

Download or read book Desert Neighbors written by Edith Marion Patch and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In the Neighborhood

Download or read book In the Neighborhood written by Peter Lovenheim and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a popular New York Times Op-Ed piece, this is the quirky, heartfelt account of one man's quest to meet his neighbors--and find a sense of community. **As seen in Parade, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Chicago Sun-Times, and more. **Winner of the Zocalo Square Book Prize, and recently named a first selection by Action Book Club. "It's impossible to read this book without feeling the urge to knock on neighbors' doors." -Chicago Sun-Times Journalist and author Peter Lovenheim lived on the same street in suburban Rochester, NY, most of his life. But it was only after a brutal murder-suicide rocked the community that he was struck by a fact of modern life in this comfortable enclave: No one knew anyone else. Thus begins Peter's search to meet and get to know his neighbors. An inquisitive person, he does more than just introduce himself. He asks, ever so politely, if he can sleep over. In this smart, engaging, and deeply felt book, Lovenheim takes readers inside the homes, minds, and hearts of his neighbors and asks a thought-provoking question: Do neighborhoods matter--and is something lost when we live among strangers?

Book Our Animal Neighbors

Download or read book Our Animal Neighbors written by Matthieu Ricard and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Moonbeam Children's Animals/Pets Non-Fiction Gold Medal! A story about the fundamental connection between animals and people and how we can treat all of Earth's creatures with compassion and empathy. Furry polar bears, playful sea otters, slow sloths, prickly porcupines, and slimy snakes are just a few of the many animals we share our world with. And even though we might not look the same or have the same needs as our animal neighbors, we have more in common with them than we might think. Our Animal Neighbors introduces children to the importance of treating all animals with the care and compassion they deserve. We all want to experience love, safety, and respect and this book is the first step to instilling those values at an early age. This planet is our home, and we should all be free to live a prosperous life regardless of whether we have hands, hooves, scales, or fur. “A serious message delivered with humor, simplicity, and charm makes this book an excellent purchase for families that value open-ended discussions. Also a good resource for classrooms and libraries that welcome diverse opinions and points of view.”—School Library Journal