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Troubling the Waters

Fulfilling the Promise of Quality Public Schooling for Black Children

by Jerome E. Morris ...

Based on extensive fieldwork in schools and communities in St. Louis and Atlanta,Troubling the Waterscaptures the experiences of today’s African American families like no other book. Reframing the debates around urban schooling, Jerome Morris offers an empirically based, research foundation for a new scholarly movement in African American’s quest for quality schooling. In this contemporary ... Read more

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Based on extensive fieldwork in schools and communities in St. Louis and Atlanta,Troubling the Waterscaptures the experiences of today’s African American families like no other book. Reframing the debates around urban schooling, Jerome Morris offers an empirically based, research foundation for a new scholarly movement in African American’s quest for quality schooling. In this contemporary
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Central City's Joy and Pain

Solidarity, Survival, and Soul in a Birmingham Housing Project

by Jerome E. Morris ...

With Central City’s Joy and Pain, Jerome E. Morris explores complex social issues through personal narrative. He does so by blending social-science research with his own memoir of life in Birmingham, Alabama. As someone who lived in the Central City housing project for two transitional decades (1968–91) and whose family continued to reside there until 1999, when the city razed the community, the ... Read more

$34.09 CAD

With Central City’s Joy and Pain, Jerome E. Morris explores complex social issues through personal narrative. He does so by blending social-science research with his own memoir of life in Birmingham, Alabama. As someone who lived in the Central City housing project for two transitional decades (1968–91) and whose family continued to reside there until 1999, when the city razed the community, the
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The Ultimate Christmas Collection

by L. Frank Baum, Leo Tolstoy, F. Marion Crawford, J. M. Barrie, Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Lucy Maud Montgomery, George MacDonald, Charles Dickens, Frances Browne, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Kenneth Grahame, Eleanor H. Porter, Jack London, Beatrix Potter, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Thomas Nelson Page, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, O. Henry, Hans Christian Andersen, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Selma Lagerlöf, Elizabeth Harrison, Mark Twain, Susan Coolidge, Anthony Trollope, William Dean Howells, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Henry Van Dyke, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Thomas Hardy, James Fenimore Cooper, Lucy Wheelock, Olive Thorne Miller, François Coppée, James Weber Linn, Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Anton Chekhov, Edgar Wallace, Alphonse Daudet, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Fra Filippo Lippi, Guy de Maupassant, Saki, Bret Harte, Robert E. Howard, Oliver Bell Bunce, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, William Canton, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Eugene Field, Nora Archibald Smith, John Mason Neale, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Emily Dickinson, William Butler Yeats, William Makepeace Thackeray, Sara Teasdale, Thomas Tusser, Charles Kingsley, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, William Topaz McGonagall, John Donne, Charles Wesley, Carolyn Wells, William Drummond, James Russell Lowell, Alfred Domett, Reginald Heber, Margaret Deland, John Addington Symonds, Edward Thring, Mary Austin, Isaac Watts, Robert Herrick, Edmund Hamilton Sears, Ben Jonson, Edmund Bolton, Robert Southwell, James Whitcomb Riley, Frances Ridley Havergal, William Morris, William Shakespeare, Charles Mackay, Eliza Cook, George Wither, John G. Whittier, Richard Watson Gilder, Henry Vaughan, Martin Luther, Andrew Lang, Emily Huntington Miller, Robert Browning, Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K Chesterton, R. Austin Freeman, Fred M. White, Robert Barr, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frank R. Stockton, Grant Allen, Jerome K. Jerome, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Algernon Blackwood ...

If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, ... Read more

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If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels,
... Read more
Father Act In The Hour

by Jerome Morris ...

Father Act In The Hour deals with the very important element of "Fatherhood" and the comparison between Abba Father as our Heavenly Father and the earthly, biological father as it relates to the responsibilities towards our families. As Abba Father has a responsibility towards His children, so too does the biological father have a sole responsibility to impart wisdom, knowledge, insight and ... Read more

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Father Act In The Hour deals with the very important element of "Fatherhood" and the comparison between Abba Father as our Heavenly Father and the earthly, biological father as it relates to the responsibilities towards our families. As Abba Father has a responsibility towards His children, so too does the biological father have a sole responsibility to impart wisdom, knowledge, insight and
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Liberation and Education

Perspectives on Black Educational Thought

by Ronald E. Chennault, PhD, Ronald E. Chennault, PhD, Derrick P. Alridge, PhD, Stephen Nathan Haymes, Traki Taylor, Lasana Kazembe, Karen Johnson, Alexis Johnson, PhD, Kristal Moore Clemons, PhD0, Lauren Lefty, PhD1, Adrienne Dixson2, Gloria Ladson-Billings3, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts4, Talia Esnard5, Maria Migueliz Valcarlos6, Wintre Foxworth Johnson7, Linda Perkins8, Worth Hayes, PhD9, Samiha Rahman0, Johari Harris, PhD1, Leoandra Onnie Rogers2, Sheron Fraser-Burgess, PhD3, Corey Walker4, Jerome Morris, PhD5, Luimil Negron-Perez6, James Stewart, PhD7 ...

Series series New Directions in the History of Education
Liberation and Education brings together a collection of essays about Black educators’ and organizations’ quests to cultivate and employ educational strategies for the liberation of Black people. The contributions examine the enduring nature of Black people’s thinking about education prior to and through enslavement to the present. It documents a variety of critical accounts of how Black people ... Read more

$49.49 CAD

Liberation and Education brings together a collection of essays about Black educators’ and organizations’ quests to cultivate and employ educational strategies for the liberation of Black people. The contributions examine the enduring nature of Black people’s thinking about education prior to and through enslavement to the present. It documents a variety of critical accounts of how Black people
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Independence, Colonial Relics, and Monuments in the Caribbean

by Timothy Affonso, Shaian Albert, Bridget Brereton, Stanley H. Griffin, Margo Groenewoud, Danalee Jahgoo, Sheron Johnson, Lynette Mills, Ashleigh John Morris, Renee A. Nelson, Allison O. Ramsay0, Jerome Teelucksingh2 ...

Independence, Colonial Relics, and Monuments in the Caribbean is a collection of critical perspectives on independence and the legacies of colonialism in the post-colonial Caribbean. The contributors examine themes relating to culture, identity, gender, nationhood, heritage and historic preservation in the post-independent Caribbean. In a twenty-first century context where calls for reparatory ... Read more

$120.99 CAD

Independence, Colonial Relics, and Monuments in the Caribbean is a collection of critical perspectives on independence and the legacies of colonialism in the post-colonial Caribbean. The contributors examine themes relating to culture, identity, gender, nationhood, heritage and historic preservation in the post-independent Caribbean. In a twenty-first century context where calls for reparatory
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Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture

by Hank Lazer, Charlie Bertsch, Benjamin Friedlander, Marjorie Perloff, Paul Auster, Charles Bernstein, Maria Damon, Michael Heller, Norman Finkelstein, Bob Perelman, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Jerome Rothenberg, Joshua Schuster, Eric Murphy Selinger, Alicia Ostriker, Ranen Omer-Sherman, Amy Feinstein, Thomas Fink, Kathryn Hellerstein, Adeena Karasick, Meg Schoerke, Norman Fischer, Bob Holman, Merle Lyn Bachman ...

Series series Modern and Contemporary Poetics
"What have I in common with Jews? I hardly have anything in common with myself!"--Franz KafkaKafka's quip--paradoxical, self-questioning, ironic--highlights vividly some of the key issues of identity and self-representation for Jewish writers in the 20th century. No group of writers better represents the problems of Jewish identity than Jewish poets writing in the American modernist tradition- ... Read more

$43.99 CAD

"What have I in common with Jews? I hardly have anything in common with myself!"--Franz KafkaKafka's quip--paradoxical, self-questioning, ironic--highlights vividly some of the key issues of identity and self-representation for Jewish writers in the 20th century. No group of writers better represents the problems of Jewish identity than Jewish poets writing in the American modernist tradition-
... Read more
Research on Schools, Neighborhoods and Communities

Toward Civic Responsibility

by Angela E. Arzubiaga, Miguel Ceja, Anna K. Chmielewski, Davido Dupree, Jacquelyn Duran, Evellyn Elizondo, Ingrid Gould Ellen, Suzanne Fegley, George Galster, Olivia Golden, Courtney Grzesikowski0, Kris D. Gutierrez1, Larry V. Hedges2, Kathryn Hill3, Mark Hogrebe4, Nathan Jones5, John Logan6, Jill McNew-Birren7, Jerome E. Morris8, Sheri Notaro9, Deirdre Oakley0, Katherine O'Regan1, Stephen W. Raudenbush2, Douglas Ready3, sean f. reardon4, Allison Roda5, Robert J. Sampson6, Amy Ellen Schwartz7, Margaret Beale Spencer8, Leanna Stiefel9, Brian Tinsley0, Anne Velasco1, Miya Tamiko Warner2, Amy Stuart Wells3, Terrenda White4, Brian Williams5, Gail Wolfe6, John T. Yun7, William F. Tate IV9, Walter Allen0, Dr. Shirley Brice Heath1, Carol D. Lee2, Henry M. Levin, Ph.D.3, Roslyn Arlin Mickelson4, Michael A. Olivas5, Ronald Walters6 ...

Research on Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities: Toward Civic Responsibility focuses on research and theoretical developments related to the role of geography in education, human development, and health. William F. Tate IV, the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and former President of the American Educational ... Read more

$126.39 CAD

Research on Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities: Toward Civic Responsibility focuses on research and theoretical developments related to the role of geography in education, human development, and health. William F. Tate IV, the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and former President of the American Educational
... Read more
The Ultimate Christmas Collection

by L. Frank Baum, Leo Tolstoy, F. Marion Crawford, J. M. Barrie, Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Lucy Maud Montgomery, George MacDonald, Charles Dickens, Frances Browne, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Kenneth Grahame, Eleanor H. Porter, Jack London, Beatrix Potter, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Thomas Nelson Page, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, O. Henry, Hans Christian Andersen, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Selma Lagerlöf, Elizabeth Harrison, Mark Twain, Susan Coolidge, Anthony Trollope, William Dean Howells, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Henry Van Dyke, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Thomas Hardy, James Fenimore Cooper, Lucy Wheelock, Olive Thorne Miller, François Coppée, James Weber Linn, Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Anton Chekhov, Edgar Wallace, Alphonse Daudet, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Fra Filippo Lippi, Guy de Maupassant, Saki, Bret Harte, Robert E. Howard, Oliver Bell Bunce, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, William Canton, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Eugene Field, Nora Archibald Smith, John Mason Neale, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Emily Dickinson, William Butler Yeats, William Makepeace Thackeray, Sara Teasdale, Thomas Tusser, Charles Kingsley, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, William Topaz McGonagall, John Donne, Charles Wesley, Carolyn Wells, William Drummond, James Russell Lowell, Alfred Domett, Reginald Heber, Margaret Deland, John Addington Symonds, Edward Thring, Mary Austin, Isaac Watts, Robert Herrick, Edmund Hamilton Sears, Ben Jonson, Edmund Bolton, Robert Southwell, James Whitcomb Riley, Frances Ridley Havergal, William Morris, William Shakespeare, Charles Mackay, Eliza Cook, George Wither, John G. Whittier, Richard Watson Gilder, Henry Vaughan, Martin Luther, Andrew Lang, Emily Huntington Miller, Robert Browning, Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K Chesterton, R. Austin Freeman, Fred M. White, Robert Barr, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frank R. Stockton, Grant Allen, Jerome K. Jerome, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Algernon Blackwood ...

If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, ... Read more

$0.68 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels,
... Read more
The Ultimate Christmas Collection

by L. Frank Baum, Leo Tolstoy, F. Marion Crawford, J. M. Barrie, Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Lucy Maud Montgomery, George MacDonald, Charles Dickens, Frances Browne, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Kenneth Grahame, Eleanor H. Porter, Jack London, Beatrix Potter, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Thomas Nelson Page, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, O. Henry, Hans Christian Andersen, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Selma Lagerlöf, Elizabeth Harrison, Mark Twain, Susan Coolidge, Anthony Trollope, William Dean Howells, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Henry Van Dyke, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Thomas Hardy, James Fenimore Cooper, Lucy Wheelock, Olive Thorne Miller, François Coppée, James Weber Linn, Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Anton Chekhov, Edgar Wallace, Alphonse Daudet, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Fra Filippo Lippi, Guy de Maupassant, Saki, Bret Harte, Robert E. Howard, Oliver Bell Bunce, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, William Canton, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Eugene Field, Nora Archibald Smith, John Mason Neale, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Emily Dickinson, William Butler Yeats, William Makepeace Thackeray, Sara Teasdale, Thomas Tusser, Charles Kingsley, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, William Topaz McGonagall, John Donne, Charles Wesley, Carolyn Wells, William Drummond, James Russell Lowell, Alfred Domett, Reginald Heber, Margaret Deland, John Addington Symonds, Edward Thring, Mary Austin, Isaac Watts, Robert Herrick, Edmund Hamilton Sears, Ben Jonson, Edmund Bolton, Robert Southwell, James Whitcomb Riley, Frances Ridley Havergal, William Morris, William Shakespeare, Charles Mackay, Eliza Cook, George Wither, John G. Whittier, Richard Watson Gilder, Henry Vaughan, Martin Luther, Andrew Lang, Emily Huntington Miller, Robert Browning, Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K Chesterton, R. Austin Freeman, Fred M. White, Robert Barr, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frank R. Stockton, Grant Allen, Jerome K. Jerome, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Algernon Blackwood ...

This carefully curated anthology brings together a broad selection of timeless works in one digital edition. Readers can discover essential voices, memorable stories and enduring ideas across a rich variety of literary styles. Prepared for comfortable continuous reading, this collection is ideal for exploring classic literature or returning to lasting favorites. ... Read more

$0.68 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

This carefully curated anthology brings together a broad selection of timeless works in one digital edition. Readers can discover essential voices, memorable stories and enduring ideas across a rich variety of literary styles. Prepared for comfortable continuous reading, this collection is ideal for exploring classic literature or returning to lasting favorites.
... Read more

Extraordinary, Ordinary People

A Memoir of Family

by Condoleezza Rice ...

This is the story of Condoleezza Rice that has never been told, not that of an ultra-accomplished world leader, but of a little girl--and a young woman--trying to find her place in a sometimes hostile world, of two exceptional parents, and an extended family and community that made all the difference.Condoleezza Rice has excelled as a diplomat, political scientist, and concert pianist. Her ... Read more

$14.99 CAD

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This is the story of Condoleezza Rice that has never been told, not that of an ultra-accomplished world leader, but of a little girl--and a young woman--trying to find her place in a sometimes hostile world, of two exceptional parents, and an extended family and community that made all the difference.Condoleezza Rice has excelled as a diplomat, political scientist, and concert pianist. Her
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30 Poverty Destroying Keys

by Dr. D. K. Olukoya ...

Poverty is plaguing the lives of many Christians because they are ignorant of how to overcome this enemy of mankind.Poverty has killed many people and has demoted a lot destinies in so many ways. The Author in this book gives the keys to resist this dangerous enemy. Also herein, he gives the conditions for God's blessing.This book will promote your destiny. Don't miss it. ... Read more

$2.88 CAD

Poverty is plaguing the lives of many Christians because they are ignorant of how to overcome this enemy of mankind.Poverty has killed many people and has demoted a lot destinies in so many ways. The Author in this book gives the keys to resist this dangerous enemy. Also herein, he gives the conditions for God's blessing.This book will promote your destiny. Don't miss it.
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