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  • The Poems Of Eileen Powell

    by Eileen Powell ...
    When Eileen Powell gathered her Poems & sent them to Newfoundland Press - it was a delight to discover just how many poems, on so many topics, were in one manuscript envelope. Eileen Powell still lives in Corner Brook - her home and turf. In her late eighties, she gathered together her poems and sent them to Pilot Hill Press. That inspired our Development of "Newfoundland Press"; our Lost & Found ... Read more

    $5.09 USD

  • School Food, Equity and Social Justice

    Critical Reflections and Perspectives

    Edited by Dorte Ruge, Irene Torres, Darren Powell ...
    Series series Critical Studies in Health and Education
    School Food, Equity and Social Justice provides contemporary, critical examinations of policies and practices relating to food in schools across 25 countries from an equity and social justice perspective.The book is divided into three sections: Food politics and policies; Sustainability and development; and, Teaching and learning about food. Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Saving International Adoption

    An Argument from Economics and Personal Experience

    by Mark Montgomery, Irene Powell ...
    Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2018International adoption is in a state of virtual collapse, rates having fallen by more than half since 2004 and continuing to fall. Yet around the world millions of orphaned and vulnerable children need permanent homes, and thousands of American and European families are eager to take them in. Many government officials, international bureaucrats, and social ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Public Workers in Service of America

    A Reader

    by Eileen Boris, Cathleen D Cahill, William Powell Jones, Amy Zanoni, Jon Shelton, Katherine Turk, Joseph E Slater, Francis Ryan ...
    Series series Working Class in American History
    From white-collar executives to mail carriers, public workers meet the needs of the entire nation. Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric S. Yellin edit a collection of new research on this understudied workforce. Part One begins in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth century to explore how questions of race, class, and gender shaped public workers, their workplaces, and their place in American ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Laughter & Tears

    Johanna's Story

    by Irene Powell ...
    Irene Powell's new book "Laughter and Tears" will inspire readers. New biography of the life of a wartime civilian hero and lifetime friend is certain to affect readers. LIVERPOOL, England -- Despite the seeming best efforts of generations, poverty, famine and war persist in the world. One has only to turn on the nightly news or read the headlines to know this is true. In her new book, "Laughter ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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    Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy

    by Kay Ann Johnson ...
    In the thirty-five years since China instituted its One-Child Policy, 120,000 children—mostly girls—have left China through international adoption, including 85,000 to the United States. It's generally assumed that this diaspora is the result of China's approach to population control, but there is also the underlying belief that the majority of adoptees are daughters because the One-Child Policy ... Read more

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  • Democracy in Chains

    The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

    by Nancy MacLean ...
    **Winner of the Lillian Smith Book AwardWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeFinalist for the National Book AwardThe Nation's "Most Valuable Book"“[A] vibrant intellectual history of the radical right.”—The Atlantic“This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually take the government itself is at the heart of Democracy in Chains. . . . If you're worried about what all ... Read more

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  • Just Ignore Him

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    by Alan Davies ...
    'A simply astonishing achievement. The quality, depth, emotional power and terrifying honesty of Alan Davies's story-telling take the breath away' Stephen Fry'This hugely affecting book is brave, insightful and, at times, funny about things it is hard to be funny about' Jo BrandThe story of a life built on sand. In the rain.In this compelling memoir, comedian and actor Alan Davies recalls his ... Read more

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  • Corruption

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Leslie Holmes ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Corruption is one of the biggest global issues, ahead of extreme poverty, unemployment, the rising cost of food and energy, climate change, and terrorism. It is thought to be one of the principal causes of poverty around the globe. Its significance in the contemporary world cannot be undervalued. In this Very Short Introduction Leslie Holmes considers why the international community has only ... Read more

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  • Myth America

    Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

    by Kevin M. Kruse, Julian E. Zelizer ...
    In this instant New York Times bestseller, America’s top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our nation’s past.“Outstanding … Wonderfully accessible.” —Washington PostThe United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Distortions of the past promoted in the conservative media have led large numbers of Americans to believe in fictions over facts, making ... Read more

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  • Education Policies in the 21st Century

    Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Birol Akgün, Yusuf Alpaydın ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book explores the agenda of education policies in the 21st century. In the first part of the book, education is handled from a historical and political framework, and the effects of the change of states and policies on education are examined. In the second part, the effects of changes in the economy on education policies and economies’ demands from educational institutions are ... Read more

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  • Quality Education as a Constitutional Right

    Creating a Grassroots Movement to Transform Public Schools

    by Theresa Perry, Robert P. Moses, Lisa Delpit, Joan T. Wynne, Ernesto Cortes Jr. ...
    In 2005, famed civil rights leader and education activist Robert Moses invited one hundred prominent African American and Latino intellectuals and activists to meet to discuss a proposal for acampaignto guarantee a quality education for all children as a constitutional right—a movement that would “transform current approaches to educational inequity, all of which have failed miserably to yield ... Read more

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