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Angels of a Lower Flight: One Woman's Mission to Save a Country . . . One Child at a Time
by Susie Scott KrabacherThe inspiring story of how one woman's message of hope and opportunity will change the lives of an entire generation. Three schools, two orphanages, a hospital, and an abandoned-infant home -- constructed in the poorest country in the western hemisphere -- were the result of one quick television commercial. The ad was for a charity, asking for donations to help impoverished children in a third world country. Though author Susie Scott Krabacher had a little money to give, what she wanted was to hold the hand of every child she saw and tell them that they were not forgotten and that they too were important. When Susie called the charity, it wanted only monetary donations -- and every other overseas nonprofit she contacted couldn't or wouldn't take on an inexperienced volunteer. So Susie set out to change the children's lives on her own. In this heartbreaking and inspiring memoir, Susie Scott Krabacher tells how the pain in her past caused her to doubt if God really loved and protected her. From her abusive childhood to her experiences as a Playboy centerfold during the 1980s, Susie details with frank honesty how she lost her faith along the way and how her experiences helping children in Haiti, an impoverished nation only five hundred miles from Florida, brought God back into her life. In a country where 10 percent of all children die before the age of four, Susie mounted a brave effort to provide not just charity but opportunity. By treating the children she helps as individuals, Susie gives them the tools to save their own country. Although some of the children she's tirelessly worked to rescue do not survive, Susie will never again lose her faith.
Under a Wing
by Reeve LindberghMemoir of Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Charles Lindbergh's family written by their youngest daughter.
Black Religion: Malcolm X, Julius Lester, and Jan Willis
by William David HartThis book explores the spiritual dimensions (political, racial, sexual, and violent) of Malcolm X's journey from Christianity to Islam, Julius Lester's journey from Christianity to Judaism, and Jan Willis's journey from Christianity to Buddhism.
The Blind Preschool Child
by Berthold LowenfeldThis book is a collection of papers presented at the National Conference On The Blind Preschool Child on March 13-15, 1947.
The Influence of Parental Attitudes and Social Environment on the Personality Development of the Adolescent Blind
by Vita Stein SommersThe author's experience with visually handicapped children and young adults in schools is richly used in this study of the influence Of parental attitudes and social environment on the personality development of the adolescent blind.
The American Century: Varieties of Culture In Modern Times
by Norman Cantor Mindy CantorAnalysis of the strengths of the twentieth-century in the United States
No Time to Lose: A Symposium
by Pauline M. MoorMultiply impaired blind children present special educational problems and as their number increases, their educational needs are of increasing concern, because many of them arrive at school severely retarded in their development. Several years ago the American Foundation for the Blind called a seminar to discuss teaching procedures then being used, as well as ideas for new techniques. The participants came from the field of special education; most were classroom teachers who had extensive experience with multiply impaired blind children. This report is an outgrowth of that meeting.
Families in Focus: New Perspectives on Mothers, Fathers, and Children
by Judith Bruce Cynthia Lloyd Ann LeonardThis Population Council Report shows that, in rich and poor countries alike, parent-child bonds are unraveling and that women carry much more significant economic and social responsibilities for the family than commonly believed. The authors of this book urge policymakers and researchers to focus on strengthening parent-child ties and to look beyond the myth that all families are stable and cohesive units in which the father serves as economic provider, the mother serves as emotional caregiver, and all children are treated equally well.
Sociology of North American Sport
by Stanley EitzenExploration of North American sporting rituals through the lens of sociology.
Women and Families: Feminist Reconstructions
by Kristine Baber Katherine AllenFamilies--often a source of satisfaction, growth, and fulfillment for women--can also be an arena of domination, abuse and pain. This volume uses a postmodern feminist perspective to elucidate women's myraid experiences in the family, providing an integrated analysis of critical aspects of intimate relationships, sexuality, childbearing decisions, caregiving, and work. Throughout, the book focuses on the nature of the choices women must make as thei attempt to meet their own needs while nurturing and sustaining their intimate and family relationships. Challenging the traditional definitions of the family, the authors incorporate feminist thinking and research from a variety of diciplines to illuminate both the commonalities and the differences in the experiences of diverse women. Action-oriented, the book stresses themes of economic autonomy, choice and equality, reproductive freedom, and education for critical awareness, and presents pragmatic recommendations for empowerment.
Sociology class 9 - Karnataka board: ಸಮಾಜಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ 9 ನೇ ತರಗತಿ - ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಮಂಡಳಿ
by Karnataka Patya Pusthaka SanghaSociology text book for 9th Standard Kannada Medium, Karnataka State
No Second Chance
by Human Rights WatchDecent and stable housing is essential for human survival and dignity, a principle affirmed both in U.S. policy and international human rights law. The United States provides federally subsidized housing to millions of low-income people who could not otherwise afford homes on their own. U.S. policies, however, exclude countless needy people with criminal records, condemning them to homelessness or transient living. Exclusions based on criminal records ostensibly protect existing tenants. There is no doubt that some prior offenders still pose a risk and may be unsuitable neighbors in many of the presently-available public housing facilities. But U.S. housing policies are so arbitrary, overbroad, and unnecessarily harsh that they exclude even people who have turned their lives around and remain law-abiding, as well as others who may never have presented any risk in the first place.
Letter from Birmingham Jail
by Martin Luther King Jr.During the struggle for civil rights in the 1960s, Martin Luther King emerged as the movement's most eloquent leader. The two selections here testify to the emotional and logical power of his arguments. In "Letter from Birmingham Jail," King explains why blacks can no longer be prisoners of inequality. His "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered to 250,000 civil rights marchers in 1963, is another moving appeal for equality.
The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory
by Derek WalcottDerek Walcott was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on December 10, 1992. His Nobel lecture is a stirring evocation of the multivalent wholeness of the culture of the Antilles, forged out of a violent history against a land- and seascape of immemorial dimensions. "Caribbean culture is not evolving but already shaped," writes Walcott. "Its proportions are not to be measured by the traveller or the exile, but by its own citizenry and architecture. " He finds the image of this culture in the city of Port of Spain, Trinidad, "mongrelized, polyglot, a ferment without a history, like heaven. " And watching a group of East Indian Trinidadians reenact the Hindu epic the Ramayana in the small village of Felicity, he meditates on the sacred celebration of joy, the rehearsal of collective memory, that is the very essence of human experience, beyond history. Walcott's lecture is a powerful re-envisioning of the themes that have energized and informed his poetry. "
Manithavala Membadu
by PazhaniveluRespected professor Mr. K Ponnu swami shares the different components of schooling and educational system in Tamil Nadu. He also shares the experience of his own childhood period and the peoples whom he met and about their friendship with him in order to understand the importance of human resource even from childhood.
Who Is Knowledgeable Is Strong: Science, Class, and the Formation of Modern Iranian Society, 1900-1950
by Cyrus SchayeghCyrus tells two intertwined stories: how, in early 20th-century Iran, an emerging middle class used modern scientific knowledge as its cultural and economic capital, and how, along with the state, it employed biomedical sciences to tackle presumably modern problems.
Invitation to Sociology
by Peter L. BergerAn introductory text to the field of sociology, called "witty and incisive."
The Second Shift
by Arlie Russell Hochschild Anne MachungA brilliant study of the home as workplace--and how women wind up doing most of the work on the homefront, regardless of their day job.
Restoration of the Republic: The Jeffersonian Ideal in 21st Century America
by Gary HartInvestigates the relationship between rights and responsibilities.
Russia's Fate Through Russian Eyes: Voices of the New Generation
by Heyward Isham Natan M. ShkylarFrom the book: The young Russian men and women who record in these pages the hopes, fears, triumphs, and tragedies their country has undergone in recent years-altering their own lives profoundly in the process-all come from the first post-Soviet generation to achieve positions of leadership in Russia. They report on five challenges central to Russia's survival and stabilization: reshaping the state, coping with new economic rules, striving toward the rule of law, building a civil society, and preserving the national culture and educational capacity. They love their country, while understanding all too well the crippling psychological legacy of seventy years of a dictatorship that was both cunning and cruel in dispensing a plausible Utopian myth and exacting extraordinary sacrifices in the name of that myth. They understand the acute sense of disorientation that overcame all generations when the USSR abruptly dissolved in 1991 and the Communist Party simultaneously lost much, if not all, of its power. As several of our authors recall, it was like waking up one morning and finding yourself a citizen of an entirely different country, meanwhile discovering that your parents were not your real parents and that you had acquired a brand new surname.
Restoration London: From Poverty to Pets, From Medicine to Magic, From Slang to Sex, From Wallpaper to Women's Rights
by Liza PicardThis is a social history of the period 1660-70 with frequent references to Pepys Diary and other firsthand documents. Easy to read style and the perspective of a non-professional historian are interesting. The book gives a flavor of the period rather than giving all the events which occurred during it.
West-Bloc Dissident: A Cold War Memoir
by William BlumA highly personal and candid memoir by a former U.S. State Department employee who became a radical dissident in the 1960s and remains active in opposing U.S. imperialism