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Author: Harriett Blackwell Hook
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9781419615580
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUtilizing a narrative approach, this book examines the history of a number of Virginia families of prominence from earliest times. The many old photographs alone are worth the price of the book.
Author: Elizabeth Rush
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2018-06-12
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 1571319700
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Pulitzer Prize Finalist, this powerful elegy for our disappearing coast “captures nature with precise words that almost amount to poetry” (The New York Times). Hailed as “the book on climate change and sea levels that was missing” (Chicago Tribune), Rising is both a highly original work of lyric reportage and a haunting meditation on how to let go of the places we love. With every record-breaking hurricane, it grows clearer that climate change is neither imagined nor distant—and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways. In Rising, Elizabeth Rush guides readers through these dramatic changes, from the Gulf Coast to Miami, and from New York City to the Bay Area. For many of the plants, animals, and humans in these places, the options are stark: retreat or perish. Rush sheds light on the unfolding crises through firsthand testimonials—a Staten Islander who lost her father during Sandy, the remaining holdouts of a Native American community on a drowning Isle de Jean Charles, a neighborhood in Pensacola settled by escaped slaves hundreds of years ago—woven together with profiles of wildlife biologists, activists, and other members of these vulnerable communities. A Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal Best Book Of 2018 Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award A Chicago Tribune Top Ten Book of 2018
Author: Gillian Gill
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 437
ISBN-13: 1328683958
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn insightful, witty look at Virginia Woolf through the lens of the extraordinary women closest to her. How did Adeline Virginia Stephen become the great writer Virginia Woolf? Acclaimed biographer Gillian Gill tells the stories of the women whose legacies--of strength, style, and creativity--shaped Woolf's path to the radical writing that inspires so many today. Gill casts back to Woolf's French-Anglo-Indian maternal great-grandmother Thérèse de L'Etang, an outsider to English culture whose beauty passed powerfully down the female line; and to Woolf's aunt Anne Thackeray Ritchie, who gave Woolf her first vision of a successful female writer. Yet it was the women in her own family circle who had the most complex and lasting effect on Woolf. Her mother, Julia, and sistersStella, Laura, and Vanessa were all, like Woolf herself, but in markedly different ways, warped by the male-dominated household they lived in. Finally, Gill shifts the lens onto the famous Bloomsbury group. This, Gill convinces, is where Woolf called upon the legacy of the women who shaped her to transform a group of men--united in their love for one another and their disregard for women--into a society in which Woolf ultimately found her freedom and her voice.
Author: Judy B. Anderson
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 832
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 688
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Published: 1905
Total Pages: 1930
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nathaniel Provencio
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Published: 2021
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9781760940393
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Parent engagement with schools is known to be key to student achievement, but building such involvement can be a challenge, especially in economically disadvantaged schools that need it the most. In Community connections and your PLC at Work®: A guide to engaging families, author Nathaniel Provencio guides readers to build this vital engagement by broadening a school's professional learning community (PLC) so it includes parents, families and other community members in a productive collaboration toward success for all students. Drawing on his own experience as a principal who used the PLC process to transform a struggling school into an award-winning one, Provencio demonstrates how F-12 schools can use the focus on learning, collaboration and results at the heart of the PLC process to not merely enhance family engagement but also create a collaborative culture in which all stakeholders become educators." -- back cover.
Author: Judy Butler Anderson
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Total Pages: 1183
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKJames Ward came to America from England in 1730. Many descendants of his son, James, Jr., settled in Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. William Thompson (b.1722) came from Ireland and settled in Virginia. There were many marriages among the children of these men. Descen- dants and relatives are traced for several of these lines. Includes some Thompson and Ward lines where no direct connection is shown with the above lines.
Author: West Virginia. Public Service Commission
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 858
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPart III of the First annual report 1913/14, "covers the work of the Commission as the administrative board of the Workmen's compensation fund."
Author: Betty Smith Meischen
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2010-09-22
Total Pages: 680
ISBN-13: 1453576398
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe rugged character and indomitable spirit of the early pioneers of Stephen F. Austins Texas colony had their roots in a turbulent, distant past. From the early 1600s, their courageous ancestors had pushed westward, leaving the European shores to carve out a new nation from the wilderness. They fled religious and political oppression in search of a better life in which freedom was of supreme importance. Many came with tales of their former struggles in Londonderry, Ireland during the great siege, of terrible massacres and clan rivalries in the times of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland. They vividly remembered the tribulations of Martin Luther and the deadly religious split with the Catholic Church. More recently, memories of their parents participation in the American Revolution, of dramatic, true life scenes such as depicted in the movie The Patriot filled their minds, their fathers having ridden along side of the wily Swamp Fox, Francis Marion. These pioneers associated themselves with men like Travis, Crockett, Houston and Andrew Jackson. Many of these early trailblazers were Scots-Irish and German immigrants. They were on a westward trek to grasp a special prize, to seal Americas Manifest Destiny. And that prize they sought was Texas. From Jamestown to Texas is the story of these intrepid pioneers and their ancestors who cleared and farmed the land, who fought the Indians, battled the elements, and carved out this wonderful country that we have today.
