Winner of 3 different awards, this is a story of the busing crisis in Boston.
Reprinted by permission of Holt Rinehart and Winston , Publishers . from Genesis — “ The Creation and the Expulsion from Eden ” from The Jerusalem Bible , copyright © 1966 by Darton , Longman & Todd , Ltd. and Doubleday & Company ...
A Common Ground is an eclectic volume of the greatest legends of the world including those from Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and more, along with a discussion on why these stories still matter today.
Galbraith gives little sign that he knows he's being funny ; he merely exaggerates a few details , understates others , and allows us to see the incongruities that result . Essentially he adopts the verbal equivalent of deadpanning .
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the bestselling Common Ground is much more than the story of the busing crisis in Boston as told through ...
Donaldina Cameron Cross - dressed as a Chinese Woman . Head of the Presbyterian Mission Home for Chinese women in San Francisco from 1899 to 1939 , Cameron , like a woman , delighted in being called “ Lo Ma " or “ mother ” by the ...
35 G. Petts, J. Heathcote and D. Martin (2001), Urban Rivers: Our Inheritance and Future, IWA Publishing, London. 36 K. Nam-choon (2005), 'Ecological restoration and revegetation works in ...
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Henry Jeffers thought hed left an abusive father and estranged, affluent family behind.
... Talia Engelmayer , Nurit Engelmayer , and Zvi Hirsch Cohen , the six grandchildren God has blessed me with to date . Being only 51 years old , I hope to have the zechut to meet my grandchildren and great - grandchildren yet unborn ...
In Common Ground Father Andrew Greeley and Rabbi Jacob Neusner present their characteristically candid - and often provocative - interpretations of the history, context, and meaning of scripture.
Bryant Gumbel , my one - time altar boy , commanded the rabbi . " I won't ! " the rabbi responded firmly . " I agree with him . " Gumbel threw up his hands in despair . Here were two very proper clerics — the rabbi more proper than the ...
It made me wonder if perhaps our street formed the outer limit of an established swift territory, if our house might not be a swift edge-land. My thoughts tumbled like this as we watched them, Libby and me.
Molly Bang uses a simple parable about sheep and the commons they graze on to reveal a disturbing paradox about our relationship with the environment that sustains us. Here is a book that invites discussion.
Entertaining and informative, funny and healing, Common Ground is a must-read for all concerned citizens.
Common Ground, the book, reminds us there are meaningful ties that connect us to each other and our communities. The story follows two families living on the same plot of land, but many years apart.
But few beyond Justin’s closest circle have heard his side of his unique journey. Now, in Common Ground, Justin Trudeau reveals how the events of his life have influenced him and formed the ideals that drive him today.
The focus of these essays is a personal response to the changing face of this curved peninsula, keeping in touch with the place where one lives.
Common Ground: Did You Ever Have a Friend Who Made You See the World Differently?
“I don't see much fighting,” Ian added. “It's more like a blood bath. Common Ground is killing people, the adepts aren't doing anything to stop it, and the government can't find any of these people to arrest them or stop them in the ...