Lisa Anne Smith: 7 books

Book cover of Vancouver Is Ashes

Vancouver Is Ashes

The Great Fire of 1886

by Lisa Anne Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014

On the morning of June 13, 1886, a rogue wind fanned the flames of a small clearing fire—and within five hours, the newly incorporated city of Vancouver, British Columbia, had been reduced to smoldering ash. Vancouver is Ashes: The Great Fire of 1886 is the first detailed exploration of what happened...
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Our Friend Joe

The Joe Fortes Story

by Lisa Anne Smith, Barbara Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012

When a young black man named Seraphim “Joe” Fortes arrived in Vancouver in 1885, with little to his name, no one could have possibly suspected that one hundred years later he would be voted “Citizen of the Century.” Our Friend Joe is the first biography of the West Indian sailor who became...
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Emily Patterson

The Heroic Life of a Milltown Nurse

by Lisa Anne Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017

When Emily Patterson arrives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and children in 1862, she finds herself worlds away from Bath, Maine, the staunchly pious township of her birth. Up the remote reaches of Vancouver Island’s Alberni Canal, Emily learns much about self-reliance in a fledgling...
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The Civil War in Georgia

A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion

by Albert Churella, Barton A. Myers, Brad Wood
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011

Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in...
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Authentic Movement

Essays by Mary Starks Whitehouse, Janet Adler and Joan Chodorow

by Suzanne Lovell, David Mars, Sandy Dibbell-Hope
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999

Patrizia Pallaro's second volume of essays on Authentic Movement, eight years after her first, is a tour de force. It is indeed "an extraordinary array of papers", as Pallaro puts it, and an immensely rich, moving and highly readable sweep through the landscapes of Authentic Movement, "this...
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Learning from Young Children

Research in Early Childhood Music

by Suzanne L. Burton, Jenny Alvarez, Audrey Berger Cardany
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011

In early childhood, the most important period of learning and human development, young children often achieve developmental milestones in a short time. Learning from Young Children: Research in Early Childhood Music presents research on the importance of fostering musical growth during this period. These studies discuss: _
Book cover of Pathways, Potholes, and the Persistence of Women in Science
by Sharla Alegria, Mindy Anderson-Knott, Catherine White Berheide
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016

Training for and pursuing a career in science can be treacherous for women; many more begin than ultimately complete at every stage. Characterizing this as a pipeline problem, however, leads to a focus on individual women instead of structural conditions. The goal of the book is to offer an alternative...
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