Marjorie: 555 books
Memories from Ninety Years
The Lives of the Tanner Sisters of Portsmouth
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Three children born early in 1914-1918 are given 3 lights, 1 red, 1 white, 1 blue. They are playmates living in 3 adjacent houses. It is not till later that they realise that these lights signify VICTORY at the end of the 1st World War, a war to end all wars it was said. Now read the memories from...
by Marjorie Newton
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
From the arrival of the first Mormon missionaries in New Zealand in 1854 until stakehood and the dedication of the Hamilton New Zealand Temple in 1958, Tiki and Temple tells the enthralling story of Mormonism’s encounter with the genuinely different but surprisingly harmonious Maori culture.
Mormon...
by Marie L. Campbell, Marjorie L. DeVault, Tim Diamond
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
In this edited collection, institutional ethnographers draw on their field research experiences to address different aspects of institutional ethnographic practice. As institutional ethnography embraces the actualities of people's experiences and lives, the contributors utilize their research to reveal...
Beyond Schizophrenia
Living and Working with a Serious Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
The experience of living and working with schizophrenia is often fraught with challenges and setbacks. This book is a comprehensive attempt to explain why, in spite of near-miraculous advances in medication and treatment, persons with mental illness fare worse than almost any other disadvantaged group...
The Prisoners' World
Portraits of Convicts Caught in the Incarceration Binge
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Drawing on twenty-five years of teaching prison college and volunteer classes in eleven Michigan and California prisons, The Prisoners' World strives to make the 'prisoners' voice' come alive for regular college students. The book starts off by tracing shifts in social definitions of criminality,...
Changing communities
Stories of migration, displacement and solidarities
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Issues of displacement and dispossession have become defining characteristics of a globalised 21st century. People are moving within and across national borders, whether displaced, relocated or moving in search of better livelihoods. This book brings theoretical understandings of migration and displacement...
The Written Soul
Poetry That Shakes the Soul
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
The Written Soul
Every day my soul begins to write.
It seems like my soul has a flashlight.
So many stories inside of me,
My soul just wants to be free.
My soul is ready to fly.
The stories inside refuse to die.
I must inscribe them on paper
Before...
by Marjorie Owen
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Detective Chief Inspector Richard Hayward had just started his vacation with his pregnant wife when the call came. Another murder had interrupted the town's peaceful existence, and the murderer won't stop at just one victim.
Richard will need all of his expertise if he's...
by Marjorie Cohn, Kathleen Gilberd
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Rules of Disengagement examines the reasons men and women in the military have disobeyed orders and resisted the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It takes readers into the courtroom where sailors, soldiers, and Marines have argued that these wars are illegal under international law and unconstitutional...
Sound Healing: Vibrational Healing With Ohm Tuning Forks
A Practical Application Manual
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Sound Healing is a practical application manual for integrating tuning forks into your healing practice. Second Edition features a new 8-page instructional color section and introduces more than thirty new treatment photos. In addition, twenty illustrations show treatment protocol for the physical...
Teaching Creative and Critical Thinking
An Interactive Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
This workbook contains over sixty activities for learning-through-play. The activities were created by teacher-candidates, retired educators, and student-learners. They include interdisciplinary activities for first through twelfth grade levels. Each activity includes how-to-implement instructions along with applicable learning standards.
Art Themes
Choices in Art Learning and Making
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Flexible in approach and full of colorful examples, this textbook provides a basic introduction to what art is and can be in the lives of people who do not necessarily think of themselves as "artists." You will be taught about a variety of art themes, genres, materials, and processes that...
Christening Pagan Mysteries
Erasmus in Pursuit of Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1981
This is the first book devoted to investigating the scholarly commonplace that Erasmus’ revival of classical learning defines his evangelical humanism. It acknowledges that it was a feat for him to challenge the obscurantism of late medieval schooling by restoring classical studies. It recognizes...
On the Road to High-Quality Early Learning
Changing Children's Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This timely book will help policymakers and practitioners convert their visions of high-quality early education into on-the-ground reality by providing a much-needed, richly detailed look at how states can design, fund, and manage exemplary programs. The authors describe and analyze how four states—Michigan,...