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From Roadways to Hallways: One Officer's Mission to Reach Young Hearts

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Report copyright infringementby Lazaron II (Author) Number of Pages: 116 Dimensions: 0.32 x 8 x 5.25 IN Publication Date: July 15, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Michelle Weger (Author)What if your greatest challenges could become your greatest strengths? Well, guess what? They can!You have big dreams...Yet obstacles, fears, and even your own body might be holding you back. It's overwhelming, and it's far less scary to hit the snooze button, roll back over, and carry on living life as you know it...But your fear is what's really holding you back... and you can overcome it!Living with narcolepsy and cataplexy, Michelle W...

Prison: The Inside Story: Transforming Lives as an Officer and Educator

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Report copyright infringementby Jack Myette (Author)Author Jack Myette reveals a world that only a small segment of the population will ever see. Prison: The Inside Story brings to light the perspectives of prison officers, teachers, and, most importantly, inmates.The irate, 275-pound prisoner grabbed an officer's plexiglass shield and swung it so hard that it knocked Jack Myette's helmet clean off his head. Welcome to work as a corrections medical aide in a psychiatric prison, where Myette h...

The Ormonds of Borriyalloak: The story of the great philanthropist Hon Francis Ormond and his family

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Report copyright infringementby Edward (Ted) Stephens (Author)Francis Ormond, a great Victorian philanthropist, was fired by his passion to bring education to the masses. Not having children, he contributed millions of pounds to educational buildings and institutions.Francis Ormond travelled from Scotland to Shelford near Geelong in 1843 with his father Captain Francis Ormond, mother Isabella, and her tiny baby Alfred. There they built a hotel on the road to the Western District. They were th...

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Report copyright infringementby Eric J. Neal (Author)Incident Command and Leadership Decision Making on the FiregroundBy Eric J. NealIn the high-stakes environment of the fireground, every second counts-and every decision can be the difference between chaos and control, injury and rescue, or even life and death. In Incident Command and Leadership Decision Making on the Fireground, Fire Chief Eric J. Neal delivers a comprehensive, experience-driven guide designed to shape confident incident co...

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Autism and Other Adventures: Lucy's Story (Naught to Nineteen)

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Report copyright infringementby Lucy Blackman (Author)Born with autism, Lucy could not understand much of what was said around her. Her own language came later from newspapers and books. She created stories and poems in her head from the words she had read. As an adult she still barely speaks.In 1987 early in her teens Lucy started to use a keyboard with someone touching her arm, but that was not a substitute for ordinary speech. Lucy's language had developed in a world of her own making in w...

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Report copyright infringementby Anne Schober (Author)Each of us has a story. Each of us is unique. Heart Prints encourages teachers to open their hearts and eyes to each of the students in their classrooms. It reveals the realities of the classroom when a teacher realizes that each person has a story to tell and each person has a voice to be heard. This work is a story of connections, success, heartbreak and love. It is an impassioned call to learn to teach, love and speak with your heart to ...

A Blacklist Education: American History, a Family Mystery, and a Teacher Under Fire

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Report copyright infringementby Jane S. Smith (Author)In A Blacklist Education, a mysterious file of family papers triggers a journey through the dark days of political purges in the 1950s. Jane S. Smith tells the story of the anticommunist witch hunt that sent shockwaves through New York City's public schools as more than a thousand teachers were targeted by Board of Education investigators. Her father was one of them--a fact she learned only long after his death. Beginning in 1949, amid wi...

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Report copyright infringementby Ernest E. Middleton (Author) Number of Pages: 262 Dimensions: 0.59 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: July 04, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Ernest E. Middleton (Author) Number of Pages: 262 Dimensions: 0.88 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: July 04, 2025

The Bridge to Brilliance: How One Woman and One Community Are Inspiring the World

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Report copyright infringementby Nadia Lopez (Author), Rebecca Paley (Author)Be inspired by the magnetic young principal who "stands on the front line of the fight to educate America's children." (Brandon Stanton, author of Humans of New York ) and the book that Essence calls "Essential reading." In 2010, Nadia Lopez started her middle-grade public school, Mott Hall Bridges Academy, in one of America's poorest communities, in a record heat wave--and crime wave. Everything was an uphill batt...

From Vision to Reality: African American Inventors Who Changed the World

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Report copyright infringementby Bettye Thomas-Gilkey (Author) Number of Pages: 214 Dimensions: 0.58 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: June 28, 2025

KEYS TO EMPOWERING OUR VOICES Through Life Experiences

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Report copyright infringementby Yvonne Dacres (Author)Yvonne Dacres comes from a place where she thought her family was "normal" and filled with unconditional love, although she felt seen but not heard. Until she moved out of this environment to study abroad and learned that this was not the case. Living in that environment was restricting her growth in life, work, relationships, and in the sharing of her gift, her voice. Having coached, performed, and studied the vocal instrument for 25-plus...

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Allan Brewer (Author) Number of Pages: 314 Dimensions: 0.85 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN Publication Date: June 17, 2025

You Cannot Be Patient: The Story of Prophet Moses, pbuh, Meeting the Wise Man, Khidr

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Report copyright infringementby Marcus III Sabir (Author), Qur'an Shakir (Author)Follow the Journey of a Prophet on a Quest to Learn! In this beautifully told story, young readers will travel alongside Prophet Musa (peace be upon him) as he searches for a mysterious wise man named Khidr. With the help of his young student, a fish that jumps away, and lessons full of wonder, Musa learns that true wisdom comes from Allah, the All-Knowing.Written by Marcus Sabir (M3) when he was just 9 years old...

LET'S GET REAL and: Make Our Schools Great Again

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Report copyright infringementby Rodney Haire (Author)For those who wonder how well-educated, well-adjusted, happy students can be produced at a private school, this book provides an invaluable roadmap to success. With humor and transparency, it tells the American success story of a school that grew from humble beginnings and rose to the top.Both innovative ideas and pitfalls to avoid are revealed by its author, Dr. Rodney Haire, as he applied a business model, using practices not often incorp...

Parkin: Canada's Most Famous Forgotten Man

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Report copyright infringementby William Christian (Author)George Parkin was born the thirteenth child of an immigrant New Brunswick farmer and died a knight of the realm and perhaps the most famous Canadian in the world. Charismatic, charming, eloquent and dedicated, Parkin devoted his immense energy to two causes. As an orator and journalist, he worked to strengthen the bonds between the English-speaking peoples; as Principal of Upper Canada College and Founding Secretary of the Rhodes Schol...

Giving Up Is Not an Option: Memoirs of a Palestinian American

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Report copyright infringementby Hani Q. Khoury (Author), Patrick A. Gibby (Compiled by), Duane E. Davis (Editor)In his memoirs, Professor Hani Q. Khoury narrates the highlights of the complexities of his life and the events which have nurtured it. He was sentenced to an electric wheelchair at the age of 18 due to a progressive physical disorder. His story, like many others, is filled with challenges, setbacks, dreams, and, most importantly, hope. The juxtaposition of two very different cultur...

Life as a Student: A Christian's Guide to the Student's World

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Report copyright infringementby Samuel F. Koroma (Author)My Life as a Student is a guide to all classes of people who desire to see true academic success - and hence real fulfillment in other subsets of life. Generally, people attribute failure or delay, at the University and other learning institutions, to stupidity, laziness, or misplacement. But Samuel has a deeper proven perspective as verified in his account. To all relegating positions, there are reasons, and until you uncover those ret...

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Report copyright infringementby Ronnie S. Landau (Author), White Magic Studios (Cover Design by)In this fascinating and, at times, hilarious account of an improbable career, Ronnie Landau, classicist and modern historian, takes the reader from his beginnings in a small Jewish community in north-east England, to his diverse experience of teaching and lecturing in radically different educational settings.Whether it is his account of cutting his teeth in a rough-and-tumble north London comprehen...

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Report copyright infringementby Kenneth E. Burchett (Author)This nonfiction book is about a visionary educator who grew up in a small Midwestern town. Her intensely personal story as a student and then teacher in one-room country schools took place during the struggle over public education in mid-twentieth century America.She put herself through college during the Great Depression, became a trailblazer in teacher preparation, advocated for minority education well before the passage of civil r...

Not Even Past: A History of the Department of English, the Ohio State University, 1870-2000

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Report copyright infringementby Morris Beja (Author), Christian Zacher (Author)Not Even Past: A History of the Department of English, The Ohio State University, 1870-2000 provides a thorough and fascinating institutional history of a program central to the mission of the university and a history of an entire complex discipline. OSU's Department of English is one of the largest and most prominent in the US and, in fact, the world. Inevitably, then, a study of that department entails an account...

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Report copyright infringementby Barbara Hall Gemar (Author), Daniel Cook (Artist)The wind-swept prairie provided a gentle start to Priscilla's life while her father pastored a tiny church in the early nineteen-sixties. As they descended deeper into the isolation of their religious culture, mental illness shrouded the family's ability to make decisions and threatened to destroy them. Bound by rules and a controlling fear of the outside world, Priscilla faces a terrifying journey. Would she be ...

Community-Engaged Scholarship: Reflections from Netter Center Alumni

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Report copyright infringementby Rita Axelroth Hodges (Editor), Michael Zuckerman (Editor)A collection of stories by Penn alumni whose lives were transformed by engaging with the West Philadelphia community For over thirty years, the Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships has served as the University of Pennsylvania's primary vehicle for advancing civic and community engagement at Penn. The Netter Center develops and helps implement democratic, mutually transformative, pla...

Retirement: So you think you can retire?

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Report copyright infringementby Wendy L. Yacura (Author)My intent for this book is to write about the myths and realities of retirement from my perspective as a young woman living alone and retiring at a relatively young, but healthy age of 62. If anything, you as a reader may make an educated and informed decision to retire at a time when you are ready to transition into a new phase, but one you will be able to hopefully reflect upon positively, knowing it was the best time for you. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Dan Borchers (Author) Number of Pages: 306 Dimensions: 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: June 28, 2025

The Joy of Walking by Faith: A brother's gift of faith. A sister's extraordinary journey.

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Report copyright infringementby Aster Bato Mohamed (Author)What if the hardest journeys led to the most extraordinary destinies?Born in a remote Ethiopian village and raised among ancient traditions, Aster's path to a new life was anything but easy. The Joy of Walking by Faith is a powerful memoir of courage, resilience, and the unshakeable belief that faith can turn even the most insurmountable obstacles into stepping stones. From tending cattle barefoot as a young girl to navigating the har...

UVA Untold: Black Women's Narratives at the University of Virginia

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Report copyright infringementby Cheyenne Butler (Editor)Working and Writing for ChangeSeries Editors: Steve Parks and Jessica PauszekParlor Press and New City Community PressUVA Untold: Black Women's Narratives at The University of Virginia offers exclusive insight into the experiences of Black undergraduate women from across the African diaspora at one of America's most elite and historical institutions of higher education. While their stories acknowledge covert and explicit misogynoir and r...

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Report copyright infringementby Inder Ps Gadh (Author) The stories in this book reflect author's life journey from living in extreme poverty in India to reaching a level where he would have everything needed to enjoy a comfortable life and acquire all the name and fame that one could only dream of in life in such circumstances. Relying on education as a vehicle to break the vicious cycle he was born into, Dr. Gadh faced many challenges to overcome as he moved to Canada for higher education a...

Credentialed Dietetics Practitioners with Disabilities Get the Job Done

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Report copyright infringementby Suzanne Domel Baxter (Editor), Cheryl Iny Harris (Editor)Dietetics practitioners are food and nutrition experts who help people live healthier lives. They work in a wide range of settings-from hospitals and research labs to sports teams, schools, nursing homes, and the food industry. Yet, despite the diversity of the populations they serve, the dietetics profession remains predominantly female, white, and able-bodied. Only 2% of dietetics practitioners self-ide...