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![]() The Ethiopian woman had her injuries repaired and in time became a surgeon. That Cambodian girl eventually escaped from her brothel and, with assistance from an aid group, built a thriving retail business that supports her family. They show how a little help can transform the lives of women and girls abroad. Drawing on the breadth of their combined reporting experience, Kristof and WuDunn depict our world with anger, sadness, clarity, and, ultimately, hope. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries in childbirth. ![]() ![]() From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. ![]() ![]() ![]() How to improve any existing business, whether it’s a solo venture or a Fortune 500 corporation. ![]() How to start a new business from scratch.How to evaluate new business ideas: what really matters, and what doesn’t.How businesses actually work – in practice, not theory.If you learn these critical concepts, you’ll be in the top 0.01% of the human population when it comes to knowing: Understanding the fundamental principles of business will give you essential tools you can rely on to make good decisions. 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With this heavy burden on her back, Gwen roams the streets as Spider-Woman, waiting for her gig with The Mary Janes to start and stopping a little crime on the way. This grief also floods into her performance as Spider-Woman since most of New York City, including her father, who also happens to be the police chief, sees Spider-Woman as the menace who took Peter’s life. Peter ended up becoming “The Lizard” on Gwen Stacy’s Earth, and Gwen has trouble focusing on many other things in her life, like her role as the drummer in her band: The Mary Janes. The Storyīeginning with a tragic recounting of the death of Gwen Stacy’s best friend, Peter Parker. 0, written by Jason Latour and illustrated by Robbi Rodriguez, offers a keen perspective on love, loss, and the tribulations of being Spider-Woman. ![]() ![]() Being a huge fan of the popular animated Spider-Man film from Sony Pictures Animation, “Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse,” I wanted to explore one of the “Spider-People” that I had never been too familiar with: Gwen Stacy (Spider-Woman/Spider-Gwen). ![]() ![]() ![]() Here is your chance to delve into some of these lesser-known aspects of the wolf. In Yellowstone, an optional field trip provides the opportunity to visit the "wolf" ecosystem and perhaps to observe wolves in the wild. Content knowledge is provided through classroom and lectures and laboratories. Managements aspects are linked with the role of scientific research. Biological background includes the paleontology of carnivores, origin wolves and relatives, evolution, taxonomy, biology, and ecology of canids with emphasis on the gray wolf ( Canis lupus) and relatives the red wolf ( Canis rufus) and the domestic dog ( Canis lupus familiaris). Mythological background includes the perceptions of the bear in Native American and world cultures. The course will examine wolves both in the real world and the mythological world. Wolves of North America emphasizes the role of a top carnivore in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. ![]() Lore, Restoration, Science, and Management If higher resolution is needed, please call us.Įxtended calling card for A Naturalist's WorldĬougar Verification, Ecology, and Behavior Clicking on a picon will download a higher resolution graphic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, four years later, Harper Nichols’ work is sold at Pottery Barn, Anthropologie, and on her e-commerce site. By January 2017, it’d been favorited 100,000 times. ![]() ![]() She added her name to the bottom and uploaded the message to Pinterest. “When you start to feel/ like things should have been better this year/ remember the mountains and valleys that got you here,” it starts. Without a melody, the lyrics read as a poem. On a rainy November night in 2016, still underpaid, underemployed, and feeling desperate, Harper Nichols put her feelings on paper. The couple moved to Dallas, where she did freelance design work he, construction jobs. ![]() She had intrusive, spiraling thoughts: Why do I feel so drained? Why do I feel so tired? Am I a failure? Off stage, she and her husband were constantly broke, despite her publishing deal with Capitol Christian Music Group. But the shows often left her depleted, and while on stage, she’d take out her in-ear monitors. A few days a week, the Atlanta native would join her younger sister on stage in Nashville to perform contemporary Christian music, with an acoustic guitar in hand and a deep alto voice to round out her younger sibling’s soprano. In 2014, Morgan Harper Nichols was living any singer-songwriter’s dream. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Each of these stories has a measure of sadness based on the end-of-life issues the characters are dealing with.Īs Keller’s story begins, Lily’s mother is taking her and her sister Sam from their home in California to Sunbeam, Washington, where they had lived with Halmoni for three years after Dad died. Merci’s Cuban-American grandfather, Lolo, has Alzheimer’s disease Lily’s Korean grandmother, Halmoni, has cancer. This middle grade story is similar to the 2019 Newbery winner, Merci Suárez Changes Gears, in that both books feature an ailing and dying grandparent. from their own perspective.” 3 Keller’s character Lily, the protagonist in this year’s Newbery winner, is, like Keller, Korean American. Keller is an Own Voices author, which is “an author from a. When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller is the recipient of the 2021 ALA Newbery Award 1 as well as the APALA Asian/Pacific American Award for Children’s Literature. (Note: It is not the purpose of this review to draw conclusions for the reader but rather to focus on literary elements and topics of importance for the Christian audience.) ![]() ![]() The essay on sources has been revised to incorporate books and articles published over the past decade. Covering issues of social class, race, gender, and ethnicity in each era and chapter, this new edition showcases a fresh concluding chapter that focuses on both the opportunities and problems American higher education has faced since 2010. Drawing from archival research, along with the pioneering scholarship of leading historians, Thelin raises profound questions about what colleges are-and what they should be. Exploring American higher education from its founding in the seventeenth century to its struggle to innovate and adapt in the first decades of the twenty-first century, Thelin demonstrates that the experience of going to college has been central to American life for generations of students and their families. ![]() Thelin offers welcome perspective on the triumphs and crises of this highly influential sector in American life. ![]() In this updated edition of A History of American Higher Education, John R. ![]() Colleges and universities are among the most cherished-and controversial-institutions in the United States. The definitive history of American higher education-now up to date. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book follows two men who in different ways were instrumental in uncovering the true source of the epidemic, and who ended up becoming friends and working together. Each chapter of the nine-chapter book, excluding the conclusion and the epilogue, is subtitled with a day of the week. The book unfolds over the course of a week in September 1854, when the outbreak was at its height. The cesspool in turn contaminated the nearby Broad Street well, infecting many of the citizens who drank from it. ![]() The first cholera victim in the neighborhood was an infant-known in the book as baby Lewis-whose soiled diaper was flung into the cesspool at the foot of the Lewis household. The outbreak was concentrated in the Golden Square neighborhood of Soho and claimed hundreds of lives over the span of a week. The immediate subject of The Ghost Map is the cholera outbreak that took place in London in 1854. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If the scientific article is available only to subscribers of a particular journal, you may be able to get access at your local library or university. Wherever possible, I have linked to a PDF of the full article, so you can really dig in. These are more than 500 of my favorite scientific studies and books about post-traumatic growth, the psychology and neuroscience of games, the relationship between a gameful mindset and better health and happiness, and everything else that’s superbetter. ![]() Here you’ll find all the references from my book SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient - Powered by the science of games (Penguin Press, September 15, 2015). Dear fellow science geeks, researchers, and lifelong learners: ![]() |