For many children in foster care, the answer to many questions is often ""maybe"". ""Maybe Days"" is a straightforward look at the issues of foster care, the questions that children ask, and the feelings that they confront. A primer for children going into foster care, the book also explains in children's terms the responsibilities of everyone involved - parents, social workers, lawyers and judges. As for the children themselves, their job is to be a kid - and there's no maybe about that.
This landmark volume commemorates the fortieth anniversary of the Children's Defense Fund, which has been an uncompromising champion of American youth for all of those years. Yet the book looks not to the past but at our current circumstances - and at the challenges we must meet now and in the future on behalf of our young people. The book examines critical issues - prenatal and infant health and development, early childcare and education, school reform, the achievement gap, vulnerable children, juvenile justice, and child poverty - and highlights crucial practical and policy measures we need to consider and undertake if we are to better serve American children.An invaluable survey of the conditions facing American youth - and a call to action at the local, state, and national levels - Improving the Odds for America's Children is an urgent, informative, and inspired volume that addresses shortcomings and challenges we cannot afford to ignore.
This landmark volume commemorates the fortieth anniversary of the Children's Defense Fund, which has been an uncompromising champion of American youth for all of those years. Yet the book looks not to the past but at our current circumstances - and at the challenges we must meet now and in the future on behalf of our young people. The book examines critical issues - prenatal and infant health and development, early childcare and education, school reform, the achievement gap, vulnerable children, juvenile justice, and child poverty - and highlights crucial practical and policy measures we need to consider and undertake if we are to better serve American children.An invaluable survey of the conditions facing American youth - and a call to action at the local, state, and national levels - Improving the Odds for America's Children is an urgent, informative, and inspired volume that addresses shortcomings and challenges we cannot afford to ignore.
Double Exposure is a major new series based on the remarkable photography collection held by the Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), Washington, D.C. From daguerreotype portraits taken before the Civil War, to twenty-first century digital prints, Double Exposure is a striking visual record of key historical events, cultural touchstones, and private and communal moments, that helps to illuminate African American life. The fourth volume in the series, 'Picturing Children', features a diverse selection of photographs: spontaneous records of intimate family moments, playtime, and communal activities as well as posed portraits. Photographers include Henry Clay Anderson, Wayne F. Miller, Joe Schwartz, Jamal Shabazz, Milton Williams and Ernest C. Withers. The volume includes short reflections on individual photographs which explore how the images speak not only to past experiences of African American youth, but also to our evolving concepts of childhood, youth engagement in American society and the future. AUTHOR: Marian Wright Edelman is a lawyer, children's rights activist, and founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund Ivory Toldson is a professor, author, and the deputy director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). He is also the founding director of the Center for Research, Evaluation, Assessment, and Training in Education (CREATE, LLC) 60 b/w
A new home, a new business, a new life. But love could ruin it all.Jodie Cook was finally living her dream. Moving to the countryside and starting her interior design business is exactly the fresh start she needs. Failure isn't an option, and neither is a return to London life. All she needs to do is work hard, become an overnight success and be happy...easy right? Of course she hadn't counted on the sinfully handsome local landlord Tony and his loveable dog Max. Both seem determined to distract her from her mounting to-do list and make her heart skip a beat whilst they're at it. But if she can't keep her head she could lose her heart as well as her lifelong dream.Tony Wade is a bachelor through and through. He doesn't have the time to date, and he certainly doesn't believe in love. All he needs in his life is his faithful companion Max and his pub at Winton Green. But when the beautiful Jodie Cook moves to the village, she steals the heart of his dog and turns his world upside down. Tony can't resist offering her a part time job to help her out, or hiring her to decorate his house...just so he can spend time with her. Suddenly, he finds he can't untangle her from his life, no matter what he tries. But does he even want to?Unable to resist any longer, Jodie and Tony promise each other one night together. One night that would never be repeated. But before they can even admit their mistake, Max's disappearance threatens to ruin the very future they had just begun.Can one night ever be enough when it comes to love? Find out in this steamy romance set in the quaint English village of Winton Green.
Salvador is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1893. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
The reader takes a journey through black holes, nerve terminals, the computer brain, and the psyche. Based on years of analyzing scientific theory and spiritual teachings, the author has written a work that explains difficult concepts that shape and unify the universe. Throughout the book, the author highlights how dark energy and normal energy interact with the universe, how these forms of energy differ, and how individual structures of the computer brain have their own programs. A key point is that everything that constitutes our reality is, in actuality, energy forms interacting. Using the Wachowskis' Matrix movies to bridge between the scientific and the theoretical, the movies take place in a world where "reality" is the product of a projection by artificial intelligence. Life and the Aura of Perpetual Impermanence is a fascinating metaphysical treatise on the nature of the universe and our existence-one that helps us understand how we exist within our realities.
"Life Lessons" is about finding meaning in every life experience, be it positive or negative. Each moment has a lesson if we are open to the possibility of growth."Life Lessons" takes you on a spiritual journey that will render it impossible for you to regard life in the same way.Maris Hodge Wright openly shares stories from her wealth of counseling experience that have impacted her life. They are stories of love, betrayal, forgiveness, and joy.
Are you fed up with trying to lose weight and never being able to maintain your weight loss?Do you think that weight loss just doesn't work for someone like you? Don't give up hope yet because Rapid Weight Loss Hypnosis will show you how you can use hypnosis to change your life and finally stop going on and off fad diets that never seem to work. If you've tried every diet, you can think of and are starting to believe that there's no hope that you will ever lose weight, this is the book for you because hypnosis has been used to reduce physical and emotional pain for hundreds of years and it can be used to help you lose weight too. Hypnosis is a powerful measure that you can take to ensure your weight loss dreams come into fruition, but it is not as scary as you think it may be. It is not all-powerful, and you dictate how your experience will turn out. Accordingly, this book will give you tips and tricks on how to make the best use of your time in hypnotherapy. The more you know, the more easily you can embrace the system of hypnosis and utilize it in your life.Men and women alike can benefit from hypnosis for weight loss. With scientifically-backed, thoroughly researched material, this book will give you pragmatic steps that you can take to use hypnotherapy or self-hypnosis to finally shed the pounds you'd like to lose and make yourself feel more optimistic about your future. Don't wait to lose weight because there's no better time than right now.This book will teach you how to: Understand hypnosis and the research behind itChannel hypnosis and apply it to weight lossDebunk the myths related to weight loss and hypnosisComprehend the psychology of weight lossSet and reach goalsUse hypnosis to create enduring change in your lifeGradually change your diet and exercise habitsPrepare yourself mentally and physically for hypnosisFind the right hypnosis treatment for youFeel more confident about yourselfStop letting your fear stand in your wayLose weight without having to sacrifice all things that you loveFit hypnosis into your lifeMaintain your weight loss for the rest of your lifeBe happier and healthierStart right nowAlleviate all your fears by reading a book that will answer all your questions as well as ones that you never thought to ask. Learn how your brain works and why it is the biggest ally you can have when losing weight. As you embark on this journey, you should never forget that even though it is scary, change is vital to your well-being. There's no point in being stuck with a life you don't enjoy, so give into the process and let yourself be happy. Stop worrying about your weight and start creating a future that will provide happiness for the rest of your life and allow you to do things you never thought that you could do.
