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Growing Up Elizabeth May

Author : Sylvia Olsen
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781459823723

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Growing Up Elizabeth May by Sylvia Olsen Pdf

Elizabeth May was born to be an activist. As a young girl, Elizabeth was worried about the health of the planet and believed it was her job to protect it. While other children were playing, she was raising money for important causes, researching the latest science and organizing protests. Before most people had heard about environmentalism, she was an environmentalist, living by her principle of “I have to do something.” Written with Elizabeth’s daughter Cate, this book reveals how Elizabeth’s activism led her to politics, first as leader of the Green Party of Canada and later as a Member of Parliament. Filled with environmental facts, profiles of young activists and tips for making change in your own community, this book is part biography and part blueprint for activists in the making.

How to Become an Accidental Activist

Author : Elizabeth MacLeod,Frieda Wishinsky
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781459826137

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How to Become an Accidental Activist by Elizabeth MacLeod,Frieda Wishinsky Pdf

Just Get Started! Be Unstoppable! Dream Big! How to Become an Accidental Activist profiles almost 100 activists from around the world, including change-makers like Greta Thunberg, Pete Seeger and Lilly Singh. This book shows us how ordinary people have persevered throughout history to do extraordinary things to help themselves and others. These activists come from many different backgrounds and a drives to take action. They work for human rights, to help the environment, to preserve historic buildings and more. This book will inspire young readers by giving them tips on getting started, continuing when the going gets tough and encouraging others to get involved. They will learn how to use determination, channel their passions and dream big to change the world.

Growing Up with the Wild Bunch

Author : Linda Wommack
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493047161

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Growing Up with the Wild Bunch by Linda Wommack Pdf

The life of Josie Bassett was nothing short of a female pioneer adventure. Josie came west in a wagon train at the age of four. Settling in rugged Brown's Park in the extreme northwest corner of Colorado, Josie learned to ride and rope by the age of six. Like all girls, as a young teenager she discovered boys, but Josie's first real boyfriend was a future outlaw, none other than Butch Cassidy. As a young rancher's wife with two young boys, Josie witnessed first-hand the strong-arm tactics of the cattle barons trying to steal the land from smaller ranch owners. When it happened to the Bassett family, Josie's husband and father fought back. Murder occurred at the ranch when a man was hung from the gate post at the entrance of the Bassett ranch. Following a bitter divorce and a few more marriages, Josie moved to the remote area of Cub Creek in western Utah. Here she managed to make a living by hunting, making moonshine and possibly cattle rustling. (She was brought up on charges but acquitted.) Josie married a few more times, running off one husband with a frying pan. He later said, “Josie gave me fifteen minutes to get off her land, I only needed five!” Josie was the feature of a LIFE magazine article in 1948 and was a rodeo queen when she was in her 70s. Josie Bassett lived a long adventurous life, dying in 1963.

Why Humans Work

Author : Monique Polak
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781459827974

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Why Humans Work by Monique Polak Pdf

What do you want to be when you grow up? I bet you've been asked that question before. But have you ever thought about why humans work? There are almost 3.5 billion people working in the world today, and that number is growing. In Why Do We Work? author Monique Polak investigates the past, present and future of jobs, including how work has also been shaped by discrimination, privilege and child labor. Meet a variety of working professionals and explore why we have careers, vocations and professions. How is the way we work changing, and what will it look like in the future?

Urgent Message from a Hot Planet

Author : Ann Eriksson
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781459826342

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Urgent Message from a Hot Planet by Ann Eriksson Pdf

The climate crisis is the issue of our time. Scientists have warned for over 100 years that burning fossil fuels and destroying nature will warm the earth's atmosphere and affect the climate in adverse ways: more severe and intense storms, prolonged heat waves, drought, flooding, wildfires, rising sea levels and ocean acidification. Urgent Message from a Hot Planet: Navigating the Climate Crisis outlines the science behind global heating and its root causes, provides ways to take action and honors the efforts of the millions of youth and adult allies from around the world working tirelessly to make a difference. Their powerful message: do something now!

The Road Back to You

Author : Ian Morgan Cron,Suzanne Stabile
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830893270

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The Road Back to You by Ian Morgan Cron,Suzanne Stabile Pdf

Join over 1 million other readers worldwide on a journey of spiritual growth and self-awareness. What you don't know about yourself can hurt you and your relationships—and even keep you in the shallows with God. Do you want help figuring out who you are and why you're stuck in the same ruts? The Enneagram is an ancient personality typing system with an uncanny accuracy in describing how human beings are wired, both positively and negatively. In The Road Back to You Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile forge a unique approach—a practical, comprehensive way of accessing Enneagram wisdom and exploring its connections with Christian spirituality for a deeper knowledge of ourselves, compassion for others, and love for God. Witty and filled with stories, this book allows you to peek inside each of the nine Enneagram types, keeping you turning the pages long after you have read the chapter about your own number. Not only will you learn more about yourself, but you will also start to see the world through other people's eyes, understanding how and why people think, feel, and act the way they do. To guide your first steps into your self-awareness journey, The Road Back to You offers: Introductions to each Enneagram type Questions to help you identify your number Changes you can make today to pursue deeper self-awareness Digestible windows into the other types, helping you see others with more compassion and empathy The wisdom of the Enneagram can help take you further along into who you really are—leading you into places of spiritual discovery you would never have found on your own, and paving the way to the wiser, more compassionate person you want to become.

The Regerenes

Author : Anna B. Williams
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752406672

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The Regerenes by Anna B. Williams Pdf

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Supernormal

Author : Meg Jay
Publisher : Twelve
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781455559145

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Supernormal by Meg Jay Pdf

Clinical psychologist and author of The Defining Decade, Meg Jay takes us into the world of the supernormal: those who soar to unexpected heights after childhood adversity. Whether it is the loss of a parent to death or divorce; bullying; alcoholism or drug abuse in the home; mental illness in a parent or a sibling; neglect; emotional, physical or sexual abuse; having a parent in jail; or growing up alongside domestic violence, nearly 75% of us experience adversity by the age of 20. But these experiences are often kept secret, as are our courageous battles to overcome them. Drawing on nearly two decades of work with clients and students, Jay tells the tale of ordinary people made extraordinary by these all-too-common experiences, everyday superheroes who have made a life out of dodging bullets and leaping over obstacles, even as they hide in plain sight as doctors, artists, entrepreneurs, lawyers, parents, activists, teachers, students and readers. She gives a voice to the supernormals among us as they reveal not only "How do they do it?" but also "How does it feel?" These powerful stories, and those of public figures from Andre Agassi to Jay Z, will show supernormals they are not alone but are, in fact, in good company. Marvelously researched and compassionately written, this exceptional book narrates the continuing saga that is resilience as it challenges us to consider whether -- and how -- the good wins out in the end.

A Mug Up with Elisabeth

Author : Melissa Hayes,Marilyn Westervelt
Publisher : Down East Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781461744672

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A Mug Up with Elisabeth by Melissa Hayes,Marilyn Westervelt Pdf

Anyone who has come under the spell of Elisabeth Ogilvie's novels to bound to wonder about this writer who, for more than fifty years, has crafted one memorable book after another: historical fiction, mysteries, young adult stories, even a gothic novel. Most are set in Maine or the Scottish Highlands, and for many readers it is Ogilvie's beautifully realized settings that make them pick up her novels again and again. Equally fascinating are her characters: vivid, individual, appealingly imperfect, deeply rooted in their families and home ground. Now, at last, we have a book about this prolific yet unassuming author who would rather live quietly on her Maine island than seek the limelight. A Mug-Up with Elisabeth is the definitive resource on her life, her work, her characters, and her settings--including Criehaven, the inspiration for Bennett's Island, which is arguably one of the most evocative locales in American fiction. On Bennett's Island, many a tale is told and many a crisis resolved around the kitchen table while the islanders pause for a "mug-up" of coffee. In these pages, readers can enjoy a mug-up with Elisabeth Ogilvie herself.

The Rogerenes

Author : John R. Bolles,Anna B. Williams
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547027928

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The Rogerenes by John R. Bolles,Anna B. Williams Pdf

The Rogers were a religious sect founded in 1674 by John Rogers (1648–1721) in New London, Connecticut. They were opposing the Protestant church, refused to celebrate Sunday, as they perceived every day as holy, and also refused to pay taxes. They founded several settlements in Connecticut and New Jersey. This book was aimed to correct the record on some historical information about this family and its controversial leader. It gives many new details about the Rogers and Bolles families and documents many cases of people being jailed, whipped, and otherwise persecuted without due process for their religious views.

The Diary of Elizabeth Lee

Author : Colin Pooley,Siân Pooley,Richard Lawton
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789625028

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The Diary of Elizabeth Lee by Colin Pooley,Siân Pooley,Richard Lawton Pdf

Personal diaries provide rare glimpses into those aspects of the past that are usually hidden from view. Elizabeth Lee grew up on Merseyside in the late nineteenth century. She began her diary at the age of 16 in 1884 and it provides an unbroken record of her life up to the age of 25 in 1892. Elizabeth’s father was a draper and outfitter with shops in Birkenhead, and throughout the period of the diary Elizabeth lived at home with her family in Prenton. However, she travelled widely on both sides of the Mersey and her diary provides an unusually revealing picture of middle-class life that begins to challenge conventional views of the position of young women in Victorian society. The book includes a detailed introduction to and analysis of the diary, together with a glossary relating to key people in the diary and maps of the localities in which Elizabeth lived her everyday life. There have been a number of diaries published relating to ‘ordinary’ people, but most accounts were written retrospectively as life histories by people who eventually gained some degree of fame or prominence in society. This very rare first-hand account provides a unique insight into adolescent life in Victorian Britain.

Gilded Youth

Author : Tom Quinn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781639365142

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Gilded Youth by Tom Quinn Pdf

A colorful, fascinating look at growing up in the royal family over the centuries, from the Plantagenets and Tudors to the Windsors and Cambridges. For as long as the British royal family has existed, their children have been brought up in ways that seem bizarre and eccentric to the rest of us—the royal family’s obsession with making their children tough and independent as early as possible, often by delegating their parental duties to staff, goes back centuries. Gilded Youth looks at centuries of growing up aristocratic and royal—from Edward VII smashing up his schoolroom to Prince Andrew peeing on a stable lad’s shoes; from Princess Margaret putting horse manure in a footman’s pockets to Diana Spencer wearing crop tops, kissing a local village boy, and drinking cider in a bus shelter; from a teenage Prince Harry throwing up in the street to Prince William becoming completely obsessed with doing the right thing regardless of the feelings of his younger brother. Even Queen Elizabeth herself reacted oddly to her upbringing, becoming in many ways obsessively compulsive—as a child she insisted her shoes should always be positioned in the same place, her lunch set out exactly the same way each day, and that for tea she have jam pennies (small rounds of bread and jam), which she was still eating every afternoon into her nineties. The younger generation seem to insist they want a normal or ordinary upbringing for their children—because that goes down well with the public—but this is just window dressing. Gilded Youth looks at how, when it comes to their children, the British royal family is still behaving much as they did in the past.

A Test of Fire

Author : Elizabeth Ann West
Publisher : Elizabeth Ann West
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781944345266

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A Test of Fire by Elizabeth Ann West Pdf

When two new eligible bachelors move into the neighborhood, the Meryton Assembly becomes a more exciting harvest celebration than ever before. Couples dance and make new acquaintances, reveling in so many possibilities the evening presents . . . until the shout of "FIRE!" echoes from overhead. Scrambling for safety separates Elizabeth Bennet from her sister, Jane. Frightened that she might lose the person she loves best in all the world, Lizzy sets aside her fear and rushes back in to the burning building. Overwhelmed by the heat and falling debris, suddenly it's Elizabeth in desperate need of saving! When the burned out shell of the tavern and assembly rooms are left smoldering in the early morning hours, many families have lost too much. The Bennet family sits vigil over the injured Lizzy, praying that she wakes up. They are joined by another, the very man who carried her out in his arms: Mr. Darcy. Enjoy this twist of Jane Austen's original Pride and Prejudice that imagines how a fire at the Meryton Assembly might have changed the story. Join over 30,000 readers who have followed the story on Fanfiction.net since October 1, 2021 when author Elizabeth Ann West offered five story prompts to her reader group and they selected one for her to write as quickly as possible for them. They also picked out the "Easter eggs" you can find in the Acknowledgements section. A Test of Fire is a feel-good path of healing and overcoming survivor's guilt for Our Dear Couple. You don't want to miss it!

Queen's Apprentice

Author : Joseph F. Patrouch
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004180307

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Queen's Apprentice by Joseph F. Patrouch Pdf

This study seeks to examine a number of themes relating to the roles of the women's court of the central European Habsburgs. These include its role in helping consolidate their holdings in central Europe and the Holy Roman Empire and structure their relations with the rest of Europe.

Misty

Author : Misty May-Treanor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1439155771

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Misty by Misty May-Treanor Pdf

The passionate, poignant, and triumphant story of two-time Olympic gold medal–winning beach volleyball icon Misty May-Treanor. More than any Olympics in history, the 2008 Beijing Summer Games captured the world’s imagination, and Misty May-Treanor became one of the biggest U.S. stars on the global stage. Now she shares the story of her life and remarkable athletic career. Destined for beach volleyball superstardom, having been raised on famed Muscle Beach in Santa Monica, California, Misty talks about the personal and professional challenges she has faced and the life lessons she has learned in the process. From growing up with two driven, competitive, accomplished athlete parents and living in a volatile household rocked for years by their alcoholism to the heartbreaking death of her mother from cancer, Misty reveals intimate details never before publicly discussed. She tells behind-the-scenes stories about her eight-year climb to the top of beach volleyball with partners Holly McPeak and Kerri Walsh; her career-threatening injuries; her role on ABC’s hit television show Dancing with the Stars; and of course, her historic two Olympic gold medals and the special rewards they’ve brought. Offering an unprecedented glimpse into the life of a cherished celebrity sports icon and an ambassador for women’s athletics, Misty will touch, inspire, and empower readers everywhere.