The Miracle On Cooper Street

Author : Gloria Bonilla-Santiago, PhD
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781480806238

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The Miracle on Cooper Street by Gloria Bonilla-Santiago, PhD Pdf

"Author Dr. Gloria Bonilla-Santiago, a Puerto Rican child of migrant farm workers, defied family, tradition, and expectations to reach the highest ranks of academia and overcome monumental obstacles to create LEAP Academy, one of the nation's best charter schools. In this book, she shares the challenges and obstacles, potential resources, and support of fellow professionals that moved LEAP Academy from a small charter school in 1997 to its top position today. She describes and analyzes the establishment and accomplishments of LEAP Academy in one of America's poorest and most violent cities, Camden, New Jersey. [She] also shares the story of her personal and professional struggles as a Latina from an impoverished and working-class background, surviving and fighting for respect in an academic world that many times did not value racial or ethnic diversity. Those experiences forged a dream of transforming a poor urban community through education. [This book] presents a working model for charter schools, while at the same time admitting that LEAP is a work in progress. Most of all, it describes an inspiring institution that has seen many young people break the cycle of poverty, graduate from high school, succeed in college, and go on to live productive lives."--Back cover.

Author : Susan Cooper
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442480827

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Green Boy by Susan Cooper Pdf

Twelve-year-old Trey and his seven-year-old brother Lou, who does not speak, cross the barrier between two worlds, that of their island in the Bahamas, and a land called Pangaia, and play a mysterious role in restoring the natural environment in both places.

Author : Diana Cooper
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781844099146

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True Angel Stories by Diana Cooper Pdf

This inspiration book of 777 true angel stories explores how angels can transform lives through exercises and visualisations that readers can practice on their own. Stories discuss guardian angels, feathers, signs, rainbows, prayers, numbers and names, unicorns, orbs and much, much more, making this the ultimate angel compendium.

Author : Thea Cooper,Arthur Ainsberg
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0312611749

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Breakthrough by Thea Cooper,Arthur Ainsberg Pdf

It is 1919 and Elizabeth Hughes, the eleven-year-old daughter of America's most-distinguished jurist and politician, Charles Evans Hughes, has been diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. It is essentially a death sentence. The only accepted form of treatment – starvation – whittles her down to forty-five pounds skin and bones. Miles away, Canadian researchers Frederick Banting and Charles Best manage to identify and purify insulin from animal pancreases – a miracle soon marred by scientific jealousy, intense business competition and fistfights. In a race against time and a ravaging disease, Elizabeth becomes one of the first diabetics to receive insulin injections – all while its discoverers and a little known pharmaceutical company struggle to make it available to the rest of the world. Relive the heartwarming true story of the discovery of insulin as it's never been told before. Written with authentic detail and suspense, and featuring walk-ons by William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, and Eli Lilly himself, among many others.

Author : Desiree Cooper
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780814341506

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Know the Mother by Desiree Cooper Pdf

While a mother can be defined as a creator, a nurturer, a protector—at the center of each mother is an individual who is attempting to manage her own fears, desires, and responsibilities in different and sometimes unexpected ways. In Know the Mother, author Desiree Cooper explores the complex archetype of the mother in all of her incarnations. In a collage of meditative stories, women—both black and white—find themselves wedged between their own yearnings and their roles as daughters, sisters, grandmothers, and wives. In this heart-wrenching collection, Cooper reveals that gender and race are often unanticipated interlopers in family life. An anxious mother reflects on her prenatal fantasies of suicide while waiting for her daughter to come home late one night. A lawyer miscarries during a conference call and must proceed as though nothing has happened. On a rare night out with her husband, a new mother tries convincing herself that everything is still the same. A politician’s wife’s thoughts turn to slavery as she contemplates her own escape: “Even Harriet Tubman had realized that freedom wasn’t worth the price of abandoning her family, so she’d come back home. She’d risked it all for love.” With her lyrical and carefully crafted prose, Cooper’s stories provide truths without sermon and invite empathy without sentimentality. Know the Mother explores the intersection of race and gender in vignettes that pull you in and then are gone in an instant. Readers of short fiction will appreciate this deeply felt collection.

Author : Thomas COOPER (the Chartist.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Miracles
ISBN : NLS:V000561865

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The Verity and Value of the Miracles of Christ, Etc by Thomas COOPER (the Chartist.) Pdf

Author : Scott Brown,Sam Carchidi
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781623681333

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Miracle in the Making by Scott Brown,Sam Carchidi Pdf

Adam Taliaferro had it all: smarts, an easy-going personality, and incomparable athletic ability. None of that seemed to matter, however, on that fateful September day when his father was given startling news: Do not expect your son to walk. Ever. Since that numbing day, Taliaferro, the Penn State freshman cornerback who was paralyzed after he tackled an Ohio State running back, has defied the odds. Before he had spinal-fusion surgery, he made a vow to his mother: "Mom, I'm not going out like this." Three months later, he walked out of a Philadelphia hospital on crutches, determined to complete his amazing recovery, making the name "Adam Taliaferro" synonymous with courage and perseverance.

Author : John Sexton,Thomas Oliphant,Peter J. Schwartz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781101609736

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Baseball as a Road to God by John Sexton,Thomas Oliphant,Peter J. Schwartz Pdf

The president of New York University offers a love letter to America’s most beloved sport and a tribute to its underlying spirituality. For more than a decade, John Sexton has taught a wildly popular New York University course about two seemingly very different things: religion and baseball. Yet Sexton argues that one is actually a pathway to the other. Baseball as a Road to God is about touching that something that lies beyond logical understanding. Sexton illuminates the surprisingly large number of mutual concepts shared between baseball and religion: faith, doubt, conversion, miracles, and even sacredness among many others. Structured like a game and filled with riveting accounts of baseball’s most historic moments, Baseball as Road to God will enthrall baseball fans whatever their religious beliefs may be. In thought-provoking, beautifully rendered prose, Sexton elegantly demonstrates that baseball is more than a game, or even a national pastime: It can be a road to enlightenment.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006357367

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : John Milton Cooper, Jr.
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307277909

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Woodrow Wilson by John Milton Cooper, Jr. Pdf

The first major biography of America’s twenty-eighth president in nearly two decades, from one of America’s foremost Woodrow Wilson scholars. A Democrat who reclaimed the White House after sixteen years of Republican administrations, Wilson was a transformative president—he helped create the regulatory bodies and legislation that prefigured FDR’s New Deal and would prove central to governance through the early twenty-first century, including the Federal Reserve system and the Clayton Antitrust Act; he guided the nation through World War I; and, although his advocacy in favor of joining the League of Nations proved unsuccessful, he nonetheless established a new way of thinking about international relations that would carry America into the United Nations era. Yet Wilson also steadfastly resisted progress for civil rights, while his attorney general launched an aggressive attack on civil liberties. Even as he reminds us of the foundational scope of Wilson’s domestic policy achievements, John Milton Cooper, Jr., reshapes our understanding of the man himself: his Wilson is warm and gracious—not at all the dour puritan of popular imagination. As the president of Princeton, his encounters with the often rancorous battles of academe prepared him for state and national politics. Just two years after he was elected governor of New Jersey, Wilson, now a leader in the progressive movement, won the Democratic presidential nomination and went on to defeat Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft in one of the twentieth century’s most memorable presidential elections. Ever the professor, Wilson relied on the strength of his intellectual convictions and the power of reason to win over the American people. John Milton Cooper, Jr., gives us a vigorous, lasting record of Wilson’s life and achievements. This is a long overdue, revelatory portrait of one of our most important presidents—particularly resonant now, as another president seeks to change the way government relates to the people and regulates the economy.

Author : Joshua Cooper Ramo
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780316285049

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The Seventh Sense by Joshua Cooper Ramo Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER Winner of the getAbstract 17th International Book Award "The Seventh Sense is a concept every businessman, diplomat, or student should aspire to master--a powerful idea, backed by stories and figures that will be impossible to forget." -- Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs and Leonardo da Vinci Endless terror. Refugee waves. An unfixable global economy. Surprising election results. New billion-dollar fortunes. Miracle medical advances. What if they were all connected? What if you could understand why? The Seventh Sense is the story of what all of today's successful figures see and feel: the forces that are invisible to most of us but explain everything from explosive technological change to uneasy political ripples. The secret to power now is understanding our new age of networks. Not merely the Internet, but also webs of trade, finance, and even DNA. Based on his years of advising generals, CEOs, and politicians, Ramo takes us into the opaque heart of our world's rapidly connected systems and teaches us what the losers are not yet seeing--and what the victors of this age already know.

Author : James Haskins,Kathleen Benson
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780061136122

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African Beginnings by James Haskins,Kathleen Benson Pdf

Presents the history of Africa's rich cultural empires from the early part of the millennium through the time of Christopher Columbus.

Author : Randall Sullivan
Publisher : Sphere
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Medjugorje (Bosnia and Hercegovina)
ISBN : 0751530220

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The Miracle Detective by Randall Sullivan Pdf

As sightings of the Virgin Mary have increased around the world over the last couple of decades, the Vatican has placed increased importance on a group of theologians, scientists and physicians whose job is to investigate them. These are the miracle detectives. Randall Sullivan's book follows these investigators on the trail of the Virgin Mary from the Vatican City in Rome to Oregon, Arizona, Venezuela, Switzerland, Ireland, Japan and Kenya. What he discovers is that every road and each mystery leads back to a tiny village in Bosnia. There, against the background of the ongoing war, eight young visionaries have been receiving what they say are the final apparitions of the Madonna. These appearances, which began in 1981 in a small village in the former Yugoslavia, have been more thoroughly examined than any purported miraculous phenomenon in history. To date, the results defy explanation. This is an amazing story of religious mysticism, as well as a testing of the author's own faith and beliefs.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Catholics
ISBN : WISC:89077090066

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The American Catholic Historical Researches by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rhonda Phillips,Robert Pittman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134482320

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An Introduction to Community Development by Rhonda Phillips,Robert Pittman Pdf

Beginning with the foundations of community development, An Introduction to Community Development offers a comprehensive and practical approach to planning for communities. Road-tested in the authors’ own teaching, and through the training they provide for practicing planners, it enables students to begin making connections between academic study and practical know-how from both private and public sector contexts. An Introduction to Community Development shows how planners can utilize local economic interests and integrate finance and marketing considerations into their strategy. Most importantly, the book is strongly focused on outcomes, encouraging students to ask: what is best practice when it comes to planning for communities, and how do we accurately measure the results of planning practice? This newly revised and updated edition includes: increased coverage of sustainability issues, discussion of localism and its relation to community development, quality of life, community well-being and public health considerations, and content on local food systems. Each chapter provides a range of reading materials for the student, supplemented with text boxes, a chapter outline, keywords, and reference lists, and new skills based exercises at the end of each chapter to help students turn their learning into action, making this the most user-friendly text for community development now available.