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Author: Linda Jacobs Altman Publisher: Turtleback ISBN: 9780613706407 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 32
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For use in schools and libraries only. Tired of moving around so much, Amelia, the daughter of migrant farm workers, dreams of a stable home.
Author: Linda Jacobs Altman Publisher: Turtleback ISBN: 9780613706407 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 32
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For use in schools and libraries only. Tired of moving around so much, Amelia, the daughter of migrant farm workers, dreams of a stable home.
Author: Amelia Thorpe Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 0262360918 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 348
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How local, specific, and personal understandings about belonging, ownership, and agency intersect with law to shape the city. In Owning the Street, Amelia Thorpe examines everyday experiences of and feelings about property and belonging in contemporary cities. She grounds her account in an empirical study of PARK(ing) Day, an annual event that reclaims street space from cars. A popular and highly recognizable example of DIY Urbanism, PARK(ing) Day has attracted considerable media attention, but has not yet been the subject of close scholarly examination. Focusing on the event's trajectories in San Francisco, Sydney, and Montreal, Thorpe addresses this gap, making use of extensive interview data, field work, and careful reflection to explore these tiny, temporary, and often transformative interventions. PARK(ing) Day is based on a creative interpretation of the property producible by paying a parking meter. Paying a meter, the event’s organizers explained, amounts to taking out a lease on the space; while most “lessees” use that property to store a car, the space could be put to other uses—engaging politics (a free health clinic for migrant workers, a same sex wedding, a protest against fossil fuels) and play (a dance floor, giant Jenga, a pocket park). Through this novel rereading of everyday regulation, PARK(ing) Day provides an example of the connection between belief and action—a connection at the heart of Thorpe’s argument. Thorpe examines ways in which local, personal, and materially grounded understandings about belonging, ownership, and agency intersect with law to shape the city. Her analysis offers insights into the ways in which citizens can shape the governance of urban space, particularly in contested environments. The book's foreword is by Davina Cooper, Research Professor in Law at King’s College London.
Author: Herman Parish Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0688133584 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 52
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"A familiar heroine takes an unfamiliar seat in Good Driving, Amelia Bedelia. Herman Parish, nephew of Amelia's creator, Peggy Parish, keeps the wordplay in high gear....Lynn Sweat's bright and jaunty illustrations, meanwhile, suit the action to a (Model?) T."--Publishers Weekly.
Author: Amelia Diane Coombs Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1534493549 Category : JUVENILE FICTION Languages : en Pages : 320
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With Florie's best friend Kacey set to head off to college, they decide to take a road trip to San Francisco, but when Florie's forever crush Sam volunteers to drive them, she will have to deal with her feelings and the romantic signals Sam is starting to send.
Author: Amelia Thomas Publisher: PublicAffairs ISBN: 1586486586 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 336
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The last Palestinian zoo stands on a dusty, dead-end street in the once prosperous farming town of Qalqilya, on the very edge of the West Bank. The zoo's bars are rusting; peacocks wander quiet avenues shaded by broad plane trees; a teenage baboon broods in solitary confinement; walls bear the pockmarks of gunfire. And yet the zoo is an extraordinary place, with a bizarre, troubling and inspiring story to tell. At the center of this story is Dr. Sami Khader, the only zoo veterinarian in the Palestinian territories. Family man, amateur inventor, and dedicated taxidermist, he is fiercely independent, apolitical, and resourceful in times of crisis. Dr. Sami dreams of transforming the zoo into one of an international caliber. In The Zoo on the Road to Nablus, Amelia Thomas brings the reader into a world rarely glimpsed from the outside, weaving the stories of the zoo's animals, its staff, and its visitors into a rich, colorful chronicle of the indomitability of the human—and animal—spirit.
Author: John Grisham Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 0385543050 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 284
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A delightfully lighthearted caper . . . [a] fast-moving, entertaining tale.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a vault deep below Princeton University’s Firestone Library. Their loot is priceless, impossible to resist. Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in unsavory ventures. Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer’s block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious woman working for an even more mysterious company. A generous monetary offer convinces Mercer to go undercover and infiltrate Cable’s circle of literary friends, to get close to the ringleader, to discover his secrets. Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!
Author: Linda Jacobs Altman
Author: Linda Jacobs Altman
Author: Linda Jacobs Altman
Author: Linda Jacobs Altman
Author: Herman Parish
Author: Amelia Thorpe
Author: Herman Parish
Author: Amelia Diane Coombs
Author: Linda Jacobs Altman
Author: Amelia Thomas
Author: John Grisham