Author: William Allen Burley
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532036353
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
After defending her Connecticut town against the installation of a nuclear waste repository, attorney Maryann MacKenzie is facing a new legal challenge. When a cult-like sect arrives in Roxbridge, Maryann is forced to question the groups intentions. Meanwhile after a yearlong stint as a visiting professor, Annies husband, Rob, is recruited as a public school science teacher. While he confronts student cynicism about the validity of the scientific method, the Klein siblingsMo, Lars, and Curly-Qnarrate controversies enveloping Roxbridge. After Mos dog is accidentally shot, he and Lars become immersed in a gun ownership debate. At the same time, Curly-Q rails against for-profit schools that undermine public school funding. When social trends in their county both trouble and discourage the MacKenzies, they consider relocation while Mo chronicles their decision and sets the stage for their future. God, Guns, and Charter Schools continues the tale of an attorney and her scientist husband as they are pitted against religious superstitions, Second Amendment abuses, and encroaching charter schools in their Connecticut town.
God, Guns, and Charter Schools
Author: William Allen Burley
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532036353
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
After defending her Connecticut town against the installation of a nuclear waste repository, attorney Maryann MacKenzie is facing a new legal challenge. When a cult-like sect arrives in Roxbridge, Maryann is forced to question the groups intentions. Meanwhile after a yearlong stint as a visiting professor, Annies husband, Rob, is recruited as a public school science teacher. While he confronts student cynicism about the validity of the scientific method, the Klein siblingsMo, Lars, and Curly-Qnarrate controversies enveloping Roxbridge. After Mos dog is accidentally shot, he and Lars become immersed in a gun ownership debate. At the same time, Curly-Q rails against for-profit schools that undermine public school funding. When social trends in their county both trouble and discourage the MacKenzies, they consider relocation while Mo chronicles their decision and sets the stage for their future. God, Guns, and Charter Schools continues the tale of an attorney and her scientist husband as they are pitted against religious superstitions, Second Amendment abuses, and encroaching charter schools in their Connecticut town.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532036353
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
After defending her Connecticut town against the installation of a nuclear waste repository, attorney Maryann MacKenzie is facing a new legal challenge. When a cult-like sect arrives in Roxbridge, Maryann is forced to question the groups intentions. Meanwhile after a yearlong stint as a visiting professor, Annies husband, Rob, is recruited as a public school science teacher. While he confronts student cynicism about the validity of the scientific method, the Klein siblingsMo, Lars, and Curly-Qnarrate controversies enveloping Roxbridge. After Mos dog is accidentally shot, he and Lars become immersed in a gun ownership debate. At the same time, Curly-Q rails against for-profit schools that undermine public school funding. When social trends in their county both trouble and discourage the MacKenzies, they consider relocation while Mo chronicles their decision and sets the stage for their future. God, Guns, and Charter Schools continues the tale of an attorney and her scientist husband as they are pitted against religious superstitions, Second Amendment abuses, and encroaching charter schools in their Connecticut town.
Sundown Requiem
Author: William Allen Burley
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532062656
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
It is 2040 as Annie’s marriage to Rob MacKenzie nears their silver anniversary. When Annie becomes ill, Rob decides to comfort her with an unexpected gift. Throughout their marriage, he has secretly assembled a scrapbook filled with headlines, articles, and correspondence with particular meaning to their lives. But when Annie’s time on earth ends sooner than expected, Rob is left to reflect alone on the love, laughter, and events that surrounded their life together. In 2015, Annie and Rob intertwine their lives in marriage while trying to save an environment under duress. As a Colorado attorney, she battles fracking companies while acknowledging the futility of warehousing nuclear waste. When she confronts an inept city council unable to formulate a plan to assist the homeless, she wonders if they even care. Meanwhile, Rob teaches at the University of Colorado. He challenges fledgling scientists to think clearly and write concisely while alerting his students that the environment is unraveling. Creating a peaceful home life, displaying purposeful public lives, and pushing forward to help the less fortunate, will they be able to prevent Earth from descending into a dystopian spiral? Sundown Requiem shares poignant moments, current events, and correspondence that surround a twenty-five-year marriage as lovingly chronicled in a scrapbook.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532062656
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
It is 2040 as Annie’s marriage to Rob MacKenzie nears their silver anniversary. When Annie becomes ill, Rob decides to comfort her with an unexpected gift. Throughout their marriage, he has secretly assembled a scrapbook filled with headlines, articles, and correspondence with particular meaning to their lives. But when Annie’s time on earth ends sooner than expected, Rob is left to reflect alone on the love, laughter, and events that surrounded their life together. In 2015, Annie and Rob intertwine their lives in marriage while trying to save an environment under duress. As a Colorado attorney, she battles fracking companies while acknowledging the futility of warehousing nuclear waste. When she confronts an inept city council unable to formulate a plan to assist the homeless, she wonders if they even care. Meanwhile, Rob teaches at the University of Colorado. He challenges fledgling scientists to think clearly and write concisely while alerting his students that the environment is unraveling. Creating a peaceful home life, displaying purposeful public lives, and pushing forward to help the less fortunate, will they be able to prevent Earth from descending into a dystopian spiral? Sundown Requiem shares poignant moments, current events, and correspondence that surround a twenty-five-year marriage as lovingly chronicled in a scrapbook.
Cardinal Points of View
Author: William Allen Burley
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532044720
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A chapbook is a collection of short stories, poems, essays, and ephemera published in paperback form. What do you enjoy reading? In Cardinal Points of View, you have choices. Summers spent at camp in New Yorks Adirondack Mountains are remembered by an aging camper. Two writersone a Scot, one an Americanmeet at a castle siege reenactment and share their experiences and motivations. Peanut-butter toppings are tested in a blind tasting. An Irish dance tune gets lyrics. A warning about overpopulation is sounded. Cornell University freshman, Abraham Lincoln, learns how to write a good speech. And dont forget verse. More than twenty original poems challenge the reader to wrestle with the cadence of poetic rhythm and consider the enigmas inherent in creative language. Finally, the contents of Cardinal Points of View are embellished with beautiful photographs depicting Colorados Front Range Mountains. Cardinal Points of View is dedicated to a deceased friend. It concludes with passages from his life story. He offers advice about carefully selecting words before speaking.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532044720
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A chapbook is a collection of short stories, poems, essays, and ephemera published in paperback form. What do you enjoy reading? In Cardinal Points of View, you have choices. Summers spent at camp in New Yorks Adirondack Mountains are remembered by an aging camper. Two writersone a Scot, one an Americanmeet at a castle siege reenactment and share their experiences and motivations. Peanut-butter toppings are tested in a blind tasting. An Irish dance tune gets lyrics. A warning about overpopulation is sounded. Cornell University freshman, Abraham Lincoln, learns how to write a good speech. And dont forget verse. More than twenty original poems challenge the reader to wrestle with the cadence of poetic rhythm and consider the enigmas inherent in creative language. Finally, the contents of Cardinal Points of View are embellished with beautiful photographs depicting Colorados Front Range Mountains. Cardinal Points of View is dedicated to a deceased friend. It concludes with passages from his life story. He offers advice about carefully selecting words before speaking.
The Conscience of a Libertarian
Author: Wayne Allyn Root
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
ISBN: 0470528796
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Libertarian-conservative solutions to the political, social, economic and tax issues facing the United States from a 2012 Third Party Presidential contender, as well as one of America's leading Tea Party political leaders In today's uncertain economy, people are growing more and more concerned about their financial future, and looking for common sense, limited government solutions. In The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gold & Tax Cuts, 2008 Libertarian Party Vice Presidential nominee Wayne Allyn Root presents a passionate case for smaller government; dramatically reduced spending and taxes; States' Rights; free markets; adherence to the Constitution; an end to the Fed; a ban of bailouts, stimulus, earmarks, pork and corporate welfare; economic and personal freedom; and a return of power to the people, just as the Founding Fathers intended. The book Explains why Obama's big government solutions are leading to a Great Depression II and a coming Citizen Revolution Proposes a one year "Income Tax Vacation," a permanent end to capital gains taxes, and detailed spending freezes and cuts across all levels of government Proposes dramatic education reform centered on school choice, home-schooling, charter schools, teacher accountability, and parental freedom Proposes unique reforms in the areas of health care, energy and the public sector (government employee unions) The Conscience of a Libertarian reveals how Americans can take back their country from big government, big unions, big corporations, corrupt politicians, bureaucrats, lawyers and lobbyists.
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
ISBN: 0470528796
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Libertarian-conservative solutions to the political, social, economic and tax issues facing the United States from a 2012 Third Party Presidential contender, as well as one of America's leading Tea Party political leaders In today's uncertain economy, people are growing more and more concerned about their financial future, and looking for common sense, limited government solutions. In The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gold & Tax Cuts, 2008 Libertarian Party Vice Presidential nominee Wayne Allyn Root presents a passionate case for smaller government; dramatically reduced spending and taxes; States' Rights; free markets; adherence to the Constitution; an end to the Fed; a ban of bailouts, stimulus, earmarks, pork and corporate welfare; economic and personal freedom; and a return of power to the people, just as the Founding Fathers intended. The book Explains why Obama's big government solutions are leading to a Great Depression II and a coming Citizen Revolution Proposes a one year "Income Tax Vacation," a permanent end to capital gains taxes, and detailed spending freezes and cuts across all levels of government Proposes dramatic education reform centered on school choice, home-schooling, charter schools, teacher accountability, and parental freedom Proposes unique reforms in the areas of health care, energy and the public sector (government employee unions) The Conscience of a Libertarian reveals how Americans can take back their country from big government, big unions, big corporations, corrupt politicians, bureaucrats, lawyers and lobbyists.
God, Guns, Capitalism, and Hypermasculinity
Author: Warren J. Blumenfeld
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN: 9781433191862
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The book covers issues of firearms violence and efforts at common sense reform from multiple perspectives, including a culture and climate of firearms addressed from a historical, social, governmental, legal, and psychological perspective; political activism and organizing strategies; and options for reform.
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN: 9781433191862
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The book covers issues of firearms violence and efforts at common sense reform from multiple perspectives, including a culture and climate of firearms addressed from a historical, social, governmental, legal, and psychological perspective; political activism and organizing strategies; and options for reform.
Hope Against Hope
Author: Sarah Carr
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608195139
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A moving portrait of school reform in New Orleans through the eyes of the students and educators living it.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608195139
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A moving portrait of school reform in New Orleans through the eyes of the students and educators living it.
C Street
Author: Jeff Sharlet
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 9780316179737
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The "brilliant, courageous" book (Washington Post) that inspired the Netflix documentary series The Family and reveals the secret influence of fundamentalism in American politics. The author of the runaway paperback bestseller The Family returns with a blistering investigation of the true influence of fundamentalism in American politics. Jeff Sharlet is the only journalist to report from inside the C Street House, the Fellowship residence known by its Washington, D.C., address. This luxury townhouse, recently the setting of notorious political scandal, is more crucially home to efforts to transform American democracy. After laying bare the Fellowship's history in his runaway bestseller The Family, Sharlet now shows that past efforts of America's religious fundamentalists pale in comparison to their long-term ambitions today. In C STREET Sharlet reveals why culture wars endure and why they matter now--from the American-backed war on gays in Uganda to the battle for the soul of America's armed forces. Drawing on exclusive sources and explosive, newly disclosed documents, Sharlet exposes not the last gasp of old-time religion but the new front lines of American fundamentalism. .
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 9780316179737
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The "brilliant, courageous" book (Washington Post) that inspired the Netflix documentary series The Family and reveals the secret influence of fundamentalism in American politics. The author of the runaway paperback bestseller The Family returns with a blistering investigation of the true influence of fundamentalism in American politics. Jeff Sharlet is the only journalist to report from inside the C Street House, the Fellowship residence known by its Washington, D.C., address. This luxury townhouse, recently the setting of notorious political scandal, is more crucially home to efforts to transform American democracy. After laying bare the Fellowship's history in his runaway bestseller The Family, Sharlet now shows that past efforts of America's religious fundamentalists pale in comparison to their long-term ambitions today. In C STREET Sharlet reveals why culture wars endure and why they matter now--from the American-backed war on gays in Uganda to the battle for the soul of America's armed forces. Drawing on exclusive sources and explosive, newly disclosed documents, Sharlet exposes not the last gasp of old-time religion but the new front lines of American fundamentalism. .
Still Teaching and Preaching
Author: Ned McCray
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1098015150
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
A collection of articles written over a ten-year period by a retired educator who in retirement still felt compelled to make a difference in the lives of people young and old. The articles are a commentary on life in Chicago and the nation and the problems that affect people in their daily lives and most importantly solutions and remedies for the problems. All of the problems afflicting big cities and the nation are man-made and can be remedied and solved if there is a collective will to do so. It is the hope of this author that these articles can serve as an impetus to solving them.
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1098015150
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
A collection of articles written over a ten-year period by a retired educator who in retirement still felt compelled to make a difference in the lives of people young and old. The articles are a commentary on life in Chicago and the nation and the problems that affect people in their daily lives and most importantly solutions and remedies for the problems. All of the problems afflicting big cities and the nation are man-made and can be remedied and solved if there is a collective will to do so. It is the hope of this author that these articles can serve as an impetus to solving them.
Streets Out, GOD and Education In
Author: Asondra StarN'air
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1098009045
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Listen up, everybody out there, especially if you are a parent. Our youth is in real big trouble! All across America, we are losing young black men due to drug trafficking and street violence. Many of them are lucky to see their eighteenth birthday. And today more and more African-American males are being gunned down in the streets while their schools and mothers weep! Souls crying out RIP! Along with that, and very sad too, prisons nationwide are full of young black men who decided to take the streets to sell drugs, become thugs, carry guns, and commit crimes. God's watching. He's not blind. Stop the madness! Your lives matter! We also have "rappers" and rapists too, exploiting our black female queens with their lewd jokes and violent rhymes. "Stop the music!" God's watching! Some too are behind bars doing time. Last but not least, now we have young women and girls caught up in the criminal system. That's right, for the first time in history, females are entering the prison system in record numbers doing all kinds of things, following the wrong crowd. "For crying out loud," there is a much better way to live your life today. Young America, no matter creed or color, your life matters! Listen, there is another way! Streets Out, God and Education In: That's How We Do It, That's How We Win will help set you on a righteous path. All you have to do is "make that change" and welcome God in! This book is for all those young folks out there, the millennials who need guidance, and to all those who want a second chance at success! I am here to tell you, "Your life matters!"
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1098009045
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Listen up, everybody out there, especially if you are a parent. Our youth is in real big trouble! All across America, we are losing young black men due to drug trafficking and street violence. Many of them are lucky to see their eighteenth birthday. And today more and more African-American males are being gunned down in the streets while their schools and mothers weep! Souls crying out RIP! Along with that, and very sad too, prisons nationwide are full of young black men who decided to take the streets to sell drugs, become thugs, carry guns, and commit crimes. God's watching. He's not blind. Stop the madness! Your lives matter! We also have "rappers" and rapists too, exploiting our black female queens with their lewd jokes and violent rhymes. "Stop the music!" God's watching! Some too are behind bars doing time. Last but not least, now we have young women and girls caught up in the criminal system. That's right, for the first time in history, females are entering the prison system in record numbers doing all kinds of things, following the wrong crowd. "For crying out loud," there is a much better way to live your life today. Young America, no matter creed or color, your life matters! Listen, there is another way! Streets Out, God and Education In: That's How We Do It, That's How We Win will help set you on a righteous path. All you have to do is "make that change" and welcome God in! This book is for all those young folks out there, the millennials who need guidance, and to all those who want a second chance at success! I am here to tell you, "Your life matters!"
Mapping Corporate Education Reform
Author: Wayne Au
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131764820X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Mapping Corporate Education Reform outlines and analyzes the complex relationships between policy actors that define education reform within the current, neoliberal context. Using social network analysis and powerful data visualization tools, the authors identify the problematic roots of these relationships and describe their effects both in the U.S. and abroad. Through a series of case studies, each chapter reveals how powerful actors, from billionaire philanthropists to multinational education corporations, leverage their resources to implement free market mechanisms within public education. By comprehensively connecting the dots of neoliberal education reforms, the authors reveal not only the details of the reforms themselves, but the relationships that enable actors to amass troubling degrees of political power through network governance. A critical analysis of the actors and interests behind education policies, Mapping Corporate Education Reform uncovers the frequently obscured operations of educational governance and offers key insights into education reform at the present moment.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131764820X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Mapping Corporate Education Reform outlines and analyzes the complex relationships between policy actors that define education reform within the current, neoliberal context. Using social network analysis and powerful data visualization tools, the authors identify the problematic roots of these relationships and describe their effects both in the U.S. and abroad. Through a series of case studies, each chapter reveals how powerful actors, from billionaire philanthropists to multinational education corporations, leverage their resources to implement free market mechanisms within public education. By comprehensively connecting the dots of neoliberal education reforms, the authors reveal not only the details of the reforms themselves, but the relationships that enable actors to amass troubling degrees of political power through network governance. A critical analysis of the actors and interests behind education policies, Mapping Corporate Education Reform uncovers the frequently obscured operations of educational governance and offers key insights into education reform at the present moment.