Warm, feisty, and intelligent, the Delany sisters speak their mind in a book that is at once a vital historical record and a moving portrait of two remarkable women who continued to love, laugh, and embrace life after over a hundred years of living side by side.

Their sharp memories show us the post-Reconstruction South and Booker T. Washington; Harlem's Golden Age and Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Paul Robeson. Bessie breaks barriers to become a dentist; Sadie quietly integrates the New York City system as a high school teacher. Their extraordinary story makes an important contribution to our nation's heritage--and an indelible impression on our lives.


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This is a collection of trophy winning poetry. The subjects arrange from light to dark, funny to sad, and anything between. Some poetry is about love and some about death. Poems ranges in length sizes also.

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The challenge of life and literary narrative is the central and perennial mystery of how people encounter, manage, and inhabit a self and a world of their own - and others' - creations. With a nod to the eminent scholar and psychologist Jerome Bruner, Life and Narrative: The Risks and Responsibilities of Storying Experience explores the circulation of meaning between experience and the recounting of that experience to others. A variety of arguments center around the kind of relationship life and narrative share with one another. In this volume, rather than choosing to argue that this relationship is either continuous or discontinuous, editors Brian Schiff, A. Elizabeth McKim, and Sylvie Patron and their contributing authors reject the simple binary and masterfully incorporate a more nuanced approach that has more descriptive appeal and theoretical traction for readers. Exploring such diverse and fascinating topics as 'Narrative and the Law,' 'Narrative Fiction, the Short Story, and Life,' 'The Body as Biography,' and 'The Politics of Memory,' Life and Narrative features important research and perspectives from both up-and-coming researchers and prominent scholars in the field - many of which who are widely acknowledged for moving the needle forward on the study of narrative in their respective disciplines and beyond.

En esta obra se analiza la situacion de la atencion prehospitalaria en escenarios con victimas multiples desde el punto de vista etico y juridico y se propone la idea de Bien Comun, abordada desde la Filosofia personalista, como criterio para una toma de decisiones etica. Tambien se analiza el comportamiento de los tecnicos en urgencias medicas ante la toma de decisiones en la practica de un triage asi como la afectacion de los mismos en su desempeno profesional y personal. De igual manera se estudia el marco juridico de la atencion prehospitalaria en Mexico y se emiten recomendaciones para mejorar la regulacon juridica de los servicios de emergencia en Mexico. Por ultimo, este trabajo aborda la problematica derivada de la asignacion de recursos materiales y humanos escasos en el ambito de la medicina y propone los principios de subsidiariedad y sociabilidad como ejes para una justa distribucion de los mismos."

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"A new edition of the book that received the Historic Preservation Book Prize and the American Society for Landscape Architects' Honor Award"

Since publication of the first edition of "Saving America's Countryside" in 1989, the fight to save America's rural resources has met with much success. Approaches considered experimental just a decade ago--greenways and heritage areas, for example--are now widespread. Yet at the same time, such disquieting developments as continuing suburban sprawl, the weakening of federal laws, and the so-called property rights movement all suggest that work remains to be done.

"Saving America's Countryside" was the first and is still the only comprehensive, step-by-step guide to protecting the natural, historic, scenic, and agricultural resources of a rural community. The authors show how to organize a conservation effort, inventory available resources, pass effective new laws, set up land trusts, take advantage of federal programs, and change public attitudes.

The thoroughly revised and updated second edition reports on changes in conservation over the past eight years and adds a chapter on making economic development compatible with rural conservation. It includes new case studies, more than fifty new illustrations, and a section on heritage tourism. As in the previous edition, the detailed case studies document a variety of successful--and often surprisingly innovative--conservation efforts by residents of rural communities throughout the United States.