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The love that Thaddeus and Amy feel for one another can get them
both killed. He is colored, an ex-slave, and she is white. In 19th
century Louisiana mixed race relationships are both illegal and
unacceptable.
Moss Grove, a large Mississippi River cotton plantation has
thrived from the use of slave labor while its owners lived lives of
comfort and privilege. Thaddeus, born more than a decade earlier
from the rape of a young field slave by the heir to the plantation,
is raised as a Moss Grove house servant. His presence remains a
thorn in the side of the man who sired him.
Deepening divisiveness between North and South launches the
Civil War and changes Moss Grove in ways no one could have
anticipated. With the war swirling we see the battles and carnage
through Thaddeus' eyes. The war ends and he returns to Moss Grove
and to Amy, hoping to enjoy their newly won freedoms. With the help
of Union soldiers, schools are established to educate those who
were formerly prohibited from learning to read. Medical clinics are
opened and businesses begun. Black legislators are elected and help
to pass new laws. Hope flourishes. Perhaps the stars will now
finally align for the young lovers.
In 1876, however, the ex-Confederate states barter the selection
of President Rutherford B. Hayes for removal of all Union troops
from their soil in the most contested election in American history.
Within a decade hopes are dashed as Jim Crow laws are passed, the
Ku Klux Klan launches new violence, and black progress is
crushed.
"'When Stars Align'" is a soaring novel of memorable white,
Negro and colored men and women set against actual historic
events.
Apartheid in South Africa has now been gone more than fifteen years
but the heroes of their struggle to achieve a Black majority-run
democracy are still being revealed. Some individuals toiled
publicly, but most worked tirelessly in the shadows to improve the
welfare of the Black and Coloured populations that had been so
neglected. Nelson Mandela was still in prison; clean water and
sanitation barely existed; AIDS was beginning to orphan an entire
generation. Meanwhile a white, Jewish, middle class woman, joined
with Tutu, Millie, Ivy, Zora and other concerned Black women,
respectfully called Mamas, to help those most in need, often being
beaten and arrested by white security police. This book tells the
story of these women and others who have spent their adult lives
making South Africa a better place for those who were the country's
most disadvantaged.
Die Ultraschalldiagnostik in der Geburtshilfe und Gynakologie hat
heute bereits eine 25jahrige Geschichte. Als lan Donald und
Mitarbeiter 1958 in ihrer inzwi- schen beruhmt gewordenen
Publikation "Investigation of abdominal masses by pulsed
ultrasound" in Lancet die Methode erstmals als bild gebendes
Verfah- ren vorstellten, ahnten sicher nur wenige, welchen
Stellenwert sie in der medizi- nischen Diagnostik erreichen wurde.
Die grosse Bedeutung der Ultraschalldia- gnostik druckt sich nicht
zuletzt darin aus, dass sie in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland seit
nunmehr 5 Jahren als Screeningverfahren in die Mutterschafts-
vorsorge eingefuhrt ist, dabei hat sich der Katalog spezieller
Indikationen stan- dig erwei tert. Dem Anwender in Klinik und
Praxis ist es heute kaum noch moeglich, aus der Flut der
zahlreichen Publikationen die Information zu gewinnen, die es ihm
ermoeglicht, die Ultraschalldiagnostik in ihrer ganzen Vielfalt zu
nutzen. Um hier eine Hilfestellung zu geben ist das vorliegende
Buch bewusst als Lehr- buch und Atlas konzipiert. Es soll dem Leser
und Anwender mitteilen, welche Moeglichkeiten die
Ultraschalldiagnostik bietet und wie diese optimal eingesetzt
werden koennen. Entsprechend der inzwischen weit fortgeschrittenen
technischen Entwicklung der Gerate wurde fast ausschliesslich
Bildmaterial von Realtimege- raten ausgewahlt. Diese Bilder
bedurfen auch fur den weniger Geubten kaum noch einer erklarenden
Skizze. Dort wo wir auf Details verweisen wollen, findet der Leser
entsprechende graphische Hinweise im Originalbild. Dies erleichtert
ihm den Vergleich mit seinem in der taglichen Praxis anfallenden
Befunden.
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Guff (Paperback)
Carole Eglash-Kosoff
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R468
R410
Discovery Miles 4 100
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SEX, DRUGS, & FASHION is a highly entertaining novel of the
Apparel industry during the frenzied days of the 1970's &
1980's. To some it will be just an enjoyable story. To others it
will be a trip down memory lane. Charlie Barron, growing up in New
York's 7th Avenue Fashion District, moves to Los Angeles and its
embryonic environment. He finds it difficult to keep his pants
zipped as he builds first one company, then another, always at odds
with his business partners. He marries, divorces, marries a second
and a third time. We meet Jennifer, Ruby, and Lorena. We meet
Sharon, Windy, and Adrienne. The novel also deals with the
underbelly of the industry...the New York mob, Vegas gamblers, and
cocaine dealers. We see kickbacks and scams. You'll meet Will Duval
who has competed with Charlie for decades, always preferring
shortcuts to success. Their competition often leads to violence.
Many of the events in the book are true and are based on the
authors more than thirty years in the industry.
This is a non-fiction book that details a dozen major events in
American history that were resolved by a single vote...the action
of a single individual that changed the direction of our country.
It occasionally moved our nation into the dark but more often it
moved us in the direction of curing inequities that had evolved
through decades of history. We live in a period of economic and
political unrest and we believe it to be worse than at any time in
our history...but it may not be America's two hundred plus years of
existence has been one of turmoil, dissension, and war. It has been
a time of alternating economic growth and stagnation. Each decade
has found stalwarts and dissenters convinced that they, alone, have
the best solution for the country's ills. A surprising number of
events that altered the country's direction resulted from the vote
of a single individual either in support of a change or opposed to
it. Names such as James Bayard, Edmund Ross, and Joseph Bradley are
unknown, but during their lifetimes they altered the fabric or our
nation as significantly as Americans whose names are more famous.
This book, By One Vote, tells these stories. The events are
factual; the dramatizations surrounding them are the studied
imagination of the author.
The love that Thaddeus and Amy feel for one another can get them
both killed. He is colored, an ex-slave, and she is white. In 19th
century Louisiana mixed race relationships are both illegal and
unacceptable.
Moss Grove, a large Mississippi River cotton plantation has
thrived from the use of slave labor while its owners lived lives of
comfort and privilege. Thaddeus, born more than a decade earlier
from the rape of a young field slave by the heir to the plantation,
is raised as a Moss Grove house servant. His presence remains a
thorn in the side of the man who sired him.
Deepening divisiveness between North and South launches the
Civil War and changes Moss Grove in ways no one could have
anticipated. With the war swirling we see the battles and carnage
through Thaddeus' eyes. The war ends and he returns to Moss Grove
and to Amy, hoping to enjoy their newly won freedoms. With the help
of Union soldiers, schools are established to educate those who
were formerly prohibited from learning to read. Medical clinics are
opened and businesses begun. Black legislators are elected and help
to pass new laws. Hope flourishes. Perhaps the stars will now
finally align for the young lovers.
In 1876, however, the ex-Confederate states barter the selection
of President Rutherford B. Hayes for removal of all Union troops
from their soil in the most contested election in American history.
Within a decade hopes are dashed as Jim Crow laws are passed, the
Ku Klux Klan launches new violence, and black progress is
crushed.
"'When Stars Align'" is a soaring novel of memorable white,
Negro and colored men and women set against actual historic
events.
Winds of Change is a whirlwind novel of bi-racial love set against
those forgotten decades that include the Spanish-American War, the
San Francisco earthquake, and World War I. It deals with
segregation and injustices to Southern black and white communities
during the post Civil War period when old attitudes persisted and
interracial love led to disastrous consequences. The racially
charged love and conflict of the critically acclaimed When Stars
Align have become more entrenched. Josiah, Bess, and Stephen
discover facts about themselves that refute everything they
believed regarding both their parents and their racial background.
Loves are thwarted as they each struggle with echoes of their past.
It is a tumultuous time in American history that includes the
inventions of airplanes, automobiles, telephones and movies, amidst
decades of lynchings and economic turmoil. Racial biases complicate
lives and relationships as newly arrived immigrants vie with white
and Negro workers all trying to gain a piece of the American dream.
It is a socially relevant, historically accurate, saga of decades
often overlooked in American history. Winds of Change follows the
next generation from those we came to know in When Stars Align.
Carole Eglash-Kosoff lives and writes in Valley Village,
California. She graduated from UCLA and spent her career teaching,
writing, and traveling to more than seventy countries. An avid
student of history, she researched the decades preceding and
following the Civil War for nearly two years, including time in
Louisiana, the setting for Winds of Change and When Stars Align. It
is a story of bi-racial love during a period of terrible injustice.
It is a story of war, reconstruction, and racism, but most of all;
it is a story of hope. This is her third book. In 2006, following
the death of her husband, she spent several months teaching in the
black townships of South Africa. Her first book, The Human Spirit -
Apartheid's Unheralded Heroes, tells the true life stories of an
amazing array of men and women who have devoted their lives during
the worst years of apartheid to help the children, the elderly, and
the disabled of the townships. These people cared when no one else
did and their efforts continue to this day.
Apartheid in South Africa has now been gone more than fifteen years
but the heroes of their struggle to achieve a Black majority-run
democracy are still being revealed. Some individuals toiled
publicly, but most worked tirelessly in the shadows to improve the
welfare of the Black and Coloured populations that had been so
neglected. Nelson Mandela was still in prison; clean water and
sanitation barely existed; AIDS was beginning to orphan an entire
generation. Meanwhile a white, Jewish, middle class woman, joined
with Tutu, Millie, Ivy, Zora and other concerned Black women,
respectfully called Mamas, to help those most in need, often being
beaten and arrested by white security police. This book tells the
story of these women and others who have spent their adult lives
making South Africa a better place for those who were the country's
most disadvantaged.
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