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"Each poem and illustration shines with a personality all its own."
-Shelf Awareness (starred review) "This book has definitely made an
impact on my life." -Kitt Shapiro, daughter of Eartha Kitt Fresh,
accessible, and inspiring, Shaking Things Up introduces fourteen
revolutionary young women-each paired with a noteworthy female
artist-to the next generation of activists, trailblazers, and
rabble-rousers. From the award-winning author of Ada's Violin and
Lifeboat 12, Susan Hood, this is a poetic and visual celebration of
persistent women throughout history. In this book of poems, you
will find Mary Anning, who was just thirteen when she unearthed a
prehistoric fossil. You'll meet Ruby Bridges, the brave
six-year-old who helped end segregation in the South. And Maya Lin,
who at twenty-one won a competition to create a war memorial, and
then had to appear before Congress to defend her right to create.
And those are just a few of the young women included in this book.
Readers will also hear about Molly Williams, Annette Kellerman,
Nellie Bly, Pura Belpre, Frida Kahlo, Jacqueline and Eileen Nearne,
Frances Moore Lappe, Mae Jemison, Angela Zhang, and Malala
Yousafzai-all whose stories will enthrall and inspire. This poetry
collection was written, illustrated, edited, and designed by women
and includes an author's note, a timeline, and additional
resources. With artwork by award-winning and bestselling artists
including Selina Alko, Sophie Blackall, Lisa Brown, Hadley Hooper,
Emily Winfield Martin, Oge Mora, Julie Morstad, Sara Palacios,
LeUyen Pham, Erin Robinson, Isabel Roxas, Shadra Strickland, and
Melissa Sweet. A 2019 Bank Street Best Book of the Year Named to
the 2019 Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List Selected for CCBC
Choices Book 2019 Selected as a Notable Social Studies Trade Books
for Young People 2019 Named to the Cuyahoga County Public Library's
2018 list of Great Books for Kids 2020-2021 South Carolina Picture
Book Award Nominee
Sometime the distance between suicidal despair and freedom seems
like an impossible dream. From early in her teens, Leah Rebecca
struggled with clinical depression. This mental anguish dragged her
through more than two decades of crippling despair. Her life was
filled with reckless and destructive choices. If only we knew the
distant consequences that cannot possibly be anticipated at the
moment of our choices. Inspired by a true story, Gabriel and Esther
carries you on a journey of heart and spirit. Diary entries,
letters, and Leah's present day narrative immerse you in this
secret story, told from pages hidden from view for over five
decades. As Leah Rebecca's depressions peaked, GOD stepped in so
tangibly that Leah abandons her suicide plan and awaits the healing
GOD has promised will be hers. This woman, plagued by fear,
hopelessness, and longing for the release of death, is slowly
transformed into a woman of creativity, purpose, and freedom.
Healing and redemption prove triumphant.
The early Iron Age settlement at Longbridge Deverill Cow Down,
Wiltshire is justly regarded as one of the type sites of the
British Iron Age. During four brief seasons of excavation between
1956 and 1960 Sonia Chadwick Hawkes investigated three enclosures
and revealed the well-preserved remains of four impressive timber
roundhouses. The Longbridge settlement lay within a landscape of
contemporary Iron Age communities on the northern periphery of
Salisbury Plain, and its particular role and place in this complex
of settlements, field systems, routeways and middens remains
tantalisingly obscure. A remarkable collection of pottery
associated with the fiery destruction of the roundhouses, perhaps
immolation in the true sense, offers a wealth of new material to
consider in the light of other important collections from the
region. The release of Hawkes' archaeological data marks a major
contribution to the pursuit of insight into this intriguing phase
of British prehistory. 301p, b/w illus,
The incredible range of colours and versatility of beads, ribbons
and silken threads make them irresistible materials for crafts,
artists, jewellery makers and interior designers of all levels.
This attractive book presents an inspirational guide to the art of
working with beads, ribbons and threads, illustrating key
techniques such as how to use a bead loom and a pin board for
beadwork, a warping frame and skirt board for tassels, and ribbon
weaving and embroidery methods to embellish your work. Presented in
an easy-to-follow format, with techniques to suit all levels, this
volume allows you to create exquisite decorations with confidence;
it combines a fascinating history and guide to the crafts with the
practical techniques needed to create traditional and contemporary
items that both gorgeous and useful.
Literature is long. Comics are short. Does Proust get you down? Do
you find The Unbearable Lightness of Being simply unbearable? Is
The Inferno your own private hell? Do you long to be conversant
about classics like Moby Dick, the Bhagavad Gita, Madame Bovary,
and, um, Twilight? Bestselling illustrator Lisa Brown (The Airport
Book; Baby, Mix Me a Drink) did her homework. Long Story Short
offers 100 pithy and skewering three-panel literary summaries, from
curriculum classics like Don Quixote, Lord of the Flies, and Jane
Eyre to modern favorites like Beloved, The Brief Wondrous Life of
Oscar Wao, and Atonement, conveniently organised by subjects
including "Love," "Sex," "Death," and "Female Trouble." Lisa
Brown's Long Story Short is the perfect way to turn a traipse
through what your English teacher called "the canon" into a frolic
- or to happily cram for the next occasion that requires you to
appear bookish and well-read.
Sending your son or daughter off to college is never easy, but
sending your pride and joy to the United States Military Academy is
downright scary. There are so many unknowns-from Beast to boodle to
all those confusing Army acronyms That's where The Mom's Guide to
Surviving West Point comes in. This book is designed to guide you
as you figure out how best to support and encourage your cadet
through the next four years.
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Mummy Cat (Hardcover)
Marcus Ewert; Illustrated by Lisa Brown
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R445
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The Weymouth Relief Road crosses an area of intricately varied
geology and one of the richest and most important cultural
landscapes in England, which preserves a wealth of archaeological
and historical remains. Extensive fieldwork in advance of
construction of the Weymouth Relief Road yielded evidence of
Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age settlement and funerary
activity, along with vestiges of Roman occupation. The main sites
were located at Ridgeway Hill, located on the edge of South Dorset
Ridgeway, at the northern end of the scheme and at Southdown Ridge
close to the southern end. At Ridgeway Hill a sequence of Neoltihic
pits was investigated, along with several groups of early Bronze
Age inhumation and cremation burials in pits and cists. The burials
were probably originally associated with barrows that belonged to
the Ridgeway Hill group, one of the densest concentrations of
Bronze Age round barrows in Britain. At Southdown Ridge a
settlement that spanned the late Bronze Age/early Iron Age to the
late Iron Age was discovered lying adjacent to a cross-ridge dyke
and prehistoric field enclosures. The inhabitants engaged in
shale-working activity as well as agriculture until the settlement
was abandoned and converted to a cemetery in which the dead were
buried in the distinctive south Dorset tradition, accompanied by
grave goods, and later in the Roman tradition of coffined burial.
Get bold and inventive with two of the most beautiful fabric craft
materials, beads and ribbons, with this practical compendium
showing you how to create lovely accessories and ornaments for
every room in the home. There are 100 projects using beads, ribbons
and tassels, as well as scores of ideas and inspirations for
creating fabulous decorative items. Learn how to make exquisite
tie-backs, bags, wreaths, stationery, gift-wrap and cards,
cushions, trims, picture frames, lampshades, cord pulls and much
more. This inspirational guide to the art of working with beads,
ribbons and threads illustrates all the key techniques such as how
to use a bead loon and a pin board for beadwork, a warping frame
and skirt board for tassels, and ribbon weaving and embroidery
methods to embellish your work. Presented in an easy-to-follow
format, with techniques to suit all levels, this beautiful craft
book allows you to create exquisite decorations with confidence and
success.
In a book that is as intriguing as it is useful and entertaining,
we follow a family on its way through the complexities of a modern
day airport. From checking bags and watching them disappear on the
mysterious conveyer belt, to security clearance and a seemingly
endless wait at the gate to finally being airborne. But wait!
There's more! The youngest family member's sock monkey has gone
missing. Follow it at the bottom of the page as it makes a journey
as memorable as that of the humans above.
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Framework for Equitable Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccine (Paperback)
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Committee on Equitable Allocation of Vaccine for the Novel Coronavirus; Edited by …
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In response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and
the societal disruption it has brought, national governments and
the international community have invested billions of dollars and
immense amounts of human resources to develop a safe and effective
vaccine in an unprecedented time frame. Vaccination against this
novel coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2), offers the possibility of significantly reducing
severe morbidity and mortality and transmission when deployed
alongside other public health strategies and improved therapies.
Health equity is intertwined with the impact of COVID-19 and there
are certain populations that are at increased risk of severe
illness or death from COVID-19. In the United States and worldwide,
the pandemic is having a disproportionate impact on people who are
already disadvantaged by virtue of their race and ethnicity, age,
health status, residence, occupation, socioeconomic condition, or
other contributing factors. Framework for Equitable Allocation of
COVID-19 Vaccine offers an overarching framework for vaccine
allocation to assist policy makers in the domestic and global
health communities. Built on widely accepted foundational
principles and recognizing the distinctive characteristics of
COVID-19, this report's recommendations address the commitments
needed to implement equitable allocation policies for COVID-19
vaccine. Table of Contents Front Matter Summary 1 Introduction 2
Lessons Learned from Other Allocation Efforts 3 A Framework for
Equitable Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccine 4 Applying the Framework
for Equitable Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccine in Various Scenarios 5
Administering and Implementing an Effective and Equitable National
COVID-19 Vaccination Program 6 Risk Communication and Community
Engagement 7 Achieving Acceptance of COVID-19 Vaccine 8 Ensuring
Equity in COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation Globally Appendix A: Study
Methods Appendix B: Committee and Staff Biosketches
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Shoemaker Brown Get'S Down (Paperback)
Andrea Lisa Brown; Illustrated by Dominant Dansby; Edited by Brian Hemphill
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saint Sebastian Bed of Roses (Paperback)
Michael W. Glover; Cover design or artwork by Amalia Chitulescu; Edited by Lisa Brown
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