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Jim State Senator Robey, The Howard County Historical Society
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Young Savannah Rose is unfortunately already familiar with the pain
of rejection. Chubby and orphaned, Savannah knows she is lucky to
have found a home with her Aunt Millie, yet she must endure
relentless teasing by her classmates. Deep inside, Savannah knows
she is special, and she is determined to find a way to show them
all. One summer evening while trying to catch fireflies, Savannah
wanders into the dark garden where she suddenly hears a mysterious
voice coming from a glowing pumpkin. The pumpkin turns out to
really be Perihelion, a gifted fairy; unfortunately, Perihelion is
the victim of a ghastly prank by a jealous and evil gnome who has
transformed her into a pumpkin. Terrified she will be made into
pumpkin pie if she is not set free, Perihelion begs Savannah to
help her. After Savannah untangles the fairy from the vine, a
magical mist swirls around her as she transports Savannah to a
kingdom on the other side of the moon where Savannah is about to
learn more about herself than she ever imagined. In this fantasy
tale, a young girl embarks on an adventure with a lively fairy and
soon discovers that it is not how she looks on the outside but who
she is on the inside that truly matters.
Have you ever had a question on how to grow African violets but
could not find the answer? Now your dilemma is solved and you will
be able to quickly find the information for which you are looking.
With this book in your hands you will no longer have to guess when
it comes to growing beautiful African violets, crowned with dozens
of gorgeous blossoms. The primary theme of Mel Robey's third book
on African violets is: Getting Back to the Basics. The reader will
find answers to 250 of the most common questions the author has
been asked since the publication of his first book on these popular
houseplants. He combines a unique knowledge of horticulture with an
easy to understand writing style. 250 Questions and their answers
are covered in ten chapters Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2
Getting To Know Your Plants Chapter 3 Plant Food Essential For
Healthy Plants Chapter 4 Potting Mixtures: Key To Being Successful
Chapter 5 Containers For Growing Beautiful African Violets Chapter
6 Proper Watering Techniques Important Chapter 7 Those Ugly Pests:
Insects, Diseases, and Other Unsightly Problems Chapter 8
Propagation Is Easy Chapter 9 The Environment Around Your Plants
Chapter 10 Light: Its Role In A Plant's Life Glossary You will find
answers to questions such as: .What can be done to solve the
problem after a white, salty crust has formed on the potting soil
surface and rim of the pot? .Does the type of fertilizer I use have
any influence on how well my African violets bloom? .Are there any
simple ways to sterilize my potting mixture? .If you could pick one
problem that causes African violets the most trouble, what would it
be? .Why are the flower buds on my African violet dropping off
before they open? This is very discouraging
Expanding Nationalisms at World's Fairs: Identity, Diversity, and
Exchange, 1851-1915 introduces the subject of international
exhibitions to art and design historians and a wider audience as a
resource for understanding the broad and varied political meanings
of design during a period of rapid industrialization, developing
nationalism, imperialism, expanding trade and the emergence of a
consumer society. Its chapters, written by both established and
emerging scholars, are global in scope, and demonstrate specific
networks of communication and exchange among designers,
manufacturers, markets and nations on the modern world stage from
the second half of the nineteenth century into the beginning of the
twentieth. Within the overarching theme of nationalism and
internationalism as revealed at world's fairs, the book's essays
will engage a more complex understanding of ideas of competition
and community in an age of emergent industrial capitalism, and will
investigate the nuances, contradictions and marginalized voices
that lie beneath the surface of unity, progress, and global
expansion.
Contemporary Issues in Couples Counseling explores the most
difficult issues that people in the helping professions face when
treating couples and provides concrete solutions for addressing
them effectively. Using the revolutionary choice theory and reality
therapy approaches to couples counseling, the book shows clinicians
how to combine a relationship-based approach with the pragmatism of
cognitive-behavior therapies. Both experienced and beginning
clinicians will find Contemporary Issues in Couples Counseling
ideal for helping clients focus on the here and now, not the past,
and for creating treatment plans that meet clients' individual
needs while also addressing the needs of their partners.
Contemporary Issues in Couples Counseling explores the most
difficult issues that people in the helping professions face when
treating couples and provides concrete solutions for addressing
them effectively. Using the revolutionary choice theory and reality
therapy approaches to couples counseling, the book shows clinicians
how to combine a relationship-based approach with the pragmatism of
cognitive-behavior therapies. Both experienced and beginning
clinicians will find Contemporary Issues in Couples Counseling
ideal for helping clients focus on the here and now, not the past,
and for creating treatment plans that meet clients' individual
needs while also addressing the needs of their partners.
David Obey has in his nearly forty years in the U.S. House of
Representatives worked to bring economic and social justice to
America's working families. In 2007 he assumed the chair of the
Appropriations Committee and is positioned to pursue his priority
concerns for affordable health care, education, environmental
protection, and a foreign policy consistent with American
democratic ideals.
Here, in his autobiography, Obey looks back on his journey in
politics beginning with his early years in the Wisconsin
Legislature, when Wisconsin moved through eras of shifting balance
between Republicans and Democrats. On a national level Obey traces,
as few others have done, the dramatic changes in the workings of
the U.S. Congress since his first election to the House in 1969. He
discusses his own central role in the evolution of Congress and
ethics reforms and his view of the recent Bush presidency--crucial
chapters in our democracy, of interest to all who observe politics
and modern U.S. history.
This bibliography is a systematic and thorough guide to the
findings of over one thousand recent English-language dissertations
in a number of specific policy areas. It is divided into sixteen
fields of concentration based on the amount and scope of work being
done: policy analysis, policy making at the state level, policy
making at the local level, public administration and the making of
public policy, agricultural policy, civil rights and the status of
women, domestic taxing and economic policy, educational policy,
U.S. foreign policy, governmental regulation of morality: sex,
drugs, and abortion, housing policy, energy and the environment,
international trade and economics, judicial policy making, military
policy, and social, health, and welfare policy. Within each
section, the entries are arranged alphabetically by author and
numbered sequentially. The volume contains a reader's guide and
subject and author indexes.
Expanding Nationalisms at World's Fairs: Identity, Diversity, and
Exchange, 1851-1915 introduces the subject of international
exhibitions to art and design historians and a wider audience as a
resource for understanding the broad and varied political meanings
of design during a period of rapid industrialization, developing
nationalism, imperialism, expanding trade and the emergence of a
consumer society. Its chapters, written by both established and
emerging scholars, are global in scope, and demonstrate specific
networks of communication and exchange among designers,
manufacturers, markets and nations on the modern world stage from
the second half of the nineteenth century into the beginning of the
twentieth. Within the overarching theme of nationalism and
internationalism as revealed at world's fairs, the book's essays
will engage a more complex understanding of ideas of competition
and community in an age of emergent industrial capitalism, and will
investigate the nuances, contradictions and marginalized voices
that lie beneath the surface of unity, progress, and global
expansion.
This book contains information on an increasingly common autoimmune
disorder. Also called "sticky blood" and Hughes Syndrome, APS makes
one's blood clot too easily, creating high risk of stroke,
thrombosis, and premature heart attack. It is also implicated in
many other health problems including repeated miscarriages,
neurological problems, eary dementia and migraines. It is often
associated with lupus, and mimics the symptoms of other diseases,
including MS.
Symptoms include; migraines and headaches, recurrent miscarriage,
memory loss, slurred speech, blood clots, poor circulation, muscle
pain and cramps, blurred vision, extreme fatigue, epilepsy,
strokes, thrombosis and a form of angina. Because of lack of
knowledge of APS in the medical establishment, sufferers are often
misdiagnosed with MS or other more life-threatening conditions.
This book helps the reader identify the symptoms and provides
important information on diagnosis and treatment of APS. It
contains many moving stories, explaining how people eventually got
a diagnosis, their symptoms, the impact of APS on their lives and
whether or not treatment has worked.
Written in collaboration with Dr. Graham Hughes, the major
researcher of APS in the UK, this book provides a clearly written
informative look at an important but little-known disease.
This is the first comprehensive reference work on Italian literature to be published in English. With 2,400 entries from an international team of scholars, it provides a wealth of clear, up-to-date assessments of Italy's writers, famous and not so famous, from 1200 to 2000, whether they wrote in Italian, dialect, or Latin, together with vital background information on historical events, regional culture, and the other arts.
At the dawn of the Atomic Age, Americans encountered troubling new
questions brought about by the nuclear revolution: In a
representative democracy, who is responsible for national public
safety? How do citizens imagine themselves as members of the
national collective when faced with the priority of individual
survival? What do nuclear weapons mean for transparency and
accountability in government? What role should scientific experts
occupy within a democratic government? Nuclear weapons created a
new arena for debating individual and collective rights. In turn,
they threatened to destabilize the very basis of American
citizenship. As Sarah E. Robey shows in Atomic Americans, people
negotiated the contours of nuclear citizenship through overlapping
public discussions about survival. Policymakers and citizens
disagreed about the scale of civil defense programs and other
public safety measures. As the public learned more about the
dangers of nuclear fallout, critics articulated concerns about
whether the federal government was operating in its citizens' best
interests. By the early 1960s, a significant antinuclear movement
had emerged, which ultimately contributed to the 1963 nuclear
testing ban. Atomic Americans tells the story of a thoughtful body
politic engaged in rewriting the rubric of rights and
responsibilities that made up American citizenship in the Atomic
Age.
The importance of sound in poetry is indisputable, yet it is not at
all an easy subject to discuss, and is rarely treated
systematically by literary scholars. This book uses a variety of
computer-based processes to construct a systematic analytical
description of the sounds of Dante's Divine Comedy in the sense of
their overall distribution within the text. The description is
developed through a comparative treatment of the same features in a
range of related texts, with a view to defining the distinctive
characteristics of Dante's practice; and by a discussion of the
function and effect of sounds in the work, with special attention
to unusually high incidences of particular features. The book is
thus both a contribution to the scholarly debate about Dante's
poem, and an illustration and discussion of the ways in which new
electronic technology can be used for this kind of purpose. Taking
advantage of the regularity of Italian orthography, the book begins
by using an almost wholly electronic analysis to study the
distribution of vocalic and consonantal phonemes and of assonances
and alliterations in the text of the Comedy. This is followed by an
extensive discussion of the related topic of rhyme, also
susceptible of treatment by almost entirely electronic means. The
next part of the book deals with rhythmical and metrical
structures, and as a result has required a much greater element of
manual intervention. A full discussion of syllable divisions in the
Comedy and related texts is the necessary first step in the
treatment of rhythm. This is followed by a discussion of the
theoretical problems involved in the definition of accented
syllables in verse, and the formulation a set of principles for
resolving them, which are then systematically applied. The outcome
is the identification of some distinctive rhythmical tendencies in
Dante's work, and a discussion of the effect of certain kinds of
rhythmical structure in the poem. The final chapter's contribution
is broadly contextual, describing and discussing the theoretical
and methodological starting-points - mainly in Formalism and
structuralism - of the numerical analysis with which the rest of
the book is concerned.
Have you ever had a question on how to grow African violets but
could not find the answer? Now your dilemma is solved and you will
be able to quickly find the information for which you are looking.
With this book in your hands you will no longer have to guess when
it comes to growing beautiful African violets, crowned with dozens
of gorgeous blossoms. The primary theme of Mel Robey's third book
on African violets is: Getting Back to the Basics. The reader will
find answers to 250 of the most common questions the author has
been asked since the publication of his first book on these popular
houseplants. He combines a unique knowledge of horticulture with an
easy to understand writing style. 250 Questions and their answers
are covered in ten chapters Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2
Getting To Know Your Plants Chapter 3 Plant Food Essential For
Healthy Plants Chapter 4 Potting Mixtures: Key To Being Successful
Chapter 5 Containers For Growing Beautiful African Violets Chapter
6 Proper Watering Techniques Important Chapter 7 Those Ugly Pests:
Insects, Diseases, and Other Unsightly Problems Chapter 8
Propagation Is Easy Chapter 9 The Environment Around Your Plants
Chapter 10 Light: Its Role In A Plant's Life Glossary You will find
answers to questions such as: .What can be done to solve the
problem after a white, salty crust has formed on the potting soil
surface and rim of the pot? .Does the type of fertilizer I use have
any influence on how well my African violets bloom? .Are there any
simple ways to sterilize my potting mixture? .If you could pick one
problem that causes African violets the most trouble, what would it
be? .Why are the flower buds on my African violet dropping off
beforethey open? This is very discouraging
In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey
consider Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the present
day, looking at themes and issues which have recurred throughout
its history and continue to be of importance today. Examining
themes such as regional identities, political disunity, and the
role of the national language, they also cover a wide range of
authors and works, including Dante, Petrarch, Manzoni, Montale, and
Calvino. They explore some of the distinctive traditions of the
literature, such as its liking for theorizing its own position, its
concern with politics, and its secular orientation in spite of the
Catholic beliefs and practices of the Italian people. Concluding by
looking at the ways in which Italian literature has changed over
the last thirty years, they examine the influence of women's
writing in Italian, and acknowledge the belated recognition of its
importance. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series
from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost
every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to
get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine
facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make
interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
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