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Determine Persist Achieve (Hardcover): Stanley Crawford Determine Persist Achieve (Hardcover)
Stanley Crawford
R741 Discovery Miles 7 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Middle Kingdom's Miracle Maidens (Paperback): Stanley Crawford The Middle Kingdom's Miracle Maidens (Paperback)
Stanley Crawford
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R358 R298 Discovery Miles 2 980 Save R60 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Mary Stone and Ida Kahn were the first female Chinese doctors educated in Western medicine. Both women changed China forever. This story shares their lifelong contributions to the China of their day, and how patient by patient they ended ancient traditions by producing positive results. Binding feet fell from fashion, surgery became the best solution for tumors, and female medical education saved many lives. Both physicians were born in Kiukiang, now called Jiujiang, one of many pearls along the sometimes over-flowing Yangtze River. Both were "entrusted" to missionaries. Both children had something about them their parents saw as mystical. We all became blessed because they took a course of unprecedented action, covering more than half the globe, and spoke to a simple way of facing impossible odds to make a difference.

Village: a novel - A novel (Hardcover): Stanley Crawford Village: a novel - A novel (Hardcover)
Stanley Crawford
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R655 R553 Discovery Miles 5 530 Save R102 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This rollicking ride through a single day in the ill-fated village of San Marcos will leave you reeling with laughter, even as you cringe at the misadventures of the hapless Porter Clapp and his pitiable wife, Steph; the jaundiced Onésimo Moro and his ever-watchful spouse, Isabel; and the rest of Crawford’s riotous cast. At this story’s beginning, a meeting notice from the state water agency, posted at the local store, seems to portend an imminent threat to the valley’s precious acequias. But perhaps more ominous—at least to the paranoid Clapp—is the possibility of the outside world meddling with the isolation, blissful or not, of this remote Hispanic plaza town. As the time of the meeting looms, we follow the characters through the day and become immersed in a place unnervingly familiar to anyone who has lived in Northern New Mexico. Crawford spares no one from his acerbic wit and skewering prose, yet there remains an unmistakable affection for the marvelously dysfunctional community and the very faults that he so eloquently parodies. As the tale unfolds, we dread the incipient threat from outside the valley less and begin to hope that something will deflect the downward spiral every character seems doomed to follow—but nothing anticipates or prepares us for the denouement that Crawford skillfully delivers, leaving us punch drunk with mirth.

The Garlic Papers: A Small Garlic Farm in the Age of Global Vampires (Paperback): Stanley Crawford The Garlic Papers: A Small Garlic Farm in the Age of Global Vampires (Paperback)
Stanley Crawford
R468 R405 Discovery Miles 4 050 Save R63 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The compelling personal story at the heart of the Netflix documentary, "Garlic Breath." Readers who care about preserving local businesses will appreciate this new book by writer and garlic farm owner Stanley Crawford. In the fall of 2014, Crawford questioned US tariff exemptions for the country’s largest importer of Chinese garlic. This set off a massive legal battle, pitting his small New Mexico farm against the importer and its international law firms. In this compelling account of his David-and-Goliath battle, now in its fifth year, Crawford describes his personal and farming life under a cloud of lawsuits and administrative skirmishes. The unusual case was of such interest that it became the subject of a Netflix documentary, “Garlic Breath,” in the six-part series Rotten, released in 2018.

The Middle Kingdom's Miracle Maidens (Hardcover, 2nd Corrections ed.): Stanley Crawford The Middle Kingdom's Miracle Maidens (Hardcover, 2nd Corrections ed.)
Stanley Crawford
R538 Discovery Miles 5 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Mary Stone and Ida Kahn were the first female Chinese doctors educated in Western medicine. Both women changed China forever. This story shares their lifelong contributions to the China of their day, and how patient by patient they ended ancient traditions by producing positive results. Binding feet fell from fashion, surgery became the best solution for tumors, and female medical education saved many lives. Both physicians were born in Kiukiang, now called Jiujiang, one of many pearls along the sometimes over-flowing Yangtze River. Both were entrusted to missionaries. Both children had something about them their parents saw as mystical. We all became blessed because they took a course of unprecedented action, covering more than half the globe, and spoke to a simple way of facing impossible odds to make a difference."

Building Instructional Capacity (Paperback): Stanley Crawford Building Instructional Capacity (Paperback)
Stanley Crawford
R511 Discovery Miles 5 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

After discussing the importance of leadership, Dr. Crawford presents the three key strategies for building instructional capacity. Leadership: Leadership is important to the success of any endeavor in public education. Increase Applied Personnel Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Possessing knowledge, skill and ability are only the beginning to an increase in student learning and student achievement. The application piece must be nurtured. Improve the Curriculum Program and Supporting Aspects: Parts of the curriculum program should be given special attention by school and district leadership. Provide the Basic Medical, Social, and Emotional Support for Students: Students should be given the best opportunity to succeed in public education. When this occurs, it will benefit society as a whole.

Dr. Virgil Hart - Man on a Mission (Paperback): Stanley Crawford Dr. Virgil Hart - Man on a Mission (Paperback)
Stanley Crawford
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R498 R443 Discovery Miles 4 430 Save R55 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Dr. Virgil Hart - Man on a Mission (Hardcover): Stanley Crawford Dr. Virgil Hart - Man on a Mission (Hardcover)
Stanley Crawford
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R639 R572 Discovery Miles 5 720 Save R67 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The History of Lushan & Kuling (Paperback): Albert H Stone, Edward S. Little The History of Lushan & Kuling (Paperback)
Albert H Stone, Edward S. Little; Originally written by Stanley Crawford
R502 R448 Discovery Miles 4 480 Save R54 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Story of Lushan is beautiful and reaches from the clouds to the rivers far below. Lushan Mountain has always been a resting place, inviting meditation, insight-fulness, and art. Life on Lushan Mountain has touched many hearts, and inspired greatness from the masters of all centuries. If more than 5000 years of mystical history inspire you to visit Lushan, when you arrive amongst the clouds, you will know you have arrived in Heaven. Mystery and romance still lives all over this mountain. Start your journey with these pages, and imagine living in a timeless country where your ancestry reaches back to the beginning of time. If you are a poet, artist, photographer, or just in love with possibility, Lushan will bless your dreams and imaginings. China is a journey.

Wuhu Missionaries (Paperback): Stanley Crawford Wuhu Missionaries (Paperback)
Stanley Crawford; Contributions by Cathleen Crawford Green; Compiled by Stanley Crawford
R513 R459 Discovery Miles 4 590 Save R54 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Dr. Edgerton H. Hart was born in China to missionary parents, was educated in America and returned to China to head one of the hospitals his father, Virgil Hart built in Wuhu, on the Yangtze River. His medical skills were highly regarded by both the Chinese and foreigners. From Caroline Harts' personal journal, At last my preparation of years was rewarded, for I carried in my pocket a half-read letter that appointed me to China. That early afternoon in the spring of 1904 found me hurrying toward the operating rooms of Chicago's huge Cook County Hospital, at that time said to be the largest charity hospital in the world. A brief luncheon period and a rush day in surgery had allowed only a glance at the letter, but it was my uppermost thought as I scrubbed up, put on cap, mask and gown and entered the room where an operation was already under way. I moved silently to my station and after a few moments, the chief surgeon, alert always to the personnel and efficiency of his assistants, looked up. He said teasingly, "So the little red-headed missionary is here to help, looking for the entire world as if she had seen a vision. Just when and where are you going?"

Wuhu Missionaries (Hardcover): Caroline Maddock Hart, Cathleen Crawford Green, Stanley Crawford Wuhu Missionaries (Hardcover)
Caroline Maddock Hart, Cathleen Crawford Green, Stanley Crawford
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R654 R588 Discovery Miles 5 880 Save R66 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Dr. Edgerton H. Hart was born in China to missionary parents, was educated in America and returned to China to head one of the hospitals his father, Virgil Hart built in Wuhu, on the Yangtze River. His medical skills were highly regarded by both the Chinese and foreigners. From Caroline Harts' personal journal, At last my preparation of years was rewarded, for I carried in my pocket a half-read letter that appointed me to China. That early afternoon in the spring of 1904 found me hurrying toward the operating rooms of Chicago's huge Cook County Hospital, at that time said to be the largest charity hospital in the world. A brief luncheon period and a rush day in surgery had allowed only a glance at the letter, but it was my uppermost thought as I scrubbed up, put on cap, mask and gown and entered the room where an operation was already under way. I moved silently to my station and after a few moments, the chief surgeon, alert always to the personnel and efficiency of his assistants, looked up. He said teasingly, "So the little red-headed missionary is here to help, looking for the entire world as if she had seen a vision. Just when and where are you going?"

Travel Notes (from Here--To There) (Paperback): Stanley Crawford Travel Notes (from Here--To There) (Paperback)
Stanley Crawford
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R340 R284 Discovery Miles 2 840 Save R56 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Fiction. Originally published in 1967, TRAVEL NOTES is a hallucinogenic dream journey thru the incomparable mind that subsequently brought us Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine, then dropped off the grid to become a garlic farmer in New Mexico. TRAVEL NOTES could indeed read like Stanley Crawford's private travelogue, yet no real-world places or people are explicitly mentioned. Instead we're taken on a rompish tromp thru wild and often absurd landscapes--in a bus that gets dismantled & reassembled to get around a broken-down car, in a biplane that only flies in the mind of the naked pilot, or on the back of a white elephant named Unable with untranslatable obscenities tattooed to his underbelly--the traveller ever self-aware of the nagging fragility of routine customs, ever on the verge of having the magic carpet pulled out from beneath your feet if you stop to think. This mind-jarring comedy of errors shares campy common ground with Brautigan in its carefree wackiness, with Robbe-Grillet in its disciplined lunacy and obsessive- compulsive attention to detail, with Marquez in its magical realism (though Crawford, in exile on Crete, was at the time unaware of One Hundred Years of Solitude, published in the same year) and with a healthy dose of subversive angst thrown in for good measure. By the end, TRAVEL NOTES becomes a boot-strapping map to your own brain, projecting psychotherapeutic color on the otherwise gray matter of real-world events.

Cinquains: Volume I (Paperback): Stanley Crawford Cinquains: Volume I (Paperback)
Stanley Crawford
R345 Discovery Miles 3 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Cinquains: Volume I, is a children's book of poems. The poems are accompanied by illustrations that engage students in the learning process. This book has been prepared with two purposes in mind. First, the book provides a source of enjoyment for the reader. This is accomplished by using the cinquain poem format for communicating about various topics. There are various forms of cinquain poems. I have stuck fairly close to the Adelaide Crapsey process of writing cinquains. This is mainly in the use of the syllable count. Second, to provide an additional resource for anyone involved in the process of engaging learners. Whether the learners are in public education, private education, or business the engagement of the learner is a significant key to learner success in the learning process.

Mayordomo - Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico (Paperback): Stanley Crawford Mayordomo - Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico (Paperback)
Stanley Crawford
R504 R426 Discovery Miles 4 260 Save R78 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Irrigation ditches are the lifelines of agriculture and daily life in rural New Mexico. This award-winning account of the authors experience as a mayordomo, or ditch boss, is the first record of the life of an acequia by a community participant.

The Canyon - A Novel (Paperback): Stanley Crawford The Canyon - A Novel (Paperback)
Stanley Crawford
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R485 R405 Discovery Miles 4 050 Save R80 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Scotty's family owns a lodge near their silver mine in the Colorado Rockies. Summers at the lodge are idyllic for Scotty and his cousin Mickey. The grown-ups are dealing with the complications of business and adult dysfunction, but the boys are more interested in the complications of puberty, especially when Rosalind, the teenage daughter of family friends, is on hand. To read this quiet, rich evocation of adolescent watchfulness is to experience what it is like to be fourteen years old, waiting for something to happen, aware of everything but oblivious to as much of it as possible. Readers will be reminded of such modern masters as William Maxwell and John Updike.

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