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Contracting Details is an invaluable resource for new homebuilders who want to save money, maintain decision-making control and gain personal satisfaction by general contracting their own home or by knowledgeably following the progress of a professional builder. Written in an easy-to-read style using layman's terms, the entire homebuilding process is explainedfrom preliminary planning through final construction. The chronological approach breaks each aspect down into manageable tasks so that the homeowner will feel confident knowing that the right step is being performed at the right time. The same concepts, schedules and forms used by professionals are included, but with detailed guidelines and complete checklists to make them suitable for the novice. ... Read more

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Excellent Book
This book is full of good information.The author provides aq very goodlevel of step-by-step information about the entire construction process. Each section states it's objective, highlights relevant topics to consider,tells you how to accomplish each task, and provides examples.Includesexplanations, progress/task checklists, cost estimating, and a sampleproject calendar and timetables usually missing from other books of thiskind.It walks you through the whole process.This is the book I waslooking for to build my house. ... Read more

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"This text aptly details the remarkable accomplishment of Spelman’s founders. Watson and Gregory spin a tale of innovation and triumph while simultaneously adding to the scholarship of higher education.Through an analysis of the curricular changes brought by each president, coupled with the important social and political context that surrounded those presidencies, this book presents a thoughtful discussion on the impact of a powerful woman’s vision on the lives of other women." -- from the Foreword by Johnnetta B. Cole, President of Bennett College and seventh President of Spelman College

While President Emerita Johnnetta B. Cole is credited with propelling Spelman College (the oldest historically Black womens’ college) to national prominence, little is generally known about the strong academic foundation and legacy she inherited. Contrary to popular belief, the first four presidents of Spelman (including its two co-founders) were White women who led the early development of the College, armed with the belief that former slaves and free Black women should and could receive a college-level education.

This book presents the history of Spelman’s foundation through the tenure of its fourth president, Florence M. Read, which ended in 1953. This compelling story is brought up to date by the contributions of Spelman’s current president, Beverly Daniel Tatum, and by Johnnetta B. Cole.

The book chronicles how the vision each of these women presidents, and their response to changing social forces, both profoundly shaped Spelman’s curriculum and influenced the lives and minds of thousands of young Black women. The authors trace the evolution of Spelman from its beginning – when the founders, aware of the limited occupations open to its graduates, strove to uplift the Black race by providing an academic education to disenfranchised Black women while also providing training for available careers -- to the fifties when the college became an exemplar of liberal arts education in the South.

This book fills a void in the history of Black women in higher education. It will appeal to a wide readership interested in women’s studies, Black history and the history of higher education in general. ... Read more

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Disabilities, Culture and Identity is a succinct and accessible presentation of current research on disability, culture and identity. It is an ideal text for students and lecturers alike studying and working in the areas of Disability Studies and Social Policy.Disabilities, Culture and Identity provides a comprehensive and well-structured introduction to an area of growing importance.The authors provide up-to-date and extensive coverage of the development of thinking on cultures of disability, including those relating to people with learning difficulties, people with mental health problems and people with learning difficultiesAlso covered in detail are critical areas in disability studies including: * Development of the social model of disability * Disability and the politics of social justice * Disability and theories of culture and media * Disability, ethnicity and generation * The policy options for empowering disabled people, and how the disabled are empowering themselves * The disability arts movement * Media treatment of disability ... Read more

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Crafted from archives, interviews, memories, and bankers' boxes of papers sent to the author during the years before her death, Always Someone to Kill the Doves: A Life of Sheila Watson, is the portrait of a woman shaped by her times, by her turbulent marriage, by the clarity of genius, and by the moral sense of her Catholic upbringing. With the gentle touch of an old friend, Flahiff provides a poignant insight into the woman, the westerner, and the writer. Best known for the modernist novel, The Double Hook, and her part in creating the literary magazine White Pelican, Watson's life was as rich and complex as her finest literary creation. ... Read more

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Deep Hollow Biography
My mind is still spinning like a whirlybird having just finished "Always Someone to Kill the Doves" by author F.T. Flahiff, which came out about five years ago.I have to agree with the other reviewer, Midwest Book Review, who commented on the fact that Sheila Watson entrusted author Flahiff with her life.

She called him on the phone and said she was sending him eighty boxes of papers, "I am sending you my life," she said.She had a way of issuing commands over the phone--cryptic commands.At another time she called him and said, "I want my story told."Many of us in the USA know next to nothing about the late Sheila Watson, but she was the author of Canad a's great modernist masterpiece THE DOUBLE HOOK (1959), which apparently has still not been published here.Like the great modernists she could be uncomfortably vatic and demanding and would not brook misreading of her mysterious novel, set in the Cariboo country of western Canada, which must be a very weird place.

Author Flahiff follows his own biographical logic and pretty much cedes the territory to Sheila Watson.If she destroyed her journals about a particular time in her life, he takes that to mean she would not want that part of her story told, so he refrains from investigating further.Thus the period when she taught a one room schoolhouse in the Cariboo, even though it is extremely important for her development, Flahiff leaves alone pretty much.Ditto when romance comes into her life in the person of former lumberjack then top professor Wilfred Watson.What attracted the two of them to each other?Flahiff judges that information private, so I got a little frustrated.But what is clear is that in later years their marriage was a living hell like something out of Sartre's No Exit.Wilffred cheated on her when they were separated, sleeping with one of his students in the early 50s and creating a crisis state for the marriage that, incredibly, she never resolved.For some reason Flahiff does not give the name of the student, just calls her Wilfred's young friend, which is OK I guess, except the same thing happens ten years later and then Flahiff calls the new girl, Wilfred's new young friend, and it's coy.Why should she not be named--either one?He goes to town on Shirley Rose, who made the mistake of alienating Sheila Watson when both women were full professors at University of Alberta in Edmonton.To listen to Flahiff, you'd think Shirley Rose was crazy for calling Sheila Watson on her bad behavior.

I do like the way a new generation, Bowering, Atwood, Marlatt, Ondaatje, "discovered" Sheila Watson and made her into an icon of Canlit.This annoyed Wilfred terribly: he had always been the prizewinner in the family, and Sheila was more or less his typist like Colette.When she began to be idolized, Wilfred suffered the tortures of the damned.Whenever Sheila would get an award, she would have to go back home instantly for Wilfred was suffering a stroke, literally.George and Martha anyone?

The two of them were great friends with Marshall McLuhan, the hidden hero of the book, and yet at the same time he catapults the narrative over the top into tragedy when his brain tumor operation of 1967 adumbrated the work he was doing with Wilfred on "From Cliche to Archetype," thus alienating Wilfred if not Sheila.What a story!And yet one longs for a biographer who wasn't a friend of Sheils's and didn't go to school with her and wasn't afraid of offending her while she was alive.But by all means read it--especially you Americans!

A captivating look into the mind and experiences of a resilient human being
Always Someone To Kill The Doves: A Life Of Sheila Watson is a keenly written biography, peppered with diary excerpts by a remarkable woman. Written in Paris in 1955-56, the entries portray a woman of the era, affected by her troubled marriage, genius intelligence, and the moral weight of her Catholic upbringing. A serious-minded account by F. T. Flahiff, who knew Watson personally and placed her in the highest regard, Always Someone To Kill The Doves was written expressly to honor Watson's wish from late in her life: "I want my story told." Her courage and intellect distinguish her, rendering her worthy of the author's decision to "assume rather than argue for her importance". A captivating look into the mind and experiences of a resilient human being.
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