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An excellent, brief, concise historical account of the slaving trade that begins in Africa and comes full circle to America in time. Karen Peebles wastes no space in this book, she gets right to the points at hand and moves on. A great approach that is suitable for students and adults alike. ... Read more

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From the 1860s to the turn of the 20th century, the Mount Diablo Coal Field was the largest coal-producing region in California and once boasted five thriving communities. With the decline of coal mining some residents turned to ranching. Later rich deposits of sand were mined for glass and foundry use. In 1973, the East Bay Regional Park District acquired the land. Today visitors to Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve, located 45 miles east of San Francisco, can explore miles of trails, tour the Hazel-Atlas silica sand mine, and visit historic Rose Hill Cemetery. ... Read more

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In this monograph the authors have emphasized a number of important concepts in mammalian kidney development. Emphasis has been put on methodology so that the reader can understand how certain results or conclusions were reached and what the optimal methods for reliable results to be obtained are. In addition, as well as descriptions of the morphology there is information on the genetic basis of the structural development. In addition much attention has been paid to how nephron number may be altered by changes in the environment of the developing kidney and to the consequences for the remaining nephron gene expression and kidney function when total nephron number is altered. The consequences for the health of the adult, upon the formation of an adult kidney with altered nephron number and (potentially) gene expression, can be quite serious. The epigenetic mechanisms by which such changes can occur are introduced as a very fertile field for future investigation.

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Lost, Friendless, and Outgunned

Young Beverly di Mendoza knew something was up when her father cut short their Terran layover and changed their route to pass through Barigost, a planet she had never heard of. But she did not expect these events to lead to murder and betrayal.

One Survivor is set in a richly textured future, amid the picturesque flotsam of the Terran Empire, now four centuries gone.

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I want a sequel!
I found One Survivor very hard to put down.The story was believable and moved at a steady pace.The characters were well developed.I await the sequel because I want to know more about the Eight Worlds and Beverley's place in it (them).

I appreciate science fiction that doesn't rely on lizard-monsters with unpronounceable names and places to claim their place in the genre.

As Robert's brother has said, this read very much like an early Heinlein which I learned to love by swiping my brothers copy of Boy's Life - often before he knew it had arrived.;>

Thanks, Robert.Don't stop now!

TANSTAAFL
Robert is my brother, so as kids in the 1960's and 70's we'd pass the same science fiction books between us, particularly Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke (and Robert Silverberg, E. E. "Doc" Smith, Jack Vance, Philip K. Dick, Frank Herbert, etc., etc.). These were the glory days of "hard" science fiction -- that is, fiction that emphasized "getting the science right."

Heinlein was our hands-down favorite. I recently re-read all Heinlein's books and was quite surprised to realize how closely his political and social views matched my own. Did reading his books *form* my opinions, reinforce them, or simply match them? I don't know -- but I *loved* re-reading those old Heinlein books.

Reading Robert's book felt exactly the same way. I'm not saying that he's Heinlein reborn; I'm just saying that when reading the book, it felt more like reading an old Heinlein novel than reading "my brother's novel."

So, if you've got some grey in your hair, you know what TANSTAAFL means, and you wish someone would dig up a previously-unpublished Heinlein novel -- then you'll enjoy "Lone Survivor" as much as I did.

Sci Fi Debut Novel
In this debut novel, the plot takes a backseat to the intriguing setting. The Universe of the Eight Worlds and Barigost holds a great deal of promise and I'm looking forward to its further development in the upcoming sequel. I especially liked the combination of the feudal organization of Barigost with the subtle communist-era language. ... Read more

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Like snapshots of everyday life in the past, the compelling biographies in this book document the making of the Black Atlantic world since the sixteenth century from the point of view of those who were part of it. Centering on the diaspora caused by the forced migration of Africans to Europe and across the Atlantic to the Americas, the chapters explore the slave trade, enslavement, resistance, adaptation, cultural transformations, and the quest for citizenship rights. Drawing on a rich array of little-known documents, the contributors reconstruct the lives and times of some well-known characters along with ordinary people who rarely left written records and would otherwise have remained anonymous and unknown. ... Read more

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This book's contribution will be a very big one--and not just in size...there is no compAndium of examples like it.As such, it's invaluable.It will be very useful to those who plan and carry out assessment on campuses.

?Thomas A. Angelo, director, AAHE Assessment Forum

Brings together in one volume the best current knowledge of what assessment methods work best and how their principles should be incorporated into all effective assessment efforts?whether at institutional, program, or department levels. Drawing from 165 actual cases?and reporting 86 of them in their entirety?the authors illustrate methods and techniques of assessment covering a wide range of objectives in diverse types of institutions.

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Assessment Still Crucial
Banta was a leader in this field from the beginning.As educators continue to struggle to improve student learning, this book continues to offer ideas.

Collection of Real-world Examples
While most books about assessment focus on the concepts and principles related to assessment to the exclusion of practical advice, this book provides over 60 case studies from a variety of institutions with multiple examples of assessment in the major, general education, student development, in the classroom, and institutional effectiveness. While this is not the only book you should read or have on assessment, it is a valuable companion piece with an extraordinary set of examples. ... Read more

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First published to coincide with Black History Month 1998, "Bittersweet" presents a collection of contemporary black women's poetry. Featured poets include Alice Walker, Patience Agbabi, Debjani Chatterjee, Grace Nichols and Shamshad Khan. ... Read more

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A behind-the-scenes look into the lives of successful middle- and upper-middle class African American women, the groundbreaking HAVING IT ALL? is sure to spark discussions from cocktail parties to boardrooms.

In a single generation, black women have made extraordinary strides academically, professionally, and financially.They’ve entered the workplace at a far greater rate than white women; increased their enrollment in law schools and graduate programs by 120 percent; and many are now running top companies, or in some cases, the country.Isn’t that enough?Not necessarily.With sharp insight, award-winning journalist Veronica Chambers explores the challenges and stereotypes she and other African American women continue to endure, and answers the question most often posed to her: What does success mean for black women?

Twenty-first century black women draw their inspiration from a wide range of sources: Claire Huxtable to Audrey Hepburn, snowboarding to basketball, Gloria Steinem to bell hooks.They choose what they like.Yet they are misunderstood by mainstream America and lack an accurate portrayal in the media of their lives.HAVING IT ALL? interweaves the thoughts and reflections of more than fifty women who occupy this territory.The voices range from Thelma Golden, chief curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, to a Silicon Valley executive, to medical and legal professionals, and stay-at-home “mocha moms.”

Successful black women today want it all: marriage, motherhood, engaging work, and prosperity.The difference is that they come to the table with the strength, courage andwisdom of black women ancestors who-did-it-all, even when they didn’t-have-it-all. What has gone so undocumented by the media is that modern black women are coming up with creative, satisfying answers to the juggling act that all women face.

Veronica Chambers chronicles this topic for the first time in her absorbing, riveting and groundbreaking book HAVING IT ALL? ... Read more

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I'm inspired I can have it all..
This book really put things into perspective for me. As a 25y/o college educated woman, reading this book gave me hope that I too can raise my family and continue to move up the corporate ladder.

Chambers, Teachers ARE Successful, College-Educated Professionals!
I have one peeve with this book: The author excludes teachers as successful, college-educated professionals (pg. 6 Introduction, hardcover)! Teachers, at the time she wrote this book and today, are required to earn a Bachelors degree, to receive specialized, professional training to be certified, AND they must obtain a Masters Degree within about 5 years after completing the training just to keep their jobs. With all of those educational requirements, how could Chambers say that teachers are not "college-educated professionals"? Then to make matters worse, Chambers says that she uses "success" in the "broadest terms" to include teachers.So teachers aren't successful in her eyes. According to her, a successful Black woman must be an attorney or a doctor or have earned an MBA or have earned a Bachelors degree from an Ivy League school.Even though I meet her standards for the successful Black woman, I can appreciate the ambition, brains and professionalism inmy past teachers. Moreover, I have family members who are teachers, and they are just as ambitious, smart, and (dare I say)more humble than some of the women Chambers praises in this book. I hope she realizes that it took successful teachers to help those Black women she features in this book to get to where they are. And those teachers, as well as many others, are just as successful as any other degreed middle and upper-class professional she'd put on a pedestal.

Must Read for Young Adult Black Women...
I'd heard about this book numerous times. I'd read about it in Essence, read numerous customer reviews and knew I would have to read it one day-- if only I could get through the 200 pages of assigned reading I had to do. Little did I know once I picked this book up, I would be unable to put it down. I found myself opening its pages anytime I had the opportunity and finishing it in no time.It's that good.

As a college senior about to graduate in less than a month, this was perhaps the best book I could have read to prepare me for the journey that lies ahead. In it I found images of myself...who I am now, and who I'd like to be. Chambers does an excellent job capturing the emotion, joys and pains of Black women who live successful lives as mothers, professionals, and socialites, and this book makes it clear that success definitely means different things to different people. It provides much needed evidence that "Black women" is not a monolithic category full of angry, money hungry, lazy, uneducated, snobby, or lonely women. Instead "Having it All?" shows that Black women in America and around the world are living it up and dealing with the same issues women of all races proclaim to be their own.

Chambers beautifully intertwines interviews with sisters from every street in the black middle class and upper class neighborhoods with parts of her own life, providing a diary-like, advice filled, "here's how I did it, how I'm doing it, and you can too" type of book. What I liked most was that Chambers and the women she spoke with were completely honest about their lives. The ladies' honesty and eagerness to open and reveal the most personal aspects of their lives for our benefit radiates off every page.But dont read this book if you are looking for advice on how to "make it," instead read it to be inspired and reminded that despite what anyone else might say about us, no matter what people think we can or cant do, you can create the life you want...at your own pace and in your own way.

I hope you enjoy :o)

Don't wait to read this book!
I have never encountered a book that is more about ME as a black woman than HAVING IT ALL? by Veronica Chambers.I didn't read the book when it was published in 2003, and I really regret that now. This book is interesting and captivating from cover to cover.Granted, it isn't a book or guide to success as a black women.Rather, the book focuses on the fact that many black women are now and historically have been very successful in America, although we are rarely portrayed that way in American art, media, or history books.And despite the problems and challenges that we face along the way -- from unsupportive families, to office politics, to general racism -- black women continue to make sigificant, even if invisible, achievements, and to define "success" in our own terms.

I am SO impressed by this book, and I was moved and inspired by the accounts of the black women that Chambers speaks of in this book. This book should be required reading for successful black women everywhere. It is so good to really see that we aren't alone and that we aren't the firsts. We are everywhere.

Missing Stats to support claims
This book is an interesting read and I enjoy the women's stories the author chose to profile. However, I picked up this book with hopes of more key success techniques for black women hoping to attain the status of those mentioned in the book. Instead was an overwhelming reinforcment of captalism, consumerism and black women using white/western definitions of success.

Chambers however did pick a unique topic that is becoming very influential in Black American culture. But with lack of statistics, surveys and data to show numbers, many of the statements were more opinions and less factual.

For the sequel, I hope she emphasizes the techniques that move the women to the "top" and provides more numbers to give a broader view of middle class professional black women ... Read more

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The Honourable Ratts are a distinguished family whose ancestorsappeared at a time when witches were commonplace and giants roamed theland. They built their ancestral home, Clawfoot Hall, and they begancollecting the Great Ratt Hoard - that is, any and every item of goldthey could lay their hands on. At the time of this story, the Ratts are diminished in size and statureand now live under the floorboards of Clawfoot Hall. Then one day,everything changes. The ancient enemies of the Ratts have tracked themdown and they are looking for ...the Great Ratt Hoard. The future ofthe Ratts is at stake. They must protect their inheritance at all costs. This is an exciting and action-packed story of the unusual, rodent-likefamily and their search for treasure with villains on their trail. ... Read more

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Quagmire Castle is the much-loved, but totally dilapidated, home to a motley cast of humans and ghosts. When it comes to saving the Castle from demolition at the hands of the the gruesome bank manager, Gordon Grabbit, Aunt Tabitha's solution is to start knitting. Fortunately, her niece and nephew, Emily and Jack, are determined to preserve their beloved home. Meanwhile, upstairs in the attic, the whist-playing ghosts, Dudley and Delicia (together with their pet monkey, Powderball), can smell trouble, too. Soon, it's all hands to the pump (even if some of those hands are see-through) in an effort to save Quagmire Castle. And nobody could ever have predicted the chaos and hilarity that will ensue! This is a laugh-a-minute action adventure with as madcap a cast of characters as you're ever likely to meet. Another winner from the highly-acclaimed author of Something Slimy on Primrose Drive - which sold out in hardback virtually upon publication. ... Read more

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Unlike the rest of her family, Pearl Wolfbane is neat and tidy and is delighted to note that everyone else in Primrose Drive - the street into which her unconventional family has just moved - is normal, too. She does her best to keep her room neat and tidy amid the chaos the others are wreaking. When the Wolbanes' neighbours, the Rigid-Smythes, return home to No. 33 a few days later, Dudley Rigid-Smythe is horrified. He'd hoped to buy No. 34 and turn it into flats, but that's impossible now that it looks like a film-set of a second-rate horror movie. The two families are set for a collision course, especially when it seems that each of the daughters is much better suited to living in the other's house... ... Read more

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The presence of black and Asian people in the U.K. has altered the nation in so many ways that the culture is now one of fusion. The stories in Kin are populated by a fascinating cast of characters, sometimes bizarre, always intriguing: these are stories about mothers, sisters, lovers, best friends and brides-to-be. With the rise of authors such as Zadie Smith and Monica Ali, there is much interest in writing by black and Asian women authors from the U.K.

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"Tom Slade, Boy Scout" is the first volume of the Bridgeboro Series, a forgotten gem of American fiction. Written in 1915 when the Boy Scout movement was new, the book glows with the freshness of the movement and the optimism of an age when everything seemed possible.

Young Tom Slade is a latter-day Huck Finn, always in trouble. Everyone expects him to grow up to be as worthless as his father. Connover Bennett is a latter-day Little Lord Fauntleroy, whose sheltered upbringing leaves him without skills or sense. What will it take to make something out of this unpromising material? A miracle not being available, the task falls to the Bridgeboro Scouts.

Percy Keese Fitzhugh wrote dozens of Bridgeboro Scouts novels, including nineteen Tom Slade books. The main characters are based on real people, giving the books an authenticity unusual in juvenile fiction (or any fiction). The self-reliant boys are reminiscent of the heroes in Robert A. Heinlein's early fiction (not surprising because both authors' work was serialized in "Boys Life").

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Chapters: Karen Black, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Adam Jones, Hugh Rodham, Gary Cole, Dave Mallow, Tony Rodham, Craig Anderson, Carrie Snodgress, Hugh E. Rodham, Dorothy Howell Rodham, Steve Wilkos, Tom Hoff, Al Levine, Ann Carlson, Shana, Adam Wolanin, Allen Alvarado, Jeff Francis, Tyler Ladendorf, Chuck Russell, Maria-Elena Papasotiriou, Deanna Stellato, Dan Kotowski, Dave Sullivan, Jeff Rohlicek, Colin Falls. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 161. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Tenure as Secretary of State, 2009Campaign for the Presidency, 20072008United States Senate career, 20012009Political positions Awards and honorsList of books about Hillary Rodham Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (pronounced ; born October 26, 1947) is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama. She was a United States Senator for New York from 2001 to 2009. As the wife of the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, she was the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. In the 2008 election, Clinton was a leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. A native of Illinois, Hillary Rodham attracted national attention in 1969 for her remarks as the first student commencement speaker at Wellesley College. She embarked on a career in law after graduating from Yale Law School in 1973. Following a stint as a Congressional legal counsel, she moved to Arkansas in 1974 and married Bill Clinton in 1975. Rodham cofounded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families in 1977 and became the first female chair of the Legal Services Corporation in 1978. Named the first female partner at Rose Law Firm in 1979, she was twice listed as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America. First Lady of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 a...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5043192 ... Read more

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Title: Karen Sotiropoulos. Staging Race: Black Performers in Turn of the Century America.(Book review)
Author: David Krasner
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Title: California speaker makes history; Karen Bass is first black woman to head a state legislative body.(AROUND THE NATION)(Brief article)
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Title: Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South.(Book review)
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Liberating voices...
Karen and Garth Baker-Fletcher used to teach at my seminary; both are now on faculty at Claremont School of Theology.Both are theologians who put their beliefs into strong practice, working out through their lives what it means to model and reflect their principles in their relationship with each other and with the world.

This is modeled in the very structure of this text, My Sister, My Brother:while it follows the pattern of being a systematic theology in its broadest sense (looking at the different categories of traditional theology - God, Christ, Creation, Ecclesiology/Tradition, etc.), it does so from two perspectives that are related but distinct, with a conversation engaged at at each section's conclusion.This is in keeping with the sense of theological conversation methodologya la David Tracy and Gordon Kaufmann, adapted by Will Coleman to the term 'tribal talk'.This conversation has many aspects -- it is inductive, iconoclastic, concerned with social and historical position, and diunital (appreciating the differences, what biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann calls living in the tension between).

The two perspectives here are Womanist and Xodus thought.Karen Baker-Fletcher takes the womanist perspective, drawing from the resources of her own background and the intellectual developments of womanism from Alice Walker, Delores Williams, and others.Womanism derives firstly from a reaction to Feminist theology, done primary by academic women of European background.Black women, while relating to many of the aspects of feminist theology and thought, saw that important elements of their own experience were not included.There is a unique perspective to women who were also black, having to endure the double-discrimination of gender and racial inequalities (Grant would later add a third category, the economic/poverty issue, that also plagues so many African-American women).

Garth Baker-Fletcher writes from the Xodus perspective -- Xodus being a term of his creation, firmly planted in the second-generation of Black (male) theology, a liberation response to the continuing situation of African-Americans in the United States of inequality and racial injustice.Xodus derives in part from the same impulses that compelled Malcolm X to adopt the 'unknown' as his last name, recalling both that which was lost and that which can be reclaimed.Xodus also inspires thought about the biblical text Exodus, in which the people of Israel are led out of captivity into liberation.Xodus looks beyond simple liberation to issues of reconstruction and renewal, looking with alarm on the situation confronting 'ordinary' African-American persons in America today from economic and societal pressures.As do many theologians, Garth Baker-Fletcher adapts the language to suit his context -- using capitalisation, boldface, italics, and Ebonics-derived terminology (often in what might be traditionally considered ungrammatical or non-standard ways), he shakes up the reader visually as well as intellectually.

While both Karen and Garth Baker-Fletcher speak from these perspectives, they are careful to speak for themselves only, inviting others from their perspectives to add their voices to the theological discussion.Both Womanism and Xodus thought qualify as liberation theologies, looking for freedom, equality and justice for all.

There is life here.There is love here.There is commitment and dedication to the betterment of all of humanity here.These two voices call upon others to join the chorus in proclaiming liberty and bringing the future into being. ... Read more