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How do we integrate the theoretical underpinnings of Social Reproduction Theory (SRT) into our understanding of the social harms inflicted upon us? How can we use it to inform our struggles and affect societal change under capitalism?
Integrating our understanding of productive and reproductive spheres and exploring the connection between identity-based oppression and class exploitation, SRT has emerged as a powerful Marxist frame for social analysis...
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Every choice we make affects our environment, whether it’s the car we drive or the power we use in our home. Our choices have led to global warming and the depletion of Earth’s resources.
Dismayed by the deteriorating state of the environment and invigorated by the teachers challenge to find sustainable solutions, a group of high school students spur into action. Blue, Blossom and Prizurv collaborate with their distant friend, Fawrkast, to form...
63) Write Better
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These 52 tips grew out of at least 52 different sources and took many years to compile. They began in kernel form in various courses, books, workshops, and discussions. They grew as the author used them in practical writing assignments and taught them in workshops. They reached adulthood when he posted them on his website and emailed them to fellow writers.This book offers what every aspiring writer needs: quick, practical tips that are immediately...
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He left his old life and regrets behind... but his new one will be put on the line for the thing he never saw coming-her. Thirty-four is way too old to be in school. After years in high stakes finance, Michael Harper is a medical student and two short years from becoming a doctor. MetroGen hospital is even more cut-throat than Wall Street, and the brutal hours are wearing away at his soul.The universe granted him the gift of the curvy, blushing Angela...
65) Pick Up Sticks
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This second book in the series, with over 79,000 words of romantic suspense, tells the story of Shannon and Xander… Shannon: If statistics say most children are abducted by someone that they know, what does it say when twenty-two kids go missing on a hike? I know what happened to those kids. I just have to find someone who will listen to me. At least Xander doesn't immediately tell me I'm just trying to cover up my incompetence. Xander: Wild animals...
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Laura and her classmates have been looking forward to their senior camping trip for weeks. Three days on an island paradise, away from school and their parents. What more could they ask for?The camping trip starts out well enough. The island is scenic and just the kind of escape to nature that Laura had hoped for. However, cracks soon begin to appear in her plans. Her boyfriend ditches her to hang out with his friends. She has to share a room with...
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Does parenthood mean the end of sexy time?Not when your husband is the hot tattoo artist biker from Her One and Only. Rob has the magic touch to keep the romance alive.The holidays can be hectic for parents. Katie has a lot on her plate as a mother, wife, and teacher.There are boring last days of school to get through – where the teachers are as anxious for the bell to ring as the students. Parties to plan and attend. Children who are growing up...
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Snooky is a very sweet and cute little puppy. But he is also very, very shy. When his family moves to a new town and Snooky has to start a new school, he suddenly becomes very nervous about making new friends. As the teacher starts going around the room, Snooky gets even more scared. But with the help of a song, Snooky may be able to conquer his fear and become the coolest puppy in school! About the Author Yenisey Cabrera has worked in education for...
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AmeliaI'm a fraud.There. You heard it. I won't say it again. For all the nannies, private tutors, and attendance at one ultra elite academy, one would think I could learn to act like a princess. They would be wrong.My father, the king, has sent me back to the academy as a punishment. His reasoning? If I couldn't learn to behave myself under such privileged circumstances, perhaps teaching it to others would cure me of my wicked ways.Only this time...
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The bond between Louise, Grant, Charlie, and Jim continues to strengthen as they move into a new chapter of their lives. Sharing their home together as two heterosexual couples they find themselves on a voyage of discovery. The importance of a healthy sex life overspills into the relationships they maintain with their family and friends. The myth of 'with age comes experience', is dispelled as Louise and Charlie become the teachers.
There is a cyclonic...
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Summary of Helen Simonson's The Summer Before the War is a novel that follows the inhabitants of a small English town through the onset of World War I. Its protagonist, Beatrice Nash, is a young woman who was recently orphaned. In the summer of 1914, she moves to Rye to escape the clutches of the oppressive relatives who administer her inheritance. Over the next few months, as she establishes herself as a Latin teacher, the war slowly drains the town...
72) Operation Red
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CyberCity is a calm city-state where people are in slow mo. It's recovered from the Great Crash of 2023 and once more technology runs the city, until the event that humans have long dreaded changes everything. Ariel and friends fight technology with technology, and Ms President creates havoc in CyberCity with Operation Red. Traffic lights operate in reverse; teachers turn up to school; and students solve the mystery of the solar plant that produces...
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Find your Happily Ever After with two feel-good stories of dogs unleashing romance in small-town settings.
Ruff remedy for the soldier
A Conard County Homecoming by New York Times Bestselling Author Rachel Lee
Wounded in battle, Zane McLaren wants only to be left alone. He doesn't need pity, especially from his outgoing, dog-loving neighbor, Ashley Granger. But it seems Zane's affectionate golden retriever has other ideas about the decorated soldier...
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Practitioners around the world reap the physical benefits of yoga, assuming poses frequently called by their Sanskrit names. While many know that hanumanasana is named for the deity Hanuman, few know why. But, behind each asana and its corresponding movements is an ancient story about a god, sage, or sacred animal, much like Aesop's fables or European folktales.
Myths of the Asanas is the first book to collect and retell these ancient stories. The...
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I can imagine what you're thinking – you've picked up this book because it's bright and it caught your interest. Have you ever been in the middle of something and suddenly someone tells you it's time to get ready to go? Were you ready to go? How did you decide to go? Did you kick and scream? Did you go willingly? Did you have someone who went out of their way to help distract you? Did you help someone clean up so they could go to the next activity?...
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Meaningful relationships, genuine connections, and real love: if those are the things this generation of teens-- the Millennial Generation--is crying out for, who can deliver? You can, says Dawson McAllister. Yes, you the parent, you the youth worker, you the teacher--anyone who wants to show teens the real love of Jesus Christ. But if you want to give Millennials what they're looking for, you've got to be willing to meet them on their own turf. And...
77) Jack
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RenaMy brother was supposed to come talk to my third grade class about fire safety.But at the last minute he cancels and sends a replacement.I'm fuming.Until I see the hottest man alive walk through my classroom door.I've sworn never to date any of my brothers coworkers.But this firefighter starts his own undeniable fire deep inside me.I'm torn.I'm helpless.Because I want him. Very, very badly.JackTalking to a room full of kids about fire safety is...
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Charlotte Mason was a late nineteenth-century British educator whose ideas were far ahead of her time. She believed that children are born persons worthy of respect, rather than blank slates, and that it was better to feed their growing minds with living literature and vital ideas and knowledge, rather than dry facts and knowledge filtered and pre-digested by the teacher. Her method of education, still used by some private schools and many homeschooling...
79) The Hunted
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In the twilight of the year 2003, a stranger arrives in the tiny town of Burns, Colorado. Whispers begin to fly as bodies appear, savagely mutilated, throughout the neighborhood, and the responsibility falls on two monstrously unprepared high school students to uncover the truth before the undead can destroy their hometown.Chris Doyle is a slacker and a sci-fi geek, barely eking through his senior year of high school; Aaron Margolis is a child prodigy...
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The earlier published book The Elements of Poetry by Jorges P Lopez contains many poems for practice meant for the reader to examine understanding of what is taught in the book. To make this possible, the book gives twenty-six popular poems with questions based on the elements of petry discussed in the book. This second book, Notes on The Elements of Poetry by Jorges P Lopez, gives the answers to these practice questions. This is in recognition of...
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