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Advancing Culturally Responsive and Socially Just Approaches to Multilingual Family-School Partnerships

by Eurydice Bouchereau Bauer, Susan Chambers Cantrell, Eileen Cardona Osieja, Rami Christophi, Nino Dzotsenidze, Wenyu Guo, Michelle Haj-Broussard, Ling Hao, Barbara Hoekje, Kyungjin Hwang, Nicole King0, Melissa Ledesma1, Clara Lee Brown2, Jacqueline Lynch3, Lorena Mancilla4, Brittany Manion5, Jennifer Mirabal6, John Mooneyham7, Liz Murray8, Christine Nganga9, Jael Ovalle0, Sara Saberimoghaddam1, Anu Sachdev2, Lenny Sánchez3, Stephanie Smith Budhai4, Kim Song5, Jen Stacy6, Yang Wang7, Natalia Ward8, Xiaoran Yu9, Xinwei Zhang0, Vera J. Lee2, Kristine S. Lewis Grant4, María Isolina Bravo-Ruiz5, Karena A. Escalante6, Peggy A. Kong7, Kristen H. Perry9, Amanda N. Spalter0 ...

This compilation of research and stories from the field about multilingual family-school partnerships explores where systemic inequities exist at the school, district, or community level, and consider strategies that disrupt normative ways in which multilingual families are included in educational decisions. The authors present family-school partnerships in educational and non-educational settings ... Read more

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This compilation of research and stories from the field about multilingual family-school partnerships explores where systemic inequities exist at the school, district, or community level, and consider strategies that disrupt normative ways in which multilingual families are included in educational decisions. The authors present family-school partnerships in educational and non-educational settings
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Prophetic Words for 2019

by Larry Sparks, Lana Vawser, Nate Johnston, Christy Johnston, Robert Henderson, Charlie Shamp, Bill Hamon, Jennifer LeClaire, R. Loren Sandford, Adam Thompson, Rebecca Greenwood, Rich Vera, Patricia King, Germaine Copeland, Jane Hamon, Michael L. Brown, Tim Sheets, Fiorella Giordano, James W. Goll ...

What is the Holy Spirit saying for 2019?“Surely the Lord God does nothing, Unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.” —Amos 3:7Get ready to receive a blueprint for 2019 and Hebrew Year 5779 from some of the leading prophets and prophetic voices across the world!Featuring both world-renowned prophets and emerging prophetic voices, this compilation of timely prophetic words offers a ... Read more

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What is the Holy Spirit saying for 2019?“Surely the Lord God does nothing, Unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.” —Amos 3:7Get ready to receive a blueprint for 2019 and Hebrew Year 5779 from some of the leading prophets and prophetic voices across the world!Featuring both world-renowned prophets and emerging prophetic voices, this compilation of timely prophetic words offers a
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Lost in Perfection

Impacts of Optimisation on Culture and Psyche

Edited by Vera King, Benigna Gerisch, Hartmut Rosa ...

Series series Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
The permanent struggle for optimisation can be seen as one of the most significant cultural principles of contemporary Western societies: the demand for improved performance and efficiency as well as the pursuit of self-improvement are con-sidered necessary in order to keep pace with an accelerated, competitive modern-ity. This affects not only work and education, but also family life, parent ... Read more

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The permanent struggle for optimisation can be seen as one of the most significant cultural principles of contemporary Western societies: the demand for improved performance and efficiency as well as the pursuit of self-improvement are con-sidered necessary in order to keep pace with an accelerated, competitive modern-ity. This affects not only work and education, but also family life, parent
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Twelve Years a Slave

Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation Near the Red River in Louisiana

by Solomon Northup ...

The incredible true story of the kidnapping, enslavement, and rescue of Solomon Northup in the era before the Civil War-now a major motion picture!In 1841, Solomon Northup was a free man living in Saratoga Springs, New York, making a living as a violinist and spending his spare time with his wife and three young children. Lured to Washington, DC, with the promise of a generous sum of money, ... Read more

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The incredible true story of the kidnapping, enslavement, and rescue of Solomon Northup in the era before the Civil War-now a major motion picture!In 1841, Solomon Northup was a free man living in Saratoga Springs, New York, making a living as a violinist and spending his spare time with his wife and three young children. Lured to Washington, DC, with the promise of a generous sum of money,
... Read more
The Measured Life in the Digital Age

Optimisation by Numbers

Edited by Vera King, Benigna Gerisch, Hartmut Rosa ...

Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
This book examines both the productive and counterproductive dimensions of the increasing orientation towards digital figures.Building on findings of the transdisciplinary research project "The Measured Life", the book explores the social, cultural and psychological implications of digital optimisation. The study focuses on its effects across work and organisations, relationships in social media ... Read more

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This book examines both the productive and counterproductive dimensions of the increasing orientation towards digital figures.Building on findings of the transdisciplinary research project "The Measured Life", the book explores the social, cultural and psychological implications of digital optimisation. The study focuses on its effects across work and organisations, relationships in social media
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Orphan Train

A Novel

by Christina Baker Kline ...

#1 New York Times BestsellerAvailable in a special hardcover edition, Christina Baker Kline’s smash bestseller, a captivating historical novel that is “a lovely novel about the search for family that also happens to illuminate a fascinating and forgotten chapter of American history” (Ann Packer).Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the ... Read more

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#1 New York Times BestsellerAvailable in a special hardcover edition, Christina Baker Kline’s smash bestseller, a captivating historical novel that is “a lovely novel about the search for family that also happens to illuminate a fascinating and forgotten chapter of American history” (Ann Packer).Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the
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The Pearl That Broke Its Shell

A Novel

by Nadia Hashimi ...

Afghan-American Nadia Hashimi's literary debut novel is a searing tale of powerlessness, fate, and the freedom to control one's own fate that combines the cultural flavor and emotional resonance of the works of Khaled Hosseini, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Lisa See.In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school, and can rarely leave ... Read more

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Afghan-American Nadia Hashimi's literary debut novel is a searing tale of powerlessness, fate, and the freedom to control one's own fate that combines the cultural flavor and emotional resonance of the works of Khaled Hosseini, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Lisa See.In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school, and can rarely leave
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Fifty Shades Of Grey

Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy

by E L James ...

Series Book 1 - Fifty Shades of Grey Series
"And in this quiet moment as I close my eyes, spent and sated, I think I'm in the eye of the storm. And in spite of all he's said, and what he hasn't said, I don't think I have ever been so happy."When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled ... Read more

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"And in this quiet moment as I close my eyes, spent and sated, I think I'm in the eye of the storm. And in spite of all he's said, and what he hasn't said, I don't think I have ever been so happy."When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled
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Escape from Camp 14

One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

by Blaine Harden ...

**“If you have a soul, you will be changed forever by Blaine Harden’s *Escape from Camp 14." —*Mitchell Zuckoff, New York Times bestselling author of Lost in Shangri-LaThe heartwrenching New York Times bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison camp to have escaped**North Korea’s political prison camps have existed twice as long as Stalin’s Soviet gulags and twelve ... Read more

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**“If you have a soul, you will be changed forever by Blaine Harden’s *Escape from Camp 14." —*Mitchell Zuckoff, New York Times bestselling author of Lost in Shangri-LaThe heartwrenching New York Times bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison camp to have escaped**North Korea’s political prison camps have existed twice as long as Stalin’s Soviet gulags and twelve
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When the Moon Is Low

A Novel

by Nadia Hashimi ...

Mahmoud's passion for his wife Fereiba, a schoolteacher, is greater than any love she's ever known. But their happy, middle-class world—a life of education, work, and comfort—implodes when their country is engulfed in war, and the Taliban rises to power.Mahmoud, a civil engineer, becomes a target of the new fundamentalist regime and is murdered. Forced to flee Kabul with her three children, ... Read more

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Mahmoud's passion for his wife Fereiba, a schoolteacher, is greater than any love she's ever known. But their happy, middle-class world—a life of education, work, and comfort—implodes when their country is engulfed in war, and the Taliban rises to power.Mahmoud, a civil engineer, becomes a target of the new fundamentalist regime and is murdered. Forced to flee Kabul with her three children,
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The Shoemaker's Wife

A Novel

by Adriana Trigiani ...

"…an old-fashioned, romantic tale of two star-tangled lovers...but also a paean to artisanal work, food, friendship and family…Trigiani is a master of palpable and visual detail." — Washington PostBeloved New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani returns with the most epic and ambitious novel of her career—a breathtaking epic romance and multigenerational love story that spans two ... Read more

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"…an old-fashioned, romantic tale of two star-tangled lovers...but also a paean to artisanal work, food, friendship and family…Trigiani is a master of palpable and visual detail." — Washington PostBeloved New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani returns with the most epic and ambitious novel of her career—a breathtaking epic romance and multigenerational love story that spans two
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The Kitchen House

A Novel

by Kathleen Grissom ...

Kathleen Grissom, New York Times bestselling author of the highly anticipated Glory Over Everything, established herself as a remarkable new talent with The Kitchen House, now a contemporary classic. In this gripping novel, a dark secret threatens to expose the best and worst in everyone tied to the estate at a thriving plantation in Virginia in the decades before the Civil War.Orphaned during her ... Read more

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Kathleen Grissom, New York Times bestselling author of the highly anticipated Glory Over Everything, established herself as a remarkable new talent with The Kitchen House, now a contemporary classic. In this gripping novel, a dark secret threatens to expose the best and worst in everyone tied to the estate at a thriving plantation in Virginia in the decades before the Civil War.Orphaned during her
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