GENERATIONS OF SOCIAL THINKERS HAVE ASSUMED THAT ACCESS TO LEGITIMATE PAID EMPLOYMENT AND A DECLINE IN THE 'DOUBLE STANDARD' WOULD ELIMINATE THE REASONS BEHIND WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION IN PROSTITUTION. YET IN BOTH THE DEVELOPING WORLD AND IN POSTINDUSTRIAL CITIES OF THE WEST...
'And so, in a trice, he came into the garden that has haunted all his life.'
H.G. Wells was a pioneer of science fiction, its first and greatest influence. Here his boundless invention creates three very stories: a poignant parable of a mysterious door, a thrilling account of be-tentacled sea creatures and the darkly comic chronicle of an academic rivalry taken too far . . .
This book includes The Door in the Wall, The Sea Raiders and The Moth.
WHEN DAVID MOVES IN WITH LIZ AND HER ELEVENYEAR- OLD DAUGHTER, LUCY, HE DISCOVERS A COLLECTION OF CLAY DRAGONS THAT COME TO LIFE. DAVIDS OWN SPECIAL DRAGON INSPIRES HIM TO WRITE A STORY, WHICH REVEALS THE SECRETS BEHIND A MYSTERY. IN ORDER TO SOLVE THE MYSTERY AND SAVE HIS...
Straight from the front line of urban America, the inspiring story of one fiercely determined teacher and her remarkable students.
As an idealistic twenty-three-year-old English teacher at Wilson High School in Long beach, California, Erin Gruwell confronted a room of “unteachable, at-risk” students. One day she intercepted a note with an ugly racial caricature, and angrily declared that this was precisely the sort of thing that led to the Holocaust—only to be met by uncomprehending looks. So she and her students, using the treasured books Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl and Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Sarajevo as their guides, undertook a life-changing, eye-opening, spirit-raising odyssey against intolerance and misunderstanding. They learned to see the parallels in these books to their own lives, recording their thoughts and feelings in diaries and dubbing themselves the “Freedom Writers” in homage to the civil rights activists “The Freedom Riders.”
With funds raised by a “Read-a-thon for Tolerance,” they arranged for Miep Gies, the courageous Dutch woman who sheltered the Frank family, to visit them in California, where she declared that Erin Gruwell’s students were “the real heroes.” Their efforts have paid off spectacularly, both in terms of recognition—appearances on “Prime Time Live” and “All Things Considered,” coverage in People magazine, a meeting with U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley—and educationally. All 150 Freedom Writers have graduated from high school and are now attending college.
With powerful entries from the students’ own diaries and a narrative text by Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary is an uplifting, unforgettable example of how hard work, courage, and the spirit of determination changed the lives of a teacher and her students.
The authors’ proceeds from this book will be donated to The Tolerance Education Foundation, an organization set up to pay for the Freedom Writers’ college tuition. Erin Gruwell is now a visiting professor at California State University, Long Beach, where some of her students are Freedom Writers.
THE GIFT OF DEATH, JACQUES DERRIDA'S MOST SUSTAINED CONSIDERATION OF RELIGION, EXPLORES QUESTIONS FIRST INTRODUCED IN HIS BOOKGIVEN TIMEABOUT THE LIMITS OF THE RATIONAL AND RESPONSIBLE THAT ONE REACHES IN GRANTING OR ACCEPTING DEATH, WHETHER BY SACRIFICE, MURDER, EXECUTION...