Reading quotes is important. It is a quick way to provide us with perspective or give us the inspiration that we need to tackle a persistent problem. Many of us do not have the time to read an entire book. Reading quotes can enable us to quickly absorb the essence of wisdom and knowledge that is spread across countless books. Life In Quotes is a compilation of thoughts about a wide array of subject matters. I hope that each day you will read a quote or two from the book to energiz...

When you are a Black family in 1961 Los Angeles, how do you protect your white neighbors from a real-life bogeyman living in their midst?"For the very first time my dark skin felt uncomfortable on my body."The Coles are a Black family from a small southern town who are trying to reap the golden harvest of jobs and a better lifestyle that Los Angeles, California proclaims during the era of President Kennedy's "New Frontier". When th...

The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games stand as the most profitable and arguably the most important event in the history of the modern Olympic movement. Fresh off the back of the financially disastrous Montreal Games of 1976 and the politically controversial Moscow Games of 1980, the Olympic movement returned to the United States for the sixth time in an attempt to salvage the economic viability and global prestige of the Olympics. The Los Angeles Olympics proved to be both provocative and pol...

From the legendary Lincoln scholar Wayne C. Temple comes the long-awaited full-length biography of Noah Brooks, the influential Illinois journalist who championed Abraham Lincoln in Illinois state politics and became his almost daily companion at the White House.Best remembered as one of the president's few true intimates, Brooks was also a nationally recognized man of letters, who mingled with the likes of Mark Twain and Bret Harte. Temple draws on archives and papers long thought...

What current theoretical frameworks inform academic and professional writing? What does research tell us about the effectiveness of academic and professional writing programs? What do we know about existing best practices? What are the current guidelines and procedures in evaluating a program’s effectiveness? What are the possibilities in regard to future research and changes to best practices in these programs in an age of accountability? Editors Shirley Wilson Logan and Wayne H. Slater b...

How we perceive what we see, hear, and imagine influences seven manifested behaviors that can enhance our ability to thrive. The behaviors are: being productive; being constructive; being grateful; being resilient; having self-discipline; having perspective; and having integrity. We thrive when we are able to affirm that we actively practice these seven behaviors.Thriving is a process. Hence, the suggestion to thrive, one week at a time. Thriving embodies growing, developing, and b...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In this book, you will learn lessons in self-discipline from the masters of self-discipline.the spartans and the special operations community is the heart and soul of discipline.The spartans dont exist anymore but they left a legacy that still lives on today. The warrior tradition of the spartans is built on a foundation of immense self-discipline.The modern special operations units carry on similar trad...

A new and exciting story entwined with magical realism and fantasy about a divine African American healer born in Los Angeles depicting the miracle of love.Ever since Olisa was a child, her father has feared that the world might one day find out that his daughter is blessed with very special gifts.On a fateful 4th of July, the renowned Venice Beach Boardwalk becomes the scene of a violent conflagration between Latino and Black gangs. People flee in all directions except for...

The remarkable true-life story of one of the greatest pioneers - and women - in American history. Known as Stagecoach Mary, Mary Fields was born into slavery in the late 1800s in Tennessee. A tall, sturdy girl by the age of 14, Mary was ordered to work in the cotton fields performing heavy labor with boys and men. After the 13th amendment was proclaimed, ending slavery, Mary worked a variety of jobs including chambermaid on a steamboat and as a helping hand at a convent in Ohio and later a...

My ?ve-year-old is always into things. He cant seem to sit still, he cant pay attention to any activity for more than a few minutes, and he always acts before he thinks. He is in trouble constantly. What have I done wrong?I have tried everything, but Jimmy is still a di?cult, unpredictable child. He is lovable but gets into trouble all the time. He tries to obey, but he has so much trouble following directions. Am I a failure as a parent?Many children are like square pegs t...

Tony K. Burris was born May 30, 1929 in Blanchard, Oklahoma just in time for the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. The family lived as sharecroppers on farms they did not own, they were often hungry when drought or dust destroyed crops. In 1939, the family moved to a larger farm belonging to his Aunt Jenny Curry Apple and her husband but still had trouble making ends meet. The modest three-bedroom house did not have a phone, electricity, or running water. With help from the four oldest c...

After being lost for almost a year in the wilderness a story told in A Wild Canadian Adventure Lester and Dora are back home in Troy, Montana. Nine months have gone by since their ordeal, its the end of the school year and Dora wants some excitement.She finds it when her amulet starts vibrating, and she recalls that she was once warned that such a signal would mean the beginning of a great quest to rescue GeeGee and BeeBee, who had been stolen from their own land and taken to the s...