Creating Time: The Key to Productivity and PeaceIf you've ever looked at your calendar, inbox, laundry pile, or responsibilities and thought, I'm doing everything I can-so why am I still falling behind? this book is for you.I wrote Creating Time for anyone overwhelmed by trying to be everything to everyone while wondering when their life became something to manage instead of something to live.This isn't another productivity book telling you to wake ...

Footwear and Foot Orthoses provides students and clinicians with a guide to the information they require to underpin their clinical decision making. Pocket Podiatry provides all the essential information for a modern Podiatric practice. Examination and diagnosis, aetiology, prognosis and management are provided in a practical and informative manner. With its clarity and portability, students will find the Pocket Podiatry series an invaluable companion to their studies, whilst practitioners...

TRIUMPH is an inspiring true-life story of a girl from a small town who became a world renowned legend. It begins in a time and place where women had few options and sports were a man's world. As a child Kay loved playing basketball but like many young women of that time she anticipated life as a teacher. Through the encouragement of her parents and principal, she changed her expectations and raised the bar on what women could accomplish. Kay defied these limitations to become a successful...

"Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom" is a compelling narrative that chronicles the remarkable escape of Ellen and William Craft from slavery in the pre-Civil War United States. The Crafts, a married couple, ingeniously devise a daring plan where Ellen, who appears white, poses as a young Southern gentleman, while William, her husband, serves as her devoted slave. The book vividly captures the harrowing journey as the couple embarks on a perilous trek from Georgia to Philadelphia, navigat...

This unique, hands-on reference for school administrators offers guidelines for effective student engagement as well as reproducible action tools that will enable you to identify and share The Big Eight Student Engagement Strategies with your teachers, promote teacher growth and provide support for new and/or struggling teachers, collect data to help you consult and coach teachers effectively in student engagement, and provide direct assistance with skills and strategies to sharpen student...

In this powerful guide, Kingsbury and Williams equip readers with simple reflections, vignettes, and everyday analogies that they have successfully used with their own clients to counter destructive feelings and shatter distorted ideas of food and weight. Pithy and positive statements replace compulsive, perfectionist rules with new strategies to cope with blame, guilt, vulnerability, and self-criticism.Concrete activities help people with eating problems get off the scales, get in...

This book is not intended as a full history of the life of my wife, nor of myself; but merely as an account of our escape; together with other matter which I hope may be the means of creating in some minds a deeper abhorrence of the sinful and abominable practice of enslaving and brutifying our fellow-creatures.

First published in 1860, ‘Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom’ chronicles the audacious flight of William and Ellen Craft which is often known as the cleverest plot in fugitive slave history. Ellen Craft and William Craft were slaves in Macon, Georgia in the United States. With great daring and courage, they fled to the North in December 1848. Their remarkable escape was widely publicized, making them among the most famous fugitive slaves. Abolitionists were featured to gain support in th...

First published in 1860, “Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom”, by William and Ellen Craft, is the fascinating true story of their escape from slavery in Georgia. Ellen was born into slavery in 1826 in Clinton, Georgia. As a result of her mother being a mixed-race slave and her father being a wealthy white plantation master, Ellen closely resembled her white half-siblings. William Craft was also born in Georgia and first met Ellen when he was 16 and he was sold to settle his owner’s gambl...

The Crafts, both born into slavery in Georgia, devised a clever plan to escape. Ellen, who was of mixed race and could pass for white, disguised herself as a wealthy, ill man traveling north for medical treatment, while William, her husband, posed as her servant. Their journey required immense courage and ingenuity as they traveled by train and on foot, covering a distance of nearly a thousand miles through hostile territory. The couple faced numerous dangers, including the risk of capture...

Ellen Craft and William Craft were slaves from Georgia who escaped to the North in 1848. They became famous due to the daring way they made their escape. Ellen, being light skinned, passed herself off as a white male, with William as her servant, allowing them to basically travel openly by train and steamboat. They eventually emigrated to England where they lived for almost 20 years. Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom is their biographical account.

A companion volume to Out in the Field, a benchmark examination of lesbian and gay experiences in anthropology, Out in Theory presents lesbian and gay anthropology as a distinct specialization and addresses the theoretical issues that define the emerging field.This compelling collection of essays details the scholarly and personal factors that affected the emergence of lesbian and gay anthropology and speculates on the directions it will take as it continues to gro...