Within curriculum studies, a “master narrative” has developed into a canon that is predominantly White, male, and associated with institutions of higher education. This canon has systematically neglected communities of color, all of which were engaged in their own critical conversations about the type of education that would best benefit their children. Building upon earlier work that reviewed curriculum texts, this book serves as a much-needed correction to the glaring gaps in U.S. curric...

This book is an important contribution for all United Methodists concerned that their denomination is approaching irrelevance. Within its pages Dr. Lavender offers a Biblical, Wesleyan and means-tested approach that both saves the lives of millions of orphans and vulnerable children and inspires evangelical hope for the church.

Curl up with your favorite warm beverage this fall and leave a light on. It's time for Horror Show 2021.The Bay Area Queer Writers Association is proud to present this inaugural collection of spooky tales featuring authors Wayne Goodman, M.D. Neu, Richard May, Liz Faraim, and R.L. Merrill. Sometimes writing about the things that frighten us helps us cope with real-life terror, and these stories are all a product of a scary time.**All proceeds from this limited-time antholog...

This book is about my familys journey out of the LDS church into Christianity - a journey that only God could have done. This book is proof that God decides and then takes us on miraculous journeys. My husband and I wrote this book originally for our friends, since they werent allowed to talk to us. It developed over time. Through our experiences, we realized that it helped people who were considering leaving the LDS church and wanted to know the consequences, and others dealing with LDS m...

A timely examination of Alabama’s severely criticized state constitutionAlabama’s present constitution, adopted in 1901, is widely viewed as the source of many, if not most, of the state’s historic difficulties and inequities. Chief among these is a poorly funded school system, an imbalanced tax system that favors special business interests, legislated racism, and unchecked urban sprawl. Many citizens believe that, after 100 years of overburdening amendmen...

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...

“HOT SHOT” is a fictional story created around detective “SOLOMON KING” in pursuit of a serial killer in a southern city using deadly heroin as his weapon to play judge, juror and executioner as he seek revenge for the death of his niece from a heroin overdose.

Margaret isn't very good at growing vegetables in her garden, so instead she plants her old broken toys in there. Read about sweet little Margaret and her Toy Garden, and discover what surprises await in it. It may shock you.

A young man's journey from Pennsylvania to a Florida beach town leads to unexpected friendships and self-discovery. Amidst hurricane recovery, he finds joy in golf, learning that life is about balance, patience, and embracing new beginnings with hope.In Castles in the Sand Traps, Dean Green embarks on a transformative adventure, leaving behind an industrial landscape of Pennsylvania for the sun-drenched shores of a small Florida town. With only his old pic...

This book is written for college students and focuses on qualitative research. Reading about a problem may be good (a literature review), but learning how to investigate the problem yourself is better. Research is a systematic process of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting information in order to better understand the subject of study. All research involves theory, data collection, and attempts to solve a problem by answering a question. A quantitative research study indicates how vari...

Readers' EditionWhere did The Book of Mormon come from? Who was Solomon Spalding and what connection did his manuscript have with Joseph Smith? To answer these questions, this book critically examines key historical documents, personal testimonies, and records of 19th-century Mormon history to examine this “Spalding Enigma.”The authors have spent decades collecting and analyzing evidence to conclude that The Book of Mormon is an “adaptation of an obscure hi...

This is a poetry book about criminal justice and criminology.Poems include persuasion theories, criminal theories, and morals.They also include police department orientations, ethical systems,Interrogation techniques, and laurels.Full color illustrations