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This book uncovers the hidden rules that shape the balance between the weak and the mighty and the powerful and the dispossessed. In it the author challenges how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, offering a new interpretation of what it means to be discriminated against, or cope with a disability, or lose a parent, or attend a mediocre school, or suffer from any number of other apparent setbacks. He begins with the real story of what happened...
3) Bernie
Pub. Date
[2012]
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"In the tiny, rural town of Carthage, TX, assistant funeral director Bernie Tiede was one of the town's most beloved residents. He taught Sunday school, sang in the church choir and was always willing to lend a helping hand. Everyone loved and appreciated Bermie, so it came as no surprise when he befriended Marjorie Nugent, an affluent widow who was as well known for her sour attitude as her fortune... The people of Carthage were shocked when it was...
4) Farmland
Pub. Date
[2015]
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An in-depth documentary covering multiple personal stories of young US farmers and ranchers. Most Americans have never stepped foot on a working farm or ranch or ever had the opportunity to talk to the people who grow and raise the food we eat.
Pub. Date
2002
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General Irwin is a respected three-star tactician whose career ends in disgrace when he's court martialed and sent to a maximum security military prison, The Castle. Irwin quickly butts heads with the facility's autocratic warden, Colonel Winter, who runs his command with an iron fist, even killing prisoners when he deems it necessary. Irwin rallies his fellow convicts into a rag-tag army and leads them in a revolt against Winter, an action that the...
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Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Many families and almost all schools spend a great deal of time developing children academically, but studies show that scholastic achievement is not the only key to future success. Developing non-cognitive skills, which children often learn from their parents, is equally relevant.
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"For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him -- most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear. What were they afraid of? In Tremble for My Country, Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings -- moments...
11) Drought impact and perception among Wisconsin dairy farmers: preliminary summary of survey results
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Quick response research report volume 30
Pub. Date
1989.
12) Being mortal
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, Gawande asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end.
14) Climate survey
Pub. Date
2013
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The Campus Climate Survey surveys all faculty and staff, and a sample of students, to appraise the general work environment and current climate toward diversity at the University. The confidential online survey is an opportunity for all faculty and staff members to share their opinions to effect change in any areas that may need to be addressed.
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
In 2012, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) hired two young people as part of its Youth and Young Adult Unit in an effort to further integrate a positive youth development approach into their programs and initiatives. At the department, the youth advisors work 20 hours per week providing the youth perspective through partnership in decision-making and guidance on current programs and initiatives, including youth sexual...