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Self-Made

The Stories That Forged an American Myth

by Pamela Walker Laird ...

'Self-Made' success is now an American badge of honor that rewards individualist ambitions while it hammers against community obligations. Yet, four centuries ago, our foundational stories actually disparaged ambitious upstarts as dangerous and selfish threats to a healthy society. In Pamela Walker Laird's fascinating history of why and how storytellers forged this American myth, she reveals how ... Read more

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'Self-Made' success is now an American badge of honor that rewards individualist ambitions while it hammers against community obligations. Yet, four centuries ago, our foundational stories actually disparaged ambitious upstarts as dangerous and selfish threats to a healthy society. In Pamela Walker Laird's fascinating history of why and how storytellers forged this American myth, she reveals how
... Read more
Equity and Full Participation for Individuals with Severe Disabilities

A Vision for the Future

by Christine Bigby "B.A. (Hons), M.", Linda M. Bambara, Ed.D., Jane Boone, Kristen Bottema-Beutel, Ph.D., Matthew Brock M.A., Diane Browder-Boswell Ph.D., John Butterworth Ph.D., Michael Callahan, Dr. Erik W. Carter, Ph.D., Ellen Condon, M.Ed., Susan R. Copeland, Ph.D., BCBA-D, Julia De Valenzuela Ph.D., Latanya L. Fanion, Ed.D., Dr. Lise Fox, Ph.D., Wei Gao, Ph.D., Meg Grigal Ph.D., Mary Frances Hanline, Ph.D., Debra Hart M.S., Michael Head MSW, Melissa Hudson M.A.Ed., Pam Hunt Ph.D., Elizabeth B. Keefe, Ph.D., Donna Lehr Ph.D., Richard Luecking Ed.D., Ed.D., Julie Marron, M.B.A., Philip McCallion Ph.D., Ph.D., Mary McCarron, Ph.D., John McDonnell Ph.D., Bethany R. McKissick, Ph.D., Ann Mickelson, Ph.D., Tom Nerney, M.A., John O'Brien, Ann-Marie Orlando, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Deborah K. Reed Ph.D., Ph.D., Lyle T. Romer, Ph.D., Joanna Smogorzewska, M.A., Martha E. Snell Ph.D., David A. Sommerstein, M.Ed., Lynne C. Sommerstein, M.Ed., Michelle L. Sommerstein, Robert B. Sommerstein, J.D., Grzegorz Szumski, Ph.D., Pamela Walker Ph.D., Virginia L. Walker, Ph.D., Michael L. Wehmeyer "Ph.D., FAAIDD", Cate Weir M.Ed., Dr. Juliann Woods, Ph.D., Fred Spooner, Ph.D. ...

What key issues and challenges affect the lives of people with severe disabilities today's and what should tomorrow's professionals do to address them? Aligned with the core values and agenda of TASH, this visionary text prepares professionals to strengthen supports and services for people with disabilities across the lifespan. Readers will fully examine more than a dozen critical topics in the ... Read more

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What key issues and challenges affect the lives of people with severe disabilities today's and what should tomorrow's professionals do to address them? Aligned with the core values and agenda of TASH, this visionary text prepares professionals to strengthen supports and services for people with disabilities across the lifespan. Readers will fully examine more than a dozen critical topics in the
... Read more
Making a Difference: Setting up sustainable, community-based projects

by Pamela Walker ...

Making a Difference is a book which aims to help bring about positive change within communities in England and Wales. It is distinctive in being a practical ‘How To’ guide rather than a ‘Why Should’ argument. It provides a practical step-by-step guide for anyone who wants to set up a project or introduce a service that would benefit a significant number of vulnerable or excluded people, at any age ... Read more

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Making a Difference is a book which aims to help bring about positive change within communities in England and Wales. It is distinctive in being a practical ‘How To’ guide rather than a ‘Why Should’ argument. It provides a practical step-by-step guide for anyone who wants to set up a project or introduce a service that would benefit a significant number of vulnerable or excluded people, at any age
... Read more
Advertising Progress

American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing

by Pamela Walker Laird ...

Series Book 14 - Studies in Industry and Society
Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleOriginally published in 1998. Drawing on both documentary and pictorial evidence, Pamela Walker Laird explores the modernization of American advertising to 1920. She links its rise and transformation to changes that affected American society and business alike, including the rise of professional specialization and the communications ... Read more

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Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleOriginally published in 1998. Drawing on both documentary and pictorial evidence, Pamela Walker Laird explores the modernization of American advertising to 1920. She links its rise and transformation to changes that affected American society and business alike, including the rise of professional specialization and the communications
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Pray Hard

by Pamela Walker ...

Narrated by Marguerite Gavin ...

Unabridged

2 hours 32 min

At twelve years old, Amelia Forrest has a lot to pray for: improving her poor grades, mending a strained relationship with her mama, and, most importantly, absolving her guilt over the role she played in her daddy’s plane crash. Except that in the year since he died, Amelia has stopped believing in anything. Not prayer. Not miracles. And certainly not the crackpot visions of an ex-convict named ... Read more

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At twelve years old, Amelia Forrest has a lot to pray for: improving her poor grades, mending a strained relationship with her mama, and, most importantly, absolving her guilt over the role she played in her daddy’s plane crash. Except that in the year since he died, Amelia has stopped believing in anything. Not prayer. Not miracles. And certainly not the crackpot visions of an ex-convict named
... Read more

Beast

The Soldiers of Wrath: Grit Chapter, #1

by Jenika Snow, Sam Crescent ...

Series Book 1 - The Soldiers of Wrath: Grit Chapter
Bridget is in trouble, and knew the only person that can help her is Beast, a hardened biker she's grown up with. He isn't just a man, but a rough around the edges, dangerous and raw alpha that acts first and asks questions later. He is also patched in with the Soldiers of Wrath MC: Grit Chapter, a motorcycle club that does what it has to do to stay on top. But in order for Beast to help her she's ... Read more

$3.99 USD

Bridget is in trouble, and knew the only person that can help her is Beast, a hardened biker she's grown up with. He isn't just a man, but a rough around the edges, dangerous and raw alpha that acts first and asks questions later. He is also patched in with the Soldiers of Wrath MC: Grit Chapter, a motorcycle club that does what it has to do to stay on top. But in order for Beast to help her she's
... Read more
Under My Skin

A Stark Novel

by J. Kenner ...

Series Book 3 - Stark International
Jackson Steele and Sylvia Brooks are back in the powerful finale of a provocative, sizzling-hot trilogy set in the world of J. Kenner’s beloved Stark novels: Release Me, Claim Me, and Complete Me.He’s the only man I’ve ever loved, and the one man I can’t bear to lose.Jackson Steele is my light in this world. Charismatic, bold, and always in control, he knows what he wants and how to get it—and ... Read more

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Jackson Steele and Sylvia Brooks are back in the powerful finale of a provocative, sizzling-hot trilogy set in the world of J. Kenner’s beloved Stark novels: Release Me, Claim Me, and Complete Me.He’s the only man I’ve ever loved, and the one man I can’t bear to lose.Jackson Steele is my light in this world. Charismatic, bold, and always in control, he knows what he wants and how to get it—and
... Read more

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Full Throttle

by Julie Ann Walker ...

Series Book 7 - Black Knights Inc.
"This is a one-sitting read, a welcome addition to the Black Knights, Inc. series, and a must for military romance fans."—BooklistThey may get a second chance—if they can make it out of the jungle alive.Carlos "Steady" Soto's nerves of steel have served him well at the covert government defense firm Black Knights Inc. But nothing has prepared him for the emotional roller coaster of guarding the ... Read more

$8.09 USD

"This is a one-sitting read, a welcome addition to the Black Knights, Inc. series, and a must for military romance fans."—BooklistThey may get a second chance—if they can make it out of the jungle alive.Carlos "Steady" Soto's nerves of steel have served him well at the covert government defense firm Black Knights Inc. But nothing has prepared him for the emotional roller coaster of guarding the
... Read more
Double Tap

by Lani Lynn Vale ...

Series Book 2 - Code 11- KPD SWAT
Nico met the love of his life when he was seventeen.Immediately, he realizes that the gap in their ages is too significant to make a move on her until she’s legal in the eyes of the law. So he joins the United States Navy, killing time until he can come home to her again.But a tragedy strikes while Georgia is alone and vulnerable, and with no other recourse, Georgia leaves, disappearing without a ... Read more

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Nico met the love of his life when he was seventeen.Immediately, he realizes that the gap in their ages is too significant to make a move on her until she’s legal in the eyes of the law. So he joins the United States Navy, killing time until he can come home to her again.But a tragedy strikes while Georgia is alone and vulnerable, and with no other recourse, Georgia leaves, disappearing without a
... Read more

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Center Mass

by Lani Lynn Vale ...

Series Book 1 - Code 11- KPD SWAT
Luke Roberts came to the small lazy town of Kilgore, Texas with one thing on his mind: Forgetting. He wanted to forget why he left. Forget those emerald green eyes that haunted his dreams. And forget how it felt to have his heart ripped out of his chest by a woman who didn’t like the fact that he had a child. It was something he’d been doing a damn fine job of doing, too. Until Reese smashed ... Read more

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Luke Roberts came to the small lazy town of Kilgore, Texas with one thing on his mind: Forgetting. He wanted to forget why he left. Forget those emerald green eyes that haunted his dreams. And forget how it felt to have his heart ripped out of his chest by a woman who didn’t like the fact that he had a child. It was something he’d been doing a damn fine job of doing, too. Until Reese smashed
... Read more

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Over the Line

by Emmy Curtis ...

Series Book 2 - Alpha Ops Series
A pretend engagement unleashes some all-too-real chemistry between two soldiers in this smoking hot romance from the author of Dangerous Territory.Army Special Forces Sergeant Beth Garcia owes James Walker big-time for saving her life in Afghanistan. So the least she can do is agree to be his rock-climbing partner. After a year of physical therapy, she's finally eligible for deployment again, and ... Read more

$8.09 USD

A pretend engagement unleashes some all-too-real chemistry between two soldiers in this smoking hot romance from the author of Dangerous Territory.Army Special Forces Sergeant Beth Garcia owes James Walker big-time for saving her life in Afghanistan. So the least she can do is agree to be his rock-climbing partner. After a year of physical therapy, she's finally eligible for deployment again, and
... Read more
Foster Justice

by Colleen Shannon ...

Series Book 1 - Texas Rangers
"Intense romantic suspense with a sexy edge." --Tanya Anne CrosbyOne Riot, One Ranger. . .That's the Texas Ranger motto, but when Chad Foster's rebellious brother goes missing, it's time to put his elite training to use investigating a crime that strikes much closer to home. Turning Los Angeles inside out to retrieve Trey and save their ranch from a ruthless land grab is a no brainer, even if it ... Read more

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"Intense romantic suspense with a sexy edge." --Tanya Anne CrosbyOne Riot, One Ranger. . .That's the Texas Ranger motto, but when Chad Foster's rebellious brother goes missing, it's time to put his elite training to use investigating a crime that strikes much closer to home. Turning Los Angeles inside out to retrieve Trey and save their ranch from a ruthless land grab is a no brainer, even if it
... Read more

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