Search Results - Home and school

Lord Byron at Harrow School speaking out, talking back, acting up, bowing out / by Elledge, Paul

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An island called home returning to Jewish Cuba / by Behar, Ruth, 1956-

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White girl a story of school desegregation / by Silverstein, Clara, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…busing - never! -- "Model" schools -- Interim integration -- Busing hits home -- Manners -- Jim Crow's legacy -- Liberal teacher, Southern lady -- The buses roll -- No one wants you here -- Black is beautiful -- Self-segregation -- Separate soundtracks -- In the classrooms -- My flag, my shame -- Girl talk -- Ebony and ivory -- The white boys -- Filmstrip in the dark -- The fox-trot, the cha-cha -- Invisible -- Voice of loneliness -- The liberals -- Legacy of defeat -- No yearbooks, no good-byes -- Singing "Dixie" -- The open high school -- I surrender! …”
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Kodak elegy a Cold War childhood / by Decker, William Merrill

Table of Contents: “…Leaving Walden Road -- Whitewood Lane -- Brothers -- Camp -- School -- City -- Urban paths -- Crossings -- Girl at the lake -- False positions -- Home and away and home again -- Home and away.…”
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Your average nigga performing race, literacy and masculinity / by Young, Vershawn Ashanti

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. Home -- pt. 2. School.…”
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Born a Chief : The Nineteenth Century Hopi Boyhood of Edmund Nequatewa, as told to Alfred F. Whiting / by Nequatewa, Edmund, approximately 1880-1969

Table of Contents: “…Experiencing Hopi Beliefs. 8. At Keams Canyon School. 9. School in Phoenix. 10. The Runaways. 11. …”
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Rose Henderson a woman for the people / by Campbell, J. Peter, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…1 Montreal Beginnings -- 2 Mothers and Children -- 3 Revolt and Repression -- 4 Working-Class Hero -- 5 An International Life -- 6 War and Peace -- 7 Toronto Beginnings -- 8 Home, School, and Labour Hall -- 9 War and Peace -- Again.…”
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SEAL of honor Operation Red Wings and the life of Lt. Michael P. Murphy, USN / by Williams, Gary

Table of Contents: “…The knock on the door -- Vigil for the valiant -- Funeral for the fallen -- Seeds of greatness -- "The protector" -- Prep schools for SEALs -- Officer Candidate School -- BUD/S : the price of admission -- Agoge : earning the Trident -- Warrior community and structure -- Deployment work-up -- Operation Enduring Freedom -- Afghanistan, home of al-Qaeda -- When character met circumstance : Operation Red Wings -- Rescue mission -- Answering the call -- No one left behind -- In the presence of warriors -- Memorials to a hero -- Of service and sacrifice -- Growing legacy -- Postscript -- Appendix: Naval special warfare community support groups.…”
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Science has no sex the life of Marie Zakrzewska, M.D. / by Tuchman, Arleen, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Aspiring bourgeoisie -- Master midwife -- This land of liberty, equality, and fraternity -- The first hospital for women and children -- Fashioning a home -- Writing autobiography -- The standard of the school was below par -- On hospitals -- The hospital in transformation -- Scientific medicine at the New England hospital -- The world changes -- I wish to have my own way in taking leave.…”
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Saving Ben a father's story of autism / by Burns, Dan E. (Dan Eric), 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Over the rainbow -- Going home.…”
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This is not the Ivy League a memoir / by Blew, Mary Clearman, 1939-

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Keep on fighting : the life and civil rights legacy of Marian A. Spencer / by Christenson, Dorothy H., 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Family life -- New career -- Family values and celebrations -- Family travels; at home and abroad -- Fox Lake -- Personal journeys -- Part IV. …”
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Edward Charles Elliott, Educator / by Burrin, Frank K. (Frank Kleiser), 1920-1987

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A Force for Change : The Class of 1950 / by Norberg, John

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One man's music the life and times of Texas songwriter Vince Bell / by Bell, Vince

Table of Contents: “…Foreword by Kathleen Hudson -- Sorcerers' apprentice -- Look of the loner looking at it -- Sweat like a boxer -- Sinbad and the silver tooth -- Music where the words are the important part -- I'm not this way because I'm a musician, I'm a musician because I'm this way -- Secret mountain laboratory -- Six strings, no kick -- Three-day ride to the kitchen -- The songwriter -- Elastic plastic fork and pitiable paper plate -- Bermuda triangle -- Name unknown -- Rumor of my demise -- Room 933 -- If it was time for the musicians to call, it was time to go home and fix it -- Providence Street -- Even up on Misery Ave., they sometimes dance and sing -- Path of least regret -- Music school -- Edge of the world -- Monday for two years -- Keep your eyes in the sky -- Second Street -- Fate worse than death -- Wizard of odds -- Adrift in paradise -- Give chance a chance -- Prize for not working hard enough -- Phoenix -- Album of a lifetime -- The poetry in the prose -- Play like you practice -- Texas plates -- Say in your owndamnway -- The bottom line -- Live in Texas -- Rough old Texas hands.…”
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Fernando Alonso the father of Cuban ballet / by Singer, Toba

Table of Contents: “…-- 17. Constructing ballet schools, extending the revolution -- 18. International recognition abroad, at home, on film, and in print -- 19. …”
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