wyszukanych pozycji: 12
Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors
ISBN: 9780060958596 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Throughout her life and work, Marian Wright Edelman has been at the heart of this cantury's most dramatic civil rights and child advocacy struggles. In this stirring, heartfelt memoir she pays tribute to the extrordinary mentors who helped light her way including Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, Fannie Lou Hamer, and William Slaone Coffin. She celebrates the lives of her parents and the great Black Women of Bennetsville, South Carolina- Miz Tee, Miz Lucy, Miz Kate-who gave her love and guidance in her youth, as well as the many teachers and figures who inspired her education at... Throughout her life and work, Marian Wright Edelman has been at the heart of this cantury's most dramatic civil rights and child advocacy struggle... |
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77,26 zł |
Guide My Feet: Prayers and Meditations for Our Children
ISBN: 9780060958190 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Here are prayers and meditations for parents and others who strive to instill values of faith, integrity, compassion, and service in our children at a time when these ideas are threatened by commercialism and violence. With warmth and conviction, Edleman shares his own prayers as well as inspirational readings from others. Turn in this book for guidelines and support--again and again. Here are prayers and meditations for parents and others who strive to instill values of faith, integrity, compassion, and service in our children a... |
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81,55 zł |
Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change
ISBN: 9780674292291 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Too many American families--unstable, broken, often poor--are in serious peril, and both the reality of the situation and the myths obscuring that reality call for attention and swift action. In this most incisive analysis of the parlous state of the family today, Marian Wright Edelman, President of the Children's Defense Fund, charts what is happening, exposes myths, and sets a bold agenda to strengthen families and protect children. In brilliant strokes and with abundant detail, Edelman describes family conditions over a generation--the rising curve of teenage pregnancy, the overwhelming... Too many American families--unstable, broken, often poor--are in serious peril, and both the reality of the situation and the myths obscuring that ... |
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198,69 zł |
I Can Make a Difference: A Treasury to Inspire Our Children
ISBN: 9780060280512 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Marian Wright Edelman has drawn from a variety of cultures and peoples to compile these timeless stories, poems, songs, quotations, and folktales that speak to all children to let them know that they can make a difference in today's world. Marian Wright Edelman has drawn from a variety of cultures and peoples to compile these timeless stories, poems, songs, quotations... |
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94,44 zł |
Dream Me Home Safely: Writers on Growing Up in America
ISBN: 9780544310407 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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150,31 zł |
Dream Me Home Safely: Writers on Growing Up in America
ISBN: 9780618379026 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In "Dream Me Home Safely," Alice Walker, Anna Quindlen, Lois Lowry, Nikki Giovanni and many more write on their own American childhoods with intensely intimate writing, through memories both diverse and powerful.
In "Dream Me Home Safely," Alice Walker, Anna Quindlen, Lois Lowry, Nikki Giovanni and many more write on their own American childhoods with intensely...
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72,96 zł |
Be the Dream: Prep for Prep Graduates Share Their Stories
ISBN: 9781565124172 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Twenty-five years ago, an elementary school teacher in the Bronx had a vision: No bright, determined, spirited child should be left behind because of the circumstances of race or poverty. Out of that vision, Prep for Prep was born, to identify gifted children and provide them access to a first-rate education. Thousands of these students have graduated from America's most demanding universities and gone on to become leaders in their communities. Thirty-five of them have written about the experience - an experience that changed their lives. Their stories offer indisputable proof that education...
Twenty-five years ago, an elementary school teacher in the Bronx had a vision: No bright, determined, spirited child should be left behind because of ...
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55,62 zł |
Silver Rights
ISBN: 9781616205591 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WE CAN GIVE OUR CHILDREN IS AN EDUCATION." --Mae Bertha Carter In 1965, the Carters, an African American sharecropping family with thirteen children, took public officials at their word when they were offered "Freedom of Choice" to send their children to any school they wished, and so began their unforeseen struggle to desegregate the schools of Sunflower County, Mississippi. In this true account from the front lines of the civil rights movement, four generations of the Carter family speak to author and civil rights activist Constance Curry, who lived...
"THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WE CAN GIVE OUR CHILDREN IS AN EDUCATION." --Mae Bertha Carter In 1965, the Carters, an African American sharecr...
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68,50 zł |
No Place for Children: Voices from Juvenile Detention
ISBN: 9780292701960 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 151 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Winner, Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, Domestic Photo, 2006 Juvenile crime rates have dropped dramatically since the early 1990s, yet more young people are in juvenile detention today than at any other time in America's history. Most are nonviolent offenders. Many have mental health or substance abuse problems. All have been failed by some combination of their families, schools, churches, and communities. But instead of addressing these young people's needs for treatment, rehabilitation, and basic nurturing, we lock them away in an overburdened juvenile justice system... Winner, Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, Domestic Photo, 2006 Juvenile crime rates have dropped dramatically since the early 1990s,... |
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152,57 zł |
All the Women in My Family Sing: Women Write the World: Essays on Equality, Justice, and Freedom
ISBN: 9780997296211 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. All the Women in My Family Sing tells the sometimes raw, always illumining stories of women of color in today's political climate. Sixty-eight authors in total--African American, Asian American, Chicana, Native American, Cameroonian, South African, British and LGBTQI--these voices broaden cross-cultural understanding and contribute to building bridges to understanding how very alike we are in the daily experiences of life. No other anthology offers the wide spectrum of stories about cultural identity, migration, sexuality, illness, racism and generosity from such illustrious...
All the Women in My Family Sing tells the sometimes raw, always illumining stories of women of color in today's political climate. Sixty-eight ...
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72,80 zł |
Waging Peace in Our Schools
ISBN: 9780807031179 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the largest and most successful school initiatives in social and emotional learning in the country-The Resolving Conflict Creatively Program, now active in more than 350 schools nationwide-comes a powerful, practical guide for teaching young people to empathize, mediate, negotiate, and create peace. The authors address everything from minor schoolyard conflicts to violent outbursts, and offer educators and parents proven strategies for enhancing children's emotional, social, and conflict resolution skills.
From the largest and most successful school initiatives in social and emotional learning in the country-The Resolving Conflict Creatively Program, now...
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132,56 zł |
Wasting America's Future: The Children's Defense Fund Report on the Costs of Child Poverty
ISBN: 9780807041079 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Children's Defense Fund Report on the Costs of Child Poverty
The Children's Defense Fund Report on the Costs of Child Poverty
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114,52 zł |