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Just when I was anticipating the most precious milestone in my life, it took an unexpected turn. That's when I became witness to Divine Intervention.

"I felt weightless, timeless. I felt like pure energy." This was a-once-in-a-lifetime experience, and I had a good idea of what was going on. This was my journey to self-awareness.

I was granted not one, but two experiences so powerful it turned my tragedy into a defining moment. Believe in the Divine One and have faith that you have the same power to manifest all your dreams and desires. Believe that you have the magic in you...

With the help of friends who recognized her extraordinary talent, Althea Gibson rose from a childhood of playing stickball on Harlem streets to claim victory at Wimbledon. It is widely recognized that her sacrifices along the way paved the road for the successes of Venus and Serena Williams. But Althea's was a victory hard fought and painfully won.

She had no idea the turn her life would take when she met Angela Buxton at the French Indoor Championships. Despite her athletic prowess, Althea was shunned by the other female players. Her failing was her skin color....

Just when I was anticipating the most precious milestone in my life, it took an unexpected turn. That's when I became witness to Divine Intervention.

"I felt weightless, timeless. I felt like pure energy." This was a-once-in-a-lifetime experience, and I had a good idea of what was going on. This was my journey to self-awareness.

I was granted not one, but two experiences so powerful it turned my tragedy into a defining moment. Believe in the Divine One and have faith that you have the same power to manifest all your dreams and desires. Believe that you have the magic in you...

in this story told in verse, a little boy reaches for a star, climbs onto her arm, and flies into the night sky where he speaks with the Moon, and dances as his star-friends play musical instruments. It's written in poetry for early readers and has a message for kids: keep dreaming and reaching for the stars.

Anna was an exceptional exceptional child. Born with multiple medical conditions, she had eleven major surgeries before she was fifteen. Now, she's just fine. This book describes her surgeries and how they affected her emotional, cognitive and social development. It shows how we, her parents, worked with the educational system and private providers to meet her needs and describes the strategies we used to deal with her behavioral and learning differences. It includes samples of her academic work, excerpts from relevant neuropsychological assessments, descriptions of parental interventions and...

The story of how a new generation of tech-savvy franchise owners is reshaping every aspect of professional sports

Devorah Schoenfeld's new work offers an in-depth examination of two of the most influential Christian and Jewish Bible commentaries of the High Middle Ages. The Glossa Ordinaria and Rashi's commentary were standard texts for Bible study in the High Middle Ages, and Rashi's influence continues to the present day. Although Rashi's commentary and the Glossa developed at the same time with no known contact between them, they shared a way of reading text that shaped their interpretations of the central religious narrative of the Binding of Isaac. Schoenfeld's text examines each commentary unto...

Gabriel Schoenfeld "brilliantly illuminates" (Wall Street Journal) a growing rift between a press that sees itself as the heroic force promoting the public's "right to know" and a government that needs to safeguard information vital to the effective conduct of foreign policy. A masterful contribution to the enduring challenge of interpreting the First Amendment, Necessary Secrets offers a gripping account of how our national security, now and across the American past, has been compromised by disclosure of classified information.

A history of the rise of mass incarceration in America that shows how it was built on a foundation of racist thinking and bad political incentives.

Dysfunctional Families in the Wessex Novels of Thomas Hardy examines the diverse portrayals of dysfunctional families in Thomas Hardy's novels, which are used as a frame of reference for studying socio-historical changes in Victorian England.

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Dysfunctional Families in the Wessex Novels of Thomas Hardy examines the diverse portrayals of dysfunctional families in Thomas Hardy's novels, which are used as a frame of reference for studying socio-historical changes in Victorian England. This work addresses why, in what ways, and to what end Hardy created so many dysfunctional families in the Wessex novels, which focused on the rural artisan stratum of the working class, and how the specific historical and social changes of the times affected them. The research in this book explores how the family, or lack of one, is used as a vehicle...