Closing Doors

Author : Lisa O'Donnell
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448165210
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Closed Doors written by Lisa O'Donnell and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful tale of love, the loss of innocence and the importance of family in difficult times by the acclaimed author of The Death of Bees, winner of the Commonwealth Book Prize 2013. ‘There are no strangers in Rothesay, Michael. Everyone knows who you are and always will. It’s a blessing but it’s also a curse.’ Eleven-year-old Michael Murray is the best at two things: keepy-uppies and keeping secrets. His family think he’s too young to hear grown-up stuff, but he listens at doors; it’s the only way to find out anything. And Michael’s heard a secret, one that might explain the bruises on his mother’s face. When the whispers at home and on the street become too loud to ignore, Michael begins to wonder if there is an even bigger secret he doesn’t know about. Scared of what might happen if anyone finds out, and desperate for life to return to normal, Michael sets out to piece together the truth. But he also has to prepare for the upcoming talent show, keep an eye out for Dirty Alice, his arch-nemesis from down the street, and avoid eating Granny’s watery stew. Closed Doors is the startling new novel from the acclaimed author of The Death of Bees. It is a vivid evocation of the fears and freedoms of childhood in the 1980s and a powerful tale of love, the loss of innocence and the importance of family in difficult times.

Author : Gary Orfield
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226632735
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Closing Door written by Gary Orfield and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Closing Door is the first major critique of the effect of conservative policies on urban race and poverty in the 1980s. Atlanta, with its booming economy, strong elected black leadership, and many highly educated blacks, seemed to be the perfect site for those policies and market solutions to prove themselves. Unfortunately, not only did expected economic opportunity fail to materialize but many of the hard-won gains of the civil rights movement were lost. Orfield and Ashkinaze painstakingly analyze the evidence from Atlanta to show why black opportunity deteriorated over the 1980s and outline possible remedies for the damage inflicted by the Reagan and Bush administrations. "The Closing Door is a crucial breath of fresh air . . . an important and timely text which will help to alter the 'underclass' debate in favor of reconsidering race-specific policies. Orfield and Ashkinaze construct a convincing argument with which those who favor 'race-neutrality' will have to contend. In readable prose they make a compelling case that economic growth is not enough."—Preston H. Smith II, Transition

Author : Latonya C. Smith
Publisher : Book Venture Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1640690557
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Closing Doors written by Latonya C. Smith and published by Book Venture Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I found you righteous in this generation.” Genesis 7:1 Closing Doors is a dynamic expose on who, what, and why bloodlines and generations are robbed of purpose. Prophet LaTonya releases insight with prophetic precision that will enlarge the capacity of each reader to possess the inheritance of their families through deliverance, healing, and wholeness. This book will empower you to: · Identify hidden contraband that hinders generational transfers of blessings · Dig for your family’s assets · Banish family iniquities & proclivities · Transfer legacy to your generations The Prophetic penmanship of Closing Doors will challenge you into action until manifestation becomes evident. Birthrights and blessings are in your divine covenant with God. Your life’s paradigm as it relates to bloodlines, generations, ministry, and the nations will shift even as you read the book. Are you: · Repeatedly encountering cyclic setbacks? · Called to ministry and yet your fruit is temporal? · Encountering repeated battles of sin structures and demonic strongholds in your family? · Challenged with your destiny seemingly drifting further away? You can expect this book to answer these questions with clarity. The call to action is CLOSE the DOOR.

Author : Sammy Greenspan
Publisher : Pudding House Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781589987241
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Step Back from the Closing Doors written by Sammy Greenspan and published by Pudding House Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 1609577345
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Healing the Wounded Soul Vol. II: Closing Open Doors written by and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jane Steen
Publisher : Aspidistra Press
ISBN 13 : 0985715014
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The House of Closed Doors written by Jane Steen and published by Aspidistra Press. This book was released on 2012-10-08 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heedless. Stubborn. Disgraced. Small town Illinois, 1870: "My stepfather was not particularly fond of me to begin with, and now that he'd found out about the baby, he was foaming at the mouth" Desperate to avoid marriage, Nell Lillington refuses to divulge the name of her child's father and accepts her stepfather's decision that the baby be born at a Poor Farm and discreetly adopted. Until an unused padded cell is opened and two small bodies fall out. Nell is the only resident of the Poor Farm who is convinced the unwed mother and her baby were murdered, and rethinks her decision to abandon her own child to fate. But even if she manages to escape the Poor Farm with her baby she may have no safe place to run to.

Author : Erwin Chemerinsky
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300224907
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Closing the Courthouse Door written by Erwin Chemerinsky and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading legal scholar explores how the constitutional right to seek justice has been restricted by the Supreme Court The Supreme Court s decisions on constitutional rights are well known and much talked about. But individuals who want to defend those rights need something else as well: access to courts that can rule on their complaints. And on matters of access, the Court s record over the past generation has been almost uniformly hostile to the enforcement of individual citizens constitutional rights. The Court has restricted who has standing to sue, expanded the immunity of governments and government workers, limited the kinds of cases the federal courts can hear, and restricted the right of habeas corpus. Closing the Courthouse Door, by the distinguished legal scholar Erwin Chemerinsky, is the first book to show the effect of these decisions: taken together, they add up to a growing limitation on citizens ability to defend their rights under the Constitution. Using many stories of people whose rights have been trampled yet who had no legal recourse, Chemerinsky argues that enforcing the Constitution should be the federal courts primary purpose, and they should not be barred from considering any constitutional question.

Author : Frank D. Bean
Publisher : The Urban Insitute
ISBN 13 : 9780877664291
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Opening and Closing the Doors written by Frank D. Bean and published by The Urban Insitute. This book was released on 1989 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Erwin Chemerinsky
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300211589
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Closing the Courthouse Door written by Erwin Chemerinsky and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- ONE: Why Do We Have Federal Courts? -- TWO: Suing the Government: The King Can Do Wrong -- THREE: Suing Government Officers -- FOUR: An Alleged Constitutional Violation Always Should Be Adjudicated -- FIVE: The Great Writ: How Habeas Corpus Has Been Suspended -- SIX: Opening the Federal Courthouse Doors -- SEVEN: Enforcing the Constitution -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z

Author : Frank Hernandez
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1681230666
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abriendo Puertas, Cerrando Heridas (Opening doors, closing wounds) written by Frank Hernandez and published by IAP. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abriendo Puertas, Cerrando Heridas (Opening Doors, Closing Wounds): Latinas/os Finding Work-Life Balance in Academia is the newest book in the series on balancing work and life in the academy from Information Age Publishing. This volume focuses on the experiences of Latina/o students, professors, and staff/administrators in higher education and documents their testimonios of achieving a sense of balance between their personal and professional lives. In the face of many challenges they are scattered across the country, are often working in isolation of each other and must find ways to develop their own networks, support structures, and spaces where they can share their wisdom, strategize, and forge alliances to ensure collective The book focuses on Latinas/os in colleges of education, since many of them carry the important mission to prepare new teachers, and research new pedagogies that have the power of improving and transforming education. Following the format of the work-life balance book series, this volume contains autoethnographical testimonios in its methodological approach. This volume addresses three very important guiding questions (1) What are the existing structures that isolate/discriminate against Latinas/os in higher education? (2) How can Latinas/os disrupt these to achieve work-life balance? And, (3) Based on their experiences, what are the transformative ideologies regarding Latinas/os seeking work-life balance?