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In Alabama, there is only one person greater than "The Bear." That's JC himself. And although the legend has now been dead thirty years this year, he still has tremendous power over people - even non-believers. Even when they're not awake. I was one of them. A non-believer. Until he straightened me out in the strangest way.

In the popular imagination the picture of slavery, frozen in time, is one of huge cotton plantations and opulent mansions. However, in over a hundred years of history detailed in this book, the hard reality of slavery in Mississippi's antebellum world is strikingly different from the one of popular myth. It shows that Mississippi's past was never frozen, but always fluid. It shows too that slavery took a number of shapes before its form in the late antebellum mold became crystalized for popular culture.

Ever heard of a 'travel psychologist?' Michael Brein is the world's first and perhaps only travel psychologist and has created a unique travel audiobook series on the psychology of travel as revealed through the fantastic travel stories of more than 1,600 world travelers and adventurers whom he has interviewed over the last three decades. The first audiobook in the series, Travel Tales of Michael Brein: My Top 10, is a collection of Michael's best of the best of his own personal travel tales.

Your daughter is fifteen. You've got to teach her how to drive. But will you survive? Do you remember when you were learning to drive? And that time you learned how determined fishermen are to catch the big one? Two connected stories, "The Driving Lesson" and "The Patience of Fishermen," are written by the author of a top 100 Free for Kindle Story The Killing of Train-Man Brown.

Guess What! You have just found out your high school teenager is going to NYC for their annual trip. Should you panic now, or wait til you hear the price? One parent's short memoir of Band Trip sticker shock!

What happens when a beautiful young woman asks an aging old fighter, which Martial Art he recommends? The result is this letter. It is not only to her, but to any young person, woman or not, who might want to know more about the fighting arts. And which one an old fool recommends. You will be surprised which one it is.

Driving through Georgia? Take a pocketful of Quarters. Why? Because there are some places there where it now costs A Quarter to Pee. My friend Amy found out the hard way. She had none. This is her story.

In Alabama - especially before elections - the choice of shirt can make or break your day. Follow this writer through one day of wearing the "wrong" shirt. Then write him a hate filled email. Why not? This is America. We're all free here to wear what we want and say what we want, without repercussions.... Aren't we?

You attend a beautiful church near downtown. The area is getting an influx of blacks and Hispanics. The church has a meeting to decide what to do. Do you sell the church and move to a "nicer" place? How would you vote? And how does God really feel about...White Flight.

Throughout his long and varied career as an educator, Steve Schmitz has been told one story, and asked one question, more than any other: I know my child is in grade trouble at school, Dr. Schmitz, and it's making my life hellish at home. I've tried everything, and nothing works. What do I do now? To keep household conflict from escalating, and to show concerned parents how to be part of the solution, Schmitz put down in book form all the successful advice he's been dispensing for thirty years.

Join me as I return to Seventh Grade for One Day... to help a Science Teacher as she tries to do the impossible: Teach 36 kids each class, all day long. I spent not even one day with this teacher and I know: There must be a special place in heaven for her. Get ready for one wild and funny ride!

A collection of five short stories. This collection includes: "The Amulet", "I Dream Of", "Key of Imagination", "OIC", and "I Remember Oscar".

Flourishing in the Age of Climate Change explores skills we need to successfully navigate the distinctive environmental, social, and economic challenges of the twenty-first century. Our inability to address increasing resource constraints, social conflict, and ecological decline lead many toward a deep pessimism that saps motivation for change. Drawing on research from environmental science, ethics, psychology, sociology and educational theory, William M. Throop shows why cultivating underdeveloped skills can enable flourishing within our context.

Contains the following Cooper short stories: 361 - Nowhere to Turn. 362 - Not Our Family .363 - The Hollywood Assassin. 364 - Exit Stage Left. 365 - Poor Taste in Men. 366 - The Perfect Alibi. 367 - Who the Hell Are You. 368 - Pack Your Trunk. 369 - Act Your Age. 370 - At Last.

Travel Tales: Idiots Abroad is a very funny book. It's a collection of Michael Brein's funniest travel accounts of the nearly 2000 interviews with travelers he has met in his own travels around the world over the last four decades. Although the typical travel stories collected in the books that make up the True Travel Tales series are ordinarily oriented toward safety and security in travel...Travel Tales: Idiots Abroad is purely and simply to make you laugh.

Street Smarts contains a series of proven principles and insights I've gathered through the years I spent living in the streets. These principles helped me go from being homeless to becoming a successful entrepreneur in the digital industry. The good news is, no matter at what point you're at in your own life, you can also make the positive changes you need to become successful.

In an era when democracy is at critical risk, is it reasonable to expect the education system, already buckling under the ordeal of a global pandemic, to solve the converging problems of inequality, climate change, and erosion of trust in government and science? Will more civics instruction help? In Can Schools Save Democracy? Michael J. Feuer offers a new approach to addressing these questions with a strategy for improving the process and substance of civic education.

Before Lawrence v. Texas tells the story of the long, troubled, and ultimately hopeful road to constitutional change. Wesley G. Phelps describes the achievements, setbacks, and unlikely alliances along the way. Over the course of decades, and at great risk to themselves, gay and lesbian Texans and their supporters launched political campaigns and legal challenges, laying the groundwork for Lawrence. Phelps shares the personal experiences of the people and couples who contributed to the legal strategy that ultimately overturned the states discriminatory law.

President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty did more than offer aid to needy Americans; in some cities, it also sparked both racial conflict and cooperation. Race and the War on Poverty examines the African American and Mexican American community organizations in Los Angeles that emerged to implement War on Poverty programs. It explores how organizers applied democratic vision and political savvy to community action, and how the ongoing African American, Chicano, and feminist movements in turn shaped the contours of the War on Poverty’s goals, programs, and cultural identity.

Eight short stories in audio format, including Hung Jury, In For a Penny, and Familiarity Breeds Attempt.