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The Elephant Whisperer: My Life with the Herd in the African Wild by Lawrence Anthony & Graham Spence
azw3 |eng | 2009-11-09 | Author:Lawrence Anthony & Graham Spence [Anthony, Lawrence]

chapter twenty-three Most of my interactions with the herd had been from a Land Rover. This was deliberate as I wanted them to get used to vehicles. It worked; our ...
( Category: Wildlife August 2,2020 )
Panther Baby: A Life of Rebellion & Reinvention by Jamal Joseph
epub |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:Jamal Joseph [Joseph, Jamal]

10 Revolution in Our Lifetime It was spring in Harlem, and people were in bloom on the streets. Children playing and beautiful women doing African ballets just by walking down ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism July 27,2020 )
Philanthropy Revolution by Lisa Greer
epub |eng | 2020-06-10 | Author:Lisa Greer

UNDERSTANDING THE TYPES OF VOLUNTEER ENGAGEMENT Broadly speaking, there are five different types of volunteer engagement: Formal: Here, volunteers are scheduled into what is typically ongoing ‘work.’ Depending on the ...
( Category: Image & Etiquette July 26,2020 )
One Hundred Dogs and Counting by Cara Sue Achterberg
epub |eng | 2020-07-07 | Author:Cara Sue Achterberg

I. Which nixed any plans I had to sublet our garage to a cat rescue. II. Processing them meant evaluating for behavior and getting their vaccinations current. III. Maury County ...
( Category: Travel with Pets July 22,2020 )
In the Black: My Life by B. Denham Jolly
epub |eng | 2017-03-14 | Author:B. Denham Jolly [Jolly, B. Denham]

With this thought, and the thought of the excellent athletes representing Canada on the field that I had been watching in the Commonwealth games, I called Bromley Armstrong and Al ...
( Category: Social Activists July 21,2020 )
When Truth Is All You Have by Jim McCloskey & Philip Lerman
epub |eng | 2020-07-14 | Author:Jim McCloskey & Philip Lerman [McCloskey, Jim & Lerman, Philip]

* * * In late 1987, I was still living in Mrs. Yeatman’s beautiful if somewhat neglected house on Library Place, but the burden of having all this going on ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem July 21,2020 )
A House in the Sky: A Memoir by Amanda Lindhout & Sara Corbett
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-10 | Author:Amanda Lindhout & Sara Corbett

23 Blame the Girl I lay for a long time on my mattress, hoping that something would reverse itself. I waited for one of the boys to come in carrying ...
( Category: Women July 19,2020 )
Huey by David Hilliard
epub |eng | | Author:David Hilliard [Hilliard, David; Keith; Zimmerman, Kent; Newton, Fredrika]

Young Huey on a pony. (Courtesy: The Huey P. Newton Foundation) Adolescent Huey. (Courtesy: The Huey P. Newton Foundation) David Hilliard and Huey. (Copyright Temple University Libraries) Ericka Huggins, founding ...
( Category: African-American Studies July 8,2020 )
Born Both by Hida Viloria
epub |eng | 2017-03-14 | Author:Hida Viloria [VILORIA, HIDA]

CHAPTER 12 Going Public SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA JANUARY 2001 HI, HIDA,” A VOICE on my answering machine says. “My name is Alice, and I’m a producer for the ABC News ...
( Category: LGBT July 7,2020 )
Merle Thornton by Merle Thornton
epub |eng | 2020-03-18 | Author:Merle Thornton

Apparently the Dalkon string potentially introduced harmful bacteria into the uterus. My doctor had recommended I use the Dalkon Shield for two years, though I used it for four – ...
( Category: Feminist Theory July 5,2020 )
Serkeftin by Marcel Cartier;
epub |eng | 2019-02-21 | Author:Marcel Cartier; [Cartier, Marcel]

To the foreign ear, these were shocking concepts on the one hand, but on the other they seemed to echo common sense. What better way to really get at the ...
( Category: African July 4,2020 )
HumanKind by Brad Aronson
epub |eng | 2020-07-15 | Author:Brad Aronson

CHAPTER 8 A NEW LENS ON LIFE “We can complain because rosebushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” —ATTRIBUTED TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN OR ALPHONSE KARR Two shoe ...
( Category: Philanthropy & Charity July 4,2020 )
Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897: The Truly Intriguing and Empowering Life Story of the World Famous American Suffragist, Social Activist and Abolitionist by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
epub |eng | 2017-03-12 | Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton [Stanton, Elizabeth Cady]

CHAPTER XVI. PIONEER LIFE IN KANSAS - OUR NEWSPAPER, “THE REVOLUTION.” In 1867 the proposition to extend the suffrage to women and to colored men was submitted to the people ...
( Category: Women July 4,2020 )
Know Your Place by Golriz Ghahraman
epub |eng | 2020-03-19 | Author:Golriz Ghahraman

After my first internship, I did another two stints with defence teams. I was in The Hague working on the Yugoslavia Tribunal, when I was offered a paying contract job ...
( Category: Social Activists July 3,2020 )
The Philosophers and Mathematics by Unknown
epub |eng | | Author:Unknown

References Aristóteles [Rhet]. (1926). Art of Rethoric (J. H. Freese, Trans.). Cambridge, MA: Loeb Classical Library 193, Harvard Univ. Press. Avigad, J., Dean, E., & Mumma, J. (2009). A formal ...
( Category: History July 2,2020 )

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