Peggy: 1014 books
Connecting the Dots
Government, Community, and Family
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Despite its size and social diversity, the United States is one nation, and what happens in one city or neighborhood ultimately affects all Americans. "Connecting the Dots" addresses the complex relationships between family and community, and between community and other players affecting...
The Remaking of Social Contracts
Feminists in a Fierce New World
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) argues that social contracts must be recreated if they are to fulfil the promise of human rights. In The Remaking of Social Contracts, leading thinkers and activists address a wide range of concerns - global economic governance, militarism,...
Teaching with Vitality
Pathways to Health and Wellness for Teachers and Schools
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Perhaps more than any other experience, conflict in schools and workplaces can zap our energy and steal our vigor as teachers. If we knew ways to minimize conflict and maximize vitality, would we use them? Teaching with Vitality offers specific behaviors and attitudes to reframe conflict by diluting...
by Peggy Sue LaCroix
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
They had to make the best of change, thats part of life! Its easier to get a long and a lot more fun, they could all be happy if they shared. Being a bully isnt nice! And no one has fun being bullied around and it hurts! Life is more fun if you try to use love and understanding rather than hate. Makes...
Dessert and Booze Hacks
75 Amazingly Simple, Tricked-Out Sweets and Drinks: A Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Hacking just got sweeter.
Massive sweets craving and only your cabinets to scavenge? Friends coming by at the last minute to pre-party and you can’t run to the store? Have no fear, hacks are here. Raid your freezer to find the fixings for a no-bake ice cream sandwich cake or combine three...
by Peggy Jaeger
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Valentine’s Day is chocolatier Chloe San Valentino’s favorite day of the year. Not only is it the busiest day in her candy shop, Caramelle de Chloe, but it’s also her birthday. Chloe’s got a birthday wish list for the perfect man she pulls out every year: he’d fall in love with her in a...
Kitchenary
Birth to Zucchini
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
In the autumn of her life, Landis harvests the stories of her seventy years. Here are stories of friendship and forgiveness, heritage and hospitality, generosity and gratitude, loss and love, and the people of a lifetime with whom she has broken bread. The memoir is a series of key words arranged...
Psalm 91 for Teens
God's Shield of Protection for Your Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Today’s teenagers are living in dangerous and uncertain days. Where schools were once safe havens for learning, they are now rife with violence and moral decline. Young people are witnessing the instability of governments and economies, all the while wondering how to have confidence in the future.
by Peggy Ehrhart
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2020
Pamela Paterson and her Knit and Nibble club must clear the name of one of their knitters when he's accused of murdering the mayor . . .
The trees in Arborville, New Jersey, have started sporting sweaters. Part of the trend of public knitting art? Not exactly. An anonymous activist has been wrapping...
Remaking Home Economics
Resourcefulness and Innovation in Changing Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
An interdisciplinary effort of scholars from history, women’s studies, and family and consumer sciences, Remaking Home Economics covers the field’s history of opening career opportunities for women and responding to domestic and social issues. Calls to “bring back home economics” miss the...
Advances in Reading Intervention
Research to Practice to Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Effective early reading intervention depends on research and practice that leads to positive changes in classroom practice and better student reading outcomes. This important volume promotes the valuable “research to practice to research” loop, bringing top experts and practitioners together to...
by Peggy Rambach
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Strange things are growing in Leonard Slinket's watermelon field. They are as light and small as Wiffle balls, turn smooth and warm, dark, yet luminous, and their vines beat with a pulse. So begins The Lons - short for watermelons - as Slinket, his younger carpenter-friend, John Bigby, and science...
Deconstructing the Death Penalty
Derrida's Seminars and the New Abolitionism
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
The questions at stake run from the politics of death penalty abolition to broader questions of the nature of sovereignty and democracy, the human and the animal, mass incarceration, gender, and religion.
by Peggy Lee Tremper
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2016
The birds of the woods have a hard time surviving when challenged to fight for space at the bird feeder. Their struggles are illustrated not only to entertain but also to teach the different kinds of birds that are found in the woods.