Best Selling Books by Meredith Johnson

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When two friends vie for the part of Clara in "The Nutcracker," who will get the part?

Collection "Je peux lire " Niveau 2, Maternelle a 2e annee.

Dieses Buch ist für alle, die zwischendurch mal nen kleinen Hunger auf ein bisschen Sex verspüren. Für alle, die auf sanfte Fesselspielchen, Dominanz, Sex im Freien oder an ungewöhnlichen Orten und die etwas härtere Gangart abfahren. Und das alles in gehobenerem Stil. Die Geschichten sind KEINE Liebesgeschichten. Du findest hierin keinen Blümchensex. Wenn du Lust auf einen Perspektivwechsel hast, bist du hier genau richtig. Keine Geschichte ist wie die andere. Und jede hätte auch DIR passieren können........

ABSTRACT:

One day in school, the class is taken over by Mr. Rover, who is very different from the regular teacher because he is a dog.

There has long been conflict over the relationship between the states and the federal system vis-a-vis the family. The traditional account of domestic relations describes family law as the exclusive domain of the states, and federal courts have credited this account in the "domestic relations exception." Although scholars have analyzed and critiqued the exception''s applicability to diversity jurisdiction, the intersection of federal question jurisdiction and this exception remains largely unexplored. This Article describes and critiques, on both instrumental and deeper normative terms, federal courts'' willingness to expand the "domestic relations exception" to include federal question cases. The Article proceeds in three parts. In Part I, I describe the emerging trend in federal courts of avoiding decision on federal questions implicating the family, either by expanding the domestic relations exception, or by using other avoidance doctrines as proxies to accomplish the same result. I also explain how Supreme Court dicta in Elk Grove Independent School District v. Newdow has exacerbated this trend. In Part II, I assess critically how and why federal courts are avoiding these questions, considering the potential doctrinal and policy bases for an expansive exception, and evaluating its potential scope. I conclude that there is no principled doctrinal or policy basis for an expanded domestic relations exception that includes federal questions. Part III shifts to a more normative and theoretical perspective, evaluating whether federal courts should defer to the states when facing federal questions affecting the family. Here, I argue that there is instrumental and normative value in preserving a federal forum. I also argue that, because an expanded domestic relations exception would subordinate litigants, cause expressive harm, and potentially trigger negative cultural consequences, federal courts should resist expansion. The Article concludes with some reflections on the implications of my analysis and emphasizes the important role of federal courts in supporting, empowering, and protecting contemporary American families.

The collection also includes a typescript of Johnson''s student paper entitled "The University, 1855-1865."

The term "mompreneur" has fallen into heavy usage in anglophone media since 2008. A mesh of two ideologically-loaded words, "mom" and "entrepreneur," the mompreneur is frequently defined by the functional meaning of these two words, but in this thesis I develop a more specific definition and study her as a discursive figure located at a particular intersection of identities. I argue that the mompreneur is a normative ideal in anglophone techno-utopian discourses who structures emergent political-economic relations. I find that she is overwhelmingly constructed as a high-achieving, flexible, creative, multi-tasking "supermom" who makes use of digital information and communication technologies to run a business from home while maximizing quality time with her (biological) children. I ask, what does the mompreneur''s idealized lifestyle and its complementary narratives tell us about the reproduction of white supremacy, heteropatriarchy and capitalism in a colorblind, postfeminist techno-optimist context? What can she tell us about the governance of care amidst economic relations increasingly mediated through digital technology? I take the discourse of mompreneurship as a case study by which to analyze the production of gendered and entrepreneurial subjectivities in relation to capitalist crisis. I find that the figure of the "mompreneur" emerges in her particular, anglophone political-economic context to reinforce the privatization and feminization of care work, to help construct a social consensus around technological advance and to absorb and appease surplus population.

Ben and Becky set out to solve the mystery of a haunted house and find their lost grandfather! This is a title from the We Both Read series of books designed for reading together.

Une suite de scènes amusantes et bien enchaînées de ce que je pourrai... lorsque je saurai... [SDM].

Une suite de scènes amusantes et bien enchaînées de ce que je pourrai... lorsque je saurai... [SDM].