Most Popular Books by Rachel Williams

"In the heat of June in 1943, a wave of destructive and deadly civil unrest took place in the streets of Detroit. The city was under the pressures of both war-time industrial production and the nascent civil rights movement - a powder keg waiting to go off. Thirty-four people were killed, most were Black, and over half were killed by police. Two thousand people were arrested and over 700 required treatment at local hospitals for their injuries. Property damage was estimated to be nearly two million dollars. Composed of first-hand accounts collected by the NAACP just after the skirmish and research drawn from primary and secondary sources, Rachel Williams delivers a graphic re-telling of the violence and racism in the city''s past, combining drawn images, text, and story. The history and impact of these racial rebellions is made clear with Williams'' drawings, and in showing us what happened, she reminds us that many issues - like police brutality, economic disparity, and white supremacy - plague our country to this day"--

All around us, nature is turning, growing...and working. Every day, hour by hour, magical transformations happen right in front of you. But it''s not always easy to see them... Discover 50 nature stories, paused just long enough for you to watch them unfold. Then go outside and explore... and see what you find when you take the time to slow down.

Though born in 1965, Rachel''s story could easily have been set in the 1800s. Wearing long dresses and broad-brimmed bonnets and living without modern conveniences including electricity, telephone, radio, television, or indoor plumbing, she and her two older brothers were shaped by the extreme religious views of her iron-willed, Vietnam-veteran father and malleable, practical-minded mother. The family separated from society and lived under often harsh conditions in an old, abandoned house atop a remote range of hills in Tennessee, awaiting the end of the world. Then at 16, Rachel was forced to face the world in which she was not raised to live. She struggled to adjust to an unsheltered life without casting aside the good along with the bad. Eventually she found her way to a full, balanced, and vibrant life. Rachel shares an amazing story that ultimately testifies of God''s faithful and restorative loving care. --back cover.

Nicolai Francis is a 138 year old man locked in time by an evil force he innocently unleashed on himself. Unable to age, he lives two separate lives. One private and the other...public. A wealthy industrialist who is never seen and an executive assistant maintaining a very haunted castle built in the middle of the New York sound. Forced to endure one love affair after another, always ending in tragedy, Nick finds a way to redeem himself, find true love and rid himself of the curse and creature within him.

THE ORNAMENT HOSPITAL is a children''s lesson about caring for others, set around the scenes that many will recognize from their own recollections of the Christmas holidays. It''s a gentle reminder that tending to the little things brings joy and happiness; and shares the secrets of faith, hope, and love through its tale of broken and redeemed ornaments brought back to life. You''ll enjoy reading this children''s Christmas classic with family and friends, and will want to revisit it year after year.

"En este libro descubrirás los animales más sorprendentes del planeta, por su antigüedad, por su tamaño, por su velocidad, por sus hábitos, por sus defensas. Además, encontrarás más información de sus asombrosas características en las notas de campo junto a los bocetos."--Back cover.

This is the story of a lonely snowman, in need of some tender loving care. He has given away his eyes, nose and bright red berries to the hungry animals of the forest. Luckily, his animal friends are there to help, and enlist the Christmas fairies and the magical reindeer to give him an extra special gift - a magical hat and scarf.

Peter Scott presents a menagerie of amazing animals, from the oldest creature on Earth, the giant tortoise, to the slowest mammal on the planet, the three toed sloth. Discover amazing facts about well-known creatures such as gorillias and pandas, and explore unusual worlds where animals have unexpected qualities.

Mark is the popular boy at school, who always has the latest trainers, the newest phone and the best MP3 player. He isn''t always very nice, and he can be a bit of a bully, but everyone wants to be his friend. But one day Mark picks on the wrong person: Alex may not have the latest, coolest designer trainers, and his parents may be divorced, but he is a much-loved Child of the Universe, and Archangel Michael is always there to help him when he''s unhappy or in trouble, and today is no exception.

How to Make Amazing Harry Potter Themed Desserts Even if You Have Never Baked a Single Cookie Before! Have you ever wanted to learn how to make the tastiest desserts out there and make your friends and family just fall in love with your culinary skills? How about having a Harry Potter marathon while eating Hagrid''s Rock Cakes, Owl Pops and Hogsmeade Pudding? That and many more recipes will be exactly what you will discover inside this magic cookbook, which will bring out your inner chef even if you have never baked before. The recipes are adequate for all cooking skill levels and are a great to prepare with your kids. Bring the magical world of Hogwarts into your home! Here''s what you will find inside this magical cookbook Easy recipes for delicious desserts Step-by-step instructions to make the best Harry Potter desserts even if you have never baked before Variety of recipes to choose based on every taste and personal cooking preference A rich collection of tasty and nice-looking dishes all of them having a Hogwarts inspired design Guaranteed fun by making the best Harry Potter marathon and get everyone asking for more of your cookings And much more! Amaze everyone instantly with these quick, easy, and delicious recipes for your next Harry Potter party! Your Hogwarts letter is waiting for you... Scroll up, Click on "Buy Now with 1-Click", and Get Your Copy!

Paige and Paxton are puzzle pieces growing up in the magical island of Puzzleland. In Puzzleland, all the puzzle pieces are different, but each has a perfect fi t-something they love to do. This is just a piece of what makes the island the perfect place to learn new things. In this adventure, the precocious siblings visit the wise and lovable Grandpapa Puzzle, who always has a lot of fun things for Paige and Paxton to do. But fun is just a piece of it. While there are many lessons to be learned in this intergenerational tale that warms the heart and stimulates the imagination, the most important one is the indivisible link that binds us to our past and connects us to our future. Look for more titles in this delightful series that introduces young minds to science and technology in a fun and engaging way. Learn more about Paige & Paxton at www.PaigeandPaxton.com.

Explore ten of the world''s most diverse environments and reveal their hidden secrets with a magic coloured lens that illuminates each page in a kaleidoscope of colour. Discover the dark and mysterious creatures of the night, whose super-sensory powers allow them to live and survive in the shadows, then switch the lens to step into daylight, where the heat of the sun supercharges the secret lives of creatures big and small. Finally, use the third lens to reveal the luscious plant life of every habitat as you travel through a jungle, a reef, grasslands, woodland and uncover a world that never sleeps. This is an animal book like no other, allowing you to view the natural world in full technicolour.

Street art photography book playfuly exploring thelink between dreams and the people and things children observe every day

Stop looking; you''ve found the best option for AP(R) African American Studies. Freedom on My Mind has always been a great African American History textbook; now it''s a great AP(R) African American Studies textbook.

When a community is built in a classroom, authentic learning happens among each and every student. A safe space must be established in order for all students to learn from their experiences, differences, and opinions. Providing an environment where the students are respected by not only the teacher, but by each other creates a class dynamic in which students come to their own understandings based on their interactions with one another. When students are empowered, they have the confidence to succeed and continually improve themselves. Self-worth along with a positive outlook promotes a healthy lifestyle that benefits the student''s growth inside and outside of the class-room. When students become leaders in the classroom, they take ownership of their learning. Becoming self-sufficient in their daily life promotes student habits of success and lifelong learning.

Uranium contaminations of the subsurface in the vicinity of nuclear materials processing sites pose a health risk as the uranyl ion in its oxidized state, U(VI), is highly mobile in aquifers. Current remediation strategies such as pump and treat or excavation are invasive and expensive to implement on a large scale. In situ bioremediation represents an alternative strategy that uses the ability of local microbial communities to immobilize contaminants and is actively studied for uranium remediation. The immobilization of U(VI) in groundwater is achieved either by bioreduction to solid uraninite (U(IV)), adsorption to the soil matrix, or non-reductive precipitation of uranium phosphate minerals through the activity of bacterial phosphatases. Bioreduction has been widely studied for remediation of the saturated zone, as anaerobic conditions typically prevail in these environments. This process is only efficient at circumneutral pH, however, and the end product uraninite is unstable under aerobic conditions or in the presence of manganese oxides, nitrite, or even freshly formed iron oxides. Although non-reductive biomineralization of uranium catalyzed by bacterial phosphatase activity successfully removes uranium from the vadose zone, further studies are needed to assess the ability of microbial communities to hydrolyze organophosphate compounds in the saturated zone where oxygen is often depleted and uranium bioreduction may be significant. To investigate this process under anaerobic conditions, low pH soil samples from a uranium contaminated site at the Oak Ridge Field Research Center were incubated anaerobically in flow through reactors in the presence of exogenic organophosphate compounds to stimulate the natural microbial communities in the original soil matrix. Aqueous uranium was injected continuously in the reactors to determine the fraction of uranium removed during these incubations. The reactors amended with organophosphate produced inorganic phosphate in the effluent, suggesting that bacterial phosphatase activity can be stimulated even in anaerobic environments at low pH. Removal of U(VI) in a control amended with organophosphate over a short time period was similar compared to reactors amended with organophosphate for long times suggesting that adsorption may also play a role in U(VI) immobilization. A sequential extraction technique was optimized to differentiate the fraction of uranium loosely adsorbed and the fraction of uranium precipitated as phosphate minerals and batch adsorption experiments were performed to obtain thermodynamic parameters that could be used to predict the fraction of U(VI) adsorbed onto the soil matrix. Results indicated that 100% uranium adsorption was favorable from pH 5 to 10 (without the presence of phosphate), and that most of the solid phase uranium was extracted in the step defined for the strongly adsorbed/uranium phosphate mineral in both long and short-term amended reactors. Overall, these results demonstrate that the biomineralization of uranium phosphate minerals is a viable bioremediation strategy in both the vadose and saturated zones of aquifers at both low and high pH, provided an organophosphate source is available.

Because of their relative inexperience in performing procedures and handling sharps devices, medical students and resident physicians are considered to be at high risk for sharps injuries. A higher rate of sharps injuries for medical trainees implies a higher risk for occupationally-acquired infection with bloodborne pathogens and may have financial and legal implications for training institutions. This study examines the prevalence of sharps injuries among US medical students and resident physicians. A systematic review of the literature yielded 10 studies that gave data on sharps injuries for US medical students or residents, and those data were combined with data from our institution to produce pooled prevalences. Results from our institution showed that residents had a significantly higher risk of sharps injuries than medical students. While sharps injuries increased with students'' years of training, residents'' rates decreased with increasing level of training. Resident rates were highest in the department of Surgery and lowest for Pediatrics. Comparing pooled prevalences of US trainees revealed that residents were 6 times more likely than medical students to have a sharps injury. This information can be used by training programs to inform changes in residency training curricula and infection control policies, as well as to forecast Worker''s Compensation and long-term disability insurance coverage requirements. Medical training institutions must continue to provide opportunities for students and residents to perfect their procedural skills, but at the same time, trainees must be protected from the risk of sharps injuries and exposure to bloodborne pathogens.

"The purpose of this project is to examine the realities of relational aggression among pre-adolescent and adolescent girls. Several facets of relational aggression will be explored including the current definition of relational aggression, the most common tactics used to enforce relational aggression, and profiles of bullies, victims, and bystanders. Additionally, this project dissects the possible ramifications of repeated exposure to or perpetuation of relational aggression. The project will then propose a yearlong curriculum aimed at combating relational aggression. The curriculum is an intervention as well as a prevention model that can be implemented for both upper elementary and middle school girls. The goal of the program is to work with girls in developing self-esteem, positive communication skills, and supportive relationship behaviors." -- Abstract, p. 1.