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Texas Bandits: Real to Reel

Texas Bandits: Real to Reel

Mona D. Sizer

Citing the adage that "those who do not study history are condemned to get it from Hollywood," popular historian Mona Sizer profiles a dozen notorious Texas outlaws and how they have been portrayed on the Silver Screen.
The Students are Watching: Schools and the Moral Contract

The Students are Watching: Schools and the Moral Contract

Nancy Faust Sizer

In this groundbreaking book, Theodore and Nancy Sizer insist that students learn not just from their classes but from their school's routines and rituals, especially about matters of character.
Seeing Mona Naked

Seeing Mona Naked

Thomas Fox Averill

Seeing Mona Naked defines and expands the reader’s vision of contemporary life in the heart of the Great Plains.
Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz

Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz

Mona Ruiz

The author describes how she went from a gang member, married to an abusive husband, and on welfare to becoming a member of the Santa Ana police force.
Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz

Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz

Mona Ruiz

For use in schools and libraries only. The author describes how she went from a gang member, married to an abusive husband, and on welfare to becoming a member of the Santa Ana police force.
Mind/Body Makeover

Mind/Body Makeover

Mona Lisa Schulz

These cards were created by neuropsychiatrist/medical intuitive Mona Lisa Schulz, M.D., Ph.D., to help you rewire the emotional patterns that increase your chance of succumbing to physical illness, depression, and anxiety.
Odisea nº 15: Revista de estudios ingleses

Odisea nº 15: Revista de estudios ingleses

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This essay aims at observing the way Luis Rodríguez's Always Running (1993) and Mona Ruiz's Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz (1997), memoirs ofgang members who have grasped education as a means of escape from their dramatic  ...
The Intuitive Advisor

The Intuitive Advisor

Mona Lisa Schulz

In this enlightening book, Mona Lisa Schulz, M.D., Ph.D., shows you how to combine intuition with intelligence to solve your most pressing health problems. But she's not your run-of-the-mill intuitive.
Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered

Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered

Dianne Hales

What became of her? And why does her smile enchant us still? Dianne Hales, author of La Bella Lingua, became obsessed with finding the real Mona Lisa on repeated trips to Florence.
The Broken Teaglass: A Novel

The Broken Teaglass: A Novel

Emily Arsenault

What’s more, his (possibly) flirtatious co-worker Mona Minot has just made a startling discovery: a trove of puzzling citations, all taken from the same book, The Broken Teaglass. Billy and Mona soon learn that no such book exists.
La Tyrannie de la réalité

La Tyrannie de la réalité

Mona Chollet

Mona Chollet, épingle l'usage pernicieux de cette notion dans tous les types de discours et démontre pourquoi l’injonction réaliste relève de l’imposture. À une époque où les relations essentielles à notre équilibre — la ...
The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from ...

The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from ...

Carol Strickland

Dynamic design, with succinct, page-length essays, frequent sidebars, and abundant color illustrations incorporated into the text, make The Annotated Mona Lisa a browser's delight, as well as an authoritative reference that can be read from ...
المثقفون العرب وأحداث 11 سيبتمبر 2001

المثقفون العرب وأحداث 11 سيبتمبر 2001

هندة العرفاوي

41- Saïd Edward : - «L'outsider» (périphéries) . Mona Chollet - ««Eux»et«nous» unefictionauservicedumeurtre», périphéries Septembre 16, 2001). Mona Chollet et Thomas Lemahieu - “The events and aftermath”, the observer , September 16,  ...
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American ...

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American ...

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Mona Ruiz, a former gang member, became a police officer and, with the Los Angeles Times journalist Jeff Boucher, produced Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz (1997). Ruiz not only renders gang life from the female point of view, but she  ...
The Making of a Chicano Militant: Lessons from Cristal

The Making of a Chicano Militant: Lessons from Cristal

Jose Angel Gutierrez

His book about his life while in Chicano gangs in East Los Angeles, Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. (1993) is powerful. Most recently, Mona Ruiz provided a major contribution with her book, Two Badges: The Lives of Mona ...
Heal Your Mind:

Heal Your Mind:

Mona Lisa Schulz M.D. Ph.D.

This one-of-a-kind resource combines cutting-edge science with compassion and wisdom to offer answers we can really use.

Heal Your Mind continues the three-pronged healing approach that Dr. Mona Lisa Schulz and Louise Hay ...

Rêves de droite: Défaire l'imaginaire sarkozyste

Rêves de droite: Défaire l'imaginaire sarkozyste

Mona CHOLLET

Mona Chollet décortique les principaux éléments de l'univers sarkozyste : la " machine de guerre fictionnelle " que représente la success story, le mythe du self-made man, l'identification illusoire aux riches et aux puissants, le ...
Rapper, Writer, Pop-Cultural Player: Ice-T and the Politics ...

Rapper, Writer, Pop-Cultural Player: Ice-T and the Politics ...

Josephine Metcalf

Mona Ruiz, for example, was a member of a Santa Ana Latina gang. Her Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz (1997) tells about her gang life and how she went on to become a member of the Santa Ana police force. She had made the ...
Doug Box's Guide to Posing for Portrait Photographers

Doug Box's Guide to Posing for Portrait Photographers

Douglas Allen Box

Douglas Allen Box. The Mona Lisa The Mona Lisa is the most famous, most beautiful, and most valuable portrait in the world. So, should we use it as a standard for all portraits? I submit several of my images each year in contests. I wonder ...
Beauté fatale: Les nouveaux visages d'une aliénation féminine

Beauté fatale: Les nouveaux visages d'une aliénation féminine

Mona CHOLLET

Décortiquant presse féminine, discours publicitaires, blogs, séries télévisées, témoignages de mannequins et enquêtes sociologiques, Mona Chollet montre dans ce livre comment les industries du " complexe mode-beauté " travaillent ...
Mona Lisa: historia de la pintura más famosa del mundo

Mona Lisa: historia de la pintura más famosa del mundo

Donald Sassoon

¿Por qué «La Gioconda», el retrato de Mona Lisa, es la pintura más famosa del mundo? ¿Cómo explicar la fascinación que produce en los miles de visitantes que se arremolinan cada día en el Louvre en torno a la instalación especial ...
The Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil ...

The Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil ...

Lyde Cullen Sizer

At this mountain hideout Beaufort meets not only Beverly Bell but others like him, some of the Unionist ''party of middle classes, mountaineers and small farmers, with many of the more intelligent planters'' who have been forced to flee.
Nutrition: Concepts and Controversies

Nutrition: Concepts and Controversies

Frances Sienkiewicz Sizer

You've heard the phrase, "You are what you eat"? This text gives you a better understanding of the phrase, and hits home the simple but obvious truth. You really are what you eat!
Horace's School: Redesigning the American High School

Horace's School: Redesigning the American High School

Theodore R. Sizer

Evidence is emerging that the conflict is not just between the Horace Smiths and the outspoken defenders of the status quo;the fence sitters, the teach•The story of New Hampshire's Thayer High School and its principal, Dennis Littky, has been ...
Community Service-Learning: A Guide to Including Service in ...

Community Service-Learning: A Guide to Including Service in ...

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THE. HIGH. SCHOOL. STUDENT. In Horace's Compromise, Ted Sizer (1984) describes adolescents as a diverse lot: They come in all sizes and shapes. There are good 18Q High School Programs Don Hill and Denise Clark Pope.
The Trick to Time

The Trick to Time

Kit de Waal

Mona is a dollmaker.
The Best Breakfast

The Best Breakfast

Mona Hodgson

Meet Peck, a chubby desert quail who just wants to have his friends over for a morning meal.
Dandelions on the Wind: The Quilted Heart Novella One

Dandelions on the Wind: The Quilted Heart Novella One

Mona Hodgson

Tattered relationships and broken hearts, like a quilt, can be pieced together by God’s love.

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