Authors:Cornelia Butler Flora, Jan L. Flora,
Publisher: Westview Press
Keywords: change, legacy, communities, rural
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2007-12-25
List price: $46.00
ISBN-10: 0813343771
ISBN-13: 9780813343778

Communities in rural America are a complex mixture of peoples and cultures struggling for survival by implementing innovative approaches to their problems. This core text presents a practical framework for students to understand the internal and external forces shaping rural communities today. Rural Communities focuses on various capitals in rural areas--natural, cultural, human, social, political, financial, and built. Issues covered include racial and cultural diversity; globalization and rural communities; the central role of communities in organizing a sustainable future; and building comm

Author: Flora Roy
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Keywords: college, waterloo, recollections
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2004-09-16
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 088920473X
ISBN-13: 9780889204737

When Flora Roy accepted a teaching position at Waterloo College in 1948, she imagined it would be a temporary posting until she finished her dissertation and returned to Toronto or another large Canadian university. Little did she know that, as head of the English department, she would stay on and find herself involved in local controversies. This memoir recalls Roy’s early days at Waterloo College (when its standards were still supervised by the University of Western Ontario) and traces the gradual pressures to merge with the new University of Waterloo. As history shows, Waterloo College

Author: Flora Nwapa
Publisher: Heinemann
Keywords: series, writers, african, efuru
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1966-01-01
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0435900269
ISBN-13: 9780435900267

Efuru, beautiful and respected, is loved and deserted by two ordinary, undistinguished husbands.

Author: Flora Macleod
Publisher: Falmer Press
Keywords: contemporary, analysis, education, challenge, parents, schools, amp
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 1989-07-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1850004994
ISBN-13: 9781850004998

The aim of this volume is to identify and examine the central issues underlying the current interest in parental involvement in schooling. The content and organization of this book is based on the view that the contemporary interest in home-school relations rests on two concerns - firstly, the desire to equalize educational opportunities in the face of discriminatory forces such as race, social class and gender, thought to operate in both schools and the broader community and secondly, the desire to increase accountability of schools to parents. This later desire is manifest in legislation on

Author: Flora Davis
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: america, movement, women, mountain, moving
Number of Pages: 632
Published: 1999-05-12
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0252067827
ISBN-13: 9780252067822

"Moving the Mountain" tells the story of the struggles and triumphs of thousands of activists who achieved ’half a revolution’ between 1960 and 1990. In this award-winning book, the most complete history of the women’s movement to date, Flora Davis presents a grass-roots view of the small steps and giant leaps that have changed laws and institutions as well as the prejudices and unspoken rules governing a woman’s place in American society. Looking at every major feminist issue from the point of view of the participants in the struggle, "Moving the Mountain" conveys the

Author: Flora Samuel
Publisher: Architectural Press
Keywords: detail, corbusier
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2007-08-31
List price: $46.95
ISBN-10: 0750663545
ISBN-13: 9780750663540

This is the first book to give such close attention to Le Corbusier’s approach to the making of buildings. It illustrates the ways in which Le Corbusier’s details were expressive of his overall philosophical intentions. It is not a construction book in the usual sense- rather it focusses on the meaning of detail, on the ways in which detail informs the overall architectural narrative of a building. Well illustrated and containing several specially prepared scaled drawings it acts as timely reminder to both students and architects of the possibilities inherent in the most small scal

Author: Flora Fraser
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: empire, venus, bonaparte, pauline
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2010-03-09
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0307277933
ISBN-13: 9780307277930

From acclaimed biographer Flora Fraser, the brilliant life of Napoleon’s favorite sister, with color photos, paintings, and illustrations.  Considered by many in Europe to be the most beautiful woman at the turn of the nineteenth century, Pauline Bonaparte Borghese shocked the continent with the boldness of her love affairs, her opulent wardrobe and jewels, her decision to pose nearly nude for Canova’s sculpture, and her rumored incestuous relationship with her brother, the Emperor Napoleon—the only man to whom she was loyal. When Napoleon was exiled to Elba, Pauline was the onl