Author: Lynda Ames
Publisher: Temple University Press
Keywords: women, head, start, political, economy, promise, endangered, reformed, empowered, poor, mothers
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1996-12-17
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1566394937
ISBN-13: 9781566394932

By chronicling the everyday experiences of women in a rural Head Start program, Lynda J. Ames and Jeanne Ellsworth examine the processes of underprivileged women working to make a better life for themselves and their families. The authors explain that in order to empower its participants, the Head Start program allows many women to work as aides or on advisory boards in order to learn how to impact the structures that constrain their lives. This enables participants to take more control while receiving financial assistance and other opportunities for new social support structures.Head Start wa

Authors:Lynda La Plante, Lynda LaPlante,
Publisher: Random House
Keywords: shoulder, cold
Number of Pages: 415
Published: 1996-03-26
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 0679441034
ISBN-13: 9780679441038

The author of the Emmy Award-winning TV series Prime Suspect now pens her first thriller. Lorraine Page, a down-on-her-luck ex-cop, finds herself in recovery the hard way, when she winds up on the trail of a serial killer. Film rights sold to Michelle Pfeiffer/Twentieth Century Fox. Film version will star Michelle Pfeiffer as Lorraine Page.

Authors:Lynda Bell,  Lynda S. Bell, Andrew J. Nathan,
Publisher: Columbia University Pre
Keywords: rights, human, culture, negotiating
Number of Pages: 364
Published: 2000-11-15
List price: $29.50
ISBN-10: 0231120818
ISBN-13: 9780231120814

Negotiating Culture and Human Rights provides a new interdisciplinary approach to issues of cultural values and universal human rights. Central to the discussion is the "Asian values debate," so named because of the culturally relativist ideals embraced by some key Asian governments. By analyzing how cultural difference and human rights operate in theory and practice in such areas as legal equality, women’s rights, and ethnicity, the contributors forge a new way of looking at these critical issues. They call their approach "chastened universalism," arguing that respect for others’

Author: Lee J. Ames
Publisher: Broadway
Keywords: draw, cats, kittens, felines, cuddly, famous, breeds, way, domestic, wild
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 1986-09-01
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0385246404
ISBN-13: 9780385246408

This book brings to life Siamese, Persians, lions, tigers, panthers and such celebrity felines as Felix, Top Cat and Snaggle Puss.

Author: Lee J. Ames
Publisher: Broadway
Keywords: vehicles, draw
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 1978-09-27
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0385141548
ISBN-13: 9780385141543

Step-by-step instructions for drawing 50 different vehicles.

Author: Ed Ames
Publisher: Centering Corporation
Keywords: widowers, handbook
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2004-05
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 1561231819
ISBN-13: 9781561231812

"After my wife, Merideth, died, I did a lot of crying. I’ve got to believe you, too, have shed soem tears by now. And, you’re likely to feel like crying even more. "Go ahead and cry, and don’t feel guilty about it. Cry when you feel like crying. Yes, even if other people are nearby." A helpful book for widowers. Talks to men openly and honestly about tears, guilt, feelings of anger, depression,isolation and lonliness. Also talks about your health, your job and other money matters, living alone and what to do with her things.

Author: Lee J. Ames
Publisher: Broadway
Keywords: horses, draw
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 1984-09-01
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0385176422
ISBN-13: 9780385176422

Arabians, Pintos, Morgans and Clydesdales: jumping, bucking, rearing, grazing and kicking -- all are in this collection of 50 drawings.