A poignant and provactive novel of truth, race, and religions.

The Color of Family

Literature & Fiction

JONES, PATRICIA

United States

William Morrow Paperbacks

Accurate interpretation of the organic acid chromatographs obtained from the gas chromatography/mass spectrometry requires a significant amount of practice. Pattern recognition is an important factor and a skill that is gained through time and effort. A Quick Guide to Metabolic Disease Testing Interpretation, Second Edition, provides these example chromatographs demonstrating specific disease-related metabolites for the inborn error of metabolism diagnosed via this method. One or more representative chromatographs from each of the common disorders is presented, with the important compounds noted on the chromatographs. This is a must-have for laboratory and medical professionals who interpret testing for the diagnosis and monitoring of IEM.

A Quick Guide to Metabolic Disease Testing Interpretation: Testing for Inborn Errors of Metabolism

Science & Math

Patel, Khushbu

Rakheja, Dinesh

Biological Sciences

Academic Press

This text was written in response to the recommendations of A Call to Change, and the vision of the NCTM Standards. Its goals are to present important, challenging mathematics relevant to a Standards-based K-8 curriculum, and to prepare prospective elementary teachers to implement the Standards in their own classrooms. Students acquire an understanding of mathematics that is considerably broader than that which they will be required to teach. They develop number sense, spatial sense, and mathematical intuition, and are able to explain mathematical concepts, relationships, and processes, clearly and correctly. This text helps the future teacher to see elementary school mathematics as a "Big Picture," in which important, interconnected ideas are developed and applied from K through 8. They learn from experience that mathematical understanding begins with concrete models, and then progresses through verbal, numerical, and, finally, abstract stages. As a result, they become confident, successful problem-solvers, and develop an appreciation for the power and beauty of mathematics, and an enthusiasm for teaching it.

A Mathematical Foundation for Elementary Teachers

Lopez, Kathleen D.

Price, Lee Ellen

Mathematics

Pearson

Strategy Formulation: Power and Politics (West Series in Strategic Management)

Business & Money

MacMillan, Ian C.

Management & Leadership

West Group

Like a glass of lemonade that is both sweet and tart, writer Patricia Jones mixes up a refreshing blend of deep emotion and raw truth, tempered by a grounded dose of wisdom.
To Lila Giles, the term "passing" refers to those pale-hued folks who take advantage of their creamy shade by crossing into the white world. Descended from a long line of an elite Baltimore family awash with "high-colored" skin just right for "passing", family lore told Lila that not one of them would have thought to deny their true selves and rich history in such a way. It is this sense of pride that bonds the Giles family together -- a bond strongly enforced by Lila's controlling stepmother Eulelie. But the delicate balance of this branch of the family Eulelie has so carefully engineered is threatened when Lila's brother decides to marry a woman from an oh-so-very-wrong family.
A proud though severe matriarch, Eulelie Giles has ruled her four grown stepchildren with a heavy self-righteousness that could break the spirit of the most sound opponent, let alone the nearly thirty-year-old Lila. Relentlessly loyal to her privileged world, Eulelie has ingrained upon Lila and her three other stepchildren the importance of distinguishing between acceptable and unacceptable blacks. Despite her strident belief in an unyielding class line, Eulelie has kept a secret about her own past that manages to affect, in more ways than a few, anyone who enters her life. As the wedding day draws closer, Lila begins to look at her reality versus Eulelie's, and what Lila finds leads to a confrontation between stepmother and stepdaughter that could finally shatter Eulelie's reign over Lila and the family, but ultimately, one that will lead Eulelie back to the truth.
Filled with multi-dimensional characters and rich with atmosphere, Passing is a story of tangled family relationships; the secrets, misunderstanding, and deceptions that hold them together.

Passing

In a captivating voice that wafts around you like a rose's rich fragrance, Patricia ]ones peels back the petals of emotion that blanket a woman's soul and, in this poignant and wise novel, tells a powerful story of love and redemption.
Lila Giles Calloway has come a long way since she stepped out from under her stepmother's controlling thumb. Happily married to cardiac surgeon Jack Calloway and living in her beloved hometown of Baltimore, Lila splits her time among visiting with Jack's elderly patients, directing her own on-line reading program for children, and contemplating the possibility of motherhood. But all this comes to a screeching halt when, one typical Saturday afternoon, Lila is confronted with a situation that challenges the very core of her moral fiber. In a split second, the idyllic life lack and Lila have built together is threatened, and suddenly she must reconcile the truth that there's a bit of evil in all of us with her love for her husband and her faith in her life's purpose.

Red on a Rose: A Novel

Say It And Live It is the first collection of provocative, passionate, and intelligent corporate mission statements -- the most powerful and popular managerial tool in business today. A corporate mission statement is the most dramatic presentation of a company's vision and its goal. No other document -- annual report, press release, news article, statement from the board of directors -- tells us more about a company's values and ethics than a mission statement. Companies know that if they write it down, they will have to live up to it -- so they devote months, even years, the energy of people from the CEO on down, and significant sums of money to crafting them. Say It And Live It is the only source of information for the many business people who are presently writing their own mission statements. In it, authors Patricia Jones and Larry Kahaner show that industry leaders are frequently corporations that truly live their mission statements. Some of the winners include: Avis, Ben &amp; Jerry's, Boeing, Citicorp, General Electric, Gillette, Hallmark Cards, IBM, Kellogg's, Reader's Digest, Saturn, Southwest Airlines, UPS, and Xerox. Say It And Live It is a collection of the fifty best corporate mission statements in America. Each entry consists of the company's complete mission statement, along with an explanation of how it was written, a lesson about how that mission statement saved the company or motivated employees, or comments from the CEO or the president. The introduction points out the common elements of these philosophical documents, while the final chapter is a list of tips on how you can write your own mission statement.

Say It and Live It: The 50 Corporate Mission Statements that Hit the Mark

Kahaner, Larry

Biography & History

Crown Currency

Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series

In 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just 23 years old, completed a series of 60 small tempera paintings with text captions about the Great Migration, the mass movement of black Americans from the rural South to the urban North that began in 1915–16. Within months of its making, the Migration Series was divided between The Museum of Modern Art (even-numbered panels) and the Phillips Memorial Gallery (odd-numbered panels). The work has since become a landmark in the history of African American art, a monument in the collections of both institutions and a crucial example of the way in which history painting was radically reimagined in the modern era. In 2015 and 2016, the panels will be reunited in exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art (One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series and Other Works) and at The Phillips Collection (Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series). This catalogue grounds Lawrence's Migration Series in the cultural and political debates that shaped the young artist's work and highlights its continued resonance for artists and writers today. An essay by Leah Dickerman situates the series within contemporary discussions about black history and an artist's social responsiblities in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Elsa Smithgall traces the acquisition and exhibition history of the Migration Series. Short commentaries on each panel explore Lawrence's career and technique, and the social history of the Migration. The catalogue also debuts ten poems commissioned from acclaimed poets that respond to the Migration Series. Elizabeth Alexander, honored as the poet at President Obama's first inauguration, introduces the section.

Arts & Photography

KOMUNYAKAA, YUSEF

Young, Kevin

Alexander, Elizabeth

Hayes, Terrance

DOVE, RITA

Trethewey, Natasha

Finney, Nikky

Jess, Tyehimba

Roberts, Jodi

Van Clief-Stefanon, Lyrae

Williams, Crystal

History & Criticism

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Garrick weighs the benefits of making a good decision. He wants to please his dad, but his friends want him to make a decision that will please them. Garrick's dad left a note for him before leaving for work. The note listed some chores for Garrick to do with his cat before his dad returns home, but the cat will not cooperate. If Garrick doesn't do his chores, his dad will think he's not dependable. Garrick must decide if he should show Dad he's dependable or if he should just go and play with his friends. His mom tells him it's his choice. Which decision do you think he should make? Did Garrick make the right decision?

Dependable Garrick

Parenting & Relationships

Christian Faith

The only textbook written for undergraduates by teachers of the course, this bestseller presents the most current concepts in an experimental context, conveying the excitement of scientific discovery, and highlighting important advances while providing

Loose-leaf Version for Kuby Immunology

Punt, Jenni

STRANFORD, SHARON

Owen, Judy

W.H.Freeman

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