Best Selling Books by Linda WILLIAMS

Looks at the history of pornographic films, discusses what they reveal about attitudes towards sexuality, and considers the censorship issue

‘A clever reworking of a classic story. The little old lady’s fearless attitude and her clever solution as to what to do with the lively shoes, pants, shirt and pumpkin head that are chasing her will enchant young audiences. With brilliantly colored, detailed folk art illustrations. A great purchase.’ —SLJ. Children''s Choices for 1987 (IRA/CBC) Notable 1986 Children''s Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC) Children''s Books of 1986 (Library of Congress) 1988 Keystone to Reading Book Award (Pennsylvania Reading Association)

Things I Wish I Knew walks you through potential pitfalls of adopting a child and the steps we took to address the concerns.

Williams, the author of Hard Core, explores how these images took root, beginning with melodramatic theater, where suffering characters acquire virtue through victimization."--BOOK JACKET.

"An important contribution to film theory. . . . Williams has a fluid, assured style. She is clearly in command of the subject. She''s made a strong and original argument for the psychoanalytic basis of Surrealism."--James Monaco, author of The New Wave

African American women enslaved by the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, and Creek Nations led lives ranging from utter subjection to recognized kinship. Regardless of status, during Removal, they followed the Trail of Tears in the footsteps of the slaveholders, suffering the same life-threatening hardships and poverty. As if Removal to Indian Territory weren''t cataclysmic enough, the Civil War shattered the worlds of these slave women even more, scattering families, destroying property, and disrupting social and family relationships. Suddenly free, they had nowhere to turn. Freedwomen found themselves negotiating new lives within a labyrinth of federal and tribal oversight, Indian resentment, and intruding entrepreneurs and settlers. Remarkably, they reconstructed their families and marshaled the skills to fashion livelihoods in a burgeoning capitalist environment. They sought education and forged new relationships with immigrant black women and men, managing to establish a foundation for survival. Linda Williams Reese is the first to trace the harsh and often bitter journey of these women from arrival in Indian Territory to free-citizen status in 1890. In doing so, she establishes them as pioneers of the American West equal to their Indian and other Plains sisters.

Washington Post 2017 KidsPost Summer Book Club selection! It’s Mississippi in the summer of 1955, and Rose Lee Carter can’t wait to move north. But for now, she’s living with her sharecropper grandparents on a white man’s cotton plantation. Then, one town over, an African American boy, Emmett Till, is killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman. When Till’s murderers are unjustly acquitted, Rose realizes that the South needs a change . . . and that she should be part of the movement. Linda Jackson’s moving debut seamlessly blends a fictional portrait of an African American family and factual events from a famous trial that provoked change in race relations in the United States.

Elizabeth Isnt Afraid to Ride Anymore is a unique way to demonstrate a childs ability of getting over a fear. This is a true story about my oldest granddaughter, Alexia Elizabeth. She conquered her fear of riding the Python rollercoaster at Jeepers in Rockville, Maryland. The colorful description of the indoor amusement park allows the imagination to journey there as the story is told. Elizabeth is playful and fun lovingand demonstrates courage and bravery. She was never pressured into riding; however, she was often given gentle opportunities to try. She overcame her fear by daringly choosing to ride. This delightful story is written in a way that a child can relate to overcoming any fear. It may be widely used in many educational settings, as well as a variety of objectives.

Clinical practice and legal issues in trauma and memory. -- Mental health and memories of traumatic events. -- Cognitive and physiological perspectives on trauma and memory. -- Evidence and controversies in understanding memories for traumatic events.

"It''s 1967, and eleven-year-old Ellis Earl Brown has big dreams. He''s going to grow up to be a teacher or a lawyer--or maybe both--and live in a big brick house in town. There''ll always be enough food in the icebox, and his mama won''t have to run herself ragged looking for work as a maid in order to support Ellis Earl and his eight siblings and niece, Vera. So Ellis Earl applies himself at school, soaking up the lessons that Mr. Foster teaches his class--particularly those about famous colored people like Mr. Thurgood Marshall and Miss Marian Wright--and borrowing books from his teacher''s bookshelf. When Mr. Foster presents him with a copy of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Ellis Earl is amazed to encounter a family that''s even worse off than his own--and is delighted by the Buckets'' very happy ending. But when Mama tells Ellis Earl that he might need to quit school to help support the family, he wonders if happy endings are only possible in storybooks. Around the historical touchstone of Robert Kennedy''s southern ''poverty tour,'' Linda Williams Jackson pulls from her own childhood in the Mississippi Delta to tell a detail-rich and poignant story with memorable characters, sure to resonate with readers who have ever felt constricted by their circumstances"--Amazon.

Michelle Tanner from Full House.

How new media and visual artists provide alternative ways for understanding and visualizing the entanglements of media and the environment in the Asia-Pacific. Images of environmental disaster and degradation have become part of our everyday media diet. This visual culture focusing on environmental deterioration represents a wider recognition of the political, economic, and cultural forces that are responsible for our ongoing environmental crisis. And yet efforts to raise awareness about environmental issues through digital and visual media are riddled with irony, because the resource extraction, manufacturing, transportation, and waste associated with digital devices contribute to environmental damage and climate change. Screen Ecologies examines the relationship of media, art, and climate change in the Asia-Pacific region—a key site of both environmental degradation and the production and consumption of climate-aware screen art and media. Screen Ecologies shows how new media and visual artists provide alternative ways for understanding the entanglements of media and the environment in the Asia-Pacific. It investigates such topics as artists'' exploration of alternative ways to represent the environment; regional stories of media innovation and climate change; the tensions between amateur and professional art; the emergence of biennials, triennials, and new arts organizations; the theme of water in regional art; new models for networked collaboration; and social media''s move from private to public realms. A generous selection of illustrations shows a range of artist''s projects.

Discover Math Matters! With over 15 million books sold worldwide, this award-winning series of easy-to-read books will help young readers ages 5–8 approach math with enthusiasm. Great for fans of MathStart or Step into Reading Math. Carrie''s Grandma is always knitting surprise presents for the family. When she asks Carrie to be her "measuring girl," Carrie decides to knit grandma the biggest (and longest!) surprise of all! With engaging stories that connect math to kids’ everyday lives, each book in the Teachers’ Choice Award–winning Math Matters series focuses on a single concept and reinforces math vocabulary and skills. Bonus activities in the back of each book feature math and reading comprehension questions, and even more free activities online add to the fun! (Math topic: Measurement/length)

In Champion Trees of Arkansas, Linda Williams Palmer explores the state’s largest trees of their species, registered with the Arkansas Forestry Commission as “champions.” Through her beautiful colored-pencil drawings, each magnificent tree is interpreted through the lens of season, location, history, and human connection. Readers will get to know the cherrybark oak, rendered in fall colors, an avatar for the passing of seasons. The sugar maple, with its bare limbs and weather-beaten trunk, stands sentry over the headstones in a confederate cemetery. The 350-year-old white oak was once dubbed the Council Oak by Native Americans, and the post oak, cared for by generations of the same family, has its own story to tell. Palmer travelled from Delta swamps to Ozark and Ouachita mountain ridges over a seven-year period to see and document the champions and to talk with property owners and others willing to share the stories of how these trees are beloved and protected by the community, and often entwined with its history. Champion Trees of Arkansas is sure to inspire art and nature lovers everywhere.

Looks at the cinematic conventions for portraying sex acts from early representations of the kiss to more explicit depictions of sex in contemporary art films.

With racial tensions rising, Rose Lee Carter must find her place in the burgeoning civil rights movement in this sequel to "Midnight Without a Moon."

After more than 15 years of development drawing on research in cognitive psychology, statistical graphics, computer science, and cartography, micromap designs are becoming part of mainstream statistical visualizations. Bringing together the research of two leaders in this field, Visualizing Data Patterns with Micromaps presents the many design vari

Discover Math Matters! With over 15 million books sold worldwide, this award-winning series of easy-to-read books will help young readers ages 5–8 approach math with enthusiasm. Great for fans of MathStart or Step into Reading Math. When Kip tries to forecast whether chicken pox will keep him and his friends out of the Autumn Fest, he takes a survey and organizes his data using tallies and graphs! With engaging stories that connect math to kids’ everyday lives, each book in the Teachers’ Choice Award–winning Math Matters series focuses on a single concept and reinforces math vocabulary and skills. Bonus activities in the back of each book feature math and reading comprehension questions, and even more free activities online add to the fun! (Math topic: Tallies and Graphs)

Since the McMartin Preschool case in Manhattan Beach, California, many communities around the country have also been rocked by cases of sexual abuse of very young children in day care. While child welfare workers, prosecutors, and counselors have deliberated about how to respond to such cases, parents, day care staff, and state regulators have wondered whether day care was still a safe place for children. Now a new book addresses this disturbing problem, based on the first nationwide study of 270 cases of sexual abuse in day care. How could children be abused without their parents suspecting? How could trusted day care employees conceal abuse? Can offenders be screened from the ranks of day care employees? Can abusers be brought to justice without further trauma to the children? The authors, well known researchers in the field of child abuse, explore these questions and many others using a wealth of case material and careful analyses. Chapters cover incidence and dynamics, the impact on victims, disclosure and detection, the perpetrators, and the impact on local communities. Over 16 recommendations are forwarded for the prevention, detection, and investigation of these cases. Practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and students will benefit from the information provided in this long-awaited study. "I urge everyone who is concerned about the well being of children, both in day care and out, to obtain a copy of this [book], read it, and to use it. Its recommendations for parents, child care providers, policy makers, and government are both well-based on the researchers′ findings and well-reasoned as practical, feasible responses." --John Chafee, United States Senator "Students and professionals researching the topic of sexual abuse of preschool-age children will welcome this well-documented study, which discusses the types of people who perpetrate such crimes and the characteristics of the victims (including risk factors). Case studies--with synopses of the abuse incidents--are presented in the search for answers to why these crimes happen, how they can be prevented, and what impact they have on the victims. Final chapters present the authors′ recommendations as to how child abuse can be prevented. An excellent piece of research and analysis for larger public libraries." --Booklist "Written by our nation′s premier workers in the field of sexual abuse, Nursery Crimes: Sexual Abuse in Day Care is an enlightening and thought-provoking book. . . a scholarly endeavor that culminates with pragmatic and concrete policy recommendations. This book is must reading for all researchers and policy makers interested in this important and timely topic." --Edward Zigler, Yale University "This is an incredibly important source book on the subject." --Journal of the Institute of Health Education "This volume examines the incidence of the problem, describes the perpetrators of this abuse, evaluates screening strategies for limiting their access to children, and describes the victims, abuse dynamics, and whether the characteristics of the facilities minimize the risk of child sexual abuse. The book also discusses the detection and disclosure process and the impact on children. . . . This book is an excellent resource for all professionals working in the child sexual abuse area, ranging from therapists to investigators to judicial personnel." --Contemporary Psychology "This research project marks an important step toward understanding abuse in day care, and the book extends its usefulness to researchers, educators, administrators, and policymakers, as well as parents. . . . In the midst of widespread fear and confusion about sexual abuse in day care, Nursery Crimes provides practical strategies for confronting this problem." --Criminal Justice Review

For all those times when your house feels like a mini-war zone--when siblings are so restless they pick on one another mercilessly or are so angry they can hardly speak--101 Activities for Siblings Who Squabble is a dynamic, creative handbook, full of games kids can play together plus peace-keeping tips that can turn sibling rivalry into sibling revelry. "Fence Menders," for example, will get feuding siblings on the same side. "Corner Warmers" can really take the cold out of a deep freeze. "Argument Enders" give advice throughout for negotiated peace during rough moments. Each activity has a "Different Ages, Different Stages" section to help parents and kids adapt the rules. From the youngest to the oldest, your child will be fully entertained and engaged. You will find ingenious ideas and specific instructions for playtime indoors and outdoors, for every kind of weather and mood. On indoor days, help your kids make apple heads in the kitchen, fish with paper clips in the living room, or create a creepy haunted house in the dining room. Hot, sticky days are easy with games such as Hose Tag and Sprinkler Jump, Watermelon Fun and Body Painting. Also includes: - ICY, FREEZING, FUN DAYS: Snow Angels, No-Sled Snow-Sled Race, Painless Windowpane Painting - RAINY, POURING, BORING DAYS: Sunken treasure, Making Bubbles, and Finger Puppets - SICK OF BEING SICK DAYS: Get-Well-Quick Card Craft and Cheer-Up Pillow Case With children ages three to eight in mind, Linda Williams Aber provides some exciting, creative, ways to save parental sanity and make sure the little ones have fun.

오디오로 배우는 문진 영어동화 시리즈 - 2단계 [The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything]. 영어그림동화책(페이퍼백) 1권 & 오디오 테이프 1개 & MOTHER TIP(안내지)이 들어있는 세트로, 8~10세 정도의 어린이들을 대상으로 한다. 아무것도 무서워하지 않는 Little Old Lady가 있었어요. 그런데 어느 가을 밤 숲속 길을 가고 있던 아주머니를 따라오는 소리가 있었죠. CLOMP, CLOMP, SHAKE, SHAKE CLAP, CLAP. 어떤 소리들일까요?... 아주머니는 앞에 무언가가 나타날 때마다 아주 용감하게 소리쳤어요~ 전반적으로 회색톤을 사용하여 가을 밤의 숲속 정경을 잘 보여주고 있으며, 심각하고 무거우면서도 결코 무섭지 않은 그림이 다른 할로윈 책과는 다른 점이다. 옷가지들의 움직임을 묘사한 의성어와 의태어가 축적되어 반복적으로 이어지는 문장을 읽는 동안 공포감 대신 경쾌한 리듬을 즐기면서 책 읽는 재미에 빠질 수 있다. 오디오 테이프 안내 A면 - Reading by a girl : 실제 이 책을 읽는 나이 또래의 친구가 책을 읽어준다. B면 - Reading by a woman : 여자 성우가 정확한 발음으로 책을 읽어주는 부분이다.

Many television critics, legions of fans, even the president of the United States, have cited The Wire as the best television series ever. In this sophisticated examination of the HBO serial drama that aired from 2002 until 2008, Linda Williams, a leading film scholar and authority on the interplay between film, melodrama, and issues of race, suggests what exactly it is that makes The Wire so good. She argues that while the series is a powerful exploration of urban dysfunction and institutional failure, its narrative power derives from its genre. The Wire is popular melodrama, not Greek tragedy, as critics and the series creator David Simon have claimed. Entertaining, addictive, funny, and despairing all at once, it is a serial melodrama grounded in observation of Baltimore''s people and institutions: of cops and criminals, schools and blue-collar labor, local government and local journalism. The Wire transforms close observation into an unparalleled melodrama by juxtaposing the good and evil of individuals with the good and evil of institutions.

Before it was over, they fired him from the little schoolhouse at which he had taught devotedly for ten years. And they fired his wife and two of his sisters and a niece. And they threatened him with bodily harm. And they sued him on trumped-up charges and convicted him in a kangaroo court and left him with a judgment that denied him credit from any bank. And they burned his house to the ground while the fire department stood around watching the flames consume the night. And they stoned the church at which he pastored. And fired shotguns at him out of the dark. But he was not Job, and so he fired back and called the police, who did not come and kept not coming. Then he fled, driving north at eighty-five miles an hour over country roads, until he was across the state line. Soon after, they burned his church to the ground and charged him, for having shot back that night, with felonious assault with a deadly weapon, and so he became an official fugitive from justice. In time, the governor of his state announced they would not pursue this minister who had caused all the trouble, and said of him: Good riddance.