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It''s 1845 and Caroline lives in the bustling frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin. With trips to town, taking care of farm chores, and getting through the first frost, Caroline is busy discovering new things every day!

Young Caroline Quiner, who would grow up to become Laura Ingalls Wilder''s mother, and her family survive their first year without Father in the frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin.

With this inspiring, healing and joyful book, Maria D. Dowd, creator of African-American Women on Tour, invites you to come along on a journey to authentic empowerment and well-being. Here, in the company of your sisters, you will discover your life''s purpose and embrace your true self. You will learn to speak honestly, act courageously, heal wholly and live abundantly. You will find the tools to face the pressures unique to African-American women. And you won''t be alone: you will be surrounded and supported by the spiritual presence of your sisters, past and present, on the path to Community and Connectedness, to Fulfillment and to Womanhood.

A collection of essays, poems, and stories on what it means to be a man of color.

Journey to a Blissful Life by Maria D. Dowd released on May 31, 2005 is available now for purchase.

Solving complex evaluation environments with competing stakeholder needs Responding to Sponsors and Stakeholders in Complex Evaluation Environments: New Directions for Evaluation, Number 95 provides in-depth guidance on answering the question: "For whom are we doing this evaluation, anyway?". The answer may be more complex that it appears, and right and wrong answers may actually overlap. This book identifies the challenges of complex evaluation environments, and shows you how to meet the multiple — often competing — needs of everyone involved. From difficulties in context and authorization to initiatives and legislation, this book provides insight every evaluation organization needs.

Author Maria Corwin offers a text that addresses the current concerns that professionals may have regarding shorter treatment programs. As stated in her preface, her goal is to ''help students and clinical workers gain a sense of competency and confidence in doing time-limited work.''

This volume contains the proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Hybrid - stems: Computation and Control (HSCC 2001) held in Rome, Italy on March 28-30, 2001. The Workshop on Hybrid Systems attracts researchers from in- stry and academia interested in modeling, analysis, synthesis, and implemen- tion of dynamic and reactive systems involving both discrete (integer, logical, symbolic) and continuous behaviors. It is a forum for the discussion of the - test developments in all aspects of hybrid systems, including formal models and computational representations, algorithms and heuristics, computational tools, and new challenging applications. The Fourth HSCC International Workshop continues the series of workshops held in Grenoble, France (HART’97), Berkeley, California, USA (HSCC’98), N- megen, The Netherlands (HSCC’99), and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (HSCC 2000). Proceedings of these workshops have been published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series by Springer-Verlag. In line with the beautiful work that led to the design of the palace in which the workshop was held, Palazzo Lancellotti in Rome, resulting from the col- boration of many artists and architects of di erent backgrounds, the challenge faced by the hybrid system community is to harmonize and extract the best from two main research areas: computer science and control theory.

When Caroline Quiner and her family are forced to move from Brookfield further west, Caroline, who will become the mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, does her part as they settle in and make a new home.

The Little House books have captivated millions of readers with their story of Laura Ingalls, a little pioneer girl growing up on the American frontier. Now travel back to the generation before Laura''s and read the story of Caroline Quiner, the little girl who would grow up to be Ma Ingalls in the beloved Little House books. The first three books in the series describe the Quiners'' first years without Father and the family''s move to a new home deep in the big woods of Concord, Wisconsin. Caroline is nine years old, and she feels settled in her new little house. She''s beginning to explore Concord, and is looking forward to going to school, when disaster strikes. It''s a cholera epidemic, and it''s sweeping the state. It''s up to Caroline to help keep her family together and pull them through this terrible time. On Top Of Concord Hill is the fourth book in The Caroline Years, an ongoing series about the adventures of another girl from America''s favorite pioneer family.

Caroline Quiner, who grows up to be the mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, shares all kinds of adventures with her brothers and sisters on their small farm in Brookfield, Wisconsin.

Caroline Quiner, who grows up to become the mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, spends time with neighbors, makes a new friend, and attends the Maple Frolic in the frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin.

Young Caroline Quiner, who would grow up to be Laura Ingalls Wilder''s mother, and her family move to a new farm near Concord, Wisconsin.

Presents the daily experiences and adventures of young Caroline Quiner, the girl who would grow up to be Laura Ingalls Wilder''s mother, in the frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin.

This is the only collection of its kind to offer an inside view of life and work in contemporary nursing homes with the purpose of developing a theory of the culture of long term care. The anthropological research in nursing homes presented here produces a seldom seen native view of patients, staff, and the day-to-day workings of American nursing homes. The use of ethnographic methods penetrates the reality barriers found in industry descriptions, muck-raking discourse, and general societal aversion toward nursing homes. The tensions found between and within staff culture and patient culture are explored in terms of adaptations to institutional life in the context of current policy and the larger American ageist culture.

In City of Green Benches, Vesperi combines the ear of a journalist, recording scores of conversations with elderly residents, with the eye of an anthropologist, trying to understand how people''s self-esteem and self-perception are transformed in the process of social change. In this contribution to gerontology theory, Vesperi examines the cultural construction of old age in American society and its impact on the self-concept of the aged.