The Five Old Guys are all dead now, as are most of the once homeless people in this book, but the long sad line, coming up behind them, hosts several million more of our neighbors, all so poor they cannot afford to go to that place we all go when the darkness comes-a home.  These are stories about a few of the thousands of homeless folks who found their way to the campus of the York County Shelter Programs, in an unlikely corner of New England during the end of the twentieth century, but forecast by Robert Frost earlier in the century:   ...

They grew up knowing they had secrets to keep. They did not talk about their mom's extended absences or why their dad put Scotch tape on the backdoor frame. To cover up the chaos, they kept their clothes neat and got good grades. But when they were teenagers, an arson fire destroyed their home and killed their parents. Rumors were thick that summer that smart, angry, fourteen-year-old Lisa set the blaze. Then, adult powers they did not understand squelched the investigation. As teenagers accustomed to keeping silent, they packed up and moved on. Forty ...

This book aims to understand and learn the concept and procedure involved in the design of Base Isolated Structures. The base isolators are designed in accordance with the UBC-97 code provisions for the isolated structures, and the super structure is designed in accordance with ACI-99 code. The analysis and design is carried out with the help of a structural analysis software named ETABS (Extended Three Dimensional Analysis of Building Systems). The type of analysis performed is static linear and P-Delta effects are also incorporated in the analysis with ...

Meydl is a strong woman but doubts her importance to God. She finds her life in disarray when her husband suddenly dies. She flees her home after hitting her husband’s brother over the head. Befriended by a merchant, he helps Meydl sell her sewn garments. Perplexed when her thread continually breaks, she searches for an unbreakable thread. Her life’s story is entwined with a question or whether God hears her and finding faith to believe.

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - ~~~~~~A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That's all right!" He could speak a little Spanish, and also a language which nobody understood, unless it w

One man can make-or break-Earth's iron grip on its galacticcolonies: Stone Chalmers. Spy. Assassin. Earth's topoperative. From the religious colony world of Trinity come clues of a long-lostprize. The last warpdrive ship outside Earth's control. Stone's mission:journey through an artificial wormhole to the planet. Verify thereports. And if the ship exists, prevent its use by Earth's enemies. Going undercover, with a cover persona overlaid on his mind, the onlything holding him back is an unwanted partner from a rival agency among Earth's rulers. ...

"Aktien für Einsteiger" ist ein umfassender Leitfaden, der sich an Anfänger richtet, die in die aufregende Welt des Aktienhandels eintreten möchten. Dieses Buch bietet einen leicht verständlichen Einstieg in die Grundlagen des Aktienmarktes und gibt Anfängern das nötige Wissen, um selbstbewusst ihre ersten Schritte als Investor zu machen. Der Leitfaden beginnt mit den grundlegenden Konzepten des Aktienhandels, einschließlich einer Erläuterung, was Aktien sind, wie Aktienmärkte funktionieren und warum Menschen ...

The 21st century qualifies as one in which humanity raised environmental decay, especially climate change, as a key global concern requiring urgent political attention. The book Framework and Tools for Environmental Management in Africa is written from this perspective. It provides researchers from different disciplines including environmental sciences, engineering, commerce, planning, education, agriculture and law, as well as NGOs, government officials, policy makers and researchers, with a platform to engage with concerns relating to sustainable environmental ...

Pregnancy is an important phase in a woman's life. Parent-infant psychotherapies are a rapidly growing field of infant mental health as many psychological problems have their roots in infancy. Neglect, trauma and abuse and prolonged maternal depression can cause a child to develop a range of problems. The work of Winnicott (1965a) and Bion (1988) put the mother's fantasy life about her infant as one of the major building blocks of the infant's construction of a sense of identity (Stern, 1995). Fraiberg (Fraiberg, Adelson & Shapiro, 1980) with ...