In the car, each girl had her own expression. Mikaylas face was as big as a balloon and as red as a tomato. Her eyes were popping out, and she sat there frozen. Sophia was breathing heavily and trying to hold herself by rocking back and forth in her seat. Olivia looked . . . dead. Her face was pale. She barely blinked, and she was frozen. Olivias mom smiled. Thats good, girls! Now we wont have to suffer a car accident. They all continued doing what they were doing. Olivias mom sighed. Peace and quiet. What Olivias mom didnt know was that the peace and quiet she was talking about wasnt going to last long. Olivia, an eleven-year-old girl, faces a new heartbreaking event in her life that separates her and her father. Trying to be reunited, Olivia faces the struggles of learning a new skill and working hard in merely three months with the help of her two amazing friends, Sophia and Mikayla. The three girls go through a very interesting, funny, and joyful roller coaster in order to achieve this goal. So are they going to do it? Or what will happen to the girls?

The first book in the delightful Fleurville Trilogy. Sophie is a naughty little girl, she delights in disobeying her mother and engaging in mischievous pranks. Why can't she be well behaved like her cousin Paul and her two delightfully sensible friends Camille and Madeleine?

Beginning with the true gospel message, this fast-paced and informative guide takes teens from the basics of evangelism to the specifics of witnessing to friends at school, in their communities, and even on the Internet.

Lee D. Baker explores what racial categories mean to the American public and how these meanings are reinforced by anthropology, popular culture, and the law. Focusing on the period between two landmark Supreme Court decisions—Plessy v. Ferguson (the so-called "separate but equal" doctrine established in 1896) and Brown v. Board of Education (the public school desegregation decision of 1954)—Baker shows how racial categories change over time. Baker paints a vivid picture of the relationships between specific African American and white scholars, who orchestrated a paradigm shift within the social sciences from ideas based on Social Darwinism to those based on cultural relativism. He demonstrates that the greatest impact on the way the law codifies racial differences has been made by organizations such as the NAACP, which skillfully appropriated the new social science to exploit the politics of the Cold War.

In the late 1970s, the United States often seemed to be a superpower in decline. Battered by crises and setbacks around the globe, its post–World War II international leadership appeared to be draining steadily away. Yet just over a decade later, by the early 1990s, America's global primacy had been reasserted in dramatic fashion. The Cold War had ended with Washington and its allies triumphant; democracy and free markets were spreading like never before. The United States was now enjoying its "unipolar moment"—an era in which Washington faced no near-term rivals for global power and influence, and one in which the defining feature of international politics was American dominance. How did this remarkable turnaround occur, and what role did U.S. foreign policy play in causing it? In this important book, Hal Brands uses recently declassified archival materials to tell the story of American resurgence. Brands weaves together the key threads of global change and U.S. policy from the late 1970s through the early 1990s, examining the Cold War struggle with Moscow, the rise of a more integrated and globalized world economy, the rapid advance of human rights and democracy, and the emergence of new global challenges like Islamic extremism and international terrorism. Brands reveals how deep structural changes in the international system interacted with strategies pursued by Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush to usher in an era of reinvigorated and in many ways unprecedented American primacy. Making the Unipolar Moment provides an indispensable account of how the post–Cold War order that we still inhabit came to be.

Contains the annual reports of various Ohio state governmental offices, including the Attorney General, Governor, Secretary of State, etc.