True Roots

Author: Ronnie Citron-Fink
Publisher:
ISBN: 1610919424
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description
Like 75% of American women, Ronnie Citron-Fink colored her hair. Yet as an environmental journalist, she knew all those unpronounceable chemical names on the back of the hair dye box were far from safe. So Ronnie decided to ditch the dye and go in search of answers. What are the risks of hair dye? Are there safer alternatives? Will I still feel like me when I have gray hair? True Roots follows her journey from dark dyes to a silver crown of glory, from fear of aging to embracing natural beauty. Along the way, women of all ages can learn to protect themselves from dangerous products and discover a new hair story--one built on individuality, health, and truth.

A Look at Roots

Author: Lindsey Lowe
Publisher: KidHaven Publishing
ISBN: 9781534533738
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24

Book Description
Some of the vegetables we eat are actually roots! What are these root vegetables, and how do roots contribute to the functioning of people and plants beyond the kitchen? Readers discover the answers to these questions and more through the informative and accessible main narrative. Additional fun features include recipes and hands-on activities, which allow readers to get creative with science curriculum topics. Bold, full-color photographs give readers a detailed look at the vast underground world of roots. This engaging reading experience encourages readers to see plants in a fresh way.

Plant Stems and Roots

Author: David M. Schwartz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roots (Botany)
Languages : en
Pages : 24

Book Description
Highlights stems and roots, the essential plant parts that give us radishes, blackberries, peas, milkweed, corn, strawberries, and trees.

Making Roots

Author: Matthew F. Delmont
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520291328
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
When Alex HaleyÕs book Roots was published by Doubleday in 1976 it became an immediate bestseller. The television series, broadcast by ABC in 1977, became the most popular miniseries of all time, captivating over a hundred million Americans. For the first time, Americans saw slavery as an integral part of the nationÕs history. With a remake of the series in 2016 by A&E Networks, Roots has again entered the national conversation. In Making ÒRoots,Ó Matthew F. Delmont looks at the importance, contradictions, and limitations of mass culture and examines how Roots pushed the boundaries of history. Delmont investigates the decisions that led Alex Haley, Doubleday, and ABC to invest in the story of Kunta Kinte, uncovering how HaleyÕs original, modest book proposal developed into an unprecedented cultural phenomenon.

Roots and Branches

Author: Carolee Stewart
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780977371297
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 120

Book Description
Following the idea that you can only go as far forward as you can reach back, Wolfgang walks us through an informative and fascinating look back at the guiding principles of Orff-Schulwerk and how they developed, always with the intent to use them to inform our practice today and move it yet further forward. Many contemporary Orff-Schulwerk teachers are delighted by ideas and material in a workshop and hunger to try them out in Monday's classes. Yet, without that deep understanding of their source and depth of artistic vision, there is the danger of mere surface teaching, lowering a once vibrant, dynamic, and alive practice down to mere fun and cute activities. Wolfgang's book serves as a reminder to consider the essential pedagogical principles that will guide us to the kind of education that children--and artists of all ages--both need and deserve. Here is an opportunity to look back down the path to understand where we have been, how we arrived where we are, and what the next step may be.

Reconsidering Roots

Author: Erica Ball
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820350834
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234

Book Description
These essays--from scholars in history, sociology, film, and media studies--interrogate Roots, assessing the ways that the book and its dramatization recast representations of slavery, labor, and the black family; reflected on the promise of freedom and civil rights; and engaged discourses of race, gender, violence, and power.

Finding Oprah's Roots

Author: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0307382389
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Finding Oprah’s Roots will not only endow readers with a new appreciation for the key contributions made by history’s unsung but also equip them with the tools to connect to pivotal figures in their own past. A roadmap through the intricacies of public documents and online databases, the book also highlights genetic testing resources that can make it possible to know one’s distant tribal roots in Africa. For Oprah, the path back to the past was emotion-filled and profoundly illuminating, connecting the narrative of her family to the larger American narrative and “anchoring” her in a way not previously possible. For the reader, Finding Oprah’s Roots offers the possibility of an equally rewarding experience.

The Need for Roots

Author: Simone Weil
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000082792
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 314

Book Description
Hailed by Andre Gide as the patron saint of all outsiders, Simone Weil's short life was ample testimony to her beliefs. In 1942 she fled France along with her family, going firstly to America. She then moved back to London in order to work with de Gaulle. Published posthumously The Need for Roots was a direct result of this collaboration. Its purpose was to help rebuild France after the war. In this, her most famous book, Weil reflects on the importance of religious and political social structures in the life of the individual. She wrote that one of the basic obligations we have as human beings is to not let another suffer from hunger. Equally as important, however, is our duty towards our community: we may have declared various human rights, but we have overlooked the obligations and this has left us self-righteous and rootless. She could easily have been issuing a direct warning to us today, the citizens of Century 21.

Root Awakenings

Author: Lynda M. Summers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780756000806
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 122

Book Description
Contains suggestions for teaching Latin and Greek roots and prefixes common in the English language.

Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary

Author: Brant James Pitre
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0525572732
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
“Brant Pitre is one of the most compelling theological writers on the scene today.” –Bishop Robert Barron Bestselling author of Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist casts new light on the Virgin Mary, illuminating her role in the Old and New Testaments. Are Catholic teachings on Mary really biblical? Or are they the "traditions of men"? Should she be called the "Mother of God," or just the mother of Jesus? Did she actually remain a virgin her whole life or do the "brothers of Jesus" refer to her other children? By praying to Mary, are Catholics worshipping her? And what does Mary have to do with the quest to understand Jesus? In Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary, Dr. Pitre takes readers step-by-step from the Garden of Eden to the Book of Revelation to reveal how deeply biblical Catholic beliefs about Mary really are. Dr. Pitre uses the Old Testament and Ancient Judaism to unlock how the Bible itself teaches that Mary is in fact the new Eve, the Mother of God, the Queen of Heaven and Earth, and the new Ark of the Covenant.