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Explores the rock music scene of 1960s Houston, Texas.

Take a journey through the stories of eleven generations of ancestors and descendants of Cuff Condol/Congdon, a Native American slave. The children and grandchildren of Cuff spread across the landscape of Connecticut into New York and Ohio. This is a chronicle of their fight for liberty and citizenship in America. The web of kinship is expansive. They define what nations, communities, groups, and families that they belong to. Their voices and words are utilized in an effort to allow them to speak to us. It is an American story including African, European, Jewish, and Chinese American ancestors. Genealogy, history, and social activism all play a role in their telling of this tale. So, come and take the journey! ***This book is the Grand Prize Winner of the Annual Literary Awards Contest of the Connecticut Society of Genealogists!***

1930s tale of sister bank robbers from East Texas and Houston who ran with Bonnie & Clyde. Forming their own outlaw band with their brother and miscreant boyfriends and husbands they became known as The Davis Gang.

Professional Wedding Planning Advice is a compilation of interviews with industry experts from the Dallas/Forth Worth Metroplex, who have shared their insider tips and advice on how to plan the perfect wedding. Inside, we've included interviews with: Rebecca Hackl Events/RHE Productions, Paper & Chocolate, LoveNotes - DFW Clergy Services, Laro Bakery, Lone Star Travel, Dancemasters Studio, Hair Comes the Bride, The Beauti Studio, The City Club Dallas, Premier Transportation Services LLC, Providence Place Bridal Boutique, Xquisite Events, A & L Floral Design, Hakim Sons Films and Jessica D'Onofrio Photography. Wedding Planning Perfection is the one must-have book that any couple should pick up before planning their big day.

Almost 50 years ago, my generation participated in the Summer of Love. Boys From Houston III reflects our teen scene in Houston during the summer of 1967; which clubs we attended, the bands we loved to dance to and the music that captured our hearts.

In Texas in the mid sixties some local boys, rock and rollers from rural Kerrville banded together and were joined by some hip Austin music makers to pioneer one of the first psychedelic bands of the day. Thirteenth Floor Elevators led the way in the Haight-Ashbury scene like pied pipers heralding the upcoming summer of love. Stacy Sutherland was one of those legendary boys and this is his story.

This book, Boys From Houston II - Deep in the Heart, is the second in a series of music retrospective books, providing more rare photographs, interviews with select musicians and fans, as well as introducing a broader spectrum of relative events and happenings influenced by the music revolution of the 60s and 70s in Texas. The book primarily expands some of the intimate stories of the venues, club owners, bands and event locations in and around Texas, as well as some of the effects of the California influence on the music revolution in Texas. The series is designed to continue with the goal of recording as much musical history of the 60s and 70s in Texas as possible, as we continue to bring more geographical music locations into subsequent series.

Sure Start Children's Centres deliver a wide range of services to families with young children. For over a decade an important aspect of Sure Start has been collaborative work involving diverse practitioners, professionals, agencies and organisations. The role of Children's Centre Teacher (CCT) was established in 2005 with the aim of improving children's social and cognitive development. This qualitative study examines the experiences of individual CCTs, paying attention to their descriptions of role, their professional identities and how they experience and understand collaborative working. The study uses two methods to collect data, iterative email interviews and personal interviews conducted on a one-to-one basis or in small groups. A total of 15 informants provided data through emails, interviews or both. In terms of role, the study finds that respondents report considerable differences between the centre-based role and that of a classroom teacher. Uncertainty, variability and change pervade their accounts. Despite this it is possible to identify key characteristics of the nature of CCT activity through CCTs' comparisons of their new role and their previous work. In terms of identity, CCTs clearly position themselves as professionals and place themselves as senior members of the Children's Centre team. However, identifying the CCT role as a unique profession, teaching specialism or discrete occupation is found to be problematic for a number of reasons. Informants endorse collaborative working, which they describe as part aspiration and part achievement, reporting a mixture of successes and barriers. Children's Centre Teachers invoke two modes to describe the collaborative work they undertake, the first appears close to traditional models of interprofessional working, the second, which describes the majority of the work they undertake, casts CCTs as advisors and consultants to staff members they see as subordinate. The study also comments on how email interviews might be used in future research.

The Davis Gang, four femme fatales, in No Way Out! tell of their predicament as they rob banks and execute prison breakouts in the 1930s. They ran with Bonnie & Clyde and also rivaled them. After the demise of the famous duo some members of the Barrow gang joined the Davis gang.