Toward a more beautiful America

✍ Marian O'Shea Wernicke 📂 Fiction 📅 2020 🏛 She Writes Press 🌐 English ⚖ 182 KB 👁 1 views

On an ordinary day in June of 1964 in a small town in the Altiplano of Peru, Sister Mary Katherine (formerly known as Kate), a young American nun recently arrived in this very foreign place, walks away from her convent with no money and no destination. Desperate and afraid of her feelings for an Iri

Toward that which is beautiful: a novel

✍ Marian O'Shea Wernicke 📂 Fiction 📅 2020 🏛 She Writes Press 🌐 English ⚖ 182 KB 👁 1 views

On an ordinary day in June of 1964 in a small town in the Altiplano of Peru, Sister Mary Katherine (formerly known as Kate), a young American nun recently arrived in this very foreign place, walks away from her convent with no money and no destination. Desperate and afraid of her feelings for an Iri

Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful: Poems

✍ Alice Walker 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Open Road Media 🌐 en-us ⚖ 228 KB

In Alice Walker's fourth collection of poetry, simple observations from a life well lived balance an unflinching examination of critical global worries The title of this collection comes from a Native American shaman who, reflecting on the terrible problems brought by white colonizers, nearly forgav

Toward a More Inclusive Definition of Dy

Toward a More Inclusive Definition of Dyslexia

✍ Keith E. Stanovich 📂 Article 📅 1996 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 933 KB

A reading-IQ discrepancy has been taken as a defining feature of dyslexia. A well-defined syndrome should satisfy three central criteria: it should have distinct phenotypic (performance) patterns; distinct heritability patterns; and distinct neuroanatomical characteristics. There appears to be no so

Information access: Toward a more robust

Information access: Toward a more robust conceptualization

✍ Shannon M. Oltmann 📂 Article 📅 2009 🏛 Wiley (John Wiley & Sons) 🌐 English ⚖ 178 KB

## Abstract Information access is implicated in multiple research areas in library and information science (LIS). This paper argues that information access should receive more explicit attention from researchers. First, the two predominant conceptualizations of information access are examined and s

Toward a more universal approach in heal

Toward a more universal approach in health valuation

✍ Benjamin M. Craig; Jan J. V. Busschbach 📂 Article 📅 2011 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 138 KB

By polling individual responses to hypothetical scenarios, valuation studies estimate population preferences toward health on a quality-adjusted life year (QALY) scale. The scenarios typically involve trade-offs in time (time tradeoff (TTO)), risk (standard gamble (SG)), or number of persons affecte