Author: Sondra Gayle Stein
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: literacy, lifelong, learning, adult, vision, future, customer, driven, equipped
Number of Pages: 133
Published: 1995-04
ISBN-10: 0788127853
ISBN-13: 9780788127854

Results of a 2-year effort to analyze feedback from over 1,500 adults across the country about what literacy means to them. This report contains both a synthesis of adult learner perspectives on National Education Goal 6, and examples of the actual essays submitted by the respondents. Includes: what it means to be literate; what it means to compete in a global economy; what it means to exercise the rights and responsibilities of citizenship; voices of adults on welfare; and voices of adults in prison and treatment centers.

Author: Walter Nicol
Publisher: Applewood Books
Keywords: gardener, kitchen, fruit, forcing
Number of Pages: 462
Published: 2009-02-05
ISBN-10: 1429013478
ISBN-13: 9781429013475

"This 1802 work describes the means by which fruits and kitchen-garden staples such as grapes, mushrooms, salad greens, and herbs, among others, can be forced by use of greenhouses and other means."

Author: United States, Committee on Ways and Means, Genera
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: tax, committee, ways, means, representatives, house, oversight, chairman, irs, administration, filing, season, report, subcommittee
Number of Pages: 64
Published:
ISBN-10: 142897699X
ISBN-13: 9781428976993

Author: United States, Committee on Ways and Means, Govern
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: health, subcommittee, chairman, report, committee, ways, representatives, house, means, services, outpatient, assess, needed, information, adequacy, ratesetting, hospital, payments, methodology, medicare
Number of Pages: 39
Published:
ISBN-10: 142893720X
ISBN-13: 9781428937208

Author: United States, Committee on Ways and Means, Subcom
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: security, social, subcommittee, chairman, committee, means, representatives, house, report, ways, identity, could, governments, numbers, reduce, display, records, public, cards
Number of Pages: 65
Published:
ISBN-10: 142893815X
ISBN-13: 9781428938151

Author: William Gleason
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
Keywords: empire, russian, guchkov, alexander
Number of Pages: 86
Published: 2007-12-01
ISBN-10: 1422374653
ISBN-13: 9781422374658

Alexander Ivanovich Guchkov (1862-1936) was one of the most engaging public personalities in the last years of the Russian Empire. This political biography of Guchkov, whose career in the national limelight -- in the legislature (the State Duma), in the war-industries committees during World War I, & in 1917 in the Provisional Government -- was central to the story of the collapse of the old order. Contents of this study of Guchkov: The Family Background: 1862-1904; the Making of a Politician: 1905-1907; Politics by Usual Means: 1907-1914; Politics by Unusual Means: 1914-1917; Revolution & Exi

Author: David Bellis
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: important, management, tool, access, program, tested, programs, information, means
Number of Pages: 90
Published: 2005-09-01
ISBN-10: 1422300498
ISBN-13: 9781422300497

Federal agencies that administer means-tested programs are responsible for both ensuring that people have appropriate access to assistance & ensuring the integrity of the programs they oversee. Knowing the proportion of the population that qualifies for these programs relative to the numbers who actually participate can help ensure that agencies can monitor & communicate key info. on program access. This report provides info. on: the proportion of those eligible who are participating in 12 selected low-income programs; factors that influence participation in those programs; & strategies used b