A major study of ethnic-oriented and multicultural problems, specifically of the history of the Polish National Alliance of the United States of America.

After 32 years, Montreal will soon lose its professional baseball team. The former president of the Expos explains how the team went from being one of major league baseball's most promising franchises to becoming a financial pariah, barely escaping extinction at the end of the 2001 season and now facing demise in 2002. This history of the team's troubled existence covers years of gradually declining revenue and attendance, the sale of the team to a consortium of business leaders in 1991, and the league's ongoing debate over eliminating the Expos once and for all.

Do You Manage People? Hiring, Managing, and Compensating Insurance Agency Personnel is a thoughtfully assembled collection of expert advice, forms, templates, and benchmark study data. Get the tools and advice you'll need to:? Determine the number and type of employees you need and how to find them.? Interview properly and comply with federal HR laws.? Check references and test candidates.? Set into place a procedure for terminating employees and minimizing potential lawsuits.? Motivate and compensate your employees.? Ask the right questions and find the right resources when you need them most.

Compare your agency to other agencies of a similar size or metro area, with respect to income and expense averages, productivity measures, and balance sheet ratios. Examine the metrics of the best performing agencies, and use the digital companion files that come with the book to compare your numbers, compute variances, and improve results. Recommended reading for the Certified Insurance Counselor (CIC) Agency Management Course.

This “evocative and beautiful” (School Library Journal) novel “vividly imagines the lives of three girls” (Booklist, starred review) in three different time periods as they grow up to become groundbreaking scientists. Maria Merian was sure that caterpillars were not wicked things born from mud, as most people of her time believed. Through careful observation she discovered the truth about metamorphosis and documented her findings in gorgeous paintings of the life cycles of insects. More than a century later, Mary Anning helped her father collect stone sea creatures from the cliffs in southwest England. To him they were merely a source of income, but to Mary they held a stronger fascination. Intrepid and patient, she eventually discovered fossils that would change people’s vision of the past. Across the ocean, Maria Mitchell helped her mapmaker father in the whaling village of Nantucket. At night they explored the starry sky through his telescope. Maria longed to discover a new comet—and after years of studying the night sky, she finally did. Told in vibrant, evocative poems, this stunning novel celebrates the joy of discovery and finding wonder in the world around us.

What will you do when they come to take your guns? Earl Turner and his fellow patriots face this question and are forced underground when he U.S. government bans the private possession of firearms and stages the mass Gun Raids to round up suspected gun owners. The hated Equality Police begin hunting them down, hut the patriots fight back with a campaign of sabotage and assassination. An all-out race war occurs as the struggle escalates. Turner and his comrades suffer terribly, hut their ingenuity and boldness in devising and executing new methods of guerrilla warfare lead to a victory of cataclysmic intensity and worldwide scope. The FBI has labeled The Turner Diaries "the bible of the racist right." If the government had the power to ban books, this one would he at the top of its list. The Turner Diaries is the most controversial book in America today-and it's a book unlike any you've ever read!

NABSE & Me is a memoir of the 22nd President of the National Alliance of Black School Educators. His successful work as a Principal, Superintendent, Associate Commissioner and Executive Director of the only national organization that represents all Black educators and those who serve all youth but especially Black Youth. Dr. Bernard Hamilton was asked to save many schools and found his new Presidential role in NABSE one of saving the organization from scandal and economic disaster. Prior to ending his presidential term with NABSE he placed the organization in a positive position for the future but loss his son to drugs and suicide.