<p><em><strong>NewsLady</strong></em> is the memoir of a trailblazing African American woman journalist whose life is about firsts. Carole Simpson was the first woman to broadcast radio news in Chicago, the first African American woman to anchor a local newscast in the same city, the first African American woman national network television correspondent, the first African American woman to anchor a national network newscast and the first woman or minority to moderate a presidential debate.</p> <p>Hers is a story of survival in a male-dominated profession that placed the highest premium on white males. In this book she recounts how she endured and conquered sex discrimination and racial prejudice to reach the top ranks of her profession. Along the way she covered some of the most important news events over the four decades of her illustrious broadcasting career. Her inspirational story is for all trying to succeed in a corporate environment.</p>画面が切り替わりますの...
<p><em><strong>Thoughts before Breakfast</strong></em> is a book full of spiritual clues which Carole has found while enjoying her own journey through life, and while striving to find the spiritual answer to every challenge that life throws at her.</p> <p><em><strong>Thoughts before Breakfast</strong></em> is a collection of Carole’s spiritualist church addresses that she has delivered over the years. Each address is Carole’s personal view on life and she likes to see herself as a spiritual detective. She is always on the lookout for spiritual clues or treasures.</p> <p><em><strong>Thoughts before Breakfast</strong></em> is a book full of wisdom and humour. Carole Simpson encourages the reader to see life as a game, and to play the game of life to their best advantage. Carole shares her personal experiences of, what she calls, ‘dog’s poo in paradise’ moments to show the reader that even in the bleakest moments of life there is a spiritual clue or an...
<p><strong>Take a journey through the creative process that led folk artist Vollis Simpson to create his wonderful and whimsical wind-powered whirligigs and more in this STEAM/STEM picture book.</strong></p> <p>Vollis Simpson was a man with a curious mindーalways eager to know how things worked and how to fix them. Growing up on a farm in North Carolina, he loved to tinker with machines. And when he served in the Army Air Corps during WWII, Vollis kept right on tinkering. His ingenuity allowed him to build things no one would have thought to create from scrapsーa washing machine out of airplane parts and a motorcycle out of a bike.</p> <p>After the war, his passion for metal creations picked up speedーturning into a whirlwind of windmills as far as the eye could see. Luckily, Vollis’s fanciful and colorful windmills have been preserved at a park in Wilson, NC, where visitors can behold his magnificent and towering creations forever whizzing in the air.</p>画面が切り...