Bøker av Donna Riley

Tara is struck by a car after shoving her mother out of its way. Trying to move, she realizes she is injured, and cannot walk. The car that struck her had pulled over, the doors open and the two legged get out and walk towards her, Tara tries to get away, but her injury is too great. Giant hands pick her up from the roadside, and carry her back to the car, open the door and put her inside on the floor. Taras heart feels as if would pound out of her chest. She is about to go on the greatest adventure of her life....but will she ever see her family again.Donna Riley, a lover of outdoors and all the outdoor creatures. She is an avid fisher, kayaker and hiker. She is a proud mother of three daughters and six grandchildren and one great granddaughter. She currently lives in eastern Carolina where she gets many of her ideas for her books from her paddles in the swamp lands, creeks and sounds of the area.

The profession of engineering in the United States has historically served the status quo, feeding an ever-expanding materialistic and militaristic culture, remaining relatively unresponsive to public concerns, and without significant pressure for change from within. This book calls upon engineers to cultivate a passion for social justice and peace and to develop the skill and knowledge set needed to take practical action for change within the profession. Because many engineers do not receive education and training that support the kinds of critical thinking, reflective decision-making, and effective action necessary to achieve social change, engineers concerned with social justice can feel powerless and isolated as they remain complicit. Utilizing techniques from radical pedagogies of liberation and other movements for social justice, this book presents a roadmap for engineers to become empowered and engage one another in a process of learning and action for social justice and peace. Table of contents: What Do we Mean by Social Justice? / Mindsets in Engineering / Engineering and Social Injustice / Toward a More Socially Just Engineering / Turning Knowledge into Action: Strategies for Change / Parting Lessons for the Continuing Struggle

Energy is a basic human need; technologies for energy conversion and use are fundamental to human survival. As energy technology evolves to meet demands for development and ecological sustainability in the 21st century, engineers need to have up-to-date skills and knowledge to meet the creative challenges posed by current and future energy problems. Further, engineers need to cultivate a commitment to and passion for lifelong learning which will enable us to actively engage new developments in the field. This undergraduate textbook companion seeks to develop these capacities in tomorrow's engineers in order to provide for future energy needs around the world. This book is designed to complement traditional texts in engineering thermodynamics, and thus is organized to accompany explorations of the First and Second Laws, fundamental property relations, and various applications across engineering disciplines. It contains twenty modules targeted toward meeting five often-neglected ABET outcomes: ethics, communication, lifelong learning, social context, and contemporary issues. The modules are based on pedagogies of liberation, used for decades in the humanities and social sciences for instilling critical thinking and reflective action in students by bringing attention to power relations in the classroom and in the world. This book is intended to produce a conversation and creative exploration around how to teach and learn thermodynamics differently. Because liberative pedagogies are at their heart relational, it is important to maintain spaces for discussing classroom practices with these modules, and for sharing ideas for implementing critical pedagogies in engineering contexts. The reader is therefore encouraged to visit the book's blog. Table of Contents: What and Why? / The First Law: Making Theory Relevant / The Second Law and Property Relations / Thinking Big Picture about Energy and Sustainability

As all the adult female turtles go off to lay their eggs, Tobias is left to turtle sit all the young ones. When they start asking questions about where their mothers are going and what they are doing, Tobias has lots of questions to answer, and some of the answers are shocking to the little ones.Donna Riley lives in Eastern North Carolina, where she kayaks and fishes and spends most of time outdoors. Most of her ideas for books, come from creatures she encounters on her journeys. She originally hails from Maryland but now makes NC her forever home. She is the mother of three daughters, and six grandchildren and one great grandchild. keywords: Turtles, rivers, nature, Tobias, eggs, birds, skunks, hatchlings, dragonfly, teaching

Little Tobias had no idea when he went to go look for his breakfast that The Great River would sweep him away into a land where he knew no one. With the help of new found friends and determination Tobias enters the greatest adventure of his life to find his way back home.Donna Riley, a lover of outdoors and all the out door creatures. She is an avid fisher, kayaker and hiker. She is a proud mother of three daughters and six grandchildren and one great granddaughter. She currently lives in eastern Carolina where she gets many of her ideas for her books from her paddles in the swamp lands, creeks and sounds of the area.keywords: Turtle, Family, Lost, Friends, River, Raccoons, Animals, Friendship, Determination

A WWII veteran, takes a job as taxi cab driver, falls in love with Lucy a back hills woman. Lucy, who for the first time in her life is away from the mountains of West Virginia and working at a munitions plant in Washington DC. Being naive and backwards she becomes pregnant with his child, poor and no money, they struggle to make a life for themselves, and their three girls. A beautiful story about faith and tragedy and triumph. Donna Riley was born in Riverdale, Maryland, just outside of Washington D.C. She is the mother of three grown daughters, and six grandchildren.Donna is an avid outdoors person, where many of her children's stories take place. She is an avid hiker, kayaker, camper and loves to fish. Donna is also an artist, she does nature prints and designs, and has been writing stories and books for over thirty years. "Bee-lieve Me, God Has a Plan For You!" is the first children's book in a series of Christian children's books.She currently is living in North Carolina Keywords: Hillbilly, Family, Faith, Spousal Abuse, Cemetery, WWII, 1950, Poor, Struggle, Veteran, Tragedy, Triumph