Thatcher's Children was born out of a series first made in 1992 focusing on two parents and six children living in a hostel for homeless families in Blackpool
the drug wars--fueled by the international movement of narcotics and vast sums of money--have burned an abiding image of the border as a place of endemic danger into the consciousness of both countries
and how youth participation was fundamental to the cause
and lumber camps of the Sierra Nevada during a boom period of economic expansion
The text includes curriculum ideas and specific units for children ages 8 to 16
First Peoples of Great Salt Lake Carmen Lamp Thatcher's Children was born outGreat Salt Lake is a celebrated, world recognized natural landmark. It, and the broader region bound to it, is also a thoroughly cultural landscape; generations of peoples made their lives there. In an eminently readable narrative, Steven Simms, one of the foremost archaeologists of the region, traces the scope of human history dating from the Pleistocene, when First Peoples interacted with the lapping waters of Lake Bonneville, to nearly the present