In nineteenth-century England, legal conceptions of work and family changed in fundamental ways. Notably, significant legal moves came into play that changed the legal understanding of the family.Constructing the Family examines the evolution of the legal-discursive framework governing work and family relations. Luke Taylor considers the intersecting intellectual and institutional forces that contributed to the dissolution of the household, the establishment of separate sp...

In nineteenth-century England, legal conceptions of work and family changed in fundamental ways. Notably, significant legal moves came into play that changed the legal understanding of the family.Constructing the Family examines the evolution of the legal-discursive framework governing work and family relations. Luke Taylor considers the intersecting intellectual and institutional forces that contributed to the dissolution of the household, the establishment of separate sp...

When Luke Taylor's father leaves home to fight for the South in the Civil War, it's up to Luke to be the man of his family. Luke struggles to keep his family safe as Union soldiers march through the South burning crops, destroying buildings, and killing livestock. When a band of renegades dressed as Union soldiers attacks his home, killing his brother and beating him and his mother, Luke must leave the farm to find his father. Luke and his father return to see their farm facing a new threa...

A comprehensive guide to lawn care: the one-stop-shop to cut through the noise, giving you the confidence to create a thriving lawn.With more and more of us wishing to really understand our gardens and make the most of our outdoor space, seasoned lawn experts Luke and Marc are on hand.This accessible handbook helps you get started with essential equipment and how-to guides for each season, ensuring your lawn always looks its best. Tackle common garden issue...

Now they had to decide if they were going to continue going west or if they were going to go back east. Either direction they thought about could cause hardship or death. West was a hard life with no help except from each other. Back east could mean death by hanging for both of them. After escaping from the Confederate prison, Trevor Lane is befriended by Margret Wright and her two children who find him in their woods more dead than alive and save his life. Once regaining his strength, Tre...

A bestseller "alive with the bustle of ancient times" that "movingly reconstructs St. Luke's search for God" ( The New York Times).Two millennia ago, a Greek man known as Lucanus traveled to Alexandria to study medicine. He would become one of the greatest doctors of his time and heal the sick all throughout the Mediterranean world.But his extraordinary work as a physician is not his greatest legacy. Today he is known around the world as St. Luke—aut...

This book investigates the birth and early evolution of the international aid regime in the 1940s and 1950s, considering how America established a postwar economic order in which aid was balanced against the establishment of the IMF as an instrument of economic discipline.Through the combination of the carrot of global aid and the monetarist stick of the IMF, the US was able to successfully draw most of the newly decolonising countries of the global south of the world into the glob...

This book focuses on the authority and status of the author of Luke-Acts. What authority did he have to write a Gospel, to interpret the Jewish Scriptures and traditions of Israel, to interpret the Jesus traditions, and to update the narrative with a second volume with its interpretation of Paul and the other apostles who appear in the Acts narrative? Rick Strelan constructs the author as a Jewish Priest, examining such issues as writing and orality, authority and tradition, and the status...

Devotio Moderna and the Medieval University explores the origins and intellectual legacy of the Devotio Moderna, a Christian movement born from Geert Grote’s transformative rejection of worldly learning, which went on to inspire key figures of the Reformation, including Erasmus, Ignatius of Loyola, Luther, and Calvin.Through an analysis of its Augustinian foundations and its disruptive stance against university culture, the book offers a fresh perspective on the m...

Luke's Gospel provides a comprehensive and schematic reading of Luke's Gospel, one of the most important books detailing the life and works of Christ, in six main parts. Knight introduces the Gospel and the narrative theory on which the Gospel rests. He offers a detailed, chapter-by-chapter exposition of the Gospel and also alternative perspectives, such as feminism and deconstruction. He considers the principal motifs of the Gospel, particularly the theme of the temple, which has...

This book explores destitution from the perspective of international human rights law and, more specifically, economic, social, and cultural rights. The experience of destitution correlates to the non-realisation of a range of economic, social, and cultural rights. However, destitution has not been defined from this perspective. Consequently, the nexus between destitution and the denial of economic, social, and cultural rights remains unrecognised within academia and policy and practice. T...

When the FBI refuses to acknowledge the disappearance of Agent Matt Stone during a covert investigation overseas, Detective Charlene Taylor has no choice but to go on the hunt. The Ukraine can be unforgiving to outsiders, but the detective has no idea just how deep the corruption runs.There is only one person Charlene can turn to. Trusted friend and former leg-breaker, Calvin Watters, is a protector, and the only man who can go head-to-head with the danger that awaits them. Charlen...