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Rhodesia, 1972.Tessa Harmand is nine-years-old when a humiliating experience forever alters her naïve perception of the society in which she lives, forcing her to question her own attitude to her black compatriots – an attitude she’s inherited from her elders.Nathan Owen is twelve-years-old, dark haired and inscrutable. To Tessa, he is a dead-pan, distant ghost flitting into view and then dissolving in a blink… but an odd conversation with him only serves to height...

Reflects on the nature of the Catholic imagination as viewed through the figure of Mary and suggests that she might be considered the global Catholic Church’s point vierge—a provocative phrase that opens up a dimension of both the Catholic imagination and the mystery of Mary in an intriguing manner.

The Lady of the Angels and Her City recounts Wendy Wright's visitations to her hometown's many Marian churches and shrines. But it is much more than a personal pilgrimage narrative. It offers important glimpses into the history of Los Angeles Catholicism, American Catholic culture, and Mary's place in Catholic theology and tradition. It peeks into the heroic labors of the religious orders that went on mission there and the waves of immigrants who have arrived on American shores. W...

The Essential Handbook series provides a concise resource for understanding and practicing your faith. The Essential Spirituality Handbook presents the foundations of Catholic spirituality in five sections. Beginning with the theological understanding of the term spirituality, Wendy Wright presents an accessible approach to prayer, virtues, discernment, and satisfaction in living a spiritual life. Readers will find Dr. Wright an excellent guide through the history of Catholic traditions in...

The Essential Handbook series provides a concise resource for understanding and practicing your faith. The Essential Spirituality Handbook presents the foundations of Catholic spirituality in five sections. Beginning with the theological understanding of the term spirituality, Wendy Wright presents an accessible approach to prayer, virtues, discernment, and satisfaction in living a spiritual life. Readers will find Dr. Wright an excellent guide through the history of Cath...

This pocket-sized book is an ideal reference for nursing students. It puts the facts at your fingertips, giving you immediate access to 50 different clinical procedures.Handy checklists covering the things to consider before starting the procedureClear instructions guide you step-by-step through the skillAll fields of practice included to ensure your care is person-centred...

Advent with KidsBy: Wendy K. Wallace-WrightAdvent with Kids is a guide for parents to engage toddler to elementary school age children during the weeks of Advent and to help create a liturgical rhythm of the season in the home. An interactive activity book that encourages learning through all five senses, Advent with Kids gets young members of the Church excited for the Christmas season while teaching them the true meaning of the season.About the AuthorWendy...

A highly regarded impressionist-style artist, George Ames Aldrich drew on his years of experience living and studying in Europe to create beautiful landscape paintings. His life and work are explored in this gorgeous book. Many of the artist's finest creations, some representing French subjects and others depicting the midwestern steel industry and American landscapes, are included in this book. It features color reproductions, along with other archival and contextual images. Essays by Mic...

Learn from the powerful model of Salesian spirituality and deepen your relationship with God and the world.St. Francis de Sales (1567–1622) was born to a life of privilege, but after experiencing a profound conversion, he abandoned his wealth to devote himself to God. He went on to become a champion of the poor and a renowned preacher. Along with his spiritual friend St. Jane de Chantal, St. Francis de Sales taught the tradition of devout humanism. The Salesian tra...

Drawing together the best of text, video and interactive material for the definitive guide to adult nursing.This one-stop-shop will enable students to understand the core aspects of care, learn the essential nursing skills and knowledge that underpin practice, deal with the complexities of the role and apply their learning to common conditions and patient groups. It has been developed in line with the 2018 NMC standards to provide a complete learning resource for adult nursing stud...

This pocket-sized book provides step-by-step instructions on how to carry out advanced clinical skills such as medicine administration, giving transfusions, catheterisation, and other key skills across both acute and community settings. It is ideal for second and third year students and has been updated for the 2018 NMC standards, including the most up-to-date evidence base for the procedures.Each section features:Handy checklists detailing the essential equipment and...

Commissioned to celebrate the 40th year of Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, this book evaluates the role of the critical social scientist and how the point of their work is not simply to interpret the world but to change itBrings together leading critical social scientists to consider the major challenges of our time and what is to be done about themApplies diagnostic and normative reasoning to momentous issues including the global economic crisis,...