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Caring for Our Common Home
A Practical Guide to Laudato Si'
2009
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Caring for Our Common Home connects the problems facing our common home with both the theology of Laudato Si' and concrete, hope-filled activities Christians are undertaking to mitigate our ecological crises and inspire the deep commitment to creation the gospel demands.
Spiritual Practices of Jesus
Learning Simplicity, Humility, and Prayer with Luke's Earliest Readers
2020
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Luke's Gospel was written to transform. In its original context, readers would have seen a portrait of Jesus as an ideal teacher and king, able to shape his people through exemplary leadership. They would have come to the Gospel expecting to be changed for God's purposes through the imitation of Jesus' lifestyle and adoption of his teaching. When today's readers approach the text in the same way, they can be transformed too.Spiritual Practices of Jesus exp...
Lee’s Last Casualty
The Life and Letters of Sgt. Robert W. Parker, Second Virginia Cavalry
2026
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The letters assembled in this extraordinarily rich collection were written by Robert W. Parker, an enlisted Confederate cavalryman who is thought to have been the last man killed in action in the Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War. He is representative of the Confederate Everyman: a modest farmer in the antebellum years, his patriotic fervor spurred him at the beginning of the war to enlist in the Confederate Army, in which he served until his death during the last charge at Ap...
2018
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The Professor features four short stories depicting how that crush on the dreamy college professor is better left as a theory than in practice.
Creation, God, and Humanity
Engaging the Mystery of Suffering within the Sacred Cosmos
2009
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Examines the history and development of ecological theological anthropology and how it engages human suffering, so that people of faith can better understand the suffering inherent to earth's creative processes and that inflicted by human sin.
2013
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Preachers Kid consists of twenty short chapters depicting the happenings in the life of a ministers daughter. In each story, a life lesson unfolds in the process. Sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant, these stories invite readers to reconnect with their memories of childhood.It is the authors hope that the reader will have enjoyed the memories and will want to wholeheartedly embrace the future.
2012
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For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Ballet teachers job, or to apply for a better job.What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important points. With this book, you'll be able to revise your application into a much str...
The True Women Influencers of the Past
The Inspiring Heroines in Real Life and Fiction
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- Willa CatherEdith WhartonFanny BurneyMary WollstonecraftJane AustenCharlotte BrontëNathaniel HawthorneRebecca Harding DavisLouisa May AlcottHenry JamesLeo TolstoyThomas HardyElizabeth GaskellCharlotte Perkins GilmanHenrik IbsenKate ChopinGrant AllenEthel Sybil TurnerElizabeth Burgoyne CorbettH. G. WellsGene Stratton-PorterTheodore DreiserAda CambridgeMary JohnstonMarietta HolleyElia Wilkinson PeattieVirginia WoolfChristopher MorleyZona GaleElizabeth von ArnimEdna FerberMargaret FullerElizabeth Cady StantonRaden Adjeng KartiniEmma GoldmanJulia Ward HoweEmmeline PankhurstMother JonesHelen WrightHelen KellerCatherine H. BirneyRebecca Deming MooreD. H. LawrenceMargaret OliphantHarriet MartineauMargaret SangerSinclair LewisSarah H. BradfordKate Stephens
- Translated by
- Alfred Edward Chamot
2021
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The anthology 'The True Women Influencers of the Past' presents an intricate tapestry of voices that define the evolving roles and perceptions of women across centuries. Engaging with key works from a pantheon of illustrious authors like Willa Cather to Virginia Woolf, the collection showcases a breathtaking range in literary style—from the incisive social realism of Elizabeth Gaskell to the pioneering feminist arguments of Mary Wollstonecraft. This compelling volume not only traverses geo...
2022
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From Timbits to totem poles, Canada is boiled down to its syrupy core in symbolic forms that are reproduced not only on t-shirts, television ads, and tattoos but in classrooms, museums, and courtrooms too. They can be found in every home and in every public space. They come in many forms, from objects—like the red-uniformed Mountie, the maple leaf, and the beaver—to concepts—like free healthcare, peacekeeping, and saying “eh?”.But where did these symbols come from, what do they mea...
ICONIC WOMEN: Novels, Biographies & Memoirs
Landmark Novels, Memoirs, and Reform Writings on Women's Rights, Freedom, and Modern Womanhood
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- Willa CatherEdith WhartonFanny BurneyMary WollstonecraftJane AustenCharlotte BrontëNathaniel HawthorneRebecca Harding DavisLouisa May AlcottHenry JamesLeo TolstoyThomas HardyElizabeth GaskellCharlotte Perkins GilmanHenrik IbsenKate ChopinGrant AllenEthel Sybil TurnerElizabeth Burgoyne CorbettH. G. WellsGene Stratton-PorterTheodore DreiserAda CambridgeMary JohnstonMarietta HolleyElia Wilkinson PeattieVirginia WoolfChristopher MorleyZona GaleElizabeth von ArnimEdna FerberMargaret FullerElizabeth Cady StantonRaden Adjeng KartiniEmma GoldmanJulia Ward HoweEmmeline PankhurstMother JonesHelen WrightHelen KellerCatherine H. BirneyRebecca Deming MooreD. H. LawrenceMargaret OliphantHarriet MartineauMargaret SangerSinclair LewisSarah H. BradfordKate Stephens
- Translated by
- Alfred Edward Chamot
2020
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ICONIC WOMEN: Novels, Biographies & Memoirs assembles a capacious transatlantic archive of women's lives, ambitions, constraints, and self-fashioning. Moving among realist and Gothic fiction, domestic narratives, social protest, political testimony, biography, and memoir, the volume charts changing conceptions of gender from the eighteenth century through modernity. Its selection brings canonical novels into productive relation with less frequently anthologized reformist writing, labor adv...
Black Girls and Adolescents
Facing the Challenges
2015
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This one-of-a kind book challenges the current thinking about black girls to show how America has failed them—and what can be done to make their lives better.African American girls are one of the United States' most endangered populations, yet meaningful explorations of the issues that impact their lives are almost nonexistent. In this riveting book, led by one of the African American community's best-known scholars, experts from across the nation explain the risks...
2019
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Concerns with the nature of and relationship between responsibility and responsibilisation pervade contemporary social, political and moral life. This book turns the analytical lens on the ways in which responsibility and responsibilisation operate in diverse educational settings and relationships, and social, policy and geographical contexts in the USA, Europe, the UK, New Zealand and Australia. Scholars have sought to explain the genealogy and the mélange of rationalities, technologies, ...











