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View book details for Perspectives on the Mistreatment of American Educators
Throwing Water on a Drowning Man
R&L Education
Pressured by a society searching for a simple solution to a complex problem, educators are constantly subjected to a double standard and their work and role marginalized as insignificant despite compelling evidence to the contrary. This enlightening discussion of the …
Cowley Publications
In this revised second edition of Stories Jesus Still Tells, John Claypool brings fresh insight to a selection of parables, allowing us to hear Jesus calm, persuasive voice still speaking to us through stories like the great banquet, the rich …
View book details for Matter of Life and Death
Preaching at Funerals
Cowley Publications
With the sensitivity born of time and experience, Charles Hoffacker presents an unusually warm and caring approach to preaching at a pivotal transition in human life, one which goes to the very heart of the Good News of Jesus Christ. …
View book details for Ethnographies of Archaeological Practice
Cultural Encounters, Material Transformations
AltaMira Press
Ethnographic perspectives are often used by archaeologists to study cultures both past and present - but what happens when the ethnographic gaze is turned back onto archaeological practices themselves? That is the question posed by this book, challenging conventional ideas …
Scarecrow Press
This resource strategically traces Greek warfare from 720 to 30 BC and its specific and extensive details-the wars, the troops, the armor, the military tactics, and other factors either affecting or affected by the wars. Read how warfare evolved during …
View book details for Offerings of the Heart
Money and Values in Faith Communities
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Nadiv Lev. Offerings of the Heart. This phrase sets the tone for the Jewish spiritual perspective that money is a tool for actualizing Gods presence in the world. Building on this core value and setting aside the financial/spiritual split with …
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Layle Lane and Social Activism in Twentieth-Century America
UPA
Layle Lane was an educator, a social activist, and a political leader. She was a key organizer of the first march on Washington, D.C., which led to the creation of the Fair Employment Practices Act and Commission after President Franklin …
You can live your whole life without knowing what's happening around you. But how can you stop the things you haven't even seen from blowing your world apart? Minty Cartwright is on the brink of menopause, and reeling from the …
Explore the excitement of diverse holidays throughout the year with "My Holiday Socks," where a young girl expresses her unique celebration style through vibrant and festive socks. These favorite clothing accessories become a delightful way for children to embrace their …
View book details for Gay Aliens and Queer Folk
How Russell T Davies Changed TV
The television writing of Russell T Davies defies easy categorisation, ranging from childrens programmes, across Shakespeare, historical drama and comedy, to the landmark series that have made him a household name: Queer As Folk, Doctor Who and Its a Sin. …
View book details for Cinema and the Republic
Filming on the Margins in Contemporary France
This book analyses contemporary French films by focussing closely on cinematic representations of immigrants and residents of suburban housing estates known as banlieues. It begins by examining how these groups are conceived of within France's Republican political model before analysing …
To my dear future readers, my very dear readers,Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Alvin T. Hatfield, and I sit here by my hearth,a storyteller, a yarnspinner, a singer of songs, telling my tales and scribbling them …
"In Africa, there are no trees..." - Captain AW McGonagleAs Albert and Jack finally come to embrace their affection for one another, they face the realities of love in war, sharing stolen moments together as they attempt to avoid discovery. …
View book details for Abandon All Hope
A Personal Journey Through the History of Welsh Literature
I awoke from a deep sleep I had taken under the shade of a tree in a field at the outskirts of a dark wood, without remembering how I had gotten there, or, indeed, where it was exactly, I had …
View book details for Poems from the Soul
Twelve of the Great Hymns of Wales
Even as many in the modern world draw away from organised religion, the great hymns of our time persist: we turn to them at weddings and funerals, at rugby matches and in pubs. Bringing together twelve of Waless best-loved hymns, …
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How Sheep Shaped Wales and the World
Human civilisation was not just created by humans: we had the help of many creatures, and foremost among these were sheep. From Argentina to Australia and from Mesopotamia to Mongolia, just about every country with hills and meadows has adopted …
This is an introduction to the life and work of Kate Roberts, the most important woman writer ever to have emerged from Wales. It offers a comprehensive account of her life, from her birth into a life of poverty and …
View book details for Travels in Revolutionary France and a Journey Across America
George Cadogan Morgan and Richard Price Morgan
In July 1789 George Cadogan Morgan, born in Bridgend, Wales, and the nephew of the celebrated radical dissenter Richard Price (1723-91), found himself caught up in the opening events of the French Revolution and its consequences. In 1808, his family …
View book details for Emyr Humphreys
A Postcolonial Novelist?
This volume offers a section of the most important essays published by Emyr Humphreys over a 30-year period. The essays are prefaced by a series of discusssions which explore some of the intellectual concerns and motifs that have recurred throughout …
Now republished with minor corrections, this volume provides the first comprehensive collection of charters, letters and other documents issued by native rulers of Wales from the early twelfth century to the Edwardian conquest of 1282 - 3 that extinguished independent …
View book details for In the Shadow of the Pulpit
Literature and Nonconformist Wales
Writer versus preacher: this book shows how this struggle has lain at the heart of Welsh writing and culture for the past two hundred years, intimately shaping the English language literature produced by Wales. Starting with a simple explanation of …
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Historical memory and the Two Spains in turn-of-the-millennium Spanish apocalyptic fictions
The end of the second millennium witnessed an increase in science-fictional apocalyptic narratives globally. There is a noteworthy difference between such fictions from Latin America and the anglophone world and those from Spain, in which scientific explanations of events coexist …
View book details for The Centenary Edition Raymond Williams
Who Speaks for Wales? Nation, Culture, Identity
In the words of the philosopher Cornel West, Raymond Williams was the last of the great European male revolutionary socialist intellectuals. A figure of international importance in the fields of cultural criticism and social theory, Williams was also preoccupied throughout …
View book details for Spirituality in Ministerial Formation
The Dynamic of Prayer in Learning
This is a ground-breaking study into a crucial area of theological education. It traces the origin and evolution of the formation model of training and identifies what difference this paradigm makes to present practice. It uncovers significant and surprising functions …
This is the first thorough, authoritative study of the place-names of the entire pre-1974 Flintshire, scholarly in substance, readable in presentation, with its selection of names based on the OS Landranger 1:50,000 map. The entry for each of the 800 …
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