Brandi Wilson's Books

Leading and Loving It

Encouragement for Pastors' Wives and Women in Leadership

By: Lori Wilhite,Brandi Wilson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Leading and Loving It

Encouragement for Pastors' Wives and Women in Leadership

By: Lori Wilhite,Brandi Wilson

Being a woman in ministry, whether you are partnering with your husband in his calling or serving in your own leadership role, is challenging. While serving as mentors, counselors, advisors, and even cheerleaders, women carry numerous responsibilities. Lori Wilhite and Brandi Wilson know about this first-hand as the wives of two well-known pastors in America. Everyone has an image in their mind of what they think a pastor's wife should be. The trouble with this picture is that it has never been and never will be accurate. Ministry wives and female ministry leaders face the same real-life struggles as their church members, but have the added stress of sharing in everyone's burdens as well. They are held to impossible standards by those they serve, and the more this ideal of women in leadership is expected, the more we turn up the intensity in the pressure cooker that is life in ministry. In Leading and Loving It, Lori Wilhite and Brandi Wilson offer a support system to help women make connections to get the encouragement that sustains them and become equipped for the ministry God has called them to pursue. They give readers tools for understanding that external pressures and expectations are only important if they fall in line with what God intends for your life and ministry and they give answers for how to deal with criticism, isolation, finding your personal calling, and what happens when you reach a place of burn-out, and more.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

160

Publisher

FaithWords

Published Date

ISBN 10

1455522783

ISBN 13

9781455522781

Better Than Okay

Finding Hope and Healing After Your Marriage Ends

By: Brandi Wilson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Better Than Okay

Finding Hope and Healing After Your Marriage Ends

By: Brandi Wilson

Some seasons of life can seem inordinately more difficult than one human should ever have to endure. For Brandi Wilson, this was the year when her husband of more than 20 years--and a megachurch pastor--walked away from her and her family, her church community dissolved, and her dreams and identity were shattered. Yet God transformed this heartbreaking, overwhelming year into an invaluable lesson on the gift of healing. Here Brandi vulnerably and beautifully tells her story of confronting grief and heartache head-on and learning how to grow from the pain. She poignantly reminds us that your story is always evolving as she helps you · rely on and find comfort in the promises of God · endure the darkest moments and seasons of life · address your grief head-on · begin a new journey toward healing · find freedom in your new identity While grief and tragedy seem final and your life and dreams look drastically different, there is hope for renewed joy, peace, and redemption. Your pain doesn't get the final say; through God's grace and healing power, you will be better than okay.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

192

Publisher

Baker Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1493442236

ISBN 13

9781493442232

The Problem of the Color[blind]

Racial Transgression and the Politics of Black Performance

By: Brandi Wilkins Catanese

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Problem of the Color[blind]

Racial Transgression and the Politics of Black Performance

By: Brandi Wilkins Catanese

Catanese's beautifully written and cogently argued book addresses one of the most persistent sociopolitical questions in contemporary culture. She suggests that it is performance and the difference it makes that complicates the terms by which we can even understand 'multicultural' and 'colorblind' concepts. A tremendously illuminating study that promises to break new ground in the fields of theatre and performance studies, African American studies, feminist theory, cultural studies, and film and television studies." ---Daphne Brooks, Princeton University "Adds immeasurably to the ways in which we can understand the contradictory aspects of racial discourse and performance as they have emerged during the last two decades. An ambitious, smart, and fascinating book." ---Jennifer DeVere Brody, Duke University Are we a multicultural nation, or a colorblind one? The Problem of the Color[blind] examines this vexed question in American culture by focusing on black performance in theater, film, and television. The practice of colorblind casting---choosing actors without regard to race---assumes a performing body that is somehow race neutral. But where, exactly, is race neutrality located---in the eyes of the spectator, in the body of the performer, in the medium of the performance? In analyzing and theorizing such questions, Brandi Wilkins Catanese explores a range of engaging and provocative subjects, including the infamous debate between playwright August Wilson and drama critic Robert Brustein, the film career of Denzel Washington, Suzan-Lori Parks's play Venus, the phenomenon of postblackness (as represented in the Studio Museum in Harlem's "Freestyle" exhibition), the performer Ice Cube's transformation from icon of gangsta rap to family movie star, and the controversial reality television series Black. White. Concluding that ideologies of transcendence are ahistorical and therefore unenforceable, Catanese advances the concept of racial transgression---a process of acknowledging rather than ignoring the racialized histories of performance---as her chapters move between readings of dramatic texts, films, popular culture, and debates in critical race theory and the culture wars.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

225

Publisher

University of Michigan Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0472027921

ISBN 13

9780472027927

Better Than Okay

Finding Hope and Healing After Your Marriage Ends

By: Brandi Wilson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Better Than Okay

Finding Hope and Healing After Your Marriage Ends

By: Brandi Wilson

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

192

Publisher

Baker Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1493442236

ISBN 13

9781493442232

Leading and Loving It

Encouragement for Pastors' Wives and Women in Leadership

By: Lori Wilhite,Brandi Wilson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Leading and Loving It

Encouragement for Pastors' Wives and Women in Leadership

By: Lori Wilhite,Brandi Wilson

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

160

Publisher

FaithWords

Published Date

ISBN 10

1455522783

ISBN 13

9781455522781

Black in Place

The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City

By: Brandi Thompson Summers

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Black in Place

The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City

By: Brandi Thompson Summers

While Washington, D.C., is still often referred to as "Chocolate City," it has undergone significant demographic, political, and economic change in the last decade. In D.C., no place represents this shift better than the H Street corridor. In this book, Brandi Thompson Summers documents D.C.'s shift to a "post-chocolate" cosmopolitan metropolis by charting H Street's economic and racial developments. In doing so, she offers a theoretical framework for understanding how blackness is aestheticized and deployed to organize landscapes and raise capital. Summers focuses on the continuing significance of blackness in a place like the nation's capital, how blackness contributes to our understanding of contemporary urbanization, and how it laid an important foundation for how Black people have been thought to exist in cities. Summers also analyzes how blackness—as a representation of diversity—is marketed to sell a progressive, "cool," and authentic experience of being in and moving through an urban center. Using a mix of participant observation, visual and media analysis, interviews, and archival research, Summers shows how blackness has become a prized and lucrative aesthetic that often excludes D.C.'s Black residents.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

257

Publisher

UNC Press Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1469654024

ISBN 13

9781469654027

Trickin'

By: Brandi Johnson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Trickin'

By: Brandi Johnson

What's a girl gotta do to get what she wants out of life? According to Ra'Keeyah Jackson, she'll do whatever it takes. Ra'Keeyah has million-dollar dreams. She's determined to come up, and she won't stop until she does. Nothing is going to stop her from getting the hottest clothes, the finest men, and money to burn. Easily influenced by her conniving girls Shayna and Quiana, Ra'Keeyah resorts to shoplifting, stealing married men's credit cards, and passing bad checks to get what she wants. Ra'Keeyah is struggling to stay on top, and she has sunk to an all-time low when she meets Brick. He's a savvy, street-smart hustler who will surely take her young heart for a ride and make her want to change. Will she be able to resist, though, when Shayna comes to her with an idea that is sure to keep their pockets on swole? This idea could cost the girls a little more than they bargained for, along with teaching them that not everyone is to be tricked!

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

343

Publisher

Urban Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1622860055

ISBN 13

9781622860050

Food and Identity in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Ghana

Food, Fights, and Regionalism

By: Brandi Simpson Miller

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Food and Identity in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Ghana

Food, Fights, and Regionalism

By: Brandi Simpson Miller

This book investigates how cooking, eating, and identity are connected to the local micro-climates in each of Ghana’s major eco-culinary zones. The work is based on several years of researching Ghanaian culinary history and cuisine, including field work, archival research, and interdisciplinary investigation. The political economy of Ghana is used as an analytical framework with which to investigate the following questions: How are traditional food production structures in Ghana coping with global capitalist production, distribution, and consumption? How do land, climate, and weather structure or provide the foundation for food consumption and how does that affect the separate traditional and capitalist production sectors? Despite the post WWII food fight that launched Ghana’s bid for independence from the British empire, Ghana’s story demonstrates the centrality of local foods and cooking to its national character. The cultural weight of regional traditional foods, their power to satisfy, and the overall collective social emphasis on the ‘proper’ meal, have persisted in Ghana, irrespective of centuries of trade with Europeans. This book will be of interest to scholars in food studies, comparative studies, and African studies, and is sure to capture the interest of students in new ways.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

319

Publisher

Springer Nature

Published Date

ISBN 10

3030884031

ISBN 13

9783030884031

''Es-Starr''

By: Brandi Cieri

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

''Es-Starr''

By: Brandi Cieri

This story is an example of how we can correct the paths of our journey without continuing on in our self-sabotaging, wicked, divisive demeanor that lives in our flesh and spoils our spirit. With each generation there are those who try to live their lives according to their own purposes, not realizing that there is a greater picture. When you surrender to the Higher Power within you, you can do no wrong. One must first identify the Higher Power and know that the power is that of the The King of Kings, The Alpha and the Omega, The Beginning and the End, The Right one. He saw her through, forgave her wrong-doings and started her on her way to success. You too can be forgiven of all your offenses. The Master’s Pottery Wheel is spinning you to perfection. Allow it to be so. Be still and know that someone’s got your back, everything is seen and accounted for, and the Law of Reciprocity will prevail. Angels are watching over you and they fight your battles for you because you are Royalty. You are Majestic. You are loved beyond measure. Even though your enemies may wish you harm, it just will not happen because you are the King’s Kid. Your eyes shall see and your ears shall hear your desire upon all enemies of your existence. Enjoy your reading and know that there is more in the depths of this foundation.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

118

Publisher

Xlibris Corporation

Published Date

ISBN 10

1465328130

ISBN 13

9781465328137

Ute Land Religion in the American West, 1879–2009

By: Brandi Denison

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Ute Land Religion in the American West, 1879–2009

By: Brandi Denison

Ute Land Religion in the American West, 1879–2009 is a narrative of American religion and how it intersected with land in the American West. Prior to 1881, Utes lived on the largest reservation in North America—twelve million acres of western Colorado. Brandi Denison takes a broad look at the Ute land dispossession and resistance to disenfranchisement by tracing the shifting cultural meaning of dirt, a physical thing, into land, an abstract idea. This shift was made possible through the development and deployment of an idealized American religion based on Enlightenment ideals of individualism, Victorian sensibilities about the female body, and an emerging respect for diversity and commitment to religious pluralism that was wholly dependent on a separation of economics from religion. As the narrative unfolds, Denison shows how Utes and their Anglo-American allies worked together to systematize a religion out of existing ceremonial practices, anthropological observations, and Euro-American ideals of nature. A variety of societies then used religious beliefs and practices to give meaning to the land, which in turn shaped inhabitants’ perception of an exclusive American religion. Ultimately, this movement from the tangible to the abstract demonstrates the development of a normative American religion, one that excludes minorities even as they are the source of the idealized expression.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

329

Publisher

U of Nebraska Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1496201418

ISBN 13

9781496201416

100 Things to Do in Mississippi Before You Die

By: Dori Lowe,Brandi Perry

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

100 Things to Do in Mississippi Before You Die

By: Dori Lowe,Brandi Perry

Mississippi may be the best kept secret around. From spellbinding architecture to some of the best culinary experiences in the country, the Magnolia State truly has something for everyone. Adventures last a lifetime, so let 100 Things to Do in Mississippi Before You Die be your guidebook to explore what makes the Magnolia State a special place. Sink your teeth into the mouth-watering fried chicken that now has a worldwide following and experience Highway 61, the Blues Highway. Explore Mississippi’s literary heritage at the annual Mississippi Book Festival, where history has been made for more than 200 years. Hike the most beautiful waterfalls at Clark Creek Natural Area and enjoy some of the state’s outdoor adventures. Explore the birthplace of Elvis Presley and learn why Mississippi is the birthplace of American music. Find the unique gifts, antiques, and oddities at one of the most popular stores in the state and grab a hotdog from the Coney Island Café just down the street. Authors Dori Lowe and Brandi Perry invite you to hold on for an adventure unlike any other through the backroads and byways of Mississippi. The seasonal itineraries will take you through each region of the Magnolia State, where you will be greeted with a hospitality like no other. Find out what Mississippi has to offer around every corner.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

186

Publisher

Reedy Press LLC

Published Date

ISBN 10

1681064650

ISBN 13

9781681064659

Sport Teams, Fans, and Twitter

The Influence of Social Media on Relationships and Branding

By: Brandi Watkins

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Sport Teams, Fans, and Twitter

The Influence of Social Media on Relationships and Branding

By: Brandi Watkins

A strong relationship between sport fans and teams is an essential component for the success of the sport brand. This book provides an in-depth examination of the use of Twitter as a tool to enhance and maintain the fan-team relationship. As social media platforms have expanded beyond purely personal use, brands have had to adjust their strategic communication and marketing efforts. Drawing on research and theory from advertising, marketing, mass communication, and public relations, this book uses a mixed methods approach to better understand how online fan engagement using Twitter can help strengthen the fan-team relationship. Findings from this research has implications for the continued scholarly work on online engagement and relationship building as well as practical applications for effective use of Twitter as a strategic communication tool.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

149

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date

ISBN 10

1498540066

ISBN 13

9781498540063

The Preacher's Wife

By: Brandi Boddie

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Preacher's Wife

By: Brandi Boddie

Book one in the Brides of Assurance series. When a small-town girl decides to trade her tarnished reputation for a respectable life, she discovers love in the most unlikely place.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

303

Publisher

Charisma Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

1616388439

ISBN 13

9781616388430

Garden Neighborhoods of San Francisco

The Development of Residence Parks, 1905-1924

By: Richard Brandi

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Garden Neighborhoods of San Francisco

The Development of Residence Parks, 1905-1924

By: Richard Brandi

San Francisco is not known for detached houses with landscaped setbacks, lining picturesque, park-side streets. But between 1905 and 1924, thirty-six such neighborhoods, called residence parks, were proposed or built in the city. Hundreds like them were constructed across the country yet they are not well known or understood today. This book examines the city planning aspects of residence parks in a new way, with tracing how developers went about the business of building them, on different sites and for different markets, and how they kept out black and Asian residents.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

224

Publisher

McFarland

Published Date

ISBN 10

147664148X

ISBN 13

9781476641485

Early Literacy Materials Selector (ELMS)

A Tool for Review of Early Literacy Program Materials

By: Kathleen Roskos,Kathy Roskos,Lisa Lenhart,Brandi Noll

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Early Literacy Materials Selector (ELMS)

A Tool for Review of Early Literacy Program Materials

By: Kathleen Roskos,Kathy Roskos,Lisa Lenhart,Brandi Noll

Your all-in-one guide to selecting the very best early literacy materials Learning to read and write is too important to be left to chance, so its absolutely critical that the early literacy curriculum and literature you use in PreK and kindergarten environments reflect the very best research and instructional practices. But, with the proliferation of new products, whats the best way to start? What criteria should the curriculum meet? Which research-based best practices should be represented? Early Literacy Materials Selector (ELMS)-the first dedicated evaluation tool for early childhood literacy materials-provides all the answers. Step by step, this one-of-a-kind toolkit will help you: Recognize the characteristics of high-quality literacy materials Work in teams or individually to evaluate your resources Understand the importance of the research base Establish a baseline against which new literacy materials can be compared All in all, theres no better resource to ensure we put our youngest students on the right path to school readiness and success.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

121

Publisher

Corwin Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1452241643

ISBN 13

9781452241647

Southern Aurora

By: Mark Brandi

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Southern Aurora

By: Mark Brandi

We always listen out for the train when we're down in the cutting because sometimes they come quicker than you expect. There aren't as many trains as there used to be. Mostly just the freight ones, like the one that nearly killed us on the bus . . . The best train is the Southern Aurora. It goes all the way from Melbourne to Sydney, and from Sydney to Melbourne. It stops in Mittigunda because we're pretty much exactly halfway between.' Jimmy is a kid growing up fast on the poorest street in town. He tries to do everything right and look out for his mum and his younger brother. His older brother is in jail, so it's up to Jimmy to hold things together. But small-town life is unforgiving if you're from the other side of the tracks. If only his mum didn't drink so much. If only he could win the school billycart race. If only his best friend understood. If only he could stop his mum's boyfriend from getting angry. If only he was there. Jimmy soon learns that even when you get things right, everything can still go wrong. 'If you only read one Australian fiction book this year, let it be this one' Samuel Johnson 'Evocative and authentic, Brandi has created a world filled with equal parts hope and dread. Southern Aurora is a special book' Sarah Bailey 'Another quietly riveting, emotionally potent novel from Mark Brandi' The Age 'The master of small-town dread' Canberra Times 'Heart-wrenching' The Australian Women's Weekly 'Another page-turner' Who Weekly 'Mark Brandi has delivered a protagonist that could well become one of Australia's classic characters. There's a Mark Twain innocence and inner wisdom to Jimmy, one far beyond most adults' Weekend Australian 'Brandi's poignant and deceptively uncomplicated tale pulses with foreboding - but also hope' Courier Mail 'Unforgettable and unsurpassable . . . Brandi's observations are breathtakingly original and his insights are astute. Southern Aurora tackles issues with a purity that's as rare as it is precious' Better Reading 'A beautiful and deeply affecting book . . . Mark Brandi proves himself a master raconteur, in a work characterised by gentle humour, perceptiveness and kindness' Living Arts Canberra

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

226

Publisher

Hachette Australia

Published Date

ISBN 10

0733649335

ISBN 13

9780733649332

Improvement Science in Education

A Primer

By: Brandi Nicole Hinnant-Crawford

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Improvement Science in Education

A Primer

By: Brandi Nicole Hinnant-Crawford

Improvement Science in Education: A Primer provides a comprehensive overview of improvement science as a framework to guide continuous improvement and reconceptualizes improvement by centering equity and justice as the purpose of improvement. This Primer is designed to introduce improvement science, a methodology with origins in manufacturing, engineering and healthcare, to educational audiences. The book first explores the philosophical and methodological foundations of improvement science, juxtaposing it with traditional forms of research so that clear distinctions can be drawn. Chapters in the latter half of the book introduce the principles of improvement, give guidance and tools for operationalizing the principles in practice, and conclude with questions to ensure you are improving with equity in mind. Constantly reminding readers to think about who is involved and impacted, the Primer makes improvement science accessible to novices and adds critical dimensions for experienced practitioners to consider. Perfect for courses such as: Educational Research, School Improvement, and Program Evaluation

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

293

Publisher

Myers Education Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1975503570

ISBN 13

9781975503574

Claiming Union Widowhood

Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South

By: Brandi Clay Brimmer

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Claiming Union Widowhood

Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South

By: Brandi Clay Brimmer

In Claiming Union Widowhood, Brandi Clay Brimmer analyzes the US pension system from the perspective of poor black women during and after the Civil War. Reconstructing the grassroots pension network in New Bern, North Carolina, through a broad range of historical sources, she outlines how the mothers, wives, and widows of black Union soldiers struggled to claim pensions in the face of evidentiary obstacles and personal scrutiny. Brimmer exposes and examines the numerous attempts by the federal government to exclude black women from receiving the federal pensions that they had been promised. Her analyses illustrate the complexities of social policy and law administration and the interconnectedness of race, gender, and class formation. Expanding on previous analyses of pension records, Brimmer offers an interpretive framework of emancipation and the freedom narrative that places black women at the forefront of demands for black citizenship.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

202

Publisher

Duke University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1478012838

ISBN 13

9781478012832

Classwide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports

A Guide to Proactive Classroom Management

By: Brandi Simonsen,Diane Myers

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Classwide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports

A Guide to Proactive Classroom Management

By: Brandi Simonsen,Diane Myers

A vital classroom management resource, this book shows how to implement positive behavior interventions and supports (PBIS) in K-12 classrooms, regardless of whether PBIS is adopted schoolwide. The primary focus is universal (Tier 1) support for all students. Practical, step-by-step guidelines are provided for structuring the classroom environment, actively engaging students in instruction, teaching positive expectations, and establishing a continuum of strategies to reinforce positive behavior and respond to inappropriate behavior. Numerous real-world examples and learning exercises are included. In a convenient large-size format, the book includes reproducible tools for classwide PBIS planning and implementation, which can be downloaded and printed for repeated use. See also the authors' related guide for teacher trainers and coaches: Implementing Classwide PBIS: A Guide to Supporting Teachers. This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by Sandra M. Chafouleas.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

258

Publisher

Guilford Publications

Published Date

ISBN 10

1462519520

ISBN 13

9781462519521

The Valentine's Day Disaster

By: Brandi Dougherty

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Valentine's Day Disaster

By: Brandi Dougherty

When Maddy's soccer league fund-raiser is cancelled so the student council can throw a Valentine's Day dance, Maddy is furious. It is one hilarious disaster after another as Maddy tries to save the soccer fund-raiser and stay friends with her BFF, Sarah.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

212

Published Date

ISBN 10

0545031680

ISBN 13

9780545031684

Book's by Brandi Wilson

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email