About the Book Great Heartache Among Cattle follows Traci, Mona, and Darlene, and focuses on the experience of womanhood at several ages. When a psychopathic man enters the lives of one woman, he inevitably enters the worlds of all three and causes havoc in their lives. Follow these three as they journey through hardships, love, and abuse, strengthening the bond between them as they do so. About the Author Cynthia was raised in Dumas, Texas, along with her two older brothers, Calvin and John. One of her ambitions was to be a published author, but she never finished this endeavor. John Steinbeck, John Irving, and Carson McCullers are three writers whose style she admired and hoped to emulate. Cynthia enjoyed her time as an over-the-road trucker; she loved observing scenic America, especially in the Northwest, and meeting people. After Cynthia’s unexpected passing in 2022, her husband, Ron, discovered her book and set out to make her dream come true. Cynthia loved sharing her life with Ron, gardening, photography, and caring for her eight parrots, several of which she rescued.
Why is there so much violence portrayed in the media? What meanings are attached to representations of violence in the media? Can media violence encourage violent behaviour and desensitize audiences to real violence? Does the 'everydayness' of media violence lead to the 'normalization' of violence in society? Violence and the Media is a lively and indispensable introduction to current thinking about media violence and its potential influence on audiences.Adopting a fresh perspective on the 'media effects' debate, Carter and Weaver engage with a host of pressing issues around violence in different media contexts - including news, film, television, pornography, advertising and cyberspace.The book offers a compelling argument that the daily repetition of media violence helps to normalize and legitimize the acts being portrayed. Most crucially, the influence of media violence needs to be understood in relation to the structural inequalities of everyday life. Using a wide range of examples of media violence primarily drawn from the American and British media to illustrate these points, Violence and the Media is a distinctive and revealing exploration of one of the most important and controversial subjects in cultural and media studies today.
THE STORY: Soos, young, witty and charmingly neurotic, retreats from a failed marriage to her upper-class hometown. The type of WASP domain with the houses that made Martha Stewart forget she was Polish. As party after party unfolds, the getaway
This book offers a comprehensive report on a three-year, cross-cultural, critical participatory action research study, conducted in children’s homes and communities in Fiji. This project contributed to building sustainable local capacity in communities without access to early childhood services, so as to promote preschool children’s literacy development in their home languages and English. The book includes rich descriptions of the young children’s lived, multilingual literacy practices in their home and community contexts. This work advances research-based practices for fostering young children’s multilingual literacy and building community capacity in a post-colonial Pasifika context; further, it shares valuable insights into processes and complexities that are inherent to multiliteracy and cross-cultural research.
The African Christian Roho religion, or Holy Spirit movement, is a charismatic and prophetic movement that arose in the Luo region of western Kenya. This movement has fascinated students of history and religion for more than sixty years, but surprisingly has not been extensively studied. This book fills that lacuna. In Women of Fire and Spirit, Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton uses the extensive oral histories and life narratives of active participants in the faith, giving them full voice in constructing the history of their Church. In doing so, she counter-balances the existing historical literature, which draws heavily on colonial records. Hoehler-Fatton's sources call into question the paradigm of "schism" that has dominated the discussion of African independent Christianity. Faith, rather than schism or politics, emerges here as the hallmark of Roho religion. Hoehler-Fatton's book is doubly unusual in foregrounding the role of women in the evolution and expansion of their Church. She traces the gradual transformation of women's involvement from the early years when--drawing on indigenous models of female spirit possession--women acted as soldiers, headed congregations, and served as pastors, to the present condition of Western-style institutionalization and exclusion for women. Despite this marginalization, women members continue to be inspired by the defiance of past heroines.
Cutting across the registers of history, family, bigotry, love, loss, and race, the cycle of poems in The Evolution into 20 seeks to capture the into-the-world essence of youth and feminine consciousness. The work oscillates from such mediations on Etta James to Dionysius, from childhood innocence and holy naivete to the scrutiny of being a Black woman. The exploration into life forges spirit and identity made and remade in joy, suffering, discovery, and peace. The collection is a deeply personal and intimate work, but the very intimacy is all the same a transfigured universal experience sought to be shared with all.
To call Jim Steele "just" a veterinarian is like saying Bill Gates is "just" a software engineer. During his one hundred years of life, Steele changed the face of veterinary medicine and public health. As the first US assistant surgeon general for veterinary affairs at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, he pioneered the simple but powerful philosophy that human health is intimately connected to the health of animals and our surrounding environment. His unwavering convictions, passion for medical progress, and strong leadership have saved and enriched countless human and animal lives. Animal Health Human Health One Health recounts Jim Steele's remarkable story, bringing to life his rough-and-tumble childhood in Chicago, his veterinary and academic career, countless battles with deadly diseases, public health adventures around the globe, creation of the first comprehensive scientific book series on zoonotic diseases, and his final years when he was still speaking, coauthoring scientific articles and books, and mentoring and advising students, colleagues and world leaders. He was the father of Veterinary Public Health and a motivator to all who met him. His life story is a great inspiration for anyone with curiosity and passion for the health, life and environmental sciences.
The rancher and the city girl have nothing in common… except the wedding that brings them together Eager to prove herself to her family, Kelsey Summerfield is on board to plan her grandfather’s upcoming wedding. But the bride’s grandson, rancher Clay McKendry, is equally determined to keep the city girl’s big ideas in check. When a series of disasters threaten to derail their grandparents’ big day, will these two opposites put aside their differences…and find their own happily-ever-after? From Love Inspired: Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope.
Destiny took her seat, holding her hands tightly in her lap, trying to remain calm. The events of the day were catching up with her with lightning speed. She took a few slow, deep, calming breaths and let them out, hoping they would begin the boarding process soon. The fear of being caught lingered on her mind. If she let it, Destiny knew, it would take her over completely. Just thinking of Stanley, of everything that had happened, made her feel dizzy, and she forced herself to push it away. She couldn't wait to say one day that it was a lifetime ago. A lifetime she'd never forget. And a mistake she'd never make again...and certainly not with anyone like Stanley. Straightening, Destiny turned to face the boarding attendant. It was time to start her new life.
When he marries the boss's daughter, Ted Barrington, a young ambitious lawyer, finds his dreams coming true. But there is a thorn among the roses when Cynthia's infidelities result in the birth of Sara. The deteriorating marriage sputters out when Ted discovers more of his wife's cheating habits. Ted's demand for divorce creates a scene of violence which becomes questionable to the authorities when his wife is found dead and Sara is abducted. Thus begins the thriller as Ted's life mutates into horror. His endurance is severely tested as he searches for Cynthia's murderer and Sara's kidnapper, leading him from Chicago, to Switzerland, and finally to Dallas, Texas. Inexorable suspense, drama, and human interest will keep your eyes glued to the pages as Ted is driven full force by a mixture of anger and love. His powerful parental love, shaded by the urge for revenge, leaves him emotionally suspended. Meanwhile, he is charged with his wife's murder. But Ted will not surrender to the relentless trauma. At times he may give up his search for his sanity, but he never gives up his search for Sara in this thrilling cat's-cradle of a mystery.
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