Jarrod had lived a very long, eventful life and had proven himself worthy of the title Master. He traversed most of his universe restoring peace, healing the sick, and teaching and even reviving the dead; he was, indeed, a formidable spiritual master. Personal, romantic love was all that his illustrious life lacked. Only once, long ago, did he give his heart to a woman. It was a once in a lifetime love that he refused to let go. A love he couldnt release from within that would not let him go. He believed not even his great powers could bring that love back to him. But the Powerful One who could dance on a raindrop was at work on his behalf. His life was changed, forever.
Making of a Master is a prequel to Jarrod, which was published in 2003. From a dramatic rescue from his flooded village by unknown people in strange flying ships, to life on a golden planet of futuristic technology and miracles, Jarrod (born Makeeshla, to the village chief), sought answers to his quest for knowledge about his rescuers, himself and a god who was said to be greater than his familiar SKY god. His journey took him from illiterate hunter/farmer to Master Spiritual Teacher, with power to heal, manipulate matter and even restore life. Life on the planet, Kanon, took Jarrod through eye-opening, mind-expanding experiences, humiliation, romantic love and devastating loss. Also an unexpected encounter with the Almight. This story ends where the first Jarrod begins.
Jarrod had lived a very long, eventful life and had proven himself worthy of the title Master. He traversed most of his universe restoring peace, healing the sick, and teaching and even reviving the dead; he was, indeed, a formidable spiritual master. Personal, romantic love was all that his illustrious life lacked. Only once, long ago, did he give his heart to a woman. It was a once in a lifetime love that he refused to let go. A love he couldnt release from within that would not let him go. He believed not even his great powers could bring that love back to him. But the Powerful One who could dance on a raindrop was at work on his behalf. His life was changed, forever.
Making of a Master is a prequel to Jarrod, which was published in 2003. From a dramatic rescue from his flooded village by unknown people in strange flying ships, to life on a golden planet of futuristic technology and miracles, Jarrod (born Makeeshla, to the village chief), sought answers to his quest for knowledge about his rescuers, himself and a god who was said to be greater than his familiar SKY god. His journey took him from illiterate hunter/farmer to Master Spiritual Teacher, with power to heal, manipulate matter and even restore life. Life on the planet, Kanon, took Jarrod through eye-opening, mind-expanding experiences, humiliation, romantic love and devastating loss. Also an unexpected encounter with the Almight. This story ends where the first Jarrod begins.
In a world where the notion of home is more traumatizing than it is comforting, artists are using this literal and figurative space to reframe human responses to trauma. Building on the scholarship of key art historians and theorists such as Judith Butler and Mieke Bal, Claudette Lauzon embarks upon a transnational analysis of contemporary artists who challenge the assumption that ‘home’ is a stable site of belonging. Lauzon’s boundary-breaking discussion of artists including Krzysztof Wodiczko, Sanitago Sierra, Doris Salcedo, and Yto Barrada posits that contemporary art offers a unique set of responses to questions of home and belonging in an increasingly unwelcoming world. From the legacies of Colombia’s ‘dirty war’ to migrant North African workers crossing the Mediterranean, The Unmaking of Home in Contemporary Art bears witness to the suffering of others whose overriding notion of home reveals the universality of human vulnerability and the limits of empathy.
Well-known British Gospel singer Claudette Schlitter tells her remarkable story. The story of her search for love. For many years Claudette hid her true self from family and friends, until in the end the secrets of the past and her battle with an eating disorder threatened to destroy all that she had worked for. She began a search for true love and hoped for a happy ever after, only to find that more tragedy than she could ever imagine was coming her way. Finally she found the strength to face her past and the courage to tell her story. Claudette's story will inspire you as you read of her remarkable journey of faith against the odds. Never giving up on the belief that somewhere out there was someone who loved her, she finally found that someone but in the most unexpected way.
Claudette Kulkarni explores lesbian experience from a Jungian and feminist perspective, through interviews with women who see themselves as lesbians or who are in a lesbian relationship. Although a feminist treatment of the subject challenges the heterosexism of Jungian theory, the author presents a link between theory and experience that is consistent with both approaches. She concludes that when a woman finds herself loving another woman she is often responding to a profound psychological instinct to act, in spite of internal conflict or external opposition, and that this is a significant move in the service of personal and collective individuation and a movement toward achieving self-understanding
In Seizing the Means of Reproduction, Michelle Murphy's initial focus on the alternative health practices developed by radical feminists in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s opens into a sophisticated analysis of the transnational entanglements of American empire, population control, neoliberalism, and late-twentieth-century feminisms. Murphy concentrates on the technoscientific means—the technologies, practices, protocols, and processes—developed by feminist health activists. She argues that by politicizing the technical details of reproductive health, alternative feminist practices aimed at empowering women were also integral to late-twentieth-century biopolitics. Murphy traces the transnational circulation of cheap, do-it-yourself health interventions, highlighting the uneasy links between economic logics, new forms of racialized governance, U.S. imperialism, family planning, and the rise of NGOs. In the twenty-first century, feminist health projects have followed complex and discomforting itineraries. The practices and ideologies of alternative health projects have found their way into World Bank guidelines, state policies, and commodified research. While the particular moment of U.S. feminism in the shadow of Cold War and postcolonialism has passed, its dynamics continue to inform the ways that health is governed and politicized today.
From its beginning as a German-speaking frontier settlement to a vibrant modern community of the twenty-first century, Lexington has exemplified the American spirit throughout its generations. This book, made up of articles originally published in the Lexington Yesterday column in the Lexington Chronicle and Dispatch News, celebrates all the communities that make up the unique character of Lexington. Follow Claudette Holliday, historian and seventh-generation descendant of one of Lexingtons first families, as she tells of Emily Geigers patriotic ride during the American Revolution, the notorious escapades of Bloody Bill Cunningham, Lexingtons murder trial of the century and other true tales from the areas rich history.
Understanding the fundamentals of menu planning is essential to building a successful foodservice concept since the menu is the foundation upon which a foodservice operation builds both its reputation and profit. Reflecting the latest menu trends in the restaurant industry, the authors show how research, surveys, and sales analysis are key to menu planning and design.Fundamentals of Menu Planning, Third Edition presents a complete overview of key aspects of menu planning, including designing, writing, costing, marketing, and merchandising a menu. The content in this edition is divided into three parts. Part I focuses on the evolution of the menu and includes topics such as menu trends in the industry, performing market research and creating a market survey, nutrition and dietary guidelines, and menu planning. Part II examines the financial aspects of menu planning such as performing a yield test, creating and writing standardized recipes, and recipe costing. Part III covers writing, designing, and merchandising the menu. With this accessible resource, hospitality management students, culinary students, restaurateurs and other foodservice professionals will all gain a thorough understanding of how an effective and successfully planned menu is fundamental to the success and profitability of the wider foodservice enterprise.
Failing Forward in Saarland is the memoir of a transplanted Canadian with Caribbean roots, venturing with her husband and their daughter into Saarland, Germany. The memoir describes the year the family spent in this small forested land tucked away in the western corner of Germany on the border to France. Her teenage daughter made the daily commute to attend a lycée in France and her husband spent most days doing research in labs and forests. What was the mother and wife left to do in the Saarland with next to no knowledge of the German language let alone the Frankish accent? As a career teacher, the author’s life had never before been reduced to awaiting the daily home-coming of daughter and husband. During her year in Saarland, she did much more than that. This book is an entertaining and informative account by an experienced Black teacher of what it means to transplant a family into a foreign country and how to enjoy a welcoming culture. Most significantly, this memoir is a meaningful addition to the literary corpus focusing on strangers in a strange land. Even though the author is intimately familiar with the notion — she has lived most of her adult life in Canada, far from her Barbados birthplace — she immediately faces the challenges of adjusting to the customs of a new land and, especially, learning to communicate in German. And her story is anything but ordinary — it’s a moving, often amusing, and sometimes humbling account of the author’s adventures and learning experiences in a largely unknown country without the benefit of fluency in the local language. As the title indicates, the author comes to view these challenges — and even failures — as positive “life lessons in adaptability, strength, and resilience” — failing forward.
This book is about my life and the several horrible paths that I had to undergo. The book guides readers through my spiritual transformation through all my trials and tribulations in which God was watching over me. I hope to inspire several believers and non-believers to look at my story and what God has done for me in order to better their lives and faith. Minister Claudette Barrett was called to the Ministry in 1980 while listening to the Chuck Swindol radio program. She joined the Church of God Fellowship Ministry, where she taught Sunday school and worked with Fellowship visiting nursing homes, hospitals, and detox centers. After leaving Church of God Fellowship, she became a member of the New Testament Church of God, where she was a Sunday school teacher. Minister Claudette decided she wanted more teaching, so she joined New Covenants Christian Center. She then became active in Evangelistic Ministry, Cell Ministry, Missionary Ministry, and book store Ministry. Minister Claudette was ordained by Bishop Glen Prospere, Pastor of the Full Life Gospel Center. There she served as a Youth Minister, Minister of Evangelism and a children Church Minister. Minister Claudette attended Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and Graduated From the Bethel Bible Institute where she studied for four years.
DIVAn account of sick building syndrome and the large number of historical conditions--office worker protests, feminism, ventilation engineering, toxicology, etc.--that coalesced to give this phenomenon real existence./div
A biography of the nineteenth-century English artist and illustrator whose sixteen picture books "greatly influenced children's book illustration" and, for whom the Caldecott Medal is named.
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