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Thomas Keating

The Making of a Modern Christian Mystic

By: Cynthia Bourgeault

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Thomas Keating

The Making of a Modern Christian Mystic

By: Cynthia Bourgeault

The first portrait of spiritual luminary Thomas Keating’s remarkable evolution, in the last decades of his life, into a fully realized modern-day Christian mystic. In the first four decades of his life as a Trappist monk, Thomas Keating created a comprehensive, unified psychospiritual pathway leading from healing to holiness and from contemporary psychological wellness to classic mystical sanctity and beatitude. As one of the key innovators of the meditative practice of Centering Prayer, he fashioned a powerful on-ramp to the Christian contemplative tradition. Yet, as beloved author and Keating disciple Cynthia Bourgeault shows, that was not the end of Keating’s story—his evolution as a spiritual thinker and mystic continued in ways few have explored in depth. In this unique blend of biography, personal experience, and close reading of his late works, Bourgeault illuminates Keating’s remarkable spiritual development from the late 1980s until his death in 2018. She explores: Keating’s increasing engagement with nondual spiritual practice His contributions to interspiritual dialogue The evolution of his early teaching on the movement from “false self” to “true self,” to that from “true self” to “no self” His final “dark night of the spirit” and passage through death New evidence that he never left Christianity but carried it with him to new places These profound final stages of Keating’s spiritual journey demonstrate how readers might find their own way as modern mystics, fundamentally at home and at peace in the universe.

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Shambhala Publications

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1645471845

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Life! as It Happens! My Diary...

By: Cynthia Barbara Brown

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Life! as It Happens! My Diary...

By: Cynthia Barbara Brown

Dr. Brown was raised by her grandmother and grandfather; her grandmother was a blue-collar worker at a local secondary school in Jamaica and her grandfather was blind. Her childhood was one with many obstacles and the pages of this book "Life! As It Happens! My Dairy..." incorporates her "Life" experiences and questions with that of some of her closest friends and relatives; all of whom inspired this book. Due to her experiences and life lessons many people can relate to the pages of this book. This novel/diary is very interactive and will help to map clear growth directions that can be implemented into your daily life...Enjoy!

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Cynthia B. Brown

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0615403476

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9780615403472

Mystical Hope

Trusting in the Mercy of God

By: Cynthia Bourgeault

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Mystical Hope

Trusting in the Mercy of God

By: Cynthia Bourgeault

In five interwoven meditations, Mystical Hope shows how to recognize hope in our own lives, where it comes from, how to deepen it through prayer, and how to carry it into the world as a source of strength and renewal.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1561011932

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9781561011933

The Wisdom Way of Knowing

Reclaiming An Ancient Tradition to Awaken the Heart

By: Cynthia Bourgeault

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The Wisdom Way of Knowing

Reclaiming An Ancient Tradition to Awaken the Heart

By: Cynthia Bourgeault

Drawing on resources as diverse as Sufism, Benedictine Monasticism, the Gurdjieff Work, and the string theory of modern physics, Cynthia Bourgeault has crafted her own unique vision of the Wisdom way in this very accessible book, nicely balanced between concept and practice." —Gerald May, senior fellow, Shalem Institute, and author, Addiction and Grace and Will and Spirit "The spiritual wisdom and practical suggestions in this lively and beautiful book will be helpful to many who find themselves setting out on the interior journey." —Bruno Barnhart, a Camaldolese monk and author, Second Simplicity: The Inner Shape of Christianity "Cynthia Bourgeault's book is a valuable contribution to the much-needed reawakening of spiritual practice within a Christian context. Her sincerity, good sense, metaphysical depth, and broad experience make her a source to be trusted." —Kabir Helminski, Sufi Shaikh, the Threshold Society

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John Wiley & Sons

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078796896X

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9780787968960

Feasting on the Gospels: Chapters 1-9

By: Cynthia A. Jarvis,E. Elizabeth Johnson

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Feasting on the Gospels: Chapters 1-9

By: Cynthia A. Jarvis,E. Elizabeth Johnson

Feasting on the Gospels follows up on the success of the Feasting on the Word series with all new material on the most prominent and preached-on New Testament books, the four Gospels. With contributions from a diverse and respected group of scholars and pastors, Feasting on the Gospels covers every single passage in the Gospels, making it suitable for both lectionary and nonlectionary use. Moreover, these volumes incorporate the unique format of Feasting on the Word, with four perspectives for preachers to choose from for each Gospel passage: theological, pastoral, exegetical, and homiletical.

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Presbyterian Publishing Corp

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0664235530

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9780664235536

Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening

By: Cynthia Bourgeault

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Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening

By: Cynthia Bourgeault

Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening is a complete guidebook for all who wish to know the practice of Centering Prayer.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1561012629

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Karen Brown's Portugal

Exceptional Places to Stay and Itineraries

By: Karen Brown,Clare Brown,Cynthia Sauvage,June Eveleigh Brown

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Karen Brown's Portugal

Exceptional Places to Stay and Itineraries

By: Karen Brown,Clare Brown,Cynthia Sauvage,June Eveleigh Brown

From the hustle-bustle of New York with its delicatessens and Broadway shows through Washington, the nation's historic capital to the Jersey shore and the Virginias. Explore the antique stores of the Hudson River Valley, visit with the Amish and the Mennonites. Explore the Civil War battlegrounds in the Heritage States. Eleven exciting itineraries and over 150 places to stay.

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Karen Brown's Guides

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1933810157

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9781933810157

Prophetic Sisterhood

Liberal Women Ministers of the Frontier, 1880-1930

By: Cynthia Grant Tucker

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Prophetic Sisterhood

Liberal Women Ministers of the Frontier, 1880-1930

By: Cynthia Grant Tucker

An account of Unitarian and Universalist clergywomen on the western frontier in the nineteenth century, this work documents the struggles of a courageous group of nineteenth-century women to find a place in the liberal denominations of American religion.

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Indiana University Press

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025320822X

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9780253208224

Feasting on the Gospels--John, Volume 2

A Feasting on the Word Commentary

By: Cynthia A. Jarvis,E. Elizabeth Johnson

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Feasting on the Gospels--John, Volume 2

A Feasting on the Word Commentary

By: Cynthia A. Jarvis,E. Elizabeth Johnson

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Westminster John Knox Press

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1611645581

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9781611645583

Braided Relations, Entwined Lives

The Women of Charleston's Urban Slave Society

By: Cynthia M. Kennedy

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Braided Relations, Entwined Lives

The Women of Charleston's Urban Slave Society

By: Cynthia M. Kennedy

[A] stunning, deeply researched, and gracefully written social history." -- Leslie Schwalm, University of Iowa This study of women in antebellum Charleston, South Carolina, looks at the roles of women in an urban slave society. Cynthia M. Kennedy takes up issues of gender, race, condition (slave or free), and class and examines the ways each contributed to conveying and replicating power. She analyses what it meant to be a woman in a world where historically specific social classifications determined personal destiny and where at the same time people of color and white people mingled daily. Kennedy's study examines the lives of the women of Charleston and the variety of their attempts to negotiate the web of social relations that ensnared them.

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Indiana University Press

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0253111463

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9780253111463

Encyclopedia of World Trade: From Ancient Times to the Present

From Ancient Times to the Present

By: Cynthia Clark Northrup,Jerry H. Bentley,Alfred E. Eckes, Jr,Patrick Manning,Kenneth Pomeranz,Steven Topik

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Encyclopedia of World Trade: From Ancient Times to the Present

From Ancient Times to the Present

By: Cynthia Clark Northrup,Jerry H. Bentley,Alfred E. Eckes, Jr,Patrick Manning,Kenneth Pomeranz,Steven Topik

Written for high school or beginning undergraduate students, this four-volume reference valiantly attempts to provide a historical framework for the perhaps overly broad concept of world trade. Entry topics were selected on trade organizations, influential people, commodities, events that affected trade, trade routes, navigation, religion, communic

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Routledge

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1317471539

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9781317471530

The Why of Consumption

Contemporary Perspectives on Consumer Motives, Goals and Desires

By: Cynthia Huffman,David Glen Mick,S. Ratneshwar

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The Why of Consumption

Contemporary Perspectives on Consumer Motives, Goals and Desires

By: Cynthia Huffman,David Glen Mick,S. Ratneshwar

This book brings together an international collection of authors from a variety of disciplines who offer new and critical perspectives, summarize key findings and provide important theoretical frameworks to guide the reader through the ‘why?’ of consumption. The book answers questions such as: What is the nature of motives, goals, and desires that prompt consumption behaviours? Why do consumers buy and consume particular products, brands and services from the multitude of alternatives afforded by their environments? How do consumers think and feel about their cravings? Unique in focus and with multifaceted approach which anyone interested in consumption and consumer research will find fascinating, this topical book provides an excellent overview of current research, and imparts key insights to illuminate the subject for both academics and practitioners alike.

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Routledge

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113459903X

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9781134599035

Karen Brown's Spain

Charming Inns and Itineraries, 2000

By: Karen Brown,Cynthia Sauvage

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Karen Brown's Spain

Charming Inns and Itineraries, 2000

By: Karen Brown,Cynthia Sauvage

Karen Brown Spain Inns & Itineraries""A Pioneer and still leader in the category of high-quality small inns and bed and breakfasts." -- Gourmet ""Books to dream over, but also to use." -- Washington Post Completely updated every year, Karen Brown Guides point you to the most charming inns and B&Bs in Europe and the USA. Tons of reviews and easy-to-follow ititneraries as well as lively, personal descriptions of all inns, hotels, and B&Bs.Accommodations of all price ranges, chosen for their charm and the warmth of their welcome.Locator maps help to plan inn-to-inn itineraries.

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Globe Pequot Press

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0930328957

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9780930328955

In Stillness

Short Stories from a Life Well Lived...

By: Cynthia Breadner

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In Stillness

Short Stories from a Life Well Lived...

By: Cynthia Breadner

This compilation of personal stories and ponderings was written during a challenging time for us all. Full of personal experience and insight, it reveals love and hope in a world that can often seem dark. These stories will touch your heart, bring joy, laughter, and wisdom to your day while opening your spirit to the presence of the divine energy. Letting go of past wrongs or painful experiences is one of the hardest things we ever do. The emotions underlying these events, and all that happens in our lives from day to day, can make it hard to find ways to cope, even in good times, let alone in times that are more challenging. In Stillness, the author weaves tales of heartfelt emotion and enchanting storytelling, sprinkled with hope. She reminds all readers how they can learn to lean into life, chase away fear, and find our true selves again. In Stillness, we find the hope, peace, and space to be true to our own hearts, making room not only to laugh at the world but at ourselves. In Stillness, life awakens!

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FriesenPress

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1039134726

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9781039134720

Karen Brown's Portugal

Charming Inns and Itineraries 2003

By: Cynthia Sauvage,Karen Brown

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Karen Brown's Portugal

Charming Inns and Itineraries 2003

By: Cynthia Sauvage,Karen Brown

Portugal was once one of the world's greatest powers. Reminders of this period of great wealth and prominence still exist today in the form of mighty castles, spectacular fortresses, beautiful mansions and elaborate cathedrals. This fabulous guide enables you to discover the most charming and historic places to stay and provides itineraries that will lead you to them by the most scenic and interesting routes. Travellers have trusted Karen Brown's guides for 20 years for their warm, engaging and up to date reviews of the finest inns and small hotels in Europe and California. Only the most charming places to stay make it onto the pages of these guides - no inn can buy its way in, and those not maintaining their standards every year are dropped. These guides are so reliable that travellers have come to plan their whole holidays around Karen Brown's recommendations.

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Karen Brown's Guides, Incorporated

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1928901409

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9781928901402

The Pelvic Floor

By: Beate Carrière,Cynthia Markel Feldt

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The Pelvic Floor

By: Beate Carrière,Cynthia Markel Feldt

The remarkably complex pelvic floor and its disorders comprise one of the most interesting -- and challenging -- areas of physical therapy. And recently, common problems once considered taboo, such as incontinence, have become mainstream issues. More than ever before, a solid understanding of the structure and function of the manifold problems of the pelvic floor is vital to successful treatment. This groundbreaking work brings together an international team of world-renowned experts in the treatment of urinary and fecal incontinence, as well as sexual dysfunction, to provide a comprehensive guide to the structure and function of the muscles of the pelvic floor. Using concise text and clear illustrations and helpful photographs, the authors present all phenomena associated with pelvic floor dysfunction. The authors begin with a detailed overview of the anatomy and physiology of the pelvic floor, and then discuss all state-of-the-art diagnostic and treatment strategies, from biofeedback and manual therapy to the causes of different types of pain and psychosocial problems. Detailed discussions of the specific issues associated with children, women, and men, as well as with rectal and anal dysfunction, follow. With its thorough coverage, this highly practical text is essential reading for all health care professionals who wish to provide their patients suffering from disorders of the pelvic floor with the best care available.

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Thieme

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3132578347

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9783132578340

The Prose of Things

Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century

By: Cynthia Sundberg Wall

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The Prose of Things

Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century

By: Cynthia Sundberg Wall

Virginia Woolf once commented that the central image in Robinson Crusoe is an object—a large earthenware pot. Woolf and other critics pointed out that early modern prose is full of things but bare of setting and description. Explaining how the empty, unvisualized spaces of such writings were transformed into the elaborate landscapes and richly upholstered interiors of the Victorian novel, Cynthia Sundberg Wall argues that the shift involved not just literary representation but an evolution in cultural perception. In The Prose of Things, Wall analyzes literary works in the contexts of natural science, consumer culture, and philosophical change to show how and why the perception and representation of space in the eighteenth-century novel and other prose narratives became so textually visible. Wall examines maps, scientific publications, country house guides, and auction catalogs to highlight the thickening descriptions of domestic interiors. Considering the prose works of John Bunyan, Samuel Pepys, Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, David Hume, Ann Radcliffe, and Sir Walter Scott, The Prose of Things is the first full account of the historic shift in the art of describing.

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University of Chicago Press

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022622502X

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9780226225029

Young People in Out-of-Home Care

Findings from the Ontario Looking After Children Project

By: Robert J. Flynn,Meagan Miller,Tessa Bell,Barbara Greenberg,Cynthia Vincent

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Young People in Out-of-Home Care

Findings from the Ontario Looking After Children Project

By: Robert J. Flynn,Meagan Miller,Tessa Bell,Barbara Greenberg,Cynthia Vincent

Child abuse is typically considered to be the most severe form of early adversity to which children or adolescents can be subjected. Maltreated young people seen as at the highest risk are likely to be placed in out-of-home care for their own protection, including foster care, kinship care, group care, or independent living. Young People in Out-of-Home Care is based on more than two decades of applied research and evaluation, conducted since 2000, as part of the ongoing Ontario Looking After Children (OnLAC) Project. The OnLAC project was based on a new child welfare approach known as Looking After Children, developed in the UK in the late 1980s and 1990s, to reform and improve services to vulnerable young people who were being looked after in out-of-home care. When launched in 2000, the OnLAC project “Canadianized” the UK approach and partnered with the Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies (OACAS) and some 20 children’s aid societies in the province. Since 2007, the Ontario government has mandated that local societies use the OnLAC method to plan services and monitor outcomes. Since 2000, the Ontario Looking After Children (OnLAC) project has gathered information on results and well-being from interviews with more than 35,000 young people in care, their caregivers, and their child welfare workers. Young People in Out- of-Home Care presents major project findings and lessons that promise to improve young people’s education, development, health, social and family relationships, mental health, and preparation for transition to community life.

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University of Ottawa Press

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0776638041

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9780776638041

Zora Neale Hurston

An Annotated Bibliography of Works and Criticism

By: Cynthia Davis,Verner D. Mitchell

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Zora Neale Hurston

An Annotated Bibliography of Works and Criticism

By: Cynthia Davis,Verner D. Mitchell

Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), the most prominent of the Harlem Renaissance women writers, was unique because her social and professional connections were not limited to literature but encompassed theatre, dance, film, anthropology, folklore, music, politics, high society, academia, and artistic bohemia. Hurston published four novels, three books of nonfiction, and dozens of short stories, plays, and essays. In addition, she won a long list of fellowships and prizes, including a Guggenheim and a Rosenwald. Yet by the 1950s, Hurston, like most of her Harlem Renaissance peers, had faded into oblivion. An essay by Alice Walker in the 1970s, however, spurred the revival of Hurston’s literary reputation, and her works, including her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, have enjoyed an enduring popularity. Zora Neale Hurston: An Annotated Bibliography of Works and Criticism consists of reviews of critical interpretations of Hurston’s work. In addition to publication information, each selection is carefully crafted to capture the author’s thesis in a short, pithy, analytical framework. Also included are original essays by eminent Hurston scholars that contextualize the bibliographic entries. Meticulously researched but accessible, these essays focus on gaps in Hurston criticism and outline new directions for Hurston scholarship in the twenty-first century. Comprehensive and up-to-date, this volume contains analytical summaries of the most important critical writings on Zora Neale Hurston from the 1970s to the present. In addition, entries from difficult-to-locate sources, such as small academic presses or international journals, can be found here. Although intended as a bibliographic resource for graduate and undergraduate students, this volume is also aimed toward general readers interested in women’s literature, African American literature, American history, and popular culture. The book will also appeal to scholars and teachers studying twentieth-century American literature, as well as those specializing in anthropology, modernism, and African American studies, with a special focus on the women of the Harlem Renaissance.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810891530

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9780810891531

Narrating Humanity

Life Writing and Movement Politics from Palestine to Mauna Kea

By: Cynthia Franklin

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Narrating Humanity

Life Writing and Movement Politics from Palestine to Mauna Kea

By: Cynthia Franklin

In Narrating Humanity, Cynthia G. Franklin makes a critical intervention into practices of life writing and contemporary crises in the United States about who counts as human. To enable this intervention, she proposes a powerful new analytical language centered on “narrative humanity,” “narrated humanity,” and “grounded narrative humanity” and foregrounds concepts of the human that emerge from movement politics. While stories of “narrative humanity” propagate the status quo, Franklin argues, those of “narrated humanity” and “grounded narrative humanity” are ones that articulate ways of being human necessary for not only surviving but also thriving during a time of accelerating crises brought on by the intersecting effects of racial capitalism, imperialism, heteropatriarchy, and climate change. Through chapters focused on Hurricane Katrina; Black Lives Matter; the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement; and the Native Hawaiian movement to protect Mauna a Wākea, Franklin reveals how life writing can be mobilized to do more than perpetuate dominant forms of dehumanization that underwrite violence. She contends that life narratives can help materialize ways of being human inspired by these contemporary political movements that are based on queer kinship, inter/national solidarity, abolitionist care, and decolonial connectivity among humans, more-than-humans, land, and waters. Engaging writers, artists, and activists who inspire radical forms of relationality, she comes to write side-by-side with them in her own acts of narrated humanity by refusing the boundaries between autobiography, community-based activism, and literary and cultural criticism.

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Fordham Univ Press

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1531503748

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9781531503741

Research and Practice in Education

Building Alliances, Bridging the Divide

By: Cynthia E. Coburn,Mary Kay Stein

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Research and Practice in Education

Building Alliances, Bridging the Divide

By: Cynthia E. Coburn,Mary Kay Stein

That there is a divide between research and practice is a common lament across policy-oriented disciplines, and education is no exception. Rhetoric abounds about the role research plays (or does not play) in the improvement of schools and classrooms, and policy makers push solutions that are rooted in assumptions about the way that research should influence practice. Yet few people have studied the relationship between research and practice empirically. This book presents findings from a series of interlocking case studies of nationally visible R&D projects, with a unique focus on how researchers and practitioners actually worked together, and the policy, social, and institutional processes that either enabled or hindered their work. The book investigates the dynamics of cross-institutional collaboration and the relationship between tool design, teacher learning, and the implementation of research-based approaches. It also explores conditions for learning in schools and the role of evidence in district decision making. By investigating the roles played by research and practice in these ten educational improvement efforts, the book illuminates lessons for those who seek to do this kind of work in the future. It concludes by suggesting implications for designers, funders, school and district leaders, and universities.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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1442203641

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9781442203648

Women Writers in the United States

A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History

By: Cynthia J. Davis,Kathryn West

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Women Writers in the United States

A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History

By: Cynthia J. Davis,Kathryn West

Women Writers in the United States is a celebration of the many forms of work - written and social, tangible and intangible - produced by American women. Furthering their work in The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States, Davis and West document the variety and volume of women's work in the United States in a clear and accessible timeline format. They present information on the full spectrum of women's writing - including fiction, poetry, biography, political manifestos, essays, advice columns, and cookbooks - alongside a chronology of developments in social and cultural history that are especially pertinent to women's lives. This extensive chronology illustrates the diversity of women who have lived and written in the United States and creates a sense of the full trajectory of individual careers. A valuable and rich source of information on women's studies, literature, and history, Women Writers in the United States will enable readers to locate familiar and unfamiliar women's texts and to place them in the context out of which they emerged.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195090535

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9780195090536

The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature

By: Cynthia Sugars

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The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature

By: Cynthia Sugars

The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature provides a broad-ranging introduction to some of the key critical fields, genres, and periods in Canadian literary studies. The essays in this volume, written by prominent theorists in the field, reflect the plurality of critical perspectives, regional and historical specializations, and theoretical positions that constitute the field of Canadian literary criticism across a range of genres and historical periods. The volume provides a dynamic introduction to current areas of critical interest, including (1) attention to the links between the literary and the public sphere, encompassing such topics as neoliberalism, trauma and memory, citizenship, material culture, literary prizes, disability studies, literature and history, digital cultures, globalization studies, and environmentalism or ecocriticism; (2) interest in Indigenous literatures and settler-Indigenous relations; (3) attention to multiple diasporic and postcolonial contexts within Canada; (4) interest in the institutionalization of Canadian literature as a discipline; (5) a turn towards book history and literary history, with a renewed interest in early Canadian literature; (6) a growing interest in articulating the affective character of the "literary" - including an interest in affect theory, mourning, melancholy, haunting, memory, and autobiography. The book represents a diverse array of interests -- from the revival of early Canadian writing, to the continued interest in Indigenous, regional, and diasporic traditions, to more recent discussions of globalization, market forces, and neoliberalism. It includes a distinct section dedicated to Indigenous literatures and traditions, as well as a section that reflects on the discipline of Canadian literature as a whole.

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Oxford University Press

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019049400X

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9780190494001

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