Donna E. Lane's Books

Democratic Evaluation and Democracy

Exploring the Reality

By: Donna Podems

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Democratic Evaluation and Democracy

Exploring the Reality

By: Donna Podems

Democratic evaluation brings a way of thinking about evaluation’s role in society and in particular, its role in strengthening social justice. Yet the reality of applying it, and what happens when it is applied particularly outside the West, is unclear. Set in South Africa, a newly formed democracy in Southern Africa, the book affords an in-depth journey that immerses a reader into the realities of evaluation and its relation to democracy. The book starts with the broader introductory chapters that set the scene for more detailed ones which bring thorough insights into national government, local government, and civil societies’ experience of evaluation, democratic evaluation and their understanding of how it contributes to strengthening democracy (or not). A teaching case, the book concludes by providing guiding questions that encourage reflection, discussion and learning that ultimately aims to inform practice and theory.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

257

Publisher

IAP

Published Date

ISBN 10

1681237903

ISBN 13

9781681237909

Anthony Munday and the Catholics, 1560–1633

By: Donna B. Hamilton

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Anthony Munday and the Catholics, 1560–1633

By: Donna B. Hamilton

In this new study, Donna B. Hamilton offers a major revisionist reading of the works of Anthony Munday, one of the most prolific authors of his time, who wrote and translated in many genres, including polemical religious and political tracts, poetry, chivalric romances, history of Britain, history of London, drama, and city entertainments. Long dismissed as a hack who wrote only for money, Munday is here restored to his rightful position as an historical figure at the centre of many important political and cultural events in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. In Anthony Munday and the Catholics, 1560-1633, Hamilton reinterprets Munday as a writer who began his career writing on behalf of the Catholic cause and subsequently negotiated for several decades the difficult terrain of an ever-changing Catholic-Protestant cultural, religious, and political landscape. She argues that throughout his life and writing career Munday retained his Catholic sensibility and occasionally wrote dangerously on behalf of Catholics. Thus he serves as an excellent case study through which present-day scholars can come to a fuller understanding of how a person living in this turbulent time in English history - eschewing open resistance, exile or martyrdom - managed a long and prolific writing career at the centre of court, theatre, and city activities but in ways that reveal his commitment to Catholic political and religious ideology. Individual chapters in this book cover Munday's early writing, 1577-80; his writing about the trial and execution of Jesuit Edmund Campion; his writing for the stage, 1590-1602; his politically inflected translations of chivalric romance; and his writings for and about the city of London, 1604-33. Hamilton revisits and revalues the narratives told by earlier scholars about hack writers, the anti-theatrical tracts, the role of the Earl of Oxford as patron, the political-religious interests of Munday's plays, the implications of Mu

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

524

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1351957880

ISBN 13

9781351957885

Seeking Treasures

By: Donna E. Lane

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Seeking Treasures

By: Donna E. Lane

We are created to be Seekers. According to Jesus, seeking His Kingdom is the only quest that truly matters. Jesus refers to His Kingdom as a treasure hidden in a field and a pearl of unmatched value, and He instructs us to sell all we have in this world to purchase the field and the pearl. God provides us with a map to His Kingdom treasures in Scripture. Through parables and other teachings, and through the example of His life, Jesus reveals the nature, qualities, characteristics, and locus of His great treasures. This book draws on all the resources in Scripture to create a treasure map - a guide to seeking the Kingdom of God. As you read, you are taken on a quest to find your true identity, to reclaim your authority, to experience His indwelling Spirit more fully, to better understand and receive His protection, to celebrate your sanctification, to receive God's wisdom, to delight in the true freedom of His love, and to live in the Kingdom of God now. I pray, at the end of this quest, fear and shame will no longer dictate your choices, and you will find yourself more intimately connected to Jesus, more aware of who you are in Christ, more grounded and strengthened to stand in His authority, more confident in your position as heir to His Kingdom, and more certain of His love for you. If you follow the treasure map, you will be well on your way in your quest to seek the Kingdom life.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

262

Published Date

ISBN 10

173281127X

ISBN 13

9781732811270

Book's by Donna E. Lane

Democratic Evaluation and Democracy

Democratic Evaluation and Democracy

Anthony Munday and the Catholics, 1560–1633

Anthony Munday and the Catholics, 1560–1633

Seeking Treasures

Seeking Treasures

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email