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The Seven Gates: A Memoir of a Descent

By: Elaine Amyot

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The Seven Gates: A Memoir of a Descent

By: Elaine Amyot

A diagnosis of cancer sets the author on a journey of self-discovery and healing. The book is structured on the myth of Inanna and her descent into the underworld. 36 color illustrations by the author.

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118

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Lulu.com

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0978051041

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9780978051044

Steadfast Charity

Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent De Paul, Halifax 1972–2002

By: Mary Sweeney SC,Martha Westwater SC,Elaine Nolan SC,Julia Heslin SC

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Steadfast Charity

Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent De Paul, Halifax 1972–2002

By: Mary Sweeney SC,Martha Westwater SC,Elaine Nolan SC,Julia Heslin SC

Steadfast Charity covers the history of the Sisters of Charity of Halifax during the years 1972—2002 as the congregation met the challenges of Vatican II and created new models for living vowed religious life. New ways of praying, of being community, of giving service, of understanding the vows—all required trust, openness, risk and a willingness to let go of security. As the congregation responded to the call to renewal, little did the sisters realize how much would change. In this book, Sisters of Charity Mary Sweeney, Martha Westwater, Elaine Nolan and Julia Heslin explore these times by examining the life and practices of the sisters and by contextualizing decisions that were made by the governing bodies during those years. They tell the story of an organization and its evolution as a part of the “Church in the Modern World.” The authors offer an inside view of a congregation which, in navigating its transformation through a time of upheaval in the Church and in the world, remained faithful to its purpose, as stated in its Constitutions: “to give joyful witness to love.”

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324

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Archway Publishing

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148087048X

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9781480870482

The Mirroure of the Worlde

A Middle English Translation of Le Miroir Du Monde

By: Bodleian Library Staff,Bodleian Library,Elaine E. Whitaker,Ruth E. Sternglantz,Medieval Academy of America,Medieval Academy of America Staff

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The Mirroure of the Worlde

A Middle English Translation of Le Miroir Du Monde

By: Bodleian Library Staff,Bodleian Library,Elaine E. Whitaker,Ruth E. Sternglantz,Medieval Academy of America,Medieval Academy of America Staff

Makes available for the first time the unique text in the fifteenth-century British manuscript, MS. Bodley 283, which is among the last and largest works in the tradition of lay religious instruction mandated by the Fourth Lateran Council.

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670

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University of Toronto Press

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0802036139

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9780802036131

Turbulent Times in Mathematics

The Life of J.C. Fields and the History of the Fields Medal

By: Elaine McKinnon Riehm,Frances Hoffman

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Turbulent Times in Mathematics

The Life of J.C. Fields and the History of the Fields Medal

By: Elaine McKinnon Riehm,Frances Hoffman

Despite the renown of the Fields Medals, J.C. Fields has been until now a rather obscure figure, and recovering details about his professional activities and personal life was not at all a simple task. This work is a triumph of persistence with far-flung archival and documentary sources, and provides a rich non-mathematical portrait of the man in all aspects of his life and career. Highly readable and replete with period detail, the book sheds useful light on the mathematical and scientific world of Fields' time, and is sure to remain the definitive biographical study. --Tom Archibald, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada Drawing on a wide array of archival sources, Riehm and Hoffman provide a vivid account of Fields' life and his part in the founding of the highest award in mathematics. Filled with intriguing detail--from a childhood on the shores of Lake Ontario, through the mathematics seminars of late 19th century Berlin, to the post-WW1 years of the fragmented international mathematical community--it is a richly textured story engagingly and sympathetically told. Read this book and you will understand why Fields never wanted the medal to bear his name and yet why, quite rightly, it does. --June Barrow-Green, Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom One of the little-known effects of World War I was the collapse of international scientific cooperation. In mathematics, the discord continued after the war's end and after the Treaty of Versailles had been signed in 1919. Many distinguished scientists were involved in the war and its aftermath, and from their letters and papers, now almost a hundred years old, we learn of their anguished wartime views and their struggles afterwards either to prolong the schism in mathematics or to end it. J.C. Fields, the foremost Canadian mathematician of his time, was educated in Canada, the United States, and Germany, and championed an international spirit of cooperation to further the frontiers of mathematics. It was during the awkward post-war period that J.C. Fields established the Fields Medal, an international prize for outstanding research, which soon became the highest award in mathematics. J.C. Fields intended it to be an international medal, and a glance at the varying backgrounds of the fifty-two Fields medallists shows it to be so. Who was Fields? What carried him from Hamilton, Canada West, where he was born in 1863, into the middle of this turbulent era of international scientific politics? A modest mathematician, he was an unassuming man. This biography outlines Fields' life and times and the difficult circumstances in which he created the Fields Medal. It is the first such published study.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821869140

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9780821869147

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The Seven Gates: A Memoir of a Descent

The Seven Gates: A Memoir of a Descent

Steadfast Charity

Steadfast Charity

The Mirroure of the Worlde

The Mirroure of the Worlde

Turbulent Times in Mathematics

Turbulent Times in Mathematics

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