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The Palace Camole

By: Elaine Christiana

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Amid this happy union, though, King Alfred absorbed the stresses resulting from the executions of his judgments. Chief among these was Donovan, a perpetrator who lit a bomb in his palace and started war in Ireland. King Alfred, benevolent to all nations, must stave off the evil machinations of Donovan and his henchmen if he hopes to protect his family and circumvent the seemingly inevitable bloodshed overseas. Will Alfreds myriad burdens prove too much, or will he rise to the ever-mounting challenges placed at his feet?

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1622952987

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Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and the Knight's Tale

Fictions Used

By: Frieda Elaine Penninger

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Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and the Knight's Tale

Fictions Used

By: Frieda Elaine Penninger

This book examines Troilus and Criseyde and The Knight's Tale as poems which work the same plot to contrasting tragic and joyous endings but for the same purpose, of exploring the folly of electing the temporal world over the eternal. It demonstrates that the tragedy of Troilus and Criseyde is a consequence of the folly of relying on Fortune and temporal bliss and works through the pattern of a similar dependence in The Knight's Tale. It then develops the portrayal of the protagonists of the poems as Fortune's Fools through a scrutiny of courtship as game of play, of caritas and cupiditas contrasted with the implications of pity, mercy, grace, and love as used in temporal contexts in the poem but defined theologically elsewhere in Chaucer, and of the limitations of knighthood and chivalry as defined by the world of the poems.

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University Press of America

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081919218X

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Naming Thy Name

Cross Talk in Shakespeare's Sonnets

By: Elaine Scarry

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Naming Thy Name

Cross Talk in Shakespeare's Sonnets

By: Elaine Scarry

A fascinating case for the identity of Shakespeare’s beautiful young man SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS ARE indisputably the most enigmatic and enduring love poems written in English. They also may be the most often argued-over sequence of love poems in any language. But what is it that continues to elude us? While it is in part the spellbinding incantations, the hide-and-seek of sound and meaning, it is also the mystery of the noble youth to whom Shakespeare makes a promise—the promise that the youth will survive in the breath and speech and minds of all those who read these sonnets. “How can such promises be fulfilled if no name is actually given?” Elaine Scarry asks. This book is the answer. Naming Thy Name lays bare William Shakespeare’s devotion to a beloved whom he not only names but names repeatedly in the microtexture of the sonnets, in their architecture, and in their deep fabric, immortalizing a love affair. By naming his name, Scarry enables us to hear clearly, for the very first time, a lover’s call and the beloved’s response. Here, over the course of many poems, are two poets in conversation, in love, speaking and listening, writing and writing back. In a true work of alchemy, Scarry, one of America’s most innovative and passionate thinkers, brilliantly synthesizes textual analysis, literary criticism, and historiography in pursuit of the haunting call and recall of Shakespeare’s verse and that of his (now at last named) beloved friend.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374713863

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9780374713867

Music in Medieval Rituals for the End of Life

By: Elaine Stratton Hild

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Music in Medieval Rituals for the End of Life

By: Elaine Stratton Hild

Medieval documents reveal that for centuries of European history, singing for a person at the moment of death was considered to be the ideal accompaniment to a life's ending. Rituals for the dying were well developed, practiced widely, and thoroughly integrated with music. Indeed, these rituals reveal that music, rather than the Eucharist, held a privileged position at the final breath. Music in Medieval Rituals for the End of Life examines and recovers, to the extent possible, the music sung for the dying during the Middle Ages. The book offers a view of the plainchant repertory through the sources of individual institutions. The first four chapters contain a series of "case studies": close readings of rituals from diverse communities, each as they appear in a single source. The rituals' chants are transcribed into modern notation and analyzed, both for their relationships between text and melody and for their functions within the rituals. Created for the powerful and the poor, the educated and the uneducated, women and men, monastics, clerics, and laity, these manuscripts offer a glimpse into the religious practices that distinguished communities from one another and bound them together within a single tradition. The book provides the first editions of the rituals' chants and considers the functions of the music. Why was music given such a prominent position within the deathbed liturgies? Why did communities gather and sing when a loved one was dying? The manuscripts reveal a lost art of comforting the dying and the grieving"--

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Oxford University Press

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0197685919

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9780197685914

Roman Literary Culture

From Plautus to Macrobius

By: Elaine Fantham

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Roman Literary Culture

From Plautus to Macrobius

By: Elaine Fantham

This edition includes a new preface and an updated bibliography.

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JHU Press

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142140835X

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When Fiction Feels Real

Representation and the Reading Mind

By: Elaine Auyoung

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When Fiction Feels Real

Representation and the Reading Mind

By: Elaine Auyoung

Why do readers claim that fictional worlds feel real? How can certain literary characters seem capable of leading lives of their own, outside the stories in which they appear? What makes the experience of reading a novel uniquely pleasurable and what do readers lose when this experience comes to an end? Since their first publication, nineteenth-century realist novels like Pride and Prejudice and Anna Karenina have inspired readers to describe literary experience as gaining access to vibrant fictional worlds and becoming friends with fictional characters. While this effect continues to be central to the experience of reading realist fiction and later works in this tradition, the capacity for novels to evoke persons and places in a reader's mind has often been taken for granted and even dismissed as a naive phenomenon unworthy of critical attention. When Fiction Feels Real provides literary studies with new tools for thinking about the phenomenology of reading by bringing narrative techniques into conversation with psychological research on reading and cognition. Through close readings of classic novels by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Leo Tolstoy, and the elegies of Thomas Hardy, Elaine Auyoung reveals what nineteenth-century writers know about how reading works. Building on well-established research on the mind, Auyoung exposes the underpinnings of the seemingly impossible achievement of realist fiction, introducing new perspectives on narrative theory, mimesis, and fictionality. When Fiction Feels Real changes the way we think about literary language, realist aesthetics, and the reading process, opening up a new field of inquiry centered on the relationship between fictional representation and comprehension.

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Oxford University Press

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0190845481

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Prenatal Massage

A Textbook of Pregnancy, Labor, and Postpartum Bodywork

By: Elaine Stillerman

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Prenatal Massage

A Textbook of Pregnancy, Labor, and Postpartum Bodywork

By: Elaine Stillerman

Authored by a well-known expert on prenatal massage, this comprehensive text helps you understand the intricate physiology of pregnancy so you can confidently apply appropriate massage techniques for each trimester, and throughout labor and postpartum. You'll find clear, colorfully illustrated explanations of a wide range of techniques and procedures, including Swedish massage, acupuncture points, myofascial release, trigger point therapy, lymphatic drainage, and reflexology. Contraindications and precautions are also provided where necessary to help you provide safe and effective care for every client. - Comprehensive coverage guides you through all aspects of prenatal massage in a single book, addressing fundamentals, techniques, preparation, and prevention of potential problems. - Many useful techniques are described in detail for prenatal through postpartum massage with step-by-step instructions so you can begin using these techniques with your clients immediately. - Numerous boxes throughout the text highlight key information and provide clinical tips. Touch Points and In My Experience boxes share the author's personal observations about the chapter material with real-life examples from her years in practice. - Over 350 detailed, full-color illustrations and photographs illuminate procedures, concepts, and techniques. - Clear writing and organization addresses content in four main units: pregnancy massage, labor massage, postpartum massage, and marketing strategies. - A companion DVD packaged with the book contains 45 minutes of video demonstrating different massage techniques presented in the book. - DVD icons within the text encourage you to watch relevant video footage at appropriate points. - Learning objectives and key terms at the beginning of each chapter clearly identify the concepts you should focus on in the chapter. - Review questions at the end of each chapter enable you to assess your understanding and review important information presented in the book. - A glossary of all key terms and definitions makes it easy to quickly look up a new term or to refresh your memory.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323075460

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Butter

A Rich History

By: Elaine Khosrova

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Butter

A Rich History

By: Elaine Khosrova

“Edifying from every point of view--historical, cultural, and culinary.” —David Tanis, author of A Platter of Figs and Other Recipes It’s a culinary catalyst, an agent of change, a gastronomic rock star. Ubiquitous in the world’s most fabulous cuisines, butter is boss. Here, it finally gets its due. After traveling across three continents to stalk the modern story of butter, award-winning food writer and former pastry chef Elaine Khosrova serves up a story as rich, textured, and culturally relevant as butter itself. From its humble agrarian origins to its present-day artisanal glory, butter has a fascinating story to tell, and Khosrova is the perfect person to tell it. With tales about the ancient butter bogs of Ireland, the pleasure dairies of France, and the sacred butter sculptures of Tibet, Khosrova details butter’s role in history, politics, economics, nutrition, and even spirituality and art. Readers will also find the essential collection of core butter recipes, including beurre manié, croissants, pâte brisée, and the only buttercream frosting anyone will ever need, as well as practical how-tos for making various types of butter at home--or shopping for the best. “A fascinating, tasty read . . . And what a bonus to have a collection of essential classic butter recipes included.” —David Tanis, author of A Platter of Figs and Other Recipes “Following the path blazed by Margaret Visser in Much Depends on Dinner, Elaine Khosrova makes much of butter and the ruminants whose milk man churns. You will revel in dairy physics. And you may never eat margarine again.” —John T. Edge, author of The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South “Butter proves that close study can reveal rich history, lore, and practical information. All that and charm too.” —Mimi Sheraton, author of 1,000 Foods to Eat Before You Die “Irresistible and fascinating . . . This is one of those definitive books on a subject that every cook should have.” —Elisabeth Prueitt, co-owner of Tartine Bakery “The history of one of the most delectable ingredients throughout our many cultures and geography over time is wonderfully churned and emulsified in Khosrova’s Butter . . . Delightful storytelling.” —Elizabeth Falkner, author of Demolition Desserts: Recipes from Citizen Cake

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Algonquin Books

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1616207396

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The Search for Authority in Reformation Europe

By: Elaine Fulton

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The Search for Authority in Reformation Europe

By: Elaine Fulton

The 'problem of authority' was not an invention of the Protestant Reformation, but, as the essays contained in this volume demonstrate, its discussion, in ever greater complexity, was one of the ramifications (if not causes) of the deepening divisions within the Christian church in the sixteenth century. Any optimism that the principle of sola scriptura might provide a vehicle for unity and concord in the post-Reformation church was soon to be dented by a growing uncertainty and division, evident even in early evangelical writing and preaching. Representing a new approach to an important subject this volume of essays widens the understanding and interpretation of authority in the debates of the Reformation. The fruits of original and recent research, each essay builds with careful scholarship on solid historiographical foundations, ensuring that the content and ultimate conclusions do much to challenge long-standing assumptions about perceptions of authority in the aftermath of the Reformation. Rather than dealing with individual sources of authority in isolation, the volume examines the juxtapositions of and negotiations between elements of the authoritative synthesis, and thereby throws new light on the nature of authority in early-modern Europe as a whole. This volume is thus an ideal vehicle with which to bring high quality, new, and significant research into the public domain for the first time, whilst adding substantially to the existing corpus of Reformation scholarship.

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Routledge

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1317016572

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The Southern French Nobility and the Albigensian Crusade

By: Elaine Graham-Leigh

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The Southern French Nobility and the Albigensian Crusade

By: Elaine Graham-Leigh

This study takes the case of the Trencavel Viscounts of Beziers and Carcassonne, who were the only members of the higher nobility to lose their lands to the crusade, and argues that an understanding of how the Occitan nobility fared in the crusade years must be based in the context of the politics of the noble society of Languedoc, not only in the thirteenth century but also in the twelfth."--BOOK JACKET.

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Boydell Press

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1843831295

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Bones

By: Elaine Dewar

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Bones

By: Elaine Dewar

Scientists not so long ago unanimously believed that people first walked to the New World from northeast Asia across the Bering land bridge at the end of the Ice Age 11,000 years ago. But in the last ten years, new tools applied to old bones have yielded evidence that tells an entirely different story. In Bones, Elaine Dewar records the ferocious struggle in the scientific world to reshape our views of prehistory. She traveled from the Mackenzie River valley in northern Canada to the arid plains of the Brazilian state of Piaui, from the skull-and-bones-lines offices of the Smithsonian Institution to the basement lab of an archaeologist in Washington State who wondered if the FBI was going to come for him. She met scientists at war with each other and sought to see for herself the oldest human remains on these continents. Along the way, she found that the old answer to the question of who were the First Americans was steeped in the bitter tea of racism. Bones explores the ambiguous terrain left behind when a scientific paradigm is swept away. It tells the stories of the archaeologists, Native American activists, DNA experts and physical anthropologists scrambling for control of ancient bones of Kennewick Man, Spirit Cave, and the oldest one of all, a woman named Luzia. At stake are professional reputations, lucrative grants, fame, vindication, even the reburial of wandering spirits. The weapons? Lawsuits, threats, violence. The battlefield stretches from Chile to Alaska. Dewar tells the stories that never find their way into scientific papers — stories of mysterious deaths, of the bones of evil shamen and the shadows falling on the lives of scientists who pulled them from the ground. And she asks the new questions arising out of the science of bones and the stories of first peoples: "What if Native Americans are right in their belief that they have always been in the Americas and did not migrate to the New World at the end of the Ice Age? What if the New World's human story is as long and complicated as that of the Old? What if the New World and the Old World have always been one?

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Vintage Canada

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0307375552

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Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther

By: Edwin Yamauchi,Elaine A. Phillips

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Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther

By: Edwin Yamauchi,Elaine A. Phillips

Continuing a Gold Medallion Award-winning legacy, the completely revised Expositor's Bible Commentary puts world-class biblical scholarship in your hands. A staple for students, teachers, and pastors worldwide, The Expositor's Bible Commentary (EBC) offers comprehensive yet succinct commentary from scholars committed to the authority of the Holy Scriptures. The EBC uses the New International Version of the Bible, but the contributors work from the original Hebrew and Greek languages and refer to other translations when useful. Each section of the commentary includes: An introduction: background information, a short bibliography, and an outline An overview of Scripture to illuminate the big picture The complete NIV text Extensive commentary Notes on textual questions, key words, and concepts Reflections to give expanded thoughts on important issues The series features 56 contributors, who: Believe in the divine inspiration, complete trustworthiness, and full authority of the Bible Have demonstrated proficiency in the biblical book that is their specialty Are committed to the church and the pastoral dimension of biblical interpretation Represent geographical and denominational diversity Use a balanced and respectful approach toward marked differences of opinion Write from an evangelical viewpoint For insightful exposition, thoughtful discussion, and ease of use—look no further than The Expositor's Bible Commentary.

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Zondervan Academic

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0310531829

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9780310531821

The Palace Camole

By: Elaine Christiana

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The Palace Camole

By: Elaine Christiana

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The Palace Camole

By: Elaine Christiana

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The Palace Camole

By: Elaine Christiana

This book is filled with intrigue involving the family of Camole. They go to Africa, meet the Zulus, and are captured. They see emperors in China; meet King Edmund, who has an extortion to rectify; and then they go back to Kenya, Africa, in a wonderful ceremony. Gertrude's family comes to Camole under stress. There are pirates taking over South America. The family escapes from a planned massacre involved in kidnapping King Edward. And the family goes through much much more. This book is for the entertainment of everyone and to satisfy their curiosity. Books 4 and 5 follow with more events to exceed the wildest imaginations of the reader. Enjoy a wonderful trip with the ever-changing family of Camole.

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168270081X

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The Palace Camole

By: Elaine Christiana

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The Palace Camole

By: Elaine Christiana

The ongoing lives of King Alfred and Queen Ashley and their family find them in some difficulties again. How to reconcile these differences, protect his family, and his utmost life for his country and other nations will have you on the edge of your aspirations for the royal family! The escaped Joule had been found and now is to be married to Emilie. Emilie's family issues are at a crescendo of feelings. Switzerland and extreme situations arise. An unreasoned war in Africa arises and the royals are captured. They want to go to China for goodwill reasons and carry tons of fireworks for a Camole Fourth of July party. Renee has a palace with hidden mysteries of a valued mine seemingly lost. Spain interceded with orphans stowing away on Edmund's ship and found families on every side being brought together despite differences. Castanets and flamingo dancing has Perciville completely enthralled, including his famous 'the mouse wants a piece of cheese' and storytelling by Alban. Stolen moments, mysteries, and delightful situations will entertain you royally. The Palace Camole, Book Three will follow with more escapades for your enjoyment.

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1682378810

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When We Say Never

By: Elaine Herrin Onley

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When We Say Never

By: Elaine Herrin Onley

Elaine Herrin shares some of her personal nevers that became real and, at the same time, became opportunities for God to work in her life and add new dimensions to her spiritual growth.

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B&H Publishing Group

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0805451099

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Scandalon

Running from Shame and Finding God's Scandalous Love

By: Susan Elaine Jenkins

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Running from Shame and Finding God's Scandalous Love

By: Susan Elaine Jenkins

Running from scandal -- in her family, church and community life -- Susan moves from California to China. At first, the adventure of experiencing an exotic culture brings the escape she craves. Gradually, as the layers of mystery and reserve fall away, she gets to know her new Chinese friends on deeper levels. At the same time the self-protective layers around her own heart peel back painfully, exposing her inner brokenness. In this vivid and transparent memoir, Susan takes us on a fascinating journey into the streets and homes of modern China. The travel memoir is interspersed with Susan's personal story of emotional and spiritual sabotage, shame, and shattered dreams. It all comes together as she opens her heart anew to God's love -- the most scandalous love of all.

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Cladach Pub

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0981892906

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9780981892900

Shine!

By: Elaine Schwartz Dalton

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Shine!

By: Elaine Schwartz Dalton

Elaine S. Dalton, the president of the Young Women organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, shares her advice and counsel to the young women of the Church.

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