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Environmental Principles and the Evolution of Environmental Law

By: Eloise Scotford

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Environmental Principles and the Evolution of Environmental Law

By: Eloise Scotford

Environmental principles – from the polluter pays and precautionary principles to the principles of integration and sustainability – proliferate in domestic and international legal and policy discourse, reflecting key goals of environmental protection and sustainable development on which there is apparent political consensus. Environmental principles also have a high profile in environmental law, beyond their popularity as policy and political concepts, as ideas that might unify the subject and provide it with conceptual foundations or boost its delivery of environmental outcomes. However, environmental principles are elusive legal concepts. This book deepens the legal understanding of environmental principles in light of recent legal developments. It analyses the increasing legal effects of environmental principles in different jurisdictions and demonstrates how they are shaping and revealing innovative and evolving bodies of environmental law. This analysis is a step forward in understanding a key feature of modern environmental law and presents a robust methodology for dealing with novel legal concepts in the subject. It also makes a contribution to environmental policy debates and discussions internationally that rely heavily on environmental principles, including their supposed legal effects.

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1–2 Peter and Jude

By: Pheme Perkins,Patricia McDonald,Eloise Rosenblatt

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1–2 Peter and Jude

By: Pheme Perkins,Patricia McDonald,Eloise Rosenblatt

2023 Catholic Media Association Second Place Award, Scripture – Academic Studies Reading 1 Peter through the lens of feminist and diaspora studies keeps front and center the bodily, psychological, and social suffering experienced by those without stable support of family or homeland, whether they were economic migrants or descendants of those enslaved by Roman armies. In the new “household” of God, believers are encouraged to exhibit a moral superiority to the society that engulfs them. But adoption of “elite” values cannot erase the undertones of randomized verbal abuse, general scorn, and physical violence that women, immigrants, slaves, and freedmen faced as the “facts of life.” First Peter offers the “honor” of identifying with the Crucified, “by his bruises you are healed” (2:24). A Christian liberation ethic would challenge 1 Peter’s approach. Pliny the Younger, governor of Bithynia-Pontus in north-western Asia Minor, is a contemporary of 2 Peter’s writer. The polemical, accusatory genre of 2 Peter, like Jude, originates in Roman judicial rhetoric. The pastor, in the persona of a prosecuting attorney, condemns immoral defendants, including influential women. Their “crimes” encode community tensions over women’s leadership, Gentile-members’ sexual ethics, their syncretistic deviations from Jewish doctrine on creation, and the certainty of divine judgment and punishment. Citations to Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s A Woman’s Bible enliven the commentary. The doctrinal disorder prompts the male pastor to sustain loyalists in their commitment to “Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” Second Peter dramatizes an ecclesial crisis whose “solution” was the eventual imposition of a magisterium to silence dissent. Brief, combative, and assuming a familiarity with a literary culture that most twenty-first-century readers do not have, the Letter of Jude would be an obvious candidate for being the most neglected book of the New Testament. As a model for a pastoral strategy, it can be recommended only with great reservations: almost everyone will find in it something problematic, if not offensive. Yet, in addition to giving a window on a Greek-speaking Jewish-Christian milieu, Jude’s energetic prose testifies to the author’s visceral concern for those attempting to live by the gospel in difficult circumstances. Furthermore, to the extent that over familiarity with parts of the New Testament can blunt their challenge, this letter provides a salutary reminder that the entire canon originated in a world that is radically unfamiliar to us.

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Environmental Law

Text, Cases, and Materials

By: Elizabeth Fisher,Bettina Lange,Eloise Scotford

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Environmental Law

Text, Cases, and Materials

By: Elizabeth Fisher,Bettina Lange,Eloise Scotford

Environmental Law: Text, Cases, and Materials offers a comprehensive, critical, and case-focused approach to the subject, combining insightful author commentary with carefully selected extracts to fully support students.

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But Are You Alive?

How to Design a Life Worth Living

By: Eloise Skinner

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But Are You Alive?

How to Design a Life Worth Living

By: Eloise Skinner

A beautiful, sensitive book about the most important issues we face in life." -Emily Esfahani Smith, author of The Power of Meaning In 'But Are You Alive?', entrepreneur and teacher Eloise Skinner explores lessons learned from a decade spent pursuing depth, purpose and meaning, including from her training in a monastic community and in the field of existential therapy. Working through practical exercises, principles and tools, Eloise shares wisdom and actionable advice from a variety of traditions and perspectives, all with the intention of helping the reader find a sense of deeper 'aliveness' in daily life.

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John Murray

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Environmental Law: Text, Cases & Materials

By: Elizabeth Fisher,Bettina Lange,Eloise Scotford

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Environmental Law: Text, Cases & Materials

By: Elizabeth Fisher,Bettina Lange,Eloise Scotford

This new title offers a compact and complete resource for students, featuring extracts from leading cases and articles alongside clear explanations and insightful analysis from an experienced author team. This unique approach places environmental law in context, enabling you to develop a clear and sophisticated understanding of this dynamic area.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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101 Things You Thought You Knew About the Titanic . . . butDidn't!

By: Tim Maltin,Eloise Aston

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101 Things You Thought You Knew About the Titanic . . . butDidn't!

By: Tim Maltin,Eloise Aston

April 15th, 2012, will be the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. People have an endless fascination with the Titanic, yet much of what they know today is a mixture of fact and fiction. In one hundred and one brief and engaging chapters, Tim Maltin, one of the foremost experts on the Titanic, reveals the truth behind the most common beliefs about the ship and the night it sank. From physics to photographs, lawsuits to love stories, Maltin doesn't miss one tidbit surrounding its history. Heavily researched and filled with detailed descriptions, quotes from survivors, and excerpts from the official inquiries, this book is guaranteed to make readers rethink everything they thought they knew about the legendary ship and its tragic fate.

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1101558938

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Studying the Image

Critical Issues in Anthropology for Christians

By: Eloise Meneses

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Studying the Image

Critical Issues in Anthropology for Christians

By: Eloise Meneses

The field of anthropology provides rich insights into the world of people and cultures. But it also presents challenges for Christians in the areas of cultural relativism, evolutionary theory, race and ethnicity, forms of the family, governments and war, life in the global economy, the morality of art, and religious pluralism. Most significantly it raises questions regarding the truth and how we can know it. This book provides the opportunity to investigate such questions with both the informed understanding of anthropological theory and ethnography, and the larger framework and commitment of Christian biblical and theological studies. So equipped, readers are encouraged to investigate for themselves the depths and intricacies of topics in anthropology that are especially relevant for Christians.

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Childhood, Citizenship, and the Anthropocene

Posthuman Publics and Civics

By: Anna Hickey-Moody,Linda Knight,Eloise Florence

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Childhood, Citizenship, and the Anthropocene

Posthuman Publics and Civics

By: Anna Hickey-Moody,Linda Knight,Eloise Florence

The planet is dying. Our earth’s climate has reached a point where it can no longer regulate itself. Fires, floods, and natural disasters are sweeping countries across the world. What does it mean to be a child citizen in the Anthropocene? Can we teach children a posthuman civics that can care for the more-than-human world? Extending on the concepts of ‘little publics’ and ‘posthuman citizenships’, this book progresses these notions with a view to modelling, and better understanding, posthuman publics and civics. Using experimental methodologies, the authors develop original, robust ways of understanding children's subcultural civic practices founded on care for the more than human.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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Traces of Aerial Bombing in Berlin

Entangled Remembering

By: Eloise Florence

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Traces of Aerial Bombing in Berlin

Entangled Remembering

By: Eloise Florence

The destruction of monuments during the Black Lives Matter movement of 2020 shows how many nations are being forced to grapple with their national histories. It is clear that the things which make up our streets form a core part of our historical, political and cultural identity. Here, Eloise Florence turns to Berlin and the deeply entrenched English-language narratives about World War II to explore the complicated relationship between violence, place and memory in the Anglo-American consciousness. Centered upon Teufelsberg a hill in Berlin born from the rubble caused by Allied bombing and other sites of violence across Germany's capital, this interdisciplinary study unpicks the use and abuse of area bombing and its cultural memory in Anglo-American audiences. Grounded in theories of new materialism and post-humanism, and drawing on extensive empirical and auto-ethnographic data, the issues addressed include: moving through urban landscapes as an embodied means of memorializing war and trauma; remembering destruction as a means to advance or challenge traditional war mythologies; and curation as an entry point for tourists to reconsider the impact of British and American aerial raids, including modern drone warfare. This innovative volume shines an important light on both the dark legacy of the aerial bombing of Berlin and the ways in which we record and read violent histories more generally. As such, Traces of Aerial Bombing in Berlin will be an invaluable resource for all scholars of World War II, memory culture and public history.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350269018

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Literary London

By: Eloise Millar,Sam Jordison

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Literary London

By: Eloise Millar,Sam Jordison

Literary London is a snappy and informative guide, showing just why - as another famous local writer put it - he who is tired of London is tired of life.

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Michael O'Mara Books

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Moccasin Trail

By: Eloise Jarvis McGraw

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Moccasin Trail

By: Eloise Jarvis McGraw

A Newbery Honor Award-winning book Jim Keath has lived for six years as a Crow Indian when he learns that his two younger brothers and a sister are journeying west to take up land. Although Jim finds it difficult to fit in with the family he hasn’t seen since childhood, and though they are wary and distrustful of him, Jim feels his duty is at their side. But slowly, as they survive the dangerous trek west, the perils of frontier life, and the kidnapping of their younger brother, Jim and his family realize that the only way to survive is to accept each other and truly reunite the family. “A first-rate adventure story.”—The New York Times “The grueling hardships on the journey to Oregon and in making a home provide exciting reading. Characters are portrayed so fully and sympathetically they might be alive.”—Library Journal

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Night Raiders

Burglary and the Making of Modern Urban Life in London, 1860-1968

By: Eloise Moss

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Night Raiders

Burglary and the Making of Modern Urban Life in London, 1860-1968

By: Eloise Moss

Night Raiders is the first history of burglary in modern Britain. Until 1968, burglary was defined in law as occurring only between the 'night-time' hours of nine pm and six am in residential buildings. Time and space gave burglary a unique cloak of terror, since burglars' victims were likely to be in the bedroom, asleep and unawares, when the intruder crept in, prowling near them in the darkness. Yet fear sometimes gave way to sexual fantasy; eroticized visions of handsome young thieves sneaking around the boudoirs of beautiful, lonely heiresses emerged alongside tales of violence and loss in popular culture, confounding social commentators by casting the burglar as criminal hero. Night Raiders charts how burglary lay historically at the heart of national debates over the meanings of 'home', experiences of urban life, and social inequality. The book explores intimate stories of the devastation caused by burglars' presence in the most private domains, showing how they are deeply embedded within broader histories of capitalism and liberal democracy. The fear and fascination surrounding burglary were mobilized by media, state, and market to sell insurance and security technologies, whilst also popularising the crime in fiction, theatre, and film. Cat burglars' rooftop adventures transformed ideas about the architecture and policing of the city, and post-war 'spy-burglars' theft of information illuminated Cold War skirmishes across the capital. More than any other crime, burglary shaped the everyday rhythms, purchases, and perceptions of modern urban life.

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Oxford University Press

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019257678X

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Profanity, What You Don't Know Shows

By: Eloise Coker Hunter

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Profanity, What You Don't Know Shows

By: Eloise Coker Hunter

Faith Comes By Hearing The WORD GOD challenges you to use the mind He gave you. Denying His existence without researching His Word is dishonest, immature, and deadly. This concise, distillation of GOD's most important messages to mankind, is His outreach in these last few days before JESUS' return. Rom 10:16 Esaias saith, LORD, who hath believed our report? 17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of GOD. 18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world. The whole world knows the name JESUS, The WORD of The Holy Bible. Ps 14:1 The fool has said in his heart, There is no GOD. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.3 They are all gone aside. They are altogether become filthy. There is none that doeth good, no, not one. 4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? GOD does not mince words describing people who have ignored the proofs He has provided for any reasonable person to understand. Hosea 4:1 Because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of GOD in the land, 2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out and blood toucheth blood. 4 Therefore shall the land mourn, and everyone that dwelleth therein shall languish. 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee. I will also forget thy children. People audaciously judge GOD as a failure by the state of the world. They never look into The Holy Bible to see that man is the cause. GOD is pursuing all agnostics, atheists, evolutionists, and humanists. Start reading His WORD to understand how He thinks and accept JESUS as the door to eternity.

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Xulon Press

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Rare and Interesting Cases in Pulmonary Medicine

By: Ali Ataya,Eloise Harman

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Rare and Interesting Cases in Pulmonary Medicine

By: Ali Ataya,Eloise Harman

Rare and Interesting Cases in Pulmonary Medicine provides a look into the uncommon diseases encountered in the field of pulmonary medicine. Using a case-based approach, the book provides clinical scenarios that include relevant accompanying radiology and pathology. Also included are frequently asked questions for each area, as well as a diagnosis and summary, presenting the reader with the most high yield information on each topic. Appropriate for medical students, residents, fellows, and physicians interested in pulmonary medicine, the case-based approach to each topic allows accessibility to the uncommon diseases of the field while also highlighting high yield and important points. - Provides case-based approaches to the uncommon diseases of pulmonary medicine, including supporting radiology and pathology - Includes uncommon case studies, providing relevant references for further reading and research opportunities - Presents related topics with accompanying clinical pearls for direct application in the field

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0128097671

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Experimenting with Art

Twenty-Five Easy-to-Teach Lessons in Design and Color

By: Shirley Kay Wolfersperger,Eloise Carlston

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Twenty-Five Easy-to-Teach Lessons in Design and Color

By: Shirley Kay Wolfersperger,Eloise Carlston

Educational resource for teachers, parents and kids!

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Good Year Books

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0673464113

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Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking

By: Marianne Eloise

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Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking

By: Marianne Eloise

I FELT RECOGNISED ON EVERY PAGE, LEARNT SO MANY NEW THINGS, AND LAUGHED SO HARD I CHOKED ON MY WATER. READ THIS!!!' NAOISE DOLAN, AUTHOR OF EXCITING TIMES 'CANDID, WITTY ... A BRAVE BOOK THAT PUTS VULNERABILITY FULLY ON SHOW' INDEPENDENT Obsessive was, still is, my natural state, and I never wondered why. I didn't mind, didn't know that other people could feel at peace. I always felt like a raw nerve, but then, I thought that everyone did. Writer and journalist Marianne Eloise was born obsessive. What that means changes day to day, depending on what her brain latches onto: fixations with certain topics, intrusive violent thoughts, looping phrases. Some obsessions have lasted a lifetime, while others will be intense but only last a week or two. Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking is a culmination of a life spend obsessing, offering a glimpse into Marianne's brain, but also an insight into the lives of others like her. From death to Medusa, to Disneyland to fire, to LA to her dog, the essays explore the intersection of neurodivergence, fixation and disorder, telling the story of one life underpinned and ultimately made whole by obsession.

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Icon Books

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Handbook of Innovative Programs for the Impaired Elderly

By: Eloise H. P. Killeffer,Ruth Bennett,Gerta Gruen

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Handbook of Innovative Programs for the Impaired Elderly

By: Eloise H. P. Killeffer,Ruth Bennett,Gerta Gruen

Here is comprehensive, systematic information about the services long-term care facilities are providing--outside of medical and nursing care--to enhance both the quality of care and the quality of life of the institutionalized elderly. Based on the results of a two-year survey of innovative programs in long-term care facilities for the elderly across the country, this impressive volume includes descriptions of physical activity programs, rehabilitation programs, and community linkage programs. The most important feature of each program description is the directory of information resources--a listing of responding facilities that are willing to be consulted about developing particular programs. Handbook of Innovative Programs for the Impaired Elderly is a source of fresh ideas and inspiration for creative responses to the needs of institutionalized elderly people.

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Psychology Press

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0866563814

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Rediscovering the Harlem Renaissance

The Politics of Exclusion

By: Eloise E. Johnson

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Rediscovering the Harlem Renaissance

The Politics of Exclusion

By: Eloise E. Johnson

This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors. Miola's edited work also features a comprehensive critical history, coupled with a full bibliography and photographs of major productions of the play from around the world. In the collection, there are five previously unpublished essays. The topics covered in these new essays are women in the play, the play's debt to contemporary theater, its critical and performance histories in Germany and Japan, the metrical variety of the play, and the distinctly modern perspective on the play as containing dark and disturbing elements. To compliment these new essays, the collection features significant scholarship and commentary on The Comedy of Errors that is published in obscure and difficulty accessible journals, newspapers, and other sources. This collection brings together these essays for the first time.

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Taylor & Francis

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081532278X

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Smart Paws

Ancient Partner to Service Dog Today

By: Eloise,Rusty

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Ancient Partner to Service Dog Today

By: Eloise,Rusty

Smart Paws brought a warm feeling, gentleness and love, [and] knowledge of animal/bird life. There is pain, but also hope and humor. Importantly, [there is] encouragement for others to follow, without fear. ~ Helga Milberg, Dog trainer and board member of Tucson-based Handi-Dogs. A good dog will change your life When Eloise met Gamble, her first golden retriever, she befriended a gentle, generous soul who understood the art of being a healing presence. Years later, when overwhelming depression and debilitating physical challenges forever changed her lifestyle, outlook, and career, her life went to the dogs. Research about service dogs and the profound impact they can have on a life quickly became her one life-affirming activity. The partnership she envisioned would provide comfort and support by giving her new purpose, allowing her to conquer the many challenges her new life presented. A mental health counselor, artist, and animal lover, Eloise emphasizes the miraculous competencies of dogs who literally and figuratively open new doors for countless people challenged by physical or mental health problems. This is also a story about a very special dog named Rusty. Through Rusty, Eloise provides useful information for others interested in bringing a service animal into their lives. Eloise and Rusty explore how dogs have responded to our changing needs from prehistoric times to the present. Eloises lifelong experiences with animals and her study of the human-dog bond, including research into the evolution of the dog and their special intelligence, are candidly reflected in her tales about pets and partners.

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1462000363

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Friendless or Forsaken?

Child Emigration from Britain to Canada, 1860–1935

By: Ruth Lamont,Eloise Moss,Charlotte Wildman

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Friendless or Forsaken?

Child Emigration from Britain to Canada, 1860–1935

By: Ruth Lamont,Eloise Moss,Charlotte Wildman

Between 1860 and 1935, about 100,000 impoverished children were emigrated from Britain to Canada to seek a new life in the “land of plenty.” Charities, religious workers, philanthropists, and state-run institutions such as workhouses and orphanages all sent children abroad, claiming that this was the only way to prevent their becoming criminals or joining the masses of working-class unemployed. Friendless or Forsaken? follows the story of child emigration agencies operating in North West England, tracing the imperial relationships that enabled agents to send children away from their homes and parents, who often lost sight of them forever. The book sheds light on public support for the schemes, their financial beneficiaries, and how parents were persuaded to consent to sending their children across the world – frequently without fully realizing what rights they had signed away. The story charts the legal measures introduced to maintain and regulate child emigration schemes, as well as the way “home children” were portrayed as both needy and dangerous on each side of the Atlantic and how the children themselves sought to overcome prejudice and isolation in an unfamiliar country. Exploring the transnational economy of child emigrations schemes, Friendless or Forsaken? records the bravery and resilience of those children whose lives were altered by this traumatic and divisive episode in the history of empire.

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0228021812

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Wisdom Commentary: 1-2 Peter and Jude

By: Pheme Perkins,Eloise Rosenblatt,Patricia McDonald

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Wisdom Commentary: 1-2 Peter and Jude

By: Pheme Perkins,Eloise Rosenblatt,Patricia McDonald

Reading 1 Peter through the lens of feminist and diaspora studies keeps front and center the bodily, psychological, and social suffering experienced by those without stable support of family or homeland, whether they were economic migrants or descendants of those enslaved by Roman armies. In the new “household” of God, believers are encouraged to exhibit a moral superiority to the society that engulfs them. But adoption of “elite” values cannot erase the undertones of randomized verbal abuse, general scorn, and physical violence that women, immigrants, slaves, and freedmen faced as the “facts of life.” First Peter offers the “honor” of identifying with the Crucified, “by his bruises you are healed” (2:24). A Christian liberation ethic would challenge 1 Peter’s approach. Pliny the Younger, governor of Bithynia-Pontus in north-western Asia Minor, is a contemporary of 2 Peter’s writer. The polemical, accusatory genre of 2 Peter, like Jude, originates in Roman judicial rhetoric. The pastor, in the persona of a prosecuting attorney, condemns immoral defendants, including influential women. Their “crimes” encode community tensions over women’s leadership, Gentile-members’ sexual ethics, their syncretistic deviations from Jewish doctrine on creation, and the certainty of divine judgment and punishment. Citations to Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s A Woman’s Bible enliven the commentary. The doctrinal disorder prompts the male pastor to sustain loyalists in their commitment to “Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” Second Peter dramatizes an ecclesial crisis whose “solution” was the eventual imposition of a magisterium to silence dissent. Brief, combative, and assuming a familiarity with a literary culture that most twenty-first-century readers do not have, the Letter of Jude would be an obvious candidate for being the most neglected book of the New Testament. As a model for a pastoral strategy, it can be recommended only with great reservations: almost everyone will find in it something problematic, if not offensive. Yet, in addition to giving a window on a Greek-speaking Jewish-Christian milieu, Jude’s energetic prose testifies to the author’s visceral concern for those attempting to live by the gospel in difficult circumstances. Furthermore, to the extent that over familiarity with parts of the New Testament can blunt their challenge, this letter provides a salutary reminder that the entire canon originated in a world that is radically unfamiliar to us.

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Amongst the Ruins

By: Eloise Daniel

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Amongst the Ruins

By: Eloise Daniel

Eloise Daniel lived a brutal life colored by violence, racism, abuse, addiction, and abandonment. Twenty-seven years in prison created a barrier between her and her children that she struggled to breach but could not. But against the odds, Eloise reinvented herself, obtained a college degree, and fashioned a life of productivity and service to others facing the very obstacles she had to overcome.. Amongst the Ruins is her story.

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