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Flights of the Herons

By: Esther Royer Ayers

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Far from being a treatise on birds, “Flights of the Herons” is about people. Emily Dickinson wrote: "Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul." What else but hope drives the suffering to continue searching for that brightly-lit doorway that leads to freedom from oppression? "Flights of the Herons" binds three members of the Reyher family together in their flights from oppression in a seamless narrative that will keep you spellbound until the very end. Frank, a professional man living in Youngstown, Ohio, and grieving over the death of his wife, takes up genealogy. He uncovers fascinating facts regarding his REYHER ancestral history, (Reyher means heron in German) and plans a trip to Germany with his mother to obtain further information. Two weeks before their departure, Frank learns that a possible relative, Katie, whom he has not heard of before, has won a literary award. On the assumption they are related, he decides to write her to suggest collaboration on a genealogy-inspired book that would tell the captivating story of their common great-great-grandfather, Johann Gotthard Reyher, who in 1819 fled the oppression of mandatory mercenary servitude in the German Kingdom of Wuerttemberg to emigrate to the United States. Frank’s mother cautions this Katie he seeks is from an Old Order Mennonite family. Since that religion prohibits school attendance beyond the eighth grade, she could not possibly have won a literary award. Frank perseveres and writes the letter. Katie, married, is an attractive housewife who lives in Arkansas, and is painfully embarrassed over a limp, {a metaphor for women who suffer the battering effects of emotional abuse}, she acquired in an accident a couple of years earlier. Her husband Ken, an ambitious advertising executive, is extremely controlling and subjects Katie to disastrous emotional and verbal abuse. Although terrified when first receiving Frank ́s letter, Katie finds solace within his words. Through sneaky emails, she converses with Frank and eventually agrees to a clandestine meeting at her childhood homestead, which is the homestead Johann Godhard Reyher purchased when first coming to America. The story, a fiction, nevertheless contains true genealogy information on the Hans Gotthard Reyher family, and dates back to even a much earlier ancestor, Hans Reyher, who migrated to Wuerttemberg from Switzerland after the Thirty Years’ War.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462809839

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9781462809837

Loving to Know

Covenant Epistemology

By: Esther Lightcap Meek

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Loving to Know

Covenant Epistemology

By: Esther Lightcap Meek

Knowing is less about information and more about transformation; less about comprehension and more about being apprehended. This radical book develops the notion of covenant epistemology--an innovative, biblically compatible, holistic, embodied, life-shaping epistemological vision in which all knowing takes the shape of interpersonal, covenantal relationship. Rather than knowing in order to love, we love in order to know. Meek argues that all knowing is best understood as transformative encounter. Creatively blending insights from a diverse range of conversation partners--including Michael Polanyi, Michael D. Williams, Lesslie Newbigin, Parker Palmer, John Macmurray, Martin Buber, and James Loder--Meek offers critically needed "epistemological therapy" in response to the pervasive and damaging presumptions that those in Western culture continue to bring to efforts to know. The book's innovative approach--an unfolding journey of discovery-through-dialogue--itself subverts standard epistemological presumptions of timeless linearity. While it offers a sustained and sophisticated philosophical argument, Loving to Know's texts and textures interweave loosely to effect therapeutic epistemic transformation in the reader.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1608999289

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9781608999286

To Storm Heaven

By: Esther Friesner

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To Storm Heaven

By: Esther Friesner

When Lelys, ambassador of the plague-ridden colony planet of Orakisa, approaches the Federation seeking help for her dying world, the U.S.S. Enterprise speeds to the rescue. Captain Picard and his crew escort the Orakisan delegation to its long-lost sister-world, Ne'elat, where the ambassador and the Away Team are initially welcomed, but then endangered. As the Enterprise officers make their way through a web of planet-wide intrigue, time is running out the people of Orakisa and the inhabitants of their sister-worlds as well.

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Simon and Schuster

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1471109070

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9781471109072

Doorway to Artistry

Attuning Your Philosophy to Enhance Your Creativity

By: Esther Lightcap Meek

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Doorway to Artistry

Attuning Your Philosophy to Enhance Your Creativity

By: Esther Lightcap Meek

Your artistry involves you intimately with the world around and beyond you. So your artistry involves profound but simple philosophical matters. As a human person, you are artful and philosophical, at the core of your being. Doorway to Artistry offers a playful, everyday philosophical approach necessary for life, integration, healing, and thriving in artistry. It reflects on the real and how we are involved with it, especially in our creative effort. In short, the real hospitably welcomes us, and in our artistry we reciprocate in noble courtesy. Human persons were made for this communion with the real. Find in this book a hospitable welcome to belong at home beyond where you are.

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1666769703

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9781666769708

Diglossic Translanguaging

The Multilingual Repertoire of German-Speaking Jews in Berlin

By: Esther Jahns

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Diglossic Translanguaging

The Multilingual Repertoire of German-Speaking Jews in Berlin

By: Esther Jahns

This book examines how German-speaking Jews living in Berlin make sense and make use of their multilingual repertoire. With a focus on lexical variation, the book demonstrates how speakers integrate Yiddish and Hebrew elements into German for indexing belonging and for positioning themselves within the Jewish community. Linguistic choices are shaped by language ideologies (e.g., authenticity, prescriptivism, nostalgia). Speakers translanguage when using their multilingual repertoire, but do so in a diglossic way, using elements from different languages for specific domains.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3111322769

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9783111322766

Women and AIDS

Negotiating Safer Practices, Care, and Representation

By: Ellen Cole,Esther D Rothblum,Linda K Fuller,Nancy Roth

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Women and AIDS

Negotiating Safer Practices, Care, and Representation

By: Ellen Cole,Esther D Rothblum,Linda K Fuller,Nancy Roth

For many women, the advice “Use a condom!” is not enough to help protect them from HIV infection. As Women and AIDS reveals, “negotiating” safer sex practices is a very complex issue for women who are involved in relationships where they do not enjoy physical, social, or economic equality. The book’s authors maintain that the key to curbing the spread of HIV and to caring for those already infected--is communication. Women and AIDS is the first volume to address HIV/AIDS and women from a communication perspective. This helpful guidebook addresses how women might achieve safer sexual and drug injection practices with partners, but it also explores women’s negotiation of the health care system as patients, medical research subjects, and caregivers. It challenges traditional assumptions about the relationship between care providers and patients and the meaning of patient compliance and raises important questions about gender, race, and class that are exacerbated by the epidemic. Designed to ground interventions in the realities of women’s lives, Women and AIDS discusses what women can do to get around communication and health care obstacles. To this end, you will learn about: using the media for HIV-related social action and to promote women’s views of HIV and sexuality prison health care for HIV-positive women cultural constructions of sex and drug sharing in a variety of communities long-term changes that will empower women delivering an HIV-positive diagnosis to patients gender roles and caregiving the language we use to talk about “Third World” women and “Asian AIDS” women AIDS filmmakers/videographers For the benefit of AIDS activists, health care providers, and counselors, Women and AIDS discusses women and their communication and awareness from virtually every angle. This book analyzes situations where communication breaks down--from the woman who can’t openly discuss safe sex with her partner, to the drunk college student who “hooks up,” to the doctor who gives an HIV-positive diagnosis without compassion--and offers communication solutions. This will help women avoid such risks, establish communication and safety in their lives, and construct meaningful roles in relationship to HIV/AIDS.

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Routledge

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1317712420

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9781317712428

Warchild

By: Esther Friesner

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Warchild

By: Esther Friesner

A message left behind by the Kai Opaka gives Commander Benjamin Sisko a fateful mission: find a young Bajoran girl destined to be a great healer who could bring together the warring factions of Bajor. While Lt. Dax tries to find the healer, Dr. Bashir goes planetside to treat a rare disease that is killing the children in Bajor's resettlement camps. Surrounded by thousands of dying children, Bashir goes A.W.O.L. from Deep Space Nine TM, vowing not to return until the plague has been stopped. But by the time Dax finds the girl from the Kai's prophecy the child has fallen victim to the plague. Now, with the fate of the entire planet at stake, Commander Sisko must find Dr. Bashir in time to save the child who may be Bajor's last chance for peace.

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292

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Simon and Schuster

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0743420381

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9780743420389

Longing to Know

By: Esther Lightcap Meek

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Longing to Know

By: Esther Lightcap Meek

We don't often think about the act of knowing, but if we do, the question of what we know and how we know it becomes murky indeed. Longing to Know is a book about knowing: knowing how we know things, knowing how we know people, and knowing how we know God. This book is for those who are considering Christianity for the first time, as well as Christians who are struggling with issues related to truth, certainty, and doubt. As such, it is a wonderful resource for evangelists, pastors, and counselors. This unique look at the questions of knowing is both entertaining and approachable. Questions for reflection make it ideal for students of philosophy and all those wrestling with the questions of knowledge.

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208

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Baker Books

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1585584533

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9781585584536

Field Notes from a Hidden City

An Urban Nature Diary

By: Esther Woolfson

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Field Notes from a Hidden City

An Urban Nature Diary

By: Esther Woolfson

Field Notes From a Hidden City is set against the background of the austere, grey and beautiful northeast Scottish city of Aberdeen. In it, Esther Woolfson examines the elements—geographic, atmospheric and environmental—which bring diverse life forms to live in close proximity in cities. Using the circumstances of her own life, house, garden and city, she writes of the animals who live among us: the birds—gulls, starlings, pigeons, sparrows and others—the rats and squirrels, the cetaceans, the spiders and the insects. In beautiful, absorbing prose, Woolfson describes the seasons, the streets and the quiet places of her city over the course of a year, which begins with the exceptional cold and snow of 2010. Influenced by her own long experience of corvids, she considers prevailing attitudes towards the natural world, urban and non–urban wildlife, the values we place on the lives of individual species and the ways in which man and creature live together in cities.

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Catapult

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1619023490

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9781619023499

Korle Meets the Sea

A Sociolinguistic History of Accra

By: Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu

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Korle Meets the Sea

A Sociolinguistic History of Accra

By: Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu

Ghana has played a key role in African/Western relations since medieval times. For this reason and others, Ghana has evolved into a linguistic quilt that contains forty-four indigenous languages and several exotic ones, of which most Ghanians speak at least two. Using Accra, Ghana's capital, as a microcosm, Dakubu conducts a linguistic, historical, and ethnographic investigation of the origins and durability of this multilingualism and how it has effected Ghanaian society.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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019506061X

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9780195060614

Double Helix Omnibus

By: Peter David,Esther Friesner,Diane Carey,Dean Wesley Smith,Kristine Kathryn Rusch,Christie Golden,Michael Jan Friedman,John Gregory Betancourt

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Double Helix Omnibus

By: Peter David,Esther Friesner,Diane Carey,Dean Wesley Smith,Kristine Kathryn Rusch,Christie Golden,Michael Jan Friedman,John Gregory Betancourt

Like a strand of mutating DNA, a deadly conspiracy winds its way through the Alpha Quadrant, even as it stretches across several years of Starfleet history. This special omnibus volume contains the entire bestselling saga-by some of Star Trek's most popular authors: Book One: Infection John Gregory Betancourt Deanna Troi's life is endangered by a mysterious plague that threatens to spread throughout the Federation and beyond! Book Two: Vectors Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch On the Cardassian space station known as Terok Nor, Dr. Katherine Pulaski struggles to heal the planet Bajor! Book Three: Red Sector Diane Carey An elderly Dr. McCoy reunites with Ambassador Spock to save the Romulan royal family-and a new generation! Book Four: Quarantine John Vornholt Lieutenant Tom Riker joins forces with the outlaw Maquis to rescue a world in peril! Book Five: Double or Nothing Peter David Along with Captain Mackenzie Calhoun of the Starship Excalibur, Jean-Luc Picard tracks the deadly contagion to its source! Book Six: The First Virtue Michael Jan Friedman & Christie Golden Years before commanding the U.S.S. Enterprise™, a young Picard must prevent a war -- and witness the secret origin of a diabolical threat that would someday menace all he cares for!

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Simon and Schuster

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0743473930

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9780743473934

Women and Aging

Celebrating Ourselves

By: Ellen Cole,Esther D Rothblum,Ruth R Thone

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Women and Aging

Celebrating Ourselves

By: Ellen Cole,Esther D Rothblum,Ruth R Thone

In our youth-oriented, patriarchal society, aging and older women often find themselves either ignored, pitied, or feared. Women and Aging is a valuable guide to help women break through the negative stereotypes of old age and find personal fulfillment through the stages of maturity. Full of warmth and support, Women and Aging strongly enables women to take and remain in control of their lives instead of passively letting others make life-changing--and possibly harmful--decisions for them. This essential guide for aging will help women increase the vitality of their old age, as it urges them to continue to plan for the future, keep and develop strong relationships, increase their overall wellness, and not be afraid to take risks. Truly a celebration of aging, the author’s illuminating descriptions of her own aging and how she has overcome society’s restrictions are sure to be a source of inspiration for all women--no matter what their ages.Women and Aging begins by addressing cultural attitudes toward women, including appearance, language, behavior, and “women’s work.” The middle section encourages women to face their fears and limitations and express their emotions, while the concluding chapters are a virtual “guide to life,” showing how to live life to the fullest and find inner fulfillment while aging. Along with her own continuing narrative, the author includes a multitude of personal glimpses into the aging processes of other women. This uplifting, helpful book will be of great value not only for aging women, but for women of all ages who are interested in taking active control of their own lives.

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Routledge

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1317765281

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Raising an Autistic Young Adult

A Parents’ Guide to ASD Safety, Communication, and Employment Opportunities to Empower Black and Brown Caregivers and Their Families

By: Esther Dillard

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Raising an Autistic Young Adult

A Parents’ Guide to ASD Safety, Communication, and Employment Opportunities to Empower Black and Brown Caregivers and Their Families

By: Esther Dillard

Embark on a transformative journey with 'Raising an Autistic Young Adult' by journalist and mom Esther Dillard. Are you prepared for your Black or Brown autistic teen's future? Do you worry about their emotional challenges, or if they'll be ready for encounters with the police? This book delves into these anxieties, offering practical solutions. Discover expert guidance and poignant narratives, exploring crucial topics such as emotional regulation, personal hygiene, and higher education considerations. Esther Dillard, a journalist and mom of an autistic teen is uniquely attuned to the struggles faced by Black and Brown families. In this book she amplifies parental voices recounting interviews about subjects that many parents navigate alone. Uncover empowering insights from parents who have walked this path, sharing invaluable safety talks and addressing fears related to law enforcement encounters. Raising an Autistic Young Adult: A Parents’ Guide to ASD Safety, Communication, and Employment Opportunities to Empower Black and Brown Caregivers and Their Families is a narrative that will help you navigate the complexities of autism with wisdom, compassion, and resilience, illuminating a path toward a brighter, more inclusive future.

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Archway Publishing

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1665752521

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Why the Best Man for the Job Is a Woman

The Unique Female Qualities of Leadership

By: Esther Wachs Book

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Why the Best Man for the Job Is a Woman

The Unique Female Qualities of Leadership

By: Esther Wachs Book

Playing With The Big Boys -- And Beating Them At Their Own Game! From Meg Whitman of eBay to Marcy Carsey of Carsey-Warner and Oxygen Media, today's leading businesswomen show how to make it in the notorious boys' club of corporate America. Gone are the days when men called the shots. More and more women have replaced men or excelled over rivals in male-dominated industries because they possess the qualities of leadership that top firms are seeking today. Esther Wachs Book introduces the new Female Leader and reveals the seven key, and uniquely female, qualities of leadership that are turning the world around -- and allowing more women to achieve success. Filled with compelling insights gleaned from the country's highest-ranking businesswomen, Why the Best Man for the Job Is a Woman reveals how these exceptional women have soared to the top and captures their strategies for success.

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Harper Collins

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0061865575

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9780061865572

Where Do I Go from Here?

Getting a Life After High School

By: Esther Drill,Heather McDonald,Rebecca Odes

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Getting a Life After High School

By: Esther Drill,Heather McDonald,Rebecca Odes

The founders of gURL.com ("Deal With It!") are back with a fun and informative resource that takes a look at the human side of college life. With their trademark bold and colorful graphics, candid and humorous text, and personal stories, the gURLs give young women a clear sense of what life is really like after high school.

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Penguin Group

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0142002143

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9780142002148

Raising an Autistic Young Adult

A Parents’ Guide to ASD Safety, Communication, and Employment Opportunities to Empower Black and Brown Caregivers and Their Families

By: Esther Dillard

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A Parents’ Guide to ASD Safety, Communication, and Employment Opportunities to Empower Black and Brown Caregivers and Their Families

By: Esther Dillard

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Flights of the Herons

Flights of the Herons

Loving to Know

Loving to Know

To Storm Heaven

To Storm Heaven

Doorway to Artistry

Doorway to Artistry

Diglossic Translanguaging

Diglossic Translanguaging

Women and AIDS

Women and AIDS

Warchild

Warchild

Longing to Know

Longing to Know

Field Notes from a Hidden City

Field Notes from a Hidden City

Korle Meets the Sea

Korle Meets the Sea

Double Helix Omnibus

Double Helix Omnibus

Women and Aging

Women and Aging

Raising an Autistic Young Adult

Raising an Autistic Young Adult

Why the Best Man for the Job Is a Woman

Why the Best Man for the Job Is a Woman

Where Do I Go from Here?

Where Do I Go from Here?

Raising an Autistic Young Adult

Raising an Autistic Young Adult

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