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The Wise Earth Speaks to Your Spirit

52 Lessons to Find Your Soul Voice through Journal Writing

By: Janell Moon

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The Wise Earth Speaks to Your Spirit

52 Lessons to Find Your Soul Voice through Journal Writing

By: Janell Moon

“Offers a strong incentive for us to get back to the natural world, stay quiet, reflect, and write to connect with a spirit that is larger than ourselves.”—Sheila Bender, author of Keeping a Journal You Love A heartfelt combination of spiritual discovery, environmental observations, and journal writing, The Wise Earth Speaks to Your Spirit offers readers a 52-week cycle of themed essays and related questions about the natural world. Entries on night and sky and parakeets, wind and mud and rain, snakes and tea and thistle, among others. In addition to folklore, myths, stories, and symbols connected to each theme, Janell Moon includes inspirational quotes from well-known writers—among them E. B. White, Ursula K. Le Guin, Gertrude Stein, and Mother Theresa—and shares her original poetry and personal experiences with the natural world. As she writes in the introduction, “It is my wish that through the telling of these stories, and the deepening of your own connections through your writing, that you will better enjoy a rainbow or a tree with angel’s wings in a storm.”

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Red Wheel

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1609258509

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Stirring the Waters

Writing to Find Your Spirit

By: Janell Moon

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Stirring the Waters

Writing to Find Your Spirit

By: Janell Moon

This spiritual self-help book is an friendly guide for readers of all faiths seeking a more satisfying and spiritually rich life. Whether you're a seasoned writer or just write an occasional journal entry, Stirring the Waters will enrich your life. With a poet's insight and deft touch, author Janell Moon leads you along a path that helps you to know yourself and thrive spiritually. She provides nine weeks of exercises that will guide you to answer the essential but sometimes impenetrable questions, "Who am I, and what am I doing here?" Moon's innovative methods will encourage you to develop a new perspective. "Streaming," one of the many exercises included in Stirring the Waters, involves brainstorming, even doodling, across the page. Another exercise, "clustering," shows you how to discover the hidden ideas related to a theme. Moon also introduces other unique thought-provoking techniques such as "gazing into the waters" and "dialoguing" to help you develop a wise new spirit. As you read and write you way through the exercises of Stirring the Waters, you will discover a clarified vision of yourself, and find the way to the you you you were meant to be.

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Tuttle Publishing

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1462918182

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9781462918188

The Prayer Box

Create, Write, and Live Your Prayers

By: Janell Moon

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The Prayer Box

Create, Write, and Live Your Prayers

By: Janell Moon

There's a lot more to prayer than kneeling. The Wise Earth Speaks to Your Spirit author Janell Moon shows that by using The Prayer Box the deepest, truest prayers are brought to life for those who pray. The Prayer Box contains: * A 96-page book that details prayer practices and shows readers how to create their own forms of prayer. * A 96-page blank journal in which readers can draft their prayers. * 25 prayer papers on which readers can refine and record their most-loved prayers to one or two lines. * A lovely box in which to store prayers and prayer objects. The book guides readers in the art of living prayer, explaining: how to ready themselves for prayer, why prayer is important to daily life, how to experience the power of prayers by writing them down, what to pray for in general, and what to pray for at different stages in life. Moon offers activities and rituals that make prayers come alive using: * Posture, breath, mind, and imagination in prayer. * A "prayer tablet" to explore prayer thoughts and experiences. * Candles as symbolic aids to prayer. * Music and bells to encourage and shape prayer. * Personal symbols that can be collected to strengthen and deepen prayer. * A personal altar that gives life to prayers. * Writing and ritual to enhance the meaning and experience of prayers. Beautifully written and artfully crafted, The Prayer Box is the perfect gift for anyone who wants to see prayer come to life.

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Red Wheel

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1590030583

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Rockin' the Classics and Classicizin' the Rock:

A Selectively Annotated Discography: Second Supplement

By: Janell R. Duxbury

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Rockin' the Classics and Classicizin' the Rock:

A Selectively Annotated Discography: Second Supplement

By: Janell R. Duxbury

Rock music of all varieties has been influenced by classical music and vice versa, both in the form of direct quotes and in the form of borrowings of style, composition, and instrumentation. The average listener may be unaware of the many links between rock music and the classics. One might remember a few examples, such as Walter Murphy's chart-topping "A Fifth of Beethoven" or Eric Carmen's "All by Myself," but pass them off as interesting anomalies. However, the influence of the classics on rock music is pervasive and grows from a long line of precedents. This second supplement to Janell R. Duxbury's original 1985 discography, Rockin' the Classics and Classicizin' the Rock, brings the earlier work and first supplement up-to-date with hundreds of new entries documenting recently released or newly discovered examples of the interconnection between these musical genres. Duxbury details nearly 700 new examples of recorded rock instrumentals and songs that borrow musical themes from the classics. Variations range from contemporary renditions of complete classical works to brief classical quotes or phrases subtly incorporated into rock compositions. Duxbury also gives additional examples of recorded orchestral versions of songs originally composed and/or written by rock artists. In these examples, the musical style varies from strict classical interpretations to pop-style orchestral renditions. The second supplement then expands Duxbury's original compilation of sound recordings and live performances of rock groups performing with established orchestras and choruses, selected samples of recorded rock music that simulate baroque or classical sound/structure, examples of the manifest influence of rock on classical music, and instances of rock artists and classical artists switching roles. Lastly, this discography updates the 1985 version and the first supplement with new information, expanded details, and minor corrections to the earlier works. An extended list of selected non-rock background examples is included in several new appendixes. The Preface is updated. A general index includes the names of classical composers, rock artists and groups, orchestras, choruses, orchestra conductors, sound recording producers, and song or instrumental titles. With its incomparable scope and content, this supplement, together with Duxbury's previous discography, and its first supplement will be appreciated by students, researchers, record collectors, trivia buffs, music industry employees, and fans of rock music and the classics.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462807364

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9781462807369

When God Lost Her Tongue

Historical Consciousness and the Black Feminist Imagination

By: Janell Hobson

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When God Lost Her Tongue

Historical Consciousness and the Black Feminist Imagination

By: Janell Hobson

When God Lost Her Tongue explores historical consciousness as captured through the Black feminist imagination that re-centers the perspectives of Black women in the African Diaspora, and revisits how Black women’s transatlantic histories are re-imagined and politicized in our contemporary moment. Connecting select historical case studies – from the Caribbean, the African continent, North America, and Europe – while also examining the retelling of these histories in the work of present-day writers and artists, Janell Hobson utilizes a Black feminist lens to rescue the narratives of African-descended women, which have been marginalized, erased, forgotten, and/or mis-remembered. African goddesses crossing the Atlantic with captive Africans. Women leaders igniting the Haitian Revolution. Unnamed Black women in European paintings. African women on different sides of the "door of no return" during the era of the transatlantic slave trade. Even ubiquitous "Black queens" heralded and signified in a Beyoncé music video or a Janelle Monáe lyric. And then there are those whose names we will never forget, like the iconic Harriet Tubman. This critical interdisciplinary intervention will be key reading for students and researchers studying African American women, Black feminisms, feminist methodologies, Africana studies, and women and gender studies.

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Routledge

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0429516703

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9780429516702

Death, A Love Story

The End Is Just the Beginning

By: Janell Flores Bolte

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Death, A Love Story

The End Is Just the Beginning

By: Janell Flores Bolte

It began happening almost immediately. The signs were clear and distinctly familiar. They came through music, dreams, nature and sometimes even strangers. John was communicating from the other side. His death was not the end of our relationship. On the contrary, it revealed a new way of communicating. It was a deepening of the bond that had been forged during twenty years together as a couple and an epic cancer journey. Healing is a spiral and there is no right way to pick up the pieces. There is only your way. And the path appears in the heart of every person who dares to look for it. Everyone has access to their loved ones who have crossed. You don’t need to buy a crystal ball or hold seances (unless you want to), because this book shares practical tools for bridging worlds since they do, in fact, exist simultaneously. In times of uncertainty, know this to be true...Love never dies.

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Balboa Press

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9798765251935

Verdi (copy 2)

By: Janell Cannon

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Verdi (copy 2)

By: Janell Cannon

Young Verdi doesn't want to grow up to be big and green. He likes bright yellow skin and sporty stripes. Besides, all the green snakes he meets are lazy, boring, and rude. Despite his efforts, Verdi turns as green as the leaves on the trees, but to his delight, he discovers that being green doesn't mean he has to stop being himself. Full color.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0152010289

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9780152010287

Venus in the Dark

Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture

By: Janell Hobson

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Venus in the Dark

Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture

By: Janell Hobson

In this second edition of the remarkable, and now classic, cultural history of black women’s beauty, Venus in the Dark, Janell Hobson explores the enduring figure of the "Hottentot Venus" and the history of critical and artistic responses to her by black women in contemporary photography, film, literature, music, and dance. In 1810, Sara Baartman was taken from South Africa to Europe, where she was put on display at circuses, salons, museums, and universities as the "Hottentot Venus." The subsequent legacy of representations of black women’s sexuality—from Josephine Baker to Serena Williams to hip-hop and dancehall videos—refer back to her iconic image. Via a new preface, Hobson argues for the continuing influence of Baartman’s legacy, as her image still reverberates through the contemporary marketization of black women’s bodies, from popular music and pornography to advertising. A brand new chapter explores how historical echoes from previous eras map onto highly visible bodies in the twenty-first century. It analyzes fetishistic spectacles of the black "booty," with particular emphasis on the role of Beyoncé Knowles in the popularization of the "bootylicious" body, and the counter-aesthetic the singer has gone on to advance for black women’s bodies and beauty politics. By studying the imagery of the "Hottentot Venus," from the nineteenth century to now, readers are invited to confront the racial and sexual objectification and embodied resistance that make up a significant part of black women’s experience.

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Routledge

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1315299372

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Overcoming Hurtful Words

Rewrite Your Own Story

By: Janell Rardon

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Overcoming Hurtful Words

Rewrite Your Own Story

By: Janell Rardon

Hurtful words can steal joy, distort truth, and create long-term struggles with understanding your worth and purpose. In this powerful new book, counselor and life coach Janell Rardon, MA, equips you to address and reframe negative words and labels that have hurt you in order to achieve healing and lasting freedom. By understanding and embracing your God-created identity, you will develop a healthy sense of self and build a foundation for lasting, positive relationships. Using Scripture along with tested and proven techniques, you can exchange unhealthy beliefs and behaviors for a new, joy-filled life.

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Worthy Inspired

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1683971647

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9781683971641

Soaring in Heavenly Places

By: Janell Bryant Laughlin

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Soaring in Heavenly Places

By: Janell Bryant Laughlin

Soaring in Heavenly Places was written because of a dream, In the dream some words were spoken to me from the Lord. He said he was going to “enlarge” my territory. As I began seeking the Lord about the dream, he began to enlarge (enlighten) me with his word. I realized that the dream had a “spiritual” meaning, and not a “natural” meaning. God began revealing himself to me in a greater measure, and caused me to soar in heavenly places in the spirit. He began to enlarge my territory (from within). A greater understanding of the Word of God began to take place in my mind. As I began writing, God began to “add” or “expand” the knowledge of the Word.

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WestBow Press

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1973695995

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9781973695998

Song in a Strange Land

By: Janell Matthews Lindsey

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Song in a Strange Land

By: Janell Matthews Lindsey

Fareed Terneash, son of a Christian mother and an atheistic Communist father, leaves behind in Nazareth a broken romance and his appointment as delegate to the communist Youth Conference in Moscow. He travels to the Gaza strip seeking work. Caught up in the Six-Day war, Fareed is transported to Jordan on the identification papers of a dead man. There his capture, torture, conversion, and eventual ministry among the prisoners end in an unexpected amnesty by the King. Fareed is released into the streets of Amman without money,lodging or food,in constant danger of being shot or arrested because of his lack of official papers. Through the help of a Palestinian, he begins work in the palace of a Prince. Later, in a Baptist hospital in the mountains of Ajlun, he ministers to Palestinian commandoes, telling them of his new-found faith. Fareeds long-sought passport is issued through intervention of the Jordanian Queen. Thus begins his adventure in America as an eigth-grade dropout entering college.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1477172963

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9781477172964

iRules

What Every Tech-Healthy Family Needs to Know about Selfies, Sexting, Gaming, and Growing up

By: Janell Burley Hofmann

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iRules

What Every Tech-Healthy Family Needs to Know about Selfies, Sexting, Gaming, and Growing up

By: Janell Burley Hofmann

As Janell Burley Hofmann, mother of five, wrapped her 13-year-old's iPhone on Christmas Eve, she was overwhelmed by questions: "Will my children learn to sit and wonder without Googling? Should I know their passwords for online accounts? Will they experience the value of personal connection without technology?" To address her concerns, she outlined boundaries and expectations in a contract for her son to sign upon receiving his first cell phone. When Hofmann's editor at The Huffington Post posted the contract, now known as iRules, it resonated on a massive scale and went viral, resulting in a tsunami of media coverage and requests. It quickly became apparent that people across the country were hungry for more. In iRules, Hofmann provides families with the tools they need to find a balance between technology and human interaction through a philosophy she calls Slow Tech Parenting. In the book, she educates parents about the online culture tweens and teens enter the minute they go online, exploring issues like cyberbullying, friend fail, and sexting, as well as helping parents create their own iRules contracts to fit their families' needs. As funny and readable as it is prescriptive, iRules will help parents figure out when to unplug and how to stay in sync with the changing world of technology, while teaching their children self-respect, integrity, and responsibility.

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Rodale Books

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1623363535

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9781623363536

Egyptian Mythology

By: Janell Broyles

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Egyptian Mythology

By: Janell Broyles

Provides a brief description of Egyptian culture and the role of mythology and religion within it and presents several myths.

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The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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1404207708

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Angelic Blessings for Daily Joy

By: Lori Janell

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Angelic Blessings for Daily Joy

By: Lori Janell

An instrument of peace, this collection of daily blessings provides simple, practical reminders that align the reader with a sense of clarity and heart-led purpose, offering the opportunity to experience each day with fresh perspective, renewed hope, and wonder.

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Balboa Press

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9798765251881

Guattari's Diagrammatic Thought

Writing Between Lacan and Deleuze

By: Janell Watson

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Guattari's Diagrammatic Thought

Writing Between Lacan and Deleuze

By: Janell Watson

Félix Guattari was a French political militant, practicing psychoanalyst and international public intellectual. He is best known for his work with the philosopher Gilles Deleuze on the two-volume Capitalism and Schizophrenia, one of the most influential works of post-structuralism. From the mid-1950s onward, Guattari exerted a profound yet often behind-the-scenes influence on institutional psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, radical politics and philosophy. Guattari's Diagrammtic Thought examines the writings that Guattari authored on his own, both before and during his collaboration with Deleuze, providing a startlingly fresh perspective on intellectual and political trends in France and beyond during the second half of the twentieth century. Janell Watson acknowledges the historical and biographical aspect of Guattari's writing and explores the relevance of his theoretical ideas to topics as diverse as the May 1968 student movement, Lacanian psychoanalysis, neo-liberalism, ethnic identity, microbiology, quantum mechanics, chaos theory, ecology, the mass media, and the subjective dimensions of information technology. The book demonstrates that Guattari's unique thought process yields a markedly Guattarian version of many seemingly familiar Deleuzean notions.

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A&C Black

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1441157085

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9781441157089

The Navajo

The Past and Present of the Diné

By: Donna Janell Bowman

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The Navajo

The Past and Present of the Diné

By: Donna Janell Bowman

The Long Walk to forced imprisonment in eastern New Mexico still haunts the Navajo people. But after years of suffering they were allowed to return to their traditional lands where they prospered. Today the Navajo celebrate their strengths and proudly maintain their cultural traditions in modern America.

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Capstone

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1543538355

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How to Pray Without Being Religious

Finding Your Spiritual Path

By: Janell Moon

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How to Pray Without Being Religious

Finding Your Spiritual Path

By: Janell Moon

Drawing on her own experiences, as wll as those of her friends, Moon explores the different kinds of prayer and clearly demonstrates how a life of prayer can change the lives of those who pray and of those around them.

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HarperElement

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0007174853

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9780007174850

Jon's Song

Laughin' at the Sea : A Mother's Journey through Grief

By: Janell Wight

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Jon's Song

Laughin' at the Sea : A Mother's Journey through Grief

By: Janell Wight

Jonathan Wight, the youngest of three children, was a gifted singer-songwriter. He was diagnosed with desmoplastic small round cell soft tissue sarcoma in 2014, an extremely rare and deadly cancer. Jon's Song is an intimate view of a mother's journey with her son through cancer and her solitary journey through grief following his death. In these pages, you will experience firsthand the pain and sorrow of that loss, but most of all, you will witness the amazing power and triumph of love and personal faith, which sustain the author and carry her through her darkest times.

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