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Domestic Occupations

Spatial Rhetorics and Women’s Work

By: Jessica Enoch

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Domestic Occupations

Spatial Rhetorics and Women’s Work

By: Jessica Enoch

This feminist rhetorical history explores women’s complex and changing relationship to the home and how that affected their entry into the workplace. Author Jessica Enoch examines the spatial rhetorics that defined the home in the mid- to late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and considers how its construction and reconstruction—from discursive description to physical composition—has greatly shaped women’s efforts at taking on new kinds of work. In doing so, Enoch exposes the ways dominant discourses regarding women’s home life and work life—rhetorics that often assumed a white middle-class status—were complicated when differently raced, cultured, and classed women encountered them. Enoch explores how three different groups of women workers—teachers, domestic scientists, and World War II factory employees—contended with the physical and ideological space of the home, examining how this everyday yet powerful space thwarted or enabled their financial and familial security as well as their intellectual engagements and work-related opportunities. Domestic Occupations demonstrates a multimodal and multigenre research method for conducting spatio-rhetorical analysis that serves as a model for new kinds of thinking and new kinds of scholarship. This study adds historical depth and exigency to an important contemporary conversation in the public sphere about how women’s ties to the home inflect their access to work and professional advancement.

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SIU Press

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0809337177

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9780809337170

Under the Bottle Bridge

By: Jessica Lawson

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Under the Bottle Bridge

By: Jessica Lawson

In the tradition of Counting by 7s and Three Times Lucky, critically acclaimed author Jessica Lawson returns with her fourth whimsical, lyrical, and heartfelt middle grade novel about a girl who’s desperately trying to keep her life together, when everything seems to be falling apart. In the weeks leading up to Gilbreth, New York’s annual AutumnFest, twelve-year-old woodcraft legacy Minna Treat is struggling with looming deadlines, an uncle trying to hide Very Bad News, and a secret personal quest. When she discovers mysterious bottle messages under one of the village’s 300-year-old bridges, she can’t help but wonder who’s leaving them, what they mean, and, most importantly…could the messages be for her? Along with best friend Crash and a mystery-loving newcomer full of suspicious theories, Minna is determined to discover whether the bottles are miraculously leading her toward the long-lost answers she’s been looking for, or drawing her into a disaster of historic proportions.

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Simon and Schuster

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1481448447

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9781481448444

Walton's Lives

Conformist Commemorations and the Rise of Biography

By: Jessica Martin

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Walton's Lives

Conformist Commemorations and the Rise of Biography

By: Jessica Martin

This book argues that Walton's practice, in his Lives, was crucial in shaping modern expectations of biography: how it should be organised, how it should treat evidence, how seriously it should regard narrative coherence, and most particularly in the modern expectation of an intimaterelationship between author, reader, and subject. Dr Martin considers Walton's biographical ethics in relation to the tributary genres influencing him as they emerged from post-Reformation commendatory practice after 1546, most particularly classical funeral oratory and the emergent Protestantfuneral sermon, the Plutarchan parallel, the didactic Character, martyrological narrative, and finally Walton's direct model, the exemplary biographical commemoration of the conformist minister.Dr Martin considers how Walton develops his literary inheritance, arguing that his lay status required him to initiate a different kind of mediation between reader and subject from the straightforwardly imitative. Walton presents himself as a channel for the words and acts of an authoritativesubject, a preference implicitly followed both in his stress on personal connections with his subjects (which spectacularly particularizes his portraits) and in his very extensive use of their own writings. His Lives attempt posthumous autobiography. They are also considered as prominent andaccomplished examples of the many politically intended narratives which exploit a consensual interpretation of private virtue to support, without having to argue for, a sectarian interpretation of public rectitude.

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0198270151

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All You Want to Know But Didn't Think You Could Ask

Religions, Cults, and Popular Beliefs

By: Jessica Tinklenberg deVega,Christine Ortega Gaurkee

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All You Want to Know But Didn't Think You Could Ask

Religions, Cults, and Popular Beliefs

By: Jessica Tinklenberg deVega,Christine Ortega Gaurkee

Many young people fear that if they ask the wrong question about a religion or belief system, they'll be seen as insensitive or unintelligent... But to Jessica deVega—a high school religion teacher and a professor of religion—there are no bad questions, and nothing is too taboo to ask. All You Want to Know But Didn't Think You Could Ask clarifies the founding, history, practices, and beliefs of forty groups—from Islam, Shamanism, and Mormonism, to atheism, vampirism, and astrology. Here is everything teens and young adults need to know about world religions and philosophies in one place. Each chapter puts the group in context and explains how the religion is similar to or different from Christianity. No other book covers such a wide range of topics in as direct and gentle a manner. This book is perfect for you if you've ever: Heard puzzling statements or had questions about any belief system. Met someone of another religion for the very first time and wondered what that person believes or how to speak to her respectfully while holding true to your own faith. Worried that you hold misconceptions or stereotypes about other religious beliefs. Want to understand you own faith better by looking at what other people believe and why. Features include: Charts and tables for easy comparison of different religious beliefs and practices. Coverage of world religions, new religions, and religions in popular culture. Overviews of the founding, history, and typical followers of each religion. Written for classroom or individual study.

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Thomas Nelson

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1418550469

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9781418550462

For Times Such as These

A Radical's Guide to the Jewish Year

By: Ariana Katz,Jessica Rosenberg

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For Times Such as These

A Radical's Guide to the Jewish Year

By: Ariana Katz,Jessica Rosenberg

A revolutionary guide to Jewish practice rooted in social justice, feminism, and queer liberation. This contemporary companion to the Jewish year cycle is not only a bellwether for radical Jews who want their lives and practice to be rooted in their political commitments but also an educational resource in Jewish tradition, holidays, and ritual. With a chapter for each month of the Hebrew calendar, For Times Such as These offers spiritual practices and holiday rituals rooted in movements for racial justice, decolonization, feminism, and queer and trans liberation. Each chapter opens with an invocation by liturgist and healer Dori Midnight and illuminated by artist Sol Weiss. Highlighting each month's spiritual and cultural qualities, Rabbi Ariana Katz and Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg summarize and provide commentary on Torah readings; examine the texts, histories, and contemporary customs of Jewish holidays; and offer questions to reflect on and engage spiritually with the month. This work provides a guide for creative action and ritual making throughout the seasons, an exploration of anti-Zionist Judaism, and spiritual-cultural invitation to embody and expand decolonial, anti-racist, queer, and feminist Jewish practice.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814350526

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9780814350522

Pontormo and the Art of Devotion in Renaissance Italy

By: Jessica A. Maratsos

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Pontormo and the Art of Devotion in Renaissance Italy

By: Jessica A. Maratsos

Both lauded and criticized for his pictorial eclecticism, the Florentine artist Jacopo Carrucci, known as Pontormo, created some of the most visually striking religious images of the Renaissance. These paintings, which challenged prevailing illusionistic conventions, mark a unique contribution into the complex relationship between artistic innovation and Christian traditions in the first half of the sixteenth century. Pontormo's sacred works are generally interpreted as objects that reflect either pure aesthetic experimentation, or personal and cultural anxiety. Jessica Maratsos, however, argues that Pontormo employed stylistic change deliberately for novel devotional purposes. As a painter, he was interested in the various modes of expression and communication - direct address, tactile evocation, affective incitement - as deployed in a wide spectrum of devotional culture, from sacri monti, to Michelangelo's marble sculptures, to evangelical lectures delivered at the Accademia Fiorentina. Maratsos shows how Pontormo translated these modes in ways that prompt a critical rethinking of Renaissance devotional art.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009036947

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9781009036948

Secrets Of The Sea

By: Jessica Blair

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Secrets Of The Sea

By: Jessica Blair

In the early days of the 19th Century Whitby is a thriving port. Both the Coulson and the Campion families make a living by the sea. Sam Coulson has three sons: Martin, Ben and Eric. He has grand plans for expanding his whaling business; and as Seaton Campion has no sons, a marriage between Martin and Campion's eldest daughter, Alicia, will aid the fortunes of both families. Ben Coulson, Sam's middle son, has turned his back on whaling to follow other pursuits. However Ben is secretly working hard, waiting for the time to show his father he is not the wastrel he thinks he is. Ruth Holmes also comes from a sea-faring family. Her father is the captain of one of Sam Coulson's whaling ships. Newly returned from France, she catches the eye of Ben Coulson and he is instantly smitten. But when Martin fails to return from his last voyage their fledging relationship is put under threat. For not only does Sam blame Ruth's father for Martin's death, he sees little reason why his business plans should be thwarted by family tragedy. If Martin cannot marry Alicia then it is Ben's duty to take his brother's place, regardless of where his own affections lie

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Piatkus

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1405511923

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9781405511926

Handbook of Technology in Financial Services

By: Jessica Keyes

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Handbook of Technology in Financial Services

By: Jessica Keyes

The calculus of IT support for the banking, securities and insurance industries has changed dramatically and rapidly over the past few years. Unheard of just a few years ago, corporate intranets are now used for everything from job postings to enhanced team communications. Whole new departments are being created to support e-commerce. And the Inter

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CRC Press

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1000065200

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Earth Diplomacy

Indigenous American Art, Ecological Crisis, and the Cold War

By: Jessica L. Horton

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Earth Diplomacy

Indigenous American Art, Ecological Crisis, and the Cold War

By: Jessica L. Horton

In Earth Diplomacy, Jessica L. Horton reveals how Native American art in the mid-twentieth-century mobilized Indigenous cultures of diplomacy to place the earth itself at the center of international relations. She focuses on a group of artists including Pablita Velarde, Darryl Blackman, and Oscar Howe who participated in exhibitions and lectures abroad as part of the United States’s Cold War cultural propaganda. Horton emphasizes how their art modeled a radical alternative to dominant forms of statecraft, a practice she calls “earth diplomacy:” a response to extractive colonial capitalism grounded in Native ideas of deep reciprocal relationships between humans and other beings that govern the world. Horton draws on extensive archival research and oral histories as well as analyses of Indigenous creative work, including paintings, textiles, tipis, adornment, and artistic demonstrations. By interweaving diplomacy, ecology, and art history, Horton advances Indigenous frameworks of reciprocity with all beings in the cosmos as a path to transforming our broken system of global politics.

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Duke University Press

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1478059494

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9781478059493

The Binge Watcher's Guide to Supernatural

By: Jessica Mason

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The Binge Watcher's Guide to Supernatural

By: Jessica Mason

Dad’s on a hunting trip and he hasn’t been home in a few days. These simple words hook viewers into the story of Sam and Dean Winchester and the epic rocking ride that is Supernatural, the longest-running genre show in American television history. But with 15 seasons, 327 episodes, and more angels, demons, and resurrections than you can shake a first blade at, the series can be a little bit intimidating. That’s where we come in. The Binge Watcher’s Guide to Supernatural is your complete source on all the themes, ideas, trivia and more in this legendary series. From dissecting the meta madness to swooning over shipping highs and lows, this book will give readers insight like nothing before into the complex and sometimes confusing world of Sam, Dean, Castiel, and their extended family. Think of this as John Winchester's journal, guiding you through trivia and tribulations to enrich watching this incredible show. Whether you’re a long-time super fan or a newbie, Jessica Mason’s expert insight into the show will make this road trip the best one yet. Get ready to ride along as we save people, hunt things, and raise more than a little hell.

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Riverdale Avenue Books LLC

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162601597X

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9781626015975

Broken & Blessed

God Changes the World One Person and One Family At A Time

By: Jessica LaGrone

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Broken & Blessed

God Changes the World One Person and One Family At A Time

By: Jessica LaGrone

A little nod to those of us who are still feeling slightly half-baked: those with struggling families, cracked relationships, and a world that’s showing a little wear around the seams. When God wants to create the remarkable, He chooses to work with the less-than-perfect. Genesis is a book of beginnings. It is deeply concerned with the origins of things—of the universe, of humankind, of relationships, of sin, of civilization, of families, and of one special family created and chosen by God to be the instrument through which He would bless the world. That family is our family, yours and mine. Like all good family stories, it starts with not just a something or somewhere, but a someone. Part memoir, part biblical inspiration story, Broken & Blessed is about how change begins when one person decides to believe God’s promises and how that makes a change in a family, like ripples on water.

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Abingdon Press

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1426795998

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9781426795992

The Rough Guide to Film

By: Jessica Winter,Lloyd Hughes,Richard Armstrong,Tom Charity

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The Rough Guide to Film

By: Jessica Winter,Lloyd Hughes,Richard Armstrong,Tom Charity

The Rough Guide to Film is a bold new guide to cinema. Arranged by director, it covers the top moguls, mavericks and studio stalwarts of every era, genre and region, in addition to lots of lesser-known names. With each film placed in the context of its director’s career, the guide reviews thousands of the greatest movies ever made, with lists highlighting where to start, arranged by genre and by region. You’ll find profiles of over eight hundred directors, from Hollywood legends Alfred Hitchcock and John Huston to contemporary favourites like Steven Soderbergh and Martin Scorsese and cult names such as David Lynch and Richard Linklater. The guide is packed with great cinema from around the globe, including French New Wave, German giants, Iranian innovators and the best of East Asia, from Akira Kurosawa to Wong Kar-Wai and John Woo. With overviews of all major movements and genres, feature boxes on partnerships between directors and key actors, and cinematographers and composers, this is your essential guide to a world of cinema.

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Penguin

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1405384980

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9781405384988

Living Liturgy

Spirituality, Celebration, and Catechesis for Sundays and Solemnities Year A (2023)

By: Jessie Bazan,Chris de Silva,Verna Holyhead, SGS,Jessica Mannen Kimmet,Victoria (Vickey) McBride,Father Ruberval Monteiro da Silva

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Living Liturgy

Spirituality, Celebration, and Catechesis for Sundays and Solemnities Year A (2023)

By: Jessie Bazan,Chris de Silva,Verna Holyhead, SGS,Jessica Mannen Kimmet,Victoria (Vickey) McBride,Father Ruberval Monteiro da Silva

Living Liturgy™ 2023 provides practical and engaging content from expert authors to enrich your communal prayer and ministry. A robust formation program, Living Liturgy™ offers the readings, plus insightful reflections, and contextual background information for Sundays, solemnities, and additional feasts of liturgical and national importance. This best-selling annual resource is ideal for parish ministers, liturgists, pastors, planning committees, adult faith formation groups, and anyone who wishes to explore the connections between liturgy and life. An entirely new resource created for each liturgical year, Living Liturgy™ gives your team the spiritual preparation they need to serve in their ministries, integrating daily living, prayer, and study in an inviting and easy-to-use format. Original art by Ruberval Monteiro da Silva, OSB, complements the text and invites further reflection on the gospel of the day. This indispensable guide deepens a liturgical spirituality and strengthens the worship experience for the whole parish. Featured Content Reflecting on the Gospel Preparing to Proclaim Psalmist Preparation Making Connections Between the Readings Homily Points Model Penitential Act Model Universal Prayer (Prayer of the Faithful) Liturgy and Music Living Liturgy Prompts for Faith-Sharing

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Liturgical Press

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0814666086

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9780814666081

We Were Illegal

Uncovering a Texas Family's Mythmaking and Migration

By: Jessica Goudeau

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We Were Illegal

Uncovering a Texas Family's Mythmaking and Migration

By: Jessica Goudeau

An award-winning author's deep exploration of pivotal moments in Texas history through multiple generations of her own family, and a ruthless reexamination of our national and personal myths Seven generations of Jessica Goudeau’s family have lived in Texas, and her family’s legacy—a word she heard often growing up—was rooted in faith, right-living, and the hard work that built their great state. It wasn’t until her aunt mentioned a stowaway ancestor and she began to dig more deeply into the story of the land she lives on today in suburban Austin, that Goudeau discovered her family’s far more complicated role in Texas history: from a swindling land grant agent in the earliest days of Anglo settlement that brought slavery to Mexican land, up through her Texas Ranger great-uncle, who helped a sociopathic sheriff cover up mass murder. Tracking her ancestors’ involvement in pivotal moments from before the Texas Revolution through today, We Were Illegal is at once an intimate and character-driven narrative and an insider’s look at a state that prides itself on its history. It is an act of reckoning and recovery on a personal scale, as well as a reflection of the work we all must do to dismantle the whitewashed narratives that are passed down through families, communities, and textbooks. And it is a story filled with hope—by facing these hypocrisies and long-buried histories, Goudeau explores with us how to move past this fractured time, take accountability for our legacy, and learn to be better, more honest ancestors.

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Penguin

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0593300513

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9780593300510

Broken and Blessed Preview Book

How God Used One Imperfect Family to Change the World

By: Jessica LaGrone

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Broken and Blessed Preview Book

How God Used One Imperfect Family to Change the World

By: Jessica LaGrone

Blessed and broken is a six-week Bible study, based on the book of Genesis, that explores the good and the imperfect in Biblical families and in our own. Participants learn how God brings blessings from brokenness.--Container.

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Abingdon Press

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1426778406

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Handbook of Conflict Analysis and Resolution

By: Dennis J.D. Sandole,Sean Byrne,Ingrid Sandole-Staroste,Jessica Senehi

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Handbook of Conflict Analysis and Resolution

By: Dennis J.D. Sandole,Sean Byrne,Ingrid Sandole-Staroste,Jessica Senehi

This major Handbook is a collection of work from leading scholars in the Conflict Analysis and Resolution (CAR) field. The central theme is the value of interdisciplinary approaches to the analysis and resolution of conflicts.

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Routledge

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113407963X

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9781134079636

Ask for the Ancient Paths

By: Jessica Jones

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Ask for the Ancient Paths

By: Jessica Jones

This amazing, life-changing vision takes readers on the journey from before time to the end of this age. It shows how the jealousy of one angel forever marred the life of every angel and man alike.

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Xulon Press

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1600341810

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9781600341816

Rose Chronological Guide to the Bible

By: Jessica Curiel,Len Woods,Rose Publishing (Torrance, Calif.)

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Rose Chronological Guide to the Bible

By: Jessica Curiel,Len Woods,Rose Publishing (Torrance, Calif.)

A Chronological Guide Packed with Over 40 Full-Color Charts, Maps, and Illustrations! This one-of-a-kind resource is packed with dozens of full-color charts, maps, and illustrations to help you explore biblical history. It includes: Three 24-inch chronology foldouts showing the Bible at a glance, the life of Jesus, and the kings and prophets of the Old Testament.Chronology charts on popular Bible topics such the temple in Jerusalem, the ark of the covenant, and more.A harmony of the four Gospels--Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John side by side.Full-color maps showing the journeys of the patriarchs, the exodus route, where Jesus walked, Paul's missionary trips, and more.Quick summaries of all sixty-six books of the Bible and when they happened.The Bible has 66 books and more than 1,100 chapters, but they're not arranged in the order they happened in. Deepen your understanding of the Bible as you see key events in the order they actually happened with the one-of-a-kind Rose Chronological Guide to the Bible. Featuring 170 pages of full-color Bible charts, maps, and time lines, this reproducible guide doesn't just cover when specific events occurred, but why they matter. Spiral bound for ease of use, this is a must-have for every pastor and teacher. . Just because the Bible starts with Genesis and ends with Revelation doesn't mean that it's in chronological order! Look at the Bible in a fresh new way by viewing Bible events in the order they happened with Rose Publishing's classic highly-visual format. See all sixty-six books of the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, arranged chronologically at a glance! You'll learn how the stories of key Bible characters--like Abraham, David, Ruth, and Paul--fit into the larger story of God's unfolding plan of salvation through his Son Jesus Christ. Why Study the Bible Chronologically? Imagine discovering a familiar story in Scripture and gaining fresh revelation and insight as if you're reading it for the first time. That's how we want you to see God's Word with The Rose Chronological Guide to the Bible! How can you easily get a handle on all the people, places, and stories of the Bible? The Rose Chronological Guide to the Bible is designed to help you see how all the pieces of the Bible fit together--and see God's big story from creation to the end times at a glance! Gain a fresh perspective on God's Word today! Over 170 reproducible pages! An excellent way to enhance your Sunday school, homeschool, and small group or individual Bible Studies. Get your copy of this bestselling chronological reference now! Perfect for group and individual Bible study, church libraries, gifts, youth and young adult groups, teachers and pastors, and much more. 170 pages.

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Rose Publishing

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1628628073

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Inventing George Whitefield

Race, Revivalism, and the Making of a Religious Icon

By: Jessica M. Parr

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Inventing George Whitefield

Race, Revivalism, and the Making of a Religious Icon

By: Jessica M. Parr

Evangelicals and scholars of religious history have long recognized George Whitefield (1714-1770) as a founding father of American evangelicalism. But Jessica M. Parr argues he was much more than that. He was an enormously influential figure in Anglo-American religious culture, and his expansive missionary career can be understood in multiple ways. Whitefield began as an Anglican clergyman. Many in the Church of England perceived him as a radical. In the American South, Whitefield struggled to reconcile his disdain for the planter class with his belief that slavery was an economic necessity. Whitefield was drawn to an idealized Puritan past that was all but gone by the time of his first visit to New England in 1740. Parr draws from Whitefield's writing and sermons and from newspapers, pamphlets, and other sources to understand Whitefield's career and times. She offers new insights into revivalism, print culture, transatlantic cultural influences, and the relationship between religious thought and slavery. Whitefield became a religious icon shaped in the complexities of revivalism, the contest over religious toleration, and the conflicting role of Christianity for enslaved people. Proslavery Christians used Christianity as a form of social control for slaves, whereas evangelical Christianity's emphasis on "freedom in the eyes of God" suggested a path to political freedom. Parr reveals how Whitefield's death marked the start of a complex legacy that in many ways rendered him more powerful and influential after his death than during his long career.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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162674498X

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9781626744981

Trees Make the Best Mobiles

Simple Ways to Raise Your Child in a Complex World

By: Jessica Teich,Brandel France de Bravo

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Trees Make the Best Mobiles

Simple Ways to Raise Your Child in a Complex World

By: Jessica Teich,Brandel France de Bravo

Books like Simplify Your Life and Don't Sweat the Small Stuff have encouraged millions of readers to slow down and enjoy life more. Now, Jessica Teich and Brandel France de Bravo help new parents- who barely have time to return a phone call or wash a sock- learn to do less, listen more, and spend focused, fruitful time with their children. Practical and fun to read, Trees Make the Best Mobiles urges parents to treat every task-even diapering and feeding-as a chance to connect with their child, and gives calming advice about hot-button issues from pacifier use to temper tantrums. Parents will be relieved to discover that they don't have to buy lots of stuff-a tree outside a baby's window can serve as a mobile-or shuttle kids from one activity to another. In fact, in today's hectic, high-speed world, children need less "stimulation" and more unhurried interaction with the people who matter most. The authors call their approach "present parenting," because they believe being "present in the moment," without resentment or distraction, is the greatest present any parent can give.

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St. Martin's Press

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1429981539

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9781429981538

Hello, My Name Is Resilient

By: Jessica Sage

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Hello, My Name Is Resilient

By: Jessica Sage

In this world, all human beings face troubles. That is a guarantee from Jesus. Author Jessica Sage is no exception. But fortunately, Jesus does not leave us alone to deal with life’s challenges. God walks with us, delivers us, and brings us through the other side of our struggles, stronger than before. In Hello, My Name Is Resilient, Sage shares her story. It speaks of a young woman coping with her parents’ divorce as she begins a new life by seeking Jesus Christ first. Sometimes caught between the world around her and her church and family, she shares a chronicle of her journey through the good times and the bad. A memoir and spiritual guidebook, Hello My Name Is Resilient, addresses a host a topics through the lens of the Bible, including divorce, suicide, prayer, media, travel, the future, and one’s calling. Sage’s stories show how heeding the call of Christ led her to a sense of purpose she could not have found elsewhere.

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WestBow Press

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1973638312

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9781973638315

The Apache Peoples

A History of All Bands and Tribes Through the 1880s

By: Jessica Dawn Palmer

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The Apache Peoples

A History of All Bands and Tribes Through the 1880s

By: Jessica Dawn Palmer

This book presents a comprehensive history of the seven Apache tribes, tracing them from their genetic origins in Asia and their migration through the continent to the Southwest. The work covers their social history, verbal traditions and mores. The final section delineates the recorded history starting with the Spanish expedition of 1541 through the Civil War.

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McFarland

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0786445513

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9780786445516

Indescribable Beauty, Immeasurable Worth

The Heart of God Revealed Through a Baby with a Life-Limiting Diagnosis

By: Jessica LaHousse

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Indescribable Beauty, Immeasurable Worth

The Heart of God Revealed Through a Baby with a Life-Limiting Diagnosis

By: Jessica LaHousse

When Jessica and Derek LaHousse received a devastating, life-limiting diagnosis for their unborn baby, they embarked on a journey of choosing life. Instead of following the medical advice to consider terminating the pregnancy, Jessica and Derek saw their daughter’s life as a gift from God; a precious and innocent baby who deserved to be surrounded by love and given a chance. They opted to continue on despite the grim prognosis, and placed their trust in God’s sovereign hands. The remaining months of pregnancy were a whirlwind of appointments to monitor progress and planning for many possible outcomes. In an urgent attempt to save her from stillbirth, Tabitha Miriam LaHousse was delivered nearly two months early, on February 17, 2020. She was alive and already defying all the statistics for her condition. Over the next several months, Tabitha overcame many obstacles in the neonatal intensive care unit and ushered in a beautiful view of God’s heart and character in the process. This is a story, orchestrated by God, of a medically fragile baby girl and the family behind her that refused to give up. It is an account of all the miraculous and remarkable things that happened along the way that point to a good, loving, and merciful God who is faithful and worthy of our trust.

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1664264779

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La Perdida

By: Jessica Abel

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La Perdida

By: Jessica Abel

From the Harvey and Lulu award–winning creator of Artbabe comes a riveting story of a young woman’s misadventures in Mexico City. Carla, an American estranged from her Mexican father, heads to Mexico City to “find herself.” She crashes with a former fling, Harry, who has been drinking his way through the capital in the great tradition of his heroes, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. Harry is good—humored about Carla’s reappearance on his doorstep—until he realizes that Carla, who spends her days soaking in the city, exploring Frida Kahlo’s house, and learning Spanish, has no intention of leaving. When Harry and Carla’s relationship of mutual tolerance reaches its inevitable end, she rejects his world of Anglo expats for her own set of friends: pretty-boy Oscar, who sells pot and dreams of being a DJ, and charismatic Memo, a left-wing, pseudo–intellectual ladies’ man. Determined to experience the real Mexico, Carla turns a blind eye to her new friends’ inconsistencies. But then she catches the eye of a drug don, el Gordo, and from that moment on her life gets a lot more complicated, and she is forced to confront the irreparable consequences of her willful innocence. Jessica Abel’s evocative black–and–white drawings and creative mix of English and Spanish bring Mexico City’s past and present to life, unfurling Carla’s dark history against the legacies of Burroughs and Kahlo. A story about the youthful desire to live an authentic life and the consequences of trusting easy answers, La Perdida—at once grounded in the particulars of life in Mexico and resonantly universal—is a story about finding oneself by getting lost.

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Pantheon

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0375714715

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Please Come Back To Me

Stories and a Novella

By: Jessica Treadway

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Please Come Back To Me

Stories and a Novella

By: Jessica Treadway

Please Come Back To Me is another remarkable collection by an author the New York Times has called “a writer with an unsparing bent for the truth.” In “The Nurse and the Black Lagoon” a woman tries to understand why her teenage son has been accused of a disturbing crime. In “Testimony” an adult daughter visiting her father does everything she can to keep herself from remembering what she believes she cannot bear. A man returns to his hometown in “Dear Nicole” to face the realization that he married the wrong woman out of misplaced guilt. “Oregon” portrays the internal struggle of a woman who, having years ago betrayed a secret entrusted to her by her best friend, is tempted to repeat the mistake with the same friend’s daughter. And in the collection’s novella, “Please Come Back To Me,” a young widow seeks faith and comfort—in both natural and supernatural realms—after her husband’s death leaves her alone to care for their infant son. On the surface, Jessica Treadway’s stories offer realistic portrayals of people in situations that make them question their roles as family members, their ability to do the right thing, and even their sanity. But Treadway’s psychic landscapes are tinged with a sense of the surreal, inviting readers to recognize—as her characters do—that very little is actually as it seems.

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University of Georgia Press

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082033751X

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The Colonial Politics of Global Health

France and the United Nations in Postwar Africa

By: Jessica Lynne Pearson

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The Colonial Politics of Global Health

France and the United Nations in Postwar Africa

By: Jessica Lynne Pearson

In The Colonial Politics of Global Health, Jessica Lynne Pearson explores the collision between imperial and international visions of health and development in French Africa as decolonization movements gained strength. After World War II, French officials viewed health improvements as a way to forge a more equitable union between France and its overseas territories. Through new hospitals, better medicines, and improved public health, French subjects could reimagine themselves as French citizens. The politics of health also proved vital to the United Nations, however, and conflicts arose when French officials perceived international development programs sponsored by the UN as a threat to their colonial authority. French diplomats also feared that anticolonial delegations to the United Nations would use shortcomings in health, education, and social development to expose the broader structures of colonial inequality. In the face of mounting criticism, they did what they could to keep UN agencies and international health personnel out of Africa, limiting the access Africans had to global health programs. French personnel marginalized their African colleagues as they mapped out the continent’s sanitary future and negotiated the new rights and responsibilities of French citizenship. The health disparities that resulted offered compelling evidence that the imperial system of governance should come to an end. Pearson’s work links health and medicine to postwar debates over sovereignty, empire, and human rights in the developing world. The consequences of putting politics above public health continue to play out in constraints placed on international health organizations half a century later.

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Harvard University Press

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0674989260

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Portraiture and Friendship in Enlightenment France

By: Jessica L. Fripp

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Portraiture and Friendship in Enlightenment France

By: Jessica L. Fripp

Portraiture and Friendship in Enlightenment France examines how new and often contradictory ideas about friendship were enacted in the lives of artists in the eighteenth century. It demonstrates that portraits resulted from and generated new ideas about friendship by analyzing the creation, exchange, and display of portraits alongside discussions of friendship in philosophical and academic discourse, exhibition criticism, personal diaries, and correspondence. This study provides a deeper understanding of how artists took advantage of changing conceptions of social relationships and used portraiture to make visible new ideas about friendship that were driven by Enlightenment thought. Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture Distributed for the University of Delaware Press

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University of Virginia Press

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1644532026

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CBT Express

Effective 15-Minute Techniques for Treating Children and Adolescents

By: Jessica M. McClure,Robert D. Friedberg,Micaela A. Thordarson,Marisa Keller

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CBT Express

Effective 15-Minute Techniques for Treating Children and Adolescents

By: Jessica M. McClure,Robert D. Friedberg,Micaela A. Thordarson,Marisa Keller

Offering vital tools for working with 4- to 18-year-olds in a wide range of settings, this book presents engaging cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) activities that can be implemented rapidly and flexibly. Concise chapters guide the provider to quickly identify meaningful points of intervention for frequently encountered clinical concerns, and to teach and model effective strategies. Each intervention includes a summary of the target age, module, purpose, rationale, materials needed, and expected time for completion, as well as clear instructions and sample dialogues and scripts. In a convenient large-size format, the book features helpful graphics and 77 reproducible handouts and worksheets in the form of Handy and Quick (HQ) Cards. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials.

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Guilford Publications

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1462540317

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Do Not Erase

Mathematicians and Their Chalkboards

By: Jessica Wynne

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Do Not Erase

Mathematicians and Their Chalkboards

By: Jessica Wynne

A photographic exploration of mathematicians’ chalkboards “A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns,” wrote the British mathematician G. H. Hardy. In Do Not Erase, photographer Jessica Wynne presents remarkable examples of this idea through images of mathematicians’ chalkboards. While other fields have replaced chalkboards with whiteboards and digital presentations, mathematicians remain loyal to chalk for puzzling out their ideas and communicating their research. Wynne offers more than one hundred stunning photographs of these chalkboards, gathered from a diverse group of mathematicians around the world. The photographs are accompanied by essays from each mathematician, reflecting on their work and processes. Together, pictures and words provide an illuminating meditation on the unique relationships among mathematics, art, and creativity. The mathematicians featured in this collection comprise exciting new voices alongside established figures, including Sun-Yung Alice Chang, Alain Connes, Misha Gromov, Andre Neves, Kasso Okoudjou, Peter Shor, Christina Sormani, Terence Tao, Claire Voisin, and many others. The companion essays give insights into how the chalkboard serves as a special medium for mathematical expression. The volume also includes an introduction by the author, an afterword by New Yorker writer Alec Wilkinson, and biographical information for each contributor. Do Not Erase is a testament to the myriad ways that mathematicians use their chalkboards to reveal the conceptual and visual beauty of their discipline—shapes, figures, formulas, and conjectures created through imagination, argument, and speculation.

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Princeton University Press

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0691222827

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