Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind." Luke 14:21. Amelia Brown, Johanna's mother does not approve; to her Stanley is socially unacceptable - he is working class. She schemes to end the friendship. Amelia runs her own charitable trust, which receives millions of dollars in donations each year. Helping her in this venture is sister-in-law Matilda Brown, married to Jerry Brown, brother to deceased John, Amelia's husband. Nine years previous, bandits in Cambodia ambushed John Brown's team. There was only one survivor. After Stanley graduated, Amelia, still in contact with her husband's previous employer, The World Bank, finds him a position in - Cambodia, where he meets the survivor of the massacre, American Randy Page and his three wives and nine children. All the wives have lost limbs through land mines. In Phnom Penh Stanley meets French doctor Emily Chaulieu - he cannot keep his eyes from her. A strange magnetic force draws them together. After a frantic call to her daughter, Amelia says she has shattering news and will be home shortly. Amelia does not arrive, but is shot dead, execution style. Inspector Noel Platt in charge of investigations becomes involved in the lives of Johanna and Little Sister who has come to Australia from Cambodia to study for a teaching career. Johanna now heads her mother's trust helped by her Aunt Matilda who is treasurer. Johanna's life is threatened. Through the Amelia Brown Charitable Trust, Johanna unknowingly becomes involved in the evil worldwide trade of child trafficking. Herman Page arrives from America, to reunite with his father whom he has not seem since the family break-up, when he was only five year old and his father served abroad. Innocently, Herman enters the realm of Russian mafia.
This fully updated edition of The Engaged Sociologist by Kathleen Odell Korgen carries the public sociology movement into the classroom, while at the same time providing an engaging overview of the entire field. It demonstrates how to think sociologically, to develop a sociological eye, and to use sociological tools to become effective participants in a democratic society. Perfect as a supplement for an introductory course, or as a main text for any course that has public sociology at its roots, this inspiring book will serve as a guidebook to any student who is passionate about applying sociological concepts to the world around them.
In the new Fifth Edition of Our Social World: Introduction to Sociology, three award winning authors and teachers of sociology set out to inspire students to develop their sociological imaginations. Readers are encouraged to see the impact of larger social structures and global trends on their personal lives and to confront sociological issues on a day-to-day basis. In each chapter, authors Jeanne H. Ballantine, Keith A. Roberts, and new co-author Kathleen Odell Korgen, relate everything back to the social world model to promote “deep learning” of a fundamental sociological concept: the micro-to-macro organization of society. Above all else, adopters of this unique, easy to read, and innovative text use it because it helps their students to learn about sociology and to use sociological tools throughout the course and beyond. Their students are able to articulate what sociology is and to explain the macro to micro links in the social system. Can you identify any other introductory text which has a coherent thesis that runs throughout the text?
Buffy Summers is just your average teenager with everyday problems except for one teeny tiny thing-she's the Vampire Slayer. Balancing homework with her duties as the one chosen to rid the Earth of evil forces sometimes puts a crimp in Buffy's social life, but she manages. That the buff high schooler can annihilate vampires and other monsters while remaining fashionably dressed and cutely dressed illustrates the dichotomy that is Buffy. In this companion guide Kathleen Tracy covers all aspects of the Buffy phenomena--from the 1992 feature film starring Kristy Swanson and Luke Perry, to the development and production of the hit TV series starring Sarah Michelle Gellar. Based on interviews with the show's creator, producers and principal cast members, the book includes cast biographies, critical summaries of each episode, trivia, behind-the-scenes anecdotes, and more. Like the series, The Girl's Got Bite combines the thoughtful (an essay on slayer mythology throughout history) with the frivolous for a frightfully good time.
Since the 1990s, when Reviving Ophelia became a best seller and “Girl Power” a familiar anthem, girls have assumed new visibility in the culture. Yet in asserting their new power, young women have redefined femininity in ways that have often mystified their mothers. They have also largely disavowed feminism, even though their new influence is a likely legacy of feminism’s Second Wave. At the same time, popular culture has persisted in idealizing, demonizing, or simply erasing mothers, rarely depicting them in strong and loving relationships with their daughters. Unruly Girls, Unrepentent Mothers, a companion to Kathleen Rowe Karlyn’s groundbreaking work, The Unruly Woman, studies the ways popular culture and current debates within and about feminism inform each other. Surveying a range of films and television shows that have defined girls in the postfeminist era—from Titanic and My So-Called Life to Scream and The Devil Wears Prada, and from Love and Basketball to Ugly Betty—Karlyn explores the ways class, race, and generational conflicts have shaped both Girl Culture and feminism’s Third Wave. Tying feminism’s internal conflicts to negative attitudes toward mothers in the social world, she asks whether today’s seemingly materialistic and apolitical girls, inspired by such real and fictional figures as the Spice Girls and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, have turned their backs on the feminism of their mothers or are redefining unruliness for a new age.
From four bestselling authors of Amish fiction come four delightful stories perfect for celebrating love, joy, and the everyday miracles Christmas brings. Evergreen Love by Amy Clipston Ryan Lapp had promised to marry Lorene Bontrager as soon as he was able to build them a house, but the day never came. Ryan moved away. Five years later, Lorene has settled in to her old maid role, and she’s shocked when her younger sister announces her quick engagement to Ryan’s younger brother. As they rush to plan the wedding, Lorene is constantly around the family she almost joined. Worse, she’s forced to face Ryan himself, who has returned to town. As both Ryan and Lorene examine their own feelings, they must decide if they can find grace with each other—and the young people they once were—this Christmas season. There just might still be love in their future. Holiday of Hope by Kelly Irvin Henry Lufkin is one of four bachelors who lived in the West Kootenai, Montana, cabins that were destroyed by wildfires. He’s the only one of them who hasn’t since married, but he likes his solitude. Then an old friend asks him to care for his son, and Henry has to share his small cabin and his life with bewildered and rebellious ten-year-old Tommy. When the child encounters trouble at school, Henry reaches out to Tommy's teacher. Leesa Yoder never expected to find herself single and teaching sixteen young scholars, and she certainly didn’t anticipate an inexperienced bachelor telling her how to do her job. Amid the flying sparks, can Henry and Leesa see that there might be hope and love in this unexpected situation? Wreathed in Joy by Kathleen Fuller Mary Wengerd and Jakob Mullet have been best friends since childhood. Pressured by friends and family, they decided to date—with disastrous results. When they break up, their friendship is ruined. A year later, Mary is baking her Englisch friend’s wedding and groom cakes for a Christmas Eve wedding. Mary loves the Christmas season, and had always dreamed of marrying during that time. Now she wonders if she’ll ever marry. After she and Jakob form a tenuous new friendship, Mary breaks her arm. As he steps in to help her with the cakes, Mary is inexplicably and suddenly falling for him. But they've already dated, and that ended so horribly. Could it be better this time? A Christmas Prayer by Vannetta Chapman Widower Micah Miller runs the Amish Tour Company, offering Englischers a glimpse of a simpler life as well as tea at Rachel King’s. Rachel has never married and has recently lost her parents. When Micah comes across an abandoned and injured dog, he gives it to Rachel for company. As Rachel is charmed by the dog and shocked by news of the existence of family she never expected, her heart and mind bend toward the possibilities of change in her life—even toward the possibility of love. Four stand-alone romantic holiday novellas Includes a glossary of Amish words Includes discussion questions for book clubs
Drug addiction, threats, danger, cultural differences, heartache and tragedy challenges the partners of Lord James as they strive to fulfil their dreams.
This volume of original chapters is designed to bring attention to a neglected area of feminist scholarship - aging. After several decades of feminist studies we are now well informed of the complex ways that gender shapes the lives of women and men. Similarly, we know more about how gendered power relations interface with race and ethnicity, class and sexual orientation. Serious theorizing of old age and age relations to gender represents the next frontier of feminist scholarship. In this volume, leading national and international feminist scholars of aging take first steps in this direction, illuminating how age relations interact with other social inequalities, particularly gender. In doing so, the authors challenge and transform feminist scholarship and many taken for granted concepts in gender studies.
In Australia in 1971-72, there were 10,000 adoptions. In NSW in 1969, roughly 2,000 young women, most of them unmarried, gave up their children for adoption. Helen Armstrong, aged 17, fell pregnant that year and was persuaded to have her baby son Simon adopted out. This theme is closely based on Kathleen James’ own story. Helen still carries a buried grief. Birth mothers had no contact with their children, and only minimal initial information was ever provided. Years later when Helen is divorced and beginning a new phase of life, with a 19-year-old son Nick, she hopes for a reunion with Simon when he turns 21. At this time Helen falls in love with single parent Marco Lucini, and the family secrets of both the Armstrongs and the Lucinis gradually come to light. Helen learns a lot about her beloved Uncle Mick (a gambler and a ‘ladies’ man,’) who together with her Auntie Vera ran the Armstrong’s Family Hotel in Katoomba back in the 1930s. Finding out about Mick’s all too human failings and his troubled past helps her to come to terms with her own. Marco also learns how complicated families can be, when he discovers a whole new family of ‘outlaws’ in Italy, (‘outlaws’ being those parenting or born outside of marriage). The story takes us from a Sydney waterway to the NSW South Coast and Blue Mountains, and to Parma and Venice in Italy. The three narrators: Helen, Marco and Mick span two generations, in alternating chapters, giving the reader three different points of view. In its extensive exploration of adoption this novel gives a voice to the many women who, under the influence of others, gave up their babies and feel silenced by a sense of loss and shame. ‘Kathleen James deals with the issues of adoption with grace, sensitivity and sincere compassion. This is a wonderful read and personally it touched me on so many levels…. To bring to others the dilemma that is adoption with such understanding is a huge achievement.’ Penelope Wise, representative of the Adoptive Parents Association (APA) on the NSW Standing Committee on Adoption from 1977 to 1990.
Discover the World's Most Proven Health Plan You want to be healthy, but all those diet fads have left you hungry for something more. There's one Plan for healthy living that's guaranteed to satisfy and that's God's plan! With The Smart Guide to the Bible: Nutrition and Health in the Bible you'll get all your needs met: mind, body, and soul. You'll be amazed at the complete information the Bible contains about nutrition, health, exercise, weight loss, food, cooking, fasting, and remedies. And, of course, it all aligns with the latest in scientific research. No surprise there; after all, God designed the human body and knows what's best to keep it healthy! Get started on the world's most proven health plan today! Be Smart About: Weight Loss Eating to Combat Disease Exercise Fasting Biblical Diets Bible-based Recipes & Remedies Healthy Living for Your Family And More!
Love Inspired Suspense brings you three new titles! Enjoy these suspenseful romances of danger and faith. This box set includes: SNOWBOUND ESCAPE (A Pacific Northwest K-9 Unit novel) by USA TODAY Bestselling Author Dana Mentink Crime tech Mara Gilmore is the only eyewitness to a murder, and the real killer is determined to silence Mara for good—and frame her for the crime. Now it’s up to Officer Tanner Ford and his K-9 partner to protect Mara from a vicious assailant…and an unforgiving icy wilderness. ABDUCTED AT CHRISTMAS by Rhonda Starnes Hadley Logan went into hiding to safeguard her child—but suddenly her house is breached and she’s attacked by an intruder. With Christmas approaching, can Hadley risk everything to accept the protection security specialist Ryan Vincent offers…as a deadly enemy closes in? MARKED TO DIE by Kathleen Tailer After her young daughter is poisoned—along with others—investigative reporter Eleni Townsend wants answers…especially when an attempt on her life is made. Now with danger on her trail, can FBI agent Chris Springfield help Eleni evade hit men long enough to discover the truth of her past? For more stories filled with danger and romance, look for Love Inspired Suspense November 2023 Box Set – 2 of 2
Over the past twenty years, the field of scholarly editing has expanded and altered immeasurably. In Editing Documents and Texts Beth Luey has compiled for the first time 900 references from nearly 200 journals and books that explain how scholarly editors do their work and the theories behind their editing. Bridging the traditional gap between historical and literary editing, Luey surveys the relevant scholarship in all editorial fields and presents a thorough picture of the state of the discipline. Anyone interested in the editing of documents and texts--whether an undergraduate or graduate student, instructor, or a beginning or experienced editor--will find Editing Documents and Texts an indispensible reference.
While, strictly speaking, Alternate Histories are not Future Narratives, their analysis can shed a clear light on why Future Narratives are so different from past narratives. Trying to have it both ways, most Alternate Histories subscribe to a conflicting set of beliefs concerning determinism and freedom of choice, contingency and necessity. For the very first time, Alternate Histories are here discussed against the backdrop of their Other, Future Narratives. The volume contains in-depth analyses of the classics of the genre,such as Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle and Philip Roth's The Plot against America, as well as less widely-discussed manifestations of the genre, such as Dieter Kühn's N, Christian Kracht's Ich werde hier sein im Sonnenschein und im Schatten, and Quentin Tarantino's film Inglourious Basterds.
James Joyce's near blindness, his peculiar gait, and his death from perforated ulcers are commonplace knowledge to most of his readers. But until now, most Joyce scholars have not recognized that these symptoms point to a diagnosis of syphilis. Kathleen Ferris traces Joyce's medical history as described in his correspondence, in the diaries of his brother Stanislaus, and in the memoirs of his acquaintances, to show that many of his symptoms match those of tabes dorsalis, a form of neurosyphilis which, untreated, eventually leads to paralysis. Combining literary analysis and medical detection, Ferris builds a convincing case that this dread disease is the subject of much of Joyce's autobiographical writing. Many of this characters, most notably Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, exhibit the same symptoms as their creator: stiffness of gait, digestive problems, hallucinations, and impaired vision. Ferris also demonstrates that the themes of sin, guilt, and retribution so prevalent in Joyce's works are almost certainly a consequence of his having contracted venereal disease as a young man while frequenting the brothels of Dublin and Paris. By tracing the images, puns, and metaphors in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, and by demonstrating their relationship to Joyce's experiences, Ferris shows the extent to which, for Joyce, art did indeed mirror life.
A Mother’s Love By: Kathleen Koepfer Karen grew up without much praise throughout her childhood. She was unique and marched to the beat of a different drum. She married young and, as difficulties with her marriage progressed, her mother moved in to help. Karen become closer to her mother than ever before, and they both grew to dote on Karen’s son Erik. A Mother’s Love tells the story of two women, mother and daughter, and the love that transcends generations.
Sometimes the only way to keep teaching is to keep moving. Travel with My Irish Husband Tony and I to Europe, the Bahamas and back home to Florida. Or England. And Asia. These are the entries from my four Gypsy Teacher 'blooks' which deal with teaching, students, and trying to teach.
Updated & revised, this 4th edition of the MICHIGAN VACATION GUIDE now features four color, laminated cover plus all new property review section which highlights, with photographs, select properties our writers have visited. In addition to expanded property reviews, the book includes all new &/or updated information covering more than 1,000 lodgings throughout Michigan's upper & lower peninsulas. Each regional section also contains phone numbers for area Chambers of Commerce & a brief description of regional area attractions &/or noteworthy restaurants. Since its inception, the book has quadrupled its distribution & has gained the support of the Michigan Travel Bureau, local news media as well as major bookstores, libraries & gift shops throughout Michigan & parts of the U.S. It has been featured in The Detroit News & Free Press & News Herald with additional articles in the Flint Journal, Ann Arbor News & the Grand Rapids Press & has been ranked in the "Top Five Best Selling Michigan Travel Guides." Orders can be placed through Partners Book Distributing (800-336-3137); Baker & Taylor Books (825-472-2444); or from the publisher, TR Desktop Publishing (810-228-8780).
A collection of public press articles that offer varied perspectives on the family. Issues covered include: exploring and establishing relationships; maintaining relationships; the challenges and opportunities of crises; and maintaining healthy relationships in families.
Eight young people, caught in the dreary circumstances war has handed them, seek to find a trace of joy in the holiday season. Their stories unfold with the exchange of letters. Forces of Love compelled Captain Jack Johnson to fall for his pen pal. Her letters helped him survive his time behind enemy lines and now prompt him to locate her in Boston. If he finds her, will he be welcomed? Lieutenant Joyce Aldergate penned an impulsive letter home, cutting ties with her childhood sweetheart. Now, a startling discovery in a battlefield hospital tent makes her question her actions and motivations. Where can she find The Missing Peace for which her heart hungers? A letter tells Kenshin Takano that his brother was unfaithful to his fiancee. Now, with news that his brother is dead, Kenshin travels to the camp where the fiancee is interned. Hoping to offer comfort, he is drawn into the trying circumstances that surround her life. Can he help her believe the promise that Christmas Always Comes? Betsy Anderson corresponds with enlisted men. Her kindness brings trouble, though, when one soldier, before his death in battle, claims her as his fiancee. When the man's sergeant tries to give Betsy a packet of letters, will she be able to correct the confusion without missing a real Engagement of the Heart? Relive the tragedies and triumphs of World War II ... see how God's steadfast presence brings His people through each trial ... and rejoice in His greatest "love letter," celebrated each Christmas - even in wartime.
This Annual Editions reader of public press articles offers varied perspectives on the family; exploring and establishing relationships; maintaining relationships; the challenges and opportunities of crises; and maintaining healthy relationships in families. Dushkin Online (www.dushkin.com/online/) is a student Web site designed to support Annual Editions.
Brief biographies of Cynthia Cone, Alice Rivlin, Margaret Mead, Barbara Tuchman, Sylvia Porter, Jane Goodall, and Joyce Brothers--all women who have made outstanding contributions in their field of endeavor.
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