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What I Wish I'd Known Before I Got Married

Keepin' It Real

By: Kay Coles James

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What I Wish I'd Known Before I Got Married

Keepin' It Real

By: Kay Coles James

Building a marriage is a lifelong endeavor for both men and women. Most marriage books cover the three C's--communication, compromise, and consideration -- but fail to address many issues critical to a healthy relationship. Family advocate Kay James calls these the "things I wish I had known before I got married": advice on finances, sex, children, and dealing with the extended family. Noting that the apostle Paul exhorted older women not to inspire or counsel younger women, but to teach them how to be wives to their husbands, Kay offers a lifetime's wealth of wisdom for creating an unbreakable marriage relationship.

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0307565122

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What I Wish I'd Known Before I Got Married

Keepin' It Real

By: Kay Coles James

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Keepin' It Real

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The Battle of Stonington

Torpedoes, Submarines, and Rockets in the War of 1812

By: James Tertius De Kay

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The Battle of Stonington

Torpedoes, Submarines, and Rockets in the War of 1812

By: James Tertius De Kay

In the summer of 1814 a squadron of Royal Navy ships attacked the tiny Connecticut seaport of Stonington, and declared its intention of destroying the town. Over the next four days the British barraged the nearly defenseless civilian population with some fifty tons of explosives, before mysteriously upping anchor and sailing away, leaving Stonington largely intact. Though a mere footnote in America's early naval history, the Battle of Stonington has remained a source of curiosity for two hundred years. Why did the British single out Stonington and then fail so miserably at their goal? To solve the mystery of this curious battle, and explain Britain's failure to level the town, the author takes the reader back some forty years to the Revolution to unfold a surprisingly complex set of circumstances involving people on both sides of the Atlantic and across America. Drawing on contemporary news accounts, secret Royal Navy correspondence, and other primary sources, he investigates events leading up to the puzzling attack and then recounts the exciting details of the battle itself. It is a memorable, masterly told story of brave and honorable people, divided loyalties, and new ideas fighting traditional, old-world values. As the book develops, James Tertius de Kay introduces a fascinating cast of characters that ranks with the best of fiction: Thomas Hardy, the hero of Trafalgar who led the British attack; Jeremiah Holmes, an American merchant captain who led the defense of Stonington; Stephen Decatur and Robert Fulton, two well-known American patriots; and a number of enterprising smugglers and spies. At the same time de Kay pays tribute to the significant roles played by new naval weapons--American submarine vessels and torpedoes, British rockets and bombs--that revolutionized the art of war. The Battle of Stonington brings all these elements into brilliant focus to provide a lively narrative history not just of the events at Stonington but of the entire period. It is a compelling, often humorous story.

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Naval Institute Press

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1612512577

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9781612512570

Australian Autobiographical Narratives: To 1850

By: Kay Walsh,Joy W. Hooton

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Australian Autobiographical Narratives: To 1850

By: Kay Walsh,Joy W. Hooton

Comprehensive guide to published Australian autobiographical writing which deals with life in Australia up to 1850. Entries are listed alphabetically by author's name. Includes three separate indexes to personal names, places and subjects. Walsh has worked on numerous Australian reference publications. Hooton teaches English at the Australian Defence Force Academy and is co-author of 'The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature' (1985); Walsh is assisting her in preparing a new edition.

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National Library Australia

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0642105995

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9780642105998

This Little Light of Mine

The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer

By: Kay Mills

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This Little Light of Mine

The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer

By: Kay Mills

The award-winning biography of black civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer

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432

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813191823

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9780813191829

Lost Boston

By: Jane Holtz Kay

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Lost Boston

By: Jane Holtz Kay

At once a fascinating narrative and a visual delight, Lost Boston brings the city's past to life. This updated edition includes a new section illustrating the latest gains and losses in the struggle to preserve Boston 's architectural heritage. With an engaging text and more than 350 seldom-seen photographs and prints, Lost Boston offers a chance to see the city as it once was, revealing architectural gems lost long ago. An eminently readable history of the city's physical development, the book also makes an eloquent appeal for its preservation. Jane Holtz Kay traces the evolution of Boston from the barren, swampy peninsula of colonial times to the booming metropolis of today. In the process, she creates a family album for the city, infusing the text with the flavor and energy that makes Boston distinct. Amid the grand landmarks she finds the telling details of city life: the neon signs, bygone amusement parks, storefronts, and windows plastered with images of campaigning politicians-sights common in their time but even more meaningful in their absence today. Kay also brings to life the people who created Boston-architects like Charles Bulfinch and H. H. Richardson, landscape architect and master park-maker Frederick Law Olmsted, and such colorful political figures as Mayors John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald and James Michael Curley. The new epilogue brings Boston's story to the end of the twentieth century, showing elements of the city's architecture that were lost in recent years as well as those that were saved and others threatened as the city continues to evolve.

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Univ of Massachusetts Press

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1558495274

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9781558495272

Considering Hate

Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics

By: Kay Whitlock,Michael Bronski

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Considering Hate

Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics

By: Kay Whitlock,Michael Bronski

A provocative book about rethinking hatred and violence in America Over the centuries American society has been plagued by brutality fueled by disregard for the humanity of others: systemic violence against Native peoples, black people, and immigrants. More recent examples include the Steubenville rape case and the murders of Matthew Shepard, Jennifer Daugherty, Marcelo Lucero, and Trayvon Martin. Most Americans see such acts as driven by hate. But is this right? Longtime activists and political theorists Kay Whitlock and Michael Bronski boldly assert that American society’s reliance on the framework of hate to explain these acts is wrongheaded, misleading, and ultimately harmful. All too often Americans choose to believe that terrible cruelty is aberrant, caused primarily by “extremists” and misfits. The inevitable remedy of intensified government-based policing, increased surveillance, and harsher punishments has never worked and does not work now. Stand-your-ground laws; the US prison system; police harassment of people of color, women, and LGBT people; and the so-called war on terror demonstrate that the remedies themselves are forms of institutionalized violence. Considering Hate challenges easy assumptions and failed solutions, arguing that “hate violence” reflects existing cultural norms. Drawing upon social science, philosophy, theology, film, and literature, the authors examine how hate and common, even ordinary, forms of individual and group violence are excused and normalized in popular culture and political discussion. This massive denial of brutal reality profoundly warps society’s ideas about goodness and justice. Whitlock and Bronski invite readers to radically reimagine the meaning and structures of justice within a new framework of community wholeness, collective responsibility, and civic goodness.

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Beacon Press

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0807042951

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9780807042953

A Pedagogy of Possibility

Bakhtinian Perspectives on Composition Studies

By: Kay Halasek

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A Pedagogy of Possibility

Bakhtinian Perspectives on Composition Studies

By: Kay Halasek

In a book that itself exemplifies the dialogic scholarship it proposes, Kay Halasek reconceives composition studies from a Bakhtinian perspective, focusing on both the discipline's theoretical assumptions and its pedagogies. Framing her discussions at every level of the discipline--theoretical, historical, pedagogical--Halasek provides an overview of portions of the Bakhtinian canon relevant to composition studies, explores the implications of Mikhail Bakhtin's work in the teaching of writing and for current debates about the role of theory in composition studies, and provides a model of scholarship that strives to maintain dialogic balance between practice and theory, between composition studies and Bakhtinian thought. Halasek's study ranges broadly across the field of composition, painting in wide strokes a new picture of the discipline, focusing on the finer details of the rhetorical situation, and teasing out the implications of Bakhtinian thought for classroom practice by examining the nature of critical reading and writing, the efficacy and ethics of academic discourse, student resistance, and critical and conflict pedagogy. The book ends by setting out a pedagogy of possibility, what Halasek terms elsewhere a "post-critical pedagogy" that redefines and redirects current discussions of home versus academic literacies and discourses.

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SIU Press

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0809322269

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9780809322268

Knowing One's Place in Contemporary Irish and Polish Poetry

Zagajewski, Mahon, Heaney, Hartwig

By: Magdalena Kay

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Knowing One's Place in Contemporary Irish and Polish Poetry

Zagajewski, Mahon, Heaney, Hartwig

By: Magdalena Kay

Are we allowed to choose where we belong? What pressures make us feel that we should belong somewhere? This book brings together four major poets-Heaney, Mahon, Zagajewski, and Hartwig-who ask themselves these questions throughout their lives. They start by assuming that we can choose not to belong, but know this is easier said than done. Something in them is awry, leading them to travel, emigrate, and return dissatisfied with all forms of belonging. Writer after writer has suggested that Polish and Irish literature bear some uncanny similarities, particularly in the 20th century, but few have explored these similarities in depth. Ireland and Poland, with their tangled histories of colonization, place a large premium upon knowing one's place. What happens, though, when a poet makes a career out of refusing to know her place in the way her culture expects? This book explores the consequences of this refusal, allowing these poets to answer such questions through their own poems, leading to surprising conclusions about the connection of knowledge and belonging, roots and identity.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1441178430

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9781441178435

Running—The Sacred Art

Preparing to Practice

By: Dr. Warren A. Kay

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Running—The Sacred Art

Preparing to Practice

By: Dr. Warren A. Kay

Lace up your running shoes and discover how your daily run can enrich your spiritual life. We run for exercise, relaxation and sometimes to indulge our competitive spirit. Now Warren A. Kay takes you on an exploration of an often-overlooked facet of the sport: running as an intentional spiritual practice. Kay’s approach is more than just “blissing out” on a run. He combines penetrating reflections on God, creation and the role of Spirit in our lives with practical, concise tips for starting your own spiritual running journal. He helps turn your ordinary runs into extraordinary opportunities for spiritual growth. Whether you’ve logged thousands of miles or are new to the sport, you’ll find the guidance and inspiration you need in this unique book. Experience your daily runs as: Sanctuary—running time is sacred time Prayer—open yourself to conversation with God Meditation—reach inside yourself to find spiritual comfort Sacrament—experience the Divine in the physicality of running Pilgrimage—a run is the journey and the destination

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Turner Publishing Company

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159473352X

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9781594733529

Exe to Otter Through Time

By: Christopher K. Long,Kay Long

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Exe to Otter Through Time

By: Christopher K. Long,Kay Long

This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the River Exe to Otter has changed and developed over the last century.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445628198

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9781445628196

Dracula in Visual Media

Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921-2010

By: John Edgar Browning,Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart

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Dracula in Visual Media

Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921-2010

By: John Edgar Browning,Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart

This is a comprehensive sourcebook on the world's most famous vampire, with more than 700 citations of domestic and international Dracula films, television programs, documentaries, adult features, animated works, and video games, as well as nearly a thousand comic books and stage adaptations. While they vary in length, significance, quality, genre, moral character, country, and format, each of the cited works adopts some form of Bram Stoker's original creation, and Dracula himself, or a recognizable vampiric semblance of Dracula, appears in each. The book includes contributions from Dacre Stoker, David J. Skal, Laura Helen Marks, Dodd Alley, Mitch Frye, Ian Holt, Robert Eighteen-Bisang, and J. Gordon Melton.

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McFarland

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0786462019

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9780786462018

Burning Brightly

New Light on Old Tales Told Today

By: Kay Stone

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Burning Brightly

New Light on Old Tales Told Today

By: Kay Stone

Burning Brightly is the first full-length book treatment of professional storytelling in North America today. For some years there has been a major storytelling revival throughout the continent, with hundreds of local groups and centres springing up, and with storytelling becoming an important part of the professional training for librarians. In the book, Stone explores storytelling through storytellers themselves, while providing enlightening commentary from her own background as a storyteller. Included in her analysis are informative discussions of organized storytelling communities, individual tellers, and tales. Issues such as the modern recontextualization of old tales and the role of women in folktales are linked to individual storytelling accounts. Texts of eight stories that exemplify the approaches of the various storytellers are also included. Burning Brightly will be compelling reading for storytellers—and for everyone who loves storytelling.

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Broadview Press

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1551111675

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9781551111674

Pentecostalism: A Very Short Introduction

By: William K. Kay

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Pentecostalism: A Very Short Introduction

By: William K. Kay

An introduction to Pentecostalism that traces the religious movement's history throughout the twentieth century, discussing its origins, spread across the world, theological aspects, sociological influences, and other related topics.

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Oxford University Press

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0199575150

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9780199575152

Australian Autobiographical Narratives

An Annotated Bibliography

By: Kay Walsh,Joy W. Hooton

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Australian Autobiographical Narratives

An Annotated Bibliography

By: Kay Walsh,Joy W. Hooton

Australian Autobiographical Narratives Volume 2 and its partner Volume 1 provide researchers with detailed annotations of published Australian autobiographical writing. Both volumes are a rich resource of the European settlement of Australia. Theis selection concentrates on the post-gold rush period, providing portraits of 533 individuals, from amateur explorers to politicians, from pioneer settlers to sportsmen. Like Volume 1, it offers an intimate and absorbing insight into nineteenth-century Australia.

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National Library Australia

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0642107947

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9780642107947

The Burning of Washington

August 1814

By: Mary Kay Phelan

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The Burning of Washington

August 1814

By: Mary Kay Phelan

Examines the events preceding, during, and after the British campaign to capture Washington, D.C., during the War of 1812.

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Book's by Kay Coles James

What I Wish I'd Known Before I Got Married

What I Wish I'd Known Before I Got Married

What I Wish I'd Known Before I Got Married

What I Wish I'd Known Before I Got Married

The Battle of Stonington

The Battle of Stonington

Australian Autobiographical Narratives: To 1850

Australian Autobiographical Narratives: To 1850

This Little Light of Mine

This Little Light of Mine

Lost Boston

Lost Boston

Considering Hate

Considering Hate

A Pedagogy of Possibility

A Pedagogy of Possibility

Knowing One's Place in Contemporary Irish and Polish Poetry

Knowing One's Place in Contemporary Irish and Polish Poetry

Running—The Sacred Art

Running—The Sacred Art

Exe to Otter Through Time

Exe to Otter Through Time

Dracula in Visual Media

Dracula in Visual Media

Burning Brightly

Burning Brightly

Pentecostalism: A Very Short Introduction

Pentecostalism: A Very Short Introduction

Australian Autobiographical Narratives

Australian Autobiographical Narratives

The Burning of Washington

The Burning of Washington

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