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Fear of the Dark

'Race', Gender and Sexuality in the Cinema

By: Lola Young

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Fear of the Dark

'Race', Gender and Sexuality in the Cinema

By: Lola Young

Studies of the portrayal of black people in film have tended to be studies for the ideological correctness of the depictions of black people and the extent to which they rely on stereotypes. By closely examining films such as Sapphire (1959), Leo the Last (1969), Black Joy (1977), Playing Away (1986) and Mona Lisa (1987) and situating them in their historical and social context, Fear of the Dark develops a particualar critical perspective on the film portrayal of black female sexuality and questions the extent to which black film makers have challenged stereotypes.

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Routledge

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1134862156

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9781134862153

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial

By: Ted Schaefer,Lola M. Schaefer

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The Vietnam Veterans Memorial

By: Ted Schaefer,Lola M. Schaefer

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a location held dear to all Americans. Learn about this cherished symbol of Freedom in this though-provoking title.

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Heinemann-Raintree Library

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1403466599

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9781403466594

Another Ann Arbor

By: Carol Gibson,Lola M. Jones

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Another Ann Arbor

By: Carol Gibson,Lola M. Jones

The black community in the Ann Arbor area includes Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Second Baptist Church, Brown Chapel, the Ann Arbor Community Center, the old Jones School, and other well-remembered places. The photographs representing this history follow the progress of the African American community from 1857, when the Rev. J. M. Gregory gathered together a small congregation at 504 High Street, to 1996, when Dr. Homer Neal assumed leadership of the University of Michigan as its interim president. This integral but little-known part of Ann Arbor area history is preserved in Another Ann Arbor.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738540528

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9780738540528

We Need Fire Fighters

By: Lola M. Schaefer

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We Need Fire Fighters

By: Lola M. Schaefer

Simple text and photographs describe fire fighters and their role in our communities.

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Capstone

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0736803912

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9780736803915

A Fun Day at Fun Park

Ready-to-Read Graphics Level 1

By: Lola M. Schaefer

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A Fun Day at Fun Park

Ready-to-Read Graphics Level 1

By: Lola M. Schaefer

Meet the deliciously sweet duo, Sprinkles and Swirls, in this first book in a new Level 1 Ready-to-Read Graphics series! Sprinkles and Swirls are two little cupcakes who go on big adventures! Today they are visiting Fun Park. Join them as they zip, zoom, bump, fly, and have tons of sweet fun! Ready-to-Read Graphics books give readers the perfect introduction to the graphic novel format with easy-to-follow panels, speech bubbles with accessible vocabulary, and sequential storytelling that is spot-on for beginning readers. There’s even a how-to guide for reading graphic novels at the beginning of each book.

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Simon and Schuster

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1665903309

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9781665903301

Flaming?

The Peculiar Theopolitics of Fire and Desire in Black Male Gospel Performance

By: Alisha Lola Jones

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Flaming?

The Peculiar Theopolitics of Fire and Desire in Black Male Gospel Performance

By: Alisha Lola Jones

Male-centered theology, a dearth of men in the pews, and an overrepresentation of queer males in music ministry: these elements coexist within the spaces of historically black Protestant churches, creating an atmosphere where simultaneous heteropatriarchy and "real" masculinity anxieties, archetypes of the "alpha-male preacher", the "effeminate choir director" and homo-antagonism, are all in play. The "flamboyant" male vocalists formed in the black Pentecostal music ministry tradition, through their vocal styles, gestures, and attire in church services, display a spectrum of gender performances - from "hyper-masculine" to feminine masculine - to their fellow worshippers, subtly protesting and critiquing the otherwise heteronormative theology in which the service is entrenched. And while the performativity of these men is characterized by cynics as "flaming," a similar musicalized "fire" - that of the Holy Spirit - moves through the bodies of Pentecostal worshippers, endowing them religio-culturally, physically, and spiritually like "fire shut up in their bones". Using the lenses of ethnomusicology, musicology, anthropology, men's studies, queer studies, and theology, Flaming?: The Peculiar Theo-Politics of Fire and Desire in Black Male Gospel Performance observes how male vocalists traverse their tightly-knit social networks and negotiate their identities through and beyond the worship experience. Author Alisha Jones ultimately addresses the ways in which gospel music and performance can afford African American men not only greater visibility, but also an affirmation of their fitness to minister through speech and song.

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Oxford University Press

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0190065443

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9780190065447

The Ghetto, and Other Poems

An Annotated Edition

By: Lola Ridge

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The Ghetto, and Other Poems

An Annotated Edition

By: Lola Ridge

At last recovered in this enriching annotated edition, this important but neglected work of American modernism offers a unique poetic encounter with the Jewish communities in New York’s Lower East Side. Long forgotten on account of her gender and left-wing politics, Lola Ridge is finally being rediscovered and read alongside such celebrated contemporaries as Hart Crane, William Carlos Williams, and Marianne Moore—all of whom knew her and admired her work. In her time Ridge was considered one of America’s leading poets, but after her death in 1941 she and her work effectively disappeared for the next seventy-five years. Her book The Ghetto and Other Poems, is a key work of American modernism, yet it has long, and unjustly, been neglected. When it was first published in 1918—in an abbreviated version in The New Republic, then in full by B. W. Huebsch five months later—The Ghetto and Other Poems was a literary sensation. The poet Alfred Kreymbourg, in a Poetry Magazine review, praised “The Ghetto” for its “sheer passion, deadly accuracy of versatile images, beauty, richness, and incisiveness of epithet, unfolding of adventures, portraiture of emotion and thought, pageantry of pushcarts—the whole lifting, falling, stumbling, mounting to a broad, symphonic rhythm.” Louis Untermeyer, writing in The New York Evening Post, found “The Ghetto” “at once personal in its piercing sympathy and epical in its sweep. It is studded with images that are surprising and yet never strained or irrelevant; it glows with a color that is barbaric, exotic, and as local as Grand Street.” The long title poem is a detailed and sympathetic account of life in the Jewish Ghetto of New York’s Lower East Side, with particular emphasis on the struggles and resilience of women. The subsequent section, “Manhattan Lights,” delves further into city life and immigrant experience, illuminating life in the Bowery. Other poems stem from Ridge’s lifelong support of the American labor movement, and from her own experience as an immigrant. This critical edition seeks to recover the attention The Ghetto, and Other Poems, and in particular the title poem, lost after Ridge’s death. The poems in the volume are as aesthetically strong as they are historically revealing. Their language combines strength and directness with startling metaphors, and their form embraces both panoramic sweep and lyrical intensity. Expertly edited and annotated by Lawrence Kramer, this first modern edition to reproduce the full 1918 publication of The Ghetto and Other Stories offers all the background and context needed for a rich, informed reading of Lola Ridge’s masterpiece.

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Fordham Univ Press

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1531500927

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9781531500924

Fearlessly Falling

By: Lola Berry

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Fearlessly Falling

By: Lola Berry

As one of the key creators of the early wellness scene in Australia, Lola Berry knows a thing or two about how to overcome body and mental health issues with a complete life reset. She also knows the pain of fear and failure, having experienced life's inevitable ups and downs in her professional life and intimate relationships. Fearlessly Failing is about how to grow through challenges. Told with Lola's trademark charm, warmth and honesty it shares personal anecdotes, advice from experts and important lessons learned on everything from career failure, heartbreak and dingos (Lola's word for haters) to self-love and health, supplying you with a total mind, body and soul 'toolkit' to achieve your own brand of personal wellbeing and happiness.

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175

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Affirm Press

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1922626813

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9781922626813

A Cool Day at the Pool

Ready-to-Read Graphics Level 1

By: Lola M. Schaefer

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A Cool Day at the Pool

Ready-to-Read Graphics Level 1

By: Lola M. Schaefer

The deliciously sweet duo, Sprinkles and Swirls, have fun in the sun in this Ready-to-Read Graphics book! Sprinkles and Swirls are ready to dive into their next sweet adventure! They cannot wait to visit the new pool and water park. Join them as they splash and slide into waves of fun! Ready-to-Read Graphics books give readers the perfect introduction to the graphic novel format with easy-to-follow panels, speech bubbles with accessible vocabulary, and sequential storytelling that is spot-on for beginning readers. There’s even a how-to guide for reading graphic novels at the beginning of each book.

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Simon and Schuster

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1665903333

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9781665903332

Transcendent in America

Hindu-Inspired Meditation Movements as New Religion

By: Lola Williamson

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Transcendent in America

Hindu-Inspired Meditation Movements as New Religion

By: Lola Williamson

Yoga, karma, meditation, guru—these terms, once obscure, are now a part of the American lexicon. Combining Hinduism with Western concepts and values, a new hybrid form of religion has developed in the United States over the past century. In Transcendent in America, Lola Williamson traces the history of various Hindu-inspired movements in America, and argues that together they constitute a discrete category of religious practice, a distinct and identifiable form of new religion. Williamson provides an overview of the emergence of these movements through examining exchanges between Indian Hindus and American intellectuals such as Thomas Jefferson and Ralph Waldo Emerson, and illuminates how Protestant traditions of inner experience paved the way for Hindu-style movements’ acceptance in the West. Williamson focuses on three movements—Self-Realization Fellowship, Transcendental Meditation, and Siddha Yoga—as representative of the larger of phenomenon of Hindu-inspired meditation movements. She provides a window into the beliefs and practices of followers of these movements by offering concrete examples from their words and experiences that shed light on their world view, lifestyle, and relationship with their gurus. Drawing on scholarly research, numerous interviews, and decades of personal experience with Hindu-style practices, Williamson makes a convincing case that Hindu-inspired meditation movements are distinct from both immigrant Hinduism and other forms of Asian-influenced or “New Age” groups.

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NYU Press

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081479470X

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9780814794708

The Impact of Space Experiments on Our Knowledge of the Physics of the Universe

By: Franco Giovannelli,Lola Sabau-Graziati

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The Impact of Space Experiments on Our Knowledge of the Physics of the Universe

By: Franco Giovannelli,Lola Sabau-Graziati

Space experiments have opened practically all electromagnetic windows on the Universe. A discussion of the most important results obtained with multi-frequency photonic astrophysics experiments will provide new input to advance our knowledge of physics, very often in its more extreme conditions. A multitude of high quality data across the whole electromagnetic spectrum came at the scientific community's disposal a few years after the beginning of the Space Era. With these data we are attempting to explain the physics governing the Universe and its origin, which continues to be a matter of the greatest curiosity for humanity. In this book we describe the latest steps of the investigations born with the advent of space experiments. We highlight the most important results, identify unsolved problems, and comment on perspectives we can reasonably expect. This book aims to provide a useful tool for the reader who is not specialized in space astrophysics and for students. Therefore, the book is written in the form of a review with a still reasonable length, taking into account the complexity of the arguments discussed. We do not claim to present a complete picture of the physics governing the Universe, but have rather selected particular topics for a more thorough discussion. A cross section of essays on historical, modern, and philosophical topics is offered and combined with personal views into tricks of the space astrophysics trade.

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448

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9401733589

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9789401733588

Little Drops of Water

A Daily Devotional Book of Proverbs and Reflections

By: Lola-Peach Martins

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Little Drops of Water

A Daily Devotional Book of Proverbs and Reflections

By: Lola-Peach Martins

Wisdom fuel is a positive stimulant for the mind, body, and soul. If you think its easier said than done, Ive already taken that myth into consideration. Ive written and designed the book to accommodate your learning needs. Whenever someone advises me on a matter and the dictum its easier said than done springs to mind, I remind myself that I must still make the effort rather than allow inertia to set in. Im encouraging you to do the same too. For a healthy mind, body, and soul, you need the right kind of spiritual fuel; this book goes a long way in providing it. You can use the book for your benefit and, by doing so, increase the likelihood that, through you, it may benefit others too. Remember the saying, Little drops of water make a mighty ocean and a bounteous land. The book may be read in any number of wayssequentially, by title, or through use of the categorical index. However you choose to engage with the material, it can offer you great benefits.

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238

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BalboaPress

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1452579121

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9781452579122

Seven Aunts

By: Staci Lola Drouillard

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Seven Aunts

By: Staci Lola Drouillard

Part memoir, part cultural history, these memories of seven aunts holding home and family together tell a crucial, often overlooked story of women of the twentieth century They were German and English, Anishinaabe and French, born in the north woods and Midwestern farm country. They moved again and again, and they fought for each other when men turned mean, when money ran out, when babies—and there were so many—added more trouble but even more love. These are the aunties: Faye, who lived in California, and Lila, who lived just down the street; Doreen, who took on the bullies taunting her “mixed-blood” brothers and sisters; Gloria, who raised six children (no thanks to all of her “stupid husbands”); Betty, who left a marriage of indenture to a misogynistic southerner to find love and acceptance with a Norwegian logger; and Carol and Diane, who broke the warped molds of their own upbringing. From the fabric of these women’s lives, Staci Lola Drouillard stitches a colorful quilt, its brightly patterned pieces as different as her aunties, yet alike in their warmth and spirit and resilience, their persistence in speaking for their generation. Seven Aunts is an inspired patchwork of memoir and reminiscence, poetry, testimony, love letters, and family lore. In this multifaceted, unconventional portrait, Drouillard summons ways of life largely lost to history, even as the possibilities created by these women live on. Unfolding against a personal view of the settler invasion of the Midwest by men who farmed and logged, fished and hunted and mined, it reveals the true heart and soul of that history: the lives of the women who held together family, home, and community—women who defied expectations and overwhelming odds to make a place in the world for the next generation.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452967717

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9781452967714

Oh, What a Show!

Ready-to-Read Graphics Level 1

By: Lola M. Schaefer

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Oh, What a Show!

Ready-to-Read Graphics Level 1

By: Lola M. Schaefer

Sprinkles and Swirls, the deliciously sweet cupcake duo, get up on stage in this third book in the Level 1 Ready-to-Read Graphics series! Sprinkles and Swirls are leaping into more fun! They are going to perform at the talent show. But what should they do? Join them as they discover their many talents in this sweet story! Ready-to-Read Graphics books give readers the perfect introduction to the graphic novel format with easy-to-follow panels, speech bubbles with accessible vocabulary, and sequential storytelling that is spot-on for beginning readers. There’s even a how-to guide for reading graphic novels at the beginning of each book.

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Simon and Schuster

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1665917970

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More Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet

A Novel

By: Lola Douglas

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More Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet

A Novel

By: Lola Douglas

In a sequel to True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet, teen movie star Morgan Carter, after her true identity is exposed, must choose between staying in the Midwest with her new boyfriend, or returning to her glamorous life. Reprint.

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Penguin Group

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1595141294

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9781595141293

When Law and Medicine Meet: A Cultural View

By: Lola Romanucci-Ross,Laurence R. Tancredi

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When Law and Medicine Meet: A Cultural View

By: Lola Romanucci-Ross,Laurence R. Tancredi

What happens when two systems, law and medicine, are joined in the arena of the court? This work deals with the structure and the premises of two diverse discourse models; the approach is anthropological. Several chapters are preponderantly based on legal research, addressing cases requiring testimony by expert witnesses on recent technologies used in the laboratories of medical scientists. Descriptions of other societies and cultures consider the identical problems of rights, privileges, and duties, and provide perspectives to cultural self-knowledge. This volume can be used as a text for courses taught in medical schools and law schools. It will be of particular interest to students taking courses in health science, public health, medical anthropology, forensic anthropology, psychology, sociology, public justice, behavioral sciences, forensic psychiatry, legal anthropology, social welfare, as well as courses on research models.

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193

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Springer

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1402027575

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9781402027574

Push and Pull

By: Lola M. Schaefer,Gail Saunders-Smith

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Push and Pull

By: Lola M. Schaefer,Gail Saunders-Smith

Using simple text appropriate for young readers, books in this series explain the basic concepts of motion. Colorful photos show examples of movement and where we see it every day. This series explores and supports the standard "The Physical Setting: Motion," as required by Benchmarks for Science Literacy: Project 2061.

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Capstone

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0736803963

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9780736803960

Confessions of a Cowgirl Guru

By: Lola Jones

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Confessions of a Cowgirl Guru

By: Lola Jones

Confessions of a Cowgirl Guru runs amok with the foibles of relationships, family, technology, aging, the media, stereotypes, and spiritual over-seriousness. Nothing is sacred-even the sacred itself-and Lola Jones pokes fun at herself most of all.

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168

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Lulu.com

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0985902647

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9780985902643

Grains

By: Lola M. Schaefer

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Grains

By: Lola M. Schaefer

Discusses grains, explaining what they are, where they come from, how they are cooked and eaten and why they are important for a healthy diet.

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Capstone Classroom

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1432901486

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9781432901486

Virginia-Highland

By: Karri Hobson-Pape,Lola Carlisle

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Virginia-Highland

By: Karri Hobson-Pape,Lola Carlisle

One of Atlanta's most desirable neighborhoods, Virginia-Highland enjoys a rich history, a diverse urban fabric, and a distinct sense of place. In the early days, city folk escaped from downtown to appreciate the springs and cool breezes of higher elevations. In the 1920s, clusters of subdivisions created affordable homes in which city workers could live. The community suffered a period of decline in the mid-20th century due to the impact of integration and a planned highway that would cut through the neighborhood. After the highway was halted by community activists, young professionals and families began to move back into the city, renovating houses and embracing in-town living. Many historic structures, coupled with the eclectic business activity and unpretentious culture, have influenced the identity of Virginia-Highland.

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132

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738588024

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9780738588025

The Power of Purpose

By: Lola Webbs

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The Power of Purpose

By: Lola Webbs

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God; to them who are called according to his purpose. (Romans 8:28) The Power of Purpose focuses on guiding each person in finding God's purpose and plan. Evangelist Lola Webbs delves deeper into purpose-what it means, the hard work it entails, the trials and tribulations that one must overcome to achieve it, and most importantly, the need for steadfast faith in God and His plan for our purpose.

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