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Ladyfingers and Nun's Tummies

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Ladyfingers and Nun's Tummies

By: Martha Barnette

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0595345034

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9780595345038

A Garden of Words

By: Martha Barnette

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Did you know that the tulip gets its name from a kind of headwear? What's the linguistic link between the lovely gladiolus and a fierce gladiator? A rose by any other name may smell as sweet--but why do we call it a rose? In this charming, witty volume, Martha Barnette leads a tour through the language of the garden, stopping along the way to coax out the many secrets that flowers have to tell about history, culture, psychology, folklore, and science. "Everything in it is delightful to learn. Barnette takes us through languages and across millennia in a charming style that, starting with words describing things we eat, turns out to offer endless food for thought." --The New Yorker "Sheer etymological garden fun...Barnette begins with the flower's name and immediately jumps off the neat garden path into the wild underbrush of mythology, history, folk tales and scientific investigation." --Linda Yang, The New York Times Book Review "Martha Barnette's anthology (literally, 'a gathering of flowers') is more than just a garden-variety book of word origins. With loving cultivation, the author shows how flower names yield up the fragrance and light stored from the past and tell us whence we came and who we are." --Richard Lederer "A Garden of Words is one to stroll through, sniffing the blossoms, admiring random artful paths and intriguing byways." --Calvin Ahlgren, San Francisco Chronicle

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iUniverse

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0595347495

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9780595347490

Dog Days and Dandelions

A Lively Guide to the Animal Meanings Behind Everyday Words

By: Martha Barnette

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Dog Days and Dandelions

A Lively Guide to the Animal Meanings Behind Everyday Words

By: Martha Barnette

From apian (like a bee) to zodiac (little-animals circle), a word book that spots the animal origins of words and names There are mice in your muscles, and blackbirds in your merlot. Behind adulation is a dog's wagging tail. Peculiar houses a herd of cattle. Grubby is crawling with bugs. Wordhound Martha Barnette collects more than 300 common (and a few not-so-common) words that have surprising animal roots. Tracing word origins back to ancient Greek and Latin as well as to European roots and American slang, the entries offer a guided tour through literature, science, folklore, politics, and more--with a wilderness of animal meanings at every turn. For fledgling word sleuths as well as those who fawn over etymologies, this is a delightful smorgasbord for writers, students, and word lovers.

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203

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Macmillan + ORM

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1466856882

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9781466856882

Liberty of Conscience

In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality

By: Martha Craven Nussbaum

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Liberty of Conscience

In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality

By: Martha Craven Nussbaum

An analysis of America's commitment to religious liberty uses political history, philosophical ideas, and key constitutional cases to discuss its basis in six principles: equality, respect for conscience, liberty, accommodation of minorities, nonestablishment, and separation of church and state.

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Basic Books (AZ)

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0465051642

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9780465051649

River Woman

By: Martha Stinson

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River Woman

By: Martha Stinson

River Woman By: Martha Stinson Southern West Virginia in the early 1940’s is seen through the eyes of thirteen-year-old Rebecca Lynn Carver in River Woman. She tells the stories, and sometimes secrets, of the families who live on the mountain and in the small town of Glade Springs along the New River in Fayette County. Triumph for some, tragedy for others, everyone has a tale.

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144

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Dorrance Publishing

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ISBN 13

9798885279307

Political Emotions

Why Love Matters for Justice

By: Martha C. Nussbaum

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Political Emotions

Why Love Matters for Justice

By: Martha C. Nussbaum

How can we achieve and sustain a "decent" liberal society, one that aspires to justice and equal opportunity for all and inspires individuals to sacrifice for the common good? In this book, a continuation of her explorations of emotions and the nature of social justice, Martha Nussbaum makes the case for love. Amid the fears, resentments, and competitive concerns that are endemic even to good societies, public emotions rooted in love—in intense attachments to things outside our control—can foster commitment to shared goals and keep at bay the forces of disgust and envy. Great democratic leaders, including Abraham Lincoln, Mohandas Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr., have understood the importance of cultivating emotions. But people attached to liberalism sometimes assume that a theory of public sentiments would run afoul of commitments to freedom and autonomy. Calling into question this perspective, Nussbaum investigates historical proposals for a public "civil religion" or "religion of humanity" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Auguste Comte, John Stuart Mill, and Rabindranath Tagore. She offers an account of how a decent society can use resources inherent in human psychology, while limiting the damage done by the darker side of our personalities. And finally she explores the cultivation of emotions that support justice in examples drawn from literature, song, political rhetoric, festivals, memorials, and even the design of public parks. "Love is what gives respect for humanity its life," Nussbaum writes, "making it more than a shell." Political Emotionsis a challenging and ambitious contribution to political philosophy.

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Harvard University Press

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0674728297

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9780674728295

Things That Make Us (Sic)

The Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar Takes on Madison Avenue, Hollywood, the White House, and the World

By: Martha Brockenbrough

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Things That Make Us (Sic)

The Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar Takes on Madison Avenue, Hollywood, the White House, and the World

By: Martha Brockenbrough

This book is for people who experience heartbreak over love notes with subject-verb disagreements...for anyone who's ever considered hanging up the phone on people who pepper their speech with such gems as "irregardless," "expresso," or "disorientated"...and for the earnest souls who wonder if it's "Woe is Me," or "Woe is I," or even "Woe am I." Martha Brockenbrough's Things That Make Us (Sic) is a laugh-out-loud guide to grammar and language, a snarkier American answer to Lynn Truss's runaway success, Eats, Shoots & Leaves. Brockenbrough is the founder of National Grammar Day and SPOGG -- the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar -- and as serious as she is about proper usage, her voice is funny, irreverent, and never condescending. Things That Make Us (Sic) addresses common language stumbling stones such as evil twins, clichés, jargon, and flab, and offers all the spelling tips, hints, and rules that are fit to print. It's also hugely entertaining, with letters to high-profile language abusers, including David Hasselhoff, George W. Bush, and Canada's Maple Leafs [sic], as well as a letter to --and a reply from -- Her Majesty, the Queen of England. Brockenbrough has written a unique compendium combining letters, pop culture references, handy cheat sheets, rants, and historical references that is as helpful as it is hilarious.

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St. Martin's Press

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1429985429

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9781429985420

Making All the Difference

Inclusion, Exclusion, and American Law

By: Martha Minow

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Making All the Difference

Inclusion, Exclusion, and American Law

By: Martha Minow

Should a court order medical treatment for a severely disabled newborn in the face of the parents' refusal to authorize it? How does the law apply to a neighborhood that objects to a group home for developmentally disabled people? Does equality mean treating everyone the same, even if such treatment affects some people adversely? Does a state requirement of employee maternity leave serve or violate the commitment to gender equality?Martha Minow takes a hard look at the way our legal system functions in dealing with people on the basis of race, gender, age, ethnicity, religion, and disability. Minow confronts a variety of dilemmas of difference resulting from contradictory legal strategies—strategies that attempt to correct inequalities by sometimes recognizing and sometimes ignoring differences. Exploring the historical sources of ideas about difference, she offers challenging alternative ways of conceiving of traits that legal and social institutions have come to regard as "different." She argues, in effect, for a constructed jurisprudence based on the ability to recognize and work with perceptible forms of difference.Minow is passionately interested in the people—"different" people—whose lives are regularly (mis)shaped and (mis)directed by the legal system's ways of handling them. Drawing on literary and feminist theories and the insights of anthropology and social history, she identifies the unstated assumptions that tend to regenerate discrimination through the very reforms that are supposed to eliminate it. Education for handicapped children, conflicts between job and family responsibilities, bilingual education, Native American land claims—these are among the concrete problems she discusses from a fresh angle of vision.Minow firmly rejects the prevailing conception of the self that she believes underlies legal doctrine—a self seen as either separate and autonomous, or else disabled and incompetent in some way. In contrast, she regards the self as being realized through connection, capable of shaping an identity only in relationship to other people. She shifts the focus for problem solving from the "different" person to the relationships that construct that difference, and she proposes an analysis that can turn "difference" from a basis of stigma and a rationale for unequal treatment into a point of human connection. "The meanings of many differences can change when people locate and revise their relationships to difference," she asserts. "The student in a wheelchair becomes less different when the building designed without him in mind is altered to permit his access." Her book evaluates contemporary legal theories and reformulates legal rights for women, children, persons with disabilities, and others historically identified as different.Here is a powerful voice for change, speaking to issues that permeate our daily lives and form a central part of the work of law. By illuminating the many ways in which people differ from one another, this book shows how lawyers, political theorist, teachers, parents, students—every one of us—can make all the difference,

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420

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Cornell University Press

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1501705091

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9781501705090

Florida Almanac, 2000-2001

By: Del Marth,Martha J. Marth

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Florida Almanac, 2000-2001

By: Del Marth,Martha J. Marth

The "Florida Almanac" continues to be one of the best almanacs in the United States. . . . It is a fine example of a comprehensive state handbook and a great reference tool."--"American Reference Books Quarterly." Illustrations.

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496

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Pelican Publishing

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1565547683

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9781565547681

Florida Almanac 2002-2003

By: Del Marth,Martha J. Marth

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Florida Almanac 2002-2003

By: Del Marth,Martha J. Marth

A reference guide to the wildlife, geography, people, government, economy, and notable figures from Florida which includes alphabetically arranged entries, maps, and a directory.

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506

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Pelican Publishing

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1565549198

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9781565549197

Dog Days and Dandelions

A Lively Guide to the Animal Meanings Behind Everyday Words

By: Martha Barnette

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A Lively Guide to the Animal Meanings Behind Everyday Words

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Ladyfingers and Nun's Tummies

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Ladyfingers and Nun's Tummies

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0595345034

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The Bill Schroeder Story

By: Martha Barnette

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The Bill Schroeder Story

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The Schroeder family's account recalls the two-year ordeal of William Schroeder, the Jarvik-7 heart patient, and portrays his relationship with his wife and six children

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William Morrow & Company

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0688068936

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9780688068936

Martha’S Story

Our Mother Celebrated Life

By: Martha Zeah Garkpi

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Martha’S Story

Our Mother Celebrated Life

By: Martha Zeah Garkpi

Elder Martha Z. Garkpi was born on December 15, 1949, in Zia, Lower Nimba County, Liberia. She was known to be a major pillar in every community in which she lived. She was very skilled and had many trades and titles to prove it. She was a wonderful mother, evangelist, and educator, striving to serve her people as God called her to do. She was an elder at Living Word Ministries International (Houston, Texas) and was also the matriarch of the church family. She taught at all of the Calvary Baptist Schools and Living Word Academy in Monrovia, Liberia, as well as the Alpha Child Development Center in Houston. Ms. Marthas love for her people was apparent and a blessing in many lives. She spread her wings and flew home June 17, 2017, leaving behind this legacy and many people who loved her. As a result of her hard work, she was posthumously awarded a proclamation from Congresswoman Sheila Jackson (Texas) in July of 2017.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1543461131

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9781543461138

Martha! Martha! the Third Spiritual Adventure

By: Martha M. Brown,Freddie M. Lindsay-Payne

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Martha! Martha! the Third Spiritual Adventure

By: Martha M. Brown,Freddie M. Lindsay-Payne

A lifetime of wisdom has been compiled on the pages of Martha! Martha! As each author shares from the insights gained from their personal walk with God, we are invited to join the adventure that leads the willing heart to growth in the knowledge of Jesus Christ.

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Priorityone Publications

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1933972335

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9781933972336

Mildred at Home

By: Martha Finley

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Mildred at Home

By: Martha Finley

Reproduction of the original: Mildred at Home by Martha Finley

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375239546X

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Book's by Martha Barnette

Ladyfingers and Nun's Tummies

Ladyfingers and Nun's Tummies

A Garden of Words

A Garden of Words

Dog Days and Dandelions

Dog Days and Dandelions

Liberty of Conscience

Liberty of Conscience

River Woman

River Woman

Political Emotions

Political Emotions

Things That Make Us (Sic)

Things That Make Us (Sic)

Making All the Difference

Making All the Difference

Florida Almanac, 2000-2001

Florida Almanac, 2000-2001

Florida Almanac 2002-2003

Florida Almanac 2002-2003

Dog Days and Dandelions

Dog Days and Dandelions

Ladyfingers and Nun's Tummies

Ladyfingers and Nun's Tummies

The Bill Schroeder Story

The Bill Schroeder Story

Martha’S Story

Martha’S Story

Martha! Martha! the Third Spiritual Adventure

Martha! Martha! the Third Spiritual Adventure

Mildred at Home

Mildred at Home

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