Discover gourmet guidelines for healthy living!For men and women who have good taste, lead busy lives, desire to eat healthy and enjoy entertaining, this is the choice! Whether you are preparing one simple recipe or an entire meal for a special event with friends and family, Pam Smith has covered every detail just for you. And she has designed recipes for those of us who don't have the time (or the energy!) to plan and cook a meal after a busy day. You will learn what ingredients you can substitute, how to make your own spice and herb blends, as well as simple cooking techniques that will produce rave reviews about your culinary talents. In addition, Pam has included exciting menus and tips for every kind of meal and celebration--even mouth-watering desserts. The best part is-these recipes are all healthy!
This book is about a stylish and athletic African American middle school girl named Sydnie, who moves from her hometown of St. Louis to Georgia. When she attends her new school, her hopes is to quickly obtain a friendship with the "in crowd" like she did back in St. Louis. However, she realizes that they are bullies and decides to make other friends. After she is given the position of point guard on the school's basketball team, she leads the team all the way to the championship. She finds herself being bullied by some of her teammates and being threatened not to play. Sydnie and a few of her friends come up with a plan to expose her mean teammates and put a stop to their taunts.
Since the time of Aristotle, the making of knowledge and the making of objects have generally been considered separate enterprises. Yet during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the two became linked through a "new" philosophy known as science. In The Body of the Artisan, Pamela H. Smith demonstrates how much early modern science owed to an unlikely source-artists and artisans. From goldsmiths to locksmiths and from carpenters to painters, artists and artisans were much sought after by the new scientists for their intimate, hands-on knowledge of natural materials and the ability to manipulate them. Drawing on a fascinating array of new evidence from northern Europe including artisans' objects and their writings, Smith shows how artisans saw all knowledge as rooted in matter and nature. With nearly two hundred images, The Body of the Artisan provides astonishingly vivid examples of this Renaissance synergy among art, craft, and science, and recovers a forgotten episode of the Scientific Revolution-an episode that forever altered the way we see the natural world.
This collection of 20 poems is spoken in the voice of a character named Rosa Celestina Morales, a 17 year old Puerto Rican girl living in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the early 1970s. Rosa's hopes and dreams, frustrations and torments are expressed in a mix of street talk, self-mumbling, and phrases from familiar prayers in Spanish, imported from the Spanish Mass and the first 20 psalms. The content is drawn from the author's own experiences during the year she lived in Rosa's neighborhood as well as from stories she heard and people she met around the neighborhood. Several of these poems have appeared previously in the New York Quarterly, Cimarron Review, and Woman Song III. This is the first time the set of 20 have been collected in book form. The work is framed as a poetic memoir. A prose introduction by the author and an afterword in Rosa's voice round out the series of poems and project what Rosa's life might have turned to some forty years later.
Where was life taking her? Fifteen-year-old Margaet Reeves O'Neill isn't likely to forget the day the war came home to Springfield, Missouri. That was the day her father left to join the Confederacy, fighting for principles he no longer believed in, but for a state he loved. It was also the day she met Percival Wilder, a flirtatious Yankee officer who, instead of being her enemy, became an intimate friend. Now Federal troops have arrived in Springfield. Reeves watches neighbors turn against one another--some supporting Secessionists, others the Union--and she witnesses generosity and bravery side by side with greed and looting. The life she took for granted--her home, family, the very truths she's always held dear--is changing before her eyes....
In communities where little or no mental health care exists, people with mental conditions are at risk for increased illness, stigma, and abuse. Their fundamental right to mental health and happiness can be compromised. In Mental Health Care in Settings Where Mental Health Resources Are Limited, author Pamela Smith MD presents a handbook for community and hospital-based health providers who work in remote or impoverished areas in developed and developing countries. Designed to be used as a concise, easy-reference source, it provides an outline of core concepts and basic interventions in mental health care. This guide addresses conditions such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, substance abuse, dementia, child and adolescent issues, violence, and HIV/AIDS and mental health. Smith also provides insights on the recent state of mental health care worldwide and the means for increasing access to care in resource-limited areas. Mental Health Care in Settings Where Mental Health Resources Are Limited communicates how providing mental health care training to health workers and raising awareness among other individuals within these challenged communities serves as a significant means not only to improving access to care but also to preserving human rights and dignity.
In The Business of Alchemy, Pamela Smith explores the relationships among alchemy, the court, and commerce in order to illuminate the cultural history of the Holy Roman Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In showing how an overriding concern with religious salvation was transformed into a concentration on material increase and economic policies, Smith depicts the rise of modern science and early capitalism. In pursuing this narrative, she focuses on that ideal prey of the cultural historian, an intellectual of the second rank whose career and ideas typify those of a generation. Smith follows the career of Johann Joachim Becher (1635-1682) from university to court, his projects from New World colonies to an old-world Pansophic Panopticon, and his ideas from alchemy to economics. Teasing out the many meanings of alchemy for Becher and his contemporaries, she argues that it provided Becher with not only a direct key to power over nature but also a language by which he could convince his princely patrons that their power too must rest on liquid wealth. Agrarian society regarded merchants with suspicion as the nonproductive exploiters of others' labor; however, territorial princes turned to commerce for revenue as the cost of maintaining the state increased. Placing Becher’s career in its social and intellectual context, Smith shows how he attempted to help his patrons assimilate commercial values into noble court culture and to understand the production of surplus capital as natural and legitimate. With emphasis on the practices of natural philosophy and extensive use of archival materials, Smith brings alive the moment of cultural transformation in which science and the modern state emerged.
Tired even after a full night's rest? Gaining weight and having trouble losing it? Craving sweets? Is your mind fogging when forced to make quick decisions? All these symptoms can result from a lack of energy. In The Energy Edge,you'll discover how to combat the energy "vandalizers" that drain your energy supply, including lack of sleep, depression, junk food, anxiety, and unhealthy relationships. You'll also find meal plans and recipes along with practical tips for: Eating well when dining out Beating the afternoon energy slump Strengthening your immune system Increasing your sex drive Boosting memory and concentration Losing weight without losing vitality And much more With The Energy Edge,you'll go from exhausted to elated--and have energy that lasts as long as your days!
Being a Woman" is a synopsis of the combined struggles women have had to endure over time. A Historic overview in order to inform and update the women of today on how they gained the rights they have today. "Being a Woman" embodies the spirit of the genre of women's studies or feminist literature in that it is both personal and political, as the author foregrounds a brief history of the women's rights movement with her personal history, and underscores this digest of feminist history with a palpable human passion.
In Earth Tones: Praying the Psalms with All Creation, Pamela Smith gives us a voice that helps us reconnect with nature, with the rhythm of the seasons, the growth of new life, with all creatures. At the same time she alerts us to the dangers that threaten the fragile balance of our earth, and urges us to work for restoration and renewal.
In Paris, France, during the tumultuous '60s, Jessica, a young art history student from London, falls in love with Joseph, an architect from Boston. While Joseph struggles to reconcile the rigid requirements of his chosen path the Catholic priesthood with his own inner truth, Jessica embarks on a spiritual journey that includes a trip to Chartres Cathedral, where she walks an ancient labyrinth and encounters the Divine Feminine. Gifted photographer Andre grows up on a vineyard in Provence, content with his life until he receives a gift that throws his world into turmoil and sends him on a quest he's not certain he's ready to undertake until he meets Holly, a highly intuitive, outspoken young artist from California who helps him unravel the deep secrets contained within the necklace he's inherited. Inspired by a dream, and spanning generations and continents, this tender and intriguing love story will warm your heart and keep you turning its pages until the very end.
Would you like to: · Enhance your spirituality? · Learn practical and fervent prayers? · Find out how to have a better focus on God and His kingdom? · Reap the benefits of successful prayer? But you: · Don't know how to achieve the connection? · Use prayers that yield no results? · Have faith that is faltering, or you are new to faith and prayers? If so, then this is the perfect book for you. Many other books have similar content, but only this book will show you the right path. This prayer book will remind you that God's grace is sufficient for you and that He is your strength and redeemer. You should pray both during trying times and during good times. After reading this book, your faith should have increased, and your prayer life should be enriched. Prayer should become your lifestyle, and your life should become a letter that others will read. They need to see God's glory demonstrated through you, because that is going to give them hope, and it will help them during some of their most difficult times. Here's what this incredible prayer book can offer you: · Discover short and easy prayers for salvation with prophetic affirmations · Use prayers against anxiety, depression, and evildoers · Find out more about enhancing a positive attitude and personal development · Discover how to develop a Christ-like mind You don't need to have any prior faith or experience with praying, because this book is here to strengthen your faith and to show you the right path. Follow God's way, and be the person that everyone will look up to.
African-American needs more representation. It's empowering to see those who look like you leading in their homes, communities, social circles, and careers. This is why building a personal brand is so important for black-faces. This book equips African-Americans with practical tools to build a personal brand develop as a leader, and serve with excellency. In this book you will learn: -Why it's vital for Blacks to think big, win big, and develop a big brand -Personal development tips to be a self-leader -How leadership at homes helps with leading in society -The importance of community service and it's impact -How to be an influencer in your social circle -How to stand out amongst your colleagues -the framework for creating a personal brand strategy that will elevate your life, business, ministry, and career
[E]xamines Wilder's tumultuous, but ultimately successful, professional and personal relationship with her daughter-the hidden editor-Rose Wilder Lane.
Pamela Smith is an anointed servant of God and her down to earth speaking style is original and fresh. She graduated from Good News Crusade School of Evangelism, Cornwall, England, Sonrise Global School of Supernatural Ministry, and Seattle Bible College. She also trained in prayer ministry and deliverance by the Vineyard Ministry Teams, Soul Survivor, and the local church. Pamela grew up, partly in Congo, and Great Britain. She is a mother of three and has three grandchildren. Pamela has evangelized in Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, the Philippines, Great Britain, USA and Nicaragua.
Ever since sixteen-year-old Tabitha Fortune was a child growing up in Rim, South Dakota, she's heard stories about ghost horses-nightmare creatures whose giant bones haunt the sandstone cliffs near the Badlands. When paleontologist Dr. Phineas X. Parker announces plans to dig for these bones, Tabitha vows to join his crew. But this is 1899, and the world has different expectations for young women. Tabitha's preacher father urges her to abandon her interest in science. "Pray for a godly husband", he lectures, "not a godless education." Even Dr. Parker discourages Tabitha, saying, "Vertebrate paleontology is no place for a lady." That leaves Tabitha with just one choice-and being a "lady" has nothing to do with it.
To enter into the Gospel of John and John's three letters is to embark on an adventure, the story of a great and unsurpassable love, the Love that John discovered was God's name. In following Jesus, John discovers that there is indeed an edge and urgency to what Jesus says and does. The edge is this: we, too, can be light. We can believe. We can drink the living water. And the urgency is present as well: we are also called to follow and serve. We are called to receive the Spirit. A Journal of Love is meant to be an encounter, a felt sense of what it must have been--and can be now--to live that love.
How and why early modern European artisans began to record their knowledge. In From Lived Experience to the Written Word, Pamela H. Smith considers how and why, beginning in 1400 CE, European craftspeople began to write down their making practices. Rather than simply passing along knowledge in the workshop, these literate artisans chose to publish handbooks, guides, treatises, tip sheets, graphs, and recipe books, sparking early technical writing and laying the groundwork for how we think about scientific knowledge today. Focusing on metalworking from 1400–1800 CE, Smith looks at the nature of craft knowledge and skill, studying present-day and historical practices, objects, recipes, and artisanal manuals. From these sources, she considers how we can reconstruct centuries of largely lost knowledge. In doing so, she aims not only to unearth the techniques, material processes, and embodied experience of the past but also to gain insight into the lifeworld of artisans and their understandings of matter.
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