Cormack investigates the broad cultural significance and relevance of academic sociology by examining its on-going relationship with modernity and mass culture.
This lively, engaging book investigates the relationship between some of our more beloved popular expressions of national identity and the extent to which the interests of the state appeal to the pleasures of citizens, thus shaping our understanding of what it means to be Canadian.
One hot July day, on a return trip home from New Orleans, Trish Dunaway received a call from Mercer University police: Call your mother. As the minutes raced by, she learned the tragic news: her ninety-three-year-old mother had been instantly killed in a traffic accident. Her mothers story is a remarkable one: growing up in the 1920s in the Charleston, South Carolina Orphan House, losing her husband to cancer as a young married woman, and growing into a much-loved and honored prayer warrior. Trish gave herself a year to journal her grief. Through prayer, the ministry of the saints, journaling and poetry, Scripture, and memories of her Low Country heritage, she learned to choose Gods comfort He offered through a walk into His mercy and grace. She shares her journey during the year following her mothers death as she learns how God teaches us to listen for His comfort in the face of despair.
The author chronicles her struggle with traditional Catholicism, her search for the "old world" religion of Europe, and, ultimately, her rediscovery of the joys of prayer. By the author of A Romantic Education.
Homicide detective Davie Richards is called to an airport parking garage to investigate the shooting of a retired U.S. Army Ranger. Missing personal items point to a robbery, but Davie suspects a more sinister motive when she notices only one military dog tag around the Ranger's neck. Could the murderer have taken the other as a memento of the kill? As Davie unravels baffling clues, one murder becomes two and a pattern begins to emerge. Racing to save the killer's next victim, Davie is led to a shocking twist that challenges her physical and emotional endurance and tests the bonds of brotherhood and friendship. Praise: "[Richards] makes a dogged and determined heroine...Readers will want to see a lot more of her."—Publishers Weekly "[Smiley] moves the plot as deftly as she moves the reader, with lots of action and just enough heart."—Kirkus Reviews
About the Author Chief Apostle Patricia A. Francis was ordained to gospel ministry in 1995 by the Rev. Joyce Gray, Senior Pastor of The House of the Good Shepherd in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the Chief Operating Apostle of the United International Federation of Christian Churches and Ministries Inc. and the Founding Apostle of Multitudes, Inc. and Mountain Tops For Jesus Ministries, Inc. A little about the two ministries is in order. Multitudes is a ministry whose mission is aiding the displaced, marginalized, and homeless. Mountain Tops for Jesus is an organization focused on the spiritual and physical healing and renewal of clergy and lay leaders. Chief Apostle Francis was born in the United States Virgin Islands as the seventh of eight children. Her primary and secondary education was in the Virgin Islands and on the mainland of the United States. She has a number of interests that allow her to use her various gifts and talents and is a motivational speaker, entrepreneur, and writer. She has served in a number of positions in the church, ranging from sexton to Sunday school teacher and superintendent to sacristan, interim pastor, and eventually senior pastor. She has spent the last 30 years of her life on an incredible journey with God. He who has seen fit to honor her one simple request made to Him from her innermost being. She pleaded, "If you cannot be to me the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, then please leave me alone. I am tired of other people's gods; they leave me empty and hollow inside." God responded with love, mercy and grace and has blessed her with a gift that she wants to share with you in the form of this book, Dumpster Baby.
A desperate man in a dying kingdom is awarded the most coveted—and most deadly—choice of all The once mighty kingdom of Jorsk is in decline, its borders beset by enemies, both worldly and otherworldly. The king has retreated to the capital, abandoning the far-flung provinces. The only hope of the people lies in their Chosen One, blessed by the gods as defender of the realm. But of late every Chosen One has died, targeted by the harshest of the enemy attacks. Only the most desperate of men now seek that post. Devlin Stonehand is a desperate man. Overwhelmed by grief at the death of his family, he has lost the will to live. But he has vowed to provide for his brother’s widow and children, and the post of the Chosen One carries with it a substantial reward. For Devlin, a farmer and metalsmith, it is the answer to his prayers—prayers that include a yearning for the oblivion of death. After he has won the post, though, Devlin discovers that sometimes the hardest goal to achieve is that which had once seemed the simplest. For unlike the other Chosen Ones, he persists in surviving. Are the gods just tormenting him further, or does he have a greater destiny than he imagined? Can a man who courts death ever truly come to embrace life?
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